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Bloomfield Hills makes cutoff on road to FEMA funding
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Friday that Bloomfield Hills made the benchmark for further review on its proposed flood relief project.
The proposed $200,000 project would "research and update current and future anticipated water flows, including watershed boundaries and overflow routes, review the impacts of new floodplain elevations on infrastructure and emergency access, and evaluate potential risk-reduction strategies with local stakeholders to strengthen the overall resilience of Bloomfield Hills," the agency said in a statement.
FEMA, through the Flood Mitigation Assistance Program, would pay for 75% of the proposed $200,000 project, with the remaining falling on either Bloomfield Hills or the state of Michigan, according to the release.
The Flood Mitigation Assistance Program help states and communities reduce the risks associated with flooding through projects including property acquisition, structure elevation and flood planning.
The Friday announcement isn't distribution of money but a decision on the status of sub-applications for the current grant cycle, officials said Friday.
FEMA is slated to work with applicants identified for further review before making a final award decision.
The money Bloomfield Hills would potentially receive comes from $160 million in funding given out by the FMA, according to the government.
“FEMA’s Flood Mitigation Assistance program or FMA seeks to reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage across the nation,” Tom Sivak, regional administrator of FEMA Region 5 said. “The data collected by Bloomfield Hills officials will help ensure future mitigation projects are effective in protecting the city from the dangers of our changing climate and other disasters risks they face in the future.”
Bloomfield Hills officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/08/05/bloomfield-hills-makes-cutoff-road-fema-funding/10247201002/ | 2022-08-05T20:22:22Z | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/08/05/bloomfield-hills-makes-cutoff-road-fema-funding/10247201002/ | false |
Dems change some tax provisions as they ready economic bill
Washington — Democrats pared part of their proposed minimum tax on huge corporations and made other changes in their giant economic bill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday, as they drove toward delivering a campaign-season victory to President Joe Biden on his domestic agenda.
In an unusual peek at closed-door bargaining, Schumer, D-N.Y., said Democrats dropped a proposed tax boost on hedge fund executives after pivotal centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., said she would otherwise vote “no.” Schumer said that in its place, the measure now has a new tax — which others said will be 1% — on the shares companies buy back of their own stock, netting the government far more revenue.
“Sen. Sinema said she would not vote for the bill" or even vote to let debate begin unless private equity tax was removed from the legislation, Schumer told reporters. “So we had no choice.”
He spoke a day after he and Sinema announced compromise revisions to the environment, health care and tax package. With final numbers still to be calculated, the overall measure raises over $700 billion in revenue — including more robust IRS tax collections — using most of it for energy, climate and health initiatives and reducing federal deficits by $300 billion.
The accord puts Democrats on the verge of a more modest yet striking resurrection of many of Biden domestic aspirations that appeal strongly to party voters. Those include taxing big business, restraining prescription drug prices, slowing climate change, helping families afford private insurance and trimming federal deficits.
In another change, Schumer said a proposed 15% minimum tax on mammoth corporations had been trimmed and would now raise $258 billion over the coming decade, down from $313 billion. That provision, which has been the legislation's biggest revenue raiser, will now let those companies depreciate their equipment costs more quickly, lowering the government's tax take and helping manufacturers who buy expensive machinery. The new tax is expected to apply to around 150 companies with income exceeding $1 billion.
Democrats plan for the Senate to begin considering the bill Saturday, and the House will return next Friday for votes. The measure is sure to face unanimous Republican opposition in the 50-50 Senate, where the backing of Sinema and all other Democrats will be needed for passage, along with Vice President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote.
“This bill is a game changer for working families and our economy,” Biden said at the White House.
Republicans say the measure will worsen inflation — a premier concern of voters — discourage companies from hiring workers and raise already high energy costs with its taxes.
“The pain at the pump is going to get worse, and it’s not just on the cost of energy to drive your car,” said Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the Senate's No. 3 GOP leader. “It’s also the energy to heat your home, energy that powers our country, energy for electricity."
Nonpartisan analysts have said the legislation will have a modest impact on inflation and the economy.
“We’re feeling pretty good,” Schumer said about the legislation. “It’s what the country so desperately needs. And it’s what Democrats will deliver on in the coming days.”
The measure will also include money sought by Sinema and other Western senators to help their states cope with historic drought conditions, Schumer said. Those lawmakers have sought $5 billion to help address water scarcity and wildfires, but it was unclear Friday how much would be included in the bill.
Still other changes are possible. The Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, is expected to soon say whether some provisions violate the chamber's budget procedures and should be erased. Democrats are using special rules that would let them overcome GOP opposition and pass the package without needing the 60 votes most bills require.
Potentially vulnerable provisions include language requiring pharmaceutical makers to pay penalties if they raise prices above inflation for drugs that patients get from private insurers.
The bill faces a long weekend, including a “vote-a-rama” of unlimited, non-stop votes on amendments, which will mostly come from Republicans. Most are destined to lose, though the GOP hopes some will box Democrats into votes that would create campaign-ad fodder.
Taxing executives of private equity firms, such as hedge funds, has long been a goal of progressives. Under current law, those executives can pay significantly less than the top 37% individual tax rate on their income, which is called “carried interest."
That measure was also a favorite of conservative Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a long-time holdout against larger versions of Biden's domestic plans who helped write the compromise legislation with Schumer.
But progressives also support taxing publicly traded companies that buy back their own stocks, a move that critics say artificially drives up stock prices and diverts money from investing. The buyback tax will net $74 billion over 10 years, much more than the $13 billion the “carried interest” plan would have raised.
In a breakthrough Thursday night, Sinema said she'd agreed to changes in the legislation and was ready to “move forward” on the bill. In his own statement, Schumer said he believed the agreement “will receive the support of the entire" Democratic membership of the chamber. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/05/congress-budget-democrat-economic-bill/10250359002/ | 2022-08-05T20:22:34Z | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/05/congress-budget-democrat-economic-bill/10250359002/ | true |
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In the face of strong opposition from small, family-owned businesses that make up the hotel industry, the Los Angeles City Council voted this morning to reject a proposal that would have required hotels to make vacant rooms available to unhoused individuals. The measure now heads to the voters in November to decide whether this proposal becomes law.
Proposed by Unite Here Local 11, the labor union representing hospitality workers, the measure would establish a program to place unhoused individuals or families in vacant hotel guest rooms. Hotels would be required to report to the Department of Housing the daily number of vacancies they have and to accept vouchers from the unhoused to stay in a vacant room.
The measure was widely criticized by these small business owners, who expressed serious concerns about being required to provide homeless individuals housing alongside guests. At the meeting, many hoteliers remarked their staff is simply not equipped to provide social services that are required to make such temporary placements successful. With no funding for these services proposed in the ordinance, hoteliers fear that the lack of case management expertise could lead to unsafe condition for workers.
"It baffles me that Unite Here, which claims to protect its members, is leading this measure that would very likely jeopardize worker safety," said Heather Rozman, President & CEO of the Hotel Association of Los Angeles. "We're relieved that the council saw this for the political stunt that it is and call on them to instead pursue long-term solutions to homelessness that actually work."
The hotel industry, including many of these small, family-owned businesses have long been partners to the City on addressing homelessness. Most recently, multiple hotels have voluntarily participated Project Roomkey, which converted hotels into homeless shelters during the pandemic. It viewed this recent measure as vast overreach that would harm these small businesses most as they still struggle to fully recover from drastic losses from the pandemic.
Following the rejection of the measure by the Council, the ordinance now heads to the voters, who likely may see the issue on their ballots in March of 2024.
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Hotel Association of Los Angeles
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BLOOMINGTON – Illinois vegetable growers are entering the toughest six weeks of the year. Despite the seasonal demands, your soil health depends on timely planning of a fall cover crop. A fall cover crop is planted in August, grows in fall, and terminates with several hard frosts in winter. The benefits of a cover crop include increased soil fertility, enhanced weed suppression, and increased soil organic matter. Regardless of farm size, a fall cover crop will positively impact your vegetable operation.
For optimal germination and growth, consider cover crop species selection, planting and termination schedule, as well as soil conditions. A fall cover crop of oats (Avena sativa) and field pea (Pisum sativum) offer high rates of success regardless of a farm’s experience with cover crops. Both oats and field pea are quick to germinate in most soil conditions and grow quickly to establish a living mat of organic matter that suppresses weeds. Once established, the grass’ roots (oat) break up hard subsoil while the field pea (legume) adds nitrogen (N) to the soil. This slow-release source of organic N will feed next year’s cash crop with less additional fertilizer input.
In Central Illinois, seeding time for a fall cover crop is August 1 – August 15. For many growers, this timeline is sub-optimal, some would say impossible. However, eight to ten weeks of growth is recommended to ensure even, quick coverage of a cover crop before termination by hard frosts. Based on your production schedule, consider interplanting, or planning seasonal rotation of vegetables and cover crops.
Cover cropping with rotation and interplanting
If fields can rotate out of production for a season, allot 20-25% of your field space to cover crop planting. Pulling select fields from production for a season allows you to plan, plant, and terminate multiple cover crops in one space with greater flexibility and greater impact on soil health.
Seasonal rotation of vegetable and cover crop plantings can be achieved in a few different ways. One is interplanting cover crop seed into an existing vegetable crop stand when production in those fields begins to wane. When interplanting into a crop stand, broadcast cover crop underneath rows of peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, and other warm-weather crops that will soon be removed or cut down. Overseed to account for increased likelihood of poor seed to soil contact, and water every other day for two weeks to improve germination and establishment.
For crop stands that wane by early August, due to production decline and pest or disease pressure, pull out crop stand then plant the area with cover crop.
For early-to-mid-summer crops like the season’s first planting of zucchini and cucumber, pull-out plantings in mid-July. Conditions of production decline include reduced harvest quality and yellowing leaves and common disease pressure includes unmanageable powdery mildew.
In early to mid-August, pull out tomatoes stressed by pest and disease pressure, or short-season varieties with declining production. Good candidates for removal are heirloom varieties with poor resistance to Septoria Leaf Spot and paste tomatoes whose production has dwindled substantially.
For successful germination and establishment of this fall’s cover crop: ensure good seed-to-soil contact, cover broadcasted seed with ½ inch of compost; maintain adequate moisture by watering every few days to ensure germinating seeds do not dry out; and time your planting for mid-August—the sooner the better.
For further assistance when planning your fall cover crop, contact University of Illinois Extension Local Food Systems and Small Farms Educator Nick Frillman at the McLean County Extension Office in Bloomington at 309-663-8306 or email at frillma2@illinois.edu. | https://pantagraph.com/a-winter-kill-cover-crop-fights-weeds-and-improves-soil-conditions/article_1ac0121c-14f3-11ed-a402-4b1ce29fe001.html | 2022-08-05T20:24:54Z | https://pantagraph.com/a-winter-kill-cover-crop-fights-weeds-and-improves-soil-conditions/article_1ac0121c-14f3-11ed-a402-4b1ce29fe001.html | true |
Senate to vote this weekend on bill intended to curb inflation
The Inflation Reduction Act proposes cuts to the nation’s deficit, while making investments in climate programs and changes to Medicare drug negotiations.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The Senate could vote as early as Saturday on the Inflation Reduction Act.
The legislation proposes approximately $300 billion in deficit reduction and $369 billion in climate programs, intended to reduce carbon emissions by nearly 40% by 2030. It also allows for Medicare to directly negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies.
“This is a great step forward,” said Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.).
She says in addition to bringing down gas prices, this bill would help bring more green energy jobs to the state of Illinois.
“Right now in the program, $500 million for biofuels and ethanol. Illinois is one of the nation’s leading producers of ethanol,” said Duckworth.
But, Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) calls the legislation “false advertising.”
“It doesn’t do anything to address inflation any time soon,” said Cornyn.
Cornyn said the Inflation Reduction Act is similar to the $2 trillion Build Back Better Act which failed to pass the Senate late last year.
“This is admittedly a smaller version of that incredibly expensive and ridiculously extravagant bill,” said Cornyn.
President Biden says he’s looking forward to the Senate taking up the legislation issuing a statement which says the bill proposes “no new taxes on families making $400,000 or less as well as no new taxes on small businesses.
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Contract modifications provide full funding for three ships – ESB 8, T-AO 211, and T-AO 212; and an option to build T-AO 213
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics NASSCO, a subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), announced today that it received $1.4 billion in U.S. Navy contract modifications for construction of a sixth Expeditionary Sea Base ship (ESB 8) and two additional John Lewis-class fleet oilers (T-AO 211 and 212). This award comes in addition to $600 million already received to procure long-lead time materials for the same ships. The contract modification also provides an option for the Navy to procure an additional oiler, T-AO 213, bringing the total potential value to $2.7 billion for the four ships.
"NASSCO is committed to working together with the Navy to deliver these much needed ships to the fleet," said Dave Carver, President of General Dynamics NASSCO. "As partners with the Navy, we remain dedicated to ensuring the success of both of these programs to help enhance and expand the Navy's forward presence and warfighting capabilities while providing sustained growth for our workforce."
Construction of the four ships is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2023 and continue into 2027.
In 2011, the Navy awarded NASSCO with a contract to design and build the first two ships in the newly created Mobile Landing Platform program, USNS Montford Point and USNS John Glenn. The program evolved, adding USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3), USS Hershel "Woody" Williams (ESB 4), USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5), the future USS John L. Canley (ESB 6) and the future USS Robert E. Simanek (ESB 7), configured as ESBs. ESB ships are highly flexible platforms designed to support multiple maritime-based missions, including Air Mine Counter Measures, Special Operations Forces, and limited crisis response. Acting as a mobile sea base, this 784-foot ship has a 52,000 square-foot flight deck to support MH-53, MH-60, MV-22 tilt-rotor, and H1 aircraft operations. The future USS John L. Canley (ESB 6) and USS Robert E. Simanek (ESB 7) are currently under construction.
In 2016, the Navy awarded NASSCO with a contract to design and build the first six ships in the next generation of fleet oilers, the John Lewis-class. Designed to transfer fuel to U.S. Navy ships operating at sea, the 742-feet vessels have a full load displacement of 49,850 tons, capacity to carry 157,000 barrels of oil and significant amounts of dry cargo, as well as providing aviation capability while traveling at speeds up to 20 knots. The first ship, USNS John Lewis (T-AO 205), was delivered to the U.S. Navy in July 2022. The USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO 206), USNS Earl Warren (T-AO 207), and USNS Robert F. Kennedy (T-AO 208) are currently under construction.
General Dynamics NASSCO specializes in the design and construction of Navy and commercial ships and is a major provider of repair services for the U.S. Navy, with capabilities in San Diego, California; Norfolk, Virginia; Mayport, Florida; and Bremerton, Washington. More information about General Dynamics NASSCO is available at www.nassco.com.
General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company that offers a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation; ship construction and repair; land combat vehicles, weapons systems and munitions; and technology products and services. General Dynamics employs more than 100,000 people worldwide and generated $38.5 billion in revenue in 2021. More information about General Dynamics is available at www.gd.com.
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ST. LOUIS, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Graybar, a leading distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products and provider of related supply chain management and logistics services, today reported that it set new quarterly records for net sales and net income in the second quarter of 2022.
Graybar's net sales for the second quarter of this year totaled $2.7 billion, an increase of 19.7 percent compared to the same period last year. Net income attributable to Graybar for the quarter finished at $127.6 million, a 59.3 percent increase from the second quarter of 2021.
For the first half of the year, the company reported net sales of $5.1 billion, a 22.3 percent increase compared to the same period last year. Net income attributable to Graybar for the first six months of 2022 increased 80.5 percent to $229.8 million.
"I am proud of Graybar's performance through the first half of 2022," said Kathleen M. Mazzarella, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Graybar. "Amid changing economic conditions and ongoing global disruption, our business remains strong. We continue to focus on delivering an exceptional customer experience, while we invest in growth and supply chain innovation that will broaden our reach, expand our capabilities and drive our long-term success."
Graybar, a Fortune 500 corporation and one of the largest employee-owned companies in North America, is a leader in the distribution of high quality electrical, communications and data networking products, and specializes in related supply chain management and logistics services. Through its network of more than 300 North American distribution facilities, it stocks and sells products from thousands of manufacturers, helping its customers power, network, automate and secure their facilities with speed, intelligence and efficiency. For more information, visit www.graybar.com or call 1-800-GRAYBAR.
Tim Sommer
(314) 578-7672
timothy.sommer@graybar.com
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BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- There is Still Time for Contractors and Sustainable Living Advocates Seeking to Host or Sponsor Free, Solar and Sustainable Sites and Tours, Showcasing Money-Saving Innovations for Homes, Businesses, Non-Profits, and Other Sustainable Entities via the October 1-2 National Solar Tour, America's Largest Grassroots Solar Living Event.
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Partnered with The Energy & Environmental Building Alliance (EEBA) this year, the National Solar Tour is an effective program for increasing solar adoption and the implementation of sustainability upgrades by featuring a collection of Local Solar Tours, in addition to single Solar Sites across the country that feature solar and sustainable technologies. This program presents the unique opportunity for solar and sustainability enthusiasts to share their personal process of going solar and implementing sustainable upgrades. Hosts provide genuine recommendations for installers, financing, and accurate information concerning tax credits, rebates, and local laws or issues. Citizens representing every state in the nation and all U.S. territories are invited to show their solar and inspire adoption of energy- and money-saving home and business solutions by hosting or sponsoring a site on the National Solar Tour.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel unleashed a wave of airstrikes in Gaza on Friday, killing at least 10 people, including a senior militant, and wounding dozens, according to Palestinian officials. Israel said it was targeting the Islamic Jihad militant group in response to an “imminent threat” following the arrest of another senior militant in the occupied West Bank earlier this week.
Palestinian militants launched a barrage of rockets hours later as air raid sirens wailed in central and southern Israel, pushing the two sides closer to all-out war. Islamic Jihad claimed to have fired 100 rockets.
Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers have fought four wars and several smaller battles over the last 15 years at a staggering cost to the territory’s 2 million Palestinian residents.
A blast was heard in Gaza City, where smoke poured out of the seventh floor of a tall building on Friday afternoon. Video released by Israel’s military showed strikes blowing up three guard towers with suspected militants in them.
In a nationally televised speech Friday night, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said his country had launched the attacks based on “concrete threats.”
“This government has a zero tolerance policy for any attempted attacks — of any kind — from Gaza towards Israeli territory,” Lapid said. “Israel will not sit idly by when there are those who are trying to harm its civilians.”
He also added that “Israel isn’t interested in a broader conflict in Gaza, but will not shy away from one either.”
The violence poses an early test for Lapid, who assumed the role of caretaker prime minister ahead of elections in November in which he hopes to keep the position. He has experience in diplomacy, having served as foreign minister in the outgoing government, but his security credentials are thin.
Hamas also faces a dilemma in deciding whether to join a new battle — barely a year after the last war caused widespread devastation. There has been almost no reconstruction since then, and the isolated coastal territory is mired in poverty, with unemployment hovering around 50%.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said a 5-year-old girl and a 23-year-old woman were among those killed in Gaza, without differentiating between civilian and militant casualties. The Israeli military said early estimates were that around 15 fighters were killed.
Islamic Jihad said Taiseer al-Jabari, its commander for northern Gaza, was among those killed. He had succeeded another militant killed in an airstrike in 2019. Hundreds marched in a funeral procession for him and others who were killed, with many mourners waving Palestinian and Islamic Jihad flags and calling for revenge.
Israeli media showed the skies above southern and central Israel lighting up with rockets and interceptors from Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. An explosion was heard in Tel Aviv. It wasn’t immediately clear how many rockets were launched and there was no immediate word on any casualties on the Israeli side.
Israel continued to strike other targets Friday, including weapons production facilities and Islamic Jihad positions.
The U.N. special envoy to the region, Tor Wennesland, said he was “deeply concerned by the ongoing escalation,” and expressed sadness for the killing of the 5-year-old girl.
“The continuing escalation is very dangerous,” he said. “The launching of rockets must cease immediately, and I call on all sides to avoid further escalation.”
Following the initial Israeli strikes, a few hundred people gathered outside the morgue at Gaza City’s main Shifa hospital. Some went in to identify loved ones, emerging later in tears. “May God take revenge against spies,” shouted one, referring to Palestinian informants who cooperate with Israel.
An Israeli military spokesman said the strikes were in response to an “imminent threat” from two militant squads armed with anti-tank missiles. The spokesman, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity, said al-Jabari was deliberately targeted and had been responsible for “multiple attacks” on Israel.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz approved an order to call up 25,000 reserve soldiers if needed while the military announced a “special situation” on the home front, with schools closed and limits placed on activities in communities within 80 kilometers (50 miles) of the border.
Israel had closed roads around Gaza earlier this week and sent reinforcements to the border as it braced for a revenge attack after Monday’s arrest of Bassam al-Saadi, an Islamic Jihad leader, in a military raid in the occupied West Bank. A teenage member of the group was killed in a gunbattle between the Israeli troops and Palestinian militants.
Israel and the Hamas fought four wars since the militant group seized power in the coastal strip from rival Palestinian forces in 2007. The most recent was in May 2021, and tensions again soared earlier this year following a wave of attacks inside Israel, near-daily military operations in the West Bank and tensions at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site.
Islamic Jihad leader Ziad al-Nakhalah, speaking to Al-Mayadeen TV network from Iran, said “fighters of the Palestinian resistance have to stand together to confront this aggression.” He said there would be “no red lines” and blamed the violence on Israel.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said “the Israeli enemy, which started the escalation against Gaza and committed a new crime, must pay the price and bear full responsibility for it.”
Islamic Jihad is smaller than Hamas but largely shares its ideology. Both groups are opposed to Israel’s existence and have carried out scores of deadly attacks over the years, including the firing of rockets into Israel. It’s unclear how much control Hamas has over Islamic Jihad, and Israel holds Hamas responsible for all attacks emanating from Gaza.
Israel and Egypt have maintained a tight blockade over the territory since the Hamas takeover. Israel says the closure is needed to prevent Hamas from building up its military capabilities, while critics say the policy amounts to collective punishment.
Mohammed Abu Selmia, director of Gaza’s Shifa hospital, said hospitals faced shortages after Israel imposed a full closure on Gaza earlier this week. He said there were enough supplies and essential drugs to sustain hospitals for five days in normal times, but that with a new round of fighting underway, “they may run out at any moment.”
Israel called off an expected fuel delivery for Gaza’s sole power plant, which was expected to shut down early Saturday if the fuel did not enter the territory. Even when the plant is running at full capacity, Gazans still endure daily power outages that last several hours.
Earlier Friday, a couple of hundred Israelis protested near the Gaza Strip to demand the return of the remains of two Israeli soldiers held by Hamas.
The protesters were led by the family of Hadar Goldin, who along with Oron Shaul was killed in the 2014 Gaza war. Hamas is still holding their remains, as well as two Israeli civilians who strayed into Gaza and are believed to be mentally ill, hoping to exchange them for some of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Israel says there can be no major moves toward lifting the blockade until the soldiers’ remains and captive civilians are released. Israel and Hamas have held numerous rounds of Egyptian-mediated talks on a possible swap.
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Krauss reported from Ottawa, Ontario. Associated Press reporter Ariel Schalit in Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel, and Tia Goldenberg in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report. | https://www.kark.com/news/ap-top-headlines/israel-strikes-gaza-amid-soaring-tensions-with-militants/ | 2022-08-05T20:27:54Z | https://www.kark.com/news/ap-top-headlines/israel-strikes-gaza-amid-soaring-tensions-with-militants/ | true |
SABINAS, Mexico (AP) — Round-the-clock pumping slightly lowered the level of water inside the flooded shafts of a coal mine where 10 miners were trapped in northern Mexico, but two days after a collapse it remained too high for anyone to attempt a rescue, authorities said Friday.
National Civil Defense Coordinator Laura Velázquez said it was “indispensable” to reduce the amount of water in the 200-foot deep mine shafts before divers or any other specialized personnel could enter. Workers were simultaneously trying to block new water from entering the shafts.
The mine in Sabinas, Coahuila, about 70 miles southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas collapsed while 15 miners were inside working Wednesday afternoon. Five managed to escape with injuries. Authorities say the miners breached a neighboring space filled with water. There has been no contact with the miners since the collapse.
Javier Martínez, the Coahuila state delegate of the National Mine Workers Union, said the area where the mine was operating is full of old abandoned mines that are often flooded. He said locals sometimes get small concessions and then contract groups of non-unionized miners to work, usually without safety measures like ventilation systems, emergency exit shafts and security equipment.
Such operations are not supervised by the Labor Secretary, he said.
Accidents in such shoestring operations are common because miners work without maps, often with pneumatic hammers that punch into old mine shafts filled with water, he said.
In this case, the miners’ chances of survival are “complicated,” and would depend on the force of entering water, the amount of mud it carried, whether it swept away the wooden supports holding up the shaft’s walls and if the miners could reach a nook with air.
“I thank God because it’s advancing, little by little it’s advancing,” said Elizabeth Vielma Moreno, a relative of one of the miners.
