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MADRID (AP) — Spain’s leader has proposed an energy-saving move that many men have already embraced.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has asked government officials and people working in the private sector to save energy by giving up wearing neckties at work.
Appearing at a news conference in an open-necked white shirt and blue jacket, Sánchez explained he had dressed less formally not as a nod to the casual Friday custom but to curb utility use — presumably air-conditioning, but he did not spell that out.
“I´d like you to note that I am not wearing a tie. That means that we can all make savings from an energy point of view,” the prime minister said at the news conference called to summarize his government’s annual performance.
He said he encouraged his ministers and public officials, “that if not necessary, don’t use a tie.”
Spain has sweltered for more than a month, with temperatures in parts of the country often surpassing 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). The government has urged people to reduce electricity costs by not overusing air conditioning.
Rising energy costs for households and businesses in Spain has been a major issue in recent months, especially since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February. Sánchez said the government would present a new energy-saving plan next week, but he gave no details.
He said the plan was designed to cut utility bills and to reduce energy dependency on “the aggressor, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.”
In June, Spain approved economic relief measures worth more than 9 billion euros ($9,2 billion), including reductions in electricity taxes and a one-time payment of 200 euros ($200) for people with low-incomes.
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Hong Kong officials said Friday they would open an investigation into a concert accident in which a giant video screen fell down onto the stage and injured two dancers.
Video clips from the Cantopop group Mirror concert Thursday night show a massive LED screen suspended above the stage crashing down, directly landing on one dancer before toppling over onto another as audience members scream in horror.
The injured performers were both sent to the hospital, with one of the dancers reported to be in “serious condition.”
Hong Kong leader John Lee said Friday that authorities will “comprehensively investigate the incident” and review safety requirements for future performances, according to a government statement.
He also said the government would help family members of one of the injured dancers be able to travel from Canada to Hong Kong to see him.
Concert organizer MakerVille said in a statement it was “deeply saddened” over the injuries of two performers and that it would work with authorities in the probe.
“If we find anything suspicious, or if any person or unit is involved in misconduct, we will immediately report it to the police,” the statement read.
Authorities also revealed their initial findings after inspecting the show venue — the Hong Kong Coliseum — on Friday. The concert on Thursday was the fourth of 12 scheduled concerts by Mirror, with tens of thousands of fans having bought tickets.
Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Kevin Yeung told reporters Friday the government was “very concerned” about the incident and that an investigation would be conducted, likely over several weeks.
“We will do research to find out whether (the steel cable broke) due to an operational or material problem. It cannot currently be concluded at this stage,” said Yeung, adding that the incident will affect “all future performances.”
Authorities will also try to determine if any safety improvements are needed at other venues for upcoming performances to minimize the chances of such an incident occurring again, Yeung said.
Officers from the Labour Department have collected evidence from the venue and will work to determine who is responsible for the incident, Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun said.
He said all activity under the remaining suspended screens at the venue will be halted, and organizers will work with government officials to determine how best to remove the suspended screens safely.
Mirror, the 12-member band, has skyrocketed in popularity in Hong Kong and been credited with the revival of Cantopop. | https://www.wtol.com/article/news/nation-world/hong-kong-concert-incident-mirror-falling-screen-hits-dancers/507-84664600-17ba-42e5-86a6-050bf4c48300 | 2022-07-30T13:55:04Z | https://www.wtol.com/article/news/nation-world/hong-kong-concert-incident-mirror-falling-screen-hits-dancers/507-84664600-17ba-42e5-86a6-050bf4c48300 | true |
The prisoners are soldiers who were part of a unit that held out for months in Mariupol while being surrounded by Russian forces. Ukraine and Russia are accusing each other in the attack.
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The prisoners are soldiers who were part of a unit that held out for months in Mariupol while being surrounded by Russian forces. Ukraine and Russia are accusing each other in the attack.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Sen. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat from Colorado, about the spending proposal his party announced this week that addresses health care and climate change.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Sen. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat from Colorado, about the spending proposal his party announced this week that addresses health care and climate change.
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FREDERICK, Md. — There aren’t any formal age restrictions for who is and isn’t allowed to join The Frederick Center’s Aging With Pride support group.
The time Aging With Pride meets each week — 9 to 11 a.m. on Wednesdays, when kids are in school and adults are often at work — also plays a role in its membership. Most of the group’s regulars are retired.
Programming geared toward queer retired folks is a relatively recent development at The Frederick Center. Many of the support groups at the nonprofit, which serves Frederick County’s LGBTQ community, are for young people and their families. But soon after Aging With Pride started meeting in May, it became clear that its members had been waiting for such a support group for a long time. By the second or third meeting, members were wanting to meet more frequently than every other week.
“That was the thing that said to me, ‘OK, this is serious,’” said Stuart Harvey, a regular at the group’s now weekly coffee hours. “In other words, we’ve got things to share, we’ve got things we need to learn.”
Members expect the fledgling group to grow over time. About half a dozen people currently attend each meeting, and there are about 15 on the group’s email list.
Harvey said he hopes the group’s membership will expand to include more women and people of color. Now, it’s primarily white and — besides Randi Wallace, a regular at the group — is mostly men.
He and other participants also see Aging With Pride eventually moving beyond the walls of The Frederick Center’s cozy living room, where it currently meets.
Down the road, Harvey said he’d like to organize a trip to New York with other group members to see a Broadway show. Another participant, Jack Day, has been thinking about inviting people to catch a 10 a.m. show with him at Warehouse Cinemas.
Future plans aside, the companionship the group provides has already meant a great deal to its members.
When five of them gathered at The Frederick Center on a recent afternoon to talk about Aging With Pride with Prime Time, their delight was palpable. Together, they cracked jokes and often talked over one another in excitement.
Even though the support group is only three months old, Bruce Propst said it has already made a big difference in his life.
Twelve years ago, when his relationship of nearly three decades came to an end, he was “thrown into a new world” where he was mostly on his own. He’s been lonely during the pandemic, without a partner or husband. “This group is very important to me,” he said. “It’s a connection to who I am and who’s out there.”
The first hour of the group meeting is usually devoted to a presentation from a guest speaker. Members recently hosted Kathy Schey, director of Frederick County’s Senior Services Division, and hope to welcome experts who can give advice on wealth management, health care and other topics at future meetings.
Participants typically spend the last hour of the meeting chatting. They’ll talk Maryland politics, share stories from recent trips they’ve been on and catch up.
But often, more serious topics come up. Many members worry about finding an LGBTQ-friendly retirement community or assisted living facility, for instance. Some are married and wonder if they’ll be able to find a place where they feel comfortable being openly affectionate with their partners, a luxury many straight couples take for granted.
And after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, some participants are fearful about what constitutional protections will be taken away next. In an opinion concurring with the court’s decision to revoke the federal right to abortion, Justice Clarence Thomas argued the body should also reconsider its past rulings on gay marriage and intimate relations between same-sex partners.
“We are now threatened,” Day said.
Propst nodded. “Our future’s in jeopardy,” he said.
In the fall, Harvey said, the group hopes to host representatives from the LGBTQ legal advocacy group FreeState Justice at a meeting to talk about what future court rulings could mean for queer people in Maryland.
Before Day joined Aging With Pride, he didn’t know any other retired gay people.
“Where do we meet people? The grocery store?” he said. “Especially with retired people, you can’t tell. You know, ‘Hey, I’m gay, are you?’”
The group broke out in chuckles.
“That doesn’t work!” Day said.
Wallace, a transgender woman, remembers what it was like to find a community of other trans people shortly after she came out in 2005. It was so welcoming. And — since it was in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — it gave her the anonymity to be her true self before she was ready to come out where she worked and lived in Maryland.
She retired shortly after the pandemic hit. After sitting at home for a while with her dog, she joined Frederick’s Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ.
“Then this came along,” she said of Aging With Pride. “I thought, ‘OK, this looks interesting.’ And now, I’m throwing myself into this little group.”
Members said it’s been important for them to have a group specifically for people in their age cohort.
It’s not like they have anything against young queer people, Gibson said. He loves being around them but also recognizes they’ve had very different life experiences. They didn’t watch their friends die during the AIDS epidemic. Many don’t know what it’s like to be closeted or to come out while married to a member of the opposite gender — “which is why I was interested in joining this group,” Gibson said. “I wanted people that, when I talk about Cher, understand who I’m talking about. When I talk about what I have lived through, they can understand.”
Eventually, Day said he thinks the group will become a sort of natural role model for other groups at The Frederick Center.
Its members can show people, “Oh! You can grow old, and it’s not really that horrible,” he said.
“Most days,” Propst cut in, making the room break out into laughter. “Most days, honey. Most days.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/aging-with-pride-supports-retired-lgbtq-community/2022/07/30/c355593c-1007-11ed-88e8-c58dc3dbaee2_story.html | 2022-07-30T14:04:52Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/aging-with-pride-supports-retired-lgbtq-community/2022/07/30/c355593c-1007-11ed-88e8-c58dc3dbaee2_story.html | true |
Ticket bought in Illinois wins $1.28B Mega Millions jackpot
CHICAGO (AP) — Someone in a Chicago suburb beat the odds and won the $1.28 billion Mega Millions jackpot.
According to megamillions.com, there was one jackpot-winning ticket in the draw Friday night, and it was bought at a Speedway gas station and convenience store in Des Plaines.
The winning numbers were: 13-36-45-57-67, Mega Ball: 14.
“We are thrilled to have witnessed one of the biggest jackpot wins in Mega Millions history,” Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald, currently serving as Lead Director for the Mega Millions Consortium, said in a statement on the lottery’s website. “We’re eager to find out who won and look forward to congratulating the winner soon!”
The jackpot was the nation’s third-largest lottery prize. It grew so large because no one had matched the game’s six selected numbers since April 15. That’s 29 consecutive draws without a jackpot winner.
The $1.28 billion prize is for winners who choose the annuity option, paid annually over 29 years. Most winners opt for the cash option, which for Friday night’s drawing was an estimated $747.2 million.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million.
According to the Illinois Lottery, the store that sold the ticket is a pretty big winner, too; it will receive a half million dollars just for selling the ticket.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The game is coordinated by state lotteries.
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The New Jersey Boardman Birthplace Historic marker is located on the Boardmian Crest (a popular view sight-on Newfound Lake'...read more of the post\nLakefront ﴷ連 Home of Historic Taftsville Inn Availabl... read more>><| SCARSDALE, N.Y. — Electric lawn mowers have taken the U.S. consumer market by storm over the past few years. And they've done so quietly — about 20 decibels more quietly in some cases.
Once restricted to lawns no larger than the length of an extension cord, mowers on the market today run on lithium ion batteries that can last 45 minutes or more without charging and cost about as much as gas-powered versions. And in 2021, according to market research company FactMR, electric lawn mowers made up 37% of all sales.
But professional landscapers, who have to run their machines all day, day after day, have yet to join the trend in large numbers. Electric heavy-duty ride-on mowers make up just 11% of the total market for all heavy-duty ride-on mowers.
"For homeowners, I feel like it's great," said Austin Acocella, co-owner of Acocella Landscaping in Scarsdale, N.Y. "The battery just doesn't last long, especially for the stuff that I do."
He has checked out commercial-grade mowers with batteries that can last six or more hours, but hasn't wanted to pay the upfront costs. A 52-inch-wide ride-on model, the Rival from Mean Green Mowers, starts at nearly $30,000. That is more than three times a comparable gas-powered machine – though the manufacturer says the customer will break even given significantly lower operation and maintenance costs.
"In the future I would love to buy them, but right at this second, I just can't because of inflation and just everything that's going on," Acocella says. "I just can't swing it yet."
Acocella and his employees began using hand-held electric devices – leaf blowers, weed whackers and hedge trimmers – last year when one of his clients, the town of Larchmont, required it. He's begun to use them on other properties as well because they are lighter, much quieter, and don't emit pollutants. But with the exception of the hedge trimmer, he says, they need frequent battery changes and are not as powerful.
"I need something that's going to last long or something that's easy," Austin says. "Like I have a gas can, it's on a truck that I just fuel up and I go. How many batteries do I need to have in order to get through the day?"
Bans on gas-powered gear
Yet landscapers are being pressured to change – sometimes by clients and sometimes by governments. Last fall, the California Legislature passed a law requiring that all new landscaping equipment sold in the state be emissions-free beginning Jan. 1, 2024.
The state and national landscaping associations objected, arguing that electric equipment wasn't advanced enough to operate for long periods of time, and in some cases, did not work as well as gas equipment. As proof, they cited a study from the California State University at Fullerton to show that zero emissions equipment hadn't caught on among professionals. The study found that less than 6% of equipment used by landscapers were zero-emissions, compared to more than 50% of the gear used by homeowners.
But Assemblymember Marc Berman, the bill's author, disputes the industry's characterization of zero-emissions equipment.
"This equipment is ready today," said Berman, a Democrat from Palo Alto. "There are at least eight brands that produce zero emission equipment in each major equipment category for commercial equipment."
After that bill was passed, New York State Sen. Pete Harckham introduced a similar bill in Albany. Though it did not pass in the regular session, Harckham told NPR he plans to re-introduce it but has not decided on when the mandate would take effect.
Both the California legislation and the New York proposal only address the sale of new equipment, meaning landscapers and homeowners can continue using their existing gas-powered tools.
Numerous cities and towns across the country have gone further and restricted the use – as opposed to just the purchase – of gas-powered leaf blowers. And this month, two municipalities in Marin County, Calif., – Fairfax and Sausalito – banned the use of other gas-powered equipment as well, including mowers, to be phased in over the next 18 months.
Mixed environmental impact
Electric lawn mowers won't help much in terms of climate-changing emissions – people just don't mow their lawns nearly as much as they drive. The California Air Resources Board, for example, estimates that phasing out gasoline-powered lawn equipment will save an average of 0.66 million metric tons of CO2 a year, while the state produced 418 million tons in 2019 – the last year data was available.
But the agency found that gasoline-powered engines produce substantial amounts of other pollutants, such as nitrogen oxide, which can lead to respiratory difficulties and smog. In addition, researchers have raised concerns about the impact of the equipment's noise and vibrations on operators' health.
Large, commercial-grade equipment is used on a significant proportion of green spaces around the country – not only public properties and office parks. The California State University survey found, for example, that half of the state's residents with lawns hired landscapers to take care of them, either partially or fully.
Drawbacks of mandates
Still, even some supporters of green landscaping oppose mandating electric equipment, arguing that it may cause small landscapers – an important employer of immigrants and limited-skill workers – to go out of business.
"If you just ban the use of equipment, you're really putting the entire onus on the landscapers to come up with the money that they need to purchase the equipment," said Jamie Banks, the founder and CEO of the non-profit Quiet Communities, Inc. "It's not just purchasing the tool but also purchasing enough batteries and enough chargers that they can meet their work production needs."
And some of those batteries are expensive – as much as $1,500 for a backpack-style one to power a leaf blower. California lawmakers have so far allocated $30 million for subsidies to offset the higher prices landscapers will have to pay for new electric equipment. But the National Association of Landscape Professionals said the amount breaks down to just $15 for each piece of gas-powered equipment that landscapers in the state need to replace.
Berman, the state legislator, said that he is hoping to get more subsidies in the budget for the coming year.
Quiet Communities and another nonprofit, the American Green Zone Alliance, have been working with towns, school districts, and other entities to adopt zero-emissions equipment for their own properties, but to do so voluntarily. So far, they say they have recruited about 20 locales and institutions across the country to take part in their program.
"I think the writing is on the wall," Banks said. "It's just, how do we get there in a way that's, you know, fair, most efficient and so forth."
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A New Jersey party store is shuttering in the coming months.
Sugar Sisters’ owner Heather Russinko recently announced on Facebook plans to close shop in September, although an exact date has yet to be determined.
Although the family-owned business’s brick-and-mortar store at 396 Route 23 in Franklin will close, its online shop will remain open.
Russinko cited inflation and theft as reasons for their brick-and-mortar store’s closure.
“The theft has increased with the new bag law. Working from home and out of my garage, now I won’t have to worry about theft,” Russinko told NJ Advance Media. “The only way for us to really fight inflation is to reduce our overhead by getting rid of the brick and mortar so we can maintain our prices.”
Sugar Sisters offers cake and cookie decorating supplies, candy, balloons and a variety of other party favors.
The store is currently holding a closing sale on most of its items.
“I have really good relationships with the customers, and that’s why it hurts to close. I’ve actually had customers cry,” Russinko said, “I’ve cried for three days straight making this decision, but it’s the best decision we can make financially.”
Sugar Sisters opened in June of 2020 after its original opening was delayed due to the pandemic.
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Mirsharai tragedy: 11 picnickers laid to rest
Eleven people, who died in a train accident while returning to their homes after visiting Khoiyachora Waterfall in the hills of Mirsharai upazila on Friday, were laid to rest on Saturday.
All of them were laid to rest in their respective areas in Hathazari upazila, said UNO Shahidul Alam.
Around 10:30am, a namaz-e-janaza of five of the deceased was held on Amanbazar Sumdia Government Primary school grounds in Hathazari upazila.
Besides, the namaz-e-janaza of four other victims was also held in their respective villages on Saturday while those of two others were held on Friday night.
The mortal remains of all the deceased -- nine students, one teacher and the microbus driver -- were handed over to their families on Friday.
How the accident occurred?
The tragedy occurred when a speeding express train rammed into the microbus carrying the tourists at a level crossing in Mirsharai upazila on Friday.
In fact, they met with the accident while returning to their respective homes after visiting the popular waterfall in the hills of Mirsharai.
While 11 died at the scene, six others were injured, police and fire service officials said.
The victims were identified as Golam Mostafa Niru, 26, the microbus driver, Mohammad Hasan, 17, son of Ilias Bhutto of Chikondandi union, Ziaul Haque Sajib, 22, son of Abdul Hamid of Khondokar Para, Wahidul Alam Jisan, 23, son of Jane Alam of Aziz Membar Bari, Ridwan Chowdhury, 22, a teacher of the "R&J" coaching centre and son of Badsha Chowdhury of Majid Abbas Chowdhury Bari, Sagar, 17, son of Pavez of the area, Iqbal Hossain Maruf, 17, son of Abdul Mabud of Wadud Master Bari, Moshahab Ahmed Hisham, 16, son of Mozaffar Ahmed of Ward No 6 of the upazila, Tasmir Hasan, 17, son of Parvez of Abdul Aziz Bari, Md Mahim, 17, son of Mansur Alam, and Mostafa Masud Rakib, 19, son of Motahar Hossain of Abu Musa Khan Bari.
The six injured are microbus helper Taukid Ibn Shawon, 20, and students -- Md Mahim, 18, Tanveer Hasan Hriday, 18, Md Emon, 19, Tasmir Pavel, 16, and Md Saikat, 18. They are undergoing treatment at Chittagong Medical College and Hospital.
"The microbus got on the rail track breaking through a bamboo barrier at the level crossing before it was hit by the train," said Ansar Ali, transportation officer of Bangladesh Railway (east).
The divisional railway authorities on Friday formed a five-member committee to investigate the accident.
Bangladesh Railway (east) Divisional Transport Officer (DTO) Ansar Ali has been made the head of the probe committee. "We will have to submit the report at the earliest," he said.
The railway police have already detained gateman Md Saddam Hussain, who was in charge of Khoiyachora level crossing at the time of the accident, said Kabir Hossain, OC of Mirsharai police station. | https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/mirsharai-tragedy-11-picnickers-laid-rest-467930 | 2022-07-30T14:18:54Z | https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/mirsharai-tragedy-11-picnickers-laid-rest-467930 | true |
Exhibition displays organic products
Around 50 farmers from across Tamil Nadu participated in an exhibition-cum-sale of organic products held in Tiruchi on Saturday.
The one-day expo garnered a positive response from the public.
The exhibition on the theme, Uzhavu, Unavu, Uyir, provided a platform for the farmers and small-scale entrepreneurs to showcase their products. The objective was to promote organic products among the younger generation and to create a network and platform for the farmers to market their products. Traditional paddy seeds of certain varieties were distributed to the farmers.
More than 17 varieties of traditional rice types and about 50 varieties of organic seeds of vegetables were up for sale including seeds of tomato, ladies finger, carrot and leafy vegetables. Apart from seeds, organic fertilizers, including vermicompost, were also sold.
It also featured products ranging from handmade soaps and shampoos to medicinal oils, clay products, mats and palm leaf handicrafts, organic food products, ghee, cooking oil, and herbal products. A separate food stall was set up to sell native food items including homemade delicacies.
According to the organisers, customers were offered produce at reduced prices and the opportunity to buy exclusive organic products directly from the farmers. “We hope that the exhibition will help promote healthy eating habits among people,” said S. Yoganathan an organiser.
Doctors and Naturopathy experts spoke on various topics related to healthy and mindful eating.
M. Murugesan, Joint Director of Agriculture Department., G. Saravanan, Deputy Director of Agricultural Marketing and Agri Business, and R. Mohan, Deputy Director of Farmers Training Centre, took part in the event organised by Thanneer Organisation, CREA Trust, Pasumai Sigaram Trust, and Agathiar Farmers Producer Company.
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Flag Satyagraha likely to continue even after July 31?
Freedom fighters, others meet to chalk out programme
The Flag Satyagraha scheduled to be held at Subbarayana Kere in Mysuru on Sunday to oppose the amendment to the Flag Code of India is likely to not only continue even after July 31, but expanded to the rest of the State and country.
Theatre personality Prasanna, who is participating in the Flag Satyagraha, however told reporters that the proposal is yet to be formally approved by the organisers.
In the wake of the amendment to Flag Code of India, allowing production of polyster and machine-made national flags, the Citizens Forum of Mysuru has given a call for the satyagraha to protect the khadi flag.
A padayatra will be taken out from Gandhi Square near Town Hall to Subbarayana Kere iwhere day-long cultural events will be held. The activities will including an exhibition of paintings, singing and dancing, play acting and discussions, besides an exhibition of khadi yarn making and sale of khadi flags. A handloom exhibition will also be held at the venue.
Mr. Prasanna, who was part of a meeting with a group of freedom fighters and others at Subbarayana Kere in Mysuru on Saturday to chalk out the programme for the satyagraha, said the march from Gandhi Square to Subbarayana Kere will be a silent one.. “There will be no slogans.”
Also, the people participating in the events at Subbarayana Kere will not be allowed to accuse any political parties, he said. “Government is different. Party is different”, said an appeal issued by the Citizens Forums to political parties while calling upon the political parties to reject foreign-made flags or flags made other than khadi. “Hoist only khadi flags on your offices this Independence Day”, the appeal said.
Meanwhile, a statement issued by the Citizens Forum convenor Kalachanne Gowda said “Har Ghar Tiranga” was the slogan of this country during the freedom movement. The aim was to hoist a Swadeshi flag on tope of every house. But, today, the Swadeshi economy has collapsed and the production of khadi has more or less tapered off, the statement said.
While the processed cotton production centre located near Chitradurga has been shut down, thousands of spinning centres and lakhs of weaving centres across the country too have been closed. The small-scale farmers, various skilled and unskilled labourers, who are the backbone of the rural economy are migrating to cities in search of jobs, leaving the villages deserted, the statement said.
The cost of khadi flags had touched the sky because of shortage of production while the khadi centres were ironically producing flags with non-khadi material. “Isn’t it ironic that the country now has to celebrate Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav” with synthetic flags that are either imported or produced by desi industrialists?”, the statement said while pointing out that the Flag Satyagraha intends to save khadi flags and revive rural India.
Mr Prasanna said they were planning to form an expert committee to study the situation in khadi centres and other handloom centres including pot makers and leather crafters before submitting a status report to the government.
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Today, over half of US adults live with at least one chronic illness according to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If you have a chronic illness — like heart disease, arthritis or a persistent mental health condition — you know exactly how isolating it can be. Before the digital era, it was nearly impossible to connect with others who had similar illnesses, let alone see the scale of chronic illness visibility. But social media is changing that. Many people with chronic illnesses have turned to social platforms to share their stories in hopes that it'll prove helpful to anyone experiencing a similar situation.
The exchange of health information on social media has changed how we think about chronic diseases, especially for those who have them. On one side, so-called invisible illnesses that were rarely talked about (and likely never heard of) are now making their way right to your screens. And on the other hand, people who have these chronic illnesses are seeing that they're not alone and now have an accessible tool that helps them feel more supported. We are seeing awareness of chronic illness at a scale we never have before because of how many people with chronic diseases are using these platforms to share their stories. Social media can help spread awareness about different conditions and treatment options, connect people with similar symptoms and even offer support from others with the same conditions.
"In my experience, social media has been revolutionary for chronic illness and disability. It has allowed us to create community around our chronic illnesses/disabilities where we can find validation, support and power in our shared experiences that gives us a sense of belonging in a world that constantly excludes us," says Marie Dagenais-Lewis, operations manager at Diversability and a self-identified disabled content creator.
Even though there certainly are pitfalls when sharing information about chronic diseases online (especially when it can impact someone's health), many have found much-needed support to navigate life with chronic health conditions through Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
Awareness and normalization of chronic illnesses
History has not been kind to people with health issues and disabilities, and many people hide their chronic conditions or avoid discussing it out of the fear that others will view them as different. This often causes folks with chronic illnesses to isolate themselves from others. Social media has changed that.
In recent years, it's become more common to see people sharing their stories about chronic illness in places like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. What was once rarely talked about or taboo is now being normalized globally thanks to the power and reach of social media.
The hashtag #chronicillness has over 5 billion views on TikTok alone, and creators post about anything from what it's like to live with a chronic illness to how to best support someone you know battling it. Chronic diseases are common, and sharing these experiences helps people feel less alone.
Sharing also opens a dialogue that can lead to greater awareness about what it's like to live with a certain condition and, in the process, destigmatize it. And for those newly diagnosed with a chronic illness, seeing others undergo a similar process can make it less intimidating. For example, seeing someone else go through similar mental health setbacks as you can also make your experience feel less isolating.
Health literacy, education and advocacy
In the past, you had to rely on the advice of doctors and family members to find out how to manage your chronic illness. Social platforms can directly support self-management of a disease by providing online spaces where patients can interact with each other and share experiences and information about how to self manage their conditions or symptoms. I view the benefits of this education type as threefold: it gives what was once invisible exposure, helps people who don't have the illness better understand those who do and can help you become aware of symptoms you thought were common, but may point to underlying issues you were unaware of.
People with chronic illnesses use these platforms to offer advice on coping with symptoms or give insight on helpful questions to ask during doctor's visits . Connecting with a community can help you get an earlier diagnosis, learn about varied treatment options and help you communicate your needs to loved ones.
This isn't to say that social media is the appropriate channel for diagnosing an illness: Health care professionals warn about the potential danger of self-diagnosing through social media. Still, it can be a good way to boost self-awareness and recognize symptoms you may not have noticed before. It's always important to consult your doctor if you think you may have an illness.
Eight in 10 people who use the internet search for health information online and an estimated 74% of internet users also use social media. Health care providers and agencies are taking advantage of the social platforms' reach to educate followers about chronic disease treatment options, symptoms and even how to self-manage. Health professionals can also correct any misinformation or myths spreading through these platforms.
Many also use these platforms as advocacy tools. You can use them to get involved in local efforts like fundraisers. We've also seen how social media can help with advocacy on a larger scale, allowing groups to organize online and bring larger issues to the fore. Whether it's raising awareness of specific issues, fundraising for research into cures or treatments or helping make policy changes that will benefit patients, social media is an extremely powerful tool in bringing people together. Patients and public health educators have also turned to social platforms for broader reach and lower costs of advocacy campaigns.
Community and connection
Studies have shown that community and social connections can improve mental health for people with disabilities and also decrease mortality rates. A 2010 meta-analytic review found that people with strong social relationships have a 50% greater likelihood of surviving health complications. Social media provides a place to create those social connections for people experiencing the same condition.
Websites like Patients Like Me provide a centralized place for patients to find helpful information and support from others with the same illness. Other platforms, like Facebook, offer more niche groups focusing on a specific chronic illness. These groups are a great resource for finding support and engaging in community-building activities.
Approximately 4.62 billion people use social media, which means more individuals online at all times. This allows for constant support whenever it's needed, which can be hard to come by offline. These platforms also provide a great way to find support groups in your area where you can talk with people who understand what you're going through.
Population health and prevention
According to the CDC, six 6 in 10 adults in the US have a chronic disease. Some of those chronic diseases are preventable, and social media can help promote prevention by providing easy access to information about risk factors.
