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Ryan Nolan has been thrown in at the deep end at Raith Rovers.
The 23-year-old signed late on Thursday last week before making his debut against Cove Rangers on Saturday.
It came days after Cristophe Berra retired, the only recognised senior centre-back at the club.
That’s why the defender made his debut approximately 43 hours after leaving Northampton Town.
It’s also why he played alongside a central midfielder – although Scott Brown has shown his capabilities there.
Exactly what he needs
Manager Ian Murray told Raith TV after the game that even though there were no excuses for the performance Nolan had been given a “baptism of fire”.
Coincidentally, the same words were used by BBC sports journalist Jake Sharpe.
“It’s probably the best thing for him,” he told Courier Sport.
“He’s going to get a baptism of fire, I suppose, but he’s going to get minutes.”
After growing up in Spain from the age of eight Nolan joined the Inter Milan academy when he was 16 years old.
After spells with two lower-league Italian sides he found himself at Getafe B.
He impressed and found himself on the fringes of the first team, even sitting on the bench for a Europa League match.
Player with pedigree
That progress was halted by a cruciate ligament injury sustained in training in December 2020.
“I don’t think there is anything wrong with him fitness-wise,” added Sharpe.
Nolan was loaned almost immediately to Kidderminster Harriers after joining in March, but only turned out once for them.
Sharpe explains why it didn’t work out at Northampton: “I don’t think he progressed in the way he hoped he would.
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— Northampton Town (@ntfc) July 28, 2022
“He’s got a very good pedigree, so why wouldn’t you take a look at him and have a gamble?
“They went down a different route and signed a few young centre-backs from the Premier League.
“He desperately needs to play games and I think they realised he wasn’t going to get the opportunity to do that.”
A winner’s attitude
Charles Commins is a podcast producer and is also behind the Northampton Town fan podcast It’s All Cobblers To Me.
He spoke highly of Colin Calderwood – the Cobblers’ assistant manager – who managed Murray while he was manager of Hibs.
Commins said there was never any suggestion Nolan was going to fill the void left by the departure of captain Fraser Horsfall to Stockport.
“I think it’s a shame because he obviously had pedigree,” said Commins.
“The first we knew that he wasn’t going to be involved was when we announced our squad numbers – on the day he signed for Raith – and he wasn’t on the list.
“Nothing was said about it and the fans said ‘Oh, where’s Nolan?’
“Kudos to him for keeping with it and not giving up.
“That probably shows the character of the guy – a guy who I’ve never met or seen on the football field.
“But that to me says everything. He’s quite clearly got a winner’s attitude.”
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Jakobi Meyers looks around the New England Patriots receivers’ meetings and struggles to find a weak link.
“It’s a lot of guys that can make a lot of plays,” Meyers said after practice on Wednesday.
“It’s not one guy in the room you can point to and say, ‘He might not make it.’ Honestly,” Meyers said. “That says a lot about the guys. They can all do different things but they all do them very well. I’m really excited about this group.”
A former rookie free agent, Meyers is heading into his fourth year with the Patriots, making him the longest-tenured receiver on the team. He is also the leading pass-catcher from last year, when he grabbed 83 for 866 yards and two touchdowns — all career highs.
But if that might have tempted him to take it easy, the increased competition in camp this year quickly wiped that thought from his mind. With new addition DeVante Parker, who came to New England from Miami in an offseason trade, and the resurgence of Nelson Agholor in his second camp with the Patriots, Meyers knows he can't relax.
“You’ve got to get better. You don’t have a choice. Because if you don’t, somebody else will," Meyers said. “We all like seeing other guys make plays. We’ve got a lot of guys who can make plays. There's a lot of excitement in the room right now.”
Agholor came to New England after five seasons in Philadelphia and one in Las Vegas. In his first year with the Patriots, he caught 37 passes for 473 yards and three touchdowns — down from 48, 896 and eight with the Raiders.
But coach Bill Belichick says he has seen a “big jump” in Year 2 after spending the offseason working out in New England. At Tuesday's practice, Agholor and second-year quarterback Mac Jones connected on a few deep balls and another at across the back of the end zone, prompting cheers from the rest of the receiving group.
“He had a really good spring of training,” Belichick said. “He’s come out here, he’s consistently made plays ... very few mental errors, very few mistakes.”
The Patriots also added Tyquan Thornton, a second-round draft choice from Baylor who ran one of the fastest 40-yard dash times at the NFL combine, 4.28 seconds.
“He just flies. You don’t normally get to see 4.2 outside,” Meyers said. “Just to see him be able to go out there and fly down the field ... he looks covered and then he’ll just separate from some guys.”
Meyers said it's hard to imagine how he became an elder statesman at the age of 25. He doesn't shy away from trying to share his wisdom with the younger players, but he also said: “Everybody can’t talk.”
“Some people have just got to be able to listen and follow orders,” Meyers said. "I give my input when I can, but for the most part I’m just trying to soak up every detail that I can and just get ready when they call my name.
“It’s only my fourth year," he said. “I try to help when I can. I'm not the most vocal guy, but when guys ask me I try to give them the best advice I can. Every detail that I can. I’m not holding anything back.”
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State Sen. Lisa Baker announced today that former WNEP-TV broadcaster Tom Williams will be joining her staff as the 20th Senatorial District’s communications and outreach director.
“Helping others has always been a priority for me, so this new role is a natural fit,” said Williams in a press released issued Monday from Baker’s office. “I am looking forward to serving people at the state level, trying to solve their problems, answer their questions, and connect them with available resources and assistance.”
Williams will be working out of Baker’s Dallas office, located at 22 Dallas Shopping Center. A Penn State graduate, Williams spent more than 30 years working in broadcast journalism, with the bulk of those years spent at WNEP working in a variety of roles, including reporter, news anchor and executive producer.
“For nearly three decades, Tom has been a trusted and familiar face in Northeastern Pennsylvania, sharing news and information throughout our area,” Baker said. “I am very excited that Tom has joined my team. His wealth of knowledge and strong desire to better our community will undoubtedly be an asset as we work to provide services to constituents.”
Throughout his career, Williams has also been a supporter of several charitable organizations, including volunteer work for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Janet Weis Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph’s Center and Allied Services.
Williams left WNEP earlier this year to pursue public office, running in the Republican primary for the 119th Legislative District seat vacated by state Rep. Gerald Mullery, who opted not to seek office. The primary was won by Plymouth borough councilman Alec Ryncavage. | https://www.timesleader.com/news/1568247/former-wnep-anchor-williams-working-for-baker | 2022-08-04T00:37:40Z | https://www.timesleader.com/news/1568247/former-wnep-anchor-williams-working-for-baker | false |
Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. sit for depositions as part of NY probe into Trump Organization’s finances
By Kara Scannell, Sonia Moghe and Amya Henry, CNN
Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. sat for depositions as part of the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into the Trump Organization’s finances after months of fighting in court, people familiar with the matter told CNN.
Ivanka Trump’s behind-closed-doors deposition took place Wednesday and Trump Jr. had his deposition last Thursday, the people said. The Trumps were originally supposed to sit for questioning last month, but the death of their mother Ivana postponed their testimony.
Trump Jr., who runs the Trump Organization with his brother Eric Trump, did not assert the Fifth Amendment and answered the state’s questions, one of the people said. It is not clear what he was asked or how he answered the questions.
Former President Donald Trump is expected to testify later this month.
A lawyer for Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump declined to comment, and representatives from the Trump Organization did not respond to requests for comment. The New York attorney general’s office declined to comment.
The depositions raise the legal stakes for the Trump family members as they face two investigations, one civil and one criminal, into the accuracy of Trump Organization financial statements.
The former President and the Trump Organization have previously denied any wrongdoing and called the civil investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, politically motivated.
In January, James’ office said it found “significant” evidence indicating the Trump Organization used false or misleading asset valuations in its financial statements to obtain loans, insurance and tax benefits.
Trump Jr.’s decision to answer state questions breaks with that of Eric Trump and former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg who both asserted their Fifth Amendment right when deposed in 2020.
In a civil case, the jury can draw an “adverse inference” and hold it against individuals who don’t answer questions.
That is not the only calculus at play. There’s been some discussion over the stigma of asserting the Fifth Amendment and how it would play politically, one of the people familiar with the matter said.
By answering questions, Trump Jr. increases his possible legal exposure. He was involved in several properties, including 40 Wall Street, and certified the accuracy of the financial statements from 2017 forward, the attorney general’s office has said. Ivanka Trump was a key liaison with Deutsche Bank, which loaned the Trump Organization more than $300 million.
The financial statements were prepared by accountants inside and outside of the Trump Organization. There is also debate over how the properties were valued given the flexibility over appraisals. The valuations were signed off by Trump’s longtime appraiser Cushman & Wakefield, which is also under investigation.
The firm, which broke ties with Trump after January 6, 2021, has denied any wrongdoing. Banks, which supplied financing, also didn’t lose any money on the loans they underwrote.
The New York attorney general’s investigation is in an advanced stage. Lawyers with the office have said publicly that they expect to take some kind of enforcement action but would engage in discussions with the Trump Organization before a decision was made.
Investigators have interviewed numerous current and former Trump Organization executives and employees, including Donald Trump’s former assistant Rhona Graff, and several executives in the finance and accounting department.
James’ office subpoenaed the Trumps late last year. They moved to block the subpoenas in court, arguing that they shouldn’t have to sit for depositions while there was a criminal investigation. The court rejected their arguments, saying a criminal investigation does not preclude a civil investigation from obtaining evidence. The former President was also held in contempt and fined $110,000 for failing to comply with a subpoena for documents. The judge lifted the contempt order in June.
The criminal investigation, led by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, has slowed but not stopped. Earlier this year, Bragg would not authorize prosecutors to present evidence before a state grand jury after raising concerns about the strength of the case, CNN has reported. A special grand jury hearing evidence in the case expired in April, but a new one could be seated in the future.
Bragg told CNN in an interview in April: “Anytime you have a parallel civil, criminal investigation, if there’s testimony in that proceeding, obviously we will look at it.”
CORRECTION: This story has been updated to reflect that Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. were supposed to sit for their depositions in July. It also has been updated with additional background information.
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TOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") and Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB, Corporate headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts, CEO: Michel Vounatsos, "Biogen") announced that Eisai presented new findings on a subcutaneous formulation of lecanemab (BAN2401) and the modeling simulation of the impact of ApoE4 genotype on the incidence of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities – edema/effusion (ARIA-E) – in subjects treated with lecanemab, an investigational anti-amyloid beta (Aβ) protofibril antibody for the treatment of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild AD (collectively known as early AD) with confirmed presence of amyloid pathology in the brain. The data were shared at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) in San Diego, CA.
Key Eisai presentations include:
Eisai Abstract #69438: Absolute Bioavailability of a Single, Fixed Subcutaneous Dose of Lecanemab in Healthy Subjects
This Phase 1 study was an open-label, parallel-group study conducted in healthy subjects: 30 subjects were randomized into a 10 mg/kg intravenous (IV) dose group and 29 subjects (5 of which were Japanese) were randomized into a single fixed 700mg SC dose group. The absolute bioavailability of lecanemab following a single SC injection was 49.7% (90% CI: 43.54 – 56.83). After SC dosing, the Cmax was observed 72 hours post-dose and was 4-fold lower compared to IV infusion, which reflects the relatively long absorption phase following SC dose administration compared with 1-hour IV infusion. Lecanemab's half-life (~7 days) was similar following SC and IV administrations. The incidence of adverse events was similar between SC and IV administrations. No positive results for neutralizing antibodies (NAb) were recorded in this study. Lecanemab PK for the 5 Japanese subjects was similar to that of the non-Japanese subjects following a single subcutaneous dose administration.
Eisai Abstract #69429: Subcutaneous Dose Selection of Lecanemab for Treatment of Subjects with Early Alzheimer's Disease
In this analysis, modeling and simulation was conducted to evaluate the equivalence of a fixed weekly SC dose to a body weight-based 10 mg/kg IV bi-weekly dose with regard to lecanemab exposure. The analysis showed that a fixed lecanemab SC dose of 720 mg administered weekly may potentially result in comparable exposure (AUC) and efficacy as measured by reduction in amyloid PET SUVr to 10mg/kg IV dose administered bi-weekly. The exposure-response model is based on the established correlation between ARIA-E and Cmax. SC lecanemab dose is predicted to have a lower incidence of ARIA-E compared to IV lecanemab due to lower Cmax following SC administration.
Eisai Virtual Developing Topics Presentation Abstract #69402 / Session VDT-4-29: Modeled Impact of ApoE4 Genotype on ARIA-E Incidence in Patients Treated with Lecanemab
In this analysis, the results of the Phase 2 (Study 201) core study were used to explore the effect of ApoE4 genotype on ARIA-E incidence by modeling and simulation. The model predictions were compared to the ARIA-E incidence observed in subjects newly initiated on lecanemab 10 mg/kg bi-weekly in the Phase 2 (Study 201) open-label long-term study (OLE study). The effect of the ApoE4 genotype was analyzed in the exposure-ARIA-E model with three categorical covariates (homozygous carriers, heterozygous carriers, and noncarriers) using the results of the Phase 2 (Study 201) core study. ApoE4 genotype (homozygous) was a significant covariate in the exposure-ARIA-E model, and the incidence of ARIA-E correlated best with Cmax at steady state. On the other hand, there was no statistically significant difference in ARIA-E incidence between ApoE4 noncarriers and heterozygous carriers. The predicted incidence of ARIA-E when lecanemab was dosed at 10 mg/kg bi-weekly was 22.5% in ApoE4 homozygous carriers, 6.8% in heterozygous carriers, and 5.4% in ApoE4 noncarriers. In the OLE study, the incidence of ARIA-E observed in ApoE4 homozygotes newly initiated on lecanemab 10 mg/kg bi-weekly treatment was 25% (1 out of 4), comparable to the model prediction of 22.5%. Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) are an adverse event associated with amyloid-lowering therapies, and it is important to monitor for and manage during treatment.
"In an effort to simplify the patient journey and fulfill our human health care mission, Eisai is developing a subcutaneous formulation of lecanemab that patients may be able to use at home," said Michael Irizarry, M.D., Senior Vice President, Deputy Chief Clinical Officer, Alzheimer's Disease and Brain Health, Eisai Inc. "The new data Eisai presented today about the bioavailability of subcutaneous dosing, and comparability with intravenous dosing, was used by Eisai to define the appropriate subcutaneous dosing that is currently being tested in the Phase 3 Clarity AD open-label extension. In addition, Eisai has expanded on the previous modeling that explored the effect of the ApoE4 genotype on ARIA-E to further our understanding of patient populations who are most impacted by ARIA-E in the lecanemab clinical trials. The modeling will be updated with data from Eisai's Phase 3 Clarity AD confirmatory study reading out in fall 2022."
"We will continue to inform the treatment of patients with Alzheimer's disease and further our development of new therapies," said Dominic Walsh, Head of Neurodegenerative Research Unit at Biogen. "Subcutaneous administration may provide a convenient option for patients and their caregivers in the future, and we look forward to a continued co-development with Eisai on this formulation."
On July 5, 2022, Eisai announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted the Biologics License Application (BLA) for lecanemab under the accelerated approval pathway and was granted priority review, with a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) action date of January 6, 2023. The readout of the primary endpoint data of Clarity AD will occur in the fall of 2022. The FDA has agreed that the results of Clarity AD when completed, can serve as the confirmatory study to verify the clinical benefit of lecanemab.
This release discusses investigational uses of an agent in development and is not intended to convey conclusions about efficacy or safety. There is no guarantee that such an investigational agent will successfully complete clinical development or gain health authority approval.
[Notes to editors]
1. About Lecanemab (BAN2401)
Lecanemab is an investigational humanized monoclonal antibody for Alzheimer's disease (AD) that is the result of a strategic research alliance between Eisai and BioArctic. Lecanemab selectively binds to neutralize and eliminate soluble, toxic amyloid-beta (Aβ) aggregates (protofibrils) that are thought to contribute to the neurodegenerative process in AD. As such, lecanemab may have the potential to have an effect on disease pathology and to slow down the progression of the disease. Currently, lecanemab is being developed as the only anti- Aβ antibody that can be used for the treatment of early AD without the need for titration. With regard to the results from pre-specified analysis at 18 months of treatment, Study 201 demonstrated reduction of brain Aβ accumulation (P<0.0001) and slowing of disease progression measured by ADCOMS* (P<0.05) in early AD subjects. The study did not achieve its primary outcome measure** at 12 months of treatment. The Study 201 open-label extension was initiated after completion of the Core period and a Gap period off treatment of 9-59 months (average of 24 months, n=180 from core study enrolled) to evaluate safety and efficacy is underway.
Currently, lecanemab is being studied in a confirmatory Phase 3 clinical study in symptomatic early AD (Clarity-AD), following the outcome of the Phase 2 clinical study (Study 201). Since July 2020 the Phase 3 clinical study (AHEAD 3-45) for individuals with preclinical AD, meaning they are clinically normal and have intermediate or elevated levels of amyloid in their brains, is ongoing. AHEAD 3-45 is conducted as a public-private partnership between the Alzheimer's Clinical Trial Consortium that provides the infrastructure for academic clinical trials in Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias in the U.S, funded by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, Eisai and Biogen. Furthermore, Eisai has initiated a lecanemab subcutaneous dosing Phase 1 study.
* Developed by Eisai, ADCOMS (AD Composite Score) combines items from the ADAS-Cog (Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-cognitive subscale), CDR (Clinical Dementia Rating) and the MMSE (Mini-Mental State Examination) scales to enable a sensitive detection of changes in clinical functions of early AD symptoms and changes in memory. The ADCOMS scale ranges from a score of 0.00 to 1.97, with higher score indicating greater impairment.
** An 80% or higher estimated probability of demonstrating 25% or greater slowing in clinical decline at 12 months treatment measured by ADCOMS from baseline compared to placebo.
2. About the Collaboration between Eisai and Biogen for Alzheimer's Disease
Eisai and Biogen have been collaborating on the joint development and commercialization of AD treatments since 2014. Eisai serves as the lead of lecanemab development and regulatory submissions globally with both companies co-commercializing and co-promoting the product and Eisai having final decision-making authority.
3. About the Collaboration between Eisai and BioArctic for Alzheimer's Disease
Since 2005, Eisai and BioArctic have had a long-term collaboration regarding the development and commercialization of AD treatments. Eisai obtained the global rights to study, develop, manufacture and market lecanemab for the treatment of AD pursuant to an agreement concluded with BioArctic in December 2007. The development and commercialization agreement on the antibody lecanemab back-up was signed in May 2015.
4. About Eisai Co., Ltd.
Eisai's Corporate Concept is "to give first thought to patients and people in the daily living domain, and to increase the benefits that health care provides." Under this Concept (also known as human health care (hhc) Concept), we aim to effectively achieve social good in the form of relieving anxiety over health and reducing health disparities. With a global network of R&D facilities, manufacturing sites and marketing subsidiaries, we strive to create and deliver innovative products to target diseases with high unmet medical needs, with a particular focus in our strategic areas of Neurology and Oncology.
In addition, we demonstrate our commitment to the elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which is a target (3.3) of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with working on various activities together with global partners.
For more information about Eisai, please visit www.eisai.com (for global headquarters: Eisai Co., Ltd.), and connect with us on Twitter @Eisai_SDGs.
5. About Eisai Inc.
At Eisai Inc., human health care (hhc) is our mission and is the shared purpose that connects us to those we serve creating a network of powerful relationships that enables us to identify, understand and work to address the needs of people throughout their lives. We boldly push past the boundaries of science and aim to deliver life-changing therapies and health-related solutions that matter to people and society. We bring together science, technology and real-world expertise to pursue a world free from cancer, Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Everything we do is guided by the simple principle that patients and their families come first, and we have a responsibility to listen to and learn from them.
Eisai Inc. is the U.S. pharmaceutical subsidiary of Tokyo-based Eisai Co., Ltd. The company's presence in the U.S. includes three discovery centers as well as commercial, clinical development and global demand organizations. To learn more about Eisai, please visit us at www.eisai.com/US and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn. For more information on our work in neurology, please visit the Eisai U.S. Neurology LinkedIn page.
Eisai Co., Ltd. is a leading global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan. Eisai's corporate philosophy is based on the human health care (hhc) concept, which is to give first thought to patients and their families, and to increase the benefits that health care provides to them. With a global network of R&D facilities, manufacturing sites and marketing subsidiaries, we strive to realize our hhc philosophy by delivering innovative products to target diseases with high unmet medical needs, with a particular focus in our strategic areas of Neurology and Oncology.
Leveraging the experience gained from the development and marketing of a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, Eisai aims to establish the "Eisai Dementia Platform." Through this platform, Eisai plans to deliver novel benefits to those living with dementia and their families through constructing a "Dementia Ecosystem," by collaborating with partners such as medical organizations, diagnostic development companies, research organizations, and bio-ventures in addition to private insurance agencies, finance industries, fitness clubs, automobile makers, retailers, and care facilities. For more information about Eisai Co., Ltd., please visit https://www.eisai.com.
6. About Biogen
As pioneers in neuroscience, Biogen discovers, develops, and delivers worldwide innovative therapies for people living with serious neurological diseases as well as related therapeutic adjacencies. One of the world's first global biotechnology companies, Biogen was founded in 1978 by Charles Weissmann, Heinz Schaller, Sir Kenneth Murray, and Nobel Prize winners Walter Gilbert and Phillip Sharp. Today, Biogen has a leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and developed the first and only approved treatment to address a defining pathology of Alzheimer's disease. Biogen is also commercializing biosimilars and focusing on advancing one of the industry's most diversified pipelines in neuroscience that will transform the standard of care for patients in several areas of high unmet need.
In 2020, Biogen launched a bold 20-year, $250 million initiative to address the deeply interrelated issues of climate, health, and equity. Healthy Climate, Healthy Lives™ aims to eliminate fossil fuels across the company's operations, build collaborations with renowned institutions to advance the science to improve human health outcomes, and support underserved communities.
We routinely post information that may be important to investors on our website at www.biogen.com. Follow us on social media - Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube.
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This news release contains forward-looking statements, including statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, about the potential clinical effects of lecanemab; the potential benefits, safety and efficacy of lecanemab; potential regulatory discussions, submissions and approvals and the timing thereof; the expected data readout for the Clarity AD study; the treatment of Alzheimer's disease; the anticipated benefits and potential of Biogen's collaboration arrangements with Eisai; the potential of Biogen's commercial business and pipeline programs, including lecanemab; and risks and uncertainties associated with drug development and commercialization. These statements may be identified by words such as "aim," "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "forecast," "intend," "may," "plan," "possible," "potential," "will," "would" and other words and terms of similar meaning. Drug development and commercialization involve a high degree of risk, and only a small number of research and development programs result in commercialization of a product. Results in early-stage clinical studies may not be indicative of full results or results from later stage or larger scale clinical studies and do not ensure regulatory approval. You should not place undue reliance on these statements or the scientific data presented.
These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such statements, including without limitation unexpected concerns that may arise from additional data, analysis or results obtained during clinical studies, including the Clarity AD clinical trial and AHEAD 3-45 study; the occurrence of adverse safety events; risks of unexpected costs or delays; the risk of other unexpected hurdles; regulatory submissions may take longer or be more difficult to complete than expected; regulatory authorities may require additional information or further studies, or may fail or refuse to approve or may delay approval of Biogen's drug candidates, including lecanemab; actual timing and content of submissions to and decisions made by the regulatory authorities regarding lecanemab; uncertainty of success in the development and potential commercialization of lecanemab; failure to protect and enforce Biogen's data, intellectual property and other proprietary rights and uncertainties relating to intellectual property claims and challenges; product liability claims; third party collaboration risks; and the direct and indirect impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on Biogen's business, results of operations and financial condition. The foregoing sets forth many, but not all, of the factors that could cause actual results to differ from Biogen's expectations in any forward-looking statement. Investors should consider this cautionary statement as well as the risk factors identified in Biogen's most recent annual or quarterly report and in other reports Biogen has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These statements are based on Biogen's current beliefs and expectations and speak only as of the date of this news release. Biogen does not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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15-year-old in Litchfield Park dies from gunshot wound
Gloria Rebecca Gomez
Arizona Republic
A fatal shooting killed a 15-year-old in Litchfield Park on Tuesday morning.
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Calbert Gillett said officers received a call about a shooting near El Mirage and Bethany Home roads around 5 a.m. and found the teen with a gunshot wound.
He was taken to a hospital where he later died from his injuries.
No other information was provided. It is unclear what caused the shooting. The case is still under investigation, Gillett said.
Reach criminal justice reporter Gloria Rebecca Gomez at grgomez@gannett.com or on Twitter @glorihuh.
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Former chancellor Sajid Javid has thrown his support behind Liz Truss’s Tory leadership bid, warning that Rishi Sunak’s more cautious tax plans would see the nation “sleepwalking” into a “high-tax, low-growth” economy.
The announcement came after the campaign of Ms Truss, the Foreign Secretary, was boosted by two surveys giving her overwhelming leads over Mr Sunak as they face off to become the next prime minister.
She won a 34-percentage point lead over Mr Sunak in a YouGov poll of party members, before a survey for the ConservativeHome website released on Wednesday put her 32 ahead.
Mr Javid, whose resignation as health secretary minutes before Mr Sunak quit as chancellor triggered the cascade that forced Boris Johnson to resign, then threw his support behind the frontrunner.
The failed leadership candidate warned that “tax cuts now are essential” as Mr Sunak resists adopting Ms Truss’s more radical plan, saying he must get to grips with spiralling inflation first.
In an article for The Times, Mr Javid said the nation risks “sleepwalking into a big-state, high-tax, low-growth, social democratic model which risks us becoming a middle-income economy by the 2030s”.
“If we can renew our government with a bold agenda, the Conservatives can still beat Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP at the next election – and the evidence suggests Liz is the best-placed candidate to do so,” he added.
Mr Javid launched a leadership run on a platform of swift tax cuts, but quickly pulled out, struggling to win enough nominations from Tory MPs to go through to the first round of voting.
The YouGov survey showed 60% of party members polled between July 29 and August 2 saying they intended to vote for the Foreign Secretary, with 26% backing Mr Sunak.
The poll of 1,043 Conservative Party members indicated just 11% do not know who they will vote for, while 2% said they will not take part in the contest.
A further indication of Ms Truss’s dominance came with a survey of 1,003 members by the ConservativeHome website, which had 58% backing her, to Mr Sunak’s 26%.
But she insisted she is taking nothing for granted as a delay in ballot papers being issued due to cyber security concerns gave her rival more time to catch up.
Asked if she is looking forward to being prime minister, Ms Truss said: “I am not taking anything for granted. There is still a long way to go in this leadership election.”
But she later lashed out at “the media” for having “misinterpreted” her £8.8 billion policy pledge to cut the public sector wage bill by paying workers in cheaper areas of the country less than in more expensive parts.
In the first turbulence for her campaign, Ms Truss was forced to abandon the proposal after furious Tory colleagues warned it would lead to a “levelling down” of the nation.
Under questioning during a leadership hustings of Tory members in Cardiff, Ms Truss insisted the plan was never intended to apply to doctors, nurses and teachers.
Asked who had got the policy wrong, she said: “The media.”
But she refused to set out why the policy was being abandoned entirely if the problem was merely one of presentation.
The information put out by her campaign said the potential £8.8 billion saving from the policy depended on it being “adopted for all public sector workers in the long term”.
Mr Sunak welcomed her U-turn, saying it would have meant “almost half a million workers in Wales getting a pay cut”.
Meanwhile, renewed her attacks on Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon after saying she would ignore the “attention seeker”.
The Foreign Secretary went on to criticise Ms Sturgeon’s Welsh counterpart Mark Drakeford as a “low-energy version of Jeremy Corbyn”, the former Labour leader, and his “plastic patriot” successor Sir Keir Starmer.
Ms Truss lamented “some unfortunate occurrences” during the Tory leadership race when questioned about some of the bitter blue-on-blue attacks as she said she would want fewer debates in the future.
“I wouldn’t necessarily have so many debates again, I think it’s better if we’re talking to each other within the Conservative Party rather than airing our dirty linen in public,” she said.
The first postal votes in the contest were due to be submitted this week, but the party delayed sending ballots out after advice from cyber security experts.
The party has made changes to its process on the advice of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of GCHQ, after warnings that hackers could change members’ votes.
The ballots had been due to be sent out from Monday but could now arrive as late as Thursday August 11.
A Conservative spokesman said: “We have consulted with the NCSC throughout this process and have decided to enhance security around the ballot process.
“Eligible members will start receiving ballot packs this week.”
An NCSC spokesman said: “Defending UK democratic and electoral processes is a priority for the NCSC and we work closely with all parliamentary political parties, local authorities and MPs to provide cyber security guidance and support.
“As you would expect from the UK’s national cyber security authority, we provided advice to the Conservative Party on security considerations for online leadership voting.”
The party has been forced to abandon plans to let members change which candidate they are backing in the election process, the Telegraph reported. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/politics/3560002/liz-truss-wins-polling-boost-over-rishi-sunak-and-backing-of-sajid-javid/ | 2022-08-04T00:41:26Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/politics/3560002/liz-truss-wins-polling-boost-over-rishi-sunak-and-backing-of-sajid-javid/ | true |
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nearly 2,500 workers at three Boeing defense plants in the Midwest voted Wednesday to ratify a contract that their union said will raise pay by an average of 14% over three years and add inflation adjustments.
The vote by members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers came less than two weeks after union members rejected an earlier offer and authorized a strike.
A spokesman for Boeing, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, said the company was pleased with the outcome and looked forward to its future in the St. Louis area.
The three-year contract will take effect Thursday and cover employees at Boeing plants in St. Louis and St. Charles, Missouri, and Mascoutah, Illinois. The workers build several types of military planes.
The union said the new contract includes a provision from the rejected deal that calls for company contributions of up to 10% to employees’ 401(k) retirement plans, and it added a $8,000 lump-sum payment that can go into the employee’s account. It also has improvements for sick leave and parental leave, and makes no changes to the workers’ health insurance plans, according to the union.
Workers voted down a company offer on July 24, saying that the retirement benefits were not an adequate replacement for pension plans that had been taken away. Boeing made an improved offer over the weekend.
Boeing is best known to the public for its airline jets, but through the first six months of this year it received more revenue from its defense and space business — about 38% of total revenue.
With labor shortages in many parts of the economy, unions have scored organizing wins this year including at Amazon, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-boeing-machinists-ap-20220804-j5biups5d5fpbccq2wgyfd7vbm-story.html | 2022-08-04T00:53:10Z | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-boeing-machinists-ap-20220804-j5biups5d5fpbccq2wgyfd7vbm-story.html | false |
Seoul shares open higher on U.S. gains
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Yonhap) -- Seoul shares opened higher Thursday, tracking overnight gains on Wall Street, as jitters over U.S.-China tension, caused by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit, eased somewhat.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) rose 8.91 points, or 0.36 percent, to trade at 2,470.36 points in the first 15 minutes of trading.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.29 percent, and the Nasdaq Composite climbed 2.59 percent on firm economic data showing the world's largest economy is still chugging along.
There were concerns about an armed conflict between China and the U.S. over Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, which China views as part of its territory. But there was no such clash.
Investors also remain watchful over the U.S Federal Reserve's tightening of monetary easing to combat high inflation despite recession risk.
Individuals bought a net 54 billion won (US$41 million) worth of stocks, offsetting institutions and foreigners' stock selling valued at 56 billion won.
In Seoul, tech and airline stocks were lead gainers, with market bellwether Samsung Electronics Co. rising 0.3 percent, leading home appliance maker LG Electronics Inc. climbing 1.6 percent and national flag carrier Korean Air Lines Co. gaining 1.4 percent.
Among decliners, top carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. fell 0.3 percent, leading wireless services provider SK Telecom Co. declined 0.2 percent, and the country's leading shipbuilding group HD Hyundai shed 1.4 percent.
The local currency was trading at 1,308.05 won against the U.S. dollar, up 2.25 won from the previous session's close.
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A preeminent expert in business immigration, global migration, and employment-related immigration law, Kan-Tor brings a wealth of knowledge to Joblio's esteemed board.
MIAMI, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Joblio Inc., the transparent and tech-enabled recruitment platform for foreign talent, today announced the appointment of Tsvi Kan-Tor as Vice Chairman of its Executive Board. A seasoned legal luminary, Kan-Tor will bring his wealth of knowledge and experience to ensure that Joblio works seamlessly with other global organizations in upholding labor laws and protecting the rights of foreign workers. The announcement is made by Joblio Founder and CEO Jon Purizhansky, subsequent to other notable board additions, including its new Chairman, David Arkless.
"We are all excited to have someone of Tsvi's caliber join us in advancing ethical employment of foreign talent," said Purizhansky. "Tsvi possesses an unmatched experience and understanding of global labor laws and has been instrumental in developing some of the guidelines that defend and protect the rights of migrant workers today."
Kan-Tor is a founding partner of Kan-Tor & Acco, a global corporate immigration law firm headquartered in Israel, and is a leading expert in business immigration and global migration. He has developed strategic, proactive, and advanced immigration programs and solutions regarding the international transfer of employees in numerous sectors, including tech and biotech, pharmaceutical, construction, energy, gas, and transportation.
