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For more than a decade, US Bank pressured its employees to open fake accounts in their customers' names in order to meet unrealistic sales goals, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday, in a case that is deeply similar to the sales practices scandal uncovered at Wells Fargo last decade.
The CFPB alleged that US Bank accessed consumers credit reports to open checking and savings accounts, credit cards and lines of credit without their permission. Employees were encouraged to do so, in order to meet the bank's goals of selling multiple products to each customer with the bank.
The scale of US Banks's fake accounts scandal was not disclosed immediately by the CFPB, but the bank was forced to pay $37.5 million in fines and penalties and will have to refund customers any fees they paid for the fake accounts.
“For over a decade, U.S. Bank knew its employees were taking advantage of its customers by misappropriating consumer data to create fictitious accounts,” said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, in a statement.
A spokesman for US Bank said the bad sales practices were a legacy issue at the bank dating back to 2016, and that the bank has made significant improvements to its sales practices since then. The consent order reached with the CFPB acknowledges that US Bank did make improvements to its sales practices in recent years, which included no longer tying pay to opened accounts and requiring customers' consent to open new services.
"The action by the CFPB closes out a (more than five year) investigation. We are pleased to put this matter behind us,” said Lee Henderson, a spokesman for the bank.
Wells Fargo's sales practices scandal rocked the financial world half a decade ago, when the bank was found to have encouraged employees to open millions of fake accounts to meet sales goals. The scandal ruined Wells Fargo's reputation as a well-run bank through the Great Recession, led to billions of dollars worth of fines against the bank, and almost immediately led to the resignation of the bank's CEO and eventually its board of directors.
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Wells has been under tight supervision by the Federal Reserve since that scandal broke, keeping the bank from growing any bigger until it fixes its workplace culture. There are no signs that the Fed plans to release Wells from its regulatory leash any time soon.
US Bank, based in Minneapolis, is currently in the middle of purchasing the retail banking business of Japanese banking giant MUFG, a deal announced more than a year ago. The transaction is taking longer than expected, with both banks now expecting it to close some time in the second half of the year.
Shares of US Bancorp fell 4.3% to $46.12. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/us-bank-workers-opened-fake-accounts-to-meet-sales-goals-consumer-agency-says/3319151/ | 2022-07-28T22:32:58Z | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/us-bank-workers-opened-fake-accounts-to-meet-sales-goals-consumer-agency-says/3319151/ | false |
Caroline Stanbury has hit a bump in the road to baby.
The Real Housewives of Dubai star is sharing an update on her and husband Sergio Carrallo's pregnancy journey. On the July 27 episode of the Bravo series, Caroline, 46, confirmed she plans to carry her and her 27-year-old husband's first child together following their lavish December 2021 wedding—despite suffering dangerous complications during her previous pregnancies.
But as Caroline exclusively told E! News, the IVF process hasn't exactly been smooth sailing.
"We have one [embryo] on ice—a baby boy," the RHODubai star revealed, adding, "Sadly, I did another round, none of them were viable. [The doctor's] taken me off any alcohol. We're going to try for another round when we leave for the summer to at least get two eggs on ice. When we put them in? I don't know."
Caroline's kids—daughter Yasmine Habib, 16, and twins Aaron Habib and Zac Habib, 12—have been vocal about their hesitation to welcome a newborn step-sibling into the family, especially the eldest.
"She's like they're annoying...absolutely not," Caroline joked of Yasmine. "I don't blame her. She's a teenage girl. What does she want with a baby?"
Caroline continued, "I don't think they've understood the time limit on my body. They sort of just think about his age. I'm like, 'I cannot be the oldest woman on the planet giving birth.'"
As for being busy newlyweds, Caroline shared, "Married life is married life. We haven't had time to sit down."
In fact, Caroline is currently in New York City filming RHODubai's very first reunion with Andy Cohen.
"We're going for ten days to Indonesia after this, three weeks actually to Bali traveling straight after this trip," she added. "We're building a house, we've done IVF, we've got married; I think we've done all the things you shouldn't do in a year in a month. So I think mostly the fact that we're still here and not divorced is probably a testament to us. We've got so much exciting stuff planned for our future that it's a good time."
The Real Housewives of Dubai airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on Bravo.
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WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 29, 2022
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...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT
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* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures up to 115
expected.
* WHERE...Trinity County.
* WHEN...From noon today to 9 PM Friday.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat will significantly increase the
potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those
working or participating in outdoor activities.
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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.
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM PDT
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures up to 109
* WHERE...Northeastern Mendocino Interior County.
* WHEN...From noon to 9 PM Friday.
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BERNABE M MONTANO – It made drivers on Route 66 and Interstate 40 in New Mexico do double takes.
A newly upgraded state Department of Transportation sign erected last week that pointed drivers toward Albuquerque misspelled the city's name, losing the “R.”
People called and emailed the department to point out the mistake on the sign visible to drivers on the parallel highways, said Kimberly Gallegos, a department spokesperson.
A corrected sign went up this week, she said.
“I do not recall this happening before,” Gallegos said. “But I honestly think this was just a simple mistake.”
Albuquerque used to have another “R” in its name. According to the city’s website, colonists were granted permission in 1706 by King Philip of Spain to establish a new community on the banks of the Rio Grande.
The colony’s governor, Francisco Cuervo y Valdés, wrote a letter to Spain's Duke of Alburquerque to report that it had been named La Villa de Alburquerque in his honor.
The first “R” was dropped later, leaving Albuquerque with its current spelling, the city website said. | https://www.wsls.com/news/weird-news/2022/07/28/highway-double-take-albuquerque-sign-spelled-without-r/ | 2022-07-28T22:43:19Z | https://www.wsls.com/news/weird-news/2022/07/28/highway-double-take-albuquerque-sign-spelled-without-r/ | false |
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Now that Sen. Joe Manchin has pledged support for legislation that includes significant new funding to fight climate change, talk of President Biden declaring a climate emergency may be over.
In a dramatic reversal on Wednesday, Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat with a penchant for being spoiler to the president's legislative agenda, suddenly announced his support for a pared-down version of Biden's ambitious domestic agenda known as "Build Back Better." Manchin said he'd agreed to cast a potentially decisive vote for the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which includes hundreds of billions earmarked for reducing carbon emissions and promoting clean energy.
Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley, a leading proponent on climate change legislation, lauded the "$300 billion for clean energy investments," in an email to NPR, calling it "a big deal."
The president himself called it "the most important investment we've ever made in our energy security."
To be sure, Manchin has backed out of talks before over an earlier, much more ambitious version of the president's "Build Back Better" plan. And there are no guarantees until the latest bill is signed and delivered to Biden's desk.
But assuming the latest deal holds together, the motivation for Biden declaring a climate emergency seems to have waned, says Richard Newell, the CEO of Resources for the Future, a nonprofit promoting climate action.
"It's absolutely huge news," he says about the breakthrough agreement. "It's been a roller coaster ride, but the deal which seems to have been made does put the Biden administration's climate goals within reach."
An emergency declaration could have faced challenges
Forgoing the declaration of a climate emergency, with all the symbolic power it could add to tackling the problem, might seem like a loss for environmental activists. But in a practical sense, invoking the National Emergencies Act (NEA) of 1976 wouldn't have given Biden all that much additional latitude and could have opened up his climate agenda to a legislative veto and judicial review.
Previous uses of the act include former President George W. Bush's declaration of terrorism as a national emergency in 2001, which has been renewed annually ever since, and more controversially, former President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to allow him to divert money from other programs to build his southern border wall.
"Depending on what you count, [there are] probably somewhere between a half dozen to a dozen or so laws that have provisions that might be useful for climate change," says Daniel Farber, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. That's among 136 powers allowed under the NEA, according to a Brennan Center for Justice study.
Michael Gerrard, a professor at Columbia Law School, says one such power is the Defense Production Act. In a hypothetical example, "if there's a shortage of cadmium and it's needed to make wind turbines and he says you have to send the scarce cadmium to these wind turbine manufacturers, he can do that kind of thing," Gerrard says.
But other provisions, such as suspending oil and gas leases on federal property and restricting petroleum exports, are unlikely to be of much use given the current domestic political and geopolitical situation — namely Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, says Elizabeth Goitein, senior co-director, Liberty & National Security, at the Brennan Center.
"This is not going to happen," Goitein says. In the event that Biden did declare a national emergency on climate, "he's not going to do anything that restricts the production or consumption of fossil fuels."
It might have been a short-term solution too
Even though invoking the NEA for climate change is a novel idea, Goitein says it's one that would be "inappropriate" given the circumstances.
"The intent behind emergency powers is to give presidents short-term power in situations that Congress couldn't have foreseen," she says. "They're not meant to address long-standing problems. ... They're certainly not meant to evade Congress when Congress has spoken on whatever action the president wants to take and has said that we will not support it."
The 2019 border wall declaration teed up several court challenges and the issue finally found its way to the Supreme Court, which settled the matter in the Trump administration's favor.
Such a declaration also must be renewed by the president annually, and any future administration could rescind it, or simply let it expire.
Separately, Goitein says, Congress is supposed to vote every six months on a joint resolution to terminate an emergency declaration under the NEA — a responsibility it has often shirked, but has taken up again in the current hyperpartisan environment.
"So, the White House would be buying itself a referendum every six months on climate change in Congress," she says. "I doubt that's a vote in the 'pro' column here."
The limits of any president to unilaterally effect climate policy, too, have become all too evident in recent years, says Elisabeth Gilmore, an associate professor of environmental science and policy at Clark University.
"Moving from the Obama administration to the Trump administration, I think we had already seen the challenges of trying to move forward [on] a lot of policies, but also climate policy through executive orders alone."
"Moving this type of action through Congress and the Senate is preferable," Gilmore says. "So it certainly takes an immediate pressure off of needing to make this type of declaration."
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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pine Ridge Construction Management and Lycoming College recently celebrated the groundbreaking of the Old City Williamsport development project with a gathering at the building site along Basin Street between Third and Fourth Streets. The multi-phase development will begin with the build-out of 12 three-story residential townhomes and seven commercial units. Future phases of the project will include office space, additional commercial space, a parking structure, and a living rooftop park with a beer garden and food truck dining experience. Construction will begin later this summer with the first phase of the project expected to open to the public in the fall of 2023.
Chip Edmonds, executive vice president of Lycoming College, welcomed guests, followed by Patrick Marty, chief of staff at Pennsylvania College of Technology, who provided a historical look at Williamsport's Old City. Kent Trachte, president of Lycoming College, talked about the project as the next step in the revitalization of Old City, calling it a significant moment as he highlighted the power of partnerships in bringing about transformational change. Trachte also highlighted the role that State Senator Gene Yaw has played as an advocate for 12 successful grant projects that have laid the groundwork for a successful mixed-use project. Williamsport Mayor Derek Slaughter recognized all who played a role in bringing the project to fruition, stating his dedication to revitalization and economic development throughout all of Williamsport. Expressing his enthusiasm for the future and his commitment to energizing Old City, Jerry Lariviere, CEO of Pine Ridge Construction Management, invited attendees to join him as ground was broken on the project.
Pine Ridge's multi-use facility will breathe new life into Williamsport's Old City and revitalize the area as a livable, vibrant neighborhood. The design features a multi-modal element to help alleviate dependence on motor vehicles, making it more conducive to walking and cycling to the Susquehanna River Walk, or to downtown Williamsport via a new greenway on Willow Street. The new facility will also complement Lycoming College's Krapf Gateway Center and new Trachte Music Center, further enhancing the arrival sequence to the College.
The Old City Williamsport project is proceeding in partnership with the City of Williamsport, and Lycoming County.
"We are excited to start this project and be part of the continued evolution of our community that we care so much about. As we break ground, the preservation and revitalization of Old City remain Pine Ridge's top priorities," said Lariviere. "All parties involved have shared a consistent vision of what this space can and will be. The transformation will help breathe new life into the immediate area and community as a whole."
"Lycoming College has made a commitment to partner with local government and private investors to revitalize the Old City area of Williamsport. This event was significant as it signaled the beginning of the next phase of the initiative, which is the development of an exciting mixed-use facility that will anchor the continued transformation of Old City into a destination for local residents, students, faculty, and staff," said Trachte. "The College selected Pine Ridge as our partner to execute this economic development project because its leadership shares our vision for a vibrant neighborhood in Old City."
More information on the project can be found at https://www.oldcitywilliamsport.com/.
Pine Ridge Construction Management is a nationwide general contractor and construction management company with a strong focus on ground-up building and development of commercial, retail, and residential spaces. Pine Ridge brings an extensive background of full-service solutions in the areas of pre-construction management, project development, design-build, and general contracting. https://www.pineridgecm.com.
Founded in 1812, Lycoming College is one of the nation's oldest and most respected liberal arts colleges. Today, our community of 1,200 active learners from 29 states and territories and 14 countries comprises a student body that is 36 percent domestic students of color or international, all of whom work with our renowned scholars to craft customized combinations of market-driven majors, minors and concentrations across our 40+ academic programs. Students compete in 19 NCAA Division III sports, participate in faculty-driven research, thrive in a robust program of internship experiences, and study abroad in more than two dozen countries. Lycoming College has one of the highest endowment-per-student ratios in the country. The institution is a member of the Annapolis Group of Liberal Arts Colleges and is recognized by The Princeton Review as one of The 387 Best Colleges. Lycoming College is dedicated to providing a high-quality liberal arts and sciences education for all students. Learn more at http://www.lycoming.edu.
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FRANKLIN, Tenn., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated (NYSE: CHCT) today announced that its Board of Directors has increased its common stock cash dividend for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. This dividend, in the amount of $0.4425 per share, is payable on August 26, 2022 to shareholders of record on August 12, 2022. This dividend rate equates to an annualized dividend of $1.77 per share. Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated has increased its dividend every quarter since its Initial Public Offering.
About Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated
Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated (the "Company") is a real estate investment trust that focuses on owning income-producing real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services in our target sub-markets throughout the United States.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
In addition to the historical information contained within, the matters discussed in this supplemental operating and financial information package may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are generally identifiable by use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes", "expects", "may", "should", "seeks", "approximately", "intends", "plans", "estimates", "anticipates" or other similar words or expressions, including the negative thereof. Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and can include future expectations, future plans and strategies, financial and operating projections or other forward-looking information. Such forward-looking statements reflect management's current beliefs and are based on information currently available to management. Because forward-looking statements relate to future events, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of the control of Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated (the "Company"). Thus, the Company's actual results and financial condition may differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements. Some factors that might cause such a difference include the following: general volatility of the capital markets and the market price of the Company's common stock, changes in the Company's business strategy, availability, terms and deployment of capital, the Company's ability to refinance existing indebtedness at or prior to maturity on favorable terms, or at all, changes in the real estate industry in general, interest rates or the general economy, adverse developments related to the healthcare industry, the degree and nature of the Company's competition, the ability to consummate acquisitions under contract, effects on global and national markets as well as businesses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the other factors described in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and the Company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. Readers are therefore cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained herein which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company intends these forward-looking statements to speak only as of the time of this supplemental operating and financial information package and undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking g statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
430 PM MDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Otero,
eastern Dona Ana and north central El Paso Counties through 500 PM
MDT...
At 429 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 4
miles east of Chaparral, moving northwest at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 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...
Northeast El Paso and Chaparral.
This includes Highway 54 in New Mexico between mile markers 1 and 9.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3204 10617 3194 10624 3202 10651 3221 10633
TIME...MOT...LOC 2229Z 115DEG 9KT 3205 10630
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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FCA Venture Partners and Lewis & Clark Ventures lead financing to fuel commercial growth
GILBERT, Ariz., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PayGround, a healthcare fintech payments platform, today announced the completion of a $5.5M funding round led by FCA Venture Partners and Lewis & Clark Ventures with participation from existing investors, Triventures and notable angel investors. This financing, which fortifies the $4M seed funding PayGround raised in 2021, will help expand into new markets, invest in new marketing campaigns and enhance the platform's features.
PayGround enables patients to manage bills from all providers in one platform. PayGround removes the complexities of paying medical bills by providing multiple payment methods to fulfill that responsibility — all from their PayGround Digital Wallet. All a patient needs to do is take a picture of their bill, select their payment method and click pay in the PayGround mobile app.
The platform also streamlines the collections process for healthcare providers. In fact, providers who use PayGround experience a 23% increase in collections within the first 90 days and decrease their invoices' time in accounts receivable by an average of 6.7 days.
"FCA Venture Partners is committed to identifying and supporting healthcare companies that are poised to deliver significant value through breakthrough solutions and to do so while building a sustainable business model," says Todd Johnson, Partner at FCA Venture Partners. "PayGround fits that mold. Their experienced leadership team has envisioned the future of healthcare payments. We are thrilled to partner with PayGround as they lead the way toward a better healthcare experience for patients."
"PayGround's technology platform is a unique combination of a value-added payment processor for healthcare providers and a digital wallet for patients. This creates a win-win for providers and patients," says Helen Ciesielski, Principal at Lewis & Clark Ventures. "Providers can increase the amount collected, decrease collection expenses and delight their patients by allowing them to pay by ACH, credit card, HSA/FSA or financing all in one seamless experience."
Over the past two years, PayGround has grown its annual revenue by over 725%, a testament to the company's strategic investments and ability to meet the needs of healthcare consumers and providers.
"We're excited to add highly credible healthcare investors that have strong relationships with health systems like FCA Venture Partners and Lewis & Clark Ventures to our investment team," says PayGround CEO Drew Mercer. "This investment round enables us to expand our commercial team to sell into the acute markets and build awareness with direct-to-consumer marketing campaigns. It also allows us to invest in our platform and develop more innovative features that change the way healthcare payments are made."
PayGround is a healthcare patient payments platform that supports a more simple and efficient experience for providers and patients. For individuals and families, it's an easy-to-use mobile app to manage, track and pay all medical bills in one secure place. For medical providers, it's a modernized payment platform that reduces costs, simplifies internal processes and boosts patient and employer satisfaction.
Media Inquiries: Jana Berrelleza, jana@payground.com
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What it would actually take to send out Ukrainian grain. They need to bring in minesweepers, figure out shipping companies to use, assure no more missile attacks, sort out danger pay, and lots more.
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What it would actually take to send out Ukrainian grain. They need to bring in minesweepers, figure out shipping companies to use, assure no more missile attacks, sort out danger pay, and lots more.
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Updated July 28, 2022 at 4:27 PM ET
The FBI is opening settlement discussions with survivors of sexual assault by former U.S. gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, according to legal and congressional sources.
News of the outreach came as senior Justice Department officials traveled to Capitol Hill on Thursday to explain their reasons for declining to prosecute two former FBI agents for their failures in the Nassar case.
In a rare step, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite met with key senators and their staff members to explain the Justice Department's legal reasoning — and to offer suggestions for new legislative proposals moving forward.
The Justice Department's inspector general detailed the botched FBI probe of Nassar in a scathing report last year. IG Michael Horowitz said that while the FBI failed to act, Nassar abused dozens more girls and women.
Watchdogs concluded that the bureau "failed to respond to the Nassar allegations with the utmost seriousness and urgency that they deserved and required, made numerous and fundamental errors when they did respond to them, and violated multiple FBI policies."
FBI Director Christopher Wray apologized to the hundreds of survivors in testimony before Congress in September 2021.
"I'm especially sorry that there were people at the FBI who had their own chance to stop this monster back in 2015 and failed," Wray said. "And that is inexcusable. It never should have happened, and we're doing everything in our power to make sure it never happens again."
Lawyers for many of those survivors — including world class gymnasts Simone Byles, McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman — filed paperwork this year signaling they would sue the bureau.
Maroney told lawmakers that the FBI agent who finally reached out to hear her story failed to properly document her report and made false claims about it.
"My fellow survivors and I were betrayed by every institution that was supposed to protect us — the U.S. Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics, the FBI and now the Department of Justice," she said in a written statement this year.
Under a law called the Federal Tort Claims Act, plaintiffs are required to file administrative complaints with the U.S. government. If the federal government fails to act after six months, those plaintiffs can proceed with a civil lawsuit seeking monetary damages.
State officials in Michigan ultimately brought Nassar to justice. He's effectively serving a life sentence on charges including criminal sexual assault and child pornography.
Jamie White, an attorney representing a group of survivors, said he heard from the government Wednesday to start talks to resolve the legal claims.
"My clients have been through extreme trauma and were relieved to see the government is open to a dialogue," White told NPR. "While dialogue is a positive step in the right direction, we remain prepared to hold parties accountable through an adversarial process if necessary."
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, took part in the meeting with DOJ officials Thursday. In a written statement, Grassley said he was not satisfied.
"The FBI once again refused to provide underlying information to support their assumption that a jury wouldn't convict their agents for botching the Nassar investigation, then trying to cover their tracks," Grassley said. "It's the latest example of the Department of 'Just Us' trying to avoid accountability for its failures."
Grassley said both Assistant Attorney General Polite and FBI Director Wray would be testifying before the Judiciary Committee next week and that he expected them to be asked about the case again then.
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No James Bond, but we kept the Aston Martin - and the Prince Of Wales had to deputise for The Queen. But ten years on from that often baffling night in London 2012, the best of Birmingham got the Commonwealth Games off to a flyer, says ROBERT HARDMAN
No James Bond this time, but we did have an Aston Martin. And standing in for the Queen, there was the Prince of Wales – the owner of said car – stealing the show as the 2022 Commonwealth Games burst into life in Birmingham tonight.
Ten years (almost to the day) from that magical, if occasionally baffling, opening night at London’s Olympic Stadium, led by Her Majesty and 007, it was the turn of Britain’s Second City – and sport’s second-biggest Games – to shine.
And so we had a cast of thousands, synchronised dancing, giant puppets, celebrities (including Brum creation Duran Duran, and Dudley-born Sir Lenny Henry), pyrotechnics, much talk of dreams and of being ‘on a journey’ long before we caught our first glimpse of the athletes.
Of course this was all on a different scale to London 2012 – Brum has soaked up £780million of public money for this fortnight of sport versus the £9.3billion spent on the Olympics. But it was slick, properly spectacular and full of the same originality, quirk and good-humoured enthusiasm which Danny Boyle brought to bear a decade before.
Fireworks are set off during the opening ceremony of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
England athletes parade during the opening ceremony at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham
A jet-set start: The Red Arrows fly over a Union Jack of locally made cars at the Commonwealth Games
In the ring: The 50ft mechanical bull parades around the main stadium
Thus it was that we were treated to a giant 50ft mechanical bull charging around the main stadium. This was not some profound metaphor drawn from sporting antiquity. It was a nod to Birmingham’s famous shopping centre, the Bull Ring.
They had also built a chunk of canal around a stage inside the stadium, a reminder of Brum’s Venetian qualities.
After all, the whole ceremony was produced by Steven Knight, the same chap who created Peaky Blinders, another great Brum export not known for its subtlety.
In among all the usual mandatory themes of unity, peace, love and saving the planet, there was no dodging the monster which put this place on the map: Industry. And the grimy, exhaust-spewing car industry to be precise.
There were huge roars of West Midlands approval for the arrival of 72 cars – one for each competing nation – in red, white and blue. All built in Brum or hereabouts, all driven by locals, they formed a giant Union Flag. In pride of place was a good old-fashioned Land Rover carrying mezzo-soprano Samantha Oxborough, who delivered a belting national anthem – two verses, to boot, accompanied by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, a splendid choir and, bang on cue, the Red Arrows.
Dancers perform in and around the used 'Union Jack' cars in the opening ceremony
Dancers perform during the Opening Ceremony of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
On the back of the Land Rover was the numberplate: HRH PP. This was a homage to the late Prince Philip who famously went to his maker last year aboard a very similar vehicle.
Watching it all on telly up at Balmoral, it is safe to say that the Queen must have been delighted.
Though absent from the proceedings, her enduring influence on this organisation was a recurring sight on the giant video screens.
Her famous 21st birthday pledge to serve for ‘the whole of my life’ was played out, along with scenes from many of her bygone Commonwealth tours and also her recent Jubilee.
And then in came the Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duchess of Cornwall, driving his West Midlands-built Aston Martin. His was almost certainly the only vehicle on parade running on bioethanol derived from cheese and wine extracts.
Charles also caused the site’s security team some mirth when he opted to step through the metal detector archway – setting it off, before smiling and raising both hands apologetically.
There followed a gleefully irreverent homage to the great geniuses of the region – William Shakespeare, Josiah Wedgwood and the rest – as depicted through a collection of grotesque puppets. Poor Sir Edward Elgar appeared to be spewing out a mouthful of spaghetti (trombones on closer inspection).
Performers during the opening ceremony of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
That great man of letters, Dr Johnson, was a giant green slug, a dead ringer for Jabba The Hutt from Star Wars rather than the creator of the English dictionary. Humour and quirkiness suddenly gave way to an emotionally charged surprise appearance which rather underlined the whole point of the Commonwealth and its Games.