As more people talk about their experiences with chronic disease on social media, it becomes much easier for scientists and researchers to collect data on how these diseases affect the body, which can help lead to better treatments. Researchers can analyze patient discussions on social media to better understand the disease, symptoms and helpful coping methods. The same can be true for patients. For example, many people learned about long COVID syndrome symptoms through social media before health officials acknowledged the possibility of prolonged COVID-19 illness.
We've also seen how social media can facilitate health research by providing a venue to recruit participants for research and clinical trials. Studies show that social media performs better than traditional recruiting processes regarding budget and volume of participants. The more people (and types of people) who participate, the more accurate findings will be.
The drawbacks of social media and chronic illness
Using social platforms to discuss and educate about chronic disease has many benefits. However, there are also potential concerns regarding privacy, misinformation and the emotional tolls patients may face online.
Privacy concerns
Maintaining a patient's health data privacy is one of the major concerns regarding social media and chronic illness. For people with chronic diseases, social media is an outlet where they can share stories about their mental and physical health. One of the risks of displaying this type of information online is medical identity theft (when someone steals your medical information to submit fraudulent claims to insurance providers). According to the AARP, nearly 43,000 people experienced medical identity theft in 2021.
Spread of misinformation
The spread of false information on social media is not new to most of us. However, the consequences can be devastating when they impact someone's health. Once misinformation starts circulating, it's not easily contained. This can be alarming considering that over half of Americans say they get some of their news through social media. Misinformation about chronic diseases on social platforms can lead to stigmatization, inaccurate self-diagnosis and at-home treatment and remedies that can be detrimental to the person's health.
Negative patient emotions
Despite patients with chronic disease feeling connected and supported by others through social media, negative feelings like frustration, confusion and sadness can also arise from information found on social media. One study suggests that social media can increase sensations of stigmatization and create an identity centered on the patient's disease.
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Growing up, I always used crutches to get around, and only would use a wheelchair for school field trips or vacations that involved long-distance walking; ableism and issues of inaccessibility are part of the reason why.
In the moments when I did use a wheelchair, I noticed that I was restricted in terms of where I could go. I remember facing barriers in accessing some shops and restaurants, especially in older buildings.
These concerns took on added significance after an upsetting visit to a Washington, D.C., bar in early July where I was told to leave my wheelchair outside.
My friends had already carried my wheelchair down to the first-floor entrance. I could otherwise physically enter the establishment on my crutches, but we were told that we could only come in through the accessible street entrance on the second floor.
The business eventually let us in through the front entrance, but when my friends carried my wheelchair upstairs to the dance floor on the third floor, we were once again told that the chair wasn't allowed in that area, and that we'd have to keep it on the second floor.
This entire experience left me reflecting on the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 — a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability in all aspects of public life.
The incident, which received a lot of attention and media coverage, left me frustrated and questioning how something like this could have happened with the ADA in place.
My experience at the bar is not unique in the disabled community, which shows that while the ADA is an important foundation for our rights, and shouldn't be taken for granted, it is just the baseline. We need more protections and policies to prevent such issues and to further disability rights.
It has been 32 years this week since the law was passed, and activists and experts believe more protections and policies are needed to prevent such issues and to move the disability rights movement forward.
Joining the disability rights movement was a pure necessity for this activist
When she was in college at Long Island University, Judy Heumann remembered having conversations with other disabled students about significant movements that were happening at the time, including the women's rights and civil rights movements. But they didn't see much of a disability movement happening.
Heumann began learning from other activists as a participant in anti-war protests, as well as from organizing protests and activism with other disabled students at her college.
"We were no movement, but we were talking about [how] there are a lot of us, and there are all these issues that need to be dealt with. These other groups are not representing at all, they're not really seeking us to be involved, whatever the group was. And we need to be looking at creating something that brings us together, and where we can be addressing these multitude of issues," Heumann told NPR in a Zoom interview.
Heumann would go on to become one of the leaders of the disability rights movement, which led to societal shifts that often are taken for granted today.
David Capozzi, who served as the executive director of the U.S. Access Board and oversaw the development of the ADA's accessibility guidelines, said the law's biggest successes have been in public transportation.
Prior to the passage of the ADA, 65% of the buses in the U.S. were accessible. According to a 2020 survey by the Federal Transit Administration, more than 97% of buses are ADA accessible.
"You could go to any corner in any city across America, wait for a bus, and you know that that bus is going to have either a lift or a low floor and a ramp. And there's not many countries that can say that. So I think that's a big success," said Capozzi to NPR in a Zoom interview.
But there are still frustrating gaps, Capozzi said, noting that Amtrak has only made a quarter of its stations accessible in the decades since the law passed. Similarly, less than a quarter of subway stations in New York City are accessible to those with physical or mobility disabilities.
More education around disability rights is needed
Capozzi noted that there are no "ADA police," so complaints of inaccessibility and ADA violations have to be filed with agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Justice.
This accountability mechanism is one of the limitations of the ADA that often gets brought up in the disability community, said Sandy Ho, the director of the disability inclusion fund at Borealis Philanthropy.
"It is still the burden, the expectation, [and] the responsibility of disabled people, people in the disability community to bring up the ADA and accommodations that are not meeting basic requirements," Ho told NPR in a Zoom interview.
Ho noted that there aren't education standards around the ADA in the way other civil rights movements in U.S. history are taught.
Heumann said that most disabled people don't know about the ADA, and that there needs to be more funding put into training to teach both disabled and non-disabled people about these laws, what entities are covered by them, and how to advocate around the laws.
Because of the lack of knowledge about the ADA, misconceptions arise. For example, Capozzi noted that many believe there is a "grandfather clause" in the ADA that states that establishments built before 1990 aren't covered by the law.
"There's just a lesser standard for existing buildings — you have to make your building accessible to the extent that it's readily achievable to do so, which means cheap and easy. But there is no grandfather clause," Capozzi said.
Disability experts advise against amending the ADA but want to see disability rights advancing
Capozzi believes that reviewing the ADA's regulations periodically is good from a public policy stance, but is more guarded about the idea of amending the legislation itself.
"It's always a risk to open up an existing piece of legislation, because you may not like what the end result is," Capozzi said. "You really need to weigh the pros and cons based on what the politics are. Do you have friends and enemies in the House and the Senate? Do you think that you can get an improvement? Or if you open it up, do you risk losing something?"
The threats to disability rights and the ADA are very much present.
In 2018, the House of Representatives voted to gut the Americans with Disabilities Act by passing H.R. 620, the "ADA Education and Reform Act," which would hamper the enforcement of the law. Forty-three senators voiced opposition to the bill and it has not been enacted.
Disability advocates expressed opposition to the bill, pointing out that it would remove incentives for businesses to comply with the law, and place excessive burdens on individuals with disabilities.
Heumann says that now is not the time to amend the ADA, and that efforts should be directed toward other areas for furthering disability rights, such as home- and community-based services.
She also emphasized the importance of making sure that there are appropriate staffing levels at agencies that handle ADA complaints, and that disabled people and their family members understand their rights.
"When one is armed with knowledge I think we can, in some cases, address issues before they escalate. And in other cases, maybe not." she said. "If we are able to have millions of disabled people understand what their rights are, that to me is very important."
The impact of the ADA on American society cannot be understated
Ho, who was in kindergarten when the law was passed, only learned of its impact later on in life once she began identifying politically and socially as disabled.
As a disabled woman and a wheelchair user, the law protected her and gave her access and equal protection to opportunities she otherwise might not have, including access to transportation, public education and employment, she said.
"The ADA is something that has really kind of been the context and the very background of my life, rather than something that I consider at the forefront of my life and the work that I do," Ho said.
While the ADA is the bare minimum, Ho says that it has not extended to every member of the disability community. She emphasizes the importance of prioritizing those who are closest to injustice and who have been historically marginalized when fighting for civil rights.
"Black disabled women, trans and queer folks who are not put in positions of power but who society is most likely to consider to be disposable, they should be leading this conversation on how and in what ways the ADA should be expanded," Ho said.
Heumann says that the disability movement has come a long way in the last 50 or 60 years, especially in terms of appropriate representation of disabled people in the movement.
She's proud of the ongoing work that the ADA generation — a term for people born after the law's passage in 1990 — across the U.S. and globally are doing to organize against the threats to civil rights.
"The threats are alive and well, in so many ways. The ADA and [Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973] and all these other laws ... [are so] important to enable us to be able to live a life like we fantasize under this vision of what it means to live in the United States, and what our rights theoretically are," Heumann said. "Celebrating the ADA is really looking at how our movement has grown. I think we've come a long way in the last 50, 60 years, but we still have so much more to do."
My experience at the bar is just one example of how much more needs to be done for the disabled community
Navigating society is still difficult for me as a disabled person. Following my experience at the D.C. bar, its manager of diversity, equity and inclusion reached out to me to discuss what happened and to apologize.
In our meeting, he laid out action items he planned to take to ensure that such an occurrence doesn't happen to disabled patrons in the future, which included revisiting bar policies and making sure they're enforced with retraining for all staff.
While I appreciated the apology and dedication to do better, I remember feeling very indifferent to the bar's response, and having a, "I'll believe it when I see it" mindset to their statement of dedication to accessibility.
The incident at the bar still happened and it's largely because accessibility and inclusivity for disabled people are often treated as an afterthought. In my experience, attempts to do better were only initiated after such incidents occur and disabled people made noise about.
The burden shouldn't fall on us to constantly fight against violations of our civil rights. In an ideal world, the ADA would be enforced more, and owners of bars and restaurants would prioritize access to all. I wish I was able to access every place in society with ease. But that isn't the reality for myself and so many others.
I'm immensely grateful to be a part of the ADA generation, and will never take for granted how hard disability activists fought for the civil rights protections that I benefit from every day. But at the same time, I want more for myself and my community, whether it be through expanding or modernizing existing laws, or bringing forward new policies to advance our rights and access.
The ADA deserves to be celebrated. But it can't be seen as the final destination for disability rights. We deserve more.
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A retired New York fireman who helped pull victims from the 9/11 terrorist attacks and risked his own life has received a lifesaving bone marrow transplant from a UK man. Sal Parisi, now aged 68, was one of the courageous firefighters who gallantly responded on the frontline as the US suffered tragic terror attacks.
A massive 343 of his Fire Department of New York (FDNY) colleagues were killed, with many more suffering from health issues in the years that followed the event. Sal himself developed leukaemia, which he believes is linked to being exposed to the devastation caused by the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre.
After serving for 27 years, Sal was handed the diagnosis nine years after retiring and feared he wouldn’t get to see his grandchildren grow up, according to Coventry Live. However, after an international search for a compatible bone marrow donor a man from Coventry has saved Sal's life.
Stephen Dawkins, Associate Head of School for Student Experience in Coventry University’s School of Media and Performing Arts, was found to be an almost perfect match. Sal’s bone marrow transplant, thanks to Stephen’s donation, was a success, granting the American hero a pivotal lifeline.
Discussing 9/11 and the impact it had on his long term health, Sal said: “You can’t compare that day to anything else. Everything was pulverised, all you saw was cement, dust and steel.
“We were at the scene of the attacks until at least midnight that night. The biggest thing I can remember was how much my eyes were burning from the contaminated air, not thinking that 17 years later I would have cancer.”
“My grandchildren – six of them – were all born before I was even diagnosed, and thanks to the transplant I got to see them grow up. The oldest one is only eight now, but they were babies when I was diagnosed, and now I can play ball and get involved in sports with them all and enjoy their company, and that’s all thanks to Stephen Dawkins.”
After getting the lifesaving treatment, Sal sent Stephen an email to express his gratitude. This resulted in the pair meeting in New York this year.
Stephen said: “I think that when you give blood, you’re aware that it could help save a life, so donating bone marrow just felt like an extension of that. It didn’t really hit home that giving my bone marrow would actually save someone’s life until I met Sal in person.
“I would urge anybody who can to donate blood and donate bone marrow. Donating bone marrow is a relatively simple process, it was just two days of my life, but it was for the rest of somebody else’s life. It was amazing to meet Sal and his family and it really did feel as though we got on like old friends.”
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(NEXSTAR) – It’s widely understood that those working in the food service industry are usually paid a lower wage than the rest of us, due largely in part because they receive tips. But, as many have argued, paying a server the federal minimum wage for a tipped employee, paired with the tips they receive, sometimes isn’t enough to reach the standard minimum wage of $7.25. This is pushing some restaurants to transition to a tipless style of business.
Current federal regulations require tipped employees – those who receive more than $30 in tips each month – be paid a minimum wage of $2.13. That server must then average $5.12 in tips each hour, meaning they would make the federal minimum wage of $7.25. If a server doesn’t earn enough tips in a shift to make $7.25 an hour, federal law says the employer must pay them the rest to reach that rate.
While this may differ for some states, others do follow that federal minimum requirement, including Indiana, where one business owner decided to stop accepting tips.
Last year, Kurtis Cummings, the founder and president of Switchyard Brewing Company, decided to eliminate tipping at his Bloomington, Indiana, craft brewery. Instead, Switchyard employees are now paid at least $15 an hour.
“It’s the employer’s responsibility to pay their employees, not the customers,” Cummings explained to Nexstar. He also noted how factors such as the server’s gender or age, the weather, or the day of the week can impact how much – or how little – a server is tipped.
Researchers have even found the vast majority of people aren’t basing the tip they leave on service quality, they’re actually just following a social norm. And when it comes to the quality of service, Cummings said that any issues you had shouldn’t be taken out on the server’s income.
“It’s still more than likely the company’s fault because it’s the company’s job to train, right?” he explained. Plus, the promise of a tip doesn’t always guarantee good service. What does? Like any non-tipped job, it’s job security, according to Cummings.
Cummings said Switchyard’s switch to tip-free “has become a real job attractor.” Staff no longer have to worry about missing a weekend shift – shifts that typically are busier, meaning the chance at more tips – and the company can provide other benefits like paid time off.
While Cummings’s employees and most of their customers have taken to the idea of no more tipping, not everyone agrees.
Cummings explained that after Switchyard transitioned to its new no-tipping policy, some people – many from outside Indiana – began leaving one-star Google reviews for the business. It’s a relatively common trend, Mike Lynn, a professor of consumer behavior and marketing at Cornell University, told Nexstar’s KTLA.
Whether a restaurant adds a service charge or raises menu prices slightly, like Switchyard has, Lynn says that business will likely see their online ratings dip.
“It turns out that when customers evaluate restaurants’ expensiveness, they’re pretty much looking at menu prices, and that’s it,” Lynn said. “We dismiss, or discount somehow, the fact that you’re expected to tip.”
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Highways Department installs cameras on Trichy Road flyover in Coimbatore
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The State Highways Department (National Highways wing) has installed four cameras on the Trichy Road flyover to capture the speed of vehicles and to study traffic movement on the flyover.
An official of the Department said that following four accidents on the flyover, it was decided to install cameras and study the speed of the vehicles and the traffic movement. While the Department has fixed four cameras, two more will be fixed in a day or two. The Department is also placing Chevron boards (safety boards made of steel) at the outer curves of the flyover.
The boards warn the motorists of the curve and also protects them from falling off the flyover if there is an accident. “We are placing the boards for about 15 metres in a day. The work will be completed in 10 to 15 days,” the official said.
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ILLINOIS (KXAN) — Cha-ching! One person in Illinois won the Mega Millions $1.28 billion jackpot Friday night, according to the Illinois Lottery.
The Illinois Lottery listed the jackpot prize as “currently pending,” with the winning numbers listed as 13, 36, 45, 57, 67 and the gold Mega ball was 14. Friday’s Megaplier was 2X the original winnings.
The $1.28 billion jackpot is the second largest Mega Millions jackpot in history.
The top prize had not been claimed since April 15.
Mega Millions said the winner results for the drawing were still being compiled but listed that the jackpot prize was pending, and it said the cash option was pending as well. The cash option would be $747.2 million.
The next drawing will be Tuesday, according to Mega Millions, and the estimated jackpot was listed at $20 million with an $11.6 million cash option.
The top Mega Millions jackpots to date are:
- $1.537 billion on Oct. 23, 2018
- $1.280 billion on July 29, 2022
- $1.050 billion on Jan. 22, 2021
- $656 million on March 30, 2012
- $648 million on Dec 17, 2013
- $543 million on July 24, 2018
- $536 million on July 8, 2016
- $533 million on March 30, 2018
- $522 million on June 7, 2019
- $516 million on May 21, 2021
There was a 1 in 302,575,350 chance of winning the jackpot, according to Mega Millions. Odds of winning the jackpot are always steep — among things you’re more likely to do than win the lottery are being killed by a shark, being struck by lightning this year and being struck by lightning in your entire lifetime.
USA Mega, which tracks Mega Millions statistics, says the most common Mega Millions numbers are 17, 10, 14, 31 and 4 for the first five numbers. The most common Mega ball number is 22. | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/jackpot-mega-millions-winning-ticket-sold-in-illinois/ | 2022-07-30T14:36:15Z | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/jackpot-mega-millions-winning-ticket-sold-in-illinois/ | false |
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The Prime Minister also launched power sector’s Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme. He also dedicated and laid foundation stone of various green energy projects of NTPC worth over ₹5,200 crore and launched the National Solar Rooftop Portal.
Union Minister for Tourism and Culture G. Kishan Reddy participated in the programme at Kandukur in Rangareddy district virtually. The Prime Minister interacted with beneficiaries of various schemes.
Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister said Energy and power sectors had a huge role to play in accelerating India’s progress in the next 25 years. “The strength of the energy sector is also important for Ease of Doing Business and is equally important for Ease of Living. The projects launched today are significant steps in the direction of green energy and energy security for the county. These projects will strengthen India’s renewable energy goals, commitment and aspirations of its green mobility,” he said.
The Prime Minister announced that work on two big green hydrogen projects in Ladakh and Gujarat was starting on Saturday. “The plant being set up in Ladakh will produce green hydrogen for vehicles in the country. This will be the first project in the country which will make commercial use of green hydrogen-based transport possible. Ladakh very soon will be the first place in the country where fuel cell electric vehicles will start to ply. This will help in making Ladakh a carbon-neutral region,” the Prime Minister said.
The Prime Minister said that after blending ethanol in petrol and aviation fuel, now the country was moving towards blending green hydrogen in piped natural gas pipelines, which will reduce import dependence on natural gas.
“In the last 8 years, about 1,70,000 MW of electricity generation capacity has been added in the country. One Nation One Power Grid has become the strength of the country today. About 1,70,000 circuit kilometre transmission lines have been laid to connect the entire country. Furthermore, by giving 3 crore connections under the Saubhagya Scheme, we are also nearing the saturation goal,” he added.
“We had resolved to create 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by the completion of 75 years of Independence. Today we have come close to this goal. So far, about 170 GW capacity has been installed from non-fossil sources. Today, India is in the top 4-5 countries of the world in terms of installed solar capacity. Many of the world’s largest solar power plants are in India today. The country has got two more big solar plants today. These plants built in Telangana and Kerala are the first and second largest floating solar plants in the country. Solar panels are being encouraged in households,” said
The Prime Minister said that along with increasing the production of electricity, the emphasis of the government was also on saving electricity. “Saving electricity means enriching the future. PM Kusum Yojana is a great example of this. We are providing solar pump facility to farmers, helping to install solar panels on the side of the fields”, he said.
The Prime Minister said losses in our distribution sector were in double digits whereas in the developed countries of the world it was in single digit. Informing that different states have outstanding dues of more than ₹1 lakh crore to power generation companies, the Prime Minister requested the states whose dues were pending, to clear them as soon as possible. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/modi-inaugurates-100-mw-floating-solar-project-at-ramagundam/article65703107.ece/amp/ | 2022-07-30T14:37:12Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/modi-inaugurates-100-mw-floating-solar-project-at-ramagundam/article65703107.ece/amp/ | false |
Abbott spent hours at fundraiser after Uvalde shooting
Posted/updated on: July 30, 2022 at 5:27 amAUSTIN (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has said that he stopped at a campaign fundraiser following the deadly school shooting in Uvalde and “let people know” he couldn’t stay, but a newspaper reports that he was there for nearly three hours. The Dallas Morning News reported Thursday that campaign finance reports and flight-tracking records show that Abbott arrived in Huntsville at 4:52 p.m. on May 24 — which was hours after the shooting at Robb Elementary School — and was then was driven about 2 miles to a local supporter’s house. He didn’t leave the city till 7:47 p.m. A spokeswoman for Abbott’s campaign says that the governor has been forthright about his movements that day. | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1149122 | 2022-07-30T14:53:46Z | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1149122 | true |
Aberdeen manager Jim Goodwin is clear on his aims for the new league season after declaring a top-four position the target.
The Dons finished 10th last season after qualifying for Europe for eight years running.
Goodwin is well aware of the demands of the Dons support as he prepares to kick off his first full season in charge with a trip to face cinch Premiership champions Celtic.
“We need a vast improvement on what happened last season,” the former Alloa and St Mirren manager said.
“Our main objective this year is to get back into the European competitions next season and to qualify for those kinds of games.
“We need to finish at least in the top four places in the league. That’s our main objective at the moment.
“We have got a very similar playing budget to the likes of Hibs and Hearts. We know that Hearts finished third in the table last year, so we should be up there competing with them this time around.
“Last season was extremely disappointing for everybody involved but this is a very new group. There’s no scars hanging around from last season.
“There’s no reason why this group of players can’t be positive and can’t be optimistic. The new lads have settled in really, really well.
“That has to be the target. I’m not going to come on here and say our aim is top six, I think the supporters would be up in arms if we spoke about that.
“Aberdeen is the third biggest supported club in the country and should be competing for the top three or four spaces every single season and that is what we want to get back to doing this year.”
Goodwin, whose side began the season with four wins and four clean sheets in the Premier Sports Cup, added: “I think for a club of this size we should always be looking to compete in the domestic cup competitions as well.
“So we’ve done well so far in the League Cup, we have qualified for the last 16. We want to get to Hampden on a regular basis and do that consistently.
“There are two competitions, the Scottish Cup and the League Cup that we should be aiming to try and win season on season. It’s never easy to win a cup competition every year, but we certainly should be putting ourselves in a position to compete.” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3546658/jim-goodwin-sets-european-qualification-target-for-aberdeen-this-season/ | 2022-07-30T14:58:12Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3546658/jim-goodwin-sets-european-qualification-target-for-aberdeen-this-season/ | false |
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Fifth-seeded Caroline Garcia beat Jasmine Paolini 6-1, 6-2 at the Poland Open on Saturday to advance to her 12th career final, where she'll face Ana Bogdan.
Garcia will seek her ninth career WTA title and second this year after winning the grass-court Bad Homburg Open.
The Frenchwoman, who a day earlier ended top-ranked Iga Swiatek's clay-court winning streak, broke her 10th-seeded Italian opponent four times to improve to 3-0 against her.
The former world No. 4 served six aces on a rainy day in Warsaw en route to her 17th win in her past 20 matches.
Bogdan reached her first career WTA final by defeating Kateryna Baindl of Ukraine 7-5, 7-5.
Garcia won their only previous encounter, beating the Romanian in the second round at Wimbledon in 2017.
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DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware bankruptcy judge has approved parts of the Boy Scouts of America’s reorganization plan but has rejected other provisions, saying in a ruling Friday that the organization has “decisions to make” regarding the plan.
Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein issued her 281-page ruling, months after concluding a trial in the case. She indicated that she is willing to hold a status conference upon a request by attorneys for the Boy Scouts.
The BSA’s plan proposed the creation of a $2.6 billion fund to compensate tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as children involved in Scouting, while maintaining the organization’s financial ability to continue operating.
The ruling is the just latest example of uncertainty in a case that has seen myriad twists and turns since the Boy Scouts sought bankruptcy protection more than two years ago to stave off a flood of lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by Scout leaders and volunteers.
In the meantime, the cash-strapped BSA has spent more than $327 million in fees and expenses in the bankruptcy and continues to bleed money, with no end in sight. It also remains unclear when any of the 82,000 sexual abuse claimants in the bankruptcy might receive any compensation for their abuse.
The plan called for the Irving, Texas-based BSA and its local councils, along with settling insurance companies and troop sponsoring organizations, to contribute some $2.6 billion in cash and property to a fund for abuse claimants. In return for those contributions, those entities would be shielded from future lawsuits over Scout-related abuse.
When it filed for bankruptcy, the BSA faced about 275 filed lawsuits and was aware of roughly another 1,400 potential cases, but more than 82,200 abuse claims were filed in the bankruptcy. Attorneys for BSA insurers argued early on that the sheer volume of claims was an indication of fraud and the result of aggressive client solicitation by attorneys and for-profit claims aggregators.
While some of those insurers later negotiated settlements for a fraction of the billions of dollars in liability exposure they potentially faced, other insurers continued to oppose the plan. They argued that the procedures for distributing funds from the compensation trust would violate their contractual rights to contest claims, set a dangerous precedent for mass tort litigation, and result in grossly inflated payments of abuse claims, including tens of thousands that would otherwise be barred by the passage of time.
Under the reorganization plan, the BSA and its 250 local councils, along with settling insurance companies and troop sponsoring organizations, would contribute some $2.6 billion in cash and property to a fund for victims of child sexual abuse. In return for those contributions, those entities would be released from further liability, meaning they could not be sued for Scout-related abuse claims. The plan also would allow abuse claimants to sue insurance companies and local troop sponsoring organizations that do not enter into their own settlements within one year.
In addition to the arguments by opposing insurers, the case presented Silverstein with one of the most contentious issues for bankruptcy judges — whether third parties that are not bankruptcy debtors themselves can escape future liability in the tort system by contributing to a Chapter 11 debtor’s reorganization plan.
Such third-party releases, spawned by asbestos and product-liability cases, have been criticized as an unconstitutional form of “bankruptcy grifting,” where non-debtor entities obtain benefits by joining with a debtor to resolve mass-tort litigation in bankruptcy.
Federal courts in some jurisdictions, including Delaware, have allowed third-party releases in certain circumstances, while courts in other jurisdictions have rejected them.
Under the plan proposed by the Boy Scouts, insurance companies, local BSA councils and troop sponsoring organizations would receive broad liability releases protecting them from future sex abuse lawsuits in exchange for contributing to the victims compensation fund — or even for just not objecting to the plan.
Some abuse survivors argued that releasing their claims against non-debtor third parties without their consent would violate their due process rights. The U.S. bankruptcy trustee, the government’s “watchdog” in Chapter 11 bankruptcies, argued that such releases are not allowed under the bankruptcy code, and that the scope of the proposed releases in the BSA plan, potentially extending to tens of thousands of entities, was unprecedented.
The plan called for the BSA itself to contribute less than 10% of the proposed settlement fund, consisting of property valued at about $80 million, an $80 million promissory note, and roughly $20 million cash.
The local BSA councils, which run day-to-day operations for troops, offered to contribute at least $515 million in cash and property, and an interest-bearing note of at least $100 million. That contribution was conditioned on certain protections for local troop sponsoring organizations, known as “chartered organizations.” Those organizations, numbering in the tens of thousands, include religious entities, civic associations and community groups.
The bulk of the compensation fund would come from the BSA’s two largest insurers, Century Indemnity and The Hartford, which reached settlements calling for them to contribute $800 million and $787 million, respectively. Other insurers agreed to contribute about $69 million. The BSA’s former largest troop sponsor, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, would contribute $250 million for abuse claims involving the Mormon church, while congregations affiliated with the United Methodist Church would contribute $30 million. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ruling-leaves-questions-about-boy-scouts-bankruptcy-plan/ | 2022-07-30T15:17:16Z | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ruling-leaves-questions-about-boy-scouts-bankruptcy-plan/ | true |
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In one of this year’s most competitive U.S. Senate races, the biggest moments aren’t playing out on the campaign trail. They’re unfolding on social media.
For one stunt, Democrat John Fetterman of Pennsylvania rolled out an online petition to get his Republican rival, celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, enshrined in New Jersey’s Hall of Fame — a nod to Oz moving from his longtime home in New Jersey to run in neighboring Pennsylvania.
For another, Fetterman paid $2,000 for an airplane to haul a banner over weekend beachgoers on the Jersey Shore welcoming Oz back home to the Garden State. And in particularly viral posts, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, star of the infamous MTV show “Jersey Shore,” and “Little” Steven Van Zandt of “The Sopranos” and Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band recorded videos telling Oz to come home.
“Nobody wants to see you get embarrassed,” Van Zandt says. “So come on back to Jersey where you belong.”
For a campaign that could ultimately cost more than $100 million, the stunts are cheap ways for Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, to generate attention. The millions of views are helpful for a candidate who has largely been sidelined from personal appearances after suffering a stroke in May.
And it’s about more than getting laughs: The social media strategy could prove potent in defining Oz as a carpetbagger disconnected from the state’s residents and culture.
