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BEIRUT (AP) — Part of Beirut's port silos, damaged in the 2020 explosion, collapses after a weekslong fire caused by leftover grains.
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ABU DHABI, UAE, July 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Abu Dhabi Media (ADM), UAE's leading public service broadcaster and media company, and STARZPLAY, MENA region's fastest growing SVOD service, have secured exclusive rights to stream premium Italian League ("Serie A"), "Coppa Italia" (Italy Cup), and "Supercoppa Italiana" (Italian Super Cup), for next three seasons beginning this year.
The Italian Football Federation granted rights after a competitive bid by ADM and STARZPLAY to win rights to broadcast the European league to offer football fans best quality viewing at highest broadcasting standards.
STARZPLAY's reach of over 2.1 million regional subscribers will offer "Serie A" clubs' maximum visibility to grow the brand across a population of 400 million people. The deal is an example of a successful partnership between ADM and STARZPLAY.
Haitham Al Kathiri, Acting Executive Director, Abu Dhabi TV Network, said: "AD Sports' acquisition of the exclusive broadcast rights to Italian League (Serie A), Italy Cup (Coppa Italia) and Italian Super Cup (Supercoppa Italiana) confirms our leading position, and highlights our technical expertise and media portfolio. We look forward to broadcasting the competitions in partnership with STARZPLAY, which is enjoyed by millions of football fans around the world."
Danny Bates, Chief Commercial Officer, STARZPLAY, said: "Sports in the OTT space is a huge focus for us, and we have been investing in the live sports category over the last year with our platform witnessing an impressive subscription growth. As part of our long-term strategy, we are building this content category into one of our core products, offering the best in sports entertainment to subscribers across the region. With our stellar technical and customer support, STARZPLAY today is undoubtedly the best positioned platform to seize this incredible opportunity."
"Serie A" will be core to STARZPLAY's sport offering which will encompass other premium international and regional assets-AFC, UFC, Abu Dhabi Sport channels and FIFA events like the recent FIFA Club World Cup hosted in Abu Dhabi.
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RONALD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A SUV driven by a suspected drunken driver struck a group of bicyclists who were participating in a charity event in western Michigan, killing two men and severely injuring at least three others, authorities said.
The vehicle crossed a center line in Ionia County and hit the bicyclists on a rural road Saturday, the sheriff’s office said.
“The impact caused critical injuries to all the cyclists, and emergency responders worked diligently to preserve the lives of the victims,” the sheriff’s office said.
Two men died. The three survivors had severe injuries. All were from the eastern side of the state.
They were participating in a three-day endurance ride for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the sheriff’s office said.
The driver was taken to the county jail. No names were released.
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‘Community is irrelevant’ to developers who have tried to exploit Chinatown
It’s so cliche to say “here we go again” but when it comes to Philadelphia Chinatown, since the 1970s it’s been on constant, almost predictable, repeat.
In 2000, we fought off a baseball stadium. In 2008, we did it again and fought off a casino. What the 76ers, Adelman, and the billionaires and city officials who came before them fail to recognize is that Chinatown will fight for its survival.
We view the 76er’s proposed arena a block away from our beloved neighborhood as a threat to the continued existence of Chinatown. One need only look as far as DC and the Capital One Arena to see how Chinatowns have been decimated. This is why offers of “community benefits” will not buy off the resistance of our community.
In a city of neighborhoods, the sense of community has always been an important part of Philadelphia’s unique character. Chinatown represents an increasingly rare phenomenon – a community in the deepest sense of the word. A place that is not only defined by geography but by memory and relationships.
When my son was young, he studied kung fu and Beijing Opera in Chinatown. Once, I saw him buying candy from the corner store there. He told me “My favorite place to be is Chinatown. I know everyone there. I can walk around and hang out. Everyone knows I’m a lion dancer and the old people all smile at me. The guy in the laundromat always gives me candy and he knows my Chinese name.”
Real communities like Chinatown support and sustain relationships. Those relationships nurture the understanding of our responsibility to, and dependence on, one another.
Children growing up with a sense of connection somewhere have roots deeply planted in a place where they know who they are. A place they call home. Community is why my son preferred to buy his candy in Chinatown, even though he could have bought much more with his meager allowance at Walmart.
City power brokers live under the illusion that stadiums, mega malls, and casinos can fuel revitalization. They place behemoth developments in residential communities destroying the fabric that has held people together over generations. These policies reflect a “profit before people” mentality that has destroyed communities across the globe.
When these schemes don’t pan out economically, and the billionaires have squeezed as much profit as they can, they just move on to other people and other places. Community is irrelevant.
What would our city look like if the economic development model we used recognized the value of permanent residential communities in Philadelphia? What if we held the health and safety of people and places in equal regard to the needs of rich developers? What if we believed that investments in our communities were the key to revitalization?
In 2000, Chinatown fought off a baseball stadium. Since that time, Chinatown has tended to its own development – development toward a healthy community. In the footprint and shadow of what would have been the stadium, we built a national blue ribbon public charter school, a park, an Asian arts center, a church annex, a community center, and new affordable housing.
Whose vision should shape the direction of the city for the next ten years? Communities of memory and place are the heart and soul of cities like Philadelphia. Knowing that there is something bigger than yourself is part of what makes a community live.
In Chinatown, we know the responsibility that comes with relationships. It is that responsibility that has fueled our determination. It is that responsibility that brings activists from high school youth to grandparents together to do what we have always done – through love, teach each other the power of resistance.
Chinatown serves as the cultural and spiritual home for thousands of Asian Americans. There are residents, workers, and business owners to be sure. And every week scores of people come – to shop, to eat, to connect with old friends, to worship, to play, to study. People mark major life events in Chinatown. Birthdays. Graduations. Weddings. Funerals. All feel Chinatown is home.
We will take on the billionaire team owners and developers. When we fight for our community – a low-income, immigrant enclave of color – we fight for our elders and for our children. We fight for the relationships carefully nurtured over time. We fight for a cultural and spiritual center that sustains our identities as Asian Americans.
We fight for a vision that sees the power and possibilities of this city’s own communities. We fight though we know as Asian Americans we have been ignored and written off.
The pandemic has hurt many. Chinatown — its people and their livelihoods were particularly affected. We have seen how economic development that benefits rich corporations over the needs of communities has laid waste across our city. It is the last thing Chinatown needs. It is the last thing our city needs. So we will fight.
Like all Philadelphians, we love our Sixers — and even they know a defense that bends but doesn’t break is key to winning a game. And we haven’t broken, ever.
Debbie Wei is a founder of Asian Americans United, the Chinatown Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School. For more information on the struggle, contact Asian Americans United at (215) 925-1538. | https://whyy.org/articles/community-is-irrelevant-to-developers-who-have-tried-to-exploit-chinatown/ | 2022-07-31T15:51:39Z | https://whyy.org/articles/community-is-irrelevant-to-developers-who-have-tried-to-exploit-chinatown/ | false |
HINDMAN, Ky. (AP) — The number of deaths from massive flooding in Kentucky climbed to 26 on Sunday and several dozen people remained missing amid a renewed threat of more heavy rain.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that the death toll had risen by one since Saturday from last week’s storms.
Beshear has said the number would likely rise significantly and it could take weeks to find all the victims. As many as 37 people were unaccounted for, according to a daily briefing from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
On top of that, more flash flooding was possible in portions of Appalachia on Sunday and Monday as the latest storms roll through, the National Weather Service said. Rainfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour were possible in some of the same areas that were inundated last week.
A dozen shelters were open for flood victims in Kentucky with 388 occupants on Sunday, according to FEMA.
Beshear said state police were taking calls from worried people who can’t locate loved ones due to spotty cell phone service.
“We still can’t get into some areas to check on people,” Beshear said. “We’re doubling our National Guard. We’re going to work to go door to door, work to find, again, as many people as we can. We’re even going to work through the rain. But the weather is complicating it.”
On an overcast morning in downtown Hindman, about 200 miles (322 kilometers) southeast of Louisville, a crew cleared debris piled along storefronts. Nearby, a vehicle was perched upside down in Troublesome Creek, now back within its debris-littered banks.
With the threat of more rain, workers toiled nonstop through mud-caked sidewalks and roads.
“We’re going to be here unless there’s a deluge,” said Tom Jackson, who is among the workers.
Jackson was with a crew from Corbin, Kentucky, where he’s the city’s recycling director, about a two-hour drive from Hindman.
His crew worked all day Saturday, and the mud and debris were so thick that they managed to clear one-eighth of a mile of roadway. The water had rushed off the hillsides had so much force that it bent road signs.
“I’ve never seen water like this,” Jackson said.
In Knott County, Teresa Perry Reynolds’ home was inundated with water and mud. She and her husband would have taken refuge in their 44-foot travel trailer, but it was swamped by the floodwater.
“I have the clothes on my back,” she said Saturday when asked what they could salvage.
They found her husband’s wallet after searching a day and a half. It was left behind as they escaped the fast-rising water Thursday and went to a neighbor’s house. A team of volunteers hauled debris out of her house Saturday.
She and her husband are staying with friends. She’s a retired teacher and her husband is a retired school administrator.
“All I know is I’m homeless and I’ve got people taking care of me,” she said.
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. About 13,000 utility customers in Kentucky remained without power Sunday, poweroutage.us reported.
President Joe Biden declared a federal disaster to direct relief money to more than a dozen Kentucky counties.
Last week’s flooding extended to West Virginia, where Gov. Jim Justice declared a state of emergency for six southern counties, and to Virginia, where Gov. Glenn Youngkin also made an emergency declaration that enabled officials to mobilize resources across the flooded southwest portion of the state.
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LONDON (AP) — Two people are running to be Britain’s next prime minister, but a third presence looms over the contest: Margaret Thatcher.
The late former prime minister dominated Britain in the 1980s, and has left a large and contested legacy. Critics see her as an intransigent ideologue whose free-market policies frayed social bonds and gutted the country’s industrial communities. But for the governing Conservative Party, Thatcher is an icon, an inspiration and the presiding spirit who made Britain fit for the modern era.
In the race to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative leader and prime minister, both Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak claim to embody the values of Thatcher, who died in 2013 at 87.
Asked who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Both candidates unhesitatingly say Thatcher. Sunak made a key speech in the late leader’s hometown of Grantham, declaring himself a proponent of “common-sense Thatcherism,” while his wife and children took selfies in front of the Iron Lady’s bronze statue.
Truss talks about her own modest origins, inviting comparisons to grocer’s daughter Thatcher, and adopts poses and outfits — bold blue dresses, pussy-bow blouses — that echo the distinctive style of Britain’s first female prime minister.
Historian Richard Vinen of King’s College London says Truss is an “Instagram Thatcher.”
Victoria Honeyman, associate professor of British politics at the University of Leeds, says Thatcher is “a talisman” for Conservatives. Robert Saunders, a historian of modern Britain at Queen Mary University of London, believes “she has become a creature of myth.”
“Like Thor’s hammer, Thatcher’s handbag can bestow godlike powers on those deemed worthy to lift it,” Saunders wrote on the Unherd website.
In one sense, the Thatcher fixation is easily explained. She led the Conservatives to three successive election victories and was never defeated at the ballot box. She was eventually brought down — like Johnson — by her own party, ousted in 1990 after 11 years in power.
“Every Conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher has failed,” said Vinen, author of the book “Thatcher’s Britain.”
John Major lost the party power in 1997, and the three leaders after him kept the Tories in opposition. Prime Minister David Cameron gambled on a 2016 referendum that, against his wishes, took Britain out of the European Union. His successor Theresa May was defeated by Brexit infighting, and Johnson has been given the boot by Conservative lawmakers after months of ethics scandals.
Thatcher’s decade in power, through war and peace, boom and bust, also offers rich pickings for acolytes to choose from. She was a wartime leader who defeated Argentina over the Falkland Islands, a democrat who stood up to the Soviet Union and saw the Cold War end, a union-bashing capitalist who unleashed the power of the financial markets.
“You can basically cherry-pick what you want,” Honeyman said.
That selective memory is at work when today’s Conservatives, who are overwhelmingly pro-Brexit, say Thatcher would have supported the decision to leave the EU. Vinen says “it’s almost sacrilegious” to point it out, but “Thatcher was actually pro-European for most of her time in office.”
Thatcher’s economic legacy is also contested. Truss and Sunak both claim to be offering Thatcherite economics, but their policies are very different. Truss says she will boost borrowing and cut taxes immediately to ease Britain’s cost-of-living crisis, while Sunak says it’s vital to get the country’s soaring inflation rate under control first.
Both can point to decisions Thatcher made in support of their stances, although Vinen thinks Sunak’s inflation-busting focus is closer to Thatcher economically.
“She (didn’t) believe that you can lower tax unless you cut spending,” he said.
Britain’s new leader will be elected by about 180,000 members of the Conservative Party, many of whom regard Thatcher as a heroine. Millions of other British voters remember her differently.
Thatcher privatized state-owned industries, sold off public housing and defeated Britain’s coal miners after a bitter, year-long strike. Under her leadership, industries shut and millions were thrown out of work, especially in the north of England.
Johnson, whose Conservative hero is Winston Churchill rather than Thatcher, secured a huge election victory in 2019 by winning over voters in northern England’s post-industrial towns who had never considered supporting the Conservatives before.
Honeyman said that Johnson’s successor would be wise not to laud Thatcher too loudly if they hope to hang onto those northern districts, where people still talk about the closure of factories and mines “and about the impact that that had upon their communities, about the way it fractured people’s lives.”
“This isn’t ancient history for some of these people,” she said. “This is their lived experience.”
Those memories are not so vivid for the 47-year-old Truss, who was a teenager when Thatcher left office. Sunak, now 42, was just 10 years old in 1990.
But 84-year-old Conservative veteran Norman Fowler, who served in Thatcher’s government and later served as speaker of the House of Lords, warned the candidates against “overdoing it” with the Iron Lady worship.
“I was in her Cabinet, shadow and real, for 15 years,” Fowler told Times Radio. “Even I wouldn’t say that she was perfect in every way. And therefore, the party need not model itself entirely upon her. So I would give it a rest.”
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A previous version of this story incorrectly said Norman Fowler was speaker of the House of Lords. He retired in 2021.
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FROM THE ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2022
Top Tier Clinicians and Researchers Find the Tests Are:
- Full of Revolutionary Potential
- Valuable Now For Research and Treatment Trials
- Not Ready Yet for the Healthcare Provider's Office
CHICAGO and SAN DIEGO, July 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alzheimer's disease blood biomarkers (BBMs) may revolutionize the diagnosis of Alzheimer's in the future, but are not yet ready for widespread use, according to a newly-published article by leading international clinicians and researchers convened by the Alzheimer's Association®. At the same time, they are important and valuable for current research trials and cautious initial use in specialized memory clinics.
"Blood-based markers show promise for improving, and possibly even redefining, the diagnostic work-up for Alzheimer's," said Maria C. Carrillo, Ph.D., Alzheimer's Association chief science officer and a co-author of the article. "Remarkable progress has been made, but additional data are needed before BBMs can be used as a stand-alone test for diagnosis, and before considering broad use in primary care settings."
"In this article, the expert workgroup clearly defines both short- and long-term research priorities needed to fill significant knowledge gaps that still exist, such as how well these blood-based markers work in diverse communities and in those living with multiple health conditions," Carrillo added. "Also included are consensus appropriate use recommendations for use of BBMs in the clinic and in research trials."
"The Alzheimer's Association Appropriate Use Recommendations for Blood Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease," by Oskar Hansson, M.D., Ph.D., et al, is published online today by Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. The recommendations will be reported today and tomorrow at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference® (AAIC®) 2022 in San Diego and online.
"Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's are already improving the design of clinical trials, and they are very likely to revolutionize the diagnosis of Alzheimer's in the future," said Oskar Hansson, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases at Lund University and Skane University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden, and first author on the newly published article. "That said, the implementation of such markers in trials and practice must be done in a careful and controlled way so as not to accidentally cause more harm than good. Much more research is needed before widespread clinical use of BBMs."
According to the article, BBMs show "great promise" — especially markers for Alzheimer's-related brain changes related to nerve cell damage/death, and tau and beta amyloid accumulation — for "future use in both clinical practice and trials. However, few prospective studies have investigated the implementation of such BBMs in more heterogeneous populations."
Not ready for "prime time"
The workgroup points out that no studies have extensively evaluated BBMs for neurodegenerative diseases in primary care, and calls for "well-performed BBM studies in diverse primary care populations." Such studies should also evaluate the impact of BBMs on diagnostic accuracy and change in patient management.
In addition, use of BBMs for general population risk screening and as direct-to-consumer risk tests are not recommended.
The workgroup also says that BBMs should not yet be used as primary endpoints in pivotal treatment trials. However, this does not preclude the use of certain BBMs for decision making in clinical trials with adaptive design, where they could be used to inform decisions on continuing a trial or not.
Many current uses
There are current uses for Alzheimer's BBMs, according to the workgroup. For example, they "recommend use of BBMs as (pre-)screeners to identify individuals likely to have Alzheimer's pathological changes for inclusion in trials evaluating disease-modifying therapies, provided Alzheimer's status is confirmed with positron emission tomography (PET) or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) testing."
BBMs can be used as exploratory outcomes in most clinical trials in Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative dementias. In non-Alzheimer's trials, BBMs can be used to identify patients who likely have Alzheimer's-related brain changes, if that is a condition of exclusion from the study.
"We also recommend cautiously starting use of BBMs in specialized memory clinics as part of the diagnostic work-up of patients already experiencing cognitive symptoms, as long as the results are confirmed whenever possible with CSF or PET, which are the current reference standards," said Charlotte E. Teunissen, M.D., Ph.D., head of the Neurochemistry Laboratory at Amsterdam University Medical Centers, the Netherlands and senior author on the article.
"The implementation of BBMs in primary care will likely take a much longer time because there are very few relevant and high-quality research studies on Alzheimer's-related BBMs conducted in this setting, but more prospective studies are expected to launch in the coming years," Teunissen added.
Establishing the path for BBMs in research
The appropriate use recommendations (AURs) provide specific guidance for current use of, and research needed on, the four most advanced types of Alzheimer's plasma biomarkers: plasma amyloid-beta 42/ amyloid-beta 40 (Aβ42/Aβ40), phospho-tau (p-tau), neurofilament light (NfL), and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), as well as potential combinations of markers. For example, the need for:
- Real-world studies on the robustness of plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 as a diagnostic test for cerebral Aβ pathology.
- Head-to-head studies comparing the performance of different forms of p-tau in different clinical contexts and across disease stages.
Most important and enlightening are the recommendations repeated by the authors throughout the AURs or those they say apply across the biomarkers, including:
- Perform prospective studies in primary care settings, including representative and diverse populations with cognitive symptoms. Evaluate the causes of false positives and negatives; the reference standard must be of high quality and preferably include CSF or PET.
- Study whether BBMs outperform what is already available today in primary care, and if they also improve diagnosis and management, including treatment decisions.
- [Gain] better understanding of biological and disease-associated variability and potential impact of medical comorbidities and concomitant medications.
- [Learn whether] certain BBM-based algorithms can be used alone to support an Alzheimer's diagnosis, or should they only be used as a gatekeeper to CSF/PET.
- Eventually (a) perform head-to-head comparisons of different plasma biomarker assays, and (b) establish the most optimal combinations of easily accessible biomarkers.
Defining the need
According to the workgroup, about 25-30% of patients with a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's dementia are misdiagnosed when assessed at specialized dementia clinics, and the accuracy of clinical diagnosis is similar or even lower for other dementias, including frontotemporal dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies and vascular dementia. In fact, in most countries, most patients with cognitive or behavioral symptoms are managed in primary care where the misdiagnosis is even higher. The problem is especially acute in the earliest stages of the disease.
"There is a great global need for accurate BBM-based diagnostic and prognostic algorithms that can substantially improve the accuracy of a diagnostic work-up of Alzheimer's, particularly in the early stages of the disease," said Reisa Sperling, M.D., professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, and a co-author of the article.
The established CSF and PET measures have excellent diagnostic properties, but are less useful outside very specialized clinics due to limited accessibility, invasiveness (e.g., CSF measures require a lumbar puncture, and PET requires infusion of stable isotopes and exposure to radiation) and high costs. This precludes use of CSF and PET biomarkers in most primary and secondary care settings worldwide.
"A major benefit of the use of blood-based biomarkers is that the collection of blood is less invasive and likely less costly than CSF or neuroimaging markers, and more feasible for primary care practitioners," said Adam Boxer, M.D., Ph.D., Endowed Professor in Memory in Aging at the Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco and a co-author of the article. "This may enable earlier and more equitable referral of individuals to dementia specialists and participation in clinical trials of potential new therapies."
For full disclosures from all authors, please see the published article.
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Journal of the Alzheimer's Association bridges the knowledge gaps across a wide range of bench-to-bedside investigations. Content emphasizes interdisciplinary investigations and integrative/translational articles related to: etiology, risk factors, early detection, disease modifying interventions, prevention of dementia and applications of new technologies in health services.
About the Alzheimer's Association International Conference® (AAIC®)
The Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) is the world's largest gathering of researchers from around the world focused on Alzheimer's and other dementias. As a part of the Alzheimer's Association's research program, AAIC serves as a catalyst for generating new knowledge about dementia and fostering a vital, collegial research community.
AAIC 2022 home page: www.alz.org/aaic/
AAIC 2022 newsroom: www.alz.org/aaic/pressroom.asp
AAIC 2022 hashtag: #AAIC22
About the Alzheimer's Association®
The Alzheimer's Association is a worldwide voluntary health organization dedicated to Alzheimer's care, support and research. Our mission is to lead the way to end Alzheimer''s and all other dementia — by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support. Our vision is a world without Alzheimer''s and all other dementia®. Visit alz.org or call 800.272.3900.
At AAIC 2022, the talk on The Alzheimer's Association Appropriate Use Recommendations for Blood Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease will be held during the developing topics session on Sunday, July 31, 2022 starting at 8 a.m. PT. They will also be discussed briefly as part of the symposium titled, "The Road To Clinical Implementation Of Plasma Biomarkers," on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. PT.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees star Aaron Judge became the second-fastest player in major league history to reach 200 career home runs with a two-run drive in the second inning for New York against the Kansas City Royals on Saturday.
The 6-foot-7 slugger, who became the first player in the majors this season to reach 40 homers Friday, fouled off two breaking balls from starter Jonathan Heasley before sending a 2-2 fastball into the right-center field seats.
Judge’s 200th homer came in his 671st career game, behind just Philadelphia’s Ryan Howard, who achieved the feat in 2009 in 658 games.
Judge has 42 homers this season and is on pace for 67. He is tied with Sammy Sosa and two behind Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire for the most before Aug. 1 in MLB history. Bonds holds the season record with 73 homers in 2001.
A free agent at the end of the season, Judge has nine homers and 21 RBIs with a .447 batting average in 10 games since the All-Star break. After hitting just one homer in his first 13 games, Judge has connected for 36 over his last 79 games and remains on pace to surpass Roger Maris’ club record of 61, set in 1961. He is the 18th Yankee to reach the career milestone.
Judge hit a career-high 52 homers while winning AL Rookie of the Year in 2017.
Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber is second in the majors with 32. Houston slugger Yordan Alvarez is the only player this season to reach 30 this season.
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LONDON (AP) — England manager Sarina Wiegman named an unchanged starting lineup for the European Championship final against Germany on Sunday, keeping up her streak of picking the same starting 11 for all of England's soccer games in the tournament.
Wiegman kept Ellen White as striker despite substitute Alessia Russo having scored four goals off the bench so far at Euro 2022.
Germany coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg stayed with the same lineup from the 2-1 win over France in the semifinals. Jule Brand keeps her place on the left wing after replacing Klara Bühl for the France game when Bühl tested positive for the coronavirus.
Germany said Bühl has tested negative and will be able to watch the game in the stadium, though she isn't in the squad.
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Lineups:
England: Leah Williamson (captain), Millie Bright, Lucy Bronze, Rachel Daly, Mary Earps, Lauren Hemp, Fran Kirby, Beth Mead, Georgia Stanway, Keira Walsh, Ellen White.
Germany: Alexandra Popp (captain), Jule Brand, Sara Däbritz, Merle Frohms, Giulia Gwinn, Marina Hegering, Kathrin-Julia Hendrich, Svenja Huth, Lina Magull, Lena Oberdorf, Felicitas Rauch.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary — Formula One champion Max Verstappen overcame a spin and his worst starting spot of the season to win the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday. His eighth win of the season pushed Verstappen’s lead to 80 points over Charles Leclerc as F1 heads into its midseason break.
Carlos Sainz Jr. finished fourth in another disastrous day for Ferrari. Leclerc was sixth, one spot behind Sergio Perez of Red Bull.
Verstappen’s eighth win of the season was the 28th of the Dutchman’s career.
“Who would have thought when we woke up today we’d get this result? Amazing,” Verstappen told his team, letting out a laugh. “I was battling a lot of guys and it was a lot of fun out there. That was a crazy race but (we) stayed calm and we won.”
He qualified a season-worst 10th because of a loss of power on Saturday, then in Sunday’s race Verstappen did a 360-degree spin.
“Unbelievable Max, that is right up there with your best,” Red Bull team principal Christian Horner replied. “Fantastic.”
Russell, who started from the pole for the first time in his career, led 30 laps until Leclerc passed him on the outside as dark clouds rolled over the Hungaroring circuit and a light rain began to fall.
With Leclerc leading, Verstappen undercut for quicker tires. Ferrari made a mistake in choosing the more durable hard tires for Leclerc.
“These tires are (expletive),” Leclerc said.
Moments later, Verstappen lost grip and spun on track, allowing Sainz to take the lead from Hamilton. Leclerc passed Verstappen, only to lose position soon after because Verstappen had faster tires.
“It was very tricky conditions out there but we had a really good strategy,” Verstappen said. “We were really reactive, always pitting at the right time. Even with the 360 we still won.”
Ferrari’s strategy woes just won’t go away. Leclerc has seen two nailed-on wins disappear — at the Monaco GP and the British GP — after team calls dropped him down from a dominant position into fourth place.
Ferrari botched Sainz’s next tire stop on Lap 47, taking too long to fit his rear left tire. Hamilton stayed out but was losing time to Verstappen as the rain increased.
Leclerc, who crashed when leading the French Grand Prix last week, came in for a third tire change on Lap 55.
Lando Norris finished seventh for McLaren, Fernando Alonso was eighth and his Alpine teammate Esteban Ocon was ninth. Sebastian Vettel of Aston Martin was 10th.
After a month-long break the season resumes with a triple header in Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy.
“For both cars to be on the podium is really special for us. The other guys have an edge but we’re clearly closing the gap,” Hamilton said. “Hopefully we’ll bring more into the second half of the season and start fighting with the guys at the front.”
AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly started from the pit lane after being penalized for multiple engine-part changes and finished 12th.
McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo showed some of his old form with a great double overtake on Ocon and Alonso approaching midway through the race, celebrating with an exuberant expletive.
But Ricciardo wasn’t laughing later on as the Australian driver got a five-second time penalty for clipping Lance Stroll’s Aston Martin and sending him off track. Ricciardo placed a lowly 15th.
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Each week, we feature dozens of Central Illinois children's thoughts and drawings on various topics. Have a suggestion? email your drawings and topic responses to flyinghorse@pantagraph.com; include your student's name, grade level and school (or if the student is home-schooled). Flying Horse appears online and in print every Sunday.
Dogs, cats and hamsters: My favorite animals are dogs, cats and hamsters. I like dogs because they are fluffy. I like hamsters because they are warm. I also like cats because they are fun and at last my kind of favorite animals are monkeys because they are also fun.
Jordan Flores Lepe
Grade 3, Bent
Athena the dog: My dog Athena is an Akita. We got her the day after Christmas Day!
Josey Baird
Grade 3, Calvary
A golden retriever: I don’t have any pets, but I really want a dog, which is my favorite animal. If I had a dog it would be a golden retriever.
Sienna Rowe
Grade 5, Calvary
Tilly the kitty: My pet is amazing! It is a female and loves to follow anyone around. Her name is Tilly, but one time we were almost going to name her Cannon Ball! She runs around like a dog almost, and loves to exercise. As you know cats love food; Tilly would eat it all day every day!
Cece Funk
Grade 4, Centennial
Dogs: My favorite animal is a dog because I have a dog named Bella.
Finley Uhren
Grade 2, Corpus Christi
How I would take care of a hamster: Here are three ways I would take care of my hamster. I would get my hamster from Petco and name her Oreo. I would get a cage for my hamster. I would get an orange cage and water, food and a hamster wheel. I would get a black and white hamster.
Wyatt Hoeft
Grade 3, Delavan
A seal: My favorite animal is a seal. I like seals because they do tricks.
Gianna Robson
Grade 1, Epiphany
A man's best friend: Animals, don’t we all love them? They may not understand us, but it’s always nice to have someone to talk to or something to talk to like dogs. A man’s best friend; they only understand a few words such as ball, play, lay down, sit, stay, up, good girl (boy) and their names! I personally like cats and dogs equally.
