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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque city officials held a news conference Sunday to provide an update on the ongoing investigation into a string of killings of Muslim men dating back to 2021.
The slayings date back to November with three happening in the last week, including the latest on Friday, authorities said. Investigators say the victims’ race and religion were common elements. Police are trying to determine if they are linked.
The fourth victim, Naeem Hussain, was ambushed and shot – just like the other three victims.
The Albuquerque Police Department (APD) has launched an online portal where people can submit anonymous tips relating to the killings.
Police say they are going to be ramping up patrols near mosques and Muslim-affiliated schools.
“We have members of our Muslim community who are afraid to participate in everyday activities. They should never be afraid to do things like shopping, things like praying, things like going to school,” Mayor Tim Keller said.
The killings have spread fear beyond New Mexico, where Muslims comprise less than 1% of adults in the statewide population of 2.1 million, according to Pew Research Center.
“The fact the suspect remains at large is terrifying,” Debbie Almontaser, a Muslim community leader in New York, wrote on Twitter. “Who is next?!”
In a phone interview, Almontaser said that a female friend who lives in Michigan and wears the hijab head covering shared with her over the weekend just how rattled she was. “She’s like, ‘This is so terrifying. I’m so scared. I travel alone,’” Almontaser said.
The city is offering assistance to anyone in the Muslim community who may be afraid to leave their home. Residents can contact 311 and they will bring groceries or hot meals.
Investigators did not say where the images were taken or what led them to suspect the car was involved in the slayings. Police spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos said in an email Monday that the agency has received tips regarding the car but did not elaborate.
“We have a very, very strong link,” Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller said Sunday. “We have a vehicle of interest … We have got to find this vehicle.”
President Joe Biden said he was “angered and saddened” by the killings and that his administration “stands strongly with the Muslim community.”
“These hateful attacks have no place in America,” Biden said Sunday in a tweet.
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Megan Thee Stallion finally made her way through The Pynk. The rapper made her on-screen debut as Tina Snow during the penultimate episode of P-Valley season 2 after it was revealed earlier in the summer that she would be guest-starring on the show.
Both creator Katori Hall and star J. Alphonse Nicholson spoke to ET about Stallion’s appearance, which coincided with lots of drama on the series, and what it was like having the rapper on set. “It was epic,” Nicholson says of having “one of the biggest rappers of all time” on the Starz drama. “She is amazing.”
For Hall, it was something she had been hoping for since the beginning of the series. “We have been wanting her to be on the show, whether it was as a rapper, as an actress, from season 1,” she says, explaining that it wasn’t until Nicco Annan and Brandee Evans appeared in a music video with Stallion that they were able to finally connect with the rapper and discuss her being on the series.
“Eventually we got a chance to connect via Zoom and the rest is history,” Hall says, explaining that the two were “on the same page in terms of how we wanted to just visually articulate a version of her alter ego, Tina Snow, through P-Valley.”
[Warning: Spoilers for P-Valley season 2, episode nine, “Snow,” written by Hall.]
Leading up to episode nine, which was aptly titled “Snow,” the rapper was first heard earlier in the season, when she made a voice cameo in episode two. During that scene, DJ Neva Scared (Brandon Gilpin) reveals to Lil’ Murda (Nicholson) that he’s working with an Atlanta-based artist. “Run that beat back for a real b***h,” Stallion is heard saying as Snow.
Later, in episode six, viewers hear more of Murda and Snow’s collaboration, “Get It on the Floor,” which finally starts getting radio play, much to Murda's delight. However, his excitement is cut short by Big Teak’s (John Clarence Stewart) suicide. But after reuniting with Uncle Clifford (Annan), Murda bounces back -- and just in time to take the stage at the Chucalissa, Mississippi, strip club alongside Snow.
“I love the fact that I get to share the screen with her and have these awesome scenes,” Nicholson says, adding that “by the time we get to the episode, [Murda and Snow] are stars. They come in as true stars of Chucalissa, as true stars of The Pynk and they put on an incredible performance.”
Halfway through episode nine, Snow finally shows up at The Pynk as Murda reveals that the two will deliver a one-time performance, kicking off their tour together. And after a brief interaction with Clifford, who throws some sass Snow’s way, the two prepare to perform their hit record.
“That obviously comes off as very, very funny for the audience because we know where their hearts lie,” Hall says of Cliff’s shade.
With nearly everyone from P-Valley in the audience, from Andre Watkins (Parker Sawyers) rallying last-minute votes to Keyshawn Harris (Shannon Thornton) owning the pole, Snow and Murda deliver an epic live rendition of “Get It on the Floor,” which Hall describes as “‘Murda Night’ on crack.”
“He performed by himself last season,” Hall says, referring to the season 1 finale. “But with Tina Snow and him onstage together, it was just this dynamic duo that I really, really am so proud that we were able to pull it off.”
She adds that “when they performed it that day [on set], the crowd went wild. They just couldn’t believe what they were watching and that they were, like, this close from Megan Thee Stallion and Tina Snow.”
However, their shining moment is cut short when a fight erupts in the crowd and everyone scatters for safety, with Cliff making sure Tina was safe and sound on her tour bus. While the fight doesn’t necessarily mean the end of Snow and Murda’s collab, Nicholson cryptically teases what’s next for the two moving forward.
“He appreciates the fact that he’s getting this opportunity to go on tour with Tina Snow, and have a great opportunity to get his music out there. But he also wants to be himself. He also wants to stay true to who he is,” the actor says, noting that includes seeing how things are going to play out with Clifford.
He adds, “He wants to be with Uncle Cliffy… But he also cares about this music.”
As for whether fans will see Snow again, Hall isn’t making any promises one way or another. “I’m just taking it one season at a time, as there has not been a season 3 renewal yet,” the creator says, before adding later that she “hopes this opportunity comes by again because [Megan]’s definitely a professional.”
When it comes to having Stallion on set, Nicholson also gushes that “she was a true professional; she came in so well prepared.” Not only that, but “she was so down to earth,” Hall adds, adding that any nerves among the cast quickly dissipated once the rapper started working with everyone. “She’s just a down-home, sweet girl… I was really, really impressed by her.”