“The reason it stands out is he seems to be doing the best job of anyone this election cycle at contrasting his personality versus that of his opponent,” said Dante Atkins, a Democratic campaign strategist based in Washington, D.C., who has not done any work for Fetterman.
Republicans acknowledge that Fetterman’s social media game is top-notch. But they question the value. Even at a time when most Americans use social media, many Pennsylvania voters on social media don’t see Fetterman’s material and, anyway, elections aren’t about who’s got the best troll game, they say.
Republicans also argue that Fetterman’s greatest hits are missing the issues that voters are most likely to consider when making up their minds: inflation, gas prices and the economy, for instance.
“People don’t really care where I’m from,” Oz said in an interview. “They care what I stand for.”
A lot of the material comes from Fetterman himself, said campaign spokesperson Joe Calvello. He does a lot of the posting on Twitter and if Fetterman himself doesn’t post it, he helps originate ideas.
He’ll shoot texts to campaign staff saying, “‘Hey what about this,’ or ‘did you see this,’” Calvello said. “He’s still very involved.”
Other material comes from campaign staff who develop ideas that stay on-brand for Fetterman and on turf that the candidate has staked out, Calvello said. That includes accusing oil companies of jacking up gas prices.
The concept of trolling Oz, and a lot of the memes, also came from Fetterman, Calvello said. The idea for the video by Snooki emerged from a brainstorm by a couple members of the staff, Calvello said.
Campaign staff wrote the script and Snooki — who was paid less than $400 through the video-sharing Cameo website — ad-libbed some of it, but was not in on the joke until afterward.
With 3.2 million views, it scored the most engagement on Twitter ever on Fetterman’s account, “and that’s a high bar,” Calvello said.
Van Zandt did his video for free and ad-libbed his script after the campaign contacted him directly to see if he’d cooperate, Calvello said.
It is difficult to know how much this will help Fetterman in a year when Democrats face stiff political headwinds, including high inflation and a traditional mid-term backlash against the party of the president.
Political scientists have had a hard time isolating the forces that affect how voters make up their minds, said Christopher Borick, an assistant professor of political science at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
In addition, voters tend to be older than the average social media user, Borick said.
Still, Pew Research Center last year estimated that seven in 10 Americans use social media, and it is unquestionable that the medium is becoming more important to reaching voters.
“The proof in the pudding is that campaigns have increasingly turned to it, and so they’re going on the belief that it is a necessary and key component,” Borick said.
Maggie McDonald, a post-doctoral fellow who studies social media in congressional campaigns at New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics, said Fetterman’s social media game is among the best, if not the best, she’s seen.
“I imagine in future years people will try to emulate this,” McDonald said.
In addition to making people laugh, she said she thinks Fetterman’s stunts could motivate appreciative viewers to contribute money to his campaign and push apathetic Democrats to get off the sidelines to vote for him.
Oz has tried to harness the power of social media for his campaign, and tried to respond to Fetterman online. He has drawn particular focus to Fetterman’s absence from traditional retail campaigning in the aftermath of his stroke, including using a meme from the TV series “Lost.”
In response to a Fetterman tweet about high gas prices, Oz retorted, “Curious as to why you have to fill up your tank so often when you’re not out on the campaign trail meeting with Pennsylvanians.”
Fetterman responded, “Dude, you’re literally from Jersey,” before he referred to a New Jersey state law that requires gas station attendants to pump gas for motorists. “I bet you don’t even know how to pump your own gas.”
Fetterman’s campaign argues that its trolling of Oz is on point with issues that matter to voters. Some elements of it — such as a “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” parody video — try to ask whether a man who is worth nine figures can advocate for regular people who are pinched by high gas prices.
Besides contrasting himself with Oz, Fetterman is well versed in internet culture.
“He’s extremely online, he knows his memes, he knows his internet subcultures, his campaign knows how to make things go viral and obliterate his opponent with online owns,” Atkins said.
Don’t expect the posts to stop anytime soon.
Fetterman now says he’ll put up a billboard on the Betsy Ross Bridge connecting the states over the Delaware River that reminds motorists that they are leaving New Jersey for Pennsylvania “just like Dr. Oz.”
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Which kids boxing gloves are best?
Boxing is great for anyone who wants to expend some energy in a healthy, controlled manner. For kids, the sport can help them develop essential life skills, such as collaboration, sportsmanship and self-discipline. However, as with any physical activity, injuries are not uncommon. A reliable pair of kids boxing gloves can help ensure your child’s safety and drastically reduce the risk of injury. With that in mind, the best gloves are the Liberlupus Kids Boxing Gloves.
What to know before you buy kids boxing gloves
Boxing glove type
Whether they’re for adults or children, boxing gloves are designed specifically to protect the hands and wrists while boxing. They usually have more support and padding throughout to help prevent acute injuries, such as sprains.
There is more than one type of boxing glove for kids. The most common options are:
- Fitness boxing gloves: Commonly found in department stores, these have a moderate amount of padding and are best for basic routines or some bag punching.
- Training boxing gloves: Meant for either the bag or pads, these are considered the most versatile glove option. They’re padded and supportive without being too restrictive. They’re a great option for novices or more advanced individuals.
- MMA-branded boxing gloves: Designed similarly to training gloves, these are ideal for working with handheld pads or heavy bags.
- Heavy-bag boxing gloves: With more padding distributed throughout the glove, these are best for those who primarily work with heavy bags. The extra padding also offers maximum support for those with prior hand or wrist injuries.
- Competition boxing gloves: These are meant solely for those who compete in the ring. They are usually lightweight and pack a punch, making them ideal for sparring or bag work.
Weight and size
Boxing gloves for kids are often measured in overall size and weight. Getting the proper fit is vital to preventing hand or wrist injuries. Gloves that are too large don’t provide enough support or protection since the hand can move around inside of it while boxing. But gloves that are too small can restrict movement, keep the wearer from closing their fist or even cut off circulation. And, if they’re too heavy, they could cause further wrist strain.
Common weights include:
- 4 to 6 ounces — for young children or those with smaller hands
- 6 to 8 ounces — for those ages 6 to 8
- 10 to 16 ounces — for kids ages 8 to 14
- 16 or more ounces — for teenagers and adults
Common sizes are:
- Small — 6 inches
- Medium — 6.5 inches
- Large — 7 inches
- Extra-large — 7.5 inches
If you’re looking for the right size glove, wrap a flexible tape measure around the child’s hand below their knuckles to get the circumference. This will also be the approximate size needed for the glove.
Protection and wrist support
One of the best ways to protect a child’s hands from injury is by choosing gloves with proper protection and wrist support. Boxing gloves should have enough padding to handle the impact of punching bags, held pads or sparring. Some of these gloves have removable foam pad inserts that can be used to get a customized amount of protection.
For wrist support specifically, choose gloves with one of the following two closures:
- Lace-up closure: These provide the most wrist support, but are more difficult to put on or remove. Because of this, this closure type is more common in gloves meant for older kids or adults. It’s also common in training and competitive gloves.
- Hook-and-loop wrap-around closure: Easy to put on and take off, these gloves offer a lot of wrist support, though not as much as lace-up ones. This closure type is most common in casual or training gloves.
What to look for in quality kids boxing gloves
Material
Boxing gloves for children and adults both usually consist of the same types of materials.
- Padding: The padding is usually polyurethane, horsehair or cotton. All of these can minimize shock impact. Inexpensive gloves use memory foam padding, which is denser than regular polyurethane but less supportive.
- Exterior: The shell of most boxing gloves consists of imitation or genuine leather. Some kids gloves are instead made from vinyl, which isn’t as durable but is acceptable for light boxing exercises.
Stitching
Without reliable stitching, boxing gloves can start to break down or tear from the seams. This can cause the padding to shift, which reduces the amount of support the gloves provide and increases the risk of injury. The more durable gloves have heavy-duty stitching, often made from nylon thread.
Design
Kids boxing gloves don’t have to be basic in design. Many are visually appealing with distinct patterns or colors. Go for something that matches the child’s personality and interest, but make sure it’s still durable and provides enough protection.
How much you can expect to spend on kids boxing gloves
Boxing gloves for kids generally cost around $15-$30, though prices can go up based on the size and type.
Kids boxing gloves FAQ
How early can kids start boxing?
A. It’s possible to start boxing as young as 3 or 4 years old. At this age, it’s best to limit the child to non-contact activities, such as form or technique.
When’s the best time to get new boxing gloves?
A. Most boxing gloves last a year or two with regular use. If they’re starting to show signs of wear and tear or the padding isn’t staying in place, upgrade to a new pair.
What are the best kids boxing gloves to buy?
Top kids boxing gloves
What you need to know: Meant for kids ages 3 to 15 years old, these boxing gloves are great for punching bags or handheld pads, sparring and kickboxing.
What you’ll love: They have thick padding, especially around the knuckles and thumb webbing to reduce the risk of injury. They also have a simple one-piece design that makes them comfortable, convenient and safe to use.
What you should consider: These gloves are best for novices.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top kids boxing gloves for the money
What you need to know: Designed for kids ages 3 to 9 years old, these boxing gloves are perfect for those getting started with the sport.
What you’ll love: They have excellent padding and a Velcro closure that makes putting them on and taking them off easy. They’re also comfortable, easy to maintain and practical. Plus, they come in green, blue or red.
What you should consider: They’re best for training purposes rather than competitions.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: Versatile and supportive, these high-quality gloves offer maximum shock absorption and protection to kids.
What you’ll love: These gloves have a hook-and-loop Velcro wrist strap that’s easy to adjust and supportive. They’re multipurpose, meaning they can be used for boxing, sparring, Muay Thai and more. They’re available in black, red, blue, green, pink and orange.
What you should consider: The sizing is a bit off, so it might be best to size down.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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(The Hill) — Veteran sportscaster Bob Costas criticized unvaccinated MLB players who were required to recently sit out games in Canada due to vaccination requirements.
Costas noted during an interview on CNN that 10 players from the Kansas City Royals were recently required to forgo four games in Canada against the Toronto Blue Jays because of COVID-19 vaccination requirements, including outfielder Andrew Benintendi.
He also mentioned St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt and third baseman Nolan Arenado who were also ineligible to play in several recent games against the Blue Jays.
“So leave aside any medical opinion, leave aside the politics of it. This is a team sport,” Costa said during the interview.
“We’re not talking about Novak Djokovic on his own, deciding not to get vaccinated in an individual sport. This is a team sport. And no matter whether you agree or disagree with the mandates or any country’s rules and regulations, you are hurting your own team.”
COVID-19 vaccination has been a controversial topic in professional sports since the rollout. Athletes who have refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine have received blowback for their decision to prioritize personal decisions over health and safety protocols and team priorities.
Djokovic, who is unvaccinated, made headlines earlier this year after he was barred from playing in the Australian Open after he refused to comply with the country’s COVID-19 vaccination requirements.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers also received criticism over misleading comments he made that suggested he was vaccinated when he was not. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/bob-costas-criticizes-unvaccinated-mlb-players-youre-hurting-your-own-team/ | 2022-07-30T15:22:26Z | https://who13.com/news/national-news/bob-costas-criticizes-unvaccinated-mlb-players-youre-hurting-your-own-team/ | false |
MILAN (AP) — Police in Italy arrested an Italian man in the slaying of a Nigerian vendor whose brutal beating death on a busy beach town thoroughfare was filmed by onlookers without any apparent attempt to intervene physically.
Video footage of the attack has circulated widely on Italian news websites and social media platforms, eliciting outrage as Italy enters a parliamentary election campaign in which the right-wing coalition has already made immigration an issue.
“The murder of Alika Ogorchukwu is dismaying,’’ Enrico Letta, the head of the left-wing Democratic Party, wrote on Twitter, naming the vendor who died Friday. “Unheard of ferocity. Widespread indifference. There can be no justification.”
Ogorchukwu, 39, was selling goods midday Friday on the main street of Civitanova Marche, a beach town on the Adriatic Sea coast, when the aggressor grabbed a crutch the vendor used to walk and struck him down, according to police.
Video shows the assailant then wrestling the victim to the pavement as the victim fought back, eventually subduing Ogorchukwu with the weight of his body.
Police chief Matteo Luconi told Italian news channel Sky TG24 that onlookers called police, who responded to the scene after a suspect had fled and attempted to administer aid to the victim. It was not clear if he died at the scene.
Police used street cameras to track the assailant's movements and detained a man identified as Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo, 32.
Ferlazzo was being held on suspicion of murder and theft, the latter for allegedly taking the victim’s phone when he fled.
Luconi told Sky TG24 the assailant lashed out after the vendor made “insistent” requests for pocket change. Police were questioning witnesses and have taken into evidence videos of the attack. They said the suspect has made no statements.
Ogorchukwu, who was married with two children, resorted to selling goods on the street after he was struck by a car and lost his job as a laborer due to the injuries he suffered, said Daniel Amanza, who runs the ACSIM association for immigrants in the Marche region's Macerata province.
The accident left him with a limp, and needing crutches, Amanza said.
Amanza gave a different version of what had preceded the assault, saying the aggressor became infuriated when Ogorchukwu told the man's companion she was beautiful.
“This compliment killed him,’’ Amanza told The Associated Press.
“The tragic fact is that there were many people nearby. They filmed, saying ‘Stop,’ but no one moved to separate them,’’ Amanza said.
Macerata was the site of a 2018 shooting spree targeting African immigrants that injured six. Luca Traini, 31, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the shootings, which Italy’s highest court confirmed qualified as a hate crime. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Video-of-fatal-attack-on-African-immigrant-shocks-17340111.php | 2022-07-30T15:23:27Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Video-of-fatal-attack-on-African-immigrant-shocks-17340111.php | false |
JAKARTA, July 30 (Reuters) - Indonesia has blocked search
engine website Yahoo, payments firm PayPal and several
gaming websites due to failure to comply with licensing rules,
an official said on Saturday, sparking a backlash on social
media.
Registration is required under rules released in late
November 2020 and will give authorities broad powers to compel
platforms to disclose data of certain users, and take down
content deemed unlawful or that "disturbs public order" within
four hours if urgent and 24 hours if not.
Several tech companies had rushed to register in days
leading up to the deadline, which had been extended until
Friday, including Alphabet Inc's, Meta Platforms Inc's
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and Amazon.com Inc
.
Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan, a senior official at Indonesia's
Communications Ministry, said in a text message websites that
have been blocked include Yahoo, PayPal and gaming sites like
Steam, Dota2, Counter-Strike and EpicGames, among others.
PayPal, Yahoo's parent private equity firm Apollo Global
Management and U.S. game developer Valve Corporation, which runs
Steam, Dota and Counter-Strike, did not immediately respond to
requests for comment. EpicGames could not be reached for
comment.
Hashtags like "BlokirKominfo" (block Communication
Ministry), Epic Games and PayPal trended on Indonesian Twitter,
with many writing messages criticising the government's move as
hurting Indonesia's online gaming industry and freelance workers
who use PayPal.
Pangerapan said the government will find a solution for
people to withdraw their deposits from PayPal, which may include
reopening access to its website for a short period, he told
Metro TV.
Authorities would unblock the websites if they comply with
registration rules, he said, defending the measure as protection
for Indonesian internet users.
With an estimated 191 million internet users and a young,
social-media savvy population, the Southeast Asian nation is a
significant market for a host of tech platforms.
(Reporting by Gayatri Suroyo; Editing by Stephen Coates and
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When Casey DeSantis was introducing her husband, Ron, to Florida voters in an ad during his first run for governor four years ago, she insisted he was "so much more" than a Trump devotee.
He was a caring dad who played with their son, read him books and was teaching his daughter to talk. But there was a punchline. The ad showed the blocks they played with were to "build the wall," the book was about how then-President Donald Trump likes to fire people (DeSantis' "favorite part") and the talking lesson used a Make America Great Again campaign sign.
The point of the joke was clear – Trump was the man, and a Republican would be a fool to deviate. Lots of other GOP candidates were finding ways to genuflect to their leader, too. But now, four years later, times are starting to change with some Republican voters contemplating something new.
"I think one of the vulnerabilities for Trump running again in 2024 is that he doesn't have a lot of new material," Sarah Longwell, a Republican political consultant opposed to Trump who has conducted a number of focus groups with Trump voters since the Jan. 6 committee hearings began, told NPR.
She noted Trump's continued relitigation of the 2020 election is getting old for many Republicans.
"I'm not sure that's the right strategy," she said. "One of the things I hear in focus groups all the time from Republican voters is how much they want to move on from the Jan. 6 conversation."
Make no mistake — Trump is still the big fish in Republican politics. Scores of GOP candidates continue to channel him and seek his endorsement. He remains the most popular figure in the party and the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination, if he wants it.
But there are signs that Trump's once-ironclad grip is beginning to loosen. Having lost reelection by millions of votes, and under pressure from multiple investigations, including the Justice Department's probe of his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, focus groups and surveys (more on the data below) are starting to show that rank-and-file Republican voters are starting to see Trump as a liability.
Even editorial boards once friendly to Trump, like the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post and Wall Street Journal have in the last week called him "unworthy" to be president again, citing his "character" and conduct on Jan. 6.
GOP presidential hopefuls, like fish circling chum, are testing the waters. That includes DeSantis, who is now increasingly seen as the most likely post-Trump MAGA standard-bearer; Trump's former vice president, Mike Pence; and lots of others.
The steps taken by these Republicans who are openly angling for presidential runs show they feel safer doing so now than they might have before Jan. 6, the hearings investigating them and Trump's persistent lies about a stolen election.
If not Trump, who?
Ron DeSantis
His is the first name that comes to the lips of Republican strategists and voters when asked who could win the nomination, if it's not Trump or if Trump doesn't run.
Some voters are even saying they like DeSantis more. A University of New Hampshire poll out this week showed DeSantis besting Trump in a primary and faring better than the former president against Biden.
The fact that DeSantis focuses so heavily on Biden's policies is raising eyebrows about his intentions, though his office says he is focused solely on his reelection to governor this year.
DeSantis' popularity hasn't gone unnoticed at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's opulent Florida residence. It's likely why Trump's PAC has sent out polling showing Trump leading a potential GOP primary field – and why he has floated making DeSantis his next vice presidential running mate.
Mike Pence
Pence and Trump's relationship soured after Jan. 6. Pence refused to go along with Trump's scheme to overturn the election by not counting the chosen electors. The rioters at the Capitol then targeted Pence after Trump said he didn't have the "courage" to do what was needed to help him retain power.
Pence is now taking a higher-profile role than at any time since leaving office. This past week, he held rallies and speeches in Arizona and D.C., the same places his former boss did, and he has endorsed opposing candidates to those Trump is backing.
Pence also has a book coming out, and there's no surer sign of a candidate wanting to run – because they always write a book.
Nikki Haley
The former ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration and former South Carolina governor was critical of Trump's actions on Jan. 6 in the immediate aftermath of the insurrection. But she's since softened her tone.
She's been on the conservative speaking circuit lately, including in the key early caucus state of Iowa last month. "If it looks like there's a place for me next year," she said she would run. Haley seemed a little more bullish on a potential presidential bid two weeks ago when she spoke to the Christians United for Israel summit in D.C. Haley referred to a potential return to an Iran nuclear deal under Biden – with a little something added.
Kristi Noem
The South Dakota governor is from a state where it's hard to launch a national campaign. She's largely out of the limelight being from there, but she's taking steps to fix that by running national cable ads and digital ads in key early primary states.
In South Dakota, we never back down from a challenge and we refuse to let fear steal our freedom.
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) June 29, 2022
So saddle up because here, freedom runs FREE. pic.twitter.com/LaKNhLnxcR
Tom Cotton
The Arkansas senator was in Iowa earlier this month, making two stops. It was his seventh trip there since 2020 – and he didn't rule out a 2024 bid.
Tim Scott
The South Carolina senator is the only Black Republican in the Senate. He delivered the rebuttal to Biden's first address to Congress last year, and he, too, has made multiple trips to Iowa. When out there last month, he downplayed a potential 2024 bid.
Others are taking steps as well, including Trump's former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo; Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla.; Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who won the Iowa caucuses in 2016; as well as Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Jan. 6 committee Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who would run as explicitly anti-Trump.
Despite their profiles being raised, Trump's decision looms large.
"I'm sure it clears it out significantly," Cruz told Fox News. "We'll see what happens. Look, the lay of the land is everyone is waiting to see what Trump decides to do. Anyone who tells you they're not is lying to you."
Trump made sure to circulate Cruz's comments via his PAC.
The loosening of Trump's grip
There's lots of evidence of Trump erosion. Here's just a sampling – and how the Jan. 6 hearings may be shifting things:
Trump's choice
Of course, Trump doesn't have to win a majority in the primaries to win the nomination again. He just has to win a plurality, as he did in many of the early 2016 primaries.
And Trump has shown no signs of backing off from a 2024 run. Just the opposite, in fact. At every rally and event he attends, including in Washington, D.C., Arizona and Florida in the past week, he teases that he's running. Trump told New York magazine that he's "already made that decision," and that his "big decision will be whether I go before or after" the 2022 midterms.
"We may just have to do it again," Trump said in D.C. this week. "We have to straighten out our country."
He called the members of the Jan. 6 committee "hacks and thugs," and added, "They really want to damage me, so I can no longer go back to work for you. And I don't think that's going to happen."
That was met with chants of "four more years."
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(The Hill) — Veteran sportscaster Bob Costas criticized unvaccinated MLB players who were required to recently sit out games in Canada due to vaccination requirements.
Costas noted during an interview on CNN that 10 players from the Kansas City Royals were recently required to forgo four games in Canada against the Toronto Blue Jays because of COVID-19 vaccination requirements, including outfielder Andrew Benintendi.
He also mentioned St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt and third baseman Nolan Arenado who were also ineligible to play in several recent games against the Blue Jays.
“So leave aside any medical opinion, leave aside the politics of it. This is a team sport,” Costa said during the interview.
“We’re not talking about Novak Djokovic on his own, deciding not to get vaccinated in an individual sport. This is a team sport. And no matter whether you agree or disagree with the mandates or any country’s rules and regulations, you are hurting your own team.”
COVID-19 vaccination has been a controversial topic in professional sports since the rollout. Athletes who have refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine have received blowback for their decision to prioritize personal decisions over health and safety protocols and team priorities.
Djokovic, who is unvaccinated, made headlines earlier this year after he was barred from playing in the Australian Open after he refused to comply with the country’s COVID-19 vaccination requirements.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers also received criticism over misleading comments he made that suggested he was vaccinated when he was not. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/bob-costas-criticizes-unvaccinated-mlb-players-youre-hurting-your-own-team/ | 2022-07-30T15:26:34Z | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/bob-costas-criticizes-unvaccinated-mlb-players-youre-hurting-your-own-team/ | false |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-5-4-2, FIREBALL: 4
(five, five, four, two; FIREBALL: four)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-5-4-2, FIREBALL: 4
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(STACKER) Commuting easily ranks as one of the least enjoyable parts of a person’s day. Commuters encounter more physical health problems, and low-income commuters are less likely to gain financial stability—among a host of other negative impacts. And yet, America’s commutes keep getting longer as people move farther away from the office, according to census data.
Stacker compiled a list of counties with the worst commutes in New Mexico using data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Counties are ranked by longest average commute time according to 2020 5-year estimates.
#33. De Baca County
– Average Commute Time: 12.3 minutes
— 10.4 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 5.5%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 5.6%
– Worked outside county of residence: 5.8%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (78.4%), carpooled (9.4%), walked to work (4.3%), public transportation (0.0%), worked from home (3.1%)
#32. Sierra County
– Average Commute Time: 15.5 minutes
— 7.2 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 6.0%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 8.8%
– Worked outside county of residence: 5.0%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (76.0%), carpooled (5.6%), walked to work (3.4%), public transportation (0.5%), worked from home (6.7%)
#31. Quay County
– Average Commute Time: 15.5 minutes
— 7.2 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 6.5%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 4.8%
– Worked outside county of residence: 12.8%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (84.3%), carpooled (8.8%), walked to work (2.7%), public transportation (0.2%), worked from home (3.8%)
#30. Catron County
– Average Commute Time: 15.9 minutes
— 6.8 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 5.3%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 2.2%
– Worked outside county of residence: 5.5%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (65.4%), carpooled (12.2%), walked to work (11.0%), public transportation (0.0%), worked from home (4.3%)
#29. Curry County
– Average Commute Time: 16 minutes
— 6.7 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 2.3%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 16.3%
– Worked outside county of residence: 6.1%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (82.5%), carpooled (12.0%), walked to work (2.2%), public transportation (0.2%), worked from home (1.8%)
#28. Los Alamos County
– Average Commute Time: 16.5 minutes
— 6.2 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 1.5%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 5.1%
– Worked outside county of residence: 5.2%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (77.4%), carpooled (8.7%), walked to work (3.3%), public transportation (2.4%), worked from home (5.0%)
#27. Guadalupe County
– Average Commute Time: 16.8 minutes
— 5.9 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 6.4%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 9.3%
– Worked outside county of residence: 4.1%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (86.5%), carpooled (5.2%), walked to work (3.9%), public transportation (0.0%), worked from home (4.4%)
#26. Roosevelt County
– Average Commute Time: 17.2 minutes
— 5.5 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 3.2%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 15.0%
– Worked outside county of residence: 26.2%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (75.4%), carpooled (13.7%), walked to work (5.1%), public transportation (0.4%), worked from home (2.5%)
#25. Grant County
– Average Commute Time: 17.2 minutes
— 5.5 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 3.5%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 12.7%
– Worked outside county of residence: 3.4%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (78.3%), carpooled (10.1%), walked to work (2.3%), public transportation (0.5%), worked from home (7.7%)
#24. Chaves County
– Average Commute Time: 17.7 minutes
— 5.0 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 5.2%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 15.8%
– Worked outside county of residence: 9.4%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (84.5%), carpooled (9.5%), walked to work (1.2%), public transportation (1.4%), worked from home (2.3%)
#23. Lincoln County
– Average Commute Time: 17.8 minutes
— 4.9 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 3.3%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 4.2%
– Worked outside county of residence: 7.7%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (71.7%), carpooled (11.1%), walked to work (0.6%), public transportation (0.2%), worked from home (14.0%)
#22. Socorro County
– Average Commute Time: 18.7 minutes
— 4.0 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 4.7%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 6.6%
– Worked outside county of residence: 18.7%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (63.2%), carpooled (11.0%), walked to work (5.8%), public transportation (0.3%), worked from home (14.9%)
#21. Colfax County
– Average Commute Time: 19 minutes
— 3.7 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 7.4%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 8.6%
– Worked outside county of residence: 5.2%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (72.6%), carpooled (13.9%), walked to work (2.3%), public transportation (0.1%), worked from home (10.5%)
#20. Luna County
– Average Commute Time: 19.3 minutes
— 3.4 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 7.5%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 15.7%
– Worked outside county of residence: 8.5%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (77.0%), carpooled (14.0%), walked to work (2.5%), public transportation (0.5%), worked from home (4.5%)
#19. Union County
– Average Commute Time: 19.6 minutes
— 3.1 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 4.6%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 24.4%
– Worked outside county of residence: 0.4%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (75.7%), carpooled (9.4%), walked to work (7.1%), public transportation (0.0%), worked from home (6.5%)
#18. San Miguel County
– Average Commute Time: 19.9 minutes
— 2.8 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 5.8%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 8.4%
– Worked outside county of residence: 19.7%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (70.7%), carpooled (12.4%), walked to work (4.6%), public transportation (1.1%), worked from home (10.0%)
#17. Eddy County
– Average Commute Time: 20.1 minutes
— 2.6 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 8.2%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 23.3%
– Worked outside county of residence: 2.9%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (84.5%), carpooled (10.0%), walked to work (0.6%), public transportation (0.8%), worked from home (3.4%)
#16. Otero County
– Average Commute Time: 20.6 minutes
— 2.1 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 6.5%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 13.2%
– Worked outside county of residence: 6.9%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (81.5%), carpooled (9.7%), walked to work (2.9%), public transportation (0.4%), worked from home (4.1%)
#15. Taos County
– Average Commute Time: 21.5 minutes
— 1.2 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 8.6%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 7.6%
– Worked outside county of residence: 7.0%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (70.6%), carpooled (10.6%), walked to work (2.8%), public transportation (1.4%), worked from home (12.6%)
#14. Hidalgo County
– Average Commute Time: 21.5 minutes
— 1.2 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 9.5%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 14.9%
– Worked outside county of residence: 7.2%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (72.1%), carpooled (16.2%), walked to work (3.3%), public transportation (0.0%), worked from home (6.6%)
#13. Cibola County
– Average Commute Time: 21.9 minutes
— 0.8 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 9.1%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 13.0%
– Worked outside county of residence: 16.1%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (76.8%), carpooled (7.9%), walked to work (2.5%), public transportation (0.8%), worked from home (7.2%)
#12. Doña Ana County
– Average Commute Time: 22.5 minutes
— 0.2 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 6.2%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 13.2%
– Worked outside county of residence: 2.7%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (79.2%), carpooled (11.2%), walked to work (1.8%), public transportation (0.4%), worked from home (5.6%)
#11. Bernalillo County
– Average Commute Time: 22.6 minutes
— 0.1 minutes shorter than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 4.5%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 10.5%
– Worked outside county of residence: 6.2%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (78.8%), carpooled (9.4%), walked to work (1.7%), public transportation (1.5%), worked from home (6.7%)
#10. Santa Fe County
– Average Commute Time: 22.8 minutes
— 0.1 minutes longer than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 5.4%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 7.7%
– Worked outside county of residence: 14.4%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (77.0%), carpooled (9.0%), walked to work (1.8%), public transportation (0.9%), worked from home (10.1%)
#9. McKinley County
– Average Commute Time: 23.2 minutes
— 0.5 minutes longer than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 8.0%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 11.8%
– Worked outside county of residence: 5.5%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (73.6%), carpooled (9.4%), walked to work (4.0%), public transportation (1.6%), worked from home (10.2%)
#8. Lea County
– Average Commute Time: 23.6 minutes
— 0.9 minutes longer than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 12.3%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 27.3%
– Worked outside county of residence: 2.1%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (82.6%), carpooled (13.0%), walked to work (0.9%), public transportation (0.0%), worked from home (2.8%)
#7. San Juan County
– Average Commute Time: 24.3 minutes
— 1.6 minutes longer than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 8.0%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 17.4%
– Worked outside county of residence: 2.2%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (84.3%), carpooled (9.4%), walked to work (2.3%), public transportation (0.3%), worked from home (3.1%)
#6. Harding County
– Average Commute Time: 28 minutes
— 5.3 minutes longer than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 18.5%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 5.3%
– Worked outside county of residence: 35.0%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (78.2%), carpooled (6.3%), walked to work (6.8%), public transportation (0.0%), worked from home (8.3%)
#5. Sandoval County
– Average Commute Time: 28.4 minutes
— 5.7 minutes longer than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 7.8%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 12.8%
– Worked outside county of residence: 51.1%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (76.9%), carpooled (11.8%), walked to work (1.4%), public transportation (0.8%), worked from home (7.6%)
#4. Rio Arriba County
– Average Commute Time: 28.7 minutes
— 6.0 minutes longer than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 8.5%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 11.0%
– Worked outside county of residence: 44.3%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (84.7%), carpooled (7.1%), walked to work (2.2%), public transportation (0.8%), worked from home (3.8%)
#3. Valencia County
– Average Commute Time: 29.2 minutes
— 6.5 minutes longer than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 7.5%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 16.6%
– Worked outside county of residence: 44.9%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (83.0%), carpooled (8.5%), walked to work (0.8%), public transportation (0.7%), worked from home (5.4%)
#2. Torrance County
– Average Commute Time: 34.5 minutes
— 11.8 minutes longer than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 23.1%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 23.7%
– Worked outside county of residence: 52.8%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (75.7%), carpooled (6.8%), walked to work (2.6%), public transportation (0.1%), worked from home (13.0%)
#1. Mora County
– Average Commute Time: 51.3 minutes
— 28.6 minutes longer than state average – Workers with 60+ minute commute: 36.3%
– Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. 5.6%
– Worked outside county of residence: 59.0%
– Means of transportation: drove alone (65.1%), carpooled (23.3%), walked to work (5.1%), public transportation (0.0%), worked from home (6.4%) | https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/counties-with-the-worst-commutes-in-new-mexico-2/ | 2022-07-30T15:32:45Z | https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/counties-with-the-worst-commutes-in-new-mexico-2/ | false |
Rangers will learn from early lapse in win over Livingston – Van Bronckhorst
By PA Staff published
Giovanni van Bronckhorst watched his Rangers side recover from the loss of an “easy goal” against Livingston to win 2-1 in their hard-fought cinch Premiership opener at the Tony Macaroni Arena.
