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BOURNEMOUTH, England — Scott Parker won the battle of the former England midfielders as his newly promoted Bournemouth marked its return to the English Premier League with a 2-0 win over Steven Gerrard’s Aston Villa on Saturday.
His expensively assembled team dominated possession in the south-coast sunshine but was toothless in attack.
Parker, meanwhile, had been frustrated by a lack of summer transfer activity following promotion from the Championship but new signing Marcus Tavernier contributed to their second-minute opener. Lerma emphatically lashed home a deflected, left-footed drive from close range after the visitors made a mess of clearing Tavernier’s right-wing corner.
Gerrard brought on Emiliano Buendia in the second half and the Argentine midfielder showed flashes of inspiration before hopes of salvaging a draw were extinguished 10 minutes from time when Moore expertly headed beyond goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez following a cross from Lloyd Kelly.
Things will get a lot tougher for Bournemouth, though, with Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool to come in the next three weeks.
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HR Tech startup raises $1 million in seed round of funding
‘Firm’s focus is to help companies hire quality talents faster with the balanced intervention of humans and tech’
Chennai-headquartered InterviewDesk, a HR tech startup has raised $1 million in seed funding round led by Sugumar Natarajan, Executive Director of FMCG firm Anil Foods and other angel investors. The firm said that the funds would be used to strengthen the engineering and business teams to build the tech that empowers the platform.
“Companies are looking for ways to scale up their hiring process for their resource need. InterviewDesk’s focus is to help companies hire quality talents faster with the balanced intervention of humans and tech,” said Pichumani Durairaj, founder of InterviewDesk.
In the financial year 2022, InterviewDesk has seen a growth of 400% year on year. It’s Clientele, include companies like Ally, Byjus, Rupeek, Jupiter Money and Jubilant FoodWorks to name a few.
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It's been almost a year since the Taliban took over Afghanistan again and the U.S. military pulled out of the country.
As the withdrawal unfolded, Marine Corps veteran Elliot Ackerman was watching the chaos from a distance. He was on a family vacation in Italy but couldn't tear himself away from what was happening.
Ackerman had deployed to Afghanistan multiple times. He felt bound to America's Afghan allies, so when the U.S. announced it was leaving and those same Afghans were desperate to get out, he lay awake at night, glued to his phone.
"My entire network was lighting up and it had become quickly a crowdsourced evacuation, with each person playing their part," Ackerman told Morning Edition.
''Some people were trying to raise money for charter flights, other people were arranging the buses that would transport evacuees from various pickup points in Kabul into the airport."
Ackerman was key because he knew Marines who were inside the airport, manning those gates and deciding who could come in and who could not. He writes about this experience in his new book, The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On mobilizing to help Afghans evacuate
Everyone was very much focused on the task at hand, because the stakes are obviously very high. You know, you've got the photographs of the people who are trying to get out and their families, [because] these aren't people any of us knew — the only family that I got out who I had a direct personal connection to was my interpreter. He has since moved to the U.S. but his family was still there and we were able to get his family out. But everyone else, these were strangers and they were strangers for most of us. So in that moment, you can't really step away.
But there were certainly little interludes. And my wife, in the book, she almost comes off like a Greek chorus conscience of the book, saying, you know, "Why are you all having to do this? Why are the people who left the wars 10 years ago now being sucked in to try to finish them?"
On how he views America's exit from Afghanistan
I think it was a collapse of American morals that we made these promises and we fell short. It was a collapse of American competence. I mean, listen, despite the heroic efforts of those who were at the airport — and our efforts were truly heroic, so I'm not questioning their competence — but I would question the competence of decision-making that put us into this position where our back was up against a wall with this Aug. 31st withdrawal date that we couldn't seem to move.
It was a collapse of hierarchy, because as the war was ending in those days, I found myself on text chains and phone calls with retired four star generals and admirals, some of whom had commanded the entire war, because no one could get anyone out because of the craziness. And because, for a brief window, the team that I was working with was having some success, we found ourselves serving in this collapsed hierarchy all working together. And that was surreal for me at times.
On how it's impossible to really separate yourself from the experience of war
People have sometimes asked me, "Elliot, how do you think the war's changed you?" and I've never known how to answer that question. Because the war in so many ways made me. I don't know how to unbraid it out of the knots that are me. But the friendships that I have there, the memories that I have from that time, of course I think about and it's the time when I was growing up. I mean, I grew up there in the war.
I entered the service and started that training pipeline at 17 years old. And as you see in the book, those friendships have projected out because as Kabul was falling, so many of the people I'm working with, these are folks who've also transitioned. They've ended the wars themselves and we're all still friends.
On what an appropriate memorial would look like to these particular American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
I started thinking about it with regards to the recent passage of the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Location Act, which has gone through Congress to authorize a memorial to these wars. But the global war on terrorism isn't over yet, so it's actually interesting.
For the first time as a country, we will be trying to make a memorial to a war that we are still technically fighting. But it got me thinking, how would you make a memorial to a forever war? And that got me thinking, well maybe what would be more appropriate instead of erecting all these memorials upward, maybe we should dig downward, kind of like the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
And I imagined a war memorial that would look almost like the sloping granite rock, sort of descending downward conically like something from Dante, and we would get rid of all the memorials to each specific war and we would just have one American War Memorial.
It would begin with the names, the first being Crispus Attucks, who was killed at the Boston Massacre. And we would just list them all chronologically digging ourselves deeper and deeper and deeper. So we have more than a million war dead at this point in our country's history. And every time we fund a new war, we just add the names going down and down into the earth. And then, in my imagination of this war memorial, when you got to the very last name, there would be a desk and a pen. And Congress would pass a law that before any troop deployment, the president — he or she — would have to come down to the war memorial and that pen would be the only pen that could be used to sign that troop deployments.
They would have to walk by all of the war dead before they would need to do that. And then we wouldn't have to have any more debates about war memorials — we would just know what we did every time we fought a war, we'd just add the names.
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Supporters and detractors of Anne Heche took to Twitter to respond to media reports about the Emmy-award-winning, 53-year-old actress' hospitalization following a car accident Friday in a residential neighborhood of Los Angeles.
TMZ broke the story, stating the actress was speeding in her blue Mini Cooper when she crashed into two homes, one after the other, causing the second one to erupt in flames. "Anne apparently suffered severe burns in the fire," TMZ reported. "We're told she's currently in the hospital intubated but expected to live."
Fellow actress Rosanna Arquette called the incident "really tragic" and asked for people to "pray" for Heche, who is best known for her roles in 1990s films like the Gus Van Sant remake of Psycho and Donnie Brasco, in which she starred opposite Johnny Depp.
Anne Heche is in the hospital severely burned from a car accident this is really tragic. Pray for her.
— ✌🏼rosanna arquette (@RoArquette) August 5, 2022
Writer Steve Huff empathized with Heche, calling to attention the actress' long and open struggle with mental health issues.
This is deeply sad. She's been pretty open about her mental health challenges but as anyone who has had loved ones suffering from certain disorders knows, there are many people who never treat their illness appropriately for very long.https://t.co/HRA89m0IRZ
— STEVE HUFF (@SteveHuff) August 5, 2022
Twitter user Rich Keith echoed the sentiments of many who weighed in on the social media platform in expressing sympathy not for Heche but rather for the homeowner whose house caught on fire as a result of the accident.
What about the people in the house she crashed into and caused a fire? Oh, I'm sorry, am I a bad person for asking that?
— RichKeith (@RichKeith11) August 6, 2022
Neither the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) nor the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) was willing to identify the person or persons involved in the accident. "We don't release victims' names," an LAPD spokesperson told NPR.
But according to a fire department report about the second crash involving a fire, "59 Firefighters took 65 minutes to access, confine and fully extinguish the stubborn flames within the heavily damaged structure, and rescue one female adult found within the vehicle, who has been taken to an area hospital by LAFD Paramedics in critical condition. No other injuries were reported."
Heche's manager and agents have not responded to NPR's request for comment.
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The New York Red Bulls have added Brazilian striker Elias Manoel on loan from Gremio until the end of the year with an option to buy pending recipet of his P-1 visa and ITC, the club announced today.
Manoel, 20, has spent his entire soccer career with Gremio, which plays in Campeonato Brasilerio Serie B. He made his first team debut on March 30, 2021, against Campeonato Gaucho. Manoel has scored nine goals across 1,783 minutes in 40 appearances for Gremio. This season, he has scored twice in 637 minutes.
"We are excited to add Elias to our roster for the rest of the season," Head of Sport Jochen Schneider said. "From what we have seen from Elias, we believe he has the abilities to succeed at the MLS level."
The Itapevi, Brazil native was the top goal scorer for Gremio during the 2022 Campeonato Gaucho, he scored four goals in seven matches to lead Gremio to the 2022 Campeonato Gaucho title. During his time with Gremio, Manoel won two Campeonato Gaucho's and two Recopa Gaucha's.
"I am happy to welcome Elias to our club," said Head Coach Gerhard Struber. "He is an exciting young player, and we are excited to see what we can bring to this team this season." | http://www.metrofanatic.com/story.jsp?ID=8430 | 2022-08-06T18:31:20Z | http://www.metrofanatic.com/story.jsp?ID=8430 | true |
Archie Battersbee has died in hospital after weeks of legal battles.
The 12-year-old had been in a coma since he was found unconscious by his mother Hollie Dance in April and was being kept alive by a combination of medical interventions, including ventilation and drug treatments.
Speaking outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, Ms Dance said her “beautiful little boy” died at 12.15pm on Saturday.
Archie’s parents had fought a long-running legal battle over the withdrawal of treatment and in recent days made bids to the High Court, Court of Appeal and European Court of Human Rights to have him transferred to a hospice to die.
Announcing her son’s death to the media, Ms Dance, of Southend, Essex, said “he fought right until the very end”.
Speaking through tears, she said: “Can I just say, I’m the proudest mum in the world.
“He was such a beautiful little boy and he fought right until the very end, and I am so proud to be his mum.”
In an interview with Sky News, recorded on Friday, Ms Dance said she was “pretty broken” and that the day had been “absolutely awful”.
Breaking down, she said: “The last however many weeks since 7th April, I don’t think there’s been a day that hasn’t been awful really.”
Ms Dance added: “It’s been really hard. Despite the hard strong face and appearance obviously in front of the cameras up until now, I’ve been pretty broken.”
She said the hospital had made it clear there were no more options and that life support would be withdrawn at 10am on Saturday.
Asked if there was anything more she could do, Ms Dance said: “No. I’ve done everything that I promised my little boy I’d do. And I’ve done it.”
Alistair Chesser, chief medical officer at Barts Health NHS Trust, said: “Archie Battersbee passed away on Saturday afternoon at The Royal London Hospital after treatment was withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests.
“Members of his family were present at the bedside and our thoughts and heartfelt condolences remain with them at this difficult time.
“The trust would like to thank the medical, nursing and support staff in the paediatric intensive care department who looked after Archie following his awful accident.
“They provided high quality care with extraordinary compassion over several months in often trying and distressing circumstances.
“This tragic case not only affected the family and his carers but touched the hearts of many across the country.”
Supporters brought flowers to the hospital on Saturday morning.
Shelley Elias, 43, said she had come to the Royal London Hospital because “I wanted his mum Hollie and the family to know I was thinking of them”.
Mrs Elias, a mother of two from Stepney, east London, who said she vaguely knew Archie’s mother, brought flowers, a card and some candles.
She said: “I did not know what to write because there are no words that will take the pain away.
“I just wanted the mum and her family to know that I am here for them.
“My boy is 12, the same age as Archie, and this just puts things in perspective. When things like this happen, you just think ‘I have nothing to moan about in life’.”
Candles flickered in the shape of the letter “A” and also formed a love heart around a card with Archie’s name in a makeshift tribute at a statue in front of the hospital.
It was created by passers-by who said they wanted to show their support.
Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, which has been supporting the family’s case, said: “Our thoughts, prayers and support are with Archie’s family at this tragic moment.
“We will continue to support the family, as we have done throughout, ever since they came to us after being issued with last-minute legal proceedings to remove life support from Archie.
“We are thankful for the widespread public support for Archie and his family. It has been a privilege to stand alongside them.
“The events of the last few weeks raise many significant issues including questions of how death is defined, how those decisions are made and the place of the family.
“No one wants to see other families experience what they have been through. We need to see urgent review and reform of the system.”
In a High Court ruling on Friday morning, Mrs Justice Theis concluded it was not in Archie’s best interests to be moved to a hospice and the Court of Appeal rejected permission to appeal against that decision.
Christian Concern said the family had wanted to challenge the High Court ruling by arguing there had been a violation of articles six and eight of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Article six is the right to a fair trial and article eight is the right to respect for private and family life.
A spokesman for the European court said it had received a request from representatives of Archie’s parents under Rule 39, which allows it to apply “interim measures” in “exceptional” cases, and that the complaints “fell outside the scope” of that rule, and so it would not intervene.
The Court of Appeal judges said Mrs Justice Theis’ ruling in the High Court dealt “comprehensively with each of the points raised on behalf of the parents”.
The judges said they had “reached the clear conclusion that each of her decisions was right for the reasons she gave”.
They added: “It follows that the proposed appeal has no prospect of success and there is no other compelling reason for the Court of Appeal to hear an appeal.”
The Court of Appeal judges also said one of the arguments presented by Archie’s parents was “flawed legally”, adding: “It is also not easy to understand as it seeks to argue that Archie’s best interests have ceased to be relevant.”
Doctors treating the schoolboy for the last four months declared Archie to be “brain-stem dead”, prompting a lengthy but ultimately failed legal battle by his family to continue his life support treatment in the hope he would recover. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3568228/beautiful-little-boy-archie-battersbee-dies-in-hospital-mother-announces/ | 2022-08-06T18:41:31Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3568228/beautiful-little-boy-archie-battersbee-dies-in-hospital-mother-announces/ | true |
Mohamed Salah spared Liverpool’s embarrassment with a late equaliser as last season’s runners-up were held to a 2-2 draw at newly promoted Fulham in their Premier League opener.
Fulham have proven difficult opponents for Jurgen Klopp’s side in recent years – the Cottagers now unbeaten in their last three top-flight meetings – and Liverpool had to come from behind twice to cancel out two goals from Aleksandar Mitrovic.
The Serbia striker has notoriously struggled for goals in the top division but showed no sign of any issues against the Reds, opening his account for the campaign in the 32nd minute.
Darwin Nunez cancelled out Fulham’s lead with a clever improvised backheel just after the hour mark, before a Mitrovic penalty restored the home side’s advantage.
With just under 10 minutes remaining in the game, however, Nunez then set up Salah, who calmly slotted home Liverpool’s crucial equaliser.
The warning signs were there for Klopp as Liverpool struggled to get going and string passes together early on, before being caught on the break.
Although they grew into the game, it was far from a composed Reds performance, while Fulham looked completely different to the side which shipped 10 goals in their opening three Premier League matches in 2020-21.
It was not the start to the season Liverpool would have envisaged when the fixtures were released, with Fulham applying most of the early pressure and Mitrovic poking wide in only the second minute.
However, Liverpool had the ball in the back of their net with their first real attacking move of the game, Luis Diaz curling the ball past Marek Rodak, but Andy Robertson was offside in the build up.
Liverpool continued to struggle to find their way into the match and it was Fulham who took a surprise lead against the Champions League finalists.
The Cottagers made a clever move down the left, with Kenny Tete overlapping Neeskens Kebano before sending in a deep cross to the far post where Mitrovic beat Trent Alexander-Arnold to head past Alisson.
Liverpool almost levelled just minutes later – Diaz’s attempted chip from just inside the box flew past Rodak but rebounded back off the post.
Klopp already had extensive injury problems going into the game, but his fortunes took a turn for the worse when Thiago Alcantara pulled up early in the second half and had to be substituted, going off holding his hamstring.
Early in the second half – after a quiet few minutes – Kebano almost scored Fulham’s second when he unleashed an effort that rebounded off the inside of the post and, from the following corner, Bobby Decordova-Reid had a curled effort saved by Alisson.
There were signs of intent from Liverpool as Nunez looked to pick out Diaz at the far post, but his attempted pass was blocked by Joao Palhinha.
Liverpool found a small opportunity and Nunez equalised to open his account in the Premier League.
Harvey Elliott had played in Salah down the wing and he crossed for Nunez, who backheeled the ball into the net, which was allowed to stand following a brief VAR check for offside.
After levelling the score, Liverpool immediately looked to be closing in on a winner, with Diaz having a shot blocked and Tim Ream also having to make a clearance off the line.
Just as Liverpool looked to be pushing for a winner, Mitrovic restored Fulham’s lead from the penalty spot.
The Serbia striker was judged by referee Andrew Madley to have been brought down in the box by Virgil Van Dijk, with VAR upholding the decision.
Mitrovic stepped up to take the spot-kick and Alisson guessed the right way but was beaten by the power of the shot.
Liverpool levelled again when Alexander-Arnold crossed from the right to the centre of the box, with Nunez unselfishly tapping down for Salah to slot home. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3568249/liverpool-come-from-behind-twice-to-salvage-draw-at-newly-promoted-fulham/ | 2022-08-06T18:41:37Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3568249/liverpool-come-from-behind-twice-to-salvage-draw-at-newly-promoted-fulham/ | true |
Wakf Board to continue legal fight
Bengaluru August 06, 2022 22:37 ISTKarnataka State Board of Auqaf has decided to continue their legal fight for Idgah Maidan, Chamarajpet.
“The city’s civic body has only rejected an application for Khata and it is clear that they are not the competent authority to decide on the ownership of the land. The civic body’s order is also clear that we can pursue our case and the order will not hamper our claims. We will consult our legal teams and decide whether to continue our fight with the Revenue Department, now declared owner of the land, or challenge in the High Court,” said Moulana Shafi Saadi, Chairperson of the Board.
Okkoota claim victory
Meanwhile, Rukmangada, General Secretary, Chamarajpete Nagareekara Okkoota Vedike, a platform floated in July with several members of BJP in its legal committee, to “save the playground”, termed the civic body’s order “a victory”. “We now demand that the land be declared a public playground and named after Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar and we be allowed to hoist the national flag and hold 75th Independence Day Celebration there,” he said. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/wakf-board-to-continue-legal-fight/article65738254.ece/amp/ | 2022-08-06T18:44:23Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/wakf-board-to-continue-legal-fight/article65738254.ece/amp/ | true |
Hate crime: Man sentenced for attacking Asian family he blamed for pandemic
MIDLAND, Texas (Gray News) - A Texas man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for assaulting an Asian family that authorities said he blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Justice Department announced that Jose Gomez III, 21, of Midland, Texas, was sentenced on hate crime charges for attacking an Asian family he believed was Chinese and therefore responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gomez had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of committing a hate crime.
Officials said according to the facts admitted in the plea, on March 14, 2020, Gomez entered a Sam’s Club Warehouse in Midland behind an Asian family with young children. Gomez had never seen them before and believed they were Chinese.
According to authorities, Gomez followed them in the store for several minutes because he perceived them to be a “threat” as they were “from the country who started spreading that disease around.” Gomez then momentarily left the family to find a serrated steak knife in the store.
The Justice Department reported Gomez bent the blade of the knife and returned to the family and punched the father in the face, cutting him. Gomez then left to retrieve another knife from the store. When Gomez returned, he abruptly turned towards the family’s two young children – then aged 6 and 2 years old – who were seated in the front basket of the shopping cart. Gomez slashed the 6-year-old child’s face and right ear.
Officials said Gomez also stabbed a Sam’s Club employee who intervened to stop him from further assaulting the Asian family. While being held down on the ground, Gomez yelled at the family to “Get out of America!”
The Justice Department reported that Gomez admitted he believed the family was Chinese and that he blamed them for the COVID-19 pandemic. Gomez further admitted he had attempted to kill the 6-year-old child. The 21-year-old also admitted he had attacked the store employee because he wanted to kill the 6-year-old child and the worker was preventing him from doing so.
“Pandemic-driven and racially-motivated acts of violence are deplorable crimes, and the Justice Department stands ready to use our hate crimes laws to hold perpetrators accountable,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
The department said the Midland Police Department and the FBI helped with the investigation of the case.
“Hate-motivated violence will simply not be tolerated in our society and every person deserves to feel safe from such vicious harm,” said U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff for the Western District of Texas.
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Surrey chief Richard Thompson has been named as the new England and Wales Cricket board chairman.
The 55-year-old will leave his chairmanship at Surrey to join the ECB on September 1, ending the organisation’s 11-month wait to fill the post on a permanent basis.
Former FA chief Ian Watmore stood down from the role in October 2021, while Martin Darlow has been interim chair since April.
Thompson immediately pledged to restore trust in the ECB in the wake of the racism scandals that have engulfed the sport in the last year.
“I am immensely proud to become chair of the ECB at what is a hugely important time for cricket,” said Thompson.
“Cricket has given me the chance to meet an incredibly diverse range of amazing people. Their passion, endeavour and love for the game is what I want to harness, to take our game forward, to new heights across England and Wales.
“Cricket should be the most inclusive sport in the country, welcoming people from all backgrounds, helping bring communities together. For those communities where we have fallen short, I will work tirelessly to restore their trust in the game.
“With the men’s and women’s Ashes on the horizon, ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in October and the recent successes in our red ball game, along with hosting the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in 2026 there is much ahead of us.
“I am looking forward to using my experience and love for the game in taking this opportunity to give cricket a fresh start.
“Alongside the board and senior leaders at the ECB, we will work with the counties and the recreational game. Collaboration and partnership will be the key to our sport’s future.”
Thompson has been chairman at Surrey for 11 years, playing an instrumental role in making them the most profitable of England’s counties.
Away from cricket, he is the founder and chair of M&C Saatchi Merlin and chair of the M&C Saatchi UK Group.
Independent director Brenda Trenowden chaired the selection process, with the nominations committee recommending Thompson’s candidacy unanimously.
“We are delighted to announce Richard’s arrival to the ECB as chair,” said Trenowden.
“His blend of exceptional commercial and cricket administration experience supports our aims to grow and diversify the game whilst guiding the game as we face challenging financial headwinds.
“I’d also like to say many thanks, on behalf of the ECB, to Martin Darlow, for his excellent stewardship in recent months.
“Cricket has faced many challenges in 2022 and Martin has helped steer the ship until Richard’s arrival, and I’m pleased that he’ll continue to provide his invaluable wisdom and insight through his role as deputy chair of the board.” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3568309/richard-thompson-named-as-new-ecb-chair-and-pledges-to-restore-trust-in-cricket/ | 2022-08-06T18:47:03Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3568309/richard-thompson-named-as-new-ecb-chair-and-pledges-to-restore-trust-in-cricket/ | false |
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (WATE) – Dolly Parton and the leadership of Dollywood on Friday announced the single largest attraction investment in the history of the theme park — a brand-new roller coaster that will be its largest upon opening in the spring of 2023.
The $25 million Big Bear Mountain roller coaster, a six-acre attraction that will expand the Wildwood Grove section of the park, feature three different launches across 3,990 feet of track. The project also marks the latest step in the half-billion-dollar expansion announced in 2021.
Big Bear Mountain will reach speeds up to 48 mph and a peak elevation of 66 feet as it winds through Wildwood Grove around waterfalls and, briefly, underground. It’s also the first Dollywood ride to feature on-board audio with music and narration from Wildwood Grove’s fictional caretaker Ned Oakley.
The ride lasts nearly two minutes, and seats 20 passengers per train.
“Last year we said we were going to be investing half a million dollars in the next ten years,” said Pete Owens, Dollywood’s vice president of marketing. “This is obviously part of that investment strategy and we’re investing all over the park, not just in Wildwood Grove. But this is phase two. So you’ll see another opportunity to expand in that area sometime during that timeline.”
The theme of the Big Bear Mountain coaster, as Parton explained, is that guests are on a search for a “hug bear that’s been roaming these hills for years.”
“The folks around Wildwood Grove said they’ve seen him,” Parton teased while wearing a park ranger outfit adorned with rhinestones.
Parton added that she’s excited about the new experience, but she probably won’t be riding the coaster herself.
“Doesn’t that look like fun?” she said, referring to a rendering of the ride. “You know I’m not going to get on that.”
“If I get on that thing you’d find my wigs on one of those trees,” she joked.
The Spring 2023 launch of the new ride coincides with the grand opening of Dollywood’s newest resort: the HeartSong Lodge.
According to a case study released last year by the Tennessee Department of Transportation, Dollywood has an annual economic impact of $1.8 billion a year and is credited with more than 23,000 jobs for the region. | https://www.fox46.com/nexstar-media-wire/the-silly-reason-dolly-parton-wont-ride-dollywoods-newest-and-largest-roller-coaster/ | 2022-08-06T18:47:33Z | https://www.fox46.com/nexstar-media-wire/the-silly-reason-dolly-parton-wont-ride-dollywoods-newest-and-largest-roller-coaster/ | false |
Goals from Shane Long and Tom Ince saw Reading come from behind to claim a 2-1 victory at Cardiff.
Callum O’Dowda gave the home side the lead early on with a well-directed header but Long, making his first Royals start for 11 years, equalised from the penalty spot before the break.
Tom Ince, son of Reading manager Paul, made it 2-1 in the 63rd minute with a rasping effort from distance, and Cardiff were unable to mount a comeback.
The Bluebirds had been busy with their recruitment during the summer, with manager Steve Morison bringing in 14 new players. Eight of them started at the SCL Stadium.
Reading had made nine close-season signings and six of them were in their starting XI, with Ince Sr hoping for an improved display following last week’s 1-0 defeat at Blackpool.
Cardiff, who opened their new campaign with a 1-0 home win over Norwich, began brightly and went ahead in the fourth minute.
Ryan Wintle swung over a free-kick from the right and O’Dowda – one of Cardiff’s new signings – stooped to head in his first goal for the club.
Reading tried to regroup, without any success, and the visitors could have doubled their lead just before the quarter-hour mark after a quick break.
O’Dowda was left free in the area but although his effort was struck low and hard, goalkeeper Joe Lumley made a fine one-handed save.
It proved a costly miss, with the hosts equalising in the 27th minute. Tom Ince scampered through and, just as he was about to shoot, was pulled down by Curtis Nelson.
Referee Darren England pointed to the spot – and booked Nelson – with Long drilling home the penalty.
It was his first goal for the club since scoring twice at Cardiff in Reading’s 3-0 victory in the second leg of their Championship play-off semi-final in May 2011.
Long moved to West Brom early the following season. Now 35, he re-signed for Reading after being released by Southampton this summer.
Though Reading went on to enjoy the better of the first half, it was Cardiff who almost regained their advantage early in the second half.
Substitute Joe Ralls curled a teasing free-kick into the area but the ball somehow evaded a cluster of bodies at the far post.
Reading responded positively and were rewarded when they went in front through Ince.
He collected a pass from Ovie Ejaria and fired home a superb 20-yard drive that appeared to catch Cardiff goalkeeper Ryan Allsop by surprise.
Sheyi Ojo shot wildly over as Cardiff looked for a leveller but Reading held on comfortably for their first win of the season. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3568654/shane-long-and-tom-ince-earn-reading-a-first-win-of-the-season/ | 2022-08-06T18:49:43Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3568654/shane-long-and-tom-ince-earn-reading-a-first-win-of-the-season/ | true |
Vin Scully voiced a lot of history. He was at the mic when Brooklyn won their only World Series, in 1955, intoning simply, "Ladies and gentlemen, the Brooklyn Dodgers are champions of the world."
He was there in 1956 when Don Larsen of the Yankees pitched the only "perfect game" in a World Series — against the Dodgers. And when Kirk Gibson limped off the Los Angeles Dodger bench to hit a home run in the 1988 World Series.
"In a year that has been so improbable," said Vin, "the impossible has happened."
Vin Scully was the man who had to say something when Bill Buckner of the Boston Red Sox let Mookie Wilson's ground ball squiggle like a baby mouse between his feet in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.
"If one picture is worth a thousand words," he said after Billy Buck slumped off the field, "you have just seen about a million of them."