While her future on P-Valley is unclear, this is not the last time fans will see the rapper on screen. In addition to the series, she’s also slated to make her feature film debut in F***ing Identical Twins. And Nicholson believes this is just the beginning for her. “I think she has a future in acting, that’s for sure,” he says.
As for the song itself, it was something decided on as soon as Stallion confirmed she would appear on the show. And it just so happened that she was working on her own album at the time, and “she felt this particular song, ‘Get It on the Floor,’ would be perfect for P-Valley,” Hall says. “And when she sent it over to us, we absolutely agreed.”
“We got a banger. We definitely got an epic song,” Nicholson says, noting how “surreal” it was to have collaborated with Stallion as his fictional character. Excited for the fans of the show to hear it in full, he can’t wait to “see how the world is gonna respond to it.”
While “Get It on the Floor” is not streaming yet, it will be available when the P-Valley soundtrack is released on Aug. 14, the same day as the season 2 finale.
P-Valley airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Starz.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Root Brands has partnered with the International Science Nutrition Society (ISNS) to do third party testing and collaborations with scientists, doctors, researchers, hospitals, and companies, in science and nutrition. Focusing on education and research in the areas of the environment, health, wellness, medicine, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, nutrition, biotech, phytology, and ecology.
ISNS acquires and shares knowledge while providing emotional, mental, and spiritual expertise through a mind, body, spirit and soul approach platform. ISNS is comprised of world-renowned doctors, healthcare professionals, and research scientists with extensive backgrounds in the science, nutrition, nutraceutical, and pharmaceutical industries.
It is important to ISNS's founder, Dr. Christina Rahm, a mother of four, that ISNS offers memberships to any individual interested in science and nutrition. Dr. Rahm states, "Every loving and caring mother and father can be scientist and nutrition experts. They need to be to take care of their family. There is nothing that makes individuals want to gain knowledge more than trying to help others through improved health. ISNS welcomes all individuals dedicated to this endeavor of betterment of self and others."
This community was created on the principle that the science behind nutrition is often demoted to addressing problems without solving the root cause of the issue. ISNS is an evidence-based society where science is integrated into all areas of health and wellness. The members have access to the latest research and case studies in these areas. ISNS also provides opportunities for research and grants with an extensive library of resources on natural ingredients, minerals, vitamins, and plants. The Root Brands has partnered with ISNS for case studies, scientific guidance, research and education. Root's founder, Clayton Thomas states, "I partnered with ISNS to get third-party testing and case studies done on products internationally. Due to ISNS's global reach, they have been able to conduct a great deal of work on products which will be beneficial to consumers all over the world."
ISNS is a membership only community, encompassing medical professionals, students, mothers, academics, healthcare providers, scientists, and researchers worldwide. There are three levels of membership: basic, associate, and professional. To register and to learn: sciencenutritionsociety.com
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NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of Terra Tokens, including UST, LUNA, KRT, ANC, WHALE, ASTRO, APOLLO, XDEFI, MINE, aUST, vUST, MIR, Mirrored Assets (e.g. mBTC, mETH, mVIXY, mTSLA, etc.), Liquidity Pool tokens (e.g. UST-mVIXY-LP, bLUNA-LUNA-LP, XDEFI-UST-LP, etc.) and/or Bonded Assets (e.g. bLUNA and bETH) (together "Terra Tokens"), between May 20, 2021 and May 25, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 19, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action lawsuit against Defendants TerraForm Labs Pte. Ltd ("TFL"), Jump Crypto, Jump Trading LLC, Republic Capital, Republic Maximal LLC, Tribe Capital, DeFinance Capital, DeFinance Technologies, GSR/GSR Market Limited, Three Arrows Capital Pte. Ltd, TFL's co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Do Kwon, and TFL's Head of Research, Nicholas Platias (Kwon and Platias together, "Individual Defendants").
SO WHAT: If you purchased Terra during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Terra class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7750 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 19, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, TFL and the Individual Defendants violated provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act") by selling non-exempt securities without registering them. The complaint alleges that TFL and the Individual Defendants also violated provisions of the Securities Act by participating in TFL's failure to register the Terra Tokens.
Also according to the lawsuit, Defendants violated provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by carrying out a plan, scheme, and course of conduct that TFL intended to and did deceive retail investors and thereby caused them to purchase Terra Tokens at artificially inflated prices; endorsed false statements they knew or recklessly should have known were materially misleading; and made untrue statements of material fact and omitted to state material facts necessary to make the statements made not misleading.
The lawsuit further alleges non-securities claims against Defendants including violations of provisions of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO") by conducting the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity, California common law claims for aiding and abetting and for civil conspiracy, and provisions of California common law by possessing the monetary value of Terra Tokens at inflated value which rightfully belongs to the putative members of the Class.
To join the Terra class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7750 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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MORTON GROVE, Ill., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Quantum Group, a trusted expert in direct marketing and business communications services has made a major investment in marketing on demand with the purchase of a Landa S10P Nanographic Printing Press. The press, which complements Quantum's extensive line of digital and offset equipment, will be installed by the end of the year and will enable Quantum to meet increased customer demand. The company, supporting customers in industries such as pharmaceuticals, healthcare, retail, insurance, and more, is seeing a 5-fold growth in personalized mailings since 2018. Along with the equipment investment, Quantum increased its manufacturing footprint by 50% to support this exponential growth.
"We are excited to add the Landa S10P to our production fleet," said Cheryl Kahanec, Quantum Group's, Chief Executive Officer. "Our customers will be able to more effectively and efficiently communicate to their audiences. With the format size, substrate range, speed and quality, the Landa will expand our current offset and digital platform to ensure successful execution of timely and targeted projects. We look forward to empowering our clients with efficiency, flexibility and quality all while offering increased personalization and decreased speed to market."
The Landa S10P Nanographic Printing Press is a B1-format (41 in. /1,050 mm) digital press that powers the printing of jobs in collated order and can produce high-quality prints on any off-the-shelf substrate, from 2.4 to 24pt — with no pretreatment required. The Landa S10P offers the ultimate in efficient production, printing 6,500 single-sided sheets per hour and 3,250 double-sided sheets per hour. In addition to its high speeds, the press also offers the industry's broadest color gamut, covering 96% of Pantone colors.