Here was Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl and teenage activist who was shot by the Taliban in 2012, won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize and has since rebuilt her life in Birmingham.
She paid tribute to everyone from her teachers to the people who had ‘taught my mother English and my brothers to drive’.
Once something of a nostalgia fest, the Commonwealth Games must now navigate the culture wars and the warriors of wokery.
It has not been easy in recent weeks. There have been those, notably on the Left, who argue that this is an outdated colonial throwback for which Britain should apologise on bended knee.
The same people, however, have demanded that Britain should also wield a big stick and reprimand those member states (many of them among the poorer nations) which criminalise homosexuality.
Yet there is much to celebrate here in Birmingham over the next fortnight: A multi-sport event spanning a third of the Earth’s population.
It is also one in which all the component parts of the United Kingdom compete in their own name – be it Scotland, Wales, Guernsey or dependent territories such as the Cayman Islands.
There are Olympic giants. And then there is the Cook Islands Lawn Bowls team featuring the Jim family – Mum, Dad and their two daughters. Not for nothing is this event known as the ‘Friendly Games’.
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Neighbours finale: Viewers praise Guy Pearce for his 'incredible commitment' by filming an entire storyline as Mike Young - including a long-awaited reunion with 'Plain Jane' Harris: 'He didn't forget where he came from'
Neighbours fans and critics alike have praised Hollywood star Guy Pearce for his impressive 'commitment' to the series finale.
The 54-year-old actor, who portrayed Mike Young from 1986 to 1989, returned to Ramsay Street one last time on Thursday's episode as the beloved Australian soap opera came to an end after a historic 37-year run.
Many viewers flocked to social media to thank Pearce for returning for a proper, satisfying storyline, instead of just making a brief cameo.
Neighbours fans and critics alike have praised Hollywood star Guy Pearce for his impressive 'commitment' to the series finale. (Pictured as Mike Young in the finale)
'I have a lot of respect for Guy Pearce. The man has an actual Hollywood career and still came back for the #NeighboursFinale,' one fan tweeted.
'Didn't just do a cameo and never once acted like it was beneath him.'
'Award winning international actor Guy Pearce's genuine commitment to respecting the very simple #Neighbours storyline and being properly involved is just mint. What a champion,' another added.
One viewer said Pearce 'seems like such a genuinely nice and respectful person' off screen and that despite his successful career, he 'didn't forget where he came from'.
Many viewers flocked to social media to thank Pearce for returning for a proper, satisfying storyline, instead of just making a brief cameo
One viewer said Pearce 'seems like such a genuinely nice and respectful person' off screen and that despite his Hollywood career, he 'didn't forget where he came from'
'What a champion,' another fan tweeted, adding that he deserved an Oscar
After his stint on Neighbours in the late '80s, Pearce found success in Hollywood films such as L.A. Confidential (1997), Time Machine (2002) and Memento (2000). He is pictured in L.A. Confidential with co-stars Russell Crowe and Kevin Spacey
'Guy Pearce was outstanding. Best on ground,' another viewer wrote.
Television columnist Colin Vickery tweeted: 'Guy Pearce looks like he is having a hoot on final @neighbours. So committed. Good on him!'
After his stint on Neighbours in the late '80s, Pearce found success in Hollywood films such as L.A. Confidential (1997), Time Machine (2002) and Memento (2000).
'Guy Pearce was outstanding. Best on ground,' one viewer tweeted
Television columnist Colin Vickery said the actor 'looks like he is having a hoot'
Social media erupted on Thursday night after Mike (Pearce) professed his love for Jane Harris (Annie Jones) during Thursday night's Neighbours finale.
The pair had history on the show, with 'Plain Jane Superbrain' famously undergoing a makeover - including ditching her glasses and adopting a more feminine style - in a bid to win Mike's heart.
During the episode, Mike laid his feelings on the line for Jane, and it proved to be the happy ending fans across the world needed.
'The reality is I'm still in love with you. Probably more now than I ever used to be,' he said.
Neighbours fans went wild after Mike Young professed his love for Jane Harris during the finale. Pictured: Guy Pearce and Annie Jones
'I realise this is probably a bit much, but if I was here, we could take things slowly and see where this goes,' he continued.
Viewers were quick to share their excitement over the couple's reunion on social media, with many labelling their storyline 'moving'.
'#Neighbours last episode tonight with Jane and Mike getting back together. Happy tears,' one person tweeted.
During the episode, Mike (Pearce) laid his feelings on the line for Jane (Annie Jones), and it proved to be the happy ending fans across the world needed
Another said: 'Great #Neighbours Finale. Overjoyed that Mike and Jane are back together. And great to see Scott and Charlene home for a visit!'
'I am surprised by how moved I was by the Neighbours finale. Mike Pearce and Annie Jones were the stars of the show. The nostalgia has my heart bursting and my love for is stronger than ever #NeighboursFinale #Neighbours,' a third agreed.
'Mike and Jane being #Neighbours endgame after all this time,' another wrote.
Viewers were quick to share their excitement over the couple's reunion on social media, with many labelling their storyline 'moving'
'I am surprised by how moved I was by the Neighbours finale. Mike Pearce and Annie Jones were the stars of the show. The nostalgia has my heart bursting and my love for is stronger than ever #NeighboursFinale #Neighbours,' one person wrote
'Much love to Guy and Annie. Their chemistry was on point. Need a Mike and Jane spin-off series #Neighbours #mikejane #original80sneighbours,' one commented.
Another person agreed: 'Mike and Jane back together. Amazing. #Neighbours #CelebratingNeighbours.'
'This is really Neighbours: Jane and Mike Reunited! And I'm here for it! #Neighbours,' one commented.
The pair had history on the show, with 'Plain Jane Superbrain' famously undergoing a makeover - including ditching her glasses and adopting a more feminine style - in a bid to win Mike's heart. (Pictured in the late '80s) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11059767/Neighbours-finale-Viewers-praise-Guy-Pearce-incredible-commitment.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-28T23:02:36Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11059767/Neighbours-finale-Viewers-praise-Guy-Pearce-incredible-commitment.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
601 PM EDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN RENSSELAER COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM EDT for
east central New York.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM EDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY...
At 601 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Hancock, or
near Pittsfield, moving east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
New Lebanon, Canaan, Lebanon Springs, Flatbrook, Canaan Center and
Queechy.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Alexco Resource Corp. (NYSE American: AXU) (TSX: AXU) ("Alexco" or the "Company") announced today that it obtained an interim order (the "Interim Order") from the Supreme Court of British Columbia (the "Court") on July 27, 2022, authorizing the holding of its special meeting (the "Meeting") and matters relating to the conduct of the Meeting. At the Meeting, shareholders, optionholders, restricted share unit ("RSU") holders, and deferred share unit ("DSU") holders of Alexco (collectively, the "Securityholders") will be asked to consider and, if deemed advisable, pass a special resolution (the "Arrangement Resolution") to approve an arrangement (the "Arrangement"), in accordance with the terms of the arrangement agreement entered into by the Company and Hecla Mining Company (NYSE: HL) ("Hecla") on July 4, 2022, as assigned and amended (the "Arrangement Agreement"), pursuant to which 1080980 B.C. Ltd. ("108") agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding Alexco Shares that it does not already own by way of a statutory plan of arrangement (the "Plan of Arrangement") under section 288 of the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia).
Alexco also announces that it executed an assignment and amendment agreement dated July 25, 2022 (the "Amending Agreement") with Hecla and 108 to amend the Arrangement Agreement, pursuant to which Hecla has assigned its obligations under the Arrangement Agreement, such that 108 will become the purchaser under the Plan of Arrangement. The Amending Agreement is available on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) under Alexco's issuer profile.
An Alexco information circular will be mailed on or before August 8, 2022 to Securityholders of record as of July 20, 2022. The Meeting will be held on August 30, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. (Vancouver time) at the offices of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, 595 Burrard Street, Suite 2600, Vancouver, British Columbia, V7X 1L3. Assuming no adjournment or postponement to the Meeting, the cut-off time to vote by proxy will be 10:00 a.m. (Vancouver time) on August 26, 2022.
The proposed closing date of the Arrangement is September 7, 2022, subject to obtaining Court, Securityholder and regulatory approval and the satisfaction of conditions set forth in the Arrangement Agreement.
About Alexco
Alexco is the owner and operator of the historic Keno Hill Silver District in Canada's Yukon Territory, one of the highest-grade silver deposits in the world.
Website: www.alexcoresource.com
Forward-Looking Statements
Some statements ("forward-looking statements") in this news release contain forward-looking information concerning Alexco's anticipated results and developments in Alexco's operations in future periods, planned exploration and development of its properties, plans related to its business and other matters that may occur in the future, made as of the date of this news release. Forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to the consummation and timing of the transaction; approval by Securityholders; the satisfaction of the conditions precedent to the transaction; and timing, receipt and anticipated effects of court, regulatory and other consents and approvals. Forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could cause actual events or results to differ from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the risk that the Arrangement may not close when planned or at all or on the terms and conditions set forth in the Arrangement Agreement; the failure of the Company and Hecla to obtain the necessary regulatory, Court, securityholder, and other third-party approvals, or to otherwise satisfy the conditions to the completion of the Arrangement, in a timely manner, or at all, may result in the Arrangement not being completed on the proposed terms, or at all; changes in laws, regulations and government practices; if a third party makes a Superior Proposal (as defined in the Arrangement Agreement), the Arrangement may not be completed and the Company may be required to pay the Termination Fee; if the Arrangement is not completed, and the Company continues as an independent entity, there are risks that the announcement of the Arrangement and the dedication of substantial resources of the Company to the completion of the Arrangement could have an impact on the Company's current business relationships and could have a material adverse effect on the current and future operations, financial condition and prospects of the Company; future prices of silver, gold, lead, zinc and other commodities; market competition; and the geopolitical, economic, permitting and legal climate that we operate in. Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions that management believes are reasonable at the time they are made. In making the forward-looking statements included in this news release, Alexco has applied several material assumptions, including, but not limited to, assumptions as to the ability of Alexco and Hecla to receive, in a timely manner and on satisfactory terms, the necessary regulatory, Court, securityholder and other third party approvals; the satisfaction of the conditions to closing of the Arrangement in a timely manner and completion of the Arrangement on the expected terms; the expected adherence to the terms of the Arrangement Agreement and agreements related to the Arrangement Agreement; the adequacy of our and Hecla's financial resources; favourable equity and debt capital markets; and stability in financial capital markets. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Alexco expressly disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by applicable securities legislation.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — For tens of thousands of students, classes are already back in session.
That includes Beech Grove Schools, where Wednesday marked the first day of the new school year.
But for the vast majority of parents, they’re in the scramble of the final days of summer vacation and getting ready for back to school.
Families are doing back-to-school shopping, but, for some parents, with prices on the rise, they’re worried about paying for school supplies.
“It’s hard times right now. People are not working and it costs a lot to get supplies right now,” said Valorie Parker, an Indianapolis resident.
Valorie Parker says getting ready for the new school year hasn’t been easy. To help make sure her three kids are prepared to go back to school, she made sure to stock up on school supplies during Monday’s Indianapolis Public Schools Back to School Festival.
“Right now, the way gas is, the economy is going, it’s very good for all this going on right here today,” Parker said.
“Even though gas goes up you still go to pay for gas either way it goes, so I do try to manage it the best way I can,” said Christopher Mims, an Indianapolis resident. “So, events like this help me save money for gas because it helps out with school supplies and free books, so it does help a lot.”
According to the National Retail Federation, this year, families plan to spend $864 on average for back-to-school shopping with the largest expenses being electronics and clothes. In 2019, families planned to spend on average $697 dollars, being almost $200 less.
Christopher Mims says the impact of COVID-19 on schools has been difficult.
“She could learn a lot if she had to be at home, but if she had to go to school I’d rather prep her up right,” Mims said. “My fear was to bring COVID home on some clothing because I never felt the symptoms.”
He says he’s prepared for another school mask mandate should the schools need it to keep their doors open and keep everyone healthy.
“If it’s the rules, if it’s for our benefit, our health I don’t even worry about it. I just go through with it and just pray that everybody stays safe. That’s all,” Mims said.
“We’ve learned to sort of never say never at this point and just be ready to respond,” the superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools, Aleesia Johnson, said. “Keeping the safety and the health of our students and our staff as our first priority.”
“We’re excited to kick off the start of the year. You know, I think it should feel relatively normal in terms of what our students get to experience and our staff get to experience. That said, we know we just got to always be ready for things that may change, but quite frankly over the last two years we’ve gotten pretty good at that,” Johnson said.
“I’m a little bit nervous, but I’m also hoping again because last year it was a lot,” Parker said. “Teacher shortage and everything else, so that makes you a little bit nervous.” | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/parents-feel-pain-of-inflation-during-back-to-school-shopping/ | 2022-07-28T23:05:13Z | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/parents-feel-pain-of-inflation-during-back-to-school-shopping/ | true |
Tucson police have arrested a man in connection with a shooting that killed a woman earlier this month.
On Wednesday, Andrew Bryan Sharpe, 33, was found at a residence in the Tucson Estates area after homicide detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Sharpe for second-degree murder, police said. Sharpe was booked into the Pima County jail and is being held on a $1 million bond.
On July 5, officers found Angelica Marie Pinales, 38, dead with signs of trauma after responding to a 911 call from an apartment complex, located at 1502 W. Ajo Way.
Detectives learned that Sharpe was involved in an argument with Pinales. During the argument, gunfire was heard and Pinales with fatally struck, police said.
Jamie Donnelly covers breaking news for the Arizona Daily Star. Contact her via e-mail at jdonnelly@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/tucson-police-man-arrested-in-connection-to-fatal-shooting/article_34b10468-0ea1-11ed-b57d-637d9957c94a.html | 2022-07-28T23:06:44Z | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/tucson-police-man-arrested-in-connection-to-fatal-shooting/article_34b10468-0ea1-11ed-b57d-637d9957c94a.html | false |
Gun makers made over $1B from selling AR-15-style guns over past decade, report finds
WASHINGTON - Gun makers have taken in more than $1 billion from selling AR-15-style guns over the past decade, at times marketing them as a way for young men to prove their masculinity, even as the number of mass shootings increases, according to a House investigation unveiled Wednesday.
The weapons have been used in massacres that have horrified the nation, including one that left 10 people dead at a grocery store in Buffalo and another where 19 children and two teachers were shot to death in Uvalde, Texas.
The Committee on Oversight and Reform said some ads mimic popular first-person shooter video games or tout the weapons' military pedigree while others claim the guns will put buyers "at the top of the testosterone food chain."
Those sales tactics are "deeply disturbing, exploitative and reckless," said Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York. "In short, the gun industry is profiting off the blood of innocent Americans."
Gun makers, on the other hand, said AR-15-style rifles are responsible for a small portion of gun homicides and the blame must go to the shooters rather than their weapons.
"What we saw in Uvalde, Buffalo and Highland Park was pure evil," said Marty Daniels, the CEO of Daniel Defense, the company that made the weapon used in Texas. "The cruelty of the murderers who committed these acts is unfathomable and deeply disturbs me, my family, my employees and millions of Americans across this country."
However, he added later in testimony before the committee, "I believe that these murders are local problems that have to be solved locally."
Gun violence overall spiked in 2020, but recent statistics indicate it is coming down this year in many cities.
The House panel's investigation focused on five major gunmakers, and found they took in a combined total of more than $1 billion in revenue over the past 10 years from the sale of AR-15-style firearms. The revenue numbers were released for the committee hearing focused on the marketing and sales of the firearms that have gained notoriety because of their use in the mass killings.
Two of the companies approximately tripled their revenue from the weapons over the past three years, the committee found. Daniel Defense, based near Savannah, Georgia, raised that revenue from $40 million in 2019 to more than $120 million last year. The company sells weapons like the one used in Uvalde on credit and advertises that financing can be approved "in seconds."
Salvador Ramos, accused in the Uvalde shootings, began purchasing firearms and ammunition when he turned 18, eventually spending more than $5,000 on two AR-style rifles, ammunition and other gear in the days before the massacre, authorities have said.
Sturm, Ruger & Co.'s gross revenue, meanwhile, has nearly tripled from $39 million to $103 million since 2019, and Smith and Wesson reported that its revenues from all long guns doubled from 2019 to 2021. Gun manufacturers, the committee said, don’t gather or analyze safety data related to firearms.
The increases are against a backdrop of a record-setting overall increase in gun sales that began around the start of the coronavirus pandemic. About 8.5 million people bought guns for the first time in 2020, said Republican Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia. He added that, "American people have a right to own guns."
The hearing comes amid a push by House Democrats to get legislation passed that would ban certain semi-automatic weapons. It's the lawmakers' most far-reaching response yet to this summer’s mass shootings.
While AR-15-style firearms aren’t necessarily the main drivers of U.S. gun violence overall, their design allows shooters to harm more people from a greater distance, said Kelly Sampson, senior counsel and director of racial justice with Brady, a group pressing to end gun violence that generally supports restrictions.
"If we renew the assault weapons ban, that would take away a key piece of what allows mass shooters to kill more people in less time without having to stop to reload," she said.
There have been 15 mass killings this year, according to the Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database. According to that research, those incidents have left 86 dead and 63 injured. Guns were used in all of them, and in at least seven instances they were AR-15-style weapons. Mass killings are defined as incidents where at least four people are killed.
But the AR-15 and similar weapons are also popular with people who buy guns for self-defense, said Antonia Okafor, the national director of outreach for the group Gun Owners of America. Such rifles allow people, including women, to shoot a larger gun without having to absorb as much recoil.
"The AR-15 makes it easier for those who have a physical disadvantage to the attacker to have an upper hand," she said.
Wednesday's hearing marked the first time in 20 years that CEOs of leading gun manufacturers testified about their businesses, Maloney said.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
433 PM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast Texas, including the following
counties, Fort Bend and Harris.
* WHEN...Until 730 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Locations with poor drainage due to construction, particularly
near I-69/US-59 and some low-water crossings may become impassable.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 431 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream
flooding. Overflowing poor drainage areas will cause minor
flooding in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Northeastern Sugar Land, Stafford, Bellaire, West University
Place, Greenway / Upper Kirby Area, Afton Oaks / River Oaks
Area, University Place, eastern Memorial Park, Neartown /
Montrose, Midtown Houston, Fourth Ward, Macgregor, Greater
Third Ward, Downtown Houston, Greater Eastwood, Second Ward,
Greater Fifth Ward, Meadows Place, Southside Place and
Gulfton.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
354 PM MDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern El Paso
County through 430 PM MDT...
At 354 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Far East El Paso, moving northwest at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
East El Paso, Central El Paso, Far East El Paso, Homestead Meadows,
Montana Vista, Fort Bliss Northeast, Butterfield and Biggs Field.
This includes Interstate 10 in Texas between mile markers 25 and 27.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3182 10610 3173 10617 3177 10641 3200 10629
TIME...MOT...LOC 2154Z 113DEG 9KT 3179 10623
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central Waller
and northwestern Harris Counties through 530 PM CDT...
At 454 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Cypress, or 10 miles north of Katy. This storm was nearly stationary.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and brief heavy downpours.
unsecured objects.
Hockley, Waller and Cypress.
Brief heavy downpours were also occurring with these storms and may
lead to localized urban or poor drainage flooding. Do not drive your
vehicle through flooded roadways.
LAT...LON 2985 9570 2989 9587 3006 9592 3005 9561
TIME...MOT...LOC 2154Z 178DEG 4KT 2994 9578
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
517 PM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...A strong thunderstorm is developing in northwestern Austin
County, moving northward towards Washington County...
At 516 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Industry, or 7 miles southwest of Brenham, moving north at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 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.
Locations impacted include...
Brenham and Industry.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2998 9637 2993 9650 3014 9659 3019 9642
TIME...MOT...LOC 2216Z 159DEG 8KT 3006 9645
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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A two-car collision Thursday in Longwood left one person person dead and six others injured, the Longwood Police Department said.
Police responded to a vehicle crash at 3:19 p.m. around the intersection of South U.S. Highway 17-92 and Kathryn Drive.
LPD spokesperson Lt. Bradley Tollas said a white Nissan Altima was traveling south on U.S. Highway 17-92 when a burgundy Kia Sedona, traveling northbound, crashed into the the driver’s side of the Nissan Altima while trying to make a left turn.
The driver of the Nissan Altima was pronounced dead at the scene and the six occupants of the Kia minivan were transported to a local hospital for treatment.
Southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 17-92 are closed at Wildmere Avenue.
The crash remains under investigation.
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As the number of people fleeing Haiti for the U.S. spikes, so are related tragedies
As the number of people fleeing Haiti for the U.S. spikes, so are related tragedies
The number of people fleeing Haiti on boats for the dangerous journey to the U.S. is spiking and has led to tragedies, including 17 deaths when an overloaded boat capsized in the Bahamas. | https://www.npr.org/2022/07/28/1114335461/as-the-number-of-people-fleeing-haiti-for-the-u-s-spikes-so-are-related-tragedie?ft=nprml&f= | 2022-07-28T23:17:10Z | https://www.npr.org/2022/07/28/1114335461/as-the-number-of-people-fleeing-haiti-for-the-u-s-spikes-so-are-related-tragedie?ft=nprml&f= | false |
WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
433 PM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast Texas, including the following
counties, Fort Bend and Harris.
* WHEN...Until 730 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Locations with poor drainage due to construction, particularly
near I-69/US-59 and some low-water crossings may become impassable.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 431 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream
flooding. Overflowing poor drainage areas will cause minor
flooding in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Northeastern Sugar Land, Stafford, Bellaire, West University
Place, Greenway / Upper Kirby Area, Afton Oaks / River Oaks
Area, University Place, eastern Memorial Park, Neartown /
Montrose, Midtown Houston, Fourth Ward, Macgregor, Greater
Third Ward, Downtown Houston, Greater Eastwood, Second Ward,
Greater Fifth Ward, Meadows Place, Southside Place and
Gulfton.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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Former Razorback wide receiver and first round draft pick Treylon Burks is looking good so far at Tennessee Titans camp. Burks, who got some criticism about his endurance and being “out of shape” at the Titans minicamp back in May, said he’s feeling better and healthier after losing about 6 lbs.
“Getting my conditioning right and making sure I am taking care of my body,” Burks told reporters on Wednesday, “Eating healthier and making sure I am on top of my playbook just knowing my role and being a part of the team.”
The Titans start pre-season against the Ravens in Baltimore on August 11th, and open up the season hosting the New York Giants on September 11th. | https://www.fox16.com/sports/local-sports/watch-treylon-burks-at-tennessee-titans-camp/ | 2022-07-28T23:19:48Z | https://www.fox16.com/sports/local-sports/watch-treylon-burks-at-tennessee-titans-camp/ | false |
GRAHAM (KFDX/KJTL) — The Eastside Church of Christ in Graham is hosting a free school supply drive for children in Pre-K through 12th grades.
The last day to register for the Gear Up Graham drive is Friday, July 28, by midnight. Find the registration form here.
The free school supplies will be handed out on Sunday, August 7, from 3 to 5 p.m. at Eastside Church of Christ on Indiana Street. If you do not register before midnight on Friday, you are welcome to attend the drive at 5 p.m., but supplies are not guaranteed.
Parents/guardians must be present, as well as children, to pick up supplies. High school students that can drive are welcome to pick up their own supplies.
The supplies will be picked up under the last name of the parent/guardian that registered. The pickup times are organized by the first letter of the last name.
Below are the pickup times for Gear Up Graham:
- V-Z – 3-3:15 p.m.
- R-U – 3:20-3:35 p.m.
- N-Q – 3:40-3:55 p.m.
- J-M – 4-4:15 p.m.
- E-I – 4:20 4:35 p.m.
- A-D – 4:40-4:55 p.m.
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CHICAGO, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, McDonald's Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.38 per share of common stock payable on September 16, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 1, 2022.
Upcoming Communications
For important news and information regarding McDonald's, including the timing of future investor conferences and earnings calls, visit the Investor Relations section of the Company's Internet home page at www.investor.mcdonalds.com. McDonald's uses this website as a primary channel for disclosing key information to its investors, some of which may contain material and previously non-public information.
About McDonald's
McDonald's is the world's leading global foodservice retailer with nearly 40,000 locations in over 100 countries. Approximately 95% of McDonald's restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local business owners.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements about future events and circumstances. Generally speaking, any statement not based upon historical fact is a forward-looking statement. In particular, statements regarding McDonald's plans, strategies, prospects and expectations regarding its business and industry are forward-looking statements. They reflect McDonald's expectations, are not guarantees of performance and speak only as of the date hereof. Except as required by law, McDonald's does not undertake to update such forward-looking statements. You should not rely unduly on forward-looking statements. McDonald's business results are subject to a variety of risks, including those that are described in Exhibit 99.2 to its Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on July 26, 2022 and subsequent filings with the SEC.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mettler-Toledo International Inc. (NYSE: MTD) today announced second quarter results for 2022. Provided below are the highlights:
- Reported sales increased 6% compared with the prior year. In local currency, sales increased 10% in the quarter as currency reduced sales growth by 4%.