Striker Joel Nouble put the home side ahead in the fifth minute when he broke past Gers defender John Souttar to lob keeper Jon McLaughlin and he went on to cause the visitors trouble all afternoon.
Livi defended resolutely on their artificial surface until deep into the second half when two goals in three minutes – a header from substitute Scott Arfield and a 25-yard free-kick from skipper James Tavernier – took the points back to Ibrox to the relief of the huge travelling support.
Rangers boss Van Bronckhorst told BBC Scotland Sportsound: “It was a big win. It’s vital three points from a difficult away game on a difficult surface.
“The start we had didn’t help. It’s a very easy goal that should not have happened.
“We weren’t sharp enough in that moment and took us a little bit out of the game.
“It’s the whole defence on how we were setting up. There was no duel when the long ball came.
“We need to react better for the second ball, but we’ll be fine. It’s the first game of the season and we will learn from it.
“If you see the second-half performance, we deserved the win.
“In the second half we did much better. We changed our set up and then we had 45 minutes of one-way traffic.”
On Tavernier’s winning free-kick, which he curled past Livi’s debutant goalkeeper Shamal George, the Dutchman said: “We know the quality he has from spot-kicks and from shooting from distance.
“Eventually he scored a great free-kick that gave us the three important points. I’m happy with his performance and energy.”
Livi boss David Martindale claimed his side were worthy of a point at least and rued the second-half introduction of Arfield.
The Gers midfielder had scored for the Light Blue against Livingston on four previous occasions and this time he glanced in a Ryan Kent cross to bring Rangers back into the game.
Martindale said: “He is banned from Livingston that boy. His midfield runs are brilliant.
“He has made a career out of it – I think he only does it against Livingston now.
“I will need to try get him signed just to put him on the bench or in the stand so he is not playing against us.
“Scotty does what Scotty does and it was probably the first time in the game Ryan Kent put a cross in with his right foot.
“And then Tav does what Tav does, that’s why he is the captain of Rangers Football Club.”
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
0-6-8, FIREBALL: 7
(zero, six, eight; FIREBALL: seven)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
0-6-8, FIREBALL: 7
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Cody Simpson downplays purported 'pool love triangle' with girlfriend Emma McKeon and her ex Kyle Chalmers and insists the teammates are 'supportive of each other'
Cody Simpson addressed rumours on Saturday about the purported 'pool love triangle' affecting him, Emma McKeon and Kyle Chalmers.
He defiantly insisted everything is fine and said the perceived conflict is not affecting their performance at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
The 25-year-old swimmer is currently dating five-times Olympic Games gold medalist Emma McKeon, who was previously involved with swimming champion Kyle Chalmers.
Cody Simpson (right) addressed speculation on Saturday about the purported 'pool love triangle' affecting him and girlfriend Emma Mckeon (left)
Cody said the trio were able to put aside their personal feelings and focus on the competition.
'I don't know. We're all teammates' Cody told the publication.
'I'm not sure how she or he were dealing with that, but backstage and in the warm up we've all been teammates and supportive of each other, sort of regardless of whatever may have been.
Emma McKeon (left) and Kyle Chalmers (second from right) generated a frosty atmosphere when they won gold in the 4x100m mixed freestyle relay
'I can only speak of what I've seen of Emma's and so far we're all doing pretty well.'
The pop star added: 'We just sort of do all the usual teammate stuff and we're just supportive of each other'.
Rumours, however, have swirled Kyle harboured a degree of resentment towards ex-girlfriend Emma, if his frosty conduct on the first night of competition at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games is any guide.
Cody defiantly insisted everything is fine and said the perceived conflict is in no way affecting their performance at the Commonwealth Games
The star performers in the pool were two members of the 4x100m mixed freestyle relay who won gold, but the tension between the former couple was obvious in Birmingham.
Australia were the only nation not to hold hands and raise them in unison pre-race, and the body language between Chalmers and McKeon - who won four gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics - was forced.
Olympic silver medalist James Magnussen said the personal conflict has clearly made it into the pool, stating he observed noticeable tension between Emma and and ex-boyfriend Kyle.
Kyle Chalmers (pictured) noticeably kept his distance from ex-girlfriend Emma McKeon by not congratulating her after she finished her relay victory on Thursday
Magnussen, however, believes the 'media juggernaut' that will descend on the trio this week is 'exactly what the sport needs in Australia'.
'Whether you're talking about the supposed love triangle in the team with Cody, Emma McKeon and Kyle Chalmers, or just the sheer magnitude of what Cody has done in the pool, it has brought eyeballs to swimming,' he wrote for News Limited.
'I know it hasn't pleased everyone, but sometimes when it's your time in the sport as an athlete it is hard to see the bigger picture.'
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Hudson Rowan never really considered himself an artist, but he's now seriously reconsidering that after the attention he has received this month.
The 14-year-old's breakthrough piece?
"It's got crazy bulging eyes, mangled looking hair, looking off into the distance ... some crazy, like, spider robot legs shooting outta the sides," he said. "It kind of gives a chaotic vibe."
Why did Hudson draw this? His mom asked if he wanted to enter the "I Voted" sticker contest in Ulster County, New York. And this spider-robot-humanoid is what he thought voters would want to display to flex that they'd done their civic duty.
Ashley Dittus, the commissioner of the Ulster County Board of Elections, was floored.
"I will never forget when I saw it," she said. "I instantly smiled and I had to show it to other people. I just couldn't keep it to myself."
Dittus said most of the submissions she had seen since the contest started last year included red, white and blue; or maybe images of mountains to represent their county in the Catskills. But she's never seen anything like this before.
Dittus said after Rowan's design became a finalist, it went viral on social media. And he has the votes on the county website to show it.
The county only has 180,000 residents, and 125,000 voters — but Rowan's submission has received more than 225,000 votes. That's 94% of the total.
Going on a hot girl walk in my ulster county I voted sticker shirt. pic.twitter.com/rFtHeUYlUC
— sober socialist hiker lady with lots of cats (@kirstiemkimball) July 26, 2022
On Friday, Rowan was officially declared the winner of the contest. So the people of Ulster County can come to collect their prize sticker on the November election day (as well as vote, of course).
Looking forward, Dittus has great hopes for Rowan's artwork.
"It certainly has gone beyond the scope of Ulster County, but that's great because the more people that are looking and exploring voting ... not just New York State residents, but all over the place, that's how we get democracy to thrive," she said.
Dittus has received many calls about this sticker, even people who ask about purchasing merch with Rowan's creature on it.
"It hits a nerve. It makes people on both sides of the aisle feel like, yep, this is what voting is like," she said. "This is what participating in our democracy looks like in 2022."
Rowan has heard similar interpretations from his growing following online.
"The whole thing is really a very chaotic thing," he said. "And all that is going on in the world right now, I feel like that picture kind of represents it ... the whole COVID thing, and then wars going on, and then gun violence and politics."
Rowan may not have intended to capture the state of the world in his one "I Voted" sticker design, but he's thrilled it is starting conversations about an institution he considers essential.
"Everyone needs to vote," Rowan said. "And if people would just stop voting, thinking their vote doesn't matter ... then yeah, that's bad."
Hudson Rowan: artist, philosopher and patriot.
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Updated July 30, 2022 at 10:30 AM ET
CHICAGO — Someone in a Chicago suburb beat the odds and won the $1.28 billion Mega Millions jackpot.
According to megamillions.com, there was one jackpot-winning ticket in the draw Friday night, and it was bought at a Speedway gas station and convenience store in Des Plaines.
The winning numbers were: 13-36-45-57-67, Mega Ball: 14.
"We are thrilled to have witnessed one of the biggest jackpot wins in Mega Millions history," Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald, currently serving as Lead Director for the Mega Millions Consortium, said in a statement on the lottery's website. "We're eager to find out who won and look forward to congratulating the winner soon!"
The jackpot was the nation's third-largest lottery prize. It grew so large because no one had matched the game's six selected numbers since April 15. That's 29 consecutive draws without a jackpot winner.
The $1.28 billion prize is for winners who choose the annuity option, paid annually over 29 years. Most winners opt for the cash option, which for Friday night's drawing was an estimated $747.2 million.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million.
According to the Illinois Lottery, the store that sold the ticket is a pretty big winner, too; it will receive a half million dollars just for selling the ticket.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The game is coordinated by state lotteries.
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Ukraine condemns Russia's 'humiliating death' tweet after prison attack
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Ukraine has labelled Russia a "terrorist state" after Moscow's UK embassy tweeted that Ukrainian Azov battalion soldiers deserved a "humiliating death" by hanging.
The embassy tweet came after more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) held by Russia were killed - Azov soldiers reportedly among them.
They died in an attack on Olenivka prison in Russian-held eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine and Russia blame each other for the attack that killed the prisoners.
Twitter did not remove the tweet from the Russian Embassy in the UK, but said it broke Twitter anti-hate rules.
Besides the Ukrainian government, many other Twitter users voiced outrage at the tweet. Twitter said it may be in the public interest to keep the post accessible.
The Olenivka prison camp is controlled by the Russian-backed self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DNR).
What happened there on Friday remains unclear. Unverified Russian video footage of the aftermath shows a tangle of wrecked bunk beds and badly charred bodies.
After the attack the Russian embassy in the UK tweeted that Azov "militants deserve execution, but death not by firing squad but by hanging, because they're not real soldiers. They deserve a humiliating death".
The tweet included a video clip showing a couple in a wrecked building, accusing Azov troops of having shelled their home. The embassy's call for execution repeats what the man in the video says.
Azov troops were captured in May after fiercely defending Azovstal, a giant steelworks in the southern city of Mariupol. Russia has long accused the battalion of being neo-Nazis and war criminals.
Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian presidential chief of staff, wrote on Telegram that "Russia is a terrorist country".
"In the 21st Century, only savages and terrorists can say at a diplomatic level that people deserve to be executed by hanging for nothing. The RF [Russia] is a state sponsor of terrorism. What more proof do you need?" he said.
Ukraine has called for the United Nations and Red Cross to be allowed to investigate the deaths at Olenivka. The Red Cross says it is seeking access to the prison to help with evacuating and treating the wounded.
Ukraine says the site was targeted by Russia in an effort to destroy evidence of torture and killing. President Volodymyr Zelensky described the incident as a "deliberate Russian war crime".
Ukraine's foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko tweeted: "There is no difference between Russian diplomats calling for execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war and Russian troops doing it in Olenivka.
"They are all accomplices in these war crimes and must be held accountable."
DNR spokesman Daniil Bezsonov said the strike had killed 53 people and wounded 75. He called it a "direct hit on a barracks holding prisoners".
Russia's defence ministry said the strike had been carried out with US-made Himars artillery and it accused Ukraine of a "deliberately perpetrated" provocation. The ministry produced fragments of what it said were rockets fired by the Himars system.
A war crime but who was behind it?
By Paul Adams in Kyiv
The scene inside the "filtration camp" near Olenivka is hellish.
Rays of sunlight shining through jagged holes in the corrugated iron roof reveal a tangle of metal bunk beds and an unknown number of charred bodies, some of them still lying where, presumably, they had been sleeping.
Outside, there is blood on a wooden pallet and more bodies, not burned, but bloodied. They look emaciated.
With independent journalists not able to access the site, there's little anyone can do at the moment to verify the competing claims. Ukraine says it has a mountain of evidence, including an intercepted radio conversation between Russian-backed separatists, in which they talk about a series of explosions deliberately engineered by the rebels themselves. Other Ukrainian sources blame mercenaries from Russia's Wagner group.
Only a thorough investigation by impartial experts can possibly establish the truth. Whether such experts will ever be allowed access to this appalling scene is doubtful.
Footage of the destruction within a hangar-like dormitory filled with burned or destroyed bunk beds appeared online on Friday morning. The footage came from Russian state TV channel Russia 1. It then cuts to footage of destruction and bloodshed outside the building.
The BBC cannot verify whether the interior and exterior shots are at the same location.
The BBC's Reality Check team have, however, confirmed that the shots of the outside of the building match Prison No. 120, near Olenivka.
The prison was empty before February 2022, and has been used exclusively for POWs and civilians who did not pass Russian filtration - a system where people are interrogated before it is decided where they will be sent.
Andriy Biletskyi, a founder of the nationalist Azov Battalion, said a number of the unit's soldiers were among those killed.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-5-4-2, FIREBALL: 4
(five, five, four, two; FIREBALL: four)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-5-4-2, FIREBALL: 4
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How can Home Minister ensure safety of citizens?: Congress MLA
Bengaluru July 30, 2022 20:57 IST‘How can he ensure the safety of citizens when his own official residence comes under attack from ABVP members’
Priyank Kharge, former Minister and Congress MLA, has questioned the continuation of Home Minister Araga Jnanendra in the Cabinet and asked how can he ensure the safety of citizens when his own official residence comes under attack from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members.
Members of the ABVP, a student organisation affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), tried barge into the Home Minister's official residence in the city and demand a ban on outfits such as the SDPI and the PFI.
The activists shouted slogans against the Minister and called him a “coward Home Minister''.
Speaking to reporters here, Mr. Kharge blasted the functioning of the Home Department. "What is the intelligence wing of the Home Department doing?" asked Mr. Kharge, and alleged that the Home Minister had utterly failed in maintaining law and order in the State.
"How can the Minister ensure the protection of people if he had not been able to obtain information about his own party workers?" The government should crack down against its party workers and activists to bring normality in the State, the Congress MLA said. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/how-can-home-minister-ensure-safety-of-citizens-congress-mla/article65702708.ece/amp/ | 2022-07-30T16:13:59Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/how-can-home-minister-ensure-safety-of-citizens-congress-mla/article65702708.ece/amp/ | true |
We have released the second in our 737NG product series, the PMDG 737-600. This product faithfully represents the smallest of the four 737NG series airplanes. Measuring in at 102'7" (31,27m) the 737-600 picked up where the popular 737-500 operated in the earlier 737 Classic series. sharing a common flight deck and systems with the larger 737-700 provided operators with a clear path to fit the right sized airplane to its route structure with only minor operational differences between them. Seen by pilots as a "rocket" the airplane's reputation for improved performance comes from excellent mid and high altitude climb performance afforded by the de-rated 22,000lb engines and overall lighter airframe.
Complete with an entirely customized sound environment, highly detailed flight deck, dozens of user-selectable air carrier options and a full ground services simulation, the PMDG 737-600 offers tremendous game-play value for users of Microsoft Flight Simulator. We have packed this product with our characteristically in-depth systems simulation developed with input from industry experts and operators so as to include every nuance and detail of the actual airplane. This, along with selectable failures and service-life failures combines with PMDG's highly detailed, customized engine simulation, autoflight and flight management systems to provide the finest airliner simulation experience possible for MSFS.
The PMDG 737-600 is an incredibly feature rich simulation with PMDG's halmark attention to detail- and the best part is that like it's larger 737-700 sibling, the product is in an active development cycle that will see many new features added in the coming weeks. Features such as PMDG's new Universal Flight Tablet will be added as a free update, giving users the ability to fully integrate to various online data sources such as Navigraph and SimBrief, as well as performing enroute performance computations and displaying navigation charts and operational flight planning data in real time just as in the real world.
The PMDG 737-600 comes with just the single airframe style ever offered by Boeing- in the form of a passenger variant. The 737-600 is also made interesting by the fact that it was never certified with winglets, and thus maintains it's original wingform. The 737-600 is offered at $34.99 which represents a fantastic entry price for simmers who may be new to high-fidelity DLC for Microsoft Flight Simulator, new to PMDG, or are currently enjoying GA flying but curious to see what feature rich airliner simulations are really like in the beautiful environment of Microsoft Flight Simulator. PMDG has a long reputation for high quality, ongoing product support and continual free update development- and we want to position the PMDG 737-600 as a welcoming entry point for customers who are new to the sorts of products we provide. Once you have seen what PMDG can add to your simulation experience, we hope to welcome you as a long-time member of the PMDG Driver's community.
The PMDG 737-600 is available now, at www.pmdg.com!
PMDG 737-700 for MSFS Update to Build 3.00.0031
One of the things you will see us doing now, is updating all of the 737 products in parallel in order to ensure that all 737 users are enjoying the same features sets and changes as we continue to build out this great product line of airliners.
The biggest and most notable change is that we have folded in new PMDG Lateral Flight Path simulation, updating the very core of how the flight management system computes, plans and and draws the "magenta line" that ultimately gets followed by the airplane. The new LFP simulation conforms to ICAO standards for computation of paths and the arcs flown to connect each segment of a flight plan, thus yielding a far more accurate simulation than all previous generations of PMDG products. In concert with this change, we have also provided a significant improvement to the vertical profile simulation, as it is now able to capitalize on greater accuracy in the mathematical computations from the lateral path model, thus resulting in greater accuracy and more consistent results along the vertical profile. These two are heavily intertwined, and this update represents a significant step forward in the core flight management logic.
To make all of this hum and sing, we have also improved the lateral control module of the flight director so that it properly leverages the bank angle of the airplane to manage the lateral path realistically. You will notice that the airplane smoothly handles transitions from non-curved to curved paths in the flight route, including entries and exits from holding, missed approaches and the like- with very little wandering and tightly controlled lateral deviation. (You do have to manage the airplane properly though!)
We have made a number of other changes and improvements around the airplane- one of which I want to call out for attention because it is guaranteed to trip up even long-time users of PMDG products:
With this update we have corrected some problems with the brake pedal position module that caused improper behavior when setting/releasing parking brakes and when disengaging the autobrake using brake pressure as is most commonly done in the real world. This is going to trip up a lot of users- so here is what you need to know:
To set the parking brake, you must FIRST apply full brake then set the parking brake latch on the pedestal. The red light will illuminate, and the latch will be locked in place.
To release the parking brake, you must apply full brake pressure.
In the past, simply clicking the parking brake latch would release the parking brakes, but that is not correct behavior and we have now fixed this. The only way to release the parking brake is to get full brake application until the spring latch mechanism releases the parking brake latch and it pops back to it's stowed position. If you use rudder pedals with toe brakes this will provide a satisfying, proper simulation of the brake release. If you use a keyboard or button for your brakes, be sure to hold it for a few seconds as brake pressure ramps up slowly. A simple tap of the button won't work- you gotta hold it until full pressure is applied.
On the autobrake release side, to use the brake pedals to release the autobrake after it has engaged, simply apply pressure slowly on the brakes until you exceed the amount of braking being applied by the autobrake. The brake pressure sensors will pick this up and send the trip-off command to the autobrake control module, thus releasing the autobrake for you. | https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/content.php?24410-PMDG-737-600-Released-For-MSFS-2020 | 2022-07-30T16:16:19Z | https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/content.php?24410-PMDG-737-600-Released-For-MSFS-2020 | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by phone to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday in the highest-level known contact between the two sides since Russia invaded Ukraine, with Blinken urging Russia to accept a deal to win the release of American detainees Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan.
Russian officials gave no public hint whether Blinken had made any headway, only issuing a chiding statement afterward urging the U.S. to pursue the Americans’ freedom through “quiet diplomacy, without releases of speculative information.”
U.S. officials have in recent days publicized their efforts to get back Griner, a WNBA star, and Whelan, a corporate security executive, whose cases have drawn widespread national attention. While the direct outreach to Russian officials allows the Biden administration to show it is going all out to try to free the two U.S. citizens, it also risks undermining a core U.S. message to allies abroad: that isolating Russia diplomatically and economically will ultimately force Russia to pull its troops from Ukraine.
Blinken did not provide details of Lavrov’s response to what he had previously called a “substantial proposal” for Russia to release Whelan and Griner. Blinken had publicly requested the call and revealed the existence of the offer to Russia. People familiar with the offer say the U.S. wants to swap Whelan and Griner for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
Blinken described the call as “a frank and direct conversation” centered primarily on the detained Americans.
“I urged Foreign Minister Lavrov to move forward with that proposal,” he said. “I can’t give you an assessment of whether that is any more or less likely.”
Blinken also said he had pressed Lavrov on the importance of Russia following through on an agreement to allow Ukrainian grain shipments to leave the Black Sea and warned him of consequences should Moscow move ahead with suspected plans to annex portions of eastern and southern Ukraine.
Blinken said he told Lavrov that the world will “never recognize” any annexation of Ukrainian territory, which he said would “result in significant additional costs for Russia.”
He declined to comment on how Lavrov replied to his messages. “I don’t want to characterize any of Foreign Minister Lavrov’s responses.”
In its statement afterward, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Lavrov “strongly suggested” to Blinken “returning to a professional dialogue in the mode of quiet diplomacy” on any efforts at American detainees’ release.
Lavrov also repeated Russia’s vows to keep fighting until it has achieved its aims in Ukraine, renewed complaints that U.S. and NATO support to Ukraine was prolonging the conflict, and accused the U.S. of not yet keeping up its end of agreements on the grain shipments from Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry said.
Blinken’s comments earlier this week marked the first time the U.S. government publicly revealed any concrete action it has taken to secure Griner’s release. The two-time Olympic gold medalist and player for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury was arrested at a Moscow airport in mid-February when inspectors found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage.
Griner’s arrest came at a time of heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington ahead of Russia sending troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24. Griner’s five months of detention have raised strong criticism among teammates and supporters in the United States.
Her trial on drug charges started in a court outside Moscow this month, and she testified Wednesday that she didn’t know how the cartridges ended up in her bag but that she had a doctor’s recommendation to use cannabis to treat career-related pain.
The 31-year-old has pleaded guilty but said she had no criminal intent in bringing the cartridges to Russia and packed in haste for her return to play in a Russian basketball league during the WNBA’s offseason. She faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of transporting drugs.
The Biden administration has faced political pressure to free Griner and other Americans whom the U.S. has declared to be “wrongfully detained” — a designation sharply rejected by Russian officials.
Whelan, a corporate security executive from Michigan, was sentenced to 16 years in prison on espionage charges in 2020. He and his family have vigorously asserted his innocence. The U.S. government has denounced the charges as false.
Russia has for years expressed interest in the release of Bout, a Russian arms dealer once labeled the “Merchant of Death.” He was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2012 on charges that he schemed to illegally sell millions of dollars in weapons.
Kremlin officials presumably reveled in the news that the U.S., which has rallied friendly countries around the world to cut even vital trade ties with Russia to pressure it to withdraw from Ukraine, was now seeking engagement with Russia on a problem of its own.
“They are going to drag this out and try to humiliate us as much as they can,” said Ian Kelly, a retired career diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Georgia in the Obama and Trump administrations. “I don’t think it goes along with (the administration’s) overall policy.”
Kelly said the request for a call is “counterproductive to our broader effort to isolate Russia.”
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Associated Press writers Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow and Ellen Knickmeyer and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report. | https://pix11.com/ap-political/blinken-says-he-spoke-to-russia-fm-about-detained-americans/ | 2022-07-30T16:20:00Z | https://pix11.com/ap-political/blinken-says-he-spoke-to-russia-fm-about-detained-americans/ | true |
Mechanics by day, two-wheeler lifters by night
The K.G. Halli police arrested Shahid Afridi and Shahid Pasha, bikes mechanics by day, and bike thieves at night. With their arrest, the police recovered 21 bikes worth ₹8 lakh that they had stolen in the last month.
According to the police, the accused used to work in a garage in Nelamangala and take the stolen bikes there to sell for parts.
Due to the increase in bike thefts, Bhimashankar Guled, DCP, East Division, formed a special team that analyzed huge volumes of footage from hundreds of CCTV cameras to identify the accused. They would move around the residential area to identify bikes parked in front of the houses and steal them by breaking locks.
The duo was among the 17 arrested in different cases registered in Ramamurthy Nagar, Pulakeshi Nagar and Hennur police station limits. The police are now trying to track the owners of the bikes.
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A woman was nearly killed and suffered severe burns after falling into a massive sinkhole filled with boiling water that unexpectedly opened in New Zealand.
The elderly was walking through Rotorua's tourist area when the ground 'opened up' beneath her feet.
Shortly after the event on Thursday afternoon, terrifying footage shows steam rising from within the submerged crater.
The sinkhole, which measured about two square metres on the surface and was about a metre deep, opened up in a footpath near the entrance to Whakarewarewa Village in Rotorua just after 2:15pm on Thursday.
It was of a type known as a fumarole, a vent in the Earth's surface that emits steam or other hot gases.
Chief executive Mike Gibbons acknowledged the efforts of the village's staff, who were first responders at the scene.
"Whakarewarewa Village is our home. When we welcome visitors into our home, and onto our land, we are their kaitiaki (protector or guardian)," he said.
