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WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 2, 2022
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AIR QUALITY ALERT
Air Quality Alert Message
Relayed by National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
232 PM MDT Mon Aug 1 2022
...AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TO 9 PM MDT TUESDAY...
The Texas Department of Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has issued an
Ozone Action Day for the El Paso Area, from 6 AM to 9 PM MDT
Tuesday.
Atmospheric conditions are expected to be favorable for producing
high levels of ozone pollution in the El Paso area. You can help
prevent ozone Pollution by sharing a ride, walking, riding a
bicycle, taking your lunch to work, avoiding drive through lanes,
conserving energy and keeping your vehicle properly tuned.
For more information on ozone:
OZONE: THE FACTS
www.tceq.texas.gov/airquality/monops/ozonefacts.html
EPA AIR NOW:
www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&cityid=236
TAKE CARE OF TEXAS:
www.takecareoftexas.org/air/airquality
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Pinterest Inc. (PINS) on Monday reported a loss of $43.1 million in its second quarter.
The San Francisco-based company said it had a loss of 7 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and amortization costs, came to 11 cents per share.
The results missed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 17 cents per share.
The digital pinboard and shopping tool company posted revenue of $665.9 million in the period, which beat Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $660.5 million.
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Company's second quarter comparable store sales increased 8.4 percent; net income up 8.3 percent
SUNBURY, Pa., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weis Markets, Inc. (NYSE: WMK) today reported its financial results for the 13-week second quarter and the 26-week year-to-date period ended June 25, 2022.
"We generated strong results in the second quarter despite ongoing inflationary pressures throughout our business operations due to the hard work and commitment of our associates," said Weis Markets' Chairman, President and CEO Jonathan H. Weis. "We are also mindful of inflation's impact on our customers and continue to promote the value of our private brands along with the fuel and retail product savings available through our Weis Rewards program. In May, we made a multi-million-dollar investment to expand our Low, Low Price program by lowering prices on hundreds of our best-selling brand-name and Weis Quality frozen products."
Second Quarter 2022 Results
Net sales totaled $1.14 billion for the 13-week second quarter ended June 25, 2022, compared to $1.05 billion for the same period in 2021, up 8.4 percent. Second quarter comparable store sales increased 8.4 percent on an individual year-over-year basis and increased 2.6 percent on a two-year stacked basis following the increase of 24.1 percent for the same period in 2020.
The Company's second quarter net income totaled $36.27 million compared to $33.47 million in 2021, up 8.3 percent. Second quarter earnings per share totaled $1.35 compared to $1.24 per share for the same period in 2021.
Year-To-Date 2022 Results
Net sales totaled $2.24 billion for the 26-week year-to-date period ended June 25, 2022, compared to $2.05 billion for the same period in 2021, up 9.0 percent. Year-to-date comparable store sales increased 8.9 percent on an individual year-over-year basis and increased 6.5 percent on a two-year stacked basis following the increase of 18.5 percent for the same period in 2020.
The Company's year-to-date net income totaled $67.66 million compared to $57.73 million in 2021, up 17.2 percent. Year-to-date earnings per share totaled $2.52 compared to $2.15 per share for the same period in 2021.
About Weis Markets
Founded in 1912, Weis Markets, Inc. is a Mid Atlantic food retailer operating 197 stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, West Virginia and Virginia. For more information, please visit: WeisMarkets.com or Facebook.com/WeisMarkets.
In addition to historical information, this news release may contain forward-looking statements, which are included pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any forward-looking statements contained herein are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. For example, risks and uncertainties can arise with changes in: competitive and reputational risks; financial, investment and infrastructure risks; information security, cybersecurity and data privacy risks; supply chain and third-party risks; risks created by pandemics (including the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and the related responses of governments, consumers, customers, suppliers and employees); and legal, regulatory and other external risks. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect management's analysis only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise or update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date hereof. Readers should carefully review the risk factors described in other documents the Company files periodically with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Management is also providing a two-year stacked comparable store sales analysis, a non-GAAP measure, because management believes this metric is useful to investors and analysts. It is not recommended that the two-year-stacked analysis be considered a substitute for the Company's operating results as reported in accordance with GAAP.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) _ Douglas Emmett Inc. (DEI) on Monday reported a key measure of profitability in its second quarter. The results matched Wall Street expectations.
The real estate investment trust, based in Santa Monica, California, said it had funds from operations of $105.2 million, or 51 cents per share, in the period.
The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for funds from operations of 51 cents per share.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had net income of $24.4 million, or 14 cents per share.
The real estate investment trust posted revenue of $247 million in the period.
Douglas Emmett expects full-year funds from operations to be $2.03 to $2.07 per share.
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CHICAGO (AP) _ Equity Commonwealth (EQC) on Monday reported a key measure of profitability in its second quarter.
The Chicago-based real estate investment trust said it had funds from operations of $5.1 million, or 4 cents per share, in the period.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had net income of $899,000, or 1 cent per share.
The office building real estate investment trust, based in Chicago, posted revenue of $15.5 million in the period.
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So you just saw Jordan Peele's new sci-fi horror blockbuster, Nope. Maybe you have questions about how things went down in that thrilling finale, or you're stuck wondering what the flick must actually be about.
When I walked out of a screening a little over a week ago, a sense that I wasn't getting the big message in Peele's latest weighed on me like an ominous cloud over the Southern California desert. But critics have some smart ideas, so we can turn to them as we try to decipher it.
Before we get to that, let's break down the ending of Nope. The film runs more than two hours and follows horse trainers (and siblings) OJ and Emerald Hayworth, who discover something large and mysterious is lurking in the sky near their ranch. The flick currently sits at a score of 76 on CNET sister site Metacritic. Park your horse here if you still haven't seen Nope -- there are spoilers ahead.
What plan do OJ, Emerald and the others devise?
OJ and Emerald are set on getting proof (the "Oprah shot") of the extraterrestrial creature in the sky, even after it snacks on Ricky "Jupe" Park and others at the nearby Jupiter's Claim theme park. (I don't know about them, but the sight of blood rain would have signaled the end of the road for me).
They team up with cinematographer Antlers Holst, who has a non-electrical film camera (the beast produces an "anti-electric field" that renders things like digital cameras useless). They also deck out the area with tons of inflatable tube men. When those fall down, it's a sign that the creature is close by. They also know that they need to avoid looking at the beast, and that it doesn't like to consume inanimate objects like decorative flags.
Once they're ready to invite the beast back, OJ starts roaming around on a horse. He's carrying a string of triangular flags attached to a parachute, and it comes in handy later when a stranger shows up and provokes our testy guy in the sky.
Why does the creature eat the TMZ guy?
When the gang's plan is underway, a stranger pulls up to the ranch on a bike. Emerald speaks to the man -- whose identity is masked by a helmet -- and realizes he's from TMZ. News has already started to get out about the incident at Jupiter's Claim, and he's poking around for answers.
The TMZ guy proceeds to drive off in what proves to be an unfortunate direction. The beast lurking above powers down his bike and sends him flying. He's alive but in bad shape, and OJ approaches him to help. However, the guy's helmet is reflective -- just like the mirror that spooks OJ's horse at the start of the film -- and OJ realizes he has no choice but to get out of there.
The creature vacuums up the TMZ rep and starts to pursue OJ. That's when OJ unleashes the flag-parachute invention, which gets the beast to back off a little and buys him time to take shelter.
What does the cinematographer Antlers Holst say to Angel?
Holst finally snags the money shot that OJ and Emerald have been after. But then things take a turn. He mutters something cryptic about them not deserving the impossible, and takes off with his camera.
However, it appears the self-absorbed artist can't resist getting one more shot. Holst points his camera at the creature, and then it swallows him.
Does Angel (from Fry's Electronics) live?
Yes, Angel survives the wrath of the beast. His role during the final showdown involves helping Holst. Once Holst and his camera become alien food, Angel wraps himself in barbed wire fencing to avoid a similar fate. The beast tries to suck him up, but the fencing on the ground stays put, and Angel comes barreling back down to the ground. (Another possible reason he survived: The creature probably didn't like the taste of wire.)
What is the thing in the sky?
We get to know the creature in the sky as a white, disc-shaped animal that could reasonably be mistaken for an alien spacecraft from a distance. In the final scenes of the film, the creature transforms into something more immense and billowy. To me, it almost looks like a flower -- well, if that flower had a terrifying, pulsing green mouth.
How does Emerald defeat the creature?
Emerald gets to the TMZ guy's bike, but the creature (which has assumed its new form) is too close to her for it to work. In an emotional scene, we realize that OJ is going to help her by fixing his eyes on the beast, luring it toward himself.
Emerald's bike powers up and she drives to the theme park, Jupiter's Claim. She brilliantly comes up with the idea to injure the beast by releasing a giant inflatable cowboy into the sky.
Earlier in the film, Emerald and OJ visited Jupiter's Claim and Emerald photo-bombed some strangers by sticking her head into a well that contains a camera. In the flick's final minutes, she grabs coins scattered on the ground, loads up the machine and snaps multiple pictures of the sky. The well spits out what look like large polaroid pictures.
Eventually, the beast emerges and consumes the massive floating cowboy. Emerald gets a shot of it. Then, the creature pops. It appears lifeless, like a torn-up plastic bag drifting in the air.
What happens to OJ?
At the very end of Nope, we see a murky figure sitting on a horse just outside of Jupiter's Claim. It's unmistakably OJ, still wearing his bright orange hoodie.
What does the ending mean?
To me, the ending to Nope seemed pretty straightforward. But I also figured there must be a deeper meaning to the final scenes -- and to the flick in general -- that I hadn't considered. Some reviews of the flick have helped me make better sense of what Peele may be trying to tell us. You, of course, can draw your own conclusions.
Film critic Alissa Wilkinson writes in Vox that the film "is centrally about how our experiences of reality have been almost entirely colonized by screens and cameras ... to the point that we can barely conceive of experiencing reality directly, with honesty and without any kind of manipulation."
Dana Stevens, a film critic for Slate, picks up on something similar, but also notes that "sometimes the movie seems not to have yet made it all the way out of his head and onto the screen."
"Buried somewhere in the booming sound mix and thrilling visuals of Nope is a plaintive critique of the predominance of spectacle in the lives of 21st-century Americans, our insatiable need to record and document and watch and perform," Stevens wrote. "But unlike the alien invader, which late in the movie takes on its full, freaky, magnificently imagined form, these ideas never completely emerge from the film's rich matrix of images, references, and themes."
Charles Pulliam-Moore offers another perspective, writing for The Verge that "The specter of [racism, or some anthropomorphization of it] is present in the way Nope connects The Horse in Motion's jockey to his fictional descendants: skilled professionals whose talents go largely underappreciated and overlooked by others in the industry."
"Neither of the Haywoods feel quite like 'real' people but rather like heightened personifications of artists hungry to become part of the movie-making business — no matter the cost," Pulliam-Moore wrote. "Foolhardy as their plan to stand their ground while documenting their confrontation with the creatures is, it makes a certain kind of emotional sense when you step back and look at Nope as a text about people pouring everything they have into getting the perfect shot." | https://www.cnet.com/culture/jordan-peeles-nope-ending-explained-and-all-your-questions-answered/ | 2022-08-01T22:21:51Z | https://www.cnet.com/culture/jordan-peeles-nope-ending-explained-and-all-your-questions-answered/ | true |
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If you love spending long days at the beach, lake or reservoir, you know just how important it is to have a patch of shade where you can retreat from the sun to cool down or to snack without the risk of sand blowing into your sandwich. While you could make do with an umbrella punctured in the sand, a beach tent tends to be the better investment for frequent beach-goers. Not only does a beach tent lend greater shade coverage (read: reduced sunburn risk!), but it’s a sturdier structure, which means you can wait out the weather in case a gust of wind sneaks up or an afternoon rain cloud makes a cameo.
As it turns out, popping up a beachside basecamp is pretty easy to do thanks to this easy-to-transport beach tent that Amazon reviewers say is a must-have.
The Abccanopy pop-up beach tent has amassed 3,300 five-star ratings on Amazon, and this beach staple is on sale for under $100, with some colors of the tent reduced further in price. The beach tent comes in 16 different colors ranging from neutrals like gray or white to brighter colors like blue or grass green.
The portable canopy is 10-feet-by-10-feet (with a larger 12-feet-by-12-feet option) and it provides 64 square feet of coverage, which can comfortably cover three to five people, according to the manufacturer.
A bonus? The canopy top of this beachside basecamp is coated with silver and Ultraviolet Protection Factor 50, which means the fabric blocks 98% of the sun’s rays, significantly reducing your sun exposure risk.
“After trying multiple canopies, this one is by far the best one!” one five-star review says. “You cannot beat the price for the quality of this canopy.”
The beach tent is also an easy one to carry because it comes with a lightweight backpack equipped with padded shoulders. Many other beach tents require a more cumbersome drag wheel bag.
The manufacturer says that one person could set up the pop-up tent in just one minute. But if you want to stabilize your beach tent and anchor it to the sand, set-up will take a little longer. The tent comes with eight stakes and four ropes so that you can secure the canopy in the sand.
Several Amazon reviewers say they’ve switched from beach umbrellas to a more spacious beach tent.
“After using beach umbrellas for years, this canopy purchase was the absolute best!!,” one review says. “My husband felt like setting it up was less work than our past umbrellas. It also provides so much more shade.”
Now, you just need to convince your beach buddies that you’ll provide the shade, and they’ll provide the beverages.
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Supreme Court certifies ruling ending Trump border policy
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday certified its month-old ruling allowing the Biden administration to end a cornerstone Trump-era border policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, a pro forma act that has drawn attention amid near-total silence from the White House about when, how and even whether it will dismantle the policy.
The two-word docket entry read “judgment issued” to record that justices voted 5-4 in a ruling issued June 30 that the administration could scrap the “Remain in Mexico” policy, overruling a lower court that forced the policy to be reinstated in December.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said shortly after the Supreme Court victory that justices would need to communicate the decision to a lower court, which, in turn, should lift the order to keep the policy in place in a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas. Beyond that, administration officials have said little, including whether any of the thousands subject to the policy since December will be allowed to enter and remain in the United States while their cases are being considered in immigration court.
The White House and Homeland Security Department had no immediate comment on the Supreme Court certification; the Justice Department declined comment. Officials in Mexico had no immediate comment.
About 70,000 migrants were subject to the policy, known officially as “Migrant Protection Protocols,” or MPP, from when former President Donald Trump introduced it in January 2019 until President Joe Biden suspended it on his first day in office in January 2021, fulfilling a campaign promise. Many were allowed to return to the United States to pursue their cases during the early months of Biden’s presidency.
Nearly 5,800 people have been subject to the policy from December through June, according to figures released Friday, a modest number that would make any reluctance to end it seem less plausible. Nicaraguans account for the largest number, with others from Cuba, Colombia and Venezuela.
A sign posted last week at the entrance to the Salvation Army migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, by the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration appeared to best capture the public understanding of the policy’s status: “Wait for official information! The Remain in Mexico (MPP) program remains in effect. The United States government will inform you of any changes.”
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 1, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Riverside County in southern California...
San Bernardino County in southern California...
* Until 830 PM PDT.
* At 236 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up 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.
IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of creeks and streams,
urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Park Boulevard, Indian Cove and Fried Liver Wash in Joshua Tree
National Park.
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.
Remain alert for flooding even in locations not receiving rain.
Arroyos, streams, and rivers can become raging killer currents in a
matter of minutes, even from distant rainfall.
Flooding is occurring or is imminent. It is important to know where
you are relative to streams, rivers, or creeks which can become
killers in heavy rains. Campers and hikers should avoid streams or
creeks.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MSA Safety Incorporated (NYSE: MSA) today announced it has accepted the resignation of its Chief Financial Officer, Kenneth Krause, effective August 26, 2022. Mr. Krause, who was elected CFO in December 2015, is leaving to accept the position of CFO at another public company located outside of Pennsylvania.
Nish Vartanian, MSA Safety Chairman, President and CEO, said the company has initiated a comprehensive external search for a new CFO. In addition, MSA Chief Accounting Officer Jonathan Buck has been appointed interim CFO.
"On behalf of our Board of Directors and the entire MSA organization, we want to thank Ken for his many contributions to MSA during his 15 years with the company," Mr. Vartanian said. "Ken helped MSA achieve meaningful improvements in profitability and cash flow, resulting in top quartile performance with regard to stock price and total shareholder return," he said.
About MSA Safety
Established in 1914, MSA Safety Incorporated is the global leader in the development, manufacture and supply of safety products that protect people and facility infrastructures. Many MSA products integrate a combination of electronics, mechanical systems and advanced materials to protect users against hazardous or life-threatening situations. The company's comprehensive product line is used by workers around the world in a broad range of markets, including the oil, gas and petrochemical industry, the fire service, the construction industry, mining and the military. MSA's core products include self-contained breathing apparatus, fixed gas and flame detection systems, portable gas detection instruments, industrial head protection products, firefighter helmets and protective apparel, and fall protection devices. With 2021 revenues of $1.4 billion, MSA employs approximately 4,800 people worldwide. The company is headquartered north of Pittsburgh in Cranberry Township, Pa., and has manufacturing operations in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. With more than 40 international locations, MSA realizes approximately half of its revenue from outside North America. For more information visit MSA's web site at www.MSAsafety.com.
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Pitt’s Narduzzi: NIL rules “probably” violated by others
By WILL GRAVES
AP Sports Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh coach Pat Narduzzi thinks name, image and likeness rules were “probably” violated over the spring, not so subtly hinting those violations led to star wide receiver Jordan Addison’s decision to transfer to USC.
Without naming the Trojans and Addison specifically, Narduzzi said Monday he doesn’t think “there’s any question” his players were “tempted with (NIL inducements) one way or the other.”
Addison, who won the Biletnikoff Award last December given annually to the nation’s best receiver, entered the transfer portal just before the May 1 deadline and officially transferred to USC later in the month.
Narduzzi said he’d like to see some sort of guardrails on NIL rules and called the current set-up essentially a pathway for backroom deals that are difficult for schools to regulate.
“I want our kids to make as much money as they can, but I want them to work for it and do it the right way and not just black market it,” he said.
Narduzzi, who is entering his eighth season at Pitt and led the Panthers to their first ACC championship last fall, suggested the NCAA “remove the boosters from the game.”
When it was pointed out that the head coaching position at Pitt’s official title is “Chris Bickell ’97 Head Football Coach” after Bickell — a Panther alum — donated $20 million to the program for a series of capital improvements last fall, Narduzzi clarified he’d like to see the banning of the kind of third-party “collectives” that have popped up in the last few years as NIL rules have been relaxed.
“What you’ll see throughout the country now is a booster, OK, saying ‘Do I give my money to the athletic department or do I give it to the collective?’” he said. “I’m saying we should be giving our money to the athletic department and kind of eliminating that.”
Narduzzi added he would like to see some control over what boosters can do.
“It has to be pretty equal throughout the country,” he said. “(There) can’t be wide gaps or we are going to ruin college football.”
The Panthers open the season on Sept. 1 against West Virginia in the renewal of the “Backyard Brawl.” The series, which dates to 1895, hasn’t been played since 2011 after the longtime rivals left the Big East.
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WVa cities, counties reach $400M settlement with drug firms
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia cities and counties have reached a $400 million tentative settlement with three major U.S. drug distributors. The cities and counties accused the distributors in a lawsuit in state court of fueling the opioid epidemic. The companies are AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. The funds will be distributed over 12 years. Wheeling attorney Bob Fitzsimmons and Huntington attorney Paul Farrell Jr. announced the settlement Monday and said the individual counties and municipalities still have to approve it. Last month, a federal judge ruled against Cabell County and Huntington in similar claims. They are not included in the settlement announced Monday. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/08/01/wva-cities-counties-reach-400m-settlement-with-drug-firms-2/ | 2022-08-01T22:26:56Z | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/08/01/wva-cities-counties-reach-400m-settlement-with-drug-firms-2/ | true |
Frankie is now a Yankee.
The New York Yankees acquired starting pitcher Frankie Montas and reliever Luis Trivino from the Oakland Athletics for prospects Ken Waldichuk, J.P. Sears, Luis Medina and Cooper Bowman on Monday, the eve of baseball's trade deadline.
The addition of Montas, 29, gives the Yankees a front-of-the-rotation caliber starter behind Gerrit Cole. The right-hander has gone just 4-9 in 19 starts this season for an A's team that owns the second-worst record in the league, but he has a 3.18 ERA and 1.137 WHIP. Montas, who missed one start in mid-July due to a shoulder injury, is eligible for arbitration this winter and set to become a free agent after the 2023 season. He finished sixth in American League Cy Young voting last season after going 13-9 with a 3.37 ERA.
Trivino, a 30-year-old righthander, has posted a 6.47 ERA with 10 saves in 39 appearances out of the bullpen this season. He entered the season with a 3.70 ERA over the first four years of his career.
The 24-year-old Waldichuk, a left-hander who MLB.com ranks as the Yankees' fifth-best prospect, was 2-3 with a 3.59 ERA in 11 starts for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre this season. Sears, 26, has gone 3-0 with a 2.05 ERA in 22 innings for the Yankees this season.
The trade came three days after the Seattle Mariners acquired All-Star pitcher Luis Castillo from the Cincinnati Reds. The Yankees reportedly had interest in the 29-year-old Castillo, who at 4-4 with a 2.86 ERA this season was considered the top pitcher available ahead of Tuesday's trade deadline, but were not willing to part with top-rated prospect Anthony Volpe. The Mariners gave the Reds their top prospect Noelvi Marte, third-best prospect Edwin Arroyo, fifth-best prospect Levi Stoudt and Andrew Moore. Castillo is set to face the Yankees on Wednesday in his Mariners debut.
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Earlier in the day, the Yankees traded for right-handed reliever Scott Effross in a deal that sent right-hander Hayden Wesneski, the team's No. 7 prospect, to the Chicago Cubs.
The 28-year-old Effross has a 2.66 ERA this season in 47 appearances, which is tied for second-most in the league. Wesneski, in Triple-A this season, is 6-7 with a 3.51 ERA in 19 starts.
While the 69-34 Yankees bolstered their rotation and bullpen, their top competition in the American League improved its lineup. The Houston Astros reportedly acquired first baseman Trey Mancini from the Baltimore Orioles in a three-team trade that also included the Tampa Bay Bays. The 30-year-old Mancini is hitting .268 with 10 home runs and 41 RBIs this season, giving the 67-36 Astros another threat in the middle of their batting order. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/yankees-acquire-pitcher-frankie-montas-in-trade-with-oakland-as/3804088/ | 2022-08-01T22:27:34Z | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/yankees-acquire-pitcher-frankie-montas-in-trade-with-oakland-as/3804088/ | false |
DALLAS, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $1.16 per share. The dividend is payable on October 4, 2022, to stockholders of record on September 9, 2022.
This represents the 50th consecutive year that Kimberly-Clark has increased its dividend and the 88th straight year that the company has paid a dividend to shareholders.
About Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) and its trusted brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. Fueled by ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of people's most essential needs, we create products that help individuals experience more of what's important to them. Our portfolio of brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Intimus, Neve, Plenitud, Sweety, Softex, Viva and WypAll, hold the No. 1 or No. 2 share position in 80 countries. We use sustainable practices that support a healthy planet, build stronger communities, and ensure our business thrives for decades to come. To keep up with the latest news and to learn more about the company's 150-year history of innovation, visit kimberly-clark.com.
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EL RENO, Okla. (KFOR) – A daughter’s wedding can be one of the happiest moments in a mother’s life. But an Oklahoma mom still reeling from her daughter’s untimely death is now embroiled in a dispute with the operators of the venue where her daughter was to be married.
Michaela Grundy’s wedding plans were well underway, and the bride-to-be was bursting with joy.
“She wanted it to be comfortable,” explained her mother, Lisa Busch. “She wanted it to be everybody that was celebrating them.”
