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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Children across Palm Beach County are preparing to go back to school and one organization is supplying their needs.
The Education Foundation of Palm Beach County held a backpack drive on Friday afternoon at Roosevelt Elementary.
Each child received a backpack filled with notebooks, folders, pencils, pens, glue sticks, markers, crayons, erasers, a pencil pouch, pencil box, and pencil sharpeners, along with two books of the student's choice.
Friday's drive is just one of several drives the organization will host as part of their Red Apple program, prior to the first day of school.
About 361 backpacks were distributed on Friday, but the organization plans to hand out a total of 16,000 bags across the county before the first day of school.
The foundation says the hope is to provide equal access to school supplies to create an equitable learning environment for students in school.
"We want to definitely form equality in the classroom. Imagine you're a student and you walk in, and all of your friends are using supplies and you don't have them," said Teresa Dabrowski, chief engagement officer at the Education Foundation of Palm Beach County. "So, we want to make sure that all of these students feel equal, and they feel like they can succeed on the first day and all the way through that entire school year." | https://www.wptv.com/news/education/back-to-school-drive-aims-to-fulfill-palm-beach-county-students-educational-needs | 2022-08-05T22:57:15Z | https://www.wptv.com/news/education/back-to-school-drive-aims-to-fulfill-palm-beach-county-students-educational-needs | false |
By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury on Friday ordered Infowars’ Alex Jones to pay $49.3 million in total damages to the parents of a first-grader killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which the conspiracy theorist falsely called a hoax orchestrated by the government in order to tighten U.S. gun laws.
The amount is less than the $150 million sought by Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose 6-year-old son Jesse Lewis was among 19 children and six educators killed in the deadliest classroom shooting in U.S. history.
The trial is the first time Jones has been held financially liable for peddling lies about the 2012 attack in Newtown, Connecticut.
Jurors at first awarded Heslin and Lewis $4.1 million in compensatory damages, which Jones called a major victory. But in the final phase of the two-week trial, the same Austin jury came back and tacked on an additional $45.2 million in punitive damages.
Punitive damages are meant to punish defendants for particularly egregious conduct, beyond monetary compensation awarded to the individuals they hurt. A high punitive award is also seen as a chance for jurors to send a wider societal message and a way to deter others from the same abhorrent conduct in the future.
Attorneys for the family had urged jurors to hand down a financial punishment that would put Infowars out of business.
“You have the ability to stop this man from ever doing it again,” Wesley Ball, an attorney for the parents, told the jury.
It’s unclear how much money Jones and Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, have.
An economist hired by the plaintiffs testified that Jones and the company are worth up to $270 million, suggesting that Jones was still making money.
But Jones testified that any award over $2 million would “sink us.” And Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy protection during the trial’s first week.
Jones still faces two other defamation lawsuits from Sandy Hook families in Texas and Connecticut.
Bernard Pettingill, who was hired by the plaintiffs to study Jones’ net worth, said records show that Jones withdrew $62 million for himself in 2021, when default judgments were issued in lawsuits against him.
“That number represents, in my opinion, a value of a net worth,” Pettingill said. “He’s got money put in a bank account somewhere.”
The money that flows into Jones’ companies eventually funnels its way to him, said Pettingill, who added that he has testified in approximately 1,500 cases during his career.
“He is a very successful man,” Pettingill said, calling Jones a “maverick” and “revolutionary” for finding ways to monetize his online messaging.
Mark Bankston, an attorney for Heslin and Lewis insisted that the $4.1 million compensation award wasn’t a disappointment and warned that they would be trying to punish Jones in the next phase.
“We aren’t done yet,” Bankston said Thursday. “After tomorrow, he’s going to owe a whole lot more.”
Another of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, Wesley Ball, asked jurors in closing Friday to award an additional $145.9 million, which would bring the total amount in damages to that $150 million target.
“You are asked to punish Alex Jones,” Ball said. “You are asked to deter Alex Jones from ever doing this awful thing again to another person or another family — to deter anyone who wants to step into his shoes.”
“Send the message to those who desire to do the same: Speech is free. Lies, you pay for,” he said.
But Jones’ lawyers said their client has already learned his lesson, and asked for lenience. The jury’s punishment should be less than $300,000, attorney Andino Reynal said.
“You’ve already sent a message. A message for the first time to a talk show host, to all talk show hosts, that their standard of care has to change,” Reynal said.
Jones still faces two other defamation lawsuits from Sandy Hook families in Texas and Connecticut that put his personal wealth and media empire in jeopardy.
Jones — who was in the courtroom briefly Friday but left before Pettingill’s testimony — told jurors earlier this week that any award over $2 million would “sink us.” And a week ago, his company Free Speech Systems, which is Infowars’ parent company, filed for federal bankruptcy protection.
Lawyers for the family suing Jones contend that Jones has tried to hide evidence of his true wealth and have sued him claiming he’s tried to hide money in various shell companies.
During his testimony, Jones was confronted with a memo from one of his business managers outlining a single day’s gross revenue of $800,000 from selling vitamin supplements and other products through his website, which would approach nearly $300 million in a year. Jones called it a record sales day.
Jones, who has portrayed the lawsuit as an attack on his First Amendment rights, conceded during the trial that the attack was “100% real” and that he was wrong to have lied about it. But Heslin and Lewis told jurors that an apology wouldn’t suffice and called on them to make Jones pay for the years of suffering he has put them and other Sandy Hook families through.
The parents told jurors about how they’ve endured a decade of trauma, inflicted first by the murder of their son and what followed: gun shots fired at a home, online and phone threats, and harassment on the street by strangers. They said the threats and harassment were all fueled by Jones and his conspiracy theory spread to his followers via his website Infowars.
A forensic psychiatrist testified that the parents suffer from “complex post-traumatic stress disorder” inflicted by ongoing trauma, similar to what might be experienced by a soldier at war or a child abuse victim.
Throughout the trial, Jones has been his typically bombastic self, talking about conspiracies on the witness stand, during impromptu press conferences and on his show. His erratic behavior is unusual by courtroom standards, and the judge has scolded him, telling him at one point: “This is not your show.”
The trial has drawn attention from outside Austin as well.
Bankston told the court Thursday that the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has requested records from Jones’ phone that Jones’ attorneys had mistakenly turned over to the plaintiffs. Bankston later said he planned to comply with the committee’s request.
Last month, the Jan. 6 committee showed graphic and violent text messages and played videos of right-wing figures, including Jones, and others vowing that Jan. 6 would be the day they would fight for Trump.
The committee first subpoenaed Jones in November, demanding a deposition and documents related to his efforts to spread misinformation about the 2020 election and a rally on the day of the attack.
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'The bride to be!' Michelle Collins, 60, 'to marry her toyboy fiancé Mike Davidson, 38, next week' after couple's romantic LA engagement this year
- Michelle Collins is reportedly set to marry her toyboy fiancé Mike Davidson next week
- The former EastEnders actress, 60, and Mike, who is 22 years her junior at 38, will say 'I do' on Wednesday
- Soap star Michelle confirmed the news by sharing an image from a friend's account on her Instagram Stories, which showed the screen star sipping champagne with the caption: 'The bride to be @michellecollins'
Michelle Collins is reportedly set to marry her toyboy fiancé Mike Davidson next week.
The former EastEnders actress, 60, and Mike, who is 22 years her junior at 38, will say 'I do' on Wednesday, according to claims.
Soap star Michelle confirmed her engagement in April by sharing an image from a friend's account on her Instagram Stories.
Wedding bells: Michelle Collins, 60, is reportedly set to marry her toyboy fiancé Mike Davidson, 38, next week
The snap showed the screen star sipping champagne with the caption: 'The bride to be @michellecollins.'
Now, she has told their friends that they no longer saw the point in waiting to tie the knot as they have been dating for a decade, according to The Sun.
A source said she told pals: 'We know it's late notice, but we've been together for 10 years and what's the point in waiting.
'We thought life is too short and we want to see all of our friends and celebrate.'
Nuptials: The former EastEnders actress and Mike, who is 22 years her junior, will say 'I do' on Wednesday
Happy news: Soap star Michelle confirmed the news by sharing an image from a friend's account on her Instagram Stories
It is claimed that after the ceremony, guests will be hosted at a reception in a split-level private bar in North London, which features a pub with a Venetian chandelier and heated roof terrace.
MailOnline has contacted a representative for Michelle for further comment.
Michelle revealed on social media in April that Mike had popped the question on a hike up Temescal Canyon in Los Angeles – a decade after the pair first met.
She told her Instagram followers: 'So this happened in #la he got down on bended knee while we were on top of #temescalcanyon basically no one else around just us.
'It's #beautfiul and I'm #happy #10years this April about time I think (sic).'
Proposal: Michelle revealed on social media in April that Mike had popped the question on a hike up Temescal Canyon in Los Angeles – a decade after the pair first met
The actress previously hit out at critics of the 22-year age gap between the duo and was frustrated to be branded as a 'cougar'.
Michelle – who has also appeared in Coronation Street and Doctor Who – said in 2018: 'Mike is 22 years younger than me and I'm regarded as a predator. It drives me mad. People call him my toyboy beau. He's nearly 35, for God's sake.
'He turned to me the other day and said, 'Surely I'm not still your toyboy, am I?'
'I laugh about it now but it is annoying. And I hate that word cougar. I can't stand it. I find it so demeaning. A cougar is a predator going around looking for young flesh. I'm certainly not like that.'
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SHIPROCK, N.M. (KRQE) – The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for information about a four-year-old murder. The body of 67-year-old Herbert Whitehorse was found in an arroyo in Shiprock on May 3, 2018.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — One day after a jury decided Infowars host Alex Jones owes the family of a Sandy Hook victim millions of dollars, it sat down again to decide other damages he owes: more than $45 million.
The court found last year Jones was liable for claims that the shooting was a hoax and parents were “crisis actors.” Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of a 6-year-old who died, sued Jones for defamation and inflicting mental anguish.
For the past two weeks, jurors have heard testimony in Austin, and on Thursday calculated the first of two sums of money he owes. They returned a verdict of $4.1 million in compensatory damages, or how much the parents were owed for defamation and mental anguish.
On Friday, it considered the second sum: punitive damages, or how much he owes as punishment. It unanimously decided he owed a total of $45.2 million.
The jury heard, for the first time, testimony on Jones’ net worth from forensic economist Dr. Bernard Pettingill Jr., who estimated the combined net worth of Jones and Free Speech Systems, LLC, to be somewhere between $135 million and $270 million.
Throughout the trial, jurors have been able to ask their own questions. One asked Pettingill what the difference was between the net worth of an individual and a company that person owns.
“There’s really no difference,” he said. “You cannot separate Alex Jones from the company.”
Jones’ defense attorney, Andino Reynal, disputed Pettingill’s testimony and said “we didn’t get any evidence as to what Alex Jones actually has today.” At the end of July, Free Speech Systems LLC filed for bankruptcy.
“You rendered a verdict based on reason and sense, which is what you should do again,” Reynal said as he continued his closing argument.
The plaintiffs had originally asked for $150 million in compensatory damages, and $145.9 million in punitive damages.
“Your (Thursday) verdict doesn’t punish or deter thus far in any way — that is what this stage is for,” said Wesley Ball, an attorney for Lewis, in closing arguments. Ball told the jury they have been given two tasks: to punish Jones and deter others “who may want to step into his shoes.” | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/alex-jones-jury-considers-additional-punitive-damages/ | 2022-08-05T23:04:39Z | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/alex-jones-jury-considers-additional-punitive-damages/ | false |
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SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — The names of the two men killed in a plane crash near South Haven were released Friday.
They were 70-year-old plane owner Douglas Golike of Lawton and 70-year-old flight instructor David Peahl of Wayland, the South Haven Police Department said.
The Federal Aviation Administration said that the Piper Aerostar 600, originally reported by police as an Aerospace 600, departed the South Haven Regional Airport between 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
Police Chief Natalie Thompson said it appears the plane crashed shortly after it took off, but no one realized it until Tuesday evening when relatives said they hadn’t heard from the men.
The plane was found Wednesday morning around 7 a.m., police said.
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Senate Dems are closer to passing the Inflation Reduction Act, but there's work ahead By Deepa Shivaram Published August 5, 2022 at 2:12 PM MST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:57 Democrats are one step closer to passing the Inflation Reduction Act, but they still have a long weekend ahead on Capitol Hill. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.knau.org/2022-08-05/senate-dems-are-closer-to-passing-the-inflation-reduction-act-but-theres-work-ahead | 2022-08-05T23:16:44Z | https://www.knau.org/2022-08-05/senate-dems-are-closer-to-passing-the-inflation-reduction-act-but-theres-work-ahead | true |
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Since taking over as head coach at Bishop Dwenger in 2018, Jason Garrett has continued the Saints’ history of excelling on the gridiron.
After winning their fifth straight sectional title last season, the Saints graduated over 30 seniors this past spring. Despite losing several key players, the expectations remain high for the Saints football program.
On offense, Sam Campbell takes over as the starting quarterback after Bohde Dickerson transferred to North Side High School. Campbell will be surrounded by talented skill players like running back/slot receiver Teddy Steele and wide receiver Stellan Ruston.
Defensively, the Saints get a boost in the secondary with the addition of Northrop transfer CJ Davis, who earned all-SAC honors last season. Defensive lineman Ashton Skarie will also look to terrorize opposing ball carriers.
Bishop Dwenger hosts Wayne in their season opener on Aug. 19. | https://www.wane.com/high-school-sports/2022-highlight-zone-season-preview-bishop-dwenger-saints/ | 2022-08-05T23:16:53Z | https://www.wane.com/high-school-sports/2022-highlight-zone-season-preview-bishop-dwenger-saints/ | false |
Timber skyscrapers reach for record heights and sustainable Australian cities
Timber skyscrapers up to 50 storeys tall may soon dot Australian skylines in a push to decarbonise and revitalise urban construction.
Key points:
- Three Australian building projects may become the world's tallest timber skyscrapers
- Developers are paying for timber's natural aesthetic and its sustainability compared to concrete and steel
- Engineered timber for towers like these could channel more of Australia's plantation wood into construction without reducing access to log frames
Three separate plans have been submitted to build hybrid timber buildings in Perth and Sydney between 180 metres and 220 metres high.
Each would more than double the height of the current world record-holder, an 86.6-metre apartment building in Milwaukee, USA.
Timber skyscrapers are made possible by hybrid construction, which uses engineered "mass timber" around a concrete core.
Developer James Dibble, whose proposal for a 47-storey apartment building in Perth is before the state development panel, said hybrid technology puts timber on par with concrete and steel.
"There is not really any limitation to height other than the limitation of physics like any other building, to be frank," he said.
"I think a 350 metre hybrid building is possible, which is almost twice the height [of the Perth apartment building]."
'You can't grow concrete'
Cement and concrete manufacturing is estimated to produce about 8 per cent of the world's greenhouse emissions, whereas timber naturally sequesters carbon, even after the tree has been cut down.
Softwood plantation trees like pine grow fastest in their first few decades and can be harvested for construction timber at about 30 years old.
Between growing, harvesting and processing, timber is more expensive than concrete and steel construction but some developers are willing to pay the premium for its sustainability credentials.
James Dibble estimated his planned Perth tower, which is marketed as carbon negative, will cost "about 9 per cent" more than a wholly steel and concrete structure.
"There's got to be a recognition that the built environment is one of the three main contributors to climate change," he said.
"We've seen huge evolution in terms of animal agriculture and transport and not very much has been done [in construction].
"And I would remind everyone that you can't grow concrete. If concrete was a country, it'd be the third highest emitter in the world."
Besides eco-marketing, timber's big selling point is its aesthetic value — a natural counterpoint to the sterile greys and whites that dominate urban design.
In 2023, Murdoch University in Perth will open Boola Katitjin, a building that puts its timber on full display inside and out.
"Every time we bring people through, be it visitors, be it future staff members — everyone instinctively goes over and touches the surface of the columns," Multiplex design manager Jamie Cook said.
"It really is a natural material that everyone wants to get up close and personal to."
What is mass timber?
Mass timber is wood that has been engineered to strengthen it against the structural weaknesses of sawn logs.
Mass timber products like glulam (glued laminated timber), CLT (cross-laminated timber) and LVL (laminated veneer lumber) make it possible to build timber buildings more than a few storeys high.
Likewise, hybrid construction channels structures' vertical weight through a concrete core, allowing the timber to dominate the interior and exterior living spaces.
"We could not build a 183-metre building out of mass timber only. It's not technically possible," Mr Dibble said.
"Where mass timber is superior we used it and where it wasn't, we didn't. That ultimately ended up with a hybrid structure that is 42 per cent mass timber."
He also said that superiority extended to fire and weather protection.
"Mass timber can out-perform steel in terms of fire. It will self-extinguish.
But to protect against South Perth's high water table, a concrete base was deemed more suitable.
"That is built with concrete, the core is concrete, the columns are concrete, but pretty much everything else can absolutely be done in timber and in those applications mass timber is superior," Mr Dibble said.
Timber supply under stress
The timber industry calls wood the ultimate renewable, but there's a catch.
Australia is a net importer of construction timber and there aren't enough softwood plantations nationwide to fill its future needs.
Native hardwood logging is being phased out in some of Australia's largest forestry regions including WA and Victoria, where Boola Katitjin gets its blonde exterior from one of a handful of domestic mass timber manufacturers.
And the building's interior isn't Australian at all.
"The columns, beams and the CLT floor plates are all spruce, which is a European softwood," lead subcontractor Ian Meachem said.
"The pure volume of timber required, the Australian market just isn't at a point where it can economically or viably supply a project of this size."
Australia's mass timber manufacturers are growing to meet that demand, but some in the existing sawlog industry aren't concerned about the competition.
Richard Schaffner is chief technical officer at Wespine, a West Australian sawmill that processes as much wood as it can into construction-grade logs.
Even then, he said only 60 per cent was suitable.
"The balance is split roughly half and half between landscaping and packaging [wood chip products]," he said.
"Some of this could be redirected to engineered structures.
"It won't necessarily mean we'll have a shortage of timber for home building." | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-06/timber-skyscrapers-cut-emissions-break-records-australia/101267592 | 2022-08-05T23:17:15Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-06/timber-skyscrapers-cut-emissions-break-records-australia/101267592 | false |
Contreras hits 2-run HR in 8th as Cubs beat Marlins 2-1
CHICAGO (AP) - Willson Contreras hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning, Justin Steele matched a career high with 10 strikeouts and the Chicago Cubs beat the Miami Marlins 2-1 on Friday.
The Cubs looked like they were on the way to their sixth straight loss before Contreras drove an 0-1 pitch from Dylan Floro (0-1) to left with one out in the eighth for his 16th homer, waking up a sleepy crowd.
Contreras pointed toward the roaring fans and pounded his chest after he crossed the plate.
He and Ian Happ got warm receptions in their first home game since Tuesday´s trade deadline passed with neither All-Star getting dealt. But there wasn´t much else to cheer until Contreras went deep.
Chicago´s only hits to that point were singles by Nick Madrigal leading off the sixth and eighth. Happ also doubled in the eighth.
Steele went 4 2/3 innings, allowing four hits and walking one while throwing 93 pitches. Rowan Wick (3-5) got the final four outs for the Cubs, who were coming off a doubleheader sweep at St. Louis.
Chicago Cubs' Willson Contreras, right, celebrates with first base coach Mike Napoli, Contreras' two-run homer off Miami Marlins relief pitcher Dylan Floro during the eighth inning of a baseball game Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, in Chicago. The Cubs won 2-1. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Miami´s Edward Cabrera threw five hitless innings in his first start since June 12. The 24-year-old Dominican had been sidelined because of right elbow tendinitis.
Joey Wendle singled in a run in the seventh for the Marlins, who lost for the sixth time in seven games.
TRANSACTIONS
The Marlins called up outfielder Peyton Burdick from Triple-A Jacksonville and optioned right-hander Nick Neidert and outfielder Jesus Sanchez to the minor league club. Burdick started in left field and batted seventh in his major league debut.
The Cubs returned left-hander Matt Dermody to Triple-A Iowa after he was the 27th man for Thursday's doubleheader.
TRAINER´S ROOM
Marlins: 3B Brian Anderson (left shoulder sprain), INF Jon Berti (strained left groin) and RHP Cole Sulser (strained right lat) were headed to Jacksonville for rehab assignments. ... RHP Tommy Nance (strained right groin) threw a 20-pitch bullpen session on Wednesday. ... RHP Sixto Sánchez (shoulder) is scheduled to throw two innings of live batting practice Saturday at the club's spring training complex in Jupiter, Florida.
Cubs: Manager David Ross said RHP Kyle Hendricks (strained right shoulder) and OF Jason Heyward (right knee inflammation) are not close to returning. He said he hopes the two veterans play again this season. "I know these guys work really hard and they pride themselves on ... being out there with the guys," Ross said. Hendricks hasn't pitched since leaving a start at Milwaukee on July 5. Heyward has been sidelined since June 24.
UP NEXT
The weekend series continues with RHP Pablo López (7-6, 3.41 ERA) starting for Miami against Cubs LHP Drew Smyly (3-6, 4.42). López got tagged for six runs and a career-high 12 hits in 2 2/3 innings in a loss to the New York Mets on Sunday.
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Chicago Cubs' Christopher Morel, left, Willson Contreras, right, celebrate with Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Rowan Wick the team's 2-1 win over the Miami Marlins after a baseball game Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Miami Marlins starting pitcher Edward Cabrera delivers during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Miami Marlins' Peyton Burdick waits on deck in his Major League debut in the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Justin Steele delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Miami Marlins starting pitcher Edward Cabrera sits in from of air conditioning and looks out from the dugout during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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U.S.-China diplomatic breakdown clouds outlook for global climate progress
By Valerie Volcovici
WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - China's decision to halt bilateral talks on climate change with the United States has cast a cloud of doubt over whether the world can rally enough ambition to address global warming in time to avert its worst impacts.
Tackling climate change has been a key area of cooperation between the two superpowers and two biggest emitters of greenhouse gas emissions.
But China has suspended talks on the issue less than 100 days before the next landmark international climate summit, COP27, as part of its escalating retaliation over U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.
"No country should withhold progress on existential transnational issues because of bilateral differences," said John Kerry, the former U.S. Secretary of State, who is currently the Biden administration's top climate diplomat.
"Suspending cooperation doesn´t punish the United States - it punishes the world, particularly the developing world," he said.
Over the last few years, climate change has remained an open avenue for cooperation between the United States and China even as tensions have escalated on other issues like human rights, forced labor, Hong Kong and Taiwan sovereignty, and trade.
U.S. and Chinese officials had started to ramp up engagement on climate issues in the lead-up to the COP27 United Nations climate summit, which takes place in Egypt in November.
Pelosi's brief visit this week to self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own, infuriated Beijing and triggered Chinese military drills on an unprecedented scale in the seas and air around the island.