- Net earnings per diluted share as reported (EPS) were $9.29, compared with $7.85 in the prior-year period. Adjusted EPS was $9.39, an increase of 16% over the prior-year amount of $8.10. Adjusted EPS is a non-GAAP measure, and a reconciliation to EPS is included on the last page of the attached schedules.
Second Quarter Results
Patrick Kaltenbach, President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "We reported strong second quarter results as our team executed very well on our growth strategies and successfully navigated global supply chain challenges. Sales growth in our Laboratory and Core Industrial businesses was robust. We are particularly pleased with our very good growth in China. Excellent sales growth combined with good margin improvement drove very strong growth in EPS despite adverse foreign currency."
GAAP Results
EPS in the quarter was $9.29, compared with the prior-year amount of $7.85.
Compared with the prior year, total reported sales increased 6% to $978.4 million. By region, reported sales increased 11% in the Americas, decreased 7% in Europe and increased 10% in Asia/Rest of World. Earnings before taxes amounted to $256.7 million, compared with $230.4 million in the prior year.
Non-GAAP Results
Adjusted EPS was $9.39, an increase of 16% over the prior-year amount of $8.10.
Compared with the prior year, total sales in local currency increased 10% as currency reduced sales growth by 4%. By region, local currency sales increased 12% in the Americas, 4% in Europe and 14% in Asia/Rest of World. Adjusted Operating Profit amounted to $285.4 million, a 12% increase from the prior-year amount of $255.3 million.
Adjusted EPS and Adjusted Operating Profit are non-GAAP measures. Reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures are provided in the attached schedules.
Six Month Results
GAAP Results
EPS was $16.84, compared with the prior-year amount of $14.17.
Compared with the prior year, total reported sales increased 9% to $1,876.2 million. By region, reported sales increased 14% in the Americas, decreased 2% in Europe and increased 12% in Asia/Rest of World. Earnings before taxes amounted to $469.7 million, compared with $415.8 million in the prior year.
Non-GAAP Results
Adjusted EPS was $17.25, an increase of 18% over the prior-year amount of $14.66.
Compared with the prior year, total sales in local currency increased 12% as currency reduced sales growth by 3%. By region, local currency sales increased 14% in the Americas, 7% in Europe and 15% in Asia/Rest of World. Adjusted Operating Profit amounted to $526.7 million, a 13% increase from the prior-year amount of $465.9 million.
Adjusted EPS and Adjusted Operating Profit are non-GAAP measures. Reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures are provided in the attached schedules.
Outlook
The Company stated that forecasting continues to be challenging. Management cautions that market conditions are dynamic and changes to the business environment can happen quickly. There is uncertainty in the economic environment today including challenges in the global supply chain, inflationary pressures, unfavorable foreign currency, and the potential impacts of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. The estimates include uncertainty and management acknowledges that market conditions are subject to change.
The Company said that based on its assessment of market conditions today, management anticipates local currency sales growth in 2022 will be between 9% and 10%. This sales growth is expected to result in Adjusted EPS in the range of $38.85 to $39.05, which represents a growth rate of 14% to 15%. This compares with previous local currency sales guidance of approximately 8% and Adjusted EPS guidance of $38.20 to $38.50. Management notes that current foreign exchange rates represent a greater headwind to Adjusted EPS in the second half of 2022 compared with previous guidance.
Based on today's assessment of market conditions, management anticipates local currency sales growth for the third quarter of 2022 will be approximately 8%, and Adjusted EPS is forecasted to be $9.75 to $9.85, a growth rate of 12% to 13%. Included in the third quarter guidance is an estimated 6% headwind to Adjusted EPS growth due to adverse currency.
While the Company has provided an outlook for local currency sales growth and Adjusted EPS, it has not provided an outlook for reported sales growth or EPS as it would require an estimate of currency exchange fluctuations and non-recurring items, which are not yet known.
Conclusion
Kaltenbach concluded, "Our culture of agility and focused execution have allowed us to capitalize on favorable market demand and navigate challenging supply chain and inflationary conditions. We will continue to leverage our best-in-class Spinnaker sales and marketing initiatives and excellent product portfolio to identify and target profitable growth opportunities. Our sales growth combined with our margin initiatives will continue to drive margin expansion and robust earnings growth in 2022 and beyond."
Other Matters
The Company will host a conference call to discuss its quarterly results tomorrow morning (Friday, July 29) at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time. To hear a live webcast or replay of the call, visit the investor relations page on the Company's website at www.mt.com/investors. The presentation referenced in the conference call will be located on the website prior to the call.
METTLER TOLEDO (NYSE: MTD) is a leading global supplier of precision instruments and services. We have strong leadership positions in all of our businesses and believe we hold global number-one market positions in most of them. We are recognized as an innovation leader and our solutions are critical in key R&D, quality control and manufacturing processes for customers in a wide range of industries including life sciences, food and chemicals. Our sales and service network is one of the most extensive in the industry. Our products are sold in more than 140 countries and we have a direct presence in approximately 40 countries. With proven growth strategies and a focus on execution, we have achieved a long-term track record of strong financial performance. For more information, please visit www.mt.com.
Forward-Looking Statements Disclaimer
You should not rely on forward-looking statements to predict our actual results. Our actual results or performance may be materially different than reflected in forward-looking statements because of various risks and uncertainties, including statements about expected revenue growth and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and recent developments in Ukraine. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may," "will," "could," "would," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "intend," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential" or "continue." We make forward-looking statements about future events or our future financial performance, including earnings and sales growth, earnings per share, strategic plans and contingency plans, growth opportunities or economic downturns, our ability to respond to changes in market conditions, customer demand, our competitive position, pricing, our supply chain, adequacy of our facilities, access to and the costs of raw materials, shipping and supplier costs, gross margins, planned research and development efforts and product introductions, capital expenditures, cash flow, tax-related matters, the impact of foreign currencies, compliance with laws, effects of acquisitions, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and recent developments in Ukraine on our businesses. Our forward-looking statements may not be accurate or complete, and we do not intend to update or revise them in light of actual results. New risks also periodically arise. Please consider the risks and factors that could cause our results to differ materially from what is described in our forward-looking statements, including the uncertain duration and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and recent developments in Ukraine. See in particular "Factors Affecting Our Future Operating Results" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other reports filed with the SEC from time to time.
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analysis: WA Liberals to gather for key state conference as election drubbings spark push for change
By Keane BourkeIf the WA Liberal Party wants to have any hope of returning to what it once was, this weekend will be crucial.
The party has held power for 43 out of the last 75 years and claims responsibility for setting up the state to become one of the world's leading resource players.
It has also been behind some of Perth's most iconic sights.
The Bell Tower, Perth Stadium, Elizabeth Quay, and many others have all come about under the leadership of party greats like Richard Court and Colin Barnett.
Fast forward just five years though, and the party lies in ruins with just two lower house members after a disastrous state election, and a result not much better at a federal level.
Those have been the outward signs of a party that has slid into dysfunction, in large part because it struggles to attract talented candidates, and is still yet to find its way out.
Bringing the 'party back to the people'
Party insiders say to change its future, it has to start by changing the way it pre-selects candidates, and that begins with the decisions it makes at this weekend's state conference.
It's an event that is critical in the eyes of many, including former Liberal premier Colin Barnett.
"People don't know the intricacies of politics necessarily, or care about it," he told the ABC.
"They are just looking for a clear signal that the Liberal Party is prepared to reform itself and to modernise itself to reflect this time and age."
Others, including Mr Barnett's one-time colleague, former leader Mike Nahan, put the stakes even higher.
"This weekend the Liberal Party, and I would argue democracy in this state, faces an existential threat," he said.
"And that is that we have to bring the party back to the people."
Fixing pre-selection process key: insiders
The core issue, according to those in the party, is that good people aren't putting their hands up to run as candidates because pre-selections aren't a fair contest.
A key part of that comes down to the influence of powerbrokers, most notably The Clan, which included the likes of former federal finance minister Mathias Cormann, former federal WA MP Ian Goodenough and current WA Upper House MPs Peter Collier and Nick Goiran.
More than 700 pages of the group's text messages, leaked last year, showed its members prided themselves on their ability to legally stack party branches with people they called "solid citizens".
To try to limit the influence of powerbrokers, the big ticket item at this year's conference that many are focused on is a change to the process of pre-selecting candidates that will place greater power in the hands of individual members.
At least one party insider explained that, if passed, it would not remove the influence of powerbrokers, but would make their work harder.
Uncertainty over likelihood of change
While there's a sense of optimism that at least that change will get through, it's far from guaranteed, with the support of 75 per cent of conference attendees needed.
In a sign of how uncertain that support is, two party heavyweights part of the so-called 'Liberal Reform Coalition' took out a half-page advertisement in Wednesday's newspaper to try to shore up support.
"Calling all true Liberals," it read. "Your state and your nation need you — now."
One half of that pair, Dr Nahan sent an even more direct message to members of what might be the party's most notorious group.
"All I can say to The Clan members and their followers: look at the composition of the Legislative Assembly in Western Australia, two [Liberal] members," he said.
And while he said the group was "still holding on to power, and wanted to retain the status quo," at least one of its members said otherwise.
"I supported the motion at state conference last year to trial plebiscites for federal preselections and in that same spirit I will be supporting the motion by our state president," Nick Goiran said.
"It's an exciting reform that will enable every local branch member to vote for their local candidate, and I expect it will increase our membership so that we can unify and fulfil our crucial duty to hold the Albanese and McGowan governments to account."
Questions over scale of reform
But that is just one of 22 recommendations made by a scathing internal review into the party's implosion at last year's state election.
One of the report's authors, lawyer Mark Trowell, wrote in May that not a single recommendation had been implemented, which meant "the review report was utterly pointless".
Last month the party's state president defended the progress that had been made, pointing to "trial plebiscites" run for preselections, as well as work on recommendations to attract more women and to increase the accountability of the state executive.
Even still, for some within the party though, those reforms — and in particular the plebiscite change — don't go far enough to change the party's tattered image.
Mr Barnett was among them when speaking about this weekend.
"There will be some reforms put in place. I just hope they're significant enough to win back public support," he said.
Although both the recent state and federal results showed an exodus of the party's usual voter base, talk seems to be largely around winning them back and returning to a "broad church", rather than changing focus.
False start could spell disaster
Aside from the already lively public commentary, there's another sign of how tense this year's state conference will likely be.
Media will be given significantly less access than previous years, allowed just 20 minutes each day to observe key addresses.
Passions within the party are understandably running high, given what's at stake.
Over two days, party faithful will decide whether that pressure will unite fractured sides behind the goal of reform, or drive deep divides even wider.
As one party insider described it, the solution to the party's woes is a marathon, not a sprint.
A false start, by choosing not to change enough, would be nothing short of a "disaster".
And that's true not just for the party itself, but for the state of democracy in Western Australia. | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-29/wa-liberals-gather-for-crucial-state-conference-analysis/101277830 | 2022-07-28T23:25:24Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-29/wa-liberals-gather-for-crucial-state-conference-analysis/101277830 | false |
By ROB MAADDI
Kenny Pickett spent even the last few days before heading to his first NFL training camp working on his game.
The rookie first-round pick is competing to succeed Ben Roethlisberger as the starting quarterback of the Steelers. He won’t be outworked.
“That was instilled in me at a young age with my dad and I just kind of kept that work ethic and preparation throughout my college career and now into my pro career,” Pickett said on the AP Pro Football Podcast.
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin already praised Pickett’s work ethic in May, saying: “He’s not a clock-puncher. He’s always trying to get better.”
Pickett trained throughout the offseason with his personal quarterbacks coach Tony Racioppi and the team at TEST Football Academy in Martinsville, New Jersey, located less than an hour from his hometown of Oakhurst.
They prepared the former Pitt star for the NFL combine and he ended up being the first quarterback selected in the draft at No. 20 overall.
“I’ve been with Tony for six years now, so he’ll be my guy throughout my career.” Pickett said. “Then, once I met the guys at TEST, went through their speed training, the conditioning and the combine prep, that went so great. My numbers were drastically improved from when I got done with the season to where I finished up so that’ll be my team for the rest of my career.”
Racioppi was a two-year starting quarterback at Rowan University and played football in Europe and the Arena League. He had free agent tryouts in the NFL with the Jets and Dolphins, and has interned for Jaguars as an offensive assistant for two seasons.
“Kenny is prepared to be an outstanding quarterback at the NFL level,” Racioppi said. “His ability to anticipate throws, throw with elite accuracy, change tempos of the ball while being able to drive the football when needed and make plays with his feet are what the NFL is now. His intangibles are off the charts as a teammate, leader and winner. Work ethic, mental and physical and desire to be great are his trademarks. It’s been an amazing six years plus last six months of NFL draft prep of us training together and looking forward to many more ahead.”
The Steelers begin a new era without Roethlisberger, who retired after an excellent 18-year career that featured a pair of Super Bowl titles. Veteran Mitch Trubisky entered camp as the starter and Mason Rudolph has been with Pittsburgh since 2018 but the Steelers drafted Pickett for a reason.
“I’m going to learn from those guys and there’s a lot I have to learn with the new system,” Pickett said. “I’m just looking forward to getting some reps playing in the system and competing this camp. The 7-on-7s (in the offseason) definitely helped, just going through some of our reads and moving through the progression and getting some actual physical reps instead of just watching on tape and studying the playbook. That all really helped me going into camp.”
Pickett spoke to Roethlisberger a few days after the draft and Big Ben offered to help him however he could.
“He gave me some great words of advice and if I have any questions, I can always reach out and ask him,” Pickett said. “I think he will be a great resource to have as my career progresses here.”
One aspect regarding the transition from college to the pros couldn’t go any smoother for Pickett. He’s quite familiar with the city, the media and the stadium.
“My college coaches are right next door so there’s a lot of familiarity there,” Pickett said. “But that’s really kind of off-the-field stuff. The on-the-field stuff is all new. It’s a new system and being an NFL rookie is new. But I think it definitely helps me off the field for sure. I think it’s a great fit.”
Pickett follows several NFL stars who have trained at TEST. Joe Flacco, the 2013 Super Bowl MVP with Baltimore and current Jets backup quarterback, and eight-time Pro Bowl cornerback Patrick Peterson head that list.
“Kenny is a winner. He knows exactly what it takes,” said TEST Football Academy owner/CEO Kevin Dunn, who is adding a second location at the Ansin Sports Complex in Miramar, Florida.
TEST will have the only combine prep facility in South Florida that strictly focuses on skill positions. The 23-acre campus is the home for TEST’s 40-yard dash specialist Ato Boldon, a four-time Olympic sprint medalist and current track and field analyst for NBC Sports. | https://www.news-herald.com/2022/07/28/steelers-quarterback-kenny-pickett-is-always-ready-to-work/ | 2022-07-28T23:27:34Z | https://www.news-herald.com/2022/07/28/steelers-quarterback-kenny-pickett-is-always-ready-to-work/ | true |
Josh Hawley can’t wait for you to get your hands on his Manhood
It’s a book title! God, cleanse your mind.
When most people think of Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, they likely think of his fist, outstretched above his head in enthusiastic support of the seditionist mob near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that just hours later sent him scampering for safety like a scared rodent of some kind. A vole, maybe? But now, with his latest venture into the wacky world of literature, Hawley seems to hope you’ll focus less on his fist, and more on his, uh, manhood.
Scheduled for a May 16, 2023, release, Hawley’s forthcoming Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs describes itself as a clarion call for “American men to stand up and embrace their God-given responsibility as husbands, fathers, and citizens.”
Per the book’s Amazon.com description:
As Theodore Roosevelt declared, the “very existence of the state depends on the character of its citizens…. I am for business. But I am for manhood first.” Hawley shows why the foolhardy assault on masculinity in education, the media, the workplace, and every level of government is an assault on freedom itself.
The book seems to be a continuation of the pro-dude, pro-bro, pro-fella ethos Hawley first introduced in his “Future of the American Man” speech at the 2021 National Conservatism Conference, where he declared that “the deconstruction of America begins with and depends on the deconstruction of American men” and that “the attack on men has been the tip of the spear of the left’s broader attack on America” (which, according to that same speech, includes stuff like “video games” and “idleness”). At the time, his speech garnered some choice reviews, including this gem in his local newspaper: “People can agree or disagree with his opinions, but this pseudo-intellectual attempt to interpret today’s socio-political friction is filled with the kind of misperception and illogic we might expect from a terminally malcontent pensioner at a bar somewhere.” And they say arts criticism is dead?
Hawley’s Manhood is the latest collaboration between the first-term Missouri senator and the right-wing Regnery publishing house, which puts out works from “a ‘who’s who’ of conservative thought and action, including Ann Coulter, David Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Dinesh D’Souza, Newt Gingrich, Mark Steyn, Mark Levin, Ed Klein, David Horowitz, Laura Ingraham, Donald Trump, and many more.” So, yeah, Hawley’s clearly part of a real classy brain trust here. His previous screed with Regnery, The Tyranny of Big Tech, was made possible only after major publishers Simon & Schuster dropped it like a burlap sack full of warm milk and manure following the senator’s enthusiastic seditionist fist-pumping. But again, we’re not talking about his fist, we’re talking about his Manhood.
Incidentally, the book is scheduled be released just after Hawley’s featured speech at next year’s “Stronger Men’s Conference,” where he will almost certainly encourage the strong attendees to strongly get their strong hands on his ... well, you get it. | https://www.mic.com/impact/josh-hawley-manhood-book | 2022-07-28T23:28:31Z | https://www.mic.com/impact/josh-hawley-manhood-book | true |
I guess being thoughtful is bad now.
Time to Log Off is a weekly series documenting the many ways our political figures show their whole asses online.
This past Tuesday marked just 32 years since the Americans With Disabilities Act became law in the United States — a shameful reminder that some of the most basic considerations this country makes for some communities aren’t even old enough to run for president. And despite enshrining a suite of protections for those living with visual, auditory, and other physical impairments into federal law, there’s still much more to do. With that in mind, on Tuesday the White House commemorated the ADA’s anniversary with a roundtable hosted by Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss how overturning federal reproductive health care access has exacerbated the disparities already present in the American health care system for those communities with additional health concerns.
Given that the meeting was both intended for, and specifically attended by, disability rights activists, it’s perfectly understandable that Harris would begin her remarks by offering a brief verbal description of her physical appearance for those attendees (and those watching online) who may be visually impaired.
“I am Kamala Harris,” she said in the event’s opening moments. “My pronouns are ‘she’ and ‘her.’ I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.”
That’s it. That’s the whole thing. A totally benign, extremely reasonable, 18-word visual encapsulation for anyone who may not be able to fully see her during an event specifically geared toward people who might not be able to fully see her. And yet, almost immediately after footage of Harris’s opening statement made its way onto Twitter, the worst, most bad-faith ghouls of the conservative fever swamp leaped upon her remarks as evidence of deranged wokeness, or mental incapacity, or any number of extremely mean-spirited variations thereof.
The Republican National Committee used the remarks in a hastily cut attack spot:
And even Rep. Adam Kinzinger, the Republican Democrats Love to Love™, got in on the action:
He later doubled- and then tripled-down on his criticism of Harris’s accessible introduction with a “hey, don’t kill the messenger” shtick:
All this of course comes as the latest manifestation of the ongoing effort by the conservative right to not only gleefully malign transgender people simply for existing, but to mock and humiliate anyone who makes even the slightest gesture of accommodation for anyone else. It’s part of the same “be offended” offensive from Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, and the GOP’s crusade against anything it deems “woke.”
But this instance of mocking Harris for two sentences of description directly aimed at the attendees of her event is such an egregious instance of being an asshole for asshole’s sake that you’d be forgiven for thinking it might be a tipping point where conservatives have overplayed their hand. It won’t be, of course, because we’re talking about people who have no shame, but still, that’s how dumb and mean-spirited it is.
Which is all to say that, no, this one example won’t stem the tide in the conservative culture wars that seek to demonize everyone who isn’t them. But hopefully at least, in the future, those who want to leap down the throat of a public official for what seems like an easy dunk, only to learn that they’re actually dunking on people with disabilities, will take enough of a pause to shut up instead. And if they’re smart, they won’t just shut up, but will do us all a favor and log directly off. | https://www.mic.com/impact/kamala-harris-disability-roundtable-blue-suit | 2022-07-28T23:28:37Z | https://www.mic.com/impact/kamala-harris-disability-roundtable-blue-suit | false |
WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
354 PM MDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern El Paso
County through 430 PM MDT...
At 354 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Far East El Paso, moving northwest at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
East El Paso, Central El Paso, Far East El Paso, Homestead Meadows,
Montana Vista, Fort Bliss Northeast, Butterfield and Biggs Field.
This includes Interstate 10 in Texas between mile markers 25 and 27.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3182 10610 3173 10617 3177 10641 3200 10629
TIME...MOT...LOC 2154Z 113DEG 9KT 3179 10623
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central Waller
and northwestern Harris Counties through 530 PM CDT...
At 454 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Cypress, or 10 miles north of Katy. This storm was nearly stationary.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and brief heavy downpours.
unsecured objects.
Hockley, Waller and Cypress.
Brief heavy downpours were also occurring with these storms and may
lead to localized urban or poor drainage flooding. Do not drive your
vehicle through flooded roadways.
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3 On Your Side Investigates: Under Pressure
Children’s mental health issues are an increasing problem in Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) -In the last couple of year’s there has been remote learning, parents losing jobs, hearing about war and wondering whether the family can afford gas or groceries. Kids are like sponges and doctors are finding they’re taking on more of those stresses than you might ever realize.
Dr. Catherine Phillippi is a pediatrician at TrustCare Kids. She sees it all... runny noses, bumps and bruises and now she’s found herself at the frontlines of a different kind of treatment.
“Mental health issues have taken up more, I would say at least 50% of what we see now... I think right now, we’re in a bigger health crisis for psychological issues with kids than we are with COVID,” explained Phillippi. “I would say that that probably is the number one thing that I go home and worry about in patients.”
But it’s an issue that she says seems to have worsened during the pandemic at a time when kids may “feel” artificially connected but report that realistically... they’re lonely.
“I’m just seeing a lot of visits that they will make the appointment as a checkup, or as a complaint that seems really superficial,” added Phillippi. “And then when you get in the room, we realize that is a much bigger deal. So then the time allotted for that visit is not enough.”
The most common mental health issues she’s identifying? Depression and anxiety. So, what ages are we talking about?
“I have four and five year olds that are so anxious, they can’t sleep,” noted Phillippi. “And that worry about everything from dying.. .which, you know, with COVID, I’m sure they they were two and three at a time when that was on the ticker was ticking off how many people had died.”
While Phillippi is staying later seeing these patients and charting their symptoms, it’s often beyond what she’s trained to treat.
“And the resources that are available, especially quickly are limited. We’re in the Capital City, so we should have lots of resources, but our system is collapsing under the burden,” she said. “So people are overbooked, and there just aren’t a lot of resources that are quick for the child that is in dire need or immediate need. So often, they end up in the emergency room, which is not the best place for someone always. We do have a lot of inpatient options. But there’s this middle ground where you can’t wait for six weeks for an appointment. But you also are not immediately suicidal.”
So, we wanted to see what resources ARE available and started with the state Department of Mental Health. And learned their role is limited.
“As far as what directly provide Department of Mental Health, as far as the State Operated Programs, specifically, to children and youth,” described Dr. Mallory Malkin, Chief Clinical Officer for the Bureau of Behavioral Health Services with the Mississippi Department of Mental Health, “we have the specialized treatment facility on the coast, which is for children and adolescents who are experiencing significant psychological or psychiatric difficulty. And then of course, Oak Circle at Mississippi State Hospital, which is a children and adolescent unit.”
There isn’t a state-run acute mental health inpatient facility anywhere in the northern part of the state. For the two they do operate, it takes a court order to get in. If the family feels the child is a danger to themselves or others, they are eligible for a review process that could eventually place them at one of those facilities. But the department didn’t have an exact number of beds available when I asked.
“There are limited bed capacities at all the State Operated Programs due to staffing limitations at this current time, which I think, you know, a variety of employers are feeling that throughout the state,” added Malkin.
The focus is instead of community-based services. Mississippi has 13 community mental health centers. The Mental Health Department doesn’t run those but do certify, monitor and assist, including providing grant opportunities.
We checked in with Region 8 that’s based in Brandon to learn what services they offer.
“Our overall goal is to provide services in the least restrictive environment possible, so that individuals can remain with their families and loved ones in the community,” explained Richard McMullan, Region 8 Children’s Services Director.