She and her husband-to-be, Josh Smith, were to be wed in El Reno, Oklahoma, at the Palace Event Center in October.
But in May, Grundy started feeling ill.
“She said, ‘Mom, I’m not feeling so good.’ And then Tuesday they went to urgent care,'” Busch said.
Grundy’s condition changed throughout the week.
Early Monday morning, Busch received a phone call she won’t forget.
“Josh called us at 4 a.m. Monday morning,” she said. “I heard my husband say, ‘What do you mean she hasn’t breathed in 10 minutes?’ And so as soon as I heard that, we started getting ready and drove to the hospital. By the time I got there, they couldn’t revive her and she was gone.”
Grundy was 28, and it’s still unclear exactly what happened. The family says she tested positive for COVID-19 after passing.
Her family was left to grieve and cancel the wedding. They called vendors one by one, and they say they received immediate refunds from all, except one – The Palace, which was to be the main venue.
Grundy had paid The Palace around $4,000 before her death. Busch said, after losing her daughter, she called The Palace, but the venue only offered to reimburse half the amount.
“All that’s been done was her name’s been put on the date. So, I didn’t think half was really fair,” said Lisa. “So, I said, ‘Can you have the owner call me so that I can talk to him?'”
Lisa says her conversations with the owner grew heated on both sides. Palace management claimed they were unable to just give the money back as Michaela was the only person who signed the contract.
But Grundy used a card, and Busch says the card is linked to a joint bank account with Smith.
That account is still active, and Busch says everyone agrees it should be Smith who receives the funds.
“[Josh is] having to pick up and start his life and relocate his home,” said Lisa. “You know, we haven’t shut anything down yet because that was per the bank’s recommendation. So, it could just go back to the original form payment.”
In the nearly three months that have passed, no resolution has been reached.
Before long, a slew of bad reviews were left against the venue online. The Palace responded to most of these with a uniform statement that reads:
“The management of The Palace Event Center would like to offer our sincere condolences to Michaela’s family during this difficult time. We can’t imagine the sadness they are experiencing from this loss. The request for a refund has not been denied: our attorney has advised us that the refund must be paid to her legal heir, so we have asked for information regarding Michaela’s estate. We look forward to working with the family to resolve this.”
But at 28, with no will, how does one find Grundy’s heir?
Nexstar’s KFOR met with Edmonds, Oklahoma-based estate attorney David McBride, of McBride & Associates, to learn more.
“Typically, [families] present their documents to the court,” he explained. “They initiate a court proceeding called a probate, stating that they have a right to step up and be the person to receive distribution from the estate.”
But without a will or trust, these proceedings can be costly. Keep in mind the refund would be for just under $4,000.
McBride says even the most straightforward, no-hassle probate proceedings can cost $2,500 to $5,000.
“[Sometimes] you’re going to spend more in attorney fees and court costs and all those other expenditures than they’re going to ultimately recover,” He said. “It sadly happens far too often.”
But there could be a resolution in sight. The Palace responded to KFOR’s request for comment, with a lengthy statement.
Management said they were “very sorry to hear of Michaela’s passing” and that their attorney had advised them to receive an “affidavit of heirship.”
But they later said their attorney was in the process of drawing up this document to help resolve the matter.
They also asked that the bad reviews be removed from Facebook, adding, “It pains us greatly to see the negative and libelous posts. We have been unfairly defamed and we are not able to defend ourselves.”
However, it’s been more than a week since KFOR received that statement, and Busch says she’s heard nothing from Palace management and hasn’t received the affidavit.
She’s now hoping others will heed her family’s advice when it comes to such contracts.
“Make sure they ask the question, ‘What happens if, under no circumstance or no fault of our own, this wedding can’t take place?'” she said. “‘What am I entitled to?’ I wish we’d have known.” | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/oklahoma-family-fights-for-refund-after-bride-to-be-dies-months-before-wedding/ | 2022-08-01T22:30:08Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/oklahoma-family-fights-for-refund-after-bride-to-be-dies-months-before-wedding/ | true |
It’s time to talk mobility and flexibility in this edition of “Get Fit with Britt”!
Why, you ask?
- Flexibility increases your mobility
- Increased flexibility and mobility can help ward off injury
- Regular flexibility and mobility work can decrease muscle soreness and joint pain
- The greater your flexibility and mobility, the better you’ll move!
We often overlook mobility and flexibility work as a part of our fitness routines, but it is essential to incorporate stretches and exercises that focus on those areas of our health and wellness.
Judy and Merle Pierson join Brittny for this month’s episode. The Piersons are fitness enthusiasts and group fitness instructors at facilities across the New River Valley, including The Weight Club in Blacksburg and the Blacksburg Community Center. The couple has been inspiring people for decades with their fitness journey and helping share how to build fitness habits that last a lifetime. They’ll show us how to get flexy!
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LP Building Solutions (LP) (NYSE: LPX) today announced that it closed on the previously announced sale of its Engineered Wood Products (EWP) business to Pacific Woodtech for $210 million.
The acquisition includes LP's laminated veneer lumber and I-joist manufacturing facilities in Wilmington, North Carolina; Red Bluff, California; and Golden, British Columbia, Canada, associated timber license assets, and the SolidStart® brand.
LP's financial adviser is UBS Investment Bank. LP's legal advisers are Troutman Pepper and Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP.
About LP Building Solutions
As a leader in high-performance building solutions, Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (LP Building Solutions, NYSE: LPX) manufactures engineered wood building products that meet the demands of builders, remodelers, and homeowners worldwide. LP's extensive offerings include innovative and dependable building products and accessories, such as Siding Solutions (LP® SmartSide® Trim & Siding, LP® SmartSide® ExpertFinish® Trim & Siding, LP BuilderSeries® Lap Siding, and LP Outdoor Building Solutions®), LP Structural Solutions (LP® TechShield® Radiant Barrier, LP WeatherLogic® Air & Water Barrier, LP Legacy® Premium Sub-Flooring, and LP® FlameBlock® Fire-Rated Sheathing and more), LP® TopNotch® Sub-Flooring, and oriented strand board (OSB). In addition to product solutions, LP provides industry-leading customer service and warranties. Since its founding in 1972, LP has been Building a Better World™ by helping customers construct beautiful, durable homes while our shareholders build lasting value. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, LP operates 22 plants across the U.S., Canada, Chile, and Brazil. For more information, visit LPCorp.com.
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TETRA Technologies, Inc. ("TETRA" or the "Company") (NYSE:TTI) today announced second quarter 2022 financial results and lithium and bromine brine sampling results from the recently completed exploratory well.
Second quarter 2022 revenue of $141 million increased 8% from the first quarter of 2022 and 38% from the second quarter of 2021. Net income before discontinued operations was $1.8 million, inclusive of $4.9 million of non-recurring charges and expenses. This compares to net income before discontinued operations of $7.7 million in the first quarter of 2022, inclusive of $564,000 of non-recurring credits, net of charges. Net income per share from continuing operations was $0.01 in the second quarter compared to a net income per share from continuing operations in the first quarter of $0.06. Adjusted net income per share from continuing operations was $0.05 compared to $0.06 in the first quarter of 2022 and to a loss of $0.02 in the second quarter of 2021.
Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter was $18.7 million, compared to $20.5 million in the first quarter of 2022 and to $13.0 million in the second quarter of 2021. The second quarter of 2022 included a $1.3 million unfavorable impact as a result of a European supplier declaring force majeure and being unable to provide a key raw material to our European industrial chemicals operations as a result of the Russia/Ukraine conflict. The supplier has since resumed supplying TETRA, but currently at reduced volumes. Additionally, the second quarter included unrealized losses on investments of $0.7 million. Excluding the impact of the aforementioned items, Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of 2022 would have been $20.7 million.
Cash flow from operating activities was $17.9 million in the second quarter of 2022 compared to $5.9 million in the first quarter of 2022. Adjusted free cash flow from continuing operations was $6.4 million.
In the first quarter of 2022, the Company completed the drilling and sampling of an exploratory well on TETRA's Arkansas leased acreage under which it owns certain mineral rights and secured fluid samples from multiple zones of interest within the Smackover Formation for the purpose of validating the historical mineral concentrations. An analysis of those samples by two independent laboratories showed higher concentration levels of lithium and bromine compared to the average concentrations for each mineral used in the Company's previously reported exploration targets. The third-party laboratory results showed an average concentration of 473 mg/liter of lithium, which are 67% higher than the average used in the exploration target, and 5,350 mg/liter for bromine, which are 8% higher than the average used in the exploration target.
TETRA had previously announced in 2021 the completion of a 2021 Exploration Target Assessment, a geological introduction technical report on its bromine and lithium carbonate equivalent project in southern Arkansas. The assessment included conceptual exploration targets of 2.54 million to 8.58 million tons of bromine and 85,000 to 286,000 tons of lithium carbonate equivalent within the Smackover Formation reservoir. The potential quantity and grade of the exploration targets are conceptual in nature, and there has been insufficient exploration to estimate a mineral resource. The purpose of completing the exploratory well was to obtain the fluid sample analysis and retain an independent geological consulting firm to analyze these results and determine whether there is sufficient information to prepare a mineral resource geological model and estimation on the Smackover Formation bromine and lithium carbonate equivalent underlying the TETRA acreage. TETRA is expected to receive this independent report in the third quarter of 2022.
Brady Murphy, TETRA President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "We continue to deliver strong results in what we believe are the early stages of a longer term up cycle for the oil and gas sector, while continuing to make significant progress on our low carbon energy opportunities. Despite unprecedented inflation challenges for fuel, labor and equipment in the U.S. and the Russia/Ukraine war impacting our European supply chain, we delivered results in-line with our internal expectations.
"Water & Flowback Services revenue of $66 million improved $28 million (75%) year-on-year. Income before taxes in the second quarter was $1.6 million. Adjusted EBITDA of $9.9 million improved by $7.9 million (397%) year-on-year. The second quarter revenue for our United States land business was the highest since the third quarter of 2019, despite significantly fewer active frac fleets. Water & Flowback Services Adjusted EBITDA margins were 15.1%, hitting our full-year targets earlier than expected, as our technology, integration and digitalization investments continue to gain traction while price increases continue to modestly stay ahead of inflation. While U.S. market growth is limited by availability of additional frac fleets, we continue to gain market share with broad customer acceptance of our integrated water management business model, leading water recycling capabilities and delivering the best in-class sand management services with the recently patented TETRA SandStormTM advanced cyclone technology. We added four new recycling projects during the second quarter and saw record recycling volumes in the Permian Basin - recycling 571 million gallons, up 62% from a year ago and 17% from the first quarter of 2022. Integrated water management projects increased from 55 projects in the first quarter of 2022 to 62 projects with 36 different customers in the second quarter of 2022. We continue to see strong utilization and higher pricing for the TETRA Sandstorm technology, and at the end of the second quarter we were awarded our largest scope of work yet for a super major operator in the Delaware Basin and Eagleford shale play. During the second quarter we also introduced our new automated drill out technology for a large independent producer in the Appalachian Basin. This new technology is expected to reduce well site personnel by more than 30%, reduce rig up/down time by approximately 40%, and reduce HSE exposure – making a meaningful impact to our customer's well economics.
"Completion Fluids & Products second quarter 2022 revenue of $75 million increased year-on-year by 16% and increased from the first quarter of 2022 by 2% as the seasonal uplift for our Northern European industrial chemicals operations was partially offset by lower Gulf of Mexico and international fluid sales as the first quarter benefited from sales pulling in from the second quarter. Income before taxes for the quarter was $15.3 million. Adjusted EBITDA margins were 23.7% for the quarter, down from the first quarter and down year-on-year due to revenue mix and some inflationary costs on our European industrial chemicals business. In the second quarter our TETRA Advanced Displacement System (TADS) was awarded the 2021 E&P Special Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation for the Drilling Fluids/Stimulation category. Also, during the second quarter we received a large order for calcium chloride from an international lithium producer who will treat their brine with the material as a part of their lithium extraction process. This is expected to represent a new market opportunity for TETRA's industrial chemicals business as lithium production ramps up across the globe.
"Our low carbon energy businesses and opportunities continue to make meaningful progress. As noted above, we received independent third-party laboratory results of lithium and bromine concentration from our brine fluid sample. We expect to receive a resource report in the third quarter that will quantify our estimated lithium and bromine resources on our leased acreage. We have engaged an engineering firm to begin work on a front-end engineering and design study (FEED). We also expect to soon begin work on a preliminary economic assessment (PEA). With the growing demand for bromine for deep water projects and for zinc bromide electrolytes for long-duration battery storage, our bromine needs are expected to expand beyond our current long-term agreement. We anticipate that producing our own bromine from our acreage may be more cost-effective than our current sources, creating an opportunity for margin enhancement in addition to significant incremental revenue. Sales of our high purity zinc bromine solution, TETRA PureFlow® to Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc. ("Eos") increased significantly during the second quarter compared to the first quarter of 2022. As Eos continues to add to its backlog and expand its production capacity, we expect shipments to further increase in the second half of 2022.
"We continue to make significant progress on our base business, introduce technology and digitalization, evolve our low carbon opportunities and find new markets for our existing products, which collectively contribute to a broader earnings base and higher growth market opportunities – setting the stage for significant shareholder value creation."
This press release includes the following financial measures that are not presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States ("GAAP"): Adjusted income (loss) per share from continuing operations, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EBITDA Margin (Adjusted EBITDA as a percent of revenue) on consolidated and segment basis, Adjusted income/(loss) from continuing operations, adjusted free cash flow from continuing operations, and net debt. Please see Schedules E through H for reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures.
Second Quarter Results and Highlights
A summary of key financial metrics for the second quarter are as follows:
Completion Fluids & Products second quarter 2022 revenue of $75 million increased 2% from the first quarter of 2022 due to the seasonal increase for our Northern Europe industrial chemicals business, partially offset by lower activity in the Gulf of Mexico and international markets as sales were previously moved into the first quarter of 2022. Completion Fluids & Products income before taxes was $15.3 million in the second quarter (20.4% of revenue) compared to $19.3 million (26.4% of revenue) in the first quarter of 2022. Adjusted EBITDA of $17.7 million, which included a $0.8 million mark-to-market loss from TETRA's equity holding in Standard Lithium and a $0.6 million unrealized gain from TETRA's investment in CarbonFree, decreased $1.4 million sequentially. Completion Fluids & Products adjusted EBITDA margins were 23.7% in the second quarter compared to 26.1% in the first quarter of 2022. Excluding the unrealized gains and losses from investments for both periods, adjusted EBITDA margins decreased sequentially by 210 basis points. Second quarter margins were negatively impacted by inflationary pressures as we are seeing increased pricing for raw materials and our Northern Europe industrial business was impacted by $1.3 million from a force majeure declaration from a key raw materials supplier, resulting in lower production levels and under absorption at our Kokkola, Finland plant.
Water & Flowback Services revenue was $66 million in the second quarter of 2022, an increase of 16% from the first quarter of 2022. Income before taxes was $1.6 million. Adjusted EBITDA of $9.9 million (15.1% of revenue) increased 21% sequentially and was up by a factor of five from the second quarter of 2021 due to increased activity in the North America onshore business combined with ongoing pricing improvements. Adjusted EBITDA margins improved 60 basis points from the first quarter of 2022 to 15.1% as we continue to see some pricing improvements to help offset inflationary pressures. We expect the third-quarter Adjusted EBITDA margins to further improve reflecting continued better pricing, stronger activity levels and the commencement of operations of two early production facilities in Argentina.
Free Cash Flow and Balance Sheet
Cash from operating activities was $17.9 million in the second quarter and adjusted free cash flow from continuing operations was $6.4 million. Liquidity at the end of the second quarter was $103 million, the highest since 2019 and improved $8 million from the first quarter of 2022 driven by positive free cash flow and availability under our ABL facility. Liquidity is defined as unrestricted cash plus availability under our revolving credit facilities. At the end of the second quarter, unrestricted cash was $36 million and availability under our credit agreements was $67 million. Long-term debt, with a September 2025 maturity, was $153 million, while net debt was $117 million. TETRA's net leverage ratio continued to improve and was 1.8X at the end of the second quarter of 2022.
Non-recurring Charges and Expenses
Non-recurring charges and expenses are reflected on Schedule E and include $2.3 million of non-cash impairment and other charges, $0.6 million of costs associated with the exploratory brine well, $1.5 million of cumulative adjustments to long-term incentives and appreciation right expenses, and $0.6 million of transaction and other expenses. The $1.3 million of under absorption from our Kokkola plant and the $0.7 million of unrealized losses are included in both our reported and adjusted earnings.
Conference Call
TETRA will host a conference call to discuss these results tomorrow, August 2, at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time. The phone number for the call is 1-888-347-5303. The conference call will also be available by live audio webcast and may be accessed through the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.tetratec.com/events-and-webcasts. A replay of the conference call will be available at 1-877-344-7529 conference number 2427423, for one week following the conference call and the archived webcast will be available through the Company's website for thirty days following the conference call.
Investor Contact
For further information: Elijio Serrano, CFO, TETRA Technologies, Inc., The Woodlands, Texas, Phone: (281) 367-1983, www.tetratec.com
Financial Statements, Schedules and Non-GAAP Reconciliation Schedules (Unaudited)
Schedule A: Consolidated Income Statement
Schedule B: Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet
Schedule C: Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Schedule D: Statement Regarding Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Schedule E: Non-GAAP Reconciliation of Adjusted Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations
Schedule F: Non-GAAP Reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA
Schedule G: Non-GAAP Reconciliation of Net Debt
Schedule H: Non-GAAP Reconciliation to Adjusted Free Cash Flow From Continuing Operations
Schedule I: Non-GAAP Reconciliation to Net Leverage Ratio
Company Overview
TETRA Technologies, Inc. is an industrial and oil & gas products and services company operating on six continents focused on bromine-based completion fluids, calcium chloride, water management solutions, frac flowback and production well testing services. Calcium chloride is used in the oil and gas industry, and also has broad industrial applications to the agricultural, road, food and beverage, and lithium production markets. TETRA is evolving its business model by expanding into the low carbon energy markets with its chemistry expertise, key mineral acreage and global infrastructure. Recently announced initiatives include commercialization of TETRA PureFlow® an ultra-pure zinc bromide for stationary batteries and energy storage; advancing an innovative carbon capture utilization and storage technology with CarbonFree to capture CO2 and mineralize emissions to make commercial, carbon-negative chemicals; and development of TETRA's lithium and bromine mineral acreage to meet the growing demand for oil and gas products and energy storage. Visit the Company's website at www.tetratec.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Statements
This news release includes certain statements that are deemed to be forward-looking statements. Generally, the use of words such as "may," "see," "expectation," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "projects," "anticipate," "believe," "assume," "could," "should," "plans," "targets" or similar expressions that convey the uncertainty of future events, activities, expectations or outcomes identify forward-looking statements that the Company intends to be included within the safe harbor protections provided by the federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements include statements concerning economic and operating conditions that are outside of our control, including statements concerning recovery of the oil and gas industry; customer delays for international completion fluids related to global shipping and logistics issues; potential revenue associated with prospective energy storage projects or our pending carbon capture partnership; exploration targets of lithium and bromine, the potential extraction of lithium and bromine from the leased acreage, the economic viability thereof, the demand for such resources, and the timing and costs of such activities; the ability to obtain an inferred resource report and preliminary economic assessment regarding our lithium and bromine acreage; projections concerning the Company's business activities, financial guidance, estimated earnings, earnings per share, and statements regarding the Company's beliefs, expectations, plans, goals, future events and performance, and other statements that are not purely historical. With respect to the Company's disclosures of exploration targets, including bromine and lithium carbonate equivalent concentrations, it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the estimation of a mineral resource. The exploration targets expressed should not be misrepresented or misconstrued as an estimate of a mineral resource or mineral reserve. It is possible that the exploration target quantity and grade could change as our exploration activities are completed and evaluated. These forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and analyses made by the Company in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors it believes are appropriate in the circumstances. Such statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees of future performances or results and that actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Some of the factors that could affect actual results are described in the section titled "Risk Factors" contained in the Company's Annual Reports on Form 10-K, as well as other risks identified from time to time in its reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Schedule D: Statement Regarding Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to financial results determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, this press release may include the following non-GAAP financial measures for the Company: adjusted income (loss) per share from continuing operations; consolidated and segment adjusted EBITDA; segment adjusted EBITDA as a percent of revenue ("Adjusted EBITDA margin"); adjusted income (loss) from continuing operations, adjusted free cash flow from continuing operations; net debt, and net leverage ratio. The following schedules provide reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measures. The non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, financial measures prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, as more fully discussed in the Company's financial statements and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Management believes that the exclusion of the special charges from the historical results of operations enables management to evaluate more effectively the Company's operations over the prior periods and to identify operating trends that could be obscured by the excluded items.
Adjusted income (loss) from continuing operations is defined as the Company's income (loss) before noncontrolling interests and discontinued operations, excluding certain special or other charges (or credits), and including noncontrolling interest attributable to continued operations. Adjusted income (loss) from continuing operations is used by management as a supplemental financial measure to assess financial performance, without regard to charges or credits that are considered by management to be outside of its normal operations.
Adjusted earnings (loss) per share from continuing operations is defined as the Company's diluted earnings (loss) per share excluding certain special or other charges (or credits), discontinued operations and noncontrolling interest attributable to discontinued operations. Adjusted diluted earnings (loss) per share is used by management as a supplemental financial measure to assess financial performance, without regard to charges or credits that are considered by management to be outside of its normal operations.
Adjusted EBITDA (and adjusted EBITDA as a percent of revenue) is defined as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, impairments and certain non-cash charges, non-recurring adjustments and discontinued operations. Adjusted EBITDA (and adjusted EBITDA margin) is used by management as a supplemental financial measure to assess the financial performance of the Company's assets, without regard to financing methods, capital structure or historical cost basis and to assess the Company's ability to incur and service debt and fund capital expenditures.
Adjusted free cash flow from continuing operations is defined as cash from operations less discontinued operations EBITDA and discontinued operations capital expenditures, less capital expenditures net of sales proceeds and cost of equipment sold, less payments on financing lease obligations and including cash distributions to TETRA from CSI Compressco and cash from other investments. Management uses this supplemental financial measure to:
- assess the Company's ability to retire debt;
- evaluate the capacity of the Company to further invest and grow; and
- to measure the performance of the Company as compared to its peer group.
Adjusted free cash flow from continuing operations do not necessarily imply residual cash flow available for discretionary expenditures, as they exclude cash requirements for debt service or other non-discretionary expenditures that are not deducted.
Net debt is defined as the sum of the carrying value of long-term and short-term debt on its consolidated balance sheet, less cash, excluding restricted cash on the balance sheet. Management views net debt as a measure of TETRA's ability to reduce debt, add to cash balances, pay dividends, repurchase stock, and fund investing and financing activities.
Net leverage ratio is defined as debt excluding financing fees & discount on term loan and including letters of credit and guarantees, less cash divided by trailing twelve months adjusted EBITDA for credit facilities. Adjusted EBITDA for credit facilities consists of adjusted EBITDA described above, plus equity compensation expense, less non-cash (gain) loss on sale of investments, (gain) loss on sales of assets and excluding certain special or other charges (or credits). Management primarily uses this metric to assess TETRA's ability to borrow, reduce debt, add to cash balances, pay distributions, and fund investing and financing activities.
Schedule G: Non-GAAP Reconciliation of Net Debt (Unaudited)
The following reconciliation of net debt is presented as a supplement to financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP.
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Several days after the U.S. Commerce Department reported that the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) had declined for the second quarter in a row, people on Twitter began sharing an image of a headline about the economy under President Joe Biden.
The image appears to show the news magazine The Atlantic’s masthead with an article titled: “The Quiet Courage of Biden’s Negative Growth Economy,” written by the author Tim Nichols.
Matt Rinaldi, who serves as chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, and political commentator Dinesh D’Souza are among those who shared the image on Twitter.
“This is NOT a parody,” D’Souza wrote on July 29.