A regular commentator on employment-related immigration law, Kan-Tor earned a law degree from Tel Aviv University and has served as Chair of the Visa Committee of the Israel America Chamber of Commerce since 2016. He is a member of the Committee on Foreign Workers of the Israel Bar Association, responsible for leading legislative and policy activities concerning the entry of foreign experts to Israel, and is a member of the Immigration & Nationality Law Committee of the International Bar Association and a foreign attorney member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. For his many professional accomplishments in the field of immigration law, Kan-Tor has been recognized in the prestigious Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers.
"Joblio's goal is to prove that global recruiting can be done in a fully compliant, efficient, fair, transparent and equitable manner. My role is to help Joblio prove that it is possible to achieve all of that," said Kan-Tor, who will continue his role at Kan-Tor & Acco while serving as Vice Chairman of Joblio's Executive Board.
Regarded as the gold standard in the field of international recruiting, Joblio is on a mission to redefine the global labor market with a transparent, systematized, and humanized platform that is accessible to workers and employers around the world. As global labor shortages continue to put a strain on supply chains, more employers are looking internationally to add skilled and talented workers to their organizations. Through its proprietary Applicant Concierge Experience (ACE) program, Joblio not only helps workers find foreign employment, it also prepares them to acclimate to their new homes before they even leave their country. For more information, visit joblio.co.
Founded by N.Y. attorney Jon Purizhansky and chaired by David Arkless, the former president of the Manpower Group, Joblio operates more efficient recruitment, training, and retraining processes for cross-border employment. The company's proprietary Applicant Concierge Experience (ACE) program is focused on pre-departure and post-arrival community management, helping international job seekers to begin acclimating to their new homes even before they leave their countries of origin. Differentiated from the non-transparent and inefficient practices of the current global migrant labor market, Joblio's accessible global platform removes unethical intermediaries from the process, freeing up more economic value for employers and laborers. Its streamlined and transparent hiring process results in faster applicant processing, higher employee satisfaction, and lower employee attrition. To learn more, visit joblio.co.
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New and past episodes of "Days of Our Lives" are headed to NBC's streaming service Peacock, and it all starts on Monday, Sept. 12.
NBC will replace Days of Our Lives with a new one-hour news program, "NBC News Daily." The show will air in the drama's former network time slot.
Peacock will now be the exclusive home of the drama. The historic move will allow viewers to access and stream all episodes in one place.
“This programming shift benefits both Peacock and NBC and is reflective of our broader strategy to utilize our portfolio to maximize reach and strengthen engagement with viewers,” said Mark Lazarus, Chairman, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming.
“With a large percentage of the ‘Days of Our Lives’ audience already watching digitally, this move enables us to build the show’s loyal fanbase on streaming while simultaneously bolstering the network daytime offering with an urgent, live programming opportunity for partners and consumers,” Lazarus said.
This story was originally published by WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/daytime-soap-days-of-our-lives-moves-to-stream-exclusively-on-nbcs-peacock-service | 2022-08-04T01:01:51Z | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/daytime-soap-days-of-our-lives-moves-to-stream-exclusively-on-nbcs-peacock-service | true |
Rightly convicted and now awaiting sentencing.
But the US system (or maybe just Minnesota) is confusing; in that he was charged and convicted on 2 murder counts and 1 manslaughter count, over a single death.
That just seems like a really weird system, and in some circumstances could surely lead to inappropriately long sentencing if people can be essentially convicted of the same crime multiple times. | https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumId=184&topicid=284440 | 2022-08-04T01:03:43Z | https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumId=184&topicid=284440 | true |
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0001604643-22-000118 | https://www.benzinga.com/secfilings/22/08/28306057/evoqua-water-technologies-corp-quarterly-report-form10 | 2022-08-04T01:06:12Z | https://www.benzinga.com/secfilings/22/08/28306057/evoqua-water-technologies-corp-quarterly-report-form10 | true |
Portsmouth Police Chief Debby Brewer and Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman announce that a Portsmouth, Ohio resident has been arrested on drug charges resulting from an investigation conducted by the Southern Ohio Drug Task Force.
At approximately 8:42 a.m. on August 3, 2022, Task Force Officers assisted by Portsmouth Police Department SWAT executed a narcotics – related search warrant at the residence of 43-year-old Ronald Dee Swords located at 1515 Apartment 3, Summit St. Portsmouth, Ohio.
During a search officers discovered and seized approximately 59 grams of suspected Heroin, $2,530 cash, digital scales and additional evidence of drug trafficking. The estimated street value of the suspected drug seized is $7,080.
Swords was charged with Possession of Drugs and Trafficking in Drugs, both felonies of the first degree.
Swords was placed in the Scioto County Jail and is scheduled to be arraigned in Portsmouth Municipal Court on Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 9:00a.m.
The case will eventually be forwarded to the Scioto County Prosecutor’s Office to be presented to a Scioto County Grand Jury for the consideration of additional felony charges against Ronald Swords.
Chief Brewer and Sheriff Thoroughman would like to thank the tactical medics from the Portsmouth Fire Department for their assistance with execution of the warrant and request anyone wishing to leave drug information for the Southern Ohio Drug Task Force, to phone the Task Force tip line at (740) 354-5656 or email drugs@sciotocountysheriff.com. All information will be kept confidential and anonymous. | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/news/breaking-news/78488/swords-arrested-on-drug-charges | 2022-08-04T01:13:14Z | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/news/breaking-news/78488/swords-arrested-on-drug-charges | false |
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was just as beautiful as one would dream it to be.
On a steamy Wednesday afternoon in our nation’s capital, Daniel Vogelbach connected for his first home run as a Met. At its glorious apex, the ball sat 125 feet in the air, coming down only when it was ready to land for a grand slam.
“It’s always good to hit home runs,” Vogelbach pointed out. “But more importantly, we won a series. This was a really, really good team win. [Chris] Bassitt threw the ball unbelievably and we had good at-bats from inning one.”
The four-run trot put the Mets ahead 6-0, and they coasted from there to a 9-5 win. Chris Bassitt was his typically understated self, getting just four strikeouts and scattering six hits across seven innings but keeping the Nationals from scoring a run thanks to three double plays. Fielding an unrecognizable lineup that not only is without Juan Soto and Josh Bell now, but also did not include resting veterans Nelson Cruz and Maikel Franco, the Nats tried and failed to come up with anything that could have made the game interesting.
Instead, Vogelbach’s strongman display put things firmly out of reach and let the rest of the game creep away like the setting sun. With a first pitch temperature of 93 degrees, things felt sluggish from the very get go at Nationals Park, but Florida man Vogelbach was both well equipped for the heat and the exact jolt his sleepy dugout needed. The last Met to launch a grand slam as his first home run with the team was Adrian Gonzalez in 2018, and other storied names of Mets lore to accomplish the feat include Taylor Teagarden, Omir Santos and Collin Cowgill.
Fellow Floridian and burgeoning MVP candidate Pete Alonso also helped. Alonso went yard in the third inning for his second homer of the series and 28th on the season. Seeing Alonso hit home runs is nothing new, and the experience can become a little expected or predictable, but this one really stood out because of the pitch that it came on. Washington pitcher Anibal Sanchez executed a slider, putting it down and out of the strike zone on the outside part of the plate. Almost like he was expecting it, Alonso had the barrel of his bat meet the ball before it could get any lower, mashing it 411 feet to straightaway center.
No matter what the players and coaches say, it can be hard to get up for every single game of a 162-game season and bring the same energy for getaway games in Washington as Sunday night games against Atlanta. But in doing enough to avoid a potential trap game, beating Washington to also take the series, the Mets can now shift their entire focus to the Braves.
They have the aforementioned Sunday night game with them on ESPN, but also four games in three days before that. Even as many of the guys in uniform will likely be running on fumes by the end of that series, the intensity of the NL East showdown should provide the opposite effect of an afternoon tilt with the tanking Nationals.
“There’s going to be some good games, there’s going to be some bad ones, there’s going to be some bad weeks,” Vogelbach accepted. “But you can take something out of every game.”
The Mets have now won three series in a row, 12 of their last 16 games, and ten of their 13 games against Washington, whom they see six more times at the end of the season. A healthy (pun intended) amount of Jacob deGrom should be in store for them, and the infusion of Trevor May and Mychal Givens changes the fabric of the bullpen. May pitched an easy eighth inning in relief of Bassitt, throwing 16 pitches with a single and a strikeout mixed in. Givens had a much tougher time, cheffing up two home runs and five hits before getting pulled mid-inning. The Nationals took 13 swings against Givens and only missed once.
An offense that ranked fifth in wRC+ entering play on Wednesday but 12th in slugging percentage and 16th in home runs is a bit of a wild card. Alonso, Francisco Lindor and the other usual suspects are capable of greatness. If the less-used players like Vogelbach — who has reached base in 16 of his 34 Met plate appearances — and San Francisco transplant Darin Ruf can simply be good, the Mets will be able to turn more of these lazy matinees into record-fattening wins.
“It’s a day game after a night game, it’s the end of a road trip and it’s 90-plus degrees,” Buck Showalter said, listing off all the reasons why his team could have faltered but didn’t. “It was a good 5-1 road trip, we’ll see where it takes us.”
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Shop Local Kentucky raises $100,000 in 24 hours for flood victims
Collecting donations until Aug. 6th to ship to eastern Kentucky
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – As fundraising for flood victims in eastern Kentucky continues, a retail shop in Lexington is pitching in by selling Kentucky Strong t-shirts.
Shop Local Kentucky says $100,000 has been raised in just 24 hours. The t-shirts are $28 and can be purchased HERE.
Shop Local Kentucky is also collecting donations at the warehouse located at 1093 West High Street daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Donations must be dropped off by Saturday, Aug. 6.
A link to a list of needs can be found online HERE.
List of immediate needs:
- Can Openers
- Flash Lights
- Batteries
- Canned Food w/ Pop Tabs
- Monistat
- Triple Antibiotic Ointment
- Forks/Spoons
- Pet Items
- Shoes
- Socks
- Underwear
- Neosporin
- Nail Clippers
- Wash Cloths
- Towels
- Bedding
- Shovels
- Buckets
- Tote Bins
- Fire Starters
- Bug Spray
- Deodorant
- Clorox
- Dish Washing Liquid
- Tylenol
- Mops
- Toilet Paper
- Garbage Bags (Heavy Duty)
- Empty Boxes
- Box Fans
- Small Propane Container
- Pocket Knives
- Camping Stoves
- Diapers
- Baby Wipes
- Baby Food
- Baby Formula
- Baby Necessities
- Push Brooms
- Squeegees
- Air Mattresses
- Bottled/Distilled Water
- Feminine Products
- Cleansing Wipes
- Toothbrushes
- Restaurant Gift Cards
- Bleach
- Booster Seats
- Cleaning Supplies
- Pack N Plays
- Adult Diapers
- Styrofoam Food Containers
- Pinesol
- Paper Towels
- First Aid Supplies
- Diabetic Test Strips
- Rubber Gloves
- Rubber Boots
- Strollers
- Blankets
- Pillows
- Children’s Toys
An Amazon list has also been shared with items which can be shipped directly to the warehouse for distribution. You can find the Amazon list online HERE. | https://www.wtvq.com/shop-local-kentucky-raises-100000-in-24-hours-for-flood-victims/ | 2022-08-04T01:24:18Z | https://www.wtvq.com/shop-local-kentucky-raises-100000-in-24-hours-for-flood-victims/ | false |
HONOLULU (KHON) — Passengers aboard Sunday’s Hawaiian Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu got more than complimentary lunch — they were treated to a familiar, and famous, face behind the flight attendant cart.
“Aloha Kakahiaka. Good morning guests, this is Jason Momoa.”
Momoa, star of ‘Aquaman’ and a beloved Hawaii native, handed out bottles of Mananalu water on the flight, as part of the partnership with the airline. A viral Tiktok shared the moment, showing the “hottest steward” pulling the beverage cart and handing out water while sporting a flower tucked behind his ear.
The concept of Mananalu, Momoa’s water brand, came to him on a flight where he noticed water bottles in single-use plastic bottles but other beverages in aluminum cans, his website explains. He took that moment and turned it into Mananalu, which distributes its water in recyclable, aluminum bottles.
Hawaiian Airlines started serving the 16-ounce bottles to Premium Cabin guests in April and replaced single-use plastic water bottles in the Pau Hana snack cart on continental U.S. flights.
Guests on the flight were also given 10,000 Hawaiian miles.
“I started Mananalu to give people a better option than single-use plastic and create a wave of positive change,” Momoa shared. “For every bottle of Mananalu sold, we remove one bottle of plastic from ocean-going waste.”
The partnership has eliminated 35,000 items of plastic in the first two months and anticipates the yearly average to be hundreds of thousands.
Momoa is back in Hawaii after being involved in a collision with a motorcyclist in California last week.
Authorities say the motorcyclist crossed the centerline and went “directly into the path of Jason Momoa’s vehicle,” a 1970 Oldsmobile. The man was ejected but suffered only minor, non-life-threatening injuries. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/jason-momoa-surprises-passengers-aboard-flight-to-hawaii/ | 2022-08-04T01:25:01Z | https://who13.com/news/national-news/jason-momoa-surprises-passengers-aboard-flight-to-hawaii/ | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Vincent Cavaleri advances to November general election in Washington's 1st Congressional District.
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HONOLULU (KHON) — Passengers aboard Sunday’s Hawaiian Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu got more than complimentary lunch — they were treated to a familiar, and famous, face behind the flight attendant cart.
“Aloha Kakahiaka. Good morning guests, this is Jason Momoa.”
Momoa, star of ‘Aquaman’ and a beloved Hawaii native, handed out bottles of Mananalu water on the flight, as part of the partnership with the airline. A viral Tiktok shared the moment, showing the “hottest steward” pulling the beverage cart and handing out water while sporting a flower tucked behind his ear.
The concept of Mananalu, Momoa’s water brand, came to him on a flight where he noticed water bottles in single-use plastic bottles but other beverages in aluminum cans, his website explains. He took that moment and turned it into Mananalu, which distributes its water in recyclable, aluminum bottles.
Hawaiian Airlines started serving the 16-ounce bottles to Premium Cabin guests in April and replaced single-use plastic water bottles in the Pau Hana snack cart on continental U.S. flights.
Guests on the flight were also given 10,000 Hawaiian miles.
“I started Mananalu to give people a better option than single-use plastic and create a wave of positive change,” Momoa shared. “For every bottle of Mananalu sold, we remove one bottle of plastic from ocean-going waste.”
The partnership has eliminated 35,000 items of plastic in the first two months and anticipates the yearly average to be hundreds of thousands.
Momoa is back in Hawaii after being involved in a collision with a motorcyclist in California last week.
Authorities say the motorcyclist crossed the centerline and went “directly into the path of Jason Momoa’s vehicle,” a 1970 Oldsmobile. The man was ejected but suffered only minor, non-life-threatening injuries. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/jason-momoa-surprises-passengers-aboard-flight-to-hawaii/ | 2022-08-04T01:29:28Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/jason-momoa-surprises-passengers-aboard-flight-to-hawaii/ | true |
The probabilities of issuing severe weather warning signals (Update Time: 2022-08-03 23:00)
MACAU, August 3 - The probabilities of issuing severe weather warning signals
Update Time: 2022-08-03 23:00
The tropical depression over the northern part of the South China Sea will bring unsettled weather with strong winds and heavy showers to Macao on 4th and 5th August while approaching the Pearl River Delta area. Public are advised to take precaution against strong winds and flooding.
Remarks: The probabilities of issuing severe weather warning signals for the next one or two days are provided in the table. Public can learn the possibility of being affected by the tropical cyclone over the specific period of time in Macao so that necessary precautions can be well prepared earlier. Please keep notice of our latest information. | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/584361879/the-probabilities-of-issuing-severe-weather-warning-signals-update-time-2022-08-03-23-00 | 2022-08-04T01:32:25Z | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/584361879/the-probabilities-of-issuing-severe-weather-warning-signals-update-time-2022-08-03-23-00 | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order that lays the groundwork for Medicaid to help women seeking abortions to travel between states to obtain access to the procedure.
The details are still being worked out, and the administration faces a challenging legal landscape because it’s illegal to use federal funding to pay for abortions unless the woman’s life is in danger or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
However, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the Department of Health and Human Services would invite states where abortion remains legal to apply for permission to use Medicaid funds to “provide reproductive healthcare to women who live in states where abortion is banned.”
Crossing state lines to get abortions has become an increasing issue since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the door for new restrictions on abortion at the state level.
The National Abortion Federation said Wednesday that it’s seen more women asking for help traveling to get the procedure in the month after the decision. The organization paid for 76 hotel rooms and booked 52 bus or plane trips, up from only a handful in the same time period last year.
Biden’s order also calls on health care providers to comply with federal nondiscrimination laws and streamline the collection of key data and information on maternal health at the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Biden described the court’s decision on abortion as a “health care crisis,” and he said he wants to make sure “every part of the federal government does its part at this critical moment where women’s health and lives are on line.”
The order came one day after Kansas voters protected the right to abortion in the conservative state, an outcome that Biden celebrated.
Biden signed the order from the White House residence, where he continues to isolate with a rebound case of COVID-19. He participated virtually in a meeting led by Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I wish I was with you in person, quite frankly,” Biden said. “But I’m getting there.”
The new order nonetheless falls short of what many Democratic lawmakers and abortion advocacy groups have demanded of the Biden administration. One chief ask has been for Biden to declare a public health emergency on abortion, which White House officials have said would do little to free up federal resources or activate new legal authorities.
Wednesday’s order is the latest in a series of executive actions from the Biden administration since the constitutional right to an abortion was eliminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June.
Separately, on Tuesday, the Justice Department sued Idaho over its statute that criminalizes abortions, with Attorney General Merrick Garland arguing that it violates federal law.
Near the end of Biden’s remarks, he once again called on Congress to codify Roe v. Wade into law.
“If Congress fails to act, the people of this country need to elect senators and representatives who will restore Roe and protect the right to privacy, freedom and equality.”
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Musk response to Twitter lawsuit to be made public by Friday
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Elon Musk’s answer to Twitter’s lawsuit over his attempt to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy the social media company will be made public by Friday evening at the latest, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Attorneys for Musk wanted to file a public version of their answer and counterclaims in Delaware court Wednesday. But Twitter attorneys complained that they needed more time to review and potentially redact Musk’s sealed filing, saying it refers “extensively” to internal Twitter information and data given to Musk.
Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick held a quick teleconference Wednesday before agreeing with Twitter, directing that the public filing be docketed by 5 p.m. Friday. It could be filed earlier depending on when Twitter attorneys complete their review.
Twitter attorneys argued that court rules require that five business days lapse before a public version of Musk’s filing is docketed.
“Few cases attract as much public interest as this one, and Twitter is mindful of this court’s commitment to ensuring maximum public access to its proceedings,” Twitter attorney Kevin Shannon wrote. “Twitter has no interest in proposing any more redactions to defendants’ responsive pleading than are necessary.”
Musk attorney Edward Micheletti argued that Twitter’s lawyers were misinterpreting the court rules. Musk attorneys also say there is no confidential information in Musk’s filing that should be withheld from the public.
“Twitter should not be permitted to continue burying the side of the story it does not want publicly disclosed,” Micheletti wrote.
Musk, the world’s richest man, agreed in April to buy Twitter and take it private, offering $54.20 a share and vowing to loosen the company’s policing of content and to root out fake accounts.
Twitter shares closed Wednesday at $41, well off a 52-week high of $69.81.
Musk, indicated in July that he wanted to back away from the deal, prompting Twitter to file a lawsuit to hold him to the “seller-friendly” agreement.
Musk says Twitter has failed to provide him enough information about the number of fake accounts on its service. Twitter argues that Musk, CEO of electric car maker and solar energy company Tesla Inc., is deliberately trying to tank the deal because market conditions have deteriorated and the acquisition no longer serves his interests.
Either Musk or Twitter would be entitled to a $1 billion breakup fee if the other party is found responsible for the agreement failing. Twitter wants more, however, and is seeking a court order of “specific performance” directing Musk to follow through with the deal.
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JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — Limestone residents waiting for a final lawsuit settlement that would remove a noisy Bitcoin mine from their neighborhood are likely going to have to wait a bit longer after the mine’s operator failed to provide requested information by Wednesday.
That’s when the Washington County Commission’s Commerce, Industrial and Agriculture (CIA) committee would have reviewed a final settlement proposal at its monthly meeting — one that includes relocation of the mine to the Washington County Industrial Park (WCIP) in Telford. Washington County is suing Red Dog Technologies, the mine’s operator, and BrightRidge, the utility it leases land and buys power from.
“We’re the committee that would take a look at it and make a recommendation to the full commission about voting it up or down,” CIA Committee Chairman Phil Carriger said. At the county commission’s July 25 meeting, County Attorney Allyson Wilkinson said that was a necessary step for the full commission to be able to review a final settlement proposal at its Aug. 29 meeting.
People in the New Salem community of Limestone began complaining about excessive noise from the mine in May 2021. The noise comes from large fans used to cool high-powered computer equipment, which performs complex (and energy intensive) calculations to “mine” the cryptocurrency Bitcoin and to verify Bitcoin transactions.
Washington County sued BrightRidge in November 2021, later adding Red Dog to the suit, alleging the mine violates the county’s zoning ordinance. When county commissioners, BrightRidge, Red Dog and the parties’ attorneys hammered out a settlement deal June 9, New Salem residents thought a final resolution in Chancellor John Rambo’s court was imminent.
“I left that meeting thinking it was a done deal,” New Salem Baptist Church pastor Craig Ponder said of the June 9 negotiations. The tentative agreement included Red Dog leaving the New Salem site no later than Dec. 31, 2024 and most likely much earlier, as well as BrightRidge providing fiber internet (including at least one year free) to 51 homes within a half-mile radius of the mine, which sets next to a BrightRidge substation.
The church received a notice letter from BrightRidge July 11 about the provision of internet. It said construction was under way with initial customers expected to begin connection the week of July 25.
“I’m really surprised and a little disappointed that it’s not happened any quicker than it has,” Ponder said of a final settlement. “I’m concerned and my neighbors are … that nothing has been resolved.
“We wonder if turmoil on the other end is going to slow it down on our side,” he added, referring to public opposition in Telford to locating a new mine at the industrial park.
Missing the CIA committee meeting deadline makes it unlikely the full commission will consider whether to approve a deal at its Aug. 29 meeting.
Commissioners, Red Dog and co-defendant BrightRidge hammered out a deal at a meeting June 9 but finalizing things on paper has been a slow process. The lawsuit to have the operation shut down remains open and would proceed if a settlement can’t be reached.
Wilkinson said July 25 the county had made an offer of property for the new mine, within the WCIP, earlier that month.
“When that offer was made the county also sent a proposed settlement agreement and also sent a proposed or at least draft text amendment language (to change the zoning ordinance) so that could all be discussed at one point,” Wilkinson said. “Kind of a kit.”
As deadlines pass and the current mine continues operating, Carriger said he’s learned that waiting is common in situations like this.
“I’ve learned in government service that you don’t hope, you just deal with the facts when they appear,” Carriger said. “You’ve just got to be a pragmatist.” | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/bitcoin-mine-final-settlement-unlikely-this-month-after-missed-deadline/ | 2022-08-04T01:33:44Z | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/bitcoin-mine-final-settlement-unlikely-this-month-after-missed-deadline/ | false |
A preeminent expert in business immigration, global migration, and employment-related immigration law, Kan-Tor brings a wealth of knowledge to Joblio's esteemed board.
MIAMI, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Joblio Inc., the transparent and tech-enabled recruitment platform for foreign talent, today announced the appointment of Tsvi Kan-Tor as Vice Chairman of its Executive Board. A seasoned legal luminary, Kan-Tor will bring his wealth of knowledge and experience to ensure that Joblio works seamlessly with other global organizations in upholding labor laws and protecting the rights of foreign workers. The announcement is made by Joblio Founder and CEO Jon Purizhansky, subsequent to other notable board additions, including its new Chairman, David Arkless.
"We are all excited to have someone of Tsvi's caliber join us in advancing ethical employment of foreign talent," said Purizhansky. "Tsvi possesses an unmatched experience and understanding of global labor laws and has been instrumental in developing some of the guidelines that defend and protect the rights of migrant workers today."
Kan-Tor is a founding partner of Kan-Tor & Acco, a global corporate immigration law firm headquartered in Israel, and is a leading expert in business immigration and global migration. He has developed strategic, proactive, and advanced immigration programs and solutions regarding the international transfer of employees in numerous sectors, including tech and biotech, pharmaceutical, construction, energy, gas, and transportation.
A regular commentator on employment-related immigration law, Kan-Tor earned a law degree from Tel Aviv University and has served as Chair of the Visa Committee of the Israel America Chamber of Commerce since 2016. He is a member of the Committee on Foreign Workers of the Israel Bar Association, responsible for leading legislative and policy activities concerning the entry of foreign experts to Israel, and is a member of the Immigration & Nationality Law Committee of the International Bar Association and a foreign attorney member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. For his many professional accomplishments in the field of immigration law, Kan-Tor has been recognized in the prestigious Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers.
"Joblio's goal is to prove that global recruiting can be done in a fully compliant, efficient, fair, transparent and equitable manner. My role is to help Joblio prove that it is possible to achieve all of that," said Kan-Tor, who will continue his role at Kan-Tor & Acco while serving as Vice Chairman of Joblio's Executive Board.
Regarded as the gold standard in the field of international recruiting, Joblio is on a mission to redefine the global labor market with a transparent, systematized, and humanized platform that is accessible to workers and employers around the world. As global labor shortages continue to put a strain on supply chains, more employers are looking internationally to add skilled and talented workers to their organizations. Through its proprietary Applicant Concierge Experience (ACE) program, Joblio not only helps workers find foreign employment, it also prepares them to acclimate to their new homes before they even leave their country. For more information, visit joblio.co.
Founded by N.Y. attorney Jon Purizhansky and chaired by David Arkless, the former president of the Manpower Group, Joblio operates more efficient recruitment, training, and retraining processes for cross-border employment. The company's proprietary Applicant Concierge Experience (ACE) program is focused on pre-departure and post-arrival community management, helping international job seekers to begin acclimating to their new homes even before they leave their countries of origin. Differentiated from the non-transparent and inefficient practices of the current global migrant labor market, Joblio's accessible global platform removes unethical intermediaries from the process, freeing up more economic value for employers and laborers. Its streamlined and transparent hiring process results in faster applicant processing, higher employee satisfaction, and lower employee attrition. To learn more, visit joblio.co.
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Bryan High School band battling heat preparing for upcoming season
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Temperatures continue to climb in our area. For the Bryan High School Viking marking band, this is just something they are going to have to deal with to prepare for their upcoming season.
“It is Texas, it’s hot. Yes this year has been hotter than some years because of the drought but a lot of us are used to this heat,” says Bryan High School Director of Bands Laura Grems.
Wednesday was the hottest day of the week according to KBTX’s Pinpoint Weather Team. A typical day of rehearsal for the Bryan High School marching band begins at 7:30 A.M. and sometimes ends at 9 P.M.
The band will pick parts of the day where it is not so hot to practice their marching fundamentals and learn the drill for their new show.
Monitoring heat conditions isn’t anything new for Bryan ISD officials. They make sure to measure current temperatures and wet bulb globe temperatures which is a measure of heat stress in direct sunlight.
“We have put an added emphasis on monitoring those conditions and being aware of what’s going on outside right now with the extreme environmental conditions we’ve been having this year,” says Bryan ISD head athletic trainer Josh Woodall.
Bryan ISD’s Director of Fine Arts Patrick Corbett believes that every precaution has been taken for the upcoming season. “We’ve talked to our directors about to heat and what they need to do to keep students safe. Every kid has a water jug, we have mandatory breaks depending on what the heat index is, and we have an app that the directors have that gets text alerts when temperatures meet a certain threshold. Our training department has been very good about communicating all of that to us and we work very closely with them,” says Corbett.
Despite the temperatures, the Bryan Viking Band is very excited about this season.
The Bryan High School Band Department hopes they can convince fans to stick around during halftime of football games this year to watch them and the drill team perform. You can click here to learn more about the band program.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Equinox Gold Corp. (TSX: EQX) (NYSE American: EQX) ("Equinox Gold" or the "Company") announces that Christian Milau will be leaving Equinox Gold to pursue a new opportunity in the global carbon finance industry. Equinox Gold's Board of Directors has unanimously appointed Greg Smith to succeed Christian as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Equinox Gold.
Ross Beaty, Chair of Equinox Gold, commented: "Greg Smith has been President of Equinox Gold since we founded the Company in 2017 and has always been considered the designated successor when Christian retired. Greg brings the right corporate knowledge, industry experience and skill set to effectively manage current operations and advance our long-term strategy. He has the full support of the Board and the executive team, and I look forward to working with him as we focus on achieving our vision of being the premier Americas million-ounce gold producer.
"On behalf of the Board, I thank Christian for his leadership over the last six years. Christian has led the team through two mergers and three acquisitions, growing the company from a single-asset developer to a diversified, multi-mine gold producer with one of the industry's strongest growth profiles. His commitment to responsible mining, collaborative relationships and providing meaningful benefits to both our workforce and our community partners leaves an enduring legacy that we will continue to uphold. We wish him the best of success in his new endeavour."
Greg Smith commented: "I am excited to take on a bigger role at Equinox Gold. With Greenstone construction progressing exceptionally well, seven gold mines and three promising expansion projects, Equinox Gold is well positioned to deliver continued growth. Christian has also built an excellent team of industry experts with a strong work ethic and a respectful, positive corporate culture. I look forward to building on that foundation and continuing Equinox Gold's growth into a large, sustainable gold-mining company."
Christian Milau commented: "It has been my privilege to serve as Equinox Gold's CEO for the last six years. I am incredibly proud of what Equinox Gold has achieved so far, thanks to the dedication of a talented, hard-working team and the vision and support from Ross and our Board. Together we have created a solid company that operates with integrity. I remain a supportive shareholder and am confident that Equinox Gold will achieve its long-term goals."
Greg Smith will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer and Director of Equinox Gold on September 1, 2022. Greg is a founding shareholder and executive of Equinox Gold and previously held executive roles at Goldcorp, Minefinders and Esperanza Resources. He is a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant.
Equinox Gold Contacts
Christian Milau, Chief Executive Officer
Greg Smith, President
Rhylin Bailie, Vice President, Investor Relations
Tel: +1 604-558-0560
Email: ir@equinoxgold.com
Equinox Gold is a Canadian mining company operating entirely in the Americas, with six operating gold mines, a mine in commissioning, and a clear path to achieve more than one million ounces of annual gold production from a pipeline of development and expansion projects. Equinox Gold's common shares are listed on the TSX and the NYSE American under the trading symbol EQX. Further information about Equinox Gold's portfolio of assets and long-term growth strategy is available at www.equinoxgold.com or by email at ir@equinoxgold.com.
This news release contains certain forward-looking information and forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities legislation. Forward-looking statements and forward-looking information in this news release relate to, among other things: the successful transition of the CEO role, the strategic vision for the Company and expectations regarding production capabilities and future financial or operational performance; and the Company's ability to successfully advance its growth and development projects, including the construction of Greenstone and the expansions at Los Filos, Castle Mountain and Aurizona. Forward-looking statements or information generally identified by words such as "will", "continue", "advance", "achieve", "deliver", "promising" and similar expressions and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "will", "may", "could", or "should", or the negative connotation of such terms, are intended to identify forward-looking statements and information. Although Equinox Gold believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements and information are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements since Equinox Gold can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Equinox Gold has based these forward-looking statements and information on Equinox Gold's current expectations and projections about future events and these assumptions include: the Company's ability to achieve the exploration, production, cost and development expectations for its respective operations and projects; prices for gold remaining as estimated; currency exchange rates remaining as estimated; availability of funds for the Company's projects and future cash requirements; prices for energy inputs, labour, materials, supplies and services; construction of Greenstone being completed and performed in accordance with current expectations; and expansion projects at Los Filos, Castle Mountain and Aurizona being completed and performed in accordance with current expectations. While Equinox Gold considers these assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available, they may prove to be incorrect. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on the forward-looking statements or information contained in this news release.
Equinox Gold cautions that forward-looking statements and information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release and Equinox Gold has made assumptions and estimates based on or related to many of these factors. Such factors include, without limitation: fluctuations in gold prices; fluctuations in prices for energy inputs, labour, materials, supplies and services; fluctuations in currency markets; operational risks and hazards inherent with the business of mining (including environmental accidents and hazards, industrial accidents, equipment breakdown, unusual or unexpected geological or structural formations, cave-ins, flooding and severe weather); inadequate insurance, or inability to obtain insurance to cover these risks and hazards; employee relations; relationships with, and claims by, local communities and indigenous populations; the Company's ability to obtain all necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all; changes in laws, regulations and government practices, including environmental and export and import laws and regulations; legal restrictions relating to mining; risks relating to expropriation; increased competition in the mining industry;; the ability of Equinox Gold to work productively with its joint venture partner and Indigenous partners at Greenstone; and those factors identified in the section titled "Risks and Uncertainties" in Equinox Gold's MD&A dated March 23, 2022 for the year ended December 31, 2021, and in the section titled "Risks Related to the Business" in Equinox Gold's Annual Information Form dated March 24, 2022 for the year ended December 31, 2021, both of which are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar. Forward-looking statements and information are designed to help readers understand management's views as of that time with respect to future events and speak only as of the date they are made. Except as required by applicable law, Equinox Gold assumes no obligation to update or to publicly announce the results of any change to any forward-looking statement or information contained or incorporated by reference to reflect actual results, future events or developments, changes in assumptions or changes in other factors affecting the forward-looking statements and information. If Equinox Gold updates any one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that Equinox Gold will make additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
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MONTREAL, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday evening, WowWee, a family-owned toymaker responsible for the award-winning Fingerlings line, was made aware that Roblox Corporation filed a lawsuit against our company. WowWee believes that Roblox's allegations are completely meritless and looks forward to vigorously defending its position, product, and brand.