Ann Willett
Grade 5, Epiphany
Narwhals and pandas: My favorite animals are a narwhal and a panda. The reason I like the panda is because it is so fun to draw! The reason I like the narwhal is because it has a unicorn horn.
Kate Litwiller
Grade 2, Glenn
Wookie and Orca Wave: My dog's name is Wookie and my fish’s name is Orca Wave. Wookie is 4 years old. She has a lot of energy and loves playing with her toys. She loves to lie with me. My fish is so cool looking. He is blue and a little bit purple. Orca Wave has a castle in his tank. Wookie is an American bulldog.
Audri McKee
Grade 3, Hudson
A bunny: My favorite animal is a bunny. Bunnies are cute and cuddly. If I had a bunny I would name her Abby because it reminds me of my BFF. It would play with me. I want a girl.
Aubree Porter
Grade 2, Jefferson Park
Penguins: My favorite animal is a penguin because they are fluffy and cozy. The baby penguin is cute and fluffier than the big ones. The best part about penguins is when they swim; it's so cute. I love big penguins and baby penguins too. I want to go meet them soon.
Sarah Castaneda
Grade 2, Oakdale
Potbellied pigs: I love potbellied pigs! They are mischievous and intelligent animals that just need to be loved. Also people need to realize there is more to them than just their meat. My obsession started around my 7th birthday when my mom and dad took me to Utah to see my mom's aunt and her farm. That is where I first met the cutest animal ever born, a piglet.
Sylvia Rucker
Grade 5, Prairieland
Cats: Cats are my favorite animals. They are playful and cuddly. I also have a cat. They are so cute and nice.
Analia Castro-Krutke
Grade 5, St. Mary's
Pets are good for people: Pets are really good for people in need like dogs; they help people in need. Cats, they see things we don’t see. Birds, when they get scared they flap their wings really fast. Snakes use their sharp teeth to scare people away.
Miyah Rushing
Grade 3, Sheridan
Flamingos, sharks and tigers: My first favorite animal is a flamingo. My second favorite animal is a shark. My last favorite is a tiger.
Jeremiah Simmons
Grade 2, Stevenson
Pet dog: My favorite pet is a dog. My favorite pet is a dog because it is funny, friendly and because I have a pet dog. His name is Teddy. Teddy is 4 years old. So, my favorite animal is a dog.
Madelyn Castaneda Sanchez
Grade 3, Bent
Loves animals: I love animals and I have a lot of pets! I have five fish; a 1-year-old chow chow; a beagle; and another dog, but I don’t know his breed. I also have a deaf pit bull and an Australian shepherd. Here are some of my stepsiblings' pets. One has a leopard gecko, a cockatiel and a snake. Last but not least, I have a red-eared slider.
Anna Schenk
Grade 5, Calvary
Norma the cat: I am going to talk about my cat Norma and me. Norma and I are best friends. She was my first friend ever. Norma always snuggles on me. She is playful and she loves me back. To take care of a cat, this is what you have to do: Give it water, feed it, give it attention and love it! You have to take care of it.
Molly McCoy
Grade 3, Delavan
Polar bears: I do not like any animals, but the only kind of animal I like a little is a polar bear, but just a bit. I do not like any other animals. But I never go next to polar bears. I only like how it looks.
Annebelle Imobekhai
Grade 1, Epiphany
Sugar gliders: My favorite animal is a sugar glider. If you don’t know what a sugar glider is, it is a nocturnal animal. During the day, domestic sugar gliders sleep in pouches. In the night you should put your sugar gliders in a cage because in the night they are known to make barking noise. They are very social animals and are great pets.
Elsie Dietz
Grade 5, Epiphany
Lightning the hamster: So I have a hamster. His name is Lightning. Once he got out of his cage but we caught him. Hamsters are house pets. They have fur and big black eyes.
Kai Walker
Grade 3, Hudson
Joeys: Joeys are one of my favorite animals. Joeys are baby kangaroos. Did you know kangaroo’s long tails can help them balance? Some kangaroos that live in the forest can jump on trees. Joeys stay in their mom’s pouch.
Joey Borek
Grade 2, Jefferson Park
Snakes: My favorite animal is a snake. Some snakes are poisonous. They can be any color. They live on different parts of the Earth. My favorite animal is a tiger. They can roar! They are fast!
Jeffrey Mulumba
Grade 2, Oakdale
Otis the dog: Happiness is a warm puppy, or just any dog at all. My dog Otis is the best! Otis is always there when we need him. He is 17 and still prances everywhere. Although he can't hear, he still listens. Sometimes he groans to try to respond to whatever you're talking about. It's hysterical. He always steps on our stuff. He is very, very, clumsy.
Jack Highland
Grade 5, Prairieland
People dog: My dog Marley is a great dog; he is a boy. He is a couch potato, floor potato, and a people dog. He loves everyone. He barks sometimes at people if he doesn’t know them or doesn’t recognize them. My dog is the best pet in my life.
Amelia Tiemann
Grade 5, St. Mary's
A wolf: My favorite animal is a wolf because I have four huskies and they look like wolves. They are cute and I want to have lots of them so I can have a pet store.
Salvador Alvarez
Grade 3, Sheridan
Tigers: My favorite animal is a tiger. They can run up to 50 miles. They are really cool. I like the roar. They are predators; that means they eat meat. They are the biggest cats in the world!
Cairo Ferguson
Grade 2, Stevenson
Black cats: My favorite animal is a black cat and I have a black cat. It’s a she and her name is Lola.
Jonas Patino
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Americans under 40 are witnessing the highest inflation of their lifetimes. Not since the early 1980s have prices risen as fast as they have over the last 12 months. But young adults who are rattled by their first inflation rodeo may be able to draw on the experience of some older hands. Many of their parents lived through much larger price increases four decades ago. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.
SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: Jeanette Vecchio is feeling the pinch of inflation everywhere, from rising rent in Chicago to costly gasoline to a new charge on the bill at her local bistro.
JEANETTE VECCHIO: I just went to my favorite corner restaurant that has great bread and butter. They're now charging for bread and butter, and I was so devastated by it, but it's just another example of an increase across the board.
HORSLEY: Vecchio recently got married, and she'd like to buy a house one day, but she's worried about rising real estate prices and the threat of higher interest rates. Inflation is also affecting Vecchio's work. She's a project manager at a Chicago metal-works company that's been in her family for four generations. Over the last year, there have been times she's had to tell customers a price quote is only good through the end of the day.
J VECCHIO: We were holding our price for 24 hours - or less than 24 hours, because steel prices were increasing that rapidly.
HORSLEY: This is all new territory for Vecchio, who's 30 years old and has never seen prices this volatile at home or at work. Luckily, she can get some counsel from an older colleague at the company, who also happens to be her mom.
GINNY WENDT VECCHIO: Oh, yes (laughing).
HORSLEY: Ginny Wendt Vecchio is 66, and she has painful memories of inflation in the 1970s, when oil shocks made gasoline not only expensive but scarce.
G VECCHIO: I remember we had big cars then. You know, they were gas guzzlers. And you would be around the block waiting to fill up your car, and you couldn't fill it up all the way. That concerned me a lot.
HORSLEY: By 1980, the inflation rate topped 14%, double what it is today, and the Federal Reserve cracked down hard. The following year, mortgage rates soared above 18%. That's five times the cost of a home loan today.
G VECCHIO: We purchased a house in '86, and the interest rate was in the teens. My parents probably were scared to death. Could we make the mortgage? But it really didn't matter because I was probably young, and ignorance is bliss.
HORSLEY: Eventually, rates came down. And three and a half decades later, Ginny Vecchio still lives in that house, which is paid for. At home and in business, she's taught her children to be careful with their money.
G VECCHIO: Think before you spend - which is, I think it's hard, too, because everybody's online all the time and shopping. So it's just the press of a button.
HORSLEY: Ashley Gulke, who's 39 years old, has never known inflation this high before. Gulke lives in Minot, N.D., where the high temperature on Friday is expected to be 9 degrees.
ASHLEY GULKE: I don't even look at those heat bills. I mean, they're over 600 bucks a month for sure, but I don't even look at them. I just let my husband deal with that grief.
HORSLEY: Gulke's husband is a farmer, so he also has to deal with the rising cost of fertilizer and equipment. They have three kids who go through a lot of shampoo, so to avoid sending money down the drain, Gulke shops at the dollar store. But even dollar store shampoo now costs a dollar and a quarter.
A GULKE: I mean, it sounds so silly, but I remember my dad talking about the dime store, and I thought, were things really actually ever a dime? And now things aren't even actually a dollar.
HORSLEY: Ashley's dad is Jerry Gulke. At 77, he remembers not only dime stores, but the double-digit inflation of 40 years ago.
JERRY GULKE: The baggage that I bring to the party is that I've been there before, so each generation has to probably find their own way.
HORSLEY: Ultimately, the Federal Reserve did bring inflation under control in the '80s with those sky-high interest rates, but not before a deep recession. Jerry Gulke hopes the medicine this time around is less painful.
J GULKE: I'm just hoping that we're a lot smarter in the government and the Federal Reserve that we were back then, but economics 101 hasn't been repealed.
HORSLEY: To be sure, inflation is less entrenched now than it was four decades ago, and the rate hikes the Fed is contemplating are much less Draconian. Still, Ashley Gulke has internalized some of her father's caution.
A GULKE: He's kind of pounded into my head about the dangers of inflation. You know, you don't want to get stuck in a position where you can't make a payment because all of a sudden, interest rates go through the roof and then you lose everything you've been working for.
HORSLEY: It's hard to know whether today's high inflation is more nerve wracking for those going through it the first time or those for whom it's an echo of a painful past. Jeanette Vecchio does take some comfort from her mom's experience. My parents figured it out, she says, and we can, too.
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Texas suing USDA over requirement to add LGBTQ protections to nutrition programs’ nondiscrimination policies
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Attorney General Ken Paxton and more than 20 other attorneys general are challenging the federal Food and Nutrition Service’s new policy that recipients of food assistance funds update their nondiscrimination policies to protect LGBTQ people.
In May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it was expanding its interpretation of discrimination based on sex. As a result, state agencies and programs that receive funding from the Food and Nutrition Service were ordered to “investigate allegations of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation” and to update their policies to specifically prohibit discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.
Paxton and his counterparts claim the guidance issued by the USDA is “unlawful” because states were not consulted and did not have an opportunity to provide feedback, in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. They also argue that the USDA is misinterpreting the Supreme Court case Bostock v. Clayton County, which extended sexual discrimination in the workplace to include discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.
“[It] will inevitably result in regulatory chaos that threatens essential nutritional services to some of the most vulnerable citizens,” Paxton's office said in a press release.
Earlier this month, Paxton and others sent a letter to President Joe Biden arguing against the guidance issued by the USDA and asking him to withdraw it.
“USDA is committed to administering all its programs with equity and fairness, and serving those in need with the highest dignity. A key step in advancing these principles is rooting out discrimination in any form — including discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,” said Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack in the press release from May.
Tuesday’s lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of Tennessee Knoxville Division.
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Mineral water can supplier arrested for peddling drugs
The Byadarahalli police on Sunday arrested an 18-year-old supplier of mineral water cans and recovered 930 grams of marijuana and ₹1,400 from him.
The accused, Dhanush, was peddling drugs in the city along with his usual work to avoid undue attention. The police suspect that the accused is part of an inter-State racket and sourced the drugs from his contacts in a neighboring State and was peddling in the city.
The police have taken Dhanush into custody and are investigating to ascertain his network.
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The Pic du Midi (2877 m) is a starry sky international reserve in France, less than 300 km from Andorra (Pyrenees). Researchers and astronomers have been observing, deciphering and photographing the sky and planets ofthe most distant galaxies in this magical place for over 140 years. The observatory is very close to the Greenwich meridian. Thus, astronomy – the science of celestial bodies – has become an excellent area for the Iberian region.
Heaven’s secrets and daily wonders that were once reserved for a few privileged scholars are now available for everyone. You just need to climb the cable car from Mongie town, the Grand Tourmalet ski resort center, – and you are at the top of 2877 meters above sea level after 15 minutes.
Pic du Midi is in the top ten best places in the world for stargazing. British journalist Jamie Carter from Telegraph put Pic du Midi in sixth place in the top ten ranking of the best observatories in the world. Among the first three are the Fuerteventura Observatory in the Canary Islands, the Atacama Desert Observatory in Chile, and the Cuzco Planetarium in Peru.
In addition, the Pic du Midi is an open observation deck, a planetarium, a restaurant, and a hotel, as well as a unique place for freeriding and climbing a glacier.
In a joint interview, Rémi Cabanac (R.C.), Scientific Director of Pic du Midi, and Daniel Soucaze des Soucaze (D.S.), General Manager of Pic du Midi, told us about how this place combines the possibility of scientific research and tourism entertainment.
Interview: Irina Rybalchenko for El Periòdic News
What scientific significance does the Pic du Midi have today?
(R.C.) The Pic du Midi today covers various scientific fields: sciences of the universe, environment and life on Earth. In astronomy, it is about the origin of the solar system, the evolution of stars and their planetary systems through the observation of their magnetic structures, the observation of the sun and the observation of minor planets.
In aerology, studies focus on climate change, the impact of human activity on the troposphere, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, monitoring of microplastics, radioactive elements and human-source pollutants, but also the electrical phenomena in the stratosphere with the observation of sprites.
Inland, we study the tectonic movements of the Pyrenean chain.
In ecology, we are working on the ECTOPYR project, a study of the ecological upheavals caused by climate change.
In addition, we provide training missions through research for university students and host scientific and technical missions that require technical support at altitude.
You observe the sun from two domes: The Jean Rösch telescope and the Coronagraph. What can you say about the global diagnosis of solar activity?
(R.C.) Solar activity follows a 22-year cycle, which is observed with CLIMSO: low corona and disc. The acceleration phases of particles from the photosphere (a few thousand degrees) to the crown (a few million degrees) are still poorly known. A new instrument, the largest in the world, is in the assembly phase (C3),which allows us to better understand these phenomena.
The Jean Rösch telescope no longer makes scientific observations of the sun. It is used for student training.
How will the observatory evolve?
(R.C.) Over the next few years, the new Dauzère-Soler building will accommodate researchers for scientific workshops at the summit, students for training, a centralized control room for the telescopes at the summit, an enlarged environmental platform, a computer room modern, a conference room for 40 people and 30 new beds.
Will there be new telescopes?
(R.C.) A living observation site evolves in step with the needs of the community. For now, the community is using existing telescopes and building post-focal instruments (that are placed behind existing telescopes). A new telescope will likely be built in the coming years if the community wishes.
The aerologist community also has development projects.
How much investment is needed to develop infrastructure?
(R.C.) On the scientific side, the investments of recent years total more than 13 million euros: TBL instrumentation: SPIP (5 million euros), VISION windshield (1 million euros), Coronagraph: C3 (150,000 euros) and construction of the Dauzère-Soler building (7 million euros).
What is the annual amount of funding for the Pic du Midi?
(R.C.) On the scientific side, the operating cost is comparable to the salary cost of 40 state agents, technicians, engineers, administrators and researchers. It’s around 2 million euros/year.
Do climatologists work at the observatory?
(R.C.) The Pic du Midi is an observation site. The climatologists of the OMP (Paul Sabatier University) and the IPCC use the climatological observations of the summit (temperature, humidity, winds, greenhouse gases) for their models of global warming.
What are the main scientific topics that the international climate community is debating?
(R.C.) This question is too broad to answer. At the Pic du Midi, we are interested in our origins (birth of the solar system). Is there life outside of Earth in the universe? How will the climate change in the next decades? How will animal species acclimatize? Can we predict the solar flares observed with the coronagraph? Is human-source pollution on a global scale increasing?
How do you coordinate work with other major observatories around the world, in particular with the neighboring Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos?
(R.C.) The observatories of the world form a complementary network that observes jointly or independently and sometimes in targeted campaigns. Observatories in the Canary Islands (Roque de Los Muchachos, Teide), Chile (ESO, CTIO, etc.), Hawaii (CFHT) and space missions (GAIA, HST, JWST, Corot, TESS, etc.) are used in conjunction with the TBL or T1M on follow-up campaigns. It depends on the requests of the scientific teams.
Do you cooperate with universities? Which ones? And do you accept internship students?
(R.C.) Scientific research has been a globalized job since the beginning of science. The universities are in constant contact. The Paul Sabatier University welcomes researchers from all over the world and the Pic du Midi welcomes observers from all over the world. French universities have astronomy training programs that use Pic du Midi equipment. Scientific observations in service mode rely on students.
Please tell us about the tourist infrastructure (restaurant, hotel). How many tourists visited the Pic du Midi last year? What cultural and sporting events are planned this year?
(D.S.) We welcomed more than 96,000 visitors last year, despite months of closure due to Covid. Note that in 2019, 139,892 people climbed the Pic. We offer our customers a real daytime experience with the Pontoon in the Sky, the Experiences Area, the Planetarium, the Astronomer’s Dome, and the augmented reality visit with the Histopad.
Our panoramic restaurant Le 2 877 offers homemade cuisine with local products.
Every night, 27 privileged people discover the starry sky and the scientific installations.
We are eager to introduce the site to a wide audience andthis is why we organize concerts at the top. This year, we welcome Cock Robin, Lilly Wood andthe Prick or N’to to name a few. Success is on the way!
For winter, the Pic du Midi offers different lines of glacier climbing. Is this activity available for beginners? Is there a training service?
(D.S.) We opened a successful icefall last winter. Due to the notoriety of the Pic du Midi, the Pyrenees are a mecca for mountaineering. 25 meters long and 45 meters wide, the waterfall offers four different climbing lines. It is accessible to beginners provided they want to experience some sensations. This initiation is to be experienced with a mountain guide who provides all the equipment (helmet, crampons, ice axes, harness).
How do you plan to develop the site in the future?
(D.S.) From 2017 to 2020, the Pic du Midi experienced a tourist revolution with works worth €7 million. The objective is to give visitors a unique, unforgettable experience and to create real emotion.
Now it is the scientific side that is in full development as we have noted above. A scientific site lives only through the contribution of researchers who need it.
If the needs disappear, the site also disappears. The Pic du Midi seems to be useful to science for years to come and there is no shortage of development projects.
Listing the Pic as a UNESCO World Heritage Site would be one more step toward perpetuating the adventure of high-mountain observation.
Would you be interested in making a science film like with the BBC, for example?
(D.S.) Why not?! Film crews often approach us. We always try to answer them! | https://all-andorra.com/remi-cabanac-scientific-director-of-pic-du-midi-and-daniel-soucaze-des-soucaze-general-manager-of-pic-du-midi/ | 2022-07-31T16:28:05Z | https://all-andorra.com/remi-cabanac-scientific-director-of-pic-du-midi-and-daniel-soucaze-des-soucaze-general-manager-of-pic-du-midi/ | false |
Veteran defensive lineman Rogers added
The Giants added some bulk to their defensive line. About 350 pounds worth.
Veteran tackle Shaun Rogers signed with the team Thursday, just a few hours before the start of the draft. Rogers has played for the Lions, Browns and Saints in his 11-year career and was a three-time Pro Bowler. With the Giants, he'll add depth and veteran clout to the interior defensive line, which will include Chris Canty, Linval Joseph and Marvin Austin.
"I'm kind of honored and I appreciated them holding me in a regard enough to put me in along those guys," Rogers said of the Giants' defensive line. "Those guys are most definitely top-notch pass rushers, defensive linemen right now, especially in their prime. I'm just happy to be a part of that group. Those guys are going to help me out and hopefully I can help them out."
Rogers said the Saints told him they would not be bringing him back for 2012, and he contemplated retirement. Then the Giants came calling.
"I still most definitely feel that I can bring something to the table," he said. "I might not be exactly like I was in '06, but I still have some tricks and I still have some good push in me."
Life without Osi
Some Giants are starting to prepare for the possibility of life after Osi Umenyiora, just in case the defensive end is traded or decides to hold out for an extended period.
"If he's not around, it won't change anything," Michael Boley said at the ESPN the Magazine party Wednesday night in Manhattan. "We have a good group of guys. Obviously, having Osi there is great, but him not being there, it's not going to change. It's like the times that he's been hurt, nothing changed."
Jason Pierre-Paul said he agrees with Umenyiora's stance. "I would do the same thing," he said. | https://www.newsday.com/sports/football/giants/giants-sign-shaun-rogers-d59470 | 2022-07-31T16:29:30Z | https://www.newsday.com/sports/football/giants/giants-sign-shaun-rogers-d59470 | false |
Is a cooler table worth it?
When you’re relaxing on the patio doing absolutely nothing, the last thing you want to do is get up, run upstairs, go to the kitchen and grab a beverage. It just spoils the vibe. You want your cold beverage by your side.
When you’re trying to create an outdoor environment, the look can be as important as the function. That’s where cooler tables come in. They keep chilled beverages within reach while enhancing the decor of your outdoor living space.
What is a cooler table?
A cooler table is a hybrid. It is part cooler, part patio furniture. It is a dual-functioning item, like a storage ottoman, that not only serves a purpose but looks great doing so. You can store beverages, sandwiches, meat for grilling, condiments and more in this handy item. And if you need to move it to the shade as the sun arcs across the sky, many models have wheels that make that easily possible.
How does a cooler table work?
A cooler table works the same way as a cooler. The table has an insulated compartment that minimizes heat transfer. You add your beverages (or anything else you want to keep cold) and pour ice on top. The ice chills the air inside the cooler, helping your beverages stay cold for hours at a time.
What features should a cooler table have?
Capacity
Bigger isn’t always better. If you’re planning to use your cooler table for picnics and family gatherings, you’ll need a large model. However, if you’ll mostly use your cooler table for yourself and just a couple of friends, a smaller model is a better option. This is because the larger a cooler is, the harder it is to keep the items inside cold.
Ability to stay cool
Most cooler tables will be used for events or occasions, so they will need to keep your items chilled for several hours at the least. Make sure the model you are considering is insulated enough to do the job.
Additional storage
Most cooler tables have a bottom shelf that can store additional items that do not need to be chilled. This can be a handy place to keep cups, plates, napkins, utensils and more.
Built-in drain
When you are done with a regular cooler, you can just tip it over to dump out any leftover ice and water. You cannot easily do this with a cooler table because it is a piece of furniture. Look for a model with a built-in drain that doesn’t leak.
Bottle opener
If you will be chilling bottles, a cooler table with a built-in bottle opener will be appreciated. It can also help reduce cleanup, such as those stray bottle lids that never seem to make their way into the trash can.
Wheels
Not all cooler tables have wheels. If you want a model that can be moved easily from one location to another, locking wheels are essential.
Additional functionality
Some models have additional features, such as a foosball tabletop. While this is an excellent way to get even more functionality out of a cooler table, make sure everyone has their drinks before gameplay begins.
Appealing aesthetics
Even when your cooler table is not filled with chilled beverages, it will serve as furniture. Consider the design and purchase a model that fits in with your decor.
Best cooler tables
Outsunny Black Patio Cooler Cart with Foosball Table Top
This high-end cooler table is made of durable steel and features a built-in foosball tabletop to serve as entertainment as well. It can hold up to 60 cans or 50 bottles and has a bottle opener with a cap catcher on the side for convenience.
Sold by Home Depot
Permasteel 80-Quart Outdoor Rolling Cooler
This rustic-looking option will be the focal point of your patio. The extra-large size holds up to 110 cans and can keep them cold for up to 36 hours. This model has double-sided handles and wheels to make it extremely portable.
Sold by Amazon
The lid on this polypropylene cooler table can be fully removed for easy loading. For convenience, it is hinged in the middle to provide easy access after it has been filled. It has a woven rattan wicker design to fit in seamlessly with most backyard decor.
Northbeam Natural Wood Picnic Table with Built-in Cooler
This unique option is a wooden picnic table that seats six to eight people. It is constructed out of Canadian hemlock and features a removable polyester fabric cooler in the center of the table that can hold up to 24 beverages. When you do not want to use the cooler feature, the lid folds closed to give you a full tabletop.
Sold by Home Depot
Keter Pop-Up Table Top Bar Cart
Keter’s clever design makes it a favorite. The table top raises so you can put snacks and cocktails on top while providing full access to the cooler beneath. The large-capacity cooler holds up to 130 cans and is made from long-lasting resin for durability.
SereneLife Outdoor Cooler Table
For a smaller option, this round patio cooler also has a pop-up tabletop and holds up to 40 cans. The table height can be adjusted to provide easy access to beverages, and the cooler keeps beverages chilled for up to 12 hours.
Sold by Amazon
Mind Reader Collapsible Cooler Table
Mind Reader’s tailgate table is a collapsible version of the cooler table. This model folds down so it can be carried to your destination by hand. Once there, it only takes minutes to set up. The table also features a built-in mesh bowl for your favorite snacks.
Sold by Macy’s
Joyin Inflatable Tabletop Serving Bars (Two-Pack)
If budget is first and foremost on your list of priorities, this inflatable option can turn any table into a serving bar. It is 51.4 inches long, 24.5 inches wide and 4 inches deep. It can keep both beverages and food items cold.
Sold by Amazon
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Fiscal 2022 has been a record setting year for movies and TV shows shot around New Mexico.
Officials with the New Mexico Film Office said the film industry brought in $855 million this year — about $200 million more than last year — and involved a record 109 different productions.
Among the popular movies and TV shows shot in New Mexico are AMC’s “Better Call Saul,” Netflix’s “Stranger Things” and Focus Film “Vengeance.”
“Fiscal year 2022 was a pretty great year. I feel like that is an understatement,” Amber Dodson, director of the New Mexico Film Office, told Albuquerque TV station KOB. “We smashed all previous records for film and television spend in New Mexico.”
Netflix is planning a 300-acre studio expansion in New Mexico and NBC Universal has also opened a production facility in Albuquerque.
“We only see strong, steady growth ahead for New Mexico,” Dodson said. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Film-industry-brings-in-855M-to-New-Mexico-in-17341321.php | 2022-07-31T16:39:03Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Film-industry-brings-in-855M-to-New-Mexico-in-17341321.php | true |
(The Conversation) – Rising temperatures due to climate change are causing more than just uncomfortably hot days across the United States. These high temperatures are placing serious stress on critical infrastructure such as water supplies, airports, roads and bridges.
One category of critical infrastructure being severely affected is the nation’s K-12 schools.
Ideally, the nation’s more than 90,000 public K-12 schools, which serve over 50 million students, should protect children from the sometimes dangerous elements of the outdoors such as severe storms or extreme temperatures.
But since so many of America’s schools are old and dilapidated, it’s the school buildings themselves that need protection – or at least to be updated for the 21st century.
Twenty-eight percent of the nation’s public schools were built from 1950 through 1969, federal data shows, while just 10% were built in 1985 or later.
As a researcher who studies the impact of climate change, I have measured its effects on infrastructure and health for over a decade. During that time, I’ve seen little attention focused on the effects of climate change on public schools.
Since 2019, climate scientist Sverre LeRoy, at the Center for Climate Integrity, and I have worked to determine if the nation’s schools are prepared for the heat waves on the approaching horizon.
Comparing the climate conditions under which U.S. schools were built with the projected conditions over the next two decades, we looked at the vulnerability of all K-12 schools to increasing temperatures. We determined whether current schools have air conditioning or not and whether they would be required to add air conditioning in the future.
The results of our study, “Hotter Days, Higher Costs: The Cooling Crisis in America’s Classrooms,” show that by 2025, more than 13,700 schools will need to install air conditioning, and another 13,500 will need to upgrade their existing systems.
Hot classrooms
Research has shown that high classroom temperatures can make it harder to learn. Hot school days cause difficulty in concentrating, sleepiness, a decrease in energy and even reduced memory capacity.
Local school districts have policies for extreme heat events. However, rising temperatures mean these guidelines are no longer limited to rare occurrences.
Over the past several years, schools across the U.S. are increasingly forced to take “heat days,” cutting school days short because of classrooms that are too hot for students to effectively learn.
This is happening in places that range from Denver to Baltimore and Cleveland.
Compounding the increase in temperatures is the national trend that seasonal temperatures are rising in both the spring and the fall. For example, both Rhode Island and New Jersey have seen average spring and fall temperatures rise over 3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.7 Celsius). Rather than high temperatures only occurring when students are on summer break, these heat events now occur regularly during the school year too. Students today in a greater number of cities are beginning and ending the school year in classrooms that often exceed 80 F (27 C).
Expensive upgrades
The problem of more hot days is due to average temperatures increasing over the past 40 years. The number of days with high temperatures has risen across the country, with notable increases in large northern cities. For example, Chicago has seen the number of days over 80 degrees during the school year increase from 27 in 1970 to 32 in 2020 and a projected 38 by 2025. These increases affect schools in two distinct ways.
Schools in the traditionally cooler north – especially older schools – will need to be retrofitted with new air conditioning systems at an accumulated cost of US$40 billion by 2025. For schools in the traditionally warmer South and West, many existing systems will need to be upgraded at a projected cost exceeding $400 million.
Temperature increases are especially costly in large cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles, where existing efforts and continued needs will result in outlays exceeding $500 million, $1.5 billion and $600 million, respectively. These large districts have a greater number of older buildings that require upgrades in electrical and structural systems to support new air conditioning systems.