THE QUESTION
Did The Atlantic publish an article titled: “The Quiet Courage of Biden’s Negative Growth Economy”?
THE SOURCES
- Anna Bross, senior vice president of communications at The Atlantic
- Search of The Atlantic’s website using the Wayback Machine, a digital archive tool
- Advanced search of The Atlantic’s Twitter account
THE ANSWER
No, The Atlantic didn’t publish an article titled: “The Quiet Courage of Biden’s Negative Growth Economy.”
WHAT WE FOUND
Anna Bross, senior vice president of communications at The Atlantic, said in an email that the image is “fabricated and is not an actual Atlantic article.”
The publication doesn’t have a writer by the name of Tim Nichols, either, which VERIFY confirmed by visiting the magazine's writers webpage. There is a contributing writer for The Atlantic named Tom Nichols, who currently writes the Peacefield newsletter.
“We have reported this as fake and as a trademark infringement,” Bross said.
The image shared on social media appears to imitate articles published to “The Atlantic Daily” section
VERIFY searched for the headline using the Wayback Machine, a digital archive tool, and did not find any mention of it on The Atlantic’s website. An advanced search for the headline on Twitter also did not return any results.
The Atlantic did publish a story with the headline “The Quiet Courage of Bob Moses” in July 2021, following the passing of the 86-year-old civil rights activist. That article was written by William Sturkey, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
This isn’t the first time that a fabricated Atlantic headline has circulated online. In June 2022, people on social media shared an image with a headline that read, “The Heroism of Biden’s Bike Fall” after Biden fell while trying to dismount his bicycle.
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(The Hill) – Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Monday said he would vote against Finland and Sweden’s bids to join NATO, a move that would go against most of his colleagues from both sides of the aisle.
In an op-ed published by The National Interest, Hawley says the United States shouldn’t expand its security commitments in Europe due to a more pressing threat from China.
“Finland and Sweden want to join the Atlantic Alliance to head off further Russian aggression in Europe. That is entirely understandable given their location and security needs,” Hawley wrote.
“But America’s greatest foreign adversary doesn’t loom over Europe. It looms in Asia. I am talking of course about the People’s Republic of China. And when it comes to Chinese imperialism, the American people should know the truth: the United States is not ready to resist it. Expanding American security commitments in Europe now would only make that problem worse—and America, less safe.”
Finland and Sweden in May announced their intentions to join NATO following Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The governments of 19 NATO countries have since ratified the two Nordic nations joining the alliance. Eleven, including the United States, have yet to do so. All 30 member states must approve the additions.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants senators to vote on enlarging the alliance before the lawmakers leave Washington, D.C., for a month-long break set to start Aug. 8.
Finland and Sweden’s request has received widespread support from both Democrats and Republicans. But Hawley — who was one of the 11 conservatives who opposed the $40 billion Ukraine aid package Congress passed in May — insists the United States isn’t prepared to go against both Moscow and Beijing.
“As the 2018 and 2022 U.S. National Defense Strategies both acknowledge, the United States cannot defeat China and Russia in two major wars at the same time. And we are not where we need to be in Asia,” Hawley wrote.
Citing distractions from “nation-building activities in the Middle East and legacy commitments in Europe,” Hawley says the U.S. is not prepared to fend off Chinese military aggression in the Pacific should it happen.
“In the face of this stark reality, we must choose. We must do less in Europe (and elsewhere) in order to prioritize China and Asia.”
While Hawley says the U.S. government shouldn’t abandon NATO, he suggests European allies could take on more responsibility in defending Europe by investing more in their own militaries.
Hawley’s stance goes against that of the majority of his fellow Republicans including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who last week said the United States “would be fortunate to have two new treaty allies as impressive and capable as Finland and Sweden.”
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --NASA Television programming on the Galaxy 13 domestic satellite is moving from transponder 11 to transponder 15 this month.
The move is in line with the Federal Communications Commission's initiative to free up C-band bandwidth on domestic satellites in support of future 5G terrestrial communications efforts. Currently, both transponders are active. Distribution of NASA TV programming on transponder 11 will end on Monday, Aug. 29. As part of that transition, the modulation format will be changed from DVB-S/QPSK to DVB-S2/8PSK, which reduces the transponder's required bandwidth.
All NASA TV channels are available on the Galaxy 13 domestic satellite. It is important all affiliates and end-users begin to transition to the new transponder to prevent the loss of NASA TV programming.
NASA Television's channels NTV-1 – the Public/Education Channel – and NTV-3 – formerly the Media Channel – are in high definition. NTV-1 provides expanded programming of events of interest to the public and to educational audiences.
NTV-3 provides mission coverage, news conferences and video/audio material relevant to local, national, and international news-gathering organizations. News networks, their reporters, and other broadcast media organizations must tune their satellite receivers to the NTV-3 to ensure reception of clean feeds for all mission coverage, news conferences, and other agency distributed news and information.
NASA's Ultra High Definition (UHD) NTV-4 channel provides select live and recorded programing in a 2160p video format.
Specific parameters for each NASA TV channel are available at:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-tv-on-satellite-galaxy-13
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MINNEAPOLIS -- The Detroit Tigers have dropped outfielder Derek Hill from the 40-man roster, possibly signalling an end to the former prospect’s eight years in the organization.
The Tigers designated Hill for assignment on Monday in order to activate left-handed reliever Andrew Chafin from the restricted list. To create a spot on the active roster for Chafin, the Tigers optioned rookie right-hander Angel De Jesus to Triple-A Toledo.
Hill, 26, was selected by the Tigers in the first round (23rd overall) in the 2014 draft. Known for his blazing speed and exceptional defense, it took a while for his bat to come around.
He made his MLB debut in the COVID-shortened 2020 season and played in spurts over the last couple of seasons. In 254 career plate appearances, Hill has a .240 average and .630 OPS (76 OPS+) with four homers and nine stolen bases.
Hill now goes to waivers and can be claimed by any team. If he clears waivers he will remain in the Tigers’ organization at least until the end of the year, when he will become a minor-league free agent.
In any case, today’s move was an indication that Hill is not in the club’s future outfield plans, even as a bench player. The Tigers likely have a similar decision looming on Daz Cameron, another one-time outfield prospect.
“Decisions are going to get harder and harder as guys on the 60-day injured list get healthy,” said Tigers manager A.J. Hinch. “We’ll see where this takes Derek and his career. He’s obviously an incredible athlete and someone who’s helped us.”
Chafin was away from the team for four games because his vaccination status would not allow him entry to Canada for the Tigers’ weekend series against the Blue Jays.
His return could be brief, as he’s one of the Tigers’ relievers most likely to be traded before Tuesday night’s deadline.
Hinch said there wasn’t tension but perhaps “curiosity” in the Tigers’ clubhouse as they opened a three-game series at Target Field against the Twins.
“I can tell them to stay focused on the game all I want, but they have their phones with them and things are starting to pop up, you see guys moving a lot today. So I’ve just tried to embrace it as our reality,” Hinch said. “I let the players know that I’ll let them know when I hear something. My phone will ring if something happens. If not, they have a job to do. There’s nothing more we can really do.”
De Jesus, 25, will remain with the team as a member of the taxi squad. He has a 2.89 ERA in 9 1/3 innings over three separate stints with the Tigers in 2022.
TIGERS’ 40-MAN ROSTER (40)
Players in bold are on the active roster
Left-handed pitchers (4): Tyler Alexander, Andrew Chafin, Tarik Skubal, Gregory Soto, Joey Wentz.
Right-handed pitchers (16): Beau Brieske*, Jose Cisnero, Angel De Jesus, Alex Faedo, Jason Foley, Michael Fulmer, Rony Garcia*, Garrett Hill, Drew Hutchison, Joe Jimenez, Alex Lange, Derek Law, Wily Peralta*, Michael Pineda*, Elvin Rodriguez, Will Vest.
Catchers (3): Tucker Barnhart, Eric Haase, Ali Sanchez.
Infielders (9): Javier Báez, Miguel Cabrera, Jeimer Candelario, Harold Castro, Kody Clemens, Brendon Davis, Jonathan Schoop, Zack Short, Spencer Torkelson.
Outfielders (7): Akil Baddoo, Daz Cameron, Willi Castro, Riley Greene, Robbie Grossman, Austin Meadows*, Victor Reyes.
* On the 10-day or 15-day injured list.
Restricted list (1): Left-handed pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez does not earn a salary or count against the 40-man roster while on the restricted list.
60-day IL (5): Catcher Jake Rogers (right elbow sprain); and right-handed pitchers Kyle Funkhouser (right shoulder strain), Matt Manning (right shoulder inflammation), Casey Mize (right elbow sprain) and Spencer Turnbull (right elbow sprain) are on the 60-day injured list, which removes them from the 40-man roster. | https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/08/tigers-part-ways-with-former-1st-round-pick-as-trade-deadline-looms.html | 2022-08-01T22:45:39Z | https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/08/tigers-part-ways-with-former-1st-round-pick-as-trade-deadline-looms.html | false |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- First Choice Community Healthcare, Inc., ("First Choice"), is a community healthcare provider headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which experienced a data security incident that may have involved personal and protected health information belonging to individuals who sought medical treatment or services at First Choice. First Choice has sent notification of this incident by way of the United States Postal Service to potentially impacted individuals and provided resources to assist them.
On March 27, 2022, First Choice became aware of a possible data security incident event involving its technological environment. Following discovery, First Choice engaged an independent cybersecurity firm to investigate the scope of potential access to the First Choice environment, and whether sensitive information may have been affected. The investigation subsequently revealed that certain protected health information may have been accessed or acquired without authorization. First Choice then initiated a comprehensive review of the potentially impacted data to determine the types of personal and protected health information involved and identify the potentially impacted individuals, which was completed on June 3, 2022. Based on the investigation, the affected personal and protected health information may have included names, Social Security numbers, First Choice patient ID number, diagnosis and clinical treatment information, medications, dates of service, health insurance information, medical record number, patient account number, date of birth, and provider information.
On August 1, 2022, First Choice provided notice of this incident to the potentially impacted individuals. In so doing, First Choice provided information about the incident and about steps that potentially impacted individuals can take to protect their information.
In addition, First Choice has established a toll-free call center to answer questions about the incident and to address related concerns. Call center representatives are available Monday through Friday from 7:00 am – 7:00 pm Mountain Time and can be reached at 1 (833) 423-1900, or you can go to https://response.idx.us/firstchoice.
The privacy and protection of personal and protected health information is our top priority, and First Choice deeply regrets any inconvenience or concern this incident may cause.
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Antenatal walking group launched
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Dave and Erica Harrig stayed true to their values when they won a lottery jackpot of more than $61 million in 2013. It made all the difference.
The couple from Gretna, Nebraska, a community on the outskirts of Omaha where Dave Harrig now is a volunteer firefighter, allowed themselves to buy a new home, some vintage automobiles and a few ocean cruises after they both quit their jobs.
But nine years later, they still live much as they always did, remaining in their community, keeping up with church, family and friends, and teaching their children to work hard to make a living despite any financial windfall that might come their way.
Many other winners haven’t been as lucky, suffering personal setbacks and lawsuits or becoming the victims of scams. The latest winner of a big jackpot came Friday, when a single ticket sold in Illinois matched the numbers for a $1.337 billion Mega Millions prize. Illinois is among the states where winners of more than $250,000 can choose to not reveal their names.
Dave Harrig, an Air Force veteran who worked in aircraft maintenance, says keeping things simple probably saved him and his family from the kind of hassles and tragedies that have befallen other big winners.
Almost overnight, the Harrig family mailbox was filled with letters full of hard luck stories: sick children, lost jobs, burned out homes.
Dave Harrig said they ignored them all and focused on their own family and charities.
They didn't even touch the principal on their winnings until just a few years ago, when they tapped into it to fund a new museum of firefighting in Gretna that will open soon.
“We have nicer things, a bigger house, and more than we ever had in the past. But we are the same, and my wife and I keep each other in check,” Dave Harrig said, encouraging future lottery winners to invest wisely, choose a national investment adviser rather than a local one, and to avoid advisers who try to sell financial products.
They've ignored false rumors that have swirled about them, suggesting that his wife at one point ran off with a doctor and that he had a lawyer girlfriend. Their four children endured teasing at school.
“We're still learning, but it has helped to stay working together as a team,” he said of himself and his wife.
He acknowledged the struggles of some past winners, saying the experience of winning a jackpot “can really accentuate your character and any addictions.”
The late Andrew Whittaker Jr., of West Virginia, suffered lawsuits and personal setbacks after he claimed a record $315 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas night in 2002.
At the time, it was the largest U.S. lottery jackpot won by a single ticket. People harassed him so much with requests for money he was quoted several times saying he wished he had torn up the ticket.
Before dying of natural causes in 2020 at age 72, he struggled with alcohol and gambling problems and had a series of personal tragedies, including the death of his granddaughter.
Winning the lottery brought other kinds of headaches for Manuel Franco, of West Allis, Wisconsin, who claimed a $768 million lottery jackpot in April 2019.
Then just 24, Franco excitedly held a news conference to discuss his win, but later reportedly went into hiding amid harassment by strangers and the news media.
The Better Business Bureau of Wisconsin began warning people in 2021 about messages from scammers who claimed to be the multimillion-dollar winner.
Using Franco’s name, the scammers sent text messages, social media messages, phone calls and emails phishing for personal information, telling recipients they had been chosen to receive money.
The BBB said scammers got more than $13,000 from people they tricked, including people in Alabama and Colorado.
Despite the problems encountered by the winners, lottery officials favor publicly identifying winners to instill public trust in the games.
That's in large part because some past drawings have been rigged. Former Multi-State Lottery Association information security director Eddie Tipton pleaded guilty in 2017 to manipulating software so he could predict winning numbers on certain days of the year. He and his brother rigged jackpots in numerous states for a combined payout of some $24 million. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/winning-the-lottery-lucky-or-not/507-a71ec496-30dc-4b4b-923d-8423ccf0a2e3 | 2022-08-01T22:53:41Z | https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/winning-the-lottery-lucky-or-not/507-a71ec496-30dc-4b4b-923d-8423ccf0a2e3 | true |
LATAM POLITICS TODAY-Argentine economy superminister announces advisers
Aug 1 (Reuters) - The latest in Latin American politics today:
Economy superminister Massa prepares to take reins
BUENOS AIRES - New economy superminister Sergio Massa announced his top advisers as he prepared to be sworn in to his role on Wednesday. The names include Eduardo Setti, an economist with experience in the capital markets, whom Massa tapped as finance secretary.
The decision comes days after Massa was appointed to lead the government's new ministry of the economic area, a redesign of several ministries made by the government aiming to combat high inflation, a paralyzing fiscal deficit and a currency at historic lows against the dollar.
Local media said Massa would travel to the United States and France at the end of August to meet with authorities from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Club of Paris. Argentina has a $44 billion debt with the Fund and is negotiating $2 billion in outstanding debt with the Paris Club.
Colombia attorney general asks, again, to shelve case against ex-president Uribe
BOGOTA - Colombia's attorney general's office said on Monday it would again request a judge's approval to shelve a bribery and fraud case against former President Alvaro Uribe, the latest salvo in a deeply polarizing and long-running investigation.
Uribe and several allies are being investigated over alleged witness tampering to discredit accusations he had ties to right-wing paramilitaries. Uribe has always denied the allegations.
The attorney general's office had previously asked to curtail the probe, after it said it had found Uribe's conduct did not constitute a crime. But in April a judge denied the request, saying there existed a possible case of bribery.
Mexican, Brazilian monkeypox responses draw concern
MEXICO CITY - Public health specialists and doctors are sounding alarms over what they see as tepid responses to the spread of monkeypox in Latin America's largest countries.
"We are not seeing the necessary measures taken, nor the necessary importance given to monkeypox," said Dr. Sergio Montalvo, a sexual health specialist in Mexico City.
More than two-thirds of Latin America's confirmed cases of the viral disease are in Brazil, which has documented over 970 cases, followed in number by Peru and Mexico.
Luxembourg banks told to freeze Ecuador assets amid Perenco dispute, documents show
LONDON - A Luxembourg bailiff has ordered banks to freeze Ecuador's assets in the country as a result of a dispute over a $391 million settlement award that Anglo-French oil company Perenco says remains unpaid, a document seen by Reuters showed.
Ecuador's government pledged in June 2021 to honor the debt, awarded Perenco by the World Bank's International Centre for Investment Disputes, which ruled Ecuador had unlawfully ended a production-sharing agreement with the company. The country's solicitor general said last year that due to tight finances the government had contacted Perenco to negotiate a payment plan.
Chile's Boric takes center stage as vote over new constitution nears
SANTIAGO, Aug 1(Reuters) - The race to approve or reject Chile's new constitution in September enters its final weeks as the "no" vote remains ahead and progressive President Gabriel Boric has taken a more active role in the race.
According to a poll released on Sunday by Cadem, 38% of voters plan to approve the new text, up from a low of 33% in late June. Despite weeks of growing support, the "yes" vote dropped 1 point compared with last week and still trails those planning to reject by 10 points.
Venezuela's slowing inflation is surprising in more ways than one
CARACAS - As the world struggles to contain rising prices, Venezuela, where hyperinflation has driven millions abroad, is managing to slow it - and in an unexpected way.
President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government has succeeded in tapping the brakes on inflation with a toolbox of orthodox economic policies, five sources familiar with the matter and analysts said. Surging oil prices have also provided the OPEC nation with needed revenues. (Compiled by Steven Grattan Editing by Tomasz Janowski) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11070965/LATAM-POLITICS-TODAY-Argentine-economy-superminister-announces-advisers.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-01T22:57:22Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11070965/LATAM-POLITICS-TODAY-Argentine-economy-superminister-announces-advisers.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
The right to an abortion is teetering in Arizona, Kansas and Michigan — all states with primary elections on Aug. 2. In each state, the decision may come down to a different election outcome.
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The right to an abortion is teetering in Arizona, Kansas and Michigan — all states with primary elections on Aug. 2. In each state, the decision may come down to a different election outcome.
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The water diary that revealed my family uses 800 litres on a normal day... which is the same as four six-ton elephants: Mother-of-two Sarah Rainey was shocked by the amount of fluid her household gets through in 24 hours
Water, water everywhere . . . but not a drop falling from the sky. The recent record-breaking heatwave, combined with a lack of rainfall in many parts of the UK, has put us on the cusp of a national drought.
Experts met last week to discuss how to deal with the very dry conditions, and hosepipe bans will be introduced this week on the Isle of Wight and in parts of Hampshire.
Meanwhile, customers who have recently had water meters installed — supposedly a cost-saving device — have received shocking estimates for their predicted water use, with some complaining of bills that are set to double in the next six months.
This is because of how water costs are calculated; if you have more or the same number of bedrooms as people who live in your home, a meter could save you money, as you’ll be using less water than your utility company expects.
But for larger households, a meter could cost far more — leaving some customers with spiralling bills when the cost of living is already alarmingly high.
So, with all this talk of the precious commodity, how much water does the average person use in a day? From that nightly garden sprinkler to enjoying a power shower, many of us are washing unnecessary gallons down the sink without a second thought.
Water, water everywhere . . . but not a drop falling from the sky. The recent record-breaking heatwave, combined with a lack of rainfall in many parts of the UK, has put us on the cusp of a national drought
According to Thames Water, a family of four typically uses 480 litres of water a day — equivalent to three full bathtubs — while a more efficient daily usage for four people is 320 litres. Water costs vary, depending on where you live, averaging approximately 0.15p per litre.
With this in mind, SARAH RAINEY monitored her family of four’s usage in an average day — only to find, to her horror, that despite measuring out water for a cup of coffee and stopwatch-timing her shower, they got through more than 800 litres — the same as four six-ton elephants drink in a day…
MY HOUSEHOLD’S USAGE, DRIP BY DRIP...
7am: Like most people, the first thing I do each morning is use the loo. If you have a modern cistern, like me, each flush uses five litres of water.
If you’ve got an older toilet (made before 1992), this rises to nine litres because their flush valve and internal water release mechanisms are less efficient. Next, I wash my hands and face in the sink. A running tap wastes six litres of water a minute, so my 30-second splash uses three litres.
Total: 8 litres (1.2p)
7.30am: Time for a quick shower — something of a luxury since my two sons, aged 11 months and three, arrived. I wash and shampoo and condition my hair in six minutes (two minutes less than the national average, apparently).
This may sound efficient, but not all showers are equal. Mine, a power shower (with an internal pump for boosting flow) uses 13 litres of water per minute, while a mixer shower (which combines water from the hot and cold supply, but has no pump) uses just eight litres per minute.
The most water-efficient is an electric shower, which heats up using electricity — rather than your boiler — and spouts instant hot water: it uses just five litres per minute. The downside? Higher energy bills, with electricity often pricier than gas.
The type of shower head you have may also make a difference. Mine is a large, rainfall-style fitting, which sounds wasteful but actually uses exactly the same amount as a traditional shower head, because it aerates the flow of liquid, spreads it out over a bigger surface area and comes out slightly slower.
Total: 78 litres (11.7p)
8am: I fill the kettle for my morning coffee. Wary of wasting water, I usually fill it halfway (to the one-litre mark) and use leftover water for top-ups.
Breakfast dishes go in the dishwasher (to be switched on later). I wash the kids’ plastic crockery and cutlery by hand. Running the tap to wash dishes can waste as much as 30 litres of water, so I fill the basin (eight litres) instead.
Total: 9 litres (1.35p)
9am: With a baby and a toddler in the house, there’s a never-ending cycle of laundry. I empty the boys’ laundry baskets and put on a full load of whites using the ‘Easy Care’ setting on my Bosch machine — a programme which takes 60 minutes, can hold 4kg of clothes and washes at 40c. This uses 50 litres of water.
If I used the ‘Eco’ setting, this falls to 30 litres — but it takes more than three hours and I just don’t have the time.
Water usage in washing machines varies from six to 14 litres per kilogram. The most efficient are ‘front load’ machines (LG makes several), which wash clothes by repeatedly picking them up and dropping them into the water, unlike ‘top load’ machines (like mine), which wash by flooding the clothes with water and letting them float around.
Experts met last week to discuss how to deal with the very dry conditions, and hosepipe bans will be introduced this week on the Isle of Wight and in parts of Hampshire
Total: 50 litres (7.5p)
10am: I use the loo again and wash my hands; another eight litres. Health experts recommend washing for at least 20 seconds under the tap (I do 30, just to be sure) at least six times a day.
Total: 8 litres (1.2p)
10.30am: Time for tea: I boil the kettle and make a much-needed cuppa for myself and husband.
Total: 1 litre (0.15p)
Noon: Lunchtime. I boil some eggs for the children’s lunch: one litre of water. It’s more efficient to boil water in the kettle first, then pour it into the saucepan. This is because the kettle is a closed system, so the water doesn’t evaporate as it boils.
I do the washing up in the sink (another eight litres), use the toilet (five litres) and wash my hands (three litres).
Total: 17 litres (2.55p)
2pm: It’s another scorching day, so I fill the paddling pool for the boys to cool down in. Our inflatable pool is 1.5m in diameter and has a capacity of 350 litres, which seems huge.
Last month, water companies urged people not to use paddling pools too often, reminding owners that the water can be used afterwards for flowerbeds — or the pool can be covered overnight and the water re-used the following day. I use the hose to fill it to a safe level around two-thirds full.
Total: 233 litres (34.95p)
2.30pm: We’re all soaking wet and the boys are covered in grass. I fill two basins with warm water in the sink and dunk them both for a quick top-to-toe wash.
Total: 16 litres (2.4p)
3pm: The house needs a rigorous clean. Rather than running the hot tap continuously, I use two eight-litre buckets of water to mop the kitchen floor and another for scrubbing the kitchen surfaces, windowsills and bathrooms. In each case, I keep an empty bucket beside the one filled with warm, soapy water; this means I have a ‘dirty’ bucket to wring out my used cloths before soaking them again.