In June and July of 2021, cave-ins at two Coahuila mines claimed the lives of nine miners.
Mexico’s worst mining accident also occurred in Coahuila on Feb. 19, 2006, when an explosion ripped through the Pasta de Conchos mine while 73 miners were inside. Eight were rescued with injuries including serious burns. The rest died and only two of their bodies were recovered.
López Obrador’s administration promised two years ago to recover the remaining 63 bodies, a highly technical endeavor that has still not begun.
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New York (AP) — Looking for a new job is a balancing act: Some people change roles for a shorter commute or better salary, others want health insurance or flexible schedules, and still others are looking to work in a new or different industry.
Hiring is booming in the U.S. — the economy added 528,000 jobs in July, up from 398,000 in June, according to the latest job report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But in many cases, wages aren’t rising as fast as prices, leading workers to look elsewhere.
Compensation, job location and work environment are among the most important factors you should consider when looking for a new role, according to Jill Gonzalez, a financial analyst from WalletHub.
Here are five key things to think about if you’re looking for a job (or wondering whether you should):
THE CURRENT JOB MARKET
As of July, there were 1.7 jobs for every unemployed person, meaning employers are competing for workers in many industries.
While not all employers can afford to offer cost-of-living wage increases, some are increasingly open to providing other benefits, such as more remote work options, subsidized child care, or coverage of commuting expenses, according to Johnny C. Taylor Jr., chief executive officer of the Society for Human Resource Management.
“With inflation, employees that are otherwise happy at work are forced to look for another job. It’s a retention problem,” he said. “You might have an employee who loves their workplace, but they’ll say, ‘I have to go across the street for the job that will pay me 20% more.’”
Some companies are also better prepared to withstand an economic downturn than others, which is worth considering amid fears that the U.S. could be headed for a recession.
“The companies that are recession-resistant are typically those that sell consumer essentials, provide critical repair services, or manufacture or sell proprietary or specialized products,” said Gonzalez.
Demand for these goods and services typically stays more or less the same regardless of consumers’ budgets. The food industry, grocery stores, power plants, waste management, pharmaceutical, and healthcare companies also weather economic instability well, she said.
SALARY
How much you’ll be paid is key, and how you look at your income depends in part on your industry.
For Justin Taylor, a restaurant worker based in Minneapolis, it isn’t only a question of how much he can make per hour, but also how much he can get in tips.
Taylor increased his salary from $15 per hour to approximately $20 per hour when he changed jobs from Chipotle to a local restaurant. His previous job didn’t include meaningful tips from customers while his current job does, significantly raising his take-home pay.
Conversations around pay are rarely transparent. If you’re not sure what the average salary in your industry might be, the the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides a list of average wages and salaries in most sectors.
COMMUTE
If you find a job that pays more per hour but requires a longer commute, it might not work out to be much of a pay raise, after factoring in gas or the cost of public transit.
“I wanted to be close to my home, I was just trying to save money on transportation,” said Taylor.
Before his new job, Taylor used to commute 30 minutes each way on public transport; he now travels on his electric scooter for less than 10 minutes.
With gas prices higher than a year ago, Taylor also decided to sell his truck and start using more affordable alternatives. Survey data shows that 64 percent of U.S. adults have changed their driving habits or lifestyle since March of this year, according to the American Automobile Association.
If you can take public transportation to your job or you pay for parking, check with your potential new employer about whether the company offers pre-tax benefits.
BENEFITS
For some, good benefits might include health insurance or retirement contributions. For others, working from home a few days a week or having on-the-job training are great bonuses.
“The work-life balance is equally important. (Workers) should inquire about vacation and sick day policies, as well as work-from-home flexibility,” Gonzalez said.
That was the case for Taylor, who approached his job search with the goal of having more flexibility.
“I’m a person, I have a life outside of work and wanted to have more control. That was really important, too. So I went in letting them know ’Hey, I will need this day off,’” said Taylor, who is also a member of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a non-profit organization that advocates for workers’ rights.
Eugene Natali, a financial literacy expert and CEO of Troutwood, a financial planning app, said growing your skills is especially important when there might be a recession looming.
Auto mechanics, for example, should take every on-the-job training and get every certification offered, he said, to make themselves more valuable to their workplace and more attractive to potential employers if they should need to change jobs.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Blair Heitmann, a career expert for hiring platform LinkedIn, encourages job seekers to think about company culture when looking to change roles.
Reaching out to current and former employees, researching press and social media and even reading earnings reports are some of her recommendations.
Websites such as Indeed and Glassdoor have user-generated reviews of workplaces and some offer pay ranges for certain companies.
This research can also help give you insight into what makes a business run, which can give you a leg up in an interview, she said.
Stephanie Stathas, a licensed therapist with Thriveworks, which provides in-person and online therapy, says that identifying healthy workplaces can help reduce job stress.
“If a work environment doesn’t have good management or doesn’t find that time to appreciate the individual for what they do, a lot of people can tend to feel down about themselves,” she said.
But it’s more nuanced than just appreciating workers, she added, as employees also need the ability to set boundaries with their workloads.
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CHAVIES, Ky. (AP) — Angel Campbell should have been sitting in her usual chair in her grandmother’s living room this week, looking through her old photo albums and eating her favorite soup beans.
Now the living room is gone, and so is her grandmother.
A week after 82-year-old Nellie Mae Howard died in the devastating floods that killed at least 37 people in eastern Kentucky, Campbell can’t stop thinking about how she was swept away. She said losing her “Mammaw” will plague her for a very long time.
“The way she had to leave this earth just shatters me,” she said. “It just feels so cruel.”
Eastern Kentucky has been engaged for days now in the slow, grim task of recovering and burying the dead. Local funeral homes have settled into a steady cadence of visitations and memorials, sometimes in quick succession. The somber rituals have continued as more rain falls, prompting yet another flood watch across the Appalachian mountain region. People here brace at the prospect of a new round of misery.
Funeral home workers have had to navigate the staggering losses, in communities where families have known each other for generations, some after losing their own houses. They’ve had to carry on without power or water at times, taking in so many bodies that a mobile refrigerator was brought in to add capacity.
Mobile federal emergency management centers opened across at least seven counties where people could request money for immediate needs. A relief fund set up by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has begun distributing money to pay the funeral expenses of flood victims.
No place in eastern Kentucky suffered more deaths than Knott County, where 17 people perished in the historic flooding. The local coroner, Corey Watson, knew nearly all of them.
“I was retrieving people from scenes that I had known since I was a child or I had seen that person grow up,” Watson said. “It’s hard.”
The floodwaters tore families apart. Two sets of husbands and wives died. Whole families were “decimated,” the coroner said. Most of those who died were retirees, he said.
Watson said his training taught him how to compose himself, but in such an extreme situation, he wondered: “How do you properly compose yourself when you see a multitude of people passing away and there being attempts to save their life or to keep them together? It’s troubling, but we have to go through this. We have to overcome it. We can always hold their memory in our heart.”
The floods in Pine Top surged through Randall and Rosa Lee Vick’s front door, ripped a huge hole in their back wall and swept them into the dark water. Vick said he had just a split second to speak to her before they went under. “Whatever happens, I love you,” he said.
Vick was able to cling to a tree for about seven hours before Kevin Patrick and another neighbor lashed themselves together with extension cords and waded out to rescue him. They found his wife’s body miles away.
What’s left of their home came to rest on the opposite side of their normally placid creek. A neighbor has lent him a pop-up camper to live in, once he’s ready.
“I can’t bring back what I had,” Vick said. “I’m just going to have to get up and go on. I’ll make it.”
Denver Bates, 76, drove up to check on them Thursday. The Vicks had worked for him, cutting his grass.
“They had four and five cars in their driveway. Money. Yards kept clean. They were living good, and God let them know who’s the boss,” Bates said.
A family friend, Jade Dollarhide, gave Vick a hug while seeing what he needs.
“We may not have all the shopping centers, we may not have all these big jobs and factories and everything else, but what we lack with money, you know we’re rich in friendship and family,” Dollarhide said. “That’s what’s important.”
For some families, the funerals have offered their first chance to pause and reflect on the losses after days of digging out.
Campbell’s mother, Patricia Collins, was at home with her boyfriend next door to Howard’s home in Chavies, Kentucky, when the storms hit. Collins went to check on her, and climbed with her grandmother onto the kitchen table, but it collapsed into the surging water.
Collins was in the water for two hours, pinned between a couch and a car. The only thing that saved her was a flashing tail light that caught the eye of her neighbors, who pulled her to safety. Battered and bruised, she never saw Howard alive again.
It took nearly five hours to find Howard’s body. Campbell’s brother pulled their grandmother from the water, checked for a pulse and wiped mud from her face. Then he asked the neighbors for a sheet to cover her, and sat with her body for hours.
Both homes are now in ruins, carried in pieces hundreds of feet from where Howard had lived for half a century.
Campbell said her grandmother was like her second mother. They either saw each other or spoke on the phone every day. She can still hear her giggling on the other line, or telling her to remember to thank Jesus for all the good in her life. She was a deeply religious woman who tended to her rose garden and thanked the Lord each morning for letting her see another day.
She was the person Campbell most often went to for advice — she knew just what to say.
“I always thought one day when I had to say goodbye to her I would still get to go sit in my favorite chair and remember all the good times,” she said. “But I can’t even do that and that really hurts.”
Almost everything her grandmother and mother owned was lost in the flood. Miraculously, a photo still hung on one wall – a portrait of her grandmother and her grandfather, who passed away 13 years ago.
That photo was displayed next to the white casket at her funeral this week, near a spray of roses put together by a family friend.
Just like the ones in her grandmother’s garden.
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MONTREAL (AP) — Rafael Nadal withdrew from the upcoming hard-court tournament in Montreal on Friday because of the abdominal injury that caused him to pull out of Wimbledon ahead of the semifinals.
The Spaniard had been 19-0 in Grand Slam matches this year when he decided the injury was too much at Wimbledon. He won the Australian Open and the French Open to increase his major total to a men’s record 22 — one more than Novak Djokovic and two more than Roger Federer.
Nadal is a five-time champion in Montreal.
“I have been practicing for a while now without serving and started with serves four days ago. Everything has been going well. However, yesterday, after my normal practice, I felt a slight bother on my abdominal and today it was still there,” Nadal said in a statement. “After speaking with my doctor, we prefer to take things in a conservative way and give a few more days before starting to compete.”
American player Mackenzie McDonald will replace Nadal in the draw.
Djokovic withdrew from the Montreal tournament on Thursday because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and is therefore not allowed to enter Canada.
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BRAINTREE, Mass., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PrepMD and its subsidiary, PrepMD RMS, the premier provider of cardiac remote monitoring, staffing, and training solutions, announced today the appointment of Dr. Robert Lerman, distinguished Cardiac Electrophysiologist and Healthcare Expert as the company's Chief Medical Officer.
Most recently, Dr. Lerman served as the Chief Medical Officer and VP of Clinical Operations at LindaCare, a cardiac remote monitoring technology company. Prior to that, Dr. Lerman led several new programs in both Clinical Integration and Clinical Supply Chain at Dignity Health, one of the nation's largest health systems. During an 18-year clinical career, he worked as the Medical Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at St. Bernardine Medical Center in Southern California and served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine.
A native and current resident of Los Angeles, Dr. Lerman received his B.S. from Stanford University and medical degree from Albany Medical College prior to completing an internal medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and fellowships in cardiology and clinical cardiac electrophysiology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.
"We are delighted to have Dr. Lerman join the leadership team at PrepMD and PrepMD RMS. A distinguished electrophysiologist and a clinical expert in the remote monitoring space, Dr. Lerman will provide strong leadership and direction across all verticals at the company including cardiac remote monitoring, staffing, and training".
-Matt O'Neal, Co-founder and CEO of PrepMD, PrepMD RMS.
With his experience leading remote monitoring technology development and as an active member of the HRS Interoperability Working Group, Dr. Lerman will guide the technology roadmap for PrepMD RMS. Dr. Lerman will work with the cross-functional teams to develop and implement strategic initiatives across all solutions offered by the company to healthcare systems, corporations, and individuals globally.
Founded in 2015, PrepMD RMS is the premier cardiac clinical solutions company, combining expert human capital and technological innovation to address complex challenges faced by cardiology offices and major healthcare systems. As a one-stop shop for device clinics of all sizes, PrepMD RMS offers a portfolio of services including cardiac device remote monitoring, in-office staffing, and digital healthcare training solutions. The parent global company, PrepMD is an established leader in cardiac medical device training for corporations and individuals. For more information, go to prepmd.com.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A new map in Oregon that rated the wildfire risk of every tax lot in the state — labeling nearly 80,000 structures as high-risk — generated so much pushback from angry homeowners that officials abruptly retracted it, saying they had not done enough local outreach before publicizing the ambitious project.
The rapid reversal, announced late Thursday, capped weeks of mounting frustration in mostly rural areas as the map emerged as a new flashpoint for conservatives who call it government overreach and “climate change evangelism.”
Oregon State Forester Cal Mukumoto said in a statement his agency got specific feedback from 2,000 residents about problems with the risk designations that were assigned by the Oregon Explorer project and said climate scientists would refine the map and reissue a new version at a later date.
The map was part of a $220 million bill passed last year to prepare Oregon for worsening, climate change-fueled wildfires.
“While we met the bill’s initial deadline for delivering on the map, there wasn’t enough time to allow for the type of local outreach and engagement that people wanted, needed and deserved,” wrote Mukumoto, who reiterated that Oregon is at a critical juncture with wildfires and needs to take bold action. “We know how important it is to get this right.”
Fierce opposition bubbled up at community meetings prior to the state’s step back. Residents and some local officials worried it would lead to insurance rate increases or coverage loss, while others bridled at new mandates for defensible space and rules for future construction that flow from the map’s designations.
One information session in the conservative southwest corner of the state was canceled after someone threatened violence.
“I’m sitting in a place here right now where I’m overlooking several hundred acres that are irrigated, they’re green year-round and yet they’re in ‘high’ or ‘extreme’ risk category. They’re never going to burn,” said Brandon Larsen, who spoke during a session that was moved online in Medford.
“This is more about climate change evangelism than it is about actually protecting people from the risks that are out there.”
The Oregon Department of Forestry, which created the risk map with experts from Oregon State University, said the fire policies triggered by the initial map are intended to prevent more catastrophic wildfires — not make life more difficult for homeowners.
“Many of the comments that we’ve received and much of the concern is around, ‘I’ve already done what I can around my home so I should be at a lower risk.’ This isn’t a risk assessment of that defensible space,” Derek Gasperini, agency spokesman, said before the map was retracted.
“The map is the risk of wildfire occurrence and there are certain things you just can’t impact. You can’t affect the weather, you can’t change the fact that you live in a hot and dry climate.”
With climate change, wildfire risk maps like Oregon’s are likely to become increasingly common for homeowners, and even those maps will need to be updated frequently to keep up with the changing dynamics of climate change, said Noah Diffenbaugh, a climate scientist at Stanford University.
California, which has long had hazard maps, passed a new law in 2018 requiring homeowners in high-risk areas to pass a defensible space inspection before buying or selling the property.
Meanwhile, the population of the U.S. West in the so-called wildland-urban interface — the boundary where development encroaches on natural areas — grew the fastest in places with vegetation that’s the most sensitive to drought and most vulnerable to fire, Diffenbaug said.
Oregon is trying to address that challenge with a sweeping bill that was voted into law after a barrage of fire storms across Oregon in September 2020 that burned more than 1 million acres and destroyed 4,000 homes, many of them in rural areas.
In addition to assigning tax lots one of five wildfire risk levels, the legislation updated and refined the state’s 25-year-old “wildland-urban interface” map that identifies areas where development abuts forests and wild areas, raising wildfire risk. The bill also added funding for 20 new State Fire Marshal positions.
Starting next year, property owners on tax lots designated “high” or “extreme” risk that also fall within the updated wildland-urban interface must comply with minimum defensible space requirements. Those requirements, which are still being decided, could include things such as cutting tree limbs that are less than six feet from the ground, clearing up to 100 feet from the home and removing trees and branches that overhang roofs and chimneys.
State officials are also creating a building code for future development in these areas that will require things like attic vents, fire-resistant roofing and fire-resistant siding for any construction that requires a permit. Existing homes do not need to be changed.
Those provisions remain the same despite Thursday’s action.
“I call it commonsense fire safety, and in all reality a lot of Oregonians are already doing this work or going well beyond this work to keep their homes safe” in these high-risk areas, said Assistant Chief Deputy Chad Hawkins with the Oregon State Fire Marshal.
Grants will be available to homeowners who can’t afford to clear around their property and when the mandates first take effect the state will focus on education, not penalties, Hawkins said.
Still, many homeowners are wary of the mapping project and worry about their insurance coverage and property value.
“After looking at this map, you guys have blanketed lots of areas as the same designation and nobody ever came out to our house to designate us, high, low or whatever,” Sherry Roberts said of the first version of the map. Roberts said she was evacuated but her irrigated farm survived southern Oregon’s massive Obenchain Fire in 2020.
Those who specialize in wildfires and the insurance industry said fears that coverage would be reduced or canceled specifically because of Oregon’s new risk map were unfounded.
Insurers “have way better maps. They’re not going to just take the state’s word on the maps,” said Michael Wara, director of the Climate Energy Policy Program at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment.
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MASON COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — One person is dead following an ATV crash on Lieving Road in Letart.
The Mason County Sheriff’s Office says a 53-year-old man died as a result of the crash. Their name has not been released at this time.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
3-9-7-0
(three, nine, seven, zero)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
3-9-7-0
(three, nine, seven, zero) | https://www.theintelligencer.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17354868.php | 2022-08-05T20:40:56Z | https://www.theintelligencer.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17354868.php | true |
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali's government will integrate 26,000 fighters of a past northern rebellion into its army under a deal with leaders of the former independence movement, the two parties announced following a meeting Friday.
The deal points to a new dynamic in the stalled implementation of a reconciliation accord signed years ago.
Friday's meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga in the presence of several partners of Mali, including the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General and head of the peacekeeping mission in Mali, El Ghassim Wane, and other ambassadors.
“The government of Mali will spare no effort to fulfill these commitments,” Maiga said.
Under the agreement, the reintegration of ex-combatants will occur in two phases, with the second being completed in 2024. A commission will be formed to present proposals to integrate senior military officers from the movement into the army's chain of command.
The initial peace agreement, signed in 2015 between the government and non-extremist armed independence groups in northern Mali, has remained stalled.
“Things tend to stall and never get done, and this has been the case for years,” said Rida Lyammouri, a senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South. "But if the decisions are carried out, it is a good thing because in the north the population is suffering.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Mali-pledges-to-incorporate-26-000-ex-rebel-17355048.php | 2022-08-05T20:41:40Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Mali-pledges-to-incorporate-26-000-ex-rebel-17355048.php | true |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Josef Newgarden wasn’t at peak physical condition when he raced last week at Indianapolis, that much he admits.
But sitting out would have crippled his championship chances, so earning the medical clearance to compete following his post-race collapse at Iowa was Newgarden’s only choice. He finished fifth to maintain his hold on third place in the IndyCar standings.
“I wasn’t 100% but I felt good, I felt normal in a lot of respects, but I’m trying to get myself even better,” Newgarden said. “We needed to be in the race, and I was happy to be there.”
Next up is his home race, the second Music City Grand Prix through the downtown streets of Nashville. Newgarden was an ambassador for last year’s inaugural race and the commitments admittedly stretched him thin ahead of his deflating 10th-place finish.
That won’t be good enough Sunday for Newgarden’s quest for a third IndyCar title. So he slimmed down his obligations ahead of this year’s race and used several days this week to reset following his Iowa disruption.
Newgarden won the first race of the Iowa doubleheader last month to take the IndyCar points lead, but crashed hard the next day while leading in pursuit of the weekend sweep. The incident dropped him to third in the standings and then came a medical scare: Newgarden was cleared in the care center but then lost consciousness in the motorhome lot and hit his head.
It’s believed he suffered a concussion when his head hit the pavement. That required deliberate care to ensure Newgarden would be cleared to race the road course at Indianapolis last Saturday. When that race ended, he felt “just tired.”
“I was fatigued from the intense week,” he said. “It wasn’t so much that I was dealing with symptoms, I just wasn’t 100% energy. I feel like this week, I’ve had more time to rest, and I’ll be more myself this weekend.”
Newgarden is in a tight title fight with six drivers separated by 52 points with four races remaining. His Team Penske teammate Will Power cycled into the lead for the third time this season after Indianapolis; Newgarden, with an IndyCar-high four wins this season, is 32 points behind his teammate.
Newgarden is passionate about IndyCar in Nashville and last year packed his schedule with pre-race appearances to promote the event debut. This year he cut back to only his fourth annual ping-pong tournament for charity. About a dozen of his fellow competitors played in the Thursday afternoon tournament. Newgarden’s team advanced to the final but lost.
He said the charity tournament was a priority. Newgarden, via an IndyCar bonus program, already earned a $1 million prize this season and $500,000 was split between two charities of his choice. The tournament also benefitted the two charities, Wags and Walks of Nashville and the SeriousFun Children’s Network.
Newgarden’s support has helped Wags and Walks — where Newgarden and his wife adopted one of their dogs — break ground on its first facility that will double the amount of pets it helps save each year. Both founder Kathryn Dhall and Clea Newman, who runs the SeriousFun Children’s Network that was started by her father, the late actor Paul Newman, attended the tournament.
TRACK CHANGES
The debut Music City Grand Prix was a mess — nine cautions that made for 33 of the 80 laps to be run under yellow — and winner Marcus Ericsson opened the race with an airborne crash he recovered from to pick up his second win of the season.
But the traffic jams, track blockage, water on the racing surface and bumpy Nashville city streets all played a part in one of the sloppiest IndyCar races in years. It’s led to track tweaks ahead of Sunday’s race on Nashville’s 11-turn, 2.1-mile course.
Among them:
—The restart zone is now located along the long straightaway exiting the Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge and into Turn 9. That was the starting spot last year; restarts were at the start-finish line.
Colton Herta dominated last year’s entire weekend until he crashed with five laps remaining chasing Ericsson for the win. He lauded the change.
“I think it is a good decision. It’s going to be tough as the leader, I think, to get a good jump on the field, but it is a really long straight,” Herta said. “It’ll for sure promote some passing, I believe.”
—The entrance into Turn 9 has been narrowed by 25 feet to 60 feet on the driver’s left to make room for suites in front of a gas station. The change is expected to slow the corner and create a passing zone.
—The Turn 11 apex has been widened by 4 feet, which should offer a better sightline for drivers.
—The speed limit for pit lane was reduced from 45 mph to 40 mph, adding approximately three seconds to total pit lane time.
—The transitions on and off the bridge in both directions have been reprofiled and repaved to lessen the impact of the bumps. A year ago, only the asphalt on and off the bridges was repaved 20 feet after the transitions. Now it’s been repaved over 125 feet to create a smoother transition over a longer distance.
—A bump in Turn 5 has been reprofiled to lessen the disturbance coming up the hill into the turnaround section of the course.
NEW TIRE
Firestone will debut its eco-friendly guayule tire this weekend as part of IndyCar’s sustainability efforts. The tire was used during the pit stop challenge at Indianapolis in May but has never been on the racetrack.
The tire is partially composed of a new sustainable natural rubber derived from the guayule shrub, which requires less re-harvesting than traditional sources of rubber. It will be used as the alternate tire this weekend at Nashville.
Guayule is a drought-resistant, heat-tolerant woody desert shrub native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. Natural rubber can be extracted from the branches, bark and roots of the shrub, but because guayule is not currently a commercial crop, Bridgestone must produce the seed and grow the crop.
The guayule natural rubber is located within the sidewall. Bridgestone race tire engineers decided to use the guayule rubber in the entire sidewall because that area is made up of the most natural rubber. This allows Firestone to maintain the same quality and performance as the existing race tire.
Bridgestone plans to incorporate guayule natural rubber into more of its race tires starting in 2023.
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LAUREL, Neb. — Police investigating the killings of four people in a small northeast Nebraska city have arrested a neighbor of the victims, the Nebraska State Patrol said Friday.
A police team surrounded and then entered a home in Laurel about 2:30 a.m. Friday after gathering evidence at two burned houses where the four bodies were found Thursday morning.
The Nebraska State Patrol arrested Jason A. Jones, 42, of Laurel on suspicion of homicide. He had been badly burned and was flown to a hospital in Lincoln so has not been formally charged, Nebraska State Patrol Col. John Bolduc said at a news conference.
Bolduc said Jones lives across the street from one of the burned homes.
Those killed were identified as Gene Twiford, 86, Janet Twiford, 85, and Dana Twiford, 55, who all lived in one house. The victim in the other house was identified as 53-year-old Michele Ebeling. Jones lived across the street from Ebeling and within three blocks of the Twiford home, Bolduc said.
Bolduc declined to give a suspected motive for the arrest or to say if Jones knew those who were killed.
Bolduc said officers used flash explosions as a distraction during the arrest but that Jones was arrested "without any violence." There are no more suspects but Bolduc said it was too early in the investigation to know if there would be any other arrests.