Vin Scully was wry and reflective in a business that's often booming and raucous. He was worth hearing even when — especially when — nothing happened.
"He could grab a detail, and transform it into a memory," Jason Benetti, the voice of the Chicago White Sox, told us this week.
I remember when Andre Dawson of the Chicago Cubs was on the disabled list with a bruised knee.
"(He) is listed as day-to-day," said Vin Scully. "Aren't we all?"
When Henry Aaron of the Braves struck his 715th home run at home in Atlanta in 1974, to break Babe Ruth's career record, Vin Scully was artfully silent while Aaron circled the bases. Then he captured the occasion utterly.
"What a marvelous moment for the country and the world," he said. "A black man is getting a standing ovation in the deep south for breaking the record of an all-time baseball idol. And it is a great moment for the country and the world..."
Vin Scully was the courtly and eloquent voice of the Dodgers, and baseball, really, for 67 years. But when he died this week at the age of 94, I didn't think so much of the no-hitters and game-winners he narrated, but of what it must have been like for anyone in LA to be stuck in traffic on the I-5 in the late afternoon, wishing they were anywhere else, then fumble through the radio dial, and have the voice of Vin Scully take you away to a game.
"Everyone and everything can be interesting," says Jason Benetti. "That's the most important lesson I learned from Vin."
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 6, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
125 PM CDT Sat Aug 6 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of south central Kenedy
and north central Willacy Counties through 215 PM CDT...
At 124 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
San Perlita, or 10 miles east of Raymondville, moving northwest at 15
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
San Perlita, Yturria, San Perlita High School and Rudolph.
This includes US Highway 77 between mile markers 752 and 762.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 2641 9771 2666 9785 2676 9757 2668 9754
2649 9752 2645 9750
TIME...MOT...LOC 1824Z 156DEG 12KT 2650 9761
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Hot and sunny Saturday ahead of rainy Sunday and Monday
Published: Aug. 6, 2022 at 9:02 AM MST|Updated: 3 hours ago
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Due to the sunny skies this Saturday, there is an Air quality warning in effect for Maricopa County until Sunday at 9 p.m. This means those with respiratory issues should limit their time outdoors.
The heat is on for the Valley Saturday, with temperatures reaching 108 for Phoenix. On Sunday we are tracking a 40% chance for rain in the evening. During the day the valley will be partly sunny with highs at 104. The rain in the evening will spark a First Alert Weather day for Sunday and Monday as well.
On Monday along with the 40% chance for rain, highs will reach 104 in the Valley. The rain stays in the forecast for Tuesday with a 30% chance. Wednesday through Friday will be dry as the highs will top out at 100. | https://www.azfamily.com/2022/08/06/hot-sunny-saturday-ahead-rainy-sunday-monday/ | 2022-08-06T18:54:38Z | https://www.azfamily.com/2022/08/06/hot-sunny-saturday-ahead-rainy-sunday-monday/ | false |
(NerdWallet) – More than 200,000 federal student loan borrowers who were misled by their schools are in line for $6 billion worth of debt relief as a result of a preliminary settlement approved by court order on Aug. 4.
It’s a whopper of a settlement and a big win for borrowers. But these discharges are only the latest in a series of efforts by the Department of Education to clear application backlogs and grant relief to borrowers whose schools defrauded them.
Borrower defense offers loan discharge to borrowers whose schools — mostly for-profit — misrepresented such things as graduation and employment rates, financial aid, or even school classroom resources. The program launched in 2015, but discharges slowed to a near-complete halt during the previous administration due to rules changes and inaction.
The Biden administration has made those untouched borrower defense claims a priority, resulting in approximately $8 billion in discharges through the program since January 2021, federal data show. The $6 billion settlement is the result of a class action lawsuit, Sweet v. Cardona, and it bumps up the total amount of borrower defense discharges to more than $14 billion.
Even before the Sweet v. Cardona settlement, federal data show that total federal student loan forgiveness under all programs had reached $26 billion and 1.5 million borrowers. This includes the $8 billion in borrower defense discharges, as well as:
- $8 billion under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
- $9 billion to borrowers who are totally and permanently disabled.
- $1 billion in closed school discharges.
Billions for borrowers at for-profit schools
Since 2021, new reviews of claims have resulted in billions in discharges for millions of borrowers. That includes students who attended for-profit schools like DeVry University and the now-shuttered ITT Technical Institute.
The department also started changing regulations, such as rescinding calculations for partial relief done under the previous administration. That resulted in full relief to 72,000 borrowers for a total of $1 billion, according to federal data.
The Education Department also started doing group discharges without requiring applications this past spring when it got rid of $238 million in student loan debt for 28,000 borrowers who attended Marinello Schools of Beauty.
And the largest discharges happened recently through a $5.8 billion group discharge of federal student loans borrowed by 560,000 borrowers who attended Corinthian Colleges since its founding in 1995 through its closure in April 2015.
Flaws in the program and change to come
There are also more changes coming to the borrower defense program.
On July 6, the Biden administration proposed new regulations that would impact borrower defense, among other programs. The changes include establishing categorical standards for misconduct, under which a borrower could file a claim such as “aggressive and deceptive recruitment practices” or “substantial misrepresentations.”
Additional proposals would allow for group applications, eliminate timing limitations on filing a claim, make colleges cover discharge costs and create a reconsideration process for borrowers denied full discharge.
The new regulations are expected to be finalized this fall and go into effect July 1, 2023.
These additional changes are needed as some borrowers have filed claims the department never addressed — in one group claims case, it’s been six years, according to the National Consumer Law Center.
It’s also unclear how many borrowers are actually receiving loan discharges, says Aaron Ament, president of Student Defense, a litigation and advocacy nonprofit.
“We are getting a number of people contacting us saying they got an email nine months ago approving their borrower defense claim, but the discharge has not been effectuated,” says Ament. “A lot of them are getting denied mortgages or can’t rent an apartment because it’s still on their credit report — that loan still shows up.”
How you can get relief under Sweet v. Cardona
The Sweet v. Cardona lawsuit was first brought by borrowers whose borrower defense applications were denied or not processed by the Education Department.
Eligibility for relief under Sweet v. Cardona will depend on when a borrower submitted a borrower defense application:
- Those who submitted applications before June 22, 2022, and who didn’t receive a decision or were denied in or after December 2019, are included in the class of applicants eligible for discharge.
- Those who submitted after June 22, 2022, could qualify as a “post-class applicant” until the settlement is approved — sometime in the fall.
If the settlement gets final approval, all discharges and refunds will be distributed to 75% of class members within one year. The rest of the class members would receive individual borrower defense decisions. It would also result in credit report adjustments.
Now that the settlement has been preliminarily approved, individual borrowers can expect to receive email or mail notifications from the Department of Education of their eligibility. It’s unclear when qualified borrowers would receive loan discharges.
However, it is possible that the preliminary settlement could face legal challenges.
To apply for borrower defense discharge, you must visit the student aid website. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/6-billion-in-loan-relief-to-defrauded-students-signals-change-ahead/ | 2022-08-06T18:58:53Z | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/6-billion-in-loan-relief-to-defrauded-students-signals-change-ahead/ | false |
Why are so many employers reluctant to talk with their employees about the pervasive mental health crisis in the American workplace? According to Mental Health America’s Mind the Workplace 2022 Report, only one-third of employees say their company leadership speaks openly about mental health and well-being. But at Levi Strauss & Company (LS&Co), they’re setting the gold standard for transparency and taking responsibility for employee mental health.
In the last few years, LS&Co has moved employee well-being and mental health to the forefront of business. The company believes it’s on them to respond to the need to prioritize the mental health and well-being of their employees. And that’s just for starters. This forward thinking organization is doing what most company leaders are afraid to do: create a human-centered work culture by talking openly about their own mental health challenges.
I sat down with Tracy Layney, LS&Co’s Senior Vice President and chief human resources officer, who explained how they are reshaping the company culture around mental health and workplace well-being. “If we’ve learned anything from the last few years, it’s that the old way of working just wasn’t working,” Layney told me. “The ‘always on’ mentality contributes to burnout, no matter the level in your career. This unprecedented time we are living through has inspired and kicked off the important conversations surrounding mental health and well-being and how we as employers can support our employees.”
She acknowledged that employees bring their whole selves to the workplace and spoke about how LS&Co is building a holistic approach and understanding to mental health, including a culture rooted in empathy. Part of this includes sharing their own stories and struggles and being open with colleagues and teams, according to Layney. And here’s the story of the mental health challenge she shared with me:
“Many years ago, I went through the biggest mental health challenge of my career—I experienced severe burnout. For a long period of time, I was working nonstop, always on call and never had an off button. Like so many of us, this just seemed like what needed to be done at that stage of my career when I wanted to continue to grow and advance. But soon, the daily things I was doing to take care of myself mentally and physical were no longer working. This was new for me, as I always had a high capacity for work, and I usually was able to recover after intense periods. But eventually I hit a point where I was no longer recovering and began to feel the physical and mental tolls of extreme burnout. I realized the only way I would be able to fully recover was to take a step back and prioritize my mental well-being. So, I took a sabbatical and sacrificed potential career and financial growth to mentally and physically recover from burnout. It was the best decision I could have made both for myself and my family. But it wasn’t an easy one. I share my story because it shouldn’t get to this point for our employees. Since then, I’ve found ways to allow myself to succeed in my career, something I love and care deeply about but also stay healthy mentally and physically. From seeing a therapist, to getting enough exercise and sleep, to spending time with family and friends—we all need to prioritize our own mental health and well-being.”
I asked Layney what advice she would give an employee on the verge of burnout, and her answer was to do what she did—prioritize your mental health. “It’s hard to hear because you might think well, if I could do that I wouldn’t be here. And that’s how I certainly felt,” she explains. “But at that moment do whatever you need to do to get yourself back on track. If stress is building, get enough sleep, be with people who give you energy and don’t be afraid to walk away from the computer or turn off your phone. As a result of my personal experience, I’m an evangelist for small investments in the things you do every day to prevent burnout. We have moments in our days, weeks and years designed for recharge, and we should take advantage of them. I’m a big fan of reset, and it can happen in the middle of your day. If you’re in a stressful meeting even if you’re jumping on a Zoom call and you’re walking to your meeting or if you have a customer in the store, take two minutes or 90 seconds and do box breathing or walk around the block. In five minutes you can reset your nervous system and not take that stress with you into the next interaction.”
Layney said it’s the responsibility of employers to ensure that workers don't have to pick between career growth or health. She stressed the importance of providing a workplace environment where employees can prioritize both their well-being and work. Here is what a human-centered work culture looks like at LS&Co:
- Investing in ongoing partnerships like the one they have with Thrive Global to provide resources and tools to manage stress, improve focus, strengthen connections with others and improve overall well-being.
- Providing accessible, always on resources: from Rally Wellness Coaching to virtual therapy through Talkspace, these tools can help dial down the symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression and support employees as they work to prioritize their mental and physical health.
- Developing robust employee assistance programs: to provide immediate support from specialists to help with an array of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, financial or legal questions, marriage and parenting issues, substance abuse, and more.
- Making behavioral health and substance abuse plans available: to provide an employee benefits solution that can support with access to the right care at the right time.
- Prioritizing paid leave policies and bereavement leave programs: to make sure no employee should have to choose between their job and taking care of themselves or their loved ones.
I asked Layney what advice she would give someone working for an organization that might view them unfavorably if they shared a mental health challenge. “We have been socialized to not talk about what’s going on with us, so we might assume others won’t be sympathetic,” she says. “Of course, there are work environments where people are not sympathetic, and we have to be realistic about that. But there are employers who are more sympathetic than you think, especially because in the corporate world we’ve been seeing in people’s houses for the last two years. We’ve seen their kids, their pets. Hopefully, you have an HR team that you can go to for help. If you’re in a mental health crisis, you need to ask for what you need. And if it’s an environment that doesn’t support that, I advise people to look for an one that will.”
When I asked Layney what she would like to see in the future of work, she said the biggest mistake any company can make is to go back to old ways of thinking and working and pretend that it’s 2019 again. “We will have missed an incredible opportunity to make our workplaces stronger, healthier and more productive,” she noted. “Instead, what I hope for all of us is that we envision a better way of working and that people get satisfaction out of their work and integrate it into their lives in a way they get meaning out of the things that matter most to them—their family, their community, whatever personal passions they have and come to work every day and make a difference.”
In her parting thoughts, she told me, “This is the moment for companies to understand the implication of the mental health of their employees, make sure there’s meaningful work for everybody and that people feel a connection to their company. It’s important for talent acquisition and retention, which we’re all thinking about these days. It’s our time to make something different to help everybody—employees, shareholders, customers. It’s good for business and it’s good for society.” | https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrobinson/2022/08/06/levi-strauss--company-raises-the-bar-for-how-companies-can-support-employee-mental-health/ | 2022-08-06T18:59:04Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrobinson/2022/08/06/levi-strauss--company-raises-the-bar-for-how-companies-can-support-employee-mental-health/ | true |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-6-4-7
(seven, six, four, seven)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-6-4-7
(seven, six, four, seven) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17356527.php | 2022-08-06T18:59:07Z | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17356527.php | true |
These are the surprising and personal stories lost and hidden in America's past, hosted by CNN's Abby Phillip, Suzanne Malveaux, Omar Jimenez, Athena Jones, Ryan Young, John Avlon and more. Knowing these stories might reshape your understanding of the disparities the country faces today.
July 11, 1868 - A former slave claims statewide power during Reconstruction
On April 11, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln delivered what would be his last speech from a window at the White House to the crowd below. They had gathered there expecting a celebratory speech on Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant just two days earlier.
But that evening, Lincoln's speech was about Reconstruction, readmitting Louisiana into the Union and a proposal for "giving the benefit of public schools equally to Black and White, and empowering the Legislature to confer the elective franchise upon the colored man."
Plantation-owning elites, Southern Democrats and White supremacists, however, would not easily concede political power to those who had so recently been their slaves. That evening among the crowd of listeners was an enraged John Wilkes Booth, who would go on to assassinate the President just three days later at Ford's Theatre.
For decades after Lincoln's death, White supremacists would wage a war of intimidation, murder and massacre on anyone, Black or White, who dared covet a share of their power. Yet, Black people persisted.
And between 1865 and 1880, over 1,500 Black men took political office; most not for long, as their efforts were cut down by mobs of violent White men.
1868 Louisiana - African Americans participated in Constitutional Conventions like this across the South where delegates argued over Union demands, drew up new laws and elected new leadership.
1868 Louisiana - African Americans participated in Constitutional Conventions like this across the South where delegates argued over Union demands, drew up new laws and elected new leadership.
Oscar James Dunn was one of those determined men. He became the country's first Black lieutenant governor in Louisiana in 1868 serving under Henry Clay Warmoth on the Republican ticket. Dunn's first legislative address showed hope and restraint:
"As to myself and my people, we are not seeking social equality. That is a thing no law can govern," said Dunn. "We simply ask to be allowed an equal chance in the race of life."
Oscar Dunn died mysteriously in office only four years later...
1863-1923 - Tulsa was not an isolated incident; The Whitewashing of America
As the Civil War neared its end, Union General William Sherman had been convinced that newly emancipated slaves needed their own land to secure their freedom. He issued Special Field Order No. 15, setting aside 400,000 coastal acres of land for Black families and stating that, "...no white person whatever, unless military officers and soldiers detailed for duty, will be permitted to reside." A provision was added later for mules.
In three months, the potential of Sherman's order vanished with a single shot. That April, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, and in the fall President Andrew Johnson reversed Sherman's order, allowing Confederate planters to regain the land. It demonstrated a ruthless appropriation that would be repeated for decades to come.
Still, Black Americans created pockets of wealth during the Reconstruction years and into the early 20th century. Yet where Black Americans created a refuge, White Americans pushed back through political maneuvering and violence.
"We estimate that there were upwards of 100 massacres that took place between the end of the Civil War and the 1940s," says William Darity Jr., a Duke University economist who co-authored "From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century," with writer and folklorist A. Kirsten Mullen. "And they take place North and South, East and West."
We looked back through research and news clippings, paying particular attention to around 50 racially charged incidents between 1863 and 1923 when people of color lost property or economic opportunity. The events highlighted here reveal how acts of racial violence of different scope played out across the country and targeted various ethnicities. Historians then helped us examine how and why they had occurred and where we still see the impact today...
March 1955 - Who gets to represent a movement?
Claudette Colvin did a revolutionary act nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks.
In March 1955, the 15-year-old was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a White person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
The teenager and others challenged the law in court. But civil rights leaders, pointing to circumstances in Colvin's personal life, thought that Parks would be the better representative of the movement.
"People said I was crazy," Colvin recently told CNN's Abby Phillip. "Because I was 15 years old and defiant and shouting, 'It's my constitutional right!' "
1968 - 53 years ago a government report about racism shook America
In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders -- better known as the Kerner Commission -- put out a report that attempted to address systemic racism in the US, including police violence against Black people.
A Michigan State police officer searches a youth on Detroit's 12th Street where looting took place in the 1960s.
A Michigan State police officer searches a youth on Detroit's 12th Street where looting took place in the 1960s.
The report stated that racism was a major cause of economic and social inequality for Black people and that it was moving the nation toward two societies: "One Black, one White, separate and unequal." That, coupled with the brutal police treatment of people of color and poverty, helped spark the race riots of the 1960s.
At the time, the commission's findings shocked many Americans because for the first time, "White racism" was noted as a major cause for the unequal status and living conditions of Black Americans, said the commission's last surviving member, former Oklahoma Sen. Fred Harris. But the report's findings and proposed solutions led nowhere.
More than 50 years after the report, Harris, historians and policy experts tell CNN that change will only come when the people have the will and the government is truly honest about what must be done politically, socially and economically to address racial inequality.
Jelani Cobb, historian and co-editor of "The Essential Kerner Commission Report," tells CNN that people and institutions already know what the problem is and that the only action that needs to be taken now is actually following the recommendations of the commission, and pay the price that comes with it.
"The actions are laid out, you really don't need more recommendations," Cobb said. "The fundamental observations (of the commission) have never been acted on."
Can a formula be racist?
When she first learned about race correction, Naomi Nkinsi was one of five Black medical students in her class at the University of Washington.
Nkinsi remembers the professor talking about an equation doctors use to measure kidney function. The professor said eGFR equations adjust for several variables, including the patient's age, sex and race. When it comes to race, doctors have only two options: Black or "Other."
Nkinsi was dumbfounded.
"It was really shocking to me," says Nkinsi, now a third-year medical and masters of public health student, "to come into school and see that not only is there interpersonal racism between patients and physicians ... there's actually racism built into the very algorithms that we use."
At the heart of a controversy brewing in America's hospitals is a simple belief, medical students say: Math shouldn't be racist.
The argument over race correction has raised questions about the scientific data doctors rely on to treat people of color. It's attracted the attention of Congress and led to a big lawsuit against the NFL.
What happens next could affect how millions of Americans are treated...
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PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (WATE) – Dolly Parton and the leadership of Dollywood on Friday announced the single largest attraction investment in the history of the theme park — a brand-new roller coaster that will be its largest upon opening in the spring of 2023.
The $25 million Big Bear Mountain roller coaster, a six-acre attraction that will expand the Wildwood Grove section of the park, feature three different launches across 3,990 feet of track. The project also marks the latest step in the half-billion-dollar expansion announced in 2021.
Big Bear Mountain will reach speeds up to 48 mph and a peak elevation of 66 feet as it winds through Wildwood Grove around waterfalls and, briefly, underground. It’s also the first Dollywood ride to feature on-board audio with music and narration from Wildwood Grove’s fictional caretaker Ned Oakley.
The ride lasts nearly two minutes, and seats 20 passengers per train.
“Last year we said we were going to be investing half a million dollars in the next ten years,” said Pete Owens, Dollywood’s vice president of marketing. “This is obviously part of that investment strategy and we’re investing all over the park, not just in Wildwood Grove. But this is phase two. So you’ll see another opportunity to expand in that area sometime during that timeline.”
The theme of the Big Bear Mountain coaster, as Parton explained, is that guests are on a search for a “hug bear that’s been roaming these hills for years.”
“The folks around Wildwood Grove said they’ve seen him,” Parton teased while wearing a park ranger outfit adorned with rhinestones.
Parton added that she’s excited about the new experience, but she probably won’t be riding the coaster herself.
“Doesn’t that look like fun?” she said, referring to a rendering of the ride. “You know I’m not going to get on that.”
“If I get on that thing you’d find my wigs on one of those trees,” she joked.
The Spring 2023 launch of the new ride coincides with the grand opening of Dollywood’s newest resort: the HeartSong Lodge.
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Wilson wins historic bowls gold medal
Australia's Aaron Wilson has only one regret after becoming the first lawn bowler in 44 years to win consecutive men's singles gold medals at the Commonwealth Games.
"I wish I had a better rig, but that's life," Wilson said after ripping off his shirt and jumping for joy in a repeat of his celebrations on the Gold Coast four years.
"That (body) has been well seasoned."
Wilson trounced Northern Island's Garry Kelly 21-3 in a Saturday's singles final - if lawn bowls can be brutal, this was it.
Wilson raced to a 12-0 lead en route to becoming the first man since England's David Bryant to snare consecutive singles golds.
Bryant won the last of his four successive titles in 1978.
Wilson delivered Australia's second lawn bowls gold of the day, following the earlier success of Ellen Ryan and Kristina Krstic in the women's pairs.
The victories couldn't have been more contrasting.
In what spectators were calling the greatest match they'd seen, Ryan and Krstic won a thrilling final with a 19-18 extra end win over England's Amy Pharaoh and Sophie Tolchard at Royal Leamington Spa outside Birmingham.
It all came down to the final bowl, in the hand of Ryan.
With England holding the advantage in the extra end, Ryan - having earlier scattered the bowls with a drive - again went the direct route to knock out England's bowl and hopes.
"I always knew I could do it and I knew that we could do it, but for it to happen it's a dream come true," Ryan said.
"I had a few tears, I think I'm still in a bit of shock.
"Unbelievable to win a gold with my best friend."
While separated by the breadth of the country, Ryan from western Sydney and Krstic from Perth, the pair are unabashed best friends.
They met a Jackaroos team trial camp in 2016.
As the newbies in the group, the pair formed an immediate bond during walks along the beach, and still speak to each other every day.
Now they'll have a golden memory to talk about whenever they call.
"My stomach was churning but I had every faith she could get that last bowl," Krstic said.
"She'd played two crackers just before so I had every belief in her that she could do it and she did.
"She's done it all tournament, she's played the big ones when she's needed to and backed me up - I couldn't be more proud of us."
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CANTON, Ohio (AP) — LeRoy Butler leaped into the Pro Football Hall of Fame with the same enthusiasm he celebrated big plays at Lambeau Field.
The four-time All-Pro safety was the first of eight members of the Class of 2022 enshrined Saturday at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.
“DJ Khaled said it best: ‘God did,’” Butler began, referencing the song. “When you play for the Green Bay Packers, a lot of doors open up. When you win a Super Bowl, more doors open up. When you’re picked for the Hall of Fame, football heaven opens up. It’s rare company.”
Butler drew cheers from Jaguars fans in attendance to see Tony Boselli’s induction when he mentioned growing up in Jacksonville.
“Thank you, Duval,” Butler said. “My mom, growing up in poverty, she made us think rich every day because it’s not about what you have on or what you have, it’s how you act.”
Butler helped restore Green Bay’s glory days during a 12-year career. His versatility as a safety set the standard for a new wave at the position and earned him a spot on the league’s All-Decade team of the 1990s.
Butler originated the “Lambeau Leap” and had a key sack in Green Bay’s Super Bowl victory over New England. He fell just short of becoming the first player in league history to finish his career with 40 interceptions and 20 sacks.
Sam Mills, the 5-foot-9 linebacker nicknamed “Field Mouse” during his 12-year career with the New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers, was inducted posthumously after Butler. An inspirational figure, Mills overcame tremendous odds to even reach the NFL.
Mills played Division III college football and was not drafted. He was cut by the Cleveland Browns and Toronto Argonauts of the CFL and began his professional career with the USFL’s Philadelphia Stars. Jim Mora, who coached the Stars, brought him to New Orleans in 1986 and Mills never looked back.
“He was told he wasn’t good enough to play college football or big enough to play professional football and at the age of 27, he wasn’t young enough to play in the NFL and yet here we are today celebrating,” said Melanie Mills, Sam’s widow.
Mills made 1,265 tackles, had 23 fumble recoveries, forced 22 fumbles, had 20 1/2 sacks and intercepted 11 passes in 12 seasons. He also was part of the first four playoff teams in Saints history and the first in Panthers history.
Mills became an assistant coach with the Panthers after his retirement. He was diagnosed with intestinal cancer before the 2003 season but kept coaching during his treatment and made what is known as his “Keep pounding” speech on the eve of the club’s Super Bowl matchup with New England at the end of that season.
Mills died in April 2005 at age 45. His “Keep pounding” remains the Panthers’ tag line.
In a year with no first-ballot candidates, the inductees endured long waits to make the Hall.
Defensive tackle Richard Seymour didn’t wait too long to taste success in the NFL. He was part of three Super Bowl championship teams in his first four seasons with the New England Patriots.
Seymour pointed out the defensive stalwarts on those teams but didn’t mention Tom Brady by name.
“We had a young quarterback, but we made it work,” Seymour said, drawing chuckles from the crowd.
Seymour had 57 1/2 career sacks in 12 seasons, the first eight in New England before finishing his career with the Oakland Raiders.
“I’m overwhelmed with humility because it’s not about what this says about me but what it says about we and what we can do together,” he said. “I’m overwhelmed with gratitude because I didn’t get here alone. None of us did. None of us could have.”
The 42-year-old Seymour choked up thanking his wife, Tanya.
“Football is what I do, but family is who I am,” he said. “Thank you for everything you added to my life. This day belongs to my family. Scripture teaches your riches are in your family.”
Seymour called his three children his “greatest joy.”
“Of everything I accomplished, there’s no greater honor than being your dad,” he said.
Seymour praised Patriots owner Robert Kraft and former Raiders owner Al Davis and his son, Mark Davis.
He credited his success to the lessons he learned from Patriots coach Bill Belichick: work hard, be meticulous in your preparation, support your teammates and respect your opponents.
“This wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for Coach Belichick,” Seymour said.
Longtime head of officiating Art McNally gave a video speech after he was inducted as a contributor.
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(NerdWallet) – More than 200,000 federal student loan borrowers who were misled by their schools are in line for $6 billion worth of debt relief as a result of a preliminary settlement approved by court order on Aug. 4.
It’s a whopper of a settlement and a big win for borrowers. But these discharges are only the latest in a series of efforts by the Department of Education to clear application backlogs and grant relief to borrowers whose schools defrauded them.
Borrower defense offers loan discharge to borrowers whose schools — mostly for-profit — misrepresented such things as graduation and employment rates, financial aid, or even school classroom resources. The program launched in 2015, but discharges slowed to a near-complete halt during the previous administration due to rules changes and inaction.
The Biden administration has made those untouched borrower defense claims a priority, resulting in approximately $8 billion in discharges through the program since January 2021, federal data show. The $6 billion settlement is the result of a class action lawsuit, Sweet v. Cardona, and it bumps up the total amount of borrower defense discharges to more than $14 billion.
Even before the Sweet v. Cardona settlement, federal data show that total federal student loan forgiveness under all programs had reached $26 billion and 1.5 million borrowers. This includes the $8 billion in borrower defense discharges, as well as:
- $8 billion under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
- $9 billion to borrowers who are totally and permanently disabled.
- $1 billion in closed school discharges.
Billions for borrowers at for-profit schools
Since 2021, new reviews of claims have resulted in billions in discharges for millions of borrowers. That includes students who attended for-profit schools like DeVry University and the now-shuttered ITT Technical Institute.
The department also started changing regulations, such as rescinding calculations for partial relief done under the previous administration. That resulted in full relief to 72,000 borrowers for a total of $1 billion, according to federal data.