For all schools – even ones that don’t require system upgrades – the additional costs of operating air conditioning systems to meet the new demands will exceed $1.4 billion per year.
An equity issue
Since school districts are dependent on local taxes or bond measures to finance the school system, districts in affluent areas have a greater opportunity to obtain funds through tax increases or voter-approved bond measures.
In contrast, districts located in less affluent counties – including Bell County, Kentucky; Scott County, Tennessee; and DeKalb County, Alabama – face the challenge of creating safe learning environments without a financial safety net. With household incomes for the entire district in the bottom 20% of national averages, or less than $43,000 per year, these districts are unable to absorb significant tax increases.
In this regard, classroom environments become an equity issue. While the increase in temperature may affect all children, the relative impact of the increase and the ability to adapt is not equal.
Unsustainable solutions
Increasingly, school districts are turning to individual window units to address classroom overheating. However, window units do not cool interior offices, cannot circulate and exchange air within the classrooms, and will not meet expected lifespans due to extensive use. Furthermore, they create uneven cooling patterns and classroom disturbance due to noise. While these solutions are popular from an initial budget perspective, they ultimately fail to solve the hot classroom crisis.
Where mechanical systems are not an option due to budgetary constraints, school districts are looking at altering the school year to start later or end earlier. However, there are limits to this approach because there are minimum requirements for the number of days that are in the school year. Some schools are even experimenting with remote learning as a response when extreme temperatures are an issue.
The bottom line for schools and their surrounding communities is that rising temperatures from climate change are a growing threat to school infrastructure. Schools will need additional funding to install or upgrade air conditioning systems, pay for increased energy usage or redesign school buildings to enhance natural cooling. Various cities and states argue that fossil fuel companies have a duty to pay these infrastructure costs associated with climate change.
The only other choice is for America’s students to continue to endure classrooms where it’s simply too hot to learn. | https://www.koin.com/news/as-heat-waves-intensify-tens-of-thousands-of-us-classrooms-will-be-too-hot-for-students-to-learn-in/ | 2022-07-31T16:40:08Z | https://www.koin.com/news/as-heat-waves-intensify-tens-of-thousands-of-us-classrooms-will-be-too-hot-for-students-to-learn-in/ | false |
Humans' role in endangering species is no science fiction
The monarch butterfly joining the endangered species red list and our state’s oil and gas operations likely need to alter practices to help lesser prairie chickens recover remind me of a Star Trek episode.
The Enterprise, under Captain Picard’s command, is cruising the Milky Way seeking to do no harm. Deanna, then Riker, start having dreams and getting telepathic communications urging them to stop at a planet in the system they’re approaching.
Picard is reluctant, but, after several trusted crew members recount moving dream-scenes and desperate pleas which seem to suggest the planet’s population may soon be destroyed, agrees to stop.
They find the planet populated primarily by Doms, reasonably intelligent beings with whom they can communicate. The Doms don’t object to their visit, but reassure Picard they are doing fine, and know of no imminent disaster.
A curious fact is that for each Dom there is a corresponding Glebe. The Glebes exist to protect and serve the Doms, and can shift shapes at will. If a Dom child is walking toward a cliff or other danger, the Glebe will get in the way, or grow hands and arms with which to grasp the child. If a Dom pauses somewhere, and wants to sit down, his or her Glebe immediately takes the form of a comfortable sort of seat, and retains that shape as long as necessary.
Initially, it’s not even clear whether Glebes are sentient beings or just tools the Doms have invented that obey wordless commands. Doms explain that the Glebes are living creatures who cannot speak, write or reason. Glebes sense Doms’ needs and respond. Doms treat them in ways ranging from kind and grateful to careless and contemptuous. When a Dom is born, a Glebe appears. When a Dom dies, his Glebe disappears.
Eventually, the crew realize that it’s the Glebes who’ve been telepathically pleading with them. Smoke from a substance the Doms have started smoking will, in time, kill off the Glebes. When Picard tells Dom leaders of this danger, they shrug it off.
Glebes are convenient nonentities whom some Doms even regard as an annoyance. However, it turns out that when a Glebe dies, its corresponding Dom dies. The Doms resolve to give up the substance they’ve enjoyed smoking.
This episode never aired. At the time, I was watching Star Trek because of a teenager who never missed it. I conceived the episode. I even sent for the “bible” that contained the complete backstories of all the characters, but I was a busy lawyer. Then the series ended.
The monarchs remind me of that “almost” episode. We may not care much about the lesser prairie chicken; but we are rapidly losing bees and other pollinators, as well as birds and many species of trees. The trees, without particularly intending to help us, supply us with oxygen and help cool the planet, a critical part of our water/rain cycle. Bees, birds and insects are essential to much of what we consume. Despite all our science, losing these species could endanger us. Even without that danger (and without our wonder at other creatures’ variety and beauty), what right do we have to destroy species wantonly?
But I’m an old man mumbling into his beard, recalling childhood’s plentiful lightning bugs. And protecting a butterfly or a bird seems almost quaint when we are willfully ignoring the stunted lives our descendants will suffer because of our careless selfishness.
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Las Cruces resident Peter Goodman writes, shoots pictures, and occasionally practices law. His blog at http://soledadcanyon.blogspot.com/ contains further information on this column. | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/opinion/2022/07/31/goodman-humans-role-in-endangering-species-is-no-science-fiction/65385989007/ | 2022-07-31T16:43:11Z | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/opinion/2022/07/31/goodman-humans-role-in-endangering-species-is-no-science-fiction/65385989007/ | false |
SISKIYOU CO., Calif. (KRON) – The McKinney Fire has burned 51,468 acres at zero percent contained.
The fire which started on July 29 is located at Highway 96 and McKinney Creed Rd, near the California-Oregon border. Highway 96 currently remains closed.
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Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency for Siskiyou County. The fire was previously one percent contained but has since moved back to zero percent.
The cause of the fire is under investigation. | https://www.kron4.com/news/mckinney-fire-burns-over-51000-acres-0-contained/ | 2022-07-31T16:48:03Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/mckinney-fire-burns-over-51000-acres-0-contained/ | true |
(NEXSTAR) – New government projections show days of extreme heat will become more frequent over the next three decades. Given warming trends, this summer, with its widespread heat waves, “is likely to be one of the coolest summers of the rest of our lives,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Tuesday.
Earlier this week, the Biden administration launched a new website, heat.gov, which includes not only hot weather health advice but maps and forecasts showing how high temperatures will impact the country.
One government map combines data from NOAA on future heat events with the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index, which evaluates a community’s vulnerability to poverty, disability, housing and transportation issues.
Of the 10 counties deemed “most vulnerable,” all are in the South or Texas except one: Imperial County, California.
Imperial County is on the state’s southern border, east of San Diego. The county seat of El Centro already has an average high of 107 degrees in July, but is only expected to get hotter between now and 2050, according to NOAA’s projections. In thirty years, the Southern California county is projected to have 147 days per year with temperatures over 95 degrees. By 2080, it’s 182 days — half of all days in the year.
It’s also the second poorest county in California, with a median household income around $46,000. The county’s low income, as well as high prevalence of disabilities and housing insecurity, make it more vulnerable to adverse effects of climate change.
Elsewhere on the map, seen here, states in the Southeast and Mountain West could experience more than 35 extreme heat days — when temperatures surpass the top 1% on record — by 2050.
Nearly the entire state of Florida falls into that realm, which may not be much of a surprise considering the Sunshine State is well known for its warm temperatures. Similar projections have been made for the southern tip of Texas and counties stretching along the Gulf of Mexico, and those along the Mississippi River north toward the southern edge of Illinois.
Other states in the West, like Arizona and Nevada, could see between 20 and 30 days of extreme heat by 2050. States in the southern Midwest — primarily Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio — are projected to have similar futures.
Northern Midwest states such as Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan; most of New England; northern Plain states such as Montana; and parts of the Dakotas could still see an increased rate of extreme heat days but on a trend closer to 15 to 25 days a year.
There are, however, areas throughout the U.S. that may hardly notice a rise in extreme heat days. That includes portions of Kansas and Oklahoma, swaths of the Dakotas, and the counties along the Pacific Ocean, stretching from Seattle to Santa Barbara.
You can see your community’s potential for extreme heat days here. | https://www.kron4.com/news/one-california-county-deemed-most-vulnerable-to-extreme-heat-on-federal-map/ | 2022-07-31T16:49:18Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/one-california-county-deemed-most-vulnerable-to-extreme-heat-on-federal-map/ | true |
MORRISVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — New details have come out about the hours leading up to a plane’s emergency landing in North Carolina and the co-pilot’s mysterious mid-flight exit and fatal fall.
At around 3:20 p.m. Friday, a medium cargo plane made an emergency landing at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina. The twin-engine CASA CN-212 Aviocar, made in Spain and registered to Colorado-based Spore LTD, landed on a runway and veered into the grass.
The plane initially had two people on board. First responders told Nexstar’s WNCN that one person onboard the plane was taken to Duke Hospital with minor injuries.
Shortly after the plane landed, local emergency units began searching for a co-pilot who either fell or jumped from the plane without a parachute while it was in the air.
Authorities were later flagged down by someone who heard a noise in their yard. The co-pilot, 23-year-old Charles Hew Crooks, was then found dead in the Sonoma Springs Neighborhood, roughly 30 miles south of the airport.
Flight tracking software shows the plane initially took off from Raeford, North Carolina, at 1:10 p.m. Friday. The plane circled around Raeford before heading toward Raleigh, a roughly 80-mile trip.
Before arriving in Raeford, flight tracking software shows the aircraft took off from the Rocky Mount/Wilson Airport, about 50 miles west of Raleigh, at 11:52 a.m. and landed at Raeford West Airport at 12:34 p.m.
According to a newly-obtained recording, the co-pilots called air traffic control to inform them that the main right wheel of the landing gear had fallen off. One of the co-pilots said they attempted to land at Raeford and they “made a hard landing, decided to go around, and at that point, we lost the wheel.”
While in-flight, one of the co-pilots called Fayetteville Air Traffic Control for help rerouting to Raleigh-Durham International. You can hear one of them say “We’ve lost our right wheel – we’d like to proceed to Raleigh and make a landing.”
During the conversation, one of the men from the plane said they had enough fuel to fly in the air for another four hours before having to land. Someone eventually responded, “Quick question, how do you intend to land at Raleigh-Durham?” The response from one of the men was, “Get as low as we can and I guess we’re going to put it on the belly.”
In a later radio call with officials, the pilot of the plane said his co-pilot, Charles Hew Crooks, had jumped from the plane without a parachute.
Multiple first responders headed to the airport after the plane landed on the runway. The pilot was taken to the hospital, where officials said he was okay.
It’s still unclear why Hew Crooks fell from the plane. Local and state officials are now working with the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration, both of which are now leading the investigation. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/new-details-released-after-co-pilot-falls-from-plane-dies-before-emergency-landing-in-north-carolina/ | 2022-07-31T16:52:31Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/new-details-released-after-co-pilot-falls-from-plane-dies-before-emergency-landing-in-north-carolina/ | false |
The South Florida weather is as hot as ever, and spring football is in the rearview mirror. The college football season is approaching.
With Mario Cristobal and a new coaching staff bringing optimism to Coral Gables, the Miami Hurricanes will look to improve on their 7-5 record in 2021 and compete for an ACC title.
Each week, we’ll take a look at Miami’s position groups and see where they stand entering the 2022 season.
This week, we’ll examine a position group where there the Hurricanes would like to see improvement: linebackers.
Who left
The Hurricanes lost some linebacker depth in the transfer portal since the start of last season.
Of those who left, Bradley Jennings Jr. had the most playing time last year. He entered the portal during the 2021 season after playing 134 snaps on defense. He had 14 tackles in his eight games played. He transferred to Indiana.
Tirek Austin-Cave played in eight games last season, spending the majority of his snaps on special teams. He had five tackles last season and transferred to West Virginia in the spring.
Deshawn Troutman also left the program after one season. He entered the transfer portal after the team suspended him when he was arrested and charged with battery in March. The charges were dropped. He played in eight games for the Hurricanes last season.
Sam Brooks, entering his fourth year of college football, missed spring football due to injury and is no longer listed on UM’s roster.
Who returns
The Hurricanes return a lot of key players from last year’s linebacker corps, which may or may not be a good thing, considering how the unit struggled last year. Miami was ranked 128th out of 130 in Pro Football Focus’ tackling grade, and several linebackers had below-average scores.
Cristobal brought in a big-name coach to help improve the group: former Louisville and Texas head coach Charlie Strong.
“Coach Strong has a lot of experience so anything he says, our ears are opened,” linebacker Corey Flagg Jr. said on April 7. “We’re dialed in.”
Flagg is one of four linebackers who received significant playing time last year and return in 2022. Flagg was the team’s leading tackler last season, making 60 tackles with seven tackles for loss, three sacks and one interception.
Flagg, a third-year sophomore who had a strong season at middle linebacker in 2021, had an overall defensive score of 50.0 last season. He had a 58.1 grade in run defense and a 57.4 grade at pass rush but only a 43.6 grade in coverage. However, he led all of UM’s starting linebackers with a 70.4 tackling grade.
“He’s a guy that’s got a lot of want-to,” defensive coordinator Kevin Steele said on March 11. “He’s got instincts.”
Sixth-year redshirt senior Waynmon Steed is the elder statesman of the linebacker room. Steed, an outside linebacker, was second on the team with 54 tackles last season, and he had 3.5 tackles for loss and one sack. Like several teammates, he struggled with tackling, earning a 36.1 grade. He had a 54.1 overall defensive grade with a 54.3 run-defense grade, 55.4 pass-rush grade and a 60 pass coverage grade.
Chaminade-Madonna alumnus Keontra Smith, entering his fourth season with the Hurricanes, will also play a significant role this season. He racked up 38 tackles, five tackles for loss and three sacks last season, but he struggled mightily with tackling. Smith’s tackling grade was only a 27.8, which was the worst among linebackers with more than 100 snaps last season.
“We’ve just got an edge, and the technique we’re learning now is much more advanced,” Smith said on April 5.
Smith also recorded a 46.8 overall defensive grade, a 43.8 run-defense grade, a 69.8 pass-rushing grade and a 49.6 pass coverage grade.
Sophomore Chase Smith is also poised to play a larger role at linebacker this season. He got into seven games on defense last year and showed solid flashes in that limited time, making 13 tackles with one tackle for loss. He had a 68.8 overall defensive score, highlighted by 78.4 run-defense grade. However, Smith missed spring practice due to injury.
The Hurricanes will also rely on fifth-year redshirt junior Gilbert Frierson in the “Star” position as a hybrid linebacker/defensive back role. In a similar position last year, he had 41 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss and a sack. He earned a 56.9 grade on defense, with a 65.9 run-defense grade, 57.5 pass-rush grade, 55.3 coverage grade and a 49.7 tackling grade.
“If you’ve ever been around him, he’s a high-energy guy,” Steele said on April 12. “He’s fun to coach, he’s smart, he can play multiple positions, he’s got ice water in his veins, he loves football, he loves ball and it’s fun to coach.”
The Hurricanes also return Avery Huff and Ryan Ragone, who saw limited action on defense last season.
Who arrives
The Hurricanes added a pair of linebackers who could see a lot of playing time this season.
The first newcomer is someone with two seasons of college experience: UCLA transfer Caleb Johnson.
Johnson racked up 89 tackles, seven tackles for loss, 5.5 sacks, two interceptions, three pass breakups and a fumble recovery in his two seasons with the Bruins. Last year, he had 45 tackles an interception and three pass breakups.
Johnson, who primarily played outside linebacker, had a 65.3 defensive grade, 57.9 run-defense grade, 60.3 pass-rush grade and a 73.8 pass-coverage grade. He also earned a 52.5 tackling grade.
Miami also added local star recruit Wesley Bissainthe, who signed with the Hurricanes in December.
Bissainthe, who is listed at 6-foot-1 and 205 pounds, was rated a four-star prospect and the No. 18 linebacker in the 2022 class by 247Sports. He earned reps in spring practice and made a quick impression.
“He fits in, he does not look lost at all,” defensive lineman Jake Lichtenstein said on April 12. “He fits in. It looks like he’s been here for at least a year.” | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/miami-hurricanes/fl-sp-um-summer-linebackers-20220731-3madsg3lyrapla2ffnbu5je3sa-story.html | 2022-07-31T16:53:58Z | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/miami-hurricanes/fl-sp-um-summer-linebackers-20220731-3madsg3lyrapla2ffnbu5je3sa-story.html | true |
(The Conversation) – Rising temperatures due to climate change are causing more than just uncomfortably hot days across the United States. These high temperatures are placing serious stress on critical infrastructure such as water supplies, airports, roads and bridges.
One category of critical infrastructure being severely affected is the nation’s K-12 schools.
Ideally, the nation’s more than 90,000 public K-12 schools, which serve over 50 million students, should protect children from the sometimes dangerous elements of the outdoors such as severe storms or extreme temperatures.
But since so many of America’s schools are old and dilapidated, it’s the school buildings themselves that need protection – or at least to be updated for the 21st century.
Twenty-eight percent of the nation’s public schools were built from 1950 through 1969, federal data shows, while just 10% were built in 1985 or later.
As a researcher who studies the impact of climate change, I have measured its effects on infrastructure and health for over a decade. During that time, I’ve seen little attention focused on the effects of climate change on public schools.
Since 2019, climate scientist Sverre LeRoy, at the Center for Climate Integrity, and I have worked to determine if the nation’s schools are prepared for the heat waves on the approaching horizon.
Comparing the climate conditions under which U.S. schools were built with the projected conditions over the next two decades, we looked at the vulnerability of all K-12 schools to increasing temperatures. We determined whether current schools have air conditioning or not and whether they would be required to add air conditioning in the future.
The results of our study, “Hotter Days, Higher Costs: The Cooling Crisis in America’s Classrooms,” show that by 2025, more than 13,700 schools will need to install air conditioning, and another 13,500 will need to upgrade their existing systems.
Hot classrooms
Research has shown that high classroom temperatures can make it harder to learn. Hot school days cause difficulty in concentrating, sleepiness, a decrease in energy and even reduced memory capacity.
Local school districts have policies for extreme heat events. However, rising temperatures mean these guidelines are no longer limited to rare occurrences.
Over the past several years, schools across the U.S. are increasingly forced to take “heat days,” cutting school days short because of classrooms that are too hot for students to effectively learn.
This is happening in places that range from Denver to Baltimore and Cleveland.
Compounding the increase in temperatures is the national trend that seasonal temperatures are rising in both the spring and the fall. For example, both Rhode Island and New Jersey have seen average spring and fall temperatures rise over 3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.7 Celsius). Rather than high temperatures only occurring when students are on summer break, these heat events now occur regularly during the school year too. Students today in a greater number of cities are beginning and ending the school year in classrooms that often exceed 80 F (27 C).
Expensive upgrades
The problem of more hot days is due to average temperatures increasing over the past 40 years. The number of days with high temperatures has risen across the country, with notable increases in large northern cities. For example, Chicago has seen the number of days over 80 degrees during the school year increase from 27 in 1970 to 32 in 2020 and a projected 38 by 2025. These increases affect schools in two distinct ways.
Schools in the traditionally cooler north – especially older schools – will need to be retrofitted with new air conditioning systems at an accumulated cost of US$40 billion by 2025. For schools in the traditionally warmer South and West, many existing systems will need to be upgraded at a projected cost exceeding $400 million.
Temperature increases are especially costly in large cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles, where existing efforts and continued needs will result in outlays exceeding $500 million, $1.5 billion and $600 million, respectively. These large districts have a greater number of older buildings that require upgrades in electrical and structural systems to support new air conditioning systems.
For all schools – even ones that don’t require system upgrades – the additional costs of operating air conditioning systems to meet the new demands will exceed $1.4 billion per year.
An equity issue
Since school districts are dependent on local taxes or bond measures to finance the school system, districts in affluent areas have a greater opportunity to obtain funds through tax increases or voter-approved bond measures.
In contrast, districts located in less affluent counties – including Bell County, Kentucky; Scott County, Tennessee; and DeKalb County, Alabama – face the challenge of creating safe learning environments without a financial safety net. With household incomes for the entire district in the bottom 20% of national averages, or less than $43,000 per year, these districts are unable to absorb significant tax increases.
In this regard, classroom environments become an equity issue. While the increase in temperature may affect all children, the relative impact of the increase and the ability to adapt is not equal.
Unsustainable solutions
Increasingly, school districts are turning to individual window units to address classroom overheating. However, window units do not cool interior offices, cannot circulate and exchange air within the classrooms, and will not meet expected lifespans due to extensive use. Furthermore, they create uneven cooling patterns and classroom disturbance due to noise. While these solutions are popular from an initial budget perspective, they ultimately fail to solve the hot classroom crisis.
Where mechanical systems are not an option due to budgetary constraints, school districts are looking at altering the school year to start later or end earlier. However, there are limits to this approach because there are minimum requirements for the number of days that are in the school year. Some schools are even experimenting with remote learning as a response when extreme temperatures are an issue.
The bottom line for schools and their surrounding communities is that rising temperatures from climate change are a growing threat to school infrastructure. Schools will need additional funding to install or upgrade air conditioning systems, pay for increased energy usage or redesign school buildings to enhance natural cooling. Various cities and states argue that fossil fuel companies have a duty to pay these infrastructure costs associated with climate change.
The only other choice is for America’s students to continue to endure classrooms where it’s simply too hot to learn. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/as-heat-waves-intensify-tens-of-thousands-of-us-classrooms-will-be-too-hot-for-students-to-learn-in-2/ | 2022-07-31T16:56:41Z | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/as-heat-waves-intensify-tens-of-thousands-of-us-classrooms-will-be-too-hot-for-students-to-learn-in-2/ | true |
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Heavy rains in hilly eastern Uganda triggered flooding that burst river banks and submerged homes and roads, killing at least 10 people, the Red Cross said Sunday.
The victims of the Saturday night downpour lived in the neighboring districts of Kapchorwa and Mbale. Videos of the scene showed terrified people squirming for safety as water levels rose in one village, toppling houses and felling banana trees.
The death toll is likely to rise, with local reporters saying they spotted bodies being washed away by the torrent.
“This disaster is due to environmental degradation,” Ugandan Prime Minister Robinah Nabanja told reporters from Mbale, adding that Ugandan security officials have been called to assist in rescue efforts. “How many people are going to die like this?”
There are fears of more trouble ahead as the rainy season has just begun.
Mbale and nearby districts are particularly vulnerable to flooding deaths because many residents have built homes by river banks and in the rugged foothills of Mount Elgon.
Although hundreds have responded to the government's call to be relocated over the years, some continue to resist, saying they aren't comfortable leaving their ancestral lands.
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WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 31, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service RENO NV
832 AM PDT Sun Jul 31 2022
...Increasing Shower and Thunderstorm Chances...
While not as hot as previous days, we will see one more afternoon
where temperatures will be well above average. Extensive clouds
and showers will allow for temperatures to cool closer to normal
levels the next several days.
The monsoon will continue to push abundant moisture into the
region early this week. Showers and thunderstorms will develop
each afternoon through at least Tuesday. Right now, shower and
thunderstorm coverage favors areas south of Highway 50 with more
isolated activity farther north. However, any of the stronger
storms, regardless of location, will be capable of strong gusty
winds, lightning and locally heavy rainfall. Localized flash
flooding cannot be ruled out, particularly near recent burn scars.
If planning to spend time outdoors, have a method to receive
weather alerts and seek shelter as soon as possible if a storm
happens to approach your area.
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Sports News of Sunday, 31 July 2022
Source: ghanaguardian.com
Deputy Black Stars captain Thomas Partey has missed out on the captaincy at club side Arsenal with Norwegian midfielder Martin Odegaard named as the new club captain.
He replace Alexander Lacazete who left the club on a free transfer after the expiration of his contract this summer.
"We are delighted to announce that Martin Odegaard has been named our new men’s first-team captain," the club announced.
Odegaard has experience of wearing the armband, having been Norway captain since March 2021, whom he has won 43 caps for.
We wish Martin every success as our captain."
The 23-year-old has made a huge impact since arriving at Emirates Stadium from Real Madrid in January 2021, initially on loan, and has gone on to play 60 times, scoring nine goals.
Ghanaian midfielder Thomas Partey signed for Arsenal from Athletico Madrid in summer 2020 and has seen his brief career ravaged by injuries.
The midfielder has been a revelation for his side in pre-season.
Send your news stories to Editor of Ghana Guardian via WhatsApp on +233246460428 | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/Martin-Odegaard-named-new-Arsenal-captain-as-Thomas-Partey-misses-out-1593650 | 2022-07-31T17:07:27Z | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/Martin-Odegaard-named-new-Arsenal-captain-as-Thomas-Partey-misses-out-1593650 | true |
My friend Liam Doyle moved to Tampa in January for a new job, leaving behind deep roots and relationships in Acadiana. A couple of weeks ago, he shared a truth I learned long ago: Making friends as an adult is tough.
Having made eight major moves as an adult, I’ve gone through the struggles but have ultimately been blessed to build deep friendships in each place. Still, I appreciate the comfort and understanding old friends offer. Earlier this week, I visited with four old friends and later had to apologize when I realized I may have talked their arms and legs off.
What has worked for me in the past is not rocket science. Just do things. In years past, I read the newspaper and found events I believed would be interesting, and I went to them. I also invited people to lunch and after a few lunches, I invited them to dinner and cooked for them. I joined things — churches, book clubs and more. I also started a ladies investment club in my last two cities. Ten ladies and I met once a month. In both cities, those ladies became some of my closest friends.
When I spoke with Doyle about his move and quest to build new relationships, he explained that he's trying a more modern approach by going to Meetups. Last weekend he went to brunch with a group of strangers and had a lovely time.
“There were 12 people in their 20s and 30s. I’m 33 – so they were right in my age group,” Doyle said. “I’ll definitely go to the restaurant again and do more Meetup events in the future.”
Meetup is an online app open to anyone over 18. I checked and found 16 options of things I could do this weekend — from a writing group called “Shut up and write” (they meet virtually, introduce themselves and then write in silence, basically holding each other accountable), to a real estate investing group, a board games and cards group and more.
Doyle said he didn’t look at his move as an opportunity to reinvent himself.
“I know exactly who I am, but I appreciate the ease of having a friend who has known me,” he said. “It can be difficult to introduce myself. People tend to make assumptions when they see someone in a wheelchair. It’s very draining to have to constantly explain that I have a full-time job and can do anything I want to do with a few modifications. People who know me, know that.”
Doyle said having a visible disability creates interesting internal dialogue and external conversations.
“Any time I meet someone new, in the back of my head I'm wondering, ‘Are they seeing me or the wheelchair first?’” he said. “I don’t have the time to explain to every single person I meet for them to see me for who I am — I have to be selective about who I spend that time with.”
Even with the occasional hiccup, he says that moving six months ago has already been an opportunity for growth and change.
“For example, I like hockey now. I had been to see the Ice Gators, but I didn’t really get it,” he said. “Now, with the hockey team here, I’m a big fan of the game.”
Jessica Trahan, director at Wesley United Campus Ministry at the University of Louisiana Lafayette, said she’s seen so many people struggling with the issue Doyle is working toward rectifying at his new home in Florida.
She said that during the past few years, many of us became accustomed to to being home or with one or two of our closest people.
“It was like we forgot how to meet people and be with people,” she said.
Her recommendation is simple.
“The easiest thing is to be yourself, even though we’re always taught we should be measuring ourselves against others — you’re going to lose the comparison game every time,” Trahan said. “If you’re not willing to be vulnerable when you’re meeting people, there will be limits to the depth of relationships you’ll build.”
Beyond that, she said “the Golden Rule stuff” always holds true.
“Treat people well — how you would hope to be treated in return. Be honest. Be kind,” she said. “Sometimes it’s as easy as showing up. Say yes to new things. Acknowledging that it’s nerve wracking and a bit scary is perfectly understandable and a normal part of it, but it shouldn’t be the reason you don’t try.” | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/article_201bc29a-0f96-11ed-86cb-2b151f6ffc69.html | 2022-07-31T17:07:42Z | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/article_201bc29a-0f96-11ed-86cb-2b151f6ffc69.html | false |
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Doctor: Biden tests positive for COVID for 2nd day in a row
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 for the second straight day, in what appears to be in a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug.
In a letter noting the positive test, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House physician, said Sunday that the president “continues to feel well” and will keep on working from the executive residence while he isolates.
Biden tested positive on Saturday, requiring him to cancel travel and in-person events as he isolates for at least five days in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
After initially testing positive on July 21, Biden, 79, was treated with the anti-viral drug Paxlovid. He tested negative for the virus on this past Tuesday and Wednesday, clearing him to leave isolation while wearing a mask indoors.
Research suggests that a minority of those prescribed Paxlovid to experience a rebound case of the virus. The fact that a rebound rather than a reinfection possibly occurred is a positive sign for Biden’s health once he’s clear of the disease.