Victim autopsies were scheduled for Friday.
The arrest came a day after the discovery of the bodies in the two burning homes in the city about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Omaha.
The body of one person was found after firefighters were called to an explosion and fire. A short time later, firefighters were called to another home nearby and found the bodies of three people inside.
After examining both burned-out homes, the state patrol said that "gunfire played a part in the incident at both homes" and that both fires had started just after 3 a.m. Thursday.
On Thursday, Cedar County Sheriff Larry Koranda was asked if the community was safe, prompting him to say residents "need to be diligent" and report anything out of the ordinary to police.
On Friday, Bolduc said, "We believe the community is safe with this person in custody."
When the bodies were discovered, Laurel police recommended that the community go on a voluntary lockdown, prompting most businesses, a senior center and schools to limit access for part of the day.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 5, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Albany NY
310 PM EDT Fri Aug 5 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 8 PM EDT SATURDAY...
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 8 PM EDT SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Heat index values between 95 and 100 today and Saturday,
and up to 104 on Sunday.
* WHERE...In New York, the Capital District, mid Hudson Valley and
southern Taconics. In Massachusetts, southern Berkshire County.
In Connecticut, Litchfield County.
* WHEN...For the first Heat Advisory, until 8 PM EDT this
evening. For the second Heat Advisory, from 11 AM to 8 PM EDT
Saturday. For the third Heat Advisory, from 11 AM to 8 PM EDT
Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity 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
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
* WHAT...Heat index values between 95 and 100 on Saturday, and up
to 104 on Sunday.
* WHERE...In New York, Southern Herkimer, Southern Fulton,
Montgomery, Northern Saratoga, Washington, Eastern Columbia and
Southeast Warren Counties. In Vermont, Bennington and Eastern
Windham Counties.
* WHEN...For the first Heat Advisory, from 11 AM to 8 PM EDT
Saturday. For the second Heat Advisory, from 11 AM to 8 PM EDT
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 5, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
358 PM EDT Fri Aug 5 2022
...Heavy thunderstorms will impact portions of northwestern
Cattaraugus and central Chautauqua Counties through 445 PM EDT...
At 354 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking clusters of thunderstorms
with torrential rainfall and reduced visibility along a line
extending from Mayville to Cassadaga to South Dayton and
Cattaraugus. Movement was northwest at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Westfield, Gowanda, Ashford, Mayville, Ashford Hollow, Chautauqua
Institution, Findley Lake, Long Point State Park, Chautauqua,
Portland, Ripley, Stockton, New Albion, Dayton, Brocton, Leon, Mina,
East Otto, Arkwright and Cattaraugus.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 90 between exits 61 and 60.
Interstate 86 between exits 4 and 6.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
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4247 7876 4235 7851 4228 7872 4221 7930
4210 7976 4227 7976 4228 7973 4231 7977
TIME...MOT...LOC 1954Z 153DEG 6KT 4233 7887 4225 7951
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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Flood ravaged eastern Kentucky braces for more rain and flash flooding
By Monica Garrett and Payton Major
Those still recovering from the deadly floods just a week ago in eastern Kentucky find themselves under threat for more heavy rain and flash flooding.
“We’ve got (river) conditions right now that we don’t typically see prolonged at this time of year over a large area where it just makes us more susceptible to flooding than we would normally be at this time of year,” Hal Klingenberg, Lead Forecaster at the National Weather Service in Jackson, Kentucky told CNN Friday morning.
“For most areas, we’re looking at an inch and a half to two inches of rain to occur in a relatively short time within one to three hours to start causing significant problems once again,” Klingenberg said.
Storms on Friday will be capable of producing very heavy rainfall rates, prompting the Weather Prediction Center to issue a slight risk level of excessive rainfall for the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys into the Mid-Atlantic.
For portions of Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia, WPC says Friday is “more of a higher end slight risk with isolated to scattered flash flooding likely, but less confidence on a more widespread/organized risk.”
Klingenberg, who had several coworkers directly impacted by the devastating floods said, “You tend to pay a lot closer attention once you’ve been hurt and once you’ve been hit by something like a natural disaster.”
Flood watches are in place for most of Kentucky, southern Ohio and Indiana, stretching eastward to Maryland as heavy rain over the next two to three days could lead to flash flooding.
An area of heavy rain is moving through Kentucky and Tennessee Friday, with the bulk of the activity expected to reach the flood damaged areas of eastern Kentucky Friday afternoon into evening.
“One of the high resolution models is indicating the possibility of up to nine inches of rainfall in the next 48 hours across a part of southern Kentucky. The precise location of that event will certainly shift as time goes by, but it is an indication of the tropical nature of the potential downpours and their severity,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers explained.
In the longer term, even more rain is forecast for residents in eastern Kentucky Sunday into Wednesday, as a cold front approaches the region bringing renewed rounds of thunderstorms heightening the threat for even more flooding.
Flood threat from Ohio Valley into Appalachians
A nearly stationary boundary stretches all the way from the Central Plains through portions of the Ohio Valley and up into eastern Canada, creating the focus of heavy rainfall over the next few days.
“Although the latest models are significantly different as to the location of the heaviest rain, all are showing more pockets of flooding possible through Sunday across the entire Ohio Valley,” Myers said.
Another area to watch this weekend will be the Appalachians in West Virginia, western Virginia into South Carolina for what are called terrain-locked storms.
“Most of the current flood events have occurred from training thunderstorms, this weekend storms could become locked in one place as the topography prohibits their movement and enhances their accumulation” Myers said.
Given the recent wet conditions, heavy downpours or repetitive rounds of rainfall could lead to localized flash flooding.
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Over two dozen sessions and some 75 speakers in six days. We have a lot to talk about in Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A few months back, the Cap Times announced that the sixth annual Cap Times Idea Fest will once again be a hybrid of virtual and in-person events from Sept. 12-17 across Madison. This morning, Cap Times publisher Paul Fanlund announced speakers including Carl Bernstein and U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, and session topics ranging from the election to climate change.
Bernstein, who along with Washington Post colleague Bob Woodward broke the Watergate scandal 50 years ago, will be the featured guest in a special fundraiser, while Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland who is a member of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, will be the keynote speaker on Friday, Sept. 16.
Tickets are now on sale and registration is open for all free virtual events. The full schedule of events and locations will be available in a few weeks at captimesideafest.com.
This year, Cap Times is proud to announce it has teamed up with Madison's Young Blood Beer Company for an official Cap Times Idea Fest beer. Young Blood will brew a limited-release hazy IPA with hops sourced from Wisconsin, available for purchase at Young Blood's taproom in downtown Madison and at some in-person fest sessions. The beer name and more details will be announced soon at captimes.com.
Virtual sessions during the first part of the week will focus on topics including the upcoming election, climate change, immigration, medical records, rural broadband, marijuana policy and the influence of Title IX. Speakers will include Sen. Melissa Agard, Prof. Dominique Brossard, journalist Ruth Conniff, Sen. Mary Felzkowski, Prof. Charles Franklin, author Andrew Maraniss, activist Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Prof. Ajay Sethi and many more.
Cap Times food editor Lindsay Christians hosts chef Joe Papach of Harvey House in Kessenich's Innovation Kitchen. Register to watch this event free online. Cap Times members get exclusive access to join live for a limited number of seats and enjoy the featured dish and a glass of wine.
Madison Area Music Association-award winning trio Gin, Chocolate and Bottle Rockets will perform a lively show at Doc's Smokehouse. Tickets are $15, or free for Cap Times members at the King Street level and higher. Price includes an outstanding barbecue dinner.
Held at the Memorial Union's Great Hall, cocktails begin at 6:30 p.m. As a special fundraiser for the Cap Times, come hear Madison native and Washington Post editor David Maraniss interview Post colleague Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame about the 50th anniversary of that scandal, how our current political climate compares and his early journalism career. Tickets are $125, or $100 for Cap Times members at the King Street level and higher. Price includes light appetizers, drinks and a copy of Bernstein's new book, "Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom."
Three days of events all at one price! On Wednesday, Sept. 15, at 7 p.m., join us at Madison College's south campus for an outstanding discussion about the "Rising Tide on the south side" featuring community leaders: Ruben Anthony, the Rev. Dr. Alex Gee, Vanessa McDowell and Karen Menendez-Coller. On Friday, Sept. 16, and Saturday, Sept. 17, join us in the Union's Shannon Hall for an outstanding lineup of speakers including Jocelyn Benson, Barb McQuade, Toluse Olorunnipa, Jamie Raskin, Robert Samuels and more. Tickets are $25, or $10 for Cap Times members at the King Street level and higher.
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New York (AP) — Looking for a new job is a balancing act: Some people change roles for a shorter commute or better salary, others want health insurance or flexible schedules, and still others are looking to work in a new or different industry.
Hiring is booming in the U.S. — the economy added 528,000 jobs in July, up from 398,000 in June, according to the latest job report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But in many cases, wages aren’t rising as fast as prices, leading workers to look elsewhere.
Compensation, job location and work environment are among the most important factors you should consider when looking for a new role, according to Jill Gonzalez, a financial analyst from WalletHub.
Here are five key things to think about if you’re looking for a job (or wondering whether you should):
THE CURRENT JOB MARKET
As of July, there were 1.7 jobs for every unemployed person, meaning employers are competing for workers in many industries.
While not all employers can afford to offer cost-of-living wage increases, some are increasingly open to providing other benefits, such as more remote work options, subsidized child care, or coverage of commuting expenses, according to Johnny C. Taylor Jr., chief executive officer of the Society for Human Resource Management.
“With inflation, employees that are otherwise happy at work are forced to look for another job. It’s a retention problem,” he said. “You might have an employee who loves their workplace, but they’ll say, ‘I have to go across the street for the job that will pay me 20% more.’”
Some companies are also better prepared to withstand an economic downturn than others, which is worth considering amid fears that the U.S. could be headed for a recession.
“The companies that are recession-resistant are typically those that sell consumer essentials, provide critical repair services, or manufacture or sell proprietary or specialized products,” said Gonzalez.
Demand for these goods and services typically stays more or less the same regardless of consumers’ budgets. The food industry, grocery stores, power plants, waste management, pharmaceutical, and healthcare companies also weather economic instability well, she said.
SALARY
How much you’ll be paid is key, and how you look at your income depends in part on your industry.
For Justin Taylor, a restaurant worker based in Minneapolis, it isn’t only a question of how much he can make per hour, but also how much he can get in tips.
Taylor increased his salary from $15 per hour to approximately $20 per hour when he changed jobs from Chipotle to a local restaurant. His previous job didn’t include meaningful tips from customers while his current job does, significantly raising his take-home pay.
Conversations around pay are rarely transparent. If you’re not sure what the average salary in your industry might be, the the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides a list of average wages and salaries in most sectors.
COMMUTE
If you find a job that pays more per hour but requires a longer commute, it might not work out to be much of a pay raise, after factoring in gas or the cost of public transit.
“I wanted to be close to my home, I was just trying to save money on transportation,” said Taylor.
Before his new job, Taylor used to commute 30 minutes each way on public transport; he now travels on his electric scooter for less than 10 minutes.
With gas prices higher than a year ago, Taylor also decided to sell his truck and start using more affordable alternatives. Survey data shows that 64 percent of U.S. adults have changed their driving habits or lifestyle since March of this year, according to the American Automobile Association.
If you can take public transportation to your job or you pay for parking, check with your potential new employer about whether the company offers pre-tax benefits.
BENEFITS
For some, good benefits might include health insurance or retirement contributions. For others, working from home a few days a week or having on-the-job training are great bonuses.
“The work-life balance is equally important. (Workers) should inquire about vacation and sick day policies, as well as work-from-home flexibility,” Gonzalez said.
That was the case for Taylor, who approached his job search with the goal of having more flexibility.
“I’m a person, I have a life outside of work and wanted to have more control. That was really important, too. So I went in letting them know ’Hey, I will need this day off,’” said Taylor, who is also a member of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a non-profit organization that advocates for workers’ rights.
Eugene Natali, a financial literacy expert and CEO of Troutwood, a financial planning app, said growing your skills is especially important when there might be a recession looming.
Auto mechanics, for example, should take every on-the-job training and get every certification offered, he said, to make themselves more valuable to their workplace and more attractive to potential employers if they should need to change jobs.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Blair Heitmann, a career expert for hiring platform LinkedIn, encourages job seekers to think about company culture when looking to change roles.
Reaching out to current and former employees, researching press and social media and even reading earnings reports are some of her recommendations.
Websites such as Indeed and Glassdoor have user-generated reviews of workplaces and some offer pay ranges for certain companies.
This research can also help give you insight into what makes a business run, which can give you a leg up in an interview, she said.
Stephanie Stathas, a licensed therapist with Thriveworks, which provides in-person and online therapy, says that identifying healthy workplaces can help reduce job stress.
“If a work environment doesn’t have good management or doesn’t find that time to appreciate the individual for what they do, a lot of people can tend to feel down about themselves,” she said.
But it’s more nuanced than just appreciating workers, she added, as employees also need the ability to set boundaries with their workloads.
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Coroner identifies pregnant woman in fiery California crash
By STEFANIE DAZIO
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have identified a pregnant woman who was killed in a fiery crash Thursday just outside Los Angeles when a speeding car ran a red light and plowed into other vehicles in a crowded intersection. Four others, including a child, also died.
The coroner’s office Friday identified one of the victims as Asherey Ryan, a 23-year-old pregnant woman from Los Angeles. Her unborn child was listed as “baby boy Ryan” in online coroner’s records.
Two other women and a man, as well as a boy, were killed but their names were not made public Friday.
Shortly after 1:30 p.m., a Mercedes-Benz sedan caused the crash involving as many as six cars near a gas station in the unincorporated Windsor Hills about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southwest of downtown LA, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Several people were flung from the cars and two vehicles caught fire. Television reports showed the blackened and mangled cars, as well as a child’s car seat among the debris covering the street.
Video showed the Mercedes careening through an intersection, striking at least two cars that exploded in flames and were sent hurtling onto a sidewalk, winding up against the gas station’s corner sign. A fiery streak led to one car. One vehicle was torn in half.
The car was going at least 50 mph (80 kph) as it raced through the crowded intersection, CHP Officer Franco Pepi said.
Pepi said eight people were taken to the hospital, including the 40-year-old woman who was driving the Mercedes. She had major injuries.
The other victims had minor injuries and included a 33-year-old woman and six children ranging in age from 13 months old to 15 years old, Pepi said.
A memorial grew outside the intersection Friday, as mourners left flowers and candles in memory of the dead.
Henry Sanchez, who works at nearby Sinclair Gas, was at the indoor register when he heard “the loudest noise I’ve ever heard.”
“The sound of it, it was gut-wrenching,” he told The Associated Press on Friday. “It was like two trains hitting each other, metal on metal.”
He saw people rush to the cars to offer aid but they were kept back by the flames until firefighters arrived.
“I remember everybody trying to get the fire down and help people out as much as they could, but nobody could do anything,” he said.
Veronica Esquival told KTLA-TV that she covered her head for protection as debris flew.
“All of the sudden, a baby literally flew from the middle of the intersection to the middle of the gas station and landed right on the floor in front of me,” Esquival said. “One of the workers came and saw me with the baby and took the baby out of my hands. … Somebody tried to resuscitate the baby but the baby was gone.”
Debra Jackson, told KCBS-TV she was about to get out of her car to pump gas when she heard a big explosion.
“The flames just went over everybody,” Jackson said. “The flames went over my whole car and they told me to jump out of my car … because I was trying to get out of my car, to go to the gas pump. And I jumped out of my car and just left my car sitting right there.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Friday announced it has agreed to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for approximately $1.7 billion, scooping up another company to add to its collection of smart home appliances amid broader concerns from anti-monopoly and privacy advocates about Amazon's market power and ability to gain deeper insights into consumers' lives.
iRobot sells its products worldwide and is most famous for the circular-shaped Roomba vacuum, which would join voice assistant Alexa, the Astro robot and Ring security cameras and others in the list of smart home features offered by the Seattle-based e-commerce and tech giant.
The move is part of Amazon's bid to own part of the home space through services and accelerate its growth beyond retail, said Neil Saunders, managing director at GlobalData Retail. A slew of home-cleaning robots adds to the company's tech arsenal, making it more involved in consumers' lives beyond static things like voice control. The latest line of Roombas use sensors to map -- and remember -- a home's floor plan, offering a trove of data that Amazon could potentially integrate with its other products.
Amazon's Astro robot, which helps with tasks like setting an alarm, was unveiled last year at an introductory price of $1,000. But its rollout has been limited and has received a lackluster response.
Amazon hasn't had much success with household robots, but the iRobot acquisition and the company's strong market reputation provide a "massive foothold in the consumer robot market" that could help Amazon replicate the success of its Echo line of smart speakers, said Lian Jye Su, a robotics industry analyst for ABI Research.
Su said it also illustrates the shortcomings of consumer robotics vendors like iRobot, which struggled to expand beyond a niche product and was in a "race-to-the-bottom" competition with Korean and Chinese manufacturers offering cheaper versions of a robotic vacuum.
On Friday, iRobot reported its quarterly results. Revenue plunged 30% primarily on order reductions and delays, and the company announced it was laying off 10% of its workforce.
Amazon said it will acquire iRobot for $61 per share in an all-cash transaction that will include iRobot's net debt. The company has total current debt of approximately $332.1 million as of July 2. The deal is subject to approval by shareholders and regulators. Upon completion, iRobot's CEO, Colin Angle, will remain in his position.
Noting that iRobot has been running its robotics platform on Amazon's cloud service unit AWS for many years, Su said the acquisition could lead to more integration of Amazon speech recognition and other capabilities into vacuums.
In afternoon trading, iRobot shares rose 19%. Amazon's were down 1.7%.
The deal comes as anti-monopoly advocates continue to raise concerns about Amazon's increasing dominance. The purchase of iRobot is Amazon's fourth-largest acquisition, led by its $13.7 billion deal to buy Whole Foods in 2017. Last month, the company said it would buy the primary care provider One Medical in a deal valued roughly at $3.9 billion, a move that expanded its reach further into health care.
On Friday, groups advocating for stricter antitrust regulations called on regulators to block the iRobot merger, arguing it gives Amazon more access into consumers' lives and furthers its dominance in the smart home market.
"The last thing American and the world needs is Amazon vacuuming up even more of our personal information," said Robert Weissman, president of the progressive consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen.
"This is not just about Amazon selling another device in its marketplace," Weissman said. "It's about the company gaining still more intimate details of our lives to gain unfair market advantage and sell us more stuff."
Landmark antitrust legislation targeting Amazon and other Big Tech companies has languished for months in Congress as prospects for votes by the full Senate or House have dimmed.
Last month, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who heads the Senate Judiciary antitrust panel, urged the the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the One Medical acquisition, in the mold of other critics who've called on regulators to block the purchase over concerns about Amazon's past conduct and potential implications for consumers' health data. Regulators also have discretion to challenge Amazon's $8.5 billion buyout of Hollywood studio MGM, which was completed earlier this year.
Founded in 1990 by a trio of Massachusetts Institute of Technology roboticists, including Angle, iRobot's early ventures led to rovers that could perform military and disaster-relief tasks in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The profits from defense contracts allowed iRobot to experiment with a variety of other robots, producing some duds and one huge commercial success: the first Roomba, introduced in 2002, which pioneered the market for automated vacuum cleaners.
The company spun off its defense robotics division in 2016 to become almost exclusively a seller of vacuums and some other home robots, such as the Braava robotic mop. It planned to launch a robotic lawn mower in 2020 but backed off, citing problems tied to the pandemic.
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AP technology writer Matt O'Brien contributed to this report from Providence, Rhode Island. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/amazon-to-buy-vacuum-maker-irobot-for-roughly-1-7b | 2022-08-05T20:53:25Z | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/amazon-to-buy-vacuum-maker-irobot-for-roughly-1-7b | false |
PORTHILL, Idaho — A grizzly bear thought to be behind a series of recent attacks on livestock in the region was euthanized Thursday, as reported by KREM 2 News partner the Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls Press.
Idaho Fish and Game officials, in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, euthanized the large adult male grizzly bear in Boundary County near the town of Porthill.
Grizzly bears in Idaho are federally protected under the Endangered Species Act, so any management action is done in consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
There has been a series of livestock losses due to grizzly bears this spring and summer, T.J. Ross, regional communications manager for Idaho Fish and Game, said in a press release.
The decision was made following a Tuesday attack on a half-dozen sheep near Porthill. Four of the animals were killed and another two injured. Upon further investigation by IFG conservation officers, the bear was confirmed to be a grizzly.
Traps were set to capture the bear that night, but although the bear returned to the area, Ross said the bear did not enter the trap. However, the bear did kill an additional sheep on Wednesday, Aug. 3.
The traps remained set and all additional livestock were corralled in a temporary electric fence to try and prevent additional livestock loss, Ross said.
The bear again returned overnight Wednesday and, this time, was successfully trapped.
"Due to the bear’s repeated behaviors of killing livestock within close proximity of a home, the bear was euthanized after it was captured," Ross said in the press release. "The decision was made with consideration for the safety of people and property."
The August attacks were the latest in which residents in Bonner and Boundary counties lost livestock.
On June 28, a domestic pig was killed by a grizzly bear near Elmira and the following night, four goats were killed on a nearby property. While the species of the bear responsible for June 29 attack could not be confirmed, IDFG officials said last month that “given the close proximity to the previous attack, it is likely the same grizzly bear.”
The Bonner County attacks follow a Boundary County incident in which a domestic pig was killed by a grizzly near Good Grief just south of the Canadian border on June 24.
Neither the location in Good Grief, just south of the Canadian border, on June 24; nor the locations in Elmira on June 28-29 had electric fences. Almost all incidents with bears and livestock are due to no electric fence and feed being left out.
"Bears learn behaviors quickly, especially related to gaining access to easy food sources," Ross said. "The series of grizzly bear and livestock encounters in North Idaho this spring and summer is a reminder of that."
In the wake of the recent livestock attacks, IDFG officials said it is important for farmers and hobby farmers to understand the necessity of electric fences to keep out predators.
In addition, attractants such as trash, animal carcasses, compost, food and beehives should also be properly disposed of. Food and pet food should be securely stored in a bear-resistant location and pet food should be secured.
Outdoor recreationists should also be bear aware, taking care not to interrupt bear activities, and not hiking alone. Bear spray should be carried at all times and residents should take time to learn the difference between defensive and predatory encouters — and how to respond in each situation.
Two IFG employees are largely dedicated to grizzly bear management and education in the region.
"The positions exist to respond to grizzly bear-human conflicts, work with landowners to prevent future bear conflicts and provide bear education and outreach," Ross said. "Both positions are based out of Boundary County, and as part of their program, supplies and support can be provided to the public for grizzly bear-human conflicts."
The Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls Press is a KREM 2 News partner. For more from our news partner, click here. | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/wildfire/grizzly-bear-euthanized-in-boundary-county-after-recent-livestock-attacks/293-9d128876-9447-4041-b315-1bb5fbf8f41f | 2022-08-05T20:53:26Z | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/wildfire/grizzly-bear-euthanized-in-boundary-county-after-recent-livestock-attacks/293-9d128876-9447-4041-b315-1bb5fbf8f41f | false |
Russia, Ukraine Trade Conflicting Statements About Rocket Fire Near Nuclear Power Plant
Aug. 5 2022, Published 4:14 p.m. ET
Both Russia and Ukraine are blaming each other for the recent bombing of power lines near a nuclear power plant, Radar has learned.
A Russian-installed administration in the occupied city of Enerhodar said Aug. 5 that a Ukrainian artillery strike had cut power lines at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest.
A statement on Telegram noted that a fire had broken out at the plant, which continues to be staffed by Ukrainian technicians, but that power needed for the safe functioning of the reactors had been cut off.
A separate statement on Telegram from national nuclear energy company Energoatom painted a different or perhaps additional picture. "On the evening of August 5, Russian terrorists shelled the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant for the second time using multiple launch rocket systems,” it said. “Three shells hit the site of the plant, near one of the power units where the nuclear reactor is located.”
A separate statement on Telegram fromnational nuclear energy company Energoatom painted a different or perhaps additional picture. "On the evening of August 5, Russian terrorists shelled the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant for the second time using multiple launch rocket systems,” it said. “Three shells hit the site of the plant, near one of the power units where the nuclear reactor is located.”
A separate dispatch from the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense notes that the Russians have occupied the plant for basically the entirety of the war and may be using it as a “cover” for their nearby forces.
That is, stationing equipment and forces nearby, knowing Ukrainians will be reluctant to fire anywhere near the plant.
“Russia’s intentions regarding the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant remain unclear,” the Ministry stated. “However, the actions they have undertaken at the facility have likely undermined the security and safety of the plant’s normal operations.”
At press time, despite no leak being detected at the plant, technicians had disconnected the reactor for safety. A photo handed out by Energoatom shows major damage to the top, center portion of a five-story windowed building.