The Education Department also started doing group discharges without requiring applications this past spring when it got rid of $238 million in student loan debt for 28,000 borrowers who attended Marinello Schools of Beauty.
And the largest discharges happened recently through a $5.8 billion group discharge of federal student loans borrowed by 560,000 borrowers who attended Corinthian Colleges since its founding in 1995 through its closure in April 2015.
Flaws in the program and change to come
There are also more changes coming to the borrower defense program.
On July 6, the Biden administration proposed new regulations that would impact borrower defense, among other programs. The changes include establishing categorical standards for misconduct, under which a borrower could file a claim such as “aggressive and deceptive recruitment practices” or “substantial misrepresentations.”
Additional proposals would allow for group applications, eliminate timing limitations on filing a claim, make colleges cover discharge costs and create a reconsideration process for borrowers denied full discharge.
The new regulations are expected to be finalized this fall and go into effect July 1, 2023.
These additional changes are needed as some borrowers have filed claims the department never addressed — in one group claims case, it’s been six years, according to the National Consumer Law Center.
It’s also unclear how many borrowers are actually receiving loan discharges, says Aaron Ament, president of Student Defense, a litigation and advocacy nonprofit.
“We are getting a number of people contacting us saying they got an email nine months ago approving their borrower defense claim, but the discharge has not been effectuated,” says Ament. “A lot of them are getting denied mortgages or can’t rent an apartment because it’s still on their credit report — that loan still shows up.”
How you can get relief under Sweet v. Cardona
The Sweet v. Cardona lawsuit was first brought by borrowers whose borrower defense applications were denied or not processed by the Education Department.
Eligibility for relief under Sweet v. Cardona will depend on when a borrower submitted a borrower defense application:
- Those who submitted applications before June 22, 2022, and who didn’t receive a decision or were denied in or after December 2019, are included in the class of applicants eligible for discharge.
- Those who submitted after June 22, 2022, could qualify as a “post-class applicant” until the settlement is approved — sometime in the fall.
If the settlement gets final approval, all discharges and refunds will be distributed to 75% of class members within one year. The rest of the class members would receive individual borrower defense decisions. It would also result in credit report adjustments.
Now that the settlement has been preliminarily approved, individual borrowers can expect to receive email or mail notifications from the Department of Education of their eligibility. It’s unclear when qualified borrowers would receive loan discharges.
However, it is possible that the preliminary settlement could face legal challenges.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
5-5-5-7
(five, five, five, seven)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
5-5-5-7
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Jorginho keeps his cool from the spot to give Chelsea winning start at Everton
Jorginho’s late first-half penalty saw Chelsea claim their first win at Goodison Park in five visits but there was no fresh start for Everton who ended the day with a defeat and a double injury blow.
Everton’s Premier League campaign was barely 10 minutes old when Ben Godfrey was carried off on a stretcher and taken to hospital with a serious-looking lower leg problem and he was followed out of the Park End exit in the second half by injury-prone centre-back Yerry Mina.
Chelsea were not immune to the curse with debutant Kalidou Koulibaly also limping off in the final 15 minutes but he played his part in the 1-0 victory by ensuring the hosts were kept at arm’s length for long periods.
Each team started without a recognised striker – new signing Raheem Sterling and Anthony Gordon, for the hosts, nominally performing the roles – and there remains business done in that area for both side.
Chelsea are still looking for someone to fill the vacancy left by Romelu Lukaku’s return to Inter Milan but Everton’s need is even more desperate as they need cover for Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who is sidelined for about six weeks after missing much of last season with injury, and to provide the threat once posed by the now-departed Richarlison
As a result goals were likely to be at a premium and the first one particularly important so once Jorginho slotted home from the spot the visitors put themselves in a strong position.
Everton did pose a challenge in the second half, but they just could not make the breakthrough – something they struggled with for large parts of the previous campaign.
Frank Lampard´s side got off to a losing start (Nick Potts/PA)
The new season at Goodison had begun as the old one ended. Coaches arrived through a plume of blue smoke and the old ground was bouncing before kick-off with memories of their penultimate-game escape from relegation seemingly in the distant past.
Everton gave former Burnley duo James Tarkowski and Dwight McNeil debuts while January signing Nathan Patterson made his first Premier League appearance after injury.
But it did not take long for their bad luck to materialise with Godfrey being carried off on a stretcher after what was a needless tackle on Kai Havertz.
The defender’s wayward backpass crossed the byline by about a yard but Jordan Pickford dragged it back on to the field and with the assistant referee behind play Godfrey charged back to dispossess the Chelsea forward but injured himself in the process.
Ben Godfrey was carried off on a stretcher (Nick Potts/PA)
After an eight-minute delay the centre-back was carried straight to a waiting ambulance.
Tarkowski was the first to threaten with his 24th-minute header tipped over by Edouard Mendy.
But with little happening on the pitch there was a ripple of excitement off it when the Toffees’ expected new £33million signing Amadou Onana arrived to take his seat in the directors’ box just before half-time, with the Lille midfielder having undergone a medical earlier in the day.
Sterling had the ball in the net from Pickford’s rebounded save but was flagged offside, but seconds before the interval Jorginho scored a penalty after Abdoulaye Doucoure pulled down Ben Chilwell.
Raheem Sterling made his debut for Chelsea (Nick Potts/PA)
Demarai Gray’s shot deflected wide off Thiago Silva early in the second half having isolated the veteran centre-back before Dele Alli replaced McNeill and took over as the central attacker on the hour.
But the attacking play began to fizzle out and Mina’s injury compounded the problems former Chelsea midfielder and manager Frank Lampard has to deal with as he seeks to make the improvements he needs to ensure another relegation battle is avoided.
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DENVER (AP)The Colorado Rockies have claimed Dinelson Lamet off waivers, capping a week in which the right-hander was traded by one organization and designated for assignment by another.
Lamet was part of the package the Milwaukee Brewers received Monday in the trade that sent four-time All-Star closer Josh Hader to the San Diego Padres. The Brewers announced two days later that they had designated Lamet for assignment.
The Rockies announced Friday they had claimed Lamet and designated right-hander Ashton Goudeau for assignment.
Lamet went 3-1 with a 2.09 ERA and finished fourth in the NL Cy Young Award voting during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, but he has struggled since while dealing with injuries. The 30-year-old Lamet had an 0-1 with a 9.49 ERA in 13 relief appearances for the Padres this season.
The Brewers also received reliever Taylor Rogers, outfield prospect Esteury Rodriguez and pitching prospect Robert Gasser in the Hader trade.
After the Hader trade, the Brewers brought in reliever Matt Bush on Monday from the Texas Rangers for two minor leaguers, left-hander Antoine Kelly and utilityman Mark Mathias. They then acquired reliever Trevor Rosenthal from the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday.
”Dinelson has a good arm and was included in the trade to help balance out the deal,” Brewers president of baseball operations David Stearns said on Wednesday. ”As subsequent transactions played out, the roster fit became a little tougher. We are hopeful we will be able to keep him in our system.”
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IMAGES: Officer Noah Shahnavaz's funeral
Hundreds of people gathered at ITOWN Church and in communities along the procession route as part of Officer Noah Shahnavaz's funeral on August 6, 2022.
The funeral program for Officer Noah ShahnahvazPhoto by: WRTV Photo/Kaitlyn Kendall
A group of police wives place red marks on white carnations ahead of Officer Noah Shahnavaz's funeral. Each law enforcement officer who attended wore one of the carnations.Photo by: WRTV Photo/Kaitlyn Kendall
Dozens of law enforcement officers gather at ITOWN Church as the casket carrying Officer Noah Shahnavaz is placed into the hearse.Photo by: WRTV
A woman signs a guest book next to Officer Noah Shahnavaz's patrol car at the Elwood Police Department on August 6, 2022. The procession went past the Department for the final 10-42.Photo by: WRTV Photo/Eldon Wheeler
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The Safe Haven Baby Box at a firehouse in Carmel, Indiana, looked like a library book drop. It had been available for three years for anyone who wanted to surrender a baby anonymously.
No one had ever used it, though, until early April. When its alarm went off, Victor Andres, a firefighter, opened the box and found, to his disbelief, a newborn boy wrapped in towels.
The discovery made the local TV news, which praised the courage of the mother, calling it “a time for celebration.” Later that month, Andres pulled another newborn, a girl, from the box. In May, a third baby appeared. By summer, three more infants were left at baby box locations throughout the state.
The baby boxes are part of the safe haven movement, which has long been closely tied to anti-abortion activism. Safe havens offer desperate mothers a way to surrender their newborns anonymously for adoption, and, advocates say, avoid hurting, abandoning or even killing them. The havens can be boxes, which allow parents to avoid speaking to anyone or even being seen when surrendering their babies. More traditionally, the havens are locations such as hospitals and fire stations, where staff members are trained to accept a face-to-face handoff from a parent in crisis.
All 50 states have safe haven laws meant to protect surrendering mothers from criminal charges. The first, known as the “Baby Moses” law, was passed in Texas in 1999 after a number of women abandoned infants in trash cans or dumpsters. But what began as a way to prevent the most extreme cases of child abuse has become a broader phenomenon, supported especially among the religious right, which heavily promotes adoption as an alternative to abortion.
Over the past five years, more than 12 states have passed laws allowing baby boxes or expanding safe haven options in other ways. And safe haven surrenders, experts in reproductive health and child welfare say, are likely to become more common after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
During oral arguments in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Amy Coney Barrett suggested that safe haven laws offered an alternative to abortion by allowing women to avoid “the burdens of parenting.” In the court’s decision, Justice Samuel Alito cited safe haven laws as a “modern development” that, in the majority’s view, obviated the need for abortion rights.
But for many experts in adoption and women’s health, safe havens are hardly a panacea.
To them, a safe haven surrender is a sign that a woman fell through the cracks of existing systems. They may have concealed their pregnancies and given birth without prenatal care, or they may suffer from domestic violence, drug addiction, homelessness or mental illness.
The adoptions themselves could also be problematic, with women potentially unaware that they are terminating parental rights, and children left with little information about their origins.
If a parent is using a safe haven, “there’s been a crisis, and the system has already in some way failed,” said Ryan Hanlon, president of the National Council for Adoption.
Boosting the movement
Safe haven surrenders are still rare. The National Safe Haven Alliance estimates that 115 legal surrenders took place in 2021. In recent years, there have been more than 100,000 domestic adoptions annually and more than 600,000 abortions. Studies show that the vast majority of women denied an abortion are uninterested in adoption and go on to raise their children.
But the safe haven movement has become much more prominent, in part because of a boost from a charismatic activist with roots in anti-abortion activism, Monica Kelsey, founder of Safe Haven Baby Boxes.
With Kelsey and allies lobbying across the country, states like Indiana, Iowa and Virginia have sought to make safe haven surrenders easier, faster and more anonymous — allowing older babies to be dropped off or allowing relinquishing parents to leave the scene without speaking to another adult or sharing any medical history.
Some who work with safe haven children are concerned about the baby boxes in particular. There are now more than 100 across the country.
“Is this infant being surrendered without coercion?” asked Micah Orliss, director of the Safe Surrender Clinic at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. “Is this a parent who is in a bad spot and could benefit from some time and discussion in a warm handoff experience to make their decision?”
Kelsey is a former medic and firefighter, and an adoptee who said she was abandoned at birth by her teenage mother, who had been raped.
She first encountered a baby “safe” — a concept dating back to medieval Europe — on a 2013 trip to a church in Cape Town, South Africa, where she was on a pro-abstinence speaking tour.
She returned home to Indiana to found a nonprofit, Safe Haven Baby Boxes, and installed her first baby box in 2016.
To use one of Kelsey’s boxes, a parent pulls open a metal drawer to reveal a temperature-controlled hospital bassinet. Once the baby is inside and the drawer is closed, it locks automatically; the parent cannot reopen it. An alarm is triggered, and the facility’s staff members can access the bassinet. The box also sends out a 911 call. Twenty-one babies have been left in the boxes since 2017, and the average amount of time a child is inside the box is less than two minutes, Kelsey said.
She has raised money to put up dozens of billboards advertising the safe haven option. The advertisements feature a photo of a handsome firefighter cradling a newborn, and the Safe Haven Baby Box emergency hotline number.
Kelsey said she was in contact with legislators across the country who wanted to bring the boxes to their regions, and she predicted that within five years, her boxes would be in all 50 states.
“We can all agree a baby should be placed in my box and not in a dumpster to die,” she said.
Because of the anonymity, there is limited information about the parents who use safe havens. But Orliss, of the Los Angeles safe haven clinic, performs psychological and developmental evaluations on some 15 such babies annually, often following them through their toddler years. His research found that more than half the children have health or developmental issues, often stemming from inadequate prenatal care. In California, unlike in Indiana, safe haven surrenders must be done face to face, and parents are given an optional questionnaire on medical history, which often reveals serious problems such as drug use.
Still, many children do well. Tessa Higgs, 37, a marketing manager in southern Indiana, adopted her 3-year-old daughter, Nola, after the girl was dropped off at a safe haven just hours after her birth. Higgs said the biological mother had called the Safe Haven Baby Box hotline after seeing one of the group’s billboards.
“From day one, she has been so healthy and happy and thriving and exceeding all developmental milestones,” Higgs said of Nola. “She’s perfect in our eyes.”
Legal gray areas
For some women seeking help, the first point of contact is the Safe Haven Baby Box emergency hotline.
That hotline and another maintained by the Safe Haven National Alliance tell callers where and how they can legally surrender children, along with information about the traditional adoption process.
Safe haven groups say they inform callers that anonymous surrenders are a last resort, and give out information on how to keep their babies, including ways to get diapers, rent money and temporary child care.
“When a woman is given options, she will choose what’s best for her,” Kelsey said. “And if that means that in her moment of crisis, she chooses a baby box, we should all support her in her decision.”
But Kelsey’s hotline does not talk about the legal time constraints for reunifying with the baby unless callers ask for it, she said.
In Indiana, which has the majority of baby boxes, state law does not specify a timeline for terminating birth parents’ rights after safe haven surrenders, or for adoption. But according to Don VanDerMoere, the prosecutor in Owen County, Indiana, who has experience with infant abandonment laws in the state, biological families are free to come forward until a court terminates parental rights, which can occur 45 to 60 days after an anonymous surrender.
Because these relinquishments are anonymous, they typically lead to closed adoptions. Birth parents are unable to select the parents, and adoptees are left with little to no information about their family of origin or medical history.
Hanlon, of the National Council for Adoption, pointed to research showing that over the long term, birth parents feel more satisfied about giving up their children if biological and adoptive families maintain a relationship.
And in safe haven cases, if a mother changes her mind, she must prove to the state that she is fit.
According to Kelsey, since her operation began, two women who said they had placed their infants in boxes have tried to reclaim custody of their children. Such cases can take months or even years to resolve.
Birth mothers are also not immune from legal jeopardy and may not be able to navigate the technicalities of each state’s safe haven law, said Lori Bruce, a medical ethicist at Yale.
While many states protect surrendering mothers from criminal prosecution if babies are healthy and unharmed, mothers in severe crisis — dealing with addiction or domestic abuse, for example — may not be protected if their newborns are in some way affected.
The idea of a traumatized, postpartum mother being able to “correctly Google the laws is slim,” Bruce said.
With the demise of Roe, “we know we are going to see more abandoned babies,” she added. “My concern is, that means more prosecutors are going to be able to prosecute women for having unsafely abandoned their children — or not following the letter of the law.”
That said, the movement continues apace.
Higgs, the adoptive mother, has stayed in touch with Monica Kelsey of Safe Haven Baby Boxes. “The day that I found out about Roe vs. Wade, I texted Monica and was like, ‘Are you ready to get even busier?’”
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Chris Wilder says Middlesbrough are ‘miles off’ and targets more new signings
By PA Staff published
Middlesbrough boss Chris Wilder felt his side’s 3-2 defeat at QPR showed they should not be regarded as promotion contenders.
Boro were three down at Loftus Road before mounting a fightback.
Wilder believes the squad needs to be strengthened before a promotion challenge can be sustained.
“We’re all trying. It’s just such a difficult market to deal in. We’re all trying to do the best deals and get the right players,” he said.
“We’re still miles off. People that commentate on the Championship are putting us up there, maybe because of historical things, the size of the club, big crowds and what managers have done in the past.
“But, as a group, I think we understand there’s still an awful lot of work that needs to be done for us to be talked of in the same breath as a Sheffield United, West Brom or a Norwich or Watford or Burnley that have been tipped to have a successful season.”
Chris Willock, back from injury, netted a brilliant opener and goals from Jimmy Dunne and Lyndon Dykes put Rangers in control before Matt Crooks and Marcus Forss netted for Boro.
Wilder criticised his team’s defending for two of QPR’s goals but insisted keeper Zack Steffen was fouled in the build-up to the second – the ball bounced in off Dunne after Steffen was unable to collect a corner.
Wilder said: “When you give good players a handout, which we did – charity, aided by some ridiculous refereeing decisions – it’s always going to be a difficult afternoon.
“There was a comment by the referee to a member of my staff at half-time that the goalkeeper has to be stronger.
“The referee doesn’t (shouldn’t) have an opinion in terms of coaching or what the goalkeeper needs to do. Especially when the goalkeeper’s facing towards the corner and somebody behind him puts a hand on his back and pushes him.”
QPR boss Michael Beale savoured his first win since taking over and was full of praise for Willock.
The former Arsenal trainee, badly missed when sidelined last season, strode forward from deep, fended off two challenges and sent an unstoppable shot into the corner of the net.
“What a goal. He’s picked the ball up just inside our half, travelled 20 or 30 yards and put it in the top corner,” Beale said.
“We know how good he is at this level and he brings the best out of others. We were missing him and Luke Amos and felt they would make a difference – and they certainly made a difference.
“I don’t think people realise the effort it took for Chris to get through 70 minutes. But it was important we had him on the pitch, because he impacted the game – and what a fantastic goal.”
Beale hopes the win will help restore confidence among a squad which was in the thick of the promotion race under his predecessor Mark Warburton last season before a spectacular slump.
“As a young team we need to take confidence from it, because from January down this young changing room has been hit from pillar to post,” he said.
“In the first half we did a lot of good things and then we just got a bit nervous. That might just be eradicated with time together.
“We beat a very good Middlesbrough team, which shows that we’re a good team ourselves. We’ll stay under the radar and just keep working.”
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
9-7-2-1, Fireball: 6
(nine, seven, two, one; Fireball: six)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
9-7-2-1, Fireball: 6
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Alfredo Morelos return important for Rangers – Giovanni van Bronckhorst
By PA Staff published
Giovanni van Bronckhorst welcomed the long-awaited return of Alfredo Morelos after the Rangers striker climbed off the bench to seal a 2-0 cinch Premiership win over Kilmarnock at Ibrox.
It was a bit of a struggle for the home side but Antonio Colak fired in his first Gers goal in the 51st minute and there was more good news for the home fans when Morelos, fit again after being out since March due to a thigh injury, was brought on just after the hour mark before netting the second from close range with two minutes remaining.
The Gers boss was glad to see the popular Morelos back in action ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League qualifying clash with Union Saint-Gilloise, where the Light Blues look to a recover a 2-0 first-leg deficit.
“It was his first minutes for Rangers after five months,” said Van Bronckhorst, who revealed the Ibrox club are “working hard” to get attacker Ryan Kent, who missed out again with an ankle knock, fit for Tuesday.
“If you think about it, it is a really long time and almost half a year.
“It was good to have him in the squad. You can see what he brings, not only to the squad but also the way the fans treated him when he came on.
“That is also what you have when he plays and he is always capable of scoring goals.
“For him, I think these first minutes of the season and after five months was very important and I am sure he will only get stronger with each game that he is going to be involved.
“And I’m happy for my two strikers. Antonio’s first goal and Morelos as well. So that’s always good to have them on the scoresheet.
“I’m of course happy with the three points. That’s what we need every week.
“The way that you get to the three points is different every week. In the first half we were struggling to get some real good opportunities.
“We started really well against a Kilmarnock team who were delaying the play and making it really difficult for us to create any chances.
“But we’ve played many games like this before. In the second half you hope it will open up. That happened today.
“We scored some good goals and got a clean sheet and now we’re working hard for Tuesday.”
Killie boss Derek McInnes thought 2-0 was “a bit harsh” on his newly-promoted side and put the defeat into context.
He said: “Disappointed we lose the second goal in the end. But there has to be a huge dose of realism here.
“Just a couple of months ago we are trying to get out of the Championship and Rangers are competing in a European final.
“We are frantically trying to put together a squad which helps us compete and bridge the gap. We have not spent any money.
“I don’t think my keeper has had too much to do. I know (Tom) Lawrence has hit the bar and Rangers enjoyed a lot of possession as we knew they would do.
“But by and large we were hoping to get to half-time with 0-0 at least and I was pleased to do that.
“I thought the discipline was good. There’s no doubt Rangers were the better team but we are disappointed with the goal we lose to Colak and then Morelos comes on. They have a rich array of talent and the two of them are good enough to seal the deal.”
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma City man fatally shot his three young children then shot and killed himself early Saturday, according to police.
A person jogging or walking called police after spotting the four bodies in a vehicle in a northwest Oklahoma City neighborhood about 7:30 a.m. Saturday, said Capt. Michelle Henderson.
Henderson said the man and the children did not live in the neighborhood where they were found, but that they had lived nearby.
Henderson said police had been searching for man and his sons since shortly before 4:30 a.m. after learning that he had taken the children and made “concerning statements” about their well-being.
The names and ages of the four were not released, although Henderson said the children were each younger than 7. Whether the children were boys or girls was also not being immediately released, Henderson said.
“This weekend, we're releasing very little information,” and more details are expected to be provided Monday, Henderson said. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Police-say-Oklahoma-City-man-killed-his-3-17356559.php | 2022-08-06T19:35:58Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Police-say-Oklahoma-City-man-killed-his-3-17356559.php | false |
WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 6, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
312 PM EDT Sat Aug 6 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern Albany
and west central Rensselaer Counties through 345 PM EDT...
At 311 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Feura Bush, or near Delmar, moving northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and heavy rain.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Heavy rains could cause ponding of water
on roadways and in poor drainage areas .
Locations impacted include...
Albany, Rensselaer, Colonie, Delmar, Guilderland, Menands,
Loudonville, Wyantskill, Feura Bush, Selkirk, Wynantskill, North
Greenbush, New Scotland, Shakers, Bleecker Stadium, Spawn Hollow,
Beckers Corners, Karlsfeld, Houcks Corners and Mallorys Corners.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 90 between exits 9 and 24.
Interstate 87 between exits 23 and 4.
Interstate 787 between exits 1 and 7.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 4252 7381 4256 7394 4277 7389 4277 7388
4268 7362
TIME...MOT...LOC 1911Z 207DEG 11KT 4258 7385
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-6-4-7
(seven, six, four, seven)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-6-4-7
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LIVERPOOL, England — Jorginho’s late first-half penalty was enough to give Chelsea a 1-0 victory over Everton in the English Premier League on Saturday for the London club’s first win at Goodison Park in five visits.
Ben Godfrey was carried off on a stretcher early in the first half and taken to hospital with a serious-looking lower leg injury, while center back Yerry Mina also exited in the second half.
Godfrey’s injury meant there was eight minutes of stoppage time in the first half, and Jorginho converted a penalty seconds before the interval after Abdoulaye Doucoure pulled down Ben Chilwell.
Everton created more pressure in the second half but never looked close to getting an equalizer and coach Frank Lampard — the former Chelsea midfielder and manager — will have to find a solution to the team’s attacking problems. Dominic Calvert-Lewin is sidelined for about six weeks after missing much of last season with injury, while no replacement has come in for departed Brazil forward Richarlison.
Chelsea is also looking for someone to fill the vacancy left by Romelu Lukaku’s return to Inter Milan, with newcomer Raheem Sterling playing as the central attacker against Everton. Sterling had the ball in the net in the first half from a rebound but was flagged offside.
There was another stoppage of play near the end of a second half because of a medical emergency in the crowd, leading to 10 minutes of injury time being played.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate parliamentarian on Saturday dealt a blow to Democrats’ plan for curbing drug prices but left the rest of their sprawling economic bill largely intact as party leaders prepared for first votes on a package containing many of President Joe Biden's top domestic goals.
Elizabeth MacDonough, the chamber's nonpartisan rules arbiter, said lawmakers must remove language imposing hefty penalties on drugmakers that boost their prices beyond inflation in the private insurance market. Those were the bill's chief pricing protections for the roughly 180 million people whose health coverage comes from private insurance, either through work or bought on their own.
Other major provisions were left intact, including giving Medicare the power to negotiate what it pays for pharmaceuticals for its 64 million elderly recipients, a longtime goal for Democrats. Penalties on manufacturers for exceeding inflation would apply to drugs sold to Medicare, and there is a $2,000 annual out-of-pocket cap on drug costs and free vaccines for Medicare beneficiaries.
Her rulings came as Democrats planned to begin Senate votes Saturday on their wide-ranging package addressing climate change, energy, health care costs, taxes and even deficit reduction. Party leaders have said they believe they have the unity they will need to move the legislation through the 50-50 Senate, with Vice President Kamala Harris' tiebreaking vote and over solid Republican opposition.
“This is a major win for the American people," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said of the bill, which both parties are using in their election-year campaigns to assign blame for the worst period of inflation in four decades. “And a sad commentary on the Republican Party, as they actively fight provisions that lower costs for the American family."
In response, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Democrats “are misreading the American people’s outrage as a mandate for yet another reckless taxing and spending spree.” He said Democrats "have already robbed American families once through inflation and now their solution is to rob American families yet a second time.”
Dropping penalties on drugmakers reduces incentives on pharmaceutical companies to restrain what they charge, increasing costs for patients.
Erasing that language will cut the $288 billion in 10-year savings that the Democrats’ overall drug curbs were estimated to generate — a reduction of perhaps tens of billions of dollars, analysts have said.
Schumer said MacDonough's decision about the price cap for private insurance was "one unfortunate ruling.” But he said the surviving drug pricing language represented “a major victory for the American people" and that the overall bill “remains largely intact."
The ruling followed a 10-day period that saw Democrats resurrect top components of Biden's agenda that had seemed dead. In rapid-fire deals with Democrats' two most unpredictable senators — first conservative Joe Manchin of West Virginia, then Arizona centrist Kyrsten Sinema — Schumer pieced together a broad package that, while a fraction of earlier, larger versions that Manchin derailed, would give the party an achievement against the backdrop of this fall's congressional elections.
The parliamentarian also signed off on a fee on excess emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas contributor, from oil and gas drilling. She also let stand environmental grants to minority communities and other initiatives for reducing carbon emissions, said Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Thomas Carper, D-Del.
She approved a provision requiring union-scale wages to be paid if energy efficiency projects are to qualify for tax credits, and another that would limit electric vehicle tax credits to those cars and trucks assembled in the United States.
The overall measure faces unanimous Republican opposition. But assuming Democrats fight off a nonstop “vote-a-rama" of amendments — many designed by Republicans to derail the measure — they should be able to muscle the measure through the Senate.
House passage could come when that chamber returns briefly from recess on Friday.
“What will vote-a-rama be like. It will be like hell,” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, said Friday of the approaching GOP amendments. He said that in supporting the Democratic bill, Manchin and Sinema “are empowering legislation that will make the average person’s life more difficult” by forcing up energy costs with tax increases and making it harder for companies to hire workers.
The bill offers spending and tax incentives for moving toward cleaner fuels and supporting coal with assistance for reducing carbon emissions. Expiring subsidies that help millions of people afford private insurance premiums would be extended for three years, and there is $4 billion to help Western states combat drought.
There would be a new 15% minimum tax on some corporations that earn over $1 billion annually but pay far less than the current 21% corporate tax. There would also be a 1% tax on companies that buy back their own stock, swapped in after Sinema refused to support higher taxes on private equity firm executives and hedge fund managers. The IRS budget would be pumped up to strengthen its tax collections.