“The fact that the president has cleared his illness and doesn’t have symptoms is a good sign and makes it less likely he will develop long COVID,” said Dr. Albert Ho, an infectious disease specialist at Yale University’s school of public health.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.kttc.com/2022/07/31/doctor-biden-tests-positive-covid-2nd-day-row/ | 2022-07-31T17:15:17Z | https://www.kttc.com/2022/07/31/doctor-biden-tests-positive-covid-2nd-day-row/ | true |
LUBBOCK, Texas – A landscaping style designed to save time and money continues to gain popularity in hot, dry climates.
Xeriscaping, as it’s called, is nothing new. The idea is relatively simple, too: Replace the grass and any plants that require excessive watering from your property, and replace them with rocks, turf or native plants that are more adaptable to drought conditions.
Not only is xeriscaping an environmentally conscious choice, as it saves water and promotes native vegetation, but it could even be cost-effective in the long run, saving on unnecessary irrigation or landscaping costs.
“It’s easier [and] not as frequent of maintenance is required, I think is the big thing,” said Matthew Helm, an employee at King Nursery in Lubbock.
King Nursery’s employees say they’re seeing an uptick in customers wanting this type of landscaping for their lawns. Helm said he suggests some of Texas’ native plants, including noemexicana agave and blonde ambition grass, which make a great combination. Adding some Drift roses — a style that’s relatively easy to grow — will give the space a pop of color, Helm said.
Xeriscaping is also great for the colder months, according to experts, as desert-type plants are harder to kill.
Aubrey Spear, the director of Water Utilities for the City of Lubbock, is a fan of xeriscaping.
“We really call it more of a ‘smart’ scape,” Spear said. “We can use that ‘smart’ scape to help everything look really good and still conserve water.”
The cost to xeriscape varies from yard to yard, but can usually be reduced if the homeowners themselves are willing to put in some work. Some municipalities may even offer classes, like those at the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District in Utah. Many cities in dry, hot states even offer sustainable landscaping rebates, Nexstar’s KTVX reports.
Not ready to give up on grass? There are plenty of other options for reducing water usage, according to KTVX, like installing smart sprinkler controllers or setting up drip irrigation systems, which deliver water more directly at the root of the plants. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/what-is-xeriscaping-growing-trend-could-save-time-water-and-money/ | 2022-07-31T17:15:47Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/what-is-xeriscaping-growing-trend-could-save-time-water-and-money/ | false |
SOMERSET, Wis. (AP) — A Minnesota teenager died and four other people were critically wounded after being stabbed while tubing down a Wisconsin river, authorities said.
St. Croix County Sheriff Scott Knudson the victims and suspect, a 52-year-old Minnesota man, were all on the Apple River when the attack happened Saturday afternoon. Knudson said investigators were working to determine what led to the stabbings and whether the victims and suspect knew each other. They were tubing with two different groups that included about 20 people.
“We don’t know yet who was connected to who, who knew each other or what precipitated it,” Knudson said.
The knife attack happened on a difficult-to-access section of the river near the town of Somerset, Wisconsin, which is about 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Minneapolis. The suspect was arrested about an hour and a half later while getting off the river downstream.
“Thank goodness a witness had taken a photo of him,” Knudson told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “Another witness located him at the exit of the tubing area, where he was taken into custody.”
A 17-year-old boy from Minnesota died. Two of the other victims were flown to a hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, and two others were taken there by ambulance. All four surviving victims — a woman and three men all believed to be in their 20s — were in critical condition.
The names of the victims and the suspect were not immediately released, but St. Croix County jail records show a 52-year-old man was being held without bond on suspicion of first-degree homicide, four counts of aggravated battery and four counts of mayhem. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Teen-dies-four-critically-hurt-in-Wisconsin-17341356.php | 2022-07-31T17:19:52Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Teen-dies-four-critically-hurt-in-Wisconsin-17341356.php | false |
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Livingston FC 1, Rangers 2
Hearts 2, Ross County 1
Kilmarnock 1, Dundee United 1
St. Johnstone 0, Hibernian FC 1
St Mirren FC 0, Motherwell 1
Celtic vs. Aberdeen, 11:30 a.m.
Aberdeen vs. St Mirren FC, 10 a.m.
Motherwell vs. St. Johnstone, 10 a.m.
Rangers vs. Kilmarnock, 10 a.m.
Ross County vs. Celtic, 10 a.m.
Hibernian FC vs. Hearts, 7 a.m.
Dundee United vs. Livingston FC, 10 a.m. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Scottish-Standings-17341373.php | 2022-07-31T17:20:12Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Scottish-Standings-17341373.php | false |
Alex Yee sets up mixed team relay gold before denying promise to buy a dog
Alex Yee admits he might still be in the doghouse despite winning the mixed team relay triathlon at the Commonwealth Games.
Yee, who won individual gold on Friday, teamed up with Sophie Coldwell, Sam Dickinson and Georgia Taylor-Brown for an England victory in one hour 16 minutes.
They finished ahead of Wales and Australia at Sutton Park on Sunday with Yee’s girlfriend Olivia Mathias helping Wales to silver.
The pair have recently moved house with Yee apparently promising Mathias a dog if they both won a medal in Birmingham.
Yee, who gave England a significant advantage after the first-leg, said: “No, that’s wrong. It’s not right. I didn’t shake on that. I haven’t backtracked. Maybe after Paris.
“It’s never straight forward in these races, so many things could go wrong and so many likely mistakes which could cost some penalties.
Team England´s (left to right) Alex Yee, Sophie Coldwell, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Sam Dickinson won gold at Sutton Park on Sunday (David Davies/PA)
“There is so much to happen in an hour of racing. We wanted to keep it as clean as possible, stay positive through the whole race and I wanted to give the guys as much of a lead as I could.
“I felt we were in good hands. I trust the guys, the crowd were amazing and gave us that extra little push.
“It was mental, running down the hill was a bit like the Tour de France, everyone on the sides, a helicopter above you. It was a bit surreal. It was really cool.
“Now me and Liv can put ours next to each other. We have just moved house so hopefully there will be a nice place for them somewhere.”
Dave Ellis and his guide Luke Pollard won the men’s para event which added to England team-mates, Katie Crowhurst and guide Jessica Fullagar, taking the women’s title.
Ellis said: “We didn’t know what the gap was. We knew we were going well and had to keep up the pressure. After we crested the hill on the last lap it was like ‘yeah this is it’.
“It was downhill (after that) so if anyone was coming they’d have to be really quick. We really hammered it.” | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11066733/Alex-Yee-sets-mixed-team-relay-gold-denying-promise-buy-dog.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-31T17:21:18Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11066733/Alex-Yee-sets-mixed-team-relay-gold-denying-promise-buy-dog.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Suspect in overnight Lawrence double homicide arrested
LAWRENCE, Kan. (WIBW) - The Lawrence Police Department arrested a man suspected of killing two people early Sunday morning.
Officials say the investigation began around 1:00 a.m. when gunshots were reported in the 1100 block of Tennessee St. Officers arrived at the home and found a 53-year-old man critically injured from gunshot wounds. He was transferred to a Kansas City trauma department where he was later pronounced dead.
Shortly after, officers responded to another call of shots fired in the 300 block of Northwood Lane. Officers found a 43-year-old man who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators worked through the night to identify a suspect and eventually were able to locate him at around 6:00 a.m. Officers attempted to pull the suspect over in the 900 block of Lawrence Ave. , but he did not comply and led the officers on a vehicle chase through Lawrence, eventually accessing K-10 toward Kansas City. Officials say the suspect fired several shots at officers while on K-10 until he eventually hit the stop sticks near Eudora and was then taken into custody.
“This investigation involves multiple agencies, several locations, two victims, and the attempted murder of several Law Enforcement Officers,” LKPD spokesperson Laura McCabe said. “In an effort to ensure all information is accurate, in a fluid situation, we will not be providing further details right now but we clearly understand the public’s interest and concern, so we will update you on a regular basis. In the meantime, we firmly believe this suspect acted alone, the public is in no further danger, and the LKPD officers fired upon have immediate access to our various support services.”
This investigation is still ongoing and further updates will be provided.
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Two students die by suicide in Tamil Nadu
Two students die by suicide in Tamil Nadu
Chennai: A second-year nursing student, who hailed from Erode, was found dead inside her hostel room on Saturday in Tamil Nadu's Thiruverkadu. After receiving the information, the police rushed to the spot, retrieved the body, and sent it to Kilpakkam Government Hospital for autopsy.
According to the nursing students, more than 100 students are studying at Shenbaga Nursing College near Thiruverkadu. The hostel is on the upper floor and the college is functioning on the lower floor. On Saturday, the victim girl came to the room with her friends for lunch and asked her friends to go first, then she will come behind them. But did not come for a long time. When her friends went to the room, they found her found dead and suspected suicide.
Tiruvekadu police visited the spot to initiate enquiries with the parents and fellow students and to confiscate the student’s phone to check call records and to ascertain the cause of suicide.
Meanwhile, another case of suicide came from Tamil Nadu's Villupuram where a second-year B.com student allegedly committed suicide on Saturday. After being informed, police arrived at the spot and recovered the body of the student and sent it to Mundiyampakkam Government Hospital for autopsy. | https://www.etvbharat.com/english/national/bharat/two-more-students-die-by-suicide-in-tamil-nadu/na20220731214455278278010 | 2022-07-31T17:24:22Z | https://www.etvbharat.com/english/national/bharat/two-more-students-die-by-suicide-in-tamil-nadu/na20220731214455278278010 | false |
Lillia Valutyte: Drains and gardens searched as police quiz suspect
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Police have been searching drains and back gardens near where a nine-year-old girl was fatally stabbed as a suspect continues to be held for her murder.
Lillia Valutyte was found with a stab wound in Fountain Lane in Boston, Lincolnshire, on Thursday.
A 22-year-old man was arrested in Boston on Saturday after police issued images of a man they wanted to trace.
A house opposite Boston Central Park remains cordoned off as forensic teams worked inside.
Lillia had reportedly been playing with a hula hoop with her younger sister on the street and a toy pram was left at the scene, according to locals.
Lincolnshire Police said they would maintain a "significant presence" in the town while the investigation continued and appealed for anyone with information to come forward.
The force also said two people who were arrested earlier in the week had since been released with no further action.
Dozens of flowers and other tributes continue to be left at the corner of Fountain Lane and Fountain Place in memory of the schoolgirl.
A service of reflection and prayer has been held at St Botolph's Church to allow the community to come together.
Reverend Jane Robertson said it gave people an opportunity to gather and "pray for the family".
"Over the last few days there have been so many people coming into the church and lighting candles and talking to us and expressing a variety of emotions."
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Chevrolet is incentivizing buyers of its upcoming Corvette Z06 sports car. But, what is the catch to this offer?
The Corvette Z06 is a highly anticipated new car for release this year. This Chevrolet model will cost $106,395, and the convertible edition got priced at $113,895. If the buyer picks the fully-loaded option, the cost climbs to around $160,000. This price range is pricier than the company's Corvette Stingray. (source)
Let us do a review of the Corvette Stingray versus the Corvette Z06. The Stingray has a 495-horsepower pushrod 6.2-liter V8. But the Z06 has a 670-horsepower 5.5-liter V8. Other features of the Z06 include overhead cams. And a flat-plane crankshaft design like those used in Corvette endurance racing cars. There are also suspension, brake, and aerodynamic improvements to the Z06. (source)
The features warrant the high price. But, despite the steep tag, there is immense demand for the car. (source). This anticipation for the release worries the brand. Here is how the company plans to ease its fears.
Chevrolet is not excited about the high demand for the Corvette Z06. It means buyers are hoping to gain from the car's resale value. Thus, the company will give buyers $5,000 or 500,000 points to buy car items and services. To get the incentive, customers need to do two things. Sign up for the "My Chevrolet Rewards" program and keep their cars for 12 months.
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Meath overcame a blistering Kerry start to consign the Kingdom to defeat in the TG4 Ladies All-Ireland Senior football final.
Two goals in as many minutes at the 3/4 stage helped the royals to a 3-10 to 1-7 victory in Croke Park.
Kerry had the much better start and were rewarded by points from Ciara Murphy and Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh. The latter then turned pickpocket, netting after intercepting a kick out After Meath opened their account with an 8 minute point a somewhat fortuitous goal brought them within a point of the Kingdom That Emma Troy goal was followed by back to back Meath points, making it 1-3 without reply. Those scores had the defending champions in front by 1 and Meath doubled that advantage by the quarter hour mark. Meath had the next point 5 minutes later, then quickly put over again. That had them 4 clear while Kerry were scoreless for 14 minutes until Siofra O'Shea pointed. 8 minutes out from half time Kerry trailed 1-6 to 1-3. Meath had 2 of the next 3 scores to go 4 clear approaching half time. Lorraine Scanlon pulled one back for the Kingdom and that turned out to be the closing score of the period. Kerry 1-5 Meath 1-8.
Síofra O'Shea had the first point of the second half as Kerry cut the gap to 2 and when Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh put over the deficit was just one. After Meath went two up Kerry had chances to eat into the lead but some bad wides were looking costly. With the score at 1-9 to 1-7 at the 3/4 stage two quick Meath goals put them out of sight
Those goals from Niamh O'Sullivan and Bridgetta Lynch saw Meath surge 8 points clear and they won by 9. | https://www.radiokerry.ie/sport/defeat-for-kerry-in-ladies-all-ireland-final-291680 | 2022-07-31T17:33:34Z | https://www.radiokerry.ie/sport/defeat-for-kerry-in-ladies-all-ireland-final-291680 | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, one of the Democrats’ most conservative and contrarian members, declined on Sunday to say whether he wants Democrats to retain control of Congress after the November elections.
The senator told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that will be determined by the choices of voters in individual states, rather than his own preferences. He added that people “are sick and tired of politics” and want their representatives in Washington to put country over party.
“I’ve always taken the approach, whoever you send me, that’s your representative and I respect them and I respect the state for the people they send and I give it my best to work with them and do the best for my country,” Manchin said.
Manchin faces reelection in 2024 in a state where Donald Trump prevailed in every county in the past two presidential races, winning more than two-thirds of West Virginia’s voters. But in distancing himself from fellow Democrats, Manchin also tried to decry the rise of partisanship.
“We’re not working for any party. We’re not working for any political idealism,” he said, bemoaning “bickering over political outcomes and who’s going to be in charge of what” at a time of global tensions, war and economic uncertainty fueled by rising inflation.
Manchin was booked to appear on five news shows, the culmination of a high-profile week in which his compromise with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., revived a package of White House priorities on climate, health care, taxes and deficit reduction. The West Virginia senator torpedoed a grander plan last December and previously lowered expectations about a substantial agreement being reached.
The surprise deal, while more modest than earlier versions, seems to have helped transform Manchin from pariah to partner.
On “Fox News Sunday,” he defended the 15% minimum tax on corporations with $1 billion or more of earnings as closing “loopholes,” rather than an outright tax increase.
Manchin said the plan, the “Inflation Reduction Act,” would help with manufacturing jobs, reduce deficits by $300 billion, lower prescription drug prices and accelerate the permitting process for energy production. These are the kinds of priorities that Republicans have supported in the past, Manchin said.
“We’re doing everything you’ve asked,” Manchin said. “I would hope, and in normal times, this would be a bipartisan bill, but I understand the toxic atmosphere we’re in.”
The Senate is divided 50-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris the tiebreaking vote, giving the Democrats control of the chamber. In the House, Democrats have a 220-211 edge, with four vacancies. But in midterm elections, voters often reject the party that holds the White House, and this year, President Joe Biden’s unpopularity and rising inflation are creating strong headwinds for Democrats.
Manchin demurred when asked on NBC whether he hoped Democrats would keep their majorities in Congress.
“I think people are sick and tired of politics, I really do. I think they’re sick and tired of Democrats and Republicans fighting and feuding and holding pieces of legislation hostage because they didn’t get what they wanted,” he said, adding, “I’m not going to predict what’s going to happen.” | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/manchin-declines-to-say-if-he-wants-dems-to-retain-control/ | 2022-07-31T17:33:50Z | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/manchin-declines-to-say-if-he-wants-dems-to-retain-control/ | false |
Archie Battersbee case is sent BACK to High Court for 'urgent consideration' following UN intervention - as life support treatment is set to end at 2pm tomorrow
- Archie, of Southend-on-Sea, Essex, suffered brain damage at home on April 7
- The 12-year-old has been at the centre of legal battle to keep his life support on
- His parents' plea to stop his machine being turned off was rejected by the court
- They had gone directly to the United Nations in an effort to keep their son alive
- The case has now been sent back to the High Court for 'urgent consideration'
- The NHS Trust letter has laid out in detail what will happen to their little boy
This afternoon, the Government Legal Department has dramatically referred Archie Battersbee's case back to the Family Division of the High Court for ‘urgent consideration.’
It is understood that the matter has been referred by the Government Legal Department to an out-of-hours duty judge, who is expected to respond within hours.
The move follows the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) issuing an interim measures injunction on Friday, July 29, to the UK government.
Despite the intervention, Barts Health NHS Trust, which is responsible for Archie’s care at the Royal London Hospital, said that it would carry on with plans to remove life-support tomorrow.
'The anxiety of being told that Archie’s life-support will be removed tomorrow at 2pm has been horrific,' his mother, Hollie Dance, said.
'We are already broken and the not-knowing what was going to happen next is excruciating.
'We are relieved that the government has taken the UN’s intervention seriously. This was not a "request" but an interim measures injunction from the UN.'
This afternoon Archie’s family released a statement responding to comments in the media from the hospital Trust regarding withdrawal of life-support, which they have described as ‘misleading.’
Their family have been told by letter how the little boy will have his life support treatment removed tomorrow in a procedure they today branded 'cruel and wrong'.
Barts Health NHS Trust said in the note to his parents Ms Dance and Paul Battersbee 'all fluid infusions, medications, including vasopressin will be stopped' at 2pm on August 1.
In one heartbreaking sentence it warns them only immediately family will be allowed into the room, meaning others will be banned.
And in another particularly insensitive part of the message the trust says a doctor will need to 'assess Archie regularly to confirm that the heart has stopped beating'.
One of the little boy's aunts had been booked on a flight to come over from Italy to see him but will now no longer be able to under the Trust's rules.
The letter - given to MailOnline with permission of the family - has come despite the UN urging a pause on proceedings.
A statement from Hollie and Paul said: 'The Trust has been dragging us as a family through the courts at a breakneck speed from April 27 till the final decision of the Supreme Court this Thursday evening.
'The Trust has never made any attempt to agree any sort of compromise with us on any matters great or small. For example this Friday, our lawyers received a letter from the Trust demanding that all videos of Archie and his medical equipment taken on the ward, which we believe is evidence of improvement in Archie’s condition (such as his attempts to breathe independently) are immediately deleted; and threatened legal proceedings for an alleged breach of data protection.
'We as a family are very disappointed that the Trust’s management has chosen to hide behind euphemisms and to mislead the public. It is hard to see any reason for that behaviour except knowing that what they are doing is cruel and wrong.'
It comes after Ms Dance, urged the Health Secretary to 'act immediately' to stop the treatment ending, saying it would be 'a flagrant breach' of his rights.
The letter from the NHS Trust to Archie's parents, shared with MailOnline with their permission
Archie, of Southend-on-Sea, Essex, suffered brain damage at home on April 7 and is in coma
Archie's parents' plea to stop his life support machine being turned off was rejected by court
The letter, sent over the weekend, also read: 'We understand that any discussions around the withdrawal of Archie's treatment are very difficult and painful.
'However, we want to ensure that you and your family are involved as much as you wish to be.'
Ms Dance and Mr Battersbee, the youngster's parents, will be told on Monday morning how the withdrawal process is to be performed, with the aim to 'preserve Archie's dignity', the letter read.
It went on: 'You or any of the family may wish to lie on Archie's bed with him or have him in your arms, if that should be practically possible.'
Yesterday, Ms Dance had written an urgent open letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Stephen Barclay, urging the government to prevent withdrawal of life-support being withdrawn following the UN CRPD intervention.
Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, the families’ lawyers had made a last-ditch application to the UN CRPD following the refusal of the UK’s Supreme Court to intervene in the case on Thursday.
The court order for the removal of life-support came into effect at 2pm yesterday, but the family lawyers sought urgent assurances that Royal London Hospital would not begin removing treatment while the parents apply to the UN CRPD.
The UK has joined the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, with UNRPD using this to ask the UK government to delay the withdrawal of life support while a complaint is investigated.
The family argue that stopping treatment would be in breach of the UK’s obligations under Articles 10 and 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, and Article 6 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Children.
The UN CRPD has previously criticised the UK system of withdrawing life-sustaining treatment based on the patient’s ‘best interests’ as determined by the Court.
Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, a campaign organisation supporting Archie's parents, said: 'We have stood with the family from the beginning three months ago following the tragedy and now continue to pray for this beautiful boy, Archie, and for everyone involved.
'Life is the most precious gift we have.'
A High Court judge had ruled that ending treatment is in Archie's best interests, after reviewing evidence.
Ms Dance and Mr Battersbee, who are separated but both live in Southend, Essex, failed to persuade Court of Appeal judges to overturn that ruling and Supreme Court justices have refused to intervene.
Writing to Health Secretary Stephen Barclay on Saturday, Ms Dance said: 'If this happens, this will be an extraordinary cruelty, and a flagrant breach of Archie's rights as a disabled person.
Doctors have been given permission to turn off Archie's life support machine, but his parents are trying to continue the fight to keep him alive. Pictured is Archie in hospital
In their letter Archie's parents Ms Dance and Mr Battersbee plead with Health Secretary Steve Barclay to intervene to prevent the 'extraordinary cruelty' of ending their son's life
Archie with his mother Hollie Dance (left), brother Tom Summers and sister Lauren Summers
'Archie is entitled to have the decisions about his life and death, taken by the NHS and UK courts, to be scrutinised by an international human rights body. Hastening his death to prevent that would be completely unacceptable.
'I trust that you will now act immediately, as a member of the Government responsible for the NHS, to ensure that this does not happen, and our country honours its obligations under the international human rights treaties which we have signed and ratified.'
They also asked the United Nations to intervene in a 'last-ditch' application, with it issuing an interim measures injunction to the UK government on Friday.
The UN Committee On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities wrote to Archie's parents and legal team saying it had 'requested the state party [the UK] to refrain from withdrawing life-preserving medical treatment, including mechanical ventilation and artificial nutrition and hydration, from the alleged victim while the case is under consideration by the committee'.
It added: 'This request does not imply that any decision has been reached on the substance of the matter under consideration.'
The family said stopping treatment would be in breach of the UK's obligations under international human rights law.
Archie's parents asked hospital bosses to continue treatment until the UN has considered the case.
Judges in London have heard that Ms Dance found Archie unconscious with a ligature over his head on April 7.
She thinks he might have been taking part in an online challenge.
The youngster has not regained consciousness.
Doctors treating Archie at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, think he is brain-stem dead and say continued life-support treatment is not in his best interests.
Alistair Chesser, chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS Trust, said on Friday that 'further delay' in starting to provide 'palliative care' to Archie would 'not be appropriate' without a court order.
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: 'We recognise this is an exceptionally difficult time for Archie Battersbee's family and our thoughts are with them.
'We have received the letter and will respond in due course.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11066763/Archie-Battersbee-case-sent-High-Court-life-support-treatment-set-end-tomorrow.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-31T17:38:15Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11066763/Archie-Battersbee-case-sent-High-Court-life-support-treatment-set-end-tomorrow.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | true |
Panruti Ramachandran questions AIADMK unitary leadership’s ‘achievements’
‘It does not matter who the interim general secretary is in the party’
Former Minister in the M.G. Ramachandran cabinet, Panruti Ramachandran, on Sunday said it was not important who the AIADMK [interim] general secretary was, and what mattered was who won the confidence of people. He made the remarks after V.K. Sasikala, former aide of late Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, called on him at his residence in Ashok Nagar, Chennai.
Mr. Ramachandran has been maintaining a low profile for some time now. “It is not important who the general secretary is. What matters is, who are the people placing their confidence in,” he said. Asked about the controversy over unitary and dual leadership in the AIADMK, he rejected them and asked: “What have they achieved from the unitary leadership anyway?”
He was dismissive of the recent election of former Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami as the interim general secretary of the party by its general council. “All these interim are temporary, not permanent”.
He pointed out that the party founder MGR was not the general secretary [throughout] during his time. “Raghavanandham, Pavoor Shanmugam, Navalar [V.R. Nedunchezhian] were the general secretaries,” he said. When pointed out that the majority of the AIADMK general council members supported Mr. Palaniswami’s leadership, he said, “It is like I appoint you and you appoint me. Were these functionaries properly elected? No. All these are mere appointments.”
To a query on more than 2,300 of the 2,400 AIADMK general council members endorsing Mr. Palaniswami, he replied: “It was the general council members, who evicted Puratchi Thalaivar MGR. I was there then. What happened?”
The AIADMK was a political party for the poor and the downtrodden. Anyone could join the party, he said. “As of today, I don’t know whether the incumbent functionaries are aware of the basic foundations of the party.” To a query on calls from certain sections for Ms. Sasikala and deposed AIADMK leader O. Panneerselvam to come together, he said: “I don’t want to speak anything on that. There are many confusions already.”
He also rejected the claim that the AIADMK had 1.5 crore workers and termed it a “myth”. The party should not “cheat itself.” He appealed to the party workers to remain patient, as the AIADMK was to go through many phases before a clear picture emerged.
Ms. Sasikala said she favoured unity in the party.
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SOMERSET, Wis. (WFRV) – Authorities are investigating a stabbing in western Wisconsin that left one teenager dead and four others with serious injuries.
On Saturday, the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office reported that deputies were responding to a critical incident on the Apple River in the Town of Somerset, about 35 miles west of Minneapolis.
Upon arrival at the scene, officers said they initially found five victims with stab wounds. Their injuries ranged from serious to critical.
Unfortunately, one of the five victims, a 17-year-old Minnesota boy, was later pronounced dead due to his injuries, WCCO reported.
The other victims, a woman and three men all in their early 20s, were reportedly taken to the hospital for treatment, according to WCCO. Their conditions remain unknown.
In a news conference, St. Croix County Sheriff Scott Knudson explained that the victims were tubing on the river when the incident took place.
The suspect was a 52-year-old man from Minnesota who was also tubing on the Apple River with another group, WCCO reported.
The suspect reportedly fled on foot after the incident but was taken into custody shortly after.
At this time it is unclear if the stabbing was random. This incident is currently under investigation.
Nexstar’s WFRV has reached out to the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office for more information. | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/teen-killed-4-others-injured-in-stabbing-while-tubing-on-wisconsin-river/ | 2022-07-31T17:46:59Z | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/teen-killed-4-others-injured-in-stabbing-while-tubing-on-wisconsin-river/ | true |
CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
0-2-5-2
(zero, two, five, two)
CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
0-2-5-2
(zero, two, five, two) | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/ohio/winning-numbers-drawn-in-pick-4-midday-game/FHIDZJYASJHDDPSJQHTSKAOTVM/ | 2022-07-31T17:56:49Z | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/ohio/winning-numbers-drawn-in-pick-4-midday-game/FHIDZJYASJHDDPSJQHTSKAOTVM/ | true |
State has not utilised short-term funding facilities from RBI
This is an indication that the State has adequate liquidity, say experts
Tamil Nadu has not availed itself of short-term borrowing facilities from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from the 2016 fiscal till date. According to experts, it is an indication that the State has adequate liquidity.
The Reserve Bank of India provides financial assistance to States in the form of Ways and Means Advances (WMA). This helps States overcome temporary mismatches in cash flow of their receipts and payments. The RBI fixes WMA limits for each State. In addition, States could utilise the Special Drawing Facility (SDF) by providing government securities as collateral.
If a State exceeds its WMA and SDF limits, it could also avail itself of the overdraft (OD) facility from the RBI.
States have to pay interest for availing themselves of SDF, WMA and OD facility, which is linked to the repo rate, and the interest is charged for all the days the advance remains outstanding. For instance, under WMA facility, if a State has an advance outstanding for up to 3 months, the interest rate will be the repo rate, and if it exceeds three months, the interest rate would be the repo rate plus 1%.
In 2016, the WMA for Tamil Nadu was revised to ₹2,475 crore. To help States tide over the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the RBI, in April 2020, increased the WMA limits of States by 60%. As per this, Tamil Nadu’s limit was enhanced to ₹3,960 crore. The enhanced limit was extended and was made available to the States till March 31, 2022.
In April 2022, the RBI revised the WMA limits as per the recommendation of an Advisory Committee, taking into account the gradual lifting of COVID-19 restrictions. As per this, Tamil Nadu’s WMA limit was revised to ₹3,601 crore.
Tamil Nadu has preferred borrowing from the market through the issue of bonds known as State Development Loans (SDLs).
“WMA is taken only to cover up the short-term deficits in the funds, and it is not for the long term. And market borrowings are meant for a long term. Maybe Tamil Nadu did not feel the shortage with respect to the day-to-day functioning. It also indicates that the State has a better cash balance approach,” N.R. Bhanumurthy, Vice-Chancellor of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar School of Economics University, said.
State government officials said market borrowings helped in spacing out the debt repayment obligations over a longer period of time.