WowWee created My Avastars dolls to bring kids offline in a hybrid model that uses the digital attributes of the increasingly popular metaverse and avatar customization into physical play. WowWee specifically designed the dolls to appeal to 7–12-year-old girls, a demographic that is far too often overlooked and excluded from the metaverse. Since Roblox began as a platform that encouraged collaboration with its users (to Roblox's benefit), WowWee believed My Avastars would be a welcome addition to the Roblox platform. However, in June 2022, a week after WowWee publicly announced the creation of its My Avastars dolls, Roblox changed its terms of use to the detriment of the creative community.
A week later, Roblox sent a cease-and-desist letter to WowWee threatening legal action if the company continued with the launch of My Avastars dolls. WowWee has spent several weeks trying to resolve this disagreement amicably and in good faith and without needing to resort to contentious litigation. Following the cease-and-desist letter, WowWee voluntarily disassociated My Avastars from Roblox.
WowWee is a company that is focused on designing and developing toys to astonish our costumers' imaginations, whereas Roblox's actions today show that it is an organization driven by profit and power. Roblox's lawsuit stands in stark contrast to the values of creativity, community, and companionship that our My Avastars dolls are designed to promote. WowWee's focus remains on kids rather than courts.
Unfortunately, Roblox's actions are another example of a company using litigation as a growth strategy. Despite being a publicly traded corporate giant with a multi-billion-dollar revenue stream, it is targeting a family business whose goal is to provide children with another way to express their individuality through play. Yet, as parents have been teaching their children for generations, giving into a bully encourages them to bully again. Today, WowWee intends to take a stand for the creative community. WowWee hopes you join us.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Joe Arpaio, the 90-year-old former Phoenix metro sheriff who was ousted in 2016 by voters frustrated with his headline-grabbing tactics and legal troubles, has narrowed his opponent’s lead in the race for mayor of the affluent suburb where he has lived for more than two decades.
But the former six-term Republican sheriff of Maricopa County was still trailing Wednesday in his bid to unseat Ginny Dickey, a Democrat serving her second term as mayor of Fountain Hills on the edge of the Phoenix metropolitan area.
Arpaio, who is attempting his third comeback attempt since being voted out as sheriff, said he was waiting for ballots that were dropped off at polling places on Tuesday to be counted. The race was too close to call, but he said he believes those voters will strongly support him.
“It’s going to be very close,” Arpaio predicted. “Very close.”
Dickey said she was cautiously optimistic that about her prospects of winning.
“I have been through many races before that turned around,” said Dickey, who previously served on a school board and on the Fountain Hills Town Council. “I want to wait until every single vote is counted.”
The stakes for Arpaio in the mayor’s race are far smaller than when he served as the top law enforcement officer for more than 4 million people. Now he is seeking the top leadership post in a community of about 24,000.
Arpaio was crushed by a Democratic challenger in 2016 after 24 years in office as sheriff and was convicted the next year of criminal contempt of court for disobeying a judge’s order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants, though he was later pardoned by then-President Donald Trump.
Arpaio then finished third in a Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in 2018 and second in the GOP primary in a 2020 bid to win back the sheriff’s post.
In both of those attempts, Arpaio lost the vote in Fountain Hills.
Arpaio, a skilled political fundraiser who spent more than $12 million in his 2016 sheriff’s campaign, has shelled out $161,000 in the mayor’s race — six times the amount spent by Dickey.
Dickey said that when she first learned Arpaio was running against her, she was unsure how his candidacy would affect the race. She ultimately concluded that it didn’t change it very much except that he has a fundraising advantage and notoriety and she did not change her campaigning.
Before the federal government and the courts stripped away his immigration powers, Arpaio led 20 large-scale traffic patrols that targeted immigrants and more than 80 business raids to bust people working in the United States without permission.
While his defiant streak played well with voters for many years, Arpaio faced heavy criticism for taking on policies that he knew were controversial and racking up $147 million in taxpayer-funded legal bills.
Though he billed himself as the toughest sheriff in America, his agency botched the investigations of more than 400 sex-crimes complaints made to his office. | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/arizonas-arpaio-narrows-rivals-lead-in-comeback-attempt/ | 2022-08-04T01:36:52Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/arizonas-arpaio-narrows-rivals-lead-in-comeback-attempt/ | true |
(Our Auto Expert) — Range Rover has pulled back the curtains, unveiling the third generation of the Range Rover Sport, and in America, It’s a big hit. Range Rover has sold 300,000 thousand alone.
It turned the SUV Market on its head in 2005. When it heralded a new type of vehicle, it took what the world already knew about Range Rover and its capability and added a distinctive sporting character. There will be two gasoline versions and a plug-in hybrid version that will do 48 miles on a single charge of electricity alone.
There is no question it is now the most desirable member of the Range Rover family, which is now four members strong.
It is the most modern and arguably has the most advanced features in the family. Inside each wheel-well is a microphone that’s part of a noise-canceling system.
That noise-canceling system reduces the amount of road noise in the vehicle via the speakers in the headrest.
Inside, Range Rover has taken what is accepted and combined that with one step beyond imagination. There is a very highly advanced cabin air filtration system that filters out many particulates in the air, including viruses. So once you’re inside the vehicle, you’re a lot safer than you are outside of the new Range Rover Sport.
Advanced tech is, of course, expected. But the features offered are not only impressive but practically useful for navigating harsh conditions of rural landscape or a metropolitan jungle Plex.
New York to Hollywood, London to Iceland, and the Range Rover Sport, simply called the Sport by owners, will continue to take its place in driveways, pathways, and causeways, but with a new shape and powertrain in this third generation.
We can expect all three variants to arrive in late summer to early fall at dealerships. | https://cw33.com/automotive/kendall-jenner-ariana-grande-and-other-hollywood-stars-are-waiting-for-their-new-car/ | 2022-08-04T01:37:00Z | https://cw33.com/automotive/kendall-jenner-ariana-grande-and-other-hollywood-stars-are-waiting-for-their-new-car/ | false |
ALBION — A city man was formerly charged Wednesday with neglect of a dependent, a Level 1 felony, after his 5-week-old daughter suffered “catastrophic” injury — including three fractured ribs, a bruised lung and brain injuries — while allegedly in his care.
Jeremy Oechsle, 19, of the 1900 block of Deerfield Lane, Kendallville, was arrested at 8:44 p.m. Monday by Kendallville police. He was booked into the Noble County Jail.
According to court documents, Oechsle allegedly told police that he “may have squeezed” the victim aggressively around the chest area. He also allegedly told police he would pick up the child “by grabbing both of her hands.”
Throughout an interview with Kendallville police which was conducted Monday at Riley Children’s Hospital, Oechsle commented that he “couldn’t stand it when a baby cries,” court documents allege.
According to the Noble County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, further investigation has also led to the arrest of the child’s mother, Kathryn Gibson, 19, of Kendallville on Wednesday. Gibson was booked into the Noble County Jail on a preliminarily charge of neglect of a dependent as a Level 3 felony. Gibson’s first court appearance has been scheduled for Thursday at 12:50 p.m.
At an initial hearing in Oechsle’s case held Wednesday in Noble Superior Court 1, Judge Steven Clouse set his bond at $100,000.
According to terms set by Clouse, Oeschle can only bond out by paying $100,000 in cash, putting up $100,000 in unencumbered real estate or working through a bail bondsman.
Clouse entered a not-guilty plea on Oeschle’s behalf, and ordered the Noble County Public Defender’s Office to represent him.
The sentencing range for a Level 1 felony is 20-40 years in prison.
The presumptive or regular bond for a Level 1 felony is $50,000, but Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Leslie Shively successfully argued for a higher bond.
“The baby is teetering between life and death as we speak,” Shively said. “This is certainly a matter of extreme importance to the state.”
Court documents allege Oeschle was the sole guardian responsible for the girl while Gibson was away from the house.
According to Indiana Code 35-46-1-4(a)(1)(b)(3), neglect of a dependent as a Level 1 felony is defined as an adult “having the care of ... a dependent, where assumed voluntarily or because of a legal obligation, did knowingly or intentionally place (the victim) in a situation endangering her life or health which resulted in catastrophic injury.”
According to court documents filed in the case, medical professionals who examined the child at Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis found “three fractured ribs that were in different stages of healing (and) mixed density blood in the brain which indicated new and old injuries.” A CT scan showed a bruise on the child’s right lung.
On Tuesday, medical professionals advised police, according to court documents, “that the victim was continuing to have long seizures that are difficult to control and may progress to brain death. Further, medical professionals opine at this point in time that (the victim) might have lifelong blindness, paralysis or intellectual disabilities.”
The affidavit for probable cause filed in the case said that the child’s grandmother received a text message from Gibson at approximately 9:24 p.m. Sunday indicating the child was “acting weird... and cried until she made herself pass out.”
The grandmother went to the apartment where the child was at and observed the girl’s “eyes rolled back in her head and (she) stopped breathing at least twice,” according to court documents. The grandmother told Gibson to call 911.
The girl was transported to Parkview Noble Hospital. Hospital staff contacted the Noble County Department of Child Services at 4 a.m. on Monday. DCS notified Kendallville police.
After speaking with the grandmother on Monday, Kendallville Police Department Detectives Doug Davis and Angela Handshoe met with hospital personnel and interviewed both parents at Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis. | https://www.kpcnews.com/newssun/article_fa85526a-31b7-5209-945d-61b129dc7c98.html | 2022-08-04T01:37:26Z | https://www.kpcnews.com/newssun/article_fa85526a-31b7-5209-945d-61b129dc7c98.html | false |
Chrissy Teigen announces pregnancy: 'Joy has filled our home and hearts again'
Chrissy Teigen is pregnant. The model, 36, took to Instagram on Wednesday to share that she and her husband, John Legend, are expanding their family.
"The last few years have been a blur of emotions to say the least, but joy has filled our home and hearts again," her caption began.
"1 billion shots later (in the leg lately, as u can see!) we have another on the way. Every appointment I’ve said to myself, ‘ok if it’s healthy today I’ll announce’ but then I breathe a sigh of relief to hear a heartbeat and decide I’m just too nervous still."
She continued: "I don’t think I’ll ever walk out of an appointment with more excitement than nerves but so far, everything is perfect and beautiful and I’m feeling hopeful and amazing. Ok phew it’s been very hard keeping this in for so long!"
The "Cravings: Hungry For More" author, who faced a cyberbullying scandal last year, received well-wishes from her fans. "Congratulations. Love you guys. You are so strong," one user wrote.
Legend and Teigen lost their third baby, Jack, in September 2020 after she experienced pregnancy complications at 20 weeks. They share two children: Luna, 6, and Miles, 4.
Teigen announced her pregnancy loss in September on social media after she was hospitalized.
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"We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before," she wrote at the time. "We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough."
In July 2021, Teigen revealed that she and Legend had planted a tree inside their new home in line with Thai tradition. Jack's ashes are in the soil of the tree, according to the model. She added that both of her kids talk about Jack in their everyday lives.
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"The way Miles and Luna talk about him is so beautiful and reminds me of when I was little talking to my grandpa who was just sitting bedside next to my mom in a little urn," Teigen told People magazine in April 2021. "It's all beautiful, and I love that tradition carries down."
Fox News' Lauryn Overhultz contributed to this report. Read more of this story on FOX News. | https://www.fox29.com/news/chrissy-teigen-announces-pregnancy-joy-has-filled-our-home-and-hearts-again | 2022-08-04T01:38:04Z | https://www.fox29.com/news/chrissy-teigen-announces-pregnancy-joy-has-filled-our-home-and-hearts-again | true |
So far, more than 6,000 people in the United States have caught monkeypox, according to the CDC, but almost none of them have been children.
Data from the WHO suggest past outbreaks of the disease in other countries have been more severe in children. With the first child cases of monkeypox confirmed in the US in recent weeks, some parents are growing concerned their children could be vulnerable heading back to school without a vaccine.
But as several viral posts point out, health departments across the country are strictly limiting who is eligible for the shot.
THE QUESTION
Are children eligible for the monkeypox vaccine?
THE SOURCES
Allison Messina, M.D., Chief of the Infectious Disease Division at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
THE ANSWER
Children are not currently eligible for either of the two available monkeypox vaccines as a preventative shot. They may be eligible, however, if they have had direct exposure to someone with monkeypox.
WHAT WE FOUND
There are currently two monkeypox vaccines available in the US: Jynneos and ACAM2000. They can be administered either as a preventative measure, or following direct exposure to the virus in order to prevent illness. But there isn’t a lot of supply of either shot, so nearly all local health departments are only giving them to those most at risk.
Right now, that means men who have sex with men, since they make up the overwhelming majority of cases so far. And even within that group it can be difficult to get the shot as a preventative measure.
New York City, for instance, will only give preventative vaccinations to “gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men, and/or transgender, gender non-conforming, or gender non-binary” people who are 18 or older and “have had multiple or anonymous sex partners in the last 14 days.”
Washington, D.C. has virtually identical requirements.
However, health departments also state anyone who has been directly exposed to monkeypox could be eligible for a shot, including children.
“Children and adolescents with exposure to people with suspected or confirmed monkeypox may be eligible for post-exposure… vaccination,” the CDC told VERIFY in a statement.
Allison Messina, who runs the Infectious Disease Division at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, says the current eligibility requirements make sense given the disease is so far mostly being reported within specific adult groups.
“Right now, there's not a big push to provide routine vaccinations for monkeypox for children,” she said. “Now, that may change if it continues to spread.”
The ACAM2000 vaccine is FDA approved for people of all ages, but can have negative side effects for people with weakened immune systems or certain skin conditions like eczema. The CDC says it can especially harm infants 12 months or younger with such conditions.
Jynneos does not have the same side effects, but it is only fully approved for patients 18 or older. However, the CDC says children directly exposed to monkeypox can request “a single-patient… authorization from the FDA, which can be acquired in coordination with state and local health departments and CDC.” | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/verify/monkeypox-verify/children-not-eligible-for-monkeypox-vaccine-unless-exposed-to-virus/536-f3dc3fe8-1241-453e-9c54-f39c0c1d2bde | 2022-08-04T01:48:47Z | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/verify/monkeypox-verify/children-not-eligible-for-monkeypox-vaccine-unless-exposed-to-virus/536-f3dc3fe8-1241-453e-9c54-f39c0c1d2bde | true |
PHOENIX (AP) — Officials in an Arizona county are vowing to overhaul their election procedures after a shortage of some ballots at about two dozen voting sites during Tuesday's primary election led to some voters leaving without being able to cast their ballots.
Pinal County Attorney Kent Volkmer and Jeffrey McClure, chair of the Board of Supervisors, both blamed the problems on human error. McClure called it “a major screw-up.”
“I have not seen evidence of a nefarious act,” McClure said at a Wednesday news conference. “I've seen mistakes made on a grand scale.”
The problems were the second in the primary. When mail ballots were sent out early in July, many were missing city races and the county — a growing suburban area south of metro-Phoenix and home to over 425,000 residents — was forced to send supplemental ballots to those voters.
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On Tuesday, that earlier issue played a role during in-person voting at some of the county's 95 polling sites. Each site may have had as many as 10 ballot styles.
A surge of people going to the polls led to some sites either running short or out of ballots. The county tried to print new ballots but old printers were limited and it took a long time in some cases to get new ballots to the affected polling sites.
At most, about 750 voters could have been affected, out of about 50,000 total mail and in-person votes tallied from Tuesday's election, but that is "purely a guess," Volkmer said.
“The actual number of people impacted, we have no ability to really assess,” Volkmer saiud.
“Quite frankly, we underestimated,” he said of the ballot shortage. “There were more people who showed up than we thought were going to show up.”
Some of those people were voters who had an early ballot, but because of the problems with missing races and the supplemental ballots, decided to “spoil” that ballot at the polls and request a new one.
“We know that that was happening,” he said. "That's not something that happens very often — its not what we expect."
Adding to the crush was a 10% population increase since the 2020 election and more independents asking for partisan Republican ballots on Election Day.
"We just, we didn't order enough ballots," Volkmer said.
“We're all human, but for the grace of God there go I,” he added. “There is nothing sinister,” and the problems affected voters of both parties.
“This was widespread, it was equal opportunity, it was simply a mistake,” Volkmer said.
There were also problems with a voting site in the city of Maricopa. That site did not open as scheduled at 7 a.m. Tuesday, and voting rights advocates tried and failed to get a judge to extend the hours to make up for that lost time for about 2,000 affected voters.
The Arizona Democracy Resource Center called the county’s actions “anti-democratic, alarming, and unacceptable.”
Volkmer said keys to the voting site were not available after the person set to open was unable to do so.
The state and national Republican Party also slammed the county, whose government is dominated by Republicans. They said in a joint statement that their poll observers reported "multiple failures" with mail ballots and precincts running out of ballots.
“This is a comprehensive failure that disenfranchises Arizonans and exemplifies why Republican-led efforts for transparency at the ballot box are so important,” the statement said.
Republican Rep. John Fillmore, who was trailing in his reelection bid, demanded action, saying “the average voter doesn't have faith.”
“Why the hell was the county not prepared for people showing up at the polls,” Fillmore asked at the news conference. “There has to be a change in the administration, in the people running the elections.”
The Republican Party called for county Elections Director David Frisk, who was just hired in March after an exodus of county election officials following the 2020 election, to immediately resign. Frisk was processing the approximately 8,000 remaining ballots and did not attend the news conference, which was streamed on the county website.
No voter was turned away at the polls, and some locations remained open for more than an hour after the normal 7 p.m. close time to allow those in line to cast ballots.
But "there were those people who felt they were disenfranchised,” Volkmer said, “There were people who said, ‘I didn’t get to vote because I had to go somewhere else.'” | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/arizona-county-hit-with-voting-problems-officials-vow-fixes/article_3e1632f4-561d-5e6a-9900-783fb63a132b.html | 2022-08-04T01:59:35Z | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/arizona-county-hit-with-voting-problems-officials-vow-fixes/article_3e1632f4-561d-5e6a-9900-783fb63a132b.html | true |
HONOLULU (KHON) — Passengers aboard Sunday’s Hawaiian Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu got more than complimentary lunch — they were treated to a familiar, and famous, face behind the flight attendant cart.
“Aloha Kakahiaka. Good morning guests, this is Jason Momoa.”
Momoa, star of ‘Aquaman’ and a beloved Hawaii native, handed out bottles of Mananalu water on the flight, as part of the partnership with the airline. A viral Tiktok shared the moment, showing the “hottest steward” pulling the beverage cart and handing out water while sporting a flower tucked behind his ear.
The concept of Mananalu, Momoa’s water brand, came to him on a flight where he noticed water bottles in single-use plastic bottles but other beverages in aluminum cans, his website explains. He took that moment and turned it into Mananalu, which distributes its water in recyclable, aluminum bottles.
Hawaiian Airlines started serving the 16-ounce bottles to Premium Cabin guests in April and replaced single-use plastic water bottles in the Pau Hana snack cart on continental U.S. flights.
Guests on the flight were also given 10,000 Hawaiian miles.
“I started Mananalu to give people a better option than single-use plastic and create a wave of positive change,” Momoa shared. “For every bottle of Mananalu sold, we remove one bottle of plastic from ocean-going waste.”
The partnership has eliminated 35,000 items of plastic in the first two months and anticipates the yearly average to be hundreds of thousands.
Momoa is back in Hawaii after being involved in a collision with a motorcyclist in California last week.
Authorities say the motorcyclist crossed the centerline and went “directly into the path of Jason Momoa’s vehicle,” a 1970 Oldsmobile. The man was ejected but suffered only minor, non-life-threatening injuries. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/jason-momoa-surprises-passengers-aboard-flight-to-hawaii/ | 2022-08-04T02:00:34Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/jason-momoa-surprises-passengers-aboard-flight-to-hawaii/ | true |
A Peterborough resident has started a petition to stop an Orton Longueville church from removing and bagging-up keepsakes and ornaments left on the graves of loved ones.
Helina Harrington, 70, from Orton, said that the Holy Trinity Church is “upsetting so many people” and that “something needs be done” to stop them from continuing to remove items left on the graves.
“It’s absolutely disgusting,” she said. “They’ve got no compassion – they really don’t care.
"They don’t allow things on the graves because it’s their land but it’s my stone, which I paid for. I put everything on the stone of my parents and they had the audacity to bag it all up and leave it in a bag behind the stone.
"They’ve done it three times now and every time I’ve taken it out and put it back on the stone.”
Helina’s mum and dad passed away in 2009 and 2015 respectively.
Twenty residents have signed her petition so far, calling for an end to the removal of items.
Holy Trinity Church’s Reverend Imogen Falvey said the items removed by the church were “not allowed under regulations,” which are rules set out by the Church of England and not the church.
“I don’t want to cause distress to anybody, especially people who are grieving,” she said.
"Any items which should not have been there, which are not in accordance with the rules, were placed in bags for people to come and collect.
"These items shouldn’t be left on graves, which is the message I’m trying to get across.
"The only things the rules permit are wreathes and fresh flowers until they wither.”
Reverend Falvey said that the church gave residents “sufficient notice” before it removed the items and that it usually tidies its grounds a few times each year.
"People think that they own the graves – they don’t,” she added. “They only own the stones.
“We don’t want to cause trouble or upset to anybody but it matters to other people when things are left on graves which shouldn’t be there.” | https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/people/theyre-upsetting-so-many-people-peterborough-church-removes-and-bags-up-keepsakes-and-ornaments-on-graves-3792960 | 2022-08-04T02:02:44Z | https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/people/theyre-upsetting-so-many-people-peterborough-church-removes-and-bags-up-keepsakes-and-ornaments-on-graves-3792960 | false |
Faraday Future has signaled it will need to raise more cash to start production of the FF91, an electric crossover that was first shown more than five years ago.
In a regulatory filing issued on Monday, the electric-vehicle startup said it is in talks to raise cash to fund “production activities” through the end of 2022 and beyond.
In the same filing, the company said it will also need to raise cash to fund “operations” through the end of 2022, as well as “commercially launch” the FF91.
The company said it is looking to raise over $200 million in total.
Despite the headwinds, Faraday Future expects to start production and deliver the first FF91 crossovers in the U.S. in the third or fourth quarter of 2022. Production is scheduled to take place at Faraday Future’s own plant in Hanford, California.
The vehicle’s targeted starting price is $120,000, though only a special Futurist model will be available at launch. It has a targeted starting price of $180,000. In May we learned the company only had 401 pre-orders for the FF91 at the end of the first quarter of 2022.
Smaller FF81 and FF71 crossovers are planned and are targeted to start at $74,000 and $45,000, respectively. Faraday Future is also planning a delivery vehicle.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Equinox Gold Corp. (TSX: EQX) (NYSE American: EQX) ("Equinox Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce its second quarter 2022 summary financial and operating results. The Company's unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements and related management's discussion and analysis for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 will be available for download on SEDAR, on EDGAR and on the Company's website. The Company will host a conference call and webcast on August 4, 2022 commencing at 7:30 am Vancouver time to discuss the Company's second quarter results and activities underway at the Company's projects. Further details are provided at the end of this news release.
Christian Milau, CEO of Equinox Gold, commented: "Although we experienced operational challenges at several of our sites this quarter, we expect improved performance in the second half of the year with increased production and lower costs. Inflation has certainly increased the cost of consumables and our team is working hard to find offsetting savings so we can maintain a strong business during this market downturn. The new resin-in-leach circuit at the Santa Luz plant is performing well. Recoveries are consistently above 70% and as high as 82%. With commercial production anticipated in Q3 2022, Santa Luz will contribute to increased production in the fourth quarter and into 2023.
"During the first half of the year we achieved excellent construction progress at our Greenstone project in Ontario, which is 35% complete and remains on schedule and on budget. The team has done an exceptional job to control costs in this inflationary environment and is on track to have the majority of buildings enclosed by year end, which is key to maintaining productivity during the winter months. We also strengthened our balance sheet, reduced our cost of capital and improved our liquidity by expanding and amending our credit facility. We appreciate the strong support and confidence from our lending syndicate.
"Looking forward, Equinox Gold is on track to deliver significant growth over the next few years. Commercial production at Santa Luz and higher-grade ore at Los Filos should both contribute to increased production and lower costs in 2023. The big jump will come in 2024 when we achieve production at Greenstone, which will contribute more than 200,000 ounces of low-cost production annually once it has ramped up to full capacity. We also continue to advance the Castle Mountain, Los Filos and Aurizona expansions, which could collectively contribute more than 300,000 ounces of annual production. As we plan for Greg Smith to take over as CEO, I am confident that Equinox Gold has the foundational assets, the team and the leadership required to achieve its long-term goals."
HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022
Operational
- Produced 120,813 oz of gold during the Quarter; sold 120,395 oz of gold at an average realized gold price of $1,856 per oz
- Total cash costs of $1,482 per oz and AISC of $1,657 per oz(1)(2)
- Total recordable injury frequency rate of 3.21 per million hours worked on a rolling 12-month basis, with two lost-time injuries during the Quarter
- Temporarily suspended operations at RDM and withdrew RDM's guidance on May 16, 2022 as the result of a permitting delay for a scheduled tailings storage facility ("TSF") raise; the permit was received on May 27, 2022, the TSF raise is underway and operations resumed in early July
Earnings
- Earnings from mine operations of $17.0 million
- Net loss of $78.7 million or $(0.26) per share
- Adjusted net loss(1) of $47.9 million or $(0.16) per share, after adjusting for certain non-cash expense items(3)
Financial
- Cash flow from operations before changes in non-cash working capital of $16.4 million ($26.9 million cash flow used in operations after changes in non-cash working capital)
- Adjusted EBITDA(1)(3) of $24.1 million
- Expenditures of $18.0 million in sustaining capital and $134.2 million in non-sustaining capital(1)
- Cash and cash equivalents (unrestricted) of $159.7 million at June 30, 2022
- Net debt(1) of $472.2 million at June 30, 2022
Construction, development and exploration
- Continued ramp up and commissioning at Santa Luz with the expectation of achieving commercial production in Q3 2022
- Advanced Greenstone construction
- Exploration drilling in the 70-km-long greenstone belt that hosts Fazenda and Santa Luz identified multiple near-mine and regional discoveries that highlight potential additions to Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources
Corporate
- Closed the sale of Mercedes on April 21, 2022 to Bear Creek Mining Corporation ("Bear Creek") and received a cash payment of $75 million, a deferred cash payment of $25 million due within six months of the date of the close of the sale, a 2% net smelter return on Mercedes production and 24.73 million shares of Bear Creek
- Received $40 million (C$50 million) and transferred five million shares of the Company's investment in Solaris following the exercise of warrants the Company had granted on April 28, 2021
- Acquired 1 million shares of Solaris at C$6.75 per share on exercise of share purchase warrants. Following the exercise of the share purchase warrants, the Company owns 13.8 million shares (12.2% interest on a basic basis) of Solaris
- Published the Company's 2021 Environmental, Social and Government ("ESG") report summarizing 2021 ESG performance and 2022 targets, launched a new ESG website portal and held an ESG-focused investor call
- Partnered with Sandstorm Gold Royalties Ltd. to create Sandbox Royalties Corp., a new metals royalty company
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
- Updated production and cost guidance:
- In July 2022, increased the Company's liquidity by amending its credit facilities
- $73.3 million of outstanding principal balance under the term loan rolled into Revolving Facility, eliminating need for principal payments through mid-2026
- $100 million of Revolving Facility drawn in July 2022; $227 million of Revolving Facility undrawn as of the date of this MD&A(1)
- In August 2022, announced that Greg Smith, currently President of Equinox Gold, will succeed Christian Milau as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Equinox Gold effective September 1, 2022
CONSOLIDATED OPERATIONAL AND FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
The Company sold fewer gold ounces for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 compared to the comparative periods of 2021. The decrease was mainly driven by decreased production at Aurizona and RDM and by lower gold sales at Mercedes, as the operation was sold on April 21, 2022. Lower gold production at Aurizona was in part due to processing stockpile ore with lower gold grades as high rainfall impeded access to higher-grade ore from the Piaba open pit. Lower gold production at RDM was mainly due to the temporary suspension of mining and plant operations in mid-May due to a delay in receiving permits for the scheduled TSF raise. These reductions were partially offset by increased production at Mesquite and Los Filos and the contribution of pre-commercial production from Santa Luz. Higher gold production at Mesquite was due to mining the core of the Brownie ore body, resulting in higher grades and a lower strip ratio. Higher gold production at Los Filos was due to more recoverable ounces placed due to better grades from the open pit. Although there was a contribution of gold from pre-commercial production at Santa Luz, the ramp up was slower than anticipated due to modifications required to handle resin-in-leach processing at an industrial scale, rectification of some piping and leach tank issues following construction, and also working to achieve a steady blend of ore feed. Commercial production at Santa Luz is expected in Q3 2022.
In Q2 2022, earnings from mine operations were $17.0 million (Q2 2021 - $41.3 million) and for the six months ended June 30, 2022 were $45.5 million (six months ended June 30, 2021 - $85.5 million). Earnings from mine operations were impacted by lower gold production, higher operating costs due to supply constraints, and inflationary pressures, particularly from increased prices of oil and consumables that impacted input prices. The Company incurred a net loss in Q2 2022 of $78.7 million (Q2 2021 - net income of $403.7 million) and a net loss for the six months ended June 30, 2022 of $98.5 million (six months ended June 30, 2021 - net income of $454.0 million). The net losses were impacted by lower earnings from mine operations and a loss on the change in fair value of share purchase warrants compared to a gain during the comparative periods of 2021. Results for the comparative periods of 2021 were also impacted by a $186.1 million gain on reclassification of investment in Solaris, a $81.4 million gain on bargain purchase of Premier, a $50.3 million gain on sale of partial interest in Solaris and a $45.4 million gain on the sale of the Pilar mine.
In Q2 2022, adjusted EBITDA was $24.1 million (Q2 2021 - $51.9 million) and for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was $67.2 million (six months ended June 30, 2021 - $112.8 million). In Q2 2022, adjusted net loss was $47.9 million (Q2 2021 - adjusted net loss of $0.8 million) and for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was $72.0 million (six months ended June 30, 2021 - adjusted net loss of $4.0 million). Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net loss were impacted by lower earnings from mine operations compared to the comparative periods of 2021.
SELECTED FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE THREE AND SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022 AND 2021
Additional information regarding the Company's financial results and activities underway at the Company is available in the Company's Q2 2022 Financial Statements and accompanying management's discussion and analysis for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, which will be available for download on the Company's website at www.equinoxgold.com, on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar.
2022 GUIDANCE
The Company has updated its 2022 production and cost guidance to reflect the disruption to mining and operations at RDM, a longer-than-expected ramp-up at Santa Luz that has prolonged pre-commercial production and further inflation of approximately 6% on a consolidated basis.
Guidance for RDM was withdrawn on May 16, 2022 to reflect the disruption to operations in both Q1 and Q2 2022, as previously mentioned. RDM guidance has been updated to reflect these disruptions and also to reflect a change to the mine plan to defer waste stripping and instead focus on the processing of low-grade stockpiles while the TSF raise is completed and water in the open pit is pumped out and evaporated. RDM was in the midst of a waste stripping campaign at the time of the suspension of operations in May. The current plan of operations minimizes cash outflow while the TSF raise is completed and during a period in which Greenstone is in a high capital expenditure phase, while maintaining the long-term value of RDM. Low-grade dumps are sufficient to sustain operations for approximately two years, albeit resulting in lower gold production.
The Santa Luz ramp up has been slower than anticipated and resulted in lower gold production during the period than expected. The longer ramp up was due to modifications required to handle resin-in-leach processing at an industrial scale, rectification of some piping and leach tank issues following construction, and also working to achieve a steady blend of ore feed. See Development Projects section for discussion of throughput and recoveries, which are approaching expected levels in Q3 2022. Los Filos production guidance has been lowered slightly to reflect a delay in accessing higher-grade ore zones in the Bermejal underground.
Guidance for the other mines remains as originally disclosed on January 25, 2022. As a result, consolidated production for 2022 is forecast at 550,000 to 615,000 oz of gold (compared to the original forecast of 625,000 to 710,000 oz of gold).
Cost escalation for certain consumables during the first half of 2022, including diesel, cyanide and grinding media, and lower grades processed than projected, has resulted in increased cash costs at several of the Company's mines. As a result, although production is expected to increase at all of the mines in the second half of the year, guidance for cash costs and AISC per oz has been increased at all of the mines with the exception of Mesquite. Updated consolidated cash costs are estimated at $1,200 to $1,250 per oz with AISC of $1,470 to $1,530 per oz sold (compared to the original forecast of $1,080 to $1,140 per oz cash costs with AISC of $1,330 to $1,415 per oz of gold sold).