While the bill's final costs are still being determined, it overall would spend more than $300 billion over 10 years to slow climate change, which analysts say would be the country's largest investment in that effort, and billions more on health care. It would raise more than $700 billion in taxes and from government drug cost savings, leaving about $300 billion for deficit reduction — a modest bite out of projected 10-year shortfalls of many trillions of dollars.
Democrats are using special procedures that would let them pass the measure without having to reach the 60-vote majority that legislation often needs in the Senate.
It is the parliamentarian's job to decide whether parts of legislation must be dropped for violating those rules, which include a requirement that provisions be chiefly aimed at affecting the federal budget, not imposing new policy.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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(NEXSTAR) — It may sound like something out of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” but this job opportunity isn’t pure imagination. The Canadian Candy Funhouse company is now hiring a “chief candy officer” — a position that entails trying over 3,500 pieces of candy each month.
The company says it will pay $100,000 Canadian dollars, or $77,786 USD, per year to approve all candy in the inventory and give the “CCO Stamp of Approval.” As part of this role, CCO will help decide which products the company will carry.
Candy Funhouse says the CCO position is work-from-home with the option to work out of Newark, New Jersey for U.S. residents. Those with food allergies, however, won’t be considered.
Requirements are flexible: The job is open to any North American resident ages 5 and older. Parents can also apply on behalf of their kids, Candy Funhouse says.
If you’re interested in crunching candy for cash, you can apply at Candy Funhouse. The deadline to apply is August 31. Candy Funhouse also explains: “Yes, the position does come with an extensive dental plan!”
Taste tester-type positions aren’t new to candy companies. Just last month, Hershey began its search for a part-time “sensory panelist,” the Washington Post reports. The role required six months of training with Hershey’s research and development team, since, as a representative told WaPo, “chocolate and the variety of our snacking products can be quite complex.” | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/you-could-earn-over-70k-a-year-eating-candy-heres-how/ | 2022-08-06T20:04:16Z | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/you-could-earn-over-70k-a-year-eating-candy-heres-how/ | false |
The Wyndham Championship can be a gift or a death sentence to those who hover around the FedExCup Playoffs bubble.
A good week can prolong a player's season, while a bad one can have them teeing it up at the Korn Ferry Tour Finals to try and keep Tour status for next season — if they don't already have it. Missing the cut can dash a bubble player's playoff hopes even earlier.
Keep reading to find out who was trunk slamming on Friday at the Wyndham Championship after realizing they probably won't be teeing up next week in Memphis.
Full-field scores from Wyndham Championship
Rickie Fowler
Projection: 123 to 127
Fowler missed the playoffs for the first time in his career last season, but what could've been chalked up as a fluke has, in all likelihood, turned into two-straight years of failing to make it to the postseason.
A comeback campaign looked promising when Fowler, 33, posted a T-3 at the CJ Cup last fall. Since then, his best finish this season was a T-21 at the Wells Fargo Championship. He still came into the Wyndham inside the bubble at No. 123, but a missed cut knocks his projection down to 127, two spots out of the playoffs. Thankfully for Fowler, he's fully exempt through next season.
Danny Willett
Projection: 127 to 130
The Englishman won last fall on the DP World Tour, but this season on the PGA Tour, he had only one top-10 (T-7 at the 3M Open) despite making his most starts ever on Tour (21). His five-year exemption from winning the Masters runs out this year, but he can play out of the Nos. 126-150 category next season or head to the KFT Finals.
Matt Wallace
Projection: 124 to 128
Coming off his second top 10 of the season last week in Detroit, the 32-year-old was looking to ride that momentum to his second-consecutive playoff appearance, but the Englishman finished one stroke off the cutline at Wyndham.
Austin Smotherman
Projection: 125 to 129
Rookie Smotherman earned his Tour card on the bubble at No. 25 in the KFT standings last season, and now he's likely heading back to the KFT Finals after he double bogeyed the 18th at Wyndham to narrowly miss the cut. If he doesn't play well there, he'll still have limited status out of the Nos. 126-150 category.
Cameron Champ
Projection: 130 to 133
The world No. 125 won in each of the last three seasons, but that streak came to an end this year. A wrist injury sidelined him for nearly all of the fall slate, and once he returned in January, he never quite found a groove, with two top 10s in 17 starts and five-straight missed cuts in the middle of the season. His streak of three-straight playoff appearances likely comes to an end, but thanks to his past victories, he has his card for next season.
Garrick Higgo
Projection: 143 to 147
Higgo burst onto the scene last year when he won the Palmetto Championship in only his second-ever Tour start. This season, the 23-year-old's best finish in an individual event was a T-18 at the Memorial. Aside from a T-4 at the Zurich Classic, the South African hasn't had a top-10 finish since his victory at Congaree. The Palmetto win will carry him one more season, as he's exempt through next year.
Hank Lebioda
Projection: 139 to 144
Last season, the world No. 289 had three top 10s in a row to clinch his first playoff berth after three years on Tour. He didn't finish in the top 10 once this season.
Nick Hardy
Projection: 129 to 132
In his rookie campaign, Hardy missed roughly a month with a wrist injury. However, he returned and made the U.S. Open cut before notching his first Tour top 10 at the Travelers Championship. It would be too little, too late though, needing a 31st or better at Wyndham to sneak into the top 125 in points.
Harris English
Projection: 182 to 186
A year after he ended a seven-year winless drought and earned his first Ryder Cup nod, English was sidelined for most of 2022 after receiving hip surgery. The world No. 38 had one top-20 finish in seven starts since returning and ended the season with three-straight missed cuts. The 33-year-old is exempt through the 2023-24 season thanks to his two wins during the 2020-21 season. | https://www.golfchannel.com/news/bubble-busts-notables-likely-out-playoffs-after-missing-2022-wyndham-championship-cut | 2022-08-06T20:05:02Z | https://www.golfchannel.com/news/bubble-busts-notables-likely-out-playoffs-after-missing-2022-wyndham-championship-cut | false |
WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 6, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
224 PM CDT Sat Aug 6 2022
...HEAT INDEX VALUES BETWEEN 105 AND 109 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED THE
REST OF THE AFTERNOON...
The combination of warm temperatures and high dewpoints will
produce heat indices between 105 and 109 degrees this afternoon
across the Coastal Bend and Rio Grande Plains. Residents with
outdoor activities planned are urged to drink plenty of water,
wear light weight and light colored clothing and take frequent
breaks from the heat. Young children and pets should never be left
unattended in vehicles under any circumstances. This is
especially true during warm or hot weather when car interiors can
reach lethal temperatures in a matter of minutes.
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Is it the eight titanium pins
around my knees or the fact
that for three months
the incisions were left open? I grew
to know that plush of inside—
the velvets, the iodine to prevent infection,
the smooth of body cast
like another girl who was exactly
my shape, but calmer than I would ever be.
She lay still, barely shifting, like a vase holding a flower,
which was me with my hot dangers, my
itchy despairs.
In the myth, the girl who is Spring only gets her
power when she chooses the mask of bone.
I did not want the world to be this way.
For weeks, I stared at the dull view out the window
of alleys in moonlight, a few sunken garages,
a dirty-white cat. I stared until these things
became beautiful again.
Something closed inside me, which glinted
like a sharp bright pin. | https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/closure/ | 2022-08-06T20:15:03Z | https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/closure/ | true |
Review the files of your life when there were some situations and events meaning you no good but you still prevailed.
You were truly blessed! Be very clear that in your life, there have been people, places and things poised to hurt, harm and damage you. Instead, you were victorious.
Permit me to suggest that you were able to withstand and endure that which was meant to cause you great pain and shame.
It’s stated, “Resilience is the quality of being able to adapt to stressful life changes and bounce back from hardship. Resilience is a response to tragedy, crisis, or other life-altering changes that allows us to move on despite the loss. Showing resilience does not mean that a person is unaffected or uncaring about the life change. Resilience is the human heart’s ability to suffer greatly and grow from it.”
When people refuse to give up on themselves and the world, even after misfortune, they are being resilient.
Resilience is, “The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties The ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape.”
Jenna Ahlschlager, ACE-CHC, points out that there are “Five Pillars of Resilience," which include self-awareness, mindfulness, self-care, positive relationships and purpose.
Ahlschlager states, “Maintaining these skills takes practice; however, being able to use these five pillars of resilience can reframe our thinking so we see ourselves and the world around us in new ways. Taking this holistic approach to resilience will not only help us to manage the stress in our daily lives better but can positively impact our overall well-being in a significant way.”
Be very clear that you enter no situation by yourself. There is always the first mover of the universe, God, standing there with you.
“The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.” (Psalm 37:23-24)
The hymn writer makes it so very clear concerning where our resilience and protection comes from, “No, never alone! No, never alone! God promised never to leave me, Never to leave me alone.”
In the face of whatever and whoever is trying to hurt, harm and do you wrong, boldly stand and shout out the gospel according to Sir Elton John, “You know I'm still standin' better than I ever did. Lookin' like a true survivor, feelin' like a little kid. And I'm still standin' after all this time. Pickin' up the pieces of my life without you on my mind. I'm still standin' (yeah, yeah, yeah) I'm still standing (yeah, yeah, yeah)!”
Look in your mirror and say “I’m resilient!”
Beloved, despite whatever you might be faced with, no matter what the situation might seem like, despite what they are saying about you, it makes no difference what the odds maker has going against you, just turn to your neighbor and tell them, "I’m still standing!”
Evangelist Cathy, yes, I had to get a quick “easy like Sunday morning preach-moment” in if for no one else just for me!
Be resilient!
I’m just saying!
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Councillors highlight water problem in some wards in city
MANGALURU August 07, 2022 00:26 ISTMayor assures them of early resolution of the issue in Bunder and Kudroli wards
Councillors from the ruling and Opposition parties on Saturday lamented over non-resolution of the drinking water supply problem in some wards in the city.
At the start of the ordinary meeting of Mangaluru City Corporation council chaired by Mayor Premanand Shetty here, Samshuddin and Zeenath Samshuddin, councillors from Kudroli and Bunder wards, rushed to the well of the house with placards. The two carried out a silent demonstration demanding resolution of drinking water supply problem in their wards.
When Mr. Premanand Shetty asked the two to speak on the issue, Mr. Samshuddin said despite raising the water supply problem in their ward for two years, officials have failed to address it. Ms. Zeenath too alleged that officials had failed to properly address the water supply issue of her ward.
Councillor Jagadish Boloor said some parts of Boloor ward were not receiving drinking water. Chief Whip Sudheer Shetty Kannur said most of the residents of Vivekanagar in Kodailbail ward in the central part of the city had not received a single drop of water for the last one month.
While assuring of early resolution of the problem in Bunder and Kudroli wards, Mr. Shetty said the KUIDFC, which has taken up the work of extending the water supply network in the city, would resolve water supply issues. An MCC official said the problem in Boloor was a recent one and efforts were being made to identify the source of leakage.
‘Election gimmick’
While welcoming the recent decision of the State government to notify reduction in the water tariff and provide 20,000 litres of water at ₹100, senior Congress councillor Shashidhar Hegde said the decision was taken just ahead of the Assembly elections. “We have been demanding reduction for the last two years. We can understand why the notification has been made now.” Another Congress councillor, Praveenchandra Alva, said this was nothing by an election gimmick by the BJP government.
The Mayor said the revised water tariff had come into effect from August 1. The revised tariff would be in force for one year and then the MCC had to take approval of the State government for new water tariff, he said.
Rain problems
Mr. Kannur said residents of Kannur were facing flooding problem because of the poorly designed railway underpass. The underpass needs to be redesigned with the help of experts.
Councillor Kiran Kumar said residents of Kottara should be compensated for the artificial flooding in the area. Councillors also raised issues such as flooding in 35 houses of Yekkur, the absence of street lights on the Pumpwell flyover, and potholes on the national highway between Surathkal and Mukka. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/councillors-highlight-water-problem-in-some-wards-in-city/article65737804.ece/amp/ | 2022-08-06T20:19:36Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/councillors-highlight-water-problem-in-some-wards-in-city/article65737804.ece/amp/ | false |
GAMBRILLS, Md. — Anne Arundel County Police have arrested the man they believe is responsible for inscribing racist messages on a local church in Anne Arundel County.
Donald Eugene Hood Jr. is being charged with several counts including malicious destruction of property.
The incident took place on Wednesday when officers received reports of vandalism at the Kingdom Celebration Center.
RELATED: Man wanted for inscribing racist messages on an Anne Arundel County church
This church has been targeted in the past for similar incidents, one being back in July. With the help of a surveillance camera, officers were able to identify Hood as a suspect.
On Saturday, he was seen by the Anne Arundel County District Court Commissioner and released on his own recognizance after the hearing.
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LAUREL, Neb. (AP) — Police on Friday arrested a man in the killings of four people in a small northeast Nebraska town where it had been more than 100 years since it last saw such violence.
Around 2:30 a.m. Friday, a police team surrounded the Laurel home of 42-year-old Jason Jones and barged inside, with guns drawn and using flash bangs. Jones’ home is just off the main downtown street in the town of 1,000 people and directly across the street from one of two houses where occupants were shot before the homes were set ablaze, police said.
Jones was so badly burned that he had to be flown to a hospital in Lincoln instead of being booked into jail, Nebraska State Patrol Col. John Bolduc said. Jones was charged later Friday with 10 felonies, including four counts of first-degree murder.
The Nebraska Commission on Public Advocacy — which often handles capital murder cases — was appointed to represent Jones and declined to comment on the case.
Police allege that Jones killed 53-year-old Michele Ebeling early Thursday morning before causing some type of explosion and fire in her home that’s across the street from him. According to police, Jones then went about three blocks south, broke into another home and killed Gene Twiford, 86; his wife, Janet Twiford, 85; and their daughter, Dana Twiford, 55.
Charging documents allege Jones carried out some of the killings in the course of a burglary, but Bolduc declined to give a possible motive for the slayings or say if Jones knew the victims.
Several people in Laurel said they knew little about Jones, other than he had moved into the home within the last few years. Court records say Jones had lived in the Elm Street house since at least 2019. Receipts and a gun left at the scene of the killings were linked to him.
The killings came as a shock to the community that’s about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Omaha. Despite its small size, Laurel is home to five churches and the Knuckleheadz bar that also serves as the town’s cafe. The last criminal homicide in Laurel happened in 2005, when a man died following a bar fight — and that case was deemed to be manslaughter, not murder.
To find the town’s last known multiple murder, one would have to go back more than 100 years to 1918, when Dr. C.C. Sackett and Harold Crownover were shot and killed by suspected burglars they had been chasing, according to town historian Roger Tryon. Tryon writes a column titled “Pages of History” for the weekly Laurel Advocate.
“People still talk about it. That was the crime of the 20th century for Laurel,” Tryon said. “I suspect what’s happened here this week will be the crime of the 21st century.”
Michele Ebeling’s daughter, Richele Ebeling, 31, of Oklahoma City, told The Associated Press that her mother moved to Laurel about two years ago with her boyfriend, who travels for his job and was not home when she was attacked.
“Honestly, this is so bizarre and so surreal that I cannot even wrap my head around this,” she said, noting she had last talked with her mom around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday by phone.
She said it is not clear whether her mother knew Jones or whether she knew the Twiford family down the street.
The Twifords were lifelong Laurel residents, and almost everyone there knew them.
Their next-door neighbors, Doug and Lynette Krie, said they didn’t hear anything like gunshots before dawn Thursday. They were alerted to trouble around 9:30 a.m., when they spotted the town’s lone law enforcement officer in their driveway, who said a passerby had noticed smoke coming from the Twifords’ home. The officer and the Kries then went over to the Twiford home together to check the doors.
“They were all secure — and then I saw one of the doors in the back cracked open,” Lynette Krie said.
Firefighters from the town’s volunteer department then went in to find the source of the smoke. When they emerged, they fell to their knees. “That’s when I knew they were gone,” Krie said, fighting back tears.
But the Kries and many others in town didn’t find out about the shootings until later.
“We just assumed they had died of smoke inhalation or something,” Doug Krie said. “Nobody expected this.”
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OXNARD, Calif. (AP)The signing of free agent linebacker Anthony Barr could nudge young star Micah Parsons closer to being primarily a pass rusher for the Dallas Cowboys.
The club also had depth in mind with the addition of Barr, a four-time Pro Bowler who spent his first eight seasons in Minnesota. Dallas had shown interest in him long before training camp in California.
Barr is starting his stint with the Cowboys on the physically unable to perform list, not for an injury but because the club is taking a conservative approach getting the 30-year-old ready for camp practices.
Parsons had 13 sacks on his way to winning NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, tied for the third-most for a first-year player since sacks became an official statistic in 1982.
Because of injuries early last season, there were times Parsons played the majority of his snaps at defensive end, and the Cowboys usually had two other linebackers on the field.
The addition of Barr means the top three choices in the new mix, which includes Leighton Vander Esch, are former first-round picks.
”I think when you look at packages and how we feature Micah, I think it gives you another weapon, another excellent player on and off the ball,” coach Mike McCarthy said. ”I think when you get in and out of packages as you build your system for a 17-game season, I know the defensive staff is real excited to have another piece.”
Barr’s career high for sacks is four from his rookie year with the Vikings in 2014, when he was the ninth overall pick. The 6-foot-5 Barr is more in the mold of Vander Esch (6-4) as a traditional linebacker.
When Parsons lines up at defensive end, including in the three-point stance the Cowboys envision on occasion, Barr and Vander Esch could be paired on the second level behind him.
”I’m just trying to continue to help unlock his game and allow him to be the best player he can be,” Barr said of Parsons. ”Pretty amazing what he was able to accomplish. I think he can just continue to elevate and take it to the next level. I’m hoping to be a tool and resource to him and also to learn from him and learn from all the guys.”
Barr was a steady presence during his first six seasons in Minnesota, including four straight trips to the Pro Bowl from 2015-18. A torn pectoral muscle sidelined him for the season in Week 2 in 2020. He then missed the first four games last year with a knee injury.
Because he went unsigned through the offseason, Barr’s first practice at camp will be his first since the end of last season. He said there was never a specific timeline for finding a new team.
”Timing is everything,” Barr said. ”No rhyme or reason to it. It was just the right time for both parties. Hopefully, it’s a good marriage.”
Second-year player Jabril Cox was cleared for camp after tearing an anterior cruciate ligament in Week 8 against Minnesota last season, although he recently was given a couple of days off.
The Cowboys are high on rookie fifth-round pick Damone Clark, who fell in the draft because of spinal fusion surgery that could sideline him all of this season. The injuries to Cox and Clark are two more reasons the Cowboys had interest in Barr.
McCarthy remembers Barr from facing the Vikings as coach in Green Bay. And part of Barr’s interest in Dallas came from senior defensive assistant George Edwards, who was Minnesota’s defensive coordinator for Barr’s first six seasons.
”We always had to be very, very conscious of the matchup that you had with him,” McCarthy said. ”We want to be multiple in our defensive packages and we want to continue to develop different rush plans. He’s a great fit for us.”
NOTES: The Cowboys are thin at RB in camp with Rico Dowdle and rookie Aaron Shampklin in COVID-19 protocols. They also lost their only fullback for at least a couple of weeks as Ryan Nall battles a shoulder injury.
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50 bank accts linked to Partha Chatterjee under forensic audit
ED probing the multi-crore teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal has come across as many as 50 banks accounts held individually or jointly by prime accused Partha Chatterjee and his close aide Arpita Mukherjee.
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing the multi-crore teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal has come across as many as 50 banks accounts held individually or jointly by prime accused Partha Chatterjee and his close aide Arpita Mukherjee.
The agency officials have contacted all the bank authorities concerned and asked for statement details, following which they will be sent for forensic audit.
Meanwhile, the ED sleuths have come across another shell company in this connection, in which the names of directors were changed a number of times ever since it was floated on March 23, 2012. The address of the said company, Ananta Texfab Private Limited, is Club Town Heights, Block 5, Flat 8A, 14 B.T. Road, Kolkata 700056.
Incidentally, this is also the address of Arpita Mukherjee's flat from where the ED sleuths had recovered huge stash of cash and gold on July 28.
As per the ED, when the corporate entity was floated on March 23, 2012, its three directors were Partha Chatterjee's deceased wife, late Babli Chatterjee, daughter Sohini (Bhattacharya) Chatterjee and son-on-law Kalyanmoy Bhattacharya.
In 2016, the names of the daughter and wife were removed from the list of directors and Arpita Mukherjee's name was included. However, as per Corporate Affairs Ministry records, currently the two existing directors of the company are Mrinmoy Malakar and Ranesh Kumar Singh.
"The names of directors changing so frequently point at something fictitious in this entity. Probably this is another shell company which was used to divert funds to different channels. | https://www.thehansindia.com/news/national/50-bank-accts-linked-to-partha-chatterjee-under-forensic-audit-756720 | 2022-08-06T20:26:11Z | https://www.thehansindia.com/news/national/50-bank-accts-linked-to-partha-chatterjee-under-forensic-audit-756720 | true |
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After weeks of negotiations to revive the core of their election-year agenda, Senate Democrats appear to be on the brink of passing a spending bill which would attempt to tackle climate change, the high cost of prescription drugs and lower the deficit by roughly $300 billion.
Opening the Senate floor for a rare Saturday session, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said, "No matter how long it takes, the Senate is going to stay in session to finish this bill."
Both sides are gearing up for as many as 20 hours of debate, split evenly between the two parties, that kick off once the bill is introduced by Schumer.
Democrats are likely to yield back most of their time. And some reports show Republicans might as well, so it could be a much shorter process than expected. If that turns out to be the case, the "vote-a-rama" — when Senators are allowed to introduce an unlimited number of amendments to the bill — could begin as soon as Saturday evening.
Also allowed during vote-a-rama is a call to have the entire text of the bill, which is roughly 700 pages, read aloud.
Three weeks ago, the bill was all but dead when Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., withheld his support, citing concerns about adding to historically high inflation.
But just last week, he and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced an agreement, much to the surprise of others in the Senate. Manchin's concerns about inflation were placated by, among others, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, a Democrat who has previously been a critic of how his party has handled inflation. Summers and other economists have argued the bill will tamp down inflation, but the Congressional Budget Office estimates that it will have negligible impact on prices in the near-term.
The legislation is a significant step forward for President Biden's domestic agenda
"This bill is a gamechanger for working families and our economy," Biden said at an event at the White House Friday. "I look forward to the Senate taking up this legislation and passing it as soon as possible."
Republicans are united against the bill, arguing that the spending in it will make inflation worse and that the health provisions will hamper pharmaceutical innovation.
"Democrats have decided their first economic disaster justifies a second economic disaster. The working people of this country feel very differently," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on Saturday, but there is little his conference can do to stop the legislation.
The bill is getting passed through budget reconciliation, which allows Democrats to pass the bill with a simple majority in the evenly-divided chamber and avoid the threat of a Republican filibuster that applies to most legislation.
It also means each section of the bill needs to be reviewed by the Senate parliamentarian to make sure it is actually legislation that will primarily impact the budget. This review process is often referred to as the "Byrd Bath," named after the late West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd.
Democrats said on Saturday that the parliamentarian approved key elements of the bill on prescription drug pricing and clean energy. One element that would compel drug companies to offer rebates if prescription prices outpaced inflation was limited in the process so that it would apply to patients on medicare but not private insurance. Still, Schumer said the bill remains mostly intact and "can win the support of all 50 Democrats."
Democrats appear to have all 50 votes in their conference after Sinema agreement
Late Thursday night, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said she would "move forward" with the legislation; she was the last holdout on the bill and her support essentially means the Senate has all 50 Democratic votes needed to pass the bill.
To get on board, Sinema wanted the section of the bill that narrowed the carried interest tax loophole to be removed. The measure impacts how private equity is taxed and Democrats say it would have brought in $14 billion.
What Sinema wanted to add, though, brings in more revenue. It's a 1% excise tax on stock buybacks — Schumer said Friday he and progressive Democrats were excited about that aspect of the bill, which he says brings in roughly $74 billion.
"What we added excites me and I think it excites all Democrats and particularly progressives," Schumer said at a press conference Friday. "I hate stock buybacks. I think they're one of the most self-serving things that corporate America does."
Also added in is about $4 billion in drought resiliency put forward by Senators Catherine Cortez-Masto, D-Nev., Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo. Sinema had also called for this addition in the bill.
There is still criticism of the bill coming from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who has argued the legislation doesn't do enough for working class Americans by not increasing the minimum wage, making child care more affordable or tackling the student debt crisis.
He took to the Senate floor Wednesday and called it the "so-called" Inflation Reduction Act.
"As currently written, this is an extremely modest piece of legislation that does virtually nothing to address the enormous crises that working families all across this country are facing today," he said.
He added that he plans to bring up his concerns during the amendment process on the floor over the weekend, but a scenario in which Sanders' concerns prevent him from voting for the bill altogether is highly unlikely.
What could be another hurdle for the bill is opposition from progressives in the House, which is set to return to consider the legislation late next week.
It caps off a busy — and successful — stretch for Biden's domestic agenda
In the past few weeks, the Senate has voted on a bill to expand helth services for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits, a semiconductor bill, and a measure to allow Finland and Sweden into NATO — and all of those votes have been bipartisan.
Schumer, though, has made it clear that Senate Democrats will also go it alone if they have to, which is what they're doing with this bill. No Republican will vote for the legislation, but with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Harris, Democrats can still cinch a victory.
It caps off a busy week on Capitol Hill and also sets up a busy week for the president, who already has a slew of bills to sign into law next week.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker tested positive for COVID-19 prior to Friday night’s game against the Cleveland Guardians.
Baker held his usual pregame availability with the media about two hours before the 7:10 p.m. game. The announcement of the positive test came after the game started.
Baker, 73, is in his third season as Houston’s manager. Bench coach Joe Espada filled in for Baker against Cleveland.
The Astros (69-38) lead the AL West by 11 1/2 games over Seattle.
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President Joe Biden tests negative for COVID-19 following rebound case
President Joe Biden has tested negative for COVID-19 but will remain in isolation pending a second test, his physician announced in a letter Saturday.
"The President continues to feel very well," Dr. Kevin O'Connor wrote. "Given his rebound positivity which we reported last Saturday, we have continued daily monitoring. This morning, his SARS-CoV-2 antigen testing was negative. In an abundance of caution, the President will continue his strict isolation measures pending a second negative test as previously described."
Biden has not left the White House for 17 days, after initially testing positive for COVID-19 on July 21. After taking a five-day course of Pfizer's antiviral drug, Paxlovid, Biden tested positive for a rebound case of COVID-19 last Saturday and resumed isolation. There are currently no events on his public schedule for the weekend.
During isolation, the president has participated virtually in public events from the White House residence. On two occasions, he delivered socially distanced remarks to a restricted pool from the Blue Room balcony, announcing a successful strike that killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Monday and signing two bills cracking down on COVID-19 relief fraud Friday.
The president and First Lady Jill Biden are scheduled to travel on Monday to visit Kentucky after deadly floods in the eastern part of the state killed dozens of people and devastated the area.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "People with recurrence of COVID-19 symptoms or a new positive viral test after having tested negative should restart isolation and isolate again for at least 5 days."During Biden's first bout with the disease, he experienced mild symptoms, including runny nose, fatigue, high temperature and a cough, according to his doctor. The five-day course of Paxlovid the President completed requires a doctor's prescription and is available via emergency use authorization from the U.S.8u Food and Drug Administration for treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in people 12 and older who are at high risk of severe illness.
The CDC issued a health alert to doctors on May 24 advising that COVID-19 symptoms sometimes come back, and that may just be how the infection plays out in some people, regardless of whether they're vaccinated or treated with medications such as Paxlovid. The CDC said that most rebound cases involve mild disease and that there have been no reports of serious illness.
Biden is fully vaccinated and received two booster shots. He received his first two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine ahead of his inauguration in January 2021, his first booster shot in September and his second booster vaccination in March.
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Kylie Jenner starts the countdown to her birthday while baring her legs in a short coat and high heels days before she turns 25
Kylie Jenner has already started the countdown to her birthday.
The influencer, who will turn 25 on August 10, posted a series of pre-party photos on her Instagram account over the weekend, writing 'birthday countdown!!!!!!!'