That can range from counseling to crisis intervention, and location-wise, may be at an office or even in the family’s home, when needed.
But how easy is it to be seen? They tell us it should happen quickly.
“Someone can come in the same day if they need to, you know, within 24 hours, we can have them seen,” said McMullan. “And just like with crisis services, we pride ourselves on responding immediately.”
Outside of the government-supported options, places like Canopy Children’s Solutions also focuses on care for children.
Their newest team member Sean Brewer is just joining after spending years working in the school system, most recently as principal at Madison Central High School, where he saw the mental health issues grow in the wake of COVID.
“We saw higher absenteeism, we saw more referrals to our counselors, we had more conferences and challenges with our students and our families than we ever had before,” explained Brewer, who is now Canopy Children’s Solutions Director of Education. “And at the same time, wow, it’s been an uptick in that. It’s also brought that to light that these are issues, mental health or health issues, and they need to be addressed.”
Another potential roadblock for families beyond a potential stigma is the cost.
“The good thing is insurances are required to cover mental health services,” said Shea Hutchins, Canopy’s Chief Solutions Officer. “So, Medicaid, private insurance, we’re credentialed to take all of those. And then for our outpatient clinics, we have a sliding-scale fee in the event that there is no insurance, then we will take the family’s income into consideration and we have a sliding-scale fee to help meet those needs.”
And they, too, are seeing the increased needs for services. In Canopy’s behavioral health outpatients clinics, they saw around 3,100 children in 2021. Just in the first quarter of 2022, they’ve already seen 1,200. Still...
“There are so many resources that families have accessible in their own communities they’re not aware of,” noted Hutchins. “And that’s that’s a huge factor. Families just don’t know what’s out there.”
Canopy’s latest program called LINK is operating in all 82 counties and is designed to change that and connect families to the resources available, even if they’re outside of Canopy.
“We like to say at Canopy...it’s OK to not be OK,” Hutchins said. “It’s just not OK to stay there.”
For Dr. Phillippi, she finds herself bringing patients back in for follow-up visits if she can’t locate a resource to connect them with.
“This is an issue where we’re all, ‘it’s all hands on deck,’” said Phillippi. “We have to take it seriously and we all need to be doing whatever we can, whether that’s continuing education or [something else] so that we can be equipped to be the front line.”
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DENVER (AP)Elias Diaz hit a two-run single off Kendall Graveman in the ninth inning, and the Colorado Rockies overcame the loss of starting pitcher Antonio Senzatela to beat the Chicago White Sox 6-5 on Wednesday.
Senzatela, making his second start since returning from a shoulder injury, led 3-2 with two outs in the seventh when Leury Garcia hit a comebacker off the pitcher’s left shin that rolled away for a single. The 27-year-old right-hander threw some warmup pitches before walking off the mound.
Senzatela later pointed out the stitches still imprinted on his swollen shin.
”It hurts. It’s really sore right now,” said Senzatela, who was hopeful he’ll be able to make his next start. ”It didn’t feel right when I landed, so I didn’t want to hang a pitch.”
After Senzatela left, Lucas Gilbreath allowed three straight runners, including Tim Anderson’s RBI single. Carlos Estevez replaced him and A.J. Pollock hit his first pitch for a two-run single as the White Sox went ahead 5-3.
Jose Iglesias, who drove in a pair of runs, had an RBI single in the bottom half off Jose Ruiz.
With closer Liam Hendricks unavailable after throwing 27 pitches Tuesday, Graveman (3-2) blew a save for the fifth time in 10 chances.
He walked Brendan Rodgers, Iglesias and Ryan McMahon on 16 pitches, then gave up Diaz’s hit on a first-pitch sinker. Iglesias slid home as right fielder Andrew Vaughn’s throw skipped to the backstop to give Colorado only its second walkoff win this season.
”He was all around the strike zone. He just wasn’t throwing strikes,” White Sox manager Tony La Russa said. ”It wasn’t like he was wild.”
Diaz wasn’t thinking about taking a strike with Graveman struggling with his control.
”I went to the plate and said, `If they throw something up in the zone, I’m going to swing,”’ Diaz said.
Robert Stephenson (2-1) pitched a perfect ninth as Colorado won for the second time in seven games.
Chicago (49-49) had been trying to move two games over .500 for the first time since April, when the White Sox opened 6-2 and then lost eight in a row. White Sox pitchers walked nine in Chicago’s 16th loss this season after leading.
Charlie Blackmon hit his 39th leadoff homer, his third this season, and C.J. Cron drove in his 71st run for the Rockies, who built a 3-0 first-inning lead.
Yasmani Grandal had a two-run single in the fourth for the White Sox, who played their second of 19 straight games against teams with losing records.
Lucas Giolito allowed three runs, six hits and four walks, needing 104 pitches to get through five innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
White Sox: RHP Joe Kelly left with two outs in the eighth and said he experienced the same nerve discomfort in his arm that delayed his start to the season. ”I’ve got my feeling back now,” Kelly said. … La Russa said RHP Reynaldo Lopez, who hasn’t pitched since Saturday, has a sore lower back. … INF Jake Burger (right hand) started a rehab assignment with Triple-A Charlotte.
Rockies: OF Kris Bryant doubled while being the DH for the second straight day as he deals with plantar fasciitis in his left foot. ”It’s a bear, but it affects everybody differently with how you handle the soreness,” manager Bud Black said. … OF Connor Joe (general soreness) was out but could return Thursday, Black said.
BLUNDER
Yoan Moncada walked with two outs in the fifth, loading the bases for Pollock in the fifth. But before Moncada could get to first, Garcia was picked off third base by Diaz, the catcher.
Diaz said he saw McMahon, the third baseman, sneak up behind Garcia and give him a signal.
”I threw it right away,” Diaz said.
PICKS SIGNED
The Rockies have signed all 22 amateur draft picks, and many toured Coors Field before the game and met with Black. The players were headed to Arizona for a training camp before they get assigned to minor league teams.
”I’ve been ready to sign and get going since I heard my name called,” said former Gonzaga RHP Gabriel Hughes, the 10th overall pick. ”I’m relieved.”
ABREU’S GLOVE
La Russa can’t believe Jose Abreu has never won a Gold Glove.
”I need somebody to tell me who the better first baseman is in the big leagues,” La Russa said. ”There are some right there with him, but there’s nobody better than Jose Abreu. He consistently pulls balls out of the dirt better than just about anybody I’ve seen. He’s got good feet and a good arm. Somebody’s missing the boat.”
UP NEXT
White Sox: RHP Lance Lynn (1-3, 6.43 ERA) starts Friday night against Oakland RHP James Kaprielian (1-5, 4.74) to kick off a six-game homestand.
Rockies: RHP Jose Urena (1-2, 3.13) starts Thursday night at Coors Field against Los Angeles Dodgers LHP Tyler Anderson (10-1, 2.79) to open a four-game series.
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HARTFORD, Conn., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtus Total Return Fund Inc. (NYSE: ZTR) announced today that it has set August 9, 2022 as the record date for its proposed offering of additional shares of common stock pursuant to its rights offering that was previously announced on March 3, 2022. The Fund filed a registration statement with respect to the rights offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 3, 2022 and amended today July 28, 2022.
The registration statement contemplates that the Fund will issue to shareholders non-transferable rights entitling them to acquire one share of Common Stock for each three rights held, with the right to subscribe for additional shares not subscribed for by others in the primary subscription. Shareholders of record will receive one right for each outstanding share owned on the record date. If a record date shareholder's total ownership is fewer than three shares, such shareholder will receive three rights so that the shareholder may subscribe for one share. The subscription price per share will be equal to 95% of the lower of the net asset value per share of the Fund's common stock at the close of business on the expiration date of the subscription period or the average of the last reported sales price of a share of the Fund's common stock on the New York Stock Exchange on such date and the five preceding business days. No rights offering will be made until the Fund announces the definitive terms of the rights offering and the registration statement incorporating those terms is declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A registration statement relating to these rights has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted, prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state, or an exemption therefrom.
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Virtus Total Return Fund Inc. is a diversified closed-end fund whose investment objective is capital appreciation, with income as a secondary objective. Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc. is the investment adviser, and Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. and Newfleet Asset Management are the subadvisers to the Fund. For more information on the Fund, contact shareholder services at (866) 270-7788, by email at closedendfunds@virtus.com, or through the closed-end fund section of virtus.com.
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PHOENIX (AP)The Phoenix Suns have officially agreed to a multi-year contract extension for Monty Williams, the NBA’s Coach of the Year last season after leading the franchise to a team-record 64 wins in the regular season.
The team announced the extension Wednesday. No other contract details were given.
Williams, 50, has led a quick turnaround in three seasons with the Suns, taking them to the NBA Finals in 2021 where they lost in six games to the Milwaukee Bucks. It was the first time the franchise had been to the Finals since 1993. They were the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference last season, but fell in the second round to the Dallas Mavericks.
”I’m grateful to extend my commitment to this team and to all the people who make it a special place,” Williams said in a statement. ”Our players put in the work every day that allows us to be successful, and I’m excited to continue this journey with them.”
Williams was 34-39 in his first season with the Suns but the team built momentum down the stretch, winning their final eight regular-season games in the NBA’s Florida bubble that was needed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Suns then added star point guard Chris Paul, paired him with young scorer Devin Booker in the backcourt, and quickly built a high-scoring, high-energy team that’s been among the NBA’s best. Since entering the Florida bubble, the Suns have a 123-39 record during regular-season games.
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PITTSBURGH, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian issued the following statement on the passage of the CHIPs and Science Act of 2022:
"Today, after several years of hard work to build bipartisan consensus, Congress passed the landmark CHIPs and Science Act of 2022, which will help secure the future of innovation in America. This measure not only expands our nation's leadership in semiconductor technologies, but also supports STEM education in K-12, the postsecondary system and worker training programs. And, of urgent importance to America keeping pace with global innovation, this legislation grows critical federal support for science and technology research. It is a truly historic bipartisan commitment to U.S. innovation and economic growth.
"Passage of this legislation is vitally important for Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania. Like never before, these measures will unleash new opportunities for innovation, workforce and education partnerships that engage our communities with the advanced technologies that have transformed our region, such as AI, robotics, energy and advanced manufacturing. This legislation embodies the proven Pittsburgh model of successfully harnessing the power of research and innovation to drive economic development, create jobs, and spur regional revitalization for the benefit of all.
"I join the chorus of scientists, innovators, educators, students, and public and private sector leaders in expressing deep gratitude to our House and Senate Representatives for this tremendous legislative win that will benefit our entire nation."
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16-time World Champion and 2-time WWE Hall-of-Famer partners with technology company Kitchen Data Systems. Wooooo! Wings opens its first locations in Nashville, TN.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ric Flair and Kitchen Data Systems announced today that Wooooo! Wings, a new Delivery-1st restaurant brand, is open for business with locations in Nashville, Tennessee.
The launch coincides with the weekend of "Ric Flair's Last Match," taking place on Sunday, July 31st. After selling out The Nashville Fairgrounds in less than 24 hours, the event has moved to the 7,000+ seat Nashville Municipal Auditorium. "Ric Flair's Last Match" is being produced by Thuzio, a Triller Company, and will be streaming worldwide exclusively on FITE.
Wooooo! Wings' legendary flavors and world championship wings are prepared by Kitchen Data Systems' (KDS) KitchPartner restaurants. KitchPartners belong to a network managed by KDS' proprietary software, which matches member restaurants with celebrities to launch new virtual dining experiences, bringing extra revenue streams for both brands and their restaurant KitchPartners.
Customers will be able to order from the Wooooo! Wings menu via Uber Eats or Postmates, starting in Nashville and southern cities, then available throughout the U.S.
"I love chicken wings and I really love flavors that hit you like a chop to the chest," said Flair. "To be the man, you've got to beat the man, and these championship wings and legendary flavors from Wooooo! Wings are THE MAN!"
Wooooo! Wings jumps into the restaurant ring at an inflection point in the food industry, which saw a marked rise of delivery during COVID-19. At least once a week 80M U.S. households order delivery or takeout meals, while UBS' Evidence Lab projects the market to hit $365B by 2030. The Wooooo! Wings menu, developed by "Team Flair" in conjunction with KDS' in-house chef, celebrates one of the sport's most charismatic characters with flavors that match his personal brand. The virtual restaurant opens with competitive advantages, bringing a reach of over 25M+ weekly from a combination of Ric Flair's podcast, social media accounts and those of his "To Be the Man" podcast's network, Podcast Heat.
"We're thrilled to bring the Wooooo! Wings virtual brand to life," commented Mike Jacobs, CEO and Founder of KDS. "With Wooooo! Wings, the flavors will be as legendary as Mr. Flair. KDS is all-in on virtual brands and all-in on Wooooo! Wings."
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Fraeuleins of Lawton: Interview with Founder Carmen Glass
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - With global inflation and overbearing heat affecting everyone in the country, staying hydrated and cool is one of the most important things you can do right now. This is where local organizations can play a significant role in someone’s life.
7News spoke with Carmen Glass, the founder of Fraeuleins of Lawton, about the new non-profit organization, how the group was formed, why it’s vital to help the community, and their upcoming first event.
Their Fan and Water Giveaway will be held from 8 a.m. until supplies last on July 30th at the Hungry Hearts parking lot located at 605 Southwest 11th Street, Lawton, OK 73501.
For more information about the organization you can call (580) 583-1984.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Task Force 1 is deploying to southeastern Kentucky to support crews as deadly floods have caused harm in the state.
Deploying Thursday, IN-TF1 will be taking two Mission Ready Package – Water teams. A total of 32 personnel will make the travel.
According to ABC News, at least eight people have been killed.
Governor Andy BeShear told reporters Thursday afternoon that he expects "double-digit" deaths and anticipates this will be one of the deadliest floods in Kentucky in "a very long time."
Some areas of the state have seen or will see nearly 10 inches of rain.
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FRANKLIN, Tenn., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated (NYSE: CHCT) today announced that its Board of Directors has increased its common stock cash dividend for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. This dividend, in the amount of $0.4425 per share, is payable on August 26, 2022 to shareholders of record on August 12, 2022. This dividend rate equates to an annualized dividend of $1.77 per share. Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated has increased its dividend every quarter since its Initial Public Offering.
About Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated
Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated (the "Company") is a real estate investment trust that focuses on owning income-producing real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services in our target sub-markets throughout the United States.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
In addition to the historical information contained within, the matters discussed in this supplemental operating and financial information package may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are generally identifiable by use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes", "expects", "may", "should", "seeks", "approximately", "intends", "plans", "estimates", "anticipates" or other similar words or expressions, including the negative thereof. Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and can include future expectations, future plans and strategies, financial and operating projections or other forward-looking information. Such forward-looking statements reflect management's current beliefs and are based on information currently available to management. Because forward-looking statements relate to future events, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of the control of Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated (the "Company"). Thus, the Company's actual results and financial condition may differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements. Some factors that might cause such a difference include the following: general volatility of the capital markets and the market price of the Company's common stock, changes in the Company's business strategy, availability, terms and deployment of capital, the Company's ability to refinance existing indebtedness at or prior to maturity on favorable terms, or at all, changes in the real estate industry in general, interest rates or the general economy, adverse developments related to the healthcare industry, the degree and nature of the Company's competition, the ability to consummate acquisitions under contract, effects on global and national markets as well as businesses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the other factors described in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and the Company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. Readers are therefore cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained herein which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company intends these forward-looking statements to speak only as of the time of this supplemental operating and financial information package and undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking g statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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KAUKAUNA, Wis. (WFRV) – The Munes Family is driven to help others in their community by collecting donations of school supplies to give back to local school districts.
Married couple Joseph and Jessi Munes came up with the idea for Operation: Fill the Hauler after struggling to afford school supplies for their children in the past.
Jessi says, “We just want to help families as much as possible, try to take that stress and that burden off of school supply shopping for the year.”
Donation boxes will be located outside the main ticket and pit entrance gates at the Wisconsin International Raceway where Joseph races.
If you are unable to make it to the race track, the Munes’ are inviting people to their home to drop off their donations.
“Our biggest thing is giving back to the community. That’s one of our biggest goals as a race team, as a family is to make sure we give back as much as we can,” Jessi says.
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HERCULES, Calif. (AP) _ Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (BIO.B) on Thursday reported a second-quarter loss of $927.2 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
The Hercules, California-based company said it had a loss of $31.12 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $3.38 per share.
The maker of instruments used in biomedical research posted revenue of $691.1 million in the period.
Bio-Rad shares have fallen 33% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $484.36, a fall of 31% in the last 12 months.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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705 PM EDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED...
Heat indices have dropped into the upper 80s to around 90,
therefore the Heat Advisory has been allowed to expire.
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PITTSBURGH, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian issued the following statement on the passage of the CHIPs and Science Act of 2022:
"Today, after several years of hard work to build bipartisan consensus, Congress passed the landmark CHIPs and Science Act of 2022, which will help secure the future of innovation in America. This measure not only expands our nation's leadership in semiconductor technologies, but also supports STEM education in K-12, the postsecondary system and worker training programs. And, of urgent importance to America keeping pace with global innovation, this legislation grows critical federal support for science and technology research. It is a truly historic bipartisan commitment to U.S. innovation and economic growth.
"Passage of this legislation is vitally important for Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania. Like never before, these measures will unleash new opportunities for innovation, workforce and education partnerships that engage our communities with the advanced technologies that have transformed our region, such as AI, robotics, energy and advanced manufacturing. This legislation embodies the proven Pittsburgh model of successfully harnessing the power of research and innovation to drive economic development, create jobs, and spur regional revitalization for the benefit of all.
"I join the chorus of scientists, innovators, educators, students, and public and private sector leaders in expressing deep gratitude to our House and Senate Representatives for this tremendous legislative win that will benefit our entire nation."
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Commanders
- Per the Athletic’s Ben Standig, Commanders HC Ron Rivera said they want to try to make it more of a point to get RB Antonio Gibson the ball in space this year.
- They drafted RB Brian Robinson in the third round and he’s expected to take over the short yardage role right away: “He’s a big, strong, powerful downhill runner, more so than anything else. He does have a little bit shake to him. … Antonio is a little more elusive guy more off the edge, where with Brian, we can take it inside, or we can take it off the edge.”
- The House Oversight Committee and Commanders owner Dan Snyder reached an agreement for him to give his deposition voluntarily on Thursday instead of under subpoena. (John Keim)
- The committee hasn’t been able to serve Snyder with the subpoena because he’s overseas on his yacht in the Mediterranean. If they find his testimony unsatisfactory, however, they’ve left the door open to a subpoena still.
Cowboys
- Cowboys HC Mike McCarthy said that WR Michael Gallup is in the “4th quarter of his rehab” and has had no setbacks. (Jane Selter)
- McCarthy added LB Jabril Cox will be on a snap count and the team will be smart with him. Lastly, McCarthy hinted at LB Micah Parsons having close to a 50/50 split on and off the line of scrimmage.
- Cowboys RB Ezekiel Elliott admitted that his knee wasn’t 100% going into the offseason, saying “dang, this thing still feels a little iffy.” Elliott started feeling better by the time OTA’s came around: “By the time OTAs hit, I was back to 100.” (Michael Gehlken)
- Elliott acknowledged this is the final season with guaranteed money in his contract: “I think it is a big season, but I think you can’t look that far down the road. …I think if I handle my business every day, then I’ll be in a really good situation at the end of the season.” (Gehlken)
- Cowboys WR James Washington suffered a shoulder injury during Wednesday’s practice, but it is considered “not serious.” (Gehlken)
- McCarthy said newly signed WR KaVontae Turpin has Tony Pollard-like traits. McCarthy added they look at Turpin as a returner first: “Dynamic with the ball in his hands.” (Calvin Watkins)
Eagles
The Eagles are encouraged by the development QB Jalen Hurts has shown so far, including going into this pivotal 2022 season. Which is good, because Philadelphia will need Hurts to make another big jump to help them take the step needed to be a contending team.
“You can see he’s a year further into it, decisions are being made quicker and faster each time he gets a rep at it,” Eagles HC Nick Sirianni said via the Athletic’s Zach Berman. “Just like a lot of quarterbacks in this league, they get better with their decision-making over time. You’re definitely going to see that. You will still see his playmaking ability with his feet. I saw a more accurate passer in OTAs, and now he’s got to go and continue to improve every single day. But I really thought he had great progress in OTAs and just got to continue to ride the momentum of that through training camp each and every day.”
Giants
- According to the Athletic’s Dan Duggan, a source says the goal is for Giants WR Sterling Shepard to be back sometime early in the regular season. It’s unclear if that means Week 1, though. He’s recovering from a torn Achilles.
- Giants HC Brian Daboll said Mike Kafka will call plays throughout training camp, but said there’s no final decision on who will call plays during the season, per Duggan.
- Duggan’s sense is Kafka will be the play-caller unless it doesn’t go well this summer.
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Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder testified Thursday before a congressional committee investigating the NFL team's history of workplace misconduct.
Snyder gave a deposition to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform conducted virtually and privately.
According to the committee spokesperson, Snyder began giving his deposition around 8 a.m. ET and was still at it more than eight hours later.
Snyder is in Israel and agreed to testify voluntarily rather than under the terms of a subpoena.
The committee has the discretion to decide what, if any, information it releases from Snyder's deposition.
A transcript is expected to be available rather than any type of video.
Last month, the committee released a memo that detailed the team's workplace culture.
"A former long-time employee described how the team’s culture 'glorified drinking and womanizing' and recalled an instance when Mr. Snyder had pressured him to drink excessively," the memo said.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell testified on Capitol Hill last month.
According to the memo, Goodell was told several times about Beth Wilkinson's findings during the internal investigation.
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Members of the jury in the trial of Kayvon Ward are center stage as they head to deliberation.
This could either take hours or days, both the prosecution and defense told jurors to take their time and to consider all evidence.
Day 4 of the trial began with a focus on the schizophrenia diagnosis of Ward and two separate doctors testified that they saw no signs of mental illness in him.
This came just a day after Dr. Benjamin Silber testified that he gave a provisional diagnosis of schizophrenia to Ward when he first met with him on July 15.
Thursday afternoon was dominated by closing arguments from both sides.
Both the prosecuting attorney Kara Petro and defense attorney Bill James argued that the other made up parts of their arguments in order to convince the jury.
Petro told jurors that "He (Ward) wasn't a victim, the officers were victims," when she described Ward's actions on March 10, 2020, the night Hot Springs Police Officer Brent Scrimshire was shot and killed.
James argued in favor of the jury system, and he said "I believe people will do the hard things when it's the honest thing." As he spoke about Ward's thoughts on March 10, 2020.
"At most, he's playing checkers, he ain't playing chess," James added.
Jury deliberation could take an unknown amount of time.
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Las Vegas has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Mohave County in northwestern Arizona...
East central San Bernardino County in southern California...
South central Clark County in southern Nevada...
* Until 545 PM PDT/545 PM MST/.
* At 445 PM PDT/445 PM MST/, a severe thunderstorm was located near
Oatman, or 14 miles southeast of Bullhead City, moving southwest at
20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Lake Havasu City, Bullhead City, Laughlin, Topock, Yucca, Katherine
Landing, Needles, Oatman, Desert Hills, Mojave Ranch Estates,
Mohave Valley, Big Bend Rec Area, Highway 95 And I-40, Mesquite
Creek, Arizona Village and Willow Valley.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 40 in Arizona between mile markers 0 and 28.
Interstate 40 in California between mile markers 122 and 155.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
If on or near Lake Mohave and Lake Havasu, get away from the water
and move indoors or inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike
out to 15 miles from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear
thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Move to
safe shelter now! Do not be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
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Where most people saw chaos, Viktor Bout saw opportunity.
Bout, a 55-year-old Russian, was the world's most notorious arms dealer before a U.S. court convicted him in 2011 and sent him to a prison in Illinois. He's now the focus of a potential prisoner swap between the U.S. and Russia, which holds two Americans the Biden administration hopes to free.
Bout was in his mid-20s when the Soviet Union fractured in 1991, leaving vast quantities of Soviet military hardware scattered across 15 newly minted countries. Most all of them were ill-equipped to pay their troops or keep track of the weapons they'd just inherited. Almost anything was available for a price.
Trained by the Soviet military as a linguist, Bout began acquiring Soviet military transport planes and loaded them up with weapons. The U.S. says he sold them all over the world — though primarily in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
He was entrepreneurial, not ideological, selling to governments that were fighting rebels, and to rebels who were fighting governments. Separating fact from fiction has often been difficult when documenting Bout's work, but many reports said he even sold arms to both sides in the same conflict.
Bout always denied he was selling weapons, claiming he was flying flowers and frozen chickens to some of the world's most violent places.
He was always hard to pin down, but he lived openly in Moscow, traveled widely, occasionally spoke to reporters and seemed to welcome at least some of the attention. He became so notorious that Hollywood made a 2005 movie loosely based on his life, called the Lord of Death, starring Nicholas Cage.