Sustaining capital guidance has decreased principally due to the delayed Santa Luz commercial production which has resulted in some sustaining capital being reclassified as non-sustaining capital and an updated mine plan at Mesquite that anticipates less deferred stripping. Despite the reduction to sustaining capital, an increase in cash costs per oz due to cost escalation, and changes to mine sequences driving weaker than expected production, are reflected in a 10% increase to the AISC per oz guidance range. Non-sustaining capital guidance is generally consistent with previous guidance with the exception of Santa Luz, where modifications to the plant have resulted in an additional estimated $20 million of non-sustaining capital. In addition, Greenstone will spend more in 2022 on plant and mill buildings in part due to steel price inflation, although these increases have been offset by cost reductions in other areas and there is no change to the overall construction budget.
The Company may revise guidance during the year to reflect changes to expected results.
CONFERENCE CALL AND WEBCAST
Equinox Gold will host a conference call and webcast on Thursday, August 4, 2022 commencing at 7:30 am Vancouver time to discuss the Company's second quarter results and activities underway at the Company's projects. All participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of Equinox Gold's CEO and executive team. The webcast will be archived on Equinox Gold's website until February 4, 2023.
Conference call
Toll-free in U.S. and Canada: 1-800-319-4610
International callers: +1 604-638-5340
Webcast
www.equinoxgold.com
ABOUT EQUINOX GOLD
Equinox Gold is a Canadian mining company operating entirely in the Americas, with six operating gold mines, a mine in commissioning, and a clear path to achieve more than one million ounces of annual gold production from a pipeline of development and expansion projects. Equinox Gold's common shares are listed on the TSX and the NYSE American under the trading symbol EQX. Further information about Equinox Gold's portfolio of assets and long-term growth strategy is available at www.equinoxgold.com or by email at ir@equinoxgold.com.
EQUINOX GOLD CONTACTS
Christian Milau, Chief Executive Officer
Rhylin Bailie, Vice President, Investor Relations
Tel: +1 604-558-0560
Email: ir@equinoxgold.com
CAUTIONARY NOTES
Non-IFRS Measures
This MD&A refers to cash costs, cash costs per oz sold, AISC, AISC per oz sold, AISC contribution margin, adjusted net income, adjusted EPS, mine-site free cash flow, adjusted EBITDA, net debt, and sustaining and non-sustaining capital expenditures that are measures with no standardized meaning under IFRS, i.e. they are non-IFRS measures, and may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Their measurement and presentation is consistently prepared and is intended to provide additional information and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with IFRS. Numbers presented in the tables below may not sum due to rounding.
Cash costs and cash costs per oz sold
Cash costs is a common financial performance measure in the gold mining industry; however, it has no standard meaning under IFRS. The Company reports total cash costs on a per oz sold basis. The Company believes that, in addition to conventional measures prepared in accordance with IFRS, certain investors use this information to evaluate the Company's performance and ability to generate operating income and cash flow from mining operations. Cash costs include mine site operating costs plus lease principal payments, but are exclusive of depreciation and depletion, reclamation, capital and exploration costs and net of by-product sales and then divided by ounces sold to arrive at cash costs per oz sold. The measure is not necessarily indicative of cash flow from operations under IFRS or operating costs presented under IFRS.
AISC per oz sold
The Company is reporting AISC per oz of gold sold. The methodology for calculating AISC was developed internally and is calculated below. Current IFRS measures used in the gold industry, such as operating expenses, do not capture all of the expenditures incurred to discover, develop and sustain gold production. The Company believes the AISC measure provides further transparency into costs associated with producing gold and will assist analysts, investors and other stakeholders of the Company in assessing its operating performance, its ability to generate free cash flow from current operations and its overall value. In calculating AISC, the Company includes silver by-product credits as it considers the cost to produce the gold is reduced as a result of the by-product sales incidental to the gold production process, thereby allowing management and other stakeholders to assess the net costs of gold production.
The following table provides a reconciliation of cash costs per oz of gold sold and AISC per oz of gold sold to the most directly comparable IFRS measure on an aggregate basis.
Sustaining and non-sustaining capital reconciliation
Sustaining capital expenditures are defined as those expenditures which do not increase annual gold ounce production at a mine site and excludes all expenditures at the Company's projects and certain expenditures at the Company's operating sites which are deemed expansionary. Sustaining capital expenditures can include, but are not limited to, capitalized stripping costs at open pit mines, underground mine development, mining and milling equipment and TSF raises.
The following table provides a reconciliation of sustaining capital expenditures to the Company's total capital expenditures for continuing operations.
Total mine-site free cash flow
Mine-site free cash flow is a non-IFRS financial performance measure. The Company believes this measure is a useful indicator of its ability to operate without reliance on additional borrowing or usage of existing cash. Mine-site free cash flow is intended to provide additional information only and does not have any standardized meaning under IFRS and may not be comparable to similar measures of performance presented by other mining companies. Mine-site free cash flow should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with IFRS.
The following table provides a reconciliation of mine-site free cash flow to the most directly comparable IFRS measure on an aggregate basis:
AISC contribution margin, EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA
The Company believes that, in addition to conventional measures prepared in accordance with IFRS, certain investors use AISC contribution margin, AISC contribution margin per gold ounce sold and adjusted EBITDA to evaluate the Company's performance and ability to generate cash flows and service debt. AISC contribution margin is defined as revenue less AISC. EBITDA is defined as earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization, adjusted to exclude specific items that are significant but not reflective of the underlying operating performance of the Company, such as the impact of fair value changes of warrants, foreign exchange contracts and gold contracts; unrealized foreign exchange gains and losses, transaction costs, and share-based compensation expense. It is also adjusted to exclude items whose timing or amount cannot be reasonably estimated in advance or that are not considered representative of core operating performance, such as impairments and gains and losses on disposals of assets.
Prior to Q4 2021, adjusted EBITDA was calculated excluding transaction costs as an adjusting item. Commencing in Q4 2021, the Company has adjusted for transaction costs as this item is not considered representative of core operating performance. The calculation of adjusted EBITDA for June 30, 2021 has been adjusted to conform with the current methodology and is different from the measure previously reported.
The following tables provide the calculation of AISC contribution margin, EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA, as calculated by the Company:
AISC Contribution Margin
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted net income and adjusted EPS
Adjusted net income and adjusted EPS are used by management and investors to measure the underlying operating performance of the Company. Adjusted net income is defined as net income adjusted to exclude specific items that are significant but not reflective of the underlying operating performance of the Company, such as the impact of fair value changes in the value of warrants, foreign exchange contracts and gold contracts, unrealized foreign exchange gains and losses, and non-cash share-based compensation expense. It is also adjusted to exclude items whose timing or amount cannot be reasonably estimated in advance or that are not considered representative of core operating performance, such as impairments and gains and losses on disposals of assets. Adjusted net income per share amounts are calculated using the weighted average number of shares outstanding on a basic and diluted basis as determined by IFRS.
Prior to Q4 2021, adjusted net income was calculated excluding transaction costs as an adjusting item. Commencing in Q4 2021, the Company has adjusted for transaction costs as this item is not considered representative of core operating performance. The calculation of adjusted net income for June 30, 2021 has been adjusted to conform with the current methodology and is different from the measure previously reported.
The following table provides the calculation of adjusted net income and adjusted EPS, as adjusted and calculated by the Company:
Net debt
The Company believes that in addition to conventional measures prepared in accordance with IFRS, the Company and certain investors and analysts use net debt to evaluate the Company's performance. Net debt does not have any standardized meaning prescribed under IFRS, and therefore it may not be comparable to similar measures employed by other companies. This measure is intended to provide additional information and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performances prepared in accordance with IFRS. Net debt is calculated as the sum of the current and non-current portions of long-term debt, net of the cash and cash equivalent balance as at the balance sheet date. A reconciliation of net debt is provided below.
Technical Information
Doug Reddy, Msc, P.Geo., Equinox Gold's COO, is the Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 for this Equinox Gold press release and has reviewed and approved the technical information in this document.
Forward-looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking information and forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities legislation and may include future-oriented financial information. Forward-looking statements and forward-looking information in this news release relate to, among other things: the strategic vision for the Company and expectations regarding exploration potential, production capabilities and future financial or operational performance; the Company's production and cost guidance; the Company's ability to successfully advance its growth and development projects, including the construction of Greenstone and the expansions at Los Filos, Castle Mountain and Aurizona; the expectations for the Company's investments in Sandbox Royalties, Solaris, i-80 Gold, Pilar Gold and Bear Creek; and conversion of Mineral Resources to Mineral Reserves. Forward-looking statements or information generally identified by the use of the words "believe", "will", ""achieve", "increase", "maintain", "potential", "on schedule", "anticipate", "expect", "estimate", "on track", "on budget", and similar expressions and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", or "should", or the negative connotation of such terms, are intended to identify forward-looking statements and information. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements and information are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements since the Company can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. The Company has based these forward-looking statements and information on the Company's current expectations and projections about future events and these assumptions include: Equinox Gold's ability to achieve the exploration, production, cost and development expectations for its respective operations and projects; prices for gold remaining as estimated; currency exchange rates remaining as estimated; availability of funds for the Company's projects and future cash requirements; prices for energy inputs, labour, materials, supplies and services; construction of Greenstone being completed and performed in accordance with current expectations; expansion projects at Los Filos, Castle Mountain and Aurizona being completed and performed in accordance with current expectations; tonnage of ore to be mined and processed; ore grades and recoveries; capital, decommissioning and reclamation estimates; Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource estimates and the assumptions on which they are based; no labour-related disruptions and no unplanned delays or interruptions in scheduled construction, development and production, including by blockade or industrial action; the Company's working history with the workers, unions and communities at Los Filos; all necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approvals are received in a timely manner; the Company's ability to comply with environmental, health and safety laws and other regulatory requirements; the strategic visions for Sandbox Royalties, i-80 Gold, Solaris, Pilar Gold and Bear Creek and their respective abilities to successfully advance their businesses; and the ability of Equinox Gold to work productively with its joint venture partner and Indigenous partners at Greenstone. While the Company considers these assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available, they may prove to be incorrect. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on the forward-looking statements or information contained in this news release.
The Company cautions that forward-looking statements and information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release and the Company has made assumptions and estimates based on or related to many of these factors. Such factors include, without limitation: fluctuations in gold prices; fluctuations in prices for energy inputs, labour, materials, supplies and services; fluctuations in currency markets; operational risks and hazards inherent with the business of mining (including environmental accidents and hazards, industrial accidents, equipment breakdown, unusual or unexpected geological or structural formations, cave-ins, flooding and severe weather); inadequate insurance, or inability to obtain insurance to cover these risks and hazards; employee relations; relationships with, and claims by, local communities and indigenous populations; the Company's ability to obtain all necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all; changes in laws, regulations and government practices, including environmental and export and import laws and regulations; legal restrictions relating to mining; risks relating to expropriation; increased competition in the mining industry; the failure by Pilar Gold or Bear Creek to meet their respective commitments to the Company; and those factors identified in the section titled "Risks and Uncertainties" in the Company's MD&A dated March 23, 2022 for the year ended December 31, 2021, and in the section titled "Risks Related to the Business" in the Company's Annual Information Form dated March 24, 2022 for the year ended December 31, 2021, both of which are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar. Forward-looking statements and information are designed to help readers understand management's views as of that time with respect to future events and speak only as of the date they are made. Except as required by applicable law, the Company assumes no obligation to update or to publicly announce the results of any change to any forward-looking statement or information contained or incorporated by reference to reflect actual results, future events or developments, changes in assumptions or changes in other factors affecting the forward-looking statements and information. If the Company updates any one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that the Company will make additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Equinox Gold Corp. (TSX: EQX) (NYSE American: EQX) ("Equinox Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce its second quarter 2022 summary financial and operating results. The Company's unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements and related management's discussion and analysis for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 will be available for download on SEDAR, on EDGAR and on the Company's website. The Company will host a conference call and webcast on August 4, 2022 commencing at 7:30 am Vancouver time to discuss the Company's second quarter results and activities underway at the Company's projects. Further details are provided at the end of this news release.
Christian Milau, CEO of Equinox Gold, commented: "Although we experienced operational challenges at several of our sites this quarter, we expect improved performance in the second half of the year with increased production and lower costs. Inflation has certainly increased the cost of consumables and our team is working hard to find offsetting savings so we can maintain a strong business during this market downturn. The new resin-in-leach circuit at the Santa Luz plant is performing well. Recoveries are consistently above 70% and as high as 82%. With commercial production anticipated in Q3 2022, Santa Luz will contribute to increased production in the fourth quarter and into 2023.
"During the first half of the year we achieved excellent construction progress at our Greenstone project in Ontario, which is 35% complete and remains on schedule and on budget. The team has done an exceptional job to control costs in this inflationary environment and is on track to have the majority of buildings enclosed by year end, which is key to maintaining productivity during the winter months. We also strengthened our balance sheet, reduced our cost of capital and improved our liquidity by expanding and amending our credit facility. We appreciate the strong support and confidence from our lending syndicate.
"Looking forward, Equinox Gold is on track to deliver significant growth over the next few years. Commercial production at Santa Luz and higher-grade ore at Los Filos should both contribute to increased production and lower costs in 2023. The big jump will come in 2024 when we achieve production at Greenstone, which will contribute more than 200,000 ounces of low-cost production annually once it has ramped up to full capacity. We also continue to advance the Castle Mountain, Los Filos and Aurizona expansions, which could collectively contribute more than 300,000 ounces of annual production. As we plan for Greg Smith to take over as CEO, I am confident that Equinox Gold has the foundational assets, the team and the leadership required to achieve its long-term goals."
HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022
Operational
- Produced 120,813 oz of gold during the Quarter; sold 120,395 oz of gold at an average realized gold price of $1,856 per oz
- Total cash costs of $1,482 per oz and AISC of $1,657 per oz(1)(2)
- Total recordable injury frequency rate of 3.21 per million hours worked on a rolling 12-month basis, with two lost-time injuries during the Quarter
- Temporarily suspended operations at RDM and withdrew RDM's guidance on May 16, 2022 as the result of a permitting delay for a scheduled tailings storage facility ("TSF") raise; the permit was received on May 27, 2022, the TSF raise is underway and operations resumed in early July
Earnings
- Earnings from mine operations of $17.0 million
- Net loss of $78.7 million or $(0.26) per share
- Adjusted net loss(1) of $47.9 million or $(0.16) per share, after adjusting for certain non-cash expense items(3)
Financial
- Cash flow from operations before changes in non-cash working capital of $16.4 million ($26.9 million cash flow used in operations after changes in non-cash working capital)
- Adjusted EBITDA(1)(3) of $24.1 million
- Expenditures of $18.0 million in sustaining capital and $134.2 million in non-sustaining capital(1)
- Cash and cash equivalents (unrestricted) of $159.7 million at June 30, 2022
- Net debt(1) of $472.2 million at June 30, 2022
Construction, development and exploration
- Continued ramp up and commissioning at Santa Luz with the expectation of achieving commercial production in Q3 2022
- Advanced Greenstone construction
- Exploration drilling in the 70-km-long greenstone belt that hosts Fazenda and Santa Luz identified multiple near-mine and regional discoveries that highlight potential additions to Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources
Corporate
- Closed the sale of Mercedes on April 21, 2022 to Bear Creek Mining Corporation ("Bear Creek") and received a cash payment of $75 million, a deferred cash payment of $25 million due within six months of the date of the close of the sale, a 2% net smelter return on Mercedes production and 24.73 million shares of Bear Creek
- Received $40 million (C$50 million) and transferred five million shares of the Company's investment in Solaris following the exercise of warrants the Company had granted on April 28, 2021
- Acquired 1 million shares of Solaris at C$6.75 per share on exercise of share purchase warrants. Following the exercise of the share purchase warrants, the Company owns 13.8 million shares (12.2% interest on a basic basis) of Solaris
- Published the Company's 2021 Environmental, Social and Government ("ESG") report summarizing 2021 ESG performance and 2022 targets, launched a new ESG website portal and held an ESG-focused investor call
- Partnered with Sandstorm Gold Royalties Ltd. to create Sandbox Royalties Corp., a new metals royalty company
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
- Updated production and cost guidance:
- In July 2022, increased the Company's liquidity by amending its credit facilities
- $73.3 million of outstanding principal balance under the term loan rolled into Revolving Facility, eliminating need for principal payments through mid-2026
- $100 million of Revolving Facility drawn in July 2022; $227 million of Revolving Facility undrawn as of the date of this MD&A(1)
- In August 2022, announced that Greg Smith, currently President of Equinox Gold, will succeed Christian Milau as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Equinox Gold effective September 1, 2022
CONSOLIDATED OPERATIONAL AND FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
The Company sold fewer gold ounces for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 compared to the comparative periods of 2021. The decrease was mainly driven by decreased production at Aurizona and RDM and by lower gold sales at Mercedes, as the operation was sold on April 21, 2022. Lower gold production at Aurizona was in part due to processing stockpile ore with lower gold grades as high rainfall impeded access to higher-grade ore from the Piaba open pit. Lower gold production at RDM was mainly due to the temporary suspension of mining and plant operations in mid-May due to a delay in receiving permits for the scheduled TSF raise. These reductions were partially offset by increased production at Mesquite and Los Filos and the contribution of pre-commercial production from Santa Luz. Higher gold production at Mesquite was due to mining the core of the Brownie ore body, resulting in higher grades and a lower strip ratio. Higher gold production at Los Filos was due to more recoverable ounces placed due to better grades from the open pit. Although there was a contribution of gold from pre-commercial production at Santa Luz, the ramp up was slower than anticipated due to modifications required to handle resin-in-leach processing at an industrial scale, rectification of some piping and leach tank issues following construction, and also working to achieve a steady blend of ore feed. Commercial production at Santa Luz is expected in Q3 2022.
In Q2 2022, earnings from mine operations were $17.0 million (Q2 2021 - $41.3 million) and for the six months ended June 30, 2022 were $45.5 million (six months ended June 30, 2021 - $85.5 million). Earnings from mine operations were impacted by lower gold production, higher operating costs due to supply constraints, and inflationary pressures, particularly from increased prices of oil and consumables that impacted input prices. The Company incurred a net loss in Q2 2022 of $78.7 million (Q2 2021 - net income of $403.7 million) and a net loss for the six months ended June 30, 2022 of $98.5 million (six months ended June 30, 2021 - net income of $454.0 million). The net losses were impacted by lower earnings from mine operations and a loss on the change in fair value of share purchase warrants compared to a gain during the comparative periods of 2021. Results for the comparative periods of 2021 were also impacted by a $186.1 million gain on reclassification of investment in Solaris, a $81.4 million gain on bargain purchase of Premier, a $50.3 million gain on sale of partial interest in Solaris and a $45.4 million gain on the sale of the Pilar mine.
In Q2 2022, adjusted EBITDA was $24.1 million (Q2 2021 - $51.9 million) and for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was $67.2 million (six months ended June 30, 2021 - $112.8 million). In Q2 2022, adjusted net loss was $47.9 million (Q2 2021 - adjusted net loss of $0.8 million) and for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was $72.0 million (six months ended June 30, 2021 - adjusted net loss of $4.0 million). Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net loss were impacted by lower earnings from mine operations compared to the comparative periods of 2021.
SELECTED FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE THREE AND SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022 AND 2021
Additional information regarding the Company's financial results and activities underway at the Company is available in the Company's Q2 2022 Financial Statements and accompanying management's discussion and analysis for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, which will be available for download on the Company's website at www.equinoxgold.com, on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar.
2022 GUIDANCE
The Company has updated its 2022 production and cost guidance to reflect the disruption to mining and operations at RDM, a longer-than-expected ramp-up at Santa Luz that has prolonged pre-commercial production and further inflation of approximately 6% on a consolidated basis.
Guidance for RDM was withdrawn on May 16, 2022 to reflect the disruption to operations in both Q1 and Q2 2022, as previously mentioned. RDM guidance has been updated to reflect these disruptions and also to reflect a change to the mine plan to defer waste stripping and instead focus on the processing of low-grade stockpiles while the TSF raise is completed and water in the open pit is pumped out and evaporated. RDM was in the midst of a waste stripping campaign at the time of the suspension of operations in May. The current plan of operations minimizes cash outflow while the TSF raise is completed and during a period in which Greenstone is in a high capital expenditure phase, while maintaining the long-term value of RDM. Low-grade dumps are sufficient to sustain operations for approximately two years, albeit resulting in lower gold production.
The Santa Luz ramp up has been slower than anticipated and resulted in lower gold production during the period than expected. The longer ramp up was due to modifications required to handle resin-in-leach processing at an industrial scale, rectification of some piping and leach tank issues following construction, and also working to achieve a steady blend of ore feed. See Development Projects section for discussion of throughput and recoveries, which are approaching expected levels in Q3 2022. Los Filos production guidance has been lowered slightly to reflect a delay in accessing higher-grade ore zones in the Bermejal underground.
Guidance for the other mines remains as originally disclosed on January 25, 2022. As a result, consolidated production for 2022 is forecast at 550,000 to 615,000 oz of gold (compared to the original forecast of 625,000 to 710,000 oz of gold).
Cost escalation for certain consumables during the first half of 2022, including diesel, cyanide and grinding media, and lower grades processed than projected, has resulted in increased cash costs at several of the Company's mines. As a result, although production is expected to increase at all of the mines in the second half of the year, guidance for cash costs and AISC per oz has been increased at all of the mines with the exception of Mesquite. Updated consolidated cash costs are estimated at $1,200 to $1,250 per oz with AISC of $1,470 to $1,530 per oz sold (compared to the original forecast of $1,080 to $1,140 per oz cash costs with AISC of $1,330 to $1,415 per oz of gold sold).
Sustaining capital guidance has decreased principally due to the delayed Santa Luz commercial production which has resulted in some sustaining capital being reclassified as non-sustaining capital and an updated mine plan at Mesquite that anticipates less deferred stripping. Despite the reduction to sustaining capital, an increase in cash costs per oz due to cost escalation, and changes to mine sequences driving weaker than expected production, are reflected in a 10% increase to the AISC per oz guidance range. Non-sustaining capital guidance is generally consistent with previous guidance with the exception of Santa Luz, where modifications to the plant have resulted in an additional estimated $20 million of non-sustaining capital. In addition, Greenstone will spend more in 2022 on plant and mill buildings in part due to steel price inflation, although these increases have been offset by cost reductions in other areas and there is no change to the overall construction budget.
The Company may revise guidance during the year to reflect changes to expected results.
CONFERENCE CALL AND WEBCAST
Equinox Gold will host a conference call and webcast on Thursday, August 4, 2022 commencing at 7:30 am Vancouver time to discuss the Company's second quarter results and activities underway at the Company's projects. All participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of Equinox Gold's CEO and executive team. The webcast will be archived on Equinox Gold's website until February 4, 2023.
Conference call
Toll-free in U.S. and Canada: 1-800-319-4610
International callers: +1 604-638-5340
Webcast
www.equinoxgold.com
ABOUT EQUINOX GOLD
Equinox Gold is a Canadian mining company operating entirely in the Americas, with six operating gold mines, a mine in commissioning, and a clear path to achieve more than one million ounces of annual gold production from a pipeline of development and expansion projects. Equinox Gold's common shares are listed on the TSX and the NYSE American under the trading symbol EQX. Further information about Equinox Gold's portfolio of assets and long-term growth strategy is available at www.equinoxgold.com or by email at ir@equinoxgold.com.
EQUINOX GOLD CONTACTS
Christian Milau, Chief Executive Officer
Rhylin Bailie, Vice President, Investor Relations
Tel: +1 604-558-0560
Email: ir@equinoxgold.com
CAUTIONARY NOTES
Non-IFRS Measures
This MD&A refers to cash costs, cash costs per oz sold, AISC, AISC per oz sold, AISC contribution margin, adjusted net income, adjusted EPS, mine-site free cash flow, adjusted EBITDA, net debt, and sustaining and non-sustaining capital expenditures that are measures with no standardized meaning under IFRS, i.e. they are non-IFRS measures, and may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Their measurement and presentation is consistently prepared and is intended to provide additional information and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with IFRS. Numbers presented in the tables below may not sum due to rounding.
Cash costs and cash costs per oz sold
Cash costs is a common financial performance measure in the gold mining industry; however, it has no standard meaning under IFRS. The Company reports total cash costs on a per oz sold basis. The Company believes that, in addition to conventional measures prepared in accordance with IFRS, certain investors use this information to evaluate the Company's performance and ability to generate operating income and cash flow from mining operations. Cash costs include mine site operating costs plus lease principal payments, but are exclusive of depreciation and depletion, reclamation, capital and exploration costs and net of by-product sales and then divided by ounces sold to arrive at cash costs per oz sold. The measure is not necessarily indicative of cash flow from operations under IFRS or operating costs presented under IFRS.
AISC per oz sold
The Company is reporting AISC per oz of gold sold. The methodology for calculating AISC was developed internally and is calculated below. Current IFRS measures used in the gold industry, such as operating expenses, do not capture all of the expenditures incurred to discover, develop and sustain gold production. The Company believes the AISC measure provides further transparency into costs associated with producing gold and will assist analysts, investors and other stakeholders of the Company in assessing its operating performance, its ability to generate free cash flow from current operations and its overall value. In calculating AISC, the Company includes silver by-product credits as it considers the cost to produce the gold is reduced as a result of the by-product sales incidental to the gold production process, thereby allowing management and other stakeholders to assess the net costs of gold production.
The following table provides a reconciliation of cash costs per oz of gold sold and AISC per oz of gold sold to the most directly comparable IFRS measure on an aggregate basis.
Sustaining and non-sustaining capital reconciliation
Sustaining capital expenditures are defined as those expenditures which do not increase annual gold ounce production at a mine site and excludes all expenditures at the Company's projects and certain expenditures at the Company's operating sites which are deemed expansionary. Sustaining capital expenditures can include, but are not limited to, capitalized stripping costs at open pit mines, underground mine development, mining and milling equipment and TSF raises.
The following table provides a reconciliation of sustaining capital expenditures to the Company's total capital expenditures for continuing operations.
Total mine-site free cash flow
Mine-site free cash flow is a non-IFRS financial performance measure. The Company believes this measure is a useful indicator of its ability to operate without reliance on additional borrowing or usage of existing cash. Mine-site free cash flow is intended to provide additional information only and does not have any standardized meaning under IFRS and may not be comparable to similar measures of performance presented by other mining companies. Mine-site free cash flow should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with IFRS.
The following table provides a reconciliation of mine-site free cash flow to the most directly comparable IFRS measure on an aggregate basis:
AISC contribution margin, EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA
The Company believes that, in addition to conventional measures prepared in accordance with IFRS, certain investors use AISC contribution margin, AISC contribution margin per gold ounce sold and adjusted EBITDA to evaluate the Company's performance and ability to generate cash flows and service debt. AISC contribution margin is defined as revenue less AISC. EBITDA is defined as earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization, adjusted to exclude specific items that are significant but not reflective of the underlying operating performance of the Company, such as the impact of fair value changes of warrants, foreign exchange contracts and gold contracts; unrealized foreign exchange gains and losses, transaction costs, and share-based compensation expense. It is also adjusted to exclude items whose timing or amount cannot be reasonably estimated in advance or that are not considered representative of core operating performance, such as impairments and gains and losses on disposals of assets.
Prior to Q4 2021, adjusted EBITDA was calculated excluding transaction costs as an adjusting item. Commencing in Q4 2021, the Company has adjusted for transaction costs as this item is not considered representative of core operating performance. The calculation of adjusted EBITDA for June 30, 2021 has been adjusted to conform with the current methodology and is different from the measure previously reported.
The following tables provide the calculation of AISC contribution margin, EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA, as calculated by the Company:
AISC Contribution Margin
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted net income and adjusted EPS
Adjusted net income and adjusted EPS are used by management and investors to measure the underlying operating performance of the Company. Adjusted net income is defined as net income adjusted to exclude specific items that are significant but not reflective of the underlying operating performance of the Company, such as the impact of fair value changes in the value of warrants, foreign exchange contracts and gold contracts, unrealized foreign exchange gains and losses, and non-cash share-based compensation expense. It is also adjusted to exclude items whose timing or amount cannot be reasonably estimated in advance or that are not considered representative of core operating performance, such as impairments and gains and losses on disposals of assets. Adjusted net income per share amounts are calculated using the weighted average number of shares outstanding on a basic and diluted basis as determined by IFRS.
Prior to Q4 2021, adjusted net income was calculated excluding transaction costs as an adjusting item. Commencing in Q4 2021, the Company has adjusted for transaction costs as this item is not considered representative of core operating performance. The calculation of adjusted net income for June 30, 2021 has been adjusted to conform with the current methodology and is different from the measure previously reported.
The following table provides the calculation of adjusted net income and adjusted EPS, as adjusted and calculated by the Company:
Net debt
The Company believes that in addition to conventional measures prepared in accordance with IFRS, the Company and certain investors and analysts use net debt to evaluate the Company's performance. Net debt does not have any standardized meaning prescribed under IFRS, and therefore it may not be comparable to similar measures employed by other companies. This measure is intended to provide additional information and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performances prepared in accordance with IFRS. Net debt is calculated as the sum of the current and non-current portions of long-term debt, net of the cash and cash equivalent balance as at the balance sheet date. A reconciliation of net debt is provided below.
Technical Information
Doug Reddy, Msc, P.Geo., Equinox Gold's COO, is the Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 for this Equinox Gold press release and has reviewed and approved the technical information in this document.
Forward-looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking information and forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities legislation and may include future-oriented financial information. Forward-looking statements and forward-looking information in this news release relate to, among other things: the strategic vision for the Company and expectations regarding exploration potential, production capabilities and future financial or operational performance; the Company's production and cost guidance; the Company's ability to successfully advance its growth and development projects, including the construction of Greenstone and the expansions at Los Filos, Castle Mountain and Aurizona; the expectations for the Company's investments in Sandbox Royalties, Solaris, i-80 Gold, Pilar Gold and Bear Creek; and conversion of Mineral Resources to Mineral Reserves. Forward-looking statements or information generally identified by the use of the words "believe", "will", ""achieve", "increase", "maintain", "potential", "on schedule", "anticipate", "expect", "estimate", "on track", "on budget", and similar expressions and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", or "should", or the negative connotation of such terms, are intended to identify forward-looking statements and information. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements and information are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements since the Company can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. The Company has based these forward-looking statements and information on the Company's current expectations and projections about future events and these assumptions include: Equinox Gold's ability to achieve the exploration, production, cost and development expectations for its respective operations and projects; prices for gold remaining as estimated; currency exchange rates remaining as estimated; availability of funds for the Company's projects and future cash requirements; prices for energy inputs, labour, materials, supplies and services; construction of Greenstone being completed and performed in accordance with current expectations; expansion projects at Los Filos, Castle Mountain and Aurizona being completed and performed in accordance with current expectations; tonnage of ore to be mined and processed; ore grades and recoveries; capital, decommissioning and reclamation estimates; Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource estimates and the assumptions on which they are based; no labour-related disruptions and no unplanned delays or interruptions in scheduled construction, development and production, including by blockade or industrial action; the Company's working history with the workers, unions and communities at Los Filos; all necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approvals are received in a timely manner; the Company's ability to comply with environmental, health and safety laws and other regulatory requirements; the strategic visions for Sandbox Royalties, i-80 Gold, Solaris, Pilar Gold and Bear Creek and their respective abilities to successfully advance their businesses; and the ability of Equinox Gold to work productively with its joint venture partner and Indigenous partners at Greenstone. While the Company considers these assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available, they may prove to be incorrect. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on the forward-looking statements or information contained in this news release.
The Company cautions that forward-looking statements and information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release and the Company has made assumptions and estimates based on or related to many of these factors. Such factors include, without limitation: fluctuations in gold prices; fluctuations in prices for energy inputs, labour, materials, supplies and services; fluctuations in currency markets; operational risks and hazards inherent with the business of mining (including environmental accidents and hazards, industrial accidents, equipment breakdown, unusual or unexpected geological or structural formations, cave-ins, flooding and severe weather); inadequate insurance, or inability to obtain insurance to cover these risks and hazards; employee relations; relationships with, and claims by, local communities and indigenous populations; the Company's ability to obtain all necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all; changes in laws, regulations and government practices, including environmental and export and import laws and regulations; legal restrictions relating to mining; risks relating to expropriation; increased competition in the mining industry; the failure by Pilar Gold or Bear Creek to meet their respective commitments to the Company; and those factors identified in the section titled "Risks and Uncertainties" in the Company's MD&A dated March 23, 2022 for the year ended December 31, 2021, and in the section titled "Risks Related to the Business" in the Company's Annual Information Form dated March 24, 2022 for the year ended December 31, 2021, both of which are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar. Forward-looking statements and information are designed to help readers understand management's views as of that time with respect to future events and speak only as of the date they are made. Except as required by applicable law, the Company assumes no obligation to update or to publicly announce the results of any change to any forward-looking statement or information contained or incorporated by reference to reflect actual results, future events or developments, changes in assumptions or changes in other factors affecting the forward-looking statements and information. If the Company updates any one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that the Company will make additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
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Juan Soto promises to bring ‘good vibes,’ winning to Padres
By BERNIE WILSON
AP Sports Writer
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Juan Soto arrived at Petco Park promising to bring “good vibes” to the San Diego Padres and issuing a warning to opposing teams.