Dressed in a bright blue fur trimmed thigh length coat in what appears to be an industrial area, The Kardashians star showed off her toned legs in a pair of matching blue high heel sandals.
Countdown: Kylie Jenner, who will turn 25 August 10, posted a series of pre-party photos on her Instagram account Saturday, writing 'birthday countdown !!!!!!!'
Kylie wore her hair in an updo with loose tendrils around her face.
The reality star shared a photo of the feet and legs of several people standing in a circle before posting two photos showing her lying on a bed with her face very close to a plate of pastries.
The fashionista has been in London over the past several days where she was spotted in the legendary Harrods with her daughter, Stormi, four.
Leggy: Dressed in a bright blue fur trimmed thigh length coat, The Kardashians star showed off her toned legs in a pair of matching blue high heel sandals
Circle: The reality star shared a photo of the feet and legs of several people standing in a circle
While there, mother and child visited the Kylie Cosmetics and Kylie Skin counter on the beauty floor.
Her longtime partner, Travis Scott, 31, is with her. The pair were seen dining out with their daughter Thursday night.
The Keeping Up with the Kardashians celebrity was in London to support the TKN artist as he prepared for two sold out shows at the O2 Arena Saturday and Sunday night.
Something sweet: The Kylie Cosmetics founded enjoyed a plate of pastries as she lay on a bed in her London Hotel room
The couple are also parents to a son, who was born in February, but has not been seen publicly on the London trip.
The proud parents have not yet revealed the little one's name.
They originally called him Wolf, but decided it did not suit the tyke and have said they want to make sure to get it right before making a final decision.
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Before the ceremony, former teammate Willie McGinest said Richard Seymour earned the nickname, “Hulk” in the locker room because the Patriots defensive end morphed into a different player when he stepped on the field.
On Saturday, Seymour once again morphed into something else.
A Hall of Fame player.
Or, as Seymour said, he now has a place in “football heaven.”
The honor, the immortal status, the bronze bust, the gold jacket was well-earned and well-deserved, as Seymour was officially enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio with the 2022 class.
Seymour gained entry alongside Tony Boselli, the late Cliff Branch, LeRoy Butler, Art McNally, the late Sam Mills, Dick Vermeil and Bryant Young.
He began his speech by recognizing his classmates.
“I’m overwhelmed today with humility. Not because of what this moment says about me, but what this moment says about we, and what we can do together,” he said. “I’m overwhelmed today with gratitude, because I didn’t get here alone. None of us did. None of us could have. Class of ’22, they say you can judge a man by the company he keeps. I couldn’t be among better company than you. It’s a privilege to have my name bound with yours in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.”
Seymour spoke for nearly 10 minutes, and just as he had forecast in the weeks ahead, his speech revolved around the journey toward this moment, one he called “the greatest of his life.”
He spoke eloquently about his family, his teammates, Patriots owner Robert Kraft, the organization, head coach Bill Belichick, as well as late Raiders owner Al Davis. He talked about how each one was an integral part of his Hall of Fame ride.
He started off paying tribute to his wife Tanya, their four children (RJ, Kayla, Kennedy and London) and his parents.
“Football may be what I do,” he said, choking back emotion, “but family is who I am … scripture teaches your riches are in your family … and this day belongs to my family.”
Seymour shared a funny story how his mother drove him to his first football tryout 31 years ago, “and I didn’t even get out of the car.”
Fortunately, the story didn’t end there.
Seymour said his mother believed in him, when he didn’t believe in himself, while his late father taught him the value of hard work and discipline. That combination led to him putting on a gold jacket three decades later.
He said his parents instilled in him the most important thing in life: “As a friend and teammate, as a husband and dad, as a man, it’s to stand for something. To live by your values and to lead by example and most importantly to keep God first.”
That was the perfect segue into the University of Georgia star being drafted as a Patriot as the sixth overall pick in 2001.
Seymour wanted to go someplace warm, but New England eventually won him over thanks, in part, to what the organization stood for.
“When the Patriots selected me sixth overall, it was one of the luckiest breaks of my life,” he said. “For one, I found that my family’s values were at the heart of the Patriots’ values. I was fortunate to join a veteran team, because I had a lot to learn.”
Seymour acknowledged teammates Willie McGinest, Rodney Harrison, Otis Smith, fellow Hall of Famer Ty Law, who was on hand, Mike Vrabel and Anthony Pleasant.
He was grateful that they shared their wisdom and experience as well as the nuances of the game.
“And we had a young quarterback,” Seymour added, playfully referencing Tom Brady, “and we made it work.”
Seymour said the Patriot teams he was on that won three Super Bowls always had an edge, and that edge was their culture.
“We felt a sense of responsibility to each other, a sense of obligation,” he said. “None of us wanted to be the person to let the team down, to let our brothers down, and that defined us. We never cared who got the accolades, as long as we got the ‘W.’’’
Seymour then lauded Kraft as one of the best owners in sports, and stated the case for his former boss, a finalist on next year’s Hall ballot, to gain entry.
“To the entire Kraft family, you showed us being consistent in the little things added up to the big things, always with heart and humanity,” Seymour said, looking at both Robert and Jonathan Kraft, who were in attendance.
Seymour thanked Kraft for being a mentor, and dear friend.
“You, too, will grace this stage,” he said, as Kraft looked on, and acknowledged Seymour’s sentiment.
Next up was Belichick.
Seymour thanked him for being instrumental in getting him to Canton, calling him “the best coach in the game.”
“The lessons I learned from you set me up for success, not just in the game, but in life,” said Seymour. “Work hard, be meticulous in your preparation, support your teammates, respect your opponents, and put the team first.”
Asked not long ago what made Seymour a special player, Belichick responded: “Everything.”
While Seymour’s stats might not have been flashy, anyone who watched Patriots games during his eight years with the team saw a dominant player, one who could be moved anywhere on the line and still make an impact.
Seymour’s final playing days were spent in Oakland, after being traded to the Raiders in 2009.
He said spending his last four years in Oakland under the legendary Davis was “an unexpected gift,” having grown up a Raider fan.
The Hulk, however, is mostly identified as being a Patriot, as he became the 10th player from the franchise, and second from the early 2000s championship teams, along with Law, to gain entry.
“For the last 31 years, football, our game, has afforded me possibilities I never could have imagined,” Seymour said in closing. “And with that privilege comes profound responsibility, the responsibility of stewardship. The responsibility to put others first, to take care of the details, to keep learning, to keep giving, for the long-term strength of our game.”
Seymour chose his high school principal, Titus Duren, to be his Hall of Fame presenter.
“He has overcome obstacles to be a Pro Football Hall of Famer, as well as the person he is,” Duren said prior to meeting Seymour on stage to unveil the bust. “You’ll find no better person in life, than Richard Seymour.”
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(iSeeCars) – While electric vehicles are ostensibly about saving the planet from excessive CO2 emissions, the truth is EVs make excellent performance cars because of the instant torque provided by the electric motors that motivate them. Unfortunately, these electric motors also require a battery pack for power, and between the motors and battery packs an EV’s drivetrain is far heavier than an equivalent internal combustion powertrain.
Does that mean you can’t have a hypercar or supercar powered purely by electricity? No, but it does mean automakers have to work harder to take advantage of an electric car’s straight line acceleration while maintaining its responsive handling, braking, and overall driving dynamics. Bringing all these traits together in a single vehicle isn’t easy, and typically means a higher price tag than a hybrid, plug-in hybrid or traditional sports car.
For this list we’re going to look at new cars only and focus on the best electric cars for performance, which means we’ll be excluding pickup trucks like the Hummer EV, Ford F-150 Lightning and Rivian R1T, along with cars focused primarily on practicality, like the Chevrolet Bolt, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Nissan Leaf, Volkswagen ID.4, and Volvo XC40 Recharge. While it would be easy to restrict this list to coupes or roadsters, we’ll include electric SUVs because some of them offer strong performance, along with their roomy interiors and limited off-road capability.
With those parameters in mind, the best electric sports cars are…
- Porsche Taycan
Don’t let the four-door bodystyle fool you, because the Porsche Taycan is as much a sports car as the brand’s iconic 911. Available in rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive, with a two-speed gearbox, even the base model feels sprightly, and the top-end Turbo S offers over 750 horsepower and a zero-to-60 time of around 2.5 seconds. There’s even a wagon version with a large hatchback opening if you need more interior space.
- Audi e-tron GT
It’s not surprising to see Audi’s sleek and stylish e-tron GT in second place, as it shares a platform and many mechanical bits with the Porsche Taycan. But we think the Audi looks even better while, sadly, not offering quite the same level of performance. Stil, the RS version offers 637 horsepower and a zero-to-60 time of 3.1 seconds, which is plenty quick, and its DC quick charger technology is fast too, getting the battery from 5 to 80 percent charge in 23 minutes.
- Tesla Model S
You can’t talk about electric sports car without discussing Tesla’s Model S Plaid, which can hit 60 miles per hour in under 2 seconds. While quicker than our number 1 and 2 EV sports cars in a straight line, the Model S doesn’t match the Porsche or Audi in handling confidence, thus relegating it to position 3. We do appreciate the Plaid’s access to Tesla’s supercharger network, and its EPA-rated 396 miles of range, though its infotainment system isn’t as intuitive as the Audi’s.
- Ford Mustang Mach-E
Combining a classic Ford coupe name with an electric SUV body may not please old-school performance fans, but it does result in a quick and confident electric vehicle with a potential zero-to-60 time of 3.5 seconds (in GT form). The Mach-E also features a large center touchscreen with easy–to-use controls and fast-charging capabilities. The quick, all-wheel-drive GT model has around 250 miles of range, but you can get up to 305 miles from the slower rear-wheel-drive versions.
- Tesla Model 3
While the Model X and Model Y are capable performance vehicles, Tesla’s SUVs don’t have the sleeker (and lighter) bodies seen on our third-place Model S and this fifth place Model 3. And if you order a Performance Dual-Motor version of the Model 3 you can add a Track Package that includes 20-inch wheels with Michelin performance tires and upgraded brake pads. This combination turns Tesla’s smallest, lightest vehicle into a genuine sports car with numble handling.
- Kia EV6
How can the Kia EV6 make this list when the Hyundai Ioniq 5, its mechanical twin, doesn’t? Easy – just look at it. While not quicker than the Ioniq 5, offering a zero-to-60 time of just 5.1 seconds, Kia’s third EV after the Niro and Soul looks like the real deal in terms of range and features. Better still, an EV6 GT is in the works, which is said to offer nearly 600 horsepower and zero-to-60 in 3.5 seconds. We can’t wait!
- Mercedes-Benz EQS
As the German luxury brand’s first serious electric vehicle, the Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 can hit 60 mph in just 3.4 seconds and go on to a top speed of 155 mph. The EQS offers standard all-wheel drive and all-wheel steering, along with 21-inch wheels and an adaptive air suspension. Options include 22-inch wheels, carbon-ceramic brakes and a track recording system to log all your exploits at your local closed-course facility.
- BMW iX
We’re not sure about the iX’s exterior styling, and at a starting price of $85,000 BMW certainly isn’t giving them away. But with up to 610 horsepower offered in the new M60 version, and a zero-to-60 time estimated around 3.3 seconds, the iX is an undeniable performance vehicle despite its SUV shape and gaping front grille. An adaptive suspension and rear-wheel steering add to the iX’s driving dynamics, while a large 14.9-inch touchscreen makes it easy to configure the iX for driving fun.
- Polestar 2
The Polestar 2 isn’t the most distinctive looking electric vehicle on the road, and its range lags competitors like the Tesla Model 3. But its mix of quick acceleration (zero to 60 in 4.4 seconds), confident handling and an advanced Google-based infotainment system makes it a compelling all-around EV. And now there’s a limited BST Edition 270 version with more powerful motors, more aggressive performance tires and a lowered ride height for improved driving dynamics.
- Mini Cooper SE Electric
The electrified version of Mini’s Cooper only offers 110 miles of range. But like the internal combustion version, this model benefits from the Cooper’s short wheelbase and lower center of gravity. That translates into one of the most nimble battery-powered cars you can buy, and if you’re using this Mini as an urban runabout you’ll enjoy not only confident handling but easy parking and a battery pack that charges to 80 percent in as little as 36 minutes.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Now that a bit of time has passed, Sue Bird knows she made the right decision announcing publicly what she knew inside — that this would be her last season.
But the emotions that are likely to come when she plays what could be her final game in Seattle? Bird has no idea what that’ll be like.
“I’m looking forward to it. That’s for sure,” she said. “I know it’s going to be a really special day. Am I ready for it? I guess we’ll see. It’s gonna be a lot, in all the good ways.”
Bird will play the final regular-season home game of her career on Sunday when the Seattle Storm host the Las Vegas Aces. The Storm have clinched a playoff spot, but with the WNBA’s new playoff format, there’s no guarantee the Storm will end up with a home game in the first round.
Seattle is currently the No. 4 seed ahead of Washington with a week left in the regular season.
So in case the Storm don’t end up seeing their home floor again in the playoffs, Sunday is the day Bird gets feted for her remarkable career. Members of Seattle’s previous championships teams are expected to be in attendance. There will be a pregame ceremony. And the largest crowd in Storm history — more than 18,000 at Climate Pledge Arena — is expected.
“What she’s been able to do in her career, on and off the court, has been phenomenal and I don’t think they’ll ever be anyone like her,” former Seattle teammate Lauren Jackson said this week. “I think the legacy that she’s left on the sport, and that she’ll be leaving on the sport, is enormous. But I’m really excited to see what she does next.”
The 41-year-old Bird, the oldest player in the WNBA, announced in June that this would be her final season before retiring. The decision was expected, especially after Bird flirted with the idea of stepping away after last season before returning for a 19th season on the court and 21st overall with Seattle, missing two seasons due to injuries.
She’ll conclude her career as one of the most decorated players of all-time: four WNBA titles, five Olympic gold medals, countless WNBA records that may never be matched and recognition as one of the great women’s players during a golden generation for the league.
“If you want to talk the best generation (the league) is still pretty young, so we can revisit that conversation in like 20, 30, 40, 50 years,” Bird said. “But as it stands right now, I do feel really lucky that I played in the generation I played in, and I do think a huge chunk there is probably going to go down as the best, most talented.”
Last year when Seattle’s season ended at home with a playoff loss to Phoenix and Storm fans chanted “one more year!” the passionate plea resonated with Bird. She’s cited that moment numerous times over the past year as a partial reason for her decision to return.
But in a sign of how at peace Bird is with her decision, she said when hearing the chant now, her primary thought is, “nice try. See you later,” she joked.
Another sign that Bird knows she made the right decision came after she pressed the button to announce her decision. Instantly, the question of whether she’d play again was gone and with it an unknown weight that hung over her.
That’s led to more open and honest conversations with competitors, former teammates and fans without dancing around the uncomfortable unknown as the final days of her career have ticked closer.
“There were these other nice byproducts I didn’t expect. Most of it comes in the form of people being able to share moments with me, or memories with me. Probably the most meaningful is your peers,” Bird said. “Players on the other team sharing things with me, whether it’s an actual moment or how I’ve inspired them, how they looked up to me, ‘how the WNBA won’t be the same without you.’ I didn’t do it to get that. But that has been really nice. And it really does help. It’s part of my own closure and it’ll help me move on when it’s all said and done.”
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CANTON, Ohio (AP) — The NFL Players Association has filed a brief replying to the league’s appeal in Deshaun Watson’s discipline case.
Former New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey now has the necessary paperwork to issue a ruling.
The players’ union announced the reply brief shortly before Friday’s deadline but didn’t release its contents because it’s confidential.
Harvey was selected by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Thursday to hear the league’s appeal of the six-game suspension given to Watson for violating the personal conduct policy.
The NFL said Friday there’s no timeline for Harvey to issue a ruling. The policy says the appeal will be “processed on an expedited basis.”
Watson was suspended by independent disciplinary officer Sue L. Robinson after being accused of sexual assault and harassment by two dozen women in Texas. The allegations go back to when Watson was playing for the Houston Texans.
Watson, who was traded to Cleveland in March, recently settled 23 of 24 lawsuits filed by the women. Watson has denied any wrongdoing.
The NFL is seeking an indefinite suspension of at least one year and a fine around $8 million, a person familiar with the filing told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The person, speaking on condition of anonymity because the matter isn’t public knowledge, also said Watson would be required to undergo evaluation and treatment as determined by medical experts before he could be reinstated.
Under the collective bargaining agreement, the appeal gave Goodell authority to enact a punishment, which he previously did under the old CBA. But Goodell instead chose Harvey, currently a partner at a law firm in New York, to hear the appeal.
Harvey has served as Goodell’s designee in other arbitrations, and he’s a member of the league’s Diversity Advisory Committee, created to improve racial and gender diversity across the NFL.
In 2017, Harvey was one of four members of an expert panel who reviewed the league’s domestic violence investigation into Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott, who was suspended six games for violating the conduct policy.
Goodell chose a designee to handle Watson’s case because he wanted an expert in the field who can focus solely on this matter, a person familiar with Harvey’s appointment told the AP on Thursday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because it’s an internal matter.
Watson continues to practice with the Browns, who would hand the starting job to Jacoby Brissett in his absence.
“I think with our plan, we will just kind of await clarity on the situation but just continue to move ahead with what we are doing,” Browns coach Kevin Stefanski said about distribution of reps in practice.
Stefanski said he hasn’t finalized plans for playing time for his QBs in the first preseason game against Jacksonville next Friday.
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AP Sports Writer Tom Withers contributed.
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NY MILLS, NY – The Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency teamed up with the Buffalo Soldiers on Saturday, for the first-ever “Ride Against Poverty”.
The Buffalo Soldiers are a community based motorcycle club. They were joined by other motorcycle enthusiasts at the Harley Davidson of Utica to help MVCAA raise money to combat poverty.
Besides the motorcycle ride, there were raffles and other giveaways.
MVCAA executive director Amy Turner, says the money raised will go into their beneficiary fund. “In the past, we’ve done things like help get somebody’s car fixed. Maybe help them get a new crib, so they can bring their baby home from the hospital. Hygiene products, or whatever a family needs. Maybe even a security deposit, so a family can move into a better home.”
After the ride, the riders returned to the Harley Davidson for some food, music, and fun. | https://www.wktv.com/news/buffalo-soldiers-team-up-with-mvcaa-to-ride-against-poverty/article_ee939854-15b4-11ed-b677-f7073826dc52.html | 2022-08-06T21:17:18Z | https://www.wktv.com/news/buffalo-soldiers-team-up-with-mvcaa-to-ride-against-poverty/article_ee939854-15b4-11ed-b677-f7073826dc52.html | true |
Kyrgios reflects on winning twice in a day August 6, 2022 22:03 1:17 min It was a hard day's work for Nick Kyrgios at the Citi Open as he played and won two matches to progress to the last four, his second victory seeing him save five match points. WATCH the ATP Tour LIVE on beIN SPORTS | via Foxtel, Kayo Sports, Fetch TV and beIN SPORTS CONNECT Interviews Nick Kyrgios ATP Tour Tennis -Latest Videos 6:59 min Ligue 1: Clermont Foot v PSG 6:59 min Messi mesmeric as PSG produces five-star fire 3:03 min Bundesliga: Gladbach v Hoffenheim 11:59 min Bundesliga: Union Berlin v Hertha Berlin 3:55 min Bundesliga: Wolfsburg v Werder Bremen 4:00 min Bundesliga: Augsburg v SC Freiburg 2:59 min Bundesliga: Bochum v Mainz 1:30 min Premier League: Bournemouth v Aston Villa 1:30 min Premier League: Everton v Chelsea 1:17 min Kyrgios reflects on winning twice in a day
Kyrgios reflects on winning twice in a day August 6, 2022 22:03 1:17 min It was a hard day's work for Nick Kyrgios at the Citi Open as he played and won two matches to progress to the last four, his second victory seeing him save five match points. WATCH the ATP Tour LIVE on beIN SPORTS | via Foxtel, Kayo Sports, Fetch TV and beIN SPORTS CONNECT Interviews Nick Kyrgios ATP Tour Tennis | https://www.beinsports.com/au/atp-tour/video/kyrgios-reflects-on-winning-twice-in-a-day/1928337 | 2022-08-06T21:22:31Z | https://www.beinsports.com/au/atp-tour/video/kyrgios-reflects-on-winning-twice-in-a-day/1928337 | false |
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Port Talbot: Tata Steel faces crunch-time, professor warns
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The UK's largest steelworks is facing "crunch-time" over reducing carbon emissions, a professor has warned.
There have been warnings the Port Talbot plant could be closed if a deal isn't reached for subsidies to reduce carbon emissions.
Tata Steel said it was committed to cutting its impact on the environment and climate change.
Prof John Gibbins said the technology could cost up to £1bn and take years to implement, but would save jobs.
He told BBC Wales carbon capture and storage was the answer. But an economist said the technology would not be viable.
So what are the issues when it comes to making steel greener?
Prof Gibbins, Director of the Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre, said carbon capture and storage would allow the plant to make low or zero carbon steel beyond 2050.
Carbon Capture and Storage is the process of capturing carbon dioxide before it's released into the atmosphere, and then transporting and storing the carbon.
He said the technology would take two to three years to implement, and cost between £500m-£1bn.
He said: "This is something that will preserve jobs, real jobs. What needs to be done, is for the Welsh government first of all to latch onto the idea.
"This is crunch time, if that plant gets closed then God help us."
But Cardiff University Business School economics professor, Calvin Jones, said carbon capture would not work at Port Talbot and would add "significantly" to steelmaking costs.
He said: "Unfortunately, carbon capture and storage has not been proved at commercial scale - for fossil energy generation or industry.
"In the case of Port Talbot, there is simply nowhere near to store the carbon. Newly leased UK storage sites are all in the North Sea.
"This will require either an entirely new CO2 pipe-distribution network, or a fleet of CO2 carrier ships to take Port Talbot's CO2 to where it can be geologically stored.
"Either will add very significantly to steelmaking costs."
He did not believe carbon capture would be able to fix the climate problem for energy, industry or Port Talbot.
Prof Jones said there were alternatives.
He said: "There is some steel-making under development using hydrogen instead of coke. For example Volvo are procuring this for their cars.
"This of course requires a surplus of hydrogen, which can only be made in a zero carbon way with green electricity.
"Unfortunately, Wales has been slow to develop green electricity. South Wales has one of the highest carbon electricity supplies in the UK.
"So again, there would need to be, probably, billions in investment in and around the area to make this a reality for Tata.
"We have a lot of catching up to do."
Tata Steel said it was committed to cutting its impact on the environment and climate change.
The firm said its ambition was to produce net-zero steel by or before 2050, and to have reduce 30% of CO2 emissions by 2030.
A spokesman said: "The company continues to make progressive strides in reducing the environmental impact of its processes through innovation, investment and collaboration.
"Additionally, its steel products remain critical not only for UK manufacturing supply chains, but also in the UK's transition to a green economy."
Tata Steel knows it has to dramatically reduce the amount of CO2 it emits to reach it's own targets as part of the UK's transition to net zero.
But, because the Port Talbot steelworks is vast and complex, radically changing the way it makes steel doesn't just take millions of pounds, it also takes years.
That is exactly why the steelworks' owners want to know whether the UK government favours an economy based on renewable energy or hydrogen.
It needs an answer quickly because transferring to an electric powered furnace or building a system to capture and store the carbon it emits would take years.
The steel industry also sees itself as fundamental to building a new economy in Wales and the United Kingdom: whether that is building more nuclear power stations , wind farms or or transport infrastructure. | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62422873 | 2022-08-06T21:30:36Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62422873 | true |
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma City man fatally shot his three young children then shot and killed himself early Saturday, according to police.
A person jogging or walking called police after spotting the four bodies in a vehicle in a northwest Oklahoma City neighborhood about 7:30 a.m. Saturday, said Capt. Michelle Henderson.
Henderson said the man and the children did not live in the neighborhood where they were found, but that they had lived nearby.
Henderson said police had been searching for man and his sons since shortly before 4:30 a.m. after learning that he had taken the children and made “concerning statements” about their well-being.
The names and ages of the four were not released, although Henderson said the children were each younger than 7. Whether the children were boys or girls was also not being immediately released, Henderson said.
“This weekend, we’re releasing very little information,” and more details are expected to be provided Monday, Henderson said. | https://www.wane.com/news/crime/police-say-oklahoma-city-man-killed-his-3-children-himself/ | 2022-08-06T21:35:24Z | https://www.wane.com/news/crime/police-say-oklahoma-city-man-killed-his-3-children-himself/ | false |
WASHINGTON — The latest twist in Kardashian drama comes in the form of a breakup. Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson are no more, according to various outlets.
A source close to the couple told CNN Saturday that the breakup was amicable due to the distance between them and schedules.
Davidson is in Australia filming the movie "Wizards!" while Kardashian is raising her four children with ex Ye (formerly known as Kanye West).
A source told Page Six that their age difference was a big part of them drifting apart.
“Pete is 28 and Kim is 41 — they are just in very different places at the moment,” the source told Page Six. “Pete is totally spontaneous and impulsive and wants her to fly to New York, or wherever he is on a moment’s notice. But Kim has four kids and it isn’t that easy. She needs to focus on the kids.”
Davidson, an actor and comedian, met the reality star when she hosted an episode of "SNL" while he was a cast member. They started dating in October 2021 and were spotted together holding hands several times before publicly disclosing their relationship in March 2022.
Much of their relationship has been in the public spotlight because of their high profiles, and the timing of when they got together. Davidson has a history of dating some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, including a brief engagement to singer Ariana Grande.
Kardashian split with Ye earlier in 2021 and was declared legally single around the same time she went public with her relationship with Davidson.
Despite the split, Davidson will probably have some lasting physical memory of their relationship. He's gotten several tattoo tributes to her, and has even had Kardashian's name branded onto his chest. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-world/kim-kardashian-pete-davidson-break-up/507-8c68395d-24b7-420e-a951-9f147b80da20 | 2022-08-06T21:37:36Z | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-world/kim-kardashian-pete-davidson-break-up/507-8c68395d-24b7-420e-a951-9f147b80da20 | true |
National Guard airlifts 150-plus residents to safety during deadly Kentucky floods
PERRY COUNTY, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - Aircrews from the Tennessee National Guard rescued multiple flood victims over a four-day period in July following record rainfall in Kentucky.
WSMV reports the rain overwhelmed the North Fork River and the Kentucky River in rural Eastern Kentucky, where UH-60L Blackhawk helicopters from the 1-230th Assault Helicopter Battalion and Task Force Medevac in Tennessee were deployed to assist in rescue operations.
Officials said the National Guard and eight members of the National Fire Department rescued 151 Kentucky residents from July 28-31 and transported them to higher ground.
“The recent response by these teams saved many lives in the aftermath of the severe flooding in Eastern Kentucky,” said Col. Pat Wade. “I could not be prouder of our team and the skills and services they provide during emergency responses.”
Flight crews said they would remain on standby pending further missions from the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.
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'Charitable' pet food company Advanced Pets in Gloucester is serving up a dog's breakfast: TONY HETHERINGTON investigates
Tony Hetherington is Financial Mail on Sunday's ace investigator, fighting readers corners, revealing the truth that lies behind closed doors and winning victories for those who have been left out-of-pocket. Find out how to contact him below.
In the dog house: Advanced Pets fails to give its address and key data on its website
Mrs E.E. writes: I ordered and paid for pet food from Advanced Pets in Gloucester, but received nothing. Emails were not answered and the phone was answered by an outside company advising that lines were busy.
The firm asks for details and say someone will get back to you, but nobody ever does. The company issues invoices without any contact details.
The Trustpilot review website has several people suggesting positive reviews are fake. Luckily, I was able to reclaim my money from my credit card.
Tony Hetherington replies: The invoice you received from Advanced Pets is a mess. It charges VAT without showing a VAT number, and the closest it gets to an address is very small print which says 'Advanced Pets – United Kingdom'. Trustpilot displays lots of detailed complaints, with 66 per cent of reviewers rating the business as bad, while curiously 27 per cent say it is excellent. And one does say she was offered a 20 per cent discount if she submitted a five-star review.