Police have now closed the footpath near the sinkhole to prevent any additional elderly people or dog walkers from plunging into the pit. | https://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-sinkhole-with-boiling-water-swallows-woman-nearly-killing-her-in-new-zealand-2972740 | 2022-07-30T16:33:32Z | https://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-sinkhole-with-boiling-water-swallows-woman-nearly-killing-her-in-new-zealand-2972740 | false |
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland, Oregon, warned the Pacific Northwest could see the most dangerous part of an extended heat wave this weekend as Portland and Seattle appear to be on track to break records for extended scorching temperatures.
As the Northwest nears the sixth day of an intense hot spell, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said the weekend marks a new phase that could pose “the highest risk to our most vulnerable community members.”
“We’re reaching the most important phase of this heat emergency,” Wheeler said Friday.
Temperatures have neared the triple digits in Portland the entire week, hitting a high of 102 degrees Fahrenheit (38.9 Celsius) on Tuesday. Forecasters predict temperatures could top 100 F (37.8 C) once again on Saturday.
On Friday the Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office said it was investigating an additional possible heat fatality from suspected hyperthermia, bringing the total to five. The deaths were reported in Multnomah County, which is home to Portland, Umatilla County in the eastern part of the state, and Marion County, which includes the state capital Salem.
The deaths occurred Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The state medical examiner’s office said the heat-related death designation is preliminary and could change.
The heat wave has lasted longer than forecasters initially predicted, prompting Multnomah County to extend an emergency declaration that was set to expire on Saturday through Monday morning.
“Earlier in the week we did not anticipate that it would be this long or this severe,” said Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury.
The county’s four emergency overnight cooling shelters were at 70% capacity on Thursday with around 220 people spending the night, Multnomah County said in a statement. Kafoury said officials will “be watching very carefully” to see whether the shelters will need to remain open through Sunday night, “which we had not originally planned to do.”
Portland “will probably need additional capacity” over the weekend, said Shad Ahmed, director of the city’s Bureau of Emergency Management, adding that his office is “working to ensure that we have the logistics, supply and staffing necessary to address that.”
The National Weather Service has extended excessive heat warnings in Portland and Seattle through Sunday evening.
On Tuesday, Portland set a daily record of 102 F (38.9 C). Forecasters said the city appears to be on track to at least tie previous heat wave duration records, which currently stand at six consecutive days of 95 degrees or warmer.
“Sunday would break the record” if temperatures that day hit 95 degrees, said David Bishop, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Portland.
Seattle on Tuesday also reported a new record daily high of 94 F (34.4 C).
If temperatures rise above 90 F (32.2 C) through Sunday in Seattle, that would be six straight days of the mercury topping 90 — something forecasters say has never happened before in the city.
Courtney Lewis and Rylee Griffin were visiting Seattle this week during the hot snap.
“I mean it is nice, like to help get a tan. But it’s just hot. Very hot,” Griffin said.
Forecasters predict there will be no relief until Monday when cool air from the Pacific Ocean blows in.
Climate change is fueling longer heat waves in the Pacific Northwest, a region where weeklong heat spells were historically rare, according to climate experts.
Residents and officials in the Northwest have been trying to adjust to the likely reality of longer, hotter heat waves following last summer’s deadly “heat dome” weather phenomenon that prompted record temperatures and deaths.
About 800 people died in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia during that heat wave, which hit in late June and early July. The temperature at the time soared to an all-time high of 116 F (46.7 C) in Portland and smashed heat records in cities and towns across the region. Many of those who died were older and lived alone.
While the current heat wave will not see such high temperatures, it remains “very serious” nonetheless, said Andrea Hamberg, interim director of Environmental Health Services at the Multnomah County Health Department in Oregon.
“This heat event might not feel as severe as the June 2021 heat dome. But in many ways it is,” Hamberg said, warning of a scorching day six and a day seven that “is forecast to be even hotter.”
“To compound that risk, we are not getting the overnight lows our homes need to cool and our bodies need to recover,” said Hamberg. Forecasters predict the low in Portland Friday night will not dip below 70 F (21.1 C).
Due to the long duration of the heat spell, officials have urged residents to check in on people who are more at risk of heat-related illness, such as older people and those who live alone.
During the 2021 heat dome, 78% of those who died in Multnomah County were 60 or older, and 71% lived alone, Hamberg said. She added that 94% of people died in their own homes.
The heat wave stretches south into Northern California and Nevada, where records fell for the second day in a row Friday in Reno with a high of 104 F (40 C). Even in the mountains around Lake Tahoe above elevations of 6,200 feet (1,890 meters), South Lake Tahoe, California followed Thursday’s record-high of 92 F (33.3 C) with a high of 91 F (32.8 C) on Friday, tying the previous mark set in 1988.
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Associated Press videographer Manuel Valdes contributed from Seattle.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) – Emily Valdez had fallen in love: with her fiance, of course, but with a wedding venue, too. She’d scoured the internet looking at photos and reading reviews. Eventually, she found it. She says after a tour of Swann Lake Stables, she loved the venue even more.
Then they gave her a contract to sign. On its last page, just before the signature line, was a provision she says shocked her.
The owners of Swann Lake Stables, a wedding and event venue in Birmingham, Alabama, doesn’t perform same-sex weddings on their property, according to the contract. Valdez, who’s in a heterosexual relationship, says she won’t get married at a venue that discriminates against others.
The bride-to-be also says clients shouldn’t find out about the policy in the final line of the contract.
‘It shouldn’t be legal’
The contract’s final line reads: “The owners of Swann Lake are operating this venue based on sincerely held religious beliefs that marriage was created by God intentionally between a man and woman and therefore same-sex marriages will not be allowed on this property.”
Valdez says she was furious.
“It shouldn’t be legal,” Valdez said. “It’s just so unfair.”
Together, she and her partner decided they’d have to find another venue — a logistical setback she says broke her heart.
“We’ve been dreaming about it all year,” she says. “We built the wedding around the venue. So it’s just frustrating to start over.”
‘This isn’t a same-sex venue’
The policy prohibiting same-sex marriages at Swann Lake Stables isn’t new. Marjorie Jones, co-owner of Swann Lake Stables, reached out to Valdez to explain the venue’s policy. Jones said the policy aims to “honor God.”
“I’m sorry for the fact that you felt surprised at the end of your journey about someone not allowing same-sex weddings,” Jones told Valdez. “This is something we really struggled about for the years we’ve been doing this.”
Jones says Swann Lake would add their “statement of faith” regarding the policy on the venue’s website, as they typically try to avoid situations like this.
“We tell them before they come for the tour — if it looks like it’s not a man and a woman,” Jones says.
In those cases, Jones says she or another staff member reaches out to the couple directly.
“I call the people and I say, ‘You know, we are of the faith that marriage is between a man and a woman, that God created it that way,” Jones says. “So that’s why we’re sticking with our faith. This isn’t a same-sex venue.”
Jones says her husband took took her to the property that would become Swann Lake Stables forty-four years ago, when they were just dating. She said it felt like a place of God. Jones also explained that her view on marriage related to what she views as a biblical mandate to “be fruitful and multiply.”
“So if the world is going to go on, people are going to have to have babies,” Jones explained. “You need a man and a woman. Two women are not going to have a baby. Two men are not going to have a baby.”
Valdez told Jones that because of prior health issues, she herself may be unable to have a child.
“We’ve learned that what doctors say is not necessarily true,” Jones responded. “There are doctors you could go to that might encourage you to try it.”
Discrimination is not the aim of the venue’s policy, Jones says. When Valdez told Jones she believed the policy to be discriminatory, Jones pushed back.
“You know, it sounds that way,” she said. “But it’s based on your faith. There are plenty of places where same-sex couples can get married, but that is not who we are. I’m not one of those discriminating people who won’t be around gay people or any kind of diversity. I grew up in the sixties, and my mother was a friend of Martin Luther King.”
Nexstar’s WIAT sent Swann Lake questions related to their policy on same-sex weddings. The owners responded to each question, save one: whether they believed they were discriminating against couples based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Discrimination or devotion?
Emily Valdez doesn’t think Swann Lake’s religious views should trump the rights of same-sex couples to have access to places of public accommodation. She says nothing in her conversation with Jones changed her mind that the policy is discriminatory.
In 2017, the City of Birmingham became the first city in Alabama to pass a non-discrimination ordinance that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation.
All individuals in Birmingham, regardless of their sexual orientation, have “the right to the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges of any place of public resort, accommodation, assemblage, or amusement,” the ordinance says.
The only religious exception to the ordinance, according to its text, applies to entities that employ individuals of a particular religion to perform religious activities.
Governmental prohibitions on discrimination have faced hurdles in court over the last few years, however.
At the federal and state level, courts have curbed the authority of state officials to punish discriminatory behavior and practices, particularly in cases where religious interests are at stake.
WIAT reached out to the city officials about whether Swann Lake’s policy violates city ordinances and how many fines the city has issued under the new nondiscrimination provisions. The city has not yet responded.
Seeking inclusion in the South
Ashley Peters can understand Emily Valdez’s anger and frustration. For years, Peters has helped same-sex couples navigate the “wedding industrial complex,” guiding them as they jump through hoops that often include venues and vendors who refuse to serve same-sex couples.
Peters, who began her wedding hair and makeup business in 2016, said that it can be difficult for LGBTQ+ couples to find inclusive businesses to help make their wedding day special.
That’s why she created a Facebook group called “Inclusive Vendors of Alabama.” A version of a modern-day “green book” for the LGBTQ+ community, the group serves several purposes, including providing a platform that can help couples of all sorts connect with inclusive venues and vendors.
“The thought was that everyone in this group is already checked off – they’re good,” Peters said of the group, which her husband calls The Good Book. “So they don’t have to worry about that. The most you should have to worry about is which flavor of cake, just like any other couple.”
Vendors can also benefit from groups like Peters’ because they can connect with clients and other vendors who share similar values.
Peters encourages couples trying to find inclusive venues and vendors to check out the Facebook group as well as other resources like the Equally Wed directory.
Peters said that in the end, while she believes policies like Swann Lake Stables’ should be illegal, the law doesn’t currently require inclusive service. But the power of profit, Peters said, is a strong motivator.
“The best thing the public and the wedding community can do is not to give them business,” Peters said. “Will they change? Probably not, but at least then there’s some form of justice.”
Emily Valdez has already put Peters’ suggestion into practice. She said she won’t have her ceremony at the venue and wouldn’t recommend the venue to others.
“I feel called to radically love and support all people,” Valdez told Marjorie Jones about her own spiritual beliefs. “Because everybody is valuable — just as they are, just for being human. Everybody should have equal access.” | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/a-couple-loved-this-alabama-wedding-venue-then-they-read-the-contract/ | 2022-07-30T16:44:19Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/a-couple-loved-this-alabama-wedding-venue-then-they-read-the-contract/ | false |
Movies Movies you missed: 'Moonstruck' was a hit for a reason Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email July 30, 20229:16 AM ET Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday Movies you missed: 'Moonstruck' was a hit for a reason Listen · 3:27 3:27 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1114697053/1114697054" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Let's revisit some great performances — Cher! Nicholas Cage! Olympia Dukakis! — in the classic 1987 New York romance. Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email
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(Our Auto Expert) — It’s not all doom and gloom right now. I get it gas prices are high right now, but you know what? Americans are coming out of the pandemic and now even with the high gas prices, still want to get out, and have some fun. In West Virginia at Harpers Ferry tail away, I got to learn about some of the newest things, from a technological standpoint, impacting the RV industry.
Right now, Winnebago has entered the electrification market with a brand-new RV; however, they are calling it the e-RV which is a prototype concept. It’s the first-ever all-electric RV to come to the Market.
They’re saying it’s going to get about 125 miles on a single charge. And of course, your question is going to be, how do I charge it once I get to my campsite? Well, they’re working in partnership with another company to build electric stations at RV camps across the country. KOA has more than 500 facilities, 35 of them now have various forms of electric charging for those that are going to be getting into the industry of EV’s as it revolves around RVs.
When I think of Airstream, I think we all think about I Love Lucy and Desi Arnaz. He loved the Airstreams. Airstream just came out with what they are calling the “E-stream” This is going to be the first fully electrified travel trailer. It actually propels itself from the tire so it will match the speed of the truck so that you don’t lose any MPG.
Keystone is an amazing company, and I was able to sample what the new Keystone Cougar has to offer. I actually owned a 2004 Keystone Cougar many years ago, but this one’s brand new. It’s going to be coming to the market soon.
It was actually designed and built during the pandemic. What they did is they learned that people wanted to get out of their houses to quarantine and they were able to do it by coming out with this new trailer.
What makes it different? Well, everything on the inside is modular. It means that you can move things around. So it’s called a 29-BHL, which stands for Bunkhouse Lounge. Everything on the inside is interchangeable.
But the most important part will have solar power, to power the batteries meaning, you can actually live off-grid. So much is going on with the world right now, it’s nice to be able to get out with our families again and enjoy nature.
The marriage of EV and RV should be long-lasting. | https://www.localsyr.com/automotive/winnebago-debuts-first-ever-electric-rv/ | 2022-07-30T16:50:11Z | https://www.localsyr.com/automotive/winnebago-debuts-first-ever-electric-rv/ | true |
Tui plane on fire at Manchester airport: Smoke billows from jet's engine as firefighters rush to extinguish the blaze in front of stunned holidaymakers
- Emergency as Tui plane landed around 4.30pm today at Manchester Airport
- Fire engines raced to the scene as its engine reportedly had overheated
- Shocked holidaymakers watched on from nearby departure lounges
Holidaymakers at Manchester Airport were shocked to see fire engines rush over to a returning jet with a smoking jet engine.
A Tui flight landed about 4.30pm Saturday to be immediately swamped by a fleet of fire engines.
The engines immediate began spraying the right engine with water, producing billowing plumes of smoke as travellers in nearby departure lounges watched on.
'Suddenly just a load of fire engines appeared and started spraying it down with water while we were having a drink at the bar,' one eyewitness told MailOnline.
'All this smoke started coming out. It looked like one of the engines had overheated.'
There are no reports of delays at the airport as a result of the emergency, but planes are reportedly circling the airport overhead as the situation is brought under control.
A Tui plane landed around 4.30pm today at Manchester Airport with a reported overheated engine
Manchester Airport confirmed that there has been an incident in which the airport fire service attended a Tui flight this afternoon.
'Sat on the ground waiting for [takeoff] and saw a few fire engines and other emergency vehicles going past,' said Twitter user Hannah Evenden. 'They've said on our flight that there was an incident with an arriving [flight].'
'Engine fire on stand, it’s out but I imagine there’s no runway cover from the fire service as they are all at the aircraft,' added Dutch Holland, another user.
Meanwhile, rail services will be severely disrupted this weekend as a train strike by train drivers times to coincide with the Commonwealth Games and the kick off of the new football season brings trains to a halt across the country, and repair workers set to walk out for three days from tomorrow.
In the latest outbreak of industrial unrest in the industry, members of the drivers union Aslef at seven train operators have walked out for 24 hours over pay today.
The travel disruption comes as it is estimated that 70 per cent of families have planned or are planning a break following two years of largely going nowhere due to the pandemic.
These plans run the risk of being scuppered by scenes such as those witnessed at the weekend at the Port of Dover and at the approach to the Eurotunnel station at Folkestone.
Savvy holidaymakers could be forgiven for thinking reaching the Continent by ferry or train would be a more sensible option than braving an airport.
At airports, queues in some cases continue to stretch out of the terminals and, on your return to the UK, you may or may not be reacquainted with your luggage. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11064803/Plane-fire-Manchester-airport-Smoke-billows-jets-engine.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-30T16:53:01Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11064803/Plane-fire-Manchester-airport-Smoke-billows-jets-engine.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
(WSYR-TV) — Governor Kathy Hochul declared a State Disaster Emergency on Friday, July 29 in response to the ongoing monkeypox outbreak.
The order allows the state to respond more quickly to the outbreak and allows health care professionals to take additional steps that will help get more New Yorkers vaccinated.
“After reviewing the latest data on the monkeypox outbreak in New York State, I am declaring a state Disaster Emergency to strengthen our aggressive ongoing efforts to conform this outbreak,” Governor Hochul said. “More than one in four monkeypox cases in this country are in New York State, and we need to utilize every tool in our arsenal as we respond. It’s especially important to recognize the ways in which this outbreak is currently having a disproportionate impact on certain at-risk groups. That’s why my team and I are working around the clock to secure more vaccines, expand testing capacity and responsibly educate the public on how to stay safe during this outbreak.”
The State says the Executive Order specifically extends the pool of eligible individuals who can administer monkeypox vaccines, including EMS personnel, pharmacists, and midwives.
This will also allow physicians and certified nurse practitioners to issue non-patient-specific standing orders for vaccines and requires providers to send vaccine data to the New York State Department of Health.
You can learn more by texting “MONKEYPOX” to 81336 or visiting the New York State Department of Health website. | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/new-york/governor-hochul-calls-state-disaster-emergency-in-response-to-ongoing-monkeypox-outbreak/ | 2022-07-30T16:54:59Z | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/new-york/governor-hochul-calls-state-disaster-emergency-in-response-to-ongoing-monkeypox-outbreak/ | false |
WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 30, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WATCH
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
852 AM PDT Sat Jul 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.
* WHERE...A portion of southwest California, including the following
areas, Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County Mountains, Los Angeles
County San Gabriel Valley, Santa Clarita Valley and Ventura County
Mountains.
* WHEN...Through this evening.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Low-water crossings may be flooded. Debris flows may be a concern
in and around the Bobcat, Lake, Ranch 2 and Dam Burn areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Copious moisture near climatological maximum across the
region will support heavy rainfall with rates in excess of
one inch per hour possible. However, the potential coverage
of thunderstorms remain in question with a range of
possibilities including limited coverage focused across the
most prone mountain locations to more widespread overage
across the watch area. Any storms that do form will move
slowly will would enhance the risk of heavy rainfall and
dangerous flash flooding. An additional Flood Watch may be
needed for Sunday.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Flash Flood Watch means that conditions may develop that lead to
flash flooding. Flash flooding is a VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee will share 20 of its interview transcripts with the Justice Department as federal prosecutors have been increasingly focused on efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the election.
A committee aide said that the panel will share the 20 transcripts but has “no plans to share additional transcripts at this time.” The person, who requested anonymity to discuss the confidential transaction, would not say which interviews the committee is sharing.
The information sharing comes after the committee had rejected a Justice Department request for transcripts in May. At the time, the committee’s chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, had said it was “premature” for the committee to share its work because the panel’s probe is ongoing.
Since then, the panel has been negotiating an agreement over the documents as the department has stepped up its probes. Several senior aides to former Vice President Mike Pence have appeared before a federal grand jury and prosecutors have seized records from a group of Republicans who served as fake electors in battleground states won by President Joe Biden. Trump and his allies pushed officials in those states to replace Biden’s duly selected electors with ones who supported him as they advanced claims that his victory had been stolen.
It remains unclear whether prosecutors might seek to bring criminal charges against Trump, who denies any wrongdoing.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, who is facing mounting pressure from congressional Democrats to bring charges against the former president, has said prosecutors will hold anyone accountable — no matter their position — if they broke the law.
In an interview with NBC News this week, Garland said the Justice Department would “bring to justice everybody who was criminally responsible for interfering with the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another.”
The committee has not said if it plans to eventually share all of its transcripts with the Justice Department or the public. The Jan. 6 panel has done more than 1,000 interviews, but not all of those were formally transcribed.
The Justice Department declined to comment Friday on the transcripts. | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/jan-6-panel-to-share-20-transcripts-with-justice-department/ | 2022-07-30T16:58:26Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/jan-6-panel-to-share-20-transcripts-with-justice-department/ | false |
England para-cyclist Sophie Unwin fined after protesting decision not to award her a Commonwealth Games bronze medal... despite finishing third with only gold and silver awarded due to four competitors in her event
- England's Sophie Unwin finished third in the tandem B sprint on Friday and initially appeared on official results as a bronze medal winner
- Organisers later told Unwin that due to their being only four competitors she would not receive a bronze medal for her efforts
- The 28-year-old staged a protest against the decision, standing behind the podium during the medal ceremony with an England flag
- Both Unwin, and pilot Georgia Holt, have been fined 200 Swiss francs each by the cycling government body for their protest
England para-cyclist Sophie Unwin has been fined for protesting against the decision not to award her a Commonwealth Games bronze medal.
The 28-year-old finished third in Friday’s tandem B sprint after beating Scotland’s Libby Clegg in what was called the bronze medal race.
However, Unwin was left in tears when she was later told she would not receive a gong because there were only four entries in her event and rules state only gold and silver will be issued in such cases.
Sophie Unwin (right) and Georgia Holt (left) have been fined for posing with borrowed medals
During the medal ceremony, Unwin and her pilot Georgia Holt staged a protest by holding up an England flag behind the podium before being asked to move by security.
They later climbed on the podium to pose for photographs wearing bronze medals borrowed from team-mates Laura Kenny and Josie Knight, who had won them in the women’s team pursuit.
Despite the confusion being caused by a blunder from organisers, Unwin, Holt and England’s cycling team manager Keith Reynolds were each fined 200 Swiss francs on Saturday.
Cycling’s world governing body, the UCI, stated the punishment was for ‘failure to respect the instructions of the organiser’.
Team England are understood to have complained to the Commonwealth Games Federation and want the medal decision overturned. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11064831/England-para-cyclist-Sophie-Unwin-fined-protesting-decision-not-award-bronze-medal.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-30T17:01:59Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11064831/England-para-cyclist-Sophie-Unwin-fined-protesting-decision-not-award-bronze-medal.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
CAIRO — Egypt released seven people on Saturday, including a journalist and a researcher serving prison sentences on terror-related charges, the latest steps by the government to reach out to the opposition amid a grinding economic crisis.
Saturday’s freeing of journalist Hisham Fouad and anthropology researcher Ahmed Samir came a day after el-Sissi pardoned them, along with five others, according to state-run media.
The two were released from the Tora prison complex in Cairo and images shared online showed them hugging families and friends outside the prison.
Fouad was arrested along with several other secular activists in June 2019, shortly after the group met with political parties and opposition lawmakers trying to hash out how to run in the 2020 parliamentary elections. Among the detained were Hossam Monis and Zyad el-Elaimy, prominent activists in the country’s 2011 Arab Spring uprising.
They were convicted last year of conspiring to commit crimes with an outlawed group, a reference to the Muslim Brotherhood, which Egypt has banned as a terrorist organization. Fouda and Monis were sentenced to four years in prison each while el-Elaimy received a five-year sentence. Monis was released in a presidential pardon in April.
El-Elaimy’s mother, Ekram Yousef, joined Fouad’s family while they awaited his release outside the prison. Yousef, who carried a bouquet of flowers for Fouad, later posted on Facebook that he told her he felt guilty that he was free while her son was still in prison.
Samir, who is doing his master’s in anthropology at the Vienna-based Central European University, was detained in February 2021 on charges of disseminating false news. His four-year sentence was lowered to three years in a retrial earlier this year.
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg welcomed the release of Samir, who had been on a visit home when he was arrested. The minister told the Austria Press Agency that Austrian officials had repeatedly expressed concern to Egyptian authorities about his conditions of detention and “in our view, disproportionate sentence.”
“We worked behind the scenes with great patience and constant commitment toward this important result,” Schallenberg was quoted as saying.
Also released on Saturday were leftist activist Abdel-Raouf Khatab and actor Tarek el-Nahri, who were sentenced to seven years and 15 years respectively on charges of attacking and burning state buildings during protests and clashes with security forces in 2011.
Lawmaker Mohamed Abdel-Aziz and rights lawyer Tarek el-Awady, both members of the Presidential Pardon Committee, also confirmed the latest pardons.
Among the outreach steps taken by el-Sissi was the recent release of other prominent activists and a government-initiated national dialogue with opposition parties and government critics, which started earlier this month.
Thousands of political prisoners, however, remain detained in Egypt, according to rights groups, as the government wages a wide-scale crackdown on dissent.
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Sundram Fasteners net up 15.6% to INR 130.11 crore in Q1 FY23
According to the company, its EBITDA for Q1 FY23 stood at INR. 214.86 crore as against INR. 192.88 crore during the same period in the previous year, showing an increase of 11.4%.
New Delhi: TVS Group’s Sundram Fasteners on Friday announced an increase of 32% in its revenue from operations to INR 1,239.64 crore as against INR 938.81 crore during the same period in the previous year.
The domestic sales for Q1 FY23 were at INR 798.50 crore as against INR. 559.93 crore in Q1 FY22, up 42.6%.
The net profit for Q1 FY23 stood at INR 130.11 crore as against a net profit of INR. 112.55 crore during the same period in the previous year, with a year-on-year growth of 15.6%.
According to the company, its EBITDA for Q1 FY23 stood at INR. 214.86 crore as against INR. 192.88 crore during the same period in the previous year, showing an increase of 11.4%.
Arathi Krishna, Managing Director, Sundram Fasteners Limited, said, “The company has registered a strong operating performance and reported highest-ever profit despite a challenging environment posed by the continuous increase in raw material prices, inflationary impact in indirect materials and steep increase in freight costs and other inputs.”
The Profit before Tax (PBT) for Q1 FY23 was at INR.171.09 crore as against INR. 151.13 crore in Q1 FY22.
Exports for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, were at INR 405.76 crore as against INR 356.33 crore in the year-ago quarter, posting an increase of 13.9%.
The Company has also planned an investment of INR 350 crore over a period of five years for manufacturing Advanced Automotive Technology Components like powertrain subassemblies for Electric Vehicles (EV) and select internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.
In addition, there is a significant potential for growth in the wind energy business. To meet the surge in demand, the company proposes to make additional investments of INR 300 crore over the next two years. Also Read:
The company reported total revenue of INR 92.8 crore, for Q1 FY23, showing a growth of 47% as compared to INR 63 crore in Q1 FY22. Adjusted EBITDA grew by 108% Y-O-Y from INR 8.5 crore to INR 17.7 crore, resulting in a 20% Adjusted EBITDA Margin for the quarter ended June 30, 2022.
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By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Friday there should no longer be any doubt that Russia intends to dismantle Ukraine “and dissolve it from the world map entirely.”
Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the U.N. Security Council that the United States is seeing growing signs that Russia is laying the groundwork to attempt to annex all of the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, including by installing “illegitimate proxy officials in Russian-held areas, with the goal of holding sham referenda or decree to join Russia.”
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov “has even stated that this is Russia’s war aim,” she said.
Lavrov told an Arab summit in Cairo on Sunday that Moscow’s overarching goal in Ukraine is to free its people from its “unacceptable regime.”
Apparently suggesting that Moscow’s war aims extend beyond Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region in the east comprising Donetsk and Luhansk, Lavrov said: “We will certainly help the Ukrainian people to get rid of the regime, which is absolutely anti-people and anti-historical.”
Russia’s deputy U.N. ambassador Dmitry Polyansky told the Security Council on Friday that “The de-Nazification and demilitarization of Ukraine will be carried out in full.”
“There must no longer be a threat from this stage to Donbas, nor to Russia, nor to the liberated Ukrainian territories where for the first time in several years people are finally able to feel that they can live the way they want,” he said.
Polyansky also warned Western nations supplying long-range artillery and MLRS surface-to-surface rockets that they were shifting “the provisional security line” further toward the west, “and in so doing clarifying even further the aims and objectives of our special military operation.”
Thomas-Greenfield went after countries that say “one country’s security should not come at the expense of another’s,” asking what they call Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. She didn’t name any country but this is a view China has repeated frequently, including Friday by its deputy U.N. ambassador Geng Shuang.
He told the council, “Putting one’s own security above that of others, attempting to strengthen military blocs, establishing absolute superiority … will only lead to conflict and confrontation, divide the international community and make themselves less secure.”
The U.S. ambassador also went after nations that call for all countries to embrace diplomacy without naming Russia, saying: “Let us be clear: Russia’s ongoing actions are the obstacle to a resolution to this crisis.” Again she named no countries but a significant number of nations in Africa, Asia and the Mideast take this approach.
Thomas-Greenfield cited evidence of mounting atrocities including the reported bombings of schools and hospitals, “the killing of aid workers and journalists, the targeting of civilians attempting to flee, the brutal execution-style murder of those going about their daily business in Bucha,” the suburb of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv where local authorities said hundreds of people were killed during its occupation by Russian forces.
She said there is evidence Russia forces “have interrogated, detained forcibly, deported an estimated hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens, including children — tearing them from their homes and sending them to remote regions in the east.”