The acquisition of the 23-year-old generational talent in perhaps the biggest deadline deal ever energized the Padres and their long-suffering fans, and there’s more to come.
Soto and Josh Bell on Wednesday joined a lineup currently anchored by All-Star slugger Manny Machado. Star shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. is expected to return from a broken left wrist within a few weeks.
When that lineup hits the field, “It’s going to be really exciting. It’s going to be really tough to go through and I wish good luck to the other pitchers,” Soto said with a laugh at an introductory news conference.
Soto was batting second and playing right field against Colorado on Wednesday night, a day after being obtained from Washington in a massive trade. Machado was batting third and switch-hitting first baseman Josh Bell, acquired along with Soto, was batting cleanup.
The price for Soto and Bell was significant: rookie left-hander MacKenzie Gore, first baseman/DH Luke Voit and prospects James Wood, C.J. Abrams, Robert Hassell III and Jarlin Susana.
Washington general manager Mike Rizzo set a lofty asking price last month after reports emerged that Soto rejected the team’s latest contract offer of $440 million over 15 years.
The uncertainty over his future began weighing on Soto, who said after Sunday’s game against St. Louis: “I just want to get it over with and see what’s going to happen. Start over here or wherever I’m at.”
That place is San Diego, where the Padres entered Wednesday holding the NL’s second wild-card spot while trailing the Los Angeles Dodgers by 11 1/2 games in the NL West.
Soto, one of the game’s best young hitters, said he was happy Bell was included in the trade. The two were flown to San Diego on a private jet Tuesday night.
“For me, I never realized I was going to be traded together. I was thinking probably by myself,” Soto said. “When I realized I was coming with Josh, we have a great relationship and I was more excited and more pumped because he’s coming and I know what kind of guy he is and what he brings to the table. I’m more than excited to share another clubhouse with him.”
Soto contributed to the Nationals’ first World Series title in 2019 and then hit .351 in 2020 to win the NL batting title. He’s in his second straight All-Star season, and now he and Bell have joined a team whose playoff chances vaulted big-time.
Soto said all the conversations with Padres general manager A.J. Preller and his new teammates have been, ’’Let’s win, let’s bring the good energy to the clubhouse and the stadium, just come here and try to win. Try to bring my experience from 2019 as a World Series champ to here in San Diego.
“That’s what I’m going to do, that’s what I have in my mind since I saw the trade yesterday. That’s what we’re going to try to do, try to make it all the way to the last team standing.”
Soto thinks he’s joining a World Series contender.
“Yeah, definitely,” he said. “This team has everything that it needs to win a World Series.”
San Diego last played in the World Series in 1998, when it was swept by the New York Yankees.
Soto is under contract for two seasons beyond this year and said he’s not thinking about anything after that.
“I’m just thinking about winning,” he said. “I’m just coming to this clubhouse to bring the energy that I have, all the good vibes that I have to bring here, to win.”
Soto and Bell are coming from the team with baseball’s worst record to one that has vaulted its postseason chances.
“It feels really nice,” Soto said. “It feels really pumped to be here. Just go from a team that has no chance to come all the way here, it’s a great feeling, a new vibe, it’s a new start for me. It’s a new start, a new feeling to go out there and give more than I have.”
Said Bell: “Obviously we pour our hearts and souls into this game no matter where we are. … But it’s a little bit extra fuel in the fire to be here and to be in the hunt and to have a reason to show up a little bit earlier every day to get the work done that we need to get done. I’m definitely pumped to have a new opportunity here.”
Soto and Tatis, who’s also 23, have known each other since playing together in the Dominican Prospect League.
“That’s my boy, my hometown boy,” Tatis said on Tuesday. “I mean, we played together since we were 15, 16. And now we’re on the same team. It’s crazy.”
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What color were the dinosaurs? Watching the Jurassic Park movies, the answer seems clear: gray, brown or, at best, dull green.
in a new book, British paleontologist David Hone dryly asks: "Has there ever been a more tediously colored set of animals than as seen across those movies?"
In How Fast Did T. rex Run?, Hone sets the record straight. Some dinosaurs sported red, white, or iridescent black colors, and showed patterns of colorful patches, spots, or stripes. A small dinosaur called Sinosauropteryx from China, for instance, is described as "'ginger' with white stripes."
How do scientists reconstruct colors of animals that have been extinct (except for birds, and more on them in a moment) for 65 million years? The key, Hone explains, are "packages of pigments" called melanosomes found in cells. Many living animals, including humans, have melanosomes and they also are found in rock formations that contain preserved dinosaur skins or feathers. It's extraordinarily fortunate that a melanosome's shape reflects exactly its color type: "So while the fossil melanosomes have no color now, we know what they should have held and from that we can work out the colors."
Hone set out to write a book that stresses what isn't yet known about dinosaurs as much as what is known. (Regarding the title, how fast T. rex ran is one of the unknowns.) He achieves this balance beautifully. The volume is jam-packed with gripping descriptions of advances in dinosaur science, while also serving as a handbook for anyone wishing to identify central gaps in our knowledge. Regarding color information, for instance, he laments the "frustratingly incomplete" nature of the data: Whether colors were muted or bright is unclear — and only about six dinosaurs have been studied so far. We have no idea of the range of color variation across species, sexes, or individuals over time.
Though I am thrilled with observing or learning about almost any animal, dinosaur fever, in childhood or adulthood, somehow eluded me — until now. I was captivated by Hone's inviting manner in laying out everything from the basics to the more advanced aspects of dinosaur science.
During their reign on Earth, dinosaurs — around 1,500 species of them — lived in nearly every ecosystem on the planet. Though the stereotype of tropical swamp-living creatures is firmly embedded in popular culture, in fact dinosaurs lived "on mountains, in deserts, lakes and seashores, temperate and coniferous forests, and across all manner of temperatures, rainfall, snow, winds, and other variations in both climate and weather."
Dinosaurs are divided into three types or clades. Theropods are bipedal, often carnivorous dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor. Sauropodomorphs like Brontosaurus and Brachiosaurus walked on all fours, and had huge bodies and long necks. Ornithischians are plant-eaters, often displayed bony plates and crests, and included Stegosaurus and Triceratops.
How long was the dinosaurs' reign? Here, I offer a complaint. Hone at various points says that dinosaurs were around for "130-something" million years, 150 million years, or "180-ish million years." An unexplained discrepancy of 50 million years is not trivial even in a book on what's not fully known in dinosaur science, and is confusing for readers.
But when he delves into the details, Hone is superb. In addition to dinosaur appearance, he covers extinction, origins, preservation, diversity, evolutionary patterns, habitats, anatomy, mechanics, physiology, coverings, reproduction, behavior, ecology, dinosaur descendants, and changing aspects of research and communication. It's difficult to choose favorites here, but the chapter on reproduction was among the most mind-blowing.
Hone includes in that chapter an image, taken by himself in China, of a nest of eggs laid and curated by a giant oviraptorosaur. The caption underscores what we can see in the photograph: "The eggs are laid in multiple layers in a ring and the animal likely sat in the middle." There's an irony to be found in the fact that this dinosaur exhibits parental care of the eggs: "Oviraptorosaur" means "egg thief." When researchers first uncovered skeletons of this dinosaur in association with eggs, the assumption was eating of other dinosaurs' eggs, not brooding. Dinosaurs called titanosaurs apparently didn't brood but instead, judging from the location of their egg beds and the composition of the eggshells, warmed the eggs by volcanic heat. That behavior is "utterly unexpected," Hone notes.
There's much we still don't understand about dinosaur reproductive biology. Did the female or the male sit on the eggs, or did they trade off? Backing up a bit to the moments of mating, Hone again exhibits some dry humor: "How on earth are you supposed to get two ungainly and very prickly ankylosaurs together, or some of the giant multi-ton bipedal theropods, or the biggest of the sauropods?"
Ten thousand dinosaur species are alive today: the birds, of course. Hone has a lot to say about the origin of the bird lineage, again balancing strong evidence with open questions. Birds and dinosaurs co-existed for around 100 million years, so we do know that birds did not originate only after the famous extinction event of 65 million years ago. Flying reptiles called pterosaurs and the non-avian dinosaurs all vanished at that point, and "very large numbers" of bird lineages as well. The bird survivors were the species largely confined to the ground but still capable of flight, apparently pointing to the fact that arboreal birds experienced more severe habitat loss.
And what of that extinction event? Yes, the asteroid that hit Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula remains the leading contender to explain dinosaur loss. But Hone intriguingly complicates that story. He raises the possibility that if the asteroid "had sailed past Earth without so much as a scratch" the dinosaurs might well have gone extinct anyway because they were already struggling to survive in world severely altered by earlier volcanic eruptions.
Tucked away at the back of the book, past the references section, is a request by Hone for readers to fill out a brief online survey that seeks to discover who may have become inspired to learn more about dinosaurs. "Keeping track of what impact my work has on the general public helps me to keep doing it," Hone notes. I predict he's going to hear lots of good news very soon.
Barbara J. King is a biological anthropologist emerita at William & Mary. Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity is her seventh book. Find her on Twitter @bjkingape
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When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived late Tuesday night in Taiwan, its tallest building — iconic landmark Taipei 101 — lit up with words of welcome, blinking "Thank you" and "TW ♥ U.S."
While Pelosi's visit delighted people in Taiwan, it enraged Beijing and set the region on edge over what China might do in retaliation. From the Philippines to Singapore, countries are worried the status quo could turn from tension to conflict.
"What countries in this region know is that China cannot do nothing — it will look weak," says Singaporean veteran diplomat and academic Kishore Mahbubani. "China has no choice but to react," he says, adding, "at the same time, China doesn't want to start World War III."
China views Taiwan as a breakaway island that should be ruled by the mainland. The U.S. follows an intentionally vague "One China" policy, which views Taiwan as an independent entity that should eventually be integrated into China.
Pelosi has long been a critic of China and an advocate for Taiwan's democracy. She was the first House speaker to visit in 25 years, as U.S. officials generally avoid any moves that could touch off a military conflict — China versus Taiwan, and possibly, the U.S.
Southeast Asia especially feels the strain of living in the shadow of the U.S.-China rivalry. "Governments will be very cautious" talking about cross-Taiwan Strait relations, "for fear of how China will react," says Manila-based maritime expert Jay Batongbacal.
He says the region does not want to become "an arena of major power conflict," and countries would not like to be seen as taking sides.
For that reason, governments in Southeast Asia have stuck to mild statements about the importance of the U.S. and China avoiding "any miscalculation and further escalation of tensions," as the Philippines Foreign Affairs Ministry put it. Indonesia has called on "all parties to refrain from provocative actions that may worsen the situation."
China announced fresh live-fire drills in six locations near Taiwan within hours of Pelosi's arrival on the self-governed island of 23 million. Its military maneuvers have restricted air space and water routes around Taiwan, and an anxious region is watching.
Japan complained to Beijing that the area overlaps with its exclusive economic zone, while Taiwan called the move "a challenge to the international order."
The live drills — more aggressive than usual exercises — should have been anticipated, according to Dewi Fortuna Anwar, an analyst at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, a government research agency. She calls Pelosi's trip "dangerously provocative" and says it came at a time when tensions were already high in the region.
Anwar says with Russia invading Ukraine, "We are all very nervous." The prospect of China moving on Taiwan, replicating events in Europe, looms over Asia, she says.
Anwar says the Taiwan visit by such a high-ranking U.S. official flouted the one-China policy that many countries adhere to when they conduct business with Taiwan, but refrain from sending their senior-most figures. "It's a matter of face for China," she says, and this "is spitting in their face."
Anwar questions what the endgame is for the United States: "Does it want an open war with China over Taiwan?"
Because war is so "unthinkable," says De La Salle University international studies professor Renato Cruz de Castro in Manila, regional governments don't tend to game out the geostrategic significance of Taiwan. His own government focuses instead, he says, on more manageable issues like how to evacuate the 142,000 overseas Filipino workers from Taiwan in the event of armed conflict.
Across the South China Sea, Beijing is flexing its muscle, accused of intimidating fishers, interfering with other nations' ships and occupying islands claimed by its smaller neighbors, including Vietnam and the Philippines.
Being "dragged into a U.S.-China conflict over Taiwan is pretty high on the list of anxieties for most U.S. allies and partners," says Gregory Poling with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Pelosi's visit, he says "will be seen as, at best, unnecessarily risky to most regional governments."
That said, countries of the region "do not want the U.S. to seem a paper tiger" — which he says would only embolden further "bullying" by China.
But Batongbacal believes Pelosi's visit was neither reckless nor deserving of China's threat of military action, which he called "excessive" and "disproportional." Beijing, he says, is "hyping what should be a minor event."
Pelosi provided China "an opportunity to instigate" a confrontation, he says, and China's rhetoric sounded like "it was spoiling for a fight."
That's an outcome no one wants.
"There will be no winners in a military conflict," Anwar says. "We are much too integrated now. If you disrupt trade in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, the whole economy of Southeast Asia will be destroyed."
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Childcare food falls short of guidelines
Victorian kids in childcare are being fed meals that don't meet health guidelines, prompting concerns about nutrition and potential life-long consequences.
Most childcare centres include too many refined foods like pikelets and cupcakes on their menus, a new Deakin University study suggests.
Children are missing out on enough fruit and vegetables, and nearly two-thirds of staff who plan their menus don't have any nutrition training.
The study was based on a survey of 89 centres, with 18 handing over their two-week menus and recipes. Of the 18, only one met food standard guidelines.
"We know there is a concern among childcare providers that 'healthy menus', which include more fruit and vegetables, will cost more because of the rising cost of these foods," lead author Audrey Elford said.
"Many people also believe that healthy food will just be wasted because of a mistaken belief that children prefer to eat less healthy food options."
Ms Elford pointed to Edith Cowan University research from 2020, which found the average food budget in childcare centres was $2 a day per child.
Children in care should get about half their daily nutritional needs during morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea, and even more if they are in care for breakfast and a late snack, she said.
"At this stage in their development, pre-school children are establishing their preferences for different foods so what they're eating is not just important for their current nutritional needs but it will potentially influence their life-long food habits," Ms Elford said.
Only half the centres surveyed took advantage of tools like FoodChecker on Nutrition Australia's healthy eating advisory service, which offers training, sample menus, and a menu planning tool.
Child Nutrition's paediatric dietitian Miriam Raleigh described the findings as "really upsetting and disappointing", but not necessarily surprising given the current cost of fresh food.
She was particularly disappointed by centres not using free resources.
"If they're barely getting a piece of fruit, that is a concern," she told AAP.
"I can only assume that it's a time and staff-related issue."
Come accreditation time, childcare operators got in touch with Ms Raleigh to conduct menu reviews, she said.
Dedicated kitchen staff used to curate menus in centres, but that appeared to no longer be the case for many.
The $2 a day spend made Ms Raleigh "feel sick" and it needed to change, she said, suggesting a push for greater awareness of the free resources available to centres and more information about how to use them.
"The free resources out there are just so good," she said. "(That would) really highlight that it's not difficult."
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Officer stabbed in violent SA incident
A police officer has been stabbed in the hand while his police dog narrowly escaped injury after a violent confrontation in Adelaide.
Police say the incident followed reports of two men acting suspiciously at suburban Findon early on Thursday morning.
When a patrol confronted one of the men, he allegedly stabbed the officer in the hand with a screwdriver and made several attempts to stab the handler's dog.
After further patrols arrived, the man was disarmed and arrested.
The 27-year-old was taken to Royal Adelaide Hospital for treatment of dog bite wounds and is expected to be charged with attempting to cause death or serious harm to a working animal and with assaulting and resisting police.
The police officer was treated at the scene by paramedics but sustained only superficial injuries.
Checks on police dog Rusty revealed his stab-resistant harness prevented him from sustaining any injuries.
Police said both the officer and Rusty would be back on patrol on Thursday night. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11079255/Officer-stabbed-violent-SA-incident.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-04T02:24:56Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11079255/Officer-stabbed-violent-SA-incident.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Destroyed bridge traps people in Jackson County community for more than a day
JACKSON COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Strong rains Monday night into Tuesday morning washed away a bridge in Jackson County around 100 feet downstream.
Brandon Hall, who lives in Evans, West Virginia, woke up to go to work Tuesday morning, but there was no way for him to get across.
“Walked out the scene, it was flooded,” he said. “And then my dad realized and pointed out that our bridge was gone.”
Hall and around 30 other people live on the other side of the creek on Round Knob Road.
For more than a day, there was no way to drive across.
However, Hall said Division of Highway workers quickly arrived and got to work.
“Means a lot,” he said. “It shows that they’re actually showing the initiative and want to to keep traffic as it should be in and out.”
Hall said a footbridge was installed Tuesday afternoon as a temporary way for people to get across when there was no way to drive.
By Wednesday afternoon, people were finally able to drive across, but Hall says DOH workers told him they still have more to do.
Even so, he said the fast response is appreciated.
“It’s a relief to finally have a way out,” he said. “So we can get feed for animals, get supplies for ourselves, get to work.”
Hall says members of DOH told him they’re coming back in the morning to start working on a permanent fix.
We reached out to DOH to find out more details about the repairs they need to make in the area, but we’ve yet to hear back.
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Legendary broadcaster Vin Scully dies at age 94
Legendary Dodgers baseball broadcaster Vin Scully has died at the age of 94. He is known as one of the greatest voices in all of sports.
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We are currently investigating our future directions. All members are asked submit and feedback to three surveys: a general member consultations survey concerning areas and directions in which the IAD should continue; a member opinion pool; A research forum with potential collaborator groups around an environmental psychology agenda: for environmental aw...essay the nature. ... This area should continue so we as IPSA need guidance, in areas like urban/ environmental. We look for this kind of work to address all IKEA is one of the largest furniture retailers in the world and a leader in a booming global furniture market. The market hit an estimated value of over $490 billion last year.
The IKEA brand in particular is known for its pretty affordable products, but there are a lot of unseen costs that go into supplying cheap, mass-produced wooden furniture to major retailers — namely costs from how and where that wood gets harvested.
Eastern Europe and Russia offer a huge supply of high-quality and high-value woods like spruce and beech, and countries like Ukraine and Romania are home to huge old-growth forests. Old growth forests are well sought after but also some of the most important to protect. They’re particularly crucial for biodiversity, and old trees absorb carbon dioxide at higher rates than younger ones.
Now, estimates vary, but one environmental watchdog group determined more than half of IKEA’s wood supply comes from that region. To be clear, IKEA is far from the only major furniture supplier here, but it is arguably the biggest: The company alone is the largest individual consumer of wood in the world and doubled its consumption in the last decade.
IKEA has said before that “under no circumstances” would they accept wood that doesn’t meet their sustainability requirements. They've also taken action against problematic suppliers before.
To balance the growing global demand for wood with conservation of these crucial forests, the EU and national governments have established massive protected areas, and quotas limiting how much of a certain wood gets harvested.
These protections, by the way, apply to both public and private land. That’s important to note because IKEA itself is the largest private landowner in Romania. It owns about 83,000 acres — that’s almost 63,000 football fields-worth of land. It made this massive purchase back in 2015, buying from the previous owner, the Harvard Endowment Fund.
But despite the legal limits and forest management, the woods of Eastern Europe are vanishing much faster than they should be, and it’s only ramping up.
Maps form Global Forest Watch show the total tree cover loss in Ukraine, Russia and Romania over the past two decades.
Part of this is due to deforestation, legally or otherwise. In 2018, for example, the Romanian government licensed about 18.5 million cubic meters of wood to be harvested, but instead, about 38.6 million was taken — more than twice the legal limit.
"It's also a breakdown of the sort of European laws meant to deal with this," said David Gehl, manager for traceability and technologies at the Environmental Investigation Agency. "Romania designated quite large amounts of its forest as protected areas. They never created the implementing regulations to actually implement those laws."
So, how is this happening right under regulators’ noses?
The problems often start early in the supply chain. For example, loggers can use false documentation to hide the amount or quality of the wood they’re harvesting. Sometimes it’s as simple as submitting unclear or misleading photos to the local government’s tracking system, obscuring how much wood is really being harvested. Then, the illegal wood is taken to a log depot, where it often gets mixed in with legal wood.
Enforcing rules on the ground becomes next to impossible thanks to what the press has dubbed the so-called “Timber Mafia,” which is a group well-ingrained in local communities.
"There's many excellent Romanian news reports and investigative reports about this, and many interviews, for example, with police officers who are just admitting very clearly on camera that they cannot touch these people," Gehl said.
Standing up to illegal loggers is dangerous work. Like other hotspots for illegal logging in the world, a number of forest managers, rangers, activists and journalists have been attacked or even killed throughout Eastern Europe and Russia. In Romania alone, at least six forest rangers have been killed in recent years, with 650 incidents of people being beaten, shot at or attacked in relation to illegal logging.
So how can furniture retailers ensure the wood they’re using was safely and legally sourced?
Furnishers often rely on something called the Forest Stewardship Certification, or FSC, to vet the sourcing for wood products. Third-party companies can be hired to conduct an audit along the supply chain — from the log depots to sawmills and more. They can award an FSC certification if the work there seems legit.
But critics have pointed out some central flaws to the audit process and warned FSC certifications may be giving a false sense of security.
"There's this kind of conflict of interest because IKEA is paying directly for an FSC certificate," said Tara Ganesh, head of investigations at Earthsight. "So this does not create much incentive for these auditors to independently look for problems because, in effect, these auditing companies within Russia are all competing for business from companies like IKEA."
"So we've talked to some certifying bodies that have said, you know, 'I was commissioned by this company. I spent three days in the forest. I gave them this list of 20 things that they would need to change to get their certification,'" Gehl said. "They said, 'Thank you very much,' and three days later, they got their certification from a different company."
There have been a number of separate investigations throughout Eastern Europe which found illegal timber processing at partners with IKEA, all of which were FSC-certified.
The U.K. watchdog group Earthsight published two reports showing illegal wood from forests in Ukraine and Russia has been widely used in popular IKEA furniture lines.
"It was a combination of looking at shipment records and undercover work calls to the suppliers concerned to try to get admissions from them about various practices and their links to IKEA," Ganesh said. "It was also in both cases in Ukraine and in Russia. There's actually a lot of information that's available publicly, which is fantastic. But also then begs the question that if we could find it, why did it take IKEA so long to find that, or FSC, for that matter?"
IKEA’s response was to defend its reliance on FSC certifications. The company insisted it was improving its system of “due diligence” checks. Newsy reached out to IKEA and the Forest Stewardship Council for a response on this but didn’t hear back.
"I think IKEA is doing perhaps more than any other large wood processor in the world," Gehl said. "The problem is that the status quo, the bar of the status quo, is so low that even though they're doing better than that status quo, that's still very far from what is necessary to make sure that they're not getting illegal wood."
It’s hard to know where to start with a system like this: the danger for those working on the ground, the corruption along supply chains, the documented abuse of the FSC labels. What these problems really come down to is a lack of enforcement.
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Eaden Holt hit a go-ahead single in the seventh inning to lead Hickman to a 6-5 win against Waverly in the Class B American Legion state championship Wednesday in Broken Bow.
If that was Holt's biggest swing of the game, his grand slam in the fourth inning was a close second, as it helped Hickman erase an early 4-0 deficit.
It's Hickman's second straight Class B title.
Early on, it was all Waverly. Jarrett Ballinger hit a two-run double in the first and Kaden Harris followed that by driving in two runs in the second with a single.
After Hickman got on the board with a bases-loaded walk, Holt smashed a grand slam to center field to give Hickman a 5-4 lead in the fourth. Waverly's Drew Miller tied it in the bottom half of the frame.
Carson Baker pitched two scoreless innings out of the bullpen to get the win. Holt pitched the first five innings, allowing four earned runs.
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Harris went 2-for-4 with a pair of RBIs for Waverly.
Waverly 14, Columbus Lakeview 6: Waverly booked its way into the championship game with a five-inning win to start the afternoon.
The Waverly offense found a groove early, scoring 11 runs in the second inning. Ballinger had two hits, including a double and solo homer.
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Malcolm won the state championship with an 11-3 win against DCB in Wisner.
Malcolm scored five runs in the sixth inning to close out the mercy-rule win.
Connor Zegar pitched a gem for Malcolm, fanning 11 batters in six innings. He allowed just one earned run.
Jacob Clarke had a big game at the plate, going 2-for-2 with six RBIs and a walk. Mason Wisnieski had a pair of hits and scored three runs.
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ATLANTA — Thursday marks one year since a massive fire damaged a bridge in the middle of Cheshire Bridge Road, leading to its eventual demolition.
Over the past year, drivers have been taking detours to get to work and home, and businesses in the area have struggled due to a lack of traffic along the road; some businesses have even closed.
On Wednesday, construction was visibly underway as crews poured concrete for the foundation of a new bridge.
"We would go eat at Taqueria del Sol every day and just walk across the bridge and now we have to take a 15 minute detour. To get to anything across the bridge is a problem," said Judd Swartzberg, while pointing across the creek the bridge once covered.
Swartzberg's family owns Swartz Co Commercial Real Estate. The company owns and has its offices in a retail property with multiple storefronts next to the bridge.
"We have had tenants leave due to the bridge," Swartzberg said. "We have vacancies we can't fill due to the bridge. It is just hard for businesses to make it when there is no traffic."
The traffic stopped on August 4, 2021 when the fire burned for hours, damaging the bridge and eventually rupturing a 40-inch gas line.
It took nearly three months for the bridge to be demolished and then six more months passed before the city signed a contract with C.W. Matthews Contracting to rebuild the bridge.
"I share the communities frustration with how long this has taken," Atlanta City Councilman Alex Wan said.
Wan believes the process for receiving and determining a winning bridge to have a contract signed took too long. The councilman was elected and took office during the middle of the process.
He became focused to make sure the contract was completed and took it into his own hands to carry it across the finish line.
"When I got into office I tried to get in and figure out how I could break the log jam. It was right in the middle of the procurement process," Wan said. "I was trying to check on it weekly and at the very end found out that all that was missing was one signature. I went down to city hall to dig it out of a bin to make sure the municipal clerk could certify it."
Construction is now expected to be completed by October 31.
In a statement, a spokesman with the Atlanta Department of Transportation said the project remains on schedule:
"The Notice to Proceed was issued to the contractor on April 27, 2022, and work began that day. Preliminary site investigations were completed before this date to keep the project on track. The contractor is completing the initial bridge design and construction at the site is currently underway. This project remains on schedule and will reopen to vehicular traffic, with a minimum of one lane in each direction, by October 31, 2022."
"The message is we are here, we survived, come see us. We would love to clean your car and have your business," said Matthew Bohannon, assistant manager of Soap Hand Car Wash along Cheshire Bridge Road.
He said the car wash just finished its worst July for sales in the last several years because of slow traffic.
He sums up the last year in one word: slow.
"Can't have any just drive-bys anymore, 'Oh, I'm going to get my car washed.' People actually have to know about us and come here," Bohannon said.
Wan said he is hopeful construction will be complete before October 31.
11Alive received a copy of the construction contract from the city showing the price tag for construction is $6,967,800.
The contractor, though, will be charged $1,000 per day for each day the project is late. There is also a $1,000 incentive for each day the project is completed early. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/bridge-fire-cheshire-bridge-road-atlanta-update-construction-timeline/85-8a2852b2-1ea8-4bd0-8012-fb875d39b13e | 2022-08-04T02:47:36Z | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/bridge-fire-cheshire-bridge-road-atlanta-update-construction-timeline/85-8a2852b2-1ea8-4bd0-8012-fb875d39b13e | false |
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MIAMI (AP) — Sandy Alcantara threw his major league-leading third complete game and the Miami Marlins beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-0 Wednesday night.
The All-Star right-hander allowed six hits, walked one and struck out three on 105 pitches for his third career shutout. Alcantara (10-4) is the first Marlins pitcher to reach double-digit victories in a season since Caleb Smith won 10 in 2019.
“I am very happy about that, hopefully it won’t be just 10 but 15 or 20,” Alcantara said.
Alcantara snapped a tie with Houston’s Framber Valdez for the league lead in complete games.
Luke Williams had three hits and stole a career-high three bases while Jesús Aguilar homered for the Marlins, who snapped a nine-game home losing skid.
The Reds loaded the bases and with two out in the first, but Alcantara retired Donovan Solano on a force at home and Aristides Aquino on a fly to left field.
After Cincinnati forced him to throw 22 pitches in the inning, Alcantara needed 83 the remainder of his outing.
“To get out of that was big,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. “I felt at that point, he was going to settle in and they were in for a full dose of Sandy.”
In the lead-up to the All-Star break, Alcantara had completed at least seven innings in 13 consecutive outings. But he lasted 11 innings total in his first two starts following the break.
“Pitching only one inning in the All-Star got me out of rhythm,” Alcantara said. “That one inning held me back a bit. But we are fine now.”
Aguilar put Miami ahead 1-0 with his solo shot in the fourth. He drove a slider from Reds starter Mike Minor into the seats in left for his 13th homer and the Marlins’ first lead in the series.
Garrett Cooper’s two-run double in the fifth made it 3-0. Williams hit a one-out single, stole second and was in the front end of a double steal after Billy Hamilton walked.
“That’s a part of the game I think is going to start coming back,” Williams said of his base stealing. “It’s obviously part of my game and it’s very exciting.”
Minor (1-8) was lifted after 5 1/3 innings. The left-hander allowed three runs, five hits, walked three and struck out six.
“I just knew it was tough to get a win with a guy like that who’s going to go deep,” Minor said. “In the first inning, he kind of gave us some hope and then he got out of it. The guy’s pretty good.”
ROSTER MOVES
The Marlins activated Cooper from the injured list while the Reds recalled SS José Barrero from Triple-A Louisville. With his call-up Wednesday, Barrero became the 31st Cuban player to appear for a major league team this season, surpassing the previous high in the history of the Caribbean nation.
“I’m extremely honored to become the 31st and also very fortunate to represent our country in the major leagues,” Barrero said in Spanish.
FOND MEMORIES OF SCULLY
Mattingly warmly remembered the years he became close to Vin Scully. The Hall of Fame broadcaster, who called Los Angeles Dodgers’ games 67 years, died Tuesday. Before joining the Marlins in 2016, Mattingly managed the Dodgers for five seasons.
“Vin was, in a sense, an artist with the way he painted the game and sculpted your view of watching a game or hearing a game,” Mattingly said. “I was very fortunate to get a few little moments with him where we could talk about anything when you have that 20-minute bus ride.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: The return of C Aramis García will be delayed after an MRI revealed a fracture of his bruised left middle finger.
Marlins: OF Avisaíl García (left hamstring strain) was placed on the 10-day injured list. García exited in the third inning Tuesday.
UP NEXT
Neither club has announced the starter for the opener of its next series. The Reds will continue their 10-game road trip Friday at Milwaukee, while the Marlins begin a three-game set Friday at the Chicago Cubs.
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WASHINGTON — It was just as beautiful as one would dream it to be.
On a steamy Wednesday afternoon in our nation’s capital, Daniel Vogelbach connected for his first home run as a Met. At its glorious apex, the ball sat 125 feet in the air, coming down only when it was ready to land for a grand slam.
“It’s always good to hit home runs,” Vogelbach pointed out. “But more importantly, we won a series. This was a really, really good team win. [Chris] Bassitt threw the ball unbelievably and we had good at-bats from inning one.”
The four-run trot put the Mets ahead 6-0, and they coasted from there to a 9-5 win. Chris Bassitt was his typically understated self, getting just four strikeouts and scattering six hits across seven innings but keeping the Nationals from scoring a run thanks to three double plays. Fielding an unrecognizable lineup that not only is without Juan Soto and Josh Bell now, but also did not include resting veterans Nelson Cruz and Maikel Franco, the Nats tried and failed to come up with anything that could have made the game interesting.
Instead, Vogelbach’s strongman display put things firmly out of reach and let the rest of the game creep away like the setting sun. With a first pitch temperature of 93 degrees, things felt sluggish from the very get go at Nationals Park, but Florida man Vogelbach was both well equipped for the heat and the exact jolt his sleepy dugout needed. The last Met to launch a grand slam as his first home run with the team was Adrian Gonzalez in 2018, and other storied names of Mets lore to accomplish the feat include Taylor Teagarden, Omir Santos and Collin Cowgill.
Fellow Floridian and burgeoning MVP candidate Pete Alonso also helped. Alonso went yard in the third inning for his second homer of the series and 28th on the season. Seeing Alonso hit home runs is nothing new, and the experience can become a little expected or predictable, but this one really stood out because of the pitch that it came on. Washington pitcher Anibal Sanchez executed a slider, putting it down and out of the strike zone on the outside part of the plate. Almost like he was expecting it, Alonso had the barrel of his bat meet the ball before it could get any lower, mashing it 411 feet to straightaway center.
No matter what the players and coaches say, it can be hard to get up for every single game of a 162-game season and bring the same energy for getaway games in Washington as Sunday night games against Atlanta. But in doing enough to avoid a potential trap game, beating Washington to also take the series, the Mets can now shift their entire focus to the Braves.
They have the aforementioned Sunday night game with them on ESPN, but also four games in three days before that. Even as many of the guys in uniform will likely be running on fumes by the end of that series, the intensity of the NL East showdown should provide the opposite effect of an afternoon tilt with the tanking Nationals.