Advanced Pets is a website-based business, but its website is as poor as its service. Some of its terms and conditions refer to the US. Others refer to the laws of the United Kingdom, which is confusing in itself since business terms covering firms in England normally say they are covered by the laws of England and Wales, as Scotland and Northern Ireland may be different.
Even the usual privacy statement is absurd. It refers to 'Advanced Pets doing business as advanced pets', but since there is no such registered company, this is legally meaningless. Some of the firm's sales terms have blank spaces that have never been completed, and there is a whole section devoted to California state law.
Who in California is likely to order dog biscuits or chewy toys from thousands of miles away in Gloucester?
At the heart of all this is one very basic offence. Customers are legally entitled to know who they are dealing with.
The details of limited companies are free to view in Companies House records, but Advanced Pets is not a limited company.
Anyone carrying on a business in a name that is not their own must disclose their full name and address at which they can be contacted and where legal documents can be served. This information is not on the Advanced Pets website or on invoices, but I can tell you that the man behind it is Aaron Price.
When I asked him why there were so many complaints he said: 'Since opening our website, we have gone from 10 to 15 orders a day to 100 to 150 orders, which our infrastructure was not quite prepared for.
'I am personally still shocked at the vast amount of orders we are getting.'
And he added: 'One matter I am sure you won't mention in your report is that we are currently offering families around our Gloucestershire area completely free monthly dog or cat medication or pet food to support low income families.'
Price did not offer any comments about his firm's terms and conditions or his failure to give customers the information that is legally due, but he did tell me that his address is 37 Naunton Road, Gloucester GL4 4RD. If his name and this address do not appear soon on his website and invoices, I trust that Trading Standards officials in Gloucester will step in.
Meanwhile, unhappy customers do now know who to contact and where.
Taxman won't let me use my online account
A.C. writes: I was registered to use the Revenue & Customs online service via the Government Gateway scheme for managing my personal tax account.
But I found I was locked out as I had not used it for three years.
Trying to renew my registration has proved impossible due to questions about my identity.
Tony Hetherington replies: Part of the process of renewing your registration meant you had to supply information about your passport and your credit record. You are sure you answered questions accurately and honestly, but the system rejected you, claiming some information you provided was not accurate.
You contacted the Revenue but officials would not help. As they pointed out, if they told you the 'right' answers, they could easily have been helping someone impersonate you.
I asked staff at the Revenue headquarters what you should do, and they suggested you call for assistance. But when I looked at the instructions, it stated: 'Make sure your personal details and address are up to date in your personal tax account or you could fail telephone security.'
Since your very problem was that you were denied access to your tax account, how could you possibly make sure its details were up to date?
Happily, officials have managed to shift the goalposts. One told me: 'Customers can now use GB driving licences as one of the two forms of ID needed to verify their identity on the Government Gateway.'
Bizarrely, until a few weeks ago only Northern Ireland driving licences were accepted.
You have now had a call from the Revenue guiding you through the renewal process successfully.
Debt collector got wrong door
Mrs S.M. writes: I am 80 years old, widowed, and have been at the same address since 2013.
I am sending you a letter I have received from Moorcroft Debt Recovery Ltd, showing my address but someone else's name, and demanding £1,013.
I am concerned that my address might get a bad credit rating, and I am really worried that Moorcroft might send recovery agents to my door.
Tony Hetherington replies: You told me that you and your husband, who you lost in 2018, always paid your bills on time, so let me start by reassuring you that your credit rating is safe as records of debt are linked to individuals and not just their addresses.
That said, it took me fewer than ten minutes to trace the person targeted by Moorcroft. I am not identifying her today as she may have no idea that there is a claim against her, and she may not be a debtor at all. I will just say that she does live near you, though her name is nothing like yours.
I asked Moorcroft whether all this was just a mistake – or had the other woman allegedly used your address to get credit?
The answer is that it was a mistake by an outside firm that traces debtors for Moorcroft, and your address has now been wiped from its records. Moorcroft apologises for the distress and inconvenience, and you will be receiving £100 to make up for this.
If you believe you are the victim of financial wrongdoing, write to Tony Hetherington at Financial Mail, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TS or email tony.hetherington@mailonsunday.co.uk. Because of the high volume of enquiries, personal replies cannot be given. Please send only copies of original documents, which we regret cannot be returned.
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Shell and BP to share in huge giveaway that will blow hole in gains from windfall tax: £7.5bn taxpayer handout for oil titans
- Energy giants already receive Treasury incentives to invest in the North Sea
- Fresh changes have been ushered in that will turbocharge the subsidies
- Plans introduced at same time as Government's £5bn 'windfall tax'
- City sources describe exceptionally high incentives as 'beyond believable'
OIL and gas titans are set to reap a mammoth taxpayer giveaway of up to £7.5billion despite making record profits.
BP and Shell are among the firms that will benefit from new tax breaks, despite BP boss Bernard Looney comparing his firm to a 'cash machine'.
Energy giants already receive Treasury incentives to invest in the North Sea, but fresh changes have been ushered in that will turbocharge the subsidies. The plans have been introduced at the same time as the Government's £5billion 'windfall tax' – billed as taxing energy firms to help pay for the cost-of-living crisis.
Gathering storm: Energy giants already receive Treasury incentives to invest in the North Sea, but fresh changes have been ushered in that will turbocharge the subsidies
City sources described the exceptionally high incentives as 'beyond believable' and told The Mail on Sunday that they would drain money from public coffers, possibly without additional gain.
Dan Neidle, head of non-profit organisation Tax Policy Associate, described the policy as 'just a handout to business'.
The plan comes amid a Government drive to boost Britain's energy security after Russia's war in Ukraine prompted a surge in gas and oil prices.
The new North Sea tax breaks nearly double the tax relief. The so-called 'super-deduction' means investing £100 in the North Sea 'will cost companies only £8.75,' according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The tax savings are likely to spark fury among families struggling to pay household bills due to the cost-of-living crisis.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned last week that the UK will slide into recession this winter, fuelled by a startling inflation rise of 13 per cent.
The MoS has seen estimates that expose the eye-watering allowances for oil and gas firms investing in the North Sea. Analysts warned the incentive may not increase investment. They said taxpayers will fork out the £7.5billion over three and a half year under investment plans already in place.
News of the gigantic tax breaks, introduced by former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, emerged just days after British oil majors BP and Shell reported record-breaking performances. Last week, BP announced its second-quarter profits had more than trebled to a 14-year high, while Shell also announced its highest-ever profit for the three months to June.
This came after a grim forecast from energy consultant Cornwall Insight, which said average annual household energy bills could hit £3,615 from January.
A senior financial analyst, who asked to remain anonymous, said the Treasury regime had been designed to give oil and gas firms a 'stupidly big encouragement' to invest.
He said: 'The Government is encouraging investment at a time when Russia is invading Ukraine and we say we want every last drop out of the North Sea. But the incentive to invest is beyond believable… it's frightening. This new tax regime could easily turn something uneconomic [for the companies] into something that is very commercially attractive.'
Neidle questioned whether the incentive would have the desired effect of pumping more cash into the North Sea in the long-term. He said the relief only spans about three years and 'is unlikely to incentivise much, if any, investment'. He said the result could be a 'dead-weight' cost to the taxpayer – meaning there is no additional investment in the North Sea, but there is a huge benefit financially to the firms.
The tax arrangements of oil giants operating in the UK have been under growing scrutiny in recent years. Company documents show the North Sea operations of BP and Shell have already benefited from huge tax repayments.
Tessa Khan, director of campaign group Uplift, said Britain's tax regime 'makes UK waters the most profitable in the world for new offshore oil and gas fields. This is a slap in the face to the British public, who continue to foot the bill for Government subsidies to the oil and gas industry and pours fuel on the fire of the climate crisis.'
The Government has defended its windfall tax plans, which it predicts will raise £5billion in its first year. It could raise billions more in the years until 2025.
The Treasury said: 'As set out in the British Energy Security Strategy – with Putin's invasion of Ukraine illustrating the merit of this – North Sea oil and gas are going to be crucial to the UK's domestic energy supply and security for the foreseeable future, so it is right we continue to encourage investment there.'
BP said it expected to pay £1.25billion in tax this year, even before the windfall tax was included, and would invest up to £18billion this decade on top of its North Sea plans. Shell said in May that the company will be paying 'hundreds of millions' in tax in the UK in years to come.
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It could be the answer to every budget tourist’s prayers – a night in a historic church.
Hard-up vicars are opening their doors to holidaymakers who want to save a few pennies from heaven.
Church camping, dubbed “champing”, is the brainchild of a charity that raises money to save churches.
So far its website, called champing.co.uk, has 21 churches offering a night’s stay from £49 per adult.
Many are in stunning locations like St Dona’s in Llanddona on the isle of Anglesey, North Wales.
Would you like to stay the night in a church? Let us know in the comments section below.
The whole building is yours for the night but don’t expect room service, TVs or heating.
Some do not have hot water or electricity either but you might get “one or two bats in the roof”.
St Thomas’ in Friarmere, Lancs, is described as an “atmospheric place to stay with a pub right next door”.
And medieval St Nicholas’ in Berden, Essex, is a “high-amenity” church with “electricity, hot water, a fridge, a microwave, a sink and a flushing toilet”. Fiona Silk, of the Churches Conservation Trust, said: “We are helping keep these buildings alive for future generations, with money raised going towards the upkeep of these ancient buildings.
“Visitors get to enjoy history by becoming a keyholder for the night and giving everyone an opportunity to experience the serenity of the sacred space.
“You don’t have to be religious to appreciate the stories these buildings share, having survived centuries and being such an important part of community life for so long.”
Rates are £49 weekdays, £59 Friday to Sunday for adults. Kids pay £25, or £30 Friday to Sunday. Breakfast is £12.50.
Guests can bring their own booze and volunteers set out camp beds, chairs, plus tea and coffee making facilities.
Some churches like St Mary the Virgin in Fordwich, Kent, have even turned pews into makeshift beds.
Bedding and breakfast are extras, as are flushing loos. Dogs are welcome.
But the website warns: “Unsurprisingly, not a single one of our churches has shower facilities… so be prepared for people to give you a wide berth if you stay for more than two or three nights.”
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(iSeeCars) – While electric vehicles are ostensibly about saving the planet from excessive CO2 emissions, the truth is EVs make excellent performance cars because of the instant torque provided by the electric motors that motivate them. Unfortunately, these electric motors also require a battery pack for power, and between the motors and battery packs an EV’s drivetrain is far heavier than an equivalent internal combustion powertrain.
Does that mean you can’t have a hypercar or supercar powered purely by electricity? No, but it does mean automakers have to work harder to take advantage of an electric car’s straight line acceleration while maintaining its responsive handling, braking, and overall driving dynamics. Bringing all these traits together in a single vehicle isn’t easy, and typically means a higher price tag than a hybrid, plug-in hybrid or traditional sports car.
For this list we’re going to look at new cars only and focus on the best electric cars for performance, which means we’ll be excluding pickup trucks like the Hummer EV, Ford F-150 Lightning and Rivian R1T, along with cars focused primarily on practicality, like the Chevrolet Bolt, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Nissan Leaf, Volkswagen ID.4, and Volvo XC40 Recharge. While it would be easy to restrict this list to coupes or roadsters, we’ll include electric SUVs because some of them offer strong performance, along with their roomy interiors and limited off-road capability.
With those parameters in mind, the best electric sports cars are…
- Porsche Taycan
Don’t let the four-door bodystyle fool you, because the Porsche Taycan is as much a sports car as the brand’s iconic 911. Available in rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive, with a two-speed gearbox, even the base model feels sprightly, and the top-end Turbo S offers over 750 horsepower and a zero-to-60 time of around 2.5 seconds. There’s even a wagon version with a large hatchback opening if you need more interior space.
- Audi e-tron GT
It’s not surprising to see Audi’s sleek and stylish e-tron GT in second place, as it shares a platform and many mechanical bits with the Porsche Taycan. But we think the Audi looks even better while, sadly, not offering quite the same level of performance. Stil, the RS version offers 637 horsepower and a zero-to-60 time of 3.1 seconds, which is plenty quick, and its DC quick charger technology is fast too, getting the battery from 5 to 80 percent charge in 23 minutes.
- Tesla Model S
You can’t talk about electric sports car without discussing Tesla’s Model S Plaid, which can hit 60 miles per hour in under 2 seconds. While quicker than our number 1 and 2 EV sports cars in a straight line, the Model S doesn’t match the Porsche or Audi in handling confidence, thus relegating it to position 3. We do appreciate the Plaid’s access to Tesla’s supercharger network, and its EPA-rated 396 miles of range, though its infotainment system isn’t as intuitive as the Audi’s.
- Ford Mustang Mach-E
Combining a classic Ford coupe name with an electric SUV body may not please old-school performance fans, but it does result in a quick and confident electric vehicle with a potential zero-to-60 time of 3.5 seconds (in GT form). The Mach-E also features a large center touchscreen with easy–to-use controls and fast-charging capabilities. The quick, all-wheel-drive GT model has around 250 miles of range, but you can get up to 305 miles from the slower rear-wheel-drive versions.
- Tesla Model 3
While the Model X and Model Y are capable performance vehicles, Tesla’s SUVs don’t have the sleeker (and lighter) bodies seen on our third-place Model S and this fifth place Model 3. And if you order a Performance Dual-Motor version of the Model 3 you can add a Track Package that includes 20-inch wheels with Michelin performance tires and upgraded brake pads. This combination turns Tesla’s smallest, lightest vehicle into a genuine sports car with numble handling.
- Kia EV6
How can the Kia EV6 make this list when the Hyundai Ioniq 5, its mechanical twin, doesn’t? Easy – just look at it. While not quicker than the Ioniq 5, offering a zero-to-60 time of just 5.1 seconds, Kia’s third EV after the Niro and Soul looks like the real deal in terms of range and features. Better still, an EV6 GT is in the works, which is said to offer nearly 600 horsepower and zero-to-60 in 3.5 seconds. We can’t wait!
- Mercedes-Benz EQS
As the German luxury brand’s first serious electric vehicle, the Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 can hit 60 mph in just 3.4 seconds and go on to a top speed of 155 mph. The EQS offers standard all-wheel drive and all-wheel steering, along with 21-inch wheels and an adaptive air suspension. Options include 22-inch wheels, carbon-ceramic brakes and a track recording system to log all your exploits at your local closed-course facility.
- BMW iX
We’re not sure about the iX’s exterior styling, and at a starting price of $85,000 BMW certainly isn’t giving them away. But with up to 610 horsepower offered in the new M60 version, and a zero-to-60 time estimated around 3.3 seconds, the iX is an undeniable performance vehicle despite its SUV shape and gaping front grille. An adaptive suspension and rear-wheel steering add to the iX’s driving dynamics, while a large 14.9-inch touchscreen makes it easy to configure the iX for driving fun.
- Polestar 2
The Polestar 2 isn’t the most distinctive looking electric vehicle on the road, and its range lags competitors like the Tesla Model 3. But its mix of quick acceleration (zero to 60 in 4.4 seconds), confident handling and an advanced Google-based infotainment system makes it a compelling all-around EV. And now there’s a limited BST Edition 270 version with more powerful motors, more aggressive performance tires and a lowered ride height for improved driving dynamics.
- Mini Cooper SE Electric
The electrified version of Mini’s Cooper only offers 110 miles of range. But like the internal combustion version, this model benefits from the Cooper’s short wheelbase and lower center of gravity. That translates into one of the most nimble battery-powered cars you can buy, and if you’re using this Mini as an urban runabout you’ll enjoy not only confident handling but easy parking and a battery pack that charges to 80 percent in as little as 36 minutes.
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These plane enthusiasts track flights near Melbourne Airport, and more people are joining
By Elise KinsellaFor Liz Carnuccio there is nothing quite like the sound of a plane flying directly overhead.
"You can really hear the roar of the engine and feel the wind hit your face, it is pretty amazing," she said.
She's part of a plane-spotting group in Melbourne with hundreds of members.
These enthusiasts spend their free time travelling to viewing areas outside Melbourne Airport in Tullamarine, where planes fly right above, on their way to land or take-off.
"I am a fan of the whole thing," Liz explained.
"Travelling to the airport, watching planes, tracking them … and imagining where are people going."
She shares her aviation passion with her cousin Kieren Andrews.
"It's something that my parents used to do when they were younger and then took us out as kids as well," he said.
At the viewing area, plane spotters track flights on apps on their phones. Members each have a favourite plane model to spot.
"At the moment the 737 is pretty good," Kieren said, although he does miss the 747s.
Fellow plane spotter Linda Ramage has loved planes since she was a small girl but said she didn't always get a positive response when telling people about her passion.
"They look at me weirdly," she laughed.
"But to me it is no different to anyone liking cars, trucks, trains. We just love planes."
There are two dedicated viewing areas outside of Melbourne Airport.
Plane spotters say they are so popular they have become a local tourist attraction in Melbourne's north-west.
Here, children flock to the food trucks serving hot chips and ice cream, while couples rug up around steaming cups of coffee and look to the skies.
Linda said since lockdowns ended and flights returned, the viewing areas had become busier and busier.
"The more people that get involved with our hobby, our passion that is great," she said.
"The more the merrier."
Chris has seen nearly half a century of aviation
While train and bird spotting are more recognised pursuits, planes have always been Chris Daley's love.
It has been nearly fifty years since he first started plane spotting.
He said when he first started, the jets "were a lot louder, a lot smaller, a lot smokier".
Chris has watched nearly half a century of aviation history from right under flight paths.
He can't even estimate how many photos he has taken of planes in that time.
"It would be impossible to count them, just in the last 10 years it would be multiple tens-of-thousands," he said.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 6, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
448 PM EDT Sat Aug 6 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern Erie,
southeastern Niagara, southwestern Orleans and northwestern Genesee
Counties through 515 PM EDT...
At 447 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Akron, or near Clarence, moving northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Pembroke, Akron, Alabama, Corfu, Wolcottsville and Clarence Center.
This includes Interstate 90 near exit 48A.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Heavy rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 4292 7844 4301 7865 4319 7855 4310 7826
TIME...MOT...LOC 2047Z 211DEG 12KT 4303 7850
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
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BJP OBC Morcha chief demands 50% reservation for Pasmanda community in Muslim institutions
New Delhi August 07, 2022 03:29 ISTK. Laxman made the demand at a Pasmanda Muslim conference held in Delhi
The Pasmanda issue threatens to snowball into the Muslim community’s Mandal moment. In a demand likely to have far-reaching implications, the BJP OBC Morcha national president, K. Laxman, on Saturday demanded a 50% reservation for the Pasmanda community in Muslim institutions such as Aligarh Muslim University, Jamia Millia Islamia and Jamia Hamdard. The move has riled a section of the community, with many regarding it to be a ruse to divide the community on caste lines.
Speaking at the Pasmanda Muslim Sneh Milan Evam Samman Samaroh in New Delhi, Mr. Laxman said, “I draw your attention to the centuries-old injustice and exploitation of the Pasmanda Muslims within the community. The Pasmandas are socially, economically and politically weak. Their condition has not improved even after 75 years of Independence. The issue of Pasmandas has been drowned under the noise of Hindu-Muslim drums. The Pasmanda Muslims should have the benefit of 50% reservation in AMU, JMI and JH. Today.”
Earlier, the former Chairman of the National Minorities Commission, Atif Rasheed, who is the chief of the BJP Minority Morcha, had written to the Vice-Chancellors of AMU, JMI and JH, requesting reservation for Pasmanda Muslims in the universities.
In a letter dated June 15, Mr. Rasheed had written about “quota within a quota”. “We wrote to the three V-Cs of the minority institutions asking them to reserve 50% within the Muslim quota for Pasmanda Muslims. It should not upset anybody or change equations within the universities as we are only asking for a quota within the quota already in practice.”
The universities are yet to respond to the proposal. Hence, Mr. Laxman raised it at the Delhi meet.
The demand for reservation is not limited to the two central universities and a deemed university. Mr. Rasheed had written to various Union Ministers and MPs drawing attention to the plight of the socially and economically beleaguered community. “We wrote to every Minister of the Central government and also to around 250 MPs. The OBC Morcha chief K. Laxman responded and supported us. He has raised the question in Parliament.”
They have written to 5,200 Muslim educational institutes with minority status across the country to provide 50% reservation for Pasmanda Muslims.
Caste system
Mr. Rasheed pooh-poohs the claim that the move is meant to divide the Muslim community. “The Pasmandas are around 80% of the Muslim population. But we see, like among upper caste Hindus, most of the jobs and college seats are cornered by 15% Ashraf or upper caste Muslims, intentionally or unintentionally.” The Ashrafs, incidentally, are Syeds, Sheikhs and Pathans and so on, while the Ajlafs are Saifi (carpenters), Ansari (weavers) Ghosi (shepherds), Salmani (barber) and such. The Ajlafs, roughly equivalent of Dalits, are at the bottom of the pile. “We know there is no caste system in Islam and everybody is regarded as equal. But nobody can deny there is caste differentiation among Indian Muslims, possibly because many are converts,” Mr. Rasheed says. “Whenever a Pasmanda talks of his rights, the same question of division of the community is put up in front of him. We are not dividing followers of Islam. Rather we want to get rid of the caste system that has seeped into the Muslim community in India.”
The move has understandably been rejected by Muslim bodies. A Jamaat-e-Islami member says on condition of anonymity, “There is nothing called caste in Islam. The government cannot be serious about uplifting poor Muslims. A majority of lynching victims have been men from the supposedly Pasmanda community but nobody has been given justice. The demand for reservation for Pasmanda Muslims is to create a Mandal-like situation for the community.” | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bjp-obc-morcha-chief-demands-50-reservation-for-pasmanda-community-in-muslim-institutions/article65738026.ece/amp/ | 2022-08-06T22:11:30Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bjp-obc-morcha-chief-demands-50-reservation-for-pasmanda-community-in-muslim-institutions/article65738026.ece/amp/ | false |
Giants activate SS Brandon Crawford, OF Joc Pederson
The San Francisco Giants activated shortstop Brandon Crawford from the 10-day injured list and outfielder Joc Pederson from the 7-day concussion list prior to Saturday's game against the Oakland Athletics.
Crawford was sidelined with a left knee injury that he initially sustained on June 21 against the Atlanta Braves when he awkwardly slid into home plate. He returned on July 5 but the issues continued and he was placed back on the IL on July 16.
Pederson was hurt on July 28 against the Chicago Cubs when he banged his head into the left-field wall in the seventh inning while trying to catch a two-run homer by Patrick Wisdom.
San Francisco optioned infielder David Villar to Triple-A Sacramento and designated infielder Dixon Machado for assignment to open roster spaces.
Crawford, a three-time All-Star, is batting just .215 with five homers and 33 RBIs in 72 games this season. Last season, Crawford finished fourth in National League MVP balloting after establishing career bests of a .298 batting average, 24 homers and 90 RBIs.
Crawford, 35, recently stated the knee is bothering him on defense. The four-time Gold Glove winner has committed 11 errors in 70 games at shortstop this season after having just nine in 2021 in 135 appearances at the position.
Pederson, 30, recently made the NL All-Star team for the second time in his nine-year career. He is batting .242 with 17 homers and 43 RBIs in 87 games.
Pederson has 165 career homers, 407 RBIs and a .233 batting average in 972 games with the Dodgers (2014-20), Cubs (2021), Atlanta Braves (2021) and Giants.
Villar, 25, batted .175 with one homer and seven RBIs in 23 games with the Giants.
Machado, 30, went 3-for-15 (.200) in five games with San Francisco after being acquired from the Cubs on July 31.
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National Guard airlifts 150-plus residents to safety during deadly Kentucky floods
PERRY COUNTY, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - Aircrews from the Tennessee National Guard rescued multiple flood victims over a four-day period in July following record rainfall in Kentucky.
WSMV reports the rain overwhelmed the North Fork River and the Kentucky River in rural Eastern Kentucky, where UH-60L Blackhawk helicopters from the 1-230th Assault Helicopter Battalion and Task Force Medevac in Tennessee were deployed to assist in rescue operations.
Officials said the National Guard and eight members of the National Fire Department rescued 151 Kentucky residents from July 28-31 and transported them to higher ground.
“The recent response by these teams saved many lives in the aftermath of the severe flooding in Eastern Kentucky,” said Col. Pat Wade. “I could not be prouder of our team and the skills and services they provide during emergency responses.”
Flight crews said they would remain on standby pending further missions from the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.
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(iSeeCars) – While electric vehicles are ostensibly about saving the planet from excessive CO2 emissions, the truth is EVs make excellent performance cars because of the instant torque provided by the electric motors that motivate them. Unfortunately, these electric motors also require a battery pack for power, and between the motors and battery packs an EV’s drivetrain is far heavier than an equivalent internal combustion powertrain.
Does that mean you can’t have a hypercar or supercar powered purely by electricity? No, but it does mean automakers have to work harder to take advantage of an electric car’s straight line acceleration while maintaining its responsive handling, braking, and overall driving dynamics. Bringing all these traits together in a single vehicle isn’t easy, and typically means a higher price tag than a hybrid, plug-in hybrid or traditional sports car.
For this list we’re going to look at new cars only and focus on the best electric cars for performance, which means we’ll be excluding pickup trucks like the Hummer EV, Ford F-150 Lightning and Rivian R1T, along with cars focused primarily on practicality, like the Chevrolet Bolt, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Nissan Leaf, Volkswagen ID.4, and Volvo XC40 Recharge. While it would be easy to restrict this list to coupes or roadsters, we’ll include electric SUVs because some of them offer strong performance, along with their roomy interiors and limited off-road capability.
With those parameters in mind, the best electric sports cars are…
- Porsche Taycan
Don’t let the four-door bodystyle fool you, because the Porsche Taycan is as much a sports car as the brand’s iconic 911. Available in rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive, with a two-speed gearbox, even the base model feels sprightly, and the top-end Turbo S offers over 750 horsepower and a zero-to-60 time of around 2.5 seconds. There’s even a wagon version with a large hatchback opening if you need more interior space.
- Audi e-tron GT
It’s not surprising to see Audi’s sleek and stylish e-tron GT in second place, as it shares a platform and many mechanical bits with the Porsche Taycan. But we think the Audi looks even better while, sadly, not offering quite the same level of performance. Stil, the RS version offers 637 horsepower and a zero-to-60 time of 3.1 seconds, which is plenty quick, and its DC quick charger technology is fast too, getting the battery from 5 to 80 percent charge in 23 minutes.
- Tesla Model S
You can’t talk about electric sports car without discussing Tesla’s Model S Plaid, which can hit 60 miles per hour in under 2 seconds. While quicker than our number 1 and 2 EV sports cars in a straight line, the Model S doesn’t match the Porsche or Audi in handling confidence, thus relegating it to position 3. We do appreciate the Plaid’s access to Tesla’s supercharger network, and its EPA-rated 396 miles of range, though its infotainment system isn’t as intuitive as the Audi’s.
- Ford Mustang Mach-E
Combining a classic Ford coupe name with an electric SUV body may not please old-school performance fans, but it does result in a quick and confident electric vehicle with a potential zero-to-60 time of 3.5 seconds (in GT form). The Mach-E also features a large center touchscreen with easy–to-use controls and fast-charging capabilities. The quick, all-wheel-drive GT model has around 250 miles of range, but you can get up to 305 miles from the slower rear-wheel-drive versions.
- Tesla Model 3
While the Model X and Model Y are capable performance vehicles, Tesla’s SUVs don’t have the sleeker (and lighter) bodies seen on our third-place Model S and this fifth place Model 3. And if you order a Performance Dual-Motor version of the Model 3 you can add a Track Package that includes 20-inch wheels with Michelin performance tires and upgraded brake pads. This combination turns Tesla’s smallest, lightest vehicle into a genuine sports car with numble handling.