Nearly 2 million Ukrainians refugees have been sent to Russia, according to both Ukrainian and Russian officials. Ukraine portrays these journeys as forced transfers to enemy soil, which is considered a war crime. Russia calls them humanitarian evacuations of war victims who already speak Russian and are grateful for a new home.
A recent Associated Press investigation based on dozens of interviews has found that while the situation is more nuanced that the Ukrainians suggest, many refugees are indeed forced to embark on a surreal trip into Russia, subjected along the way to human rights abuses, stripped of documents and left confused and lost about where they are. Those who leave go through a series of what are known as filtration points, where treatment ranges from interrogation and strip searches to being yanked aside and never seen again.
“The United Nations has information that officials from Russia’s presidential administration are overseeing and coordinating filtration operations,” Thomas-Greenfield told the council.
Polyansky countered that despite Ukraine’s efforts at intimidation of their citizens “people are choosing the country that they trust” — Russia.
He warned that heavy weapons being poured into Ukraine by the West “will spill over into Europe” because of what he claimed is “the flourishing corruption among Ukraine’s political and military leadership.”
Polyansky said Western weapons are only “dragging out the agony and increasing the suffering of the Ukrainian people.”
Addressing Western ambassadors, he said: “The aims of our special military operation will be achieved either way, however much fuel you pour into the fire in the form of weapons.”
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With the beautiful weather sweeping the UK this summer, it's no surprise that people are searching for staycations. What's more, you don't have to travel far from London to find a perfect escape.
Just 60 minutes from the capital, there is a seaside resort described as a "small but ancient fishing village" with stunning beachside views and an affordable pub in which to relax. Located in east Sussex, Hove is the neighbour of Brighton and has everything you need for a beachy getaway.
Many residents have adopted the phrase "Hove, actually" when asked if they live in Brighton and the phrase, reportedly coined by Laurence Olivier, was even used as a slogan for tourism in the area. The lesser known neighbourhood has plenty to offer though and would be a great weekend away from the hubbub of the city.
Visit South East England described Hove as: "resplendent with acres of Regency townhouses, terracotta mansions and elegant mews."
Hove has plenty to offer, whether you want a breezy stroll along the shore, or you're more interested in adrenalin-fuelled water-sports - there's something for everyone. Relax on the beach in the sunshine or take a hike around nearby meadows.
The tourist website added: "The seafront takes on a leisurely feel with the beach huts and seafront lawns overlooked by the beautiful Regency architecture of Brunswick Square and Adelaide Crescent. Take a route up one of the wide Victorian avenues and stop off for a breather along the 'strip' - a mile of cafes and restaurants."
After a long day of exploring Hove, you'll probably need to unwind in a restaurant or cafe and there are plenty to explore. Luckily, Jay Rayner from The Guardian has even recommended an affordable pub in which to relax.
He suggested The Urchin, calling it "exceedingly well priced." The food critic explained: "This blocky corner pub in a quiet residential area may be a couple of streets inland, but no matter. It’ll bring the sea to your table.
"The seafood cooking is bold, boisterous and exceedingly well priced. The short standing menu of salt and pepper squid, moules mariniere and the like is always supplemented by an extensive list of specials."
He continued: "It might be giant tiger prawns with chilli oil for £7 or roast scallops with oyster mushrooms and chicken fat butter for £10. Do try the pleasingly messy Malaysian king prawns, in a portion that’s very much big enough to share.
"There is a concise wine list but the pub is much better known for an obsession with beer. So developed is that obsession, it even has a microbrewery in the basement. That means its own brew, Larrikin, is always on tap. For sunny days there’s a beer garden."
The Urchin has a whole host of five star reviews on TripAdvisor and seems to be a favourite among locals for fresh seafood at reasonable prices. One reviewer summarised: "Great food and atmosphere on a hot summer day."
Hove is an hour away from London in the car when traffic is good and just 75 minutes via train if you fancy sitting back and relaxing en route to the beach. There are plenty of hotels and AirBnbs in which to stay for the weekend.
What do you think of the seaside town? Let us know in the comments. You can find The Urchin at: 15-17 Belfast St, Hove BN3 3YS.
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On Saturday, the Bridger Ski Foundation is hosting its 29th annual Run & Roll weekend. This event is featuring roller ski races, the 10-mile Jim Bridger Run, and a 5k Fun Run.
Bozeman will be hosting the first-ever roller ski races within the city. Andrew Newell, the Director and Coach of the BSF Pro Team, shared some interesting information about the race.
“So this is our first annual Jim Bridger roller ski race that Jim Bridger trail run has been going on here in Bozeman for almost 30 years. And that trail running event is, it's an event that we used to raise money for the elite team or the Olympic development team," he said. "With the British Skin Foundation. A lot of people don't know that we actually have an Olympic development program here in Bozeman tied in with the British key foundation. And these are athletes that are full time ski racers that are training for the next Olympics. Because that race is designed to support the BSF pro team we thought it was cool. A cool idea to include a roller ski race this year. So this is the first annual roller ski race."
The races got underway at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday morning.
Newell continued, "We actually got a lot of a good response actually from other teams within the intermountain west. So we have some athletes coming from Sun Valley. We have athletes coming from Park City, Utah, Jackson Hole kind of all around the West and we hope that this event will grow you know each year and we'll be able to to attract the fastest skiers in the country to come here to Bozeman and compete against the pro team." | https://www.kbzk.com/news/local-news/bridger-ski-foundation-kicks-off-a-weekend-of-races | 2022-07-30T17:26:19Z | https://www.kbzk.com/news/local-news/bridger-ski-foundation-kicks-off-a-weekend-of-races | true |
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Which low-fat dog food is best?
The best food for your pet is the formula that supports its lifestyle and caters to its health needs and sensitivities. It’s not uncommon for dogs to have trouble digesting ingredients such as chicken, beef or soy. Some dogs with gastrointestinal issues struggle to break down fat as well.
Low-fat dog food formulas, which typically contain between 10% and 25% fat, help dogs with such sensitivities avoid bloat, upset and distress. Low-fat diets may also help overweight dogs struggling to shed unhealthy pounds. The top dog food, Royal Canin Gastrointestinal Low-Fat Dog Food, is carefully formulated to ease stomach problems.
What to know before you buy low-fat dog food
Low-fat dog food type
Some low-fat dog food is specifically designed to alleviate issues in the gastrointestinal tract. A low-fat formula lessens discomfort while incorporating ingredients to improve digestion. Some formulas require a veterinarian’s prescription.
Other low-fat formulas focus on weight management or weight loss. These are useful for dogs that need to get in shape or are less active.
Dry food vs. wet food
- Dry: Most dog food is dry kibble. Dry food appeals to pet owners as it is cost-effective, stays fresh for months with proper storage, and isn’t smelly or messy. For dogs, dry food helps clean teeth.
- Wet: It’s more aromatic for the dog and easier on its mouth and gums, ideal for dogs that are picky or have oral sensitivities. Wet food only lasts a few days, though, and it tends to be more expensive over time.
Quantity
The smallest dry food bags are around 5 pounds, best suited for petite dogs. Medium bags are typically 15 to 20 pounds, while larger bags hold anywhere from 30 to even 50 pounds. Larger bags are more economical, as the price per pound of food is lower. To best preserve food, keep it in the bag in an airtight container, away from heat and moisture.
Wet food is sold in cans, most of which hold 13 ounces. Cans are sold in packs of six or 12.
When deciding on the quantity, consider how long your dog may be on the formula, and that it may not react positively. Some companies may agree to exchange the food.
What to look for in a quality low-fat dog food
Protein and carbohydrates
These formulas should not eliminate fat by sacrificing protein or increasing carbohydrates. Formulas low in protein lack energy needed for active dogs, while additional carbohydrates are not ideal for dogs struggling to stay active and lose weight.
Ingredients
Ingredients are listed in order of weight, from most to least; the first five tend to make up most of any formula. The word “meal” is often seen in the ingredients list: it simply means a dried, ground-up form of whatever word proceeds it, as in “chicken meal.”
Another common word is “byproduct,” such as chicken byproduct. This means the formula includes ingredients other than muscle, including liver, ears, tongue, kidneys and brains. According to PetMD, incorporating byproducts is an inexpensive but often unhealthy way to add weight to a formula without adding nutrients.
Digestive support
Seek out foods that feature omega-3 fatty acids, such as eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, to aid in digestion. Prebiotics and probiotics also improve gut health and the gastrointestinal tract as well as the immune system.
How much you can expect to spend on low-fat dog food
A medium bag of low-fat dry dog food costs $20-$40, with larger bags approaching and topping $60.
Low-fat dog food FAQ
What are signs my dog is allergic or sensitive to fat?
A. Excessive drooling, shedding, panting, itching or scratching are among signs a dog may have an allergy or sensitivity to an ingredient; pinpointing fat as the allergen may take time and could require a visit to a vet. Diarrhea and soft or loose stools probably indicate a digestive tract issue that could be a result of fat intolerance.
If you’re concerned your dog may be overweight, you can check for fatty deposits. Touch its chest: you should be able to feel the rib cage with a bit of pressure. In a profile view, a distended stomach indicates excess weight.
Should my dog eat grain-free food?
A. Grain-free formulas have exploded in number over the last few years, spurred in part by a rise in gluten-free diets among humans. While most brands sell grain-free food, the American Kennel Club says no research suggests grain poses a threat to dogs. Gluten and corn are common allergens, but many formulas with grains feature buckwheat, rice or flax.
What’s the best low-fat dog food to buy?
Top low-fat dog food
Royal Canin Gastrointestinal Low Fat Dog Food
What you need to know: From a trusted name among vets, this comprehensive formula targets the digestive tract in dogs that struggle to break down fat.
What you’ll love: It includes omega-3 fatty acids and fish oil supplements to soothe an irritated digestive tract. It’s suitable for all dog breeds with either temporary or long-term issues.
What you should consider: A prescription is required for this expensive formula.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
Top low-fat dog food for the money
Purina Pro Plan Weight Management Dog Food
What you need to know: Chicken is the first ingredient in this high-protein, low-fat formula designed for weight loss and digestive support.
What you’ll love: In addition to weight management, this formula with omega-6 fatty acids, prebiotics and vitamin A helps support the immune system, digestive tract and coat. It’s also among the cheaper formulas considering the size.
What you should consider: It contains common allergens such as chicken, beef, egg and corn as well as chicken byproducts.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Worth checking out
Hill’s Science Diet Perfect Weight
What you need to know: This weight management formula boosts muscle and heart function while helping to shed pounds.
What you’ll love: From a trusted brand, it features chicken, barley and brown rice as its first three ingredients. The smaller kibble size is easy to consume for dogs of all sizes.
What you should consider: While it boasts weight loss in 10 weeks, pair it with exercise to see results.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
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CREDAI property show getting good response in Tirupati
Several stalls register brisk bookings, expo ends today
The huge cost of construction material, which has seen an upward rise over the last two years, has had a telling impact on the psyche of the average citizen, who is otherwise positively inclined towards going for a housing project. The trend is increasingly witnessed at the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India’s (CREDAI) ‘Property & Build Tech Show 2022’ currently under way at PLR Convention Hall in the city.
The second day of the three-day event registered impressive 1,800 footfall on Saturday, but the average visitor was bogged down with the 80% rise in the price of basic construction material, which is feared to shoot the construction cost further upward. “The response is huge, going by the walk-in crowd. But it is true that the enquiries might be impacted by the rising construction cost,” opined A. Rajesh Babu, secretary of CREDAI’s Tirupati chapter.
Notwithstanding the concern flagged on the cost front, several stalls registered brisk bookings. The expo ends on Sunday.
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A morsel of North India in Mogappair
This Chennai resident’s craving for home food leads to the establishment of a restaurant
Jaya Bharti carries a bit of Bihar, Delhi and Kolkata wherever she goes, having spent substantial amounts of time out there. And she wants to see a bit of these places mirrored in her immediate environment, particularly their grastronomic traditions. Shilvi’s Kitchen, a restaurant in Mogappair, is an effort in that direction. It offers North Indian sweets, chaat, and tandoor items. The restaurant also offers meal subscription services or bulk orders for working professionals craving North Indian food. Jaya lists chole bhature, aloo paratha, rabdi malpua and vada pava among the restaurant’s special offerings. For details, call 8925121999
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Going the extra mile for a healthy meal
Velachery resident Prem Kumar is a regular at organic farms across Tamil Nadu from where he sources food items for himself and others
A bout of illnesses four years ago forced bank manager Prem Kumar to watch what he put his fork and knife to. He began to go on “pilgrimages” to the best organic farms in Tamil Nadu to acquire items that would make for a healthy plate. His health improved, and he quit his job and went on to start Pachai Maram Organics in Velachery. He continues with the practice of visiting these farms, now for also filling up his shelves with organic products. The store sells fruits and vegetables, leafy greens, organic cow milk, rice, dal, and oils, and herbal cosmetics. Prem Kumar notes that Pachai Maram Organics is driven by a mission: Promoting sustainable agriculture practices and healthy eating that would protect the environment, producers, and consumers. “I do not encourage anyone to buy organic unless they are willing to understand its benefits first,” he adds. For details, call or WhatsApp 9840449147
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PRESTONBURG, Ky. (AP) — At least 25 people died — including four children — when torrential rains swamped towns across Appalachia, Kentucky’s governor said Saturday.
“We continue to pray for the families that have suffered an unfathomable loss,” Gov. Andy Beshear said. ”Some having lost almost everyone in their household.”
Beshear said the number would likely rise significantly and it could take weeks to find all the victims of the record flash flooding. Rescue crews continue the struggle to get into hard-hit areas, some of them among the poorest places in America.
“I’m worried that we’re going to be finding bodies for weeks to come,” Beshear said during a midday briefing.
He said it’s still an active search and rescue operation with a goal of getting as many people to safety as possible. Crews have made more than 1,200 rescues from helicopters and boats, the governor said.
Beshear, who flew over parts of the flood-stricken region on Friday, described it as “just total devastation, the likes of which we have never seen.”
“We are committed to a full rebuilding effort to get these folks back on their feet,” Beshear said. “But for now, we’re just praying that we don’t lose anybody else.”
The rain let up early Friday after parts of eastern Kentucky received between 8 and 10 1/2 inches (20-27 centimeters) over 48 hours. But some waterways were not expected to crest until Saturday.
In the tiny community of Garrett on Saturday, couches, tables and pillows soaked by flooding were stacked in yards along the foothills of the mountainous region as people worked to clear out debris and shovel mud from driveways and roads.
In nearby Wayland, Phillip Michael Caudill was working to clean up debris and salvage what he can from the home he shares with his wife and three children. The waters had receded from the house but left a mess behind along with questions about what he and his family will do next.
“We’re just hoping we can get some help,” said Caudill, who is staying with his family at Jenny Wiley State Park in a free room, for now.
Caudill, a firefighter in the Garrett community, went out on rescues around 1 a.m. Thursday but had to ask to leave around 3 a.m. so he could go home, where waters were rapidly rising.
“That’s what made it so tough for me,” he said. “Here I am, sitting there, watching my house become immersed in water and you got people begging for help. And I couldn’t help,” because he was tending to his own family.
The water was up to his knees when he arrived home and he had to wade across the yard and carry two of his kids out to the car. He could barely shut the door of his SUV as they were leaving.
Patricia Colombo, 63, of Hazard, Kentucky, became stranded when her car stalled in floodwaters on a state highway. Colombo began to panic when water started rushing in. Though her phone was dead, she saw a helicopter overhead and waved it down. The helicopter crew radioed a ground team that plucked her to safety.
Colombo stayed the night at her fiance’s home in Jackson and they took turns sleeping, repeatedly checking the water with flashlights to see if it was rising. Though her car was a loss, Colombo said others had it worse in a region where poverty is endemic.
“Many of these people cannot recover out here. They have homes that are half underwater, they’ve lost everything,” she said.
It’s the latest in a string of catastrophic deluges that have pounded parts of the U.S. this summer, including St. Louis earlier this week and again on Friday. Scientists warn climate change is making weather disasters more common.
As rainfall hammered Appalachia this week, water tumbled down hillsides and into valleys and hollows where it swelled creeks and streams coursing through small towns. The torrent engulfed homes and businesses and trashed vehicles. Mudslides marooned some people on steep slopes.
President Joe Biden declared a federal disaster to direct relief money to more than a dozen Kentucky counties.
The floodwaters raging through Appalachia were so swift that some people trapped in their homes couldn’t be immediately reached, said Floyd County Judge-Executive Robbie Williams.
Just to the west in hard-hit Perry County, authorities said some people remained unaccounted for and almost everyone in the area suffered some sort of damage.
“We’ve still got a lot of searching to do,” said Jerry Stacy, the county’s emergency management director.
The flooding extended into western Virginia and southern West Virginia.
Gov. Jim Justice declared a state of emergency for six counties in West Virginia where the flooding downed trees, power outages and blocked roads. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin also made an emergency declaration, enabling officials to mobilize resources across the flooded southwest of the state.
Portions of some state roads in Kentucky were blocked due to flooding or mudslides. Rescue crews in Virginia and West Virginia worked to reach people where roads weren’t passable.
About 18,000 utility customers in Kentucky remained without power early Saturday, poweroutage.us reported.
The deluge came two days after record rains around St. Louis dropped more than 12 inches (31 centimeters) and killed at least two people. Last month, heavy rain on mountain snow in Yellowstone National Park triggered historic flooding and the evacuation of more than 10,000 people. In both instances, the rain flooding far exceeded what forecasters predicted.
Extreme rain events have become more common as climate change bakes the planet and alters weather patterns, according to scientists. That’s a growing challenge for officials during disasters, because models used to predict storm impacts are in part based on past events and can’t keep up with increasingly devastating flash floods and heat waves like those that have recently hit the Pacific Northwest and southern Plains.
“It’s a battle of extremes going on right now in the United States,” said University of Oklahoma meteorologist Jason Furtado. “These are things we expect to happen because of climate change. … A warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor and that means you can produce increased heavy rainfall.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/kentucky-governor-death-toll-from-flooding-rises-to-25/ | 2022-07-30T17:47:08Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/kentucky-governor-death-toll-from-flooding-rises-to-25/ | true |
Kim Kardashian Shows Off North West's Artistic Side With Bold Yeezy Sketches
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On the red carpet at the 2022 ACM Awards in Las Vegas, Chase Rice admitted to Access Hollywood that he is ready to head back home after having a bit of too much fun in Sin City. Chase gushed over Dolly Patron and shared what he would do if he got to meet the music icon. Plus, the country singer gave an update on his love life! | https://www.nbc.com/access/video/chase-rice-reveals-what-he-would-do-if-he-met-dolly-parton-at-2022-acm-awards/805573856 | 2022-07-30T17:47:57Z | https://www.nbc.com/access/video/chase-rice-reveals-what-he-would-do-if-he-met-dolly-parton-at-2022-acm-awards/805573856 | true |
Coimbatore city police seize 40 kg of ganja
COIMBATORE July 30, 2022 22:09 ISTThe Coimbatore City Police on Friday arrested two persons for possession of illicit drugs at two different places and seized 40 kg of ganja from them.
S. Kumar (35), a truck owner, found that ganja was hoarded below the driver’s seat of his truck and handed over it to the Kuniyamuthur police station.
Based on a complaint from Mr. Kumar, the police found that A. Muthalappan (44), a native of Vattalagundu in Dindigul district, who was working as driver hoarded 10 kg of ganja in the truck. The police arrested him.
During investigation, the police found that Muthalappan hoarded ganja in Good Shed Road near railway station. The Variety Hall police rushed to the spot and found his associate N. Karuppusamy (49) was in possession of 30 kg of ganja and seized it. Both of them were booked under the provisions of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and remanded in judicial custody. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/coimbatore-city-police-seize-40-kg-of-ganja/article65703514.ece/amp/ | 2022-07-30T17:50:37Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/coimbatore-city-police-seize-40-kg-of-ganja/article65703514.ece/amp/ | true |
Arresting a wrong person in company liquidation case proves costly for police
Bengaluru July 30, 2022 22:21 ISTHC directs govt. to pay ₹5 lakh compensation to person for wrongly arresting ex-director of a company
Arresting the wrong person in connection with the liquidation proceedings of a company, pending before the court, has proved costly for the police as the High Court of Karnataka has now directed the State government to pay ₹5 lakh as compensation to the affected person.
The police had arrested Ningaraju N., a resident of Bengaluru, and produced him before the court even though he had pleaded with the police that he was not the one, N.G.N. Raju, an ex-director of M/s India Holiday (P) Ltd., which is under liquidation. The court had issued warrant against the ex-director Raju.
Rather shocking
“It is rather shocking that a person has been arrested without ascertaining whether he was the person who was required to be arrested and that the warrant had been issued against him. Though the arrestee had categorically stated that he was not the person named in the warrant and disputed the applicability of the warrant to him, his identification was not cross-checked and verified resulting an innocent person being arrested by the police,” the court observed.
Justice Suraj Govindaraj passed the order on an application filed by Mr. Ningaraju, who was wrongly arrested and produced before the court by the police.
Noticing that “the only reason why the applicant was arrested is that the name of his father was similar to the name of the person named in the warrant”, the court wondered “how the name of the father being similar or even identical would have any role to play in the arrest”.
Fundamental right affected
Stating that illegal action by the police has affected the fundamental right to liberty and reputation of the applicant, the court directed the government to pay the compensation within eight weeks to the applicant. Also, the court said that the government could recover the compensation from the police officer, who arrested the wrong person.
Meanwhile, the court also directed the State police chief to ensure adherence to the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to ensure the identify of the persons before arresting, and issue such SOP, if not in place already. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/arresting-a-wrong-person-in-company-liquidation-case-proves-costly-for-police/article65702574.ece/amp/ | 2022-07-30T17:53:27Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/arresting-a-wrong-person-in-company-liquidation-case-proves-costly-for-police/article65702574.ece/amp/ | true |
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7 Sassiest Comebacks From Kelly Clarkson Show's 'Voice Of God' Ft. Demi Lovato, Ariana Grande
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(The Hill) — The damaging revelations of the Jan. 6 committee hearings are fueling skepticism among Senate Republicans that former President Trump can win the GOP nomination in 2024 or even run for another term in the White House.
One Republican senator, who requested anonymity to comment on the former president, said the “cascade” of embarrassing details about Trump’s conduct in the weeks before Jan. 6, 2021, and during the attack on the U.S. Capitol will seriously damage his political viability ahead of the 2024 election.
“I don’t think he’ll run again, and that’s a good thing, because of the whole cascade of events,” the senator said, referring to testimony by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson that Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent who refused to drive him to the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Hutchinson, an aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is now cooperating with a Justice Department investigation into the Jan. 6 attack, according to media reports.
A second GOP senator, who also requested anonymity, said the overwhelming majority of Republican senators don’t want Trump to be the party’s nominee for president again.
“I could count on one hand the number of Republican senators who want Donald Trump to be our nominee,” said the lawmaker, adding, “I could count it on one finger.”
The senator said that “the cumulative effect” of the Jan. 6 hearings is weighing on Trump’s viability in 2024.
Publicly, Senate Republican leaders predict Trump will face stiff competition in the 2024 GOP primary. They believe Trump’s grip on the party is slipping amid polling showing surging voter interest in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters recently that Trump will face a “crowded field” for president.
Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) on Wednesday predicted the former president will have to contend with “robust” competition from fellow Republicans in the next election cycle.
Thune emphasized the importance of the party’s nominee appealing to independent and swing voters if Republicans are to win back control of the White House.
He also said the Jan. 6 hearings are “filling in some blanks” and that while the revelations won’t hurt Trump with Republican voters who already support him, voters in the middle are more likely be swayed by new details.
Several more major details emerged in the House select Jan. 6 committee’s last hearing, which aired outtakes from Trump’s taped message to the nation in which he refused to say the election was over, even though Congress has just certified the results.
GOP senators themselves are weighing how much damage to Trump has been done, even as they also look at a weakened President Biden, who has seen his approval rating drop below 40 percent.
“That’s what an election process would sort out,” Thune said. “There are different polls and surveys and focus groups that are all trying to assess what the impact of all this and how it affects 2024. I think it’s too early to tell.
“I also think people are going to be looking at taking into consideration the strongest and best candidate in a general election setting and trying to get the White House back,” Thune predicted.
“There are folks who aren’t in one camp or the other that are probably susceptible to new information, and there’s been some new information that’s come out,” he said.
“Elections get decided — national elections at least — by the people in the middle. That’s who everybody in the end is going to have to win. The two sides will go to their respective corners, their respective camps, and there’s probably nothing that changes their minds about any of this, but those independent voters that decide late … or maybe aren’t paying all that much attention right now are probably going to decide it,” Thune said.
“Some of these things, cumulative effect, probably gets people looking at other possibilities,” he added.
A growing number of Republican senators and voters are shifting to a more negative view of Trump.
A Reuters-Ipsos poll conducted last week showed that 40 percent of Republicans now think Trump deserves some blame for the attack on the Capitol. The poll also found that one-third of Republicans don’t think Trump should run again for president, up from 25 percent who said so at the beginning of last month.
Even Trump’s media allies are taking a closer look at potential rivals who could beat Trump in a Republican primary or dissuade him from even running.
The hosts of “Fox & Friends,” Fox News’s flagship morning news program, on Monday highlighted DeSantis leading Trump in several age demographics in a new Turning Point USA poll as well as the governor’s “tremendous strength” in New Hampshire, Michigan and Florida.
That prompted an angry rebuke from Trump.
“@foxandfriends just really botched my poll numbers, no doubt on purpose,” Trump fumed on Truth Social, his new social media platform. “That show has been terrible — gone to the ‘dark side.’”
The editorial board of the New York Post, which has a conservative-leaning voice, on July 22 pronounced Trump’s silence on Jan. 6 “damning” and declared “Trump has proven himself unworthy to be this country’s chief executive again.”
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board on that same day, the day after the House select committee’s hearing, opined, “No matter your views of the Jan. 6 special committee, the facts it is laying out in hearings are sobering.”
“Character is revealed in a crisis, and Mr. Pence passed his Jan. 6 trial. Mr. Trump utterly failed his,” the Journal wrote of former Vice President Mike Pence’s decision to uphold his constitutional duty and certify the election results.
The first GOP senator who spoke to The Hill confidentially predicted that Fox News’s other main anchors, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson, will give other potential Republican White House candidates more airtime and attention over the next year.
The senator said GOP voters “like” Trump but are “looking for other people to run,” describing what the lawmaker sees as growing Trump fatigue in the party.
Despite all this, Republican senators and strategists said Trump is still a formidable political force.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who is widely viewed as a potential presidential candidate, said Republican White House hopefuls will be watching closely to see what Trump does.
“On the Republican side, the obvious question is what does Donald Trump choose to do. I don’t know what he’s going to do. Everybody who is looking at the race is waiting to see what Trump decides,” he said.
Asked if he thought Trump has been hurt politically by the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation, Cruz said, “I think the Jan. 6 hearings have been a political circus and a transparent campaign aid by the Democrats.”
“I don’t think they move public opinion. I think they’re preaching to the choir,” he said.
Asked about the scorching criticisms of Trump’s conduct by conservative publications, Cruz replied, “He’s going to have to make the decision whether he wants to run again or not.” | https://who13.com/news/national-news/gop-senators-are-skeptical-trump-can-win-in-2024/ | 2022-07-30T18:16:19Z | https://who13.com/news/national-news/gop-senators-are-skeptical-trump-can-win-in-2024/ | true |
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Dozens of aspiring Missouri Republican candidates are jumping at the chance to run in November for two rarely open U.S. congressional seats.
U.S. Reps. Vicky Hartzler and Billy Long are running for the Senate in Tuesday’s GOP primary, leaving Hartzler’s central 4th Congressional District and Long’s southwestern 7th Congressional District seats open.
The Republican primary for Hartzler’s seat includes state Sen. Rick Brattin, cattle rancher Kalena Bruce, former Kansas City-area news anchor Mark Alford, former Boone County Clerk Taylor Burks and former St. Louis Blues player Jim Campbell. Burks and Campbell were the top two fundraisers as of mid-July, although Campbell is primarily self-funded and has not been spending money.
Republicans seeking Long’s seat include state Sens. Eric Burlison and Mike Moon and former state Sen. Jay Wasson, along with pastor Alex Bryant and Dr. Sam Alexander. Wasson is leading in fundraising.
All but two sitting Missouri representatives won their seats when the positions became open, which is rare in Missouri.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver has served the Kansas City area since 2005, and GOP Rep. Sam Graves has represented northern Missouri since 2001. Both Cleaver and Graves won after incumbents opted not to run for reelection.