In addition to the Tamil Nadu government not availing itself of the WMA and OD facilities from the RBI, it had an investment of ₹13,166 crore in auction treasury-bills and ₹40 crore in government securities at the end of March 2022. Based on these indicators, the liquidity position of the State government can be inferred to be adequate during the recent years, according to ratings firm ICRA Ltd.
In the 2022 fiscal, Tamil Nadu’s net market borrowings (after adjusting for repayments) was ₹72,500 crore. For 2022-23, the State has budgeted net borrowings of ₹90,116.52 crore, excluding a ₹6,500-crore loan from the Government of India towards a shortfall in GST compensation. So far, the net borrowing is a negative ₹622 crore.
Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan recently said the State will become revenue-surplus in two years, and it would not crowd the debt market for borrowings.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (LEX 18) — More than 100 animals from shelters in Eastern Kentucky have been transported to the Kentucky Humane Society (KHS) due to the flooding.
13 dogs and 36 cats came from the Floyd County Animal Shelter in Prestonburg. In contrast, 24 dogs and 30 cats came from the Kentucky River Regional Animal Shelter (KRRAS) in Hazard.
All the animals were up for adoption before the flooding. The humane society transported them to the Sam Swope Pet Treatment and Lifesaving Center, KHS' Sam Swope Pet Retreat in Jeffersontown, and KHS Willow Hope Farm in Simpsonville.
The humane society reported that all animals are currently being medically assessed. They will remain at these locations until they are ready for adoption or fostering. They are also providing financial aid to KRRAS to help transport more animals outside the region and have already delivered supplies to the other shelters.
KHS Vice President of Animal Welfare Karen Koenig said they expect many more animals to come to shelters from being lost or injured by the floods. It is also common for many families to surrender their pets when struggling with an aftermath of a natural disaster.
"By taking in the animals that were in their shelters before the flooding KHS is helping make room for them to focus on their community and reunite lost pets with their families," said Koenig.
KHS is asking the local community to adopt or foster pets to clear out local shelters already at capacity at the humane society and Louisville Metro Animal Services so more can be brought in from Eastern Kentucky. | https://www.lex18.com/news/kentucky-humane-society-takes-in-over-100-shelter-animals-from-flooding | 2022-07-31T18:06:27Z | https://www.lex18.com/news/kentucky-humane-society-takes-in-over-100-shelter-animals-from-flooding | false |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
7-9-1
(seven, nine, one)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
7-9-1
(seven, nine, one) | https://www.registercitizen.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17341444.php | 2022-07-31T18:09:18Z | https://www.registercitizen.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17341444.php | false |
SOMERSET, Wis. (WFRV) – Authorities are investigating a stabbing in western Wisconsin that left one teenager dead and four others with serious injuries.
On Saturday, the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office reported that deputies were responding to a critical incident on the Apple River in the Town of Somerset, about 35 miles west of Minneapolis.
Upon arrival at the scene, officers said they initially found five victims with stab wounds. Their injuries ranged from serious to critical.
Unfortunately, one of the five victims, a 17-year-old Minnesota boy, was later pronounced dead due to his injuries, WCCO reported.
The other victims, a woman and three men all in their early 20s, were reportedly taken to the hospital for treatment, according to WCCO. Their conditions remain unknown.
In a news conference, St. Croix County Sheriff Scott Knudson explained that the victims were tubing on the river when the incident took place.
The suspect was a 52-year-old man from Minnesota who was also tubing on the Apple River with another group, WCCO reported.
The suspect reportedly fled on foot after the incident but was taken into custody shortly after.
At this time it is unclear if the stabbing was random. This incident is currently under investigation.
Nexstar’s WFRV has reached out to the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office for more information. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/teen-killed-4-others-injured-in-stabbing-while-tubing-on-wisconsin-river/ | 2022-07-31T18:09:48Z | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/teen-killed-4-others-injured-in-stabbing-while-tubing-on-wisconsin-river/ | false |
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'It's wonderful' - Joy at return of Worstead Festival to village
- Credit: Danielle Booden
There was fun on two legs as well as four at the Worstead Festival this weekend, which returned for the first time since 2019.
Hundreds of people made their way to the village, near North Walsham, for the event, which was being held for the 57th time and is billed as a celebration of farming and rural life.
Jane Bond, chairperson, said she was delighted with how the two-day celebrations - which centre around the village church and nearby fields - had gone.
Ms Bond said: "We've had a record-breaking number of people through the gates - it's wonderful to see so many people out enjoying themselves again.
"We've had the duck and dog racing, we've got the sheep show, we've got fabulous music and we've got an old gypsy caravan which has been brought out especially for the festival."
Simon Gray, another of the organisers, said this year's event had an added meaning because it was the first since his wife, Lorraine, died in June last year.
Mrs Gray worked with volunteers to set up a demonstration kitchen 10 years ago, which returned as part of the festival.
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The kitchen gave visitors the chance to see and smell food being prepared by chefs including Bruce Patterson from Worstead Wagyu, Steve Norgate from Chef Norgate, Richard Bainbridge from Benedict's, Daniel Smith from the Ingham Swan and Roger Hickman.
Mr Gray said: "Lorraine conceived and developed the attraction and enjoyed visiting many of the county's leading restaurants and hotels begging chefs to give their time to support the festival and since then the feature has attracted more and more chefs, cooks and artisan food producers."
Other attractions included a Lego tent organised by Worstead VC primary school, stalls selling crafts made in the village, a circus school and licenced bars.
The volunteer-run festival began in 1965 when it was founded to raise money to save the church.
It raises money for the festival charity's grant fund by promoting the crafts, produce and heritage of the region.
Worstead: A proud heritage
The sheer size of Worstead's parish church lets you know there is more to this village than meets the eye.
More than 600 years old, St Mary's has been called "one of the most impressive medieval village churches in Norfolk" - and its construction is all thanks to the wool trade.
Worstead prospered after weavers from Flanders started to arrive in the area from the 12th century, turning the village into a major centre of for wool and producer of high-quality woolen cloth, which itself came to be called Worstead.
Although Worstead is no longer made in Norfolk and the last weaver, John Cubitt, died in 1882, the village is still proud of its farming heritage, which goes on show each year at the Worstead Festival. | https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/things-to-do/worstead-festival-2022-success-9179970 | 2022-07-31T18:16:03Z | https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/things-to-do/worstead-festival-2022-success-9179970 | false |
Jamie Cullum, pianist and singer, has sold more jazz records in the U.K. than any other British artist. Since his album Twentysomething was released in 2003, he's sold more than 4 million records and been nominated for a Grammy and two Golden Globes. Now 30, he's released a new album, The Pursuit.
On the new record, Cullum continues to be a pioneer. He writes his own jazz numbers, in addition to covering the standards. It's this blending of the old with the new that attracts many young fans to his music.
"All I've tried to do on this album is try to embrace that part of me that is a young man who does go out and do young-people things," Cullum says. "I've tried to try to inject that in my love of music of the past."
He also tackles some pop songs, like Rihanna's "Don't Stop the Music."
"Doing covers of new songs in a kind of crazy way is nothing particularly new," he says, "but this is me trying to channel my understanding of Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock with an understanding — and a love — of great modern pop."
According to Cullum, he comes from a "somewhat musical" family. His grandmother played guitar in bars in Berlin before she fled Nazi Germany, and his grandfather played violin. His parents are less inclined, but sang in church choirs and strummed the occasional guitar. Cullum, however, cites his brother Ben Cullum — a musician, composer and producer — as his primary musical inspiration. Their collaborations, including the song "Music Is Through," are featured on The Pursuit.
Cullum is a big fan of the theater and recently wrote the score to the stage version of When Harry Met Sally. He says he chose the title of his new album because he continues to pursue new frontiers in music.
"As a musician, you never get to the finish line," he says. "There are goals along the way, but you never finish it. It is this constant pursuit, one that I wake up every day wanting to get better at and wanting to make better music."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wdiy.org/2010-03-12/jamie-cullum-and-the-pursuit-of-jazz-new-and-old | 2022-07-31T18:16:43Z | https://www.wdiy.org/2010-03-12/jamie-cullum-and-the-pursuit-of-jazz-new-and-old | false |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-2-6-8
(seven, two, six, eight)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-2-6-8
(seven, two, six, eight) | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17341452.php | 2022-07-31T18:18:58Z | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17341452.php | true |
Updated July 31, 2022 at 1:07 PM ET
YREKA, Calif. — Major wildfires in California and Montana grew substantially as firefighters protected remote communities on Sunday as hot, windy weather across the tinder-dry U.S. West created the potential for even more spread.
The McKinney Fire was burning out of control in Northern California's Klamath National Forest as erratic lightning storms swept through the region just south of the Oregon state line, said U.S. Forest Service spokesperson Adrienne Freeman.
"The fuel beds are so dry and they can just erupt from that lightning," she said. "These thunder cells come with gusty erratic winds that can blow fire in every direction.
The blaze exploded in size to more than 80 square miles (207 square km) just two days after erupting in a largely unpopulated area of Siskiyou County, according to a Sunday incident report. The cause was under investigation.
A second, smaller fire just to the west that was sparked by dry lightning Saturday threatened the tiny town of Seiad, Freeman said. About 400 homes were under threat from the two California fires.
In Montana, a blaze sparked in grasslands near the town of Elmo grew to more than 11 square miles (28 square km) after advancing into forest. Temperatures in western Montana could spike to 96 degrees (36 Celsius) by Sunday afternoon with strong winds, the National Weather Service said.
Roughly 200 miles (320 km) to the south, Idaho residents were under evacuation orders Saturday as the Moose Fire in the Salmon-Challis National Forest charred more than 67.5 square miles (174.8 square km) in timbered land near the town of Salmon. It was 17% contained Saturday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Saturday as the McKinney Fire intensified. The proclamation allows Newsom more flexibility to make emergency response and recovery effort decisions and access federal aid.
California law enforcement knocked on doors in the town of Yreka Fort Jones to urge residents to get out and safely evacuate their livestock onto trailers. Automated calls were being sent to land phone lines as well because there were areas without cell phone service.
The Pacific Coast Trail Association urged hikers to get to the nearest town while the U.S. Forest Service closed a 110-mile (177-km) section of the trail from the Etna Summit to the Mt. Ashland Campground in southern Oregon.
In western Montana, the wind-driven Elmo Fire forced evacuations of homes and livestock as it raced across grass and timber. The National Interagency Fire Center estimated it could take nearly a month to contain the blaze.
A portion of Highway 28 between Hot Springs and Elmo was shut down because of the thick smoke, according to the Montana Department of Transportation.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wvasfm.org/2022-07-31/windy-hot-conditions-fuel-the-explosive-growth-of-fires-in-california-and-montana | 2022-07-31T18:19:35Z | https://www.wvasfm.org/2022-07-31/windy-hot-conditions-fuel-the-explosive-growth-of-fires-in-california-and-montana | true |
EASTMAN, Ga. — Sometimes, tragedy has a way of tearing folks apart.
After a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School killed 21 students, an Eastman man, his team, and his community are hoping art will bring them back together.
1,200 miles away from Uvalde, Texas, Sean Peacock read headlines in horror of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.
"I didn't want to, I didn't want to read the news. I saw the headlines and I just blocked it out," he said.
After his sister's passing in 2008, he restored a bench she had in her garden, re-gifting it to his mother, eventually selling them online, but he had no idea loss would bring the two worlds together.
"May 31, one of the mothers sent me a message via our Etsy store. She didn't say she was from Texas, she just wanted to know could I customize this bench for the loss of a child," he explained.
Peacock says he had a gut feeling it was connected to the shooting after researching the child's name. Sadly, she was one of the victims.
"After I discovered who she was, I was very much still emotional and I did like many of us do, went to Facebook. I just made a post. It was a picture of her daughter and a snippet of our conversation and then it was a list of the 21 victims," he explained.
The post captured the attention and hearts of many -- comments, messages, an outpouring of sympathy, asking how to help. Without thinking, he created a GoFundMe, raising $20,000 in 2 days funding 21 benches customized for each victim.
"Do you believe God gave you this special assignment, how do you see that?,” Caleesha Moore asked.
“If anybody else should be working on a project like this or speaking directly to those mamas or praying to those mamas and daddies, somebody else would be,” Peacock said.
He believes what he, his team, and people in Eastman have accomplished is part of a bigger ministry, and his mother agrees.
"I know as much as this bench has been to me, it'll just be overwhelming to these parents in Uvalde, Texas," his mother said.
"I think it's divine intervention, this whole process. It’s going to take a lot of me and you talking for me for you to get that whole story down, for you to understand I didn't just make some benches. We're fighting against the worst evil we can think about,” he said.
He says with love, they can conquer all.
After six weeks of work, Peacock and his team will take the benches to the downtown Eastman amphitheater for a prayer service. He's asking all who can to come pray over the benches Saturday at 6 p.m. Sunday, they will take them down to be delivered privately to the families along with items like crosses and prayer pillows made and donated by families across the state of Georgia. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/i-think-its-divine-intervention-eastman-artist-hopes-to-bring-healing-to-uvalde-families-3/93-181f8214-b35c-41e3-9118-c97fb03a2e1e | 2022-07-31T18:22:21Z | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/i-think-its-divine-intervention-eastman-artist-hopes-to-bring-healing-to-uvalde-families-3/93-181f8214-b35c-41e3-9118-c97fb03a2e1e | false |
‘Internal security situation in country has improved’
July 31, 2022 23:02 ISTPeople cooperating with State machinery, says T.N. Governor
Though some security concerns persist, the situation in Kashmir, the North East of India and the Maoist areas has improved. The number of deaths of Indian soldiers and civilians had come down significantly now not only because of the intervention of the State but also by the cooperation of the civilian population, which is cooperating with the State machinery, said Governor of Tamil Nadu R. N. Ravi here on Sunday. He was speaking at a function in the city, organised by the human rights organisation Vigil on ‘Contemporary challenges to internal security’ in the country.
Governor of Goa P. S. Sreedharan Pillai and former judge of the Supreme Court Cyriac Joseph were among the speakers at the forum on Sunday. The Goa Governor said that the unity and integrity of India was an example to the world and cited the example of how former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had pointed out to Russian leader Michael Gorbachev about holding a country together in unity. He also emphasised how Indian democracy was rooted in providing power to the people and the importance of 'dharma' in a society.
The former judge of the Supreme Court, who delivered the presidential address, said that the unity and integrity of the country was a Constitutional value and every citizen needed to be aware of it.
The Tamil Nadu Governor, who was formerly the interlocutor in Naga peace talks and who delivered the keynote address, said that people had started rejecting terrorism and pointed to the case of States like Nagaland where investments, including foreign investments were coming in. This is a sign of the situation coming to normality. The number of districts, known as the Red Corridor, in Central India where there was Maoist influence had come down significantly now, he said.
He also said that India was not just the name of a geography but that of a communion of people, who have come together to form a nation. The wrong idea that India was the name of a geography was spread by the British, he added. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/internal-security-situationin-country-has-improved/article65706422.ece/amp/ | 2022-07-31T18:24:37Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/internal-security-situationin-country-has-improved/article65706422.ece/amp/ | false |
(The Hill) – Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Sunday said the reason lawmakers such as Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) were not brought into negotiations on a climate, health care and taxes deal that he struck with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) was that he feared it wouldn’t come to “fruition.”
The deal would require the support of all 50 Senate Democrats, placing Sinema, who was not involved in the behind-the-scenes negotiations, in close scrutiny until she announces a position.
“The reason people weren’t brought into this, I didn’t think it would come to fruition,” Manchin told CNN “State of the Union” co-anchor Jake Tapper. “I didn’t want to disappoint people.”
The bill is a slimmed-down package from the roughly $3 trillion Build Back Better deal Democrats hoped to pass before Manchin announced he couldn’t support the bill late last year after months of wrangling over a potential deal.
Manchin and Schumer had been negotiating for months on a smaller package. Their talks collapsed on July 14, but the two Democrats surprised many in Washington when they announced a deal last week.
The package would invest $369 billion in energy-focused climate programs over the next 10 years and $300 billion to reduce the deficit in addition to provisions to extend health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.
When asked by Tapper if Sinema would support the bill, Manchin highlighted what he said were her contributions to the potential text.
He said Sinema was “very instrumental” in allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices and the two moderate senators were in agreement to not raise taxes on Americans.
“She has so much in this piece of legislation,” Manchin said. “She’s formed quite a bit of it and worked on it very hard.”
Manchin added that he and Sinema “speak a lot” but declined to say the last time they met.
“Hopefully, she will be positive about it,” he said. “But she’ll make her decision. I respect that.”
Manchin said he hopes that the Senate will pass the bill this week before they leave for the upcoming August recess. | https://www.koin.com/news/manchin-some-senators-not-involved-in-bill-talks-because-he-didnt-think-it-would-come-to-fruition/ | 2022-07-31T18:25:23Z | https://www.koin.com/news/manchin-some-senators-not-involved-in-bill-talks-because-he-didnt-think-it-would-come-to-fruition/ | true |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
3-5-7
(three, five, seven)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
3-5-7
(three, five, seven) | https://www.timesunion.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17341451.php | 2022-07-31T18:28:48Z | https://www.timesunion.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17341451.php | false |
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HOUSTON (AP) — Seattle star rookie Julio Rodríguez was placed on the injured list with a bruised right wrist Sunday after being hit by a pitch a night before.
Manager Scott Servais said X-rays were negative, but that the center fielder was very sore and wouldn’t be able to hold a bat for at least five days. The team decided it was best to place him on the injured list so they could add another player to the roster.
“I think everybody knows, your wrist, your hands, you know how sensitive that area is when you’ve got a bat,” Servais said. “And let’s do it right. Let’s make sure he’s fully healthy when he comes back.”
Rodriguez was hit on the back of the hand as he swung at a pitch in the top of the eighth inning of Seattle’s win Saturday night. He struck out but played in the field in the bottom half of the inning before being lifted in the ninth.
The injury is a big blow for the Mariners with Rodríguez having a great rookie season, hitting .271 with 18 homers and 57 RBIs.
The Mariners also placed Dylan Moore on the injured list Sunday after the outfielder started having back spasms Saturday night.
Seattle recalled outfielder Jarred Kelenic from Triple-A Tacoma and purchased the contract of outfielder Jack Larsen from Double-A Arkansas to take their spots on the roster.
The Mariners were also without first baseman Ty France Sunday after he had an MRI on his sore left wrist. Servais said they hadn’t yet received the results before the game, and he hoped he would be ready to return after a day or two of rest.
Utilityman Sam Haggerty was not in the lineup Sunday after getting stitches above his eye. He was injured after being hit in the forehead by his thrown helmet after failing to bunt in the ninth inning and tossing his gear in frustration. The helmet bounced back up and hit him in the head.
Servais said he was doing OK and would be available off the bench.
The Mariners also designated left-hander Anthony Misiewicz for assignment Sunday. | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/M-s-Rodr-guez-lands-on-injured-list-with-bruised-17341411.php | 2022-07-31T18:33:38Z | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/M-s-Rodr-guez-lands-on-injured-list-with-bruised-17341411.php | false |
Kenan Thompson suggests SNL ending in 3 years ‘might not be a bad idea’
If Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels retires after the show’s 50th season, will the show go on without him? Kenan Thompson isn’t so sure.
Thompson, the show’s longest running cast member, opened up about the show’s future in an interview with Charlamagne tha God. Asked about the rumor that the show will end after the 2024-2025 season, Thompson said "there could be a lot of validity to that rumor."
"50 is a good number to stop at. It's an incredible package," Thompson said.
In a December 2021 interview with CBS Mornings’ Gayle King, Michaels, now 77, said the late-night, live-sketch comedy show’s 50th anniversary "would be a really good time to leave."
Michaels has been the brains behind SNL since the show’s inception in 1975, minus a brief hiatus in the ‘80s.
Lorne Michaels poses at the opening night of the new play "Hangmen" on Broadway at The Golden Theatre on April 21, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Bruce Glikas/WireImage)
"He's the one that's had his touch on the whole thing," Thompson told Charlamagne. "It opens the opportunity for a lot of bulls--- to come into the game because he's such a legend that he keeps off those corporate wolves.
"At that point, you can't really do the same kind of show," Thompson continued. "They spend a lot of money on that show every week. It's an expensive show, but it's a one-of-a-kind thing. It's the only one. You know, 'Live from New York.'" | https://www.fox4news.com/news/kenan-thompson-saturday-night-live-snl-lorne-michaels | 2022-07-31T18:35:35Z | https://www.fox4news.com/news/kenan-thompson-saturday-night-live-snl-lorne-michaels | false |
Pope Francis says he'll slow down, possibly retire after 6-day Canada trip
Pope Francis acknowledged Saturday that he can no longer travel like he used to because of his strained knee ligaments, saying his weeklong Canadian pilgrimage was "a bit of a test" that showed he needs to slow down and one day possibly retire.
Speaking to reporters while traveling home from northern Nunavut, the 85-year-old Francis stressed that he hadn’t thought about resigning but said "the door is open" and there was nothing wrong with a pope stepping down.
"It’s not strange. It’s not a catastrophe. You can change the pope," he said while sitting in an airplane wheelchair during a 45-minute news conference.
Francis said that while he hadn't considered resigning until now, he realizes he has to at least slow down.
"I think at my age and with these limitations, I have to save (my energy) to be able to serve the church, or on the contrary, think about the possibility of stepping aside," he said.
Pope Francis kisses a baby as he arrives at the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre in the "Popemobile" to celebrate mass on July 28, 2022 in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre, Canada. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Francis was peppered with questions about the future of his pontificate following the first trip in which he used a wheelchair, walker and cane to get around, sharply limiting his program and ability to mingle with crowds.
He strained his right knee ligaments earlier this year, and continuing laser and magnetic therapy forced him to cancel a trip to Africa that was scheduled for the first week of July.
The Canada trip was difficult, and featured several moments when Francis was clearly in pain as he maneuvered getting up and down from chairs.
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At the end of his six-day tour, he appeared in good spirits and energetic, despite a long day traveling to the edge of the Arctic on Friday to again apologize to Indigenous peoples for the injustices they suffered in Canada’s church-run residential schools.
Francis ruled out having surgery on his knee, saying it would not necessarily help and noting "there are still traces" from the effects of having undergone more than six hours of anesthesia in July 2021 to remove 33 centimeters (13 inches) of his large intestine.
"I’ll try to continue to do the trips and be close to people because I think it’s a way of servicing, being close. But more than this, I can’t say," he said Saturday.
Pope Francis stops to speak with a group of Nuns as he arrives to preside over an evening prayer service at the Basilique-cathedral Notre-Dame in Quebec, Canada, on July 28, 2022. (Photo by VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via Getty Images)
In other comments aboard the papal plane, Francis:
— Agreed that the attempt to eliminate Indigenous culture in Canada through a church-run residential school system amounted to a cultural "genocide." Francis said he didn't use the term during his Canada trip because it didn't come to mind. Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission determined in 2015 that the forced removal of Indigenous children from their homes and placement in church-run residential schools to assimilate them into Christian, Canadian constituted a "cultural genocide."
"It’s true I didn’t use the word because it didn’t come to mind, but I described genocide, no?" Francis said. "I apologized, I asked forgiveness for this work, which was genocide."
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— Suggested he was not opposed to a development of Catholic doctrine on the use of contraception. Church teaching prohibits artificial contraception. Francis noted that a Vatican think tank recently published the acts of a congress where a modification to the church’s absolute "no" was discussed. He stressed that doctrine can develop over time and that it was the job of theologians to pursue such developments, with the pope ultimately deciding.
Surrounded by security, Pope Francis rides in the "Popemobile" as he tours the Plains of Abraham on July 27, 2022 in Quebec, Canada.(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Francis noted that church teaching on atomic weapons was modified during his pontificate to consider not only the use but the mere possession of atomic weapons as immoral and to consider the death penalty immoral in all cases.
— Confirmed he hoped to travel to Kazakhstan in mid-September for an interfaith conference where he might meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, who has justified the war in Ukraine. Francis also said he wants to go to Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, though no trip has yet been confirmed. He said he hoped to reschedule the trip to South Sudan he canceled because of his knee problems. He said the Congo leg of that trip would probably have to be put off until next year because of the rainy season. | https://www.fox4news.com/news/pope-francis-retire-canada-catholic-indigenous-schools | 2022-07-31T18:36:06Z | https://www.fox4news.com/news/pope-francis-retire-canada-catholic-indigenous-schools | false |
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Samuel Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages in World War II using a code based on their native language, has died.
Sandoval died late Friday at a hospital in Shiprock, New Mexico, his wife, Malula told The Associated Press on Saturday. He was 98.
Hundreds of Navajos were recruited from the vast Navajo Nation to serve as Code Talkers with the U.S. Marine Corps. Only three are still alive today: Peter MacDonald, John Kinsel Sr. and Thomas H. Begay.
The Code Talkers took part in every assault the Marines conducted in the Pacific, sending thousands of messages without error on Japanese troop movements, battlefield tactics and other communications critical to the war’s ultimate outcome. The code, based on the then-unwritten Navajo language, confounded Japanese military cryptologists and is credited with helping the U.S. win the war.
Samuel Sandoval was on Okinawa when got word from another Navajo Code Talker that the Japanese had surrendered and relayed the message to higher-ups. He had a close call on the island, which brought back painful memories that he kept to himself, Malula Sandoval said.
The Navajo men are celebrated annually on Aug. 14. Samuel Sandoval was looking forward to that date and seeing a museum built near the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock to honor the Code Talkers, she said.
“Sam always said, ‘I wanted my Navajo youngsters to learn, they need to know what we did and how this code was used and how it contributed to the world,’” she said Saturday. “That the Navajo language was powerful and always to continue carrying our legacy.”
Sandoval was born in Nageezi near Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after attending a Methodist school where he was discouraged from speaking Navajo. He helped recruit other Navajos from the school to serve as Code Talkers, expanding on words and an alphabet that an original group of 29 Navajos created.
Sandoval served in five combat tours and was honorably discharged in 1946. The Code Talkers had orders not to discuss their roles — not during the war and not until their mission was declassified in 1968.
The roles later became an immense source of pride for Sandoval and his late brother, Merrill Sandoval, who also was a Code Talker. The two became talented speakers who always hailed their fellow Marines still in action as the heroes, not themselves, said Merrill Sandoval’s daughter, Jeannie Sandoval.
“We were kids, all growing up and we started to hear about the stories,” she said. “We were so proud of them, and there weren’t very many brothers together.”
Sandoval was curious, always reading the local newspapers, and attending community, veterans, Code Talker and legislative meetings. He enjoyed traveling and sharing what he learned, grounded in his Diné beliefs and the Navajo way of life, said one of his daughters, Karen John.
“It was engrained early in me, to be part of the community,” she said. “He was really involved in a lot, some of which I couldn’t comprehend as a kid.”
Samuel Sandoval often told his story, chronicled in a book and documentary of the same name — “Naz Bah Ei Bijei: Heart of a Warrier” — at the Cortez Cultural Center in Cortez, Colorado. He had a favorite folding chair there with vinyl padding and took coffee black, said executive director Rebecca Levy.
Levy said Sandoval’s talks drew dozens of people, some of whom had to be turned away because of space limitations.
“It was a great opportunity for people who understood how important the Navajo Code Talkers were to the outcome of the war, in our favor … to thank him in person,” Levy said.
Sandoval’s health had been declining in recent years, including a fall in which he fractured a hip, Malula Sandoval said. His last trip was to New Orleans in June where he received the American Spirit Award from the National World War II Museum, she said. MacDonald, Kinsel and Begay also were honored.
Sandoval and his wife met while he was running a substance abuse counseling clinic, and she was a secretary, she said. They were married 33 years. Sandoval raised 11 children from previous marriages and in blended families, John said.
Navajo President Jonathan Nez said Sandoval will be remembered as a loving and courageous person who defended his homeland using his sacred language.
“We are saddened by his passing, but his legacy will always live on in our hearts and minds,” Nez said in a statement.
Navajo Nation Council Speaker Seth Damon said Sandoval’s life was guided by character, courage, honor and integrity, and his impact will forever be remembered.
“May he rest among our most resilient warriors,” Damon said in a statement.
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This past week, in the midst of many competing events, the nation's news-aware and money-savvy cohorts gave their undivided attention to a professorial-looking fellow calmly reading from a piece of paper.
The bespectacled reader was Jerome Powell, who bears a weighty title as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank. While he is unknown to most Americans, his economic power is sometimes said to rival that of the president himself.
And while few voters may be thinking of Powell as they go to the polls in November, all will be coping with economic conditions strongly influenced by Powell's little-known institution.
The Fed is the latest Washington power center trying to smile for its closeup — caught in the bright glare of contemporary media attention. Like the Supreme Court, which has been barricaded behind new fencing since it overturned the federal protection for abortion rights, the Fed governors have preferred to exercise their extraordinary authority quietly in near anonymity.
The same could be said for top decisionmakers at the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and others responsible for fighting the COVID and monkeypox viruses. Scientists such as Dr. Anthony Fauci have become household names and symbols, praised as saviors and condemned as tyrants.