Previous bilateral engagement on climate change between the two countries helped pave the way for the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, and reignited flailing international climate negotiation in Glasgow in 2021.
With the pivotal climate summit on the horizon and countries backsliding on the emission reduction pledges they made in Glasgow, a lack of engagement between the superpowers could upend negotiations and sap ambition among other countries, analysts said.
"The fear is that the U.S.-China tension can become an excuse for those countries that are unwilling to step up," said Bernice Lee, executive director of the Centre for Sustainable Resource Economy at Chatham House.
"It is definitely important that the international community -- especially vulnerable developing countries - continue making sure that large emitters continue to deliver what they promised," she said.
John Kerry, the U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change, often repeated that the U.S. and China could isolate climate change as an area for joint discussion given its global importance without getting entangled in other complex issues.
"By letting geopolitics now be the tail that wags the climate dog, it represents a shift in Beijing´s approach - from seeing the merits of allowing climate to be a standalone 'oasis' in the relationship to instead succumbing to those thinking purely through a geopolitical prism," said Thom Woodroofe, a fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute.
Domestic pressure may force China to continue to address some of its emissions despite the diplomatic chill. China may forge ahead, for example, with a plan to slash its methane, analysts said. Much of its methane emissions derive from coal mines in the huge producer nation.
"There's a huge effort right now by policymakers in China to come up with a domestic plan to curb methane emissions," said Joanna Lewis, professor of energy and environment at Georgetown University. "Even if international engagement on this topic comes to a pause, this domestic war on methane is not going to come to a halt because it is very much part of China's strategic plan to control emissions."
Other observers say the pause in negotiations may only be temporary and that the U.S. and China have still joined forces even amid years of changing relations.
"This has always been an up-and-down relationship," said Alden Meyer, a senior associate of consultancy E3G. "I think the question here is this a short term tactical move by Beijing to try to get Washington's attention or is this part of bigger, longer term strategic adjustment by China?" (Reporting By Valerie Volcovici; additional reporting by Michelle Nichols at the United Nations; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Alistair Bell) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11086033/U-S-China-diplomatic-breakdown-clouds-outlook-global-climate-progress.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-05T23:19:43Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11086033/U-S-China-diplomatic-breakdown-clouds-outlook-global-climate-progress.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
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Yet the $740 billion budget reconciliation package worked out by Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has ambitions that ought not be underestimated—especially as it arrives at a point when many Democrats had given up hope on getting another omnibus bill enacted before the November midterm elections. As it stands now, according to Politico, the measure “would spend $369 billion on energy and climate change, extend Obamacare subsidies through 2024, direct Medicare to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs and send an estimated $300 billion to deficit reduction. It would be funded, in part, by a 15 percent corporate minimum tax on big companies and increased IRS enforcement.”
And it looks as if it will include a 1 percent excise tax on stock buybacks, which is actually a very big deal. The tax, which would raise $73 billion for climate and health care initiatives, cracks down on some of the ugliest abuses by multinational corporations.
That, says Amy Hanauer, the executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and one of the nation’s leading advocates for fair and functional tax policies, is “a good thing.”
A very good thing. And for a lot of reasons.
Currently, as Joe Hughes, a federal policy analyst with ITEP explains:
Corporations can shift their profits to shareholders either by paying them stock dividends or by buying their own stocks, which increases the value of the stocks held by shareholders. Shareholders pay income tax on stock dividends, though often at lower rates than wages and salary income. Stock buybacks, on the other hand, result in capital gains (because they increase the value of the stocks) that may not be taxed for years and in many cases are never taxed at all.
The excise tax provision, which was added as part of negotiations that got Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) on board as the 50th Democratic supporter for the measure, follows a plan outlined last year by Senate Democrats that “would tax stock buybacks in a way that is more comparable to how dividends are taxed,” notes ITEP. “Corporations would be required to pay a tax equal to 1 percent of their stock repurchases, ensuring that profits shifted to shareholders in this way are subject to some federal tax.”
Not enough federal tax, mind you. But this sort of excise tax is “excellent policy,” says Chuck Marr, who follows federal tax debates for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. And its excellence goes beyond the revenue benefits, explains Sarah Anderson, the global economy director and co-editor of Inequality.org, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies.
As Anderson and her colleagues note, “Two-thirds of low-wage corporations that cut worker pay in 2021 spent billions on stock buybacks.” For example, the home-improvement giant Lowes “spent $13 billion on share repurchases in 2021—enough to have given each of its 325,000 employees a $40,000 raise. Instead, its median pay fell 7.6 percent to $22,697.” Best Buy’s CEO “got a 30 percent pay raise after laying off 5,000 employees—part of a move to replace full-time with part-time workers,” adds Anderson, as she ticks off a long list of abuses.
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the Honorable Judge Martin Glenn
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PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 4, 2022, Judge Martin Glenn of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York said he would set a new bar date for adult sex abuse claimants in the chapter 11 bankruptcy case of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre. The deadline for filing claims had expired in 2021. A new window will allow additional filings for adult sex abuse claims in 2022.
The Rockville Centre Diocese, which represents New York's Nassau and Suffolk counties, filed its petition seeking relief under Chapter 11 on October 1, 2020. At the time, the diocese faced 223 suits by alleged victims of child sex abuse under New York's Child Victims Act. Those claimants became creditors in the bankruptcy proceeding. Though mediation has continued in that proceeding, no agreement had been reached and no compensation plan has been filed to date.
On May 24, 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed New York's Adult Survivors Act (ASA), which gives survivors of adult sexual abuse (over age 18 when the offense occurred) a year to file their claims, regardless of when the offense occurred. The one-year window opens on November 24, 2022.
Under the New York law, claims may be brought against institutions or employers for abuse that occurred at work or was associated with employment. Dioceses have claimed that a bankruptcy filing blocks new claims – but many more victims have come forward since the passage of the Adult Survivors Act, including at least 700 claims filed against the Rockville Centre Diocese in bankruptcy court.
Judge Glenn agreed with the diocese and the future claims representative that a new bar date for the adult claims was consistent with the rationale behind the New York law. He also noted that claimants would receive relief more quickly with a Chapter 11 claim than with a state court claim.
Judge Glenn has not yet specified the bar date for the adult claims. He has called on the diocese to define a notice process and indicated that he will base the claim deadline on time to publish notice.
Jerrold Parker, Founding Partner of Parker Waichman LLP, explains that adequate time is essential to these victims: "Survivors of sexual abuse often do not tell their story immediately. New York has recognized this reality and offered victims the time they need, to understand their trauma and come forward when they are ready. We applaud Judge Glenn for recognizing that New York gives victims the time they need to hold their abusers held accountable. We urge him not to reduce the time the state has granted to this vulnerable population."
If you or a loved one have been sexually abused in New York, you or your loved one could be entitled to receive substantial monetary compensation from the individual or institution responsible for the sexual abuse.
Parker Waichman LLP helps those who have suffered sexual abuse receive full monetary compensation. Trust your case with our sex abuse lawsuit lawyers. For a free consultation, contact our law firm today by using our live chat or calling 1-800-YOUR-LAWYER (1-800-968-7529).
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NEW YORK, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces it has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Carvana Co. (NYSE: CVNA) between May 6, 2020 and June 24, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 3, 2022.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has encouraged people across the world to get the COVID-19 vaccine since it first became available to the public.
As of Aug. 2, 2022, a total of 12,308,330,588 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered worldwide.
But, people on social media are questioning whether WHO’s Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, M.D., has received the vaccine after a video clip appears to show him admitting he hasn’t been vaccinated.
The video claims to show Ghebreyesus sitting down for an interview, during which he says he wasn’t vaccinated because he was “protesting” until poorer regions across the world gained access to the vaccine.
“Tedros not jabbed? Well who’d have thought?,” a tweet with the viral video clip said. The tweet was posted on August 4.
As of Aug. 5, the video had more than 237,000 views.
THE QUESTION
Did WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus say he wasn’t vaccinated during an interview?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, Ghebreyesus didn’t say he wasn’t vaccinated during an interview. The video clip was shared out of context. The video clip is from a longer interview, in which Ghebreyesus talks about vaccine inequity around the world.
WHAT WE FOUND
In an email to VERIFY, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization said the tweet claiming Ghebreyesus is not vaccinated is “not true.”
Ghebreyesus publicly announced getting the COVID-19 vaccine. On May 21, 2021, he tweeted a photo of him receiving a vaccination shot and wrote: “Today it was my turn to get vaccinated @Hopitaux_unige [Les Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève] against #COVID19. Vaccines save lives. It’s critical to get them to all counties A.S.A.P. If like me you live in a country where vaccines are available, please get vaccinated when it’s your turn.”
The viral video clip claiming to show Ghebreyesus is a snippet from a longer interview he did for the HBO film “How to Survive a Pandemic.”
The interview starts at about an hour and 40 minutes into the film. (Note: You need a HBO or HBO Max subscription in order to watch). The film debuted on HBO and was released on HBO Max on March 29, 2022.
Ghebreyesus did not say he hasn’t been vaccinated in the film. He said he waited to be vaccinated until other countries gained access to the vaccine.
“You know, still, I feel like I know where I belong. In a poor country called Ethiopia, in a poor continent called Africa. And I wanted to wait until Africa and other countries in other regions, low-income countries, start vaccination,” Ghebreyesus said in the interview. “So I was protesting, in other words, because we’re failing. I saw global failures like HIV and these are the things I remember when we were confronted with COVID.”
In March 2021, Ethiopia launched COVID-19 vaccine introduction in a high-level national event where frontline health workers were vaccinated to mark the beginning of the vaccination campaign, the WHO said. Ghebreyesus was vaccinated two months later.
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Delgado started with just one cart, pushing it from the Houston Medical Center to the Art District. Then one cart became three, finally growing into Delgado's Popston factory on east of downtown Houston.
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I'm always complaining that the wrong movies in the last generation got turned into franchises, and I think the people at the Criterion Collection agree with me because they have finally brought out Carl Franklin's wonderful Devil in a Blue Dress in a 4K edition.
The 1995 film is based on Walter Mosley's series of more than a dozen novels that follow a Black World War II veteran, Easy Rawlins, played by Denzel Washington. After the war, the airplane factories in Southern California close, so he's out of work and sort of falls into becoming a private detective. It's not anything he goes out looking for, but he turns out to have a talent for it.
This is a way for Mosley to look at race relations, both in that time and through subsequent decades, because this character ages throughout the novels. I just keep thinking about how great it would have been for Denzel and the director, Carl Franklin, to get together every three or four years and do another one of these, from then to now. I would love that so much, but we only got the one from 1995.
This is the first movie that Don Cheadle, who plays Mouse, really got noticed in. Tom Sizemore is also in this, and Jennifer Beals is sort of the femme fatale. It's a really wonderful movie that should have been a franchise, and it looks spectacular in the new 4K Blu-ray. — Chris Klimek
Evil
Evil on Paramount+ is a psychological mystery that follows a female psychologist, a priest-in-training, played by Mike Colter who you'll know from Luke Cage, and their skeptical tech dude. The three of them are hired by the Catholic Church to investigate demons, demonic possessions, and other evils like that in the world.
I like it because it's all the best parts of a police procedural, but without the cops. So if you like the "mystery/ demon/ monster of the week" format, I would highly recommend this show. As the seasons have gone on, it's gotten more cerebral. Now it's dealing with themes of who is evil, what makes us evil, if someone predestined to be evil from birth, and what that all means.
It's a really good show, and it's good at being creepy while also asking some really interesting questions about the Catholic Church. It tows the line between being skeptical of all the supernatural stuff that's happening in the show while also giving you just enough plausibility that these things could happen. Could it be demons, or is it just drugs or something else? — Mallory Yu
"The 50 Greatest Fictional Deaths of All Time"
My Happy this week comes from my old stomping grounds over at Slate. My former colleague Dan Coates, along with other employees at Slate, put together a collection of the best fictional character deaths, spanning everything from books, movies, TV, comics and theater.
You've got everything from the samurai in Rashomon to the Wicked Witch of the West to Ellie from Up. There's no Mufasa, which I find quite striking, but it's a fun read. There are also some additional articles, including one by Chris Molanphy that lists the top five best mobster movie deaths.
There's only three movies that are featured in that, but when you look at the list, it makes sense why it is those movies that you expect to be on that list. — Aisha Harris
You Were Never Really Here
Over the weekend, I watched a 2017 film that got some good write-ups at the time, but it just missed me for some reason. It's called You Were Never Really Here, in which Joaquin Phoenix plays a mercenary hired to rescue a politician's daughter who's been caught up in a trafficking ring.
It's an action movie, I guess you'd say. It's a thriller, but it's not as lurid or as cheesy as the plot would suggest. It's not Taken. It's directed by Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, who did We Need to Talk About Kevin. Like that film, this one is about the lingering wounds that violence leaves in the world and how it ripples out.
It's plenty violent, but it doesn't delight in that violence. And it takes a while to realize that she doesn't really show you the violence itself; she focuses on the aftermath. On a plot level, there's lots of twists and turns you won't see coming, and it manages to be thoughtful about how it uses violence.
Of course, it's unfair to compare it to Bullet Train. They're not trying to do remotely the same thing, but it was just interesting to me to realize that violence in that movie and in this one don't even seem like the same thing. One is window dressing, while the other is the very complicated subject of the film. — Glen Weldon
More recommendations from the Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter
by Linda Holmes
I spent some time this week reading the Anthony Marra novel Mercury Pictures Presents, and it's wonderful. It's about old Hollywood and about war, but also family, and struggle, and dreams of your future. Among other things, despite the fact that it's sometimes a very sad book, it's also a very, very funny book over and over again —-- a quality I very much appreciate in these times. [Note: This book is published by an imprint of Penguin Random House, which is also my publisher.]
I probably don't need to make this sale, but there's a new season of Reservation Dogs on Hulu this week!
I've been enjoying the new season of the podcast Chameleon, which is called Scam Likely. It's about tracking down the people behind some basic phone scams designed to separate people from their money. I never get tired of an exploration of how ripoffs work, and neither do the folks who work on this show.
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YORK, Pa. — Omega Horse Rescue in Peach Bottom Township is in dire straits.
“COVID and the economy have hit us really hard here at the rescue with funding," Director Kelly Smith said. "And we are now into our savings.”
Since the onset of the pandemic donations and the number of volunteers have dwindled.
“People are struggling to help us through donations because their costs are going up," Omega Barn Manager Samantha Raffensberger said. "They don't even have $5 or $10 extra anymore to help us.”
The organization rescues horses and additional animals from slaughter, abandonment, and other situations, then rehabbing them back to health. Losing donations as the dollar loses horsepower against rising costs has stalled their ability to help.
“That makes it harder for us to be able to go and help the horses, because we're putting more into the rehabilitation for the ones that we have," Raffensberger said.
It’s an issue impacting horse rescues nationwide. Beth Kokoruda of Travelers Rest Farm Sanctuary in Maryland has already taken measures into her own hands
“I've shut down my intake program," Kokoruda said. "I'm no longer able to take on more horses at this point.”
Kokoruda had to take the reins on funding her rescue by giving money out of her own pocket.
“I've taken on a second job," Kokoruda said. "Whatever we can do at this point to just feed the horses and cover expenses is what I've been trying to do.”
With uncertainty on if things will get better, Omega is leaning on community aid.
“It's really hard," Raffensberger said. "Day-to-day everything changes.”
“We really need [the public's] support in order for us to continue our mission of helping animals in need," Smith said.
There are multiple ways you can help, including donating money or volunteering. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/york-county/horse-rescues-struggle-inflation-costs-pandemic/521-d715a4cb-54cc-4553-bc7d-37b4703b5c34 | 2022-08-05T23:41:27Z | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/york-county/horse-rescues-struggle-inflation-costs-pandemic/521-d715a4cb-54cc-4553-bc7d-37b4703b5c34 | true |
TUCSON, Ariz. — The top county prosecutor in the Tucson area will not ask a court to throw out convictions for a man who was imprisoned for decades in a 1970 hotel fire that killed 29 people yet was released from custody in a 2013 deal with prosecutors.
Pima County Attorney Laura Conover said in a statement earlier this week that no new evidence of innocence was found for Louis Taylor in the blaze at the Pioneer Hotel.
A unit of Conover’s office that examines claims of innocence and excessive sentencing had reviewed the case against Taylor, who was 16 when he arrested at the hotel.
Conover said “no further action will be taken in the Taylor criminal case.”
Taylor was originally sentenced to life in prison, but he was released in 2013 after serving more than 40 years in a deal with Conover’s predecessor.
Under the agreement, Taylor pleaded no contest, allowing a judge to sentence him to time served. Prosecutors had concluded back then that modern fire science was inconclusive about whether the fire was arson or an accident, Conover said.
Taylor maintained that he was innocent and has said he went to the hotel to get free drinks and food from various parties during the holiday season.
At the time of his release, prosecutors insisted Taylor was guilty and emphasized that the deal wasn’t an exoneration. They also acknowledged that getting a conviction at a new trial would be dicey given that some evidence had been lost and witnesses have either moved or died.
The Arizona Justice Project, which has represented Taylor in his criminal case since 2001, said in a statement this week that Conover’s office has passed up an “opportunity to correct one of the most severe injustices Pima County has ever seen.”
The project said the prosecutor’s office had advised it would file a motion in court to have Taylor’s convictions thrown out. “For reasons never fully explained, however, that motion was not filed,” the project said.
Conover's office declined to comment on whether it had in fact indicated that it would file such a motion.
The project said witnesses have recanted statements and instances of prosecutorial misconduct have surfaced, such as hiding exculpatory evidence from the defense team.
The original fire investigator had said he profiled the suspect as a Black person, but insisted his statements had nothing to do with Taylor’s arrest. Taylor is Black.
The Arizona Daily Star reports that Taylor sued Pima County and the city of Tucson in 2015 for violating his right to due process and a fair trial, alleging racism and civil conspiracy led to his arrest and conviction.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2019, however, that Taylor could not collect damages for his time in prison because of the no contest plea he made.
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BUTTE — Members of the Serbian Orthodox Church are preparing for the Serbian food festival on Saturday, which is free for the community to enjoy Serbian recipes passed down from generation to generation.
"In my early twenties, I began helping with the church and learning even more tricks of the trade with the ladies," said Jennifer Shea.
Shea has been a member of the church all her life. She was baptized and grew up in the church, surrounded by people who shared her culture. As a junior in high school, her aunt taught her how to make the apple pita, a classic Serbian dessert.
"She was a phenomenal baker and she taught me how to make the dough, how to peel the apples, the thickness of the apples, how to stretch the dough by hand," said Shea.
The festival will have music, free church tours, and classic Serbian food like the apple pita.
Father Russell Radoicich, a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church, says the funds raised will go toward restoration work of the frescoes.
"We have some restoration to do in here because we had water damage and some of the funds will go to finish the fine art to repair what has been damaged by water in here," said Radoicich.
The Holy Trinity parish was founded in 1897. In 1905, the original orthodox church was built, making it the second Serbian Orthodox church built in North America, until 1964 when it was demolished due to damages caused by underground mining. A new church was built in 1965 and from 2003 to 2006 the frescoes adorning the walls and ceilings were painted by artists from Belgrade, Serbia.
Shea is excited to share her culture through the food she learned from her family and the women in the church.
"They were very instrumental in helping with fundraisers we had that involved food and cooking and cooking our ethnic food and so I learned even more tricks of the trade from them and I just enjoy sharing my talents for the good of the church," said Shea.
The festival begins at 11 am and ends at 9 pm. | https://www.kxlf.com/news/local-news/buttes-serbian-food-festival-back-by-popular-demand | 2022-08-05T23:46:14Z | https://www.kxlf.com/news/local-news/buttes-serbian-food-festival-back-by-popular-demand | true |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sam Gooden, one of the original members of the Chicago soul group The Impressions and a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 87.
His daughter, Gina Griffin, said Gooden died Thursday, a month shy of his 88th birthday, in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, surrounded by his family. His death was first reported by WRCB-TV in Chattanooga.
The Impressions formed in the 1950s after Gooden and brothers Richard and Arthur Brooks met Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler in Chicago. Butler sang baritone lead on their breakthrough record in 1958, the classic ballad “For Your Precious Love," although many of their hits featured Mayfield's tenor, with Gooden singing bass behind him.
The Impressions remained a top group in the 1960s, known for their gospel-styled harmonies and socially conscious songs. Mayfield helped write many of their hits, including the widely covered “People Get Ready,” along with “Gypsy Woman," “Keep on Pushing,” “It’s All Right" and “We’re A Winner.” They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. Seven years later, “People Get Ready” was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Mayfield left the group in 1970 for a solo career, although he continued to write and help produce for The Impressions. Gooden and fellow Chattanoogan Fred Cash continued to sing as The Impressions along with other lead singers, including Leroy Hutson. They toured until 2018. | https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Sam-Gooden-founding-member-of-The-Impressions-17355176.php | 2022-08-05T23:46:49Z | https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Sam-Gooden-founding-member-of-The-Impressions-17355176.php | true |
Adelaide will be aiming to put a week of bedlam behind them when they attempt to rain on Josh Kennedy’s farewell parade in Sunday’s AFL clash with West Coast.
The ghosts of Adelaide’s ill-fated 2018 pre-season camp resurfaced this week with the release of Eddie Betts’ autobiography.
Betts detailed the trauma experienced by himself and other players on the camp, and he has since received apologies from the Crows and AFL.
Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks, who wasn’t at the club at the time of the camp, has been dealt the unenviable task of keeping his group united and focused ahead of the trip to Perth.
The Crows also face the additional challenge of facing a West Coast outfit who are desperate to send out retiring great Kennedy on a winning note.
Kennedy announced his AFL retirement during the week, and he will be the centre of attention come Sunday.
“We’ve got a huge challenge because we go over to Perth, which is a tough road trip at the best of times against West Coast, but we’ve also got Josh Kennedy playing his final game for the footy club,” Nicks said.
“He’s been an incredible player ... and I’m pretty sure they’ll pack out the stadium.
“It will be a great experience for our guys but also a challenging one.”
Nicks hopes his players won’t be affected by the drama engulfing the club.
“We’re heads down, process, and go to work,” he said.
“We’ve got a job to do and it’s going to be a tough one.”
Kennedy’s aim is to snare a win that will help 17th-placed West Coast (2-17) avoid the wooden spoon.
West Coast have named Nic Naitanui again despite the star ruckman still battling soreness.
Naitanui has twice been sidelined by knee injuries this season, and the Eagles will carefully monitor him.
“He’s not 100 per cent, but it’s not a risk in terms of injury from what I’ve been told,” Eagles coach Adam Simpson said.
“Hopefully he’s better this week. He was pretty good last week, especially after half time.
“He’s gone about his craft a bit differently, but he’s fit and available.”
West Coast have recalled Kennedy, Samo Petrevski-Seton and Zac Langdon after losing Jai Culley (suspended), Connor West (wrist) and Jack Petruccelle (hamstring).