The structure appears to be an administrative one, and not in any way part of the central operating features of the nuclear reactor facility. | https://radaronline.com/p/russia-ukraine-power-plant-attack/ | 2022-08-05T20:54:45Z | https://radaronline.com/p/russia-ukraine-power-plant-attack/ | true |
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Planned Parenthood quietly opened another abortion clinic in Kansas in the lead up to a decisive statewide vote in favor of protecting abortion access.
Emily Wales, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, highlighted the Kansas City clinic while discussing abortion access in a conference call this week, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported Friday.
“The fact that that gives us one more location in Kansas to see patients to support them is really critical at this moment because we’re realistic that this region cannot support the number of patients who need care,” she said after Kansas voters rejected a proposed amendment to the state constitution declaring that it grants no right to abortion.
It brings the number of clinics in the state to five, three of which are operated by Planned Parenthood.
The clinic was supposed to open earlier, but the COVID-19 pandemic led to construction delays, Planned Parenthood Great Plains spokesperson Anamarie Rebori Simmons said in an email. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/5th-abortion-clinic-opened-in-kansas-in-lead-up-to-vote/2022/08/05/38e418e6-14fe-11ed-8482-06c1c84ce8f2_story.html | 2022-08-05T20:57:44Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/5th-abortion-clinic-opened-in-kansas-in-lead-up-to-vote/2022/08/05/38e418e6-14fe-11ed-8482-06c1c84ce8f2_story.html | true |
NESCOPECK, Pa. — As many as 10 people are feared dead after a house fire early Friday in northeastern Pennsylvania, according to a volunteer firefighter who responded and said the victims were his relatives. A criminal investigation is underway, police said.
The fire in Nescopeck was reported around 2:30 a.m. One person was found dead inside the single-family home shortly after emergency responders arrived, while two other victims were found later in the morning.
The victims ranged in age from 6 to 70, authorities said. Some people were able to safely flee the burning home, authorities said, but roughly seven people remained unaccounted for Friday afternoon.
Baker said that the address initially given for the call was a neighboring home, but that he realized it was his family’s residence as the fire truck approached.
“When we turned the corner up here on Dewey (Street) I knew right away what house it was just by looking down the street,” Baker told the Citizens’ Voice. “I was on the first engine, and when we pulled up, the whole place was fully involved. We tried to get in to them.”
Neighbors reported hearing a loud popping sound or explosion before seeing the front porch of the home rapidly consumed by flames. Some also reported hearing a young man screaming in front of the home, “They’re all dead.”
Baker, who was relieved of his firefighting duties because of his relationship to the victims, said 14 people were living in the home. One of them was out delivering newspapers, and three others escaped, he said.
“It’s a complex criminal investigation with multiple fatalities,” Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Derek Felsman said. Troopers were interviewing survivors, he said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/firefighter-as-many-as-10-feared-dead-in-house-fire/2022/08/05/45575810-14fc-11ed-8482-06c1c84ce8f2_story.html | 2022-08-05T20:57:56Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/firefighter-as-many-as-10-feared-dead-in-house-fire/2022/08/05/45575810-14fc-11ed-8482-06c1c84ce8f2_story.html | false |
Thunderstorms on Friday brought a renewed threat of flooding to parts of Kentucky ravaged by high water a week ago.
The National Weather Service issued a flood watch through Saturday morning for nearly the entire state.
As residents continued cleaning up from the late July floods that killed at least 37 people, rain started falling on already saturated ground in eastern Kentucky late Friday morning. Some places could receive up to 3 inches of rain by Friday night, and the storm system wasn’t expected to let up until at least Saturday evening, the weather service said.
“There’s a lot of debris that’s out there that could cause clogging in waterways that could lead to flooding,” Beshear said at a news conference.
Due to unsafe travel conditions, Gov. Andy Beshear canceled visits to two flood-ravaged counties Friday.
The White House announced Friday that President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to eastern Kentucky on Monday to survey the damage from last week’s devastating floods and meet with those affected. The Bidens would join Beshear and his wife, Britainy, at an unspecified Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster recovery center.
Last week’s storm in eastern Kentucky sent floodwaters as high as rooftops. In the days afterward, more than 1,300 people were rescued as teams searched in boats and combed debris-clogged creekbanks. Beshear said Friday that two people in Breathitt County remained missing.
Many residents are still waiting for their utilities to be restored. About 2,000 Kentucky customers remained without electricity on Friday. Some entire water systems were severed or heavily damaged, prompting a significant response from the National Guard and others to distribute bottled water.
Beshear said authorities were checking on people in homes that were still habitable but who might be stranded in areas where private bridges were washed out. Emergency shelters and area state parks housed nearly 530 people who fled homes that were destroyed or badly damaged. Many more residents were staying with relatives and friends.
Biden declared a federal disaster to direct relief money to counties flooded after 8 to 10 1/2 inches (20 to 27 centimeters) of rain fell in just 48 hours last week in the Appalachian mountain region. Federal financial assistance also was being offered to many residents for repairs to privately owned access roads and bridges. The state also was offering disaster unemployment assistance.
The weather service also posted flood watches for much of West Virginia and through the Washington, D.C., area.
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Raby reported from Charleston, W.Va. | https://www.koin.com/news/national/more-storms-bring-renewed-flood-threat-in-hard-hit-kentucky/ | 2022-08-05T21:03:58Z | https://www.koin.com/news/national/more-storms-bring-renewed-flood-threat-in-hard-hit-kentucky/ | false |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jason Martin, a Nashville doctor critical of Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s hands-off approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, won the Democratic nomination for governor Friday and will face Lee in November.
Martin, a first-time political candidate, defeated Memphis attorney and City Councilman JB Smiley Jr. by a thin margin, with advocate Carnita Atwater finishing a distant third. Both Smiley and Atwater would have been the state’s first Black gubernatorial nominee if either had won.
“We hear your message loud and clear. You’re upset that Bill Lee has failed you,” Martin said late Thursday, declaring victory before the race was called as he held a narrow lead in the vote count.
“He stood on the sidelines while 27,000 of our fellow Tennesseans died during the last couple of years,” Martin added, referring to the number of COVID-19 deaths in the state.
Lee was unopposed in his primary election Thursday as he looks to secure a second four-year term in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to statewide office since 2006. He trounced his Democratic opponent in 2018.
Martin jumped into the gubernatorial race last year after becoming an outspoken critic of Lee’s handling of the virus outbreak. The Republican governor declined to issue a statewide mask mandate and signed off on several laws that banned most vaccine mandates as the pandemic swept across the United States, killing more than 1 million people over two years.
However, even as virus pandemic continues to spread throughout the state, the outbreak is largely not a public priority — particularly during the gubernatorial campaign. Martin is now hoping that the tumultuous national political landscape and some of Lee’s recent controversies will help open a path for a Democrat to win a statewide seat.
Some of those include the ongoing fallout from the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision legalizing abortion nationwide. Lee has expressed support for some of the strictest abortion bans in the U.S.
Most recently, Lee declined to answer questions about whether he supported tweaking the state’s so-called trigger law to expand its exemptions and sidestepped directly answering whether he supported exempting children who were raped and then became pregnant.
Meanwhile, Lee received wide criticism from both sides recently after he refused to condemn disparaging remarks a charter school president made about public school teachers during a reception Lee attended. The president had said that the teachers “are trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges.”
Lee contended that the remarks were not directed toward Tennessee teachers but were instead focused on “activism from the left” in schools around the country.
Martin decidedly outraised and outspent Smiley, the next-highest fundraiser. Lee, however, takes a big campaign cash edge into the November midterm election.
“I really believed when I decided to run that we could make life better for every Tennessean by investing in the things that we need to,” Lee said Thursday when asked about running unopposed in the primary. “I hope that Tennesseans have seen that that is the heart behind what we’re doing.”
Martin’s campaign declared victory Thursday night even as votes were still being tallied in Smiley’s hometown of Memphis. Smiley admonished Martin, saying the physician should have waited until the results were all in.
By Friday, Smiley said he was “disappointed in the results” but believed his campaign “forever changed the narrative in this state on the type of candidate that can win.”
While he held off on explicitly endorsing Martin, Smiley added the two agreed that defeating Lee in the general election was imperative. | https://www.koin.com/news/politics/doctor-critical-of-lax-covid-rules-wins-tenn-dem-gov-race/ | 2022-08-05T21:04:51Z | https://www.koin.com/news/politics/doctor-critical-of-lax-covid-rules-wins-tenn-dem-gov-race/ | false |
Commonwealth Games 2022 | Indians in action on August 6, 2022
Birmingham August 06, 2022 02:00 ISTIndia moved to fifth position in the medal tally with a total of 26 medals, including 9 gold, 8 silver and 9 bronze medals
Bajrang Punia was a class apart while defending his title before Sakshi Malik produced a sensational gold medal winning effort as Indian wrestlers grabbed six medals, including three gold, at the Commonwealth Games on August 5.
Deepak Punia also contributed in swelling India’s medal tally by winning the men’s free style 86kg gold but birthday girl Anshu Malik (57kg) had to be content with a silver medal in her maiden CWG appearance.
Divya Kakran clinched a bronze in 68kg, winning the play-off in just 26 seconds against Tonga’s Tiger Lily. Mohit Grewal then ensured that India had a medal to show in all categories on Friday, winning the 125kg bronze play-off to cap a successful day in style.
Courtesy spectacular showing by the wrestlers, India moved to fifth position in the medal tally with a total of 26 medals, including 9 gold, 8 silver and 9 bronze medals.
Here is the list of events which will witness Indians in action on August 6 — the ninth day of the Commonwealth Games
ATHLETICS AND PARA ATHLETICS
Women's F55-57 Shot Put Final: Poonam Sharma, Sharmilam, Santosh - 2:50 p.m.
Women's 10,000m Race Walk Final: Priyanka, Bhawana Jat- 3 p.m.
Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final: Avinash Sable - 4:20 p.m.
Women's 4x100m Relay Round 1 - Heat 1: Hima Das, Dutee Chand, Shrbani Nanda, NS Simi - 4:45 p.m.
Women's Hammer Throw Final: Manju Bala - 11:30 p.m.
Men's 5000m Final: Avinash Sable - 12:40 a.m.
BADMINTON
Women's doubles quarterfinals: Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand
Women's singles quarterfinals: P.V. Sindhu
Men's singles quarterfinals: Kidambi Srikanth
BOXING
Women's Minimumweight (45-48kg) semifinal: Nitu - 3 p.m.
Men's Flyweight (48kg-51kg) semifinal: Amit Panghal - 3:30 p.m.
Women's Light FLyweight (48kg-50kg) semifinal: Nikhat Zareen - 7:15p.m.
Women's Lightweight (57kg-60kg): Jaismine - 8p.m.
Men's Werlterweight (63.5kg-67kg): Rohit Tokas - 12:45 p.m.
Super heavyweight (over 92kg): Sagar - 1:30 a.m.
CRICKET
Women's T20 semifinal between India and England - 3:30 p.m.
HOCKEY
Indian men's team semifinal against South Africa - 10:30 p.m.
TABLE TENNIS AND PARA TABLE TENNIS
Women's Doubles Round of 16: Akula Sreeja/Reeth Tennison - 2 p.m.
Women's Doubles Round of 16: Manika Batra/Diya Parag Chitale - 2 p.m.
Mixed Doubles semifinals: Achanta Sharath Kamal/ Akula Sreeja - 6 p.m.
Men's Singles Classes 3-5: Bronze Medal Match: Raj Aravindan Alagar - 6:15 p.m.
Women's Singles Classes 3-5 Bronze medal match: Sonalben Patel - 12:15 a.m.
Women's Singles Classes 3-5 Gold medal match: Bahvina Patel - 1 a.m.
WRESTLING (starts at 3 p.m.)
Men's Freestyle 57kg quarterfinals: Ravi Kumar
Men's Freestyle 97kg quarterfinals: Deepak Nehra
Women's Freestyle 76kg quarterfinals: Pooja Sihag
Women's Freestyle 53 kg - Nordic System match 3: Vinesh Phogat
Women's Freestyle 50 kg - Nordic System match 3: Pooja Gehlot
Men's Freestyle 74kg 1/8 Final: Naveen
Women's Freestyle 53 kg - Nordic System match 2: Vinesh Phogat
Women's Freestyle 50 kg - Nordic System match 1: Pooja Gehlot - 3 p.m.
Women's Freestyle 53 kg - Nordic System match 6: Vinesh Phogat. | https://www.thehindu.com/sport/commonwealth-games-2022-indians-in-action-on-august-6-2022/article65733809.ece/amp/ | 2022-08-05T21:04:57Z | https://www.thehindu.com/sport/commonwealth-games-2022-indians-in-action-on-august-6-2022/article65733809.ece/amp/ | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon rejected a request from the District of Columbia seeking National Guard assistance in what the mayor has called a “growing humanitarian crisis” prompted by thousands of migrants being bused to the city from two southern states.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin declined to provide Guard personnel and the use of the D.C. Armory to assist with the reception of migrants into the city, according to U.S. defense officials. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday that the district may send an amended, “more specific” request, adding that she believes this is the first time a D.C. request for National Guard has been denied.
One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a decision not yet made public, said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s food and shelter program has provided funding for the problem, and has indicated those funds are sufficient at this point.
Bowser, the district’s Democratic mayor, formally asked the White House last month for an open-ended deployment of 150 National Guard members per day as well as a “suitable federal location” for a mass housing and processing center, mentioning the D.C. Armory as a logical candidate.
During the spring, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, both Republicans, announced plans to send busloads of migrants to Washington, D.C., in response to President Joe Biden’s decision to lift a pandemic-era emergency health order that restricted migrant entry numbers by denying them a chance to seek asylum. The rule remains in effect under court order.
On Friday, Abbott said the first group of migrants from his state had now been bused to New York as well.
As of mid-July, about 5,200 migrants had been bused from Texas to D.C. since April. As of Aug. 3, more than 1,300 had been sent from Arizona since May. The governors call the practice a voluntary free ride – paid for by state taxpayers — that gets migrants closer to family or support networks.
But Bowser last month dismissed that characterization, saying that the asylum-seekers are being “tricked,” as many don’t get close enough to their final destinations and some are ditched at Union Station near the U.S. Capitol and the White House. Often they arrive with no resources and no clue what to do next.
On Friday, Bowser told reporters that the Pentagon appears to be concerned “about the open-ended nature of our request.” and that a more specific one would help.
“We want to continue to work with the Department of Defense so that they understand our operational needs and to assure that political considerations are not a part of their decision,” Bowser said, adding that she believes the ”crisis” will only worsen. “We need the National Guard. If we were a state, I would have already done it.”
A coalition of local charitable groups has been working to feed and shelter the migrants, aided by a $1 million grant from FEMA. But organizers have been warning that both their resources and personnel were nearing exhaustion.
“This reliance on NGOs is not working and is unsustainable — they are overwhelmed and underfunded,” Bowser said in her letter. She has repeatedly stated that the influx is stressing her government’s ability to care for its own homeless residents and now requires a federal response.
Bowser sharply criticized Abbott and Ducey, accusing them of “cruel political gamesmanship” and saying the pair had “decided to use desperate people to score political points.”
Explaining his decision to add New York City as a destination, Abbott said that Biden’s “refusal to acknowledge the crisis caused by his open border policies” forced Texas to “take unprecedented action to keep our communities safe.”
He said the migrants are being dropped off at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
“In addition to Washington, D.C., New York City is the ideal destination for these migrants, who can receive the abundance of city services and housing that Mayor Eric Adams has boasted about within the sanctuary city,” Abbott said.
In response, Fabien Levy, spokesman for Adams, tweeted that Abbott’s “continued use of human beings as political pawns is disgusting. NYC will continue to welcome asylum seekers w/ open arms, as we have always done, but we still need support from DC.”
As mayor of D.C., Bowser does not have the authority to personally order a National Guard deployment, an issue that has become emotionally charged in recent years as a symbol of the district’s entrenched status as less than a state.
Her limited authority played a role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump. When it became clear that Capitol Police were overmatched by the crowds, Bowser couldn’t immediately deploy the district guard. Instead, crucial time was lost while the request was considered inside the Pentagon, and protesters rampaged through the building.
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Associated Press writer Ashraf Khalil in Washington, Karen Matthews in New York City and Bob Christie in Phoenix contributed to this report. | https://www.koin.com/news/politics/pentagon-denies-d-c-request-for-national-guard-migrant-help/ | 2022-08-05T21:05:09Z | https://www.koin.com/news/politics/pentagon-denies-d-c-request-for-national-guard-migrant-help/ | false |
Alabama Woman Allegedly Attacks Sister With Screwdriver During Fight Over Food: Police
Police say an Alabama woman stabbed her sister with a screwdriver during a fight over food.
Police in Alabama say they have arrested a woman after she allegedly attacked her sister with a screwdriver during an argument over food.
Samantha Erickson has been charged with second-degree assault and was released after posting bail of $2,500, according to Florence police.
Officers had responded to a welfare check call over the weekend for a house on Prospect Street, police said. They spoke to a woman who had a puncture wound in her arm.
Investigators questioned the woman's sister, and determined the women had gotten into a fight over food, Florence police said.
No one else was injured in the incident. Police released no other details about the case.
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Truck driver named ‘Highway Angel’ for saving life of overdosing driver
ASHLAND, Va. (Gray News) – A truck driver from North Carolina has gained the title of “angel” for saving the life of a driver who was overdosing on the road.
Corey Parker was named a “Highway Angel” by the Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) for his heroic efforts.
In a news release, the TCA said on the evening of June 21, Parker was driving near Ashland, Virginia, when he noticed a vehicle driving erratically on a busy highway, swerving from lane to lane.
“They smacked the barrier again, and then went out to the middle of the road and then in and smacked the barrier again,” Parker said. “I thought, something’s definitely going on.”
Parker followed the vehicle and was blasting his horn, trying to slow traffic and warn other drivers. He then used his truck to slow the car down and stop it against a barrier.
Parker said once the car slowed down to about 10-15 mph, he “knew it was time to get in front of them.” He wanted the driver to stop before innocent people got hurt.
“All I could think of was that car hitting kids or something,” Parker said.
Once the car was stopped, Parker jumped out of his truck and approached the driver’s door. He found the 32-year-old driver unconscious, and Parker noticed a Narcan pen in the driver’s lap, which is used to reverse the effects of a drug overdose.
A passenger in the car, a 28-year-old man, was also unconscious.
Moments later, police arrived. State police said the driver was checked out by EMS before refusing further medical treatment. The passenger was taken to the hospital and later released.
Parker said he knows firsthand how drugs can take over someone’s life, as he served six years in jail due to decisions he made while being addicted. He is now clean and owns his own trucking business, Triple S Transport in Kenansville, owns a home, and is married.
The driver who overdosed later contacted Parker to thank him for saving his life. Even more amazing, Parker is stepping in to help the man get clean.
“I’m in the process of helping him get into rehab,” Parker said.
Parker joins an elite group of nearly 1,300 professional truck drivers who have been recognized as Highway Angels by the TCA since the program’s inception in 1997.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.ktre.com/2022/08/05/truck-driver-named-highway-angel-saving-life-overdosing-driver/ | 2022-08-05T21:10:32Z | https://www.ktre.com/2022/08/05/truck-driver-named-highway-angel-saving-life-overdosing-driver/ | true |
The first-ever tactical bra is reportedly in development for female soldiers serving in the U.S. Army.
According to the Army Times, female soldiers were surveyed about what they wanted in the "Army Tactical Brassiere," which is undergoing official testing.
Various elements of the garment are reportedly under evaluation, including flame-retardant fabrics, sizing and breathability.
The Army Times reports there are currently four concepts. Two of the bras are similar in structure to sports bras, a third garment is a compression bra and the fourth option has a zipper in the front and adjustable back straps.
An official prototype is expected to be presented in the fall.
The Army Uniform Board will have to approve the prototype before it is an official part of the Army uniform. | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/army-working-on-tactical-bra-for-female-soldiers | 2022-08-05T21:17:15Z | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/army-working-on-tactical-bra-for-female-soldiers | true |
COLLEGE POINT, N.Y., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlantic Dialysis Management Services, LLC ("ADMS") has become aware of a data security incident that may have impacted certain protected health information belonging to certain patients.
On June 9, 2022, ADMS discovered certain unauthorized activity within its computer systems. Upon discovery, ADMS immediately secured its network, reset passwords, and engaged a third-party forensic firm to investigate the incident. Following a thorough investigation, ADMS confirmed that a limited amount of patient information may have been accessed in connection with this incident.
The type of information contained within the affected data included patient names, addresses, social security numbers, dates of birth, medical diagnosis and treatment information, health insurance information, and prescription information. Importantly, the information potentially impacted may vary for each individual, and may include all, or just one, of the above-listed types of information.
At this time, ADMS is not aware of any evidence to suggest that any information has been misused. However, However, ADMS was unable to rule out the possibility that the information could have been accessed. Therefore, in an abundance of caution, ADMS has partnered with third-party computer forensic company to perform a thorough review of the affected information to identify, and subsequently notify all potentially affected individuals.
Additionally, in response to this incident, ADMS has implemented additional security measures within its network and facilities and is reviewing its current policies and procedures related to data security. Although ADMS has no evidence of actual or attempted misuse of information as a result of this incident, patients are nonetheless encouraged to monitor their account statements and explanation of benefits forms for suspicious activity and to detect errors. Patients may also wish to contact the three major credit agencies to place a fraud alert on their credit report – the credit agencies' contact information is: Equifax (888-378-4329); TransUnion (833-395-6938); and Experian (888-397-3472).
ADMS has established a hotline to answer questions about the incident and to address related concerns. ADMS can be reached by phone at 1-718-483-7403, by email at Contact@atlanticdialysis.com, or by writing to 2314 College Point Blvd., Flushing, NY 11356. Additional information is available at https://www.atlanticdialysis.com.
The privacy and protection of information is a top priority for ADMS, and we deeply regret any inconvenience or concern this incident may cause.
Media Contact:
Name: Ricardo Sime
Email: rsime@atlanticdialysis.com
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
1-8-7
(one, eight, seven)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
1-8-7
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Eagle Bancorp Montana, Inc. Quarterly Report (Form10)
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SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Biglari Holdings Inc. (NYSE: BH.A; BH) announces its results for the second quarter and first six months of 2022.
Biglari Holdings Inc.'s earnings for the second quarter and first six months of 2022 and 2021 are summarized below. To become fully apprised of our results, shareholders should carefully study our 10-Q, which has been posted at www.biglariholdings.com.
Analysis of Results:
Investments affect our reported quarterly earnings based on their carrying value. We do not regard the quarterly or annual fluctuations in our investments to be meaningful. Therefore, our operating businesses are best analyzed before the impact of investment gains. As a consequence, in the preceding table we separate earnings of our operating businesses from our investment gains.
About Biglari Holdings Inc.
Biglari Holdings Inc. is a holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in a number of diverse business activities, including property and casualty insurance, licensing and media, restaurants, and oil and gas. The Company's largest operating subsidiaries are involved in the franchising and operating of restaurants.
Comment on Regulation G
This press release contains certain non-GAAP financial measures. In addition to the GAAP presentations of net earnings, Biglari Holdings defines pre-tax operating earnings outside of the investment gains/losses of the Company.
Risks Associated with Forward-Looking Statements
This news release may include "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws. These statements are based on current expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ markedly from those projected or discussed here. Biglari Holdings cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, for actual results may differ materially from expectations. Biglari Holdings does not update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results expressed or implied therein will not be realized. Further information on the types of factors that could affect Biglari Holdings and its business can be found in the Company's filings with the SEC.
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NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Police in North Little Rock are investigating a deadly shooting that happened at the West Scenic Apartment complex shortly after noon Friday.
Officials with the North Little Rock Police Department said that when officers arrived, they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound inside one of the apartments.
Police said that the man was taken to a local hospital where he later died from his injuries.
Detectives with the NLRPD have said they believe this is an isolated incident in which the involved parties knew each other.
Police said that a person of interest involved in the incident was identified and is currently being interviewed by detectives. The identity of the victim has not been released at this time.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the NLRPD tip line at 501-680-8439 or Detective Coburn at 501-771-7155. | https://www.fox16.com/crime/north-little-rock-police-investigating-deadly-shooting-at-apartment-complex/ | 2022-08-05T21:23:41Z | https://www.fox16.com/crime/north-little-rock-police-investigating-deadly-shooting-at-apartment-complex/ | true |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – In what some would argue should be a declared national holiday, Friday, Aug. 5, is International Beer Day.
Celebrated the first Friday of August, International Beer Day is a time to enjoy, responsibly, that most ancient of beverages.
Archeologists have found beer recipes on tablets dated to 4300 B.C., and beer has been found in ceramics dated to 3400 B.C.
Arkansas has 70 breweries and consumes 23.9 gallons of beer per capita. As of 2020, it ranked 44th in beer consumption among the states.
Little Rock local Lost Forty Brewing is recommending visitors try its lager in honor of International Beer Day.