The curtain has even been drawn back on the Constitution-based oddity known as the Electoral College, an assembly of 538 actual persons who meet at a specified interval every four years and elect the president. Normally a routine exercise noticed by few, the Electoral College has become another focal point in the current congressional investigation of former President Trump's efforts to stay in office after losing the 2020 election.
That particular investigation has even pierced some of the murkiness of the Secret Service, which cannot account for the loss of critical text messages during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
All these institutions are usually run by individuals who operate with little public notice and speak in the code of their own professional expertise. Each agency has its unwritten protocols — which have minimal oversight and scant public knowledge.
And they have an extraordinary level of authority. While their top officials have been appointed by a president at some point, they all operate with remarkable independence thereafter.
The special case of the Fed
Secretive as many parts of the government may be, there are moments when any may be subject to exposure. This past week, it was showtime for the Fed.
Powell was on TV to read out a number set by an internal committee of the Board, a committee he also chairs. It is called the Federal Open Market Committee, and it votes on the "federal funds rate" which governs the cost of loans between financial institutions.
The FOMC consists of the seven presidentially appointed governors of the Federal Reserve and five from among the 12 presidents of the regional Federal Reserve Banks (New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Richmond, Cleveland, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Dallas, Kansas City, and San Francisco).
The image has long been that of a crusty collection of aging white males who tend to be conservative financiers. The current board, however, has come to look a good deal more like the country.
The seven presidentially appointed members include the recently confirmed Vice Chair Lael Brainard and two other women. Two of the seven are African Americans, both appointed by President Biden. In partisan terms, three are Republicans, including Powell, and four are Democrats.
Powell was originally appointed as a fed governor by President Obama in 2012, reappointed by him in 2014 and elevated to chairman by Trump in 2018. He was re-appointed as chairman this year by Biden, who has now appointed or re-appointed five of the seven members of the board.
This week, the change in the federal funds rate — the number the nation was waiting to hear — came in at 75, as in 75 basis points (or three-quarters of one-percent). It was instantly fed into countless computer programs and repeated endlessly in the media all over the world.
It moved the financial markets globally in real time, and the remarks Powell read from his notes on old-fashioned paper this week actually cheered some investors and helped the stock market indices to their best 3-day rally in months and the S&P 500 to its best month since 2020.
The federal funds rate can also determine the fate of individual businesses and the direction of entire industries. Not to mention the trajectories of presidents and their political parties.
Powell made clear the FOMC's intent was to restrain the effects of inflation, which last month came in at an annualized rate of more than 9%. As has been widely noted, that was the highest in four decades. This week another number, the "personal consumption expenditures" price index (PCE), came in "hotter" than expected, pointing to the likelihood our current inflation is already in double-digit territory.
The other number, which got far more attention, was this week's Gross Domestic Product reading for June. It showed the economy grew in nominal dollars in the first six months of the year but actually shrank by a little less than a percentage point when the numbers are adjusted for inflation.
That made for the second three-month period in a row with such a reading (the shrinkage for the first quarter of the year had been 1.6 percent). That met one common definition for a recession (although not the one preferred by most economists).
The moment vs. the momentum
After his announcement this week, Powell also read comments suggesting more rate hikes would be likely but not automatic. He noted that the latest increase, the fourth this year, brought the benchmark as high as 2.5% – a hefty move considering that the Fed's rate had been, in effect, zero — an extreme reached twice in recent history. The first was in 2009 in the so-called "Great Recession," the second in the recession of 2020-2021 the followed the onset of COVID.
Powell stuck around onstage answering reporters' questions about recession. The chairman made it clear he did not see a recession at the moment, due to strong production and sales numbers and the continuing strength of hiring in the job market. The unemployment rate is a strikingly low 3.6% as of June.
Powell may well be right about the moment, but he knows that's not the same as the momentum. His own policies contemplate pushing the economy toward, if not into, a recession. That is how those policies seek to break the inflationary cycle.
Politically, the obvious takeaway from such a moment would be that people struggling with higher prices might soon be working fewer hours or losing their jobs entirely. And the consequences of that have been pretty clear in midterm elections for generations.
Still, in the complex economic and political environment of our post-COVID world, it is possible that past experiences are less than perfect predictors.
The performance of equity markets such as the S&P 500 late in the week was taken as evidence the economic picture might be brighter than imagined.
The hope is that the fastest rate hikes since Fed Chairman Paul Volcker's reign of terror began in 1979 can have the desired effect without anything approaching the same degree of collateral damage.
There may be no such thing as a perfect "soft landing," but Powell at this point can at least hope for what he calls "softish."
A storied past
The Fed is now 109 years old, a creation of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 during what we now call the Progressive Era. President Woodrow Wilson and his first session of Congress had the rather idealistic notion of removing certain key economic decisions from the pressures of politics and the markets.
Its initial purpose was to manage the money supply, maintain value and prevent the kind of panics that had periodically plagued the economy in the 1800s. Since World War II, however, it has become increasingly imperative for the Fed to also mind levels of unemployment in making its calculations. This "dual mandate" has complicated Fed operations ever since, and Powell alluded to it this week.
Powell is the 16th person to chair the Fed and the latest to struggle with those decisions and pressures. While some have been more successful than others, all have been caught in the crossfire of criticism while in the job and especially after leaving it. Some who were hailed as heroes in their tenure have subsequently borne blame for bad things that happened later.
Alan Greenspan was dubbed an economic "Maestro" by some journalists (and one biographer) for his 18 years as charman (1987-2006), a period when even sharp increases in the federal funds rate often had relatively manageable consequences. But after he retired, Greenspan was faulted by some for the rapid rise in home valuations and alternative debt instruments that led to the crash of 2008 and the "Great Recession" that followed.
Reagan stuck with the medicine and its medicine man
Volcker, who chaired the Fed from the fateful summer of 1979 until Greenspan took over has been lionized as the man who beat double-digit inflation. Appointed by President Jimmy Carter at a point when inflation had reached nearly 14%, Volcker immediately set about persuading the Board of his day that drastic measures were mandatory
"At the time, the resulting inflationary psychology was so deeply embedded that almost everyone despaired at purging it," wrote financial journalist Robert Samuelson in his book The Great Inflation and its Aftermath in 2008. "Only the unexpectedly savage recession of 1981-82, when unemployment peaked at nearly 11 percent, succeeded in doing so."
That "savage" recession had already begun by the summer of 1981, when Volcker and his board continued raising the federal funds rate past 20%. Volcker was not cooling the economy so much as strangling it.
Even before that recession struck with full force, the "stagflation" of the 1970s had proved too much for Carter. While other issues mattered in Carter's loss to Republican Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election, economics had set the stage.
Reagan stuck by the medicine and the medicine man. Volcker and his board raised the federal funds rate as high as 20% in 1981. Srre enough, Republicans suffered losses around the country in the midterms of 1982, especially in governorships. But Reagan's working majority of Republicans and conservative Democrats in Congress survived largely intact. He reappointed Volcker the following year, as the medicine continued to prove effective against the underlying disease.
Widely vilified as the man who brought on double-digit joblessness in the early 1980s, Volcker had the satisfaction of seeing both the unemployment number and the inflation rate beaten back down into low-single digits during his second term as chairman. He retired but returned to advise the policymakers dealing with the Wall Street crisis in 2008.
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BERLIN (AP) — Rising concern over the impact of a potential Russian gas cutoff is fueling the debate in Germany over whether the country should switch off its last three nuclear power plants as planned at the end of this year.
The door to some kind of extension appeared to open a crack after the Economy Ministry in mid-July announced a new “stress test” on the security of electricity supplies. It’s supposed to take into account a tougher scenario than a previous test, concluded in May, that found supplies were assured.
Since then, Russia has reduced natural gas supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany to 20% of capacity amid tensions over the war in Ukraine. It cited technical issues that Germany says are only an excuse for a political power play. Russia recently has accounted for about a third of Germany’s gas supply, and there are concerns it could turn off the tap altogether.
The main opposition Union bloc has made increasingly frequent demands for an extension of the nuclear plants’ lives. Similar calls are coming from the smallest party in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition government, the pro-business Free Democrats.
“A lot speaks for not switching off the safe and climate-friendly nuclear power plants, but if necessary using them until 2024,” Finance Minister Christian Lindner, the Free Democrats’ leader, told Sunday’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper. He called for Economy Minister Robert Habeck, who is responsible for energy, to stop the use of gas to generate electricity.
Calls for extending the use of nuclear power are awkward for the other two governing parties, Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats and, particularly, Habeck’s environmentalist Greens. Opposition to nuclear power is a cornerstone of the Greens’ identity; a Social Democrat-Green government launched Germany’s exit from nuclear power two decades ago.
A government made up of then-Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right Union and the Free Democrats set the nuclear exit’s current form in 2011, shortly after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. It calls for the three still-operational reactors to go offline at the end of December.
Habeck has long argued that keeping those reactors running would be legally and technically complex and do little to address the problems caused by a shortfall of gas, arguing that natural gas isn’t so much a factor in generating electricity as in fueling industrial processes and providing heating.
“We have a heating problem or an industry problem, but not an electricity problem — at least not generally throughout the country,” he said in early July.
In this year’s first quarter, nuclear plants accounted for 6% of Germany’s electricity generation and gas for 13%. Lindner said “we must work to ensure that an electricity crisis doesn’t come on top of the gas crisis.”
Some Greens have indicated a degree of openness in recent days to allowing one or more reactors to keep running for a short period with their existing fuel rods, if the country faces a power supply emergency — though not to a longer extension.
Others aren’t impressed by the idea. That “is also a lifetime extension” for the reactors that would require a change to the existing law, “and we won’t touch that,” prominent Green lawmaker Juergen Trittin — Germany’s environment minister when the nuclear phaseout was first drawn up — told Saturday’s Tagesspiegel newspaper.
Critics say that isn’t enough anyway. Opposition leader Friedrich Merz has urged the government to order new fuel rods for the remaining reactors immediately. Senior opposition lawmaker Alexander Dobrindt called for three already-shut reactors to be reactivated and told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that “in this situation, lifetime extensions for nuclear energy of at least five more years are conceivable.”
And Scholz’s position? Government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann said last week that he is waiting for the results of the “stress test,” which are expected in the coming weeks.
The government has already given the green light for utility companies to fire up 10 dormant coal-fired power plants and six that are oil-fueled, and plans also to clear the way for dormant lignite-fired plants to be reactivated. Another 11 coal-fired power plants scheduled to be shut down in November will be allowed to keep operating. | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/germany-argues-over-nuclear-shutdown-amid-gas-supply-worries/ | 2022-07-31T18:42:06Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/germany-argues-over-nuclear-shutdown-amid-gas-supply-worries/ | true |
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Sunday aired drone footage of Israeli ships in a disputed gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, highlighting the tension at the center of U.S.-mediated maritime border talks between Lebanon and Israel.
The footage was aired as the U.S. energy envoy, Amos Hochstein, was landing in Beirut to mediate ongoing talks between Lebanon and Israel over their sea borders. Lebanon claims the Karish gas field is disputed territory under ongoing maritime border negotiations, whereas Israel says it lies within its internationally recognized economic waters.
Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib in a statement Friday said Hochstein will inform Lebanon of Israel’s response to Lebanon’s June proposal, adding that he was optimistic about reaching an agreement soon.
There was no immediate response to the video from Israel.
The footage aired on the Iran-backed party and militia’s Al-Manar television, showed barges from reconnaissance drones over the Karish gas field and their coordinates. It ended with footage of a rocket with the words “within range” in Arabic and Hebrew.
The Israeli military earlier this month shot down three Hezbollah unarmed drones flying over Karish gas field in the Mediterranean Sea. Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati criticized Hezbollah, saying the move could pose risks to the country.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an interview last week said that the militant group can locate and strike Karish and any other Israeli gas field.
Following his last visit in June, Hochstein told U.S.-funded Al-Hurra television that the Lebanese government took “a very strong step forward” by presenting a more united approach, and anticipated that there could be progress to reach a settlement.
The two countries, which have been officially at war since Israel’s creation in 1948, both claim some 860 square kilometers (330 square miles) of the Mediterranean Sea. Lebanon hopes to exploit offshore gas reserves as it grapples with the worst economic crisis in its modern history. | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/hezbollah-airs-video-of-israeli-barges-in-disputed-gas-field/ | 2022-07-31T18:42:13Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/hezbollah-airs-video-of-israeli-barges-in-disputed-gas-field/ | true |
Tracy Good, Republican (Incumbent)
Q: What qualities, training, experiences, and skills would you bring to this office?
A: No response.
Q: What role should the County Clerk play in increasing voter turnout in Natrona County?
A: No response.
Q: What will you prioritize when preparing the Natrona County budget and why
A: No response.
Q: Do you envision increasing, decreasing, or maintaining the number of polling places in Natrona County?
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
0-6-8-4
(zero, six, eight, four)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
0-6-8-4
(zero, six, eight, four) | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Midday-Daily-4-game-17341397.php | 2022-07-31T18:50:09Z | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Midday-Daily-4-game-17341397.php | false |
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: While monkeypox cases rise, why are we waiting for the cavalry to rescue us?
By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent
It’s hard to believe we are face-to-face with a new health crisis, monkeypox, before we are even out of the woods with the previous — but still very much current — crisis, Covid-19.
The pandemic, which has held the United States and almost every other country in its grip, should have taught us valuable lessons about how to manage a public health emergency, but it seems we are making some of the same mistakes we made not even three years ago, when the SARS-CoV-2 virus started to spread.
Testing for the monkeypox virus, once very limited, is now more available, but underused. The demand for vaccines is outpacing the supply. There are nearly 2 million courses the highly effective TPOXX antiviral sitting in the Strategic National Stockpile, but many health care providers are still having a hard time getting the medication for their patients.
We are one of the wealthiest countries in the world, spending more than $4 trillion dollars a year on health care, more per person than anywhere else. With all those resources and technology, it’s not as if the United States is incapable of mounting a significant response to an emerging outbreak. And there is little doubt we will eventually do what should have already been done: declare monkeypox a public health emergency, appoint a national coordinator and mount a more significant response. But why do we wait so long, drag our feet and endure so much suffering in the meantime?
As I have learned over the past few years, there is a significant difference between preparedness and response, even though the two are often conflated. The United States is extraordinarily prepared, ranked No. 1 for pandemic preparedness in the 2021 Global Health Security Index.
Instead, we are leading in a different way. As of today, we have the most confirmed cases of monkeypox on the planet, more than 5,000. That is almost 25% of the global numbers, even though we are just under 5% of the world’s population.
It is now clear: Preparedness alone does not guarantee a rapid response. With Covid-19, and now monkeypox, we were too slow to respond. It was as if we are sitting in a turbo-charged Ferrari, capable of massive acceleration, but instead only idling in the driveway.
Cavalry culture
Over the past three years, we have witnessed something counterintuitive. It was predominantly wealthy countries that were hit hardest during the Covid-19 pandemic. They had some of the highest death rates, despite their enormous resources.
While there are many reasons for this, including misinformation, lack of public trust, and the entangling of public health and politics, I think there is something else, as well: We have adopted what I call a “cavalry culture.” We wait for the cavalry to ride in and rescue us, instead of taking smaller preventive steps — such as establishing modern and reliable data systems, mastering our supply chain along the way, and acting early to head off the outbreak in the first place.
If that sounds familiar, it’s because we too often do the same with our personal health matters. According to research published in The Lancet Public Health, nearly half of chronic disease in the United States is mostly preventable, with lifestyle changes. Even knowing that, however, the medical system is set up for the cavalry to come in with expensive medications and high-tech interventions, instead of providing equitable access and incentives for preventative care.
There are a couple of important axioms in public health. One is, by the time you think you must act to contain an outbreak, it is already too late. And, if you think you are overreacting, you are probably reacting just the right amount. In the case of Covid, and now monkeypox, we seem to have forgotten those basic public health principles. And, the real question now seems to be: When will the government finally hit the gas pedal on our highly tuned Ferrari?
I don’t want to suggest any of this is easy. There are significant issues of uncertainty and unpredictability. Much like a hurricane forming at sea, we often don’t know exactly where or how hard it will hit. We want to be measured, calm in our response and to cause as little disruption as possible. We want to be thoughtful and gather as much information as is available.
And therein lies one of our biggest problems: basic data. I have often wondered, how is it that a numbers-driven, high-tech country like the United States can’t get basic data right?
Data disaster
As long as I’ve been reporting on the Covid pandemic, I have always had to offer the caveat that case numbers are probably off, sometimes wildly so. We have probably never had a clear vision on just how widely the virus was spreading at any given time in the United States, and going into the fall 2022, the situation isn’t really any better.
In early July, the Institute for Health Metrics, a research center at the University of Washington, released a model suggesting that actual Covid-19 cases are seven times higher than reported cases. At times, it seems the tech platforms for Snapchat and Twitter offer more data analytics than the patchwork of state and federal systems that underpin the public health of our country.
“First, there’s a lack of data access needed to understand where disease outbreaks are spreading. This is due to data collection limitations that Congress needs to fix,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives and a former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
He said there is also a need to update analog systems and connect them to each other — getting them to speak the same language. Right now, it’s the Tower of Babel.
“Second, we lack sufficient numbers and, in some cases, skills of people and systems at the federal, state and local levels that can deliver services and communicate effectively with communities. Finally, we are in perpetual panic and neglect funding cycles,” he said.
As a result of all of the things Frieden is describing, our current data collection and reporting system leaves important information fractured into dozens of states and territories, and thousands of county pieces for the CDC to puzzle together.
“I have been struck as we at CDC are now conquering another public health challenge — monkeypox — as to how little authority we at CDC have to receive the data,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told the Washington Post.
Walensky is talking about basic data, like where the vaccine has gone, who has been vaccinated, whether the vaccine is working, and even monkeypox case data like who is getting infected, their age and race/ethnicity. Why might this be so?
“States don’t routinely share vaccine doses administered data with the federal government — Covid was really the first time that we were able to successfully put data use agreements in place,” Claire Hannan, the executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers, told CNN. Part of the reason is because “states have laws in place to protect identifiable information.”
Some information has been getting to the CDC, but it is challenging to get and incomplete. The CDC director told the Washington Post, “We have been speaking to our state and local partners probably at least three times a week, all of them. … That is not how you synthesize data. We need … standardization of those data, and we need to have those data come to us in a standardized fashion so that they can be connected, we can compile them and rapidly report them out. We cannot at CDC collect the data and make informed decisions by calling 64 jurisdictions, and honestly, 3,000 counties.”
The CDC is currently working on agreements that would broaden the agency’s access to states’ data, as they successfully did with Covid. Hannan explained, “The need to quickly get the [monkeypox] vaccine out left no time to get data sharing agreements in place.”
But even if those agreements were in place, it still doesn’t mean the states’ ability to actually obtain vaccine doses would be made any easier. That’s because the states wouldn’t be using the same data system for ordering and tracking doses they generally use. Because the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response are in charge of monkeypox vaccine distribution, there would be yet another data system involved.
“They were asking states to request the vaccine using paper forms and email,” said Hannan. “They were asking states to complete forms [with fillable fields] on those who were receiving the vaccine and return these forms to the federal government.”
The problem was there weren’t even the right fields for the specific questions being asked, such as reason for vaccination or type of exposure or risk, Hannan said. It wasn’t that the necessary forms weren’t being filled out, it was that they couldn’t be filled out because of disparate data platforms.
It is a baffling level of bureaucracy in the middle of an unfolding outbreak.
Testing, vaccines, therapeutics
As things stand now, the issues with data collection, testing, vaccines, treatments and communication are sounding a lot like the ones we experienced with Covid-19.
But, to be clear, monkeypox is not that much like Covid. For now, it seems to spread primarily through sores or lesions during close, personal touch and shared objects like towels and linens, as well as respiratory secretions during prolonged face-to-face contact.
The monkeypox outbreak is also different for another fundamental reason. Unlike with Covid, which was caused by a novel virus, the basic tools already exist either for monkeypox or its close relative, smallpox. We didn’t have to build them from scratch. That means we could have had them or put them to better use by now.
Take testing. At the start of the outbreak, testing capability was capped at about 6,000 tests per week, which meant that doctors really had to ration them to a narrow group of people — primarily a subset of men who have sex with men. Since then, the CDC has partnered with five labs to scale up our capabilities and we should soon be able to process up to 80,000 tests a week. But the tests are being underutilized, according to CNN reporting. Experts blamed the low uptake on several factors, including a lack of awareness among doctors about the virus and the fear of stigma among patients.
So, just as with Covid, the real scope of the monkeypox outbreak is probably underappreciated. Confirmed or probable cases stand around 5,000, according to CDC data, but the number could be several fold higher.
Another tool that could be tremendously helpful is testing of wastewater. As we have seen with Covid, it can better define the scope of the outbreak and where it will emerge next. Two months into the outbreak, we still aren’t doing this widely for monkeypox.
And then there are vaccines. Unlike Covid, where we spent upward of $20 billion to develop, test and distribute vaccines, we already have a vaccine specifically approved for monkeypox.
Supplies were limited and the initial US vaccination strategy focused on known monkeypox cases and their immediate contacts. But the outbreak continued to grow, and the strategy had to change. The count of people eligible for the two-dose Jynneos vaccine has now expanded to an estimated 1.5 million.
With that same cavalry culture, we are woefully behind in getting those doses to people who want them. At this time, only 336,710 doses have been shipped to states. Ordering only just began for about 800,000 more doses. This scarcity has created long lines in monkeypox hotspots like New York City, which has the highest number of cases in the country.
It also means that the vaccine, which can be given within 14 days of exposure (but preferably within four) to prevent or reduce the severity of disease, is currently being used more as a treatment — a post-exposure prophylaxis — rather than as a real preventive measure.
As National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said on CNN, that focus will have to shift.
“It’s very clear with the spread of this that there now has to be a balance between vaccines available for those who clearly have been exposed, as well as those at risk,” Fauci said. “What you want to do is a balance between vaccinating those who clearly have had an exposure but go well beyond that.”
It’s a missed opportunity that won’t be rectified immediately, even with the soon-to-arrive 786,000 doses announced by HHS this week. Needs will still outstrip supply.
Finally, there is the issue of treatment. The CDC has made the antiviral smallpox treatment tecovirimat, called TPOXX, available to monkeypox patients who have or are at high risk of severe disease under an “alternate regulatory mechanism.”
There are 1.7 million courses of TPOXX stockpiled. But once again, getting the medication to patients who could immediately benefit has proven to be bureaucratically burdensome for both patients and providers.
“You’re talking about a five, six-day time lag to get that medication to you at a local doctor’s office, no matter where you are. And the paperwork, and all of the bureaucracy to make that happen is very cumbersome, takes a few hours of your time. And that’s the barrier,” Dr. Stacy Lane, founder of the LGBTQ-centered Central Outreach Wellness Center in Pittsburgh, told me recently.
Fortunately, those rules were loosened somewhat last week, allowing patients to get treated more quickly and reducing the amount of documentation needed. The CDC and the US Food and Drug Administration are working to further streamline the process.
In the meantime, though, patients are suffering. Even though most cases are “mild,” they are still uncomfortable, or downright painful, depending on where sores appear. Plus, there is a risk of long-term complications if the pox lesions develop in areas around the eye or GI tract.
All of these gaps have the hardest hit community on edge.
“Largely public health officials know how this has spread. They know how to vaccinate people … we know how to treat it, and we know how to prevent it,” says Samuel Garrett-Pate, managing director of external affairs of Equality California, the largest statewide LBGTQ+ civil rights organization.
“It unfortunately seems that despite two years of building up our public health infrastructure to prevent what happened with Covid-19 from ever happening again, despite the fact that we are better prepared in terms of already having a vaccine available, the CDC and FDA seem to be caught flat-footed once again. And I think as a result, you’re seeing very real and understandable fear anxiety among the LGBTQ community.”
Is it too late?
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former FDA commissioner and current board member of Pfizer, has been pessimistic about the trajectory of monkeypox in the United States.
“We’re now at the cusp of this becoming an endemic virus, where this now becomes something that’s persistent that we need to continue to deal with. I think the window for getting control of this and containing it probably has closed and if it hasn’t closed, it’s certainly starting to close,” he said on Face the Nation on July 17.
CDC’s Walensky pushed back on Gottlieb’s assessment calling it “misinformed and off base,” saying that while it’s true there is much work to do, the US has made dramatic progress on priorities like testing, vaccines and education.
There has been measurable progress in these areas, no doubt. But, I do worry that we once again waited too long. We sat idling in our Ferrari, perhaps not wanting to believe that somehow we had suddenly found ourselves in the middle of yet another outbreak.
I remember when I first saw a case of monkeypox — it was in 2008, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the handful of countries in Africa where the disease is endemic. To tell you the truth, I never thought I would see it in the United States. After all, it was a virus that hadn’t traveled much since it was first identified in DRC in 1970. My guess was that most of my medical colleagues in the United States would likely only see pictures of the distinctive pox lesions in textbooks.
The world, however, is changing, as we have been reminded of twice in the last few years. There are new pathogens emerging, and existing pathogens are more easily traveling the world.
We have learned painful lessons in the last few years, and we are now in the midst of our first significant test since the Covid pandemic began, to see if we do any better this time around.
There is no doubt we are capable, and we are prepared. The question is will we use all those remarkable resources and respond, or we will wait and suffer until the cavalry has to rescue us once again?
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 for the second straight day, in what appears to be a rare case of "rebound" following treatment with an anti-viral drug.
In a letter noting the positive test, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, the White House physician, said Sunday that the president "continues to feel well" and will keep on working from the executive residence while he isolates.
Biden tested positive on Saturday, requiring him to cancel travel and in-person events as he isolates for at least five days in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
U.S. President Joe Biden gives remarks during a meeting on the U.S. Economy with CEOs and members of his Cabinet in the South Court Auditorium of the White House on July 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. During the meeting, President Biden was given a note
RELATED: Biden tests positive for COVID-19 again in 'rebound' case, doctor says
After initially testing positive on July 21, Biden, 79, was treated with the anti-viral drug Paxlovid. He tested negative for the virus on this past Tuesday and Wednesday, clearing him to leave isolation while wearing a mask indoors.
Research suggests that a minority of those prescribed Paxlovid to experience a rebound case of the virus. The fact that a rebound rather than a reinfection possibly occurred is a positive sign for Biden's health once he's clear of the disease.
"The fact that the president has cleared his illness and doesn’t have symptoms is a good sign and makes it less likely he will develop long COVID," said Dr. Albert Ho, an infectious disease specialist at Yale University's school of public health. | https://www.fox9.com/news/biden-tests-positive-in-rebound-covid-case-for-2nd-day-in-a-row | 2022-07-31T19:02:00Z | https://www.fox9.com/news/biden-tests-positive-in-rebound-covid-case-for-2nd-day-in-a-row | false |
Kalonzo to Ruto: I don’t need your sympathies; Raila will beat you
Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka has called out the Deputy President William Ruto for showing disrespect to his boss President Uhuru Kenyatta instead of facing his main competitor Raila Odinga, the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition presidential candidate.
Mr Kalonzo also told the DP to stop making derogatory remarks about him (Kalonzo) in his campaign rallies and added that he did not need any sympathies from Dr Ruto.
He accused Dr Ruto of inciting Rift Valley residents against President Kenyatta ahead of the General Election.
“He (Ruto) was there and he was telling Uhuru to leave him alone. He went to my Mwingi backyard and he was pretending to be my advocate. He claimed I had been oppressed by Odinga, do I look like an oppressed person?” possed Mr Kalonzo.
“He claimed that I was forced into an interview by Raila and I failed. I did not send Ruto to those things. I am telling you Ruto, please, leave me alone. Hunt for your votes, I am not even on the ballot, what are you looking me for? Chase after Odinga, he will beat you.”
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The Wiper leader said he was shocked by the manner in which Dr Ruto was insulting the head of state, noting that he has moved around the world and not seen anything like that.
“We have seen wonders. I have moved the world over and not seen a Deputy directly insulting his boss in such a manner, like Ruto is doing to Uhuru,” said Mr Kalonzo.
He told the DP to hunt for his votes without dragging President Kenyatta in his campaigns yet he is not a candidate.
“You can hunt for votes without abusing Uhuru. If you search Uhuru's name on the ballot, you won't get it, but you will see that of Raila Odinga,” said Mr Kalonzo.
Mr Musyoka spoke in Kisii and Nyamira counties on Sunday during campaigns to drum up support for Mr Odinga and Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition candidates from the region.
“Please vote for Raila Odinga. Come out in large numbers to vote for my candidate on August 9,” pleaded Mr Kalonzo who was accompanied by his former running mate Andrew Sunkuli.
He drummed up support for Kisii governor candidate Simba Arati (ODM), senatorial candidate Richard Onyonka (ODM) and the Woman Representative candidate Dorice Aburi (Wiper).
Others were Nyamira gubernatorial candidate Ben Momanyi (Wiper), Kitutu Masaba candidate Victor Swanya (Wiper) and Bobasi candidate Innocent Obiri.
Exasperated DP
Mr Musyoka was responding to remarks by the deputy president who has asked President Kenyatta to stop invoking his name as he roots for Azimio la Umoja candidate Raila Odinga.