“There’s going to be some good games, there’s going to be some bad ones, there’s going to be some bad weeks,” Vogelbach accepted. “But you can take something out of every game.”
The Mets have now won three series in a row, 12 of their last 16 games, and ten of their 13 games against Washington, whom they see six more times at the end of the season. A healthy (pun intended) amount of Jacob deGrom should be in store for them, and the infusion of Trevor May and Mychal Givens changes the fabric of the bullpen. May pitched an easy eighth inning in relief of Bassitt, throwing 16 pitches with a single and a strikeout mixed in. Givens had a much tougher time, cheffing up two home runs and five hits before getting pulled mid-inning. The Nationals took 13 swings against Givens and only missed once.
An offense that ranked fifth in wRC+ entering play on Wednesday but 12th in slugging percentage and 16th in home runs is a bit of a wild card. Alonso, Francisco Lindor and the other usual suspects are capable of greatness. If the less-used players like Vogelbach — who has reached base in 16 of his 34 Met plate appearances — and San Francisco transplant Darin Ruf can simply be good, the Mets will be able to turn more of these lazy matinees into record-fattening wins.
“It’s a day game after a night game, it’s the end of a road trip and it’s 90-plus degrees,” Buck Showalter said, listing off all the reasons why his team could have faltered but didn’t. “It was a good 5-1 road trip, we’ll see where it takes us.”
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The sights and sounds of Musikfest in Bethlehem are almost upon us. A special preview headlined by Philadelphia-based Boyz II Men is set for Thursday night. But before the shows comes the set up.
"Everything is on schedule, we are excited to open," Patrick Brogan, Chief Programming Officer for ArtsQuest, said.
The 39th Musikfest will feature 10 days of free music across 14 stages. A fifteenth stage will be ticketed, featuring musicians like Poison, Willie Nelson, Ja Rule and Ashanti.
"It's a colossal festival that welcomes guests from all over the world. We are thrilled to have 400 musicians from all over the world coming to play," Brogan said.
The event is non-profit ArtsQuest's flagship event, and Brogan says it's taken an entire year of planning.
"And then it's one thing at a time, one fence at a time, one wall at a time, one station at a time, one food tent at a time," he said.
For many of the some-50 staff and dozens of volunteers, it's been at least a week of long, non-stop days.
David Zawistowski is an audio engineer for DCR Nashville, subcontracted for the event.
"It's taken us about probably a week and a half to get all the gear allocated, two full trucks of gear that are here. Takes an army," he said.
It's been more than a week of fine-tuning.
"I make sure that everything is plugged in properly, because there's a lot going on, I mean this consul can take 128 microphones at one time," Zawistowski said.
More than a week of heavy lifting:
"That's what we do, 12, 13 hours a day, we're picking things up, putting them down, moving them in different places," beverage manager Eric Molitoris said.
And more than a week of making those vendors look pretty.
"It's putting final pieces together, whether it's moving in to their tents and getting their signage up," Brogan said.
Molitoris, who has worked Musikfest for 21 years, says it keeps on growing.
"We're always expanding, we're adding more tents, we're adding more bars, we're adding entertainment," he said.
Brogan says beverage managers are preparing for a hot weekend, and will have plenty of water on site. There will also be more than 200 porta potties going in, around the city. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/final-preparations-underway-for-musikfest-2022/article_7fcdc16a-1393-11ed-b435-97c97f4ee717.html | 2022-08-04T02:52:22Z | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/final-preparations-underway-for-musikfest-2022/article_7fcdc16a-1393-11ed-b435-97c97f4ee717.html | false |
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
02-13-42-47-48, Cash Ball: 4
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Ukraine warns of new Russian offensive; Sweden, Finland move closer to joining NATO
By Natalia Zinets and Patricia Zengerle
KYIV/WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Ukraine said Russia had started creating a military strike force aimed at President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's hometown of Kryvyi Rih, as NATO moved closer to the most significant expansion of the alliance in decades as it responds to the invasion of Ukraine.
The U.S. Senate and the Italian parliament both approved on Wednesday Finland and Sweden's accession to the 30-member North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Under NATO membership, which must be ratified by all 30 member states, an attack on one member is an attack against all.
"This historic vote sends an important signal of the sustained, bipartisan U.S. commitment to NATO, and to ensuring our Alliance is prepared to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow," U.S. President Joe Biden said in a statement.
Russia, which invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, has repeatedly warned Finland and Sweden against joining NATO.
NATO's 30 allies signed the accession protocol last month, allowing them to join the U.S.-led nuclear-armed alliance once its members ratify the decision.
Ratification could take up to a year.
Ukraine on Wednesday dismissed suggestions by former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder that Russia wanted a "negotiated solution" to the five-month war and said any dialogue would be contingent on a Russian ceasefire and withdrawal of its troops.
Tentative attempts at peace talks in March went nowhere.
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday that Ukraine was seeking an opportunity to speak "directly" with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to help end the war.
In an interview with SCMP, Zelenskiy urged China to use its political and economic influence over Russia to bring an end to the fighting.
"It's a very powerful state. It's a powerful economy ... So (it) can politically, economically influence Russia. And China is (also a) permanent member of the U.N. Security Council," the report quoted Zelenskiy as saying.
NEW SOUTHERN OFFENSIVE
Ukraine on Wednesday night said Russia was engaged in considerable military activity in the east, northeast and south of the country and warned that Moscow could be preparing new offensive operations in southern Ukraine.
Dmytro Zhyvytsky, governor of Sumy region on the border with Russia, said three towns had been shelled by Russian forces on Wednesday, with a total of 55 missiles fired. There were no injuries, but homes and commercial premises were damaged.
He said eight artillery shells hit residential parts of Krasnopilska community.
Reuters was not able to verify battlefield reports.
Russia denies it targets civilians, but many towns and cities have been destroyed and thousands of civilians killed in the biggest conflict in Europe since World War Two. Ukraine and its Western allies accuse Russian forces of war crimes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops in Ukraine in what he said was a "special military operation" to rid the country of fascists. Ukraine and the West said Putin launched an unprovoked "imperial" land grab.
The war has sparked a global energy and food crisis. Russia and Ukraine produce about one third of global wheat and Russia is the main energy supplier to Europe.
An agreement between Moscow and Kyiv, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, to allow safe passage of grain ships from Ukraine has been hailed as a rare diplomatic success in the war.
The first ship carrying Ukrainian grain since the war started passed through the Bosphorus Strait on Wednesday.
The ship, Razoni, left Odesa on the Black Sea early on Monday carrying 26,527 tonnes of corn to the Lebanese port of Tripoli.
A senior Turkish official said three ships could leave Ukrainian ports daily following the Razoni's departure, while Ukraine's infrastructure minister said 17 more ships had been loaded with agricultural produce and were waiting to set sail.
(Reporting by Reuters bureaux; Writing by Michael Perry; Editing by Himani Sarkar) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11079259/Ukraine-warns-new-Russian-offensive-Sweden-Finland-closer-joining-NATO.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-04T02:53:16Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11079259/Ukraine-warns-new-Russian-offensive-Sweden-Finland-closer-joining-NATO.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
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ATLANTA (AP) — Rhyne Howard scored 20 points, Cheyenne Parker added 17 and the Atlanta Dream handed the Indiana Fever its 15th straight loss with a 91-81 victory on Wednesday night.
Atlanta (13-18) ended a four-game losing streak and moved into a three-way tie for seventh in the standings.
Atlanta led 64-34 early in the third quarter before Indiana battled back to get within single digits in the fourth. Indiana outscored Atlanta 28-13 in the third to get within 75-62 and started the fourth by scoring 15 of the first 22 points to make it 82-77 with 5:02 left. But the Dream scored seven straight points and led by at least nine points the rest of the way.
Aari McDonald added 13 points, Kristy Wallace scored 12 and Maya Caldwell had 10 for Atlanta. Howard scored 14 of her points in the first half before reaching 20-plus for the ninth time this season.
Atlanta made 14 of its first 18 shots (77.9%) and led 36-17 after the first quarter. The Dream started the second quarter on a 7-1 run for a 43-18 lead, and it was 62-34 at halftime. The Dream had 21 assists on 23 made field goals and shot 62.2% from the field in the first half.
NaLyssa Smith scored 21 points for Indiana (5-28). Emma Cannon added a season-high 16 points and rookie Lexie Hull had a season-high 14 points, reaching double figures for just the second time this season.
Both teams were without their leading scorers. Tiffany Hayes left Atlanta's last game on Saturday with an ankle injury suffered in the second quarter, and Indiana's Kelsey Mitchell is done for the season with a plantar fascia tear in her left foot.
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TOKYO (AP) — The construction of facilities needed for a planned release of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea next year from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant began Thursday despite opposition from the local fishing community.
Plant workers started construction of a pipeline to transport the wastewater from hillside storage tanks to a coastal facility before its planned release next year, according to the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings.
The digging of an undersea tunnel was also to begin later Thursday.
Construction at the Fukushima Daiichi plant follows the Nuclear Regulation Authority's formal approval last month of a detailed wastewater discharge plan that TEPCO submitted in December.
The government announced last year a decision to release the wastewater as a necessary step for the plant’s ongoing decommissioning.
A massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi plant’s cooling systems, causing triple meltdowns and the release of large amounts of radiation. Water that was used to cool the three damaged and highly radioactive reactor cores has since leaked into basements of the reactor buildings but was collected and stored in tanks.
TEPCO and government officials say the water will be further treated to levels far below releasable standards and that the environmental and health impacts will be negligible. Of more than 60 isotopes selected for treatment, all but one — tritium — will be reduced to meet safety standards, they say.
Local fishing communities and neighboring countries have raised concerns about potential health hazards from the radioactive wastewater and the reputation damage to local produce, and oppose the release.
Scientists say the impact of long-term, low-dose exposure to not only tritium but also other isotopes on the environment and humans are still unknown and that a release is premature.
The contaminated water is being stored in about 1,000 tanks that require much space in the plant complex. Officials say they must be removed so that facilities can be built for its decommissioning. The tanks are expected to reach their capacity of 1.37 million tons in autumn of 2023.
TEPCO said it plans to transport treated and releasable water through a pipeline from the tanks to a coastal pool, where it will be diluted with seawater and then sent through an undersea tunnel with an outlet about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) away to minimize the impact on local fishing and the environment.
TEPCO and the government have obtained approval from the heads of the plant’s host towns, Futaba and Okuma, for the construction, but local residents and the fishing community remain opposed and could still delay the process. The current plan calls for a gradual release of treated water to begin next spring in a process that will take decades.
On Wednesday, Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori and the two mayors visited Tokyo and asked Economy and Industry Minister Koichi Hagiuda to ensure safety and prevent further damage to the reputation of Fukushima fishing products.
Akira Ono, TEPCO chief decommissioning officer at the plant, promised the highest efforts to ensure safety and understanding.
“We are aware of various views on reputational impact and safety concerns (of the release) and we'll keep explaining throughly to stakeholders,” he said.
TEPCO said Wednesday that weather and sea conditions could delay a completion of the facility until summer 2023.
Japan has sought help from the International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure the water release meets international safety standards and reassure local fishing and other communities and neighboring countries, including China and South Korea, that have opposed the plan.
IAEA experts who visited the plant earlier this year said Japan was taking appropriate steps for the planned discharge. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Construction-begins-at-Fukushima-plant-for-water-17350043.php | 2022-08-04T02:55:03Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Construction-begins-at-Fukushima-plant-for-water-17350043.php | false |
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MIAMI (AP) — Sandy Alcantara threw his major league-leading third complete game and the Miami Marlins beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-0 Wednesday night.
The All-Star right-hander allowed six hits, walked one and struck out three on 105 pitches for his third career shutout. Alcantara (10-4) is the first Marlins pitcher to reach double-digit victories in a season since Caleb Smith won 10 in 2019.
“I am very happy about that, hopefully it won’t be just 10 but 15 or 20,” Alcantara said.
Alcantara snapped a tie with Houston’s Framber Valdez for the league lead in complete games.
Luke Williams had three hits and stole a career-high three bases while Jesús Aguilar homered for the Marlins, who snapped a nine-game home losing skid.
The Reds loaded the bases and with two out in the first, but Alcantara retired Donovan Solano on a force at home and Aristides Aquino on a fly to left field.
After Cincinnati forced him to throw 22 pitches in the inning, Alcantara needed 83 the remainder of his outing.
“To get out of that was big,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. “I felt at that point, he was going to settle in and they were in for a full dose of Sandy.”
In the lead-up to the All-Star break, Alcantara had completed at least seven innings in 13 consecutive outings. But he lasted 11 innings total in his first two starts following the break.
“Pitching only one inning in the All-Star got me out of rhythm,” Alcantara said. “That one inning held me back a bit. But we are fine now.”
Aguilar put Miami ahead 1-0 with his solo shot in the fourth. He drove a slider from Reds starter Mike Minor into the seats in left for his 13th homer and the Marlins’ first lead in the series.
Garrett Cooper’s two-run double in the fifth made it 3-0. Williams hit a one-out single, stole second and was in the front end of a double steal after Billy Hamilton walked.
“That’s a part of the game I think is going to start coming back,” Williams said of his base stealing. “It’s obviously part of my game and it’s very exciting.”
Minor (1-8) was lifted after 5 1/3 innings. The left-hander allowed three runs, five hits, walked three and struck out six.
“I just knew it was tough to get a win with a guy like that who’s going to go deep,” Minor said. “In the first inning, he kind of gave us some hope and then he got out of it. The guy’s pretty good.”
ROSTER MOVES
The Marlins activated Cooper from the injured list while the Reds recalled SS José Barrero from Triple-A Louisville. With his call-up Wednesday, Barrero became the 31st Cuban player to appear for a major league team this season, surpassing the previous high in the history of the Caribbean nation.
“I’m extremely honored to become the 31st and also very fortunate to represent our country in the major leagues,” Barrero said in Spanish.
FOND MEMORIES OF SCULLY
Mattingly warmly remembered the years he became close to Vin Scully. The Hall of Fame broadcaster, who called Los Angeles Dodgers’ games 67 years, died Tuesday. Before joining the Marlins in 2016, Mattingly managed the Dodgers for five seasons.
“Vin was, in a sense, an artist with the way he painted the game and sculpted your view of watching a game or hearing a game,” Mattingly said. “I was very fortunate to get a few little moments with him where we could talk about anything when you have that 20-minute bus ride.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: The return of C Aramis García will be delayed after an MRI revealed a fracture of his bruised left middle finger.
Marlins: OF Avisaíl García (left hamstring strain) was placed on the 10-day injured list. García exited in the third inning Tuesday.
UP NEXT
Neither club has announced the starter for the opener of its next series. The Reds will continue their 10-game road trip Friday at Milwaukee, while the Marlins begin a three-game set Friday at the Chicago Cubs.
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After a three year hiatus, La Fiesta has returned to downtown Santa Barbara with a full lineup of cultural dances and a spotlight for nonprofits in the area.
"We had no Mercado de la Guerra in 2020 and 2021 so it really is a joyous occasion," said Maria Cabrera, La Presidenta of Old Spanish Days 2022.
While it has been nearly a century since the first Old Spanish Days celebration was held back in 1924, some say this year's event could be the start of a new tradition.
"It is our first year participating in the Fiestas and we just want to be part of the community," Delilah Santos told KSBY. She is a member of the local nonprofit Light of the World. Their booth will be at the Mercado this week selling barbecued chicken to raise money for their outreach services.
"Working with the Health Department and the Fiestas is amazing. They give us a lot of opportunity to grow," Santos added.
Just steps away from their booth, cultural Spanish dances provide a reminder of the event's goal of highlighting the diversity and history of Santa Barbara.
"I will be dancing all around town doing a variety of dances," said Tara Mata, 2022 Spirit Ambassador of La Fiesta. "Tonight is especially important because it is Fiesta Pequena tonight."
"You have dance from Folklorico from Mexico, you have flamenco from Spain, you have early California which is a mix of both Spanish and Native American dances as they saw it. It is very inclusive," Cabrera said.
Other locals say they are simply relieved to be returning to La Fiesta in person.
"It means the world to me that our community gets together once a year to celebrate our Mexican, Spanish and Chumash native culture. We have the whole community involved in this. It is a big deal for Santa Barbara and I am happy to be a part of it," said Melissa DeSoto, Santa Barbara resident.
The festivities will continue throughout the evening with the Fiesta Pequena that begins at 8 p.m. at Mission Santa Barbara. The days of food, fun and culture continue until Sunday. General admission is free.
On Thursday, there will be a performance about the history of Old Spanish Days at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. Until Sunday, you can also take a free guided tour of the Santa Barbara Courthouse.
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(NEXSTAR) – Last week, ice cream fans were shocked to learn a beloved novelty treat, the Choco Taco, was being discontinued by Klondike. Now, following an overwhelming response online – and a senator joking that the Defense Production Act should be used to save the treat – it appears that the Choco Taco may not be gone long.
Klondike has been responding to tweets from disappointed customers since the announcement that Choco Taco was no more. In one thread that started on Tuesday, a user said they had been searching everywhere to find one last Choco Taco.
Klondike responded, “We know this is disappointing – we’ve heard our fans, and we’re hoping to bring this favorite treat back to ice cream trucks in the coming years!”
The same response was given to a number of other Twitter users but no additional information has been shared. Klondike did not immediately respond to Nexstar’s request for comment.
Late last week, Klondike tweeted that the Choco Taco being discontinued is “not a PR stunt.”
“I knew you loved me, but not THIS much. While I reflect on this outpouring of support, we are discussing next steps, including what to do with the last 912 (we counted) tacos at HQ,” a Thursday tweet, from the view of the Choco Taco, read.
The Choco Taco, which features fudge-swirled ice cream in a chocolate wafer reminiscent of a hard taco shell, has been around since the 1980s. It gained popularity when it partnered with Taco Bell, but was off the menu for seven years until a return to select locations in February.
That return was short-lived though. A spokesperson for Klondike told Nexstar that, “Over the past 2 years, we have experienced an unprecedented spike in demand across our portfolio and have had to make very tough decisions to ensure availability of our full portfolio nationwide. A necessary but unfortunate part of this process is that we sometimes must discontinue products, even a beloved item like Choco Taco.”
You may still be able to find Choco Tacos at retailers as they sell through their remaining inventory.
Those that still have Choco Tacos have been trying to capitalize on their cold commodity. On auction sites like eBay, some sellers were listing the tacos for as much as $1,000. One listing hoped to excite the imagination with the description: “Sealed Klondike Choco Taco Shipped with Dry Ice – frozen GOLD.”
While there didn’t appear to be much interest at those valuations, a box of 22 garnered multiple bids and was already at $232.50 with seven days remaining in the auction.
After news broke of the taco’s end, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) joked that he would introduce legislation to use the Defense Production Act to “mandate the continued manufacture of Choco Tacos.” There are, of course, no actual plans to use Congress’s power to keep the treat on the market.
Jeremy Tanner contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/is-the-choco-taco-coming-back-klondike-hints-at-future-of-discontinued-treat/ | 2022-08-04T03:12:30Z | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/is-the-choco-taco-coming-back-klondike-hints-at-future-of-discontinued-treat/ | false |
(NEXSTAR) – That queazy feeling of hitting send on an iPhone message with an embarrassing typo or over-zealous autocorrection will soon be a thing of the past, thanks to editable messages in Apple’s upcoming iOS 16 update.
While the rollout isn’t set to happen until the fall, you can play around with the new feature – and several others – now, by enrolling in the Apple Beta Software Program.
You get to play around with the latest features before everyone else has them, and Apple developers benefit from the early feedback.
Anyone with a valid Apple ID who accepts the program agreement can participate, but there are a few things you should know before signing up. Apple warns that, since the software hasn’t been released commercially yet, it may contain errors or inaccuracies. You should back up your iPhone or other Apple device if possible before installing the software.
“Install the beta software only on non-production devices that are not business critical,” Apple advises. “We strongly recommend installing on a secondary system or device, or on a secondary partition on your Mac.”
The program and software are free, but the program is considered confidential, so you won’t be able to tweet out screenshots of your latest iOS 16 discovery.
Editing messages
Once you sign up and start playing around with iOS 16 on the iPhone, there are a number of notable developments, but one of the biggest crowd favorites may change the way we send messages.
iOS 16 public beta allows you to edit messages. After fixing that unfortunate message-message autocorrection, the other person will see a small “edited” note appear under the message.
You’ll also be able to “unsend” messages, preventing friends and family from judging the trash fire of a text you accidentally sent before cleaning up.
New lock screen options
Apple is offering new ways to customize your lock screen – not a small feature considering the number of times we all look at our phones during the day.
New font styles, a widget display and the ability to showcase your favorite photos with different color filters will be available. Using widgets, you can now see the weather, calendar events, Activity rings and more without having to open your phone.
Live Activities will also allow you to display the score of a sports game or the progress of a food delivery in real-time on the lock screen.
Tap and drag using Visual Lookup
This iOS 16 advancement allows you to do with one finger what might have taken hours of YouTube tutorials and Photoshop experimentation to master.
While iOS 15 provided Visual Look Up to automatically recognize and give additional info about pets, plants and landmarks, for instance, the tap and drag function allows you to separate one of those subjects from the photo’s background.
By tapping and holding on a photo, you can lift the subject away from the background and use it in a different app, such as Messages.
Now you can pay later
iOS 16 will allow you to create your own payment plan when you choose the “pay later” option, allowing you to split the cost of an Apple Pay purchase into four payments over six weeks. The feature comes with no interest or fees.
When it comes to the Apple Wallet, you will also be able to store your ID. For those who don’t want to advertise their birthday, the ID will give the option to confirm whether or not someone is over 21 without revealing an exact age.
Another Wallet feature allows users to share keys with friends or relatives.
See more information about joining the Apple Beta Software Program or a full list of iOS 16’s upcoming features on Apples website. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/how-to-edit-iphone-messages-and-use-other-pre-release-ios-16-features/ | 2022-08-04T03:13:05Z | https://who13.com/news/national-news/how-to-edit-iphone-messages-and-use-other-pre-release-ios-16-features/ | false |
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — After Richmond prosecutors said Wednesday, Aug. 3, that they had no evidence Dogwood Dell was the specific target of an alleged July 4 mass shooting plot, the police chief told reporters two conflicting statements.
8News has identified four instances of conflicting or misleading statements from Chief Gerald Smith, Mayor Levar Stoney and the Guatemalan Consulate who requested interviews with the two Guatemalan men accused of the plot.
Chief Smith told reporters on Wednesday afternoon that “in all probability“ the shooting plot was planned for Dogwood Dell, and that “you would be hard-pressed to come up with another location.“ Smith and Mayor Stoney have previously said this location was, indeed, part of a plan.
“At least it was confirmed by those who were doing the investigation, that these individuals had a plan to come to what we call the Dogwood Dell,” Stoney said on News Nation’s ‘Rush Hour’ program on July 6.
During the same press conference Smith announced that a tipster — dubbed a “hero citizen” — had “picked up the phone, overheard that there was a mass shooting being planned here in Richmond, Virginia, at our Fourth of July celebration at the Dell.” He added, “We know what their intent is, but we do not know their motive.”
The chief was also asked Wednesday afternoon about the sold-out Flying Squirrels Minor League Baseball game and fireworks show at The Diamond, but he said the event didn’t fit with police intelligence.
“What about the diamond? Did that ever come up?” a reporter asked.
Smith responded, “That is a baseball game sir, that was not a Fourth of July celebration. That was a baseball game.”
Yet, Smith said on July 6 that “it was not only Dogwood Dell that we had concern about, but we also had concerns about The Diamond and the baseball game as well.”
Stoney told reporters on Wednesday, “I have confidence in the chief of police, and I have confidence in the hard working men and women of the Richmond Police Department. Bottom line.”
After the mayor and chief’s remarks, the police department tweeted a misleading statement, which read in part, “As confirmed today, there is evidence that RPD stopped a mass shooting from happening in the city on July 4.”
However, the police department has not publicly shared any evidence of a shooting plot, though there may be. Meanwhile, the two accused men are not facing any state charges related to planning a shooting plot, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which is now handling the case, has not made similar federal charges about a plot.
In a statement provided to 8News by the Guatemalan Consulate in Maryland, officials said they sought to interview the two suspects who were “apprehended July 2 and 3.” Meanwhile, police maintain the arrests fell on July 1 and 5. | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/richmond/conflicting-information-mounts-in-alleged-july-4-mass-shooting-plot/ | 2022-08-04T03:15:04Z | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/richmond/conflicting-information-mounts-in-alleged-july-4-mass-shooting-plot/ | false |
DES MOINES, Iowa — A multi-vehicle crash resulted in one death and four people critically injured on Wednesday evening.
The Des Moines Police Department and Des Moines Fire Department responded to a report of a crash between a white Chevy Tahoe and a black Chevy Malibu at around 6:37 p.m. at the intersection of East 43rd Court and Hubbell Ave.
Four people have been hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. A 49-year-old female has passed away from her injuries. The identities of those involved in the accident have not been released.
According to the police department, the driver of the Tahoe was traveling northeast on Hubbell Ave and the driver of the Malibu was turning onto Hubbell Ave. from East 43rd Court. The vehicles collided within the intersection.
This crash is still under investigation. | https://who13.com/news/update-multi-vehicle-crash-results-in-critical-injuries-in-des-moines/ | 2022-08-04T03:21:53Z | https://who13.com/news/update-multi-vehicle-crash-results-in-critical-injuries-in-des-moines/ | false |
China to issue $741 mln of treasury bonds in Hong Kong on Aug. 10
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China's finance ministry will issue 5 billion yuan ($740.70 million) worth of treasury bonds in Hong Kong on Aug. 10, including 1 billion yuan of 10-year bonds, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said on Thursday.
The remaining 4 billion yuan will be added to bonds already issued and which mature in 2024, the HKMA said. ($1 = 6.7504 Chinese yuan renminbi)
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‘An ambush to kill cops’: Sheriff says deputies lured to neighborhood by unfounded 911 call
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - Authorities in South Carolina are investigating an incident they are calling an ambush involving several deputies responding to an emergency call.
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said deputies were called to a Carriage Oaks neighborhood at about 5:30 a.m. after a man had called 911 saying he heard a woman screaming for help.
WIS reports three deputies arrived at the scene and went to the address given by the caller and a woman met them. However, she told deputies that nothing was wrong.
Sheriff Lott said as the deputies were leaving, gunshots rang out, with a round going through the passenger window and hitting the dashboard of one of the officer’s vehicles.
Deputy Joseph Shannonhouse said shattered glass hit his eyes and face. He was able to make a U-turn and get away.
According to the sheriff, more than 15 more shots were fired at the deputies who called for assistance.
When help arrived, investigators said they found a man dead in the house next door to the original address given by the 911 caller. Lott said it is believed that the man committed suicide, as the deputies at the scene never returned fire and didn’t see the attacker at the time of the shooting.
Lott identified the man as 25-year-old Frederic Westfall. He was found with tactical gear and an assault rifle. Lott called the attack “an ambush to kill cops.”
Currently, investigators said they are still working on a motive for the shooting.
Officials said Deputy Shannonhouse was treated at an area hospital and expected to survive his injuries sustained in the incident.
“We are very lucky we didn’t have an officer killed,” Lott said. “These deputies have a dangerous job, and I am thankful they were able to go home to their families.”
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After Taiwan, Pelosi in S. Korea to meet political leaders
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will meet top South Korean political leaders in Seoul after she concluded her high-profile visit to Taiwan by renewing Washington’s “ironclad” commitment to defending democracy on the self-governing island despite vehement protests from China. Pelosi and other members of Congress flew to South Korea on Wednesday evening as part of their Asian tour. On Thursday, Pelosi will meet South Korean National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin Pyo and other senior members of Parliament for talks on regional security and economic cooperation. She also plans to visit an inter-Korean border area that is jointly controlled by the American-led U.N. Command and North Korea.
US says Russia aims to fabricate evidence in prison deaths
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials believe Russia is working to fabricate evidence concerning last week’s deadly strike on a facility housing prisoners of war in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine. U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russia is looking to plant false evidence to make it appear that Ukrainian forces were responsible for the July 29 attack on Olenivka Prison that left 53 dead and wounded dozens more, a U.S. official familiar with the intelligence finding told The Associated Press. Russia has claimed that Ukraine’s military used U.S.-supplied rocket launchers to strike the prison in Olenivka, a settlement controlled by the Moscow-backed Donetsk People’s Republic. The Ukrainian military denied making any rocket or artillery strikes in Olenivka.
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Alex Jones concedes Sandy Hook attack was '100% real'
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Senate backs Finland, Sweden for NATO 95-1, rebuking Russia
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Flowers, candles and handwritten messages lie beneath a sign welcoming fans to Dodger Stadium at the main entrance on Vin Scully Avenue. Fans of all ages made their way to the ballpark and other points around Los Angeles to mourn the Hall of Fame broadcaster who died Tuesday night at age 94. Flowers and mementos decorated Scully's star on the Walk of Fame. Moments of silence were held around the major leagues. The self-effacing Scully would have appreciated the tributes but would have likely found them to be “a little bit embarrassing.” That's how he described the hoopla surrounding his retirement in 2016. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-summary-at-10-55-p-m-edt/article_123e8609-51d3-50d1-a571-c73569484fd0.html | 2022-08-04T03:30:07Z | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-summary-at-10-55-p-m-edt/article_123e8609-51d3-50d1-a571-c73569484fd0.html | true |
‘An ambush to kill cops’: Sheriff says deputies lured to neighborhood by unfounded 911 call
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - Authorities in South Carolina are investigating an incident they are calling an ambush involving several deputies responding to an emergency call.
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said deputies were called to a Carriage Oaks neighborhood at about 5:30 a.m. after a man had called 911 saying he heard a woman screaming for help.
WIS reports three deputies arrived at the scene and went to the address given by the caller and a woman met them. However, she told deputies that nothing was wrong.
Sheriff Lott said as the deputies were leaving, gunshots rang out, with a round going through the passenger window and hitting the dashboard of one of the officer’s vehicles.
Deputy Joseph Shannonhouse said shattered glass hit his eyes and face. He was able to make a U-turn and get away.
According to the sheriff, more than 15 more shots were fired at the deputies who called for assistance.
When help arrived, investigators said they found a man dead in the house next door to the original address given by the 911 caller. Lott said it is believed that the man committed suicide, as the deputies at the scene never returned fire and didn’t see the attacker at the time of the shooting.
Lott identified the man as 25-year-old Frederic Westfall. He was found with tactical gear and an assault rifle. Lott called the attack “an ambush to kill cops.”
Currently, investigators said they are still working on a motive for the shooting.
Officials said Deputy Shannonhouse was treated at an area hospital and expected to survive his injuries sustained in the incident.
“We are very lucky we didn’t have an officer killed,” Lott said. “These deputies have a dangerous job, and I am thankful they were able to go home to their families.”
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MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — The driver in a hit-and-run crash that killed the father of rapper Nicki Minaj last year was sentenced Wednesday to a year in jail, in keeping with a promise the judge made when the man pleaded guilty in May.
Charles Polevich, who pleaded guilty to leaving the scene and tampering with evidence in the crash on New York’s Long Island that killed Robert Maraj, was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and had his driver’s license suspended for six months.
Polevich’s lawyer, Marc Gann, suggested his client may have had a medical issue at the time of the crash and that he wasn’t fully aware of what had happened when he fled.
Polevich, 72, said in court that he’s “been heartsick since realizing the extent of the tragedy” and that there was “no excuse” for his behavior.
Maraj’s widow, Carol Maraj, said in court that Polevich had left her husband “like a dog on the street” and that sparing him a longer jail sentence was a “slap in the face for the family,” Newsday reported.
Polevich struck Maraj, 64, while Maraj was walking along Roslyn Road in Mineola in February 2021. Polevich stopped briefly to ask Maraj if he was OK, but didn’t call for help, prosecutors said.
Instead, Polevich went home, parked the car — a white, 1992 Volvo station wagon — in his garage and covered it with a tarp, prosecutors said. Maraj was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead the next day.
Prosecutors sought a sentence of one to three years behind bars, but Nassau County Judge Howard Sturim said in May, when Polevich pleaded guilty, that he would get “no more than one year in jail.”
Brendan Brosh, a spokesperson for the Nassau County district attorney’s office, said that “given the severity of the defendant’s conduct,” prosecutors felt a stiffer sentence was warranted.
“We continue to express our condolences to the family of Robert Maraj,” Brosh said.
Gann asked for a 90-day jail sentence, arguing that other factors outside of Polevich’s control were partially to blame for the crash, including road construction, street lights that weren’t working and Maraj’s physical condition.
Maraj’s widow, Carol Maraj, is suing Polevich over the crash.
Polevich, who had been splitting time between Long Island and Guam, where he runs a drilling and water purification business, surrendered to police a few days after the crash.
Detectives said they used pieces of surveillance video to track the Volvo involved in the crash to Polevich’s Mineola home.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 4, 2022
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URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
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928 PM CDT Wed Aug 3 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM CDT THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Temperatures up to 111 expected.
* WHERE...Lower Brewster County.
* WHEN...From noon to 9 PM CDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures may cause heat illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
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- Wemade invests in a full range of blockchain projects.
- SNKRZ introduces a new business model to Move-to-Earn (M2E) services.