International Beer Day is a fairly new holiday, first begun in 2008. Its promotors recommend three points in celebrating the day:
- To gather with friends and enjoy the deliciousness that is beer.
- To celebrate the dedicated men and women who brew and serve our beer.
- To bring the world together by celebrating the beers of all nations and cultures on this one remarkable day.
President Jimmy Carter deregulated beer production in 1979, allowing small-scale brewers to manufacture beer.
Since then, the craft beer industry has exploded, and today over 9,118 craft breweries operate in the United States, up from 1,409 in 2006.
In the U.S. beer sales went up 1% in 2021, with 187,637,077 barrels sold, leading to gross sales of about $100.2 billion, according to the national Brewers Association. | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/international-beer-day-celebrates-suds/ | 2022-08-05T21:23:47Z | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/international-beer-day-celebrates-suds/ | true |
Such thunderous sky ,Great pov with all the leading lines taking you to the distance . So disappointing when the clouds pass by and no rain when we we need it so much . Fav
So frustrating, isn't it? We have had no rain for well over a month and none forecast in the next fortnight. These clouds are all sound and fury and signifying nothing as the Bard would say! Nice shot though 😁
August 5th, 2022
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Weather Alert Saturday - Extreme Heat
Heat index values will climb to 105+
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - There’s no letting up in the heat for Saturday as dangerous temperatures return for the afternoon. Afternoon highs will top 100 degrees and additional humidity will make it feel much hotter. Please exercise caution as the heat wave continues awhile longer.
One thing that will be slightly different is that the Kansas wind will be stronger out of the south, as gusts will approach 30 mph. Skies will be mainly sunny both Saturday and again Sunday.
A front arriving late into the weekend will stir up some storms for northwest and north central Kansas Sunday evening, but it will not be widespread. This means that not everyone will have rain, but the chances will be out there to wrap up the weekend. Highs will still be near 100 on Sunday.
The heat does ease up a bit early next week with chances for widely scattered storms for Monday and Tuesday. Don’t expect huge amounts of rain with the chances ahead.
Wichita Area Forecast:
Tonight: Clear and warm. Wind: SE 10-20. Low: 79.
Tomorrow: Sunny and breezy. Wind: S 15-30; gusty. High: 102. (Heat index 105+)
Tomorrow Night: Clear and warm. Wind: S 10-20. Low: 78
Sun: High: 101 Sunny to mostly sunny; breezy.
Mon: High: 96 Low: 74 Partly cloudy; isolated PM/evening storm chance.
Tue: High: 90 Low: 72 Partly cloudy; scattered PM/evening storms.
Wed: High: 94 Low: 71 Becoming mostly sunny.
Thu: High: 95 Low: 74 Sunny.
Fri: High: 97 Low: 75 Sunny.
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FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is backing Trustless Media. A firm that is issuing NFTs for the programs that it develops and produces. Describing the concept as “NFTV”, the company has raised $3.25 million to crowdfund Web3 programming.
With the ongoing crypto and NFT skepticism and wariness, many still look at the underlying technology as something that can be disruptive. In Trustless Media’s system, purchasers can buy tokens to get a stake in the shows that they are developing. Ultimately, opening up the creative development process to the public.
Producers have long lamented that commissioners don’t know what they want, or even worse what the public wants. The process opens up the capacity to hear what the public wants that could in turn help commissioners make decisions on what to funnel monies into.
Fans of the idea will also then own a piece of the show if it goes to air.
The web 3 concept is drawing comparisons to web 2’s Indiegogo and Kickstarter but for the next generation. The startup is led by former CNBC and Yahoo Finance reporter Zack Guzman.
The first show Truthless Media plans to release is Coinage, a Web3 news program hosted by Guzman that is set to be released this Autumn.
After the first season finishes, Trustless Media will mint a 9,000-piece NFT collection called Caucus, which is aimed at helping fund the show’s future while setting its narrative direction. There will also be “Subscriber NFTs” available, however, those will be free to mint. The company plans to avoid artificially inflating the value of its tokens to stop massive price fluctuations.
“With a lot of NFT drops, I feel like they’re focused on minting out so the price goes up or, more recently, there’s been a few drops where a creator chooses who can mint or who the first NFTs go to,” Guzman told TechCrunch. “There’s not a lot of transparency there and not a lot of leaning into decentralization. So with the trust experiment, we’re trying to build how a community trusts each other.”
With Bankman-Fried, other members that participated in Trustless Media’s seed round include Ava Labs and Megan Kaspar, who is a founding member of fashion entity Red DAO.
Key insight
Another firm that is looking to streamline and correct some of the processes that have been negatively associated with web 3 is cryptocurrency exchange Billium.
Similar to Trustless adding another level of value to NFTs, Billium is marketing itself as being different from other exchanges through their policies by promoting the fact that a person can start trading cryptocurrencies without understanding them, or the tools for their analysis.
In the highly competitive ecosystem of crypto exchanges, they are also beginning to cut through in a world that is constantly being disrupted.
Ilya Angelov said about the market as it currently stands, “The hardest part was getting the first clients. New crypto exchanges have to deal with the fact that this is a highly competitive business area. And in order to somehow stand out, you need to offer something unique, we offered copy-trading and people liked it.”
“With this ‘NFTV’ concept, there is also a level of disruption and relevance to the TV sector that could prove fruitful. We’re seeing disruption everywhere but sometimes people decide to focus on just crypto pricing when there are so many other areas of focus.”
Billium is fully regulated in Dubai, UAE
Billium is aiming to reach 100,000 active users in Turkey and Russia, whilst acquiring a license in Europe, and continuing work on the $BIL
Both Truthless and Billium identified that digital security needs have to be paramount to ensure any type of success through user trust. As the world is recognizing web 3 scams have been rife with success in certain territories, firms are being extra cautious and producing much more due diligence than ever to combat nefarious actions.
A disruption to TV development is certainly needed as so many strong ideas fall by the wayside. Harming not just producers but broadcasters also. Having early audience insight is something that can aid in helping audiences and keeping production companies afloat. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshwilson/2022/08/05/ftx-ceo-backs-firm-that-aims-to-issue-nfts-for-the-programs-it-develops/ | 2022-08-05T21:32:39Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshwilson/2022/08/05/ftx-ceo-backs-firm-that-aims-to-issue-nfts-for-the-programs-it-develops/ | false |
Miguel Perez is a radio producer for NPR's World Cafe, based out of WXPN in Philadelphia. Before that, he covered arts, music and culture for KERA in Dallas. He reported on everything from the rise of NFTs in the music industry to the enduring significance of gay and lesbian bars to the LGBTQ community in North Texas.
The escapist aesthetic of Renaissance is its own kind of statement — Beyoncé's way of asserting the primacy of Black musical forms throughout American pop history.
Moloney recorded or produced more than 70 albums of Irish music and is credited with bringing traditional Irish music to a wider audience. He died July 27. Originally broadcast in 2006 and 2009. | https://www.wunc.org/2022-08-05/deaton-chris-anthony-reconfigures-the-sound-of-nostalgia | 2022-08-05T21:34:21Z | https://www.wunc.org/2022-08-05/deaton-chris-anthony-reconfigures-the-sound-of-nostalgia | true |
If you thought the Supreme Court term that just concluded was a disaster, brace yourself for the next one. The conservative justices will shift their focus to another long-standing goal: outlawing affirmative action in higher education.
But a spate of briefs defending Harvard and UNC offer compelling arguments that should give the conservative majority pause. In their recent rulings expanding gun rights and eliminating constitutional protection for abortion, the justices emphasized the importance of history — looking to the laws and practices in place at the time the relevant constitutional provision was enacted to determine its original meaning.
“The inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions,” Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe. “Only if a firearm regulation is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition” can it be justified under the Second Amendment, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in striking down a New York state law limiting concealed carry permits.
If the conservative majority meant what it said in those cases, the newly filed briefs suggest, they will vote to uphold the programs now in place, not strike them down.
Don’t hold your breath, I know.
The legal landscape is clear, if contested. Since the court’s splintered 1978 ruling in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, colleges and universities have been permitted to take race into account as one factor in admissions to ensure a diverse student body. In 2003, the court, dividing 5-4, reaffirmed that basic rule against a claim that it violated the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws. Now the justices are being asked to overrule that case, Grutter v. Bollinger, and given the transformation of the court in the intervening years, that outcome seems guaranteed.
So, what does history have to tell the justices? The briefs make a powerful case that the shorthand view of the 14th Amendment as strictly “colorblind” ignores the context of the time in which it was written — in the aftermath of the Civil War — and the willingness of its authors to approve “race-conscious remedies” for discrimination that are anathema to the current conservative majority.
“Absolute neutrality” when it comes to race “has never been a universal constitutional principle, either at the time of ratification or in the Court’s jurisprudence,” Harvard argues in its brief filed last month. “The Congress that adopted the Fourteenth Amendment … authorized numerous measures that benefited African Americans in the aftermath of the Civil War. Against that backdrop, this Court’s far narrower holdings permitting consideration of race as one factor in an individualized decision are readily permissible.”
One such measure was the Freedmen’s Bureau Act of 1866, which provided help for African Americans in everything from education to land distribution. When President Andrew Johnson vetoed the law creating the Freedmen’s Bureau, arguing that it helped “one class or color of our people more than another,” Congress overrode his veto.
The next year, Congress appropriated funds for “destitute colored people” in the District of Columbia, “rebuffing objections to the measure as ‘class legislation’ ‘applicable to colored people and not … to the white people,’” writes Harvard’s lawyer, Seth P. Waxman, a solicitor general under Bill Clinton.
An amicus brief filed on behalf of historians and law professors amplifies this view. “The Reconstruction Framers recognized that there exists an important distinction between, on the one hand, racial designations that denigrate and harm, and, on the other hand, race-conscious laws that ameliorate discrimination and advance equality of opportunity,” the brief argues.
The Constitutional Accountability Center, which advocates for a progressive interpretation of the Constitution’s original meaning, put it in even starker terms. “The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment were the originators of affirmative action,” its brief contends. “Far from establishing an absolute constitutional ban on the use of race by the government, the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment rejected proposals to prohibit any and all use of racial classifications by the government.”
What do those challenging the Harvard and UNC programs say in response? Tellingly, the brief by the group that brought the lawsuits, Students for Fair Admissions, makes almost no reference to history. An amicus brief for Edwin Meese III, attorney general under Ronald Reagan, asserts that the Freedmen’s Bureau example isn’t relevant because the 14th Amendment limited state, not federal, power, and because the “triggering characteristic” wasn’t skin color but having been enslaved. The history professors’ brief dismisses this account as “incorrect” and “ahistorical.”
Which brings us back to competing accounts of history, and the conservative justices’ demonstrated willingness to cherry-pick the version most helpful to their cause. Sorry to say, it’s hard to imagine them letting history get in the way of the result they desire. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/05/harvard-affirmative-action-supreme-court-case/ | 2022-08-05T21:36:14Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/05/harvard-affirmative-action-supreme-court-case/ | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — China cut off contacts with the United States on vital issues Friday — including military matters and crucial climate cooperation — as concerns rose that the Communist government’s hostile reaction to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit could signal a lasting, more aggressive approach toward its U.S. rival and the self-ruled island.
China’s move to freeze key lines of communication compounded the worsening of relations from Pelosi’s visit and from the Chinese response with military exercises off Taiwan, including firing missiles that splashed down in surrounding waters.
After the White House summoned China’s ambassador, Qin Gang, late Thursday to protest the military exercises, White House spokesman John Kirby on Friday condemned the decision to end important dialogue with the United States as “irresponsible.”
The White House spokesman blasted China’s “provocative” actions since Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, which China claims as part of its territory. But Kirby noted that some channels of communication remain open between military officials in the two countries. He repeated daily assurances that the U.S. had not changed its policy toward the Communist mainland and the self-ruled island.
“Bottom line is we’re going to continue our efforts to keep opening lines of communication that are protecting our interests and our values,” Kirby said. He declined to speak about any damage to long-term relations between China and the United States, calling that a discussion for later.
Taiwan has put its military on alert and staged civil defense drills, but the overall mood remained calm on Friday. Flights have been canceled or diverted and fishermen have remained in port to avoid the Chinese drills.
On the Chinese coast across from Taiwan, tourists gathered to try to catch a glimpse of military aircraft.
A minister at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, Jing Quan, told reporters that Pelosi’s mission of support for the democratic government of Taiwan has had “a severe impact on the political foundation of China-U.S. relations, seriously infringed upon China’s sovereignty and (territorial) integrity and … undermines peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits.”
Long term, a significantly more confrontational relationship between China and the U.S. threatens an equilibrium under which Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping’s governments have sparred on human rights, trade, competition and countless other issues but avoided direct conflict and maintained occasional top-level contacts toward other matters, including cutting climate-damaging emissions.
A joint U.S.-China deal to fight climate change struck by Xi and then-President Barack Obama in November of 2014 is credited as a turning point that led to the landmark 2015 Paris agreement in which nearly every nation in the world pledged to try to curb emissions of heat-trapping gases. Seven years later during climate talks in Glasgow, another U.S.-China deal helped smooth over bumps to another international climate deal.
China and the United States are the world’s No. 1 and No. 2 climate polluters, together producing nearly 40% of all fossil-fuel emissions.
Ominously, experts in China-U.S. relations warned that China’s diplomatic and military moves appeared to go beyond retaliatory measures for the visit and could open a new, more openly hostile era, and a more uncertain time for Taiwan’s democratic government.
China-U.S. relations are “in a downward spiral,” said Bonnie Glaser, head of the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund.
“And I think that China is likely to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait in ways that are going to be harmful to Taiwan and are going to be disadvantageous to the United States,” Glaser said.
In recent years, other rounds of tensions between China and its neighbors over the India border, regional islands and the South China Sea have ended with China asserting new territorial claims and enforcing them, noted John Culver, a former East Asia national intelligence officer, now a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. The same could happen now over Taiwan, Culver said. “So I don’t know how this ends. We’ve seen how it begins.”
China’s measures this week are the latest steps intended to punish the U.S. for allowing the visit to the island it claims as its own territory, to be annexed by force if necessary. China on Thursday launched threatening military exercises just off Taiwan’s coasts, running through Sunday.
Some missiles were sent flying over Taiwan itself, Chinese officials told state media — a significant increase in China’s menacing of the island.
China routinely complains when Taiwan has direct contacts with foreign governments, but its response to the Pelosi visit — she was the highest-ranking American official in 25 years —has been unusually strong.
It appears to derail a rare encouraging note — high-level in-person meetings between top officials in recent months including the defense chiefs at an Asia security conference in Singapore and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a Group of 20 meeting in Indonesia.
Those talks were viewed as steps in a positive direction in an otherwise poisoned relationship. Now, talks have been suspended even on climate, where the two countries’ envoys had met multiple times.
China stopped short of interrupting economic and trade talks, where it is looking to Biden to lift tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on imports from China.
On Friday, China’s Foreign Ministry said dialogue between U.S. and Chinese regional commanders and defense department heads would be canceled, along with talks on military maritime safety. Cooperation on returning illegal immigrants, criminal investigations, transnational crime, illegal drugs and climate change will be suspended, the ministry said.
China’s actions come ahead of a key congress of the ruling Communist Party later this year at which President Xi is expected to obtain a third five-year term as party leader. With the economy stumbling, the party has stoked nationalism and issued near-daily attacks on the government of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, which refuses to recognize Taiwan as part of China.
China said Friday that more than 100 warplanes and 10 warships have taken part in live-fire military drills surrounding Taiwan over the past two days. Also, mainly symbolic sanctions against Pelosi and her family were announced.
On the China coast, fighter jets could be heard flying overhead, and tourists taking photos chanted, “Let’s take Taiwan back,” looking out into the blue waters of the Taiwan Strait from Pingtan island, a popular scenic spot in China’s Fujian province.
Pelosi’s visit has stirred emotions among the Chinese public, and the government’s response “makes us feel our motherland is very powerful and gives us confidence that the return of Taiwan is the irresistible trend,” said Wang Lu, a tourist from neighboring Zhejiang province.
China is a “powerful country and it will not allow anyone to offend its own territory,” said Liu Bolin, a high school student visiting the island.
China’s insistence that Taiwan is its territory and its threat to use force to reclaim control have featured in Communist Party statements, the education system and the state-controlled media for more than seven decades since the sides were divided amid civil war in 1949.
Taiwan residents overwhelmingly favor maintaining the status quo of de facto independence and reject China’s demands that the island unify with the mainland under Communist control.
Beyond Taiwan, five of the missiles fired by China landed in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone off Hateruma, an island far south of Japan’s main islands, Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said. He said Japan protested the missiles to China as “serious threats to Japan’s national security and the safety of the Japanese people.”
In Tokyo, where Pelosi is winding up her Asia trip, she said China cannot stop U.S. officials from visiting Taiwan.
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Clayton Kershaw’s latest injury overshadows Dodgers’ sweep of the Giants
SAN FRANCISCO — Clayton Kershaw knew right away that something was wrong.
Before the start of the bottom of the fifth inning Thursday afternoon at Oracle Park, Kershaw was throwing warm-up pitches when he said he “felt something kind of lock up” in his lower back.
It was an immediate red flag for a left-hander with a history of back problems, including a month-long absence earlier this season because of SI joint inflammation that caused lower back pain.
Kershaw tried to throw another warm-up pitch, but was clearly still in discomfort.
He motioned for a trainer, uttered “It’s my back” as he walked off the mound, then made his way slowly to the dugout, appearing to grimace as he disappeared down the tunnel to the clubhouse.
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — The Calgary Flames and recently acquired forward Jonathan Huberdeau have agreed to an $84 million, eight-year contract extension.
The 29-year-old Huberdeau came to Calgary from the Florida Panthers with defenseman MacKenzie Weegar, forward Cole Schwindt and a conditional 2025 first-round pick last month for star forward Matthew Tkachuk.
Calgary announced Huberdeau’s new deal Thursday night.
“I’m thrilled to be part of the Calgary Flames organization long-term,” Huberdeau said in a statement. “I’m excited for this new chapter and I am committed to this team. I’ll give everything I have, on and off the ice and I can’t wait to play in front of the passionate Flames fans.”
Huberdeau finished last season with 30 goals and 85 assists for 115 points. His point total had him tied for second in the NHL, while his 85 assists were a league best.
“We are excited to extend Jonathan long term in Calgary,” Flames general manager Brad Treliving said. “He is an elite player, one of the premier forwards in the league who makes players around him better. We look forward to welcoming Jonathan to our community and his contributions to our team’s success.”
The Saint-Jerome, Quebec, native had spent his entire 10-year career with the Panthers after being drafted third overall in 2011.
He has recorded 198 goals and 415 assists for 613 points over the course of 671 career games.
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CANTON, Ohio (AP) — A 15-year-old boy made his way through the the Pro Football Hall of Fame museum on Friday, checking out the memorabilia and bronze busts before stopping to take a picture of Jen Welter’s blue-and-pink jersey to send to his younger sister.
“She will love this,” said Zach Fleming, a Pittsburgh Steelers fan in town with his dad for the first time. “I want her to know girls can make the Hall of Fame, too.”
Welter became the first woman to coach an NFL game in 2015 when she joined the Arizona Cardinals as an assistant coaching intern for training camp and the preseason.
The shirt, pants and sneakers she wore on the sideline in all four exhibition games are on display at a new exhibit in the Pro Football Today area of the museum.
Welter’s game-worn Texas Revolution jersey, her Dallas Diamonds helmet and a commemorative helmet signed by Team Australia during her time as head coach of the national team is also displayed in a separate glass enclosure.
The “Women’s Impact on Football” exhibit debuted ahead of this week’s enshrinement festivities. It features artifacts from women who have played, coached, officiated and broadcast the game at its highest level.
“There’s a lot of women involved in pro football and we wanted to recognize their contributions and tell their stories,” said Ben Ankrum, assistant curator at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. “We’ve had other exhibits featuring women in pro football and it got to the point where we could do something larger and more permanent.”
Other items on display include:
—Callie Brownson’s game-worn jacket and a signed ball from the game in which she became the first woman to serve as a position coach for an NFL regular-season game with the Cleveland Browns on Nov. 29, 2020. Brownson filled in as the tight ends coach when Drew Petzing didn’t travel with the team after his wife gave birth to the couple’s first child.
—Katie Sowers’ 49ers polo from the 2017 season, when she became only the second woman to serve as a full-time NFL coach. San Francisco hired Sowers as an assistant for the 217 season. Kathryn Smith was the first female full-time coach with the Buffalo Bills in 2016.
—The shoes Buccaneers assistant defensive line coach Lori Locust wore when she and assistant strength and conditioning coach Maral Javadifar became the first female coaches to win a Super Bowl after Tampa Bay’s victory over Kansas City on Feb. 7, 2021.
—Maia Chaka’s referee uniform and penalty flags. Chaka became the first Black woman to officiate an NFL game in 2021.
—Six-time national champion quarterback Allison Cahill’s signed jersey from her MVP performance in the Boston Renegades’ victory in the 2021 Women’s Alliance of Professional Football National Championship Game played at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.
—Hannah Storm’s and Andrea Kremer’s headsets from 2018, when they became the first all-female broadcast team to call an NFL regular-season game.
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MILWAUKEE- For the second presidential election cycle in a row Milwaukee will host one of the major party’s national conventions.
The Republican National Committee today voting on Milwaukee as the host city for the 2024 Republican National Convention. This will be the first RNC for Milwaukee and the second major nominating convention for the city in four years.
I am excited to announce that the RNC has voted unanimously to select Milwaukee as the host city for the 2024 Republican National Convention!
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) August 5, 2022
Milwaukee is a world-class city, and we are eager to see it shine in the spotlight come 2024.
“This gives us the opportunity to do what we weren’t when the 2020 DNC was cut short,” VISIT Milwaukee CEO Peggy Williams-Smith told WTMJ from Chicago. “We can show what a wonderful city Milwaukee is and we get to show it to the world.”
Williams-Smith is in Chicago along with a handful of other state and local dignitaries.
Just in: Former RNC Chairman Reince Priebus with first reaction to unanimous voice vote to bring 2024 Republican National Convention to Milwaukee. pic.twitter.com/djifjnJ7He
— Charles Benson (@CharlesBenson4) August 5, 2022
Dates for the convention have yet to be locked in but it will likely be in July or August of 2024.
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The US government is considering a change to how physicians give monkeypox vaccines so it can make the most of the supply on hand, US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf said Thursday.
As part of the Biden administration's declaration of the monkeypox outbreak in the US as a public health emergency, it's looking into administering Jynneos vaccine shots intradermally instead of subcutaneously.
"We're considering an approach for the current doses of Jynneos that would allow health-care providers to use an existing one-dose vial of the vaccine to administer a total of up to five separate doses," Califf said.
The monkeypox vaccine is now given subcutaneously, meaning delivered below the skin. But with an intradermal vaccination, "basically, you're staying in the skin; you're not going through the skin," said Dr. Daniel Griffin, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University.
The FDA is still deciding the feasibility and timeline for the proposal, a spokesperson told CNN on Friday.
"Should FDA decide to move forward, it would determine appropriate next steps, including who would request the EUA. Requests for EUAs may be made by government agencies or industry sponsors," the FDA said in a statement. "The FDA has not made a final determination on this approach. We would be discussing with stakeholders, including the company, CDC, and the public health community, in the coming days to determine feasibility and a timeline for rollout. We hope to share additional details in the days ahead."
New method could extend vaccine supply
Using a smaller dose with intradermal injection has been done with vaccines for flu and rabies, epidemiologist Dr. Jay Varma told CNN in an email.
"The skin has special cells that are very good at helping a vaccine stimulate the body's immune system," he wrote.
These cells, called dendritic cells, are better able to produce an immune response, Griffin said.
"They live in the skin, and they're better at teaching the immune system what they need to respond to," he said.
"If you're able to give the monkeypox vaccine intradermally, you can give a smaller dose. ... They just would need to have some sort of demonstration that you get the same immune response," he said.
This administration of vaccines would still need to be researched, but Griffin said the data on whether it's effective could be gathered quickly, since the monkeypox vaccine's research and authorizations are based on antibody response, not necessarily efficacy.
Will physicians be able to perform these injections?
Although this method could help stretch the limited Jynneos supply, it may also come with challenges.
"It's a great idea," Griffin said, given the high demand for the vaccine. "We didn't really prepare. We got caught with our pants down. And so I think that this is a brilliant idea of how to make the amount that we have go much, much further."
Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of infectious disease at Vanderbilt University, said these types of injections can be difficult to perform.
"Providing intradermal inoculations has challenges. Sounds good, we can give more vaccines, but you have to do it right," he said. "We do have nurses in all of our TB clinics that know how to do this, but the average nurse needs some practice before they can actually do this, and I wouldn't trust the doctor to do it. They've never done it."
Skin tests for tuberculosis use an intradermal injection.
"I would reach out and repurpose a lot of TB nurses, because there are many nurses out there who have given many, many of the old TB skin tests," Schaffner said. "They know how to do this, and I would look to them to be the people who are actually administering the vaccine."
Califf said the injection method is "nothing unusual."