An exasperated DP called on the president to desist from attacking him and rather focus on campaigning for the Azimio candidate.
“I want to tell my friend the President, focus on your candidate Mr Kitendawili (referring to Mr Odinga), Mr President please stop talking about me, talk about your candidate” Ruto flared.
“With a lot of respect, please be a decent human being, be a gentleman and have some gratitude because we are the ones who helped you, stop this pride and threats” he added.
Mr Kalonzo said they are now wishing President Kenyatta a peaceful retirement, noting that leadership is not an easy task.
Mr Sunkuli told DP Ruto to stop fighting President Kenyatta and put his efforts on Mr Odinga who is his competitor.
“We members of the Maasai and Kisii communities are telling the head of state that we wish him a peaceful retirement. Do not fear. Maasai Mara National Park is here, come and rest. If that man nears you, we are alert,” said Mr Sunkuli. | https://nation.africa/kenya/news/politics/kalonzo-to-ruto-i-don-t-need-your-sympathies-raila-will-beat-you--3898260 | 2022-07-31T19:03:32Z | https://nation.africa/kenya/news/politics/kalonzo-to-ruto-i-don-t-need-your-sympathies-raila-will-beat-you--3898260 | true |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
3-4-8, WB: 9
(three, four, eight; WB: nine)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
3-4-8, WB: 9
(three, four, eight; WB: nine) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play3-Day-game-17341471.php | 2022-07-31T19:09:25Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play3-Day-game-17341471.php | true |
Not every former alt-weekly intern gets a Q&A when they return to the Northwest. But Andrew Michaan has more than made a name for himself in recent years, with Podcast But Outside—a video medium show where he and fellow comedian Cole Hersch sit behind a folding table and offer passing strangers $1 to be interviewed.
Now living in LA (described on his site as “is the only comedian / actor / writer in Los Angeles”), the 2010 editorial alum has appeared on countless festival stages, in roles on Adam Ruins Everything and I Think You Should Leave, and most recently on the Late Late Show With James Corden. We didn’t even know he had been a Mercury intern [The Mercury is our sister publication, in case you have never scrolled down to the bottom of our site. —Eds.] until he wrote to say he was coming through for a short two-city tour with Brent Weinbach, another very funny stand-up. Would we interview him because of nepotism? No! Would we interview him because he’s very funny? Assuredly.
Michaan got on the phone to catch us up about his podcast, his dogs, and his several-year stint as an Oregonian.
THE STRANGER: Are you from Oregon?
No, I just went to Reed and lived here for a few years afterward.
What drew you to Reed College?
To be honest, I was really into skateboarding in high school, and Oregon had the best skateparks.
In Portland, or the greater state?
In Oregon. Newburg had a really good skatepark. So did McMinville, Lincoln City, Aumsville—on the way to Three Pools—had a great skatepark. I’m sure there are more now.
What did you study at Reed?
Religion.
What’s your favorite religion?
I’ll say whatever beautiful faith the person reading this practices.
What did you write your final paper on?
Actually, on the Catholic Church and their opinions on extraterrestrial life. And they’re chill with it.
With your paper?
No, I’m saying they’re chill with extraterrestrial life. They’re kind of like maybe, y’know? If the aliens show up that doesn’t mean the bible isn’t true. Don’t freak out; that doesn’t mean the bible is all fake. We’ll just have to figure it out together.
Are you going to hit any of your favorite skate spots when you’re in town?
No, I don’t skate anymore due to some injuries. I’m going to get a tattoo of my dog’s face.
Bluetooth? Man, your “connect to Bluetooth” jokes about your dog really got me through the pandemic. Your dog has an incredible, silly face.
I just got another shih tzu named Spinach.
What do you like about shih tzus?
Well, they’re very sweet and very peaceful. They’re playful, but not too high-energy. And they’re Christian. It’s a deeply Christian breed, which I think is very cool.
Are you Christian?
I’m an atheist, but I like to surround myself with good Christians. Hardcore Christians. I like the Christian right and what they’re doing to this country.
I feel like I need to add a “/s” to every answer you give.
You can just note that I’m sarcastic in the intro.
How would you describe your comedy?
I can be a bit dry, kind of deadpan, but I don’t see myself as a cynic. I try to share funny takes on relatable aspects of the human experience.
Your tourmate and co-headliner Brent Weinbach is also pretty deadpan, right?
No, Brent is more absurdist. His comedy has essentially nothing to do with him or his life. I tell stories about my life, and with Brent you can watch 40 minutes of his stand-up and come away with nothing. Brent is honestly the most innovative and hilarious comedian I’ve ever seen perform. And I’m not bad.
The star power between the two of you seems like a pretty big draw. The poster says “ONLY $20 (wow).” Do you generally charge more for shows?
Usually around that. A lot of the fans of Podcast But Outside are young, so I would never want price to be a barrier.
I didn’t know how much you wanted to talk about Podcast But Outside because this tour is sans your co-host Cole Hersh, and you’re doing stand-up. How different is your stand-up from Podcast But Outside?
My stand-up material now involves more crowd work than it used to because I realized that’s exactly what I’m doing on the podcast—and what I’m doing well—so I’ve started to do less structured bits. I mean, I would say they’re mostly structured, but whatever skill set I’ve grown from doing the show has transferred over to the stage. I’ve been able to embrace the fun, uncontrolled aspect of riffing.
Does your set have a beautiful overarching narrative?
I don’t have that right now, but I’m trying to work in that realm.
There are some comedians who hate the beautiful narrative device.
It’s quite popular right now, and I think I understand why. The world feels really bleak, so cynicism is a little done and people want earnestness. If you can show some connection with humanity, I think people appreciate that. And that’s kind of why people love Podcast But Outside. We go out and talk to strangers, talk to people on all sides of the political spectrum and it’s funny but we also have some earnest conversations with people that we would never otherwise meet. I think the earnestness we’re seeing in stand-up right now is a function of where we are as a society.
Andrew Michaan and Brent Weinbach perform at the Crocodile Tues July 26 at 8 pm. | https://www.thestranger.com/comedy/2022/07/25/76915462/podcast-but-outside-but-stand-up-and-inside | 2022-07-31T19:10:41Z | https://www.thestranger.com/comedy/2022/07/25/76915462/podcast-but-outside-but-stand-up-and-inside | false |
Steve Scalise, third-highest House Republican, says he spoke at white supremacist event
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana acknowledged yesterday that he spoke at a gathering hosted by white-supremacist leaders while serving as a state representative in 2002. The revelation comes days before his party assumes control of Congress.
Scalise, 49, who ascended to the House GOP's third-highest post this year after Rep. Eric Cantor's defeat in a Virginia Republican primary in June, confirmed through an adviser that he once appeared at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, or EURO. But the adviser said the congressman didn't know at the time about the group's affiliation with racists and neo-Nazi activists.
The organization, founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, has been called a hate group by several civil rights organizations.
Last night, some Democrats were already raising questions about whether Scalise should remain in a leadership post.
Associates of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) are monitoring the situation. The staff of Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had no comment.
-- The Washington Post | https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/steve-scalise-third-highest-house-republican-says-he-spoke-at-white-supremacist-event-l07230 | 2022-07-31T19:11:56Z | https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/steve-scalise-third-highest-house-republican-says-he-spoke-at-white-supremacist-event-l07230 | true |
England were crowned UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 champions with a dramatic 2-1 extra-time victory against Germany to win their first major title in front of a record crowd.
Nothing could separate the sides after a physical first half before Ella Toone’s outrageous chip put England ahead and blew the roof off Wembley.
Germany found themselves back in it 17 minutes later as Lina Magull finally got past a stoic Mary Earps to take the game to extra-time.
And substitute Chloe Kelly then provided the decisive goal on 110 minutes, poking home from close-range before wheeling away in celebration in front of 87,192 fans.
England started the final on the front foot and regularly tested Germany goalkeeper Merle Frohms, with Ellen White having the clearest chance as she got her head to a fizzing Fran Kirby cross but found Frohms in her way.
Lucy Bronze frequently put her body on the line, first putting in a heroic block to stop a shot from Sara Dabritz, before Rachel Daly followed suit to send the ball behind for a Germany corner which Bronze headed clear.
Even as the game settled it remained physical between the two sides, England earning two free-kicks in quick succession, before forcing Germany into a series of corners, the middle one setting up Georgia Stanway for a delightful floating chance which Frohms had to tip behind.
Leah Williamson put in a goal saving clearance on the line on 25 minutes as a goalmouth scramble ensued, before Earps was able to gather the ball and restore some calm to a frantic first half.
With 38 minutes gone, White had the final clear-cut chance of the half as she found Mead on the turn before the Arsenal player pulled back to White, whose strike went inches over the bar, ensuring the teams went into the break all square.
Germany were threatening at the restart, but Earps stood firm to an early chance from substitute Tabea Wassmuth as she made a strong run into the box and England’s goalkeeper was not needed for Germany’s next chance as Magull fired wide on the turn.
The German pressure came to nothing as substitute Toone put England ahead on 62 minutes, running on to a pinpoint cross from midfield maestro Keira Walsh before Toone raised the class levels even further by chipping Frohms to send Wembley into raptures.
Magull soon reminded England the game was far from over as she rattled the crossbar, Earps fingertips denying an equaliser, before safely holding on to the rebound from Lea Schuller as Wembley caught its breath from a frenetic five minutes.
And it was Magull who brought Germany level, combining well with Wassmuth whose low cross was poked over Earps and into the roof of the net with 11 minutes remaining in normal time.
Substitute Alessia Russo was brought down by Kathrin Hendrich to provide England a final opportunity to win it with two minutes of added time remaining but the German defence were well-set to clear as the game was taken to extra time.
No team could gain the advantage in the opening 15 minutes of extra-time as both sides’ tired, having given everything for 105 minutes.
Jill Scott, the only surviving player from the EURO 2009 final, provided fresh impetus for England’s attack as fellow substitute Kelly whipped up the crowd when England earned a corner.
And it was Kelly who grabbed the winner, stabbing home the rebound from the corner with ten minutes remaining for her first international goal and perhaps the most famous in England Women’s history.
As they had done after England’s first goal, Germany immediately went on the attack but Earps was there again to safely hold on.
England withstood that pressure as they emerged victorious in their home tournament to memorably bring football home at Wembley.
Tickets are on sale now for fans to experience a history-making tournament that aims to unite football and communities and amplify the growth of the women’s game. www.uefa.com/womenseuro/ticketing | https://www.nationalworld.com/sport/football/did-the-lionesses-win-england-v-germany-womens-euro-2022-final-highlights-as-it-happened-3788550 | 2022-07-31T19:11:57Z | https://www.nationalworld.com/sport/football/did-the-lionesses-win-england-v-germany-womens-euro-2022-final-highlights-as-it-happened-3788550 | true |
Order in the court?
Of course.
Cameras in the court?
Not so much.
Most judges and attorneys surveyed in the four-county area are lukewarm to the idea of allowing cameras in the courtroom, citing concerns on how it could negatively impact the pursuit of justice.
Currently, Indiana State Supreme Court policy prohibits anyone from the public recording, taking pictures or providing a video stream of court proceedings — without prior approval of the high court.
But that may be changing.
The Supreme Court has been taking comments from judges and lawyers regarding a proposed amendment to the Indiana Code of Judicial Conduct.
The amendment includes language which would allow the judge at the local court to allow “the broadcasting, televising, recording or photographing of court proceedings or the courtroom by members of the news media.”
The amendment said the following conditions must be adhered to:
• the means of recording will not distract participants or impair the dignity of the proceedings; and
• the broadcasting is restricted to non-confidential proceedings.
The amendment’s comment section includes wording saying “the judge has discretion to interrupt or stop the coverage if he or she deems the interruption or stoppage appropriate.”
The comments also limit the potential broadcasting or live feeds to accredited media.
The period for accepting comments from judges and lawyers ends Monday.
Kathryn Dolan, the chief public information officer for the Indiana Supreme Court, stressed the rule is simply a proposal at this point, and that there is no timetable for the Supreme Court to make a decision whether or not to allow cameras in the courtroom.
Local judges and attorneys aren’t too keen on the idea, with most citing the need to protect the integrity of proceedings.
“My concern is the risk that cameras will change how witnesses testify, knowing that what they say may be broadcast,” Noble Circuit Court Judge Michael Kramer said. “There is also a fear of both attorneys and litigants possibly being more melodramatic and playing to the cameras.”
One of Noble County Chief Public Defender Jim Abbs’ concerns is how being televised or photographed would affect witnesses.
“Criminal trials are very serious matters with very serious consequences to an accused, including loss of freedom,” Abbs said. “It is absolutely essential that the accused receive a fair trial. Many, if not most, witnesses in a case have never been on television and most people, nervous from having to testify, will be even more nervous if on television. This could have a direct effect on their testimony. If some answer makes him or her look bad for any reason or sympathetic toward someone others dislike, that person may hold back or even change their testimony which can have a direct impact on a case.”
It’s not just the witnesses who could be impacted, Steuben Circuit Court Judge Allen Wheat said.
“I fear that cameras, or still photographs, would distract the attention of jurors away from what the witness was saying and toward the cameras,” Wheat said.
Workers in the judicial system want a fair process. For both of those reasons — and others — Auburn attorney Robert Hardy would like to keep cameras out of the courtroom.
“I think cameras are bad,” Hardy said. “Cameras in the courtroom change the dynamic.”
People who are interested in following a case can go the courtroom to see justice at work themselves, Hardy pointed out.
“I think that is more than sufficient,” he said.
Hardy also had concerns that some attorneys might play to the cameras. It’s a concern shared by Abbs.
“This can also have an impact on the attorneys trying the case, especially new ones,” Abbs said. “Trying a criminal case when someone’s freedom is dependent on the outcome is a very heavy responsibility. Like anyone, attorneys want to look good in doing his or her job. The cameras are now an additional distraction especially if the attorney believes he or she made a mistake or sees or reads about it that evening.
“The attorney must be focused on his or her representation of the accused, not on how they look or are perceived after the fact.”
Abbs also expressed concern with the idea that showing all the testimony in a court proceedings would include footage of the victim.
“The accused will be seen, but will the alleged victim?” Abbs said. “If it is going to be in the media, should not everyone be viewed and how is it fair to select and paste what is seen. An alleged victim could be lying and should not the public see all of this?”
LaGrange County Circuit Court Judge William Walz IV said there is some potential for good to come out of allowing cameras in the courtroom under certain circumstances.
“Cameras certainly could be a good thing by facilitating a better understanding of what is occurring in court consistent with the old adage ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’” Walz said.
Walz added that just because cameras may be allowed in the courtroom doesn’t mean they will.
“If the proposed changes are adopted, the court will continue to strive to be open and transparent while safeguarding the dignity of the litigants, victims and other participants in both civil and criminal justice proceedings,” Walz said. “All that being said, it is unlikely that the LaGrange Circuit Court would regularly allow the video broadcast of non-confidential proceedings at this time.”
Kramer said the trend is to allow more cameras in courtrooms.
“I am happy with the current rule prohibiting cameras in the courtroom, but realize that sooner or later things will change,” Kramer said. “Indiana and the federal courts are about the last courts that have that prohibition.”
When the change does come, Kramer said he can only hope everyone adjusts quickly so the focus can stay on everyone getting a fair hearing.
Noble Superior Court 1 Judge Steven Clouse is also wary of cameras being allowed in the courtroom, but said the proposed rule does allow for judges to say how — and where — cameras are utilized.
“If the rule does go into place I would envision limiting where cameras may be placed in the courtroom and when cameras may be used during a hearing or trial,” Clouse said. “It is a delicate balance between maintaining the solemnness of the courtroom while allowing the public to have access to the proceedings through cameras and other recording devices.”
Abbs said the emphasis must be on justice being served.
“In the simplest terms, the accused getting a fair trial must be insured,” he said. “This is not a sport nor reality TV. It is of supreme importance and should be viewed this way.” | https://www.kpcnews.com/heraldrepublican/article_a5ebecf4-de60-5d1e-bba2-b80159f79392.html | 2022-07-31T19:12:59Z | https://www.kpcnews.com/heraldrepublican/article_a5ebecf4-de60-5d1e-bba2-b80159f79392.html | true |
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LONDON: England women's captain Leah Williamson called on the Lionesses to seize the opportunity of a lifetime with the host nation gripped for Sunday's Euro 2022 final against Germany at Wembley.
A tournament that has smashed attendance records will get a fitting finale with a crowd of 87,000 expected to set a new high for a final at either the men's or women's European Championship.
England have never won a major tournament in the women's game and have waited 56 years for any triumph since the men's 1966 World Cup.
“Tomorrow is a day of opportunity,“ said Williamson on the eve of the game.
“That’s the only thing that makes it any different to any other game, that the stakes are that much higher. But this is what we all live for and this is why I play football.”
Anticipation is reaching fever pitch in a nation where women's football was banned for nearly 50 years until 1970.
On top of a sold-out Wembley, a crowd of 7,000 is set to congregate to watch the final on big screens in London's Trafalgar Square.
Sunday's newspapers were awash with headlines willing England to take the final step.
“Let them roar again,“ ran the front page of the Sunday Times alongside a picture of Williamson.
“Bring it home,“ said the front cover of The Observer sport section, which added an all-female RAF flypast with grace the skies above Wembley.
Outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid tribute to the impact Sarina Wiegman's women will have on the future of the game.
“The pitches and playgrounds and parks of this country will be filled as never before with girls and women who know beyond any shadow of a doubt that football is not just for boys - it really is for everyone,“ Johnson wrote in a letter addressed to Wiegman, Williamson and the rest of the England squad.
Pressure on England
Wiegman is unbeaten in 19 games since taking charge of England in September.
The reserved Dutch coach has achieved her goal of inspiring a nation, but admitted earlier this week to wanting to hide in her own “bunker” to block out the hype around the final.
“I’m not stupid. I see things happening and it’s really incredible,“ said Wiegman. “I really enjoy that too, but then you come back to what your job is, and that’s getting ready for Germany.”
Germany boss Martina Voss-Tecklenburg said all the pressure was on England as they try to deal with the weight of expectation from the home crowd.
Despite the prospect of facing a hostile atmosphere, Voss-Tecklenburg said she would not have wished for the eight-time winners to face anyone other than England in the final.
“It will be a football feast with millions of spectators all over Europe,“ added Voss-Tecklenburg. “At the beginning of the game, Wembley will be English and it would be nice if it belonged to us at the end.”
Tournament organisers UEFA are also under the spotlight after the chaotic scenes around last year's men's European Championship final at Wembley and the Champions League final in Paris in May.
England's men were forced to play a game behind closed doors last month after violent clashes marred the end to Euro 2020 as fans charged the turnstiles in a bid to see the Three Lions' defeat on penalties to Italy.
A strict no alcohol zone has been put in place around the stadium with fans without tickets strongly urged to not to travel to the stadium.
“The numbers are amazing but the biggest surprise for me is the ones who are surprised that women’s football is at such a level,“ said UEFA president Aleksandr Ceferin. - AFP | https://www.thesundaily.my/sport/england-urged-to-seize-the-day-for-women-s-football-fever-YC9523980 | 2022-07-31T19:17:10Z | https://www.thesundaily.my/sport/england-urged-to-seize-the-day-for-women-s-football-fever-YC9523980 | false |
BIRMINGHAM: South African swimming star Chad le Clos set himself up for a shot at Commonwealth Games history on Sunday as breaststroke world record holder Adam Peaty prepares to go for gold.
Le Clos, the defending champion in the men's 200m butterfly, qualified second-quickest for the evening final behind New Zealand's 400m individual medley champion Lewis Clareburt, who timed 1min 56.76sec.
The 30-year-old South African has won 17 medals across three Commonwealth Games and has the chance to add to that collection in Birmingham.
Any podium finish at the Sandwell Aquatic Centre would lift him level with shooters Michael Gault and Phil Adams, who jointly hold the all-time record of 18.
Le Clos reached the final 10 years to the day since he beat American great Michael Phelps at London 2012 to become Olympic champion.
“It’s spooky,“ he said. “It’s a monumental day for me absolutely but you know what, I’ve taken the emotion out of today because it’s different.
“It’s the same country, same day, same hour, same lane but at the end of the day, I’ve just got to be composed tonight, execute, have a game plan.”
Tatjana Schoenmaker of South Africa was fastest in qualifying for the women's 200m breaststroke final, more than three seconds quicker than Australia's Jenna Strauch in 2:21.76.
Canada's Joshua Liendo topped the men's 100m freestyle heats in a time of 48.54sec, edging out Olympic 200m champion Tom Dean.
Olympic women's 100m butterfly champion Margaret Mac Neil of Canada was fastest in the women's 50m butterfly heats in 26.24.
Powerhouse Australia are well clear at the top of the medals table -- which includes swimming and para swimming events -- with eight golds from a possible 17 on offer so far.
England's Peaty will be the star attraction in the men's 100m breaststroke final on Sunday evening.
The Olympic champion, who has dominated his event in recent years, was forced to miss the world championships in Budapest in June due to a foot injury.
Emma McKeon will go for a 11th Commonwealth gold, which would be a record for Australia, in Sunday evening's women's 50m freestyle final but will face a fierce challenge from compatriot Shayna Jack.
McKeon, who already has two relay golds in Birmingham, is currently level on 10 golds with fellow swimmers Ian Thorpe, Susie O'Neill and Leisel Jones.
Other finals taking place on Sunday evening are the women's 100m backstroke and the women's 4x200m freestyle relay. - AFP | https://www.thesundaily.my/sport/south-africa-swim-star-chad-le-clos-targets-commonwealth-history-DB9524140 | 2022-07-31T19:17:30Z | https://www.thesundaily.my/sport/south-africa-swim-star-chad-le-clos-targets-commonwealth-history-DB9524140 | true |
Love Island's Kady McDermott flaunts her pert derrière in a skimpy black bikini for pool video during Cyprus getaway
Kady McDermott sent pulses racing as she shared a steamy video to Instagram on Sunday during her sun-soaked Cyprus getaway.
The former Love Island contestant, 26, flaunted her toned physique in a skimpy black bikini as she posed up a storm through the glass of an infinity pool.
Turning around to flash her pert derrière, she beamed from ear-to-ear before performing the dolphin stroke whilst underwater.
Woah! Kady McDermott sent pulses racing as she shared a steamy video to Instagram on Sunday during her sun-soaked Cyprus getaway
Layering the sizzling clip with Lavern's Move Me, the reality star wrote in her caption: 'Was clearing having way too much fun.'
She rose to fame after appearing on the second series of the ITV2 dating show.
Earlier this year, Kady enjoyed another holiday to the Maldives where she appeared to be joined by an unseen mystery man.
Peachy: Turning around to flash her pert derrière, she beamed from ear-to-ear before performing the dolphin stroke whilst underwater
Out of this world: The former Love Island contestant, 26, flaunted her toned physique in a skimpy black bikini as she posed up a storm through the glass of an infinity pool
During the vacation, she also shared shots of the lavish break at Ayada Maldives to her 1.3million Instagram followers.
However, she has not revealed who she was there with - leaving fans in the dark about her mystery man company.
Kady shared a number of snaps suggesting it was a romantic getaway - including rose petal bed displays and a romantic beach date night.
Talented: She rose to fame after appearing on the second series of the ITV2 dating show
In her element: Layering the sizzling clip with Lavern's Move Me, the reality star wrote in her caption: 'Was clearing having way too much fun'
She was last romantically linked to Aston Villa footballer Matty Cash but they split in November later after a whirlwind romance.
However, some fans thought she was back with Love Island beau Scott Thomas, 33, who she began dating six years ago in the villa - before a turbulent end in 2017.
While speculations that it was Scott circulated, Scott seemed to be holidaying in Mexico while Kady was in the Maldives - making the rumoured reconciliation unlikely.
Who could it be? Earlier this year, Kady enjoyed another holiday to the Maldives where she appeared to be joined by an unseen mystery man | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11066983/Kady-McDermott-flaunts-pert-derri-black-bikini-pool-video-Cyprus-getaway.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-31T19:18:19Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11066983/Kady-McDermott-flaunts-pert-derri-black-bikini-pool-video-Cyprus-getaway.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that he is planning a new military offensive in northern Syria directed against the Kurds.
If one authoritarian leader can defy world opinion, invade the territory of a sovereign state and incur only minor consequences, why not another? This may well have been the reasoning that first led Erdogan to send his armed forces into Kurdish-occupied areas of northern Syria in August 2016. His precedent would have been the invasion of Crimea by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin two years earlier.
Erdogan’s first incursion into Syria’s quasi-autonomous Kurdistan region – the area known as Rojava and nominally part of sovereign Syria – resulted in Turkish forces seizing and occupying Kurdish-inhabited territory. It also marked the start of a more aggressive policy toward the Kurdish political faction Erdogan fears the most – the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.
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Historically, Kurdistan was an independent nation-state, and during the redesignation of the defunct Ottoman empire after World War I, the Kurds were promised a referendum leading to independence – a promise that was never kept. Instead, the Kurdish people were arbitrarily assigned to four of the states newly created by the League of Nations – Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
Kurds represent some 20 percent of Turkey’s 84 million population, and while many are content with their minority status and contribute to the political process (now somewhat restricted by Erdogan’s reforms), nationalist demands from the more extreme Kurdish elements, which sometimes spill over into violence, represent a threat to the integrity of the Turkish state.
The PKK, founded in 1978, is an armed political group seeking Kurdish independence. Claiming to represent all people in historically Kurdish regions, its original objective was to establish a socialist Greater Kurdistan uniting the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran – an aspiration that would have required the redrawing of national borders. Mainstream Kurdish political opinion has recently retreated from this extremist objective, in favor of seeking Kurdish autonomy within the borders of states where Kurds are a minority.
The PKK was not averse to pursuing its political ends by way of terrorist attacks within Turkey. Erdogan’s counter-strategy was to proscribe the PKK as a terrorist organization (a designation now widely adopted internationally), and to combat it externally where it is strongest – in northern Syria and Iraq.
With the Syrian civil war at its height, Erdogan decided to invade Kurdish-occupied territory lying south of the Turkish-Syrian border, seize a stretch of land and create a sort of buffer zone. The area was under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of which the Kurdish YPG (People’s Defense Units) militia was a major element. Erdogan considered the YPG to be nothing more than an extension of the banned PKK.
At the time, the Kurds were in alliance with the US in a highly successful effort to defeat the Islamic State and chase them from Syria. The valiant Kurdish Peshmerga forces were generally acknowledged to have undertaken the bulk of the fighting on the ground.
TO THE astonishment and condemnation of much world opinion, then-president Donald Trump, in an apparent deal with Erdogan, withdrew US troops from the Turkish-Syrian border area just a few days before Erdogan launched his attack.
That operation, and two subsequent efforts in northern Syria, obviously did not satisfy Erdogan. On April 18, 2022, Turkey launched a new ground and air offensive, named Operation Claw Lock, this time against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq.
Supported by helicopters and drones, Turkish jets and artillery struck suspected targets of the PKK, and then commando troops crossed into the region by land or were airlifted by helicopters. Turkey’s Defense Ministry said the northern Iraq offensive was launched after it was determined that the militants were regrouping and preparing for a large-scale onslaught on Turkey.
The PKK has bases and training camps in Sinjar and on the mountainous border with Turkey, and this was far from the first attack by Turkey in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. These operations have strained Turkey’s ties with Iraq’s central government. Iraq’s President Barham Salih termed the latest incursion “unacceptable,” describing it as a threat to the country’s national security and a violation of its sovereignty. He is certainly not wrong about that.
Turkey has launched three military operations into northern Syria since 2016, seizing areas south of its own border to create a so-called “safe zone” between Kurdish-inhabited territory and Turkish soil. The third in 2019 was dubbed Operation Peace Spring. Following 10 days of fighting, a deal was reached under which the YPG pulled its troops 30 km. back from the border. Turkey sold the operation as a diplomatic and military victory, and agreed with Russia to run joint patrols in the area.
Now Erdogan has announced that he is planning a new military offensive in northern Syria directed against the YPG. “We are taking another step in establishing a 30 km. security zone along our southern border,” he announced in parliament.
Erdogan took advantage of the meeting in Tehran on July 19 of three presidents (Russia, Iran and Turkey), to seek support for his new military operation. Speaking to reporters on his return flight, Erdogan said he believed all three think alike regarding the YPG, but he had to admit that they differed on some Syria-related issues.
In short, he failed to obtain a ringing endorsement of his latest invasion plan. Iran and Russia, none too delighted with Erdogan’s deal with Trump in 2016, have previously warned against such operations.
Erdogan's ulterior motive
There has always been an ulterior motive for Erdogan’s adventures along his southern border – a desire to rid Turkey of the millions of Syrian refugees who fled their country during its 11 years of civil strife. His plan has been to resettle them below the Turkish border in the so-called “safe zone” under Turkish security control, namely in Syrian, or possibly Iraqi, territory.
The refugees, however, are far from keen to move to what is a heavily militarized and highly populated war zone. Erdogan can scarcely force his resident refugees to relocate, and it is difficult to envisage what sort of inducements he could offer.