Despite facing international sanctions and threats of arrest, Bout managed to stay a step ahead of law enforcement until 2008, when he was captured in a sting operation in Thailand, organized by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
The Thais extradited Bout to the U.S. two years later, where he was charged with conspiring to kill Americans. He was convicted in a Manhattan court in 2011, and is a little less than halfway through his 25-year sentence at a prison in Marion, Ill.
The Kremlin's angle
So why would Russian leader Vladimir Putin want to bring Bout back?
After all, he made his money selling weapons that had been intended for use by the Soviet Union's military and successor countries.
When CIA director William Burns was asked this question last week at the Aspen Security Forum, he said succinctly: "That's a good question, because Viktor Bout's a creep."
Dan Hoffman, a former CIA officer who served in Russia, said Putin's motives should be viewed through the lens of his ongoing battle with the U.S.
"Every opportunity he gets, Vladimir Putin wants to show that he can go toe-to-toe with Russia's main enemy," Hoffman said. "It's a real good public relations move for him to show that he's taking care of his own."
The U.S. and Russia have a history of working out deals to gain the return of their own citizens. In April, the U.S. released a Russian pilot convicted or conspiring to bring drugs into the U.S., and Russia freed Trevor Reed, a former Marine who'd been convicted of assaulting a Moscow police officer.
More commonly, the countries kicked out suspected spies in tit-for-tat deals.
But the current negotiations appear uneven in some respects. The U.S. would be freeing a convicted arms smuggler who operated on an international scale for close to two decades.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that the two Americans, Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan have been "wrongfully detained and must be allowed to come home."
Griner, 31, is the pro basketball star who has pleaded guilty to having hashish oil in her suitcase at a Moscow airport in February. Whelan, 52, a former Marine who traveled openly to Russia for years, was arrested in 2019 and convicted on espionage charges in a secret trial.
Limited options
Dan Hoffman says he supports the efforts to win the release of the Americans.
"These are dirty deals, but there's two bad options," he said. "One is letting American citizens get sick, and potentially even worse, in jail. And the other one is make essentially a dirty deal. If it's me, I'll get my U.S. citizens out."
Blinken said he's presented a plan to Russia for the return of two Americans, though he did not mention Bout by name. Blinken plans to speak with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, though it's not clear when that might be. The two have not spoken since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
A U.S.-Russian prisoner swap would signal the two countries can still do business on some level despite the terrible state of relations and the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, where the Americans are the leading arms supplier to the Ukrainians.
But analysts say there's no real prospect that the overall atmosphere — which has been going from bad to worse — is likely to improve.
Greg Myre is an NPR national security correspondent. Follow him @gregmyre1.
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Mary Alice, award-winning actor from ‘A Different World’ and ‘Sparkle,’ dies at 85
Mary Alice, the Tony- and Emmy-winning actor known for memorable roles in “Fences,” “Sparkle” and “A Different World,” has died at age 85.
The celebrated performer died Wednesday in her New York City apartment, the NYPD confirmed Thursday to the Los Angeles Times. B. Scott of the blog LoveBScott.com first reported Alice’s death. (NYPD said Alice was 85, but some outlets said she was 84.) No cause of death was given.
In the hit NBC sitcom “A Different World” (1987-1993), Alice played Leticia “Lettie” Bostic, a dorm director at a fictional historically Black college in Virginia. In the musical drama “Sparkle” (1976), Alice portrayed Effie Williams, the single mother of the primary trio of sisters modeled after the Supremes.
Other notable film and TV credits on Alice’s resume include “The Matrix Resurrections” (2003), “Awakenings” (1990), “To Sleep With Anger” (1990), “The Bonfire of the Vanities” (1990), “The Women of Brewster Place” (1988), “Oz” (2002) and “I’ll Fly Away,” a ‘90s TV drama set in Atlanta during the civil rights movement.
Expect a different “A Different World” when the NBC series starts its second season tonight.
Alice was nominated for supporting actress in a drama series for her turn as Marguerite Peck in the TV series “I’ll Fly Away” at the 1992 Emmys before winning the award for the same part in 1993.
Onstage, Alice appeared in several Broadway productions, including “Having Our Say” (1995), “The Shadow Box” (1994), “Fences” (1987) and “No Place to Be Somebody” (1971). She won a Tony for featured actress in a play for her portrayal of Rose Maxson opposite James Earl Jones’ Troy Maxson in August Wilson’s “Fences.”
Years later, Alice landed another Tony nomination — this time for best actress in a play, for her performance as Dr. Bessie Delaney in “Having Our Say.” She was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2000.
Tributes to Alice began to stream in on social media as news of her death spread Thursday.
“RIP Mary Alice…the original Rose Maxson,” tweeted Viola Davis, who later portrayed the same character in the 2016 film adaptation of “Fences.” “You were one of the greatest actresses of all time!! Thank you for the work, inspiration and thank you for Rose. Godspeed Queen.”
Fellow actor Colman Domingo also paid his respects.
“A shoulder we all stood on. A round of applause for Mary Alice,” he tweeted. “Thank you legend. Rest Easy.”
“We celebrate the life of a truly inspirational talent,” tweeted the official account of the NAACP. “The legacy will live on as new doors for Black actors and actresses are unlocked and new experiences are revealed for generations to come because of the example that was set by one. Take your bow, Mary Alice.”
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'Creepy and disgusting' pervert is jailed over sex with a dog and filming young girls at a public pool with a spy camera hidden in his board shorts
- GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING Man hid camera in swimming shorts to film kids
- Kelvin Paul Lowe, 51, also filmed himself in grotesque sex acts with a pet dog
- Detectives found 52 child abuse videos and 452 photographs at his home
- He was jailed for two and a half years but will be eligible for parole in 10 months
A twisted pervert videoed young girls underwater with a secret spy camera hidden in the crotch of his board shorts and filmed himself in grotesque sex acts with a dog.
Depraved Kelvin Paul Lowe, 51, also had a huge stockpile of vile child abuse images on his PC when shocked detectives raided his home in Caboolture, Queensland.
Lowe denied he was a paedophile in Brisbane's District Court on Thursday but was branded creepy and disgusting by Judge Brad Farr.
Twisted pervert Kelvin Paul Lowe filmed young girls underwater with a secret spy camera hidden in the crotch of his board shorts and videoed himself in grotesque sex acts with a dog
Police found shocking videos of Kelvin Paul Lowe's sex acts with a dog. Above, one of his pets on his social media profiles
The court heard how warped Lowe hid a tiny camera in his swimming shorts to film underage girls at Caboolture public pool in March 2020, reported the Courier Mail.
'He had a keyhole waterproof camera he discreted (sic) down his pants, the lens of which was protruding from his boardshorts which allowed him to film underwater,' Crown Prosecutor Zachary Kaplan told the court.
Lowe got young girls to perform for him in the pool, including getting one girl, 9, to do handstands and backflips for him as he secretly filmed her for 30 minutes.
He also blew bubbles at her genital area and got her to swim through his legs and then swam through hers while still filming, the court heard.
At one stage her swimsuit bottoms became wedged and he pulled them back into place.
The girl's mother later raised the alarm sparking a police raid on Lowe's home, the Courier Mail reported.
The court heard how warped Lowe hid a tiny camera in his swimming shorts to film underage girls at Caboolture public pool (pictured) in March 2020
Horrified officers found a huge stash of child exploitation material (CEM) and shock videos of Lowe's sex acts with a dog, including footage of the pet being forced to pleasure him in different ways.
Further details of the home-made bestiality footage are too foul to publish.
Detectives found 452 child abuse images and 52 videos on Lowe's computer along with more footage of 'numerous' other children at pools and in hotel rooms.
He pleaded guilty to five counts of bestiality, three counts of possessing CEM, one count of making child exploitation material and one count of indecently treating children aged under 12 and 16.
But Lowe denied in court that he was a paedophile or attracted to young girls, insisting he had acted 'out of curiosity' and had been 'stupid' and 'dumb'.
Further details of Kelvin Paul Lowe's home-made bestiality footage are too foul to publish
Kelvin Paul Lowe denied in court that he was a paedophile or attracted to young girls, insisting he had acted 'out of curiosity' and had been 'stupid' and 'dumb'
He refused to have any counselling the wake of his arrest, his defence counsel told the court, and the prosecution said he showed a 'lack of insight' into his offending.
Lowe's actions were said to be out of character and he was 'embarrassed' and 'remorseful' for his actions, said his counsel Robert Glenday.
But the excuses were dismissed by the judge who branded him 'disgusting' and said he was a 'potential menace to children'.
'You demonstrably have an interest in children, you're just not obligated to admit it,' Judge Farr said, according to a Courier-Mail report.
Kelvin Paul Lowe pleaded guilty to five counts of bestiality, three counts of possessing CEM, one count of making CEM and one count of indecently treating children aged under 12 and 16. Another picture of his pet from social media, above
'When questioned, you told police that your decision to behave in this way was stupid and a dumb choice.
'Your behaviour was premeditated, it was predatory, it was downright creepy.'
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Ravens rookie tight end Charlie Kolar will undergo sports hernia surgery and could miss several weeks.
Kolar, a fourth-round draft pick out of Iowa State, will have the surgery early next week, Ravens coach John Harbuagh said after Thursday’s training camp practice. Kolar had a sports hernia that required surgery in 2020 and Harbaugh described the injury as “lingering from college.”
Kolar has not practiced since rookies reported to Owings Mills for training camp last week.
“We’ll get it cleaned up now,” Harbaugh said. “Would’ve loved to have got it cleaned up earlier, but we didn’t have it earlier. I think he felt like he could manage it, but it’s gotten to the point where it needs to be fixed.”
Harbaugh likened the injury to what wide receiver Rashod Bateman dealt with last August when he had groin surgery. Bateman missed the preseason and the first five weeks of the regular season before making his debut in a Week 6 win over the Los Angeles Chargers.
Harbaugh did not predict how long Kolar would be out, but a 2017 study published in the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine found that NFL players who undergo the surgery during the season (excluding the last month) return in about two months, on average.
A quiet communicator in the center
As a center, first-round draft pick Tyler Linderbaum is required to be communicative. That doesn’t necessarily translate off the field, though.
“He doesn’t say a lot,” Harbaugh said. “I say hi to him, sometimes he says hi back, sometimes he’s in a center world. He’s thinking about blitzes.”
Linderbaum said that’s how he’s always been. Harbaugh praised the 25th overall pick in the draft and said he’s seldom made mistakes thus far.
“It’s been awesome,” Linderbaum said of beginning his pro career. “It’s a blessing to be here in Baltimore.
A ‘baby Mark’
Quarterback Lamar Jackson found rookie tight end Isaiah Likely for a 55-yard touchdown pass Thursday and later compared him to Mark Andrews, calling him a “baby Mark.”
Likely, at 6 feet 4 and 235 pounds, was drafted in the fourth round out of Coastal Carolina.
“He’s got a catch radius,” Harbaugh said. “You can see it. He can go get passes that aren’t right in the spot, and he can extend and go get ‘em.”
Extra points
>> It remains to be seen who will be the Ravens starting left guard, and Harbaugh said Thursday that “it’s gotta resolve itself.” Ben Powers, Tyre Phillips and Ben Cleveland, who has not practiced yet after being placed on the nonfootball injury list, are vying for the job.
“You want the decision to be made for you,” Harbaugh said, “in terms of someone taking the job, taking the bull by the horns and owning the job.”
>> Justin Houston did not consider retirement this offseason. The 33-year-old linebacker considered other teams in the offseason before ultimately re-signing with the Ravens.
Said Houston: “I got too much juice to walk away.”
>> Harbaugh called Vince Biegel, the 29-year-old linebacker signed by the Ravens in the offseason an “underrated talent.”
“Vince Biegel’s a consummate pro. Knows what he’s doing, great communicator, chases perfection with his technique every single play, very physical player,” Harbaugh said.
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With inflation soaring and consumer confidence in the gutter, the U.S. economy slumped further in the last quarter, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s preliminary estimates released Thursday, stoking fears of a recession.
Gross domestic product fell at a 0.9% annualized rate, following a 1.6% decline in the first quarter, the estimates showed.
A common rule of thumb is that two consecutive quarterly declines in GDP indicates a recession. However, economists have said, this may not be true in this case.
“The concept of recession really means there’s been a general decline in economic activity, broadly based over a number of indicators,” Northeastern University economics professor Alan Clayton-Matthews said. “But one of the most important indicators is jobs. And jobs actually grew at a pretty brisk pace during this quarter. On that score, it’s unlikely we’re in a recession now.”
The U.S. currently has 11 million job openings and a 3.6% unemployment rate. With GDP contracting and continued job growth, the economy is in a highly unusual position.
The National Bureau of Economic Research, which officially determines the duration of business cycle the U.S., has not yet indicated the economy is in a recession.
The group is likely to conclude a recession has begun, Clayton-Matthews said, once employment begins to fall or if employment growth slows as spending and output decline further.
The Fed raised interest rates by a highly unusual three-quarters of a percent for the second time this year Wednesday in an attempt to control skyrocketing inflation.
The higher interest rates contributed to a steep slowdown in the housing market in the April-June quarter, shown in report Thursday. Declining business investment, inventories and government spending also contributed to the economy’s shrinkage.
The most major component of the economy, personal consumption, grew by 1% – “a weak rate of growth” and a decline from the previous quarter, Clayton-Matthews said.
“Consumer spending, in terms of dollars spent, rose about an 8% annualized rate, which is pretty strong,” Clayton-Matthews said. “Except that inflation ate almost all of it. In other words, we’re spending a lot of money but aren’t getting very much in return for it.”
Inflation, Clayton-Matthews said, is the biggest way the downturn is hitting Americans so far, weighing down consumer confidence.
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Volunteer deputy dies after being thrown from horse at county fair, authorities say
HARRISON, Mich. (Gray News) - Authorities in Michigan say they are saddened to report the death of a volunteer deputy after she was thrown from a horse.
According to the MPD Mounted Patrol Foundation, Deputy Nichole Shuff, with the Clare County Mounted Division, stopped to help a person having a medical emergency while attending the Clare County Fair last weekend.
However, authorities said an incident during this interaction caused Shuff to be thrown from her horse and she later died.
The foundation sent its thoughts and prayers to Shuff’s family while saying the volunteer deputy will be remembered for her kindness, compassion and love of horses.
Authorities released no further immediate information regarding the incident.
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HFPA Continues Charitable Commitments as Members Vote to Create New Private
Entity for the Golden Globes® In Partnership with Eldridge
LOS ANGELES, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In a historic vote by its membership, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), announced the approval of Eldridge Industries LLC's (Eldridge) proposal to create a new private entity to manage its Golden Globes® assets and preserve its charitable and philanthropic programs in a separate non-profit entity.
"This is a historic moment for the HFPA and the Golden Globes®," said Helen Hoehne, President of the HFPA. "We have taken a decisive step forward to transform ourselves and adapt to this increasingly competitive economic landscape for both award shows and the journalism marketplace. Our Special Committee and team of legal and financial advisors did an incredible amount of work in reviewing, analyzing, and comparing the options presented to us. We are excited to move forward with a mandate to ensure we continue our support for increasing diversity in all areas and maintaining our life-changing charitable and philanthropic efforts."
The proposal was offered by Eldridge Industries LLC ("Eldridge"), a global firm that makes investments in various industries including insurance, asset management, technology, sports, media, real estate, and the consumer sector. The plan involves the creation of a new private company, which would acquire all rights for the Golden Globes® intellectual property and be empowered to oversee the professionalization and modernization of the Golden Globe® Awards.
The transition will include the development of staff and an executive team to lead the new organization. Additional Golden Globes® voters will also be added to increase the size and diversity of the available voters for the annual awards.
Eldridge was founded and is chaired by Todd L. Boehly, who is currently interim chief executive officer of the HFPA. Boehly was not part of the review, recommendation, or approval process.
In recent months, the HFPA's financial advisor, Houlihan Lokey, yielded several submitted proposals from a number of companies and investment groups. Each proposal was reviewed and analyzed by the HFPA's Special Committee, alongside its legal advisor, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
The HFPA embarked on this review of potential strategic alternatives in response to significantly changed market conditions for journalism and recent inquiries about potential partnership opportunities to leverage its attractive assets in a post-pandemic environment. It also sought to ensure viable pathways for future growth in order to generate financial stability for its significant charitable and philanthropic programs.
The Special Committee was composed exclusively of the three outside independent members of the HFPA's board: Sharlette Hambrick, Jeff Harris and Dr. Joanna Massey.
"This review process was comprehensive, deliberate and thoughtful to ensure fairness and accuracy," Hoehne added. "Per our bylaws, the decision ultimately rested with our membership, who voted on the proposal. As we look forward to celebrating our 80th anniversary event in January 2023, we are incredibly excited about this new era for our Association."
The HFPA remains committed to continuing its process of change and transformation to address issues of diversity, governance, and conduct. The HFPA does not intend to comment further until it determines that additional disclosure is appropriate or necessary.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded in 1943 – then known as the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association – by a group of entertainment journalists based in Los Angeles. During World War II, the non-profit organization established a cultural bridge between Tinseltown and millions around the world seeking an escape and inspiration through entertainment. The HFPA continues to do so today with a membership representing more than 55 countries.
Since 1944, the group has hosted the annual Golden Globe® Awards – the premier ceremony which honors achievements in both television and film. The licensing fees from the Golden Globe® Awards has enabled the organization to donate more than $50 million to more than 70 entertainment-related charities, film restoration, scholarship programs and humanitarian efforts over the last three decades. Its efforts include support for diversity programs in partnership with advocacy groups promoting greater access in Hollywood aimed at underserved communities. For more information, please visit www.GoldenGlobes.com and follow us on Twitter (@GoldenGlobes), Instagram (@GoldenGlobes), and Facebook (www.facebook.com/GoldenGlobes).
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Volunteer deputy dies after being thrown from horse at county fair, authorities say
HARRISON, Mich. (Gray News) - Authorities in Michigan say they are saddened to report the death of a volunteer deputy after she was thrown from a horse.
According to the MPD Mounted Patrol Foundation, Deputy Nichole Shuff, with the Clare County Mounted Division, stopped to help a person having a medical emergency while attending the Clare County Fair last weekend.
However, authorities said an incident during this interaction caused Shuff to be thrown from her horse and she later died.
The foundation sent its thoughts and prayers to Shuff’s family while saying the volunteer deputy will be remembered for her kindness, compassion and love of horses.
Authorities released no further immediate information regarding the incident.
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Volunteer deputy dies after being thrown from horse at county fair, authorities say
HARRISON, Mich. (Gray News) - Authorities in Michigan say they are saddened to report the death of a volunteer deputy after she was thrown from a horse.
According to the MPD Mounted Patrol Foundation, Deputy Nichole Shuff, with the Clare County Mounted Division, stopped to help a person having a medical emergency while attending the Clare County Fair last weekend.
However, authorities said an incident during this interaction caused Shuff to be thrown from her horse and she later died.
The foundation sent its thoughts and prayers to Shuff’s family while saying the volunteer deputy will be remembered for her kindness, compassion and love of horses.
Authorities released no further immediate information regarding the incident.
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Coors introduces ‘Thirst Trap’ to ward off mosquitoes during the summer months
(Gray News) – For anyone who likes to enjoy a cold beer in the summer heat, avoiding mosquitoes can oftentimes be a problem.
Coors has come up with a solution that may keep the little bloodsuckers at bay while you’re cracking open a cold one, especially since a study found that drinking even 12 ounces of beer can make it more likely for you to get bitten.
The brewing company has announced a Coors Light “Thirst Trap” to keep the insects distracted. The trap is designed to give them some of their own beer, so they don’t get all up in yours.
But how does the contraption work?
Coors has provided a video to show you how. The first part is the easiest: you drink most of your Coors Light from the can. Once there is just a little of the brew left, you can snap the trap on the top of the can and move to the next one. The thirsty mosquitoes will enter the can through a small opening in the trap. Once inside, they’ll be stuck in the can, enjoying the last few sips of the beer and leaving you to enjoy yours without any more interference.
The Coors Light “Thirst Trap” can be bought for $5 on the Coors online store. The company said it plans to release a limited number of traps each day at 10 a.m. CST from July 27 through Aug. 5 and only Monday through Friday.
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IF YOU HAVENT BOUGHT A MEGA MILLIONS TICKET YET-- YOU MIGHT WANT TO BUY ONE BEFORE FRIDAY NIGHT'S DRAWING... YES --- THE 830 MILLION DOLLAR DRAWING HAD NO WINNER LAST NIGHT RAISING THE JACKPOT PRIZE TO OVER 1 BILLION DOLLARS.. ACCORDING TO THE MISSISSIPPI LOTTERY BOARD -- THIS IS THE THIRD HIGHEST IN MEGA MILLIONS HISTORY AND RANKS AS THE FOURTH LARGEST IN THE HISTORY OF LOTTERIES IN THE UNITED STATES. HERE IN JACKSON WE SPOKE TO A FEW WHO SHARED WHAT THEY WOULD DO IF THEY WON. <"WE SELLING A LOT OF THOSE TICKETS RIGHT NOW."> <"NUMBER ONE I WOULD GIVE A LOT TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY REALLY NEED US NOW...AND A LOT OF CHURCHES...THEY WILL HAVE A LOT OF BLESSINGS FROM ME."> <"I WOULD SHARE IT TO CHURCHES, GET MY OWN CONTRACTORS AND GET THEM TO BUILD...AND I'D PROBABLY GIVE MY KIN FOLKS SOME MONEY." > THE LARGEST MEGA MILLIONS JACKPOT WAS OVER 1.5 BILLION DOLLARS.. WHICH WAS WON IN SOUTH CAROLINA ON OCTOBER 23RD -- 20-18..
The 10 largest lottery jackpots ever won
Updated: 5:55 PM CDT Jul 28, 2022
The Mega Millions jackpot has soared to $1.1 billion, making it the nation’s third-largest lottery prize. Here is a look at the 10 largest U.S. jackpots that have been won and the states where the winning tickets were sold:1. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)2. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)3. $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)4. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)5. $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)6. $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)7. $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021 (one ticket, from California)8. $687.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 27, 2018 (two tickets, from Iowa and New York)9. $656 million, Mega Millions, March 30, 2012 (three tickets, from Kansas, Illinois and Maryland)10. $648 million, Mega Millions, Dec. 17, 2013 (two tickets, from California and Georgia)
The Mega Millions jackpot has soared to $1.1 billion, making it the nation’s third-largest lottery prize. Here is a look at the 10 largest U.S. jackpots that have been won and the states where the winning tickets were sold:
1. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)
2. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)
3. $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)
4. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)
5. $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)
6. $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)
7. $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021 (one ticket, from California)
8. $687.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 27, 2018 (two tickets, from Iowa and New York)
9. $656 million, Mega Millions, March 30, 2012 (three tickets, from Kansas, Illinois and Maryland)
10. $648 million, Mega Millions, Dec. 17, 2013 (two tickets, from California and Georgia) | https://www.wisn.com/article/10-largest-lottery-jackpots-ever-won/40747881 | 2022-07-29T00:34:06Z | https://www.wisn.com/article/10-largest-lottery-jackpots-ever-won/40747881 | true |
WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Amarillo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Randall County in the Panhandle of Texas...
East central Deaf Smith County in the Panhandle of Texas...
* Until 700 PM CDT.
* At 553 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles southeast
of Buffalo Lake, or 13 miles southwest of Canyon, moving north at
15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
* Locations impacted include...
Canyon, Umbarger, Buffalo Lake, Dawn and Mescalero Park.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
623 PM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN RANDALL AND EAST CENTRAL DEAF SMITH COUNTIES...
At 623 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Umbarger, or 9
miles southwest of Canyon, moving north at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Canyon, Umbarger, Buffalo Lake, Dawn and Mescalero Park.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Oldham
and southwestern Hartley Counties through 730 PM CDT...
At 626 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles south of Romero, or 9 miles east of Nara Visa, moving northeast
at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and pea size hail.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Romero.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3591 10304 3583 10253 3548 10278 3556 10304
TIME...MOT...LOC 2326Z 203DEG 11KT 3561 10292
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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WASHINGTON – The FBI has reached out to attorneys representing Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and other women who were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar to begin settlement talks in the $1 billion claim they brought against the federal government, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The FBI’s general counsel contacted the lawyers for Olympic gold medalists Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney and dozens of other women on Wednesday. The FBI’s attorneys told the lawyers for the women that they had received the legal claims and the agency was “interested” in a resolution, including discussions about a potential settlement, the people said.
The people could not discuss details of the negotiations publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
John Manly, a lawyer who represents more than 90 victims, declined to comment when contacted earlier Thursday by the AP. The settlement talks were first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The victims had brought claims against the FBI for failing to stop the sports doctor when the agency first received allegations against him. FBI agents in 2015 knew that Nassar was accused of assaulting gymnasts, but they failed to act, leaving him free to continue to target young women and girls for more than a year. He pleaded guilty in 2017 and is serving decades in prison.
Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics told local agents in 2015 that three gymnasts said they were assaulted by Nassar, a team doctor. But the FBI did not open a formal investigation or inform federal or state authorities in Michigan, according to the Justice Department’s inspector general. Los Angeles agents in 2016 began a sexual tourism investigation against Nassar and interviewed several victims but also didn’t alert Michigan authorities, the inspector general said.
Nassar wasn’t arrested until the fall of 2016 during an investigation by police at Michigan State University, where he was a doctor. The Michigan attorney general’s office ultimately handled the assault charges against Nassar, while federal prosecutors in Grand Rapids, Michigan, filed a child pornography case.
The Justice Department in May said that it would not pursue criminal charges against former agents who were accused of giving inaccurate or incomplete responses during the inspector general’s investigation. At the time, Justice officials said they were “adhering to its prior decision not to bring federal criminal charges” after a “careful re-review of evidence.”
The opening of settlement talks comes as senior Justice Department officials, including Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite, who runs the department’s criminal division, met with members of Congress about the case on Thursday. In that meeting with several senators, Polite and others presented proposals to change the law to close what officials see as gaps in the statute that had prevented a case from being brought.
But Polite would not give the lawmakers underlying evidence they had requested.
“The FBI again refused to provide underlying information to support their assumption that a jury wouldn’t convict their agents for botching the Nassar investigation, then trying to cover their tracks,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. “It’s the latest example of the Department of ‘Just Us’ trying to avoid accountability for its failures.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray has acknowledged major mistakes and said what happened was “inexcusable.” The FBI later fired the supervisory special agent who had interviewed Maroney in 2015. The Justice Department’s inspector general had harshly criticized that agent and his former boss — the agent in charge of the Indianapolis office — for their handling of the allegations.
“I’m especially sorry that there were people at the FBI who had their own chance to stop this monster back in 2015 and failed, and that is inexcusable,” Wray said at a September 2021 congressional hearing. “It never should have happened, and we’re doing everything in our power to make sure it never happens again.” | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2022/07/28/fbi-open-to-settling-claims-by-gymnasts-abused-by-nassar/ | 2022-07-29T00:36:01Z | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2022/07/28/fbi-open-to-settling-claims-by-gymnasts-abused-by-nassar/ | false |
HFPA Continues Charitable Commitments as Members Vote to Create New Private
Entity for the Golden Globes® In Partnership with Eldridge
LOS ANGELES, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In a historic vote by its membership, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), announced the approval of Eldridge Industries LLC's (Eldridge) proposal to create a new private entity to manage its Golden Globes® assets and preserve its charitable and philanthropic programs in a separate non-profit entity.
"This is a historic moment for the HFPA and the Golden Globes®," said Helen Hoehne, President of the HFPA. "We have taken a decisive step forward to transform ourselves and adapt to this increasingly competitive economic landscape for both award shows and the journalism marketplace. Our Special Committee and team of legal and financial advisors did an incredible amount of work in reviewing, analyzing, and comparing the options presented to us. We are excited to move forward with a mandate to ensure we continue our support for increasing diversity in all areas and maintaining our life-changing charitable and philanthropic efforts."
The proposal was offered by Eldridge Industries LLC ("Eldridge"), a global firm that makes investments in various industries including insurance, asset management, technology, sports, media, real estate, and the consumer sector. The plan involves the creation of a new private company, which would acquire all rights for the Golden Globes® intellectual property and be empowered to oversee the professionalization and modernization of the Golden Globe® Awards.
The transition will include the development of staff and an executive team to lead the new organization. Additional Golden Globes® voters will also be added to increase the size and diversity of the available voters for the annual awards.
Eldridge was founded and is chaired by Todd L. Boehly, who is currently interim chief executive officer of the HFPA. Boehly was not part of the review, recommendation, or approval process.
In recent months, the HFPA's financial advisor, Houlihan Lokey, yielded several submitted proposals from a number of companies and investment groups. Each proposal was reviewed and analyzed by the HFPA's Special Committee, alongside its legal advisor, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
The HFPA embarked on this review of potential strategic alternatives in response to significantly changed market conditions for journalism and recent inquiries about potential partnership opportunities to leverage its attractive assets in a post-pandemic environment. It also sought to ensure viable pathways for future growth in order to generate financial stability for its significant charitable and philanthropic programs.
The Special Committee was composed exclusively of the three outside independent members of the HFPA's board: Sharlette Hambrick, Jeff Harris and Dr. Joanna Massey.
"This review process was comprehensive, deliberate and thoughtful to ensure fairness and accuracy," Hoehne added. "Per our bylaws, the decision ultimately rested with our membership, who voted on the proposal. As we look forward to celebrating our 80th anniversary event in January 2023, we are incredibly excited about this new era for our Association."
The HFPA remains committed to continuing its process of change and transformation to address issues of diversity, governance, and conduct. The HFPA does not intend to comment further until it determines that additional disclosure is appropriate or necessary.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded in 1943 – then known as the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association – by a group of entertainment journalists based in Los Angeles. During World War II, the non-profit organization established a cultural bridge between Tinseltown and millions around the world seeking an escape and inspiration through entertainment. The HFPA continues to do so today with a membership representing more than 55 countries.
Since 1944, the group has hosted the annual Golden Globe® Awards – the premier ceremony which honors achievements in both television and film. The licensing fees from the Golden Globe® Awards has enabled the organization to donate more than $50 million to more than 70 entertainment-related charities, film restoration, scholarship programs and humanitarian efforts over the last three decades. Its efforts include support for diversity programs in partnership with advocacy groups promoting greater access in Hollywood aimed at underserved communities. For more information, please visit www.GoldenGlobes.com and follow us on Twitter (@GoldenGlobes), Instagram (@GoldenGlobes), and Facebook (www.facebook.com/GoldenGlobes).
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
03-11-14-15-37
(three, eleven, fourteen, fifteen, thirty-seven)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
03-11-14-15-37
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Standout twin brothers Keegan and Kris Murray watched the banner drop on their retired jerseys at DME Academy on Thursday.
The ceremony took place in front of friends, family and athletes at DME Academy.
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“It’s a great feeling,” Keegan said. “They’re a school that took a chance on me, on us, in high school. I’m forever grateful. This is just an example of the class that they are.”
The Murray brothers played together in 2019-2020 after coming down from Iowa. Keegan wore No. 31 and Kris wore No. 25.
“It was special because we did it together,” Kris said. “We were always in the gym together and making each other better. I think that’s what we took. I think that’s the biggest thing that helped us while we where here.”
Both brothers played basketball for the Iowa Hawkeyes. Keegan was recently drafted fourth overall by the Sacramento Kings in the 2022 NBA Draft. He earned the MVP award during the 2022 NBA Summer League.
“It hasn’t really sat in with me yet,” said Keegan about being a NBA player now. “I just try to take it day by day. Just hearing your name being associated with the NBA is a dream come true. (It’s) any kid’s dream. I’m just grateful for this opportunity and I’m excited to get to work.”
Kris is returning to Iowa and has big aspirations for the year. He is already on watchlists for the 2023 draft.
“It gives me a lot of confidence going into next season,” Kris said after seeing his brother get drafted. “I know what I’m capable of. I know that I can lead our team to great things this year. We have a great group of guys that are ready to go for it again... Big Ten Championship. The expectations are high for me next year, but I’m ready to put the team on my back. I’m ready for all the expectations that come with it.”
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
623 PM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN RANDALL AND EAST CENTRAL DEAF SMITH COUNTIES...
At 623 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Umbarger, or 9
miles southwest of Canyon, moving north at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Canyon, Umbarger, Buffalo Lake, Dawn and Mescalero Park.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Oldham
and southwestern Hartley Counties through 730 PM CDT...
At 626 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles south of Romero, or 9 miles east of Nara Visa, moving northeast
at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and pea size hail.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Romero.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3591 10304 3583 10253 3548 10278 3556 10304
TIME...MOT...LOC 2326Z 203DEG 11KT 3561 10292
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
634 PM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN RANDALL AND EAST CENTRAL DEAF SMITH COUNTIES...
At 634 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Umbarger, or 7
miles west of Canyon, moving north at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Canyon, Umbarger, Buffalo Lake, Dawn and Mescalero Park.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of western Armstrong
County through 700 PM CDT...
At 636 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles northeast of Wayside, or 15 miles southwest of Claude, moving
north at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Claude and Wayside.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3496 10164 3496 10163 3497 10164 3497 10163
3509 10162 3517 10132 3485 10133 3476 10163
TIME...MOT...LOC 2336Z 163DEG 7KT 3490 10147
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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NEWS Coronavirus News Could a Skin Swab Tell if You Have COVID? By Carla Delgado Carla Delgado Twitter Carla M. Delgado is a health and culture writer based in the Philippines. Learn about our editorial process Published on July 28, 2022 Fact checked Verywell Health content is rigorously reviewed by a team of qualified and experienced fact checkers. Fact checkers review articles for factual accuracy, relevance, and timeliness. We rely on the most current and reputable sources, which are cited in the text and listed at the bottom of each article. Content is fact checked after it has been edited and before publication. Learn more. by Heather Mercer Fact checked by Heather Mercer Heather Mercer is native to Northwest Ohio (go Walleye!) and graduated from Loma Linda University with two doctorate degrees (psychology and public health). She is currently a professor at Owens Community College, as well as a fact-checker for Verywell Health. She has gained experience in a variety of settings, ranging from corporate wellness and preventive medicine, to mental health, chronic disease, and end-of-life care. Learn about our editorial process Share Tweet Email Print nadia_bormotova/Getty Key Takeaways A new study found that sebum-based testing (using a skin swab) might be a potential way to diagnose COVID-19.Skin swab testing would be easier to collect than a saliva sample from someone's mouth, nose, or throat.While it's promising, more research is needed to show that skin swabs could be used to detect COVID or other health conditions. Frequent COVID-19 testing increases the chance of early detection. Finding out that you have COVID sooner rather than later gives you a chance to get treated to avoid complications and lets you know that you need to isolate and take steps to prevent spreading the virus to others. The currently used COVID tests work by detecting either the genetic material of the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself or the biological markers of the virus. These tests require a sample to be taken from a person's nose or throat. In a new study, researchers from the University of Surrey collected sebum, blood, and saliva samples from 83 hospitalized patients—some of whom had COVID. Using the samples, the researchers tested the different biofluids for virus biomarkers and got some surprising results. The 9 Best At-Home COVID-19 Tests Which Biofluid Is Best? Polymer chain reaction (PCR) tests are the "gold standard" for diagnosing COVID because they look for the virus itself in a sample taken from a person's mouth, nose, or throat. However, Matt Spick, a postgraduate researcher at the University of Surrey and an author of the new study, told Verywell that sebum-based testing showed surprisingly good results in their research. What Is Sebum? Sebum is the oily substance that's secreted by the body's sebaceous glands in the skin. Spick said that in their study, blood-based testing for COVID biomarkers was 97% accurate. Sebum- and saliva-based testing were 88% and 80% accurate, respectively. Although sebum swabs are not commonly used for testing, it is a growing area of research—and not just for COVID. For example, scientists at The University of Manchester have found that sebum might have the potential to identify biomarkers for Parkinson's disease. “We also know that other viruses modify the skin,” said Spick. “Flavivirus modifies its host’s skin to make it more attractive to mosquitoes, helping the virus to propagate. We think sebum skin swabs have lots to tell us about what is going on elsewhere in the body.” Researchers Develop Skin Test With Potential to Diagnose Parkinson’s Disease Why Would Skin Swabs Be Helpful? According to Spick, skin swabs have a few advantages: they are convenient and less painful to collect than other bodily fluids, and they may not be as likely to get contaminated. Mark Loafman, MD, MPH, a family physician and chair of the Family and Community Medicine Department at Cook County Health, told Verywell that a test with those features would be welcomed. "There's always hope for diagnostic testing that is more accurate, faster, less expensive, and ideally less invasive," said Loafman. "The invasive nature of a nasal swab or blood draw can be a disincentive for some adults and many children.” How to Take At-home COVID Tests the Right Way A Future With More Testing Options Loafman said that investigating new sampling techniques could also be an opportunity to discover new insights about the body’s response to infection and the health condition being tested. In turn, that knowledge could lead to breakthroughs in treatment and prognosis. Matt Spick We hope that our research will lead to further investigation of the potential of non-invasive sampling, either for specific conditions such as Parkinson’s Disease, or perhaps even for the next pandemic. — Matt Spick However, the COVID testing methodology in the study is still in the experimental stage, and Loafman said we'll be using traditional biofluid samples for the foreseeable future. According to Spick, there is an established infrastructure for PCR and rapid antigen tests, which means that skin swab testing is a lower priority for now. “Our study was small, and would need substantial validation work,” said Spick. “We hope that our research will lead to further investigation of the potential of non-invasive sampling, either for specific conditions such as Parkinson’s Disease, or perhaps even for the next pandemic.” The information in this article is current as of the date listed, which means newer information may be available when you read this. For the most recent updates on COVID-19, visit our coronavirus news page. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Sign up for our Health Tip of the Day newsletter, and receive daily tips that will help you live your healthiest life. Sign Up You're in! Thank you, {{form.email}}, for signing up. There was an error. Please try again. What are your concerns? Other Inaccurate Hard to Understand Submit 4 Sources Verywell Health uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Read our editorial process to learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. COVID-19 testing: What you need to know. Spick M, Lewis HM, Frampas CF, et al. An integrated analysis and comparison of serum, saliva and sebum for COVID-19 metabolomics. Sci Rep. 2022;12(11867). doi:10.1038/s41598-022-16123-4 Sinclair E, Trivedi DK, Sarkar D, et al. Metabolomics of sebum reveals lipid dysregulation in Parkinson’s disease. Nature Communications. 2021;12(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21669-4 Zhang H, Zhu Y, Liu Z, et al. A volatile from the skin microbiota of flavivirus-infected hosts promotes mosquito attractiveness. Cell. 2022;185(14):2510-2522.e16. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2022.05.016 | https://www.verywellhealth.com/skin-swab-covid-6274430 | 2022-07-29T00:43:00Z | https://www.verywellhealth.com/skin-swab-covid-6274430 | true |
Volunteer deputy dies after being thrown from horse at county fair, authorities say
HARRISON, Mich. (Gray News) - Authorities in Michigan say they are saddened to report the death of a volunteer deputy after she was thrown from a horse.
According to the MPD Mounted Patrol Foundation, Deputy Nichole Shuff, with the Clare County Mounted Division, stopped to help a person having a medical emergency while attending the Clare County Fair last weekend.
However, authorities said an incident during this interaction caused Shuff to be thrown from her horse and she later died.
The foundation sent its thoughts and prayers to Shuff’s family while saying the volunteer deputy will be remembered for her kindness, compassion and love of horses.
Authorities released no further immediate information regarding the incident.
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Left-wing climate protesters arrested at Congressional Baseball Game after blocking Nationals Park entrance
The Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department arrested at least two of the protesters
Climate protesters were arrested during the Congressional Baseball Game on Thursday evening after blocking one of the entrances to Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police Department told Fox News Digital that three people were arrested for unlawful entry.
Multiple left-wing groups were protesting the event and holding signs reading, "This is a climate emergency."
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger made comments on the rumored protest on Wednesday, stating that unlawful activity wouldn't be tolerated.
US CAPITOL POLICE ADDRESS THREATS TO DISRUPT CONGRESSIONAL BASEBALL GAME
"A message from U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger ahead of tomorrow's Congressional Baseball Game for Charity," Manger said. "We are aware that demonstrators are planning to protest political issues at the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. Our mission is to protect the Members of Congress during this family event, so we have a robust security plan in place."
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"We urge anyone who is thinking about causing trouble at the charity game to stay home. We will not tolerate violence or any unlawful behavior during this family event," he added.
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LONDON (AP) — Russian regulators have fined chat service WhatsApp and Snapchat for failing to store Russian users’ data on local servers, part of government efforts to control online activity.
A Moscow court on Thursday imposed an 18 million ruble ($300,000) fine on chat service WhatsApp and a 1 million ruble penalty on disappearing message platform Snapchat. The fines followed a complaint by Russia’s state communications regulator, Roskomnadzor.
The Russian government has been trying for years to establish greater control over the internet and social media, an effort that has intensified in recent months as it tries to limit the flow of information about Ukraine.
Neither Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., which owns WhatsApp, nor Snap Inc., which runs the Snapchat app, responded to a request for comment.
The court said it was fining WhatsApp for repeatedly refusing to localize data of Russian users. WhatsApp received its first Russian fine, for 4 million rubles, in August 2021.
A Moscow court also fined Apple 2 million rubles (about $34,000) earlier this month over the data storage issue. Airbnb, Pinterest and the video streaming service Twitch were fined the same amount last month. | https://pix11.com/ap-technology/russia-fines-whatsapp-snapchat-over-data-storage/ | 2022-07-29T00:47:09Z | https://pix11.com/ap-technology/russia-fines-whatsapp-snapchat-over-data-storage/ | false |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård was hired Thursday as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra and given a five-year contract that starts with the 2023-24 season.
Søndergård, 52, will have the title of music director designate during the 2022-23 season. He will succeed Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä, the orchestra’s music director from 2003-04 through last season.
Søndergård also is music director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, a role he has held since 2018-19 after serving as principal conductor from 2012.
In Minneapolis, he will head an orchestra whose past music directors include Eugene Ormandy, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Antal Dorati, Neville Marriner and Edo de Waart.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Lamar Jackson's contract negotiations are lingering into training camp, and the Baltimore quarterback says at a certain point, it could be time to put those talks aside.
“There’s probably going to be a cutoff at some point, yes,” Jackson said Thursday.
The latest update from the Ravens' star quarterback wasn't exactly earth shattering: Yes, negotiations are ongoing. No, he wasn't going to publicize details about topics such as guaranteed money. Yes, he thinks a deal will eventually get done, and yes, he hopes that will be before the season.
The most significant takeaway was probably the fact that Jackson seems willing to put a deadline on negotiations. That's not a huge shock — contract talks during the season can be a distraction — but it suggests that if the Ravens don't reach a long-term deal with him soon, this saga could stretch into next offseason.
“I get to talk to both sides, and both sides are very motivated to get the job done,” coach John Harbaugh said. “So, I feel like that’s kind of where it’s at.”
This season is Jackson's fifth-year option, and it's surprising that his contract status remains so uncertain. Josh Allen, another star quarterback drafted the same year as Jackson, signed his big extension last offseason. Kyler Murray received one earlier this month, and he was drafted a year after Jackson.
Still, the fact that this negotiation is going differently doesn't mean it needs to cause drama.
“If Lamar is not concerned about the contract, nobody should be concerned about the contract," receiver Rashod Bateman said. "That’s not up to us. We’re going to let whoever handles that handle it. We’re just going to play football. That’s what we’re called here to do, and that’s what we’re going to focus on.”
The franchise tag means the Ravens don't have to worry too much about losing Jackson after this season, and neither side has shown any significant acrimony publicly. Jackson missed voluntary OTAs but was in attendance for mandatory minicamp, and he was on the field for the start of training camp this week.
“I want to win, at the end of the day. I just want to be great,” he said. "I just want to work with my brothers, at the end of the day. I don’t want to leave them out there hanging. That’s not me. That’s never been me.”
Jackson sounds comfortable with the fact that the negotiations between him and the team have generally been kept private.
“I don’t like people in my business at all. It’s my business," he said. "If I wanted it out there, I’d put it out there myself, if anything.”
KOLAR'S SURGERY
Harbaugh said TE Charlie Kolar is having sports hernia surgery next week. The Ravens drafted Kolar in the fourth round this year out of Iowa State.
“He actually had a sports hernia in college and had a surgery. They’re going to redo that one as well,” Harbaugh said. "It’s just something that’s not too much different than Rashod Bateman last year, who had the lingering issue coming from college. So, we’ll get it cleaned up now. Would have loved to have gotten it cleaned up earlier, but we didn’t have it really earlier. I think he felt like he could manage it, but it’s gotten to the point where it needs to be fixed.”
Bateman missed the first five games last season.
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Workers Join for Wages and Benefits Associated with Teamster Contract
WARRENSBURG, Mo., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Drivers, monitors and mechanics at First Student in Warrensburg, Mo. have voted overwhelmingly to affiliate with Teamsters Local 838.
"Congratulations to these drivers for standing strong and fighting for dignity, respect and a voice on the job," said Alexander Waschneck, Local 838 President. "The Teamsters already have a track record of getting great wages and benefits for First Student workers in Western Missouri, and we look forward to doing the same thing at this location."
Lisa Knisely has been a school bus driver for more than thirty years, and last year she helped evacuate Warrensburg High School after an emergency.
"We had bus drivers ready before they could even get the kids out of the school," Knisely said. "You don't have many people who can do that, and that's why we need a union – to guarantee the respect that we deserve. We have to watch out for multitude of things – how are the kids doing? Are they having a good day or a bad day? We end up being eyes and ears. We're everywhere during the school day. It's a way different job than anybody realizes."
Randy Huggins has been a driver at First Student for five years.
"When we won the election, I was elated – I was on Cloud Nine," said Huggins. "We've seen the Teamster contracts at the other bus yards, with the wages and benefits that the drivers had because they joined the union – better pay, paid days off, health insurance – there's a huge list of benefits from joining the union."
Teamsters Local 838 represents workers in a wide variety of industries. For more information go to http://www.teamsters838.org/.
Contact:
Matt McQuaid, (202) 624-6877
mmcquaid@teamster.org
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SAN MATEO, Calif., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Speck Products, the leader in mobile phone protection innovation, announced its slim and protective ImpactHero™ case is available now for the Google® Pixel 6a phone. ImpactHero has a slim, dual-layer, scratch-resistant design with soft-touch coating and is extremely durable. It protects against drops up to eight feet and includes Microban® antimicrobial product protection.
ImpactHero features a scratch-resistant, soft-touch surface that provides a comfortable and secure grip. The case is built to fit like a glove, with an anti-stretch design to maintain its precise shape. Its sleek design allows for uninterrupted wireless charging while also allowing for seamless use of buttons, port, and camera. ImpactHero also includes a raised bezel to help protect the device's screen from scratching and shattering if the phone ever lands face-down.
ImpactHero has a built-in antimicrobial treatment from Microban that delivers up to 99% reduction in stain and odor-causing bacteria on the case, creating a cleaner surface.
ImpactHero for the Pixel 6a is now available on SpeckProducts.com for $29.95.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
634 PM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN RANDALL AND EAST CENTRAL DEAF SMITH COUNTIES...
At 634 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Umbarger, or 7
miles west of Canyon, moving north at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Canyon, Umbarger, Buffalo Lake, Dawn and Mescalero Park.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of western Armstrong
County through 700 PM CDT...
At 636 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles northeast of Wayside, or 15 miles southwest of Claude, moving
north at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Claude and Wayside.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3496 10164 3496 10163 3497 10164 3497 10163
3509 10162 3517 10132 3485 10133 3476 10163
TIME...MOT...LOC 2336Z 163DEG 7KT 3490 10147
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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DALLAS, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tonight during the opening of the 2022 World TSC Conference in Dallas, the Ramesh and Kalpana Bhatia Family Foundation announced a new collaboration with the TSC Alliance, working together to uncover biomarkers, test new treatments and connect researchers with families to better address TSC-associated neuropsychiatric disorders (TAND), which impact nearly everyone living with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). The $2.5 million foundational gift is the largest single donation in the TSC Alliance's history.
TSC is a rare genetic disorder that causes tumors to grow in different organs and can impair their function, primarily the brain, heart, kidneys, skin and lungs. Changes in the brain caused by TSC have the biggest impact on quality of life, from seizures and developmental delays to intellectual disabilities, behavioral challenges and autism.
This new funding will create "Anya's Accelerator," which will focus on furthering TAND translational research. TAND includes a wide range of cognitive, behavioral and psychiatric challenges linked to the disease's effect on brain function. Autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disabilities, neuropsychological deficits, aggressive behaviors and more can severely affect people with TSC and their families. However, much is still unknown about TAND issues and how to effectively treat them, hence the need for more targeted research.
"The TSC Alliance is incredibly grateful to the Ramesh and Kalpana Bhatia Family Foundation for this historic donation," said Kari Luther Rosbeck, President & CEO of the TSC Alliance. "We know TSC-associated neuropsychiatric disorders are incredibly challenging for people with TSC and their loved ones, and this funding will give us the ability to start finding answers and, hopefully, identify effective interventions."
"Clinical trials for treating TAND are challenging for many reasons, particularly because TAND affects different people in different ways," explained Steven L. Roberds, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at the TSC Alliance. "This program will work to overcome these challenges by developing ways to measure the most impactful aspects of TAND for each individual and identifying biomarkers to enable targeting of specific treatments for care of specific individuals."