- SNKRZ reaches No. 1 NFT sales on OpenSea's Klaytn blockchain with 100.000 community members.
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wemade Co., Ltd. (CEO Henry Chang) made a strategic investment in the next-generation M2E (Move-to-Earn) project SNKRZ. SNKRZ users can exercise and receive coins as a reward.
SNKRZ pursues a sustainable business model by adding the concept of LAND linked to real-world maps to existing M2E business models that allow users to purchase sneaker NFTs and exercise to receive coins. These coins can then be used to conduct NFT repair or to level up.
SNKRZ's NFTs topped OpenSea (the world's first and largest NFT marketplace)'s sales chart based on the last 30 days' volume on the Klaytn blockchain, which indicates the project's early success.
Wemade is investing in blockchain companies and projects of all kinds. The company recently received positive attention for its successful investment in luxury fashion metaverse ALTAVA's TAVA coin and South Korea's first short-form platform CELEBe's FANC coin.
Wemade is actively investing in blockchain projects characterized by their utility or real practical use and has been successful so far. The new investment in SNKRZ is expected to reap high returns while contributing to the expansion of Wemix ecosystem.
SNKRZ has already secured 100,000 community members and is growing to become the largest NFT project in South Korea. It is also being recognized globally, as more than 70% of its users are in overseas countries including Japan. Wemade will cooperate to further accelerate the global expansion of SNKRZ.
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Wemade CEO Henry Chang said "I expect the M2E project SNKRZ, which has clear utility, to increase the diversity of WEMIX 3.0's ecosystem." He added "More specifically, games and real-life activities will be linked through blockchain economy".
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‘An ambush to kill cops’: Sheriff says deputies lured to neighborhood by unfounded 911 call
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - Authorities in South Carolina are investigating an incident they are calling an ambush involving several deputies responding to an emergency call.
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said deputies were called to a Carriage Oaks neighborhood at about 5:30 a.m. after a man had called 911 saying he heard a woman screaming for help.
WIS reports three deputies arrived at the scene and went to the address given by the caller and a woman met them. However, she told deputies that nothing was wrong.
Sheriff Lott said as the deputies were leaving, gunshots rang out, with a round going through the passenger window and hitting the dashboard of one of the officer’s vehicles.
Deputy Joseph Shannonhouse said shattered glass hit his eyes and face. He was able to make a U-turn and get away.
According to the sheriff, more than 15 more shots were fired at the deputies who called for assistance.
When help arrived, investigators said they found a man dead in the house next door to the original address given by the 911 caller. Lott said it is believed that the man committed suicide, as the deputies at the scene never returned fire and didn’t see the attacker at the time of the shooting.
Lott identified the man as 25-year-old Frederic Westfall. He was found with tactical gear and an assault rifle. Lott called the attack “an ambush to kill cops.”
Currently, investigators said they are still working on a motive for the shooting.
Officials said Deputy Shannonhouse was treated at an area hospital and expected to survive his injuries sustained in the incident.
“We are very lucky we didn’t have an officer killed,” Lott said. “These deputies have a dangerous job, and I am thankful they were able to go home to their families.”
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Cries for police reform echoed in communities across the country and here in the Triangle. Those cries challenged police to make changes and connect with the community at a deeper level.
Diana Powell, a community activist in Raleigh and Executive Director for Justice Serve NC described the past two years in the city as tense.
"It looked like a boiling pot of water with a lid on it and finally that lid came off. And it just exploded," Powell said.
Powell said since then, things have changed in Raleigh, and community-police relations have strengthened.
"Is it perfect? No. But we have seen a change," she said.
Powell said communication has improved between Raleigh Police and residents. She pointed to what will soon be Raleigh Police Department's de-escalation policy, which would require officers to consider medical conditions, mental impairment, and a language barrier when deciding if a person is not complying with commands.
"To know that they have, they are creating a policy around de-escalation. I think that gives the community a little bit more hope and understanding," said Powell.
She's also seen a push for more officers on the street. It was a request heard from several people during National Night Out on Tuesday.
"The community wants to see us. They want us visible and in their community. We get those calls all the time," Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson said.
Other community leaders see it differently. Kerwin Pittman, the Director of Policy and Programming for Emancipate NC, said more work needs to be done before there's a shift in the culture.
"Things are still the same. Relationships between the Raleigh Police Department and marginalized communities that I'm in contact with, are still at an all-time low," Pittman said. "What I would love to see take place is acknowledgment of past mistakes that the Raleigh Police Department has done to the citizens. That is the first step and being honest and coming to the table and addressing the elephant in the room."
Pittman also suggested more resources to help residents thrive.
"Until she starts partnering with the community to try to bring about how we can bring resources to this community, how we can educate this community, and how we can bring economics to these community members, then it's going to be the same," He added. | https://abc11.com/raleigh-police-department-community-de-escalation-policy-change-in/12097081/ | 2022-08-04T04:09:13Z | https://abc11.com/raleigh-police-department-community-de-escalation-policy-change-in/12097081/ | true |
Today will be rainy, with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning and both becoming likely by the afternoon, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington.
Some of the storms could bring damaging winds and heavy rain, which could damage trees, cause outages or cause local flooding.
Highs will be around 88 degrees, though high humidity will make it feel like it is 94 degrees outside.
The showers and thunderstorms will continue after night falls. Thunderstorms chances will dip soon after night, though showers will still be likely until the early hours of Friday morning.
Overnight lows will be around 72 degrees.
On Friday, showers will be likely again beginning shortly after sunrise and continuing into the evening before chances drop.
The NWS also said that thunderstorms are likely on Friday, which could bring heavy rain and local flooding.
On Friday night, there will be a chance of showers and thunderstorms that will fall to a slight chance after midnight.
Highs will be around 85 degrees and lows will be around 71 degrees.
On Saturday, there will be a chance of rain and thunderstorms for most of the day, before rain chances fall away shortly before nightfall. Clouds will gradually decrease during the day for mostly clear skies overnight.
Temperatures will be a little warmer on Saturday, with highs around 89 degrees and lows around 72 degrees.
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Toddler Isaac was the Beirut port explosion's youngest victim. His mother Sarah Copland is fighting to uncover the truth
By Andrew ThorpeWhen one-year-old Ethan Oehlers goes to bed, he says goodnight to his mum and dad. He also says goodnight to his older brother Isaac.
Ethan never met Isaac. But he recognises him from the photos that line the walls of his family home in Melbourne.
The boys' mum, Sarah Copland, says it's important to her and her husband that Ethan knows who Isaac is.
"You never stop being a parent. Isaac's just as much a part of our family now as when he was alive," she says.
A colossal tragedy in Beirut
Isaac was just two years old when he died in the Beirut port explosion of August 4, 2020.
A piece of glass pierced his heart as he sat in his high chair eating dinner that evening, in an apartment about 700 metres from the port.
He died in hospital several hours later from cardiac arrest and internal bleeding, making him the explosion's youngest victim.
The blast was the result of 2,750 tonnes of high-density ammonium nitrate — a chemical commonly used as fertiliser but with the potential to be used in high-grade explosives — igniting in a warehouse fire, sending a massive shock wave through the city and laying waste to nearby business and residential areas.
It was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, killing more than 200 people, injuring more than 7000, and leaving 300,000 people homeless.
Two years later, the exact cause of the fire is yet to be determined. What is known is that the ammonium nitrate was improperly stored in the poorly ventilated warehouse for years, the result of layers of bureaucracy and buck-passing between the government, security services and port officials.
A domestic inquiry into the explosion has been stalled since December, when it was suspended for the fourth time due to lawsuits filed against the investigating judge by two former government ministers implicated in its findings.
Charges of carelessness and negligence have been laid against a number of mostly low-level officials, but no convictions have yet been recorded, despite inquiries revealing those at the most senior levels of government knew about the chemicals being stored at the port, and had been repeatedly warned of the risk they posed.
The stalled process has left victims' families and survivors stuck in limbo as they wait for answers, the likelihood anyone will be held accountable seeming to diminish every day.
Fighting to keep up the pressure
A United Nations staffer, Ms Copland has taken it upon herself to fight for justice on behalf of Isaac and other victims of the explosion.
She's party to a lawsuit filed in Texas last month against a company which chartered the ship that originally brought the ammonium nitrate to Beirut in 2013. And she's pushing for the Australian government to lead the way in calling for an international investigation into the cause of the explosion.
She hopes international attention will at a minimum pressure the Lebanese government to allow the domestic investigation to resume, ideally with the help of an outside independent inquiry working alongside it to uncover the truth.
The previous Australian government gave little consideration to her calls for Australia to lead the way, she says, but she's hopeful the current government will be different.
When Labor was in opposition, Anthony Albanese and then-foreign affairs spokesperson Penny Wong issued a joint statement urging the government to "step up" to rally the international community on the issue, and Ms Copland says her local MP, Peter Khalil, has been supportive.
"I do think there is going to be more interest than I got from the previous government," she says.
"When Scott Morrison put out a statement last year he didn't even mention Isaac.
"But I'm not sure yet if more support will mean more behind-the-scenes manoeuvring or more overt support."
A Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesperson says Australia continues to support a full, credible and transparent investigation into the cause of the explosion.
"We strongly support those responsible being held to account and encourage the Lebanese government to resume the domestic investigation," the spokesperson says.
The Lebanese embassy in Australia has not responded to a request for comment.
Negligence a best-case scenario
Many serious questions remain unanswered about what took place in the lead-up to the explosion.
At minimum, the disaster was the result of years of negligence and stifling bureaucracy leading to the erosion of safety standards and unclear chains of responsibility.
Several different authorities with overlapping mandates share responsibility for administering the port, the result of power struggles as the government took control of the facility in 1990 following the Lebanese civil war.
It's a situation even the country's most senior politicians have admitted makes it a breeding ground for corruption.
The ammonium nitrate that ignited in 2020 was first brought to the port in November 2013, aboard a Moldovan-flagged ship called the Rhosus which had been told to make a last-minute stop in Beirut to pick up additional cargo on its way to Mozambique.
When the Rhosus proved physically unable to handle the additional cargo — heavy seismic survey equipment, including vehicles which required ramps the ship did not have — it docked in the port, where it was found to be unseaworthy and was impounded by Lebanese authorities due to outstanding debts.
The ship stayed in the port with the ammonium nitrate on board for almost a year, eventually being abandoned by the man listed as its owner. The company that originally ordered the ammonium nitrate made no attempt to claim it.
The ammonium nitrate was eventually offloaded in October 2014, following warnings from the ship's crew that it was not safe to be kept onboard. It then sat in a warehouse at the port for six years, with various government and port officials denying responsibility for it, and repeatedly petitioning a court to be allowed to sell or re-export it instead of properly securing it.
Separate investigations by international human rights organisation Human Rights Watch and investigative journalism consortium the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project have raised questions as to whether the Rhosus's explosive cargo was ever meant to be delivered to Mozambique, or whether Beirut, with its poor port security and the Syrian civil war raging next door, was in fact the intended destination.
Human Rights Watch cites possible links between the British shell company that owned the ammonium nitrate, Savaro Limited, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as well as confusion surrounding the ownership of the Rhosus and the circumstances of its arrival in Beirut, as being particularly suggestive of there being more than negligence at play.
Taking the fight to Texas
It's the circumstances surrounding the chartering of the Rhosus which have led to the filing of a $US250 million court case in Houston against TGS ASA, an American-Norwegian geophysical services group which now owns Spectrum Geo, the British company which attempted to charter the Rhosus in 2013.
The lawsuit alleges Spectrum knew the Rhosus was overloaded with ammonium nitrate when it requested the ship come to Beirut to take on the seismic survey equipment, a task it also knew the ship was unfit to perform.
The case was filed on July 11 on behalf of nine American victims of the blast, and is being backed by Accountability Now, a Swiss foundation that aims to support Lebanese civil society.
Zena Wakim, a lawyer for Accountability Now, says the evidence shows Spectrum's dealings with the Lebanese Ministry of Energy and Water were "not a normal contractual relationship", and there were numerous anomalies pointing to potential corruption, bribes and illegal profit-sharing with the government.
"That the Rhosus, a suspicious and inadequate vessel, carrying a cargo of explosive-grade ammonium nitrate, that had been used in the Syrian civil war raging next door, found itself docked in the Port of Beirut in November 2013 was neither coincidence nor happenstance," she says.
TGS ASA says it denies each and every allegation raised in the lawsuit and intends to defend the matter in court.
"The allegations in the lawsuit attempt to draw a connection between the incident in Beirut in 2020 to a survey conducted in Lebanon in 2013 by a subcontractor on behalf of Spectrum, which was acquired by TGS in 2019," a spokesperson said.
"Following the incident in 2020, there were inquiries about the survey conducted in 2013. At that time a comprehensive investigation was conducted, which confirmed that Spectrum acted diligently in its conduct of the survey and had no responsibility for the Beirut incident.
"We are confident that we will prevail in this matter."
Solidarity among the victims
Isaac Oehlers was a US citizen, allowing Sarah Copland to be a party to the suit on his behalf.
She says she's hopeful the court case will bring to light information that could assist the domestic inquiry into the explosion, or strengthen the case for an international inquiry if the domestic one remains stalled.
She also says any damages that might result from the case will be shared amongst all the victims of the blast, not just the US parties to the case.
"[The Lebanese victims] are facing such a dire economic situation at the moment," she says.
"No dollar amount can ever fix things or bring people back or make things better, but it could provide some relief so they can focus on their grief instead of just their survival."
Two years on from the blast, much of the area surrounding Beirut's port remains in a devastated condition, with damage going unrepaired.
A large segment of the tall grain silos located at the port collapsed on Sunday, sending a large cloud of dust and debris into the air and reminding nearby residents of the trauma of August 2020.
Ms Copland keeps in touch with some Beirut residents, a loose network of survivors and victims' families, who she had never met before the explosion.
When an advertisement was recently plastered over a wall in Beirut displaying photos of the blast victims, including Isaac, they put new pictures over the top, eventually succeeding in restoring the wall to its previous state.
"There's a dedicated group of people who are regularly protesting and helping people find justice. They take Isaac's picture to protests ... they always try to include Isaac, which is amazing," Ms Copland says.
"I was at the International Criminal Court for six months, and I've been at the UN now for seven years, so I'd experienced it from that side of things. But when you experience it from the victims' side, it's a whole different ball game."
But the ongoing battle to hold governments and institutions to account has taken a toll, and she and her husband are approaching the second anniversary of Isaac's death with a great deal of grief still to process.
"In some ways the second anniversary is harder than the first. I guess the further on in time you go, you realise 'This is the reality'," she says.
"There was an initial period, the first month after Isaac died, with the lockdowns — we were able to just focus on our grief and our trauma, but as time goes on, we're back at work, we have responsibilities ... it's harder to manage both the grief and the trauma.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
0-4-3, FIREBALL: 8
(zero, four, three; FIREBALL: eight)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
0-4-3, FIREBALL: 8
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Keno" game were:
04-12-13-16-20-24-28-33-37-44-47-48-57-58-62-65-72-76-79-80
(four, twelve, thirteen, sixteen, twenty, twenty-four, twenty-eight, thirty-three, thirty-seven, forty-four, forty-seven, forty-eight, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, sixty-two, sixty-five, seventy-two, seventy-six, seventy-nine, eighty) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-17350211.php | 2022-08-04T04:18:30Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-17350211.php | true |
NEW YORK (AP) — Even in hindsight, Nichole Schmidt can't be sure if anything could have been done to save her daughter Gabby Petito from a messy and violent relationship that ended in murder nearly a year ago in the western wilderness.
But there is work to do, she said, to keep alive the memory of her daughter, who was found strangled last September in the outskirts of Wyoming's Grand Tetons after a cross-country trip turned into a high-profile missing person's case, then into tragedy and grief.
Through a $100,000 donation from the Gabby Petito Foundation, Schmidt is now partnering with the National Domestic Violence Hotline to help others survive turbulent and violent relationships.
“I think Gabby’s story touched a lot of people and she’s saving lives. I get people messaging me all the time that they were inspired by her to get out of a relationship,” Schmidt said during an interview with The Associated Press.
The anti-violence hotline takes calls from thousands of people each year, most of them women looking for help leaving physically or emotionally abusive relationships.
To date this year, more than 440,000 callers have sought help from the hotline — up about a third from the same period last year.
The big increase in calls has led to a longer wait time for a counselor, going from 7 minutes to more than 17 minutes, according to Katie Ray-Jones, the hotline’s chief executive officer.
“That is a substantial increase really overwhelming our services,” Ray-Jones said. “We need to increase the number of advocates.”
The Petito Foundation's donation, as well as a $200,000 gift from another family, will go toward reducing wait times and expanding the hotline's “Hope Can't Wait” initiative.
Investigators believe Petito’s boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, killed her in late August last year while the couple were on a cross-country trip in a van.
Petito's disappearance launched a massive search. Amateur sleuths scoured social media for clues. It also again brought scrutiny of authorities and the news media, both of which have been criticized for focusing more attention on missing white women than on women of color.
“We were seeing a lot of media coverage about a young white woman who had gone missing,” Ray-Jones acknowledged during a joint interview with Schmidt. But she said public response came from diverse groups, including from some families of color.
Laundrie killed himself in a Florida swamp, leaving behind a notebook that authorities said contained a confession.
Earlier this year, an independent investigation found that police in Moab, Utah, made “several unintentional mistakes” when they came across Petito and Laundrie during a traffic stop last summer. Officers investigated a fight between the couple but ultimately let them go under the agreement they spend the night apart.
In the report, police said it was very likely that Petito “was a long-term victim of domestic violence, whether that be physically, mentally, and/or emotionally.”
Schmidt said she still has so many unanswered questions about what went wrong.
“Looking back, I didn't really see any signs. I think the only two people that will ever know what happened in that relationship was Gabby and Brian. And we can guess and we can make assumptions but we don't really know what happened,” she added. “Most likely the scenario ended that way because something was happening for a while.”
For now, she said, the work goes on to help others survive domestic violence.
“I know that I can use this tragedy to help save so many," Schmidt said. “It’s her legacy.”
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Waterman nets pivotal goal as Montreal defeats Crew 2-1
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Joel Waterman scored in the fourth minute of stoppage time and Montreal beat the Columbus Crew 2-1 on Wednesday night.
Montreal (12-8-3) tied it at 1 in the 88th minute on a goal from Kei Kamara.
Lucas Zelarrayan scored for the Crew (7-6-9) in the 14th minute.
Sebastian Breza saved two of the three shots he faced for Montreal. Eloy Room saved four of the six shots he faced for the Crew.
Both teams next play Saturday. Montreal hosts Inter Miami and the Crew play New York City FC.
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CF Montreal's Gabriele Corbo, top, heads the ball away from Columbus Crew's Derick Etienne during the second half of an MLS soccer match Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
Columbus Crew's Luis Diaz, left, tries to take a shot past CF Montreal's Mathieu Choiniere, center, and Joel Waterman during the second half of an MLS soccer match Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
Columbus Crew's Derick Etienne, right, dribbles the ball around CF Montreal's Gabriele Corbo during the second half of an MLS soccer match Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
Columbus Crew's Luis Diaz, left, passes the ball past CF Montreal's Mathieu Choiniere during the second half of an MLS soccer match Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
CF Montreal's Gabriele Corbo, front left, tries to steal the ball from Columbus Crew's Lucas Zelarayan during the second half of an MLS soccer match Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
Columbus Crew's Jonathan Mensah, right, tries to kick the ball past CF Montreal's Joaquin Torres during the first half of an MLS soccer match Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
Security staff stand on the field during a weather delay in the second half of the MLS soccer match between CF Montreal and the Columbus Crew on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
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Kansas conservatives look to November following amendment defeat
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Tuesday’s primary election was historic in terms of timing and turnout with nearly one million Kansans voting. Kansas was the first state to vote on abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The Value Them Both Amendment on Tuesday’s ballot had the backing of several groups, including the Kansas Republican Party. With voters in the state saying “no,” the conservative party is looking ahead.
“We had one of the largest turnouts in a primary election and this election was about the constitutional amendment, and we now know the result of that. And for the Republican Party, we are now looking (toward) the general election,” Former Kansas Republican Party Chairman Kelly Arnold said.
Arnold said with the primary election results in the rear-view mirror, the mindset of the Republican party hasn’t really changed.
“We’re going to keep our eye on the ball, talking about the issues that Kansans care about,” he said. “We’re going back to what people talk to us about, and that’s economy, businesses.”
Kris Kobach’s win in the Republican primary for Kansas attorney general is another storyline worth following for the GOP. Arnold said the Kobach’s victory wasn’t unexpected. He also said many Republicans have concerns about Kobach’s ability to win in a general election, going back to his loss to Laura Kelly in the 2018 Kansas governor’s race.
“So, the Republicans have some work to do. Kris Kobach as a lot of work to do to be able to secure the support of the Republican party base, our voters, and also the independents that will be voting in this election” Arnold said. Wichita State University Political Science Chair Dr. Neal Allen said Kansas Republicans will have to have some serious discussions about their relationship with the anti-abortion movement and other social issues. He also said with “Vote No” winning on Tuesday from the constitutional amendment question concerning abortion rights, this shouldn’t be seen as a victory for the Democratic party. And if voters had tied the “no” vote directly to the Democratic party, it probably would not have done as well.
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Today in History
Today is Thursday, Aug. 4, the 216th day of 2022. There are 149 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History
On Aug. 4, 1944, 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank was arrested with her sister, parents and four others by the Gestapo after hiding for two years inside a building in Amsterdam. (Anne and her sister, Margot, died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.)
On this date:
In 1790, the U.S. Coast Guard had its beginnings as President George Washington signed a measure authorizing a group of revenue cutters to enforce tariff and trade laws and prevent smuggling.
In 1830, plans for the city of Chicago were laid out.
In 1916, the United States reached agreement with Denmark to purchase the Danish Virgin Islands for $25 million.
In 1936, Jesse Owens of the United States won the second of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he prevailed in the long jump over German Luz Long, who was the first to congratulate him.
In 1964, the bodies of missing civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney were found buried in an earthen dam in Mississippi.
In 1972, Arthur Bremer was convicted and sentenced in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to 63 years in prison for his attempt on the life of Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace (the sentence was later reduced to 53 years; Bremer was released from prison in 2007).
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed a measure establishing the Department of Energy.
In 1987, the Federal Communications Commission voted 4-0 to abolish the Fairness Doctrine, which required radio and television stations to present balanced coverage of controversial issues.
In 1993, a federal judge sentenced Los Angeles police officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 2 1/2 years in prison for violating Rodney King’s civil rights.
In 2009, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il pardoned American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee for entering the country illegally and ordered their release during a surprise visit by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
In 2019, a masked gunman fired on revelers enjoying summer nightlife in a popular entertainment district of Dayton, Ohio, leaving nine people dead and 27 wounded; police said officers shot and killed the shooter within 30 seconds of the start of his rampage.
In 2020, nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been improperly stored for years in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded, killing more than 200 people, injuring more than 6,000 and devastating nearby neighborhoods; it was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever recorded.
Ten years ago: Michael Phelps won the 18th Olympic gold medal of his career as the United States won the medley relay at the London Games. The United States set a world record to win the women’s medley relay. Serena Williams beat Maria Sharapova 6-0, 6-1 to join Steffi Graf as the only women to complete the Golden Slam — winning the Olympics and the four majors. Three British athletes won gold medals in Olympic Stadium: Jessica Ennis in heptathlon; Greg Rutherford in men’s long jump; and Mo Farah in the men’s 10,000 meters.
Five years ago: Former pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli, who became notorious for a price-gouging scandal, was convicted on federal charges that he deceived investors in a pair of failed hedge funds. (Shkreli was sentenced months later to seven years in prison.) The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.3 percent, matching the 16-year low that had been recorded in May, as employers added 209,000 jobs.
One year ago: Sydney McLaughlin smashed the world record and Dalilah Muhammad broke it as well in an American 1-2 finish in the women’s 400 hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics. Andre De Grasse of Canada won the Olympic gold medal in the 200-meter race five years after finishing second to Usain Bolt in Rio; De Grasse won in a national record time of 19.62 seconds. Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who feared for her safety at home after criticizing her coaches on social media, flew into Warsaw on a humanitarian visa after leaving the Tokyo Olympics.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor-singer Tina Cole is 79. Actor-comedian Richard Belzer is 78. Football Hall of Famer John Riggins is 73. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is 67. Actor-screenwriter Billy Bob Thornton is 67. Actor Kym Karath (Film: “The Sound of Music”) is 64. Hall of Fame track star Mary Decker Slaney is 64. Actor Lauren Tom is 63. Former President Barack Obama is 61. Producer Michael Gelman (TV: “Live with Kelly & Ryan”) is 61. Retired MLB All-Star pitcher Roger Clemens is 60. Actor Crystal Chappell is 57. Author Dennis Lehane is 57. Rock musician Rob Cieka (Boo Radleys) is 54. Actor Daniel Dae Kim is 54. Actor Michael DeLuise is 53. Former race car driver Jeff Gordon is 51. Rapper-actor Yo-Yo is 51. R&B singer-actor Marques (MAR’-kus) Houston is 41. Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, the former actor Meghan Markle, is 41. Actor Abigail Spencer is 41. Actor/director Greta Gerwig is 39. Country singer Crystal Bowersox (TV: “American Idol”) is 37. Actors Dylan and Cole Sprouse are 30. Singer Jessica Sanchez (TV: “American Idol”) is 27. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Today-in-History-Aug-4-Anne-Frank-and-family-17327151.php | 2022-08-04T04:28:38Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Today-in-History-Aug-4-Anne-Frank-and-family-17327151.php | true |
Kashmir sees politics over Har Ghar Tiranga campaign
Politics over the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign is gaining momentum ahead of the 75th Independence Day celebrations in Kashmir, as the Lieutenant Governor’s administration has launched a campaign of unmatched scale in the Valley.
Also read: Comment | Har Ghar Tiranga — taking the National Flag into homes
Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to put the Tiranga as a display picture on social media, former Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti did change her display picture but only to put up the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir State’s flag. The law that granted a separate flag to Jammu and Kashmir was revoked along with other special status laws by the Centre on August 5, 2019.
“Changed my dp [display picture] since a flag is a matter of joy and pride. For us our state flag was irreversibly linked to the Indian flag. It was snatched thus breaking away the link. You may have robbed us of our flag but can’t erase it from our collective conscience,” Ms. Mufti said, in a tweet.
In the heart of the city, Sandeep Mawa, a Kashmiri Pandit leader heading the J&K Reconciliation Front, affixed the Tricolour on the gate of the Hurriyat office in Srinagar’s Rajbagh area. However, security personnel were rushed to the area after unknown persons removed the flags.
Special skits, street shows and rehearsals of the national anthem are being organised in schools, colleges and offices across the Valley.
The J&K Academy of Art Culture, and Languages (JKAACL), Department of Education and Directorate of Youth Services and Sports organised programmes for the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign, “which is symbolic of not only an act of personal connection to the Tiranga but also an embodiment of our commitment to nation-building”, a government spokesman said.
On the call of Mr. Modi, scores of top-ranking police officers, including Station House Officers, deputy commissioners changed their DPs to the Tiranga.
Officials said special instructions had been passed to make videos of the hoisting of the Tricolour on the government buildings and police stations in J&K for social media platforms.
Meanwhile, J&K Director General of Police Dilbag Singh reviewed the overall security scenario and arrangements regarding the celebration of forthcoming Independence Day and 10th Muharram-ul-Haram functions on Wednesday.
A police spokesman said the national campaign, Har Ghar Tiranga, was also discussed during the meeting.
Addressing the meeting, DGP Singh stressed to maintain extra vigil for the forthcoming 10th Muharram functions and Independence Day celebrations. He has directed for increased patrolling, area domination and search operation etc. “to ensure that anti-peace elements are not given any chance to create any disturbance”.
He stressed on maintaining alertness on the borders of the twin cities and on the national highway.
BJP general secretary in J&K and incharge Kashmir division Sunil Sharma said the Tiranga rallies organised by the party is a message to the two families that Kashmir is not their fiefdom, while referring to the Muftis and Abdullahs. “The people of Kashmir, whether they are young or old, are being patriotic,” he said.
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Calcium ions could be used as a greener, more efficient, and less expensive energy storage alternative to lithium-ions in batteries because of its abundance and low cost, according to a study. The researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the US noted that long-term use of lithium-ion batteries comes with issues such as scarcity, high prices, and safety concerns.
"The vast majority of rechargeable battery products are based on lithium-ion technology, which is the gold standard in terms of performance," said Nikhil Koratkar, a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
"However, the Achilles' heel for lithium-ion technology is cost. Lithium is a limited resource on the planet, and its price has increased drastically in recent years," said Koratkar, corresponding author of the study published recently in the journal PNAS.
The researchers are working on an inexpensive, abundant, safe, and sustainable battery chemistry that uses calcium ions in an aqueous, water-based electrolyte.
While the larger size and higher charge density of calcium ions relative to lithium impairs diffusion kinetics and cyclic stability, Koratkar and his team offer oxide structures containing big open spaces as a prospective solution.
In the study, the researchers demonstrated an aqueous calcium-ion battery using molybdenum vanadium oxide (MoVO) as a host for calcium ions.
"The calcium ion is divalent, and hence one ion insertion will deliver two electrons per ion during battery operation," Koratkar explained.
"This allows for a highly efficient battery with reduced mass and volume of calcium ions," he added.
However, the higher ionic charge and the larger size of calcium ions relative to lithium makes it very challenging to insert calcium ions into the battery electrodes, the researchers said.
They overcame this problem by developing a special class of materials called molybdenum vanadium oxides that contain large hexagonal and heptagonal shaped channels or tunnels that run through the material.
The team demonstrated that calcium ions can be rapidly inserted and extracted from the material, with these tunnels acting as "conduits" for reversible and fast ion transport.
The findings indicate that MoVO provides one of the best performances reported to date for the storage of calcium ions, the researchers said.
"Calcium-ion batteries might one day, in the not-so-distant future, replace lithium-ion technology as the battery chemistry of choice that powers our society," said Koratkar.
"This work can lead of a new class of high-performing calcium-based batteries that use Earth abundant and safe materials and are therefore affordable and sustainable," he added.
The company will stop producing Jazz after October 2022 while the crossover WR-V will not be produced beyond March 2023. The carmaker will also stop the production and sale of the 4th Generation Honda City by December 2022 in the country. However, the 5th generation of the sedan will continue to be available in the market, a source in the know of things told ETAuto.
The company will stop producing Jazz after October 2022 while the crossover WR-V will not be produced beyond March 2023. The carmaker will also stop the production and sale of the 4th Generation Honda City by December 2022 in the country. However, the 5th generation of the sedan will continue to be available in the market, a source in the know of things told ETAuto. | https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/auto-components/low-cost-sustainable-alternative-to-lithium-ion-batteries-found/93335935 | 2022-08-04T04:32:19Z | https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/auto-components/low-cost-sustainable-alternative-to-lithium-ion-batteries-found/93335935 | false |
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Replacement demand drives bus sales to growth track: VECV
The replacement demand has revived with the resumption of school, offices and intercity bus transport and tourism. Bus operators have started replacing their fleet after a gap of about two years.
New Delhi: New Delhi: After a long lull in sales of 18 months, the bus segment is seeing a strong comeback in the automotive sector on the back of strong replacement demand, Vinod Aggarwal, MD and CEO of VE Commercial Vehicles (VECV), said.
He further said that the replacement sales have been very low in the last two years due to wipeout of the seasonal demand from schools and corporate sector during the pandemic period. The crisis has affected all forms of intercity and intracity bus transport.
Underlining the positive sentiments in the market, Aggarwal said the industry has surpassed the overall sales of buses sold in the financial year (FY) 2021-2022 in April-July months of FY23. " The replacement demand already started coming in with the resumption of school, offices and intercity bus travel and tourism. Resultantly, the 5 tonne and above bus market has already sold 19,000 units in the first four months of this fiscal as bus operators are entering their replacement phase after a gap of almost two years," Aggarwal said on the sidelines of the launch of Volvo 9600 intercity luxury bus. Notably, the industry sold a total of 18,000 buses in the full FY22.
He further said that on an average the bus segment is witnessing a sale of 5,000 units per month this year and with easing out of COVID fear this segment will jump to 60,000 units by the end of FY23. "With the COVID wave abating in most parts of the country and states, we see a very positive outlook for the entire bus industry going forward. The industry is going to get back to normal in the coming months and will enter the growth cycle in a couple of years," Aggarwal added.
The overall size of the bus market used to be 70,000-80,000 units during the peak year of FY19. This crumbled to 11,000 units in FY21 during the first wave of the pandemic, Aggarwal said. VECV’s Eicher brand trucks and buses saw sales rising to 23,451 units during April-July this year, compared to 10,077 in corresponding period in 2021, up 132%.
With the recent launch of Volvo 9600 coach platform, Volvo Buses India, a division of VECV, is betting big on the intercity segment which constitutes 15-20% of the overall bus market. Manufactured at the company’s Hosakote plant in Karnataka, this bus range is available on the 15m and 13.5m configurations in sleeper and seater variants. The company is investing close to INR 500 crore annually in this plant where it manufactures premium buses and construction equipment.
When asked about the company's plans for the electric buses, Aggarwal said that in the absence of optimum infrastructure they are not planning to come up with electric drive-train options for this model. Though the company is considering the possibility of launching this model on CNG and LNG, he added.