What's more, the technology behind Landa NanoInk® enables precise, efficient low ink lay-down, which produces extremely round dots with super-sharp edges, high optical uniformity, and consistent density. This means that NanoInk on paper is just .5 microns thick, less than half the thickness of offset ink images. Plus, NanoInk colorants are supplied as concentrates and are mixed with water onsite, which avoids unnecessary shipping of water, saving space and weight and reducing the impact on our planet.
"We believe the future is bright for both Quantum and our customers," said Kahanec. "Our customers know we excel at executing personalized communications that help them connect with their target audiences, and our latest technology investment will help us continue to exceed their expectations."
About Landa Digital Printing
Landa Digital Printing™ liberates printers from barriers inherent to traditional digital and conventional analog printing. Landa Nanographic Printing Presses produce stunning images of unbeatable color range, of any run length, on any coated or uncoated paper, and in the fastest turnaround times, thanks to its unique technology: Nanography®. Landa Digital Printing is owned by its majority shareholder, Benny Landa; and ALTANA and SKion, both wholly owned by German entrepreneur Susanne Klatten. Learn more at www.landanano.com.
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Quantum Group is a technology-enabled production firm specializing in high-quality digital and offset print and integrated communications services that offers sophisticated capabilities and exceptional customer service. Founded in 1992 as a high-quality commercial sheet-fed printer, Quantum has evolved into a single-source, customer-centric communications partner. Quantum is compliant with FISMA, HIPAA, and SOC 2 standards, reflecting a commitment to safeguarding data throughout the communications process. Learn more at www.quantumgroup.com.
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 8, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
308 PM PDT Mon Aug 8 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM PDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN IMPERIAL AND RIVERSIDE COUNTIES...
At 308 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 10 miles north of
Bombay Beach, or 10 miles south of Chiriaco Summit, moving northwest
at 5 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Chiriaco Summit, Bombay Beach and Imperial Hot Mineral Springs.
This includes the following highways...
CA Interstate 10 between mile markers 75 and 88.
CA Route 111 between mile markers 47 and 65.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
If on or near the Salton Sea, get away from the water and move
indoors or inside a vehicle. remember, lightning can strike out to
15 miles from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you
are close enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter
now! Do not be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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Remembered forever... that's the way it should be: As Grease fans mourn the death of Olivia Newton-John at age 73, a look at where her musical movie co-stars are today, from on-screen love interest John Travolta to sassy mean girl Stockard Channing
- Olivia Newton-John's husband, John Easterling, announced that she had died on Monday morning at age 73
- She was best known as a singer and already had three Grammys under her belt when she took on the role of sweet and innocent Sandy Olsson in the 1978 musical Grease
- Three years later, the Australian native won her fourth Grammy for her 1981 hit single Physical
- Newton-John was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, and she was in remission until the disease returned for a second time in 2013
- In 2017, her cancer had metastasized and spread to her bones, though the cause of her death is unknown
- Among the first to pay tribute to Newton-John on Monday was her Grease co-star John Travolta, who lost his wife, Kelly Preston, to breast cancer in 2020
- In the wake of the star's passing, FEMAIL has taken a look back at everything she and the rest of the Grease cast have accomplished over the last four decades
Fans of Grease are mourning the loss of the 1978 musical's lead Olivia Newton-John after it was announced that she died on Monday at age 73.
The actress has been remembered in a series of heartfelt tributes from her former costars and friends after her husband, John Easterling, shared the news of her death on Facebook.
Newton-John was best known as a singer and already had three Grammys under her belt when she took on the role of sweet and innocent Sandy Olsson in Grease. She won her fourth Grammy for her 1981 hit single Physical.
Grease star Olivia Newton-John (pictured with John Travolta) passed away on Monday at age 73
The Australian native is best known for playing sweet and innocent Sandy Olsson in the 1978 musical
In the wake of the star's death, FEMAIL has taken a look back at everything she and the rest of the Grease cast have accomplished over the last four decades
The Australian native spoke candidly about her breast cancer battle after first being diagnosed with the disease in 1992. She underwent a mastectomy and nine months of chemotherapy before going into remission until 2013.
After beating the disease for a second time, she was told in 2017 that the cancer had metastasized and spread to her bones. It's unclear what was the exact cause of her death.
Among the first to pay tribute to Newton-John on Monday was her Grease co-star John Travolta, who lost his wife, Kelly Preston, to breast cancer in 2020.
In the wake of the star's passing, FEMAIL has taken a look back at everything she and the rest of the Grease cast have accomplished over the last four decades.
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN
Olivia Newton-John was best known as a singer and already had three Grammys under her belt when she took on the role of Sandy in the 1978 musical. She battled cancer three times before she died on August 8, 2022
The Australian native was best known as a singer and already had three Grammys under her belt before taking on the role of sweet and innocent Sandy Olsson in Grease.
Her music career hit even more heights after the role, winning another Grammy and achieving huge success with her 1981 single Physical.
She starred in a number of other films after the release of Grease such as Xanadu and Two of a Kind — in which she was reunited with Grease co-star John Travolta — but never found the same success on the big screen.
Newton-John married her first husband, actor and dancer Matt Lattanzi, in December 1984. A year later, they welcomed their only child together, Chloe Rose Lattanzi.
Newton-John is pictured in 1974 competing in the Eurovision Song Contest for Britain (left), four years before starring in Grease. She won her fourth Grammy for her 1981 song Physical. She is pictured promoting her 1980 album (right)
Newton-John married her first husband, actor and dancer Matt Lattanzi, in December 1984 (left). A year later, they welcomed their only child together, Chloe Rose Lattanzi (right), who is now 36. They divorced in 1995
Just days before her death, Newton-John posted a heartwarming photo of herself with her second husband, John Easterling, whom she had been married to since 2008
The couple was married when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992. She underwent a mastectomy and nine months of chemotherapy before going into remission.
Newton-John and Lattanzi amicably divorced in 1995, and she went on to marry her second husband, businessman John Easterling, more than a decade later in 2008.