The three-year "Anya's Accelerator" research program will focus on three major goals:
- Developing quantifiable patient-reported outcomes for the most impactful aspects of TAND utilizing the combined expertise of individuals and families living with TSC and clinical researchers;
- Identifying biomarkers and predictors of specific aspects of TAND through collaborative and inclusive analysis of existing samples and data; and
- Improving the translatability of and testing candidate drugs in TAND-relevant animal models by incorporating biomarkers or predictors relevant to those identified in humans.
"We are so grateful for the work and progress the TSC Alliance has made over the past 20 years. Anya's Accelerator will provide an opportunity to advance TAND research and innovation and offer hope for improved treatments, cures and prevention methods for those diagnosed with TSC and other neurological conditions," said Anita Bhatia, Executive Director, Ramesh and Kalpana Bhatia Family Foundation. "This is our foundation's most meaningful and personal partnership to date, as my daughter, Anya, was diagnosed with TSC at eight weeks old. Without the incredible work of the TSC community and the development of new treatments that were studied and approved, her livelihood would have been gravely different."
The TSC Alliance is an internationally recognized nonprofit that does everything it takes to improve the lives of people with TSC. It drives research, improves quality care, works to increase access and advocates for all affected by the disease. For more information, visit tscalliance.org.
The Ramesh and Kalpana Bhatia Family Foundation, founded in 2006, is a private family foundation established by Ramesh and Kalpana Bhatia. The Foundation is dedicated to making an impactful change around the world by funding innovative solutions and programs that enrich communities and serve the common good. The Foundation's grant making focuses on local, national and international organizations that support medical and healthcare research, education, mental health, intellectual and physical diversities, human rights and social justice, women and girls' empowerment and emergency responses. rkbhatiafoundation.org.
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TSC Alliance
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Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder testifies before Congress
Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder testified before a congressional committee investigating the NFL team’s history of workplace misconduct Thursday, speaking for hours in a deposition conducted virtually rather than a public hearing.
A spokesperson for the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform confirmed Snyder began giving his deposition around 8 a.m. EDT Thursday. It was still going more than eight hours later.
The spokesperson said in a statement on behalf of the committee: “Snyder has committed to providing full and complete testimony, and to answer the Committee’s questions about his knowledge of and contributions to the Commanders’ toxic work environment, as well as his efforts to interfere with the NFL’s internal investigation, without hiding behind nondisclosure or other confidentiality agreements.”
Snyder, who is in Israel, agreed to testify voluntarily after committee members worked out some issues with his legal team on the terms of his deposition. The committee had previously agreed to have Snyder testify under the terms of a subpoena it had initially issued.
The committee has the discretion to decide what, if any, information it releases from Snyder’s deposition. The hearing was not recorded, though a transcript is expected to be produced.
Snyder testified a month after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell appeared before the committee via Zoom to discuss Washington's workplace culture and the league's investigation into it. Snyder was invited to testify at the same hearing and, through a lawyer, declined.
The committee launched this investigation last year after the league fined Washington $10 million following its review of workplace misconduct but did not release a written report of attorney Beth Wilkinson's findings.
Snyder's testimony came on the second day of practice of Washington's training camp in preparation for the 2022 season, which begins in September. While players and coaches are trying to focus on football, the congressional investigation was just one of a few off-field story lines around the team that made headlines in recent months, including an assistant's comments about the Jan. 6 insurrection and a deal for a new stadium falling through. | https://www.wgal.com/article/nfl-owner-dan-snyder-testify-before-congress/40740980 | 2022-07-29T01:00:50Z | https://www.wgal.com/article/nfl-owner-dan-snyder-testify-before-congress/40740980 | false |
- UNLIMEAT has launched their plant-based jerky, funded on Kickstarter at 1035% of its target goal, on Amazon.
LOS ANGELES, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UNLIMEAT, an alternative meat brand from Korea, has begun sales of their hit plant-based jerky on Amazon. UNLIMEAT entered the US market just last month with a Kickstarter campaign that exceeded its target goal within three hours. Its launch was covered on influential media outlets such as Yahoo Finance, Fox News, and AP, and received a great deal of attention from consumers as well. The campaign successfully concluded, hitting 1035% of its funding goal in a single month.
An UNLIMEAT representative remarked, "We'd heard that it would be difficult to reach even $10,000 funding in food categories from Kickstarter, which usually showcases tech products. We're quite thrilled to have broken market expectations by receiving more than $30,000 in funding, especially because our product is plant-based, making it a smaller subdivision of the broader market. We hope that our product, which has now successfully begun sales in the USA, becomes even more popular on Amazon." According to the representative, UNLIMEAT plant-based Jerky received very steady backer attention and didn't have a drop in purchase growth index for even a single day during the month-long campaign.
UNLIMEAT plant-based jerky is made using non-GMO soy protein, wheat, and other vegetable ingredients. The jerky has a flavor and chewy texture just like meat. The jerky is created using its own proprietary texturing technology and has zero artificial ingredients. They use beet and pomegranate to create the coloring and citrus extract as the preservative.
UNLIMEAT sold two flavor plant-based jerky flavors on Kickstarter: Korean BBQ and Smoky chili. The jerky is sold in boxes of 6 packs, and one pack contains 2.5 oz of jerky. They are priced at $19.97 USD.
UNLIMEAT, a plant-based protein brand from Korea, is uniquely different from other plant-based brands in that it started as a company aimed at reducing food waste. The founder realized that vegetables that were regularly being thrown out due to minor cosmetic imperfections and that left-over fiber from vegetable processing could be made into delicious plant-based foods.
The company has just begun selling their popular plant-based Jerky on Amazon following the successful Kickstarter. In addition to the jerky available on Amazon, UNLIMEAT has a full line of plant-based proteins rolling out in the U.S. including pulled pork and Beef Mandu (Dumplings), both exclusively available at gtfoitsvegan.com.
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New Delhi: Chennai-based TVS Motor Company reported on Thursday a consolidated profit of INR 297 crore in June quarter year-on year (YoY) over a consolidated loss of INR 14.72 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago.
The company's revenue from operations in Q1 FY23 stood at INR 7,315.70 crore, up 56%, as compared to INR 4,689.34 crore in the same year-ago period
On a standalone basis, it reported EBITDA of INR 599 crore for the first quarter of 2022-23 as against EBITDA of INR 274 crore in Q1 of 2021-22. The company’s EBITDA margin for the quarter is at 10% as against the EBITDA margin of 7% reported in the first quarter of 2021-22.
During the quarter under review, the overall two-wheeler and three-wheeler sales including exports were 9.07 Lakh units as against 6.58 Lakh units registered in the quarter ended June30, 2021. Motorcycle sales registered 4.34 Lakh units in the Q1 FY23 as against 4.05 Lakh units in the same period a year ago.
Scooter sales for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 were ats 3.06 lakh units as against 1.38 lakh units in the first quarter of 2021-22. The Company recorded the highest two-wheeler exports in this quarter registering 2.96 lakh units as against 2.90 lakh units in the quarter ended June 30,2021.
Three-wheeler sales for the quarter under review were 0.46 Lakh units as against 0.39 Lakh units during first quarter of 2021-22. Electric Scooter sales registered 0.09 Lakh units in the first quarter of 2022-23 as against 0.01 lakh units in the quarter ended June 30, 2021.
During the quarter, the Company launched TVS iQube Electric scooter in three variants with a range of 140 km on a single charge. They offer a host of intelligent connected features such as 7” TFT touchscreen and clean UI, infinity theme personalisation, voice assist and TVS iQube Alexa skill set, intuitive music player control, OTA updates, fast charging with a plug-and-play carry along charger, vehicle health and safety notifications, multiple Bluetooth, and Cloud Connectivity options, 32 litre storage space.
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PARIS — Notre-Dame cathedral is on track to reopen to worshippers and the public in 2024, Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak said Thursday, more than three years after its roof was destroyed in a massive blaze.
She said the clean-up phase of the restoration project had ended, allowing rebuilding work to get underway at the end of the summer.
Notre-Dame has been closed for restoration since the fire in 2019 gutted its roof and sent its spire crashing down, to the horror of onlookers and people watching in France and around the world on television and social media.
“We are confident that 2024 will be the year a large part of this work is completed, the year of the re-opening of the cathedral to worshippers and to the public,” Abdul Malak said as she visited the site.
Soon after the April 2019 blaze, President Emmanuel Macron said the cathedral — which dates back to the 12th century — would be rebuilt and later promised to get it reopened to worshippers by 2024, when France hosts the Olympic Games.
The cathedral will be restored to its previous design, including the 315-feet spire designed by architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc in the mid-1800s and for which new timber has been selected.
After completion of the safety phase in 2021 and work to clean up the interior of the cathedral, reconstruction notably involves rebuilding the wooden roof structure, the vaults and the spire. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/back_page/notre-dame-on-track-to-reopen-in-2024---french-culture-minister/article_e0fe8b47-e9ce-5c35-8138-8cc4259e8fee.html | 2022-07-29T01:04:56Z | https://www.unionleader.com/news/back_page/notre-dame-on-track-to-reopen-in-2024---french-culture-minister/article_e0fe8b47-e9ce-5c35-8138-8cc4259e8fee.html | false |
Cenla Pregnancy Center Helps Mothers with Unplanned Pregnancies
The Cenla Pregnancy Center in Alexandria offers services and counseling to women who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy. ABC 31 News’ Joel Massey met with the executive director to talk about the mission of the center and how it’s helping the women of Cenla.
Claire Lemoine, Exec. Dir. Cenla Pregnancy Center said, “Everything you see in this boutique has been donated so we have an education program for our moms that they can participate in and take part in education classes that will help them with parenting or pregnancy even just things like life skills and relationships and things like that. And when they do these classes they earn vouchers and they are able to shop in the boutique.”
Registered Nurse Claire Lemoine has been the Executive Director of the Cenla Pregnancy Center since they opened their doors five years ago. She manages staff, makes sure policies are followed and makes sure that services are delivered to the expectant moms that they serve. She told me a little about why she is pro life in her 26 years of working in maternal child health.
“In my professional carrier I’ve grown to see the beauty of life and the miracle that happens as a child grows from conception to birth… It can be maybe a set of circumstances where this pregnancy was unplanned and they’re very scared maybe to tell their spouse to tell their family or to tell friends or maybe they’re worried about their future… The three options they have is to carry and parent or to carry and make an adoption plan or to have an abortion.”
The majority of clients they see are between the ages of 19 and 29. The center offers counseling to expectant mothers and if their decision is to have an abortion, they do not try to sway the mother just to give them information on their decision. Volunteers are very important to the operation of the center. They can apply and go through an interview process and normally do receptionist work or tasks like sorting through donations or mailing out newsletters.
“Our volunteers have proven to be very flexible and we’re very grateful for that.”
Since the center has been open here at the former Baptist Bookstore on MacArthur Drive they have helped more than 1300 mothers and provided 4000 services like pregnancy tests and ultrasounds.
They look for three things when providing ultrasounds, to verify that the baby is in the uterus, the growth of the baby to determine how far along the mother is, and to verify the heartbeat.
It costs about $700,000 per year to keep the center running and they have had four fundraisers so far to help with that cost.
Last Thursday Judge Donald Johnson in Baton Rouge ruled that the three Louisiana clinics can continue to provide abortions and gives attorneys 30 days to develop plans for a trial on whether the law should be permanently blocked. Attorney General Jeff Landry on people who disagree with the abortion ban.
“If they find themselves in the minority of ideas they can pack their bags and go somewhere else.”
Zarouhie Abdalian with the Louisiana Abortion Rights Action Committee said, “We reject the invitation to leave the state we know the states rights laws are all about Jim Crow and oppression and so we reject that fully.”
Lemoine feels blessed to not have seen many protests or action against the center and her mission remains the same as before Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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Executives said lower operating expenses and lower European Union tariffs on steel and aluminum were able to offset the impact of suspended motorcycle production at manufacturing plants in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Harley-Davidson Inc. reported a rise in profit in the second quarter on Thursday, beating analyst estimates and sending shares up nearly 7% despite a two-week production shutdown that suspended bike shipments in mid-May.
The Milwaukee-based company reported a net profit of $215.8 million, or $1.46 per share, higher than analysts' expectations of $1.07 per share, according to Refinitiv data.
Strong demand for leisure activities and road trips after pandemic lockdowns has kept orders for motorcycles strong, even as Harley struggled with production.
"Demand was strong across the board, but available bikes in dealerships were the concern," Chief Executive Jochen Zeitz said on a conference call.
Executives said lower operating expenses and lower European Union tariffs on steel and aluminum were able to offset the impact of suspended motorcycle production at manufacturing plants in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Zeitz said the production stoppage was due to a brake hoses problem from a third-party supplier.
Harley re-affirmed its full-year revenue growth outlook of 5% to 10% for motorcycle units and operating income margin of 11% to 12%.
Expecting a ramp up of production following the May stoppage, the 119 year-old company says it will recoup lost production costs throughout the remainder of the year.
"Before the suspension, we were running about 4,500 units per week - that was our output. We are peaking over that now," said Gina Goetter, Harley's chief financial officer. She expects production costs to moderate in the second half of 2022.
Macroeconomic conditions, supply chain bottlenecks, and inflationary pressures have forced manufacturers including Harley to raise prices to help offset raw material and logistics costs, testing consumer spending power. The company's price tag for new and used models is up 1.3% overall.
Sales of motorcycles and related products fell about 5% to $1.27 billion in the second quarter due to the production shutdown and lack of available parts, and total revenue fell 4% to about $1.47 billion.
Saera Electric Auto Pvt Ltd, the plant's new owner, has started the assembly of its Mayuri range of e-rickshaws at the plant. Next year, it will also be making electric two-wheelers at the site as part of a contract manufacturing agreement with defunct auto brand LML. | https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/two-wheelers/motorcycles/harley-earnings-beat-estimates-aided-by-strong-leisure-demand-shares-soar/93193996 | 2022-07-29T01:05:29Z | https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/two-wheelers/motorcycles/harley-earnings-beat-estimates-aided-by-strong-leisure-demand-shares-soar/93193996 | false |
The National Health Service in England announced on Thursday that it was shutting down the country’s only youth gender clinic in favor of a more distributed and comprehensive network of medical care for adolescents seeking hormones and other gender treatments.
The closure followed an external review of the Tavistock clinic in London, which has served thousands of transgender patients since the 1990s. The review, which is ongoing, has raised several concerns, including about long wait times, insufficient mental health support and the surging number of young people seeking gender treatments.
The overhaul of services for transgender young people in England is part of a notable shift in medical practice across some European countries with nationalized health care systems. Some doctors there are concerned about the increase in numbers as well as the dearth of data on long-term safety and outcomes of medical transitions.
In the United States, doctors specializing in gender care for adolescents have mixed feelings about the reforms in Europe. Although many agree that more comprehensive health care for transgender youth is badly needed, as are more studies of the treatments, they worry that the changes will fuel the growing political movement in some states to ban such care entirely.
“How do we draw the line so that we keep care individualized while maintaining safety standards for everyone? That’s what we’re trying to sort out,” said Dr. Marci Bowers, a plastic surgeon and the incoming president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, who is transgender. “It’s the people on the ground who need to make these decisions, not people in Washington or state legislatures.”
The NHS said current patients at the Tavistock clinic could continue to receive care there before transferring to two new hubs at children’s hospitals in London and Manchester. The new clinics will expand the country’s gender services while making sure children are adequately treated for autism, trauma and mental health issues. The specialists will also carry out clinical research on gender medications.
There are “critically important unanswered questions” about the use of puberty blockers, wrote Dr. Hilary Cass, head of the external review of the country’s youth gender identity services, in a letter to the head of NHS England last week.
Puberty blockers, which are largely reversible, are intended to buy younger patients time to make weighty decisions about permanent medical changes. But Cass questioned whether most adolescents prescribed these drugs were given the support to reverse course, should they choose to. Tavistock received more than 5,000 patient referrals in 2021, up from just 250 in 2011. The types of patients seeking referrals have also shifted over the past decade. When the clinic opened, it primarily served children who were assigned male at birth. Last year, two-thirds of its patients were assigned female at birth.
It is unclear why the number of patients has surged so drastically or why transgender boys are driving the increase.
Transgender advocates in Britain welcomed the changes but emphasized that many questions still remained about how they would affect care for young people.
“We are optimistic, cautiously optimistic, about the news,” said Susie Green, chief executive of Mermaids, an advocacy group for transgender and gender-diverse youth. “There is a 2 1/2-year waiting list to be seen for your first appointment. We’ve seen the distress caused to young people because of that.”
But Green, who has a transgender adult daughter, said the group was concerned about whether mental health services would be prioritized over medical care. Gender diversity, she said, should not be treated as a mental disorder.
“We would not want any further barriers to be put in place in terms of access to medical intervention,” Green said.
In 2020, a former patient at Tavistock, Keira Bell, joined a highly publicized lawsuit against the clinic. She claimed that she was put on puberty blockers at 16 “after a series of superficial conversations with social workers,” and had her breasts removed at age 20, decisions she later regretted.
A high court initially ruled that children under 16 were unlikely to be mature enough to consent to such medical interventions. But that decision was reversed in September 2021, with judges ruling that “it was for clinicians rather than the court to decide” whether a young patient could provide informed consent.
In 2020, employees at Tavistock raised concerns about medical care at the clinic, prompting the NHS to commission Cass, a pediatrician in London who was not affiliated with the clinic, for an external review. Her interim report was released in February this year.
Sweden’s national health service determined this year that gender-related care for young people should only be provided in exceptional cases when children have clear distress over their gender, known as dysphoria. All adolescents who receive treatment will be required to be enrolled in clinical trials in order to collect more data on side effects and long-term outcomes. Finland took a similar stance last year.
“Our position is we cannot see this as just a rights issue,” Dr. Thomas Linden, director of the country’s National Board of Health and Welfare, said in a February interview. “We have to see patient safety and precision in the judgment. We have to be really to some degree sure that we are giving the right treatments to the right person.” While these European countries have put some limits around transgender care, their approaches are far more permissive than those in some conservative U.S. states. A recent Alabama law made it a felony for doctors to prescribe puberty blockers and hormones to minors. In Texas, parents who allow their children to receive gender treatments have been investigated for child abuse. Both states are tied up in court battles with civil rights groups.
Some American doctors worried that the changing standards in Europe would bolster the notion that gender treatments are dangerous for young people.
“My fear is that this is going to be interpreted as another notch against providing gender-affirming care for kids,” said Dr. Angela Goepferd, medical director of the Gender Health Program at Children’s Minnesota hospital. More services are needed, they said, not less. “That’s our challenge here.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/england-overhauls-medical-care-for-transgender-youth/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-07-29T01:07:38Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/england-overhauls-medical-care-for-transgender-youth/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | true |
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano tweeted that the CEO of Gab “doesn’t speak for me or my campaign” and said he rejects “anti-Semitism in any form.”
But he stopped short of disavowing ties to Gab, a conservative social media site accused of harboring anti-Semitism, and its CEO, Andrew Torba.
Democrats, including gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro, had demanded Wednesday that Mastriano cut ties to the site after Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group, revealed Mastriano’s campaign had paid Gab $5,000 for “adverting consulting.”
abc27 News was able to verify the April 28 expenditure in campaign finance reports but couldn’t independently confirm what the campaign received in return.
Gab gained notoriety after reports that the suspect in 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, during which 11 worshippers died, had posted anti-Semitic threats on the platform.
The day after the massacre, Gab appeared to gloat about all the attention.
“We have been getting 1 million hits an hour all day,” read a post widely reported and attributed at the time to Torba, on Gab’s since-suspended Twitter account. abc27 News couldn’t independently confirm that Torba authored the tweet.
Torba later condemned the incident and said he was “horrified” to learn “this alleged terrorist was on our site,” but defended the platform.
“I do think that more speech is always going to be the answer to combat bad speech or hate speech,” he said.
abc27 News couldn’t reach Torba for comment Thursday.
The Washington, D.C.-based Republican Jewish Coalition has called on Mastriano to disavow ties to Gab. The organization didn’t reply Thursday to messages from abc27 News asking whether it would support his candidacy if he doesn’t.
“They called on Mastriano to disavow the Gab website, but they didn’t disavow Mastriano himself,” said Jill Zipin, founder and chair of Democratic Jewish Outreach Pennsylvania. “How can you reasonably keep ‘Jewish’ in your name if you support this guy?”
Mastriano didn’t reply Thursday to messages from abc27 News. In his tweet Thursday, he wrote in part: “Recent smears by the Democrats and the media are blatant attempts to distract Pennsylvanians from suffering inflicted by Democrat policies.”
The news about the Mastriano campaign’s payment to Gab comes amid recent evidence that mainstream Republicans are willing to support Mastriano’s candidacy.
“I think time will tell whether more traditional Republican groups, both Jewish and Jewish, contribute to his campaign,” Zipin said. “It will be very interesting in, for example, Bucks County, where you have someone who’s considered moderate, [Republican Congressman] Brian Fitzpatrick,” Zipin said. “And [the district] has a very large Jewish population. Will he endorse Mastriano?”
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San Francisco declares emergency over monkeypox spread
The mayor of San Francisco announced a legal state of emergency Thursday over the growing number of monkeypox cases, allowing officials to cut through red tape and fight a public health crisis reminiscent of the AIDS epidemic that began devastating the city in the 1980s.
(Previous monkeypox coverage in video player above)
The declaration, which takes effect Monday, was welcomed by gay advocates who have grown increasingly frustrated by what they called San Francisco's lackluster response to a virus that so far has affected primarily men who have sex with men, although anyone can get infected.
"San Francisco was at the forefront of the public health responses to HIV and COVID-19, and we will be at the forefront when it comes to monkeypox," said state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat who represents the city. "We can't and won't leave the LGBTQ community out to dry."
San Francisco's health officer Dr. Susan Philip said the city "an epicenter for the country. Thirty percent of all cases in California are in San Francisco."
The city has 261 cases, out of about 800 in California and 4,600 nationwide, according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health. A national shortage of vaccine has resulted in people waiting in line for hours for scarce doses, often to be turned away when the shots run out.
Members of the LGBTQ community expressed anger and frustration at a city hearing last week, saying they were relying on social media because the San Francisco public health department had not dispensed basic information on testing or vaccine availability.
Supervisor Rafael Mandelman excoriated the department, saying it was unclear why it could not staff phone lines, especially after telling people to call those phone numbers for information, while the San Francisco AIDS Foundation was able to quickly staff an information hotline.
"It's a bad look for San Francisco," he said.
Resident Tom Temprano said it was unforgiveable that he was learning at the meeting that his appointment for a second shot would not be honored. The city decided to prioritize first shots over second shots so more people can get some protection.
San Francisco shut down its primary monkeypox vaccination clinic earlier this week after it ran out of doses, saying it had only received 7,800 doses of a requested 35,000. Officials said they expect 4,200 doses.
The monkeypox virus spreads through prolonged skin-to-skin contact, which includes sex, kissing, breathing at close range, and sharing bedding and clothing, the public health department said. Health officials are asking people who could be at risk to cover exposed skin when out in crowds and to watch out for symptoms, such as fever, blisters and rashes.
The World Health Organization over the weekend declared the monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries a global emergency.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed planned a news conference later Thursday. | https://www.kcra.com/article/san-francisco-declares-emergency-monkeypox-spread/40748369 | 2022-07-29T01:16:27Z | https://www.kcra.com/article/san-francisco-declares-emergency-monkeypox-spread/40748369 | true |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joe Manganiello marveled at the years-old mysteries in his family that were solved through DNA by researchers on PBS’ “Finding Your Roots,” including a revelation involving the actor’s paternal grandfather.
It was so surprising that host Henry Louis Gates Jr. had to call Manganiello with the news so he wouldn’t find out first during taping.
“My family and I had a betting pool of what it is, like what’s so bad that you can’t announce it on the episode?” Manganiello told a TV critics meeting Thursday.
Gates informed Manganiello that the man the family believed to be the actor’s paternal grandfather really wasn’t.
“My grandfather was a Black man of mixed race,” said Manganiello, who is white. “That was fascinating.”
As a result, Gates told him, “You are zero percent genetically related to anyone named Manganiello in the world.”
Gates didn’t stop there. The show’s research traced back to the actor’s fifth great-grandfather who was a slave who became free before slavery was abolished in Massachusetts, where Manganiello’s father was born outside of Boston. His father’s family came from Italy.
Manganiello found out his distant relative joined the Continental Army and fought alongside other Blacks for the colonies against the British in units that were non-segregated.
“None of us would have guessed that if we’d had 10 years of guessing,” the actor said. “If Manganiello’s not my last name, what is?”
Another mystery from his mother’s side was solved, too.