"It's done in other situations routinely, so we're confident about the administration of the dose," he said.
Dawn O'Connell, assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the US Department of Health and Human Services, said Thursday that 150,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine would be arriving at the US Strategic National Stockpile in September -- earlier than the previously scheduled arrival month of October. O'Connell also said that so far, 602,000 does of Jynneos have been sent to states and jurisdictions.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that at least 1.5 million people in the US are eligible for monkeypox vaccination.
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In eastern Kentucky, a slow cleanup and recovery is underway after flash flooding at the end of July. More than three dozen people died and some are still missing.
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In eastern Kentucky, a slow cleanup and recovery is underway after flash flooding at the end of July. More than three dozen people died and some are still missing.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Gregg Gonsalves of the Yale School of Public health about the public messaging challenges around monkeypox, which is primarily affecting men who have sex with men.
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Man, 48, charged after harboring 16-year-old runaway girl 3 times, police say
TULSA, Okla. (Gray News) – A 48-year-old Oklahoma man is facing charges for harboring a 16-year-old runaway girl on three separate occasions, police said.
According to the Tulsa Police Department, Christopher Bartley was first caught June 16 at his apartment in Tulsa with the 16-year-old girl who had run away from home.
Bartley was charged with harboring a runaway juvenile, false impersonation of a peace officer, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Police said Bartley had told the girl that he was a former Tulsa police officer and current U.S. Marshal, neither of which were true.
He bonded out of jail shortly after his arrest, police said.
At the end of June, Bartley was found a second time with the same 16-year-old girl. She was returned home to her family. Police did not clarify if Bartley faced charges for that incident.
On July 28, Bartley was caught for a third time with the same 16-year-old girl, but this time, the two were found in California.
The situation unfolded when Bartley contacted the Newport Beach Police Department asking about homeless outreach programs. When officers met with him, they became suspicious of the situation. They found the 16-year-old girl with Bartley and discovered that Bartley had warrants in Oklahoma from a missing court date.
Police said Bartley was arrested in California and charged with harboring a juvenile runaway, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and sex crimes involving a minor.
According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department jail records, Bartley is being held on a $100,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in court Aug. 17.
Tulsa police said Bartley will be extradited back to Oklahoma soon. The teen girl was placed in protective custody in California and will be reunited with her family again.
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‘She only had about a minute left’: Firefighters rescue woman caught in flash flood
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - First responders in the Las Vegas area say they were able to rescue a woman who got caught in rushing floodwaters last week.
“They said she only had about a minute left to hold on. She looked like she was in rough shape,” said Clark County Fire Department Capt. Travis Grove.
Firefighters and police officers responded to the scene near Craig Ranch Park after a monsoon storm moved through the area.
KVVU reports people called emergency crews when they saw the woman in the water and heard her screaming.
Firefighters said the water was rushing up to 30 mph and think the woman might have been floating in the water for nearly two miles.
Authorities said the woman was able to cling to a pillar when rescuers threw her a rope.
“It was on her. She tried to bite it with her teeth as her arms were stuck. Somehow, she grabbed the rope. We didn’t think she’d have enough energy,” Grove said.
Rescuers said they were able to bring the woman to safe ground. She was taken to the hospital and later released.
Officials didn’t immediately release how the woman ended up in the wash, but firefighters said the rescue is a clear example of why people should stay out of wash areas.
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Sunak and Truss tear each other apart on economy in latest leadership hustings
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have continued to attack each other’s economic plans in the fourth Tory leadership hustings, with the former chancellor saying that unless inflation is brought under control, “we can kiss goodbye to winning that next election”.
The two candidates vying to become prime minster were put to the test of party members once again at a Tory hustings in Eastbourne, Sussex, on Friday.
The event, which lasted for almost two hours, started with a bang for Ms Truss, who received the backing of Conservative former minister and vice-chairwoman of the 1922 Committee Nus Ghani.
The MP for Wealden in East Sussex introduced the “fair and honest” Foreign Secretary on stage.
Despite Ms Truss’s opening speech being disrupted by shouting climate activists, who were quickly removed from the studio, the hustings continued business as usual.
The economy and the cost of living were once again central to the debate, particularly given the Bank of England’s stark warning on Thursday that the UK faces an outright recession and 13% inflation.
Former chancellor Mr Sunak said that unless inflation gets under control, there is “no hope” the Tories will win the next election, while Ms Truss said the UK must not talk itself into a recession.
Taking a thinly-veiled swipe at his opponent, Mr Sunak told Tory members he is “particularly worried about policies that risk making it (inflation) worse and last longer”.
His comments came as he was asked by the host and former Downing Street adviser Jimmy McLoughlin what his pitch to win a fifth term is going to be.
Mr Sunak said: “Well, the first thing we need to do in order to make sure we can win that election is have got through this inflation problem by then.
Liz Truss during the hustings in Eastbourne (Gareth Fuller/PA)
“And that’s why I’m particularly worried about policies that risk making it worse and last longer.
“Because this is a problem that isn’t just for this winter. It’s a problem for next winter as well, and beyond.
“Because as the Bank of England said, they are worried about inflation becoming embedded, then there’s no hope that we’re going to win that next election.
“Absolutely none. It’s as simple as that.
“We all heard what they said yesterday, all of you saw the numbers.
“And if we don’t get a grip of this thing and get a grip of it fast, then we can kiss goodbye to winning that next election.
“So the first thing to put ourselves in a position to win is to get through inflation and get through it quickly and not do things worse.”
Ms Truss said “forecasts are not destiny” and said the UK can create the “British Silicon Valley”.
The Foreign Secretary said: “Fundamentally, what we need to do is we need to show people that there is hope, and there is an optimistic future ahead of us.
“And as I’ve said, we’re brilliant at start-ups, but we need to be better at funding the scale-ups.
“So one of the things I would do is unleash more investment into our economy, through reforming solvency too.
“I met some investors in the city this morning. They told me that if we get on and do that we could release tens of billions.”
She added: “We can create the British version of Silicon Valley, we can create real opportunities.
“We have a talented generation of young people ready to take those opportunities on, but we need to get the growth.
“I know there are difficult forecasts out there, but forecasts are not destiny. And what we shouldn’t be doing is talking ourselves into a recession. We should be keeping taxes low.”
Rishi Sunak during the hustings event (Gareth Fuller/PA)
Another stark contrast in their economic policies came when Mr Sunak said what he will do to help businesses grow.
The former chancellor said corporation tax is not the “right tax” to focus on, and instead spoke about the need to reform business taxes to “cut them on the things that make a difference”.
The Foreign Secretary has promised to reverse Mr Sunak’s plans to increase corporation tax from 19% to 25%.
The former chancellor said: “We have had this debate on corporation tax. I don’t want to stick with the failed policies of the past. That’s what some people are suggesting. It hasn’t worked.”
He added: “Investment in this economy today, no better than it was a decade ago, in spite of us doing all those things on corporation tax.
“Because it’s not the right tax to focus on. And that’s where my experience in business, my time as chancellor, my conversations with business, have led me to the conclusion we need to be much more radical.
“We need to reform business taxes to cut them on the things that make a difference.”
In an interview with the Financial Times, Ms Truss said about corporation tax: “I think it’s completely counterproductive to be raising corporation tax.
“I think that will stymie growth and make it harder to pay down debt.”
The Foreign Secretary also told the publication that the mandate of the Bank of England should be reviewed, saying: “One of the issues I want to look at is the control of the money supply and particularly the quantitative easing policy and the impact that’s had.”
In the same interview, Ms Truss was also critical of the culture at the Treasury, which was run by Mr Sunak until he resigned last month.
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AUSTIN, Minn. – Almost 2 ½ years after his arrest, a Rochester man is pleading guilty to drug possession in Mower County.
Leonard Demetrius Moss, 36, entered a guilty plea Friday to third-degree drug possession. He was arrested on April 10, 2020, after a traffic stop on Interstate 90. Court documents state Moss was a passenger in the vehicle and admitted to law enforcement he had about 10 grams of marijuana in his backpack.
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Jerry Budrick, one of the original waiters at Chez Panisse and a longtime presence in the iconic restaurant as its maitre d’, has died. He was 78.
Born Gerald Budrick on February 23, 1944 in Chicago to Alphonse Budrick and Anne Walanga, Budrick developed an affinity for hospitality at a young age, serving beers and bourbon at his parents’ Southside tavern in the middle of doing his homework, as he later wrote.
But heading into Chez Panisse’s opening night on August 28, 1971 — a watershed moment which marked a before and after in American food and dining culture — Budrick had no formal experience as a waiter, aside from a short gig at an Austrian lakeside café.
That did not stop him from dazzling diners.
In her book “Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook,” Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters recalls Budrick’s flair in the dining room. He had, she wrote “a flamboyant delivery, almost like he was acting in a theatrical performance, with exaggerated gestures, a full-lipped, beautiful, expressive face, like Malcolm McDowell in ‘A Clockwork Orange.’ Jerry was notorious — he exuded an air of sophistication, but he could also be very funny, making jokes with customers and the other waiters and the cooks.”
In a preface to Budrick’s 2021 memoir, “Waiting at Chez Panisse,” the influential Chez Panisse and Stars chef Jeremiah Tower wrote that Budrick "balanced Alice in the dining room beautifully.” As a server, Budrick“brought professional service to a dining room, sometimes strained by the pressure of a different menu every night and a kitchen that reacted to that somewhat differently than other Bay Area restaurants.”
In his memoir, Budrick recognizes both Waters and Tower as the “parents” of California cuisine, but also shines a light on the roles played by lesser-known characters inside the seminal restaurant.
Budrick went on to become the restaurant’s maitre d’ and became a part owner in 1975 when the restaurant formed a corporation. His last day on the job came in 1987, and he moved to Amador County, where he opened a bottled water business. In 1992, with that business facing financial difficulty, he sold his shares in Chez Panisse back to Waters. Budrick later operated the Mediterranean restaurant Via D’Oro in Sutter Creek with his wife Deborah Budrick.
Budrick died on Sunday, July 24 after a five-year long struggle with esophageal cancer. He is survived by his wife and his two children.
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Firm's Pro Bono Efforts Helped Secure the Release of Woodfox Who Served Longest Record of Solitary Confinement in U.S. History
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys at Sanford Heisler Sharp, who worked for years to achieve the release of Albert Woodfox from the Louisiana prison system that held him in solitary confinement longer than any other prisoner in U.S. history, and for more than half of his 75 years of life, are mourning his death yesterday from complications related to COVID-19.
Woodfox was released in 2016, after spending most of 44 years in seclusion 23 hours a day in a 6 foot by 9-foot cell for allegedly killing a prison guard in 1972, a crime he consistently denied committing. His release allowed him to receive the needed medical treatment that Louisiana prison officials had long prevented him from receiving.
"We are proud to have played a role in securing more than six and a half years of freedom for Mr. Woodfox, after his horrendous experience of being prevented from having any meaningful human contact for more than four decades for a crime he did not commit," said David Sanford, Chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp. "No one should be subjected to such deprivation. As Woodfox once said, solitary confinement 'is a threat to humanity. . .[and] to an individual's dignity, pride and self-respect.'"
Woodfox earned worldwide notoriety as a member of the "Angola Three," a trio of men subjected to years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary known as "Angola." The prison was built on the site of a former slave plantation. Woodfox was awaiting a third trial for a guard's alleged murder when Federal Judge James Brady ordered his release both because of Woodfox's failing health and Judge Brady's concern that he would never receive a fair trial as a prisoner.
The cruel and unusual punishment that Mr. Woodfox and the other two prisoners were subjected to drew international attention and scorn. He was the last of the Angola Three to be released, despite having an exemplary record of conduct in prison, and enduring the cruelty to which he was subjected.
During Woodfox's period of incarceration, attention was often directed to his plight by the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3, Amnesty International, and the Roddick Foundation.
Sanford Heisler Sharp became involved in Woodfox's defense in 2013. The firm collaborated with other attorneys on his legal appeals and successfully defeated Louisiana's plan to recharge him in the guard's death in 2015.
At the time of Woodfox's release, a member of his legal team at Sanford Heisler Sharp said, "The fact that Albert Woodfox served over four decades in solitary confinement shocks the conscience and is a national embarrassment. We should take advantage of the growing national consensus regarding corrections reform to ensure that, if our society were to be judged by entering our prisons, we would not be found lacking."
In 2019, Sanford Heisler Sharp and the Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem invited Woodfox to speak to members of the NDS. Kevin Sharp, Sanford Heisler's Co-Vice Chairman and former federal Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, introduced Woodfox after speaking about criminal justice reform. Woodfox spoke about prison reform and about his book, Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Judge Sharp notes that "Albert was a wonderful human being. Although he had every reason to be bitter, he turned his experience into an opportunity to help others and teach the power of hope. I'm better for having known him."
Sanford Heisler Sharp is a national public interest class-action litigation law firm with offices in New York, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Atlanta, Baltimore, Nashville, and San Diego. The firm focuses on employment discrimination, Title IX, wage and hour, whistleblower and qui tam, criminal/sexual violence, financial services, and Asian American litigation and finance matters. Our lawyers have recovered over $1 billion for our clients through many verdicts and settlements. In 2022, The National Law Journal named Sanford Heisler Sharp Civil Rights Firm of the Year, and it recognized the firm in 2021 as both the Employment Rights Firm of the Year and the Human Rights Firm of the Year. The firm has devoted countless pro bono hours in representing Leonard Peltier. The United Nations Human Rights Council's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called on the United States to "take urgent action to ensure the immediate release of Mr. Peltier," an indigenous rights activist who is a Sanford Heisler Sharp client that has been wrongfully incarcerated by the U.S. government for almost 50 years.
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HONG KONG, August 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BIT Mining Limited (NYSE: BTCM) ("BIT Mining" or the "Company"), a leading technology-driven cryptocurrency mining company, today announced that it received a letter from the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE"), dated July 29, 2022, notifying the Company that it was not in compliance with applicable price criteria (the "Price Criteria") in the NYSE's continued listing standards because, as of July 28, 2022, the average closing price of the Company's American Depositary Shares (the "ADSs") was less than US$1.00 per ADS over a consecutive 30 trading-day period.
Pursuant to Section 802.01C of the NYSE's Listed Company Manual, the Company has six months ("the Cure Period") following receipt of the notice to regain compliance with the minimum share price requirement. The Company can regain compliance at any time during the Cure Period if on the last trading day of any calendar month during the Cure Period the Company has a closing share price of at least US$1.00 per ADS, and an average closing share price of at least US$1.00 per ADS over the 30 trading-day period ending on the last trading day of that month. In the event that at the expiration of the Cure Period, both a US$1.00 per ADS closing share price on the last trading day of the Cure Period and a US$1.00 per ADS average closing share price over the 30 trading-day period ending on the last trading day of the Cure Period are not attained, the NYSE will commence suspension and delisting procedures.
The Company has notified the NYSE on August 4, 2022 of its intent to cure the deficiency.
During the Cure Period, the Company's ADSs will continue to be listed and traded on the NYSE, subject to compliance with other NYSE continued listing standards and other rights of the NYSE to delist the ADSs. The Company is currently in compliance with all other NYSE continued listing standards. The NYSE notice does not affect the Company's business operations, its U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reporting requirements or contractual obligations.
About BIT Mining
BIT Mining (NYSE: BTCM) is a leading technology-driven cryptocurrency mining company, with a long-term strategy to create value across the cryptocurrency industry. Its business covers cryptocurrency mining, mining pool, and data center operation. The Company owns the world's top blockchain browser BTC.com and the comprehensive mining pool business operated under BTC.com, providing multi-currency mining services including BTC, ETH and LTC. The Company also owns a 7-nanometer cryptocurrency mining machine manufacturer, Bee Computing, completing the Company's vertical integration with its supply chain, increasing its self-sufficiency and strengthening its competitive position.
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7 adults, 3 kids dead in house fire; criminal probe underway
Fire tore quickly through a house in the wee hours of Friday, killing seven adults and three children and horrifying a volunteer firefighter who arrived to battle the blaze only to discover that the victims were his family, authorities said.
A criminal investigation into the fire is underway, authorities said. The children who died in the fire were ages 5, 6 and 7, Pennsylvania State Police said in a news release.
Nescopeck Volunteer Fire Co. firefighter Harold Baker told the Citizens' Voice newspaper of Wilkes-Barre that the 10 victims included his son, daughter, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, three grandchildren and two other relatives.
The fire in Nescopeck was reported around 2:30 a.m. One person was found dead inside the single-family home shortly after emergency responders arrived, while two other victims were found later in the morning.
Some people were able to safely flee the burning home, authorities said.
Baker said that the address initially given for the call was a neighboring home, but that he realized it was his family’s residence as the fire truck approached.
“When we turned the corner up here on Dewey (Street) I knew right away what house it was just by looking down the street,” Baker told the Citizens' Voice. “I was on the first engine, and when we pulled up, the whole place was fully involved. We tried to get in to them."
Neighbors reported hearing a loud popping sound or explosion before seeing the front porch of the home rapidly consumed by flames. Some also reported hearing a young man screaming in front of the home, “They’re all dead."
Baker, who was relieved of his firefighting duties because of his relationship to the victims, said 14 people were living in the home. One of them was out delivering newspapers, and three others escaped, he said.
“It’s a complex criminal investigation with multiple fatalities," Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Derek Felsman said. Troopers were interviewing survivors, he said. | https://www.wisn.com/article/family-dead-pennsylvania-house-fire/40821425 | 2022-08-05T22:03:32Z | https://www.wisn.com/article/family-dead-pennsylvania-house-fire/40821425 | true |
Locals in Letcher County trying to save their homes after the flood
ISOM, Ky. (WYMT) - Mud has covered the ground inside and out in Letcher County, after flood water left destruction behind for homeowners to clean up.
“As you can see, this is the mud and sludge. We have a refrigerator that you don’t want to go through that’s turned completely upside down,” Charlotte Breeding, a flood victim in Isom, said pointing at mud in her garage.
Homeowners have been working day and night to clean debris out of their houses. Many homes have garbage stacked up ready to be taken away.
“This debris here. From where I’m standing right here through there came out of the front of my garage,” Katrina Tilley, a flood victim in McRoberts, said.
Memories taken away are some of the hardest to cope with, but the Breeding family also lost their pets to flood water.
“Our sons were able to crawl under and my son in law got their bodies because they were trapped underneath our house,” Breeding said.
The damage has been hard to process, keeping them from tackling a few tasks for fear of breaking down in tears again.
“[I] store clothes in there you know you and everything in there. I can’t even open the door to see, I’ll have to throw everything out,” Tilley said.
Tilley and Breeding both said their homeowners insurance will not cover the flood damage, so they need as much assistance as possible.
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Gov. Larry Hogan spent Thursday touring Carroll County small businesses, meeting with first responders and checking out all that the county 4-H & FFA Fair had to offer.
Hogan’s tour was an opportunity for the governor to highlight his administration’s progress on growing jobs and supporting local businesses, according to a news release from his office.
Katie Weishaar, a volunteer with Carroll County 4-H & FFA Fair, said fair organizers were glad to host the governor and happy to see him “show his interest in agriculture.”
Weishaar said the governor spent time greeting 4-H kids participating in a beef cattle showmanship competition.
“The kids really enjoyed it,” she said, adding that Hogan took time out to congratulate the winners.
Hogan spent much of his time at the fair visiting with kids in the 4-H program, checking out their goats and pigs, and viewing displays of their artwork, crafts and other submissions.
Later in the afternoon Hogan visited small businesses along Sykesville’s historic Main Street.
At Unwined Candles, owner Anna Neith welcomed the governor and showed Hogan how the shop takes recycled wine bottles donated by the community and gives them new life as candle holders.
Anna and her husband, David Neith, made a special candle for the governor to take home. It included the Sykesville Main Street logo, and the words “Made with Main Street Love for Governor Larry Hogan.”
During his time in Sykesville Hogan also visited with Sykesville Mayor Stacy Link and her staff.
“We were excited to have him here,” Link said.
While in town Hogan signed a letter of support for the Downtown Sykesville Connection’s application for the Great American Main Street Award from Main Street America. The award annually honors “communities whose successes serve as a model for comprehensive, preservation-based commercial district revitalization.”
The Downtown Sykesville Connection is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the quality of life in downtown Sykesville for residents, visitors and businesses.
“The governor has a very genuine, down-to-earth soul, and our Main Street is very welcoming,” Link said.
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The governor also made stops at JeannieBird Baking Company on Main Street in downtown Westminster.
“He was very personable,” owner Bernie Vogel said. “He spent time with the crew, he spent time with customers in the dining area and spent time outside talking to diners. It was very heartwarming.”
Hogan also stopped at the 1623 Brewing Company, a family-owned and operated brewery in Eldersburg, where he took a turn at the taps.
“We were able to show him the entire brewing operation,” said Cameron McKelvin, the company’s marketing manager. “He saw the canning operation where we prepare the beer for distribution. He even came out to the tap room to talk to the customers. ... It was awesome.”
The rest of the governor’s tour included a stop at the Boys & Girls Club of Westminster, the Carroll County Public Safety Training Center in Westminster and the town of Union Bridge, where he stopped at the Flood Zone Marketplace & Brewery and presented a citation to Mayor Perry Jones in honor of the town’s 150th anniversary.
Hogan also visited the Maryland State Police Academy Training Center in Sykesville, where he met with members of Trooper Candidate Class 155, who will graduate from the academy in December. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/news/cc-hogan-visit-20220805-tarrynsobzaudgozezbncrqcuq-story.html | 2022-08-05T22:06:09Z | https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/news/cc-hogan-visit-20220805-tarrynsobzaudgozezbncrqcuq-story.html | true |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At its regular meeting held today, the Board of Directors of PNM Resources (NYSE: PNM) declared the regular quarterly dividend of $0.3475 per share on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable August 31, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business August 17, 2022.
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PNM Resources (NYSE: PNM) is an energy holding company based in Albuquerque, N.M., with preliminary 2021 consolidated operating revenues of $1.8 billion. Through its regulated utilities, PNM and TNMP, PNM Resources provides electricity to approximately 800,000 homes and businesses in New Mexico and Texas. PNM serves its customers with a diverse mix of generation and purchased power resources totaling 3.1 gigawatts of capacity, with a goal to achieve 100% emissions-free energy by 2040. For more information, visit the company's website at www.PNMResources.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether the U.S. economy is heading for a recession got more difficult to answer Friday, when a report showed employers hired hundreds of thousands more workers last month than expected.
The stunning strength made clear that a linchpin of the economy remains solid. That’s even though inflation is running at its worst pace in 40 years, the economy’s output shrunk through the first half of the year and rising interest rates are dragging on housing and other industries. All the confounding numbers only make the long-term outlook for the economy more muddied.
On one hand, two straight quarters of economic contraction is a long-held, though informal, definition of a recession. It would mark a quick turnaround barely two years after the official end of the pandemic recession. Yet can a recession really occur when so many people still have jobs and are making more money?
It’s the latest head-scratcher regarding an economy that has confounded Federal Reserve policymakers and many economists since growth screeched to a halt in March 2020 as COVID-19 struck and 20 million Americans were suddenly thrown out of work.
While most economists — and Fed Chair Jerome Powell — have said they don’t think the economy is currently in a recession, with Friday’s data cementing the case for many, expectations are still high for an economic downturn to begin later this year or next.
Friday’s strong jobs report may actually increase the chances of a recession because it could embolden the Federal Reserve to stay aggressive in hiking interest rates in order to beat back inflation. Higher rates slow the economy by making purchases of homes, cars and things bought on credit cards more expensive, and the Fed is jacking up rates at the fastest pace since the early 1980s.
Perhaps even more important than whether a recession occurs is whether workers’ paychecks catch up with inflation. So far, gains in average wages have not, and the pain is disproportionately hitting lower-income and Black and Hispanic households. As a result, Americans have increasingly soured on the economy.
That may be what moves more people in November’s midterm elections than whether or not a recession has officially begun.
So how, exactly, do we know when an economy is in recession? Here are some answers to such questions:
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WHO DECIDES WHEN A RECESSION HAS STARTED?
Recessions are officially declared by the obscure-sounding National Bureau of Economic Research, a group of economists whose Business Cycle Dating Committee defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and lasts more than a few months.”
The committee considers trends in hiring as a key measure in determining recessions. It also assesses many other data points, including gauges of income, employment, inflation-adjusted spending, retail sales and factory output. It puts heavy weight on jobs and a gauge of inflation-adjusted income that excludes government support payments such as Social Security.
Yet the NBER typically doesn’t declare a recession until well after one has begun, sometimes for up to a year. Economists consider a half-point rise in the unemployment rate, averaged over several months, as the most historically reliable sign of a downturn. On Friday, the latest jobs report showed the unemployment rate matched its lowest level in more than 50 years.
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DO TWO STRAIGHT QUARTERS OF ECONOMIC CONTRACTION EQUAL A RECESSION?
That’s a common rule of thumb, but it isn’t an official definition.
Still, in the past, it has been a useful measure. Michael Strain, an economist at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, notes that in each of the past 10 times that the economy shrank for two consecutive quarters, a recession has resulted.