- Kia EV6
How can the Kia EV6 make this list when the Hyundai Ioniq 5, its mechanical twin, doesn’t? Easy – just look at it. While not quicker than the Ioniq 5, offering a zero-to-60 time of just 5.1 seconds, Kia’s third EV after the Niro and Soul looks like the real deal in terms of range and features. Better still, an EV6 GT is in the works, which is said to offer nearly 600 horsepower and zero-to-60 in 3.5 seconds. We can’t wait!
- Mercedes-Benz EQS
As the German luxury brand’s first serious electric vehicle, the Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 can hit 60 mph in just 3.4 seconds and go on to a top speed of 155 mph. The EQS offers standard all-wheel drive and all-wheel steering, along with 21-inch wheels and an adaptive air suspension. Options include 22-inch wheels, carbon-ceramic brakes and a track recording system to log all your exploits at your local closed-course facility.
- BMW iX
We’re not sure about the iX’s exterior styling, and at a starting price of $85,000 BMW certainly isn’t giving them away. But with up to 610 horsepower offered in the new M60 version, and a zero-to-60 time estimated around 3.3 seconds, the iX is an undeniable performance vehicle despite its SUV shape and gaping front grille. An adaptive suspension and rear-wheel steering add to the iX’s driving dynamics, while a large 14.9-inch touchscreen makes it easy to configure the iX for driving fun.
- Polestar 2
The Polestar 2 isn’t the most distinctive looking electric vehicle on the road, and its range lags competitors like the Tesla Model 3. But its mix of quick acceleration (zero to 60 in 4.4 seconds), confident handling and an advanced Google-based infotainment system makes it a compelling all-around EV. And now there’s a limited BST Edition 270 version with more powerful motors, more aggressive performance tires and a lowered ride height for improved driving dynamics.
- Mini Cooper SE Electric
The electrified version of Mini’s Cooper only offers 110 miles of range. But like the internal combustion version, this model benefits from the Cooper’s short wheelbase and lower center of gravity. That translates into one of the most nimble battery-powered cars you can buy, and if you’re using this Mini as an urban runabout you’ll enjoy not only confident handling but easy parking and a battery pack that charges to 80 percent in as little as 36 minutes.
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NHC tracking tropical wave off Africa's coast
NHC tracking tropical wave off Africa's coast
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Senate rules referee weakens Dem drug plan in economic bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate parliamentarian on Saturday dealt a blow to Democrats’ plan for curbing drug prices but left the rest of their sprawling economic bill largely intact as party leaders prepared for first votes on a package containing many of President Joe Biden's top domestic goals.
Elizabeth MacDonough, the chamber's nonpartisan rules arbiter, said lawmakers must remove language imposing hefty penalties on drugmakers that boost their prices beyond inflation in the private insurance market. Those were the bill's chief pricing protections for the roughly 180 million people whose health coverage comes from private insurance, either through work or bought on their own.
Other major provisions were left intact, including giving Medicare the power to negotiate what it pays for pharmaceuticals for its 64 million elderly recipients, a longtime goal for Democrats. Penalties on manufacturers for exceeding inflation would apply to drugs sold to Medicare, and there is a $2,000 annual out-of-pocket cap on drug costs and free vaccines for Medicare beneficiaries.
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Her rulings came as Democrats planned to begin Senate votes Saturday on their wide-ranging package addressing climate change, energy, health care costs, taxes and even deficit reduction. Party leaders have said they believe they have the unity they will need to move the legislation through the 50-50 Senate, with Vice President Kamala Harris' tiebreaking vote and over solid Republican opposition.
“This is a major win for the American people," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said of the bill, which both parties are using in their election-year campaigns to assign blame for the worst period of inflation in four decades. “And a sad commentary on the Republican Party, as they actively fight provisions that lower costs for the American family."
Israel, militants trade fire as Gaza death toll climbs to 24
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes flattened homes in Gaza on Saturday and Palestinian rocket barrages into southern Israel persisted for a second day, raising fears of another major escalation in the Mideast conflict. Gaza’s health ministry said 24 people had been killed so far in the coastal strip, including six children.
The fighting began with Israel’s killing of a senior commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group in a wave of strikes Friday that Israel said were meant to prevent an imminent attack.
So far, Hamas, the larger militant group that rules Gaza, appeared to stay on the sidelines of the conflict, keeping its intensity somewhat contained. Israel and Hamas fought a war barely a year ago, one of four major conflicts and several smaller battles over the last 15 years that exacted a staggering toll on the impoverished territory’s 2 million Palestinian residents.
Whether Hamas continues to stay out of the fight likely depends in part on how much punishment Israel inflicts in Gaza as rocket fire steadily continues.
The Israeli military said an errant rocket fired by Palestinian militants killed civilians late Saturday, including children, in the town of Jabaliya, in northern Gaza. The military said it investigated the incident and concluded “without a doubt” that it was caused by a misfire on the part of Islamic Jihad. There was no official Palestinian comment on the incident.
Ukraine grain shipments offer hope, not fix to food crisis
BEIRUT (AP) — A ship bringing corn to Lebanon’s northern port of Tripoli normally would not cause a stir. But it's getting attention because of where it came from: Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa.
The Razoni, loaded with more than 26,000 tons of corn for chicken feed, is emerging from the edges of a Russian war that has threatened food supplies in countries like Lebanon, which has the world's highest rate of food inflation — a staggering 122% — and depends on the Black Sea region for nearly all of its wheat.
The fighting has trapped 20 million tons of grains inside Ukraine, and the Razoni's departure Monday marked a first major step toward extracting those food supplies and getting them to farms and bakeries to feed millions of impoverished people who are going hungry in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia.
“Actually seeing the shipment move is a big deal,” said Jonathan Haines, senior analyst at data and analytics firm Gro Intelligence. “This 26,000 tons in the scale of the 20 million tons that are locked up is nothing, absolutely nothing ... but if we start seeing this, every shipment that goes is going to increase confidence.”
The small scale means the initial shipments leaving the world's breadbasket will not draw down food prices or ease a global food crisis anytime soon. Plus, most of the trapped grain is for animal feed, not for people to eat, experts say. That will extend the war's ripple effects for the world’s most vulnerable people thousands of miles away in countries like Somalia and Afghanistan, where hunger could soon turn to famine and where inflation has pushed the cost of food and energy out of reach for many.
Musk says Twitter deal could move ahead with 'bot' info
Elon Musk said Saturday his planned $44 billion takeover of Twitter should move forward if the company can confirm some details about how it measures whether user accounts are ‘spam bots’ or real people.
The billionaire and Tesla CEO has been trying to back out of his April agreement to buy the social media company, leading Twitter to sue him last month to complete the acquisition. Musk countersued, accusing Twitter of misleading his team about the true size of its user base and other problems he said amounted to fraud and breach of contract.
Both sides are headed toward an October trial in a Delaware court.
“If Twitter simply provides their method of sampling 100 accounts and how they’re confirmed to be real, the deal should proceed on original terms,” Musk tweeted early Saturday. “However, if it turns out that their SEC filings are materially false, then it should not.”
Musk, who has more than 100 million Twitter followers, went on to challenge Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to a "public debate about the Twitter bot percentage.”
Biden team, Eli Lilly condemn new Indiana abortion ban
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The administration of President Joe Biden and one of Indiana's largest employers have condemned the state's new ban on abortions, with the White House calling it another extreme attempt by Republicans to trample women's rights.
Indiana on Friday became the first state in the nation to approve such legislation since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a 1973 landmark case that had protected the right to abortion nationwide.
“The Indiana Legislature took a devastating step as a result of the Supreme Court’s extreme decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate women’s constitutionally protected right to abortion," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Saturday. "And, it’s another radical step by Republican legislators to take away women’s reproductive rights and freedom, and put personal health care decisions in the hands of politicians rather than women and their doctors.”
The ban, which takes effect Sept. 15, includes some exceptions. Abortions will be permitted in cases of rape and incest, before 10-weeks post-fertilization; to protect the life and physical health of the mother; and if a fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly. Victims of rape and incest won't be required to sign a notarized affidavit attesting to an attack, as had once been proposed.
Under the bill, abortions can only be performed in hospitals or outpatient centers owned by hospitals, meaning all abortion clinics will lose their licenses. A doctor who performs an illegal abortion or fails to file required reports will lose their medical license.
Longtime AP correspondent, editor Marcus Eliason dies at 75
NEW YORK (AP) — Marcus Eliason, an international journalist whose insightful reporting, sparkling prose and skillful editing graced Associated Press news wires for almost a half-century, has died. He was 75.
He had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, developed pneumonia earlier this week at a nursing home, and died on Friday in a New York hospital, his family said.
From Israel and the 1967 Six-Day War to apartheid-era South Africa and on to Afghan battlegrounds, bloody Belfast, the Iron Curtain’s fall, the handover of Hong Kong and countless other datelines and stories, Eliason witnessed and reported on some of the great world events of the 20th century’s final decades. And when that century drew to a close, it was the Eliason touch that greeted the new one.
“From East to West and North to South, the world welcomed the new millennium in a shimmering tapestry of song and light that rippled around the globe,” he led off AP’s main article on January 1, 2000.
By then he had moved on to his final posting, from which he retired in 2014, as a New York-based editor of some of AP's biggest stories and projects — and, finally, as chief editor for international feature stories, a valued guiding hand for scores of AP reporters worldwide.
Taiwan says China military drills appear to simulate attack
BEIJING (AP) — Taiwan said Saturday that China’s military drills appear to simulate an attack on the self-ruled island, after multiple Chinese warships and aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait following U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei that infuriated Beijing.
Taiwan's armed forces issued an alert, dispatched air and naval patrols around the island, and activated land-based missile systems in response to the Chinese exercises, the Ministry of National Defense said. As of 5 p.m., 20 Chinese aircraft and 14 ships continued to carry out sea and air exercises around the Taiwan Strait, it said.
The ministry said that zones declared by China as no-go areas during the exercises for other ships and aircraft had “seriously damaged the peace." It emphasized that Taiwan's military does not seek war, but would prepare and respond for it accordingly.
China's Ministry of Defense said in a statement Saturday that it had carried out military exercises as planned in the sea and airspaces to the north, southwest, and east of Taiwan, with a focus on “testing the capabilities” of its land strike and sea assault systems.
China launched live-fire military drills following Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan earlier this week, saying it violated the “one-China” policy. China sees the island as a breakaway province to be annexed by force if necessary, and considers visits to Taiwan by foreign officials as recognizing its sovereignty.
Russian forces begin assault on two eastern Ukraine cities
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces began an assault Saturday on two key cities in the eastern Donetsk region and kept up rocket and shelling attacks on other Ukrainian cities, including one close to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Ukraine's military and local officials said.
Both cities of Bakhmut and Avdiivka have been considered key targets of Russia’s ongoing offensive across Ukraine’s east, with analysts saying Moscow needs to take Bakhmut if it is to advance on the regional hubs of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
“In the Donetsk direction, the enemy is conducting an offensive operation, concentrating its main efforts on the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions. It uses ground attack and army aviation,” the Ukrainian General Staff said on Facebook.
The last Russian strike on Sloviansk was July 30, but Ukrainian forces are fortifying their positions around the city in expectation of new fighting.
“I think it won’t be calm for long. Eventually, there will be an assault,” Col. Yurii Bereza, head of the volunteer national guard regiment, told The Associated Press.
Man who destroyed vast forest wins demise of park
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — In a move that shocked environmentalists, the government of Brazil’s third-largest state has given up a legal fight over protecting a state park in one of the Amazon's most biodiverse areas. The upshot of that decision is that a man responsible for the deforestation of huge swaths of protected land wins with finality a lawsuit against the government. The park will cease to exist.
Antonio José Rossi Junqueira Vilela has been fined millions of dollars for deforestation in Brazil and for stealing thousands of hectares (acres) of the Amazon rainforest. Yet it was a company linked to him that filed a lawsuit against the state of Mato Grosso, alleging it had improperly set the borders of the Cristalino II State Park.
The park stretches for 118,000 hectares (292,000 acres), larger than New York City, and lies in the transition zone between the Amazon and drier Cerrado biomes. It is home to the endemic white-fronted spider monkey (Ateles marginatus), a species endangered due to habitat loss.
In a 3-2 decision, Mato Grosso´s upper court ruled that the government's creation of the park in 2001 was illegal because it took place without public consultation.
The state government did not appeal that decision, leaving it to become final. Now the park will be officially dissolved, the government press office confirmed to The Associated Press.
Biden tests negative for COVID, isolating until 2nd negative
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Saturday but will continue to isolate at the White House until a second negative test, his doctor said.
Dr. Kevin O'Connor wrote in his latest daily update that the president, “in an abundance of caution,” will abide by the "strict isolation measures” in place since his “rebound” infection was detected July 30, pending a follow-up negative result.
Biden, 79, came down with the virus a second time three days after he had emerged from isolation from his initial bout with COVID-19, reported on July 21. There have been rare rebound cases documented among a small minority of those, who like Biden, were prescribed the anti-viral medication Paxlovid, which has been proved to reduce the risk of serious illness and death from the virus among those at highest risk.
O’Connor wrote that Biden “continues to feel very well.”
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Police to reward those who detect dummy IEDs
Devices planted in areas of high footfall
The Delhi police have decided to reward people who have detected dummy improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by the Special Cell in different districts of the Capital, officers said on Saturday.
In June, the police had said it will plant dummy IEDs in areas of high footfall to check the alertness of the local police.
DCP (PRO) Suman Nalwa said the police are closely working with security guards, parking attendants and watchmen among others, who are involved in security and vigilance, to raise awareness about the dummy IEDs. It is being done to encourage people to be more vigilant and become ears and eyes of the Delhi police, especially during Independence Day and Republic Day.
“This is an ongoing exercise which we are doing with the citizens of Delhi. There has been instances when the dummy is not detected. In that specific area, we sensitise the security people, the locals, shopkeepers, RWAs etc,” the DCP said.
“We have informed all the DCPs and SHOs of police stations to remain alert and raise awareness over security issues,” she added.
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SEATTLE, Aug. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alaska Airlines' airport customer service agents, stores, cargo, ground service and reservations agents, who are represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), have ratified a two-year contract extension. The contract passed overwhelmingly and includes increased pay with market reviews to ensure wage rates stay competitive, as well as increases in longevity pay. Job security has also been extended until Sept. 27, 2028.
Alaska's airport customer service agents, stores, cargo, ground service and reservation agents are responsible for assisting guests with upcoming and day-of travel, managing aircraft material and parts, loading cargo and readying aircraft for departures and arrivals.
"IAM negotiators strongly advocated for employees' needs, which included significant improvements to the wage structure," said Jenny Wetzel, vice president of labor relations at Alaska Airlines. "I'm glad we were able to reach an agreement that improves our employees' quality of life and is good for our company's long-term success. We are all very proud of this new agreement."
"This newly ratified IAM agreement at Alaska Airlines has raised the bar for the entire airline industry," said IAM General Vice President Richard Johnsen. "After keeping our world moving during the pandemic, our members at Alaska Airlines deserve the absolute best agreement possible. Today, the IAM has made that a reality."
The previous contract became amendable on Sept. 27, 2024. Contracts in the airline industry do not expire. Once they become amendable, the current contract remains in effect until a new agreement is ratified.
About Alaska Airlines
Alaska Airlines and our regional partners serve more than 120 destinations across the United States, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica and Mexico. We emphasize Next-Level Care for our guests, along with providing low fares for our guests, award-winning customer service and sustainability efforts. Alaska is a member of the oneworld global alliance. With the alliance and our additional airline partners, guests can travel to more than 1,000 destinations on more than 20 airlines while earning and redeeming miles on flights to locations around the world. Learn more about Alaska at news.alaskaair.com. Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air are subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group (NYSE: ALK).
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Chicago police and transit officials on Saturday pledged additional security for the city's trains to stem a spike in violent crime after the shooting death of a passenger overnight.
A 29-year-old man, Diuntel Moon, was shot multiple times in the chest and abdomen on a Chicago Transit Authority Red Line train on 79th Street in the Chatham neighborhood about 2 a.m. Saturday, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said at a news conference.
Moon was pronounced dead at a hospital. No suspects are in custody, Brown said.
“Senseless gun violence and incidents like these ... have no place in this city. It is unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” Brown said. “No resident should think twice about their safety on any part of CTA or in our neighborhoods.”
Brown and CTA president Dorval Carter denounced the spike in numbers, not seen for a decade. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that as of mid-July, CTA has reported 488 violent crimes this year, higher than at any point since the same period in 2011.
Gun violence in particular continues to haunt Chicago. In addition to Moon's killing, Chicago police Deputy Chief Rahman Muhammad on Saturday reported four other early morning homicides in the city. However, gun crimes are down this year compared to 2020 and 2021.
Through June, Chicago police reported 1,255 shootings and 310 homicides. That grisly pace would mean more than 600 for the year, but significantly fewer than the 836 in 2021.
Brown promised additional police officers will be assigned to the CTA starting Sunday, but he declined to specify how many for security reasons. He said the police presence on the CTA had been fortified earlier this year as well.
The CTA, which has an unarmed security force, will reinstate the use of canine patrols, Carter said without elaborating.
“It’s just another additional resource to use, obviously, in addition to the security guards," Carter said. “There’s nothing magical about the canine unit.”
“The more we can add to the CTA in both an unarmed security and prevention mode, armed CPD officers in an enforcement mode and really aggressive investigative efforts in bringing offenders to justice is all part of the criminal justice effort,” Brown said.
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LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A small airplane made an emergency landing Friday in a commercial district in Libertyville, officials said.
The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reports that engine failure forced the pilot to land the plane about 10:15 p.m. on Milwaukee Avenue near a Trader Joe's store. No one was injured, according to fire officials.
“Looks like a textbook landing, given the circumstances,” Libertyville fire officials said Saturday in a Facebook post.
Libertyville is 48 miles (77 kilometers) north of Chicago.
The pilot steered clear of automobiles while landing on a wide stretch of the street. The plan had minor damage from apparently hitting a street sign.
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COLONIE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities in the Albany area are hoping modern DNA tracing techniques will help solve the murder of an 18-year-old woman more than 60 years ago.
The body of Ruth Whitman was exhumed from a cemetery in Glenmont last week to perform DNA testing. The case had been cold since the 1990s when police pursued what turned out to be a bogus tip, but was reopened in 2012 when Whitman's family approached police.
Whitman disappeared in December 1959 after being seen walking away from the scene of a fire at a house in her neighborhood. Police have suspected deceased serial killer Robert Garrow, who lived in Whitman’s neighborhood at the time, but tell the Albany Times-Union they have at least two other people of interest — one in Florida and the other in Connecticut.
Some of the evidence collected by state police at the time of Whitman's murder was lost over time, but police are hopeful the evidence gathered from the exhumation will lead to a suspect.
“Fundamentally, they collected all the same evidence — they collected the fingernail scrapings at the time, they submitted them to the lab, they determined there was human blood and hair under her fingernails, they just didn’t have the technology to look for DNA,” Deputy Colonie Police Chief Robert Winn told the newspaper.
“We have a lot of information, a lot of potential suspects, although no real direction other than — more questions than answers,” he added.
A bus driver found Whitman's body the morning after she was last seen. She had been beaten and hit in the head with a blunt object, but there was no evidence she was robbed or sexually assaulted.
Garrow lived near Whitman at the time of her death. He served prison time for rape in the 1960s and was serving a 25-year sentence in 1978 for fatally stabbing a teenager when he escaped from Fishkill State Prison and was shot and killed in the ensuing manhunt.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Black Soil KY is celebrating five years of helping Kentucky farmers close the gap in agriculture and increase their market share.
Jennifer Palumbo takes you to the Lexington headquarters to talk to Ashley Smith, COO, and co-founder, about the group's mission and its upcoming events. Black Soil KY Week will be from August 21 through August 28.
The headquarters at 109 West Loudon Avenue, Suite 102 also have a Farmer's Markey every Saturday from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. through October 8.
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SEATTLE, Aug. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alaska Airlines' airport customer service agents, stores, cargo, ground service and reservations agents, who are represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), have ratified a two-year contract extension. The contract passed overwhelmingly and includes increased pay with market reviews to ensure wage rates stay competitive, as well as increases in longevity pay. Job security has also been extended until Sept. 27, 2028.
Alaska's airport customer service agents, stores, cargo, ground service and reservation agents are responsible for assisting guests with upcoming and day-of travel, managing aircraft material and parts, loading cargo and readying aircraft for departures and arrivals.
"IAM negotiators strongly advocated for employees' needs, which included significant improvements to the wage structure," said Jenny Wetzel, vice president of labor relations at Alaska Airlines. "I'm glad we were able to reach an agreement that improves our employees' quality of life and is good for our company's long-term success. We are all very proud of this new agreement."
"This newly ratified IAM agreement at Alaska Airlines has raised the bar for the entire airline industry," said IAM General Vice President Richard Johnsen. "After keeping our world moving during the pandemic, our members at Alaska Airlines deserve the absolute best agreement possible. Today, the IAM has made that a reality."
The previous contract became amendable on Sept. 27, 2024. Contracts in the airline industry do not expire. Once they become amendable, the current contract remains in effect until a new agreement is ratified.
About Alaska Airlines
Alaska Airlines and our regional partners serve more than 120 destinations across the United States, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica and Mexico. We emphasize Next-Level Care for our guests, along with providing low fares for our guests, award-winning customer service and sustainability efforts. Alaska is a member of the oneworld global alliance. With the alliance and our additional airline partners, guests can travel to more than 1,000 destinations on more than 20 airlines while earning and redeeming miles on flights to locations around the world. Learn more about Alaska at news.alaskaair.com. Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air are subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group (NYSE: ALK).
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Lionesses Leah Williamson, 25, and Beth Mead, 27, jet off to Ibiza to celebrate their Euros triumph: Heroes tuck into steak and truffle fries at exclusive STK restaurant, dance the night away at Ushuaia nightclub before belting out the hits at karaoke bar
Lionesses Leah Williamson and Beth Mead have jetted off to party island Ibiza for a fun-filled holiday to celebrate their Euros triumph.
Miss Williamson, the team captain, enjoyed a meal at exclusive restaurant STK, where she was presented with a huge Eton Mess cocktail after tucking into a prime fillet steak and truffle fries last Thursday.
The following night, the 25-year-old partied at club Ushuaia where she was seen dancing in a bucket hat and jeans.
Miss Williamson, the team captain, enjoyed a meal at exclusive restaurant STK, where she was presented with a huge Eton Mess cocktail
Meanwhile, Miss Mead, 27, who was crowned player of the tournament after England’s 2-1 victory over Germany, opted for karaoke, choosing to sing John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads.
The striker also posed for pictures for fans in a more upmarket bar. The pair have been joined by their Arsenal teammate, Dutch superstar Vivianne Miedema.
Meanwhile, the hero of the Euros final, Chloe Kelly, was yesterday cheered by crowds as she carried the match ball out at Loftus Road stadium, the home of her former team Queens Park Rangers.
Lauren Hemp also appeared at her home team Norwich City’s ground, while Rachel Daly attended Leeds United’s game against Wolves.
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You can't really call Kyrsten Sinema a centrist. "Moderate" isn't quite the right descriptor either.
Yeah, she's a Democratic senator who sometimes stands in the way of Democratic initiatives, and who occasionally supports Republican ones. And sure, every other word she utters is "bipartisan."
But she just flashed again a tendency toward a sort of immoderate extremism.
This week, Sinema stopped holding out and committed to vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, a deceptively named bill that mostly works to reduce carbon emissions and lower drug prices. It might also reduce inflation a little bit in the process, economic analyses show.
What was strange was the top condition Sinema demanded to guarantee her support. She demanded that Democrats delete a change to tax law in the bill that would have made some wealthy financial-sector employees pay more taxes.
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Here I'm referring to the so-called carried-interest loophole, which allows the partners in private-equity firms such as hedge funds to pay a tax rate on their investment income of 20% instead of 37%. Investment income is the main source of pay for these high-level investors, yet it is not taxed like the pay that you and I make.
In order to qualify for that lower rate, they have to keep the asset, the one that's making them the money, for at least three years. This part of the Inflation Reduction Act would simply have lengthened that time limit for holding the investment to five years. Holding the asset any less would subject them to higher tax rates.
So, the bill didn't even eliminate the loophole, as it should. Republicans and Democrats, both Donald Trump and Joe Biden in fact, have called for the carried interest loophole to be eliminated.
It is basically a tax-break for some of the wealthier people in country — the people who don't need it the most. But it has proven incredibly resistant.
Not surprisingly, the private-equity executives are fighting the change, and they have the money to make their opinions count. In fact, Sinema has been a big recipient of campaign donations from the private equity and investment sector.
Her campaign has taken in $2.2 million from employees or PACs in the securities and investment industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. It's her second highest category of donations, below retired people and above lawyers.
In 2020, her first year as a senator, she briefly interned at a California winery, called Three Sticks, owned by a private-equity investor named Bill Price. Later she held a fundraiser there.
But not every senator who gets donations from the investment industry bows to them on this issue. Sen. Chuck Schumer, who's from the center of the financial universe in New York City, gets the most donations from that industry of any senator. He still supports eliminating the loophole.
None of this, as you may have noticed, has anything much to do with Arizona. Sinema tried to make a case that there is an Arizona connection in her office's explanation of her propping up this tax break for the wealthy.
"Kyrsten has been clear and consistent for over a year that she will only support tax reforms and revenue options that support Arizona's economic growth and competitiveness," her office said in a written statement. "At a time of record inflation, rising interest rates, and slowing economic growth, disincentivizing investments in Arizona businesses would hurt Arizona's economy and ability to create jobs."
But I have seen no evidence that taxing wealthy investors' income at a higher rate would significantly affect Arizona's economy.
Defending Sinema's position, the American Investment Council put out a series of statements and explainers showing that private equity investment has had a positive effect on Arizona. I'm sure that's true. It still doesn't explain why the partners in their companies should have their income taxed at a lower rate than everyone else.
Interestingly, though, Sinema signed onto other tax increases that would raise much more money than altering the carried-interest loophole would have. These taxes help make the bill a net deficit-reducer by about $300 billion.
She agreed to a plan to impose a 1% tax on all stock buybacks by companies, a recently popular practice by which businesses spend their own money to raise their own stock price.
She also agreed to the 15% minimum tax on corporations that net more than $1 billion in annual income. Here Sinema did demand some changes that would benefit manufacturers by retaining a depreciation mechanism that I won't pretend to understand.
She also ensured that billions of additional funding for water and other drought relief in the West is included. Anything to improve water supplies and drought response is clearly a good thing for Arizona. Based on this, we know that she knows what it means to use her leverage for Arizona's benefit.
That only makes it more frustrating, though, that she would stick her neck out for private-equity investors. It's a brazen display of immoderation.
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Kyiv and Moscow on Friday accused each other of striking Europe’s largest nuclear site, causing a reactor stoppage.
Russian troops have occupied the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in southern Ukraine since the early days of Moscow’s invasion, and Kyiv has accused them of storing heavy weapons there.
Moscow, in turn, has accused Ukrainian forces of targeting the plant.
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“Three strikes were recorded on the site of the plant, near one of the power blocks where the nuclear reactor is located,” Ukrainian state power plant operator Energoatom said in a statement. “There are risks of hydrogen leakage and radioactive spraying. The fire danger is high.”
Energoatom did not report any casualties.
It said staff of Russian nuclear operator Rosatom had hastily left the plant before the attacks, which damaged a power cable and forced one of the reactors to stop working.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in his daily video address said Russia should “take responsibility for the very fact of creating a threat to a nuclear plant.”
“Today, the occupiers have created another extremely risky situation for all of Europe. They struck the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant twice. Any bombing of this site is a shameless crime, an act of terror,” he said.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs earlier this week said that the “possible consequences of hitting a working reactor are equivalent to using an atomic bomb.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense denied the reports.
“Ukrainian armed units carried out three artillery strikes on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the city of Energodar,” it said.
The new spike in tensions came as Russian President Vladimir Putin was meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi.