So, with all this talk of the precious commodity, how much water does the average person use in a day? From that nightly garden sprinkler to enjoying a power shower, many of us are washing unnecessary gallons down the sink without a second thought
Total: 24 litres (3.6p)
4pm: The plants, like the rest of us, need a drink. I make a three-litre jug of orange squash for everyone and then turn my attention to the thirsty garden.
A standard garden hose spews out 15 litres of water a minute. Our garden is edged with flowerbeds, so it takes 15 minutes to get round them. Watering with a hosepipe would use 225 litres of water. Instead, I use my ten-litre watering can, filling it five times.
Total: 53 litres (7.95p)
4.30pm: I use the lavatory and wash my hands.
Total: 8 litres (1.2p)
5pm: Dinner time for the boys, and I boil one litre of water to cook some pasta. Once again, I hand-wash their dishes in the sink.
Total: 9 litres (1.35p)
5.30pm: My husband decides to wash the car and I can’t blame him — the windscreen is thick with grime. We opt for a bucket wash over the hose; the latter uses a whopping 250 litres of water, but a hand-wash uses just 30 litres. Both methods are better than taking your car to a professional: tunnel-style car-wash machines can use up to 380 litres of water per car.
Total: 30 litres (4.5p)
6pm: Bath time for the boys. A bath may seem worse for water wastage than a shower, but this isn’t the case: an average bath uses 80 litres (since most people don’t fill it more than half full), only two litres more than my six-minute shower. For children, the water level is much lower — around half this amount.
Total: 40 litres (6p)
7pm: Cooking dinner for myself and my husband requires two litres of water: one to boil some potatoes and one for cooking vegetables on the gas hob. I wash the pans and utensils by hand in the sink: that’s another eight litres down the drain.
Total: 10 litres (1.5p)
With this in mind, SARAH RAINEY monitored her family of four’s usage in an average day — only to find, to her horror, that despite measuring out water for a cup of coffee and stopwatch-timing her shower, they got through more than 800 litres — the same as four six-ton elephants drink in a day…
8pm: The dishwasher is full and ready to switch on. Mine is a newly installed Bosch machine, which has ‘Eco’ (50c), ‘Normal’ (65c) and ‘Intensive’ (70c) modes.
The Eco setting is both more energy-efficient and saves around four litres of water per wash, since it heats the water to a lower temperature and soaks the dishes in it for longer, so less liquid is needed to get them clean.
However, I’ve got a couple of really greasy dishes, so I stick to the Normal mode — this uses 14 litres of water.
Total: 14 litres (2.1p)
8.30pm: A neighbour pops in for a cuppa. I fill the kettle to maximum for a big pot of tea.
Total: 2 litres (0.3p)
10pm: Time for bed. I use the loo (five litres), wash my hands and face (running the tap for 30 seconds uses three litres) and brush my teeth (one minute equates to six litres).
Total: 14 litres (2.1p)
Extra splashes: My husband and elder son using the loo and washing their hands about eight times a day adds up to 64 litres.
Drinking water: the NHS recommends six to eight cups (around two litres) a day for adults and four cups for children, so that’s six litres between us.
Water companies say around 113 litres of water per property are lost through leaks — such as dripping taps and loos — every day.
Total: 183 litres (27.45p)
OUR DAILY TOTAL: 807 litres (£1.21)
CONCLUSION
I’m shocked we’ve used almost double the recommended amount for a family.
If we kept this up for a month, that’s 25,017 litres — costing us £37.53. Given how careful we already are, it’s a cautionary reminder not to waste a drop. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11070753/The-water-diary-revealed-family-uses-800-litres-normal-day.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-01T23:05:57Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11070753/The-water-diary-revealed-family-uses-800-litres-normal-day.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Much cooler weather will arrive for Tuesday afternoon as temperatures only rise to near 90 with lots of clouds at times and even the chance for a few showers or storms. The breeze could get gusty in the afternoon.
On Wednesday and Thursday, the sunshine will be back and temperatures in the valley will rise to the mid to upper-90s.
Another dip to the low to mid-90s for Friday then hotter over the weekend with temperatures rising to near 100 by Sunday. | https://www.kivitv.com/weather/the-break-in-the-heat-will-finally-arrive-on-tuesday | 2022-08-01T23:07:28Z | https://www.kivitv.com/weather/the-break-in-the-heat-will-finally-arrive-on-tuesday | false |
Are we losing our appetite for sandwiches? Soaring price of ingredients for fillings takes a bite out of our beloved lunchtime snack
- Shops and takeaways are seeing a sharp rise in the costs for sandwich fillings
- Shortages of eggs and vegetable oil led to 80 per cent spike in mayonnaise cost
- Working from home, changing tastes and staff shortages 'have led to sales drop'
- Brexit has led to a sharp fall in the availability of cheaper workers from the EU
The great British sarnie is facing an unprecedented cost-of-filling crisis.
As well as soaring prices for ingredients, the sandwich is also under threat from working from home, changing tastes and staff shortages at manufacturers.
Makers have been forced to slash the number of their products, raise prices and offer £1,200 ‘golden hello’ bonuses as they scramble to find anyone left in Britain who wants to make a BLT.
Shortages of egg and vegetable oil have seen an 80 per cent price rise in the cost of mayonnaise, while cheese could hit £8 per kilogram by the end of the year.
Details of the crisis have been revealed by bosses at Raynor Foods, in Essex, which makes 80,000 sandwiches a day for cafes, supermarkets, canteens and hospitals. The rise of home working appears to have led to a permanent fall in office worker numbers, with the result sandwich sales are around 20 per cent down on pre-pandemic levels.
The great British sarnie is facing an unprecedented cost-of-filling crisis.
Brexit has led to a sharp fall in the availability of cheaper workers from the EU, both at the sandwich makers and the takeaway chains such as Pret a Manger and Greggs.
Both made redundancies or furloughed workers during the lockdowns and now Pret has been forced to raise wages twice since September. Director of the British Sandwich Association, Jim Winship, said shortages of ingredients caused by supply chain disruption are forcing manufacturers to streamline their ranges.
One supplier, Greencore, cut its number of products by a quarter after the onset of Covid-19 and it remains about a fifth below pre-pandemic levels. Rival Simply Lunch cut its offering from 150 items to 100.
Raynor chairman Matt Raynor said: ‘I’m concerned for the whole industry.’ Adding that one recruitment drive saw four out of 17 new workers drop out within two days, he told the Financial Times: ‘We are asking people to do a physical job in a cold room without windows, for long periods.’
Tim Lang, emeritus professor of food policy at City University, questioned the future of the ready-made sandwich industry, saying: ‘You’ve got a plastic-wrapped sandwich made overnight in a factory up the A1 and driven down in cold store, oil-guzzling trucks to deliver to put in a BP M&S garage. Is it sensible? It’s bonkers.’
Popularity of sandwiches is also being hit by the fact that workers are more inclined to make a packed lunch than previously and many want to eat more exotic lunches using delivery apps. Julie Ennis, of caterer Sodexo, told the FT: ‘People aren’t coming into the office for a ham sandwich.’ | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11070801/Soaring-price-ingredients-fillings-takes-bite-beloved-lunchtime-snack.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-08-01T23:09:00Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11070801/Soaring-price-ingredients-fillings-takes-bite-beloved-lunchtime-snack.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | false |
Gun-toting Capitol rioter Guy Reffitt gets 87 months in prison
WASHINGTON - A Texas man convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun helmet and body armor was sentenced on Monday to 87 months — more than seven years — in prison, the longest sentence imposed so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases.
Prosecutors said Guy Reffitt told fellow members of the Texas Three Percenters militia group that he planned to drag House Speaker Nancy Pelosi out of the Capitol building by her ankles, "with her head hitting every step on the way down," according to a court filing.
Reffitt was the first person to go on trial for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, in which supporters of then-President Donald Trump halted the joint session of Congress for certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, who presided over Reffitt’s jury trial, also sentenced him to three years of supervised release after his prison term and ordered him to pay $2,000 in restitution.
Justice Department prosecutors recommended a 15-year prison sentence for Reffitt, who already has been jailed for approximately 19 months. They said he was a militia group member who intended to drag lawmakers out of the building and take over Congress to stop the certification of the Electoral College vote.
Sentencing guidelines calculated by the court’s probation department called for a sentence ranging from nine years to 11 years and three months. Prosecutors argued that an "upward departure for terrorism" was warranted in Reffitt’s case.
READ MORE: Jan. 6 rioter apologizes to officers following House testimony
The longest sentence before Reffitt’s was five years and three months, for two men who pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers at the Capitol.
Defense attorney Clinton Broden asked for Reffitt to be sentenced to no more than two years in prison. Broden noted that Reffitt didn’t assault any law enforcement officers or enter the Capitol building.
Videos captured the confrontation between outnumbered Capitol police officers and a mob of people, including Reffitt, who approached them on the west side of the Capitol.
Reffitt was armed with a Smith & Wesson pistol in a holster on his waist, carrying zip-tie handcuffs and wearing body armor and a helmet equipped with a video camera when he advanced on the officers, according to prosecutors. He retreated after an officer pepper sprayed him in the face, but he waved on other rioters who ultimately breached the building, prosecutors said.
Reffitt didn’t testify at his trial before jurors convicted him in March of all five counts in his indictment. The jury found him guilty of obstructing Congress’ joint session, of interfering with police officers outside the Capitol and of threatening his two teenage children if they reported him to law enforcement.
Reffitt’s 19-year-old son, Jackson, testified that his father told him and his sister, then 16, that they would be traitors if they reported him to authorities and warned them that "traitors get shot."
Guy Reffitt was a member of the Texas Three Percenters militia group, according to prosecutors. The Three Percenters movement refers to the myth that only 3% of Americans fought in the Revolutionary War against the British.
RELATED: Capitol rioter Scott Fairlamb sentenced to 41 months for assaulting police officer
Reffitt lived with his wife and children in Wylie, Texas, a Dallas suburb. He drove to Washington, D.C., with Rocky Hardie, a fellow member of the militia group.
Hardie testified that both of them were armed with holstered handguns when they attended Trump’s "Stop the Steal" rally before the riot. Hardie also said Reffitt gave him two pairs of zip-tie cuffs in case they needed to detain anybody.
More than 840 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the riot. Over 340 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors. More than 220 have been sentenced, with nearly half of them receiving terms of imprisonment. Approximately 150 others have trial dates stretching into 2023.
Reffitt is one of seven Capitol riot defendants to get a jury trial so far. Jurors have unanimously convicted all seven of them on all counts in their respective indictments.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report. | https://www.fox13news.com/news/gun-toting-capitol-rioter-guy-reffitt-gets-87-months-in-prison | 2022-08-01T23:09:54Z | https://www.fox13news.com/news/gun-toting-capitol-rioter-guy-reffitt-gets-87-months-in-prison | false |
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Carbon-capturing ants at risk from invasive plant | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cr0me11d2jkt | 2022-08-01T23:14:17Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cr0me11d2jkt | true |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Another round of rainstorms hit flooded Kentucky mountain communities Monday as more bodies emerged from the sodden landscape, and the governor warned that high winds could bring another threat — falling trees and utility poles.
Gov. Andy Beshear said the death toll rose to 37 while hundreds of people remained unaccounted for five days after one of the nation’s poorest regions was swamped by nearly a foot of rain. The water poured down hillsides and into valleys and hollows, engulfing entire towns. Mudslides marooned some people on steep slopes.
Beshear suggested many of the unaccounted for would be located when cellphone service resumes.
“When cell service gets back up, we do see a whole lot of people finding people they love and care about, so looking forward to those stories,” he said.
Radar indicated that up to 4 more inches (10.2 centimeters) of rain fell Sunday, and the National Weather Service warned that slow-moving showers and thunderstorms could provoke more flash flooding through Tuesday morning.
“If things weren’t hard enough on the people of this region, they’re getting rain right now,” Beshear said Monday at the Capitol in Frankfort. “Just as concerning is high winds — think about how saturated the ground has been.” The wind “could knock over poles, it could knock over trees. So people need to be careful.”
An approaching heat wave means “it’s even going to get tougher when the rain stops,” the governor said. “We need to make sure people are ultimately stable by that point.”
Chris Campbell, president of Letcher Funeral Home in Whitesburg, said he’s begun handling burial arrangements for people who died.
“These people, we know most of them. We’re a small community,” he said of the town about 110 miles (177 kilometers) southeast of Lexington. “It affects everybody.”
His funeral home recently buried a 67-year-old woman who had a heart attack while trying to escape her home as the water rose. Campbell knew her boyfriend well, he said.
On Monday, he met with the family of a husband and wife in their 70s, people he also knew personally. He said it’s hard to explain the magnitude of the loss.
“I don’t know how to explain it or what to say, to be completely honest,” he said. “I just can’t imagine what they’re going through. I don’t think there really are words for it.”
Campbell said his 90-year-old grandmother lost the entire home where she’s lived since 1958. She managed to escape to a neighbor’s house with only some photos. Everything else is gone, he said.
More than 12,000 utility customers remained without power. At least 300 people were staying in shelters.
The floods were unleashed last week when 8 to 10 1/2 inches (20 to 27 centimeters) of rain fell in just 48 hours in parts of eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia and western Virginia.
The disaster was the latest in a string of catastrophic deluges that have pounded parts of the U.S. this summer, including St. Louis. Scientists warn that climate change is making such events more common.
Meanwhile, nighttime curfews were declared in response to reports of looting in two of the devastated communities — Breathitt County and the nearby city of Hindman in Knott County.
Breathitt County declared a countywide curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. The only exceptions were for emergency vehicles, first responders, and people traveling for work.
“I hate to have to impose a curfew, but looting will absolutely not be tolerated. Our friends and neighbors have lost so much. We cannot stand by and allow them to lose what they have left,” County Attorney Brendon Miller said in a Facebook post.
Breathitt County Sheriff John Hollan said the curfew decision came after 18 reports of looting. He said people were stealing from private property where homes were damaged. No arrest have been made.
Hindman Mayor Tracy Neice also announced a sunset-to-sunrise curfew because of looting, television station WYMT reported. Both curfews will remain in place until further notice, officials said.
Last week’s flooding extended to parts of West Virginia and Virginia. President Joe Biden declared a federal disaster to direct relief money to flooded counties, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency was helping. Another relief effort came from the University of Kentucky’s men basketball team, which planned an open practice Tuesday at Rupp Arena and a charity telethon.
Coach John Calipari said players approached him about the idea.
“The team and I are looking forward to doing what we can,” Calipari said.
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Associated Press writers Dylan Lovan in Louisville, Kentucky; Gary B. Graves in Lexington, Kentucky; Mike Pesoli airborne with the National Guard; Leah Willingham in Charleston, West Virginia; and Julie Walker in New York City contributed to this report. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/more-rain-in-flooded-areas-curfews-imposed-due-to-looting/ | 2022-08-01T23:20:56Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/more-rain-in-flooded-areas-curfews-imposed-due-to-looting/ | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris called climate change an “immediate” and “urgent” crisis Monday as she detailed more than $1 billion in federal spending to respond to disasters such as deadly flooding in Kentucky and wildfires ravaging her home state of California.
On a visit to Miami, Harris announced a series of grants being made available to states to help communities across the nation prepare for and respond to climate-related disasters.
Touring the National Hurricane Center before the grant announcement, Harris said disasters such as the Kentucky floods and California wildfiresshow “how immediate, how current and how urgent” it is to address extreme weather being experienced in the United States and around the world.
“Climate change has become a climate crisis, and a threat has now become a reality,” she said in a speech at Florida International University.
Harris cited deadly floods that have swept through Kentucky and Missouri, “washing away entire neighborhoods,” leaving at least 35 dead, including children. At least two people were killed in a wildfire in Northern California that was among several fires menacing thousands of homes in the western U.S. Hot and gusty weather and lightning storms threatened to boost the danger that the fires will keep growing,
“The devastation is real. The harm is real. The impact is real,” Harris said. “And we are witnessing it in real time.”
In 2021, the United States experienced 20 climate-related disasters that each caused over $1 billion in damage, Harris said, citing a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. There were about six such disasters per year in the 1990s.
“The frequency has accelerated in a relatively short period of time,” Harris said. “The science is clear. Extreme weather will only get worse, and the climate crisis will only accelerate.”
The White House is leading a government-wide response to climate disasters that “recognizes the urgency of this moment and our ability to do something about it,” Harris said, adding that leaders such as herself and President Joe Biden ”have a duty to act, not only after disaster strikes, but before disaster strikes, and that is why we are here today.”
The billion-dollar grant program announced by Harris doubles spending from last year on programs to defend against extreme weather events across the country. Biden announced last month that the administration will double spending yet again in the budget year that begins in October, spending $2.3 billion to help communities cope with soaring temperatures through programs administered by FEMA, the Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies.
The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, or BRIC, program, supports states, local communities, tribes and territories on projects to reduce climate-related hazards and prepare for natural disasters such as floods and wildfires. The program is funded through FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund and the bipartisan infrastructure law signed by Biden last year.
“Communities across our nation are experiencing first-hand the devastating impacts of the climate change and the related extreme weather events that follow — more energized hurricanes with deadlier storm surges, increased flooding and a wildfire season that’s become a year-long threat,” said FEMA head Deanne Criswell.
A total of $1 billion will be made available through the BRIC program, with another $160 million to be offered for flood mitigation assistance, she said.
Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber said his city has elevated 11 miles of roads, installed 46 stormwater public pumps and retrofitted parks to include water-storing cisterns. The South Florida Water Management District in Miami-Dade County received $50 million for flood mitigation and pump station repairs to protect low-lying neighborhoods from sea-level rise and storm surge.
“My city doesn’t debate whether the climate is changing, we simply look at the ground on a sunny day and see flooding,” Gelber said.
Jacksonville, Florida also received money under the BRIC program, winning $23 million for flood mitigation and stormwater infrastructure. Jacksonville, Florida’s largest city, sits in a humid, subtropical region along the St. Johns River and Atlantic Ocean, making it vulnerable to flooding when stormwater basins reach capacity.
Kern County, California received nearly $40 million for underground water storage to allow access to clean water during droughts, while Austin, Texas received money to begin upgrading its power grid “so that homes and businesses and houses of worship can keep on the electricity during summer and winter storms,” Harris said.
The grant program is among a series of Biden administration actions intended to reduce heat-related illness and protect public health, including a proposed workplace heat standard. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/political-news/harris-to-announce-1b-to-states-for-floods-extreme-heat/ | 2022-08-01T23:21:59Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/political-news/harris-to-announce-1b-to-states-for-floods-extreme-heat/ | true |
NEW YORK (PIX11) — Some livery car owners and operators of local bases say their sector of the industry has been hurt by a Taxi and Limousine Commission policy.
Many of them serve neighborhoods in the outer boroughs that have more limited transit options.
In 2008, the previous administration created a cap, or a pause, for any new for-hire-vehicle licenses. It was in response to congestion and the number of vehicles on the roads affiliated with the ride hail apps.
The Livery Base Owners Association was joined by livery car owners at a rally on the steps of City Hall on Monday. The livery car owners must work through a base to connect with a TLC license for the vehicle.
“TLC is currently considering whether to issue any new licenses to for-hire vehicles in addition to wheelchair accessible vehicles, which are already exempt from the license pause. We are taking the concerns of all stakeholders into account, including drivers, passengers, and base owners,” wrote a spokesperson from the TLC.
The commission is set to review the policy again in August. The TLC reviews the cap twice a year. That is part of the original policy. It has always allowed new licenses for accessible cars that can also transport people with wheelchairs. The drivers say due to the cap, new small business owners who have the cars cannot start driving, nor can they replace those who have gone out of business.
Raul Rivera founded a group called NYC Drivers Unite. He’s calling for reform of the TLC. | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/livery-car-owners-rally-to-change-cap-on-for-hire-vehicle-licenses/ | 2022-08-01T23:23:14Z | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/livery-car-owners-rally-to-change-cap-on-for-hire-vehicle-licenses/ | false |
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Staff at Louisiana’s abortion clinics spent Monday calling patients to cancel procedures and direct them to resources in other states as Louisiana’s near total abortion ban is once-again in effect.
For weeks, access to abortion in Louisiana has been flickering — with the state’s three clinics relying on rulings and temporary restraining orders, that allowed them to continue operations. But procedures came to a screeching halt Friday afternoon after an appeals court ruled that Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry can enforce the ban while ongoing legal challenges play out in court.
“Once again, politics has superseded medical expertise and commonsense,” Amy Irvin, a spokeswoman for abortion clinics in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, said Monday. “We remain hopeful that the Court will ultimately act with compassion and empathy on behalf of women seeking abortion in Louisiana.”
Staff at the clinics in southern Louisiana were working to notify 120 patients, scheduled for appointments this week, about the ban being enforced once again. Not only are patients being directed to clinics outside of the state, but Irvin said the clinics also are looking to relocate to a state “that respects and values women’s bodily autonomy.”
Additionally, staff at Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport — which is at the center of the legal challenge — are still providing help.
“We are not providing abortions, but we are not closed,” Kathaleen Pittman, director of the northern Louisiana clinic, said Monday. “We are manning the phones and trying to help people navigate care as best we can within the limits of the law as we consider our options.”
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month to end constitutional protections for abortion, Louisiana’s ban has taken effect and been blocked multiple times. Since then, 249 abortions have been reported to the Louisiana Department of Health, according to data released last week.
On July 21, state Judge Donald Johnson issued a preliminary injunction that allowed clinics to continue providing abortions while a lawsuit over the ban continued. However, just eight days later, Landry took the fight to enforce the ban to a state appeals court – which ruled in his favor.
The ban went into effect later that same day, the third time the ban has gone into effect. It does not have exceptions for rape or incest.
Joanna Wright, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said it was “disappointing” that the First Circuit ruled without first allowing plaintiffs an opportunity to file opposition to the motion. She said the court “essentially eliminated critical health care services in the state.”
While the plaintiffs don’t deny the state can now ban abortion, they argue that the law’s provisions are contradictory and unconstitutionally vague. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/louisiana-abortion-ban-reinstated-clinics-halt-procedures/ | 2022-08-01T23:23:47Z | https://who13.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/louisiana-abortion-ban-reinstated-clinics-halt-procedures/ | true |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Frank continued weakening Monday well off Mexico’s Pacific coast after reaching hurricane strength over the weekend.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Frank’s maximum sustained winds had slowed to 50 mph (85 kph) by midafternoon. It was moving northwest at 12 mph (19 kph). It was located 860 miles (1,380 kilometers) west of the southern tip of Baja California and posed no threat to land.
Frank is forecast to continue weakening in the coming days. | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/tropical-storm-frank-weakening-off-mexicos-pacific-coast/ | 2022-08-01T23:25:18Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/tropical-storm-frank-weakening-off-mexicos-pacific-coast/ | false |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — There was no masking Richard Childress’ anger when he learned star driver Tyler Reddick was leaving his race team. Reddick’s current contract runs through 2023 and he told his boss he was moving on when it expires only 10 days after scoring his first career Cup Series win.
Childress was livid in his initial response, saying the “timing of this announcement could not be any worse,” and his grandson, Reddick’s teammate Austin Dillon, was equally unimpressed.
“For all the hard work and effort that your guys put in for you, it can affect you going into the playoffs, even though you say it’s not going to,” Dillon said.
Turns out it isn’t affecting Reddick, who picked up his second win in five races on Sunday with a victory on the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. And it isn’t hurting the No. 8 team, partly because Childress took a day to calm down, regroup, and deliver a message to the organization.
“After they made their announcement, I thought about it a lot that night, gave it a lot of thought, and it’s more than just about one person. It’s about a team,” Childress said. “Stayed up most of the night thinking about what I should do, how I wanted to handle it. I went in the next day and told the whole team ‘it wasn’t a perfect circumstance the way it went down, but we’re going to give it everything we’ve got this year, and we’ll see where we go next year.’ ”
Make no mistake, though: Childress was adamant Reddick — a driver he’s referred to as “the next Cale Yarborough” — will fulfill his contract and drive his car next season.