The company will stop producing Jazz after October 2022 while the crossover WR-V will not be produced beyond March 2023. The carmaker will also stop the production and sale of the 4th Generation Honda City by December 2022 in the country. However, the 5th generation of the sedan will continue to be available in the market, a source in the know of things told ETAuto.
The company will stop producing Jazz after October 2022 while the crossover WR-V will not be produced beyond March 2023. The carmaker will also stop the production and sale of the 4th Generation Honda City by December 2022 in the country. However, the 5th generation of the sedan will continue to be available in the market, a source in the know of things told ETAuto. | https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/commercial-vehicle/mhcv/replacement-demand-drives-bus-sales-to-growth-track-vecv/93335043 | 2022-08-04T04:32:32Z | https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/commercial-vehicle/mhcv/replacement-demand-drives-bus-sales-to-growth-track-vecv/93335043 | true |
Parkland jurors hear 3rd day of heartbreaking testimony
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A Girl Scout and avid reader. A trombone player who loved movies and basketball. A straight-A student who loved Irish dance and was looking forward to a trip to Ireland.
Jurors in the trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz heard tearful statements Wednesday from three families whose children were among the 17 he murdered at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. It was the third straight day of such testimony — but it didn’t make it any easier to hear as once again jurors, spectators and even Cruz’s lawyers wiped away tears.
Fourteen families have now given statements, with the final three set for Thursday after the jury tours the three-story classroom building where the massacre took place.
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to the murders; the trial, in its third week, is only to decide if he will be sentenced to death or life without parole.
Tony and Jennifer Montalto told the seven-man, five-woman jury and 10 alternates how their daughter Gina had saved a toddler from drowning when she was 10, and described the turtle figurine the child’s grateful mother gave her. It still decorates her now unused room.
Gina, who was 14 when she died, had an infectious personality, they said, and was an avid reader.
“She once told me she wanted to live in a library,” her mother said. The children’s wing at the Parkland library is now named for her.
Her father, wearing the same suit he wore to their last father-daughter dance, said her death has driven a wedge between him and his wife and left her younger brother angry.
“Gina was our best girl and Anthony our best boy,’’ he said. “My son struggles to make sense of Gina’s death at her school.”
They used to play together “filling our house with laughter,” he said. “Now there is deafening silence.”
Max Schachter spoke of his son, Alex, who was a dedicated trombone player in the school band. The 14-year-old also loved movies and played guard on a basketball team.
“Our family is broken. There is a constant emptiness,” his father said, adding that there is a part of him that will “always be sad and miserable.”
He said the family is haunted by the fact that they will never know whether Alex would have gone to his dream school, the University of Connecticut, or stayed closer to home.
“It’s an ache that is just constant,” he said. “I wish every single day that this was a nightmare that I could wake up from.”
He said that at 5 a.m. on the day of Alex’s funeral, he and Alex’s older brother, Ryan, were struggling to finish his eulogy when Ryan suggested looking in Alex’s bedroom trash can. There they found a poem titled “Life is like a Roller-coaster,” which Alex had written for his English class. Ryan read it for the jury.
Isabel Dalu, a friend who spoke on behalf of the family of shooting victim Cara Loughran, said Cara always reminded her of a “porcelain doll.” She made straight A’s, loved the beach and to surf. She also was looking forward to a vacation in Ireland the family had planned for the summer of 2018, Dalu said.
“Losing Cara has left a crushing absence in their lives,” Dalu said.
Dalu’s daughter was Cara’s “first friend and the big sister she didn’t have,” she said. The two loved Irish dancing, and Cara was looking forward to performing at the St. Patrick’s Day festival, she said.
Dalu said her own daughter still does Irish dance “to continue Cara’s legacy.”
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This story has been edited to correct the name of a shooting victim’s mother to Jennifer Montalto, not Gina.
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Before next school year, public schools report the need to hire three teachers, on average, with special education vacancies among the most prevalent for all school levels
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Public school leaders estimated that half of their students (50 percent) began the 2021-22 school year behind grade level in at least one academic subject, according to data released today by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center of the U.S. Department of Education. Of schools that reported having students behind grade level in at least one academic subject, 64 percent believed that the COVID-19 pandemic played a major role in students beginning this school year behind grade level.
"Over the course of the 2021-22 school year, public schools reported a 14-point reduction in the percentage of students behind grade level in at least one subject," said NCES Commissioner Peggy G. Carr. "We will learn more about student achievement and learning experiences in schools with our next release of results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) later this year."
More than 98 percent of public schools employed strategies to support pandemic-related learning recovery during the 2021-22 school year. The most common types of additional instruction enacted to support learning recovery were remedial instruction (72 percent) and high-dosage tutoring (56 percent). More than three-quarters of public K-12 schools (79 percent) used diagnostic assessments, followed by formative assessments (76 percent). Of the peripheral supports offered by schools, the most common addressed students' mental health and trauma (72 percent).
Public schools continue to support learning recovery this summer, with 75 percent offering learning and enrichment programs run by the school or district and 70 percent offering summer school, among other traditional summer program offerings. Around one-third of public schools offering these programs reported increasing the amount of summer programming they offered specifically to support pandemic-related learning recovery.
As of June, the average public school has three teaching positions to fill for the upcoming 2022-23 school year. In elementary schools, general elementary openings are the most prevalent, with 51 percent of schools reporting a vacancy in this area. For middle and high schools, special education openings were the most prevalent, with 54 and 51 percent of schools reporting a vacancy in this area, respectively.
"In January 2022, public schools identified special education as the teaching position with the most vacancies," said Mark Schneider, IES Director. "The data released today suggest that filling special education openings will continue to be an area of concern at the start of the 2022-23 school year."
The findings released today are part of the seventh monthly experimental data product from the School Pulse Panel. The June data were collected from 859 participating schools between June 14 and June 28, 2022.
The School Pulse Panel is part of NCES's innovative approach to delivering timely information regarding the pandemic's impact on public K-12 schools in the U.S. The June survey provides data focused on learning recovery, summer learning, staff vacancies, learning modes offered by schools, and student and staff quarantine prevalence, as reported by school staff in U.S. public schools.
Experimental data products are innovative statistical products created using new data sources or methodologies. Experimental data may not meet all NCES quality standards but are of sufficient benefit to data users in the absence of other relevant products to justify release. NCES clearly identifies experimental data products upon their release.
The August data collection will focus on a review of the hiring process that occurred this summer, after-school program offerings for the 2022-23 school year, and services provided in community school/wraparound service models.
The data released today can be found at the COVID-19 dashboard at https://ies.ed.gov/schoolsurvey/.
- Public school leaders estimated that nearly half of their students (50 percent) began the 2021-22 school year behind grade level in at least one academic subject, which is 14 points higher than the percentage of students they estimated to be behind grade level in at least one academic subject at the beginning of a typical school year before the pandemic began (36 percent).
- Public school leaders estimated that just over one-third of their students (36 percent) ended the 2021-22 school year behind grade level in at least one academic subject.
- Public schools enacted a variety of strategies to support pandemic-related learning recovery for their students this year, including additional instruction, assessments, and peripheral supports.
- This summer, the most prevalent types of summer programming in public schools are learning and enrichment programs run by the school or district (75 percent) and summer school (70 percent). Additionally, public schools are offering learning and enrichment programs run by a partner organization (49 percent) and bridge programs (34 percent).
- On average, public schools reported having three teacher vacancies for the upcoming 2022-23 school year.
- For elementary schools, school leaders anticipate that special education and ESL/bilingual education teachers will be the most difficult positions to fill, with 49 percent of schools and 42 percent of schools reporting it will be 'very difficult' to hire fully certified teachers in these areas, respectively.
- For middle schools, school leaders also anticipate that biology or life sciences and special education teachers will be the most difficult positions to fill, with 57 percent reporting it will be 'very difficult' to hire fully certified teachers in both areas, respectively.
- For high schools, school leaders anticipate that physical sciences and math teachers will be the most difficult positions to fill, with 60 percent and 58 percent reporting it will be 'very difficult' to hire fully certified teachers in these areas, respectively.
- Across all school levels, the most prevalent non-teaching staff positions that need to be filled are custodial staff (32 percent), transportation staff (29 percent) and mental health professionals (19 percent).
Learning Modes, Mitigation Strategies and Quarantine Prevalence
- At the end of the 2021-22 school year, 15 percent of public schools required students and staff to wear masks while inside the school. This is down from March 2022, when 22 percent of public schools required students and 23 percent required staff to wear masks. This is also a large decline from January 2022, when 73 percent of public schools required students and 77 percent required staff to wear masks.
- Schools continued to provide on-site COVID-19 testing for students (43 percent) and staff (51 percent) at the end of the 2021-22 school year. Sixteen percent of schools required daily symptom screening for students and 20 percent for staff at the end of the school year, compared to 22 percent of schools requiring daily symptom screening for students and 25 percent requiring daily symptom screening for staff in February 2022.
- Thirty-four percent of public schools reported using Test to Stay (TTS) at the end of the 2021-22 school year, up from the 26 percent of public schools that reported using TTS in February 2022.
- Comparing learning mode offerings at the end of the 2020-21 school year and the end of the 2021-22 school year:
- The percentage of public schools that reported having to quarantine students in June was 34 percent, a decline from the 47 percent that reporting having to quarantine students in May. Similarly, 24 percent of public schools required staff to quarantine in June, down from 35 percent in May.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, is the statistical center of the U.S. Department of Education and the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations. NCES, located within the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), fulfills a congressional mandate to collect, collate, analyze, and report complete statistics on the condition of American education; conduct and publish reports; and review and report on education activities internationally. Follow NCES on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube and subscribe to the NCES News Flash to receive email notifications when new data is released.
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Over the next two weekends, Center Stage Theatre will perform “Rent” on an outdoor stage at the Midland Center for the Arts.
The rock musical's show times are at 8 p.m. Aug. 4-6 and Aug.11-12.
Actors will take audiences through “a year in the life” of artists struggling in New York from 1989-1990. While navigating relationships, finding themselves and building their careers, the group is also dealing with the effects of the AIDS epidemic on their community.
The leading pair said the main messages of the show are to love, understand and support one another.
“None of these characters would be where they are without the support of their friends,” said Connor Wieland, who plays the character of Mark. “It’s all about holding your loved ones close and really cherishing those connections.”
Mark is a documentary filmmaker who captures the life of his group of friends on film as they go through different transformations.
“He's always present, he's always watching,” Wieland said about his character.
Visit the Midland Center for the Arts website for more information about tickets.
He said the actors worked with a dramaturg, whose responsibility was to analyze the knowledge and history behind the scripts, making sure the production stayed true to the time period.
“(The dramaturg) provided us with a massive packet of definitions, of treatment options for HIV (and) AIDS at the time,” Wieland said. “(She) gave us a really deep dive into what life was like back then, and (what it was like) to have to go through this.”
Megan Meyer plays Maureen, a performance artist whom the actress describes as “flamboyant” and “flashy.”
“There's so many references that you probably wouldn't know unless you really looked them up, unless you're living in New York City during the 80s,” Meyer said. “They do mention old clubs that were popular for the gay community that are no longer around.”
As a thespian with 25 years of experience on stage, this is Meyer’s second time playing the role of Maureen: And she is not the only one with "Rent" experience.
Director Chad William-Baker led another production of "Rent" in 2016. This time, Baker said he is taking less inspiration from the Broadway production, and instead collaborating with the cast to create a fresh version of the show.
“This show bonds people together really quickly,” he said. “There were some really tough casting decisions, but I think watching the chemistry between people was really key for this.”
The production team aimed to keep the set minimal by using staircases and scaffolding to mimic New York's industrial urban environment.
“I think that evoked a lot of locations in New York City, which is where the show sort of moves very quickly through each place,” William-Baker said.
While he has never before directed a show outside, William-Baker said the elements add a sort of “roughness” that is authentic to "Rent." If there is rain in the forecast during one of the showtimes, the production team has reserved Sunday evening as a “rain date” for contingencies.
Meyer encourages people to come see the show, which she said is emotionally moving but also highlights the joyful moments.
“Come to laugh, come to cry, come to rock out,” Meyer said. “They're going to get everything here at 'Rent.' They're going to get adult content, but they're also going to get real moments that they probably don't know they need.”
There will also be free pre-show discussions on Saturday, Aug. 6 and Thursday, Aug. 11 at 7 p.m.. In these discussions, the director and actors, along with individuals from Shelterhouse and Gays, Lesbians and Allys at Dow (GLAD), will talk with one another about the topics covered in the musical. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Come-to-laugh-come-to-cry-come-to-rock-17349193.php | 2022-08-04T04:58:05Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Come-to-laugh-come-to-cry-come-to-rock-17349193.php | false |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
0-4-3, FIREBALL: 8
(zero, four, three; FIREBALL: eight)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
0-4-3, FIREBALL: 8
(zero, four, three; FIREBALL: eight) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17350222.php | 2022-08-04T04:58:07Z | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17350222.php | false |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
0-4-3, FIREBALL: 8
(zero, four, three; FIREBALL: eight)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
0-4-3, FIREBALL: 8
(zero, four, three; FIREBALL: eight) | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17350222.php | 2022-08-04T04:59:31Z | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17350222.php | false |
NEW YORK (AP) — The virtual cat hero from the new video game sensation “Stray” doesn't just wind along rusted pipes, leap over unidentified sludge and decode clues in a seemingly abandoned city. The daring orange tabby is helping real world cats as well.
Thanks to online fundraising platforms, gamers are playing “Stray" while streaming live for audiences to raise money for animal shelters and other cat-related charities. Annapurna Interactive, the game's publisher, also promoted “Stray” by offering two cat rescue and adoption agencies copies of the game to raffle off and renting out a New York cat cafe.
Livestreaming game play for charity isn't new, but the resonance “Stray” quickly found from cat lovers is unusual. It was the fourth most watched and broadcast game on the day it launched on Twitch, the streaming platform said.
Viewers watch as players navigate the adventurous feline through an aging industrial landscape doing normal cat stuff — balancing on railings, walking on keyboards and knocking things off shelves — to solve puzzles and evade enemies.
About 80% of the game’s development team are “cat owners and cat lovers” and a real-life orange stray as well as their own cats helped inspire the game, one creator said.
“I certainly hope that maybe some people will be inspired to help actual strays in real life — knowing that having an animal and a companion is a responsibility,” said producer Swann Martin-Raget, of the BlueTwelve gaming studio in Montpellier, in southern France.
When Annapurna Interactive reached out to the Nebraska Humane Society to partner before the game's launch on July 19, they jumped at the chance, marketing specialist Brendan Gepson said.
“The whole game and the whole culture around the game, it’s all about a love of cats,” Gepson said. “It meshed really well with the shelter and our mission.”
The shelter got four copies of the game to give away and solicited donations for $5 to be entered into a raffle to win one. In a week, they raised $7,000, Gepson said, with the vast majority of the 550 donors being new to them, including people donating from Germany and Malta. The company also donated $1,035 to the shelter.
“It was really mutually beneficial,” Gepson said. ”They got some really good PR out of it and we got a whole new donor base out of it.”
Annapurna also bought out Meow Parlour, the New York cat cafe and adoption agency, for a weekend, as well as donating $1,000. Visitors who made reservations could buy "Stray" themed merchandise and play the game for 20 minutes while surrounded by cats. (The game also captivates cats, videos on social media show.)
Jeff Legaspi, Annapurna Interactive’s marketing director, said it made sense for the game's launch to do something "positively impactful and hopefully bring more awareness to adopting and not shopping for a new pet.”
Annapurna declined to disclose sales or download figures for the game, which is available on PlayStation and the Steam platform. However, according to Steam monitor SteamDB, "Stray" has been the No. 1 purchased game for the past two weeks.
North Shore Animal League America, which rescues tens of thousands of animals each year, said it hadn't seen any increase in traffic from the game but they did receive more than $800 thanks to a gamer.
In a happy coincidence, the shelter had just set up a profile on the platform Tiltify, which allows nonprofits to receive donations from video streams, the week the game launched. The player channeled donations to the shelter, smashing her initial goal of $200.
“We are seeing Tiltify and livestreaming as this whole new way for us to engage a whole different audience,” said Carol Marchesano, the rescue's senior digital marketing director. Usually, though, organizations need to reach out to online personalities to coordinate livestreams, which can take a lot of work, she said.
About nine campaigns on Tiltify mention the game “Stray,” the company’s CEO Michael Wasserman said. JustGiving, which also facilitates charity livestreams, said it identified two campaigns with the game.
For his part, Gepson from Nebraska reached out to an Omaha resident who goes by the name TreyDay1014 online to run a charity livestream. Trey, who asked that his last name not be used, has two cats, one of which he adopted from the shelter.
Last week, he narrated to viewers watching live on the platform Twitch as his cat character batted another cat's tail and danced along railings.
“If I found out my cat was outside doing this, I’d be upset,” Trey said, as his character jumped across a perilous distance. Moments later, a rusty pipe broke, sending the tabby down a gut-wrenching plunge into the darkness.
“That is a poor baby,” Trey said somberly, “but we are okay.”
A $25 donation followed the fall, pushing the amount raised by Trey for the Nebraska shelter to over $100 in about 30 minutes. By the end of four and a half hours of play, donations totaled $1,500. His goal had been to raise $200.
“This has opened my eyes to being able to use this platform for a lot more good than just playing video games,” Trey said.
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A retired ISS commander weighs in on Russia's decision to leave
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Terry Virts, retired NASA astronaut and commander of the International Space Station, about Russia's decision to leave the ISS after 2024.
AILSA CHANG, HOST:
In 1975, a handshake in space kicked off an era of cooperation between unlikely partners.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
ALEXEI LEONOV: We are looking forward now to shaking hands with you aboard Soyuz.
CHANG: That's a Soviet cosmonaut greeting American astronauts on the Apollo-Soyuz mission, when spacecraft from the Soviet Union and the U.S. docked in orbit. Decades later, the U.S. and Russia jointly built the International Space Station, an enduring symbol of global scientific collaboration in space. And now that long partnership may be coming to an end. Russia announced last week that it is planning to quit the program after 2024.
Retired Air Force Colonel and NASA astronaut Terry Virts has commanded the ISS and spent over seven months in space. He joins us now. Welcome.
TERRY VIRTS: Thanks so much for having me, Ailsa.
CHANG: Well, thanks for being with us. First, can I just ask you, what was it like working with Russian cosmonauts during your time on the ISS?
VIRTS: You know, it was one of the highlights of my time in space. I tried to really have us be one crew. I didn't want the American segment and the Russian segment and not to see each other. So at night, I would take my dinner, put it in a Ziploc bag and float down the Russian segment.
CHANG: (Laughter).
VIRTS: And we had a great time. We listened to the radio. They told jokes. They taught me a lot of Russian words that I didn't learn in class.
CHANG: Uh-huh (laughter).
VIRTS: They called it the cultural program. And, you know, I've maintained a friendship with them. And it was - probably my proudest accomplishment at NASA was keeping that crew together during 2015, when we were in space during Crimea and the civil war and the sanctions and everything.
CHANG: You mention Crimea. Did that conflict in any way affect your relationship with your Russian crewmates?
VIRTS: You know, we would acknowledge it when we would finish a training program. And the Russians kind of do things right. They would have a toasting session after the training was finished. But we would say, look; politics is politics. We're going to just focus on our mission. There was a lot of angst and conflict between America and Russia, and yet the space station was the one place - it was the one and only place - you could count on one finger the number of good international relations between the West and Russia, and that was the space station.
CHANG: Wow. The space station was literally above the fray.
VIRTS: Literally and figuratively.
CHANG: I understand that the space station was designed specifically to be interdependent on each country's components. Like, the satellite needs Russian rockets. So how will Russia's departure affect operations, you think?
VIRTS: Well, you just - now that the one requirement of the space station is to have the Russian rockets, we decided 20 years ago to cancel our own propulsion module. And so the only real significant rockets right now - we could build some, I think, pretty quickly. But right now, we're dependent on the Russian rockets to maintain the station's orbit. And in the opening line, you said, a Russian official recently announced. And I think that's the key to this whole discussion because Russian officials announce things all the time, and most of the time they're lying. Most of the time they change their mind.
CHANG: Oh, so you're still not sure that Russia will, indeed, leave the ISS?
VIRTS: I have colleagues who have said, hey, don't worry (laughter). So I don't know what's going to happen. I do know that you can't trust anything that comes from Russian officials. You know, they said they weren't going to invade Ukraine. They said they wouldn't kill civilians in Ukraine. And yet they've done these things.
CHANG: Right. What's Russia's next move in space, you think?
VIRTS: They just don't have a lot of options. Either they kind of put their tail between their legs and say, we didn't really mean that. What we meant was blah, blah, blah, and they'll kind of just try and stay on the ISS. If they leave the ISS, either they build their own space station - but I don't think that's going to happen; they just won't get that done - or they partner with the Chinese. And a Russian-Chinese partnership is going to be a much, much different dynamic. The Chinese are going to be the boss in that partnership.
You know, we've had a great partnership with Russia. We've treated them with respect. It's been an equal marriage. And that's not going to be the case with China. They're gonna - their eyes are gonna be opened when they have to deal with the Chinese. So they're in a corner.
CHANG: Yeah. It sounds like you think collaboration in space - or the opportunity for collaboration in space - is a powerful diplomatic tool.
VIRTS: I would love to continue cooperating with the Russians. I have a lot of great friends in the Russian space program. But I think for that to happen, they need to leave Ukraine and pay for the damage they've done in Ukraine. What we're doing right now by actively engaging with the Russians in space exploration, it's the equivalent of, let's have an expedition to the Arctic in 1941 with Germany. And I don't think that's good. Look, we don't allow the Chinese on the space station because of their egregious human rights record, and I don't know why we're promoting and growing our cooperation with Putin when he's starting war in Europe.
CHANG: Retired Air Force Colonel and NASA astronaut Terry Virts - thank you very much for your time today.
VIRTS: Thanks for having me on.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Even in hindsight, Nichole Schmidt can't be sure if anything could have been done to save her daughter Gabby Petito from a messy and violent relationship that ended in murder nearly a year ago in the western wilderness.
But there is work to do, she said, to keep alive the memory of her daughter, who was found strangled last September in the outskirts of Wyoming's Grand Tetons after a cross-country trip turned into a high-profile missing person's case, then into tragedy and grief.
Through a $100,000 donation from the Gabby Petito Foundation, Schmidt is now partnering with the National Domestic Violence Hotline to help others survive turbulent and violent relationships.
“I think Gabby’s story touched a lot of people and she’s saving lives. I get people messaging me all the time that they were inspired by her to get out of a relationship,” Schmidt said during an interview with The Associated Press.
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The anti-violence hotline takes calls from thousands of people each year, most of them women looking for help leaving physically or emotionally abusive relationships.
To date this year, more than 440,000 callers have sought help from the hotline — up about a third from the same period last year.
The big increase in calls has led to a longer wait time for a counselor, going from 7 minutes to more than 17 minutes, according to Katie Ray-Jones, the hotline’s chief executive officer.
“That is a substantial increase really overwhelming our services,” Ray-Jones said. “We need to increase the number of advocates.”
The Petito Foundation's donation, as well as a $200,000 gift from another family, will go toward reducing wait times and expanding the hotline's “Hope Can't Wait” initiative.
Investigators believe Petito’s boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, killed her in late August last year while the couple were on a cross-country trip in a van.
Petito's disappearance launched a massive search. Amateur sleuths scoured social media for clues. It also again brought scrutiny of authorities and the news media, both of which have been criticized for focusing more attention on missing white women than on women of color.
“We were seeing a lot of media coverage about a young white woman who had gone missing,” Ray-Jones acknowledged during a joint interview with Schmidt. But she said public response came from diverse groups, including from some families of color.
Laundrie killed himself in a Florida swamp, leaving behind a notebook that authorities said contained a confession.
Earlier this year, an independent investigation found that police in Moab, Utah, made “several unintentional mistakes” when they came across Petito and Laundrie during a traffic stop last summer. Officers investigated a fight between the couple but ultimately let them go under the agreement they spend the night apart.
In the report, police said it was very likely that Petito “was a long-term victim of domestic violence, whether that be physically, mentally, and/or emotionally.”
Schmidt said she still has so many unanswered questions about what went wrong.
“Looking back, I didn't really see any signs. I think the only two people that will ever know what happened in that relationship was Gabby and Brian. And we can guess and we can make assumptions but we don't really know what happened,” she added. “Most likely the scenario ended that way because something was happening for a while.”
For now, she said, the work goes on to help others survive domestic violence.
“I know that I can use this tragedy to help save so many," Schmidt said. “It’s her legacy.” | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/gabby-petitos-legacy-100k-gift-to-domestic-abuse-hotline/article_5cb90880-dc98-5d5b-848d-e2e4c126f1c8.html | 2022-08-04T05:07:03Z | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/gabby-petitos-legacy-100k-gift-to-domestic-abuse-hotline/article_5cb90880-dc98-5d5b-848d-e2e4c126f1c8.html | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski was killed Wednesday in a car accident in her northern Indiana District, according to her office.
“Jackie’s husband, was just informed by the Elkhart County Sheriff’s office that Jackie was killed in a car accident this afternoon. She has returned home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Please keep her family in your thoughts and prayers. We will have no further comment at this time,” her office said in a statement.
Walorksi, who served on the House Ways and Means Committee, was first elected to represent Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District in 2012. She previously served three terms in the state’s legislature.
Walorski, 58, was born in South Bend and lived near Elkhart, Indiana. She and her husband were previously missionaries in Romania, where they established a foundation that provided food and medical supplies to impoverished children. She worked as a television news reporter in South Bend before her turn to politics. | https://www.localsyr.com/local-news/indiana-rep-walorski-killed-in-car-crash-her-office-says/ | 2022-08-04T05:07:17Z | https://www.localsyr.com/local-news/indiana-rep-walorski-killed-in-car-crash-her-office-says/ | false |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal oversight board ordered the United Mine Workers of America to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an Alabama coal company where members have been on strike for more than a year, a ruling the union said Wednesday it would challenge.
The National Labor Relations Board said Warrior Met Coal Mining was due some $13.3 million for costs including increased security, damage repair and lost revenues from unmined coal, and individuals were due almost $30,000, mostly for damage to vehicles. Both amounts included interest.
The union, with roughly 1,100 members who went on strike against the Alabama-based company on April 1, 2021, called the NLRB assessment an “outrageous” decision that it planned to fight.
“Is it now the policy of the federal government that unions be required to pay a company’s losses as a consequence of their members exercising their rights as working people? This is outrageous and effectively negates workers’ right to strike. It cannot stand,” international union president Cecil E. Roberts said in a statement.
A company representative did not immediately return an email seeking comment. The NLRB, which is handling charges related to both the company and the union, issued the order on July 22.
The union and company signed an agreement providing that the union pay damages for “strike misconduct,” and the board approved it, spokeswoman Kayla Blado said. The agency is currently assessing the cost, she said.
“If there is not agreement with the region’s ultimate conclusion, the region will commence a proceeding before an administrative law judge where the parties can present arguments and evidence about what each considers to be appropriate damages,” she said in a statement.
Both the union and Warrior Met have blamed each other for the prolonged strike, which centers on the company’s mining operations southwest of Birmingham. The two sides have talked as recently as last week, a union spokesman said.
The union is striking at Warrior Met’s No. 4 and No. 7 mines, a preparation plant and a central shop, all in Tuscaloosa County. The union and Warrior Met reached an agreement to end the walkout a few days after it began, but members rebuffed the settlement.
United Mine Workers has said union members gave up money to bring the company out of the Walter Energy bankruptcy six years ago, and workers have sought improved health benefits. Warrior Met contends it offered workers a competitive package that would protect jobs and the company’s future.
In May, Warrior Met reported net income of $146.2 million in the first quarter compared with a loss of $21.4 million for the same period last year. The company said the strike cost it $6.7 million for the quarter because of security and other expenses, and having the mines idle cost $3 million.
Warrior Met said it produced 1.5 million short tons of coal in the first quarter compared with 2.2 million short tons in the first quarter last year. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/business/ap-business/nlrb-orders-mine-workers-union-to-pay-coal-company-over-13m/ | 2022-08-04T05:08:39Z | https://www.localsyr.com/news/business/ap-business/nlrb-orders-mine-workers-union-to-pay-coal-company-over-13m/ | false |
MOSCOW (AP) — A massive fire engulfed a warehouse outside Moscow on Wednesday, killing at least one person, injuring 13 others and leaving two missing, officials said.
The fire, at a warehouse belonging to Russia’s leading online retailer, Ozon, affected an area of 50,000 square meters (540,000 square feet).
Emergencies officials said that one person died in the fire, and Moscow region Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said that two people are unaccounted-for. Officials said that two of the injured were hospitalized.
Huge plumes of black smoke rose into the skies over the area near the town of Istra northwest of Moscow.
Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said 150 firefighters and three fire helicopters were involved in efforts to extinguish the blaze.
The authorities haven’t said what triggered the fire, but RIA-Novosti news agency reported that investigators were looking at arson as the most likely cause. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/large-fire-erupts-at-warehouse-outside-moscow-11-injured/ | 2022-08-04T05:10:01Z | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/large-fire-erupts-at-warehouse-outside-moscow-11-injured/ | true |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republicans on Thursday will settle a nine-way primary in a reconfigured congressional district in Nashville they are hoping to flip, while Democrats will choose their nominee for governor in what could be a history-making bid to topple the GOP incumbent.
Two of three Democratic candidates for governor would be the state’s first Black Democratic nominee for that office; the third is a physician running for political office for the first time, spurred by Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s hands-off response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lee is running unopposed and would have a strong advantage in a general election in a state that has not elected a Democrat to statewide office since 2006.
Redrawn congressional districts helped put Tennessee among the states where Republicans hope to flip a seat in a push to reclaim control of the U.S. House, providing the main drama in Tennessee’s Thursday primaries. Tennessee holds the only statewide elections nationally that day.
Nashville’s 5th Congressional District drew heavy interest from Republicans after GOP state lawmakers carved Democratic-tilted Nashville into three districts, favoring their party in each seat. The longtime incumbent in the 5th District, Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, decided to retire, saying there was “no way” he could win reelection under the new redistricting maps. The new district favored Republican Donald Trump over Democrat Joe Biden by 12 percentage points in 2020.
In the other two Nashville-area districts, the Republican incumbents don’t have primary opponents. The new maps weight their districts in their favor.
In the 5th, state Sen. Heidi Campbell has no opponent in her Democratic primary and will take on the Republican winner in November. Two Democrats face off in the new 6th District, which includes more of Nashville, where Republican U.S. Rep. John Rose has a huge fundraising edge.
There is also a full slate of state legislative primary races. Additionally, Thursday is general election night for many local contests. The highlight of those is in Shelby County — which encompasses Memphis — where Republican District Attorney Amy Weirich faces a challenge from Democratic civil rights lawyer Steven Mulroy.
At least in Nashville, anyone who turns on a TV is more likely to see ads for a Republican running for the 5th Congressional District than a candidate for anything else.
Competing TV attacks — mostly run by generically named outside groups with mega-wealthy donors — are trying to sow doubt about the conservative resumes of the three top fundraising Republican candidates: former Tennessee House Speaker Beth Harwell, retired Tennessee National Guard Brig. Gen. Kurt Winstead and Maury County Mayor Andy Ogles.
Fellow GOP candidate Jeff Beierlein, who flew Blackhawk helicopters in the Army, bought TV ad time to decry the mudslinging. Other candidates in the race are Geni Batchelor, a retired small-business owner; former state legislative staffer Tres Wittum; Natisha Brooks, who runs a home-school academy; Timothy Lee, a paramedic; and Stewart Parks, a real estate businessman.
The election marks the first time voters get a say over a seat that had been subject to months of Republican political brokering.
Political infighting over the carefully crafted district — it meanders through six counties — led the state Republican Party to boot three candidates off the ballot, including Trump’s pick, former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus. One of the booted candidates, video producer Robby Starbuck, is attempting a write-in campaign.
The governor, meanwhile, can relax on primary night. He avoided a Republican challenge. The last governor to enjoy an unopposed primary was Democratic Gov. Ned McWherter in 1990, said Tennessee legislative historian Eddie Weeks.
Democrats will be sorting out who will face Lee in November. Memphis City Councilmember JB Smiley Jr. or Memphis community advocate Carnita Atwater would be the first Black Democratic nominee for governor in the state’s history. Critical-care physician Jason Martin, who lives in Nashville, joined the race as a prominent critic of Lee’s pandemic response. Martin has decidedly outraised and outspent the next-highest fundraiser, Smiley.
Weeks said he could not find an African American nominee for governor, Democrat or Republican, in state history. Yet, he noted that in 1876, William Yardley, an African American Knoxville official later elected to the county court, ran as an independent when the Republican Party declined to nominate a candidate for governor. Democratic Gov. James Davis Porter won reelection that year.
Tennessee had a Black Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate as recently as 2020.
Lee, meanwhile, defeated a Democratic opponent by 21 percentage points in 2018. He goes into November with a huge fundraising edge and the power of incumbency. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/gop-eyes-nashville-seat-for-flip-dems-vie-to-face-governor/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-08-04T05:10:43Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/gop-eyes-nashville-seat-for-flip-dems-vie-to-face-governor/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | false |
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