She overcame cancer a second time in 2013, but the disease returned four years later. In 2017, she was told the cancer had metastasized and spread to her bones.
Newton-John died peacefully at her home in Southern California on August 8, 2022, at age 73. She was surrounded by her family and friends, according to her husband, who announced her passing on her Facebook page.
Easterling did not confirm the cause of her death. The actress is survived by her 36-year-old daughter, Chloe, and her siblings.
JOHN TRAVOLTA
John Travolta played Danny Zuko in Grease (left), and he went on to have an incredibly successful career. He has two upcoming projects slated for release
Travolta married fellow actor Kelly Preston in 1991, and they welcomed three children together: Jett, Ella Bleu, and Benjamin. Jett tragically died in 2009 at age 16 as a result of a seizure
The couple had been married for nearly 30 years when Preston died at age 57 in July 2020, two years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer
Travolta (pictured with Ella and Benjamin in 2021) took a brief hiatus from acting while mourning his late wife
The late 1970s was a life-changing time for John Travolta, who was made a movie superstar by his appearances in films like Saturday Night Fever and Grease, in which he played the bad boy lead, Danny Zuko.
Since then, Travolta has proven to have serious staying power in the industry, starring in dozens of films over the last 40 years including the likes of Pulp Fiction, Hairspray, Face Off, and Get Shorty.
Travolta married fellow actor Kelly Preston in 1991, and they welcomed three children together: Jett, Ella Bleu, and Benjamin. Jett tragically died in 2009 at age 16 as a result of a seizure.
The couple had been married for nearly 30 years when Preston died at age 57 in July 2020, two years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Travolta took a hiatus from acting to grieve his wife's death before returning to work.
Now 68, he stars in the upcoming action films Paradise City and American Metal, the latter of which is slated for release in 2023.
STOCKARD CHANNING
Stockard Channing played Rizzo in Grease (left). The actress went on to have an illustrious career after the film and won an Emmy for her role as Abbey Barlet in the political drama The West Wing
Channing was already in her 30s when she landed the role of the feisty Rizzo
The actress most recently returned to the London stage in October 2021 to play Thelma in Night, Mother at Hampstead Theatre
When she took on the role of feisty teenager Rizzo, Channing was already in her early 30s, making her the oldest member of the cast of students.
Channing went on to have an illustrious career after the film, including a seven-year run as first lady Abbey Bartlet in the political drama The West Wing from 1999 to 2006.
She won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her work in the critically-acclaimed show in 2002.
The 78-year-old has been married and divorced four times over the years, but she doesn't have any children.
Channing was in a long-term relationship with cinematographer Daniel Gillham from 1990 until his death in 2014.
The actress most recently returned to the London stage in October 2021 to play Thelma in Night, Mother at Hampstead Theatre.
DIDI CONN
Didi Conn played Frenchy in the movie (left). She reprised the role for Grease 2 and also had a part in the recent Grease: Live production
In 2019, Conn became the oldest contestant on the British television series Dancing on Ice at age 67
Conn's memorable performance as beauty school dropout Frenchie is still her most famous role to date. She reprised her role in Grease 2, which premiered in 1982.
While her film credits became fairly sparse after the early 1980s, Conn has had roles on TV shows such as Shining Times Station, Transparent, and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
In 2016, she appeared in Grease: Live, playing a waitress who talks to Carly Rae Jepsen's Frenchie.
Conn was married to her first husband, actor and writer Frank Conn, from 1975 to 1978, the year Grease was released. She and her second husband, composer David Shire, have been married since 1984.
The 71-year-old actress is a stepmother to Shire's son, screenwriter Matthew Shire, whom he shares with his ex-wife, Talia Shire.
Conn and Shire also have a 30-year-old adopted son, Daniel Shire, who was diagnosed with autism when he was two. She was named a spokesperson for Autism Speaks in 2018.
In 2019, she became the oldest contestant on the British television series Dancing on Ice at age 67.
JEFF CONAWAY
Jeff Conaway won many hearts as Kenickie in the film (left). In 2011, he passed away at age 60 due to drug-related pneumonia
After taking on the role of Kenickie in Grease, Conaway was cast as Bobby Wheeler in the television series Taxi in 1978.
However, a substance abuse problem began to emerge and eventually led him to leave the show after its third season.
Though he received treatment for his addiction in the 1980s, he would later relapse and even appeared on Celebrity Rehab in 2008.
In 2011, Conway passed away at age 60 due to drug-related pneumonia.
BARRY PEARL
Barry Pearl played Doody in the musical (left). He went on to appear in a number of TV shows over the years and later became an acting teacher
The man behind Doody went on to appear on plenty of TV shows over the years, including Beverly Hills, 90210, Baywatch, Criminal Minds, and more.
Also, like Didi Conn, Barry returned to the franchise for Grease: Live, this time playing the role of Mr. Stan Weaver.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets mostly ceded the spotlight at the trade deadline.
Then they played like they didn’t need much help.
The Dodgers swept a three-game series against San Diego to take a 15 1/2-game lead in the NL West, and the Mets took four of five from Atlanta to move 6 1/2 up on the Braves in the NL East. That was after the Padres made serious waves at the deadline by acquiring Juan Soto, and the Braves added Jake Odorizzi and Raisel Iglesias.
Los Angeles wasn’t all that active. The Dodgers took Joey Gallo off the Yankees’ hands but otherwise seemed content to lie low. Then they beat Soto, Manny Machado and the Padres three times by a combined 20-4. Los Angeles has won eight in a row and 30 of its last 35.
The Mets were also fairly quiet at the deadline. Of course, they made a pretty big recent addition internally when Jacob deGrom returned to the mound for the first time in almost 13 months. New York lost his first start but won his second — when he took a perfect game into the sixth inning against Atlanta on Sunday.
The Braves have recovered nicely from a mediocre start, and at times they’ve seemed poised to overtake the Mets. But New York won two of three at Atlanta in the middle of last month and got the better of the Braves again this time.
If deGrom and Max Scherzer are healthy and Edwin Diaz keeps rolling, the Mets can certainly feel good heading into any playoff series.