But for now? Well, any hurt feelings have been pushed aside as Reddick helps RCR contend for the Cup title. His win at Indy made him the first RCR driver since Kevin Harvick in 2013 to win multiple races in a season, and multiple victories for RCR in a season for the first time since 2017.
Crew chief Randall Burnett said the key to finding success in a strained situation was understanding Reddick’s decision is “a business deal.”
“We’ve still got a lot of racing left to do with Tyler, and that’s what I told our guys. We’re all professionals. We’ve seen drivers come and go and things move around, and that’s just part of our sport,” Burnett said. “We’ve talked about it as a group, and Richard sat in on some of them and talked with all of us about it.
“The biggest thing we can do is go out and do what we did (at Indy) and that’s put fast cars underneath Tyler and try to win races and show everybody what this team is made of.”
Reddick’s second victory solidly locks him into the playoff field for the second time in his three Cup seasons. The two-time Xfinity Series champion said nothing has changed for him since telling RCR he was going to drive for Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan at 23XI Racing in 2024.
“My commitment level, if anything, probably is a little bit higher,” Reddick said. “I just know that we’ve had time to continue to work on our cars and make them better and grow as a team and go in the right direction, and now it’s like, all right, we have a hard stop. This is the end of the road that we have together.
“For me that puts, I think, a good amount of pressure on me to just keep finding more.”
RCR hasn’t won a championship since 1994 with Dale Earnhardt, who won all six of Childress’ Cup titles. But the team owner pointed out that RCR nearly won the title in 2013, Harvick’s final season before Harvick moved to Stewart-Haas Racing.
Harvick won four races that year and finished third in the final standings.
But RCR hasn’t been nearly as competitive since Harvick left. Reddick has been a critical piece in the long rebuild and now he’s leaving, too, but Childress seems determined not to allow the organization to slip.
“It’s great to be back competitive again. The doors have been open, the lights have been on, but we haven’t been competitive,” Childress said. “It feels great to come to a racetrack and know you’re going to be one of the teams that’s going to be racing for the win.”
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Washington (AFP) – The Russian economy has been deeply damaged by sanctions and the exit of international business since the country invaded Ukraine, according to a new report by Yale University business experts and economists.
Even though Moscow has been able to pull in billions of dollars from continued energy sales at elevated prices, largely unpublished data shows that much of its domestic economic activity has stalled since the February 24 invasion, according to the report released in late July.
"The findings of our comprehensive economic analysis of Russia are powerful and indisputable: Not only have sanctions and the business retreat worked, they have thoroughly crippled the Russian economy at every level," said the report from the Yale School of Management.
"Russian domestic production has come to a complete standstill with no capacity to replace lost businesses, products and talent," the 118-page report said.
The report was produced by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, president of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, and other members of the institute, a mix of economists and business management experts.
With Moscow having halted or pared the release of official economic statistics, including crucial trade figures, Sonnenfeld's group tapped into data held by companies, banks, consultants, Russian trading partners and others to build a picture of Russian economic performance.
They also said they obtained unreleased data from experts on the Russian economy, and data in other languages which supported their conclusions.
Even if Russia is able to earn more foreign exchange on gas and oil exports, that has not offset the impact of Western sanctions.
And, they argue, the country's dependence on Europe to buy 83 percent of its energy exports leaves it under a greater medium-term threat.
"Russia is far more dependent on Europe than Europe is on Russia," they said.
Car industry crashes
Russia largely survived Western economic sanctions after Moscow's 2014 seizure of the Ukraine region of Crimea.
President Vladimir Putin pushed a program of replacing some imports with domestic products and built up a cushion of financial reserves.
But the country's industry remained heavily driven by foreign capital investment and the import of higher-tech inputs that Russia had not mastered, like semiconductors.
The barrage of deeper sanctions after the invasion took aim at both of those vulnerabilities, the report said.
Some 1,000 foreign companies halted their activities in the country, potentially impacting up to five million jobs, according to the report.
Industrial output plunged, and Russian retail sales and consumer spending have fallen at an annual rate of 15-20 percent.
Imports have plunged across the board, the report said; crucial imports from China fell by more than half.
A key example of Russian problems, according to the report, is the automobile sector.
Car sales went from 100,000 a month to 27,000 a month, and output has stalled due to a lack of parts and machinery.
Without access to imported components, Russian producers are putting out cars without airbags or modern anti-lock brakes, and only with manual transmissions.
Threat to gas revenues
The report challenged the belief that the Russian economy was surviving thanks to the tens of billions of dollars the country reaps each month from oil and gas exports.
Last week the IMF said the Russian economy, though contracting, was doing better than expected due to its energy and commodity export income.
The Yale report said data indicates energy revenues have been falling for the last three months.
If Western Europe succeeds in cutting itself off from Russian natural gas, Moscow faces an "unsolvable" situation with a lack of a market for its output, according to the report.
"Any decrease in oil and gas revenues or oil and gas export volumes would immediately put a strain on the Kremlin's budget," it said.
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LAKELAND, Fla., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Southern College broke ground today for the Adams Athletic Performance Center, the newest building to be constructed on campus. Named for Trustee Robert J. Adams and his wife, Ginny, of Lakeland, Fla., the Center will be crucial in recruiting and retaining talented student-athletes.
Designed to provide approximately 16,000 square feet of additional space for the College's NCAA Division II athletic programs, this facility will impact over 550 student-athletes on campus.
The Adams Athletic Performance Center will provide a 5,000 square foot varsity weight room, a 40 person theatre for film review, a conference room that overlooks Lake Hollingsworth, as well as an academic center. The facility will also include office suites for women's and men's basketball, as well as women's and men's lacrosse, while also providing a state-of-the-art women's lacrosse locker room.
"Bob and Ginny Adams have taken a leadership role with their transformational gift to the College to support our athletic programs" said Anne B. Kerr, president of FSC. "Together with their son, Joel, and his wife Kelly, we can now better support our student-athletes as they work towards their next national championship. FSC has 30 national championships and is excited about continuing our scholar-athlete winning tradition."
This unique space has been designed by architect and Frank Lloyd Wright scholar M. Jeffrey Baker of the firm Mesick Cohen Wilson Baker of Albany, N.Y. Mr. Baker has been the lead architect for the College's restorations of Wright's historic structures. His original designs for the FSC campus include the Sharon and Jim France Admissions Center (2018) and Carole and Marcus Weinstein Computer Sciences Center (2021).
Rodda Construction of Lakeland will build the new Adams Athletic Performance Center and the College anticipates opening the space in the spring of 2024.
"There is such intense competition not only to attract athletes, but to keep them here," said Bob Adams, shortly after the groundbreaking ceremony. "I am confident that this project will be huge jewel in the future of Florida Southern athletics."
As a Trustee of the College, Bob Adams has served on and chaired various committees, including the intercollegiate athletics committee. He was inducted into the Florida Southern College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011, and has been unwavering in his support. Together with his son Joel '93, a Distinguished Alumnus of FSC, they founded Highland Homes in 1996, with a foundation of quality, excellence, while delivering the most satisfying home buying experience on earth.
The Moccasins already boast one of the top NCAA Division II athletic programs in the nation, capturing 30 NCAA team national championships, and 27 individual national championships. In all, FSC student-athletes have earned All-America status 1,038 times, and Academic All-America honors 92 times.
Founded in 1883, Florida Southern College is the oldest private college in the state. The College maintains its commitment to academic excellence through 70+ undergraduate programs and distinctive graduate programs in business administration, education, nursing, and physical therapy. Florida Southern has a 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio, is an award-winning national leader in engaged learning, and boasts 30 NCAA Division II National Championships. Florida Southern is ranked at #8 among the "Best Regional Universities in the South" by U.S. News & World Report in its 2022 "Best Colleges" guide and is included in The Princeton Review's 2022 Best 387 Colleges guide and the "Fiske Guide to Colleges 2022." The 2021-2022 Colleges of Distinction guidebook praises Florida Southern's AACSB accredited Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise alongside the College's School of Education and its Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Poets&Quants, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, and The Princeton Review further laud the Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise and the Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences as foremost programs in the nation for business and nursing education. Home to the world's largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, FSC has appeared on The Princeton Review's top 20 "Most Beautiful Campus" national listing for 12 consecutive years. Connect with Florida Southern College.
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Industry-leading parcel and shipping carrier, FirstMile, is purchased by founding CEO, Devin Johnson
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Devin Johnson, a leader in the eCommerce parcel and shipping industry, today announced the purchase of FirstMile. Johnson, the company's founder and CEO will continue to lead the company.
"With the purchase of FirstMile and its sister company, our clients will benefit by our reclaiming original ownership of FirstMile and continuing its growth and optimization as a domestic and international carrier" explained Devin Johnson, Chief Executive Officer and owner of FirstMile and ShipNetwork. "This acquisition is a reinvestment in our commitment to support small, medium and large eCommerce companies in today's challenging supply chain climate."
FirstMile provides a one-stop-shop for eCommerce shipping; clients have access to multiple delivery networks through one, simple interface and one-point of pick-up. Using its proprietary technology—Xparcel—FirstMile provides clients with a unique combination of best price and service for every shipped package.
The acquisition of FirstMile and ShipNetwork will help facilitate a strong partnership between two national logistics leaders that will prove invaluable for clients of both companies.
"For all of our clients, our goal remains the same: provide speedy deliveries at affordable rates to eCommerce customers," Johnson explained. "In our business, the ability to scale is extremely important, and as a result of this acquisition, the addition of this shipping volume will benefit all of our 3PL partners and eCommerce clients."
"FirstMile will gain added density and volume as a result of our expanded reach through ShipNetwork," said Johnson. "Our clients will benefit from our increased ability to reach deeper into regional and postal carrier networks. End of the day, that translates into both improved service and a reduction in costs to all our clients."
As witnessed during the recent pandemic, eCommerce businesses and the logistics firms supporting them, play critical roles in the nation's supply chain. FirstMile allows eCommerce merchants to remain focused on building a prosperous business, secure in the knowledge that clients may expect delivery of their products in a timely and cost-efficient manner.
"As national leaders in eCommerce logistics, FirstMile and ShipNetwork assume responsibility for warehousing, warehouse technology, fulfillment, and shipping expertise," Johnson said. "For our clients, both our 3PL partners and eCommerce merchants, that means their entire focus can be on ensuring their companies continue to grow and prosper."
For more information on FirstMile visit www.firstmile.com
FirstMile is an eCommerce parcel carrier providing solutions for eCommerce retailers. FirstMile's unique approach allows small, medium, and large eCommerce shippers to get the best combination of price and service across a wide network international, national, regional, local and micro delivery solutions. We do this with one API connection, one pick-up via our FirstMile-owned and operated vehicles, and one invoice. Our patented Xparcel algorithm solution drives the right label to you for each and every package, every day, across multiple networks.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --NASA Television programming on the Galaxy 13 domestic satellite is moving from transponder 11 to transponder 15 this month.
The move is in line with the Federal Communications Commission's initiative to free up C-band bandwidth on domestic satellites in support of future 5G terrestrial communications efforts. Currently, both transponders are active. Distribution of NASA TV programming on transponder 11 will end on Monday, Aug. 29. As part of that transition, the modulation format will be changed from DVB-S/QPSK to DVB-S2/8PSK, which reduces the transponder's required bandwidth.
All NASA TV channels are available on the Galaxy 13 domestic satellite. It is important all affiliates and end-users begin to transition to the new transponder to prevent the loss of NASA TV programming.
NASA Television's channels NTV-1 – the Public/Education Channel – and NTV-3 – formerly the Media Channel – are in high definition. NTV-1 provides expanded programming of events of interest to the public and to educational audiences.
NTV-3 provides mission coverage, news conferences and video/audio material relevant to local, national, and international news-gathering organizations. News networks, their reporters, and other broadcast media organizations must tune their satellite receivers to the NTV-3 to ensure reception of clean feeds for all mission coverage, news conferences, and other agency distributed news and information.
NASA's Ultra High Definition (UHD) NTV-4 channel provides select live and recorded programing in a 2160p video format.
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Whatever the case, the prospect of the third-most senior figure in U.S. government visiting the world’s only Chinese-speaking democracy has roiled Asia’s already choppy geopolitical waters. Ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, attention in Washington has also centered on the risk of war over Taiwan. China views the island as part of its sovereign territory and Chinese President Xi Jinping has cast reunification with the mainland as an inevitability, the crowning ambition of his rule.
The United States, meanwhile, has in practice shifted steadily away from its official policy of “strategic ambiguity” over whether it would come to Taiwan’s defense. President Biden and a host of lawmakers in Congress all explicitly believe the United States should help Taiwan fight off a Chinese attack. Amid growing bipartisan support for a tighter U.S. embrace of Taiwan, Pelosi’s arrival would mark the most significant visit of a U.S. official to Taiwan in a quarter-century. But in Beijing’s eyes, it’s a dangerous provocation and an infringement of its “territorial integrity.”
“We once again sternly warn the U.S. side that China stands at the ready and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army will never sit idly by,” Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, warned at a briefing Monday, adding that “China will take resolute and vigorous countermeasures.”
Experts have a rough sense of what those countermeasures may be. “The response will almost certainly include a military component, most likely with a show of force in the first instance — live fire exercises, a much greater military presence within the Taiwan Strait and … even missile tests,” tweeted Taylor Fravel, director of the Security Studies Program at MIT.
But the show of force will have to come with a demonstration of restraint.
“The goal will be to underscore resolve without sparking escalation, but the likely prominence to the military component will include the potential for miscalculation,” Fravel said. “There are also significant U.S. naval assets in the region at the moment.”
China’s state media organs have been careful in their warnings to the United States, a sign, perhaps, of Beijing’s own wariness of an unintended escalation.
“I don’t think that up to now there have been any signs that China will launch major military operations,” said Kuo Yujen, a political science professor at the National Sun Yat-sen University in southern Taiwan, to the New York Times. “If China overreacts, bringing countermeasures from the U.S. or Japan, for Xi Jinping, the losses would outweigh the gains.”
Ahead of a major Communist Party Congress later this year, and beset by myriad other problems, including lingering coronavirus lockdowns and a slowing economy, Xi and his allies may not want to rock the boat.
“There is little reason that China will want to shoot itself in the foot by initiating major military confrontation, and undermine the very stability that it craves,” Wen-Ti Sung, political scientist at Australian National University’s Taiwan Studies Program, told my colleague Karina Tsui.
.@SpeakerPelosi. Nancy, I'll go with you. I'm banned in China, but not freedom-loving Taiwan. See you there!
— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) July 24, 2022
It’s also unclear how much the United States gains with Pelosi showing up in Taiwan. Her presence will constitute a statement of support for Taiwan’s democracy and perhaps even its aspirations for formal independence, though the United States generally avoids commenting on the latter. The most enthusiastic U.S. supporters of a Pelosi visit to Taiwan include hawkish former Trump administration officials.
“A symbolic show of support by the head of U.S.’s legislative branch could give reassurance, while still retaining enough plausible deniability, and not overtly crossing Beijing’s red lines, as her decision does not represent U.S. policy,” Sung said.
But that’s not how China will interpret the occasion. White House officials, including Biden himself, suggested to reporters they would rather Pelosi not visit, given the delicacy of the moment. Taiwan was at the heart of a testy phone call between Biden and Xi at the end of last week.
One reading of Pelosi’s determination to stop in Taipei may be that she is wary of the optics of backing out after it emerged she may go. That, skeptics contend, is not justification enough.
“Had Pelosi not said she was going to Taiwan in the first place, no one would be suggesting she needed to go in order bolster American credibility in Asia,” left-leaning commentator Peter Beinart wrote. “The argument that she can’t back down now resembles the argument that the U.S. couldn’t leave Vietnam because the war had become a test of U.S. resolve.”
On Monday, the White House changed tune, casting a possible Pelosi visit to Taiwan as a reflection of continuing U.S. commitments to the island nation.
“There is no reason,” a National Security Council spokesman told reporters, “for Beijing to turn a potential visit consistent with long-standing U.S. policy into some sort of crisis.”
Yet analysts on both sides see a crisis on the horizon. “Each of the main players — China, Taiwan, and the United States — believe it is acting prudently to protect its interests in the face of escalatory actions from the other side of the Strait,” wrote Ryan Hass, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, in a preface to a new report on U.S.-Taiwan policy. “Officials and analysts increasingly are competing to forecast when conflict could break out, not whether it will occur.”
“The Biden administration has continued the Trump administration’s strategy of ‘using Taiwan to contain China,’ ” wrote Cao Qun, a researcher at the state-run China Institute of International Studies. “The chances of a clash between China and the United States in the Taiwan Strait are growing.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/01/stakes-pelosi-taiwan/ | 2022-08-01T23:48:48Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/01/stakes-pelosi-taiwan/ | false |
Archie Battersbee’s treatment set to be withdrawn
Life support for Archie Battersbee is expected to be switched off on Tuesday after the Court of Appeal rejected a last-minute bid to postpone the ending of his treatment.
The 12-year-old’s parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, were granted a hearing on Monday after the Government asked judges to urgently consider a request from a UN committee to keep treating Archie.
But after considering the case, judges refused to postpone the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment beyond midday on Tuesday.
They also refused to grant permission to appeal against their ruling at the Supreme Court, the UK’s highest court.
Ms Dance has indicated she and Mr Battersbee will make an application for Supreme Court justices to consider their application for permission to appeal.
Archie’s care was due to end at 2pm at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel on Monday.
It came after a High Court judge previously ruled this to be in his best interests and the family exhausted all routes of appeal.
But this was delayed due to the UN committee issuing a request to the UK Government on Friday urging it to “refrain” from taking him off life support while his case is under consideration by the committee.
However, Sir Andrew McFarlane said on Monday the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, under which the UN committee made its request, is an “unincorporated international treaty”.
Sir Andrew said: “It is not part of the law of the United Kingdom … and it is not appropriate for this court to apply an unincorporated international treaty into its decision-making process.”
He added: “Every day that (Archie) continues to be given life-sustaining treatment is contrary to his best interests and, so, a stay, even for a short time, is against his best interests.”
The judge said that was the decision that has been taken in the courts of England and Wales.
Ms Dance said after the ruling that they “continue to be shocked and traumatised by the brutality of the UK courts and the hospital trust” and vowed to “continue to fight for Archie”.
Alistair Chesser, chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS Trust, said: “Our heartfelt sympathies and condolences remain with Archie’s family at this difficult time.
“We are following the direction of the courts, so no changes will be made to Archie’s care whilst the family appeal to the Supreme Court, though we will prepare to withdraw treatment after midday unless directed otherwise.”
Archie was found unconscious at his home by his mother on April 7 and has not regained consciousness since.
She believes he was taking part in an online challenge.
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Grazier Brendan Cullen swaps outback lakes for open water with English Channel swim
By Bill OrmondeKars Station near Menindee in outback New South Wales is 12 hours west of Sydney, 500 kilometres from the nearest beach and one of the unlikeliest places to train for a swim across the English Channel.
But that didn't bother far west grazier Brendan Cullen, who completed the swim over the weekend.
Mr Cullen battled the cold water, fatigue and tough conditions to cross the channel in 17 hours.
"I think the toughest bit was when the sun went down," he said.
"I would have got it done in 14 hours, but the tide was that strong it, it was 4.5 knots."
For Mr Cullen and his family, the journey began years ago with the pandemic and border closures pushing back the swim, which was originally planned for 2021.
"I'm now an English Channel swimmer and I just can't believe it," he said.
He said the last two kilometres were the toughest.
"My shoulder was busted, my groin was screaming out, my hands were swollen … and I just thought I've got to keep moving forward."
But the feeling when his hands hit the sand of France's shores was a mixture of relief and adulation he shared with his coach.
"I stood up and walked out onto the beach and Mike [Gregory] came behind me and they blew the horn," Mr Cullen said.
"Which means the swim was complete and we probably hugged for a good two minutes.
"I must say I was bawling my eyes out then dropped to my knees and tried to reflect on what just happened."
Having battled his own demons in the past, the grazier has made it his mission to create awareness about mental health issues.
Mr Cullen raised more than $26,000 for crisis helpline and suicide prevention service Lifeline.
Broken Hill Lifeline chief executive Scott Hammond was pleased with the awareness Mr Cullen was able to generate around mental health issues.
"We were very appreciative and quite surprised," Mr Hammond said.
"He's our ambassador so he does a lot for us anyway.
"But for him to use this opportunity to create awareness just speaks volumes of the guy that we know Brendan Cullen to be."
'I've met many wonderful people'
Mr Cullen thanked his supporters, including his family, friends, support staff, employers and anyone who donated to Lifeline.
He said the whole journey has ignited a passion for being in the water.
"One thing I will keep doing is keep swimming," he said.
"Because I've met so many wonderful people both in Broken Hill … and also friends down in Victoria and the open water swimming fraternity.
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Increasing Footprint Across Five States
CHICAGO, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) plans its largest-ever service area and product expansion in 2023, increasing health care coverage options for as many as 1.1 million additional Medicare-eligible individuals in more than 150 new counties across Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
The proposed expansion, which focuses on providing access to care in rural and underserved areas, allows the company to offer Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug (MAPD) plans to 7.5 million people in more than 330 total counties across the states it serves – a more than 40% increase from 2022's record buildout.
"We're excited to follow up last year's historic expansion with an even bigger launch for 2023, building on our long-standing commitment to increase access to quality, cost-effective and equitable health care in the communities we serve," said Christine Kourouklis, HCSC's Medicare President. "We're not just expanding our geographic reach – we're also expanding our products and services to best serve the specific needs and lifestyles of the growing Medicare population."
HCSC currently insures more than 17 million Americans in five states, including seniors who enjoy coverage through its Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Many HCSC MA plans provide additional benefits beyond traditional Medicare, including dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage at a variety of price points, including options with $0 monthly premiums.
For 2023, HCSC's MA plans and benefits are designed to meet the evolving and diverse needs of Medicare members, including options intended to lower out-of-pocket costs, support affordability of prescription drugs and increase access to enhanced benefits.
"As we continue to grow our Medicare offerings, we've carefully chosen the expansion areas and product offerings to provide access to equitable, affordable and quality care to our members and potential new members," said Nathan Linsley, HCSC Senior Vice President, Government and Individual Markets. "We are committed to the Medicare population and will continue to grow and evolve our products and networks to deliver the best member experience and overall outcomes."
HCSC is supporting the MAPD county footprint with an expansion of provider networks across all five states to help members have access to specialized care when and where they want and need it.
HCSC is in the process of seeking all necessary regulatory approvals for 2023. The Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Annual Election Period starts October 15 and ends December 7, 2022. For more information, visit.medicare.gov.
Health Care Service Corporation is the country's largest customer-owned health insurer, with nearly 17.5 million members in its health plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. A Mutual Legal Reserve Company, HCSC is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
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Rapper Mystikal was jailed in Louisiana on Monday, accused of rape more than a year after prosecutors dropped charges that had kept him jailed for 18 months in another part of the state.
The 51-year-old hip-hop legend is being held without bond on 10 charges, according to the sheriff's office inmate lookup.
Attorney Joel Pearce said he believes bond will be discussed at a hearing Tuesday. Pearce said he is supposed to meet with Mystikal on Wednesday or Thursday, and will make a statement then.
Pearce represented the rapper on charges brought in 2017 accusing him of a sexual assault at a Shreveport casino in 2016. Prosecutors dropped those rape and kidnapping charges in December 2020 after new evidence was presented to a grand jury and it did not bring a new indictment.
Webre said deputies were called to a hospital just before midnight Sunday about a sexual assault and interviewed the victim, who had minor injuries.
“Through further investigation, Michael ‘Mystikal’ Tyler was identified as a suspect,” the statement said.
The new charges include first-degree rape, simple robbery, false imprisonment, simple criminal damage to property, and drug charges including possession of amphetamines. Conviction for first-degree rape carries at least a life sentence — the prosecutor can chose whether to ask for the death penalty.