The Crows go in unchanged after producing a stunning 29-point upset over Carlton last week. | https://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/afl/crows-in-bid-to-gatecrash-kennedy-farewell-c-7778530 | 2022-08-05T23:47:21Z | https://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/afl/crows-in-bid-to-gatecrash-kennedy-farewell-c-7778530 | true |
WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 5, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service San Diego CA
404 PM PDT Fri Aug 5 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of Southern California, including the following
county, San Bernardino.
* WHEN...Until 715 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 404 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Eastern Lucerne Valley and Johnson Valley.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
The National Weather Service in Las Vegas has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
San Bernardino County in southern California...
* Until 700 PM PDT.
* At 405 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or
expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Life-threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms
producing flash flooding.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Life-threatening flash flooding of low-water
crossings, creeks, normally dry washes and roads.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Twentynine Palms, Twentynine Palms Base, Twentynine Palms Airport,
Joshua Tree Lake Campground and Joshua Tree.
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHERE...A portion of southern California, including the following
counties, Riverside and San Bernardino.
* WHEN...Until 600 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of normally dry washes and low-lying areas.
Water over roadways.
- At 406 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
shortly in the advisory area. Up to 0.5 inches of rain have
fallen.
Northwest portions of Joshua Tree National Park.
Flooding is occurring or is imminent. It is important to know where
you are relative to normally dry washes which can become killers in
heavy rains. Campers and hikers should avoid washes and low lying
areas.
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AUBURN — With construction set to begin in the coming month, the Auburn Sports Group secured yet another win earlier this week.
Earlier this week, it was announced that Traction Athletic Performance will add a second world class training facility at the park. The athletic training specialists currently operate a facility on the north side of Fort Wayne on Marciel Drive.
Dre Muhammad, founder and CEO, is an Indiana University graduate who grew up in Fort Wayne, graduating from Harding High School. Muhammad has teamed up with fellow athletes from Fort Wayne, including Lawrence Barnett, Antoine Taylor, a graduate of South Side High School, and a cast of 10 other specialists to provide the best athletic performance training possible.
Traction AP’s focus and approach is to integrate human development, mental performance, athletic performance and skills training into sports.
Although the group’s main focus is currently on football athletes, it also works with athletes focusing on basketball and other sports.
Muhammad said the move to Auburn Sports Park’s facility off of Interstate 69 was a natural fit. The training facility will give the company an opportunity to serve additional athletes in northeast Indiana. He said northeast Indiana is a huge market for the company.
“We have got a lot of positive reactions,” Muhammad said of the announcement by Auburn Sports Group earlier this week.
Muhammad compared his facility as a one-stop shop sort of a “Walmart” for football athletes. The team’s training focuses on development of the total athlete. The group works with children as young as 8 or 9 years of age all the way through college and the pros.
Muhammad, Barnett and Taylor currently work with some big name pro athletes.
Rod Sinn, president and co-owner of Auburn Sports Group, said securing Traction AP is just another huge win for the facility.
He said one of the keys to the sports park’s success will be the people the group surrounds itself with.
“You have to surround yourself with quality people with character,” Sinn said. “The character and loyalty of these guys is unbelievable. We are surrounding ourselves with the best.”
Muhammad said today’s athlete is more and more in tuned to what he or she needs to succeed throughout their career. Their mission to succeed has them seeking out training facilities such as the one he operates.
“We have a proven process for player development and offer performance training that can translate to any sport,” Muhammad said.
Taylor, who is better known as “The Quarterback Whisperer,” said training is becoming extremely valued.
“The value of training is being embedded in everyone’s mind,” he said. “You don’t know the difference between good and bad until you obtain the best.”
Taylor pointed to the indoor football field, which will be constructed on the property as a game changer. The indoor field will allow the group to train year round.
“This just made sense for us,” Muhammad said. “It feels right.”
Sinn said groundbreaking on Phase 1 of the project should be in the next 30 to 45 days. Phase 1 includes work on the current parking lot, renovations to the main auction building at the former R&M Auction facility and the transformation of the former office on the north end of the property for Traction AP.
Sinn said Traction AP should be able to move into the building before the first of the year. The Sports Group has plans on hosting basketball tournaments after the first of the year. The main auction building on the property will house basketball and volleyball courts for tournaments.
Additional structures will be built as the project progresses, including the indoor football field for 7-on-7 football and flag football. The north-south building on the property will also house additional basketball and volleyball courts. Work on the baseball, softball, soccer and outdoor football field will begin next spring.
The project also calls for the transformation of the south side of C.R. 11A, which will feature a variety of businesses geared toward athletes. It will also be home to other businesses including hotels and restaurants.
Taylor said 7-on-7 football is becoming extremely popular and provides valuable skills training for position players. He said the game, which moves at a faster pace, provides great skill training for quarterbacks and receivers.
“All of the top prospects are playing it,” he said.
Other key wins
• The Auburn sports Group announced on Wednesday that it will be a regional host in the American Cornhole League.
• Brett Ratcliffe will serve as director of baseball. Ratcliffe has 26 years of college and high school baseball experience including 18 years with USA Baseball. He played for Purdue University and Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne as well as a stint in the Frontier League.
• Renee Johnson’s Impact volleyball club will be the official volleyball club of the Auburn Sports Park. Athletes who have been a part of Johnson’s teams have gone on to play at Purdue University, Western Kentucky, DePaul, Grace College and many more.
• Late last month, the Sports Group signed a Name, Image, Likeness agreement with former Fort Wayne Northrop Bruin Jalen Jackson, who is currently a freshman at the University of Illinois Chicago. The Sports Park will be hosting Jackson’s elite camps next year.
• On Friday the sports group announced the Name, Image, Likeness agreement with Carter Mathison, a graduate of Homestead High School, who is on the Indiana University baseball team. He was Indiana’s Mr. Baseball in 2021. He will be hosting a camp at the facility in the future. | https://www.kpcnews.com/thestar/article_999bf387-717b-5e5b-b723-24dd4ae87a33.html | 2022-08-05T23:59:34Z | https://www.kpcnews.com/thestar/article_999bf387-717b-5e5b-b723-24dd4ae87a33.html | true |
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Andrea Hutchins believes in the adage “a rising tide lifts all boats.”
That’s why her planned approach to her new job as El Paso Chamber chief executive officer includes deepening ties with Fort Bliss in Juarez.
“As a military spouse, we talk a lot about the importance of the relationship with Fort Bliss and the business community, but the relationship between Juarez and the El Paso community really has been symbiotic for decades, centuries even,” Hutchins told Border Report on Friday.
Hutchins is the chamber’s first female CEO in its 123-year history. She is the former economic development director of El Paso County and replaces David Jerome, who left in March.
Hutchins said her priorities will be to grow chamber membership and increase collaboration with businesses and community organizations throughout the region.
“One of the key things we want to do is collaborate, whether it’s collaborate with community partners, collaborate with other business or other philanthropic organizations that already have great and wonderful activities going on,” she said. “We really want to be seen as a leader in the community but we already want to embrace those activities that are ongoing and seeing how we can amplify them.”
El Paso during the pandemic lost up to 90 percent of its Mexican shoppers, not only to fear of contagion but also to strict restrictions on the entry of non-U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to the United States.
South El Paso shops and Downtown took a big hit in 2020 and most of 2021. But with the restrictions eased, El Paso is slowly getting back some of that cross-border retail commerce.
“It’s my understanding the number of individuals coming back over the border and shopping again is starting to return to normal. It’s not pre-pandemic, however, across the county we are seeing an increase in sales taxes and we’re seeing an increase in tax revenues overall and I think that’s a direct correlation between some of the increased border activity that we are seeing,” she said.
Asked about the controversial Downtown arena – which some in the business community feel will detonate growth in the area, while others fear could destroy a piece of the city’s history – the new chamber leader said she’s willing to listen.
“There are a lot of opportunities in the Downtown area. The arena could be one of them. I am on day five of my current position, so maybe on day 10 I’ll have a more firm take on things. But I’m really interested on spending the next 30, 60, 90 days talking to people, doing outreach, and really going through what I’m calling a listening tour,” she said. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/border-report/new-el-paso-chamber-ceo-wants-to-deepen-ties-with-fort-bliss-juarez/ | 2022-08-06T00:03:15Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/border-report/new-el-paso-chamber-ceo-wants-to-deepen-ties-with-fort-bliss-juarez/ | true |
LIMA, OH (WLIO) - Members of the Lima City Council's public works committee are ready to see the Lima City Pool project move forward.
Members talked over concerns that have been expressed over the project Thursday evening, ranging from who would have final authority over scheduling and use of the aquatics center, to who would make up the planned advisory council for the facility.
There was also discussion over the Lima City Schools' contribution and involvement in the project. The committee then voted to recommend the council of the whole, approve a memorandum of understanding with the Lima City Schools concerning the pool.
Throughout the meeting, there was concern about whether city residents were getting input, and were clear on the project.
"It was just another opportunity to publicly talk about the pool and have a conversation about the pool. And I think the more conversations we can have about the pool and dispel myths and talk about truths and realities, I'll take that opportunity every chance we can get," stated Peggy Ehora, public works committee chair. "It's not too late to come and talk about something that concerns you or tell us that you feel differently, it's not too late, so everything's not set in stone just yet but it's going to move fast."
The public works committee also discussed a possible fee and permitting process for use of portable storage units in the city, and the potential remodeling of some office spaces in the city building.
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POCA, WV (WOWK) — The Poca Community Volunteer Fire Department and the Putnam County Emergency Management are helping the Letcher VFD by lending them secondary fire trucks after their station was destroyed by flooding.
In a Facebook post, the Poca VFD says the Letcher VFD station was, “wiped out by the disastrous flooding.” With that, they lost a lot of their equipment.
They say they the equipment they blended is fully stocked with airpacks, a hose, extraction equipment and other tools.
This will allow the Letcher VFD to continue its service. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/poca-vfd-assists-flooded-kentucky-fire-station/ | 2022-08-06T00:24:07Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/poca-vfd-assists-flooded-kentucky-fire-station/ | true |
Willow Smith is opening up about her dad's Chris Rock slap at the Oscars. In an interview with Billboard, the 21-year-old daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith reveals why the media fallout from the March incident didn't "rock me as much as my own internal demons."
"I see my whole family as being human, and I love and accept them for all their humanness," she tells the outlet. "Because of the position that we’re in, our humanness sometimes isn’t accepted, and we’re expected to act in a way that isn’t conducive to a healthy human life and isn’t conducive to being honest."
Willow's statement came shortly after Will broke his silence on the now-infamous slap, which happened after Chris made a joke about Jada's alopecia.
"I hate when I let people down. So it hurts, it hurts me psychologically and emotionally to know I didn't live up to people's image and impression of me," Will said. "And the work I'm trying to do is, I am deeply remorseful and I'm trying to be remorseful without being ashamed of myself. I'm human and I made a mistake, and I'm trying not to think of myself as a piece of s**t."
"I know it was confusing, I know it was shocking, but I promise you I am deeply devoted and committed to putting light and love and joy into the world," he added, "and, you know, if you hang on, I promise we'll be able to be friends again."
He also apologized to Chris in the video, noting that he had reached out to the comedian directly, but was told that the he was not ready to talk and would reach out when he is.
"It's all fuzzy," Will said of Oscars night. "I will say to you, Chris, I apologize to you. My behavior was unacceptable and I'm here whenever you're ready to talk."
That moment may not come anytime soon, as a source recently told ET that "Chris has no plans to reach out to Will."
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Mick Miners was herding sheep on a four-wheeler last week when he stumbled upon a pointy black object that looked more than 9 feet tall. It reminded him of either a burned tree or a piece of farm machinery.
“Pretty frightening, actually,” Miners, 48, said by phone on Thursday from his roughly 5,000-acre property in a remote corner of southeastern Australia.
“I was quite surprised,” he added. “It’s not something you see every day on a sheep farm.”
Miners took a picture and sent it to a neighboring farmer, Jock Wallace, who happened to have discovered a similarly mysterious object on his farm a few days earlier.
It was space debris.
The U.S. space agency, NASA, said in a statement that SpaceX confirmed that the object was likely the remaining part of the jettisoned trunk segment from a Dragon spacecraft used during the Crew-1 mission’s return from the International Space Station in May last year. “If you believe you have identified a piece of debris, please do not attempt to handle or retrieve the debris,” NASA said.
Space debris refers to equipment in space that no longer works. Most space debris burns up while reentering the atmosphere, and much of what’s left over often falls in the ocean. However, with more spaceships entering orbit — such as those from private companies like SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk — impacts on land may happen more frequently. SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment.
Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said that it’s not unusual for space debris to be found on land after an uncontrolled reentry.
“It was a bit surprising to me that so much of the trunk survived the heating process of reentry,” McDowell said, but he added that there was no indication that there was anything particularly risky about the trunk. He said that in the new commercial era for space exploration, it has been much harder to get technical information from private companies to assess risk. With more information, “we could have a better assessment of, ‘Did we just get really unlucky, or should we expect this from all the trunk re-entries if they happen over land?’”
The trunk segment, which is used to carry cargo and also includes the spacecraft’s solar arrays and radiators, is jettisoned from the body of the capsule shortly after the burn is completed when it goes out of orbit. “It typically burns up in the atmosphere over the open ocean, posing minimal risk to public safety,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.
Last week, after debris from a large Chinese rocket reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean, the administrator of NASA, Bill Nelson, issued a rebuke, saying that China “did not share specific trajectory information as their Long March 5B rocket fell back to Earth.” He added that all countries should “share this type of information in advance to allow reliable predictions of potential debris impact risk, especially for heavy-lift vehicles, like the Long March 5B, which carry a significant risk of loss of life and property.”
The possibility that debris from the rocket could have struck a populated area led people around the world to track its trajectory for days. This was the third flight of Long March 5B, China’s largest rocket, which made what is called “uncontrolled reentry” back to Earth.
Last year, a malfunction caused a SpaceX rocket stage to complete an uncontrolled reentry into Earth’s atmosphere near Seattle in what looked like bright objects lighting up the night’s sky. Pieces of the burning rocket debris landed on a farmer’s property in Washington state. The debris had reentered the atmosphere after 22 days in orbit.
The rural area of Australia where Miners discovered the space debris on July 25 lies about 100 miles south of the capital, Canberra.
Ron Lane, who owns a restaurant in the town of Dalgety, said that most people in the area — with the notable exception of himself — were not especially worried about additional space debris potentially landing on them or their homes.
“If there’s three we know about, there could be another 10 we don’t know about,” Lane said by phone from his restaurant, Tuscany In Dalgety.
Miners, who was born on the farm where he discovered the unidentified debris, said that his neighbor, Wallace, had called the authorities to report the other debris that he had found on his own property earlier in July. Public interest grew, Miners said, after Wallace called the Australian national broadcaster, which later reported on the farmers’ discoveries and said that three pieces of debris had been found.
“Then everybody found out, and I’ve had about 300 calls,” said Miners, who has about 5,500 sheep, 100 cattle and 30 horses on his farm in the district of Numbla Vale.
His own piece of debris is almost 10 feet tall by 1.3 feet, he said, and an official from the Australian Space Agency called on Thursday to say that its experts planned to visit his property next week to “have a look at it.”
Miners said he had so far enjoyed learning the preliminary details about how the debris had landed and that he was not sure what would happen next.
He said he would be “happy to keep it” but was also interested in “a bit of compensation,” if the space agencies or company wanted it back.
Sa’id Mosteshar, a professor of international space law and the director of the London Institute of Space Policy and Law, said that a person would be able to claim compensation only if the debris harmed him or her or caused any damage to his or her property.
“My guess is they’ll want it back,” Miners added. “I don’t know. I don’t know anything about it. As I said, I’m a sheep farmer.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-large-object-landed-on-his-sheep-farm-it-came-from-space/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world | 2022-08-06T00:28:22Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-large-object-landed-on-his-sheep-farm-it-came-from-space/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world | true |
Sherman ISD shows appreciation to new employees with luncheon
SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - As kids are getting ready to get back into the classroom, so are their teachers. Friday afternoon Sherman ISD invited new employees in the district to a luncheon.
Over 200 new faces to Sherman ISD were joined by current staff and Sherman community partners, who wanted to let these new teachers and faculty members know they are supported and appreciated.
“When our students see other businesses coming into the schools and supporting, helping out, it fires them up. It makes them feel like that they’re appreciated, they’re loved and they’re supported. And I’m telling you that makes a huge difference and it’s always gonna impact us in a positive way,” said Dr. Tyson Bennett, Sherman ISD Superintendent.
For the 2022 school year, Sherman ISD has hired around 230 new employees.
“I’m new to Sherman ISD, kind of, because I did graduate from here. I grew up in Sherman,” said Julie Sharp, Challenge instructor for Fairview and Dillingham Elementary Schools.
Of the 230 new employees, around 180 are teachers. Of that group, 90 are new to teaching.
“It’s comfortable. It’s very familiar and I know some things but also the things that have changed and the growth that Sherman’s experiencing, there’s a lot of exciting things and new things to be coming back to as well,” said Sharp.
Like Sharp, Resource Reading Teacher Darius Thomas also graduated from Sherman. Both are back to their old stomping grounds.
“I graduated from the old high school which is now the middle school. So I’m excited to let the kids know a little bit of my history,” said Thomas.
Friday’s luncheon was a way for members of the Sherman community to show these new teachers they are part of a family that’s valued.
“It’s confirmation that I’m in the right place because you need support all the way from your administrators to your community because you can’t do your job correctly. And that’s anywhere, any profession. So it feels really good that we have support,” said Thomas.
Something that speaks volumes and creates a strong community for the kids.
“Really something that truly is inspirational to us and all of our staff members is that we have so many individuals from out there in the community from businesses and other organizations that love Sherman ISD, love our teachers, our staff members and our kids, and want to support us,” said Bennett.
The first day of school for Sherman is August 17.
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ALLENTOWN - The IronPigs have been playing consistent baseball all season long. No matter who's in or out of the lineup, the club has been able to weather roster changes and win games.
Lehigh Valley enters play tonight in a tie for first place in the International League East and have won five straight overall - including the first three in this series with the Syracuse Mets.
The latest change is Nick Maton promoted to Philadelphia and Yairo Munoz sent to Lehigh Valley. No matter what, the club remains focused - eyes on the prize and, hopefully, a trip out West later in the season.
"I mean, we want to go to Vegas and play in that playoff," infielder Dalton Guthrie said. "So, we're all pretty excited about making a playoff push here. Whatever happens with going up or down or whatever, it's kind of out of our control. You just play the best you can. But as a team, we want to go to Vegas and play in the playoffs. So, that's what we're looking forward to." | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/ironpigs-are-laser-focused-on-a-postseason-push/article_14c75bec-1505-11ed-871f-a3342ef3a5f4.html | 2022-08-06T00:30:23Z | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/ironpigs-are-laser-focused-on-a-postseason-push/article_14c75bec-1505-11ed-871f-a3342ef3a5f4.html | false |
Soon, we could all have near-live digital representations of our bodies in data, tracking, measuring, and monitoring our movements, our activities, and our key health indicators for health, fitness, and wellness.
It’s already happening.
My smart ring measures body temperature, heart rate, movement, sleep. My smart watch monitors activity, workouts, blood pressure, blood oxygenation. My phone knows how many steps I’ve taken, and if changes in my pace suggest the potential onset of Parkinson’s disease. A small home-based spectrometer can tell you how your blood sugars or cholesterol levels react to different diets. Soon my shoes will know why my Achilles hurt, what’s efficient about my stride, how high I jump, and if my walking, running, or jumping dangerously preferences one side of my body.
“I believe we’re moving very rapidly into this world of personalized wellness, health care, fitness, performance,” Plantiga CEO Quin Sandler told me recently in a TechFirst podcast.
“I think this idea of comparing a human being to another human being is a very old age way of looking at everything. I think what’s going to happen here and where we feel like we’re going is really building the infrastructure to monitor the complexity of how a human being moves, and based on their goals, developing insights and recommendations and interventions — with a possible human in the loop — to really drive better outcomes. Whether, again, that’s performance, or recovery, or injury prevention.”
A Chinese AI passed the country’s national medical licensing exam five years ago, and another in the country of 1.4 billion people with only 3.8 million doctors is already supporting doctors to deliver healthcare faster and cheaper.
That doesn’t mean you or I want to see the virtual AI doctor on our next visit: it’s still early days. It does mean that technology is going to have a greater impact in monitoring and delivering healthcare in the future.
And let’s be honest: it’s much, much needed.
One thing’s clear, there are multiple devices collecting data from our bodies. Plantiga offers a smart sole that fits in your shoe and measures 150 different parameters, Sandler says, about how we walk, jump, turn, twist, and more. Plantiga, which has developed an AI “digital movement coach” named Norman after the CEO’s deceased father (also a co-founder of the company), started in the world of high-performance athletes.
One user: Olympic gold medalist Andre de Grasse, reigning Olympic champion in the 200 meters and recent gold medallist in the 4x100 meters at the 2022 World Championships.
But data on your performance is about more than Olympians. It’s also for seniors.
“Ultimately our goal is to take the power of analyzing human movement to drive better outcomes,” Sandler says. “Whether that is fall prevention in someone my mom’s age, someone that’s dealing with a neurodegenerative disease like Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, or an athlete that’s recovering from an ACL or a hip injury. The way that we move tells so much about our health.”
And that health is getting harder to deliver.
Whether it’s high costs in the U.S. or overwhelmed national medical systems in Canada or the UK, getting care to people who need it is harder and harder.
There’s a role for technology here, if we design it well.
Recently I came down with Covid after a flight home from Mexico. I called the health line in BC and was able to tell them my respiration rate and how it had changed from normal, my body temperature, heart rate, and other data that helped a triage nurse confirm that yes, it was covid, no, it was not terribly serious, and yes, I could safely stay home and get healthy.
In a world where nearly 25% of Americans are skipping medical care because they can’t afford it and half the world’s population doesn’t have access to essential health services, how else are we going to deliver at least some level of care? Doctors certainly can’t do it alone: we don’t have enough of them, to start, and the ones we do have are literally overwhelmed by the volume of existing patient health data already.
What we have now is a wealth of data from a fraction of people who wear devices that measure and monitor health indicators. What we don’t have yet is a way in which we can share that data easily in a safe and privacy-compliant way, or a way to broaden the spectrum of people who can afford the devices.
That may come.
Some think we’ll have digital twins of the human body by the end of the decade. Scientists are building the conceptual models, and the wealth of data we’re collecting every day will, conceivably, be able to populate those models.
The challenge, of course, is solving the privacy issues, the access issues, and the basic willingness of people to participate. But our inability to deliver healthcare affordably to billions of people on the planet is probably going to be a key driver in making it happen.
Sandler and Plantiga, of course, are simply focused on one aspect: movement.