Los Angeles, meanwhile, has won 17 of its last 19 meetings against San Diego. The scary thing about the Dodgers is they can still improve. Justin Turner, for example, is expected back this week. And Los Angeles has gone on this extended run without Walker Buehler, who hasn’t pitched since June 10.
PLENTY TIGHT
What the AL Central and NL Central lack in dominant teams, they may make up for in excitement. Minnesota leads the AL Central by one game over Cleveland and two over the White Sox. That could be a wild race, since none of those teams is assured a wild card.
St. Louis has won seven in a row and leads Milwaukee by two games in the NL Central. The Cardinals took three straight from the New York Yankees to end the week. The Brewers have lost six of seven and are 1 1/2 games out of a wild card.
TRIVIA TIME
Who was the last team to win its division by more than the Dodgers’ current 15 1/2-game margin?
LINE OF THE WEEK
DeGrom was impressive against the Braves but ultimately didn’t make it out of the sixth, so this honor goes to Miami’s Sandy Alcantara, who threw his third complete game of the season in a 3-0 win over Cincinnati on Wednesday night. Alcantara allowed six hits and a walk and struck out three.
COMEBACK OF THE WEEK
The Cardinals beat the Cubs 4-3 in the opener of Thursday’s doubleheader after trailing 3-0 in the seventh. St. Louis scored three in the seventh on homers by Nolan Gorman and Paul Goldschmidt and a sacrifice fly by Lars Nootbaar. Then Nootbaar hit an RBI single in the ninth to win it.
TRIVIA ANSWER
The Dodgers themselves, who ended the 2019 season 21 games ahead of second-place Arizona.
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WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Stephon Gilmore arrived at training camp two weeks ago with an impressive resume — and something to prove.
After two injury-filled subpar seasons in New England and Carolina, the 31-year-old cornerback chose Indianapolis to revive his career.
So far, it looks like a winning match.
“I feel good, I feel strong, I finally feel like myself,” Gilmore said at the team’s camp complex, nestled between the cornfields in suburban Indianapolis. “I like the vibe here, I like the guys, I like the coaches. Everybody here does everything to help the team win. That’s one thing I’ve noticed.”
Gilmore has learned plenty of lessons over a decade-long career, none more valuable than detecting the difference between teams built to contend and everyone else. It’s one reason he took nearly a month to sift through the free agent suitors before signing a two-year deal with the Colts.
On paper, Gilmore saw a promising defense on the verge of becoming an elite unit, an offense led by new quarterback Matt Ryan and defending league rushing champ Jonathan Taylor and an opportunity to shore up one of the Colts’ most glaring weaknesses, pass coverage.
On the field, Gilmore has been one of Indy’s most productive players. He’s dominated the one-on-one matchups with rookie receiver Alec Pierce and has blanketed virtually anyone who dares to challenge him.
His instincts also appear to be back and Gilmore’s penchant for routinely batting away passes has become contagious in this young rebuilding secondary.
New defensive coordinator Gus Bradley welcomes the impact Gilmore has made as does Ryan, the league’s 2016 MVP, who has been victimized more than once by a familiar foe.
“Unfortunately, that’s not the first time he’s picked me off,” Ryan said after Gilmore made an acrobatic interception during Sunday’s practice. “He’s got excellent pattern recognition, really good — savvy, good ball skills. He’s talented, and he’s one of those guys who sometimes can put a seed of doubt in your mind of what he’s going to do.”
That’s been Gilmore’s trademark for most of his career.
He earned a Super Bowl ring during Tom Brady’s final championship run in New England by batting away 20 passes and was selected as the league’s 2019 Defensive Player of the Year with 20 more passes defensed, tying for the league lead with six interceptions and returning two for scores.
But winning consistently has proven elusive for the former South Carolina star.
He endured four losing seasons and never made the playoffs during a strong five-year run in Buffalo. After appearing in back-to-back Super Bowls each of his first two seasons in New England, the Patriots suffered a rare wild-card round loss in 2019 before the bottom fell out.
Gilmore’s 2020 season was derailed first by a positive COVID-19 test, then a torn quadriceps and finally by a rare Pats’ postseason absence. When the injury lingered through the next summer’s training camp, he landed on the physically unable to perform list and was eventually traded to Carolina.
There, he had 13 tackles and two interceptions in eight games and earned his fourth straight Pro Bowl selection despite not playing like one of the league’s top coverage guys.
So when Gilmore became a free agent, he took his time, weighed his options and when the Colts finally came through, it was an offer Gilmore couldn’t refuse. The Colts haven’t regretted it, either.
“From a quarterback’s perspective, he’s the kind of cornerback you fear because of the way he sees the game,” coach Frank Reich said. “He knows what’s coming before it’s coming. He’s so quick to recognize routes, concepts and then he has the ability to make plays on the ball and turn it over. That’s what we’ve seen from start to finish. We love him.”
Playing the ball and sticking to receivers was Gilmore’s trademark long before joining the Colts.
He starts this season with 27 interceptions and 116 passes defensed, tied for seventh and fourth among active players still in the league last season.
And now that he’s healthy, back in a system where he can thrive and working with four Pro Bowl teammates on defense, Gilmore believes he can be back on top of his game this season.
“I asked him how it was and how the guys were in the locker room, the vibe,” Gilmore said, describing a spring conversation with another Pro Bowl cornerback Kenny Moore II. “He said all good things. I’m happy I made that decision. I think I’ll be a great player for this team.”
The Colts are counting on it.
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Actor Ezra Miller has been charged with felony burglary in Stamford, Vermont, the latest in a string of incidents involving the embattled star of “The Flash.”
In a report Monday, Vermont State Police said they responded to a burglary complaint in Stamford on May 1 and found several bottles of alcohol were taken from a residence while the homeowners weren’t present. Miller was charged after police consulted surveillance footage and interviewed witnesses.
The police report said Miller was located shortly before midnight Sunday and was issued a citation to appear for arraignment in Vermont Super Court on Sept. 26.
The felony charge adds to Miller’s mounting legal woes and reports of erratic behavior. The 29-year-old actor was arrested twice earlier this year in Hawaii, including for disorderly conduct and harassment at a karaoke bar. The second incident was for second-degree assault.