Tyler pleaded guilty in 2003 to sexual battery and served six years in prison.
In April 2021, he told The Associated Press that his past put him in a “horrible fraternity,” but he was ready to move on.
Mystikal’s 2000 hit, “Shake (it Fast)” peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. His 2000 album “Let’s Get Ready” went multiplatinum.
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July is finished and in the books, and in the record books for some cases. Last month ended up as the hottest July on record for San Angelo and tied for the hottest month of all-time tying August of 2011. The streak of consecutive triple digits is now up to 29 days and now the longest such streak in history as well. That streak will likely continue into the week, with the best chances of breaking that streak heading into the weekend as those afternoon highs dip slightly, with some increased cloud coverage.
The pattern of mostly clear skies with afternoon highs in the upper 90s and lower 100s, the overnight lows slide back down into the 70s. Towards the end of the week, increased moisture from the southeast could help to increase the cloud coverage and rain chances for Saturday which might also pulls down the afternoon highs. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/weather/klst-evening-forecast-monday-august-1st/ | 2022-08-02T00:00:02Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/weather/klst-evening-forecast-monday-august-1st/ | true |
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(Our Auto Expert) — I first drove the BMW i4 in Germany just about a year ago, and I can tell you. This is the first electric car I really, really wanted to own. It was designed not to look like an electric car but to look like every other BMW. It just happened to be electric. If you weren’t quite sure because you thought electric cars were beaten with the ugly stick. This might be the electric car you should have in your driveway.
Let’s be honest. BMW has created quite a few problems with categories of cars. The i4 is not a sedan. It’s not a coupe because it doesn’t have two doors. Although some would argue that you can have a four-door coupe, and it’s not a hatch bag because it doesn’t have a parcel shelf that lifts out. However you classify this car, it is very sexy.
There are a couple of things that are a giveaway on this vehicle. That tells you that it’s an electric BMW. First of all, it doesn’t need cooling because it doesn’t have an ice engine, so the grill is sealed. Second of all, there is blue around the BMW logo. It comes with two or three different options. This vehicle ranges between 250-ish and 300 miles, depending on your configurations. Apart from that, this vehicle is pretty straightforward for ordering. The bad news is, it’s so popular you might be waiting well, over a year.
BMW thought of everything. One of the other things I like is having a driveway with multiple cars in it. I can drive into the driveway, and then, when I’m into the driveway, I can actually Park the vehicle. If I wish, I can hit back up assistant here and take my hands off the wheel, and the vehicle will back out exactly the same way that I came in, and it will do all the turning.
So it’s using the wheel to back out the same way that I came in, and it will back out onto the street exactly how I came into the vehicle. All the way out, the way I came in, and all I’m doing is controlling the break. So I did nothing, and I’m exactly back where I started on the street, and that’s an absolute piece of brilliance. | https://www.ktsm.com/news/what-kind-of-car-is-the-bmw-i4/ | 2022-08-02T00:02:24Z | https://www.ktsm.com/news/what-kind-of-car-is-the-bmw-i4/ | false |
Prosecutors have dismissed a first-degree murder charge against a Seattle man jailed for over two years after falsely confessing to strangling his girlfriend, who died in a Central District stairwell from an apparent drug overdose, according to the man’s defense attorneys.
Leo Driver, who has a severe mental illness, was clearly in a “deluded state” when he went to the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct in May 2020 and confessed to killing his girlfriend, Elisabeth Wright, who was found dead over five years earlier, Driver’s defense attorneys, Amy Parker and Tracy Kolpa, said Friday.
Senior Deputy Prosecutor Don Raz filed a motion to dismiss the murder charge July 20 after reviewing Driver’s statements to police and determining the state could not prove he killed Wright, court records show. Superior Court Chief Criminal Judge Karen Donohue dismissed Driver’s murder charge the next day and ordered his release from jail, the records say.
The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said in a statement that it was “unable to prove a homicide occurred to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt and, as a result, we were legally and ethically bound to dismiss the charges.”
“It’s not your typical false confession case,” which usually result from coercion, said Parker, who noted it’s difficult for prosecutors to stop pursuing murder charges after they’ve been filed and commended Raz “for doing the right thing.”
Seattle police said Driver told detectives he took Wright into a stairwell, accused her of cheating on him, then strangled her, The Seattle Times reported at the time.
Parker said her client confessed to killing Wright namely because he thought a confession could stop bad things from happening to his family. His reasoning, Parker said, was “born out of psychosis” and “didn’t make any sense.”
Detectives, initially skeptical of Driver’s confession, were nearly ready to let him go pending further investigation before someone decided to call in Dr. Richard Harruff, the county’s chief medical examiner, Kolpa said.
Driver then demonstrated on a mannequin how he supposedly strangled Wright, his attorneys said. Harruff noted the autopsy report indicated Wright had bruises on her throat, leading him to change the report’s findings from an accidental overdose to homicide by strangulation, according to the attorneys and charging papers.
Once Driver was stabilized with medication in jail, he was able to tell his lawyers that he did not kill Wright, Parker said.
Earlier this month, Driver’s attorneys interviewed the doctor who performed Wright’s initial autopsy. She told them medics trying to save Wright caused the neck bruises, the attorneys said. The doctor found no signs of trauma associated with strangulation, according to the attorneys.
Parker said Driver beamed at her through the glass when she visited him in jail to tell him the state was dismissing the murder case — and gave her a big hug when they saw each other in court on July 21.
Parker and Kolpa found Driver a shelter bed at a facility that provides behavioral health services and structured meetings. He’ll stay there for 90 days as he re-connects with mental health services and providers that were helping him before he was jailed, the attorneys said. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/murder-charge-dismissed-2-years-after-seattle-man-said-he-killed-his-girlfriend/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-08-02T00:02:37Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/murder-charge-dismissed-2-years-after-seattle-man-said-he-killed-his-girlfriend/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | false |
PHOENIX — Valley school leaders hope this year educators will be able to bridge the learning gap brought on during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Arizona State Board of Education, Helios Education Foundation, and the Arizona Department of Education met Monday to discuss the impact that COVID-19 had in the classroom.
The research found students in younger grades had greater impacts in the classroom than older grades, “Compared to the older grades, proficiency and growth data for the K-5 grades show a greater impact,” the report stated.
Data suggests that English language arts was impacted greatly, along with math, While both subject areas see large and broad impact across all demographic subgroups and achievement levels, overall impacts on students’ mathematics achievement were larger.
“The one thing that's different going into this year is that in our community morale is really high because we know to respond and react,” said Superintendent Quentin Boyce for the Roosevelt School District.
You can find more on the learning loss research here.
Along with learning loss, educators expressed concern for absences of teachers, finding substitutes and students, “We need to communicate the importance of kids being in school every day,” said Superintendent Jamie Sheldahl for the Yuma Elementary School District.
Educators also acknowledge that student enrollment declined across Arizona for the 2020-2021 school year, In particular, the data show greater pandemic-related decreases in enrollments in the elementary and middle school grade levels and especially in Kindergarten, Grade 5, and Grade 6, the report found. | https://www.abc15.com/news/state/educators-hope-to-bridge-education-gap-from-c-19-pandemic-period | 2022-08-02T00:06:44Z | https://www.abc15.com/news/state/educators-hope-to-bridge-education-gap-from-c-19-pandemic-period | true |
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Scorching Austin Riley, Braves to host hot Phillies
When you start breaking records held by Hall of Famers like Henry Aaron and Chipper Jones, people start to take notice. That's what Atlanta Braves third baseman Austin Riley is learning in the midst of his current offensive streak.
Riley and the Braves, fresh off a three-game sweep of the Arizona Diamondbacks, will host the Philadelphia Phillies for two games starting Tuesday.
To kick off the new month of August, the Braves rewarded Riley with a 10-year, $212 million contract extension that includes a $20 million club option for 2033.
Riley, considered the favorite to be named National League Player of the Month for July, went 6-for-12 with four doubles, a homer and four RBIs in the three games against Arizona. Riley finished the month with 26 extra-base hits, breaking Aaron's franchise record of 25 set in July 1961.
"That's a pretty stellar man he just passed," Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said. "It's pretty surreal. He's either hitting the ball through the wall or over the wall or both. The at-bats are just incredible."
Riley batted .423 with 11 homers in July to become the first Brave to hit .400 and have at least 10 homers in a month since Jones did it in July 1999.
In 101 games, Riley is batting .301 and slugging .604, with 29 homers and 68 RBIs. He ranks second in the National League in homers behind Philadelphia's Kyle Schwarber, sixth in RBIs and first in slugging percentage.
"I don't even think `hot' is giving enough credit to what he's been able to do," Atlanta pitcher Max Fried said. "You see guys go through stretches where they're seeing the ball well and hitting the ball hard for a series, a week. But for him to do it for a whole month, that's extremely special."
The Phillies have been hitting the ball, too, even without Bryce Harper, who has been out with a broken left thumb since being hit by a pitch on June 25.
Schwarber hit 10 homers and drove in 16 runs in July, despite a .168 batting average. In 10 games against Atlanta this season, Schwarber is only batting .118 (4-for-34), but has three homers, six RBIs and seven walks.
Philadelphia's hottest hitter is Alec Bohm, whose .434 average was the league's highest for July. The third baseman is batting .390 in 10 games against the Braves. He became the first Phillies player to hit .400 in a month since Carlos Ruiz batting .418 in May 2012.
Catcher J.T. Realmuto has gotten hot, too. He has reached base in 13 straight games since July 10, going 19-for-46 (.413) with four doubles, three homers, 11 RBIs and seven walks in that stretch.
"I just feel like I've gotten back to what I did in the past, stayed with a more consistent approach," Realmuto said. "I just have more confidence now than I had early in the year and I'm just trying to ride the wave."
The Phillies have won five in a row and took two of three from the Braves last week in Philadelphia.
Atlanta will start rookie right-hander Spencer Strider (5-3, 2.91 ERA) in the series opener. Philadelphia will go with a bullpen day after scheduled starter Kyle Gibson was placed on the bereavement list following the death of his grandmother.
Strider beat the Phillies last Tuesday when he allowed one run in six innings with six strikeouts in a 6-3 Braves win.
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Experts are ignoring the worst possible climate change catastrophic scenarios, including collapse of society or the potential extinction of humans, however unlikely, a group of top scientists claim.
Eleven scientists from around the world are calling on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s authoritative climate science organization, to do a special science report on “catastrophic climate change” to “bring into focus how much is at stake in a worst-case scenario.” In their perspective piece in Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences they raise the idea of human extinction and worldwide societal collapse in the third sentence, calling it “a dangerously underexplored topic.”
The scientists said they aren’t saying that worst is going to happen. They say the trouble is no one knows how likely or unlikely a “climate endgame” is and the world needs those calculations to battle global warming.
“I think it’s highly unlikely you are going to see anything close to even extinction over the next century simply because humans are incredibly resilient,” said study lead author Luke Kemp at the Center for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge in England. “Even if we have a 1% chance of having a global catastrophe, going extinct over the coming century, that 1%, that is way too high.”
Catastrophic climate scenarios “appear likely enough to warrant attention” and can lead to prevention and warning systems, Kemp said.
Good risk analyses consider both what’s most likely and what’s the worst that could happen, study authors said. But because of push back from non-scientists who reject climate change, mainstream climate science has concentrated on looking at what’s most likely and also disproportionately on low-temperature warming scenarios that come close to international goals, said co-author Tim Lenton, director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter in England.
There is, Lenton said, “not enough emphasis on how things, the risks, the big risks, could go plausibly badly wrong.”
It’s like an airplane, Lenton said. It’s overwhelmingly likely that it will land safely, but it’s only because so much attention was made to calculate the worst case scenario and then figure out how to avoid a crash. It only works if you research what could go badly wrong and that isn’t being done enough with climate change, he said.
“The stakes may be higher than we thought,” said University of Michigan environment dean Jonathan Overpeck, who wasn’t part of the study. He worries that the world “may stumble” upon climate risks it doesn’t know about.
When global science organizations look at climate change they tend to just look at what happens in the world: extreme weather, higher temperatures, melting ice sheets, rising seas and plant and animal extinctions. But they aren’t factoring enough how these reverberate in human societies and interact with existing problems — like war, hunger and disease — study authors said.
“If we don’t look at the intersecting risks, we’ll be painfully surprised,” said University of Washington public health and climate professor Kristie Ebi, a co-author who like Lenton has been part of United Nations global climate assessments.
It was a mistake health professionals made before COVID-19 when assessing possible pandemics, Ebi said. They talked about disease spread, but not lockdowns, supply chain problems and spiraling economies.
Study authors said they worry about societal collapse — war, famine, economic crises — linked to climate change more than the physical changes to Earth itself.
Outside climate scientists and risk experts were both welcoming and wary of focusing on the worst of the worst, even as many reject climate doom talk.
“I do not believe civilization as we know it will make it out of this century,” University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver, a former British Columbia legislator for the Green Party, said in an email. “Resilient humans will survive, but our societies that have urbanized and are supported by rural agriculture will not.”
Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather of the tech company Stripe and Berkeley Earth has criticized climate scientists in the past for using future scenarios of greatly increasing carbon pollution when the world is no longer on those paths to more rapid warming. Yet, he said it does make sense to look at catastrophic scenarios “as long as we are careful not to conflate the worst case with the most likely outcome.”
Talking about extinction of humans is not “a very effective communications device,” said Brown University climate scientist Kim Cobb. “People tend to immediately say, well, that’s just, you know, arm waving or doomsday mongering.”
What’s happening short of extinction is bad enough, she said.
Co-author Tim Lenton said researching worst case scenarios could find nothing to worry about: “Maybe it’s that you can thoroughly rule out a number of these bad scenarios. Well, that’s actually really well worth spending your time doing that. Then we should all cheer up a bit.”
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(The Hill) – Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Monday said he would vote against Finland and Sweden’s bids to join NATO, a move that would go against most of his colleagues from both sides of the aisle.
In an op-ed published by The National Interest, Hawley says the United States shouldn’t expand its security commitments in Europe due to a more pressing threat from China.
“Finland and Sweden want to join the Atlantic Alliance to head off further Russian aggression in Europe. That is entirely understandable given their location and security needs,” Hawley wrote.
“But America’s greatest foreign adversary doesn’t loom over Europe. It looms in Asia. I am talking of course about the People’s Republic of China. And when it comes to Chinese imperialism, the American people should know the truth: the United States is not ready to resist it. Expanding American security commitments in Europe now would only make that problem worse—and America, less safe.”
Finland and Sweden in May announced their intentions to join NATO following Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The governments of 19 NATO countries have since ratified the two Nordic nations joining the alliance. Eleven, including the United States, have yet to do so. All 30 member states must approve the additions.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants senators to vote on enlarging the alliance before the lawmakers leave Washington, D.C., for a month-long break set to start Aug. 8.
Finland and Sweden’s request has received widespread support from both Democrats and Republicans. But Hawley — who was one of the 11 conservatives who opposed the $40 billion Ukraine aid package Congress passed in May — insists the United States isn’t prepared to go against both Moscow and Beijing.
“As the 2018 and 2022 U.S. National Defense Strategies both acknowledge, the United States cannot defeat China and Russia in two major wars at the same time. And we are not where we need to be in Asia,” Hawley wrote.
Citing distractions from “nation-building activities in the Middle East and legacy commitments in Europe,” Hawley says the U.S. is not prepared to fend off Chinese military aggression in the Pacific should it happen.
“In the face of this stark reality, we must choose. We must do less in Europe (and elsewhere) in order to prioritize China and Asia.”
While Hawley says the U.S. government shouldn’t abandon NATO, he suggests European allies could take on more responsibility in defending Europe by investing more in their own militaries.
Hawley’s stance goes against that of the majority of his fellow Republicans including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who last week said the United States “would be fortunate to have two new treaty allies as impressive and capable as Finland and Sweden.”
Eighteen House Republicans last month voted against a symbolic resolution to support Finland and Sweden joining NATO. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/hawley-vows-to-vote-no-on-adding-sweden-and-finland-to-nato/ | 2022-08-02T00:39:40Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/hawley-vows-to-vote-no-on-adding-sweden-and-finland-to-nato/ | false |
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Angelina Jolie's daughter Zahara is headed to Spelman College
Updated: 6:46 PM EDT Aug 1, 2022
Related video above: Angelina Jolie visits UkraineAngelina Jolie's daughter is headed to an HBCU.Zahara Jolie-Pitt will be attending Spelman College in Atlanta, her mother shared over the weekend."Zahara with her Spelman sisters! Congratulations to all new students starting this year," Jolie wrote in the caption of a photo on her verified Instagram account. "A very special place and an honor to have a family member as a new Spelman girl."Spelman is a historically Black liberal arts college for women that has several notable alumnae including Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and "The Cosby Show" star Keshia Knight Pulliam.The campus of Morehouse College for men is in close proximity to Spelman. The nickname "SpelHouse" was coined to identify their closeness and common events.Morehouse's verified Instagram account shared video of its "SpelhouseLA" event in which attendees attempted to show Jolie how to do the "Electric Slide" dance before she laughed and hugged her daughter.In addition to Zahara, Jolie also shares twins Vivienne and Knox, 14, Shiloh, 16, Pax, 18, and Maddox, 20, with ex-husband Brad Pitt.
Related video above: Angelina Jolie visits Ukraine
Angelina Jolie's daughter is headed to an HBCU.
Zahara Jolie-Pitt will be attending Spelman College in Atlanta, her mother shared over the weekend.
"Zahara with her Spelman sisters! Congratulations to all new students starting this year," Jolie wrote in the caption of a photo on her verified Instagram account. "A very special place and an honor to have a family member as a new Spelman girl."
Spelman is a historically Black liberal arts college for women that has several notable alumnae including Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and "The Cosby Show" star Keshia Knight Pulliam.
The campus of Morehouse College for men is in close proximity to Spelman. The nickname "SpelHouse" was coined to identify their closeness and common events.
Morehouse's verified Instagram account shared video of its "SpelhouseLA" event in which attendees attempted to show Jolie how to do the "Electric Slide" dance before she laughed and hugged her daughter.
In addition to Zahara, Jolie also shares twins Vivienne and Knox, 14, Shiloh, 16, Pax, 18, and Maddox, 20, with ex-husband Brad Pitt. | https://www.wcvb.com/article/angelina-jolies-daughter-zahara-headed-to-spelman-college/40776140 | 2022-08-02T00:47:43Z | https://www.wcvb.com/article/angelina-jolies-daughter-zahara-headed-to-spelman-college/40776140 | true |
HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — A 52-year-old Minnesota man was charged Monday with killing a teenager and stabbing four other people in a dispute that allegedly began with a lost cellphone during a weekend tubing excursion on a western Wisconsin river.
Investigators said in court documents that Nicolae Miu, of Prior Lake, Minnesota, attacked the group after people accused him of approaching children in the water. Miu told investigators that he had acted in self-defense.
He faces one count of first-degree intentional homicide and four counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide in St. Croix County, which sits along Wisconsin’s border with Minnesota. The judge set bond at $1 million cash for Miu, who appeared at the hearing by video.
The family of the teen who died has identified him as 17-year-old Isaac Schuman, of Stillwater, Minnesota. He would have been a senior at Stillwater High School this fall.
The victims were tubing on Saturday down the Apple River northeast of Stillwater, which is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Minneapolis, when they were attacked, sheriff’s officials said. Those wounded were two men from Luck, Wisconsin, ages 20 and 22, a 24-year-old woman from Burnsville, Minnesota, and a 22-year-old man from Elk River, Minnesota.
Minnesota Public Radio obtained a copy of the criminal complaint against Miu. According to the complaint, Miu was tubing down the river with his wife and several other people. Another group of people also was tubing on the river.
Miu told investigators that he was using a snorkel and goggles to look for a lost cellphone. Video and witness accounts indicate bystanders accused him of approaching children in the water. Witnesses said Miu was bothering a group of juveniles and others told him to leave, the complaint states.
Instead of leaving, Miu punched a woman and a fight ensued, according to the complaint. Video shows him falling into the river, emerging with a knife and then stabbing a person.
“There was enough blood in the river that the water turned a red tint in places,” the complaint states.
Miu told investigators that he was provoked, according to the complaint. He said at least two others in the crowd had knives and he took one of the knives away from one of the males in the crowd but didn’t know what happened to it.
“They attacked me,” he said. “I was in self-defense mode.”
The Burnsville victim, Ryhley Mattison, wrote in a GoFundMe post that she was tubing with her friends when they came across a group asking for help. She said there was an older man who was “being inappropriate and was asked to leave, but wouldn’t,” and that he stabbed her and several other people.
The victims from Luck have been released from the hospital, St. Croix County Sheriff Scott Knudson said Monday.
Schuman’s family said in a statement that he was an honor roll student and was preparing to apply to several universities to study electrical engineering.
“He had an incredibly bright future ahead of him and we are all heartbroken and devastated beyond words that his future has been tragically and senselessly cut short,” the family said. “We very much appreciate the overwhelming outpouring of love and support from our friends, Isaac’s friends and the Stillwater Community.”
Stillwater High School Principal Robert Bach said in an e-mail to families that “we extend our deepest sympathy to the family and everyone impacted directly or indirectly.”
Bach told parents the school would help them and their children work through he difficult process.
“The death of a classmate, even for those who didn’t know them well, will impact each student differently, and all reactions need to be addressed with great care and support,” he wrote. “We encourage you to talk with your children about this sad news and help them to process their feelings.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/minnesota-man-charged-in-deadly-wisconsin-attack-on-tubers/ | 2022-08-02T00:48:46Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/minnesota-man-charged-in-deadly-wisconsin-attack-on-tubers/ | false |
SANTA TERESA, N.M. (AP) — A Mexican man has been arrested for reckless driving in connection with a rollover crash that left two people dead and 10 others injured last week, New Mexico State Police said Monday.
They said 19-year-old Julio Garcia Rascon was driving an SUV at a high rate of speed around 5 a.m. on July 27 when it struck a utility pole and rolled near Santa Teresa a few miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
Police said 24-year-old Jorge Garcia-Vazquez and 18-year-old Guadalupe Cruze-Vasquez, both from Mexico, were ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.
Rascon and nine passengers were transported to a hospital in El Paso, Texas for treatment while one other passenger escaped injury.
Police said Rascon was released two days later and booked into a Dona Ana County jail in Las Cruces on suspicion of reckless driving, two counts of homicide by vehicle and 10 counts of great bodily injury by vehicle.
It was unclear Monday if Rascon had a lawyer yet who could speak on his behalf.
During theiir crash investigation, State Police said investigators learned that a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent attempted to make a traffic stop on the SUV but it was unsuccessful and the vehicle with the 13 occupants sped away.
While authorities did not identify the people in the SUV as immigrants, the stretch of border in southeastern New Mexico where the crash happened is among the spots where migrants regularly are smuggled across from Mexico in SUVs. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Driver-arrested-in-New-Mexico-crash-that-killed-17344145.php | 2022-08-02T01:01:51Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Driver-arrested-in-New-Mexico-crash-that-killed-17344145.php | false |
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Angelina Jolie's daughter Zahara is headed to Spelman College
Updated: 6:46 PM EDT Aug 1, 2022
Related video above: Angelina Jolie visits UkraineAngelina Jolie's daughter is headed to an HBCU.Zahara Jolie-Pitt will be attending Spelman College in Atlanta, her mother shared over the weekend."Zahara with her Spelman sisters! Congratulations to all new students starting this year," Jolie wrote in the caption of a photo on her verified Instagram account. "A very special place and an honor to have a family member as a new Spelman girl."Spelman is a historically Black liberal arts college for women that has several notable alumnae including Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and "The Cosby Show" star Keshia Knight Pulliam.The campus of Morehouse College for men is in close proximity to Spelman. The nickname "SpelHouse" was coined to identify their closeness and common events.Morehouse's verified Instagram account shared video of its "SpelhouseLA" event in which attendees attempted to show Jolie how to do the "Electric Slide" dance before she laughed and hugged her daughter.In addition to Zahara, Jolie also shares twins Vivienne and Knox, 14, Shiloh, 16, Pax, 18, and Maddox, 20, with ex-husband Brad Pitt.