“I feel like we’re building and where we want to go in the next five years is being the backbone for that world around the lens of biomechanics and movement, which really appeals to the quarter of the population that deal with musculoskeletal issues,” he says. “That’s where we’re going, almost this like operating system for movement health that can be embedded in shoes. We could monetize that data. We could build predictive analytics around outcomes with different diseases like Parkinson’s, the progressions, the regressions. It’s the data set and what we can do with that, I think, in the next four to five years, that becomes really, really exciting.”
Monetizing the data sounds ominous, although I’m sure that it could be done with permission and while respecting privacy.
But capturing all the data from our devices about our bodies and health, and using it safely and securely to deliver better, quicker, and cheaper healthcare outcomes: that’s an intriguing goal.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Justin Verlander pitched six scoreless innings for his MLB-leading 15th victory, Chas McCormick and Martin Maldonado each homered and had three RBIs, and the AL West-leading Houston Astros beat the Cleveland Guardians 6-0 Thursday night.
Verlander (15-3), making his comeback from Tommy John surgery, extended his winning streak to seven starts and moved into a tie with Herb Pennock for 55th place all-time with 241 victories. He gave up two hits, both singles, and struck out five.
“It’s fun to be behind the plate for him,” Maldonado said. “Watching his preparation between games and his execution on the mound, that’s what future Hall of Famers do. I think he was born that way.”
In addition to leading the majors in wins, Verlander is first with a 1.73 ERA. The right-hander is 11-16 in his career at Progressive Field, where his 5.17 ERA is the highest of any ballpark that he has pitched in more than twice.
“Is it still over 5.00? Well, then I’ve still got some demons to exorcize here,” Verlander quipped. “These guys tormented me for a while. I’m not going to say that was something I focused on, but it was definitely on my mind.”
Verlander also triggered his $25 million player option for 2023 by reaching 130 innings. The 39-year-old will earn the same amount this season under the new contract that he signed last winter.
“I wanted a player option and I thought that was more than a fair ask because they’re going out on a limb paying an old guy,” Verlander said. “Because if I didn’t throw 130, then I didn’t earn what I made this year anyway.
“Crossing that threshold puts me in a good spot, but that isn’t something I’m thinking about now at all.”
Will Smith, Ryne Stanek and Phil Maton completed the three-hitter, helping Houston move within 1 1/2 games of the idle Yankees for the best record in the AL.
McCormick gave the Astros a 2-0 lead with run-scoring singles in the third and fifth off Cleveland starter Zach Plesac (2-10). Maldonado added a two-run double in the fifth against Nick Sandlin to make it 4-0.
McCormick and Maldonado struck again in the seventh with solo homers, the 11th of the season for both, off Kirk McCarty. McCormick equaled his career high with three hits on an evening when Houston left eight runners on base over the first three innings.
“I didn’t see them square up a ton of balls, but there was a ton of traffic right from the get-go,” Guardians manager Terry Francona said. “And Verlander was as advertised.”
Cleveland entered the day one game behind AL Central leader Minnesota and one game out of the final wild-card spot. Steven Kwan, Josh Naylor and Austin Hedges accounted for its hits in the loss.
Kwan matched Boston’s J.D. Martinez for the longest hitting streak in the AL this year at 18 games. It also is the longest run by a rookie since Pittsburgh’s Ke’Bryan Hayes had a 19-gamer in 2020-2021.
Plesac remained winless since June 5 in Baltimore, allowing four runs, seven hits and five walks in 4 1/3 innings. The right-hander is 0-6 in his last 10 starts and has dropped all five of his decisions in night games.
“I’m being tested right now, it’s just a weird time,” Plesac said. “I’m never going to back down from it and will get out of this funk of unluckiness or whatever it is. It seems like I can’t catch a break.”
SIGH OF RELIEF
The Astros picked up three significant veterans in 1B Trey Mancini, C Christian Vázquez and LHP Will Smith before the MLB trade deadline earlier this week, allowing manager Dusty Baker to take a deep breath.
“It feels fun, actually, to be done with that,” Baker said. “We’re in the dog days of the season, but this year, it seems like the dog showed up a little early.”
Vázquez ranks third in the AL with 74 starts behind the plate, the first 73 with Boston.
“Going to a new team is a difficult adjustment for catchers, which is where Vázquez is now,” Baker said. “You have to learn the philosophy of the pitching coach, how to talk to pitchers, and when to call timeout to calm a guy down. It’s not easy.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Astros: OF Aledmys Diaz (left ring finger) was hurt in the eighth inning when he collided with center fielder Jake Meyers on a fly ball to left-center by Cleveland’s Austin Hedges. Diaz was undergoing medical tests following the game.
Guardians: RHP Aaron Civale (right wrist sprain), who has been on the 15-day injured list since July 14, will make a rehab start Friday for Triple-A Columbus against Rochester. Francona said the goal for Civale is to pitch four innings.
UP NEXT
Astros: LHP Framber Valdez (9-4, 2.80 ERA) has earned the win in all three of his career appearances against Cleveland, posting a 2.81 ERA over two starts and one relief outing.
Guardians: RHP Hunter Gaddis will be recalled from Triple-A Columbus for his major league debut. Gaddis is 1-0 with a 2.70 ERA since his promotion from Double-A Akron.
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Rayna Malhotra welcomes Dr. Jean-Pierre Issa, President and CEO of the Coriell Institute for Medical Research in Camden, New Jersey. They discuss the nonprofit research center's work on the study of the human genome, including epigenetics.
Teen Scientist with host Rayna Malhotra brings you groundbreaking innovation in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines - entirely from a teenage perspective. Catch it the first Thursday of every month from 6:00 to 7:00 PM following All Things Considered.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Keno" game were:
03-06-18-21-22-25-30-31-34-36-41-42-44-46-47-49-50-56-63-72-73-75
(three, six, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-five, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-four, thirty-six, forty-one, forty-two, forty-four, forty-six, forty-seven, forty-nine, fifty, fifty-six, sixty-three, seventy-two, seventy-three, seventy-five) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-17355628.php | 2022-08-06T00:42:54Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-17355628.php | true |
NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes closed mostly lower Friday after a roller-coaster day following a blockbuster report on the U.S. jobs market that offered both good and bad news for Wall Street.
The benchmark S&P 500 ended just 0.2% lower after recovering from an early slide as investors reacted to the report, which showed that U.S. employers unexpectedly added hundreds of thousands more jobs than forecast last month.
The blistering data suggests the economy may not be in a recession, as feared. But it also undercuts investors’ speculation that a slowing economy may mean a peak for inflation soon. That means the Federal Reserve may not let up on its aggressive rate hikes to combat inflation as early as hoped. And much of Wall Street still revolves around expectations for rates.
“It’s a reminder for investors on how uncertain Fed policy is going forward and the strong jobs market data shows just how far the Fed has to go,” said Charlie Ripley, senior investment strategist at Allianz Investment Management.
Stocks of technology and other high-growth companies once again took the brunt of the selling amid the rising-rate worries. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite cut its early losses and closed down 63.03 points, or 0.5%, at 12,657.55.
The good news on the jobs market helped to limit losses for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, whose stocks tend to move more with expectations for the overall economy. It added 76.65 points, or 0.2%, to close at 32,803.47.
The S&P 500 slipped 6.75 points to end at 4,145.19. Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq posted a gain for the week.
Beyond the nation’s strong hiring, wage growth for workers also unexpectedly accelerated last month. That’s helpful for households trying to keep up with the fastest price gains in 40 years. But it also raises worries on Wall Street that inflation will become more embedded in the economy.
Higher wages can cause companies to raise prices for their own products to sustain profits, which can lead to something economists call a “wage-price spiral.”
To be sure, some market watchers also pointed to numbers within Friday’s employment report suggesting the jobs market may not be as strong as the overall numbers imply. The number of people with multiple jobs rose by more than half a million, for example, said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments.
“That was mostly from people who already have a full time job and then the second job is part time,” he said. “Maybe this is more superficially impressive than substantively impressive.”
Wall Street’s clearest moves came from the bond market, where Treasury yields shot higher immediately after the release of the jobs data. The two-year Treasury yield, which tends to track expectations for Fed action, jumped to 3.23% from 3.05% late Thursday. The 10-year yield, which influences rates on mortgages, rose to 2.84% from 2.69%.
Wall Street is coming off the best month for stocks since late 2020, a rally driven mostly by what had been falling yields across the bond market. The hope on Wall Street had been that the economy was slowing enough to get the Fed to ease up on its rate hikes.
Higher mortgage rates had cut into the housing industry, in particular, after the Fed raised its short-term rates four times this year. The last two increases were triple the usual size, and the Fed has raised its benchmark overnight rate from nearly zero by 2.25 percentage points.
“Today’s print, coming in much stronger than anticipated, complicates the job” of the Federal Reserve, Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s chief investment officer of global fixed income, said in a statement. He said the assumption now becomes the Fed raising short-term rates by another 0.75 percentage points next month, unless next week’s highly anticipated report on inflation “shows some dramatic weakness, which seems highly unlikely at this point.”
Traders scrambled to place bets for bigger hikes coming out of the Fed’s next meeting. They have flipped their expectations from a day earlier and now largely expect the Fed to hike by 0.75 percentage points, instead of by half a point.
Such increases hurt investment prices in the near term, and they raise the risk of recession further down the line because they slow the economy by design.
Such expectations also mean the two-year Treasury yield remains above the 10-year yield. That’s unusual, and some investors see it as a sign of a recession hitting the economy within the next year or two.
On Friday, Warner Bros. Discovery fell 16.5% for the biggest loss in the S&P 500 after reporting weaker results for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Monster Beverage lost 5.2% after it reported weaker profit than expected, though its revenue was stronger than forecast.
Smaller company stocks also weathered the turbulent trading to notch gains. The Russell 2000 index rose 15.37 points, or 0.8%, to close at 1,921.82.
In overseas stock markets, India’s Sensex rose 0.2% after the Reserve Bank of India raised its benchmark interest rate by a half percentage point to 5.4%.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose 0.9%, while Germany’s DAX fell 0.6%.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — When Dr. Audrey Lance, an OB-GYN at Northland Family Planning Centers in Metro Detroit, got to work Monday morning, abortion was legal in the state of Michigan.
By noon, it wasn't.
Then by 5 p.m., it was legal again, with at least some certainty it would probably stay that way, at least until a hearing Wednesday. At that hearing, a judge ruled the temporary restraining order preventing county prosecutors from criminally charging abortion providers, would remain in place ... at last until another hearing in two weeks.
"It's confusing even to lawyers, let alone a layperson who is just trying to figure out if their appointment is still booked or not," Lance said Monday, speaking by phone.
This is the chaotic reality of abortion rights in one of the few Midwestern states that didn't enforce new restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in late June. Since then, waves of abortion patients fleeing regulations in Ohio, Wisconsin, and even as far away as Texas have traveled to Michigan. Planned Parenthood of Michigan says the number of of out-of-state abortion patients coming to its clinics have tripled since the court ruling. And providers say those patients are increasingly desperate.
One of Lance's recent patients was a "young girl" who drove seven hours with her mother from Milwaukee for her appointment, then turned around and drove back home.
When asked if she could provide the girl's age, Lance hesitated, finally saying: "Let's just say she was a minor."
Another patient was so frantic that when Lance was going over a routine list of possible medical complications from abortion, the patient cut her off.
"She said, 'It's fine, I don't care what the risks are. You could shoot me in my uterus, and that would be fine. I just cannot have another child right now.'"
On Monday, telling patients: You may need to go to yet another state
The waitlists at Northland Family Planning Centers have been growing, and Monday morning was as busy as ever. Patients were in the middle of ultrasounds and counseling sessions when Lance got the call from her boss.
"We had to immediately halt kind of what we were doing," Lance said.
That's because a new court ruling had just been issued. In April, Planned Parenthood of Michigan filed a lawsuit seeking to permanently block enforcement of the state's 1931 abortion ban, which criminalizes abortion even in the cases of rape or incest. The ban had been unenforceable under Roe.
In May, a Court of Claims judge issued a preliminary injunction, preventing the ban from being enforced by Michigan's attorney general and local county prosecutors.
But on Monday, the Court of Appeals ruled that the preliminary injunction didn't apply to local county prosecutors — several of whom have said they would prosecute abortion providers under the 1931 law.
"The Court of Appeals reaffirmed the independent authority of local prosecutors and upheld Michigan's Constitution," said attorney David Kallman, who represents Jackson County Prosecutor Jerard Jarzynka and Kent County Prosecutor Christopher Becker, both of whom filed a legal challenge to the preliminary injunction. "Michigan's abortion statute is immediately in effect and enforceable by local prosecutors."
While there was some debate about when the Court of Appeals' ruling would go into effect, the impact on healthcare providers was immediate.
"[I] felt a total gut punch, and in real time [was] trying to figure out what this means for the patients that are literally sitting in my clinic," Lance said.
Many of those patients had already traveled for hours to get there.
"We [told them we] wanted to do our very best to take care of them, but that we had to stop for the time being to figure out what we were legally going to be able to do."
Similar scenes were playing out at the University of Michigan's health system, which primarily performs abortions for patients with complex medical cases who may require hospitalization, says professor Dr. Lisa Harris, an OB-GYN.
"Everyone that I've seen from out of state for abortion care in the past three weeks are people who had an appointment scheduled the day that the ... decision was handed down, or the week or two after that, and then were unable to get that care because abortion then became illegal in their state," Harris said.
That includes one patient whose son had recently been diagnosed with a malignant tumor that would require chemotherapy and radiation.
"And she couldn't continue the pregnancy and care for her son with all his medical needs," Harris said. "And [she] had her appointment in another state canceled at the last minute. It took her a couple of weeks to find care with us in Michigan, and ultimately she had her abortion procedure the day before her child was about to have major cancer surgery."
Planned Parenthood of Michigan announced it would continue to offer abortions, citing Michigan court rules that say "the Michigan Court of Appeals ruling cannot take effect during the 21-day appeal window."
But there was enough uncertainty that by mid-morning, Harris said the University of Michigan's clinicians had to tell patients to make other plans — again.
"We are telling them that [Tuesday] or Wednesday, when their procedures would happen, we may not actually be legally able to provide that care," Harris said Monday. "And we understand how crushing that likely feels to them. And we are going to ask them to begin looking for care out of state, likely in Illinois."
Confusion, uncertainty as legal status of abortion flip flops
By late Monday afternoon, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had asked the Oakland County Circuit Court to intervene.
"Michiganders will suffer an irreparable injury if Defendants are permitted to enforce ... a near-total ban on abortion that violates the Michigan Constitution," Whitmer's filing said.
Around 5 p.m., Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Jacob Cunningham issued a temporary restraining order, once again blocking enforcement of the 1931 ban "until further Order of the Court." Cunningham also ordered Whitmer's legal team, as well as attorneys representing local county prosecutors, to convene for a hearing Wednesday.
Still, on Monday evening, Lance said they'd decided to stop offering abortion care for now at their Sterling Heights clinic, because it's in Macomb County.
"And the Macomb county prosecutor has clearly stated he wants to prosecute [abortion providers under the 1931 ban,]" she said. "So we thought it would be the safest thing not to see patients there, because this was still so unclear."
Meanwhile, patients were calling, uncertain about whether they still had appointments.
"Of course they're very upset at the situation," Lance said.
On Tuesday, the University of Michigan announced it would continue to offer abortion care, "support our employees and learners, which includes providing legal defense for those who might become parties in civil or criminal legal proceedings by virtue of their good-faith efforts to perform their duties."
A series of high-stakes court battles over abortion
In a tense hearing Wednesday afternoon, attorneys for Whitmer, as well as the county prosecutors who want to enforce the 1931 abortion ban, argued over whether Cunningham's temporary restraining order should remain in effect.
Whitmer's attorneys cited the ongoing confusion over the legal status of abortion in the state, saying that if even only a few county prosecutors enforced the 1931 abortion ban, it would have an immediate "chilling effect" on abortion providers throughout Michigan.
But Kallman said the request for the temporary restraining order was an overreach by the governor, whom Kallman accused of essentially asking the judge to create a constitutional right that "doesn't exist."
Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit, who opposes the state abortion ban, told the judge that if the temporary restraining order was lifted, county prosecutors would essentially be in charge of determining when abortions are valid to "save the life of the mother," since that's the only exemption in the ban.
"These are emergency decisions that doctors have to make in the moment," Savit told the court. "And to ask them what their county prosecutor, or a neighboring county prosecutor might do, puts doctors and patients in an untenable position. And renders it quite likely that lifesaving care [won't happen.]
"We simply ask that the status quo that has existed for 50 years in this state continue, and we not see the type of chaos that we saw on Monday," Savit said.
"Look, you want to talk about public interest and harm? There's 1,700 lives per month being aborted," Kallman told the court minutes later. "There's a harm, of all those lives being lost. And that's a part of the balance the court should look at."
There were 30,074 abortions performed in the Michigan last year, according to the state health department. That's roughly a 1% increase from the prior year, but nearly a 40% decrease from 1987, the year with the largest number of induced abortions.
Ultimately, Judge Cunningham ruled to leave the temporary restraining order in place until a second hearing later this month to determine whether a new injunction about enforcing the 1931 ban should be issued.
What's important for patients to understand, Dr. Harris said, is that abortion is still legal and available in Michigan.
"But if people don't know that, or have doubts about it, or are afraid of driving seven hours only to be turned away, which is what happened to some patients on Monday, [then] yes, they will probably think twice, or not think Michigan is going to be a welcoming place for their care," she said.
All of this uncertainty could be cleared up if the Michigan Supreme Court decides to step in, as Whitmer and Planned Parenthood of Michigan have requested. And in November, voters may also get decide if Michigan should have a constitutional amendment protecting abortion. Until then, abortion rights in the state will hang on the next court ruling — whatever that may be.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tens of thousands of flyers had their travel plans upended Friday after airlines canceled about 1,400 U.S. flights as thunderstorms hit the East Coast.
Another 6,300 flights had been delayed by early evening, according to tracking service FlightAware.
It was the second straight day of major disruptions and the worst day for cancellations since mid-June.
The three major airports in the New York City area and Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., recorded the most cancellations.
American Airlines scrubbed about 250 flights, or 7% of its schedule. Republic Airways, which operates smaller planes for American Eagle, Delta Connection and United Express, canceled a similar number, about 25% of its flights.
Thunderstorms were stopping or delaying early-evening flights in New York, Boston, the Washington, D.C., area, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Denver, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
About 1,200 U.S. flights were canceled Thursday, 4.6% of all those scheduled.
Travelers have been hit with widespread cancellations and delays this summer. Travel bounced back faster than expected — to about 88% of pre-pandemic levels in July — and airlines weren’t able to increase staffing fast enough. They have been cutting back on schedules in an attempt to make remaining flights more reliable.
Airlines flying in the U.S. had a bad June, canceling more than 21,000 flights or 2.7%, up from 1.8% in June 2019, before airlines pushed workers to quit during the pandemic. The airlines did better in July, however, canceling about 14,000 flights, or 1.8%.
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A long-lost painting by the British graffiti artist Banksy has resurfaced in a swank art gallery in downtown Tel Aviv, an hour’s drive and a world away from the concrete wall in the occupied West Bank where it was initially sprayed.
The relocation of the painting — which depicts a slingshot-toting rat and was likely intended to protest the Israel occupation — raises ethical questions about the removal of artwork from occupied territory and the display of such politically-charged pieces in radically different settings from where they were created.
The painting initially appeared near Israel’s separation barrier in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem and was one of several works created in secret around 2007. They employed Banksy’s trademark absurdist and dystopian imagery to protest Israel’s decades-long occupation of territories the Palestinians want for a future state.
Now it resides at the Urban Gallery in the heart of Tel Aviv’s financial district, surrounded by glass and steel skyscrapers.
“This is the story of David and Goliath,” said Koby Abergel, an Israeli art dealer who purchased the painting, without elaborating on the analogy. He said the gallery was simply displaying the work, leaving its interpretation to others.
The Associated Press could not independently confirm the authenticity of the piece, but Abergel said the cracks and scrapes in the concrete serve as “a fingerprint” that proves it is the same piece that appears on the artist’s website.
The 70-kilometer (43-mile) journey it made from the West Bank to Tel Aviv is shrouded in secrecy. The 900-pound concrete slab would have had to pass through Israel’s serpentine barrier and at least one military checkpoint — daily features of Palestinian life and targets of Banksy’s biting satire.
Abergel, who is a partner with the Tel Aviv gallery, said he bought the concrete slab from a Palestinian associate in Bethlehem. He declined to disclose the sum he paid or identify the seller, but insisted on the deal’s legality.
The graffiti artwork was spray-painted on a concrete block that was part of an abandoned Israeli army position in Bethlehem, next to a soaring concrete section of the separation barrier.
Some time later, the painting was itself subjected to graffiti by someone who obscured the painting and scrawled “RIP Bansky Rat” on the block. Palestinian residents cut out the painting and kept it in private residences until earlier this year, Abergel said.
He said the relocation involved delicate negotiations with his Palestinian associate and careful restoration to remove the acrylic paint sprayed over Banksy’s work. The massive block was then enclosed in a steel frame so it could be lifted onto a flatbed truck and rolled through a checkpoint, until it arrived in Tel Aviv in the middle of the night.
It was not possible to independently confirm his account of its journey.
The piece now stands on an ornately patterned tile floor, surrounded by other contemporary art. Baruch Kashkash, the gallery’s owner, said the roughly 2-square-meter (-yard) block was so heavy it had to be brought inside by a crane, and could barely be moved from the doorway.
Israel controls all access to the West Bank, and Palestinians require Israeli permits to travel in or out and to import and export goods. Even when traveling within the West Bank, they can be stopped and searched by Israeli soldiers at any time.
Israeli citizens, including Jewish settlers, can travel freely in and out of the 60% of the West Bank that is under full Israeli control. Israel prohibits its citizens from entering areas administered by the Palestinian Authority for security reasons, but there’s little enforcement of that ban.
The Palestinians have spent decades seeking an independent state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. The peace process ground to a halt more than 10 years ago.
Abergel said the artwork’s move was not coordinated with the Israeli military, and that his Palestinian associates, whom he declined to name, were responsible for moving it into Israel and crossing through military checkpoints. He said he has no plans to sell the piece.
According to the international treaty governing cultural property to which Israel is a signatory, occupying powers must prevent the removal of cultural property from occupied territories. It remains unclear exactly how the 1954 Hague Convention would apply in this instance.
“This is theft of the property of the Palestinian people,” said Jeries Qumsieh, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Tourism Ministry. “These were paintings by an international artist for Bethlehem, for Palestine, and for visitors to Bethlehem and Palestine. So transferring them, manipulating them and stealing them is definitely an illegal act.”
The Israeli military and COGAT, the Israeli Defense Ministry body responsible for coordinating civilian affairs with the Palestinians, said they had no knowledge of the artwork or its relocation.