The parents of 18-year-old Tokata Iron Eyes, a Native American activist, also earlier this year filed a protection order against Miller, accusing him of grooming their child and other inappropriate behavior with her as a minor from the age of 12. Tokata Iron Eyes recently told Insider that those allegations were false.
Attorneys for Miller didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment on the Vermont felony charge or the protection order related to Tokata Iron Eyes.
After appearing in several films for Warner Bros. and D.C. Films as the Flash, Miller stars in the upcoming standalone film “The Flash,” due out in June 2023. Though Warner Bros. last week axed the nearly completed “Batgirl” film, the studio has suggested it remains committed to releasing “The Flash.”
In an earnings report last week, David Zaslav, chief executive of Warner Bros. Discovery referenced “The Flash.” “We have seen ‘The Flash,’ ‘Black Adam’ and ’Shazam 2. We are very excited about them,” said Zaslav. “We think they are terrific, and we think we can make them even better.” | https://www.krqe.com/entertainment-news/ezra-miller-charged-with-felony-burglary-in-vermont/ | 2022-08-08T23:27:30Z | https://www.krqe.com/entertainment-news/ezra-miller-charged-with-felony-burglary-in-vermont/ | false |
PEMBROKE, Bermuda (AP) _ Argo Group International Holdings Ltd. (ARGO) on Monday reported a second-quarter loss of $16.2 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Pembroke, Bermuda-based company said it had a loss of 54 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 89 cents per share.
The property and casualty insurance underwriter posted revenue of $443.2 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $483.6 million.
Argo Group shares have fallen 45% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Monday, shares hit $32.22, a fall of 42% in the last 12 months.
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(KTLA) – A 37-year-old nurse suspected of killing six people and injuring eight others when her speeding Mercedes-Benz plowed into several vehicles in a Los Angeles County intersection last week faces six counts of murder and five counts of gross vehicular manslaughter, officials announced Monday.
District Attorney George Gascón called the crash “tragic.”
The driver, identified as Nicole Linton, was working in Los Angeles as a traveling nurse out of Texas when the crash occurred last Thursday, authorities said.
Linton was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. She was being held in lieu of $9 million bond Monday and faces up to 90 years to life in prison if convicted, Gascón said.
Authorities believe Linton’s car was traveling at around 90 mph through Windsor Hills when she sped through a red light and hit crossing vehicles at the busy intersection of La Brea and Slauson avenues.
Asherey Ryan, 23, who was six months pregnant, her 11-month-old son Alonzo, and her fiancé, Reynold Lester, were on their way to a prenatal checkup when the speeding Mercedes-Benz hit them and exploded into flames.
Everyone in Ryan’s vehicle died, including her unborn son.
“A young family was destroyed in the blink of an eye,” Gascón said at a news conference Monday. “There’s catastrophic damage to the families and friends of those killed and injured. It’s not only a tremendous loss to their families, but to our entire community, who learned of this incredible tragedy, who watched the now viral video of the collision.”
There is no evidence that alcohol was a factor in the deadly incident, but the crash remains under investigation, Gascón said.
Loved ones gathered over the weekend at the site of the horrific crash.
“I just want to tell her that we forgive her,” Sha’seana Kerr, Ryan’s younger sister, said. “She will have to live with this for the rest of her life. That’s why she was spared. We understand it already.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp. (AGM) on Monday reported second-quarter net income of $45.9 million.
On a per-share basis, the Washington-based company said it had net income of $3.60. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to $2.83 per share.
The rural real estate lender posted revenue of $152.2 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $76.7 million.
Farmer Mac shares have declined 11% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Monday, shares hit $109.98, a rise of 12% in the last 12 months.
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SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) _ Helios Technologies, Inc. (HLIO) on Monday reported second-quarter profit of $30 million.
On a per-share basis, the Sarasota, Florida-based company said it had profit of 92 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $1.18 per share.
The results matched Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was also for earnings of $1.18 per share.
The maker of screw-in hydraulic cartridge valves and manifolds posted revenue of $241.7 million in the period, missing Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $242.7 million.
Helios Technologies expects full-year earnings in the range of $4.35 to $4.60 per share, with revenue in the range of $930 million to $950 million.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ INDUS Realty Trust, Inc. (INDT) on Monday reported second-quarter net income of $2.8 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the New York-based company said it had net income of 27 cents. Earnings, adjusted to account for discontinued operations, came to 24 cents per share.
The real estate and landscape company posted revenue of $11.7 million in the period.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Shoes off, an almost-empty container of leftovers, an unfinished glass of wine — this was the exhausted portrait of one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington after Senate passage of President Joe Biden’s sweeping health, climate and economic package.
New York’s Chuck Schumer effectively moved from minority to majority leader of the U.S. Senate on the morning of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, and he has helmed the chamber through a tumultuous, messy and yet surprisingly productive run with the longest evenly split 50-50 Senate in the nation’s history.
Methodical he is not, as the crumbs scattered on the senatorial carpet in his office off the Senate floor attest.
But with a willingness to broker politically unpleasant compromises and a New Yorker’s drive to keep pestering his colleagues, Schumer is using his party’s fragile control of the Senate for substantive, sizable accomplishments unseen in recent years.
“Persistence. I persist,” Schumer said in an interview late Sunday evening after the round-the-clock session and Senate passage of Biden’s bill.
The $740 billion package, less than once envisioned but still huge, would be a big legislative win for any president and his party. For Biden and the Democrats, it builds on long-running aspirations of lowering health care costs, taxing big corporations that skip paying their share and launching the nation’s largest investment, some $375 billion, to fight climate change. With revenue raised from corporate taxes and allowing the federal government to negotiate some prescription drug costs with pharmaceutical companies, the remaining $300 billion goes to deficit reduction.
Not everyone is cheering Schumer.
Republicans deride the Democrats’ effort as “yet another reckless taxing-and-spending spree,” as Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell put it. Over the weekend, he argued that the Democrats have mistaken their slim control, with Vice President Kamala Harris able to cast a tie-breaking vote, as a mandate for far-reaching policy goals.
And the 755-page bill comes on top of a string of similarly pared-back initiatives, deep disappointments for the party’s liberal wing. But some have been backed by Republicans with rare bipartisan accord, adding up to a Congress with unexpected gains.