Still, even Strain isn’t sure we’re in recession now. Like many economists, he notes that the underlying drivers of the economy — consumer spending, business investment, home purchases — all grew in the first quarter.
Overall gross domestic product — the broadest measure of the nation’s output — declined at a 1.6% annual rate from January through March because of one-off factors, including a sharp jump in imports and a post-holiday season drop in businesses’ inventories. Many economists expect that when GDP is revised later this year, the first quarter may even turn out to be positive.
“The basic story is that the economy is growing but still slowing, and that slowdown really accelerated in the second quarter,” Strain said.
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DON’T A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK A RECESSION IS COMING?
Yes, because many people now feel more financially burdened. With wage gains trailing inflation for most people, higher prices for such essentials as gas, food, and rent have eroded Americans’ spending power,
Walmart recently reported that higher gas and food costs have forced its shoppers to reduce their purchases of discretionary spending such as new clothing, a clear sign that consumer spending, a key driver of the economy, is weakening. The nation’s largest retailer, Walmart reduced its profit outlook and said it will have to discount more items like furniture and electronics.
And the Fed’s rate hikes have caused average mortgage rates to nearly double to 4.99%, causing a sharp fall in home sales and construction.
Higher rates will also likely weigh on businesses’ willingness to invest in new buildings, machinery and other equipment. If companies reduce spending and investment, they’ll also start to slow hiring. Rising caution among companies about spending freely could lead eventually to layoffs. If the economy were to lose jobs and the public were to grow more fearful, consumers would further reduce spending.
The Fed’s rapid rate hikes have raised the likelihood of recession in the next two years to nearly 50%, Goldman Sachs economists have said. And Bank of America economists now forecast a “mild” recession later this year, while Deutsche Bank expects a recession early next year.
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WHAT ARE SOME SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING RECESSION?
The clearest signal that a recession is under way, economists say, would be a steady rise in job losses and a surge in unemployment. In the past, an increase in the unemployment rate of three-tenths of a percentage point, on average over the previous three months, has meant that a recession will soon follow.
Many economists monitor the number of people who seek unemployment benefits each week, which indicates whether layoffs are worsening. Weekly applications for jobless aid, averaged over the past four weeks, have been rising recently and have topped 250,000. While that is a potentially concerning sign, it is still a low level historically.
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ANY OTHER SIGNALS TO WATCH FOR?
Many economists also monitor changes in the interest payments, or yields, on different bonds for a recession signal known as an “inverted yield curve.” This occurs when the yield on the 10-year Treasury falls below the yield on a short-term Treasury, such as the 3-month T-bill. That is unusual. Normally, longer-term bonds pay investors a richer yield in exchange for tying up their money for a longer period.
Inverted yield curves generally mean that investors foresee a recession that will compel the Fed to slash rates. Inverted curves often predate recessions. Still, it can take 18 to 24 months for a downturn to arrive after the yield curve inverts.
For weeks, the yield on the two-year Treasury has exceeded the 10-year yield, suggesting that markets expect a recession soon. Many analysts say, though, that comparing the 3-month yield to the 10-year has a better recession-forecasting track record. Those rates are not inverted now, though the gap has narrowed.
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WILL THE FED KEEP RAISING RATES EVEN AS THE ECONOMY SLOWS?
The economy’s flashing signals — slowing growth with strong hiring — have put the Fed in a tough spot. Chair Jerome Powell is aiming for a “soft landing,” in which the economy weakens enough to slow hiring and wage growth without causing a recession and brings inflation back to the Fed’s 2% target.
But Powell has acknowledged that such an outcome has grown more difficult to achieve. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s COVID-19 lockdowns have driven up prices for energy food, and many manufactured parts in the U.S.
Powell has also indicated that if necessary, the Fed will keep raising rates even amid a weak economy if that’s what’s needed to tame inflation.
“Is there a risk that we would go too far?” Powell asked last month. “Certainly there’s a risk, but I wouldn’t agree that’s the biggest risk to the economy. The biggest mistake to make…would be to fail to restore price stability.” | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/business/explainer-how-do-we-know-when-a-recession-has-begun-2/ | 2022-08-05T22:08:25Z | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/business/explainer-how-do-we-know-when-a-recession-has-begun-2/ | false |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired police lieutenant has been arrested after police say he fatally shot a fellow law enforcement officer Thursday during a training exercise at a Washington D.C. library.
Jesse Porter was at the end of a training exercise at a library in the district’s Anacostia neighborhood Thursday afternoon when he fired a weapon that struck 25-year-old Maurica Manyan, Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee said Friday. The library officer was then rushed to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Porter was arrested on an involuntary manslaughter charge after police consulted with the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington. He remained in custody Friday and it wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney who could comment on his behalf.
Metropolitan Police said the 58-year-old retired lieutenant was working for a private contractor providing training for a group of library police officers on how to use expandable batons when he discharged a single shot from his firearm.
There were about six people in the room at the time, including other library police officers. The city’s public library system has its own force of full-time special police officers who can be armed and are responsible for ensuring the safety and security of the library branches.
At a news conference shortly after the shooting, Contee said it was unclear why Porter had a firearm during a training exercise. Generally, law enforcement agencies take strides to ensure trainers and participants do not have access to live ammunition or actual firearms during training programs, to avoid the possibility of accidental gunfire.
“It’s not good practice,” Contee said. “I’m not sure in this situation why the trainer had a live weapon in the training environment. But it is not good practice to do this.”
The circumstances surrounding the shooting remained unclear and police said the investigation was still ongoing. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ex-police-lt-arrested-after-fatally-shooting-dc-officer/ | 2022-08-05T22:11:00Z | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ex-police-lt-arrested-after-fatally-shooting-dc-officer/ | false |
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1of 24 Mourners gather Friday Aug. 5, 2022 around the coffins containing the remains of residents who died during protests against the United Nations mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Goma. Moses Sawasawa/AP Show More Show Less
2of 24 Rockets fired by Palestinian militants toward Israel, in Gaza City, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have killed at least 10 people, including a senior militant, and wounded 55 others. Fatima Shbair/AP Show More Show Less 3of 24
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8of 24 A woman stands in front of destroyed buildings after the Russian shelling in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. According local media, supermarket, high-rise buildings and pharmacy were damaged. Kostiantyn Liberov/AP Show More Show Less 9of 24
10of 24 Opposition Congress party leader Gaurav Gogoi, is detained by police officers during a protest in New Delhi, India, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. Indian police detained dozens of opposition Congress party lawmakers, including Rahul Gandhi, a party leader, as they tried to march to the president's palace and prime minister's residence to protest soaring prices of fuel and foodstuffs, and a rise in goods and services tax. Altaf Qadri/AP Show More Show Less
11of 24 Marios Georgiou of Team Cyprus competes during the Men's Horizontal Bar finals at the Commonwealth Games, in Birmingham, England, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. Manish Swarup/AP Show More Show Less 12of 24
13of 24 Police make way for an elderly woman to pass through as they guard the new coca leaf market on the third day of clashes with coca farmers in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. Anti-government coca farmers are protesting against the parallel coca leaf market. Juan Karita/AP Show More Show Less
14of 24 Kathy Hall throws out damaged belongings on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, in Hindman, Ky., in the aftermath of massive flooding. Brynn Anderson/AP Show More Show Less 15of 24
16of 24 Laquan Nairn of the Bahamas competes in the men's long jump qualifying during the athletics in the Alexander Stadium at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. Alastair Grant/AP Show More Show Less
17of 24 Ruslana Panchenko, places her hand on the head of her father, Oleh, as she stands over his casket with Oleh's mother, Lilia, during his burial service in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Panchenko, 48, a Ukrainian soldier, was killed in battle with Russian forces July 27 in the Donetsk region. David Goldman/AP Show More Show Less 18of 24
19of 24 James Hall of Team England competes during the Men's Horizontal Bar finals at the Commonwealth Games, in Birmingham, England, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. Manish Swarup/AP Show More Show Less
20of 24 A coca farmer throws back a tear gas canister fired by riot police during the third day of clashes near the coca market in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. Anti-government coca farmers are protesting against a parallel coca leaf market in La Paz. Juan Karita/AP Show More Show Less 21of 24
22of 24 An aircraft dumps water on the edge of the Elmo Fire burning on the western shore of Flathead Lake, Mont., on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. (Hunter D'Antuono/Flathead Beacon via AP) Hunter D'Antuono/AP Show More Show Less
23of 24 Fellow soldiers stand kneeling as they attend the funeral of officers Andriy Zhovanyk and Yuri Kovalenko, who were killed in a battle against the Russian troops, in central Independence square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. Efrem Lukatsky/AP Show More Show Less 24of 24
From Israeli strikes on Gaza, to flowing volcanoes in Iceland, to flood damage in Kentucky, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by The Associated Press in the past week.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Heavy rainfall triggered flash flooding that closed several roads in Death Valley National Park on Friday near the California-Nevada line.
The National Weather Service reported shortly after noon that all park roads had been closed after 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters) of rain fell in a short amount of time. Death Valley National Park reported on its website that multiple roads were closed due to flooding and debris, including Highway 190 north to Scotty’s Castle, and that other roads may be impassable.
The Furnace Creek Visitor Center also was closed.
The full extent of the closures and damage wasn’t immediately clear. Phones rang busy at park headquarters and a park spokesperson who was on temporary assignment in Alaska said in an email to The Associated Press that the phones were probably out of service.
A flash flood warning for the park and surrounding area expired at 12:45 p.m., but a flood advisory remained in effect into the evening, the weather service said. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Flash-flooding-closes-roads-in-Death-Valley-17355362.php | 2022-08-05T22:12:20Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Flash-flooding-closes-roads-in-Death-Valley-17355362.php | true |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Thursday ruled that Kevin Spacey and his production companies must pay the makers of “House of Cards” nearly $31 million because of losses brought on by his 2017 firing for the sexual harassment of crew members.
The ruling from Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mel Red Recana gives the force of law to the $30.9 award in favor of MRC and other companies that produced the Netflix series by a private arbitrator who heard the case against Spacey.
Recana wrote that Spacey and his attorneys “fail to demonstrate that this is even a close case” and “do not demonstrate that the damages award was so utterly irrational that it amounts to an arbitrary remaking of the parties’ contracts.”
“We are pleased with the court’s ruling,” MRC attorney Michael Kump said in an email to The Associated Press.
Spacey has denied the allegations through his attorneys and his spokesperson, who did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment.
The arbitrator found that Spacey violated his contract’s demands for professional behavior by “engaging certain conduct in connection with several crew members in each of the five seasons that he starred in and executive produced House of Cards,” according to a filing from Kump requesting the approval.
As a result, MRC had to fire Spacey, halt production of the show’s sixth season, rewrite it to remove Spacey’s central character, and shorten it from 13 to eight episodes to meet deadlines, resulting in tens of millions in losses, according to court documents.
Spacey’s attorneys argued in their own filings that the decision to exclude him from the show’s sixth season came before the internal investigation that led the crew members to come forward, and thus was not part of a contract breach. They argued that the actor’s actions were not a substantial factor in the show’s losses.
The ruling from the private arbitrator came after a legal fight of more than three years and an eight-day evidentiary hearing that was kept secret from the public, along with the rest of the dispute, until a panel of three more private arbitrators rejected Spacey’s appeal and upheld the decision in November.
The 63-year-old Oscar winner’s career came to an abrupt halt late in 2017 as the #MeToo movement gained momentum and allegations against him emerged from several places.
Spacey was fired or removed from projects, most notably “House of Cards,” the Netflix political thriller where for five seasons he played lead character Frank Underwood, a power-hungry congressman who becomes president.
Last month, Spacey pleaded not guilty in London to charges of sexually assaulting three men a decade or more ago, when he was director of the Old Vic theater there. His lawyer said he “strenuously denies” the allegations. He is set to face trial next year.
Another criminal case brought against him, an indecent assault and battery charge stemming from the alleged groping of an 18-year-old man at a Nantucket resort, was dismissed by Massachusetts prosecutors in 2019.
Spacey also faces lawsuits from other men, including actor Anthony Rapp.
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- Up to $6 billion in fuel savings possible for customers during project's first decade of operation, if ongoing commodity pressures continue
- Project will generate enough clean, renewable energy to power up to 660,000 homes
- Company evaluating performance requirement
RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Energy reached a major milestone in the development of the 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project by receiving approval from the Virginia State Corporation Commission for the project to be constructed 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach.
CVOW's schedule calls for construction to be complete in 2026, when it can generate enough clean energy to power up to 660,000 homes. The final order from the SCC affirms that CVOW meets all Virginia statutory requirements for rider cost recovery and the issuance of a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for the onshore infrastructure. The order also includes a performance requirement, but does not outline the details surrounding that requirement.
"Our customers expect reliable, affordable energy, and offshore wind is key for delivering on that mission. We are very pleased that the commission has approved this important project that will benefit our customers. We are reviewing the specifics of the order, particularly the performance requirement," said Robert M. Blue, Dominion Energy Chair, President and CEO.
CVOW represents a clean-energy investment of approximately $9.8 billion, and as the largest project of its kind in the United States, CVOW is good for energy diversity, the environment and Virginia's economy.
As a renewable energy resource, offshore wind turbines have no fuel costs, which is especially beneficial considering the recent rise in fuel costs across the country. The project is expected to save Virginia customers more than $3 billion during its first 10 years in operation. However, if these ongoing commodity market pressure trends continue, those savings could total up to nearly $6 billion – almost double the savings.
Offshore wind's economic development and jobs benefits are transformative for Hampton Roads and the Commonwealth, including diverse communities. CVOW could create hundreds of direct and indirect jobs during construction and more than a thousand during operations, while attracting companies to make investments to make Virginia a hub for offshore wind.
As part of its order, the SCC granted approval for approximately 17 miles of new transmission lines and other onshore infrastructure needed to deliver the clean, renewable energy offshore to homes and businesses across Virginia.
In addition to solar, energy storage and nuclear, offshore wind is a key component to diverse energy generation strategy to meet the Commonwealth's clean energy goals and Dominion Energy's own net zero target. Offshore wind complements the company's growing solar portfolio in Virginia, since offshore wind and solar generate peak energy at different times throughout the day and year.
About 7 million customers in 14 states energize their homes and businesses with electricity or natural gas from Dominion Energy (NYSE: D), headquartered in Richmond, Va. The company is committed to sustainable, reliable, affordable and safe energy and to achieving net zero carbon dioxide and methane emissions from its power generation and gas infrastructure operations by 2050. Please visit DominionEnergy.com to learn more.
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You’ll love cooking with a cast iron griddle when it’s properly seasoned
The large cook surface, raised sides and outstanding heat retention of a cast iron griddle make it the ideal cooking tool. However, stuck-on food can be an issue. That’s why a cast iron griddle needs to be seasoned with oil before you use it to prepare your favorite meals.
Seasoning cast iron is easy to do and can be accomplished with various types of cooking oils or specialty oil products. In this article: Lodge Cast Iron Griddle, Lodge Seasoning Spray and Clark’s Cast Iron Seasoning Oil.
Why should I season my cast iron griddle?
Cast iron is known for its durability and ability to withstand high cooking temperatures. However, it has its drawbacks including not being stick-resistant in its raw form and being prone to developing rust. That’s where seasoning comes in.
Seasoning is the process of baking layers of oil on the surface of cast iron cookware. Besides providing a nonstick surface, seasoning also produces a smooth black patina and protects cast iron from rusting.
Many cast iron cookware pieces are bare when they are new, and must be seasoned prior to use. However, some cast iron manufacturers pre-season their cookware before it’s sold to consumers. Such pieces can be used right out of the box, but it’s still a good idea to season pre-seasoned cast iron skillets, pots, griddles and other cookware.
How to season a cast iron griddle
Baking oil onto the surface of a griddle or other cast iron cookware is a process called polymerization, which produces carbonized oil. It requires cooking oil such as corn, vegetable or canola that has a high smoke point and produces a long-lasting patina. Another option is specialized cast iron oil.
Wash your griddle
Layers of oil will stick to cast iron surfaces when you start with clean cookware. Begin the seasoning process by hand-washing your griddle with warm water and soap. Rinse it until all of the soap is removed, and dry it with a dish towel.
Put oil on the griddle
Apply the oil sparingly to the interior and exterior of the griddle. A thin layer is ideal to prevent it from feeling sticky.
Bake the oil onto the griddle
Heat the oven to at least 450 degrees and place the griddle upside-down on a rack. Place a baking sheet or another type of ovenproof pan under it to prevent oil from dripping onto the oven’s heating element. Bake the griddle for an hour.
Repeat the process
Most new cast iron griddles will require several layers of carbonized oil for excellent seasoning. Repeating this process three to four times should suffice.
Care for your cast iron griddle properly
When cooking food on your griddle, using ample amounts of oil will enhance the seasoning on its cooking surface. Hand-wash the griddle with soap and water after use, and dry it thoroughly. Do not let it soak. Use a chain mail scrubber to remove tough buildup without damaging the seasoning. If your griddle ever begins to lose its oil-based patina, apply a bit of oil after it’s washed and dried or re-season it.
Best cast iron griddles and products to season them
Lodge Reversible Cast Iron Griddle
Made by a top brand in cast iron cookware, this griddle is crafted to last a lifetime. It comes pre-seasoned but can easily be seasoned again. It’s large and reversible with flat and grill sides.
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This canola oil is made especially for seasoning cast iron. It’s packaged in a nonaerosol bottle with adjustable settings that make it easy to spray just the right amount onto cookware. The finish it creates is long-lasting, protective and resistant to stuck-on food.
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Clark’s Cast Iron Seasoning Oil
With a unique coconut oil formula, this seasoning oil isn’t likely to spoil like some other options. It’s formulated to protect cast iron cooking surfaces while it creates a stick-resistant coating.
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Victoria Reversible Cast Iron Griddle
Add a bit of seasoning to this griddle’s pre-seasoned surface and you’ll be ready to cook. It’s reversible and large enough to cook generous portions of food.
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If you prefer to season cast iron cookware with traditional canola oil, this is the option to pick. The bottle contains 128 ounces of oil so there’s plenty left over after you season your griddle for cooking some of your favorite recipes.
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Raw + Rare Food Grade Mineral Oil
Some home chefs that cook with cast iron prefer to season it with classic mineral oil. This 32-ounce bottle of food-grade mineral oil is also good for other household purposes.
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Vegetable oil is also a good option for seasoning your cast iron griddle and other cast iron cookware. With this bottle, you’ll get 128 ounces for seasoning multiple pieces and other cooking uses.
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AmazonBasics Reversible Cast Iron Griddle
Roomy cooking space, dual sides and a durable build make this cast iron griddle a good option. It comes pre-seasoned but can be seasoned easily with your favorite oil to increase durability.
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A chain mail cleaner is a must-have gadget for anyone who cooks with cast iron. It removes build-up and grit without stripping seasoning when appropriately used. Made of durable stainless steel, this one isn’t likely to develop rust.
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Caron & Doucet Cuisine Cast Iron Oil
This cast iron oil is made of refined coconut oil that doesn’t leave behind a detectable flavor and isn’t likely to become rancid. Although it’s not the best choice for cooking at high temperatures, it’s easy to use to produce a nice patina.
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Crisbee Puck Cast Iron Seasoning Oil and Conditioner
If you prefer not to work with liquid oils when seasoning cast iron, this product is worth considering. It comes in solid form in the shape of a puck that is easy to apply to cookware. It’s made with a combination of oils and beeswax that don’t smoke too much during seasoning and cooking. You’ll get two pucks for the price.
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Overmont Reversible Cast Iron Griddle
Slightly smaller than other cast iron griddles we considered, this model is versatile for preparing different types of meals and snacks. It’s pre-seasoned but can be seasoned again once it arrives for a finish that holds up well to frequent use. It’s also dual-sided with both flat and grilled surfaces.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — State regulators on Friday approved an application from Dominion Energy Virginia to build an enormous offshore wind farm off the coast of Virginia Beach and recover the cost from ratepayers.
No parties to the monthslong proceeding had opposed the approval of the project, which will help the utility boost the proportion of its generation that comes from renewable resources. But many had raised concerns about affordability and possible risks to the utility’s captive ratepayers.
In its Friday order, the State Corporation Commission noted that the 176-turbine Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project will likely be the single largest project in Dominion’s history and said that because of its size, complexity and location, it faces an array of challenges. The commission included in its order three “consumer protections,” including a performance standard.
The commission’s order also approved facilities that will connect the wind farm to the existing transmission system.
Robert Blue, Dominion Energy’s president and CEO, said in a statement that the company was pleased with the approval but was reviewing the specifics of the order, “particularly the performance requirement.”
The project, which will be located about 27 miles off the coast, has an expected capital cost of $9.8 billion and has drawn broad support from local officials, policymakers, business groups and trade unions, who say it will help fight climate change and create jobs. Backers quickly celebrated the commission’s decision.
“We applaud the SCC for greenlighting new offshore wind power in Virginia. As the largest offshore wind project in the country, this project is a critical piece of our clean energy transition because it complements solar by generating power at night when the sun isn’t shining,” Will Cleveland, a senior attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center, said in a statement.
Regarding costs, the SCC order said that over the wind farm’s projected 35-year lifetime, including the construction and its 30-year projected useful life, a typical residential customer is expected to see an average monthly bill increase of $4.72, with a peak monthly bill increase of $14.22 in 2027.
“To be clear, total Project costs, including financing costs, less investment tax credits, are estimated to be approximately $21.5 billion on a Virginia-jurisdictional basis, assuming such costs are reasonable and prudent. And all of these costs … will find their way into ratepayers electric bills in some manner,” the order said.
Dominion said in a news release that because offshore wind turbines have no fuel costs, the project is expected to save Virginia customers more than $3 billion during its first 10 years of operation.
The consumer protections in the commission’s order include a requirement that Dominion file a notice within 30 calendar days if it finds that the total project costs are expected to exceed the current estimate or if the final turbine installation is expected to be delayed beyond Feb. 4, 2027. Annual filings will also have to address “any material changes” to the project and explain any cost overruns.
The SCC also ordered that beginning with the commercial operation and extending through the life of the project, customers will be “held harmless” for any shortfall in energy production below a certain threshold.
Such a performance standard will protect customers who are paying for the project “from also having to pay for replacement energy if the Project does not generate the amount of electricity upon which Dominion bases its request and its cost estimates,” the order said.
The order goes on to warn that the performance standard, however, will not protect customers from cost overruns, or if the project is abandoned.
Commissioner Judith Jagdmann emphasized in a concurring opinion that the project was “legislatively favored.”
The 2020 Virginia Clean Economy Act, a sweeping overhaul of the state’s energy policy enacted by Democrats, included a number of renewable energy mandates intended to help address the threats of climate change and paved the way for the project.
The General Assembly, Jagdmann wrote, could consider implementing additional consumer protections.
Friday’s decision came after months of voluminous filings in the case and a multiday evidentiary hearing in May.
The company already has a two-turbine pilot project up and running. The 2.6-gigawatt, utility-scale project’s schedule calls for construction to be complete in 2026. Dominion expects the project to generate enough clean energy to power up to 660,000 homes. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/virginia-regulators-ok-dominions-planned-offshore-wind-farm/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-08-05T22:18:29Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/virginia-regulators-ok-dominions-planned-offshore-wind-farm/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | true |
5th abortion clinic opened in Kansas in lead up to vote
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Planned Parenthood quietly opened another abortion clinic in Kansas in the lead up to a decisive statewide vote in favor of protecting abortion access. The Wyandotte Health Center in Kansas City, Kansas, had long been in the works but opened with little notice this summer as neighboring Missouri banned nearly all abortions in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Other nearby states took similar actions. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported Friday that Emily Wales, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, highlighted the clinic while discussing abortion access in a conference call this week. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/08/05/5th-abortion-clinic-opened-in-kansas-in-lead-up-to-vote/ | 2022-08-05T22:18:31Z | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/08/05/5th-abortion-clinic-opened-in-kansas-in-lead-up-to-vote/ | true |
50-yard boundary: Officers protecting mother seal and her baby from beachgoers
HONOLULU (Hawaii News Now/Gray News) - Hawaii officials are enforcing a 50-yard boundary around a monk seal named Rocky and her pup at Kaimana Beach.
Starting this week, state conservation officers said they would block off the area to keep people away from the two to keep everyone safe.
Officials with the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources said the government operation is meant to protect the public and the seals.
Hawaii News Now reports last month, a 60-year-old woman suffered minor injuries after the protective mother seal bit her.
According to the department, Rocky and her pup have been at the beach for nearly a month.
Law enforcement said officers will monitor the mother and her baby 24 hours a day until the pup weans in about three weeks. They are also warning the public once again to keep their distance.
“Awareness and safe behavior are critically important,” said Jason Redulla, with the Dept. of Land and Natural Resources. “Agencies have maintained a presence and signage since the pup’s birth, but these have failed to deter a number of people from approaching the seals, which has created a dangerous situation.”