Banksy has created numerous artworks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in recent years, including one depicting a girl conducting a body search on an Israeli soldier, another showing a dove wearing a flak jacket, and a masked protester hurling a bouquet of flowers. He also designed the “Walled Off Hotel” guesthouse in Bethlehem, which is filled with his artwork.
A spokesperson for Banksy did not respond to requests for comment.
This is not the first time the street artist’s work has been lifted from the West Bank. In 2008, two other paintings — “Wet Dog” and “Stop and Search” — were removed from the walls of a bus shelter and butcher shop in Bethlehem. They were eventually bought by galleries in the United States and Britain where they were exhibited in 2011.
Abergel says it’s up to viewers to draw their own conclusions about the artwork and its implications.
“We brought it to the main street of Tel Aviv to be shown to the audience and to show his messages,” said Abergel. “He should be happy with it.”
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Motor racing-McLaren told Ricciardo that Piastri will replace him-reports
McLaren have told Daniel Ricciardo that fellow Australian Oscar Piastri will be replacing him at the Formula One team next season, according to media reports on Friday. The http://www.racingnews365.com website cited Australian sources saying Ricciardo had been officially informed of his "de-hiring."
Soccer-Rampant Bayern obliterate Frankfurt 6-1 in Bundesliga opener
Champions Bayern Munich fired five goals past woeful Eintracht Frankfurt in the first half on the way to an electric 6-1 victory in the Bundesliga season opener on Friday. The Bavarians put down a marker at the start of the campaign as they look to land an 11th consecutive league crown, and outclassed the Europa League winners, who face Real Madrid in the Super Cup next week, with new signing Sadio Mane on target.
Soccer-DC United sign Belgium striker Benteke from Palace
Wayne Rooney's DC United have signed Belgium striker Christian Benteke from Crystal Palace on a 2-1/2-year deal with the option of an extra year, the Major League Soccer club said on Friday. The former Aston Villa and Liverpool player, who has spent the last 10 seasons in the Premier League, will join his new club pending receipt of a work visa, DC United said https://www.dcunited.com/news/d-c-united-sign-belgian-international-christian-benteke-from-crystal-palace.
INTERVIEW-Paralympics-Russia decision on Paris 2024 in November but situation unchanged-IPC chief
A decision on the participation of Russia and Belarus at the Paris 2024 Paralympics will be taken in November but the ongoing war in Ukraine means their ban from the Beijing 2022 winter Paralympics remains in place, the president of the International Paralympic Committee said on Friday. Athletes from Russia and Belarus were barred from competing in the Chinese capital on the eve of the Paralympics in March over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, for which Belarus has been a key staging area.
Tennis-Nadal withdraws from Montreal hardcourt event
Rafa Nadal has withdrawn from next week's U.S. Open tune-up event in Montreal, Canada due to the same abdominal strain which forced him to miss his Wimbledon semi-final last month, he said on Friday. World number three Nadal's quest for a calendar Grand Slam ended after he pulled out of his highly anticipated showdown against Australia's Nick Kyrgios less than 24 hours before the match.
Soccer-Own goal helps Arsenal win at Palace in Premier League opener
Arsenal battled to beat Crystal Palace 2-0 on Friday as the new Premier League season got underway, with Gabriel Martinelli scoring the first goal before home defender Marc Guehi turned the ball into his own net late on at Selhurst Park.
Arsenal striker Gabriel Jesus, who arrived from Manchester City in the close season, looked set to get off to a flying start by dancing through the Palace defense only to see his shot blocked, with Martinelli dragging the rebound wide of the post.
Soccer-Fenerbahce given one-game partial stadium closure after 'Putin' chants
Fenerbahce have been handed a one-game partial stadium closure, suspended for two years, after their fans chanted Russian President Vladimir Putin's name in a game against Dynamo Kyiv, European soccer's governing body said on Friday. The chants of "Vladimir Putin" by some Fenerbahce fans came after Vitaliy Buyalskyi put Kyiv ahead in the 57th minute of the Champions League qualifier that the Ukrainian side won 2-1 last month after extra time thanks to Oleksandr Karavaev's goal.
Tennis-Serena Williams faces tough draw in first U.S. Open tune-up event
Serena Williams will have her work cut out for her when the Toronto Open kicks off next week as the 23-time Grand Slam champion begins her hardcourt preparations for the upcoming U.S. Open. If Williams can get past a qualifier in her first round match she will then face either Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Belinda Bencic or savvy veteran and former world number one Victoria Azarenka in the second round.
Lakers, LeBron James reportedly talk $98M extension
LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers are discussing a two-year extension worth $98 million, according to multiple reports. James, 37, became eligible for a contract extension on Thursday and met with general manager Rob Pelinka.
Russia sentences Griner to 9 years in prison, White House calls for her release
A Russian court sentenced U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on Thursday after finding her guilty of deliberately bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into Russia, a ruling that U.S. President Joe Biden called "unacceptable." Griner was escorted out of the courtroom in handcuffs by police after the ruling, turning to reporters and saying: "I love my family." | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11086331/Reuters-Sports-News-Summary.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-06T00:53:08Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11086331/Reuters-Sports-News-Summary.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Pipeline developer pleads no contest in Pennsylvania pollution cases
The developer of a major pipeline system that connects the Marcellus Shale gas field in western Pennsylvania to an export terminal near Philadelphia pleaded no contest Friday to criminal charges that it systematically polluted waterways and residential water wells across hundreds of miles.
Dallas-based Energy Transfer Operating agreed to independent testing of homeowners' water and promised to remediate contamination in a settlement of two separate criminal cases brought by the Pennsylvania attorney general. Under a plea deal, the company will also pay $10 million to restore watersheds and streams along the route of its Mariner East pipeline network.
"We are holding Energy Transfer accountable for their crimes against our natural resources," Attorney General Josh Shapiro said at a news conference after the hearing in Harrisburg.
An email was sent to Energy Transfer seeking comment.
The company's Mariner East 1, Mariner East 2 and Mariner East 2X pipelines carry propane, ethane and butane from the Marcellus and Utica shale gas fields to a refinery processing center and export terminal in Marcus Hook, a suburb of Philadelphia. Construction wrapped in February.
Mariner East has been one of the most penalized projects in state history. The owner has racked up tens of millions of dollars in civil penalties, and state regulators repeatedly halted construction over contamination.
The attorney general stepped in last October, charging Energy Transfer with releasing industrial waste at 22 sites in 11 counties and failing to report spills to regulators. The company fouled the drinking water of at least 150 families, prosecutors have said.
Under the plea agreement, residents who live near the pipeline and have private water can request independent testing. More than 800 residents along the pipelines' route have been notified of the testing, and residents have until Aug. 19 to sign up.
Residents were wary of the plea deal, given their fraught history with Sunoco Pipeline LP, the Energy Transfer subsidiary that operates Mariner East.
"I'm hopeful, but knowing Sunoco's track record, I am skeptical," said Karen Katz, of Edgmont Township in Delaware County. She said Sunoco strong-armed residents into signing agreements to allow the pipeline, tore up the neighborhood during construction, and fouled the aquifer. She said she still does not drink her well water.
"How do you take contaminated aquifers and un-contaminate them? How many years does that take?" Katz said.
Energy Transfer's state permits already require it to fix the damage its pipeline construction caused. But prosecutors said the plea deal goes a step further by requiring the company to submit to water testing by geologists picked by the attorney general’s office. Previously, Energy Transfer itself had been testing water.
The company must abide by the independent experts' recommendations on how to restore the fouled water, prosecutors said.
Another part of the plea deal requires Energy Transfer to pay $10 million to address contamination of groundwater and streams.
The money is a drop in the bucket to a pipeline company with surging profits. Energy Transfer reported this week that its net income jumped 90% in the second quarter, to $1.33 billion, as the company’s pipelines carried record volumes of natural gas liquids.
Shapiro, a Democrat running for governor, has long complained that Pennsylvania’s criminal environmental laws are too weak. His office said the statutory maximum for the crimes for which Energy Transfer was charged amounted to only $1.45 million, making a plea deal more beneficial to victims than taking the case to trial.
"Even if we had won every single count at trial, Energy Transfer would’ve walked away paying just pocket change for their crimes," Shapiro said Friday. "Nothing more would have come to make our water cleaner and safer, and residents would've been screwed."
The Pennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance, a trade group, said that most of what it called Mariner East's "construction woes" had already been addressed by regulators.
"Hopefully this brings closure to the issue, because it's time to put the past to rest," said the group, adding that Mariner East is operating safely.
Residents who live near the pipeline and some state lawmakers have said Mariner East should be shut down entirely, but the administration of outgoing Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has ignored such calls.
Friday's plea deal also resolves a separate criminal case involving the 42-mile Revolution pipeline near Pittsburgh, which runs from Butler County to a natural gas plant in Washington County. In that case, prosecutors alleged Energy Transfer's negligence led to a 2018 explosion and fire that destroyed a home, a barn and several cars, collapsed transmission towers, and prompted an evacuation.
Energy Transfer pleaded no contest to 14 criminal counts in the Mariner East case and to nine criminal counts in the Revolution case. | https://www.wgal.com/article/pipeline-developer-pleads-no-contest-in-pennsylvania-pollution-cases/40821471 | 2022-08-06T01:01:59Z | https://www.wgal.com/article/pipeline-developer-pleads-no-contest-in-pennsylvania-pollution-cases/40821471 | false |
Why apples may be smaller this season: Understanding the root of the problem
WARREN — They have names that sound like birds or flowers: Roxbury russet, Newtown pippin, Redfield and Rhode Island Tolman.
Spencer Morris, who farms 900 apple trees on two acres in Touisset, says he knows each tree personally.
“You visit the same tree and watch them grow. They’re always full of surprises.”
Nature is also full of surprises.
After a wet spring, the rain dried up in June and, at least in the southern part of the state, it’s been dry ever since. Rhode Island is now in a severe drought, the third of five such categories ranging from abnormally dry to exceptional drought.
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Apples typically like heat and sunshine, which bring out their sugars, their tannins and acids. Most trees have deep roots that can withstand a mild to moderate drought.
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But this summer promises to be as dry as the summer of 2020, one of the worst droughts in recent memory.
“It’s starting to look bleak,” says Morris, who owns the Sowams Cider Works in Warren. “Some of the trees are starting to droop. A few leaves are turning yellow.”
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“It looks bad,” says Gregg Ostheimer, the owner of Rocky Brook Orchard in Middletown. “The apples are looking kind of sad up there. It may cause them to ripen earlier.”
But the taste should be OK.
Ostheimer, who shuttles between his six-acre orchard and his home in Connecticut, spends all of his time watering, which he does by hand. He focuses on his babies, the one, two and three-year-old trees whose roots are shallow.
The last soaking rain his orchard had was in June.
His biggest fear is the young trees will die. He’s also worried that the fruit will be so small that he’ll lose money on pick-your-own sales. During the 2020 drought, it took 40 apples instead of 20 to fill a bag.
The apple tree of his eye
Ostheimer’s fruit trees, which include pears and quince, look healthy. Then he points to a tree and says, “This apple should be three times larger.”
“I’m seeing small apples, really small,” he said as he walked down the neatly trimmed lanes.
Ostheimer, who is now 70, never set out to be a grower. He bought the land in 1999 as the perfect place for his twins to grow up. But there was this overgrown orchard bursting with apples and he couldn’t bear to let them rot on the grass.
He bought a picnic table and an umbrella and placed a “pick your own” ad in the local paper.
“The first Saturday, I had 20 cars,” he says. “Three people came back the next day and brought hot apple pie. The following weekend, we sold every apple. I was hooked.”
Spencer Morris started planting his orchard 10 years ago, but farming has deep roots in his family. He practices something called high-density planting, bunching trees close together to maximize space.
Dwarf trees are ideal for this kind of orchard because they produce fruit in their second year, with a maximum height of 6 to 10 feet, unlike standard apple trees, which can top 30 feet.
“As a system, the dwarf trees yield more fruit per acre sooner,” said Morris, who is also vice president of the Rhode Island Fruit Growers Association.
The downside to dwarf trees is they are more susceptible to disease and have little tolerance of drought.
Unlike many of the larger orchards in northern Rhode Island, Morris and Ostheimer don’t have irrigation systems.
An apple a day keeps the farmer busy
Morris has to get creative. He spreads a thick layer of woodchip mulch over the lower trunk, which helps the tree hold moisture, insulates the roots and delivers nutrients. He hand-waters with a five-gallon bucket, strenuous work for a 67-year-old.
The Sowams Cider Work orchard isn’t neatly manicured like the ones up north. Knee-high weeds clog the narrow lanes between the trees. Morris peels back one edge of a wire deer fence to enter his two-acre property and jokes that deer sail right over it.
“I do as little as possible,” he says. “My practices are traditional.”
He treats his cider-making the same way.
“I don’t add anything,” he said. “I grind it, press it and ferment it.”
Traditional apple cider has an alcohol content of 7 to 9.5% and is marketed as a wine alternative.
As Morris walks through his orchard, he plucks off one apple, gives it to a visitor to taste, then grabs another. Each variety comes with its own story.
The Rhode Island Greening is the state apple. For many years, it was the most commonly grown apple in New England, dating back to the 17th Century. The Newtown pippin, a light green apple with russet highlights, was so tasty that Queen Victoria lifted the American import ban.
“Nice and fruity,” Morris says.
As he makes the rounds, Morris begins to perk up.
Clusters of ripening apples, still small, bunch up on the branches. The leaves look greener. He digs his hands in the mulch; it’s still moist.
“I’m more encouraged than discouraged,” he says. “I see growth. I see the fruit is reasonably sized. Some trees are stressed, but the majority look like they’ll hang in there for a while longer.”
Getting to the core: Fun apple facts
1. Some varieties only produce fruit every two years. In most cases, however, trees produce a big crop one year and a much smaller one the next.
2. Apples are not grown from seeds. The majority of growers slice a small shoot from an apple tree and graft it onto a rootstock. The root doesn't even have to be another apple tree.
3. You can grow multiple varieties on one tree.
4. "American as apple pie" is a myth. The very first recipe for apple pie came from England hundreds of years ago and the vast majority of apple varieties are not even native to North America.
5. Apples are 25% air. That's why they float, which makes them perfect for bobbing.
Sources: Greg Ostheimer, owner of Rocky Brook Farm in Middletown and Parlee Farms in Massachusetts
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Extreme weather: Flash floods close roads, strand 1K people at Death Valley National Park
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KVVU/Gray News) - The National Park Service says rainfall caused substantial flooding on Friday in Death Valley National Park.
KVVU reports about 60 cars have been buried in debris at the Inn at Death Valley. Buildings have also been flooded with about 1,000 people currently trapped in the park due to road closures.
As of Friday evening, officials said there were roughly 500 visitors and 500 staff unable to leave the park.
According to the park service, the California Department of Transportation said it would take four to six hours to open a portion of Highway 190 to exit from the east side of the park.
Park officials said the flooding had caused a significant break in the Cow Creek water system, which supplies water to those in the Cow Creek area of the park.
The agency reported that Furnace Creek, another area within the park, usually sees around 1.9 inches of rain each year, but that area saw 1.7 inches of rainfall in just one day.
According to the National Park Service, no injuries in the flooded areas were initially reported, with the forecast calling for a break in the wet weather Friday night.
Further updates on conditions in the park are available here.
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On the day after Brittney Griner was sentenced to a Russian penal colony, the top diplomats of the United States and Russia said Friday that their governments were ready to negotiate for the release of both the American basketball star and Paul N. Whelan, who is also imprisoned by Russia.
The diplomats, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of Russia, said in separate news conferences that the negotiations would be conducted through a channel established earlier by their two presidents.
But in a possible indication of how tense the relations between the two countries are, the two men made their comments after sitting close to each other — but not talking — during a meeting of foreign ministers from East Asia and partner countries.
On Thursday, Griner received a sentence of nine years from a Russian judge. American officials have said that she was “wrongfully detained” and that her trial was politically motivated, as relations between the two countries remain strained over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The Biden administration has offered to free Viktor Bout, an imprisoned Russian arms dealer, in exchange for Griner and Whelan, a former U.S. Marine who was convicted by a court in Moscow of espionage charges in 2020, according to people familiar with the proposal.
After the meeting Friday, Lavrov took the opportunity to needle Blinken for not making any effort to talk to him.
“Today, there was only one person between us at the table,” Lavrov said at a news conference broadcast by the Foreign Ministry. “I didn’t see him trying to catch me.”
When asked about Lavrov’s remarks and Griner’s conviction, Blinken stressed that discussions would move forward through previously established channels.
“We put forward, as you know, a substantial proposal that Russia should engage with us on,” Blinken said. “And what Foreign Minister Lavrov said this morning, and said publicly, is that they are prepared to engage through channels we’ve established to do just that, and we’ll be pursuing it.”
Russian officials have criticized the United States for what they described as negotiating the prisoner exchange in public.
The Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitri Peskov, renewed that criticism Friday. “These swaps will never happen if we start discussing any nuances of the exchange in the press,” Peskov told reporters in Moscow.
Despite sending signals that a potential exchange is possible, Russian officials have insisted that legal due process must be completed first. After hearing the verdict Thursday, Griner’s lawyers said they would appeal the sentence, which would delay the start of her time in a penal colony.
In another crucial meeting with possible implications for the war in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin of Russia and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, held their second face-to-face conversation in less than three weeks in the Russian Black Sea resort town of Sochi on Friday.
Erdogan has emerged as an important mediator between Ukraine and Russia, which is probing for ways to break out of the economic and political isolation imposed by the West over its invasion of Ukraine. Turkey, a NATO member and a long-frustrated EU applicant, proved instrumental in forging an agreement between the two warring countries to restart Ukrainian grain shipments through the Black Sea.
In brief remarks before the leaders’ discussion began, Putin thanked Erdogan for Turkey’s role in mediating a deal to export Ukrainian grain that also allowed for shipments of Russian grain and fertilizer exports. There was a heavy emphasis on economic matters, with Putin expressing hope that the talks would bring enhanced trade and economic ties.
Erdogan said that the steps taken on issues like energy, grain, the Black Sea and transportation were examples of the important role that Turkey and Russia play in the region.
Erdogan is treading a fine line to retain the ability to talk to Russia, NATO’s foe, and to Western members of the alliance. Turkey has held to its refusal to join Western sanctions against Russia, irking its NATO allies, but Erdogan, in a crucial move, also eased his initial objections to Sweden and Finland joining the alliance as a bulwark against Russian aggression.
Russia is a critical supplier of energy to Turkey, providing one-quarter of the country’s crude imports and almost half of its natural gas purchases last year.
For its part, Turkey is becoming an important transshipment point for goods headed to Russia, now that many Western freight companies no longer handle Russia-bound shipments for fear of defying sanctions, the Turkish newspaper Dunya reported Thursday.
In recent years, Turkey defied its NATO partners to buy Russian anti-aircraft missiles. And now Russia — starved by war-related Western sanctions for technology like guidance systems for missiles and drones — is urgently seeking materiel.
“Military-technical cooperation between the two countries is permanently on the agenda,” Peskov told reporters Wednesday, according to the Interfax news agency.
In Ukraine, officials in the southern city of Mykolaiv announced a drastic move Friday: The area would be blocked off and placed under a strict curfew over the weekend as law enforcement agencies search for enemy collaborators.
The decision comes amid a significant escalation in Russia’s shelling of the city, which has had only about two dozen violence-free days since the war began Feb. 24, officials said.
In recent weeks, officials have issued increasingly urgent warnings about the presence of subversive forces in the city, including those responsible for directing enemy fire at military targets.
Vitaliy Kim, the military governor of the Mykolaiv region, urged residents to stock up on food and water and to cooperate with any law enforcement officials they might encounter over the weekend. Public transportation will also be shut down.
Kim did not specify how law enforcement agencies planned to go about finding enemy collaborators, but in recent weeks, he has offered cash rewards of $100 out of his own pocket to citizens who turn in suspected collaborators.
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 5, 2022
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SOURCE...Radar indicated.
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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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Salem gets $850K federal grant to attract airlines
With an $850,000 federal grant to attract airlines, Salem Municipal Airport is one step closer to providing commercial air service to the region.
But McNary Field is still a long time — and millions of dollars — away from being more than a general aviation airport.
Potential flight destinations could include Phoenix, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, according to a statement released jointly Thursday from U.S. senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley.
“Regional air service through small airports just like this one in Oregon’s capital city are crucial to our state’s economy,” Wyden said in the statement. “I am gratified to see these dollars go toward expanding regional air service in Salem to have a more accessible option for travel in and out of the Mid-Willamette Valley. Investing in smaller airports like the Salem Airport lays the groundwork to continue to support our state’s economic growth and tourism.”
In a letter of support, Wyden said the addition of Salem air service would eliminate 100,000 vehicle trips to Portland each year.
The city will receive $850,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Small Community Air Service Development Program to recruit, initiate and support new air service to California, Nevada and Arizona.
Wyden said the recruitment initiative is anchored by the Salem Area Chamber of Commerce, Travel Salem and SEDCOR.
Three airlines have reportedly expressed interest in setting up shop in Salem. A regional airline called Aha! sent a letter of interest to TSA. The airline would run two flights a week from Salem to Reno. The other two are bigger airlines with more destination options.
“I would like to thank the senators for their support for this grant,” Salem Mayor Chuck Bennett said in a statement. “This money is an important step in the City of Salem getting back commercial air. Commercial air will support and grow the Mid-Willamette Valley economy, increase tourism, reduce traffic and congestion along the I-5 corridor, and create less dependence on the Portland International Airport.”
But the new funding doesn't mean residents can book a flight anytime soon.
Significant investments are required to bring the airport up to FAA and TSA standards for commercial air service.
The 751-acre airport is home to more than 130 aircraft hangars and businesses, as well as the Oregon National Guard’s Army Aviation Support Facility.
In a recent Salem City Council work session, city staff presented two renovation and operational plans costing $3.9 million and $10 to $12 million. The cheaper plan, which would just include renovation, would take an estimated nine to 12 months to complete. This work would sustain working with smaller, 50-seat airplanes.
The $12 million plan would include renovation and expansion of the terminals to accommodate more passengers and would take 12-18 months. This plan would be needed to work with larger capacity airplanes.
More airport, police and fire staff, along with new equipment and vehicles, are also needed to keep the airport safe and operational, according to the city report.
The work session outlined both the opportunities and risks of bringing commercial air service to Salem.
Staff said the airport could bring increased tourism to the region, reduce carbon emissions by cutting down trips to the Portland and Eugene airports, and be an added convenience for Salem residents.
At the same time, air service requires significant investment in infrastructure, staffing and equipment before the airport could generate revenue and it comes with no airline obligation or guarantee of air service sustainability or growth.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts report that North Korea is testing “nuclear triggering devices” and that its preparations for another nuclear test were at a final stage in June, quoting information from unnamed countries.
The panel of experts said in new excerpts from their latest report obtained Friday by The Associated Press that they have been “unable to identify the test locations and dates” for the tests of nuclear triggering devices reported by one U.N. member state.