The toughest gun violence measure in a generation, a bipartisan effort to tighten who can own guns, is now law. This week Biden is about to sign into law a $280 billion bipartisan bill to boost the semiconductor industry as well as a nearly $300 billion measure to help veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.
By themselves, Democrats muscled through a $1 trillion COVID-aid package that McConnell calls a buffet of “all-you-can-eat liberal spending.” But McConnell and Republicans joined Schumer in passing the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill for the nation’s roads, broadband and other needs.
In addition to legislation, over the past 18 months under Schumer’s leadership the Senate held the nation’s fourth-ever presidential impeachment trial, eventually acquitting Donald Trump on charges he incited the Capitol insurrection; ratified the accession of Finland and Sweden to join NATO, and confirmed the first Black woman, Ketanji Brown Jackson, as a justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“This is the longest there’s ever been an evenly divided Senate, and it is a real tribute to leader Schumer that he has managed to corral all 50 Democrats behind a legislative agenda,” said Sen. Chris Coons, the Delaware Democrat.
“Remember, any one of those would have been the biggest bill passed in the Congress. Oh, didn’t we do a huge bipartisan infrastructure bill last year? That was the biggest in a generation? And before that the American Rescue Plan? Yes, we did.”
Unlike previous highly productive sessions of Congress, Schumer does not enjoy the big majorities typically required to get work done. The filibuster tradition, with its 60-vote threshold to advance most measures, is a powerful tool wielded by McConnell and Republicans (and Democrats, when they are the minority party) that can block almost any initiative.
With zero room for error, Schumer has relied on a vital skill — talking
When he first became Democratic leader, in the minority then, he famously expanded his leadership team to include almost half the caucus, ensuring all segments — from Bernie Sanders on the left to Joe Manchin more to the right — had a seat at the table. His flip-phone has become such an integral part of his communication strategy that Schumer now holds it up as a prop, a reminder of how he works.
And then there are the dinners.
After Manchin abruptly walked away from talks with Biden over the party’s original Build Back Better proposal, Schumer invited the West Virginia senator out to dinner.
“I said look, Joe, we have to get something done here,” Schumer recalled.
Over spaghetti and meatballs the day after Valentine’s Day at an Italian restaurant on Capitol Hill, Schumer got down to business.
“And I said, Look, you have a lot of clout here. You proved you’re willing to stop the whole thing. But I got to get 49 senators to vote on this. This can’t just be what you want,” Schumer told the former governor he had recruited to run for the Senate a decade ago. “There’s got to be a compromise.”
That willingness by Schumer to take the political bad with the good — in Manchin’s case, the coal-state senator’s insistence on policies for the oil and gas industry that liberals deplore — infuriates liberals and somewhat threatens Schumer’s hold on power.
Sanders lambasted the final package as insufficient, even as he voted for it, and Sanders’ fellow progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has been eyed as a powerful New York Democrat who could one day challenge Schumer in a primary election. There are several senators who could imagine themselves as the majority leader some day.
Schumer’s view: “My job is to get things done.”
“It’s very easy to be a Mitch McConnell,” he said about the Republican who prided himself on sending to the “graveyard” bills from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats when he was majority leader.
“It’s easy to stop things, particularly in a Senate that’s designed to stop things. It’s hard to get things done.”
Schumer has always wanted to be the leader of the Senate since his election more than 20 years ago. But even he was somewhat surprised when two Georgia Democrats, Rafael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, won their Jan. 5, 2021, special elections, tipping the majority.
At 4 a.m. on the morning of Jan. 6, Schumer got word of the final election night tallies. He was delivering a Senate speech as the presumptive leader just hours later when a Capitol police officer grabbed him by the shirt collar and pulled him from the floor.
Ushered to a secure location as the mob of rioters loyal to Trump stormed the Capitol, he and the other congressional leaders agreed to return to session that night, determined to finish certifying the presidential election and move on to the the work of the new Congress. | https://www.krqe.com/news/politics/how-schumers-messy-style-delivers-for-dems-i-persist/ | 2022-08-08T23:28:47Z | https://www.krqe.com/news/politics/how-schumers-messy-style-delivers-for-dems-i-persist/ | true |
MALVERN, Pa. (AP) _ Vishay Precision Group Inc. (VPG) on Monday reported net income of $10.8 million in its second quarter.
The Malvern, Pennsylvania-based company said it had profit of 79 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 68 cents per share.
The precision sensors and systems producer posted revenue of $88.6 million in the period.
For the current quarter ending in October, Vishay said it expects revenue in the range of $90 million to $100 million.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
0-3-3, FIREBALL:
(zero, three, three; FIREBALL: zero)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
0-3-3, FIREBALL:
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The same players we have to monitor every summer day are what we have to consider this week: the marine layer (and its depth), the summer monsoon, and the jet stream pattern. The last of that list will see the most dramatic change over the next few days which will in turn impact marine layer depth and monsoon position.
There is a trough to The West that has to work thru the jet branch position to the north of the Central Coast. As the trough rolls over the jet builds a ridge back into the state, essentially backing up from the Southwest. This will compress the marine layer from Wednesday into the coming weekend, warming temps.
The warming will take place everywhere but will be most notable in the interior where highs go from the lower 90s on Tuesday to the triple digits Thursday thru at least Sunday.
At beaches and near coastal valleys we'll also see warming but muted somewhat by the already-present marine layer. It'll be the extent of that marine layer that will change over the next few days.
Beaches won't see a lot of change with most temps lingering in the 60s but coastal valleys will be in the 70s and 80s with the Southcoast also in the 70s and 80s heading into the weekend.
The 8-14 day outlook shows a high likelihood of above-average highs with some monsoon potential later this month.
The monsoon rarely delivers enough beneficial rain to remove drought concerns, in fact it often has to be watched for lightning concerns. The consensus on warm conditions persisting, especially inland, will also be a fire weather concern later this month. | https://www.ksby.com/weather/temps-will-push-upward-this-week | 2022-08-08T23:35:49Z | https://www.ksby.com/weather/temps-will-push-upward-this-week | true |
CINCINNATI — It's official, Fiona the hippo is a big sister.