Manganiello’s maternal great-grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian genocide during World War I in which her husband and seven of her children were killed. She was shot, but played dead and escaped with an eighth child, who later drowned while they traversed the Euphrates River.
Manganiello was told his great-grandmother was incarcerated and met a German officer stationed at the camp. He said she became pregnant by the officer, who later returned to Germany without her. The actor’s aunt had a picture of the man, which later got lost.
“We had nothing to connect us being German other than this,” he said.
The show’s researchers found that the actor’s mother and aunt were the children of the half-German baby.
“That was a really profound moment for me,” he said.
Gates said it took nearly a year to uncover the ancestry in part because the Turkish government doesn’t give researchers access to vital records and population documents dating to the Ottoman Empire.
Manganiello was filming in Europe last year, and the locals mistook him as being German.
“To think that I don’t look like the other people in m family is because I look like the Germans, OK, now that makes sense,” he said. “It’s really wild what we uncovered.”
The 45-year-old actor known for “True Blood” and “Magic Mike” was born and raised in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He is married to Colombian-born actor Sofía Vergara.
The new season of “Finding Your Roots” begins Jan. 3. Among those featured are Oscar winners Viola Davis and Julia Roberts, as well as Carol Burnett, political activist Angela Davis and actor Danny Trejo. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Joe-Manganiello-gets-family-mysteries-solved-on-17337003.php | 2022-07-29T01:19:28Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Joe-Manganiello-gets-family-mysteries-solved-on-17337003.php | true |
KEVIN FREKING
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday passed a $280 billion package to boost the semiconductor industry and scientific research in a bid to create more high-tech jobs in the United States and help it better compete with international rivals, namely China.
The House approved the bill by a solid margin of 243-187, sending the measure to President Joe Biden to be signed into law and providing the White House with a major domestic policy victory. Twenty-four Republicans voted for the legislation.
“Today, the House passed a bill that will make cars cheaper, appliances cheaper, and computers cheaper,” Biden said. “It will lower the costs of every day goods. And it will create high-paying manufacturing jobs across the country and strengthen U.S. leadership in the industries of the future at the same time.”
As the vote was taking place, Biden was discussing the economy with CEOs at the White House. During the event, he was handed a note informing him it was clear the bill would pass — a development that produced a round of applause before the tally was final.
Republicans argued the government should not spend billions to subsidize the semiconductor industry and GOP leadership in the House recommended a vote against the bill, telling members the plan would provide enormous subsidies and tax credits “to a specific industry that does not need additional government handouts.”
Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., said the way to help the industry would be through tax cuts and easing federal regulations, “not by picking winners and losers” with subsidies — an approach that Rep. Joseph Morelle, D-N.Y., said was too narrow.
“This affects every industry in the United States,” Morelle said. “Take, for example, General Motors announcing they have 95,000 automobiles awaiting chips. So, you want to increase the supply of goods to people and help bring down inflation? This is about increasing the supply of goods all over the United States in every single industry.”
Some Republicans viewed passing the legislation as important for national security. Rep. Mike McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said it was critical to protect semiconductor capacity in the U.S., which he said was too reliant on Taiwan for the most advanced chips. That could prove to be a major vulnerability should China try to take over the self-governing island that Beijing views as a breakaway province
“I’ve got a unique insight in this. I get the classified briefing. Not all these members do,” McCaul said. “This is vitally important for our national security.”
The bill provides more than $52 billion in grants and other incentives for the semiconductor industry as well as a 25% tax credit for those companies that invest in chip plants in the U.S. It calls for increased spending on various research programs that would total about $200 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
A late development in the Senate — progress announced by Wednesday night by Democrats on a $739 billion health and climate change package — threatened to make it harder for supporters to get the semiconductor bill over the finish line, based on concerns about government spending.
Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., said he was “disgusted” by the turn of events on Capitol Hill.
Despite bipartisan support for the research initiatives, “regrettably, and it’s more regrettably than you can possibly imagine, I will not be casting my vote for the Chips and Science Act today.”
Leading into the vote, it was unclear whether any House Democrats would join with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in opposing the bill; in the end, none did.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo talked to several of the most progressive members in a meeting before the vote, emphasizing that the proposal was a critical part of the president’s agenda and that Democrats needed to step up for him at this important moment.
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Associated Press writer Zeke Miller contributed to this report.
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The Central Coast is an expensive place to live, and the cost of everything seems to be increasing.
However, 40 more Central Coast families will soon have access to affordable housing.
Construction on Broad Street Place in San Luis Obispo is estimated to be completed by early next year. The new affordable housing community will contain 40 residential apartments ranging from studio to three-bedroom floor plans. These apartments are reserved for people making no more than 60% of the area median income of $76,450.
"We have probably about six households on our waitlist for every single unit that we have right now," said Ken Trigueiro, People's Self-Help Housing CEO & President.
Six-thousand households are currently on the waitlist for affordable housing in San Luis Obispo. People's Self-Help Housing has about 1,000 new units of affordable housing in its pipeline, but it's still not enough to address the extreme need for affordable housing in the area.
"There's a big demand, and things don't turn over too quickly so it's really important to produce new units," Trigueiro said.
That's exactly what People's Self-Help Housing is doing, but Triguero says involvement from the city is key. Triguero says the city is committed to building additional housing units and has recently reviewed the inclusionary housing ordinance to allow for an increase in local production.
"They're working on funding systems to help that, because that's one of the things that we really need more of, is more local sources for the financing for these," Trigueiro said.
Though there are thousands of people on the waitlist, they aren't necessarily ahead of someone who was to sign up today. The Broad Street Place application is open to anyone who wants to apply, whether or not they are already on the waitlist. People's Self-Help Housing encourages anyone who is interested to contact them in order to secure a spot on their application interest list.
"What we'll probably have to do is we'll have a lottery system by which we select the persons because that's really the only fair way, There are so many people waiting," Trigueiro said.
Ten of the 40 new units have been reserved for unhoused veterans.
"For those who served our country, we want to serve them," said Gillian Cole-Andrews, People's Self-Help Housing Director of Communications and Resource Development.
Applications for Broad Street Place will be available starting Monday, August 1.
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HBO Max is absolutely stuffed with sci-fi movies, from the classics to recent blockbusters to smaller gems more people need to watch. Try little Spanish gem Timecrimes, Moon (starring Sam Rockwell) and Monsters (directed by Gareth Edwards).
Scroll down for the extensive options available on HBO Max.
The Dead Zone (1983)
A David Cronenberg sci-fi thriller based on a Stephen King novel -- what more do you need to entice you to watch The Dead Zone? A plot, maybe? Christopher Walken stars as a school teacher who awakens from a coma to discover he has psychic powers. What he uses them for: Preventing a certain politician from becoming president. Yes, The Dead Zone is an '80s horror referenced by Stranger Things. It's also one of the better Stephen King adaptations out there.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
"Alexa, play 2001: A Space Odyssey."
Reminiscence (2021)
This sci-fi mystery from one half of the duo that created Westworld (Lisa Joy) is pure mind boggle, but the interesting ideas are worth a gander. Reminiscence follows Hugh Jackman's Nick Bannister, who uses a machine that can see into people's memories.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The best Terminator movie? Make your judgment by watching The Terminator sequel.
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
An enjoyable B-movie, The Butterfly Effect sees college student Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher) tinker with the past and discover how each change affects the present.
Stalker (1979)
Make it through Stalker's slow start and you'll be able to say you've watched an existential masterpiece of Russian cinema.
Solaris (1972)
Before Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky made huge leaps for sci-fi cinema, with his complex, character-driven piece about astronauts having wild hallucinations that may or may not be real. The 2002 American remake of Solaris is also on HBO Max, with added George Clooney romance.
Cloverfield (2008)
Matt Reeves has gone on to big things since directing this slick found-footage monster morsel. See what he was up to before The Planet of the Apes movies and 2022's The Batman.
Moon (2009)
This immense low-budget sci-fi starring Sam Rockwell has everything. It has Sam Rockwell. A Clint Mansell score. A claustrophobic retro set and gorgeously moody moonscapes. Hard sci-fi ideas. The basic premise: A man coming to the end of a three-year solitary stint on the far side of the moon suffers a personal crisis. A must-watch.
I, Robot (2004)
A routine blockbuster for reliable entertainment.
Scanners (1981)
A warning for the body horror-averse before hitting play on this David Cronenberg sci-fi. Scanners follows people with special abilities, including telepathic and telekinetic powers. Not the first in this list to become a cult classic after a lukewarm initial response, Scanners left a lasting impression, not least because of a memorable scene involving a head explosion.
The Faculty (1998)
Robert Rodriguez isn't the most popular among Star Wars fans at the moment, mainly for making a character do a pointless ballerina twirl in the divisive The Book of Boba Fett finale. The Faculty, directed by Rodriguez, isn't great, but it isn't bad either, following teens who investigate mysterious happenings at their high school.
Super 8 (2011)
Basically Stranger Things set in the '70s. Super 8 follows a group of teens who are filming their own movie when a train derails and a dangerous presence begins stalking their town.
Dune (2021)
Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi blockbuster is back on HBO Max. The epic based on Frank Herbert's novel recently scored a host of Oscars, including best original score and cinematography. Catch the sprawling story of the Atreides family, who find themselves at war on the deadly planet Arrakis. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Zendaya and more stack out a hugely impressive ensemble cast.
Westworld (1973)
With the latest season of HBO's Westworld currently airing on TV, you may as well go back and watch its source material, if you haven't already. The premise is pretty much the same as the series: An adult amusement park transports visitors to themed worlds, including a Western World. James Brolin plays one of the characters, among the creepy humanoid androids. An excellent sci-fi thriller that's much easier to understand than the series it spawned.
Jurassic Park (1993)
A new Jurassic Park movie is headed to theaters this year, so catch up on the (superior) original now. 1993's Jurassic Park kicked off the franchise, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. Spoiler: Original cast members Laura Dern, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum are set to make a return in the upcoming 2022 flick.
Pacific Rim (2013)
Its sequel didn't reach the same lofty heights, so watch the first monster epic in the Pacific Rim franchise. 2013's Pacific Rim is helmed by Guillermo Del Toro, so expect a strong brush of visual artistry over the monster mayhem.
Timecrimes (2007)
This truly mind-bending Spanish sci-fi is a wild card to take a chance on if you're in the mood. Featuring all the trimmings of a low-budget thriller, Timecrimes follows a middle-aged man who finds himself stuck in a time loop. A stream of twists will keep you on your toes.
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Roland Emmerich, "master of disaster," presents The Day After Tomorrow. The director also made this year's Moonfall, in which the moon falls out of its orbit on a collision course with Earth. You already know what kind of fun this movie is going to be.
Oblivion (2013)
Oblivion came out of the build-a-sci-fi-movie workshop. Starring Tom Cruise, it follows humans at war with aliens, paying homage to '70s sci-fi films including The Omega Man and Silent Running. A love letter in the form of a half-decent sci-fi action adventure.
Monsters (2010)
This solid British sci-fi comes from Gareth Edwards, who went on to direct Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and 2014's Godzilla. His mastery of atmosphere, wonder and beauty is on show here, all on a shoestring budget. Monsters follows a couple attempting to cross an "Infected Zone" teeming with giant tentacled monsters.
The Matrix (1999)
If you haven't seen The Matrix, and somehow don't know its major plot points, well done for avoiding spoilers for 23 years. The sequels Reloaded, Revolutions and Resurrections are also on HBO Max.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Watch two and a half hours of atmospheric, sumptuous spectacle, but don't expect any conclusions to the question posed by the original Blade Runner: Is Rick Deckard a replicant?
Blade Runner (1982)
Forever the pinnacle of neo-noir visual artistry, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner will never be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Colossal (2016)
Colossal might look like a romantic comedy on the surface, but it has surprisingly dark layers underneath. This black comedy stars Anne Hathaway as an alcoholic out-of-work journalist who moves back home to New Hampshire after her suave British boyfriend (Dan Stevens) dumps her. What happens next is both hugely unexpected and a massive metaphor: She discovers she has a connection with a colossal Kaiju monster destroying Seoul, in South Korea. Yes, Colossal has a ton of soul, a standout performance from Jason Sudeikis and an imaginative, at times thrilling story.
Tenet (2020)
Love it or hate it -- get it or find its "science" baffling -- Tenet is eye-popping entertainment. Best advice: Don't question Tenet, submit to the Tenet experience.
Inception (2010)
The superior Christopher Nolan movie on this list. | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/the-best-sci-fi-movies-to-stream-on-hbo-max-now/ | 2022-07-29T01:22:36Z | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/the-best-sci-fi-movies-to-stream-on-hbo-max-now/ | true |
WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Amarillo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northwestern Oldham County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Western Hartley County in the Panhandle of Texas...
* Until 815 PM CDT.
* At 644 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles south of
Romero, or 10 miles east of Nara Visa, moving north at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Hail damage to vehicles is expected.
* Locations impacted include...
Romero.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN RANDALL AND EAST CENTRAL DEAF SMITH COUNTIES...
At 646 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles northwest of
Canyon, moving north at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Canyon, Umbarger, Buffalo Lake, Dawn and Mescalero Park.
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Former correctional officer arrested for COVID-Relief fraud
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge James F. Boyersmith of the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, Miami Field Office reported Monday that A Flora woman was arrested after being indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges related to her alleged scheme involving federal COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program loans.
According to court documents, 34-year-old Tarashuana Thomas planned a scheme to obtain PPP funds by filing fraudulent loan applications with entities proving loans, including Fountainhead SPF and Capital Plus Financial.
Thomas was reportedly employed as a correctional officer with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Yazoo City at the time of the alleged conduct.
Thomas has been charged with two counts of wire fraud. The trial is set for September 12, 2022.
If convicted, Thomas will face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison on each count.
The Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General is investigating the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberly Purdie is prosecuting the case.
Anyone with information about allegations of attempted fraud involving COVID-19 can report it by calling the Department of Justice’s National Center for Disaster Fraud Hotline at 866-720-572.
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Ongoing strike action across the UK’s railways has left angry commuters stranded or forced to seek lengthy alternative routes today.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) at Network Rail and 14 train operators walked out this morning in the latest action in a bitter dispute over jobs, pay, pensions and working conditions.
Passengers have been urged to travel only if they must as just one in five trains were left running with some areas almost completely cut off. Picket lines have been mounted outside the few stations that remained open.
One woman said she was forced to miss her uncle’s funeral because of the disruption, while another woman said she was “angry” because the action meant her autistic son had missed the first day of a new job.
More rail strikes are planned – Aslef, the UK train drivers’ union – announced on Wednesday evening that nine rail companies would strike on 13 August over their pay. Aslef members will also go on strike this Saturday, and other rail strikes are planned for Thursday 18 August and Saturday 20 August.
Drivers were told to prepare for slower journeys on the roads as a result. Average speeds on the M1 this morning dropped as low as 14mph according to traffic site Waze, and there were delays on the M25.
Location tech company TomTom found congestion levels were up across a number of cities this morning, including London, Cardiff, Glasgow and Leeds.
Protesters were earlier today ejected from inside an empty Glasgow Central Station by police before joining workers picketing outside. The RMT supporters had been chanting altered lyrics to Gala’s Freed From Desire, singing: “The RMT’s on fire, the government is terrified.”
A number of Labour MPs have joined picket lines across the country in apparent defiance of orders from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer who previously told frontbenchers to stay away from the protest lines.
Shadow transport minister Sam Tarry joined striking rail workers outside London’s Euston station. He told i: “No one said anything about coming to the picket lines. I’m a trade unionist, a Labour MP representing my constituents and I know that I have my constituents’ full support.”
Mr Tarry was later sacked from his role in the shadow cabinet.
A Labour spokesperson said the decision was made in relation to “a breach of collective responsibility” not simply because Mr Tarry appeared on picket lines.
Trade union leaders condemned Labour’s response and spoke out in solidarity with Mr Tarry.
Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) General Secretary Manuel Cortes said the party was “deluded” if it thought it could win the next general election while pushing away millions of trade union members.
“We expect attacks from the Tories, we don’t expect attacks from our own party,” Mr Cortes said.
“As a Labour-affiliated union, our union is ashamed of the actions of the Labour Party leadership and the anti-worker anti-union message it is sending out.”
Actor Rob Delaney also joined workers at Euston, tweeting a picture of himself with the RMT’s Mick Lynch.
Liverpool West Derby MP Ian Byrne joined strikers outside Liverpool Lime Street station, and said: “Wages aren’t keeping up with inflation and it is really, really worrying.
“It’s massively important for me to be here. I’ve been a trade unionist all my life and I will always back workers,” he added.
But many passengers unable to travel have been left feeling angry over the disruption.
Passengers in central London scrambled to take buses and find out information about planned services with only 20 per cent of trains running normally.
Office worker Max Jeelle, 42, lost two-and-a-half hours’ pay after having to travel by bus from Streatham to Euston this morning.
“This strike has disrupted our lives. I sympathise with them by asking for fair pay, so I don’t know how to balance it. But this continuous disruption of transportation it makes it more difficult to get to work,” he told i.
More on Rail Strikes
“It costs a lot for the UK because a lot of people are unproductive, doing nothing and staying at home because they can’t come to work. On that day the government loses money, the companies don’t get employees, so it is lose, lose for everybody.”
James Kissi-Hawkson, 71, described the strike as “terrible” after trying to travel home by bus to Catford after his shift as a security officer in Mornington Crescent.
“It is always difficult. A lot of people are suffering, nurses, teachers, everybody is trying to help build the economy. [I don’t support the rail strikers] a single bit, zero per cent.”
Jen, from Havant, Hampshire, who did not want her last name published, was meant to travel from Portsmouth to Spalding in Lincolnshire for a funeral but strike action forced her to watch the service remotely.
“I feel like I’m not doing my duty as a family member, but I don’t have any control over the situation,” the 42-year-old said.
“And it angers me when they say ‘Oh, just work from home’ or ‘Just travel on a different day’ because people don’t ‘only’ travel for trivial reasons. I won’t get this day back.”
Which rail services are affected?
The strike has affected a wide range of services across England, Scotland and Wales.
Network Rail has pointed out that all train operators may be affected by the strike, whether they have an individual dispute with the RMT or not, as signallers control train movements across the entire country.
The companies affected by the RMT strikes are: Network Rail, Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry Trains, Greater Anglia, LNER, East Midlands Railway, c2c, Great Western Railway, Northern Trains, South Eastern, South Western Railway, TransPennine Express, Avanti West Coast, West Midlands Trains, Heathrow Express, Lumo, Hull Trains, Grand Central, Transport for Wales, ScotRail, Merseyrail, Thameslink, London Northwestern Railway, Caledonian Sleeper, Stansted Express, and GTR (including Gatwick Express).
Timetables have been cut short across the country: last trains to London have left from Edinburgh at 12.30, Leeds at 15:45, Newcastle at 14:30, Liverpool at 15:56, Birmingham at 16:14 and Manchester at 15:27.
The last train from London Euston is at 17:30 to Bletchley.
Trains to and from Sheffield, Nottingham, Bristol, Brighton, Norwich and Southampton are also being cut short.
Some places won’t have not had any train services at all, including Blackpool, Portsmouth and Bournemouth.
Commuters in Cornwall faced a tough time as Great Western Railway will have no services running on all lines in the county today, including branch lines and CrossCountry will not be operating its service in Cornwall. There is a very limited service elsewhere in the South West.
The majority of Wales and cross border services have been suspended.
Passengers should also expect a reduced service on Heathrow Express and a heavily reduced Stansted Express service.
However, the strikes seem to have had little effect on Gatwick Airport railway station today. Trains towards London Bridge, London Victoria, Three Bridges and Brighton are all currently running on time.
Transport for London (TfL) said while the industrial action does not involve its staff, varying degrees of disruption are expected on the District and Bakerloo Tube lines, London Overground, and the Elizabeth line, which all share some sections of track with Network Rail.
The strike action was set to cause significant disruption to Elizabeth Line services, with two trains per hour running on some lines.
On the London Overground, a reduced service was in operation between 7.30am and 6.30pm, so passengers are advised to complete their journeys by 6pm.
The strikes could cause knock-on effects leading to more disruption on Thursday, Network Rail has said.
One mother revealed her work organised a minibus to take her, her son and a friend’s son to Birmingham instead of travelling by train today.
“Nobody loves the strikes do they?” The 49-year-old told i. “There is a purpose to them that is well understood by everyone. It’s quite coordinated and planned better than a lot of other industries that are not coordinated and don’t look after their people.
“I am all in support of people getting fair pay and fair conditions, etc. At the same time nobody loves it, we pay our taxes, we pay our money.”
Elizabeth Bolton, from Ascot, Berkshire, said she was left feeling “angry” after the strikes made her autistic son “distressed and upset” that he was not able to make the first day of his new job.
Her son Jack, 23, was unable to get a train from Staines to London for his first shift at a pharmacy company.
“I personally think [strikers] are selfish, although I understand their frustration. It’s selfish not to think about other people… There has to be another way to have their say,” she said.
Some passengers affected by the strike still supported the action, however. Swedish football fans Rebecka Ronnegard, 26, and Felix Nystrom, 27, were delayed at Sheffield Station after watching the Euro 2022 semi-final at Bramall Lane on Tuesday.
They were hoping to get to Milton Keynes for the Germany and France semi-final.
Ms Ronnegard said she was shocked at how long the strike has been. “I support the workers, I really do. It’s just unlucky that it affects us. I support the workers and I hope they can come to an agreement.”
Ian Tyrrell was stranded in Manchester after driving from his home in Liverpool to drop his car off at a VW Garage to be serviced, when he discovered there were no trains running from Deansgate station. Despite waiting hours for an alternative option, he said he supported strike action.
In a bid to get home, Mr Tyrrell, an IT operations manager, headed to Manchester bus station but discovered they were fully booked.
He was initially told by the VW garage that staff would not be able to provide him with a courtesy car as he had not requested one when he booked his service – but at 1pm, after he’d spent several hours in a cafe they told him they had managed to source one.
He said: “I took my car in to get fixed and was planning to get a train home and didn’t take into account there was a strike today.”
Despite his hours-long wait, he said he supported the workers on strike.
“Even if it hadn’t panned out the way that it did, I wouldn’t have felt any different about the strike,” he said. “The workers are more important then me getting home from Manchester.
“Without union support we have nothing to support workers. We are in the depths of recession and there doesn’t seem to be a way out for people and we need to have a safe place to work.”
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Holidaymakers were also caught up in today’s disruption as they navigated their way from train stations across the capital. Christabel Banda, 44, who had travelled from Zambia, said foreigners were used to London’s transport system being efficient.
“It will definitely affect our journey as we have to rush,” Ms Banda told i.
Her daughter, Yanjano, 18, said: “If it helps then with their wages and living standards I guess it is a means to an end.”
Trains are also expected to be disrupted on Thursday morning, with a later start to services as employees return to duties.
The RMT is calling for a pay rise for its workers of at least 7 per cent, which is still below the current inflation rate of 9.4 per cent.
Union leaders have rejected the 4 per cent pay rise offer from Network Rail for the remainder of the year, and a possible 4 per cent pay rise next year if rail workers accepted changes in job conditions.
The union has said it will keep launching strike action if the Government refuses to back down.
Further strikes are also planned in the coming days, alongside a wave of industrial action due next month on the railways and London Underground.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said that Network Rail have not made any improvement on their previous pay offer and the train companies have not offered anything new.
“The Government need to stop their interference in this dispute so the rail employers can come to a negotiated settlement with us.”
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps accused the RMT of exhausting the use of industrial action, noting that “they’ve issued about 160 different disputes” since he has been in post.
“There hasn’t been a single day where there hasn’t been either strike action or a mandate for strike action,” he told Sky News.
Unions have reacted in anger to Mr Shapp’s comments in the Daily Telegraph, in which he said he was looking at banning strikes by different unions in the same workplace in a set period, limiting picketing and having a cooling-off period after strikes.
“We should also place an absolute limit of six pickets at points of Critical National Infrastructure, irrespective of the number of unions involved, and outlaw intimidatory language,” he said.
But Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “If Grant Shapps had his way we would all still be in the workhouse.”
Sir Peter Hendy, the chairman of Network Rail, told LBC that RMT bosses are refusing to take any offers made to their members.
“We would like the RMT to make the offer we’ve made to them to their members. We’ve made some offers, but none of them have been put to their members which is quite unfair,” he said.
“We need to modernise the railway… not every part of this package will be welcome to everybody, but if the union says we want no compulsory redundancy, we think we can offer that.”
Additional reporting by PA. | https://inews.co.uk/news/train-strike-today-travel-chaos-rail-workers-walk-out-pay-working-conditions-1763586 | 2022-07-29T01:25:11Z | https://inews.co.uk/news/train-strike-today-travel-chaos-rail-workers-walk-out-pay-working-conditions-1763586 | true |
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