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Angelina Jolie's daughter is headed to an HBCU.
Zahara Jolie-Pitt will be attending Spelman College in Atlanta, her mother shared over the weekend.
"Zahara with her Spelman sisters! Congratulations to all new students starting this year," Jolie wrote in the caption of a photo on her verified Instagram account. "A very special place and an honor to have a family member as a new Spelman girl."
Spelman is a historically Black liberal arts college for women that has several notable alumnae including Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and "The Cosby Show" star Keshia Knight Pulliam.
The campus of Morehouse College for men is in close proximity to Spelman. The nickname "SpelHouse" was coined to identify their closeness and common events.
Morehouse's verified Instagram account shared video of its "SpelhouseLA" event in which attendees attempted to show Jolie how to do the "Electric Slide" dance before she laughed and hugged her daughter.
In addition to Zahara, Jolie also shares twins Vivienne and Knox, 14, Shiloh, 16, Pax, 18, and Maddox, 20, with ex-husband Brad Pitt. | https://www.wpbf.com/article/angelina-jolies-daughter-zahara-headed-to-spelman-college/40776140 | 2022-08-02T01:02:46Z | https://www.wpbf.com/article/angelina-jolies-daughter-zahara-headed-to-spelman-college/40776140 | true |
U.S. officials have announced that a drone strike over the weekend killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, a top Al Qaeda leader and key plotter for the 9/11 attacks.
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U.S. officials have announced that a drone strike over the weekend killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, a top Al Qaeda leader and key plotter for the 9/11 attacks.
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Boy bitten in the face by a shark off Florida coast while lobstering
A 13-year-old boy in Florida was out catching lobsters with his mom and dad when a shark bit him in the face.
"He just popped up screaming ‘mom, mom, shark! Get me out of here! Get me out of the water!,’" said Fischer Hricko's mom, Rhiannon, in an interview with FOX 35.
"I saw a big one and I got it in my hand. On the way up, when I had the lobster in my hand, I felt a little tap on the back of my leg, and I looked behind me and the shark was in my face," Fischer said.
His mom was navigating the boat, while Fischer and his dad were in the water.
"It was honestly the scariest five minutes of my life. Just hearing that terror in your child’s voice it’s something that I can’t actually get out of my head," she said.
After Fischer and his dad got back in the boat, they rushed back to the dock to get him to the hospital. Fischer had to get 10 stitches in his lip, which was split from the shark's bite.
"It hurts every so often, but it’s fine now," he said. And despite the bite, he's won't let the shark take the fun away from his love for the ocean.
Fischer won't let this experience ruin his love for the ocean, but it still left a mark.
"I’m ready, but I feel like the first few times I’ll be a little scared, but I’ll get in the water," he said.
Mom said she'll probably stay in the boat "I guess it was always in the back of my head. That’s why I don’t jump in," she said, laughing. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/boy-bitten-in-the-face-by-a-shark-off-florida-coast-while-lobstering | 2022-08-02T01:15:49Z | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/boy-bitten-in-the-face-by-a-shark-off-florida-coast-while-lobstering | false |
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Bipartisan compromise bill would restore abortion rights
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators is pushing compromise legislation to restore abortion access in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a long shot effort to put a majority of the Senate on the record opposing the decision.
While the bill is not expected to pass — and is unlikely to even get a vote — the legislation introduced by two Republicans and two Democrats on Monday is intended to send a signal to state legislatures and the public that a majority of the Senate supports codifying Roe, even if they can’t get the necessary 60 votes to pass it in the 50-50 Senate.
“We still think there is utility in showing there is a bipartisan majority that would want to codify Roe,” even though the bill doesn’t have enough votes, said Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, who introduced the legislation with Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
The legislation would prohibit most state regulations that prevent abortion access before fetal viability, generally considered to be around 24 weeks. It would allow state restrictions after that point, as long as the mother’s life is protected. It would also protect access to contraception, an issue after Justice Clarence Thomas suggested in a concurring opinion to the decision overturning Roe that decisions guaranteeing access to contraception and other rights may need to be revisited.
The bipartisan bill is narrower than legislation preferred by most Democrats — passed by the House but blocked by Senate Republicans — that would have protected abortion rights and expanded them beyond what was allowed in the landmark 1972 Roe v. Wade decision. Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Collins and Murkowski all voted against that bill despite opposition to the overturning of Roe.
Kaine said he felt like Democrats “left votes on the table” after that effort. He said he was encouraged by a new law designed to reduce gun violence that passed the House and Senate after horrific shootings in Texas and New York.
“There were not 60 votes either” for that legislation until members decided that inaction was no longer an option, he said.
Democrats would need 10 Republican votes to overcome a filibuster and get a bill through the 50-50 Senate, but only Collins and Murkowski have publicly backed abortion rights.
By overturning Roe, the court has allowed states to enact strict abortion limits, including many that had previously been deemed unconstitutional. The ruling is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half of the states.
Already, a number of GOP-controlled states have moved quickly to curtail or outlaw abortion, while states controlled by Democrats have sought to champion access. Voters now rank abortion as among the most pressing issues facing the country, a shift in priorities that Democrats hope will reshape the political landscape in their favor for the midterm elections.
The support of Kaine and Sinema, a moderate, comes as some activists have accused President Joe Biden and other top Democrats of failing to respond forcefully enough to the decision.
Kaine said there is an increased sense of urgency since the June decision, and suggested he or others may go to the floor at some point and request a vote, an effort that is unlikely to succeed but could call attention to the bill as majorities of Americans say they disagree with the Supreme Court decision.
“People are paying attention to it,” Kaine said.
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(NEXSTAR) – After years of competing with malls, Amazon is now partnering with several of the shopping center mainstays as part of a new delivery perk for Prime members in select cities.
The retail behemoth announced Monday that Prime members can now take advantage of same-day delivery from mall brands GNC, Diesel, PacSun and Superdry, with Sur La Table and 100% Pure coming soon.
Prime members living in select ZIP codes in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington can take advantage of same-day shipping or in-store pickup, if they prefer.
There is a catch, however – there order must be a minimum of $25 to qualify for free shipping. If you’re short of the threshold you’ll have to pay an additional $2.99.
Saving shoppers a trip to the mall isn’t unprecedented, however, as Sephora and delivery service Instacart have teamed up to make same-day deliveries. Grocery stores have also started to cater to busy, crowd-weary shoppers with at home deliveries.
“The expansion of Amazon’s Same-Day Delivery to include beloved brands delivered directly from nearby retail locations is just another way we are offering customers even greater selection, at faster speeds,” said Sarah Mathew, director of Amazon Delivery Experience. “We are excited to see this new model come to life and look forward to adding more brands, stores, and locations to the program.”
What once appeared to be head-to-head competition between an online sales powerhouse and traditional retail has become increasingly complex.
In January, Amazon announced plans to open a physical clothing store inside a Southern California mall later in the year. Part of the allure, according to Amazon, would be algorithms designed to give shoppers real-time recommendations.
To see if you qualify for free, same-day shipping, see a list of participating locations here. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/amazon-rolls-out-new-perk-for-prime-members-in-select-cities/ | 2022-08-02T01:26:58Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/amazon-rolls-out-new-perk-for-prime-members-in-select-cities/ | true |
Swift water rescue crews with Albuquerque Fire Rescue managed to pull a man out of the arroyo after he was swept away Monday afternoon.
Tom Ruiz, an AFR spokesman, said the man was seen in the Embudo arroyo near Morningside and then was helped out near Menaul. He is now in stable condition, Ruiz said.
“We got the reports, set up really quick, and within 10 minutes he was able to be found and assisted out of the arroyo,” he said. | https://www.abqjournal.com/2521180/afr-helps-man-swept-away-in-arroyo.html | 2022-08-02T01:27:25Z | https://www.abqjournal.com/2521180/afr-helps-man-swept-away-in-arroyo.html | true |
Royals make trades ahead of MLB Trade Deadline Tuesday
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (WIBW) - The MLB Trade Deadline is less than 24 hours away and the Kansas City Royals are making some moves.
The Royals tweeted out they acquired LHP Anthony Misiewicz from the Seattle Mariners in exchange for cash considerations. KC says Misiewicz has been added to the 40-man roster and optioned to Omaha (AAA).
Misiewicz has appeared in 17 games for Seattle this year, posting an 0-1 record with a 4.61 ERA in 13 and two-third innings.
We have acquired LHP Anthony Misiewicz from the Seattle Mariners in exchange for cash considerations. Misiewicz has been added to the 40-man roster and optioned to Omaha (AAA).
— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) August 1, 2022
Then, hours later, KC made another move by acquiring RHP Luke Weaver from the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for IF Emmanuel Rivera.
Weaver this season has a 1-1 record with a 7.71 ERA and 19 strikeouts in 16 and one-third innings in 12 games including one start.
We have acquired RHP Luke Weaver from the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for IF Emmanuel Rivera.
— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) August 1, 2022
We will make a corresponding roster move when Weaver reports to the Major League club.
The MLB Trade Deadline ends Tuesday at 6 p.m.
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DALLAS, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust (NYSE: NXDT) ("NXDT" or the "Company") today announced its regular monthly distribution on its common stock of $0.05 per share. The distribution will be payable on August 31, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business August 24, 2022.
About NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust
NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust is a publicly traded diversified real estate investment trust ("REIT") that trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NXDT. The Company previously operated as a registered closed-end investment company. On August 28, 2020, shareholders approved a proposal to transition the Company from an investment company to a diversified REIT. As part of this transition, the Company changed its name from NexPoint Strategic Opportunities Fund to NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust, effective November 8, 2021. The Company also changed its ticker symbol from "NHF" to "NXDT." On July 1, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") issued a deregistration order declaring that the Company has ceased to be an investment company and that the Company's registration as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 shall immediately cease to be in effect. The order, effective July 1, 2022, allows the Company to finalize its transition to a diversified REIT and begin trading as a REIT. For more information visit nxdt.nexpoint.com.
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VALPARAISO — An abridged Porter County Council postponed decisions last week on big-ticket items until its August meeting, when more members will attend.
With only four members, and with President Jeremy Rivas, D-2nd, and Vice President Mike Jessen, R-4th, along with Councilman Andy Bozak, R-at large, absent, Councilman Greg Simms, D-3rd, picked up the gavel to run last week's meeting.
County Coroner Cyndi Dykes asked for an additional $100,000 for autopsies through the end of the year — $90,000 to pay for the pathologist and $10,000 for Northwest Health Porter’s fees.
“I feel these are big-ticket items,” Councilwoman Sylvia Graham, D-at large, said, so she wanted to wait for more council members to be present before taking action.
Dykes said the fund was depleted because of 2021 autopsies that were billed and paid early this year.
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The pathologist is paid a monthly fee for the autopsies under a memorandum of understanding negotiated by Dykes. That flat fee saved the county about $18,000 over the last six months, compared to the going rate of about $3,000 per autopsy.
The memo expires at the end of the year when Dykes’ term in office ends, but it includes autopsies billed through January 2023, which would include work done in December.
Dykes asked if she should tell the pathologist to hold tight and that the county might not be able to pay him.
“We’ll pay him,” Graham assured Dykes.
The council also tabled an additional $59,500 in supplemental pay for Health Department employees due to COVID-19.
“I felt that there were some things on the agenda that needed the attention of the full council,” Graham said as the meeting ended.
In other business, the council approved $800 for chairs for the auditor’s office.
“Most of our office chairs are, quite frankly, falling apart,” County Auditor Vicki Urbanik said.
The council also approved $1,850 in American Rescue Plan Act funds for the auditor’s office employee who compiled minutes from ARPA steering committee and subcommittee meetings.
Rising gas prices prompted the council to approve an additional $200,000 for Highway Department fuel and $4,000 for the Porter County Expo Center.
New Park Superintendent Jake McEvoy’s salary was set at $68,500. Jackie Nadeau, who was formerly office coordinator until she served as interim superintendent during the 14-month search, saw her salary increase from $41,927 to $50,000 to go along with her new title as assistant superintendent.
Indiana Dunes Tourism Executive Director Lorelei Weimer said business is booming. As she left for lunch Tuesday, she noted license plates from 12 states in the parking lot, which is a common occurrence.
“It just gives you an indication of what we have here in Porter County,” Weimer said. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/porter-county-delays-big-ticket-spending/article_39677ce4-4da5-56e0-a79c-3d70d63f6e7a.html | 2022-08-02T01:31:17Z | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/porter-county-delays-big-ticket-spending/article_39677ce4-4da5-56e0-a79c-3d70d63f6e7a.html | false |
CUMBERLAND — The Cumberland area before development is featured in a mural currently being painted downtown by a husband and wife team.
The art is located on the outdoor wall of Allegany Pawn at the corner of Centre Street and the downtown pedestrian mall in an area used as a transit stop. The artists are Elijah Thane, 27, and wife Marlee Lynn, 24, both from Allegany County.
“We wanted to do something beautiful, especially for the city I grew up in,” said Thane. “We saw this area here and thought it would be the perfect opportunity.”
The couple decided the site, which is largely urban, could use a brighter touch.
“This place was, well not an ugly wall, but an ordinary wall,” said Thane. “So we thought we could put some color in there.”
The couple approached Brian Grim, the owner of Allegany Pawn, who gave them the green light to paint the mural. Then the couple spoke to Let’s Beautify Cumberland! members as well as City Hall officials and the Historical Preservation Commission to get the approval.
The mural depicts the Potomac River running through the natural surroundings as it did thousands of years ago. The pastoral landscape is framed by Greek-style columns.
“The ancient feel is given by adding the Greek architecture,” said Lynn.
“We should be done in another week,” said Thane.
Thane, who grew up in a religious household in Oldtown, wasn’t exposed to a lot of art growing up.
“There wasn’t much art and I didn’t grow up with any TV,” he said. “I didn’t watch TV until I was like 13 years old. The art I saw was mainly storybooks. We would go to the library all the time and it was picture books with the illustrations.”
After being home-schooled for many years, Thane entered public high school.
“I did terrible,” said Thane. “It wasn’t working.” He ultimately drifted into a life of drugs and living on the streets. The lifestyle included a stint in jail.
“I saw the older people in jail and they all said they were there because of drugs,” said Thane. “I asked them what they were going to do when they go out and they said, ‘drugs.’ I thought, I can’t let this happen to me.”
Things began to turn around for Thane after a visit to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
“That opened opened my eyes to art. I never thought it was possible. I had never seen art like that before,” he said.
He then began to study the classical and modern artists. He studied the works of Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael and others. He finally made the decision to focus on art as a career and turned his life around.
Lynn followed a similar path.
“There was not much art growing up for me either,” said Lynn, who grew up in Lonaconing. “I wasn’t exposed to much art until high school when I took an art class.
“But when I went to high school I did enjoy the more in-depth projects we did. I went to Mountain Ridge (High School), but I did a lot of partying in high school. That is how I met Elijah. Just crazy stuff. I was aimless for awhile, too. But I got into nature and outdoors. I went to Garrett College to work in forestry and environment.
“We started working on the art together. Elijah showed me a lot. I love it. We have a lot of freedom. There is a lot to learn but we are entrepreneurs.”
Thane and Lynn have been making art, including several murals, for people across the United States and have been able to turn it into a business and make a living doing it. Their work can be seen at ElijahThane.com. Contact information for the couple is available on the site as well.
“What we enjoy most is when people come by and tell us how beautiful the mural is. It makes it all worthwhile,” said Thane. | https://www.times-news.com/news/downtown-receiving-mural-art/article_0227b6e2-11d8-11ed-a301-0b53cd00eb01.html | 2022-08-02T01:31:29Z | https://www.times-news.com/news/downtown-receiving-mural-art/article_0227b6e2-11d8-11ed-a301-0b53cd00eb01.html | false |
(NEXSTAR) – After years of competing with malls, Amazon is now partnering with several of the shopping center mainstays as part of a new delivery perk for Prime members in select cities.
The retail behemoth announced Monday that Prime members can now take advantage of same-day delivery from mall brands GNC, Diesel, PacSun and Superdry, with Sur La Table and 100% Pure coming soon.
Prime members living in select ZIP codes in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington can take advantage of same-day shipping or in-store pickup, if they prefer.
There is a catch, however – there order must be a minimum of $25 to qualify for free shipping. If you’re short of the threshold you’ll have to pay an additional $2.99.
Saving shoppers a trip to the mall isn’t unprecedented, however, as Sephora and delivery service Instacart have teamed up to make same-day deliveries. Grocery stores have also started to cater to busy, crowd-weary shoppers with at home deliveries.
“The expansion of Amazon’s Same-Day Delivery to include beloved brands delivered directly from nearby retail locations is just another way we are offering customers even greater selection, at faster speeds,” said Sarah Mathew, director of Amazon Delivery Experience. “We are excited to see this new model come to life and look forward to adding more brands, stores, and locations to the program.”
What once appeared to be head-to-head competition between an online sales powerhouse and traditional retail has become increasingly complex.
In January, Amazon announced plans to open a physical clothing store inside a Southern California mall later in the year. Part of the allure, according to Amazon, would be algorithms designed to give shoppers real-time recommendations.
To see if you qualify for free, same-day shipping, see a list of participating locations here. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/amazon-rolls-out-new-perk-for-prime-members-in-select-cities/ | 2022-08-02T01:40:26Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/amazon-rolls-out-new-perk-for-prime-members-in-select-cities/ | false |
Biden’s COVID sequel: back on the balcony, dog for company
It’s back to the White House balcony and the Treaty Room for President Joe Biden as he contends with a “rebound” case of COVID-19.
Trapped in the White House for the second time in as many weeks, the president knows the drill this time: He’s got an office in the residence and his dog Commander to keep him company while he governs by Zoom and FaceTime.
Biden’s latest bout with COVID-19 came with a new wrinkle: how to announce a major counterterrorism operation in Afghanistan from isolation.
Biden, dressed in a dark suit and red tie, walked to a lectern that had been wheeled onto the balcony of the Blue Room on Monday evening and informed the American people of the killing of Ayman al-Zawahri, the top al-Qaida leader, in a U.S. strike in Afghanistan over the weekend.
The White House allowed just one print reporter to watch Biden deliver his speech, by looking through a window in the adjacent Red Room. A TV cameraman filmed the president and a still photographer took photos — a smaller footprint than the group of journalists that is usually at the president’s appearances.
Biden’s initial COVID-19 diagnosis left him with a lingering cough and runny nose, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. His rebound case — labeled such because he tested positive on Saturday just three days after being cleared from isolation with two negative tests last Tuesday and Wednesday — has left him antsy about returning to a normal schedule.
Biden’s rebound disrupted a trip home to Wilmington, Delaware, to reunite with first lady Jill Biden, who has been there since Biden’s initial diagnosis. A trip Tuesday to Michigan to promote a $280 billion high-tech manufacturing bill he intends to sign was also scuttled.
Instead, Biden is stuck in COVID-19 isolation through at least Thursday, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, and perhaps longer under the White House’s stricter protocols, which require a negative test to return to work.
“He’s someone who likes to be out there with the American people,” said Jean-Pierre on Monday. “He’s looking forward to being out there again.”
White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a Monday letter that the president “continues to feel well” this time around, even as he tests positive.
Shortly after Saturday’s announcement that he was returning to isolation, the president tweeted a picture of himself masked, tieless, and signing a declaration that added individual assistance for flood survivors in Kentucky.
He followed up by tweeting a 12-second video of himself on a White House balcony with Commander.
“I’m feeling fine, everything is good,” said Biden, a pair of aviator sunglasses in his hand. “But Commander and I got a little work to do.”
Minutes later, he called Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough on FaceTime as he visited with people camping outside the U.S. Capitol in a bid for health benefits for military veterans exposed to toxic substances from burn pits during their service.
Biden tweeted that he had planned to visit the group in person on Saturday before he tested positive again, but instead sent McDonough with a delivery of pizza. He invited the advocates to the White House once he’s cleared by his doctors to receive visitors.
“It doesn’t stop him from doing his job and doing the work of the American people,” Jean-Pierre said of the president’s rebound infection.
During his course of isolation, Biden told reporters that his canine companion served as his alarm clock while the first lady was away.
“Matter of fact, my dog had to wake me up this morning,” he said last Tuesday. “My wife’s not here. She usually takes him out in the morning while I’m upstairs working out. And so, I felt this nuzzle of my dog’s nose against my chest about five minutes to seven.”
Biden has been working from the ornate second-floor Treaty Room or stepping onto the adjacent Truman Balcony overlooking the South Grounds and the Washington Monument.
A limited number of essential staff are with him in the residence, including security and medical personnel and a small number of aides, who remain masked for their protection. Biden’s usual in-person meetings, including his daily national security briefing, have shifted to virtual formats.
Plans for enabling a president to work in isolation were first developed when then-President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 in October 2020, which required him to be admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. As the highly infectious omicron variant spread and cases closed in around Biden, his administration refined plans for Biden to carry out his duties while isolating at the White House, according to two aides.
Biden, 79, was treated with the antiviral drug Paxlovid after he first tested positive on July 21. He tested negative for the virus last Tuesday and Wednesday, July 26 and 27, and was then cleared to leave isolation while wearing a mask indoors. His positive tests put him among the minority of those prescribed the drug to experience a rebound case of the virus.
The CDC says most rebound cases remain mild.
Jean-Pierre said 17 people initially identified as close contacts of Biden when he first tested positive, as well as six people deemed at risk from his rebound infection, have continued to test negative for COVID-19. | https://whyy.org/articles/bidens-covid-sequel-back-on-the-balcony-dog-for-company/ | 2022-08-02T01:48:56Z | https://whyy.org/articles/bidens-covid-sequel-back-on-the-balcony-dog-for-company/ | false |
NEW YORK (WABC) -- On this edition of 'The Countdown,' we detail breaking news on a 'successful' counterterrorism operation carried out by the United States against al-Qaeda.
President Joe Biden on Monday night confirmed the drone strike that killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Here are the other headlines from Monday's show
NYC speed cameras running 24/7 starting Monday
Two thousand speed cameras are now running 24 hours a day, all year round -- including holidays -- in New York City.
Uptick in sexual assault cases
There is fear on the streets of New York City, and it appears it could be warranted. According to the NYPD, the number of reported rapes is over 10% this year. That amount to 1,500 assaults reported between the start of this year and July 24. Former NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce joined us to discuss this issue.
Battling the monkeypox outbreak
The monkeypox outbreak continues to spread across the country with New York City considered to be the epicenter. On Monday, the city doubled down on its decision to declare a public health emergency, with Mayor Eric Adams issuing an emergency executive order. Dr. Jay Varma joins us to answer some very important questions about the outbreak. | https://abc7ny.com/the-countdown-al-qaeda-ayman-al-zawahiri-president-biden/12092039/ | 2022-08-02T01:51:57Z | https://abc7ny.com/the-countdown-al-qaeda-ayman-al-zawahiri-president-biden/12092039/ | false |
HELENA — At a time of crisis for the Montana State Hospital, Montana State Rep. Llew Jones, R-Conrad, proposed using the budget surplus to create a state-funded regional mental health care network for Montana.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid withdrew accreditation from the state hospital earlier this year, which was another funding cut for a facility still strapped from a series of budget cuts in 2017. Leadership shake ups and a chronic hiring problem have caused morale in the hospital to plummet as employees complain about lack of training and support from leadership. The state hospital in Warm Springs is not producing the patient outcomes the state wants, Jones said.
However, data shows patients do better in smaller, regional facilities, Jones said.
"As we look at address the situation in Warm Springs," Jones said. "To take care of those folks who are struggling with mental issues, severely mentally ill, we can potentially use some of this (one time only) dollars to bring this system more regional."