In excerpts obtained Thursday, the experts said North Korea is paving the way for additional nuclear tests with new preparations at its northeastern test site and continues to develop its capability to produce a key ingredient for nuclear weapons.
In the new excerpt, the panel said: “As of early June, two member states assessed that the preparation for nuclear tests was at a final stage.”
On other issues, the panel said in Thursday’s excerpts that North Korea conducted two major hacks this year, resulting in the theft of cryptocurrency assets worth “hundreds of millions of dollars.” Pyongyang also continues illicitly importing oil and exporting coal in violation of U.N. sanctions, using the same companies, networks and vessels, it said.
South Korean and U.S. intelligence officials have said they detected North Korean efforts to prepare its northeastern Punggye-ri testing ground for another nuclear test. It would be the North’s seventh since 2006 and the first since September 2017, when it claimed to have detonated a thermonuclear bomb to fit on its intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The panel of experts’ report to the U.N. Security Council provides some details of the work being carried out at the site by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the country’s official name.
The experts said they observed that the DPRK started re-excavation work in March at the entrance to Tunnel 3 at Punggye-ri “and reconstructed support buildings originally dismantled in May 2018.”
“Satellite imagery showed increased numbers of vehicle tracks around this secondary entrance from mid-February 2022, followed by construction of a new building adjacent to the entrance at the beginning of March,” the panel said. “A pile of lumber, for possible use in the construction of the tunnel structure, was also detected around the same time.”
It added that, “Piles of soil from the tunnel excavation around the entrance were observed during this period.”
“Work at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site paves the way for additional nuclear tests for the development of nuclear weapons,” the experts said, adding that this is an objective stated at the Eighth Congress of the country’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea in January 2021.
Robert Floyd, head of the U.N. nuclear test ban treaty organization, told a U.N. press conference Friday that its monitoring facilities detected the six previous DPRK nuclear tests. “If there is a seventh time, I’m very confident our system will pick it up, we’ll characterize it, and that information then gets shared with the states of the world,” he said.
Floyd is attending the high-level conference reviewing the landmark Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty which began Monday and ends on Aug. 26. Under the NPT’s provisions, the five original nuclear powers — the United States, China, Russia (then the Soviet Union), Britain and France — agreed to negotiate toward eliminating their arsenals someday and nations without nuclear weapons promised not to acquire them in exchange for a guarantee to be able to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
Floyd raised the question of whether the possibility of a seventh DPRK nuclear test will strengthen or weaken nonproliferation and disarmament arrangements, “and the appetite of states to see these things come into place.”
“I wonder as to how much that is actually feeding into the tone that we’ve heard this week during the review conference, where there was quite a deal of accommodation of various positions,” he said.
“I wonder whether the states are recognizing at a time such as this it is really important to be able to strengthen the NPT and to come together around some of these very important issues, rather than, `Oh, this is a reason we should abandon such an important thing as the cornerstone of nuclear architecture,’” Floyd said.
In another aspect of the DPRK’s nuclear program, analysts said satellite images last September showed that North Korea was expanding a uranium enrichment plant at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, a sign that it wanted to boost production of the key bomb material.
The U.N. experts said in the new report: “DPRK continued to develop its capability for the production of nuclear fissile materials at the Yongbyon site.”
Nuclear negotiations between the United States and North Korea have stalled since 2019 over disagreements over the DPRK demand to lift crippling U.S.-led sanctions and Washington’s demand for significant steps by Pyongyang toward nuclear disarmament.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has expanded his ballistic missile program amid the diplomatic pause, and analysts say another nuclear test would escalate his brinkmanship aimed at cementing the North’s status as a nuclear power, and negotiating economic and security concessions from a position of strength.
The panel of experts said the DPRK continued to accelerate its missile programs, launching 31 missiles “combining ballistic and guidance technologies,” including six ICBMs and two “explicitly described as ballistic weapons.” It said the DPRK also claimed to have advanced its development of “tactical nuclear weapons.” | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/un-experts-report-north-korea-is-testing-nuclear-triggers/ | 2022-08-06T02:11:45Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/un-experts-report-north-korea-is-testing-nuclear-triggers/ | false |
The NCAA earned praise last year when it agreed to pay referees at its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments equally. The gesture only cost about $100,000, a tiny fraction of the roughly $900 million networks pay annually to broadcast March Madness.
Now, as the NCAA examines various disparities across men’s and women’s sports, pressure is rising to also pay referees equally during the regular season. Two Division I conferences told The Associated Press they plan to equalize pay, and another is considering it. Others are resisting change, even though the impact on their budgets would be negligible.
“The ones that are (equalizing pay) are reading the writing on the wall,” said Michael Lewis, a marketing professor at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.
The details of NCAA referee pay are closely guarded, but The Associated Press obtained data for the 2021-22 season that show 15 of the NCAA’s largest — and most profitable — conferences paid veteran referees for men’s basketball an average of 22% more per game.
That level of disparity is wider than the gender pay gap across the U.S. economy, where women earn 82 cents for every dollar a man earns, according to the 2020 census. And it is an overwhelming disadvantage for women, who make up less than 1% of the referees officiating men’s games.
Dawn Staley, the head coach for the University of South Carolina Gamecocks — the women’s national champions — said referees on the men’s side should be “stepping up” and advocating for equal pay for women’s referees. “They don’t do anything different,” she said. “Why should our officials get paid less for taking the (expletive) we give them?”
The people who provided AP with data for nearly half of the NCAA’s 32 Division I conferences have direct knowledge of pay scales, and they did so on condition of anonymity because the information is considered private.
The Northeast Conference had the widest per-game pay disparity among the NCAA leagues AP analyzed, with the most experienced referees for men’s games earning 48% more. The Atlantic-10 paid veteran men’s refs 44% more, while the Colonial Athletic Association paid them 38% more. (Only the Ivy League paid veteran officials equally in the data AP reviewed.)
Of the conferences with unequal pay contacted by AP, two — the Pac-12 and the Northeast Conference — said they plan to level the playing field starting next season. A third, the Patriot League, which had a 33% pay gap last year, said it is reviewing equity for officials in all sports. “Pay is part of that,” commissioner Jennifer Heppel said.
The Pac-12 paid referees equally a decade ago, but allowed a disparity to build over time, according to associate commissioner Teresa Gould. She said returning to equal pay is “the right thing to do.”
NEC commissioner Noreen Morris said the decision to equalize pay was an easy one to make once it realized that basketball was the only sport where it was not compensating referees equally.
Relative to the amounts of money these leagues generate, the cost of bridging the pay gap can seem small.
For example, the SEC paid referees for men’s games 10%, or $350, more than those officiating women’s games. Over the course of a season, it would cost the SEC a couple hundred thousand dollars to pay them equally — a sliver of the $3 billion deal it signed with ESPN to broadcast all of its sports starting in 2024.
The most experienced Division I referees — for men’s or women’s games — are well paid. Some earn more than $150,000 in a season, officiating dozens of games across multiple conferences. Newer referees earn far less, supplementing income from another job.
All NCAA referees are independent contractors, with no union representing their interests, and all have to cover their own travel expenses.
The busiest referees can work five or six games a week in different cities, running up and down the court for 40 minutes one night, getting a few hours of sleep, and then waking up at 4 a.m. to catch a flight to their next destination.
Dee Kantner, a veteran referee of women’s games who works for multiple conferences, finds it frustrating to have to justify equal pay.
“If I buy an airline ticket and tell them I’m doing a women’s basketball game they aren’t going to charge me less,” she said.
“Do you value women’s basketball that much less?” Kantner said. “How are we rationalizing this still?”
Several conference commissioners said the men’s and women’s games do not generate equal amounts of revenue, and that the level of play is not equal, and so referee salaries are set accordingly.
“Historically we have treated each referee pool as a separate market,” said Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman. “We paid rates that allow us to be competitive for services at our level. I think the leagues are entitled to look at different factors here. I don’t see it as an equity issue — I see it as a market issue.”
The Big East pays referees working its men’s games 22% more, and Ackerman said there is no imminent plan to make a change.
Atlantic-10 Commissioner Bernadette McGlade said the market-based approach is what enables her to offer some of the highest per-game rates across the NCAA. “We get the most experienced, most qualified officials in the country,” she said.
Veteran referees officiating in the Atlantic-10 are paid $3,300 for men’s games, compared with $2,300 for women’s games, according to data reviewed by AP. Seven other conferences had higher per-game rates — and narrower gender gaps — last year, the data show.
Of the roughly 800 referees officiating women’s basketball this past season, 43% were female, a proportion that’s been relatively consistent over the past decade. But just six women officiated men’s games last year — a number that has slowly grown over the last few years.
Penny Davis, the NCAA’s supervisor of officials, said conferences are trying to recruit more women to officiate men’s games, which is another way to help bridge the gender pay gap.
But Davis says she would hate to see even fewer women refereeing women’s basketball. “We don’t want to lose our best and brightest,” she said.
A decade ago, referees working the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournament were paid equally. But as the profitability of the men’s tournament skyrocketed, it’s budget grew too — and so did pay for referees.
Both McGlade and Ackerman praised the NCAA for restoring equal pay at the March tournaments. “We’re mindful of the what the NCAA did for the tournament,” Ackerman said. “NCAA Tournament games are closer but not entirely a common officiating experience.”
Ivy League executive director Robin Harris disagrees. “We decided a while ago that it was the right thing to do to pay them the same amount. They are doing the same job.”
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AP College Football Writer Ralph D. Russo contributed to this story.
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Kim Kardashian, Pete Davidson end relationship, report says
Published: Aug. 5, 2022 at 8:34 PM CDT|Updated: 40 minutes ago
(CNN) - Celebrity couple Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson are no more.
According to CNN, a source said the pair broke up this week because of distance and schedules.
Kardashian and Davidson have been romantically linked since October of last year after the pair met when Kardashian hosted “Saturday Night Live.”
Davidson was a cast member on the comedy sketch show for eight years. He left last season.
While the couple was dating, Kardashian was going through a contentious divorce with her estranged husband Kanye West.
Kardashian was legally declared single in March.
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The parent company of the Snickers candy bar has apologized on the Chinese social media platform Weibo after a stir was caused when one of its advertisements for a limited edition candy bar introduced in South Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan called all three nations "countries."
The message in the advertisement was interpreted as Mars Wrigley calling for Taiwan's independence. According to the U.S. State Department, the U.S. and Taiwan do not have diplomatic relations but pursue a "robust unofficial relationship." The U.S. government itself does not support Taiwan's independence.
Mars Wrigley wrote in its apology on Weibo, “Mars Wrigley respects China’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity and conducts its business operations in strict compliance with local Chinese laws and regulations,” Reuters reported.
A user wrote under the post, which received 8,000 likes, “Say it: Taiwan is an inseparable part of China’s territory!”
Snickers on Fri apologized for marking Taiwan island as a country, saying its local team has verified & aligned the official site and social media accounts to ensure accurate content. Snickers owner Mars Wrigley said it respects China's natl sovereignty and territorial integrity. pic.twitter.com/TshespKEf5
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) August 5, 2022
China ceded Taiwan to Japan "in perpetuity" in the 1894 Treaty of Shimonoseki, the New York Times reported in an Opinion section article in 1993. According to the article, after World War II when the Japanese empire was taken apart, Taiwan wasn't legally reincorporated to be a part of China.
According to the New York Times, the 1951 San Francisco treaty did not specify to whom the island's title would be transferred to after Japan relinquished sovereignty over Taiwan.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently completed a trip to Asia that was highly controversial for the Chinese government, where she made a stop in Taiwan part of her itinerary. The White House released remarks making it clear that the administration does not support an independent Taiwan, despite the optics of Pelosi's visit to meet with officials there. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/snickers-parent-company-mars-wrigley-apologizes-for-referring-to-taiwan-as-a-country-in-ad | 2022-08-06T02:16:46Z | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/snickers-parent-company-mars-wrigley-apologizes-for-referring-to-taiwan-as-a-country-in-ad | true |
Foreign minister Park Jin is set to visit China next week for the first time since taking office.
The foreign ministry said on Friday that Park will visit China from Monday to Wednesday at the invitation of Chinese state councilor and foreign minister Wang Yi.
Park and Wang will hold ministerial talks in Qingdao, Shandong Province to likely discuss how to advance bilateral relations and issues pertaining to the Korean Peninsula, the region and abroad.
An official from the presidential office told the media earlier that the ministerial meeting will take place on Tuesday.
Park's trip to China will be the first by a high-level official from the Yoon Suk Yeol administration and comes ahead of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the two sides' diplomatic ties.
It also comes amid heightened Sino-U.S. tensions following a recent high-profile trip to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. | http://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=171520 | 2022-08-06T02:19:32Z | http://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=171520 | false |
Elon Musk countersuit accuses Twitter of fraud over 'bot' count
Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter earlier this year, then tried to back out of the deal
Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he claimed held back necessary information and misled his team about the true size of its user base.
The countersuit by the billionaire and Tesla CEO alleges that Twitter committed fraud, breach of contract and violation of a securities law in Texas, where Mr. Musk lives.
Mr. Musk's counterclaims were filed confidentially last week and unsealed in a filing late Thursday at the Delaware Chancery Court.
Mr. Musk offered to buy Twitter earlier this year, then tried to back out of the deal by claiming the social platform was infested with a larger numbers of “spam bots” and fake accounts than Twitter had disclosed.
Twitter sued to force him to complete the acquisition. Mr. Musk responded by filing his countersuit.
Mr. Musk's attorneys argue in the countersuit that Twitter “misrepresentations or omissions” distorted the company's value and caused Mr. Musk to agree in April to buy it at an inflated price. They said Twitter's own disclosures revealed that it has 65 million fewer “monetisable daily active users,” who can be shown digital ads, than the 238 million that Twitter claims.
The filing also said most of Twitter's ads are shown only to a sliver of the company's user base.
Mr. Musk's team also accused Twitter of making too many major changes in recent months without consulting Mr. Musk, including personnel decisions and allegedly disobeying social media restrictions imposed by the government of India, which is Twitter's third largest market. Mr. Musk had pledged to make Twitter a haven for free speech but has also said it must comply with the local laws where it operates.
In an unexpected twist, Twitter filed its response denying Mr. Musk's accusations before Mr. Musk's own counterclaims surfaced.
Twitter called Mr. Musk's reasoning “a story, imagined in an effort to escape a merger agreement that Mr. Musk no longer found attractive.” The company, in particular, took issue with Mr. Musk's estimate of fake accounts, saying the analysis relied on a “generic web tool" that designated Mr. Musk's own Twitter account as a likely bot.
“The result is a distortion that Mr. Musk is hoping will nonetheless make waves,” Twitter's response said.
The case is scheduled to go to trial on October 17. The Delaware court handles many high-profile disputes between businesses, such as Twitter, that are incorporated there.
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BENTON, Ark. – As the first and still the only commit of Arkansas’ 2024 class, an in-state running back phenom enters his junior season at a new school. Moving in from Lakeside to Benton, Braylen Russell is out to show why he’s received comparisons to Razorbacks legend Darren McFadden.
“I take pride in it, being the first commit from my home state,” Russell said. “I can be the dude there at Arkansas. I have breakaway speed, get big runs, I’m a big power back, and fast.”
“Braylen’s every bit of 6’2, 230 pounds,” Benton head coach Brad Harris said. “He’s a big, thick guy who moves well. I think the sky’s the limit for this guy. He’s one of the most talented kids I’ve gotten to coach in my 25 year career.”
After impressing at an Arkansas camp in summer of 2021, Sam Pittman extended an offer to the then rising sophomore. Russell later pledged to the Hogs that November. While the projected 4-star has since received offers from Ole Miss and Tennessee, with more Power Five interest on the way, Benton’s star tailback remains firmly committed and looks forward to competing on the Hill.
“Being first in rushing in the SEC, they use all their running backs,” Russell said. “If you’re big, you’re fast, you can run, and you can make plays, they’re going to put you in there.”
While splitting the backfield in his sophomore season at Lakeside, Russell averaged over 100 yards from scrimmage, totaling 15 touchdowns, and proved why he’s gained SEC attention. Now at Benton, he looks to bring his game to the next level as maybe the state’s best offensive weapon at
“He’s an every-down back,” Harris said. “He can run it and he can catch it. Through 7-on-7 this summer we’ve flexed him out and he runs really great routes.”
“I want to be like Deebo,” Russell said referencing San Francisco 49ers hybrid Deebo Samuel. “He can go to the side, get in the flats, and catch the ball. He can run it and be that running back that gets that extra yard.”
Hear more from Benton running back Braylen Russell and head coach Brad Harris in Nick Walters’ story here or on Final Score, Sunday nights at 10. | https://www.fox16.com/sports/2024-razorbacks-commit-rb-braylen-russell-talks-bright-future-move-to-benton/ | 2022-08-06T02:30:29Z | https://www.fox16.com/sports/2024-razorbacks-commit-rb-braylen-russell-talks-bright-future-move-to-benton/ | false |
Trucks dump rocks into American River to help with salmon spawning
Trucks dump rocks into American River to help with salmon spawning
THREE CHP OFFICERS THROUGHOUT THE STATE. TONIGHT CRUISER WORKING ALONG THE AMERICAN RIVER TO PROTECT AND PROVIDE CRITICAL HABITAT FOR SALMON. THE RIVER RESTORATION PROJECT IS HAPPENING NEAR SAILOR BAR. JUST DOWNSTREAM FROM NIMBUS DAM TRUCKLOADS OF ROCK ARE BEING DUMPED THERE DEPOSITED INTO THE RIVER BULLDOZERS. WILL THEN COME IN AND SPREAD OUT THOSE PILES OF ROCKS CREATING SPAWNING BEDS FOR THE FISH LIVECOPTER THREE GOT THESE SHOTS OF SOME OF THE TRUCKS ACTUALLY DRIVING THROUGH THE RIVER TO DUMP THEIR LOADS OF ROCK QUITE A SIGHT THERE THIS WORKS STARTED THIS WEEK. AN
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Work has begun this week to provide and protect critical habitat for salmon in Northern California.
Trucks were seen dumping rocks in the American River by Sailor Bar, which is downstream from Nimbus Dam near Folsom. The process involves first dumping the rocks, which are deposited into the river.
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Watch LiveCopter 3's aerials of the habitat work in the video player above.
Bulldozers then spread out the rock, which creates spawning beds for the native Chinook salmon and steelhead trout.
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Alex Jones now owes the family of a child that was killed in the 2012 Newtown school shooting more than $45 million dollars in damages, in addition to the $4.1 million in compensatory damages ordered earlier this week.
On Friday, a Texas jury ordered InfoWars host Alex Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of Jesse Lewis for all of the times he said the Sandy Hook school shooting didn’t happen. Jones has since apologized and admitted the shooting was ‘100% real’, but one survivor says she has mixed feelings after learning the outcome.
“We are so happy that the Lewis’s are receiving that money, but nobody will ever forgive Alex Jones for what he’s done,” said Jordan Gomes, who was in fourth grade on Dec. 14, 2012 when a shooter killed 20 children and six educators at her school in Newtown, Conn.
While the award to Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin is “well-deserved” and “long overdue”, according to Gomes, she feels Jones couldn’t pay enough for all he’s done to invalidate a traumatic experience.
“There can never be an adequate price paid for the emotional toll his actions took on the families of Sandy Hook ever,” Gomes said. “To me, there’s not enough money in the world to fix what he’s done and I think many people in the community feel that as well.”
Jones' lawyers had argued for a punitive amount of less than $300,000 in Texas, saying that he had already learned his lesson.
Still, in some ways, Gomes said the damages the jury ordered Jones to pay feels like ‘too little, too late’ for her community of survivors.
“All I can think about is the effect that he has had and he will continue to have," she said, "because no matter what he says now, his legacy and his words will still live on, and people will still believe them regardless."
A separate trial is scheduled to begin next month to determine how much Jones owes families and a first responder suing him in Connecticut.
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Corning man charged with killing woman at Walter Smith Terrace Apartments
A Corning man is in jail after allegedly attacking and killing a 26-year-old woman early Friday morning in her Walter Smith Terrace apartment.
Brett R. Heffner, 29, of Walter Smith Terrace, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Keli Collins, who also lived at the complex, but in another building.
Corning Police Chief Jeff Spaulding said at about 1:12 a.m. Friday, patrolmen were dispatched to Walter Smith Terrace, formerly known as Stewart Park Apartments, for a report of an unresponsive woman. The victim was located and city police, firefighters and AMR Ambulance began administering life-saving measures.
Spaulding said efforts were unsuccessful and Collins died.
Corning City Police began an investigation into the incident with the help of the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office and the Steuben County District Attorney’s Office.
Spaulding said police believe Heffner attacked Keli Collins while she was in her apartment. Heffner and Collins knew each other, but lived in separate apartments in separate buildings within the complex.
Police also allege that Haffner stole Collins' vehicle after killing her. Departments from throughout the area were advised to be on the lookout for the vehicle.
Spaulding said shortly after 2 a.m. Friday, Hornell City Police located the vehicle and took Heffner into custody without resistance.
Members of the Corning Police Department, New York State Police and the Hornell Police Department continued the investigation in Hornell, Spaulding said.
At the same time, he said Corning Police, along with investigators from the New York State Police, are continuing the investigation in Corning.
Spaulding said the investigation into the murder will continue and updates may be released later with more information.
Heffner was arraigned Friday in Corning City Court and sent to the Steuben County Jail without bail. He is scheduled to reappear at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 9 in City Court. | https://www.the-leader.com/story/news/crime/2022/08/05/corning-man-charged-with-killing-woman-at-walter-smith-terrace-apartments/65393893007/ | 2022-08-06T02:38:54Z | https://www.the-leader.com/story/news/crime/2022/08/05/corning-man-charged-with-killing-woman-at-walter-smith-terrace-apartments/65393893007/ | false |
Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed an indicted Austin police officer accused of using excessive force during 2020 protests to Texas’ regulatory law enforcement agency.
Justin Berry was among 19 Austin police officers indicted earlier this year in the protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Berry is charged with two counts of aggravated assault by a public servant.
He also ran as a Republican for Texas House District 19 but lost in the primary runoff election this year. Abbott had endorsed Berry in the race, saying his “strong conservative values and experience stopping violent crime are exactly what we need in the Texas House.”
Now, at the governor’s hand, Berry will serve on the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, which sets minimum licensing and training standards for police. Abbott did not immediately respond to The Texas Tribune's request for comment, but in a press release announcing Berry’s appointment Friday, he said the commission ensures “that the people of Texas are served by highly trained and ethical law enforcement, corrections, and telecommunications personnel.” Berry did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Sara Mokuria, co-founder of Mothers Against Police Brutality, said Abbott's decision to appoint Berry to TCOLE is dangerous, not based in public safety and flies in the face of "what's in the best interests of Texans."