If he carries out his plan, Erdogan will undoubtedly enhance his political standing at home, ahead of the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for June 2023. So it is odds-on that Erdogan’s new offensive will take place, and that vast numbers of reluctant Syrian refugees will be relocated to his “safe zone.”
The writer is Middle East correspondent for Eurasia Review. His latest book is Trump and the Holy Land: 2016-2020.” Follow him at www.a-mid-east-journal.blogspot.com. | https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-713580 | 2022-07-31T19:29:00Z | https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-713580 | false |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
6-9-1
(six, nine, one)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
6-9-1
(six, nine, one) | https://www.lakecountystar.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17341515.php | 2022-07-31T19:34:25Z | https://www.lakecountystar.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17341515.php | true |
(WHNT) – Robocalls are annoying enough, but robotexts? According to the Federal Communications Commission, scammers are adding another tool into their arsenal to annoy Americans.
The FCC tracks complaints as opposed to actual call volume, but the agency’s own stats show complaints about unwanted text messages have risen steadily in recent years. Around 5,700 complaints were filed in 2019, 14,000 in 2020, 15,300 in 2021, and 8,500 through June 30, 2022.
Scammers want you to interact with them when they send you a text message, the FCC explains. They often use believable, but false, claims in an effort to collect your money or personal information, or to ensure your number is active for future scams.
What to Look For
These scam text messages can take many forms, according to the FCC, claiming:
- You have unpaid bills
- There was an issue with a package delivery
- There is an issue with a bank account
- You have an outstanding warrant or another issue with law enforcement
In all these cases, the FCC said these texts may use fear and anxiety, as well as confusing or incomplete information, to get you to engage with the scammer.
Scam texts, also known as “smishing,” often include some or all of the following:
- Comes from an unknown number and/or a number that’s 10 or more digits long
- Contains misleading/incomplete information
- Words that are misspelled to avoid blocking/filtering tools
- Contains mysterious links
- Is a sales pitch
How to Stay Safe
There are ways to protect yourself from these scammers. The FCC recommends that you:
- Don’t respond to suspicious texts (even by texting STOP)
- Don’t click on any links
- Don’t provide any information, whether by replying or through a website in the suspicious message
- File a complaint with the FCC (online or by calling 888-225-5322)
- Forward unwanted texts to SPAM (7726)
- Delete the suspicious texts
- Keep your smart devices (and security apps, if applicable) up to date
- Consider installing anti-malware software (if applicable)
- Carefully review company policies regarding opting out of text alerts and selling/sharing of consumer information
- Review text blocking tools offered on specific mobile phones (such as Apple’s built-in blocking on newer versions of iOS/iPadOS or the phone app on Android), and through third parties
The best rule of thumb is that if a text message is suspicious, don’t respond and instead call the business, organization, or law enforcement agency the message claims to be. Valid phone numbers can be found on a bill, the organization/business/agency’s official website, or official social media pages.
The FCC recently ordered phone companies to block scam robocalls promoting auto warranties. All U.S. voice services providers must “take all necessary steps to avoid carrying this robocall traffic” or regularly report ways they are mitigating the traffic to the FCC, the agency announced in a press release earlier this month. | https://www.ksn.com/news/crime/fcc-robotext-scams-on-the-rise-heres-how-you-can-stay-safe/ | 2022-07-31T19:36:25Z | https://www.ksn.com/news/crime/fcc-robotext-scams-on-the-rise-heres-how-you-can-stay-safe/ | false |
Actor David Warner has died at the age of 80, his family has confirmed. Warner starred in films including The Omen, Tron, and Titanic and television shows such as Doctor Who, Twin Peaks and Star Trek. He died from “a cancer-related illness”. His family confirmed the news... | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2680656798675/actor-david-warner-twin-peaks-the-omen-dies-aged-80 | 2022-07-31T19:36:46Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2680656798675/actor-david-warner-twin-peaks-the-omen-dies-aged-80 | true |
WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 31, 2022
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FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
201 PM CDT Sun Jul 31 2022
...The Flood Advisory is cancelled for the following rivers in
Texas...
Canadian River at Amarillo 19N affecting Potter County.
...FLOOD ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Advisory is cancelled for
the Canadian River at Amarillo 19N.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1:30 PM CDT Sunday the stage was 4.5 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 4.9
feet just after midnight tonight.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
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(NEXSTAR) – Passengers aboard a recent American Airlines flight were delayed for several hours at Charlotte Douglas International Airport amid mechanical and weather-related issues. The flight, which was scheduled to leave for New York at 1:07 p.m. on July 24, didn’t depart until shortly after 7 p.m. that evening, and only after passengers were transferred to another plane, American Airlines confirmed.
Some passengers had complained of limited air conditioning or beverages during the nearly six-hour delay, the Charlotte Observer reported. One passenger, herself a Charlotte Observer reporter, claimed another traveler began “having a mental breakdown” during the wait and that some people had even “started sobbing.”
American Airlines issued a statement acknowledging the frustrating situation, but as far as the Federal Aviation Administration is concerned, the carrier appeared to abide by all rules and regulations for passengers awaiting takeoff.
According to the Department of Transportation, airlines are allowed to keep passengers on a departing flight for up to three hours (or four for an international flight) before they are required to start moving the plane “to a location where passengers can safely get off.” There are exceptions, of course, which are allowed “only for safety, security, or air traffic control-related reasons.”
In the case of last Sunday’s American Airlines flight, which was initially delayed after the flight crew detected a maintenance issue, the plane’s passengers were instructed to deplane at 3:50 p.m. After 40 minutes in the terminal, customers were transferred to a different plane, which began boarding at 4:30 p.m. but didn’t take off for New York until 7:03 p.m. due to lightning in the area, according to American Airlines.
American also claims that, for the majority of the delays, the plane was sitting at the gate with the jetbridge attached and the forward cabin door open for any passengers who wished to leave.
Because of this, a representative for American Airlines told Nexstar the incident didn’t officially qualify for the Department of Transportation’s definition of a “tarmac delay,” which only begins when the boarding doors are closed. Instead, a representative for the carrier referred to Sunday’s incident as an “extended gate delay.”
If this was a tarmac delay, however, the Department of Transportation explicitly states that passengers who choose to leave the plane could also be refused re-entry: Airlines are in no way required to let them back on the plane, and they may not even offload those passengers’ checked baggage.
“Passengers will need to contact the airline about returning their checked luggage at a later time,” the Department of Transportation writes.
As for food and beverages during tarmac delays, passengers are entitled to a drink and a snack (“such as a granola bar”) within two hours after the start of the delay, barring any significant safety or security reasons.
But what if your plane isn’t parked at the gate and it hasn’t yet been three hours (or four, for international flights) since the delay began? What happens if passengers begin requesting to be let off the plane? In that case, it’s usually up to the airline whether the aircraft can return to the gate and deplane passengers.
Many different agencies — Air Traffic Control, the Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) — can elect to allow a plane to disembark, depending on whether the aircraft is arriving (from a domestic or international location) or waiting to depart. But if the plane is simply waiting on the tarmac and there is no threat to the safety or security of passengers, the airline is generally in charge of deciding whether to deplane earlier than the required time frame.
A representative for Customs and Border Protection told Nexstar that CBP officials, too, can choose to contact the airline and begin facilitating the deplaning of an aircraft if circumstances necessitate it.
Each U.S. airline, meanwhile, is required by law to establish a Contingency Plan for Lengthy Tarmac Delays, to address passenger needs and rights. In the case of American’s Contingency Plan, all rules for tarmac delays appear as if they were followed during Sunday’s extended gate delay. Though, if the plane wasn’t parked at the gate with the door open — and the incident actually did qualify as a tarmac delay — the Charlotte Observer reporter, mentioned earlier, might feel warranted in arguing about the cabin temperature.
“We know it can be frustrating when travel doesn’t go as planned, and apologize to our customers for the inconvenience,” American wrote in a statement shared with Nexstar. | https://www.ksn.com/news/stuck-on-a-delayed-plane-here-are-your-rights-as-an-airline-passenger/ | 2022-07-31T19:37:58Z | https://www.ksn.com/news/stuck-on-a-delayed-plane-here-are-your-rights-as-an-airline-passenger/ | true |
Amid a climbing death toll, frantic searches for the missing and the daunting cleanup of mud-soaked homes and businesses, Kentucky authorities braced for the possibility of more storms and flash floods Sunday.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that the death toll had risen by one to 26 from last week’s storms. Dozens more were unaccounted for according to a daily briefing from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Beshear said state police were taking calls from worried people who can’t locate loved ones due to spotty cell phone service.
Many were left homeless and with no possessions. “I have the clothes on my back,” Teresa Perry Reynolds’ said Saturday after the home she and her husband shared was inundated with water and mud.
Among the hard-hit areas was the town of Hindman, about 200 miles (322 kilometers) southeast of Louisville. As crews piled sodden debris on mud-caked sidewalks, a flood-tossed car could be seen upside down in nearby Troublesome Creek, which had returned to its banks after inundating the town. | https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ap-photos-kentucky-counts-dead-braces-floods-87709470 | 2022-07-31T19:38:19Z | https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ap-photos-kentucky-counts-dead-braces-floods-87709470 | false |
An Auckland convenience store owner is ready to give up after three burglaries at his shop in recent months.
Police responded to reports of a burglary at the Penrose Superette on Station Rd shortly after 2am this morning.
"A group of offenders have kicked the front doors to gain entry into the premises and have left in a Toyota Wish," a police spokesperson said.
The owner of the store told the Herald that a group of four wearing masks, and some wearing gloves, took off with cigarettes and phones after kicking in the doors.
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Advertise with NZME."I just want out - I'm over it," he said.
"I'm ready to give up, this is the third time. I just can't."
A police spokesperson said an investigation into the burglary is ongoing and no arrests have been made yet.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Police on 105, quoting the job number P051414092.
Information could also be provided anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.
The first time the store was hit, the thieves stole up to $14,000 worth of cigarettes.
The second time, the offenders were also after smokes but were only able to get their hands on some ice creams.
The owner said the police are due to return to the shop this morning to take fingerprints. | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-burglaries-store-owner-wants-out-after-being-targeted-by-thieves-three-times/7MFISLHIO4FC5WVF2TDKVF4QRY/?c_id=1&objectid=12541750 | 2022-07-31T19:40:24Z | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-burglaries-store-owner-wants-out-after-being-targeted-by-thieves-three-times/7MFISLHIO4FC5WVF2TDKVF4QRY/?c_id=1&objectid=12541750 | false |
NEW YORK — Officials in New York City declared a public health emergency due to the spread of the monkeypox virus Saturday, calling the city "the epicenter" of the outbreak.
The announcement Saturday by Mayor Eric Adams and health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan said as many as 150,000 city residents could be at risk of infection. The declaration will allow officials to issue emergency orders under the city health code and amend code provisions to implement measures to help slow the spread.
In the last two days, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state disaster emergency declaration and the state health department called monkeypox an "imminent threat to public health."
New York had recorded 1,345 cases as of Friday, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. California had the second-most, with 799.
"We will continue to work with our federal partners to secure more doses as soon as they become available," Adams and Vasan said in the statement. "This outbreak must be met with urgency, action, and resources, both nationally and globally, and this declaration of a public health emergency reflects the seriousness of the moment."
The World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency on July 23 and San Francisco's mayor on Thursday announced a state of emergency over the growing number of cases.
The once-rare disease has been established in parts of central and west Africa for decades but was not known to spark large outbreaks beyond the continent or to spread widely among people until May, when authorities detected dozens of epidemics in Europe, North America and elsewhere.
To date, there have been more than 22,000 monkeypox cases reported in nearly 80 countries since May, with about 75 suspected deaths in Africa, mostly in Nigeria and Congo. On Friday, Brazil and Spain reported deaths linked to monkeypox, the first reported outside Africa. Spain reported a second monkeypox death Saturday.
The virus spreads through prolonged and close skin-to-skin contact as well as sharing bedding, towels and clothing. In Europe and North America, it has spread primarily among men who have sex with men, though health officials emphasize that the virus can infect anyone.
The type of monkeypox virus identified in this outbreak is rarely fatal, and people usually recover within weeks. But the lesions and blisters caused by the virus are painful.
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 31, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in San Diego has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
San Bernardino County in southern California...
* Until 230 PM PDT.
* At 1124 AM PDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated
thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between
0.5 and 0.75 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall
amounts of 0.5 to 1 inch are possible in the warned area. Flash
flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms
producing flash flooding.
SOURCE...Radar and automated gauges.
IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of creeks and streams,
urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Big Bear City, western Onyx Summit, eastern Lucerne Valley, Big
Bear Lake, Baldwin Lake, Hwy 38 Between Onyx Summit And Sugarloaf,
Hwy 18 Between Baldwin Lake And Lucerne Valley, Hwy 38 Between
Yucaipa And Onyx Summit, western Johnson Valley and Woodlands.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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Biden tests positive in 'rebound' COVID case for 2nd day in a row
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 for the second straight day, in what appears to be a rare case of "rebound" following treatment with an anti-viral drug.
In a letter noting the positive test, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, the White House physician, said Sunday that the president "continues to feel well" and will keep on working from the executive residence while he isolates.
Biden tested positive on Saturday, requiring him to cancel travel and in-person events as he isolates for at least five days in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
U.S. President Joe Biden gives remarks during a meeting on the U.S. Economy with CEOs and members of his Cabinet in the South Court Auditorium of the White House on July 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. During the meeting, President Biden was given a note
RELATED: Biden tests positive for COVID-19 again in 'rebound' case, doctor says
After initially testing positive on July 21, Biden, 79, was treated with the anti-viral drug Paxlovid. He tested negative for the virus on this past Tuesday and Wednesday, clearing him to leave isolation while wearing a mask indoors.
Research suggests that a minority of those prescribed Paxlovid to experience a rebound case of the virus. The fact that a rebound rather than a reinfection possibly occurred is a positive sign for Biden's health once he's clear of the disease.
"The fact that the president has cleared his illness and doesn’t have symptoms is a good sign and makes it less likely he will develop long COVID," said Dr. Albert Ho, an infectious disease specialist at Yale University's school of public health. | https://www.fox29.com/news/biden-tests-positive-in-rebound-covid-case-for-2nd-day-in-a-row | 2022-07-31T19:46:54Z | https://www.fox29.com/news/biden-tests-positive-in-rebound-covid-case-for-2nd-day-in-a-row | true |
(NEXSTAR) – Bill Russell, one of the greatest NBA players in history, has passed away at age 88, his family announced Sunday.
Russell, called “the most prolific winner in American sports history” by his family, was an 11-time NBA champion, captain of a gold-medal-winning U.S. Olympic team, and the first Black head coach of any North American professional sports team.
Born on Feb. 12, 1934, in Monroe, Louisiana, Russell and his family later moved to California. He attended high school in Oakland and led the University of San Francisco to NCAA championships in 1955 and 1956. He also won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics.
Russell was drafted in the first round of the 1956 NBA draft by the St. Louis Hawks but was soon traded to the Boston Celtics. He spent 13 years in Boston – 10 as a player and three as a coach. In that time, the team won 11 championships.
He was the first Black head coach in NBA history when he became player-coach in 1966. He retired after the 1969 NBA finals but later spent four years as coach and general manager of the Seattle SuperSonics and a half-season as coach for the Sacramento Kings.
The Hall of Famer was named Most Valuable Player five times and was a 12-time All-Star. In 1980, Russell was voted the greatest player in NBA history by basketball writers. He remains the sport’s most prolific winner and an archetype of selflessness who won with defense and rebounding while leaving the scoring to others. Often, that meant Wilt Chamberlain, the only player of the era who was a worthy rival for Russell.
Russell’s No. 6 jersey was retired by the Celtics in 1972. He earned spots on the NBA’s 25th anniversary all-time team in 1970 and 35th-anniversary team in 1980. In 1996, he was hailed as one of the NBA’s 50 greatest players. In 2009, the MVP trophy of the NBA Finals was named in his honor.
In 2013, a statue was unveiled on Boston’s City Hall Plaza of Russell surrounded by blocks of granite with quotes on leadership and character. Russell was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1975 but did not attend the ceremony, saying he should not have been the first African American elected. (Chuck Cooper, the NBA’s first Black player, was his choice.)
In 2019, Russell accepted his Hall of Fame ring in a private gathering. “I felt others before me should have had that honor,” he tweeted. “Good to see progress.”
“But for all the winning, Bill’s understanding of the struggle is what illuminated his life,” Russell’s family said in a statement. “From boycotting a 1961 exhibition game to [unmasking] too-long-tolerated discrimination, to leading Mississippi’s first integrated basketball camp in the combustible wake of Medgar Evans’ assassination, to decades of activism ultimately recognized by his receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010, Bill called out injustice with an unforgiving candor that he intended would disrupt the status quo, and with a powerful example that, though never his humble intention, will forever inspire teamwork, selflessness, and thoughtful change.”
Russell was at the March on Washington in 1963, when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, and he backed Muhammad Ali when the boxer was pilloried for refusing induction into the military draft.
In 2011, President Barack Obama awarded Russell the Medal of Freedom.
“Bill Russell, the man, is someone who stood up for the rights and dignity of all men,” Obama said at the ceremony. “When a restaurant refused to serve the Black Celtics, he refused to play in the scheduled game. He endured insults and vandalism, but he kept on focusing on making the teammates who he loved better players and made possible the success of so many who would follow.”
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement Sunday that Russell was “the greatest champion in all of team sports.”
“Bill stood for something much bigger than sports: the values of equality, respect and inclusion that he stamped into the DNA of our league. At the height of his athletic career, Bill advocated vigorously for civil rights and social justice, a legacy he passed down to generations of NBA players who followed in his footsteps,” Silver said. “Through the taunts, threats and unthinkable adversity, Bill rose above it all and remained true to his belief that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity.
Russell “passed away peacefully” with his wife, Jeannine, by his side on Sunday. His cause of death has not yet been released.
His family said that arrangements for Russell’s memorial service will be announced in the coming days.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/top-stories/nba-legend-bill-russell-most-prolific-winner-in-american-sports-dies/ | 2022-07-31T19:47:39Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/top-stories/nba-legend-bill-russell-most-prolific-winner-in-american-sports-dies/ | false |
(WHNT) – Robocalls are annoying enough, but robotexts? According to the Federal Communications Commission, scammers are adding another tool into their arsenal to annoy Americans.
The FCC tracks complaints as opposed to actual call volume, but the agency’s own stats show complaints about unwanted text messages have risen steadily in recent years. Around 5,700 complaints were filed in 2019, 14,000 in 2020, 15,300 in 2021, and 8,500 through June 30, 2022.
Scammers want you to interact with them when they send you a text message, the FCC explains. They often use believable, but false, claims in an effort to collect your money or personal information, or to ensure your number is active for future scams.
What to Look For
These scam text messages can take many forms, according to the FCC, claiming:
- You have unpaid bills
- There was an issue with a package delivery
- There is an issue with a bank account
- You have an outstanding warrant or another issue with law enforcement
In all these cases, the FCC said these texts may use fear and anxiety, as well as confusing or incomplete information, to get you to engage with the scammer.
Scam texts, also known as “smishing,” often include some or all of the following:
- Comes from an unknown number and/or a number that’s 10 or more digits long
- Contains misleading/incomplete information
- Words that are misspelled to avoid blocking/filtering tools
- Contains mysterious links
- Is a sales pitch
How to Stay Safe
There are ways to protect yourself from these scammers. The FCC recommends that you:
- Don’t respond to suspicious texts (even by texting STOP)
- Don’t click on any links
- Don’t provide any information, whether by replying or through a website in the suspicious message
- File a complaint with the FCC (online or by calling 888-225-5322)
- Forward unwanted texts to SPAM (7726)
- Delete the suspicious texts
- Keep your smart devices (and security apps, if applicable) up to date
- Consider installing anti-malware software (if applicable)
- Carefully review company policies regarding opting out of text alerts and selling/sharing of consumer information
- Review text blocking tools offered on specific mobile phones (such as Apple’s built-in blocking on newer versions of iOS/iPadOS or the phone app on Android), and through third parties
The best rule of thumb is that if a text message is suspicious, don’t respond and instead call the business, organization, or law enforcement agency the message claims to be. Valid phone numbers can be found on a bill, the organization/business/agency’s official website, or official social media pages.
The FCC recently ordered phone companies to block scam robocalls promoting auto warranties. All U.S. voice services providers must “take all necessary steps to avoid carrying this robocall traffic” or regularly report ways they are mitigating the traffic to the FCC, the agency announced in a press release earlier this month. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/fcc-robotext-scams-on-the-rise-heres-how-you-can-stay-safe/ | 2022-07-31T19:49:57Z | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/fcc-robotext-scams-on-the-rise-heres-how-you-can-stay-safe/ | false |
Tag search for Welfare in Wales over many more local services for more advice\n1: The Red Cross Helpline Free local information service including benefits checks with qualified benefit advice, emergency cash help , emergency clothing grant. We may carry o … show all Call or request free Home Comp Trailblazing actress Nichelle Nichols has died.
Her son announced news of her death on Instagram, saying she died from natural causes.
Nichols played Uhura in "Star Trek: The Original Series." At the time, she was one of the first African American women to play a major role in a television series.
"Hers was a life well lived and as such a model for us all," her son said.
Nichols' acting career spanned decades. She is listed in credits from the 1960s to 2021, and some films are still in pre-production, IMBD reports.
Nichols was 89 years old. Services will be for family members and close friends, her son said. | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/nichelle-nichols-groundbreaking-star-trek-star-dies-at-89 | 2022-07-31T19:50:53Z | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/nichelle-nichols-groundbreaking-star-trek-star-dies-at-89 | true |
Mets' deGrom to make season debut Tuesday at Washington
MIAMI (AP) - New York Mets star Jacob deGrom will make his season debut against the Washington Nationals on Tuesday, manager Buck Showalter said before a series finale against Miami.
"His workday went well today, a light side," Showalter said Sunday. "The plans are for him to pitch Tuesday in Washington."
The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner has not pitched for the Mets since July 7, 2021. The 34-year-old right-hander was sidelined the final three months of last season with right forearm tightness and a sprained elbow, then was shut down late in spring training because of a stress reaction in his right scapula.
DeGrom has made four minor league rehab starts totaling 12 2/3 innings, two at Class A St. Lucie and two with Syracuse. He´s allowed five runs - four earned - and seven hits with 21 strikeouts and four walks, hitting 100 mph on the radar gun even in his first outing.
"I think more than anything feeling for him and the emotions he´s going through," Showalter said. "It´s been a long haul for him, knowing how hard he´s worked and how frustrating it´s been. You know how much he likes to compete and pitch."
DeGrom won consecutive Cy Young Awards in 2018 and 2019. He is 77-53 with a 2.50 ERA in eight major league seasons.
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This chapter out lines all details from TOPGUN FLIED and from TARGA 82 which would involve, and help shape my story at the 57th, of those air forces falsified, events which would play some big influence over any FLTG’s pilot in combat , during those times… In this I must ask , the unknowings, just to know: I flew airborneo of my airforce , from May – October and (iSeeCars) – Buying an American car has long been considered an act of patriotism, although the definition of buying American has become increasingly blurred. There are cars with American nameplates like Buick that are manufactured overseas, while some Volkswagens and Toyotas are assembled in the United States. However, buying a domestic brand versus a foreign one can still signal a sense of pride among proud Americans, even if being made in America isn’t exclusive to American brands.
To determine which states favor domestic auto brands, iSeeCars analyzed 10.9 million car sales to rank each state by their percentage share of cars with domestic nameplates.
- Michigan, home of the “Motor City” and headquarters of the Big Three automakers buys the most American vehicles, comprising 77.8 percent of the state’s vehicle share.
- Of the top 10 states with the most American brand cars, seven are in the Midwest, two are in the Rocky Mountain region, and one s in the Southwest.
- The state with the fewest American brand vehicles is Hawaii, a state which favors Japanese vehicles likely due to the highly diverse population.
- The 10 states with the lowest proportion of American brand cars are coastal states.
While American cars were once perceived to be inferior to their foreign rivals, today’s American vehicles have caught up to their foreign counterparts in quality and reliability. In fact, many American vehicles made our list of the longest lasting cars, and American pickups are among the most popular cars in the country. Whether you want a dependable truck, an electric vehicle with cutting-edge technology, or even a luxe SUV, there is an American vehicle to suit your needs.
More from iSeeCars.com:
Methodology:
iSeeCars analyzed over 10.9 million used cars from model years 2017 – 2021 sold from July 2021 through June 2022. The number of cars from American automakers was tallied by state, and the resulting percentage shares were used to rank states.
This article, Which States Buy the Most American Cars? originally appeared on iSeeCars.com. | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/which-states-buy-the-most-american-cars/ | 2022-07-31T19:56:34Z | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/which-states-buy-the-most-american-cars/ | true |
Lionesses are pride of England - key moments of Euro 2022 final triumph
England won Euro 2022 after beating Germany 2-1 after extra time at Wembley.
Chloe Kelly wrote herself into the history books with the winning goal in the 20th minute of the additional period after Ella Toone’s opener had been cancelled out in normal time by Lina Magull.
The Lionesses were able to hold on to record a memorable victory and win a major tournament for the first time.
Here, the PA news agency charts how the match unfolded.
Pre-match: Germany suffered a major blow ahead of kick-off as captain and tournament joint top scorer Alexandra Popp was injured in the warm-up and was replaced by Bayern Munich striker Lea Schuller.
3 minutes: England had a chance to make a dream start as Fran Kirby surged down the left and picked out Ellen White at the far post but the striker’s header was straight at Merle Frohms.
Chloe Kelly spins away after scoring England´s extra-time winner over Germany in the Euro 2022 final (Nigel French/PA Images).
25 minutes: Germany came into the game and were inches away from taking the lead from a set-piece. Magull’s corner caused chaos, with Marina Hegering’s effort eventually cleared off the line by a combination of Mary Earps and Leah Williamson. The incident was checked for a handball, but England survived.
38 minutes: White had another brilliant opportunity to break the deadlock as she set Beth Mead clear down the right and got on the end of Mead’s return ball but could not keep her effort down.
48 minutes: Germany started the second half strongly and after her introduction at the break Tabea Wasmuth almost made an instant impact as she took advantage of a mistake by Millie Bright, but shot straight at Earps when she raced in on goal.
50 minutes: England survived another major scare as Lina Magull missed a golden opportunity. After the ball fell kindly to her on the penalty spot she poked an effort towards goal but saw it fly wide of the post when it really should have hit the back of the net.
55 minutes: Sarina Wiegman stuck to her tried and tested formula and introduced Alessia Russo and Ella Toone for Ellen White and Fran Kirby.
61 minutes: Toone secured her place in folklore with a stunning finish to open the scoring just six minutes after coming on. A brilliant ball from Keira Walsh set the substitute in on goal and she produced a moment of sublime composure to lift the ball over on-rushing Germany keeper Frohms and send Wembley wild.
65 minutes: With the home fans still celebrating, England’s hearts were firmly in their mouths when the dangerous Magull surged into the box and thundered a shot against the post, with replays showing Earps got the most vital of touches.
79 minutes: Germany’s response was good and moments after Leah Williamson produced a goal-saving block, Martina Voss-Tecklenburg’s side were level. Sydney Lohmann did brilliantly to play in Wasmuth and her ball to the near post was steered home by Magull to set up a grandstand finish.
90+4 : England managed to regroup after Magull’s leveller but neither side were able to find a winner as it went to extra time.
110 minutes: England’s golden moment came in the second half of extra-time as Chloe Kelly committed herself to the annals of time. After Germany failed to clear Lauren Hemp’s corner, the loose ball fell to her and she poked home at the second attempt to spark euphoric scenes of celebration. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11067051/Key-moments-England-s-Euro-2022-final-win-Germany-Wembley.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-31T19:57:36Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11067051/Key-moments-England-s-Euro-2022-final-win-Germany-Wembley.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
CONCORD, N.H. — Members of a rescue group had to carry the body of a hiker nearly a mile in freezing temperatures and high winds after the man died on the Northeast's highest mountain, authorities said.
A group of hikers found the man unconscious and not breathing on Mount Washington’s Jewell Trail on Saturday afternoon, the New Hampshire Department of Fish and Game said. They called 911 and started performing CPR.
Members of one rescue group drove to the summit of the nearly 6,300-foot mountain and hiked down to the man, while another group rode up the mountain's famous Cog Railway and hiked in.
With no sign of life after 40 minutes, resuscitation efforts ceased, and rescue group members carried the body nearly a mile to the train.
A dog the man was hiking with was taken to an animal shelter until it can be reunited with the man's family. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/regional/new-hampshire/after-mount-washington-hiker-dies-rescuers-carry-body-nearly-a-mile-from-jewell-trail-to-cog-railway/97-608a5335-3fcf-49fb-ba19-bde03f2518f4 | 2022-07-31T19:59:57Z | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/regional/new-hampshire/after-mount-washington-hiker-dies-rescuers-carry-body-nearly-a-mile-from-jewell-trail-to-cog-railway/97-608a5335-3fcf-49fb-ba19-bde03f2518f4 | true |
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