One reason is that there are no federal term limits. Incumbents also typically have name recognition, a financial advantage and the ability to claim credit for local programs and government funding, Central Missouri University political scientist Robynn Kuhlmann said.
“This is why we tend to see a surge of candidates during open seat elections,” she said. “Generally speaking, open seat elections are the chance to enter into the arena with a much more even playing field.”
An overloaded GOP pipeline of aspiring candidates is compounding competitiveness in Missouri’s Republican primaries, longtime state Republican political consultant John Hancock said.
Republicans hold a nearly two-thirds majority in the state House and Senate, a traditional launching pad for political careers. They’re barred from running for reelection after eight years of service, leaving candidates grasping for other political opportunities.
“The term limit is either imminent or it’s coming, and opportunities are few and far between for political advancement,” Hancock said.
He expects open congressional and statewide seats to continue luring large fields of Republican hopefuls.
In the Republican-controlled 4th and 7th Districts, Democrats face steep odds, Kuhlmann said.
“Because of this, the candidates that emerge successfully out of these two Republican primaries may very well be in for a coronation despite a looming general election,” she said.
The dynamic encourages candidates to stake out increasingly conservative positions to win the primary.
“I am the most conservative lawmaker in Jeff City,” Burlison said during a July 20 debate.
Top issues among the Republican candidates include abortion, immigration, American energy independence and gas prices, inflation, and “the usual midterm fight against the President’s party and its apparatus,” Kuhlmann said.
“These races are all too close to call,” Hancock said. “It could be a very late night Tuesday.”
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Associated Press writer David A. Lieb contributed to this report from Jefferson City. | https://www.wane.com/news/politics/ap-politics/open-us-house-seats-draw-large-field-of-missouri-republicans/ | 2022-07-30T18:21:01Z | https://www.wane.com/news/politics/ap-politics/open-us-house-seats-draw-large-field-of-missouri-republicans/ | false |
These products will give you the look of a beauty filter — no filters required
Beauty filters give you a gorgeous, flawless finish so you can present your best face on social media. But what if you decide you’d love to have this look in real life? Filter makeup can make it possible.
In addition to foundation, concealer and primers that are formulated with light-diffusing and line-blurring ingredients, other products to enhance the eyes, brows, lips and cheeks work together to create a look that’s ready for photos, videos, special occasions or just because. Flawless makeup begins with quality products and a few application techniques that will give you a filter-like look, even without the filters on your favorite social media platform.
What is filter makeup?
If you’ve ever used a beauty filter, chances are you love how it made your skin look smooth and clear, emphasized your eyes, enlarged your lips, made your brows look full and arched and added other effects. The idea of filter makeup is to create the look of a beauty filter with specific cosmetic products. Just like actual filters, certain makeup applied to define and enhance features will produce a dramatic effect.
How to apply filter makeup
When it comes to filter makeup, the techniques used to apply it are almost as important as the products. Following these steps will help you create a filter look.
- Moisturize your face. This will soften the texture of your skin for a smooth look.
- Apply a primer. A primer blurs lines and imperfections and gives other makeup better staying power. Be sure to rub it in thoroughly for a smooth texture.
- Make up your eyes. Apply your favorite look using eyeliner and eyeshadow.
- Smooth on foundation. Choose an oil-free, full-coverage option that matches your skin tone. Foundation formulated with filter technology reflects light and blurs blemishes, lines and more.
- Dab on concealer. Use it on areas like under the eyes to cover dark circles.
- Contour. Apply it along the temples and hairline, under the jawline and cheekbones and along the sides of the nose to define the shape of your face.
- Blend. Use makeup brushes that are soft and easy to fit around the curves of your face.
- Add a highlighter. A small amount placed on the brow bones, cheekbones, bridge of the nose, above the cupid’s bow of the top lip and in the corners of the eyes will produce a luminous glow.
- Define your brows. Stroke on fine hair-like lines with a pencil and blend brows upward with brow gel for a fuller appearance.
- Swipe on mascara. If your lashes are straight, curl them with a lash curler first. If you prefer, put false lashes on during this step for a full lash look.
- Line your lips. Avoid the corners of the mouth, focusing on the cupid’s bow. Top it with gloss or matching lipstick.
- Lock in your look. Spritz on setting spray for a long-lasting filter look.
Best filter makeup
Youth To The People Superfood Air-Whip Moisture Cream
Packed with nutrients, vitamins and antioxidants, this moisturizing cream preps the face for makeup application. The air-whipped formula is lightweight and feels nice on the skin. It’s also vegan and free of harsh chemicals.
Sold by Amazon, Sephora and Kohl’s
Urban Decay Ultra Glow All Nighter Primer
A primer will prepare your skin for foundation and other makeup. This top-seller hydrates skin while producing a smooth finish in preparation for your favorite cosmetics. It also provides up to eight hours of staying power for your favorite looks.
Sold by Sephora, Ulta, Kohl’s, Macy’s and Amazon
Fenty Beauty Pro Filt’r Soft Soft Matte Foundation
It’s the diffusing action of this foundation that makes pores, fine lines and other small imperfections appear blurred and less noticeable. Although lightweight, it provides medium to full coverage for a perfected look. It’s available in a choice of 50 shades.
Sold by Ulta, Sephora and Amazon
Full coverage in a creamy consistency that’s easy to blend is what you’ll get with this fan-favorite concealer. It perfects flaws and blurs imperfects for a smooth, filter-like finish. It wears for up to 16 hours without creasing or caking.
Smashbox Step-by-Step Contour Kit
Whether you are new to contouring your face or a pro, this kit has what you need to enhance and emphasize your features. Three versatile contour colors, a pro-level brush and contouring tips are included with your purchase.
Sold by Amazon, Macy’s, Sephora and Ulta
This highlighting powder makes your skin glow, which is the goal when using this type of product. It has a lightweight feel and soft texture that’s comfortable on the skin. Choose from several on-trend colors for your perfect match.
Sold by Kohl’s, Sephora, Macy’s and Ulta
Tweezerman Classic Eyelash Curler
Durable construction and a smooth curling mechanism make this eyelash curler up to the task of transforming straight lashes. It comes with three silicone lash pads.
Stila Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Eyeliner
This waterproof liquid eyeliner offers impressive wear. The precision tip makes it ideal for creating winged and cat-eye looks that will get you noticed.
Sold by Amazon, Macy’s, Ulta, Kohl’s and Sephora
Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Gel
Because it’s made with ingredients that reflect light, this gel does a great job enhancing and defining brows. It’s available in a nice selection of shades.
Sold by Amazon, Macy’s, Sephora, Ulta and Kohl’s
Maybelline New York Sensational Shaping Lip Liner
A lip liner will give your lips a definition that mimics what a filter can do. This pencil goes on smoothly and wears for hours. It’s mechanical and self-sharpening, so it’s always ready for use.
NYX Professional Makeup Matte Finish Setting Spray
After you take the time to apply filter makeup, secure it with a setting spray. Although affordable, this one gives your makeup a matte finish that lasts for hours.
Sold by Macy’s, Amazon and Ulta
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
21-25-32-42-44
(twenty-one, twenty-five, thirty-two, forty-two, forty-four)
Estimated jackpot: $500,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
21-25-32-42-44
(twenty-one, twenty-five, thirty-two, forty-two, forty-four)
Estimated jackpot: $500,000 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-LuckyDay-Lotto-Midday-17340305.php | 2022-07-30T18:25:06Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-LuckyDay-Lotto-Midday-17340305.php | false |
Ottawa LRT system resumes full service after lightning strike
Full service resumed on Ottawa's light rail transit system Friday afternoon, four-and-a-half days after a lightning strike reduced service on the system.
"Regular train service has resumed,” OC Transpo tweeted at 2:30 p.m. Friday. “All platforms at all Line 1 stations are open.”
"All repairs to the O-Train Line 1 overhead catenary system, as well as all of the testing and verification activities, are complete," Transit Services general manager Renee Amilcar said in a statement.
"O-Train Line 1 will resume full service at a normal frequency shortly, and 11 trains are planned to run during the afternoon peak period."
A section of the O-Train's overhead catenary system was damaged between uOttawa and Lees stations during Sunday's storm when it was struck by lightning at approximately 11:15 p.m. The tracks were also damaged on Track 2 of the LRT line, requiring repairs.
OC Transpo operated the O-Train between Blair and St. Laurent stations and Rideau and Tunney's Pasture stations between Tuesday and Friday, with R1 bus service running between St. Laurent and Rideau stations.
Amilcar says R1 bus service will no longer be running, and signs informing customers of the service disruptions will be removed over the next few hours.
"We recognize the impacts these disruptions have had on our customers, and we thank them for their continued patience as we worked with Rideau Transit Group (RTG) to resolve the issues and return to normal operations," Amilcar said. "We want to reassure our customers that the system is safe."
Rideau Transit Group is conducting an investigation into the damage caused by the lightning strike. | https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/ottawa-lrt-system-resumes-full-service-after-lightning-strike-1.18306490 | 2022-07-30T18:26:22Z | https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/ottawa-lrt-system-resumes-full-service-after-lightning-strike-1.18306490 | true |
WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 30, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WATCH
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
1050 AM PDT Sat Jul 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms producing excessive
rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast California, including the following
areas, Morongo Basin and Western Mojave Desert.
* WHEN...Through this evening.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action
should Flash Flood Warnings be issued. If you come across a flooded
roadway, turn around, don't drown.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-LAS-VEGAS-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17340295.php | 2022-07-30T18:27:29Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-LAS-VEGAS-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17340295.php | false |
Should a Windsor man convicted of animal abuse get jail time? Or house arrest?
Warning: Contains graphic content.
Tyler Vassell, 31, previously pleaded guilty to a single charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
It stems from an incident in the early morning hours of Nov. 2, 2019, when a puppy, named Kojakt was seriously injured by its owner.
In a sentencing hearing Friday, assistant Crown attorney Jayme Lesperance told the court Kojakt suffered “profound blunt force trauma to the head and neck.”
Lesperance played a series of five videos, obtained from surveillance cameras inside the east Windsor apartment building where the assault occurred.
“This is a crime of violence,” Lesperance told the judge.
Over fewer than 15 minutes, Vassell is seen striking the dog multiples in an elevator and in a hallway.
Lesperance describes the assault as a “series of blows to the head,” “multiple punches” and the video shows the dog being kicked in the ribs up against the elevator door.
At the time, an alert neighbour called police who investigated and the dog was taken into the custody of the Windsor/Essex County Humane Society.
In a case summary, the humane society’s veterinarian detailed Kojakt’s injuries which include a “profoundly swollen neck” and significant soft tissue and muscle injuries on the spinal cord.
The vet noted Kojakt “screamed out in pain” when they tried to help him.
Kojakt did not suffer any broken bones as a result of the assault.
After six weeks, the vet noted some improvement in motion and Kojakt was gaining weight.
However, Kojakt’s hind right limb was atrophied from lack of use while he recovered, so the dog’s gait was impacted.
Today, Kojakt is in the care of a foster family with the humane society, has had a complete hip replacement, the dog can no longer wear a collar and is expected to be on pain medication “long-term.”
The humane society has issued a Statement of Restitution valued at $1,817.60 for Vassell to pay upon sentencing.
He agreed Friday to surrender Kojakt over to the humane society.
Defence lawyer Frank Miller told the court Vassell’s actions were completely out of character, and that he was having a “difficult time” that night.
“Everybody gets angry,” Miller told the judge. “But not everybody does this to an animal.”
Miller says Vassell has no explanation for why he lost his temper or what caused him to assault Kojakt, referring to it as an “isolated act.”
Miller is asking the court to sentence Vassell to six months house arrest because he is the sole income provider to his girlfriend, their child and her three children.
Vassell told the court, “I feel bad about what I did. It wasn’t right. All I can say is that’s not me as a person.”
Lesperance agreed a conditional sentence (house arrest) was available under the criminal code but believes “it’s inappropriate” given the “level of violence.”
Lesperance asked the judge to consider, as Kojakt’s owner, Vassell was in a “position of trust” and noted during and after the assault, the dog kept returning to his owner.
The Crown also asked the court to consider why Vassell has no explanation for what made him injure the dog.
“We might not understand it but at least we could reconcile his actions,” Lesperance said.
“Custody is required,” Lesperance told the judge when asking for a jail sentence of nine to 12 months plus a 10-year ban on owning or residing with any pets.
As for Kojakt, Lesperance told the court he “might have a chance for a home” when he gets better while noting the dog is “never going to have the life he had.”
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Updated July 30, 2022 at 2:02 PM ET
Heavy rains that drenched Appalachia earlier this week brought what Gov. Andy Beshear called one of the most devastating flooding events in Kentucky's history.
The flooding has claimed the lives of at least 25 people, including four children, but the governor said he expects the death toll to rise as search and rescue efforts continue.
"It is devastating," Beshear told NPR's Scott Simon. "We have whole towns that are underwater, houses that were in the line of the water are just gone; not a piece of the house left.
"We've lost 25 Kentuckians, each one a child of God, that isn't going to be there at that next holiday, and we're going to lose more before this is done," the governor said.
Beshear announced at a news conference Saturday afternoon that the confirmed deaths had occurred across five counties.
"We continue to pray for the families that have suffered and unfathomable loss, some having lost almost everyone in their household," he said. "... That count is going to continue to go up, and we don't lose this many people in flooding; this is a real tough one."
National Guard members were called up from Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia to help with rescue operations. As of Saturday afternoon, a total of 664 people have been rescued by National Guard air operations, Beshear said, and another 19 people — and two dogs — were saved by boat.
Emergency phone lines have been extremely busy, Beshear said, with an overwhelming amount of calls from people looking for friends and loved ones. Instead of calling in, the governor said people can send an email to ksppubaff@ky.gov to report a missing person. Senders should include their own name and contact information, as well as the name, description and contact information of the missing person.
The governor declared a state of emergency for the flooding Thursday and requested federal aid the following day. Beshear's initial request was approved by President Biden on Friday.
Approximately 18,000 power outages are still being reported, down from 23,000, as a result of the historic flooding. Water systems have been impacted as well, Beshear said, some of which are limping along while others are out of order.
The governor is advising residents to prepare for the coming days with more rains in the forecast. Beshear also told people to be careful while trying to get to safety: the flooding hasn't begun to subside and swift waters can still carry people away.
Saturday's forecast predicts clear skies, but the same can't be said for Sunday afternoon, the governor said. Authorities hope to rescue as many people as possible before the rains come back.
"While it won't be as severe, we already have so much water and we're saturated, it's going to be a problem," Beshear said. "And then you go into next week and it's going to be really, really hot, and we are going to have a lot of people that are without power. So, we're bringing every resource to bear. What we face is tough."
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Josef Newgarden kept the focus simple all week.
He ignored the cell phone, avoided social media and spent 48 hours resting, hopeful it would help him recover from the head injury he suffered last weekend and stay in the IndyCar championship hunt. Now all he needs is another strong finish Saturday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Less than two hours after series officials medically cleared the 31-year-old driver, the two-time IndyCar champ qualified fifth with a fast lap of 1 minute, 10.6968 seconds on the Brickyard’s 14-turn, 2.439-mile road course.
“It was going to take an Army to keep me away from here,” Newgarden said. “I knew if we weren’t in this race it was going to be very difficult to stay in this championship fight. I knew we had to be in the race.”
Newgarden’s availability became uncertain after the suspension on the No. 2 Chevrolet apparently broke, sending the race leader spinning hard into the wall at Iowa. Doctors examined and cleared Newgarden at the infield care center, but he later collapsed in his motorhome and struck his head hard.
The Tennessean was then airlifted from the track to a nearby hospital to avoid post-race traffic and additional tests came back negative. On Tuesday, Newgarden informed Team Penske president Tim Cindric he was ready to race.
Newgarden even had some fun with the situation.
He donned a black, padded helmet-like device as he walked gingerly down two steps from the team hauler with reporters and was wearing a microphone for their YouTube show. Newgarden won’t use any additional padding during the race.
Still, series protocols required Newgarden to be medically cleared Thursday for practice and again between Friday morning’s practice and afternoon qualifying session.
Following three qualifying rounds, Newgarden said he didn’t feel light-headed before passing out, didn’t know the cause, was not officially diagnosed with a concussion and did not suffer typical concussion-like symptoms such as sensitivity to light.
But with Team Penske also in contention for the team title, Cindric couldn’t take any chances.
He chose Santino Ferrucci as a standby driver and the two drivers exchanged some friendly banter Thursday on Twitter. That left just one lingering question: Could Newgarden get the all-clear in time for qualifying?
“It all seems like business as usual,” Cindric said between Friday’s sessions. “Nothing to report. That process is going to take care of itself. Nothing you can do there except hope and have a plan.”
Newgarden didn’t miss a beat, though.
He posted second-fastest lap in practice, passed the exam and then advanced easily through the first two rounds of qualifications before finishing one spot behind teammate Will Power, the 2014 series champ and 2018 Indianapolis 500 winner.
The only thing preventing him from a better starting position were tires.
“I felt like on new tires we had full pace but on used tires, we lacked some of the pole pace we needed,” Newgarden said. “So I think we’re going to try and clean that up, make sure we have good (tire) degradation for tomorrow.”
Now, the focus for both Penske drivers is closing the gap — and perhaps overtaking — points leader Marcus Ericssson.
The Swedish driver, who won the Indianapolis 500 in his last trip to the Brickyard, will start from the back of the 25-car field after a mechanical problem with Chip Ganassi Racing’s No. 8 Honda brought out a red flag in the first round of qualifications.
Power began the weekend eight points behind Ericsson.
Six-time series champion Scott Dixon, Ericsson’s teammate, came into this weekend tied with Newgarden for third. But Dixon will start from the No. 20 spot.
Newgarden, meanwhile, has a series-high four wins this season but own only one Indy win at the series highest level — in 2020 on the road course. If he claims victory No. 5 on Saturday, it could put him atop the standings and cap a remarkably quick comeback.
“I was very motivated to get back. I don’t think you could give me extra motivation,” Newgarden said. “I’m always as motivated as I need to be and that’s how I felt coming into this weekend — whatever I’ve got to do, I’ll do. I’m just ready to be in the fight.”
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MAMALLAPURAM: India 'B' blanked Estonia 4-0 in the second round of the Open section in the 44th Chess Olympiad here on Saturday while the second-seeded 'A' team defeated Moldova 3.5-0.5 to make it two wins from as many matches.
World champion Magnus Carlsen was in the spotlight after missing the first round as he scored over Georg Meier to star in third-seeded Norway's 4-0 victory against Uruguay.
The formidable USA team, the top-seed in the Open event, did not have it easy for a second straight day as the star-studded outfit could only manage a 2.5-1.5 victory over Paraguay after having dropped half a point against Angola on the first day.
In the women's section, top-seeded India 'A' beat Argentina 3.5-0.5. Koneru Humpy, playing on top board, was held to a draw by Marisa Zuriel in 44 moves but Tania Sachdev and Bhakti Kulkarni posted victories over Maria Campos and Maria Belen Sarquis to give the team the victory before R Vaishali battled it out against Maria Jose Campos on the second board to seal the win.
India 'B' recorded a 3.5-0.5 win over Latvia with Mary Ann Gomes, Soumya Swaminathan and Mary Ann Gomes defeating their respective opponents -- Laura Rogule, Agnesa S Ter-Avetisjana and Nellija Malkakova. Padmini Rout could not get past Ilze Berzina and shared the point.
The third host team in the women's section, India 'C' defeated Singapore 3-1 with victories for P V Nandhidhaa and Easha Karavade. Pratyusha Bodda and Vishwa Vasnawala were held to draws by Yang Hazel Liu and Kun Fang respectively.
The men's event saw India 'B', seen by many including Carlsen and the legendary Viswanathan Anand as dark horses, stormed to a 4-0 win.
D Gukesh on the top board beat Kalle Kiik while R Praggnanandhaa on the second board, after being rested on Friday, beat Kirill Chukavin. There were wins for the experienced B Adhiban and Raunak Sadhwani against Aleksandr Volodin and Andrei Shishkov respectively.
For India 'A', the winners were P Harikrishna, S L Narayanan and K Sasikiran, all GMs while fellow GM and fast-rising Arjun Erigaisi could only draw against Andrei Macovei. India 'C' rounded off the day with a comprehensive 3.5-0.5 defeat of Mexico.
In the USA-Paraguay match, world No.4 Fabiano Caruana was held by Axel Bachmann, as were Wesley So and Sam Shankland by their opponents Rami Delgado and M Ruben D Zacarias respectively. Leinier Dominiguez Perez provided the winning point by defeating Jose Fernando Cubas. In other matches in the Open event, there were wins for fourth-ranked Spain and fifth-ranked Poland over Belgium. While Spain recorded a 3.5-0.5 margin over their opponent, Poland secured a 3-1 victory. Sixth-ranked Azerbaijan got past the Philippines 3-1 for their second win.
After two rounds, India 'B' have four points (2 points for a victory) in the Open section.
Results - India's matches: India 'A' beat Moldova 3.5-0.5 (P Harikrishna beat Ivan Schitco, Arjun Erigaisi drew with Andrei Macoveri, S L Narayanan beat Vladimir Hamitevici, K Sasikiran beat Lulian Baltag).
India 'B' beat Estonia 4-0 (D Gukesh beat Kalle Kiik, R Pragnanandhaa beat Kirill Chukavin, B Adhiban beat Aleksandr Volodin, Raunak Sadhwani beat Andrei Shishkov).
India 'C' beat Mexico 3.5-0.5 (Surya Shekhar Ganguly beat G Hernandez Guerrero, S P Sethuraman drew Chami Ibarra, Abhijeet Gupta drew Rosas Diaz, Karthikeyan Murali beat Vidal Capo). Women: India A beat Argentina 3.5-0.5 (Konery Humy drew with Maria Zuriel, R Vaishali beat Maria Jose Campos, Tania Sachdev beat Rodas Borda, Bhakti Kulkarni beat Maria Belen Sarquis).
India 'B' beat Latvia 3.5-0.5 (Vantika Agrawal beat Laura Rogule, Padmini Rout drew with Ilze Berzina, Soumya Swaminathan beat Agnesa S Ter-Avetisja, Mary Ann Gomes beat Nellija Maklakova).
India 'C' beat Singapore 3-1 (Esha Karavade beat Anjela Khegay, P V Nandhidhaa beat Mei-En Emmanuelle, Pratyusha Bodda drew with Yamg Hazel Liu, Vishwa Vasnawala drew Kun Fang).
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SANTA CLARA — Maurice Hurst’s bad-injury luck has struck again and it likely will keep him off the field again this season for the 49ers.
Hurst, who broke into the NFL as a promising defensive tackle with the Raiders, is done for 2022 after tearing his biceps in Friday’s training camp practice.
It’s the 49ers’ most severe injury through the offseason program and three practices at camp, though it’s not the only issue among defensive tackles.
Starter Arik Armstead sprained his right knee two snaps into camp, and newcomer Hassan Ridgeway endured a minor quadriceps strain Friday. Both linemen will be out a couple of weeks, coach Kyle Shanahan said.
On the positive side, the 49ers are welcoming Javon Kinlaw into his first team drills of camp Saturday. Kinlaw is expected to start and be part of a fierce front, assuming the 2020 first-round draft pick continues to progress well in his comeback from anterior cruciate ligament repair.
Hurst got injured reaching to stop rookie Danny Gray on a jet-sweep run midway through Friday’s practice.
Hurst figured to work into the defensive line’s impressive rotation, which he barely made a cameo last season because of more health issues. Ankle and calf injuries limited him to two games last season.
Hurst was a 2018 fifth-round pick out of Michigan by the Raiders, after his stock fell at the combine upon a diagnosis for a congenital heart problem. He produced 7 1/2 sacks his first two of three seasons with the Raiders.
After re-signing with the 49ers this spring on a $1 million deal, Hurst was one of the somewhat secret weapons on a seemingly deep line that is suddenly thinning, although No. 1 enforcer Nick Bosa is happily healthy in camp, for a change. Hurst was on the first-string defense Friday at left defensive tackle.
Kinlaw will not be thrust into a full-time role this camp but rather be eased into action, Shanahan said.
“I just want to see him get through practice,” Shanahan said. “He was able to get a good surgery and he’s taken the right steps. He’ll be in position to be healthy to practice. If he can practice consistently, we’ve got to be smart with his history. We feel we’re in very good spot right now.”
The 49ers already have signed two reinforcements at defensive tackle this camp: former Arizona Cardinals first-round pick Robert Nkemdiche and USFL product Tomasi Laulile. Nkemdiche has been very aggressive and physical so far this camp.
NOTES
— Although Trey Lance had a pass intercepted in back-to-back practices, Shanahan did not frown on that, saying he was “very happy with the throws. He’s just got to get on the same page with the wideouts.” Consider that a glimpse into how Shanahan will cope with Lance’s growing pains this upcoming season as the new starting quarterback.
— Cornerback Jason Verrett remains on the physically-unable-to-perform list but Shanahan is among those optimistic about Verrett’s potential contributions, perhaps even as a nickel back. “Jason can play anything,” Shanahan said. “It’s about getting healthy and matchups with (Emmanuel Moseley) and (Charvarius Ward). Jason is as good a corner as there is. We’re pulling for Jason to get healthy and he’s on the right path. If he does get there, we’ll figure out a way to balance those guys out.”
— Deebo Watch 2022: Still no contract extension for fourth-year wide receiver Deebo Samuel, though he’s expected to land more guaranteed money than Seattle counterpart DK Metcalf, who signed a three-year, $72 million pact with $31 million guaranteed, according to spotrac.com
Negotiations have not adversely impacted Shanahan’s relationship with his All-Pro offensive weapon: “Deebo and I talk a lot. We’re good. We understand our role,” Shanahan said. “I know it’s a lot of noise for five months with tweets and people talking and talking. There’s a lot of negotiations, a lot of money involved. It’s a big business deal. We’re good.” | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/07/30/more-49ers-defensive-tackles-get-hurt-at-camp-one-lost-for-season/ | 2022-07-30T18:39:33Z | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/07/30/more-49ers-defensive-tackles-get-hurt-at-camp-one-lost-for-season/ | false |
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Flash floods triggered by heavy rains killed seven Iraqi tourists in northeastern Iran on Saturday, Iranian state media reported, the latest in rising casualty tolls as the downpours continue to lash the country.
The official IRNA news agency said the tourists were part of a 13-member group of Iraqis visiting Iran. They were traveling in a crammed station wagon on a road near the city of Mashhad, some 900 kilometers (560 miles), north of the capital Tehran, when a flash flood swept their car away.
Among the fatalities were five women and the group's Iranian driver. Three Iraqis were missing while the other passengers managed to get to safety.
About 2 million Iraqis visit Iran every year.
Also Saturday, Iranian authorities raised the death toll from landslides and flash floods that engulfed the country since Thursday to 61 as eight more bodied were retrieved. It said at least 32 people are still missing.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited a rescue operation center in one of the stricken villages northeast of Tehran, promising more help for the area.
There were fears the death toll could rise even further as more bodies are being uncovered as the rains abate. Thousands have been transferred from remote areas to safer places.
Last Saturday, flash floods in Iran’s drought-stricken southern Fars province killed at least 22 people and affected about a dozen villages in the province. Authorities have warned about heavy rains and possible floods.
This week's storm is the deadliest among Iran's rain-related incidents in the last decade. In 2019, a flashflood killed at least 21 people in the southern city of Shiraz, and two years earlier, a similar storm claimed 48 lives in northwestern Iran.
However, mudslides in northern Iran in 2001 and in Tehran in 1987 killed 500 and 300 people, respectively.
Authorities have blamed the high death tolls on a wide disregard of safety measures by people who venture out in the storms while critics cite mismanagement in construction projects as well as late warnings as other causes. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Report-7-Iraqi-tourists-killed-by-floods-in-17340321.php | 2022-07-30T18:40:42Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Report-7-Iraqi-tourists-killed-by-floods-in-17340321.php | false |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
7-1-7, FIREBALL: 3
(seven, one, seven; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
7-1-7, FIREBALL: 3
(seven, one, seven; FIREBALL: three) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Day-game-17340286.php | 2022-07-30T18:41:00Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Day-game-17340286.php | false |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-4-2
(zero, four, two)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-4-2
(zero, four, two) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17340325.php | 2022-07-30T18:41:12Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17340325.php | true |
Mirabhai Chanu's incredible performance on Saturday left the fans in awe as they reacted to her gold medal winning effort at the Commonwealth Games 2022.
Chanu put up a strong and dominant performance on Day two of the games to clinch India's first gold medal of this year's Commonwealth Games. This was also India's third medal of the day in weightlifting. earlier, Sanket Sargar claimed the Silver medal in the 55 kg category while Gururaja Poojary won the Bronze medal in the 61 kg category. This was Poojary's second consecutive CWG medal.