By making a big investment in Montana's mental health network during the upcoming session, Jones said the state would lift the burden of solving this problem for future generations. If done right, Jones said the state might end up spending fewer dollars, resulting in a permanent tax cut in the future, instead of a one-time rebate.
Montana State Rep. Danny Tenenbaum, D-Missoula, sits on the Montana State Legislature's Children, Families, Health and Human Services Interim Committee, which can exert some oversight powers on the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services and the Montana State Hospital. Jones' idea was long overdue, Tenenbaum said.
“A regional system of smaller care facilities spread across Montana would be a dramatic improvement for people living with mental illnesses," Tenenbaum said. "And also their loved ones, who want the best possible care for them.”
Jesse Mullen, who is running to represent the Montana State senate district that encompasses the state hospital, said he is wary of Jones’ plan because Jones discussed reducing funds to Warm Springs.
“We absolutely need extensive mental health care across Montana," Mullen said. "That doesn’t mean that we have to reduce resources at the state hospital. Now, if he were to say, 'Let’s regionalize the mental health care system while we also buttress Warm Springs,' I would be completely on board with him."
The discussion of what to do with mental health services and the state hospital will require robust discussion during the next session, Jones said. Lawmakers will need to hold multiple hearings in front of committee, look at unintended consequences of the plan and figure out how the Warm Springs facility would fit into the plan, Jones said.
“We certainly won't be able to not have the facility exist in its entirety," Jones said. "But what is the path forward? And if not now, when are we going to address suicide? And when are we going to address these mental health issues?”
State Rep. Ed Stafman chairs the State Legislature's health interim committee. Stafman said he was glad to hear Jones wants to fund better mental health facilities next session, however, from Stafman's perspective the state and the Department of Public Health and Human Services can't wait to give Warm Springs the money it needs to function.
“The department has been very interested in studying Warm Springs and studying rate structures," Stafman said. "But it’s not enough when your house is on fire. We need to take action now and god knows we have the money.”
In July letter to Gov. Greg Gianforte, the interim committee asked the state to raise Medicaid provider reimbursement rates this fiscal year because, according to the letter, "Our mental health system will only continue to deteriorate if providers must wait another year for a significant increase in rates."
Stafman said he would convey the governor’s response to lawmakers at the committee’s final meeting on Aug. 26. | https://www.kxlf.com/news/legislator-surplus-could-help-fix-mental-health-for-generations | 2022-08-02T01:53:57Z | https://www.kxlf.com/news/legislator-surplus-could-help-fix-mental-health-for-generations | true |
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Former Black Cap quick Davis comes out as gay
Aug 2 (Reuters) - Former test pace bowler Heath Davis has become the first male New Zealand international cricketer to come out as gay, still a rarity in the professional game.
Davis, now 50 and living in Australia, played five tests and 11 one-day internationals from 1994 to 1997 as well as enjoying a lengthy domestic career as a quick but erratic fast bowler.
"I felt there was this part of my life that I was hiding," he said in an interview https://thespinoff.co.nz/videos/scratched-aotearoas-lost-sporting-legends/finding-heath-davis-scratched-aotearoas-lost-sporting-legends-the-spinoff#video with online magazine The Spinoff.
"There was a lot of that, just keeping your personal life separate. It was lonely ... I was repressing it, I wasn't living a gay life."
Davis said life improved after a move from his native Wellington to play domestic cricket in the more cosmopolitan city of Auckland in 1997.
"I felt there was this part of my life I needed to express, I was sick of hiding it," he added.
"Everyone in Auckland knew I was gay, in the team, but it didn't seem to be that big an issue ... I just felt free."
Former England wicketkeeper Steven Davies became the first male international cricketer to publicly come out as gay in early 2011.
(Reporting by Nick Mulvenney; Editing by Peter Rutherford ) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11071371/Former-Black-Cap-quick-Davis-comes-gay.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-02T02:04:24Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11071371/Former-Black-Cap-quick-Davis-comes-gay.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
DALLAS, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust (NYSE: NXDT) ("NXDT" or the "Company") today announced its regular monthly distribution on its common stock of $0.05 per share. The distribution will be payable on August 31, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business August 24, 2022.
About NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust
NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust is a publicly traded diversified real estate investment trust ("REIT") that trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NXDT. The Company previously operated as a registered closed-end investment company. On August 28, 2020, shareholders approved a proposal to transition the Company from an investment company to a diversified REIT. As part of this transition, the Company changed its name from NexPoint Strategic Opportunities Fund to NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust, effective November 8, 2021. The Company also changed its ticker symbol from "NHF" to "NXDT." On July 1, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") issued a deregistration order declaring that the Company has ceased to be an investment company and that the Company's registration as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 shall immediately cease to be in effect. The order, effective July 1, 2022, allows the Company to finalize its transition to a diversified REIT and begin trading as a REIT. For more information visit nxdt.nexpoint.com.
About NexPoint Advisors, L.P.
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Meghan Markle's half-brother says the Sussexes should 'stay out of politics' and claims the Duchess has not been in touch with their father following his stroke
- Presenter Dan Wooton interviewed Thomas Markle Jr, 56, this evening
- His father appeared in public for the first time since suffering a stroke in May
- The elder Markle thanked the British public for their 'best wishes and good will'
Meghan Markle's half-brother has lashed out at her and Harry, saying they should 'stay out of politics.'
Thomas Markle Jr, 56, also criticised Meghan for not contacting their father after he suffered a stroke in May which left him hospitalised for five days.
Their father, Thomas Markle Sr, 77, lost his speech in the stroke and is still recovering.
He made his first public appearance since then in an exclusive video on GB News as host Dan Wooton interviewed Thomas Jr.
Thomas Jr was upbeat about his father's condition, saying he was making strong progress in recovering his speech.
He said: 'Dad is doing amazing. There's a lot of work to do but every single day is just another milestone progression… in the right direction, which is ultimate recovery on everything. He's doing fantastic.'
However, when asked whether half-sister Meghan had been in touch about their father's condition, Thomas Jr said: 'Not not at all, nothing at all. Absolute zero.
Dan Wooton (left) interviewed Thoms Markle Jr on his show on GB News on Monday
Thomas Jr said Harry and Meghan should 'stick to rescue chickens in Motecito and stay out of politics'
'What's to be expected at this point? She didn't call for the first heart attack or the stroke - why would she call now?
'Obviously they're just doing other things - other things that they deem necessarily more important than their father.
'It's a mystery - it does bother him continuously, but he gets through it.'
Harry and Meghan now live in their £11 million mansion in Montecito, California since giving up royal duties in 2020.
Thomas Jr mocked Harry's wide-ranging speech on Nelson Mandela Day at the United Nations in which he spoke about climate change, the overturning of Roe v Wade in the US and the invasion of Ukraine.
Thomas Jr said: 'You're going to a memorial for Mandela at the UN building which is an open invitation to anybody in the general public and then you start talking world peace and politics which has nothing to do with anything there at that point.
'The Sussexes need to stick to rescue chickens in Motecito and stay out of politics.'
In his first appearance since his damaging stroke, Meghan Markle's father thanked the British public for their support.
In the video, Mr Markle can be seen sitting at a table overlooking a windy beach. He holds a whiteboard and pen, holding up the sign to the camera.
The sign reads: 'Hi Dan, Thank you and the British people for the best wishes and good will'.
The retired Hollywood lighting director suffered a stroke on May 23 and spent five days in hospital.
He fell over while shopping and had to be helped to his feet just days before he was hospitalised.
After being discharged, he said: 'I feel hugely grateful and know how lucky I am to be alive.
'I want to thank everyone, especially the wonderful doctors and nurses who saved my life. They are angels.
'I have been deeply moved by loving messages I've received from all over the world. People have been so kind. I can't speak right now, but I am working hard and will thank people properly when I can.'
Mr Markle had been planning to fly to the UK in June to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, but the stroke, which left him with limited speech, scuppered the trip.
Thomas Markle, 77, appeared in the video above a windy beach in his first public appearance since his stroke in May
Mr Markle thanked presenter Dan Wooton and the British public for their 'best wishes and good will'
Thomas Markle was rushed to hospital after suffering a stroke - he was hospitalised for five days and lost his speech
Writing on a whiteboard with a felt-tip pen at the time, he said: 'I wanted to come to pay my respects to the Queen. I wish her a happy Jubilee and many more years.'
The severe stroke was caused by a blood clot on the right side of Mr Markle's brain.
He was rushed to a hospital near his home in Rosarito, Mexico, before being transferred by ambulance to the US border where an ambulance was waiting to ferry him to a hospital in San Diego, California.
He has been in a critical-care ward all week and has made what one doctor told him was 'remarkable progress'.
On leaving the Californian hospital, he was able to speak a few words, but faces what he calls 'an uphill battle' to regain his power of speech.
'I have lots of hard work to do and will do it,' he wrote. 'I want to get well. I'm so lucky to have had amazing care and love. Thank you everyone.'
Mr Markle was be cared for by his 56-year-old son, Thomas Jr, who drove 11 hours through the night to be with his stricken father.
'I was visiting my son and his family in Oregon when I got the call,' said Thomas Jr at the time.
'I will be here for Dad and do whatever it takes to help him on his road to recovery. It's been a terrible shock for everyone but Dad is a strong man and he is determined to get well.
'He's already started working with a speech therapist and is making great progress. We've received hundreds of messages of support for him from people all over the world.
'We are so grateful for the outpouring of love for Dad. I'm here for him for as long as it takes.'
Mr Markle's daughter Samantha previously said that he may need a year of therapy to recover his speech after being struck down by the stroke.
His family had been worried about his high blood pressure for some time before he fell ill, resulting in him losing even the ability to tell paramedics what was wrong with him.
The 77-year-old had to write down his symptoms on a piece of paper.
Mr Markle was forced to miss his daughter's wedding to Prince Harry in 2018 after he had two heart attacks just days before.
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Nicola Sturgeon's government 'demanded mentions of Brexit, Queen Elizabeth II and England's 1966 World Cup Victory be removed from Platinum Jubilee commemoration book'
- The Platinum Jubilee book was given to school pupils across England
- A different version of the book was available for schoolchildren in Scotland
- Scottish Government officials requested a number of changes to the book
- The officials said the writing of some parts of the book sounded 'a little tabloid'
Nicola Sturgeon's government demanded 52 changes to a book commemorating the Platinum Jubilee - including changing the Queen's title, it has been reported.
Other requests included references to Brexit and England's 1966 World Cup win being removed.
Queen Elizabeth: A Platinum Jubilee Celebration was given to all children in England from reception to Year Six.
Schools in Scotland could opt in online if they wanted to order editions of the book for their pupils. Scottish Government emails showed the SNP administration asked for 52 changes to the book, designed as a children's gift book across the UK.
Officials from the curriculum and qualifications division objected to title of the book because 'she is not the second Elizabeth here' - referring to the 1603 Union of the Crowns after the death of Elizabeth I.
The Queen in Edinburgh on a visit to Scotland on June 27 - Scottish Government officials requested her title be changed to Her Majesty The Queen in the Scottish version of the book to reflect the fact the Union of Crowns took place in after the death of Elizabeth I
They also argued Brexit was 'highly divisive' and so should be removed from a timeline of significant events during the Queen's reign.
Officials added they saw the reference to the death of the Queen Mother in 2002 as a 'tragedy' was 'a little tabloid when describing the death of a very old lady'.
The emails added England winning the World Cup in 1966 should not be included because it was 'not that relevant in the non-England parts of the UK'.
There was also an objection to the Queen's comments ahead of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum when she urged voters to 'think very carefully about the future'.
The department said they were 'not content to be acknowledged at all in the development or production of this book.'
The final Scottish version of the book included some of the suggestions, including the Queen being referred to as 'Her Majesty The Queen' rather than Elizabeth II, her referendum comment and the description of her mother's death as a 'tragedy'.
However, the section on Brexit was kept, as was a description of the 1966 World Cup.
A spokesperson for the Scottish Government told the Telegraph: 'The book is a UK government project and they are responsible for its content, development and distribution.
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CAIRO, Egypt — A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan this weekend killed Ayman al-Zawahri, who helped Osama bin Laden plot the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and ensured al-Qaida survived and spread in the years after. President Joe Biden on Monday announced the killing of al-Zawahri, delivering a significant counterterrorism win just 11 months after American troops left the country.
A look at the al-Qaida leader, who evaded U.S. capture for 21 years after the suicide airliner attacks that in many ways changed America and its relations with the rest of the world.
WHO WAS AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI?
Americans who lived through the 9/11 attacks may not remember al-Zawahri's name, but many know his face more than two decades on: a man in glasses, slightly smiling, invariably shown in photos by the side of bin Laden as the two arranged the strike on the United States.
An Egyptian, al-Zawahri was born June 19, 1951, to a comfortable family in a leafy, drowsy Cairo suburb. Religiously observant from boyhood, he immersed himself in a violent branch of a Sunni Islamic revival that sought to replace the governments of Egypt and other Arab nations with a harsh interpretation of Islamic rule.
Al-Zawahri worked as an eye surgeon as a young adult, but also roamed Central Asia and the Middle East, witnessing Afghans' war against Soviet occupiers in that country, and meeting young Saudi Osama bin Laden and other Arab militants rallying to help Afghanistan expel Soviet troops.
He was one of hundreds of militants captured and tortured in Egyptian prison after Islamic fundamentalists' assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981. Biographers say the experience further radicalized him. Seven years later, al-Zawahiri was present when bin Laden founded al-Qaida.
Al-Zawahri merged his own Egyptian militant group was al-Qaida. He brought al-Qaida the organizational skill and experience — honed underground in Egypt, evading Egyptian intelligence — that allowed al-Qaida to organize cells of followers and strike around the world.
WHY WAS AL-ZAWAHRI IMPORTANT?
After the years of quietly assembling the suicide attackers, funds and plans for the Sept. 11 attack, Zawahri ensured that al-Qaida survived the global manhunt that followed to attack again.
On the run after 9/11, al-Zawahri rebuilt al-Qaida leadership in the Afghan-Pakistan border region and was the supreme leader over branches in Iraq, Asia, Yemen and beyond. With a credo of targeting near and far enemies, al-Qaida after 9/11 carried out years of unrelenting attacks: in Bali, Mombasa, Riyadh, Jakarta, Istanbul, Madrid, London and beyond. Attacks that killed 52 people in London in 2005 were among al-Qaida's last devastating attacks in the West, as drone strikes, counterterror raids and missiles launched by the U.S. and others killed al-Qaida-affiliated fighters and shattered parts of the network.
HOW WAS HE KILLED?
Around sunrise Sunday, Al-Zawahri came outside on the balcony of a house in Kabul, Afghanistan, and apparently lingered there, as U.S. intelligence had noted he often did. On this day, a U.S. drone fired two Hellfire missiles at the al-Qaida leader as he stood, according to U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the strike.
His presence in Afghanistan had been widely suspected for some time, analysts said. U.S. officials learned this year that Zawahri's wife and other family members had moved to a safe house in Kabul recently. Zawahri soon followed, the senior administration officials said.
U.S. officials, joined by top leaders all the way up to, eventually, Biden, spent careful months confirming his identity — and his fateful practice of standing alone on that same balcony — and planned the strike. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/who-is-ayman-al-zawahri/507-0bcf6b76-c452-4f33-8f01-feb7e3a2398f | 2022-08-02T02:17:07Z | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/who-is-ayman-al-zawahri/507-0bcf6b76-c452-4f33-8f01-feb7e3a2398f | false |
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Tributes paid to comic book writer Alan Grant
From the Arctic to flying the flag for Selkirk | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cdd52egw8k8t | 2022-08-02T02:19:13Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cdd52egw8k8t | true |
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Pasco County deputies are searching for a man and his 11-month-old son after they missed an appointment Monday morning.
PCSO said Timothy Chase, 24, and his son, Jaxton, 11 months, haven’t been seen or heard from since they missed the appointment at 8 a.m.
Deputies said they were last seen in the Spicebox Way area of Bayonet Point/Hudson.
Timothy is 5-feet-7-inches, around 140 pounds with short blonde hair, blue eyes and drives a lifted white four-door 1997 Chevy Silverado with royal blue rims. Jaxton is around two feet tall and 26 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Pasco Sheriff’s non-emergency line at 727-847-8102, option 7, or report tips online at PascoSheriff.com/tips. | https://www.wfla.com/news/pasco-county/pasco-county-deputies-searching-for-man-11-month-old-son/ | 2022-08-02T02:20:09Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/pasco-county/pasco-county-deputies-searching-for-man-11-month-old-son/ | false |
NSW Trade Minister Stuart Ayres reflects on involvement in John Barilaro's recruitment to lucrative New York role
By Jessica KiddNSW Trade Minister Stuart Ayres has conceded that he should have advised former deputy premier John Barilaro not to apply for an overseas trade role.
Key points:
- Mr Ayres accepts his position would be untenable, if he is proven to have acted improperly
- The NSW Premier says an independent review into Mr Barilaro's appointment to the trade role is due "very shortly"
- Leaked emails revealed Mr Ayres put forward a name to be added to a shortlist of candidates for the role
Mr Ayres has told Nine Radio that Mr Barilaro's application for Trade Commissioner to the Americas came too soon after he left parliament, and that he should have advised him not to apply for the role.
"If I had my time again, I would have said to him: 'The time frame between the end of your parliamentary career and you applying for this job will be too politically sensitive and you should not consider doing the role'," Mr Ayres said.
He accepted his job was on the line and he would be unable to continue as trade minister if the review found he acted improperly.
"I am confident that all of my actions have been in the best interests of the public and I think that's what that review will show," Mr Ayres said.
"If the [Graham] Head review shows that I have not done the right thing, then I don't think my position would be tenable, but I don't believe that's the case."
Mr Ayres has confirmed he texted a copy of the job advertisement to Mr Barilaro when it was first advertised after Mr Barilaro expressed an interest in the role.
But Mr Ayres has denied he had any role in Mr Barilaro's subsequent appointment to the role.
"Of course, I undertake my own reflections on my course of action, but everything I've done as a minister has been about making sure we deliver the best outcomes for the people of New South Wales," Mr Ayres said.
"I've acted always in the interests of the public.
"I've always undertaken my ministerial duties with the highest level of integrity and I've always wanted to make decisions in the best interests of the public."
Mr Barilaro was announced as the successful candidate in June.
The position is based in New York and comes with a $500,000 salary package.
Mr Barilaro later withdrew from the position, saying it had become untenable.
Mr Ayres said Premier Dominic Perrottet had not asked him to stand aside over the matter but admitted it had been a "challenging" few weeks.
"[Mr Perrottet] has been really supportive through this whole exercise," Mr Ayres said.
"He's made it pretty clear that he's put in place the independent review that's been conducted by Graham Head, a former public service commissioner, and he wants to wait until that review's completed and he'll make his decisions after that."
Deputy Premier and Nationals leader Paul Toole refused to comment directly on whether he supported Mr Ayres but said public confidence in ministers was critical.
"As the leader of the National Party and as the Deputy Premier I have very high standards and I have very clear expectations of my ministers," he said.
"I expect them to be acting with honesty and integrity at all times."
Leaked emails last week revealed Mr Ayres put forward a name to be added to a shortlist of candidates for the role, but he maintains that name was not John Barilaro's.
Documents released yesterday revealed another candidate was recommended ahead of Mr Barilaro before he was later ranked higher.
Mr Perrottet said he was expecting the independent review into Mr Barilaro's appointment "very shortly".
Mr Perrottet initiated the review in late June and it has been conducted alongside a parliamentary inquiry. | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-02/nsw-minister-stuart-ayres-actions-in-best-interest-of-public/101290440 | 2022-08-02T02:30:20Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-02/nsw-minister-stuart-ayres-actions-in-best-interest-of-public/101290440 | false |
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I fear my family are silently dying in Ukraine | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cgmxjyd1mzlt | 2022-08-02T02:32:18Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cgmxjyd1mzlt | false |
SAGINAW, MICH. (WJRT) - The Saginaw Valley State athletic department announced Ryan Schalk as their new softball head coach.
"I want to thank John, Angela (Pohl), Brad (Barlog), and everyone involved in the search process for this opportunity," Schalk said. "I also want to thank all the coaches, administrators, and players I have had the opportunity to work with throughout my career. Not only is SVSU a tremendous educational institution, but there is a history of success that I look forward to building on within the softball program. After seeing the direction of the athletic department and the opportunity for success within the GLIAC, it was a no-brainer for me. I couldn't be more excited to get to campus, meet the team, and continue to build on the championship culture that has been established within Saginaw Valley State Softball."
Schalk was the assistant coach for Grand Valley State University last year.
He helped lead GVSU to the GLAIC regular season title and a berth into the NCAA DII Super Regionals. | https://www.abc12.com/sports/svsu-names-ryan-schalk-new-softball-head-coach/article_2614ed3a-11ed-11ed-8d19-03987f6e71c5.html | 2022-08-02T02:44:00Z | https://www.abc12.com/sports/svsu-names-ryan-schalk-new-softball-head-coach/article_2614ed3a-11ed-11ed-8d19-03987f6e71c5.html | true |
Washington residents who test positive for the coronavirus can now get a free telehealth appointment for treatment consultation, regardless of their insurance coverage.
Late last week, the state Department of Health launched the new telehealth option as an expansion of the federal government’s initiative to increase access to COVID-19 treatments.
Antiviral pills authorized to treat COVID — Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck’s molnupiravir — are available by prescription only and should be started within five days of when symptoms begin, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
Telehealth appointments via phone or video call to discuss COVID treatments had previously been only available to insured patients who receive care through a provider that offers them, according to the health department. The new program makes these visits available to everyone, regardless of insurance status, with no out-of-pocket costs.
“At DOH, we value equity and innovation, and have embraced those values throughout our COVID-19 response,” said Dr. Umair Shah, Secretary of Health, in a news release. “Ensuring that we can equitably connect communities with therapeutics is pivotal so that we can continue our mission of reducing unnecessary death from this disease.”
Statewide, COVID cases have remained relatively flat over the last couple months, with 213 new cases per 100,00 people from July 17 to July 23. Hospitalizations have increased over the same time period and may be plateauing at a seven-day rate of about 10 per 100,000. The death rate has increased, with 80 COVID deaths recorded from June 23 to June 29, the most recent complete data.
In Cowlitz County, COVID cases appear to be slowly decreasing or flattening, with about 141 per 100,000 from July 17 to July 23. In the county and statewide, the number of cases reported is an undercount because not everyone gets tested or reports at-home test results, according to the health department.
Hospitalizations rise and fall from week to week, but overall admissions per month have slowly increased, according to Cowlitz County Health and Human Services. The most recent weekly hospitalization rate is above the state average, at 12.7 per 100,000.
Last month, the county recorded an increase in COVID deaths, with 13 so far in July, up from two in June, according to the county health department.
County health staff plan to get the word out locally about the new free option through the department’s website, social media pages and other outreach efforts, said Stefanie Donahue, communications manager.
“We’re pleased to see new options for people to access COVID-19 treatments and are hopeful the state’s announcement last week helped broaden awareness,” she said. “We want people to know COVID-19 treatments are potentially life-saving, particularly for those who are at higher risk of severe disease.”
Not everyone who tests positive for COVID-19 needs treatment. Oral antivirals are important for people who are at high risk of hospitalization, including people who are 65 and older, pregnant, or obese, or have chronic medical conditions, as well as those taking immunosuppressant treatments, according to the Department of Health.
People can set up a telehealth appointment through the state’s new program at the Department of Health’s telehealth webpage at bit.ly/3cYUIEb or by calling the COVID call center at 1-800-525-0127 and pressing #. The call center can set up appointments from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays and state holidays. Telehealth appointments are available in 240 languages through translation services and can be arranged through the call center. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/wa-expands-telehealth-options-to-improve-access-to-covid-treatment/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-08-02T02:44:45Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/wa-expands-telehealth-options-to-improve-access-to-covid-treatment/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | false |
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