"This is an indicted officer who is now part of the body licensing and regulating law enforcement agencies," Mokuria said. "It's a move in the wrong direction, and it makes us unsafe. And, quite frankly, it's a message that has been reiterated from the governor's mansion over and over again, whether that be families in Uvalde who were not safe to send their kids to school, or all Texas residents during the winter storm. Our lives and our safety have consistently been put at risk because of this governor."
Berry’s exact role in the Floyd protests is unclear, but Austin officers grievously wounded several people after shooting them with “less-lethal” ammunition in the head. That included a 20-year-old Black man police said was not their intended target after a man nearby tossed a water bottle and backpack up toward steps where police were in formation. Video also showed a 16-year-old Hispanic boy collapsing to the ground after police fired a beanbag bullet at him while he was standing alone near the freeway.
The violent police tactics during the protests against police violence were heavily criticized. Along with the indictments of 19 officers, the city of Austin agreed to a $10 million civil settlement with two men shot by police with beanbag rounds, including the 20-year-old.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The historic North Park Theatre in Buffalo was the scene of a movie premiere Friday night.
The movie “Givers of Death” official red carpet release was held at the North Buffalo landmark. It’s an apocalyptical thriller written and directed by Addison Henderson of Buffalo. Several Villa Maria students were involved in the project.
It’s helpful to Villa Maria students to know anything is possible, everyone knows about it,” said Rachel Henderson, the co-producer for the movie.
Villa Maria has been partnering with Buffalo FilmWorks on certificate programs that provide training for entry-level jobs in film and television at their studios on Babcock Street. This includes bootcamp offerings in becoming a production assistant as well as in electric. They also want to help develop a talent pool of people from Buffalo working in the film and entertainment industries, especially among underrepresented groups.
The film will run for the next week.
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The 117th Congress, which began with an unprecedented attack on the U.S. Capitol that personalized and deepened party divides, is preparing to head out of town having notched a surprising number of sweeping, often bipartisan, legislative accomplishments.
In the past six weeks, Republicans have joined Democrats in passing measures on gun safety, semiconductor manufacturing, and helping veterans affected by burn pits. That’s in addition to last fall’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Why We Wrote This
An institution that has been written off as largely dysfunctional has passed a series of bipartisan bills, and is poised to ink major climate legislation. Is Congress working again?
Now, Democrats appear poised to push through a bill that would fight climate change, reduce prescription drug prices, and make corporations pay more taxes.
“To do the biggest infrastructure, climate, and gun bills in the last 30 years is a pretty significant accomplishment,” says Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, who spearheaded the gun deal in June.
Indiana Sen. Todd Young, the lead Republican on the $280 billion semiconductor bill, calls that legislation “incredibly consequential.” He also says there’s “a lot to celebrate” in the infrastructure bill.
But in his view, those bipartisan accomplishments have been offset by counterproductive measures, including the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan of 2021, which many Republicans blame for the current inflation. “It’s unfortunate that the positive steps have been undermined and outright negated by these unforced errors,” says Senator Young.
The 117th Congress, which began with an unprecedented attack on the U.S. Capitol that personalized and deepened party divides, is preparing to head out of town having notched a surprising number of sweeping, often bipartisan, legislative accomplishments.
In the past six weeks alone, Republicans have joined Democrats in passing measures on gun safety, semiconductor manufacturing, helping veterans affected by burn pits, and approving Sweden’s and Finland’s accession to NATO. That’s in addition to last fall’s bipartisan infrastructure bill, which allocated $1.2 trillion to upgrading America’s roads, bridges, and other systems, including mass transit and broadband coverage.
Now, Democrats appear poised to push through a bill that would fight climate change, reduce prescription drug prices, and make corporations pay more taxes. Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s announcement Thursday that she would support the bill with some changes, including revising the corporate minimum tax to avoid hurting manufacturers, removed the largest potential obstacle to passing the bill through reconciliation, a budget procedure that does not require any GOP votes.
Why We Wrote This
An institution that has been written off as largely dysfunctional has passed a series of bipartisan bills, and is poised to ink major climate legislation. Is Congress working again?
“To do the biggest infrastructure, climate, and gun bills in the last 30 years is a pretty significant accomplishment,” says Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, who spearheaded the gun deal in June – a decade after the Sandy Hook school shooting that killed 26 in his state a month before he took office. “I’d argue that more substantive, bipartisan legislation has been passed in the last few years than at any time since I’ve been in Congress.”
In 2020, Joe Biden had pitched himself as a pragmatic candidate who would restore normalcy to politics and work across the aisle with his Republican friends. Then Democrats won control of the Senate, and suddenly the 36-year Senate veteran was faced with expectations that he could become the next FDR or LBJ. When negotiations over the multi-trillion-dollar “Build Back Better” bill fell apart last fall, the president’s agenda seemed stalled amid Democratic infighting and accusations of overreach.
Given previous talk of “transformational” change, some analysts say the current slate of achievements seems relatively modest.
“What we’ve got is a few bipartisan deals and a proposal for a very limited climate deal,” says Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center. Normally, that would be considered quite significant, he adds, “but compared to expectations [it] is woefully underperforming.”
For now, criticism from the left is fairly muted, as Democrats focus on defending their majorities in the fall midterms. Republicans, while supporting some key measures, are raising alarm bells about government spending and rising federal debt – a record-breaking $30 trillion – and the numerous pressing issues, including a surge in violent crime and illegal immigration, that remain unaddressed.
Indiana Sen. Todd Young, the lead Republican on the $280 billion CHIPS bill to boost U.S. production of semiconductors, calls that legislation “incredibly consequential.” He also says there’s “a lot to celebrate” in the infrastructure bill.
But in his view, those bipartisan accomplishments have been offset by other measures, including the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan in 2021, which many Republicans blame for the current inflation situation. “It’s unfortunate that the positive steps have been undermined and outright negated by these unforced errors,” says Senator Young.
Senate Democrats may try to pass additional legislation after the August recess, including bills to secure abortion access and protections for same-sex marriages, though those efforts are likely to be an uphill climb. A bipartisan group of senators also announced an agreement to reform the Electoral Count Act, the 1887 law that Trump lawyers sought to use to overturn the 2020 election.
But even if nothing else gets done before the midterms, Democrats now believe they can point to a significant record of achievement – especially given the range of crises Mr. Biden has faced, and his party’s razor-thin margins in Congress.
“The president has a double imperative to both draw a contrast between his agenda and the GOP agenda ... as well as work with [Republicans],” says Democratic strategist Tracy Sefl. “And that’s an incredibly tall order in any circumstances, much less this crazy – some call it the ‘end times’ – that we’re in.”
The Inflation Reduction Act
The Democrats’ latest initiative, the Inflation Reduction Act, has done little to assuage GOP concerns about spending, despite progressive criticism that it’s insufficient to address the current economic, social, and environmental crises. The $433 billion proposal is a slimmed-down version of Mr. Biden’s Build Back Better plan, which started with a $3.5 trillion price tag but faced resistance from West Virginia’s Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who cited concerns about inflation.
Senators Manchin and Schumer worked behind closed doors to arrive at a compromise, surprising even their own Senate colleagues when they announced a deal last week. The legislation promises to reduce carbon emissions 40% by 2030, invest in domestic energy, reduce prescription drug prices, and require corporations to pay a minimum 15% tax. Supporters say it will cut the deficit by at least $300 billion, in part by beefing up IRS tax enforcement.
Republicans have panned the bill as irresponsible amid current inflation concerns. It includes $60 billion for environmental justice measures such as funding energy efficiency for low-income households, and reinstates tax credits for wealthy people to buy expensive electric vehicles, while doing nothing, Republicans say, to address other, pressing problems.
“We’re seeing skyrocketing inflation, gas prices through the roof. We’re seeing rampant crime, murder rates, carjacking rates all out of control; we’re seeing utter chaos at our southern border. And all of that is a direct consequence of out-of-touch, socialist policies that are inflicting enormous pain on Americans,” says GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
Democrats, for their part, appear relatively united, despite the scope being much smaller than many on the left had originally sought.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, one of Mr. Biden’s most formidable primary opponents in 2020, says the bill would not address the major crises affecting working families, including early childhood education and home health care. As chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Senator Sanders had originally sought $6 trillion in spending – more than 12 times what this bill includes.
“The debate is whether it is better than nothing,” he told the Monitor in a brief hallway interview on Thursday. “And I’m going to be on the phone this afternoon, talking to a whole lot of people to try to come up with an answer. There’s some good things in it.”
Is gridlock a thing of the past?
Does all this mean that Congress, the institution with single-digit approval ratings that has been increasingly gridlocked in recent years, is suddenly working again?
Yes and no.
To some extent, the severity and urgency of the current crises may be greasing the wheels, says Ms. Sefl, the Democratic strategist.
But members on both sides of the aisle say Congress still needs to do a better job of working together, and not just across party lines, but also between the House and Senate. The latter has emerged as much more influential under Mr. Biden – to the frustration of many House Democrats, especially progressives.
Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, who formerly served in the House, says that Congress is no different from any other setting, in that when people stop talking, less gets done. “There’s a lot to learn from folks” you disagree with, says the former public utility commissioner, who cites how his own views on domestic energy production changed after listening to colleagues on the other side. “There’s something important about being humble in a place of this magnitude.”
Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, who served 8 years in the House and then took a 4-year hiatus during the Trump years before returning to Washington in 2021, said Congress was “almost unrecognizable” when she came back. The unexpected Democratic wins in Georgia, which gave Mr. Biden’s party control of the Senate, together with Jan. 6 and the heavy security presence for months afterward, set the stage for an acrimonious first year.
“By the end of last year, I totally regretted running for the Senate,” she says, walking back from a vote. “I just thought that the place had become irredeemably hateful and lost.”
She also is disheartened about how little, in her view, Congress has been able to accomplish for the American people. But she sees glimmers of hope in the bipartisan cooperation that led to the infrastructure bill, and in her own work on nonpartisan issues like cryptocurrency, which she calls a “saving grace.”
“There are flashes of progress and success along the way that give me hope that next year will be better,” she says. | https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0805/What-has-a-split-Congress-accomplished-A-surprising-amount | 2022-08-06T02:57:28Z | https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0805/What-has-a-split-Congress-accomplished-A-surprising-amount | true |
TUPELO • After giving the last 34 years to the Army National Guard, Kelly Mims was given a ceremonial promotion as he retired from military service.
Congressman Trent Kelly, a Major General himself in the National Guard, presided over the Friday evening ceremony that promoted Mims to the rank of brigadier general. Mims is also a circuit court judge.
“The state of Mississippi is promoting me to general as long as I promise to retire. And it’s only for this state. I am supposed to take off the pins if I leave the state, but I might not,” Mims said with a smile.
By stepping away from the guard, Mims will be getting back one weekend a month and two weeks each summer. He admitted that not having a pending military school or promotion on the horizon will take a while to get used to.
“I hope to be able to travel more on weekends with my wife,” Mims said. “Of course, she has a lot of plans for me around the house.”
Mims joined the guard in July 1988 as a way to help pay for college. He started with tanks in Nettleton as an armor soldier. After Officer Candidacy School in 1992, he began moving up the ranks. As a lieutenant, he was a platoon leader in Booneville and later commanded Company B there. When he made major, he began teaching command and general staff college.
As he moved up the ranks, his stations moved further away from northeast Mississippi. The job took him to Phoenix, Arizona; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; and Tacoma, Washington.
Over the last three decades, he has been called to active duty three times. That included two trips to the Middle East – Operation Desert Storm/Shield in 1990 and Iraqi Freedom 3 in 2004.
Mims is retiring because the Army says that, at 51, he is too old.
“It’s called a mandatory removal date,” Mims said. “Since I did not make it to general quick enough, I have to step down, effective Sept. 1.”
Growing up in a family where his father, Larry Mims, lived and breathed military, Kelly Mims was almost expected to enlist. He learned to love it.
“It shaped who I am. It helped pay the bills and it kept me fit,” Mims said. “It also gave me a break from life. One weekend a month, I went somewhere and got to spend time with a great group of guys.”
Mims hosted the Friday evening pinning ceremony at the Bus Stop in downtown Tupelo. A generation ago, the same building is where Greyhound buses would pick up and drop off passengers. In the summer of 1988, his father dropped him off there to ride a bus to Memphis to begin his career in the National Guard.
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King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have canceled the remaining 13 dates on their summer European tour so frontman Stu Mackenzie can return to Australia for treatment in his battle with Crohn’s Disease. The artist went public with the news tonight (Aug. 5) following the band’s performance in Prague.
“For the past decade or so, I’ve dealt with Crohn’s Disease the best I can,” Mackenzie wrote on Instagram. “It’s a miracle we haven’t canceled any shows in the past. But right now, my health is in really bad shape and I need to get home for some urgent treatment. I’ve always kept my struggles with Crohn’s private. I guess I didn’t want to be defined by it. And maybe I’m not defined by it, but I’m certainly dictated by it.”
He continued, “Its looming threat has shaped almost every major decision in my adult life. I think about it and plan for it and around it every day. I know a lot of people deal with chronic illnesses. I’m sorry. It fucking sucks. Sorry to everybody who bought tickets, to everyone who helped make the shows happen, our crew, our management and agents. We’ll reschedule the shows that can be rescheduled and there will be full refunds available for all the headline shows from your point of purchase on Monday. Being able to travel the world and play live music for people every night is such a privilege and I’m so grateful for the shows we were able to make happen in Ireland, Croatia and Czech Republic. Thanks for understanding and again, I’m SO sorry.”
King Gizzard has toured the world since April in support of its latest album, Omnium Gatherum. After a six-week break, the band resumed playing July 31 in Waterford, Ireland, and made it through four shows before Mackenzie’s health took a turn for the worse. Gizzard is scheduled to return to action the last weekend in September at the Desert Daze festival near Joshua Tree, Calif.
As previously reported, the group is also planning to release three studio albums before the end of the year, following the two that have already come out in 2022. The King Gizzard offshoot The Murlocs are also releasing a new album on Sept. 16 and touring North America later in the fall.
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard Cancel European Tour as Frontman Battles Crohn’s
‘Right now, my health is in really bad shape and I need to get home for some urgent treatment,’ Stu Mackenzie wrote on Instagram
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Tuscaloosa Police Athletic League gives away back-to-school backpacks
The Tuscaloosa Police Athletic League on Friday gave away 300 backpacks with school supplies inside to students in elementary and middle school at the Harris-Glynn Gym at McKenzie Court.
The league, which serves over 200 children every week, was formed in the mid-1990s by then-Police Chief Ken Swindle and former City Council member Bob Lundell, has distributed backpacks to children since the league's founding.
The gymnasium now includes a new lab with 10 computers for children to use for after-school lessons or internet access. The lab resulted from a donation by the Alabama Power Foundation.
Friday morning, children and parents swarmed the gymnasium as officers and volunteers distributed the backpacks, which came in a choice of red or blue, giving children and families extra help as they prepare for the coming school year.
Classes begin Aug, 10 in Tuscaloosa city and county public schools.
The Police Athletic League is a juvenile crime prevention program designed to place police officers and at-risk youth together in a positive environment through structured programs such as athletics, educational activities and cultural trips.
The league provides children with the opportunity to participate in organized activities promoting self-esteem, drug awareness, community cleanup and mentoring. | https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/news/2022/08/06/tuscaloosa-police-athletic-league-gives-away-back-school-backpacks/10249582002/ | 2022-08-06T03:05:06Z | https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/news/2022/08/06/tuscaloosa-police-athletic-league-gives-away-back-school-backpacks/10249582002/ | false |
Caught on camera: Officers free raccoon caught in mayonnaise jar
Published: Aug. 5, 2022 at 9:52 PM CDT|Updated: 21 minutes ago
MIDDLETON, Wis. (CNN) - It was an unusual emergency call in Wisconsin.
Officers responded to a call about a young raccoon who got its head stuck in a mayonnaise jar.
The officers were able to free the little rascal with some patience and creativity.
They told the raccoon to consider better dining options after letting him free.
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Toxic dumpsites off coast of U.S. Southern California may be times worse
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The federal investigation into the historic toxic waste dumpsites off the coast of Los Angeles and Catalina, an island southwest of the second largest U.S. city, exposed a far more extensive spread of DDT and other toxic chemicals than anyone had previously estimated.
According to a report released Friday by Phys.org, one of the most updated science websites in the United States, a recently disclosed internal memo in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) showed that federal regulators are discovering that the amount of contamination looks to have been grossly underestimated.
The sites had been believed to contain about 27,000 barrels of DDT on the ocean floor, but the EPA now estimates that historic dumping operations covering 14 sites may include up to half a million tonnes of DDT and other toxic chemicals that were poured directly into the open sea from tanks on barges, as well as radioactive waste, toxic chemicals, petroleum waste, and military explosives.
Regulators also were quoted as saying that although shipping records noted the number of discarded barrels but the word "barrel" in these documents appeared to refer to a unit of volume, rather than a physical barrel.
"That's pretty jaw-dropping in terms of the volumes and quantities of various contaminants that were dispersed in the ocean," said a concerned John Chesnutt, leader of the EPA investigation's tech team. "There's still so much we don't know."
The findings are based on detailed research by state and federal government agencies, University of California Santa Barbara and University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography into archived records, shipping bills of lading, corporate invoices and memos and on-site mapping of the ocean floor itself.
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT, a deadly toxin first believed to be a "miracle" insecticide that prevented the spread of malaria and protected crops from insect depredation, is now known to be toxic to humans, marine life and wildlife. It is readily absorbed into human and animal cell tissue and takes generations to break down to harmless chemicals.
Through the process of biomagnification, the toxin becomes increasingly concentrated in each animal that feeds on contaminated prey from lower on the food chain, starting with one-celled phytoplankton algae, through shellfish, fish, then wildlife, all the way to mankind.
DDT was first developed in 1874 but didn't come into commercial use until 1940, then it began to be used widely in agribusiness and the military until banned in the country in 1972.
But not before Montrose Chemical Corp and other polluters had dumped tens of thousands of tonnes of it off California's coast near Los Angeles and Catalina.
Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator from California, has described the DDT dumping as "one of the biggest environmental threats on the West Coast."
Widespread commercial use of DDT caused intense ecosystem disruption and serious public health hazards, including investigations into the detrimental effects on women and pregnancy and the near extinction of falcons and bald eagles by making their shells to thin and brittle to survive until hatching.
Now the concerns have shifted to the long-term health and environmental effects of the toxic dumping off the coast of California, especially on marine life, California's critically-endangered condors, dolphins, sea lions and bird populations as well as public health and safety concerns for local residents.
These disturbing revelations have given rise to strident public outcries and calls for action. Led by Feinstein, the U.S. Congress has approved a superfund of 5.6 million U.S. dollars to investigate the offshore dumping problem, and California Governor Gavin Newsom has approved a matching amount, bringing the total superfund to 11 million dollars.
Mark Gold, Newsom's Deputy Secretary for Coastal and Ocean Policy, said to the press, "The fact that here we are, more than 50 years later, and we don't even know what's in the 14 dumpsites other than a summary from a report in 1973 from the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project? That's just not acceptable,"
"It really makes you question: OK, how big of a problem is deep-water ocean dumping ... along not just the California coast, but nationwide?" he asked.
While the EPA and various state and federal agencies, as well as scientists and university departments have been collaborating on the plans for further investigation and chemical sampling, no one has yet been able to pose a suggestion as to what can actually be done about this vast ticking time bomb slowly decaying on California' ocean floor.
"There's not an environmental program, particularly at the federal level, that was designed to address the challenges, the circumstances that these disposal sites pose," said John Lyons, acting deputy director of the EPA's Region 9 Superfund Division.
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A new tennis complex in north Mandan will be serving recreational opportunities by next year.
Construction is underway on a 41,600-square-foot indoor tennis center east of Starion Sports Complex on Old Red Trail. The domed facility will offer six indoor tennis courts, three of which will be multistriped to allow for 10 pickleball courts. The facility also will have a 3,000-square-foot "welcome" center and four outdoor pickleball courts. Pickleball is a racket sport similar to tennis that utilizes a smaller and plastic ball and is played on a smaller court.
The tennis complex will cost $4.1 million to build. The outdoor pickleball courts will cost an additional $36,000 and will be open to the public. The Park District will own the facility and lease it to nonprofit Mandan Tennis Center LLC, with the lease payments being used to pay back the debt for the complex. Mandan Tennis Center LLC will raise lease money by charging visitors an hourly rate to use the facility.
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The complex will satisfy a growing need for tennis and pickleball court space in the community, according to the Mandan Park District. This is the first complex of its kind in Mandan.
"I started talking with the (Mandan Park Board) a year and a half ago about the idea of bringing an indoor tennis complex to the community," Mandan Tennis Center President Tracy Porter said.
Northwest Contracting will handle general construction. Minneapolis-based Yeadon Domes will build the dome. Construction is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year, with the facility opening in early 2023 as long as there are no delays.
"Construction is a tough market right now with the supply chain issues," Porter said.
The complex is being built on land donated by Bob & Mary Kupper that had previously been used as overflow parking for the nearby Starion Sports Complex. A new parking lot under construction will handle traffic for both the tennis center and the sports complex if needed. The lot cost the Mandan Park District $2.6 million; $2.1 million of that will be paid by special assessments.
The facility will offer residents more recreational activities during cold months. Porter hopes it will drive new interest in racket sports. Possible uses include leagues for tennis and pickleball, tennis lessons, and practice space for local high school tennis teams.
"I think all recreational faculties have a way of giving back to the community. Everyone has a diverse opinion on what to do in their free time, and this gives them one more option,” Porter said.
Officials hope to bring the West Region and state high school tournaments to the facility in the future, and to host college matches.
Other entities, such as the Bismarck-Mandan Tennis Association, are eyeing the venue.
“Overall, we have to look at it with what this will provide for the tennis community at large,” Bismarck-Mandan Tennis Association President Josh Fisher said.
The association is planning to eventually host an indoor tournament during the fall or winter months, depending on how the facility operates. It might also be used as additional court space for tournaments that are already hosted by the association, such as the Bismarck Open, which usually takes place in August at the Tom O'Leary Tennis Courts in Bismarck.
The association also is a sponsor for one of the six courts in the facility. The organization plans to fund $20,000 over five years.
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Caught on camera: Officers free raccoon caught in mayonnaise jar
Published: Aug. 5, 2022 at 10:52 PM EDT|Updated: 30 minutes ago
MIDDLETON, Wis. (CNN) - It was an unusual emergency call in Wisconsin.
Officers responded to a call about a young raccoon who got its head stuck in a mayonnaise jar.
The officers were able to free the little rascal with some patience and creativity.
They told the raccoon to consider better dining options after letting him free.
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FORT WORTH (KFDX/KJTL) — An Olney boy who has been collecting pop tabs to bring to the Ronald McDonald House got his massive collection delivered to Fort Worth safe and sound.