The 27-year-old, who was considered a favorite for the gold, started the snatch round with a lift of 84 kg in her first attempt to cement her position right at the top. She would then go ahead and break the Commonwealth Games record and set a personal best in the Games with an 88 kg lift that got the crowd on their feet. Chanu failed in her third attempt as the 90 kg lift proved to be a bit too much on the day.
In the clean and jerk round, Chanu put in another top effort to lift 109 kgs to set a games record. In her next attempt she broke it once again by lifting 113 kgs. In her final attempt, Chanu was unable to lift 115 kgs but came home with the gold to make it a memorable day for India in weightlifting.
Her performance has captured the imagination of the fans, with many praising her fine effort on Saturday to clinch the gold medal. Here's a look at some of the best reactions.
Gold medal.
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) July 30, 2022
Indian weightlifters keeping the Indian flag flying high.
Well done @mirabai_chanu. You’ve shown remarkable grit and tenacity. The nation is proud of your achievement. pic.twitter.com/E6JarnMoWm
Marking the day with the
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) July 30, 2022
Bringing the first gold home with a combined lift of 201 kg in women's 49Kg #Weightlifting. Take a bow, Mirabai Chanu #B2022 #CommonwealthGames2022 #Birmingham2022 #CWG2022 pic.twitter.com/QNRjME5nyG
And Mirabai did it !!!!!! #CWG2022 it’s a gold!!!
— taapsee pannu (@taapsee) July 30, 2022
LEGEND! Mirabai Chanu wins India's first Gold Medal at CWG 2022 with a combined lift of 197 kg
— The Bharat Army (@thebharatarmy) July 30, 2022
Getty #mirabaichanu #B2022 #CWG2022 #weightlifting #TeamIndia #BharatArmy pic.twitter.com/L30cx1OXtW
Mirabai Chanu!
— Gujarat Titans (@gujarat_titans) July 30, 2022
The bags 's first at #CommonwealthGames 2022!#TitansOfTheGames #Birmingham2022 #MirabaiChanu pic.twitter.com/SxlrQuJTvm
GOLD for @mirabai_chanu #CWG2022India #CWG2022 #MirabaiChanu
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73) July 30, 2022 | https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/commonwealth-games-2022/story/legend-take-a-bow-fans-thrilled-as-mirabhai-chanu-secures-india-s-first-gold-at-cwg-2022-1981935-2022-07-30 | 2022-07-30T18:41:51Z | https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/commonwealth-games-2022/story/legend-take-a-bow-fans-thrilled-as-mirabhai-chanu-secures-india-s-first-gold-at-cwg-2022-1981935-2022-07-30 | true |
Sri Lanka leader says IMF agreement pushed back after unrest
By KRISHAN FRANCIS
Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president says an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to help pull the bankrupt nation out of its economic crisis has been pushed back to September because of unrest over the past weeks. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, in his first speech since he was elected by Parliament on July 20, says even though he as the prime minister had aimed to reach an agreement by early August, it has now been pushed back by a month. He was elected to complete the five-year term of his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled to Singapore after protesters angry over economic hardships stormed his official residence and occupied several key government buildings. Wickremesinghe says talked on a rescue package had not moved since those incidents. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/07/30/sri-lanka-leader-says-imf-agreement-pushed-back-after-unrest-2/ | 2022-07-30T18:42:23Z | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/07/30/sri-lanka-leader-says-imf-agreement-pushed-back-after-unrest-2/ | false |
INDIANAPOLIS – Alexander Rossi snapped a 49-race losing streak that dated all the way back to the 2019 IndyCar season by winning at one of his favorite tracks.
Rossi won Saturday on the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where his 2016 victory in the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 jumpstarted his American motorsports career. Rossi's last victory was at Road America in the 10th race of the 2019 season.
“It's a relief," Rossi sighed on the victory podium. “To come back at Indianapolis, at home, is really amazing.”
A long slump led him to seek a fresh start and the California native will leave Andretti Autosport at the end of his seventh season to drive next year for Arrow McLaren SP. It was Michael Andretti who gave Rossi a shot in IndyCar when he'd washed out of Formula One and returned to the United States seeking to continue his career.
Rossi's surprise victory as a rookie in the celebrated 100th running of the Indy 500 made him a star and earned him loyal sponsorship that has weathered his long drought. Some of his issues the last three seasons have been team inflicted — errors, mechanical failures and a full Andretti team meltdown earlier this month at Mid-Ohio — and Saturday was hardly a perfect day for the organization.
Colton Herta controlled the early part of the race but slowed from the lead right before the halfway mark.
“Nothing I can do,” he radioed as he tried to cruise his underpowered Honda back to pit lane.
He later walked alone down pit lane back to the paddock as the race continued without him.
“Man that is sad,” Herta tweeted. “We showed what we can do, we'll keep going til we win again.”
Meanwhile, Andretti rookie Devlin DeFrancesco drew the ire of Conor Daly as tempers flared when DeFrancesco ran Daly off the track.
“Devlin needs to be kicked out of this racing series! He's an idiot!” Daly screamed over his radio.
There's been speculation that Michael Andretti is reconsidering bringing DeFrancesco back for a sophomore season.
Christian Lundgaard, a rookie from Denmark who made his IndyCar debut in this race a year ago, finished second to give Rahal Letterman Lanigan its first podium of the season. It also gave Honda-powered drivers a 1-2 finish.
Will Power finished third for Team Penske and the Chevrolet driver cycled back to the top of the IndyCar standings for the third time this season. He now holds a nine-point lead over Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson, who started last and finished 11th.
Scott McLaughlin finished fourth and was followed by Josef Newgarden as the Penske drivers worked together to cross the finish line in a row. Newgarden was only cleared to race on Saturday by IndyCar's medical staff after collapsing and hitting his head last Sunday at Iowa Speedway.
The race started with six drivers separated by 44 points with five races remaining in the IndyCar season. The six drivers are now separated by 52 points, with a 10th-place finish by reigning series champion Alex Palou costing him ground.
UP NEXT: IndyCar returns next Sunday to the downtown streets of Nashville for a second consecutive season. Ericsson is the defending race winner.
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WASHINGTON — It’s been more than a year in the making and has seen plenty of ups and downs. Now, a Democratic economic package focused on climate and health care faces hurdles but seems headed toward party-line passage by Congress next month.
Approval would let President Joe Biden and his party claim a triumph on top priorities as November’s elections approach. They have not forgotten that they came close to approving a far grander version of the bill last year, only to see Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., one of their most conservative and contrarian members, torpedo it at the eleventh hour.
This time, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has crafted a compromise package with Manchin, to the surprise of everyone, transforming the West Virginian from pariah to partner. The measure is more modest than earlier versions but still checks boxes on issues that make Democrats giddy.
Here's what they face:
WHAT'S IN IT?
The measure would raise $739 billion in revenue over 10 years and spend $433 billion. More than $300 billion would be left for trimming federal deficits.
Those are meaningful cuts in red ink. But they’re tiny compared with the $16 trillion in new debt the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates will accumulate over the next decade.
The package would save consumers and the government money by curbing prescription drug prices, and it would subsidize private health insurance for millions of people. It would bolster the IRS budget so the tax agency can collect more unpaid taxes.
The plan would foster clean energy and offshore energy drilling, a balance demanded by Manchin, a champion of fossil fuels. It also would collect new taxes from the largest corporations and wealthy hedge fund owners.
It's a fraction of the $3.5 trillion package that Biden proposed early in his presidency, which also envisioned sums for initiatives such as paid family leave and universal preschool. It's also smaller than the roughly $2 trillion alternative the House passed last November after Manchin demanded cuts then derailed the deal anyway, citing inflation fears.
IT'S NOW CALLED THE “INFLATION REDUCTION ACT,” BUT...
... will it do that? It certainly could, but there are dissenters.
First, some context.
By one inflation measure the Federal Reserve studies closely, prices jumped 6.8% in June from a year ago, the biggest increase in four decades. That followed government figures showing the economy shrank anew last quarter, fueling recession worries.
“Improved tax collection, drug savings, and deficit reduction would put downward pressure on inflation,” the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said Friday. In what passes for a rave review, the bipartisan fiscal watchdog group called the legislation “exactly the kind of package lawmakers should put in place to help the economy in a number of ways.”
“Deficit reduction is almost always inflation-reducing," Jason Furman, a Harvard University economics professor who was a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama, wrote Friday in The Wall Street Journal. He said the measure would also “reduce inflation by slowing the growth of prescription-drug prices."
A more sobering assessment came from the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Wharton Budget Model, which analyzes economic issues.
“The act would very slightly increase inflation until 2024 and decrease inflation thereafter," the group wrote Friday. “These point estimates are statistically indistinguishable from zero, thereby indicating low confidence that the legislation will have any impact on inflation."
A chorus of Republicans say Democrats' bill would be widely damaging. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., calls it “a giant package of huge new job-killing tax hikes, Green New Deal craziness that will kill American energy, and prescription drug socialism that will leave us with fewer new life-saving medicines."
CHANGES AHEAD
The 725-page measure will probably still change somewhat.
Schumer said this past week that Democrats planned to add language aimed at reducing patients' costs of insulin, the diabetes drug that can cost hundreds of dollars monthly.
Insulin price curbs were a highlight of Democrats' bigger package last year, including a $35 monthly cap for patients who get the drug through Medicare or private insurers. But that fell out this year as the measure was trimmed.
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, have produced a bill capping insulin's price. That measure's prospects diminished after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated it would cost about $23 billion and actually increase the price of insulin. The two lawmakers also haven't produced the 10 Republicans who would be needed to succeed in the 50-50 Senate, where most bills need 60 votes.
It's unclear what the Democrats' new insulin language would do. Prior language that required private insurers to set a $35 monthly insulin cap may violate the chamber's rules, which only allow provisions primarily affecting the federal budget.
In addition, under the process Democrats are using to move the measure through the chamber by a simple majority, with Vice President Kamala Harris' tiebreaking vote, it would face multiple amendments in a voting session that can run through the night, and there is no telling whether some will pass.
PROSPECTS
Every Republican seems poised to vote “no.”
Democrats will need all 50 of their own votes in the Senate, where unpredictable Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., has yet to state her view.
Democrats can lose no more than four House votes to succeed there. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Friday that when the Senate approves the package, “We’ll pass it.”
Schumer wants Senate passage next week. He acknowledged that timeline is “going to be hard" because it will take time for the chamber's parliamentarian to make sure the bill conforms to Senate rules.
This will also take luck. All 50 Democrats, including both independents who support them, will have to be healthy enough to show up and vote.
That's not guaranteed. The latest, extremely contagious COVID-19 variant is spreading around the country. And the chamber has 33 senators who are 70 years old or more, including 19 Democrats.
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By AMY FORLITI and GEOFF MULVIHILL
Now that Roe v. Wade has been toppled, abortion opponents are taking a multifaceted approach in their quest to end abortions nationwide, targeting their strategies to the dynamics of each state as they attempt to create new laws and defend bans in courts.
One anti-abortion group has proposed model legislation that would ban all abortions except to prevent the death of a pregnant woman. New legal frontiers could include prosecuting doctors who defy bans, and skirmishes over access to medication abortions already are underway. Others hope to get more conservatives elected in November to advance an anti-abortion agenda.
“For Republicans, the post-Roe world will be significantly different, from a legal perspective,” said Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School. “For the last 50 years, Republicans have been on the offense by chipping away on the edges of Roe. Now they are going to be playing defense in all 50 states.”
said abortion is not a right under the Constitution, creating an opening for states pushing to get more restrictions on the books. Most recently, lawmakers in West Virginia and Indiana have pushed ahead with new restrictions, with varying success.
James Bopp Jr., general counsel for National Right to Life, has worked on model legislation for states, but said with few legislatures in session “the process of adopting new laws is really just beginning.”
It recommends banning all abortions except to prevent the death of a pregnant woman, though it provides language for states that want to make exceptions in cases of rape or incest. It also recommends criminal penalties for any person, including a doctor, who knowingly or intentionally causes or aids an “unlawful abortion.”
The model law would not criminalize a woman who gets an abortion.
A memo attached to the model language suggests anyone who aids and abets or conspires to cause an “unlawful abortion” also could be prosecuted, including those who provide instructions on how to self-administer or get an abortion deemed unlawful under the law. That person would have to know the woman was seeking an abortion and intentionally help her to get one.
“General providing of information is protected by the First Amendment,” Bopp said.
It also has language that allows for prosecution of a person — other than a pharmacist or drug manufacturer — who knows a woman plans to use an abortion-inducing drug to cause an unlawful abortion, and intentionally delivers the drug or advertises such a drug for sale.
But in the meantime, Bopp said abortion opponents are looking to November, when they hope to elect anti-abortion candidates who will enact such laws.
With that goal in mind, many conservatives are taking a “cautious pause” on the abortion issue, according to Larry Jacobs, a politics professor at the University of Minnesota.
“Republicans have a much better chance of winning competitive races around the country talking about inflation, crime and Joe Biden,” Jacobs said. “When they are talking about abortion, they are doing Democrats a favor.”
Conservatives also see new courtroom battles on the horizon.
Jonathan Mitchell, the former Texas solicitor general who is now a private practice attorney, came up with some of the key components of a Texas law that bans abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected. His innovation was to make violations enforceable through lawsuits filed by citizens, rather than the government.
Mitchell, who represents Texas and South Dakota in abortion lawsuits and has helped lawmakers in multiple states develop abortion bans and restrictions, said future legal fights could center around those who pay for abortions for people living in states with bans that are not being enforced due to court injunctions.
“Abortion is still a criminal offense in every state with a trigger law or pre-Roe ban, regardless of whether a state-court injunction is in effect,” Mitchell said in an email to The Associated Press. He said an injunction doesn’t actually block a law as many believe, but temporarily keeps it from being enforced.
He said in states such as Utah, Kentucky, Louisiana, or West Virginia are violating the law and could be prosecuted. He said if bans exist but are on hold, abortion providers could be prosecuted retroactively.
“And the mere risk of potential lawsuits may be enough to deter abortion providers from offering abortions to out-of-state residents, especially when these lawsuits can be brought,” he wrote, “not only against the physician but everyone else involved.”
Melissa Murray, a professor at New York University School of Law, said the question of whether those who pay for out-of-state abortions could be charged is “uncharted ground.” Employers and funds could argue they’re exercising their free speech rights, she said in an email. “That said, a state could argue that (the groups) are facilitating the violation of a criminal law — essentially, they’re functioning as accomplices.”
The fear of prosecution has already led to victories of sorts for abortion foes; some clinics have shut down over the confusion, reopened, then shut down again. It has also led doctors until it became clear that a fetus was dead or a woman’s life was at stake.
Erin Hawley, a lawyer at the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom and the wife of Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, expects continuing litigation over medication abortions.
She pointed to a court battle underway in Mississippi, where drugmaker GenBioPro is suing the state over its provisions that make it harder to get a prescription for mifepristone, a drug that can induce abortion. The state’s policies are at odds with U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations, which courts have generally found take precedence over state law.
But Hawley said that might not apply here.
“It’s always a big deal for a federal agency or law to trump state law,” Hawley said.
Some states are taking different approaches.
In Louisiana, the State Bond Commission voted last week for a New Orleans sewer and water project to “send a message” after city and local officials said they would not enforce that state’s abortion ban. The law is currently blocked by a court and not enforceable anyway.
in mid-July after the Biden administration issued guidance that stated hospitals are required to provide abortions if necessary to save a mother’s life.
Next week, Kansas voters will consider . If approved, it could make Kansas the fifth state to declare its constitution doesn’t grant the right to abortion and would open the door for the Legislature to further restrict or ban abortion.
Bopp said while court battles and midterm elections are the current focus, abortion opponents would eventually like to see federal and state constitutional amendments that would explicitly protect the unborn, though he acknowledged that would be a challenge.
“A constitutional amendment has been one of our goals. But this requires a hell of a consensus,” he said.
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Subway giving away 1M free subs in honor of its 'most significant' menu change ever
MILFORD, Conn. - Subway is giving away up to 1 million free sandwiches across the U.S. in honor of the restaurant chain’s "most significant menu update in its nearly 60-year history."
Those who visit participating Subway locations between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. local time on July 12 can get a free 6-inch sandwich from the chain’s new "Subway Series" menu. The updated menu, which launched on Tuesday, features 12 new signature sub that can be ordered by name or number — instead of its traditional customization.
The rebrand is part of Subway’s "transformation journey" that began last summer following declining U.S. sales and media coverage in the past over claims about its tuna sandwich. In July 2021, the Connecticut-based company added more than 20 new or refreshed ingredients to the Subway menu and also did a similar sub sandwich giveaway.
"Last summer's Eat Fresh Refresh laid the foundation to build a better Subway, and now the Subway Series enhances the entire Subway guest experience – proof that we continue to improve and get way better," Trevor Haynes, Subway North America president, said in a statement.
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Instead of picking ingredients and toppings throughout the ordering process, customers can now say a sandwich number or name and 6-inch or footlong. The new Subway Series menu includes meat, cheese, vegetables, sauce and freshly-baked bread and is divided into four categories:
- Cheesesteaks: #1 The Philly, #2 The Outlaw, #3 The Monster
- Italianos: #4 Supreme Meats, #5 Bella Mozza, #6 The Boss
- Chicken: #7 The MexiCali, #8 The Great Garlic, #9 The Champ
- Clubs: #10 All-American Club, #11 Subway Club, #12 Turkey Cali Club
Subway restaurants, which grew to popularity with their $5 footlongs, among other advertisements, are franchised. Today there are more than 37,000 Subway restaurants in over 100 countries, ranking among the largest fast-food restaurant chains in the world.
In early 2021, Subway received not-so-favorable media attention after two California residents sued the restaurant chain alleging that its tuna was "anything but tuna" and calling it "tuna salad" constituted fraud and false advertising. Subway responded, saying in part that the accusation was "reckless and improper."
"The taste and quality of our tuna make it one of Subway’s most popular products and these baseless accusations threaten to damage our franchisees, small business owners who work tirelessly to uphold the high standards that Subway sets for all of its products, including its tuna," the company said at the time.
A federal court judge later dismissed the customers’ lawsuit in October but allowed the plaintiffs to resubmit an amended complaint. For its part, Subway now has a whole tuna sandwich section on its website "to set forth the facts and help clarify any misunderstandings."
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16-year-old killed in shooting at Garden Walk Condos in Bradenton
A 16-year-old was killed in a shooting Friday evening in Bradenton.
The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of the shooting in the parking lot of Garden Walk Condos, at 5310 26th St. W.
Several males were sitting in a parked car when another male, possibly a teenager, got in the car. A short time later, the same male left the car and started shooting at it. As the car fled the complex, gunfire hit the teen in the car, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office.
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The victim was taken by his friends to Manatee Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Detectives have identified a juvenile suspect and are following leads. No arrests have been made, and the investigation continues.
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Which Weruva cat food is best?
Weruva makes wet cat food formulated with premium ingredients meant to promote hydration and feline health. These foods come in different flavors and textures, so there’s something for even the pickiest of cats. Weruva also uses simple natural ingredients that are chock-full of meat and have only the essential vegetables and fruits to ensure your pet lives a long and healthy life.
What is Weruva?
Weruva is a family-owned company established in 2006 by Stacie and David Forman. Its name comes from the first two letters of the founders’ rescue cats, Webster, Rudi and Vanessa.
The company prioritizes nutrition over everything else to ensure pets grow healthy and strong. It has cat and dog food, both of which use premium ingredients that are certified by the British Retail Consortium and the United States Food and Drug Administration. This means the food meets the highest quality standards and is even fit for human consumption.
Cat food types
Weruva only makes wet cat food, which comes in either cans or pouches. There are five main options:
- Classic Cat: This is Weruva’s first cat food. There are seven fish recipes and five chicken recipes, each with low fat and high protein content. They’re finely chopped or flaky.
- Weruva Cat Stew: These have a thick consistency with large chunks of meat, such as chicken, beef, turkey or salmon. They come with more liquid, too.
- Weruva Classic Pate: Although these use the same recipes as the Classic version, they’re thicker and smoother.
- Cats in the Kitchen Originals and Cats in the Kitchen Pate: Inspired by family meals, these include a total of sixteen recipes, each with either shredded, chunks or flakes of meat.
- TruLuxe: This is Weruva’s premium line of cat food. It contains more specialized nutrition through high-quality meats and salmon.
Weruva has another line of cat food, too, called Best Feline Friend, which includes:
- Originals
- PLAY
- Oh, My Gravy!
Each of these has red meat tuna as the baseline ingredient, and other proteins, such as chicken or tilapia. They come in different textures, including:
- Tuna and pumpkin in gravy
- Tuna and tilapia in gelee
Ingredients
When it comes to ingredients, Weruva cat food is:
- Focused on hydration
- Formulated with real ingredients
- Free from grains and gluten
- Free from carrageenan (thickening agent that could cause digestive problems)
- Ethically and safely sourced
Many Weruva cat foods include the following:
- Protein (such as lamb, beef or chicken)
- Wild-caught fish (except for basa or tilapia)
- Potato starch
- Sunflower seed oil
- Calcium lactate
- Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6, A and D3
- Taurine
- Thiamine
- Biotin
- Fiber
Considerations and tips
When it comes to feeding your cat wet food, there are a few things to consider.
- Wet food does not last as long as dry food once opened. It can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for around five days.
- Never leave out wet cat food. While you can leave out dry food so your pet can eat throughout the day, wet food can lose its moisture content after a couple of hours.
- Follow the recommended amount on the container. Weruva wet cat food lists the recommended amount to feed your cat based on factors such as current weight and age.
- Transition your cat from dry to wet food slowly. Not all cats adapt well to major changes in their food. If you want to feed your pet wet food, start by incorporating it into your pet’s regular diet, or by mixing dry and wet food.
- Consult a veterinarian if your cat is on a special diet. If your pet needs to lose weight, is elderly or has a health condition, speak with a veterinarian before changing its food.
- Consider the cost. Wet food is often more expensive than kibble. Weruva cat food uses premium ingredients, so it also comes at a higher price point than many store-bought brands.
Since Weruva wet cat food is high in protein, it can support strong muscle development, something that’s especially helpful for kittens or elderly cats. The high moisture content can also help prevent a urinary tract infection in your pet.
8 best Weruva cat foods
Weruva Classic Cat Food, Variety Pack
This 12-pack of canned cat food includes thinly shredded chicken in gravy and other natural recipes designed to promote a healthy pet. Each can is 10 ounces and is free of grains, gluten, wheat, soy, corn and harmful preservatives. Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Stew’s Clues With Turkey, Chicken and Salmon In Gravy
Available in either eight 5.5-ounce cans or 12 2.8-ounce cans, these chunky stews include a mix of turkey, salmon and chicken. Each can is rich in protein, low in carbohydrates and contains fatty acids that promote a healthy coat and skin. Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Weruva Cats In The Kitchen Chicken Frick ‘A Zee With Chicken Au Jus
This chicken-rich cat food includes a hearty sauce that’s sure to attract more cats. It doesn’t contain corn, soy, wheat, grains or gluten. It’s formulated for adult cats and can help ensure they have a balanced diet of healthy antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. It comes in 24 3.2-ounce cans. Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Weruva Kitten, Chicken Breast Formula in a Hydrating Puree
This grain-free canned kitten food contains real chicken and is low in carbohydrates, making it a great option for your growing pet’s healthy development. It’s also free of artificial flavors, preservatives, gluten and grains. Flavors include chicken and tuna. Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Weruva Best Feline Friend (BFF) Pouch Variety Pack Cat Food
This variety pack includes 12 pouches that are 3 ounces. Flavors include tuna and salmon and tuna and turkey. They’re easy to squeeze out onto a plate. They are a great supplement or main course to most cats’ diets. Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Weruva Slide N’ Serve Pate Wet Cat Food
This variety pack contains 16 2.8-ounce packs with different flavors such as tuna, salmon and chicken. With a pate consistency that’s easy for cats to consume, it’s easy to serve. It’s also moisture-rich and supports a healthy urinary tract. Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Weruva Classic Cat Food, Paw Lickin’ Chicken With Chicken Breast in Gravy
This classic option is perfect for cats that love chicken, but it also comes in other flavors, such as Polynesian BBQ and Meow Luau. It’s available in packs of 12 or 24. Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Weruva’s TruLuxe Cat Food, Steak Frites With Beef and Pumpkin in Gravy
For those who want to feed their pet the highest quality food with premium ingredients, this is a great option. It comes with 24 small cans, either 3 or 6 ounces each. It supports healthy digestive and urinary tract functions in active felines. Sold by Amazon and Chewy
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Chennai-based Garuda Aerospace get first ever loan for drones
Agri Infra Fund that has spearheaded many farmer-centric schemes sanctions loan
The Agri Infra Fund (AIF) has sanctioned the first ever drone loan for a Kisan drone manufactured by Chennai-based Garuda Aerospace.
AIF functions under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and has spearheaded many schemes that are farmer-centric. Its Joint Secretary Samuel Praveen Kumar said, “The advanced Agri Drone manufactured by Garuda Aerospace and its unique affordable service model will motivate thousands of drone service providers to avail these Kisan drone loans in quick time.” He added, “AIF has a target to facilitate loans up to ₹1 lakh crore into the Agri Infra ecosystem and recently we crossed ₹10,000 crore”.
After receiving the loan, the beneficiary Ram Kumar, one of the 25 drone service providers, said, “Kisan drones cover 25 acres per day for precision spraying operations, save pesticide usage by 70%, save water usage by 80% and I’m generating ₹1 lakh a month in revenue.”
“Ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the Garuda Kisan Drone yathra in February this year, where he flew 100 drones simultaneously in 100 villages across the country, our goal has been to get loan approval sanctioned for our type certified Kisan Drones” said Agnishwar Jayaprakash, Founder and CEO of Garuda Aerospace. “Garuda Aerospace has already pre-booked over 2,500 drones and will manufacture 1 lakh Made in India Kisan Drones by 2024,” he added.
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Biden tests positive for COVID-19 in ‘rebound’ case, returns to isolation
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again Saturday, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug.
White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a letter that Biden “has experienced no reemergence of symptoms, and continues to feel quite well.”
In accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, Biden will reenter isolation for least five days. The agency says most rebound cases remain mild and that severe disease during that period has not been reported.
Word of Biden’s positive test came just two hours after the White House announced a presidential visit to Michigan this coming Tuesday to highlight the passage of a bill to promote domestic high-tech manufacturing. Biden had also been scheduled to visit his home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sunday morning, where first lady Jill Biden has been staying while the president was positive. Both trips have been canceled as Biden has returned to isolation.
Biden, 79, was treated with the anti-viral drug Paxlovid, and tested negative for the virus on Tuesday and Wednesday. He was then cleared to leave isolation while wearing a mask indoors. His positive tests puts him among the minority of those prescribed the drug to experience a rebound case of the virus.
While Biden was testing negative, he returned to holding in-person indoor events and meetings with staff at the White House and was wearing a mask, in accordance with CDC guidelines. But the president removed his mask indoors when delivering remarks on Thursday and during a meeting with CEOs on the White House complex.
Asked why Biden appeared to be breaching CDC protocols, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “They were socially distanced. They were far enough apart. So we made it safe for them to be together, to be on that stage.”
Regulators are still studying the prevalence and virulence of rebound cases, but the CDC in May warned doctors that it has been reported to occur within two days to eight days after initially testing negative for the virus.
“Limited information currently available from case reports suggests that persons treated with Paxlovid who experience COVID-19 rebound have had mild illness; there are no reports of severe disease,” the agency said at the time.
When Biden was initially released from isolation on Wednesday, O’Connor said the president would “increase his testing cadence” to catch any potential rebound of the virus.
White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told reporters on Monday that “the clinical data suggests that between 5 and 8 percent of people have rebound” after Paxlovid treatment.
Paxlovid has been proven to significantly reduce severe disease and death among those most vulnerable to COVID-19. U.S. health officials have encouraged those who test positive to consult their doctors or pharmacists to see if they should be prescribed the treatment, despite the rebound risk.
Biden is fully vaccinated, after getting two doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine shortly before taking office, a first booster shot in September and an additional dose on March 30.
While patients who have recovered from earlier variants of COVID-19 have tended to have high levels of immunity to future reinfection for 90 days, Jha said that the BA.5 subvariant that infected Biden has proven to be more “immune-evasive.”
“We have seen lots of people get reinfected within 90 days,” he said, adding that officials don’t yet have data on how long those who have recovered from the BA.5 strain have protection from reinfection.
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