Officials said it’s expected that Rocky and her pup will move to another area after weaning, and encounters will be much less of a concern then.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 5, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
449 PM EDT Fri Aug 5 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM EDT THIS
EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO COUNTY...
At 449 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated much of the rain with the
thunderstorms has ended across the warned area. However runoff from
these storms will continue and ponding water in low lying areas or
flow rates in creeks and streams could still rapidly increase with
flash flooding possible.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor
drainage and low-lying areas.
Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Naples, Bristol Mountain and Hunt Hollow.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
In hilly terrain there are hundreds of low water crossings which are
potentially dangerous in heavy rain. Do not attempt to cross flooded
roads. Find an alternate route.
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GDP has declined for a second quarter in a row — a common definition of a recession. But a group of economists are asking, why rely on that single number to determine the health of the economy?
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GDP has declined for a second quarter in a row — a common definition of a recession. But a group of economists are asking, why rely on that single number to determine the health of the economy?
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Miguel Perez is a radio producer for NPR's World Cafe, based out of WXPN in Philadelphia. Before that, he covered arts, music and culture for KERA in Dallas. He reported on everything from the rise of NFTs in the music industry to the enduring significance of gay and lesbian bars to the LGBTQ community in North Texas. | https://www.wvpublic.org/2022-08-05/deaton-chris-anthony-reconfigures-the-sound-of-nostalgia | 2022-08-05T22:24:07Z | https://www.wvpublic.org/2022-08-05/deaton-chris-anthony-reconfigures-the-sound-of-nostalgia | true |
(The Hill) – A French scientist apologized for a joke he posted on Twitter, in which he claimed a photo of a chorizo was that of a star.
Etienne Klein, who is the research director of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, posted a photo last week that he claimed was of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
The telescope sent back its first full-color image showing the deepest view of the universe ever seen last month, after reaching its destination almost 1 million miles from Earth earlier this year.
Klein pointed to the level of detail in the image he posted and said that a “new world” is being revealed.
But he commented on his post about an hour later to reveal the joke, saying that modern cosmology states that no object from “Spanish charcuterie” exists outside of Earth.
After receiving some comments critical of the joke, Klein commented that it was meant for amusement.
“Let us learn to be wary of arguments from authority as much as of the spontaneous eloquence of certain images,” he said.
On Wednesday, Klein posted a real image of a few galaxies located 500 million light years away that the telescope took. He also apologized for the joke, saying he wanted to urge caution about images that appear to speak for themselves. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/french-scientist-admits-to-joke-tweeting-picture-of-chorizo-not-space-telescope-image/ | 2022-08-05T22:27:35Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/french-scientist-admits-to-joke-tweeting-picture-of-chorizo-not-space-telescope-image/ | true |
(CNN) — A North Texas man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for assaulting an Asian family he blamed for the Covid-19 pandemic, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
Jose Gomez III, 21, pleaded guilty in February to three counts of committing hate crimes. CNN has reached out to his lawyer for comment.
Gomez saw a Burmese family with three young children enter a Sam’s Club in Midland, Texas, in March 2020, and, believing they were Chinese, followed them into the store, according to federal prosecutors.
Gomez grabbed kitchen knives that were being sold at the store and attacked the family, slashing the father and a child who was then 6 years old, according to the criminal complaint.
Prosecutors said Thursday the blade of the knife entered millimeters from the child’s right eye, cut his ear and slashed the back of the child’s head.
A store employee who intervened was also stabbed in the leg, according to prosecutors. As the suspect was being held to the ground, prosecutors said, he yelled to the Asian family — “Get out of America!”
Gomez later admitted to authorities he had attacked the family and that he targeted the father and “whoever I think came from the country who started spreading the disease around.”
Gomez told authorities he intended to kill the father and also admitted to targeting the children, the complaint said.
Hate crimes across the US have risen since the onset of the pandemic, including attacks on Asian Americans, who are often brutally — and sometimes fatally — targeted and erroneously blamed for the pandemic.
“It is our hope today’s sentence will help the victims with the healing process,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Jeffery R. Downey said in a statement.
“Rest assured, the FBI and our law enforcement partners will aggressively pursue anyone who commits these violent acts to ensure the civil rights of all Americans are protected.” | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/texas-man-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison-for-assaulting-asian-family-he-blamed-for-the-pandemic/ | 2022-08-05T22:30:36Z | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/texas-man-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison-for-assaulting-asian-family-he-blamed-for-the-pandemic/ | true |
A man featured in the Laredo Crime Stoppers’ most wanted list has been arrested, authorities said.
Jose Casarez III, 41, was served with warrants charging him with four counts of robbery.
One case was reported at about 9:28 p.m. Wednesday at the Conoco Convenience Store on 2002 Santa Ursula Ave. A store employee stated that a male grabbed some beers.
When he approached the counter, he told the employee to give him all the money or he would shoot her, authorities said. The suspect made it out with $600, police said.
Detectives would identify the suspect as Casarez through the course of the investigation.
“Defendant was arrested for two counts of robbery and one count of aggravated robbery in June and continues to commit robberies. He is a threat to the safety of the community,” court documents state. | https://www.lmtonline.com/local/article/Laredo-Crime-Stoppers-most-wanted-suspect-17355210.php | 2022-08-05T22:32:20Z | https://www.lmtonline.com/local/article/Laredo-Crime-Stoppers-most-wanted-suspect-17355210.php | false |
Archie Battersbee: Family devastated as legal routes exhausted
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The family of Archie Battersbee were "devastated" that all legal routes have been exhausted, campaign group Christian Concern has said.
The 12-year-old must spend his final days in hospital after the High Court ruled he could not move to a hospice.
The family requested the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) intervene, but was told it "fell outside" its scope.
Archie has not regained consciousness since an accident at home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April.
The family's long legal battle to continue his life-sustaining treatment ended when the ECHR said it "would not interfere" with the UK courts' rulings, paving the way for support to be stopped.
They hoped to move him to a hospice but doctors warned he was too unstable to move by ambulance and it would "hasten premature deterioration".
The High Court ruled Archie should remain at Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London.
The family sought permission to appeal against the decision, but that bid was rejected by three justices at the Court of Appeal.
They then asked the ECHR to intervene, but late on Friday, the court said the request could not be dealt with.
A spokesman with campaign group Christian Concern, which is supporting Archie's family, said: "All legal routes have been exhausted.
"The family are devastated and are spending precious time with Archie."
The hospital has not confirmed when treatment will be withdrawn, but Christian Concern says the family have been told it will be withdrawn on Saturday.
Responding to the High Court's hospice ruling earlier on Friday, Archie's mum, Hollie Dance, said: "All our wishes as a family have been denied by the authorities.
"We are broken, but we are keeping going, because we love Archie and refuse to give up on him."
Archie was found unconscious at home and his mother believes he may have been taking part in an online challenge.
He suffered "catastrophic" brain injuries and doctors think it is "highly likely" he is brain-stem dead.
Life-sustaining support, including mechanical ventilation and drug treatments, has been in place since April.
'Unconditional love'
In her ruling earlier on Friday, Mrs Justice Theis concluded it was not in Archie's best interests to be moved.
She said: "Archie's best interests must remain at the core of any conclusions reached by this court.
"When considering the wishes of the family, why those wishes are held, the facilities at the hospice, what Archie is likely to have wanted... the risks involved in a transfer... and the increasing fragility of his medical condition, I am satisfied... he should remain at the hospital when treatment is withdrawn."
Mrs Justice Theis also noted Archie's family's "unconditional love and dedication", which she said had been a "golden thread that runs through this case".
"I hope now Archie can be afforded the opportunity for him to die in peaceful circumstances, with the family who meant so much to him as he clearly does to them."
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Covid restrictions will finally be lifted for IVF couples in Glasgow
By Chelsea Rocks
BBC News Scotland
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Women going through IVF treatment at an NHS fertility clinic in Glasgow will finally be allowed to take their partners to medical appointments.
It comes more than two years after Covid restrictions were introduced and four months after visitors were welcomed to all other wards at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Patients say they felt unsupported and overwhelmed during consultations and medical procedures.
The rules will be lifted on Monday.
NHS Greater and Glasgow and Clyde said it needed to "strike a balance" between protecting patients and staff and providing the best care possible.
Kimberley Harney, 30, conceived through IVF in September 2021.
Her husband, Scott, was not with her for appointments including when she was told whether she was successfully responding to treatment, when she underwent general anaesthetic for egg retrieval, or when the embryo was implanted in her womb.
"I was sobbing, hormonal and stressed - I could have been doing with having someone else at the appointments with me," she told BBC Scotland.
Kimberley went through the scans, injections and surgeries alone.
"It's not exactly nice, it's very invasive and you never know how you will feel. It's not a nice experience," she said.
"Partners weren't even allowed in the waiting room, Scott couldn't play any part in my treatment and the only time he was even allowed into the clinic was to give a sperm sample and collect me after my aesthetic.
"You are grateful to have the treatment but it's so difficult to go through it on your own. Going to appointments yourself, it just isn't the same as watching the egg being implanted together."
Kimberley gave birth to her son, Zak, in May but she knows other women who have gone through several failed IVF attempts without their partner holding their hand.
She said: "I can't imagine being told you haven't responded to treatment, and then having to leave the clinic on your own and tell your partner."
During the height of the pandemic women who successfully conceived had to attend appointments alone and there were limits on how long their partners could remain on the ward after the birth.
However these restrictions were lifted several months ago.
And there have been no rules in place in Scotland to refuse visitors to any other ward of a hospital since April.
Claire, a current patient of the Assisted Conception Service at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, said she had endured months of treatment on her own.
"As time progresses and investigations become more invasive, it has taken a large emotional toll on both of us, with my husband becoming frustrated at not being able to support me when it is most needed," she said.
"If my husband was allowed to be with me it would provide essential support, not only emotionally, but in terms of absorbing important information when it all becomes a little overwhelming.
"Although it is me who needs the investigations and tests, it is my husband and I going through this together."
'High level of safety'
The Glasgow health board apologised for any "distress or inconvenience" caused by the policy.
A spokesperson said: "We need to ensure that we strike a balance between protecting our patients, their relatives and our staff, while continuing to provide the best person-centred care possible.
"While partners have been able to accompany the patient to specific appointments, such as egg collection and pregnancy scans, to ensure we could maintain high levels of safety as well as maximise the number of patients we could see, we limited partners' attendance at other more routine appointments.
"We are aware of the difficulties this might have caused for couples using our services, and we would like to apologise for any resulting distress or inconvenience.
"However, we are pleased to announce that, from Monday 8th August, all restrictions at the Assisted Conception Service will be removed and partners will be able to attend all appointments once more."
- 14 April 2020 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-62430907 | 2022-08-05T22:33:31Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-62430907 | true |
4 days out: Democrat Jeff Ettinger campaigns through a covid diagnosis
“We know that in the next four days, it’s critical for us to be able to spread the message far and wide,” said campaign chair Janne Poppe
AUSTIN, MN (Gray DC) - It’s the homestretch at the democratic headquarters in Austin, with just four days until the August 9th election. In a curveball, Democrats were forced to bench their star player.
“Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to he’s active while he’s at home, but has certainly curtailed some of those in-person activities,” said Jeanne Poppe, the campaign chair.
With first congressional candidate Jeff Ettinger out with covid, the team had to re-strategize.
“We know that in the next four days, it’s critical for us to be able to spread the message far and wide,” said Poppe.
Scott Redenbaugh, a Democratic Field Director explains that with the challenge of covid, comes new opportunities.
“We’re not missing a step. He’s still doing events virtually. He’s still talking to people on the phone. He’s still doing radio interviews. He’s doing everything he can from home,” said Redenbaugh.
While Ettinger is at home, boots are on the ground in his stead.
“We have about a few hundred volunteers going out this weekend knocking on doors and talking to people on his behalf,” said Redenbaugh.
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BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Someone fired shots Thursday at the Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis, sending shoppers running for cover, but police said they did not immediately find a victim.
Bloomington police also said they were still searching for a suspect after securing the scene shortly before 6 p.m. They said a lockdown that had forced some shoppers to shelter in place, while others fled, was in the process of being lifted, but that the mall would not reopen Thursday.
Video posted to social media showed what appeared to be a man shouting as he walked near the complex’s Nike store, with at least three apparent gunshots.
The mall, which opened in 1992, is the largest in the U.S. and is a tourist destination and community gathering spot.
Video posted online showed shoppers fleeing from the amusement park at the interior on the giant mall’s ground level, holding their children’s hands and clutching their bags. Still other video showed a pair of police officers, including one with a rifle, moving through the mall, and people walking quickly away from the mall’s large interior atrium area.
Trent Turner, a salesman at a DSW shoe store one level below the Nike store, said he was near the back when he heard gunshots. “Then I saw everyone stampeding toward the back,” he said.
One woman tweeted that she was shopping for clothes for high school senior pictures with her 17-year-old daughter when the store manager told them to “move as far back as possible.” The woman said she was in a fitting room with her daughter. Another person posted video of dozens of people said to be gathered in the basement as warnings to “please shelter immediately” repeated over mall speakers.
A woman who gave her name only as Tara told The Associated Press that she and a friend were among dozens of people who ran down a hallway to get out of the mall.
“We were in the Lululemon store and I just saw people running and he was in the dressing room and I started banging on the door to get him to come out and he didn’t have a shirt on so we just ran out of there,” she said.
The Mall of America bans guns on its premises, according to its website. The mall does not have metal detectors and shoppers are not searched upon entry. It was the scene of a shooting on New Year’s Eve, when two people were wounded during an apparent altercation.
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Associated Press writers Todd Richmond and Scott Bauer in Madison, Wis., Dave Kolpack in Fargo, N.D., and Scott McFetridge in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed. Trisha Ahmed is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/police-no-victim-found-in-shooting-at-mall-of-america/ | 2022-08-05T22:40:27Z | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/police-no-victim-found-in-shooting-at-mall-of-america/ | true |
ALBANY, N.Y. (WTEN) — Health officials continue to urge New Yorkers who have not received the polio vaccine to do so. This coming after an unvaccinated individual in Rockland County tested positive for the disease back in July and is now experiencing paralysis. Capitol Correspondent Amal Tlaige spoke with Orange County Commissioner of Health, Irina Gelman.
Health officials are confirming the detection of the poliovirus in wastewater samples in Orange and Rockland County. However the virus is not typically transmitted through water unless you’re handling lots of fecal specimens that contain the virus, “And typically an individual may shed viral particles especially with poliovirus either upon active infection or any individual that has traveled outside of the United States that may have obtained a different type of vaccine,” explains Commissioner Gelman.
That vaccine is an oral vaccine with the live polio virus which is not available in the U.S. Commissioner Gelman says we have not had an active polio virus in the country since 1979, but we have had sporadic singular cases. So how exactly is polio transmitted?
“Either direct droplet transmission so saliva exchange of some sort, of very close contact via droplets or even more typical is the fecal oral route,” said Gelman.
And it’s highly contagious. The Commissioner says most people should already be vaccinated, it’s typically part of the doctor’s vaccine regimen. However, since the pandemic there’s been a tremendous decrease in pediatric, age-appropriate vaccinations which leads to higher rates of transmission. She says with positive cases, most people do not present any symptoms or will exhibit flu-like symptoms and the cases of paralysis are rare.
“Polio is a very disabling and life threatening disease which can affect a person’s brain spinal cord and it can most certainly lead to paralysis, meningitis, paraphysia,” she said. That’s why Gelman along with other health officials say it’s extremely important for unvaccinated people to get the vaccine. Especially children two months and older and women who are pregnant. | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/new-york/health-officials-push-polio-vaccine-for-unvaccinated/ | 2022-08-05T22:40:43Z | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/new-york/health-officials-push-polio-vaccine-for-unvaccinated/ | true |
Mark D'Amico, accused GoFundMe scam ringleader, sentenced to 5 months in prison
BURLINGTON, N.J. - The alleged ringleader of a GoFundMe scam involving a homeless veteran was sentenced Friday in a New Jersey court.
A Burlington County judge sentenced Mark D'Amico to 5 years in state prison for concocting a fundraising scam with his former-girlfriend, then using the lie to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations online.
The 5-year sentence will be served congruently with a 27-month federal prison sentence that was handed down in April. That ruling also included a 3-year probation sentence, restitution and gambling, drug and mental health counseling.
He had pleaded guilty before Hillman in Camden in November to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. An indictment unsealed in January 2020 charged D’Amico with a total of 16 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering.
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He had already pleaded guilty to charges in state court last year. His former girlfriend, Katelyn McClure, and homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt Jr. previously pleaded guilty to state and federal charges. Bobbitt was sentenced to five years’ probation on state charges in 2019. Both are scheduled to be sentenced on the federal charges this year.
The trio made up a story in late 2017 about Bobbitt giving $20 to help McClure when her car ran out of gas in Philadelphia, according to prosecutors. D’Amico and McClure solicited donations through GoFundMe, purportedly to help Bobbitt, and conducted newspaper and television interviews. Investigators said D’Amico was the plot’s ringleader.
They eventually raised more than $400,000 in donations over about a month, according to investigators, who said almost no part of the tale was true. The group had met near a Philadelphia casino in October 2017 shortly before they told their story, prosecutors said.
Authorities began investigating after Bobbitt sued the couple, accusing them of not giving him the money. The federal criminal complaint alleged all of the money raised in the campaign was spent by March 2018, with large chunks spent by McClure and D’Amico on a recreational vehicle, a BMW and trips to casinos in Las Vegas and New Jersey. | https://www.fox29.com/news/mark-damico-accused-gofundme-scam-ringleader-sentenced-to-5-months-in-prison | 2022-08-05T22:41:04Z | https://www.fox29.com/news/mark-damico-accused-gofundme-scam-ringleader-sentenced-to-5-months-in-prison | false |
Stepping in to Style: fashion show, features seasoned models
Published: Aug. 5, 2022 at 5:39 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The City of Columbia’s Parks and Recreations Department is putting on a fashion show. It’s called “Stepping in Style” and features models ages 50 and older.
The event will be held Sunday, August 14 and they are still looking for models, this event is also open to the public to share that style never ages.
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Baltimore Police officers responded to a shooting in an industrial area in Southwest Baltimore Friday afternoon.
The shooting took place in the 1200 block of Bernard Drive in the Wilhelm Park neighborhood, close to Carroll Park, but the extent of any injuries were not immediately known, said a spokesman for the police department.
Friday afternoon, police cars and ambulances clustered around a group of warehouses on the block, including that of MPI Label Systems, which prints custom labels for food, beverages and other products, according to its website. Police with riot shields and long guns could be seen leaving the business around 4:45 pm. Several employees were sitting in the parking lot, waiting for the driveway to open so they could go home.
Julie Burns, an employee in the MPI Label quality department, said she heard three gunshots.
”Those weren’t normal sounds for what goes on here,” she said.
Burns said she spoke with the victim and that he walked out of the building under his own power.
”It’s way too close to home,” she said of the shooting.
It’s unclear if police detained the shooter. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland/bs-md-ci-cr-warehouse-shooting-20220805-xxvwbuhnbndb5a7x4axr5hvby4-story.html | 2022-08-05T22:41:55Z | https://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland/bs-md-ci-cr-warehouse-shooting-20220805-xxvwbuhnbndb5a7x4axr5hvby4-story.html | false |
- Up to $6 billion in fuel savings possible for customers during project's first decade of operation, if ongoing commodity pressures continue
- Project will generate enough clean, renewable energy to power up to 660,000 homes
- Company evaluating performance requirement
RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Energy reached a major milestone in the development of the 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project by receiving approval from the Virginia State Corporation Commission for the project to be constructed 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach.
CVOW's schedule calls for construction to be complete in 2026, when it can generate enough clean energy to power up to 660,000 homes. The final order from the SCC affirms that CVOW meets all Virginia statutory requirements for rider cost recovery and the issuance of a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for the onshore infrastructure. The order also includes a performance requirement, but does not outline the details surrounding that requirement.
"Our customers expect reliable, affordable energy, and offshore wind is key for delivering on that mission. We are very pleased that the commission has approved this important project that will benefit our customers. We are reviewing the specifics of the order, particularly the performance requirement," said Robert M. Blue, Dominion Energy Chair, President and CEO.
CVOW represents a clean-energy investment of approximately $9.8 billion, and as the largest project of its kind in the United States, CVOW is good for energy diversity, the environment and Virginia's economy.
As a renewable energy resource, offshore wind turbines have no fuel costs, which is especially beneficial considering the recent rise in fuel costs across the country. The project is expected to save Virginia customers more than $3 billion during its first 10 years in operation. However, if these ongoing commodity market pressure trends continue, those savings could total up to nearly $6 billion – almost double the savings.
Offshore wind's economic development and jobs benefits are transformative for Hampton Roads and the Commonwealth, including diverse communities. CVOW could create hundreds of direct and indirect jobs during construction and more than a thousand during operations, while attracting companies to make investments to make Virginia a hub for offshore wind.
As part of its order, the SCC granted approval for approximately 17 miles of new transmission lines and other onshore infrastructure needed to deliver the clean, renewable energy offshore to homes and businesses across Virginia.
In addition to solar, energy storage and nuclear, offshore wind is a key component to diverse energy generation strategy to meet the Commonwealth's clean energy goals and Dominion Energy's own net zero target. Offshore wind complements the company's growing solar portfolio in Virginia, since offshore wind and solar generate peak energy at different times throughout the day and year.
About 7 million customers in 14 states energize their homes and businesses with electricity or natural gas from Dominion Energy (NYSE: D), headquartered in Richmond, Va. The company is committed to sustainable, reliable, affordable and safe energy and to achieving net zero carbon dioxide and methane emissions from its power generation and gas infrastructure operations by 2050. Please visit DominionEnergy.com to learn more.
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AP Week in Pictures: Global | July 30-Aug. 5, 2022
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1of 24 Mourners gather Friday Aug. 5, 2022 around the coffins containing the remains of residents who died during protests against the United Nations mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Goma. Moses Sawasawa/AP Show More Show Less
2of 24 Rockets fired by Palestinian militants toward Israel, in Gaza City, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have killed at least 10 people, including a senior militant, and wounded 55 others. Fatima Shbair/AP Show More Show Less 3of 24
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10of 24 Opposition Congress party leader Gaurav Gogoi, is detained by police officers during a protest in New Delhi, India, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. Indian police detained dozens of opposition Congress party lawmakers, including Rahul Gandhi, a party leader, as they tried to march to the president's palace and prime minister's residence to protest soaring prices of fuel and foodstuffs, and a rise in goods and services tax. Altaf Qadri/AP Show More Show Less
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From Israeli strikes on Gaza, to flowing volcanoes in Iceland, to flood damage in Kentucky, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by The Associated Press in the past week.
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GoFundMe scammer who used story of homeless vet gets 5 years
Published: Aug. 5, 2022 at 5:31 PM CDT|Updated: 21 minutes ago
(AP) - A New Jersey man who made up a story about a homeless veteran helping out his then-girlfriend and used the tale to solicit $400,000 in online donations has been sentenced to prison.
A judge in Burlington County sentenced Mark D’Amico to five years in state prison on Friday.
D’Amico admitted concocting the feel-good tale in 2017 about Johnny Bobbitt Jr. giving $20 to help Katelyn McClure when her car ran out of gas in Philadelphia.
Prosecutors say the three had met previously and cooked up the scheme.
McClure and Bobbitt also have pleaded guilty. D’Amico also pleaded guilty to separate federal charges, and his sentences will run concurrently.
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HOUSTON, Texas — It's been 53 years since man first stepped on the Moon during the Apollo era.
The world will soon watch another giant leap thanks to the Artemis mission.
"And now to have another moment like that for my generation, I’m 34 years old," said German reporter Florian Mayer with ARD network. "It’s going to be incredible.”
More than 50 journalists from at least 10 countries came to Houston to learn more about the missions beginning with Artemis I scheduled to launch later this month.
It's an un-crewed trial run to test the Orion spacecraft for when men and the first woman return to the Moon led by chief astronaut Reid Wiseman.
"When we think about Artemis, we focus a lot on the Moon," said Wiseman during a Friday briefing. "But I just want everybody in this room and everybody watching to remember our sights are not set on the Moon."
"Our sights are set clearly on Mars”
"Our teams have been working extremely hard for a very, very long time to get to this point and this is very special and we’re extremely excited,” said Artemis I flight director Rick LaBrode.
The media tour included the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility where we crawled into an Orion capsule similar to what crews will use.
"We have about 316 cubic square feet, you know, quite a bit larger than the Apollo capsules which were about 200," said Orion program deputy manager Debbie Korth. "But we are flying four crew for 21 days." "And there are nice windows so you do get some good views out the windows.”
Views we’ll all get to see again, but like never before. | https://www.khou.com/article/tech/science/space/nasa-artemis-mission-update/285-4ad5d4ba-b358-40ab-acb5-1ec2563aee40 | 2022-08-05T22:54:31Z | https://www.khou.com/article/tech/science/space/nasa-artemis-mission-update/285-4ad5d4ba-b358-40ab-acb5-1ec2563aee40 | true |
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