Cooper Tate learned about the Ronald Mcdonald House pop tab program and decided to start gathering some up, with the help of family, friends and all of you in Texoma who delivered some to the KFDX studios.
The money from the pop tabs goes to the RMH’s operating budget.
The house is a home away from home for families who have a child being taken care of at one of the area hospitals.
Cooper delivered bags on bags of tabs during the RMH’s Popsicles and Pop Tabs event to help keep families close to their sick child through free lodging.
They even gave Cooper the Pop Tab Professional Award.
“We are so excited to name Cooper Tate our Pop Tab Professional for all of his hard work in serving as the ambassador in his community and raising all these pop tops for us at the Ronald McDonald House,” RMH Fort Worth Community Engagement Manager Amy Norris said.
He’s the first one to ever receive the award.
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Four people were fatally shot Friday at multiple sites in a small Ohio town just north of Dayton, and police are searching for a man who is possibly connected to the shooting.
Stephen Marlow, a "person of interest," is likely armed and dangerous, Butler Township Police Chief John Porter said at a media briefing.
Porter said Marlow was described is White, 5'11" and about 160 pounds, with brown hair. Authorities believe Marlow, 39, was wearing shorts and a yellow T-shirt and fled in a white 2007 Ford Edge.
Police responded to a report of shots fired just before noon, Porter said, and the four victims died at the scenes.
"This is the first violent crime in this neighborhood in recent memory," Porter said. "We are working to determine if there was any motive to this horrible tragedy or if mental illness played any role," the chief said.
Wendy Chapman, a neighbor of one victim, told CNN affiliate WKEF the neighborhood is a quiet place.
"I would have never, even in this neighborhood, I would never expect anything, never," Chapman told the Dayton station.
Police do not believe there is an ongoing threat to the neighborhood but have deployed additional crews and the Dayton Police Bomb Squad out of an abundance of caution, Porter said.
Porter said people should call the police dispatch if they have information on Marlow's whereabouts or see the Ford Edge. He also urged residents in the neighborhood to look at video footage from earlier Friday.
Butler Township is a town of just under 8,000 residents about 9 miles north of Dayton.
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), provides an update to KSF's continued investigation into FibroGen, Inc. (NasdaqGS: FGEN).
On April 6, 2021, the Company disclosed that cardiovascular safety data it had previously submitted for the Phase 3 program of its Roxadustat product "included post-hoc changes to the stratification factors." Then, on July 15, 2021, the FDA's Advisory Committee unequivocally concluded that the Company's own undisclosed, prespecified sensitivity analyses demonstrated that Roxadustat's efficacy over Epogen was inconclusive at best, that it caused "greater rates of some important adverse events [] than even [Epogen]," including a higher rate of death and other major side effects, and that the Committee had voted virtually unanimously against approval for Roxadustat for any patient population, even with a "Black Box" warning.
The Company was subsequently sued in a securities class action lawsuit for failing to disclose material information, violating federal securities laws.
Recently, the court presiding over that case denied the Company's motion to dismiss in part, allowing the case to move forward.
KSF's investigation is focusing on whether FibroGen's officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to the Company's shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws.
If you have information that would assist KSF in its investigation, or have been a long-term holder of FibroGen shares and would like to discuss your legal rights, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-fgen/ to learn more.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking to recover investment losses due to corporate fraud and malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 5, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
652 PM PDT Fri Aug 5 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of southern California, including the following
counties, Riverside and San Bernardino.
* WHEN...Until 730 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Rises in normally dry washes. Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 652 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 0.5 and 1 inch of rain
has fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Pinto Mountain Wilderness of Joshua Tree National Park, Pinto
Wash.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Flooding is occurring or is imminent. It is important to know where
you are relative to normally dry washes which can become killers in
heavy rains. Campers and hikers should avoid streams or creeks.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR SAN
BERNARDINO COUNTY...
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed any remaining road closures.
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READING, Pa. - Simon Muzziotti and Vito Friscia each had a pair of hits and a run scored as the Fightin Phils (43-57) edged first-place Hartford 2-1 on Friday night at FirstEnergy Stadium.
Muzziotti put Reading in front with a solo home run in the third inning and Friscia doubled and came around to score in the fourth as the hosts took an early lead.
Four Reading pitchers combined to scatter five hits with Adam Leverett picking up the win and Brian Marconi got the final six outs to earn his 14th save of the season.
The teams will square off again on Saturday night with first pitch scheduled for 6:45 p.m. | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/fightin-phils-win-a-pitchers-duel-against-first-place-hartford/article_870719e8-152a-11ed-a706-4beb1ef68abe.html | 2022-08-06T03:46:00Z | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/fightin-phils-win-a-pitchers-duel-against-first-place-hartford/article_870719e8-152a-11ed-a706-4beb1ef68abe.html | true |
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(The Hill) — More than 1,400 flights scheduled to take place Friday within, coming into or leaving the U.S. have been canceled, according to flight tracking website FlightAware, as airlines continue to struggle with timely departures this summer.
Along with 1,482 cancelations, airlines had more than 7,000 delays on Friday within, into or out of the U.S.
Among U.S. airlines, American Airlines had the most cancelations at 263 while Southwest was second with 193 cancelations.
Airlines have been struggling this summer with persistent cancellations and delays that have left customers and lawmakers frustrated.
Earlier this week, Democrats introduced the Cash Refunds for Flight Cancellations Act amid the flight disruptions.
The measure would require airlines to give customers cash refunds if their flights were canceled within 48 hours of their scheduled departure.
“Enough is enough: Travelers are sick of wasting their valuable time fighting the airlines to receive their legally-required cash refunds,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said in a statement. “And they are tired of making flight reservations months in advance, only to face a health scare that forces them to choose between canceling a nonrefundable flight, or traveling and risking the health of their fellow passengers.”
The flight cancellations and delays come as the airline industry has seen a rebound from earlier in the pandemic, with people traveling in greater numbers again as pandemic restrictions and fears ease in the U.S. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/over-1400-us-flights-canceled-friday/ | 2022-08-06T03:50:37Z | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/over-1400-us-flights-canceled-friday/ | true |
Spendolini-Sirieix eyes second gold while netball and cricket stars chase finals
England netball prepare to face Australia in a mouth-watering netball semi-final while Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix will be watched by famous dad Fred as she dives for her second gold of the Games.
Here, the PA news agency looks ahead to Saturday’s major showdowns and reflects on Friday’s action as we enter the final weekend of competition.
Netball rematch
England´s Helen Housby celebrates scoring the winning goal against Australia in the 2018 Commonwealth final (Martin Rickett/PA)
England and Australia go head to head in their netball semi-final after the hosts thumped world champions New Zealand by 10 points to earn their place in the last four.
Australia limped through to the knockout stages after a shock defeat to Jamaica, but England coach Jess Thirlby is all too aware that the Australians – still smarting from their last-gasp loss on the Gold Coast – will be licking their wounds.
Tough test
Harmanpreet Kaur and India stand in England´s way (Steven Paston/PA)
England’s cricketers made an emphatic statement by trouncing New Zealand on Friday, chasing down a paltry 72 with 50 balls to spare in a seven-wicket win to finish atop their group. They have now won six successive T20s and confidence is steadily building but Harmanpreet Kaur’s India are likely to present a step up in opposition.
A final against Australia or New Zealand awaits the winners, with the losers having the consolation of going into the bronze medal match.
Ace Andrea
Fresh from her victory in the women’s 10-metre platform final – watched by her TV star father Fred – teenager Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix gets the chance to extend her dream Games debut in the women’s 10m sychro platform final on Saturday.
The 17-year-old delivered a first senior international victory on Thursday evening at Sandwell Aquatics Centre, finishing ahead of England’s team-mate Lois Toulson to top the leaderboard by a huge 20.20 points.
Social media moment
Canada made England work hard for every point on the badminton court.
Pic of the day
Marfa Ekimova on her way to all-around gold (Peter Byrne/PA)
Friday favourites
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Laura Muir is eyeing an elusive Commonwealth medal after reaching her second final. The Scot finished fifth in her 1500m heat on Friday morning to reach Sunday’s final at the Alexander Stadium, running four minutes 14.11 seconds, having already reached Saturday’s 800m final.
Great Scot
Scotland’s George Miller became the oldest gold medallist in Commonwealth Games history after winning the para-bowls mixed pairs final at the age of 75.
Miller, who is lead director for partially-sighted team-mate Melanie Inness, succeeds his para-bowls team-mate, 72-year-old Rosemary Lenton, who briefly held the record after winning the women’s pairs title on Wednesday.
Magic Marfa
Marfa Ekimova, centre, celebrates with her gold medal (Peter Byrne/PA)
Fresh from helping the England team win their first rhythmic gymnastics medal since 2010 on Thursday, 17-year-old Marfa Ekimova produced a stunning set of performances to clinch the gold medal in the individual all-around event.
Ekimova, who was born in St Petersburg and moved to the UK at the age of two, produced superb routines on the four apparatus – hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon – to score 112.300 and edge Anna Sokolova of Cyprus into second place. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11086589/Spendolini-Sirieix-eyes-second-gold-netball-cricket-stars-chase-finals.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-06T03:53:24Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11086589/Spendolini-Sirieix-eyes-second-gold-netball-cricket-stars-chase-finals.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
(The Hill) — More than 1,400 flights scheduled to take place Friday within, coming into or leaving the U.S. have been canceled, according to flight tracking website FlightAware, as airlines continue to struggle with timely departures this summer.
Along with 1,482 cancelations, airlines had more than 7,000 delays on Friday within, into or out of the U.S.
Among U.S. airlines, American Airlines had the most cancelations at 263 while Southwest was second with 193 cancelations.
Airlines have been struggling this summer with persistent cancellations and delays that have left customers and lawmakers frustrated.
Earlier this week, Democrats introduced the Cash Refunds for Flight Cancellations Act amid the flight disruptions.
The measure would require airlines to give customers cash refunds if their flights were canceled within 48 hours of their scheduled departure.
“Enough is enough: Travelers are sick of wasting their valuable time fighting the airlines to receive their legally-required cash refunds,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said in a statement. “And they are tired of making flight reservations months in advance, only to face a health scare that forces them to choose between canceling a nonrefundable flight, or traveling and risking the health of their fellow passengers.”
The flight cancellations and delays come as the airline industry has seen a rebound from earlier in the pandemic, with people traveling in greater numbers again as pandemic restrictions and fears ease in the U.S. | https://www.wane.com/news/over-1400-us-flights-canceled-friday/ | 2022-08-06T03:54:36Z | https://www.wane.com/news/over-1400-us-flights-canceled-friday/ | false |
Dear Amy: I know you are an animal lover, and so I would appreciate your perspective on this.
Recently I lost my much-loved dog and have been slightly appalled at the reactions of people I have known for many years. A very few have offered condolences. The general attitude has been that I “should be used to it.”
Amy, a veterinarian never gets used to it. It is such a helpless feeling to not be able to cure your own pet, even when you logically know that everything possible has been done.
I am trying not to have hard feelings over this, but it’s difficult.
— Grace
Grace: I am so very sorry. Every person who has said goodbye to a beloved pet grieves the loss of a companion and friendship connection that is very hard to describe, but should be easy to understand. Losing this connection brings on a special sort of heartbreak.
I’ll quote the late great poet Mary Oliver, whose collection “Dog Songs: Poems” (2015, Penguin) is a tender, touching and funny tribute to the dogs who romped through her life:
“Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased.
It is no small gift.”
You should not have to interrupt your own grieving in order to continue to educate humans about animal loss, and yet — if the people in your world aren’t giving you what you need right now, perhaps you should let them know.
You might say, “My own experience treating animals has not hardened my heart toward any pet’s suffering and death — and certainly my own dog’s. I will never get used to this sort of loss, and I hope you can understand that. In fact, I could use a little TLC myself right now.”
Dear Amy: I started dating my husband back in 2012. We’ve been married now for six years. We have both been married in the past and have adult children.
He and his ex were married for 13 years. They have two boys that I have helped to raise. They are now adults.
My husband’s ex-wife is a wonderful person, she truly is. She is very close with my mother-in-law and remains in her life, which is fine. My problem is that I have just now started to meet the “family” and I still don’t know all of them.
Whenever there is a family function on his side, my husband’s ex is always invited. I feel like no one will ever know me because she is still always there at all the functions. We have a graduation party to go to and she is also invited to that.
I don’t have a problem with her personally, but would like to experience family things with just that … family. Am I being too much?
— The Now Wife
Wife: Your husband’s ex has remained very close with his family — and this could be a nice result for families that can manage it. Most can’t.
But think of it this way: If she was a sister-in-law or close family friend who was present at every family gathering, her presence wouldn’t prevent you from getting to know everyone any more than any other individual’s presence would.
Basically, I’m suggesting that you ignore her status as your husband’s long-ago ex, and concentrate on your own best behavior. Be cool, be calm, ask good questions and let your in-laws see your sparkle.
You will further cement these relationships by hosting some of your in-laws at your own home in smaller groups (it is not necessary to invite your husband’s ex). Little by little, absent these larger gatherings, you would build experiences with them individually.
Dear Amy: I read with interest your response to “Greg in Minnesota,” who was concerned about the increased pollution caused by individuals idling cars in parking lots.
The writer mentioned knocking on the offender’s window to confront them. If I were giving him advice, in addition to the statistics you stated, I would say “don’t!”
You don’t know who you are confronting. Are they angry, frustrated, intoxicated, high on drugs, carrying a firearm? You don’t know how they are going to react to being confronted!
— Concerned
Concerned: Absolutely! Based on the wording of his letter, I assumed that “Greg” was no longer personally confronting people. I certainly hope so.
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), announces that KSF has commenced an investigation into DocuSign, Inc. (NasdaqGS: DOCU).
In December 2021, the Company released its financial results for the third quarter 2022, disclosing dramatically slowed billings growth, constituting a 28% drop year-over-year, primarily due to waning demand as customers began returning to their offices and resumed in-person signature processes, contrary to its prior representations that pandemic-driven demand would be viable long-term. Further, the Company disclosed the departure of former CFO Michael Sheridan, one of the primary executives responsible for setting the Company's billings guidance early in the pandemic.
Thereafter, the Company and certain of its executives were sued in a securities class action lawsuit charging them with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period in violation of federal securities laws, which remains ongoing.
KSF's investigation is focusing on whether DocuSign's officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to its shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws.
If you have information that would assist KSF in its investigation, or have been a long-term holder of DocuSign shares and would like to discuss your legal rights, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-docu/ to learn more.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
Lewis Kahn, Managing Partner
lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com
1-877-515-1850
1100 Poydras St., Suite 3200
New Orleans, LA 70163
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
1-3-7
(one, three, seven)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
1-3-7
(one, three, seven) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17355928.php | 2022-08-06T04:18:00Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17355928.php | true |
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Daily Game" game were:
4-0-8
(four, zero, eight)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Daily Game" game were:
4-0-8
(four, zero, eight) | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Game-game-17355913.php | 2022-08-06T04:21:14Z | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Game-game-17355913.php | true |
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until September 6, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Outset Medical, Inc. ("Outset" or the "Company") (NasdaqGS: OM), if they purchased the Company's shares between September 15, 2020 and June 13, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
If you purchased shares of Outset as above and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-om/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by September 6, 2022.
Outset and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On May 5, 2022, the Company disclosed negative results for 1Q2022, which, among other things, analysts attributed to the untested nature of Tablo, its flagship product which is a dialysis machine that purifies tap water and then artificially purifies and removes toxins from the blood of patients suffering from kidney failure. On this news, shares of Outset fell more than 40% over the three trading days that followed, from a closing price of $39.94 per share on May 4, 2022, to a closing price of $23.06 per share on May 9, 2022.
Then, on June 13, 2022, the Company disclosed a hold on all shipments of Tablo for home use by the FDA until proper regulatory clearance was received. The Company subsequently disclosed that the "ship hold" had been in place for weeks before investors were informed and that as a result of the hold, the Company was "suspending our prior full-year and long-term guidance.". On this news, shares of Outset fell another 33%, from a closing price of $20.41 per share on June 13, 2022, to a closing price of $13.46 per share on June 14, 2022.
The case is Plymouth County Retirement Association v. Outset Medical, Inc., 22-cv-04016.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
Lewis Kahn, Managing Partner
lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com
1-877-515-1850
1100 Poydras St., Suite 3200
New Orleans, LA 70163
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Police are asking the public for help in busting a criminal syndicate behind the importation via cargo ship of 700 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of $280 million.
Australian Border Force officers found the drugs on July 22 while inspecting containers on the vessel Maersk Inverness at Port Botany in Sydney.
Federal police seized 28 denim bags, each holding about 25 kilograms of cocaine in brick form, the AFP and ABF said in a statement on Saturday.
Forensic examination identified different emblems on the bricks, including the numerals 5 and 365 and the word Netflix, the agencies said.
AFP Detective Inspector Luke Wilson said the ship, which has been allowed to continue its journey, had stopped at ports in Central America and South America before making its way to Australia.
Insp Wilson said the interception of the drugs would be a significant blow to what was likely a well-resourced criminal syndicate.
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"The AFP estimates this seizure has saved the community more than $451 million in drug-related harm."
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She said the agency had disrupted the criminal network's supply and "stopped this large shipment of cocaine from entering our community". | https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/crime/police-make-280m-cargo-ship-cocaine-bust-c-7780060 | 2022-08-06T04:25:16Z | https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/crime/police-make-280m-cargo-ship-cocaine-bust-c-7780060 | false |
SEATTLE (AP) — A white woman was recorded while calling police to report a Black man who was standing outside his home just south of Seattle in White Center.
The woman, who is not identified, is seen talking on the phone with police dispatch after confronting Dayson Barnes, who is Black, The Seattle Times reported.
“If you guys have a lease, I’d just like to see the lease,” the woman told Barnes and his partner in the video. The video was posted on Reddit on Wednesday by Barnes’ partner and has been circulating on social media.
The recorded interaction is similar to other incidents depicting white women calling police on people of color for mundane activities.
In 2020, a video of a white woman calling the police on a Black bird-watcher in New York’s Central Park went viral, with many viewing the incident as a reflection of the daily racism and life-threatening situations faced by people of color.
About 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Barnes said a woman he recognized from down the street drove by his house as he was standing in the backyard. Barnes and his partner had moved into the home about three weeks ago, and said other neighbors noticed their U-Haul truck.
Barnes said he and the woman waved to each other, “as a normal neighbor would,” but she came back and parked in front of the house.
Barnes said that when he approached her to ask if she needed something, the woman said she knew who lived in the home and accused him of not being a resident there. The woman told him he shouldn’t be at the property, and called 911, he said.
Barnes then went into the house to retrieve his phone to film the interaction, and to tell his partner about the dispute, he said. Barnes said the woman’s demeanor changed when she saw his partner, who is white.
“I’m a Black man, and me being out there alone and for me to go inside to get my white boyfriend, she felt she was in the wrong I guess and that there was a misunderstanding,” Barnes said Friday. “I did get the sense of her trying to save face for herself and brush it under the rug.”
Shortly after, King County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived to respond “to reports of a potential residential burglary,” spokesperson Zoe Birkbeck told the newspaper.
“Dispatch advised responding deputies that the caller said that it was a misunderstanding however now a verbal disturbance had ensued,” Birkbeck said.
In the video, Barnes’ partner can be heard accusing the woman of calling the cops because “she saw a Black man walk in the house.” The woman can be heard responding, “Oh my gosh this has nothing to do with race.”
Barnes, however, said “It was obviously a race thing.”
“I was wearing a hoodie because it’s cold that morning, a black hoodie, and she thought I shouldn’t be there, I was stealing from the house,” he said.
Arriving deputies checked Barnes’ identification and left after about five minutes. No official report was taken, according to Birkbeck.
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ATLANTA — Four men appeared before a federal grand jury late last week after they were indicted on federal charges for allegedly flashing lasers at police helicopters, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Georgia.
“Pointing lasers at an aircraft is extremely dangerous,” U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan said. “A laser aimed at an aircraft blinds the pilot and makes it difficult if not impossible for the persons in the cockpit to read their instruments."
All four were indicted by a federal grand jury on July 13, 2022. A trial date for the four men has not yet been announced.
Investigators said there were four separate incidents, and the Gwinnett Police Department provided video of three of the incidents.
The first incident happened on Feb. 13, 2020, according to the attorney's office. Officers with Gwinnett police were using the aircraft to look for a robbery suspect who'd run into the woods, investigators said. While searching, a man from Snellville allegedly pointed a red laser at the helicopter, "temporarily blinding the pilot and the tactical flight officer."
At that point, the officer and pilot stopped looking for the robbery suspect to find the source of the laser. When approached and asked by officers why he flashed the laser at the aircraft, the 55-year-old man reportedly told them he was walking his dog when he saw the helicopter. Investigators reported he wanted to "see what is going on."
Several months later, on Nov. 9, 2020, Gwinnett police arrested a second man from Lilburn who was allegedly shining a laser at their chopper. This time they were searching for a stolen car when a green laser was flashed twice at the aircraft, investigators said.
Officers switched to "protective eye gear" and found the 48-year-old man, who prosecutors said told them he didn't know it was a police helicopter and did it "for fun."
Six months later, early in the evening on May 26, 2021, officers in an Atlanta police chopper were helping in a search for a missing 6-year-old boy. While in the air, investigators said they were "struck multiple times by a green laser."
When they found and asked a 61-year-old man if it was him, officers said he lied and said: "he was alone in the home and was on his back patio grilling during the time of the incident." After police told him they would get footage from the helicopter, he reportedly admitted it was him and was placed under arrest.
“The Atlanta Police Department takes the safety of our officers seriously, whether on the ground or in the air,” said Interim Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum. “The fact that these defendants used laser pointers to endanger the lives of members of our Phoenix Air Unit and the safety of people on the ground, is very disturbing. The federal charges brought forth against these men sends a message that irresponsible actions and criminal activity will not be tolerated.”
The last incident happened on July 1, according to officials. Officers with the Gwinnett Police Department were using the helicopter to help locate a suspicious person "wandering in the middle of a busy road." Officers reported that someone shined a green laser at the chopper. They said a 51-year-old man from Lawrenceville admitted to the crime.
Why pointing a laser at aircraft is dangerous
According to officials, when aimed at an aircraft, a beam of light from a handheld laser can illuminate a cockpit, disorienting and temporarily blinding the pilot or pilots of the craft. Officials said in this case, it prevented police from "completing important public safety work,” according to Keri Farley, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Atlanta office.
“It's not a game," Farley said. "It's a federal felony that the FBI and our law enforcement partners take very seriously.” | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/4-georgia-men-prosecuted-shining-lasers-police-helicopter/85-01a6c3b7-ed5a-4df4-9a24-f71574cdd7b0 | 2022-08-06T04:30:03Z | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/4-georgia-men-prosecuted-shining-lasers-police-helicopter/85-01a6c3b7-ed5a-4df4-9a24-f71574cdd7b0 | false |
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