Putin thanked Erdogan for helping orchestrate the resumption of Ukrainian grain shipments, the first of which is due to arrive in Lebanon today, according to the Ukrainian embassy in Beirut.
Meanwhile, Moscow on Friday announced that it was imposing entry bans on 62 Canadian citizens including government officials.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the list included figures known for “their malicious activity in the fight against the Russian world and our traditional values.”
The listing came as Zelenskiy’s office and local authorities reported overnight Russian bombardments targeting the southern city of Mykolaiv with widely-banned cluster bombs and heavy artillery — injuring 20 people, including a 14-year-old boy.
Mykolaiv is on the main route to Odesa, Ukraine’s biggest port on the Black Sea, and is the closest city to the southern front.
Several missiles struck the city of Zaporizhzhia overnight and there was heavy bombardment of Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv, in the northeast, authorities said.
URGENT CALL: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency pleaded to gain access to the plant, saying ‘every principle of nuclear safety has been violated The UN’s nuclear chief on Tuesday warned that Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine “is completely out of control,” and issued an urgent plea to Russia and Ukraine to quickly allow experts to visit the sprawling complex to stabilize the situation and avoid a nuclear accident. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi said in an interview that the situation is getting more perilous every day at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in the southeastern city of Enerhodar, which Russian troops seized in early March, soon after their Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. “Every principle of nuclear safety has been
On a beach in the Chinese coastal city of Xiamen, just a few kilometers from Taiwan’s Kinmen, life is carefree, despite some of the worst cross-strait tensions in decades. Ignoring warnings from Beijing, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday — the highest-ranking elected US official to visit the nation in 25 years — sparking a diplomatic firestorm. China yesterday launched some of its largest-ever military drills — exercises set to disrupt one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. However, on Xiamen’s palm-fringed beach, there was little concern. “A war? No, I don’t care,” a young IT worker surnamed
MANAAKITANGA’: Tourism operators, businesses and universities welcomed the news, despite Immigration New Zealand cautioning not to expect a flood of visitors New Zealand’s borders yesterday fully opened for the first time since they abruptly snapped shut to keep COVID-19 out in March 2020. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the nation was “open for business” after the final stage of the phased reopening, which began in April, was completed on Sunday night. Visitors from around the world are once again allowed into New Zealand, including maritime arrivals, those on student visas and those from non-visa waiver countries, such as China and India. The reopening was “an enormous moment” Ardern said yesterday in a speech at the China Business Summit. “It’s been a staged and
According to Forrest Gump, life is like a box of chocolates because “you never know what you’re going to get.” Now, an Indian remake of the movie has been hit by boycott calls over years-old comments by its Muslim star, Aamir Khan. It is the latest example of how Bollywood actors, particularly minority Muslims such as Khan, are feeling increased pressure under Hindu nationalist Indian Prime Minister Modi. Laal Singh Chaddha, an Indian spin on the 1994 Hollywood hit with Tom Hanks, is expected to be one of India’s biggest films of the year. This is due in large part to its | https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2022/08/07/2003783130 | 2022-08-06T23:52:01Z | https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2022/08/07/2003783130 | true |
First Industrial Realty Trust Declares Common Stock Dividends
CHICAGO, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: FR), a leading fully integrated owner, operator and developer of industrial real estate, today announced that its board of directors declared a common stock dividend of $0.295 per share/unit for the quarter ending September 30, 2022 payable on October 17, 2022 to stockholders of record on September 30, 2022.
About First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc.
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Meet Australia's oldest little penguin, who has fathered chicks across the country
By Ethan RixJust shy of 21 years old, Gordon is the oldest Australian little penguin on record and is still maintaining an active love life despite his age.
Key points:
- Gordon the little penguin has fathered children across Australia
- The little penguin population in captivity helps ensure the species' survival
- Despite his age, Gordon continues to hatch chicks and feed them
Outliving the average life span of his species by more than 14 years, the senior penguin has also been busy safeguarding his species' declining population.
Gordon's bloodline runs strong, and he has successfully raised four adult daughters, who have gone on to breed in other colonies around Australia.
His minder at Adelaide Zoo, Amelia Kennett, said that was no small feat for an animal that usually mates for life.
"He has had quite a number of different partners, which is a little bit unusual for little penguins," Ms Kennett said.
"Especially because he does have a variety of partners it means he's not over-represented genetically too much … so he's done well in that part."
Despite having arthritis and partial blindness, Gordon continues to amaze, hatching another chick just the other day.
His keepers are hopeful the new hatchling will pull through.
"He just powers on," Ms Kennett said.
"As he's getting older and older, we're realising how significant that is and I guess he's quite a special one in the group."
Gordon is one of 14 little penguins at Adelaide Zoo.
With only half of little penguins surviving past their first year and the continuous loss of habitat, small populations like this one help ensure the existence of the species.
"By having a breeding population in captivity, it means we've got a little bit of a backup just in case things go south out in the wild," Ms Kennett said.
Parenting is a fifty-fifty job between little penguins, with the mother and father usually splitting feeding shifts between morning and night.
But with more parenting experience than any other, Gordon has learned to pick up the slack.
"For Gordon, if his mate is letting down the relationship a bit, he'll definitely step up and sometimes he'll do both feeds in a day," she said.
"He's a very good dad."
Since arriving from Sydney's Taronga Zoo two decades ago, Gordon has become a beloved character at Adelaide Zoo.
"They all have their unique personalities and attributes but Gordon is certainly one that stands out," Gordon's keeper chuckled.
"He's very routine based … which I guess comes with his age."
Gordon's nest is fittingly placed at the highest point of the enclosure, overlooking the pond and his penguin mates.
"We moved his nest box once and he was very determined that we never move it again," Ms Kennett said.
With an eagerness like his, the only sign of Gordon's age comes from his name, which was inspired by a brand of gin.
"We did have a number of birds named after alcohol, that has since been changed," his minder said.
"We do have a theme with names every year and way back then that's what that was."
Gordon currently sees an eye doctor once a year and occasionally takes pain medication but overall Ms Kennett said he was fit and healthy.
"He is more than comfortable at the moment but we keep a close eye on him," she said. | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-07/australia-oldest-penguin-father-gordon/101308090 | 2022-08-07T00:00:42Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-07/australia-oldest-penguin-father-gordon/101308090 | false |
Wildlife does use highway underpasses, Southern Cross University study reveals
Have you ever driven past special road crossings for wildlife and wondered if they actually work?
Key points:
- A new study by Southern Cross University provides evidence that road underpasses are used by wildlife to safely cross
- It's the first long-term study of underpasses in Australia and focussed on two locations in northern NSW
- It found some mammals were using underpasses more than once a week
There's new evidence to suggest they are effective, based on the first long-term study of road underpasses in Australia.
The research from Southern Cross University (SCU) was published in the journal Ecology and Evolution and based on a two-year study of underpasses located on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales.
During that time wildlife cameras detected close to 5,000 medium-to-large mammals and goannas using highway underpasses at Port Macquarie and Grafton.
The researchers studied 12 underpasses in those two areas– five under the Oxley Highway at Port Macquarie and seven under the Pacific Highway south of Grafton – comparing camera trap detections of animals at underpasses with those at nearby forest sites.
The lead researcher, SCU Associate Professor Ross Goldingay, said the results were encouraging.
"More than 4,800 detections were made; that number was quite astounding," he said.
"These crossing rates suggests animals used the underpasses to forage on both side of the freeways."
Associate Professor Goldingay said certain species, including eastern grey kangaroos, swamp wallabies, red-necked wallabies, red-necked pademelons, and lace monitors crossed some underpasses more than once per week.
"We actually got quite a bit of traffic of animals passing through those underpasses, particularly in Port Macquarie … it's a wetter forest type there so it seems there's a greater abundance of animals," he said.
"We were getting eastern grey kangaroos and swamp wallabies moving through two to four times per week and other species, including the red-necked pademelon was going through once every two weeks, so quite frequently.
"At Grafton we've got a very high use of a couple of underpasses by echidnas and another small wallaby called the rufous bettong, which is actually a NSW-listed threatened species."
'Prey-trap' concerns dismissed
The study also dispelled concerns that underpasses could become a "prey-trap" used by introduced feral pests and that animals could become caught in the relatively confined area.
"We looked at that in detail as there have been a couple of other short-term studies where they have had frequent occurrences of foxes in a few underpasses, and in one case in Western Australia that coincided in a decline in the bandicoots using that particular underpass," Professor Goldingay.
"Because we had more underpasses and a longer period for this study, we were able to look at this in more detail than anyone has before."
Professor Goldingay said predators which were detected at the underpasses included the introduced red fox, feral cat, and dingo.
"What we found was feral cats were very rare at both sites. We did have dingoes at both sites, but they weren't very frequent in the underpasses," he said.
"The red fox is the main concern, particularly in Port Macquarie. Of the five underpasses there, there were three that were used relatively frequently.
"However, the fox activity coincided less than expected with the activity of the mammals most at risk and it seemed potential prey were possibly avoiding using the underpasses when foxes were about."
Caution still needed
Despite the positive study results, Professor Goldingay said any expansion of road networks in Australia still needed to be done with caution.
"Australia's wildlife species are increasingly threatened with extinction by habitat clearing and fragmentation," he said.
"One leading cause of this is the expansion of our road network, particularly the upgrade and duplication of major highways.
"Underpasses are a useful generic tool to enable wildlife to move across landscapes with roads. But not all ground-dwelling species of wildlife will find underpasses to their liking but so far, many do." | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-07/highway-underpasses-are-being-used-by-wildlife/101302436 | 2022-08-07T00:01:01Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-07/highway-underpasses-are-being-used-by-wildlife/101302436 | false |
RaySecur Expands MailSecur Offering to Address the Unique Mail-Screening Requirements of Correctional Facilities
First release solves the urgent need to accurately detect drug-laced papers
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RaySecur®, the leading provider of desktop T-ray security imaging scanners, has announced an expansion of its T-Suite Image Processing Platform for detecting papers laced with illicit drugs.
Correctional facilities are struggling to stem the flow of drugs into prisons and jails, particularly papers soaked with drugs and other harmful substances. When dried, the drug-laced papers can be undetectable to humans, making the papers an ideal substrate for smuggling. When paper is treated with drugs, it changes the way the paper interacts with the T-rays, which enables the MailSecur® scanner to detect the anomaly – without anyone having to open the mail.
Postal mail is a leading method of smuggling illicit drugs and contraband into correctional facilities. The influx has increased the exposure risk for mail screeners and correctional officers to harmful substances and resulted in a rise in inmate overdoses and deaths.
RaySecur recognized the urgency of the problem and worked in partnership with multiple state departments of corrections and private correctional facility management companies, leading to the development of exclusive imaging capabilities that specifically target drug-laced papers.
"We know first-hand the challenges that mail screening poses for correctional facilities. It's a manual process that requires a lot of resources, time, and staffing. Often, this process involves opening individual items, exposing correctional staff to potentially dangerous substances. Since drug-laced paper is invisible to the naked eye, it will continue to evade detection, and when staff handle the paper for tactile inspection it increases their risk of exposure. We see this latest detection capability as the first of a series of software and hardware platform solutions developed specifically for corrections to meet the challenge of the ever-changing methods of smugglers to evade detection," stated Will Plummer, CSO of RaySecur.
The enhanced imaging capability in the MailSecur scanner provides a simple, real-time visual indication that sheets of paper inside a sealed envelope have been treated with drugs, eliminating the need for extensive operator training. Untreated or normal paper displays a green image, while treated papers will present as yellow or red depending upon the saturation level. These new detection capabilities are in use now at select correctional partners. General availability of the laced paper T-Suite solution will be in Q4 2022, with other offerings to follow.
Mail screening with the MailSecur desktop scanner is simple: place the letter or parcel on the scanning bed, and it will instantly display a 4D video of the contents in real-time which will dynamically change as the operator manipulates the object on the scanning bed. MailSecur uses safe T-rays, or mmWaves, and is the first scanner of its kind to receive Department of Homeland Security (DHS) designation as a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology (QATT) under the DHS Safety Act.
Unlike X-ray imaging, which emit harmful radiation and require safety inspections and trained operators, MailSecur requires no special training and is 300X more sensitive than X-rays at detecting powders or liquids. In addition, MailSecur can detect all 9 types of dangerous substances identified by DHS, including chemical and biological substances, drugs, weapons, explosives, and even radiological threats among other forms of contraband. Each scanner can connect to an optional RaySecur private wireless network with direct, one-touch remote access to trained military Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) professionals who assist MailSecur users with ongoing training and threat resolution.
Attendees of the American Correctional Association (ACA) 152 Congress of Correction in New Orleans, LA from August 4-7 can see the new functionality in action! Visit RaySecur in Booth # 413.
About RaySecurRaySecur® is revolutionizing security imaging with the world's first DHS Safety Act-designated millimeter wave scanners, remote analysis, and threat detection solutions. RaySecur's flagship, and award-winning, product, MailSecur®, is a desktop scanner used by leading Fortune 500 companies, heads of state, and government agencies to detect mail-borne threats. RaySecur and MailSecur are RaySecur, Inc. trademarks. For more information on RaySecur and MailSecur, visit www.RaySecur.com.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Classic Lotto 47" game were:
07-08-21-23-44-46
(seven, eight, twenty-one, twenty-three, forty-four, forty-six)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Classic Lotto 47" game were:
07-08-21-23-44-46
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Cool Papa Bell scored the biggest upset in the history of the Hambletonian, charging late to edge filly Joviality S by three-quarters of a length in a wild finish to the most prestigious race for 3-year-old in trotting.
The stunning victory by the 52-1 shot gave trainer Jim Campbell a sweep of both the Hambletonian and the Hambletonian Oaks on Saturday. It also gave up-and-coming driver Todd McCarthy his first Hambletonian win.
The colt named in honor of baseball Hall of Famer and former Negro leagues legend James Thomas Bell paid $106, $25.40 and $10.20 after trotting the mile at the Meadowlands in 1:51.3.
The previous biggest upset was when Amigo Hall paid $57 after winning in 2003.
Joviality S, who was trying to become the third filly in five years to win the Hambletonian, returned $4.40 and $3.20 as runner-up with Brian Sears in the bike. Temporal Hanover, driven by Orjan Kihlstrom, paid $6.60 to show in the field of 10.
Heavily favored Rebuff and driver Tim Tetrick finished sixth after leading the field entering the stretch. Third choice Jiggy Jog S, the other filly in the race, finished fourth.
In the Oaks, Tetrick moved Fashion Schooner quickly from the outside No. 10 post, took the lead early and posted a 2 1/4-length victory. The filly trotted the mile in 1:51.2 in winning for the fifth time in eight starts this year.
Warrawee Xenia and Venerable, the last weekend's elimination winners and the heavy favorites, both broke stride and never were in contention.
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Updated August 6, 2022 at 7:40 PM ET
After weeks of negotiations to revive the core of their election-year agenda, Senate Democrats appear to be on the brink of passing a spending bill which would attempt to tackle climate change, the high cost of prescription drugs and lower the deficit by roughly $300 billion.
Opening the Senate floor for a rare Saturday session, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said, "No matter how long it takes, the Senate is going to stay in session to finish this bill."
The Senate voted along party lines to begin formal debate on the floor Saturday evening. After debate concludes, senators can introduce an unlimited number of amendments in what's known as a "vote-a-rama." Also allowed during vote-a-rama is a call to have the entire text of the bill, which is roughly 700 pages, read aloud.
The process is expected to stretch into Sunday before a vote on final passage.
Three weeks ago, the bill was all but dead when Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., withheld his support, citing concerns about adding to historically high inflation.
But just last week, he and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced an agreement, much to the surprise of others in the Senate. Manchin's concerns about inflation were placated by, among others, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, a Democrat who has previously been a critic of how his party has handled inflation.
Summers and other economists have argued the bill will tamp down inflation, but the Congressional Budget Office estimates that it will have negligible impact on prices in the near-term.
The legislation is a significant step forward for President Biden's domestic agenda
"This bill is a gamechanger for working families and our economy," Biden said at an event at the White House Friday. "I look forward to the Senate taking up this legislation and passing it as soon as possible."
Republicans are united against the bill, arguing that the spending in it will make inflation worse and that the health provisions will hamper pharmaceutical innovation.
"Democrats have decided their first economic disaster justifies a second economic disaster. The working people of this country feel very differently," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on Saturday, but there is little his conference can do to stop the legislation.
The bill is getting passed through budget reconciliation, which allows Democrats to pass the bill with a simple majority in the evenly-divided chamber and avoid the threat of a Republican filibuster that applies to most legislation.
It also means each section of the bill needs to be reviewed by the Senate parliamentarian to make sure it is actually legislation that will primarily impact the budget. This review process is often referred to as the "Byrd Bath," named after the late West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd.
Democrats said on Saturday that the parliamentarian approved key elements of the bill on prescription drug pricing and clean energy. One element that would compel drug companies to offer rebates if prescription prices outpaced inflation was limited in the process so that it would apply to patients on medicare but not private insurance. Still, Schumer said the bill remains mostly intact and "can win the support of all 50 Democrats."
Democrats appear to have all 50 votes in their conference after Sinema agreement
Late Thursday night, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said she would "move forward" with the legislation; she was the last holdout on the bill and her support essentially means the Senate has all 50 Democratic votes needed to pass the bill.
To get on board, Sinema wanted the section of the bill that narrowed the carried interest tax loophole to be removed. The measure impacts how private equity is taxed and Democrats say it would have brought in $14 billion.
What Sinema wanted to add, though, brings in more revenue. It's a 1% excise tax on stock buybacks — Schumer said Friday he and progressive Democrats were excited about that aspect of the bill, which he says brings in roughly $74 billion.
"What we added excites me and I think it excites all Democrats and particularly progressives," Schumer said at a press conference Friday. "I hate stock buybacks. I think they're one of the most self-serving things that corporate America does."
Also added in is about $4 billion in drought resiliency put forward by Senators Catherine Cortez-Masto, D-Nev., Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo. Sinema had also called for this addition in the bill.
There is still criticism of the bill coming from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who has argued the legislation doesn't do enough for working class Americans by not increasing the minimum wage, making child care more affordable or tackling the student debt crisis.
He took to the Senate floor Wednesday and called it the "so-called" Inflation Reduction Act.
"As currently written, this is an extremely modest piece of legislation that does virtually nothing to address the enormous crises that working families all across this country are facing today," he said.
He added that he plans to bring up his concerns during the amendment process on the floor over the weekend, but a scenario in which Sanders' concerns prevent him from voting for the bill altogether is highly unlikely.
What could be another hurdle for the bill is opposition from progressives in the House, which is set to return to consider the legislation late next week.
It caps off a busy — and successful — stretch for Biden's domestic agenda
In the past few weeks, the Senate has voted on a bill to expand helth services for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits, a semiconductor bill, and a measure to allow Finland and Sweden into NATO — and all of those votes have been bipartisan.
Schumer, though, has made it clear that Senate Democrats will also go it alone if they have to, which is what they're doing with this bill. No Republican will vote for the legislation, but with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Harris, Democrats can still cinch a victory.
It caps off a busy week on Capitol Hill and also sets up a busy week for the president, who already has a slew of bills to sign into law next week.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
4-9-4-6
(four, nine, four, six)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
4-9-4-6
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SHANGHAI, Aug. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Epigenic Therapeutics Co., Ltd., a frontier biotechnology company dedicated to developing next generation gene editing therapy utilizing regulation of epigenetic genome for wide variety of diseases, today announced it has secured $20 million in Series Angel and Pre-A funding. Series Pre-A funding is jointly invested by Morningside Venture Capital, Kingray Capital, Trinity Innovation Fund and TigerYeah Capital. Angel investor FountainBridge Capital is also participating.
Proceeds of financing will be used to validate advances of the Company's proprietary epigenetic editing in non-human primates, expand expertise and capabilities, and sponsor early-stage clinical investigations.
Epigenetic modification is a natural and heritable gene regulation mechanism in the human body without altering the underlying DNA sequence. Leveraging company's proprietary and patented technology platform, scientists are able to harness endogenous epigenetic gene regulation pathway to precisely and efficiently deliver medicine to target cells and tissues, and achieve potent and durable therapeutic impact. Epigenic Therapeutics has gathered highly talented scientists and industry veterans to direct discovery and development.
"Epigenetic editing is an emerging and highly differentiated gene editing technology." Said Bob Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Epigenic Therapeutics, "along with our scientific co-founders and advisers, we are able to expand our understanding of precise regulation of epigenetic genome, and unlock its potential as medicine for many diseases. With the funding, we will continue expanding our team and capabilities, validate the technology platform in animal model, and accelerate our leading product from discovery to clinical development."
"Epigenic Therapeutics is uniquely positioned in various gene editing therapy developers. We are thrilled to invest in Epigenic Therapeutics and we believe this company has solid foundation to further explore and develop precise genome medicine to benefit many patients." Commented by Michael Xue, Managing Director of Morningside Venture Capital.
About Epigenic Therapeutics' Technology Platform
Epigenic Therapeutics' proprietary technology platform employs its own artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to explore and obtain an optimized CRISPR-Cas component to regulate target gene(s) or govern the expression of one or multiple gene(s) at once without changing the sequence of the DNA. Among peer technologies, our platform is capable to overcome the potential risk rising from DNA cleavage including but not limited to off-target effect, short half-life and challenging patient compliance issues. Combing a patented lipid nanoparticle (LNP) medicine delivery system, Epigenic Therapeutics' platform has been proven to precisely and efficiently deliver medicine to target cells and tissues ex vivo and in vivo in ocular, neurodegeneration, metabolic, and rare disease models.
About Epigenic Therapeutics
Epigenic Therapeutics is a frontier biotechnology company dedicated to developing next generation gene editing therapy utilizing regulation of epigenetic genome for a variety of diseases. Founded in 2021 by leading scientists focused on discovering gene editing technologies and developing gene editing therapies, the company has multiple product candidates in the pipeline, including treatment for ocular, neurodegeneration, metabolic, and rare diseases. For more information, visit www.epigenictx.com
About Morningside Venture Capital
Morningside Ventures was founded in 1986 by the Chan Family of Hong Kong. Since its establishment, Morningside has been focusing on trends of the forefront life science and healthcare industries over the world, spreading its business scope and investment footprint over North America, Europe and Greater China. Morningside comprises a group of investment professionals who are entrepreneurial, have deep industry knowledge and profound experience in venture capital management. For more information, please visit http://www.morningside.com
About Kingray Capital
Kingray Capital was founded in 2018, focusing on investment opportunities in the fields of information security, new energy, industrial intelligence, medical and health care and enterprise services. Kingray Capital is committed to helping high-tech enterprises grow rapidly and creating long-term and stable investment returns for investors.
About Trinity Innovation Fund
Trinity Innovation Fund ("TIF") is dedicated to investing on biomedical innovations. Our limited partners (LPs) include renowned biopharmaceutical companies and investment institutions. Embedded in our name, TRINITY represents the basic philosophy as "Triad of scientists, managers and investors, let professionals do their own jobs". As investor, TIF helps scientists to transform research outcomes, managers to develop corporates. Together, we turn Innovation into Cure. Leveraging on our profound industry knowledge and resources, we are committed to accelerating growth of our portfolio companies via strategy optimization, recruitment of key positions, partnering and more.
About TigerYeah Capital
TigerYeah Capital, an independent venture capital institution under Tigermed, was founded in 2014.TigerYeah Capital focuses on equity investment in the early and growing medical and health field. The management team has deep industrial background, extensive industrial resources and rich investment experience. Since its inception, TigerYeah Capital whose investment portfolio covers medical devices, biomedicine, CRO and health food has completed nearly 100 projects with the investment of 1.5 billion yuan. Through empowering the invested enterprises, TigerYeah Capital values the development of China and the global medical and health industry and makes contribution to public health.
About FountainBridge Capital
Fountainbridge Capital is an avant-garde and emerging venture capital focusing on early-stage innovations. Starting even from ideas or concepts, Fountainbridge works closely with entrepreneurs and researchers to set up new companies and translate innovation into market products. Under the guidance of deep research, Fountainbridge has made outstanding investments in cutting-edge technology including semiconductor, cloud computing, bio-tech and green energy, and consumer innovation like new retailing, overseas brand and novel consumer-electronics. Being the first investor of most portfolios, Fountainbridge is the founder and also the co-founder of start-ups. With a robust ecosystem built, Fountainbridge helps in growth strategy, top industrial experts' recruitment, patent application, legal counseling, and continuous fundraising. Many of Fountainbridge portfolios has become market leaders.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Judith Durham, Australia’s folk music icon who achieved global fame as the lead singer of The Seekers, has died. She was 79.
Durham died in Alfred Hospital in Melbourne on Friday night after suffering complications from a long-standing lung disease, Universal Music Australia and Musicoast said in a statement on Saturday.
She made her first recording at 19 and rose to fame after joining The Seekers in 1963. The group of four became the first Australian band to achieve major chart and sales success in the U.K. and the United States, eventually selling 50 million records.
International hits included “The Carnival is Over,” “I’ll Never Find Another You,” “A World of Our Own” and “Georgy Girl.”
Durham embarked on a solo career in 1968 but recorded with The Seekers again in the 1990s.
“This is a sad day for Judith’s family, her fellow Seekers, the staff of Musicoast, the music industry and fans worldwide, and all of us who have been part of Judith’s life for so long,” said The Seekers’ management team member Graham Simpson.
Her bandmates in The Seekers — Keith Potger, Bruce Woodley and Athol Guy — said their lives had been changed forever by losing “our treasured lifelong friend and shining star”.
“Her struggle was intense and heroic, never complaining of her destiny and fully accepting its conclusion. Her magnificent musical legacy Keith, Bruce and I are so blessed to share,” they said.
Tributes flowed for the beloved singer, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese describing Durham as “a national treasure and an Australian icon.”
“Judith Durham gave voice to a new strand of our identity and helped blaze a trail for a new generation of Aussie artists,” Albanese wrote on Twitter. “Her kindness will be missed by many, the anthems she gave to our nation will never be forgotten.”
In her home state Victoria, Premier Dan Andrews said Durham had conquered the music world both in Australia and overseas.
“With her unique voice and stage presence leading The Seekers, the band became one of Australia’s biggest chart toppers,” he said. | https://www.wjhl.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/judith-durham-australias-folk-music-icon-dies-at-79/ | 2022-08-07T00:07:39Z | https://www.wjhl.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/judith-durham-australias-folk-music-icon-dies-at-79/ | true |
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities have suspended the work of a prominent LGBTQ rights group, calling it an illegal entity.
Sexual Minorities Uganda has been the East African nation’s most prominent support group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people since 2004.
Its leader, Frank Mugisha, said Saturday that authorities who oversee non-governmental organizations advised him to suspend activities, saying his group lacked needed documentation.
“This means that the life-saving work we do is on hold. We can’t protect and support vulnerable LGBT people,” he said. “The background, of course, is homophobia and transphobia.”
The NGO Bureau said in a statement that the group needed to stop work “with immediate effect” because it’s neither a company nor an NGO.
The case against Sexual Minorities Uganda stems from the group’s name itself. The registrar of companies declined to register that name, saying it was unsuitable. A judge agreed, and the group’s appeal to a higher court is awaiting judgement, Mugisha said.
He said that because of the hostility to his group over the years, he decided to run it as “an association” instead of an NGO.
Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda under a colonial-era law that criminalizes sex acts “against the order of nature,” and LGBTQ people face widespread discrimination.
Some Ugandan officials have urged tough new legislation after a panel of judges nullified an anti-gay law enacted by President Yoweri Museveni in 2014 amid international condemnation.
That law, invalidated because it had been passed by lawmakers during a session that lacked a quorum, prescribed punishments of up to life in prison for individuals convicted of engaging in same-sex activity.
The original version of that bill, first introduced in 2009, included the death penalty for what it called aggravated acts of homosexuality. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/authorities-in-uganda-suspend-prominent-lgbtq-rights-group/ | 2022-08-07T00:07:53Z | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/authorities-in-uganda-suspend-prominent-lgbtq-rights-group/ | false |
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