The Cincinnati Zoo confirmed Monday morning that Bibi gave birth to a baby boy!
“Bibi and the baby are doing great together. They are inseparable, which is why it took almost five days to be sure about the sex,” said Cincinnati Zoo's director of animal care, Christina Gorsuch. “They will continue to bond inside for another week or two. Fiona and Tucker are outside, so visitors will still be able to see hippos when they come to the Zoo.”
It’s a boy! Fiona has a little brother! 💙 https://t.co/lzYvMbo1eo pic.twitter.com/hZAW32zl4s
— Cincinnati Zoo (@CincinnatiZoo) August 8, 2022
The infant was born late last Wednesday night. Since the news broke of the birth, fans have been working hard to come up with name ideas.
Bubbles, Melon, Fibi, Petunia, and Glow are some of the names on social media.
And the Cincinnati Zoo wants to know all of your name ideas. You can submit your suggestion directly to the Cincinnati Zoo by clicking HERE.
Zoo officials said the new baby looks huge compared to its first baby hippo star, Fiona. Keepers estimated that the newborn weighs about 60 pounds.
"Fiona only weighed 29 pounds when she was born six weeks premature and wasn't able to stand on her own," said Gorsuch.
The baby's estimated due date was set for Aug. 15, but caretakers said a hippo's birth window could be 30 days before or after that estimation.
Zoo officials said Bibi and her newborn would be kept separated from 5-year-old Fiona and 19-year-old Tucker so that mom and baby have plenty of time to bond.
Hippo keepers shared this adorable video of Bibi and her new calf and said, "It looks like Fiona's world-famous ear wiggles run in the family."
Don't expect to see Bibi and her newborn right away.
They will not be in front of the public, but the zoo said members have access to live cams in the outdoor habitat and can watch all the action at Hippo Cove from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/its-a-boy-cincinnati-zoo-reveals-gender-of-fiona-the-hippos-sibling | 2022-08-08T23:36:31Z | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/its-a-boy-cincinnati-zoo-reveals-gender-of-fiona-the-hippos-sibling | false |
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Late Friday a federal court in San Francisco allowed a case against subsidiaries of CVS Health Corporation brought by HIV-positive "John Doe" plaintiffs to proceed, denying CVS's motion to dismiss the case.
This ruling comes on the heels of CVS's abrupt dismissal late last year of its appeal to the United States Supreme Court of a unanimous decision by the Ninth Circuit in favor of the plaintiffs who allege CVS's prescription drug program puts their lives at risk.
Download the Order denying CVS's Motion to Dismiss.
CVS's program limits people living with HIV to obtaining their life-saving medications only by mail-order—cutting off access to pharmacists and other critical benefits and services essential for people living with HIV—while continuing to make the same benefits and services available to other enrollees.
CVS's latest motion had sought to dismiss the case contending that the plaintiffs had not adequately alleged CVS receives "federal financial assistance," a requirement to sue for disability discrimination under health programs subject to federal civil rights statutes.
However, as the plaintiffs pointed out, CVS receives hundreds of millions of dollars each year from the federal government under the federal Medicare, Medicaid and other health programs.
CVS argued that its corporate subsidiaries that received the federal money were not responsible for any discriminatory conduct, and that its corporate subsidiaries that did participate in the alleged discriminatory conduct did not receive any federal money.
In effect, CVS argued that a large corporate defendant could defeat the broad goals of civil rights statutes by slicing and dicing its subsidiaries.
But as the Court noted in Friday's Order:
"To permit the CVS entities to escape responsibility as a result of the establishment of corporate structures which cabin their functions would exalt form over substance, and would be antithetical to the overarching purpose of the anti-discrimination provision of the [Affordable Care Act]."
In addition to the five CVS defendants named in the case, CVS has hundreds of other subsidiaries.
CVS, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, owns pharmacies throughout the U.S., but also operates as a pharmacy benefit manager, which coordinates pharmacy benefits for people like the John Does who are enrolled in employer-provided health plans.
The case before the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed late last year involved an appeal by CVS of a unanimous ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals finding the HIV-positive plaintiffs had appropriately pled a claim for disability discrimination against CVS under the Affordable Care Act.
Read more about the U.S. Supreme Court case here: https://consumerwatchdog.org/courtroom/groups-commend-cvss-withdrawal-us-supreme-court-challenge-hiv-rights
Following the dismissal of the U.S. Supreme Court appeal, the case returned to the federal district court for additional proceedings.
Most other major health insurance companies in the United States now allow members to opt out of mail-order-only delivery of HIV medications because of numerous settlements achieved by attorneys for Consumer Watchdog and Whatley Kallas, LLP, which represent the John Doe plaintiffs in the CVS action.
The CVS case is John Doe One, et al. v. CVS, et al., No.: 3:18-cv-01031 and is pending in federal district court in San Francisco before United States District Judge Edward M. Chen.
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Teenager in custody for robbing off-duty officer in New Orleans, police say
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Gray News) - A 16-year-old boy is in custody after robbing an off-duty New Orleans police officer early Monday in French Quarter, according to authorities.
Police did not identify the juvenile suspect, or the off-duty officer he allegedly robbed on the 700 block of St. Louis Street around 2:56 a.m.
WVUE reports the off-duty police officer was riding a bicycle on St. Louis Street between Royal and Bourbon streets, when the teen “approached and demanded the victim’s bike.” Police said the officer “did not comply,” which led to a struggle between the officer and suspect.
The teen managed to rob the 23-year-old police officer of unspecified “property” before fleeing the scene, but later was found and taken into custody, according to the department.
The 16-year-old was booked into the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center on allegations of second-degree battery and simple robbery.
The NOPD did not disclose injuries sustained by the officer, nor say when or where the suspect was apprehended.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact NOPD Eighth District detectives at (504) 658-6080 or Crimestoppers at (504) 822-1111.
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Tuesday Morning:. Scattered showers/isolated storm. Mid 70s.
Tuesday Afternoon: Isolated shower/storm. Upper 70s.
Tuesday Evening: Partly sunny. Mid 70s.
Scattered showers and storms will move through some parts of CNY this evening. Showers/storms in the early evening could produce locally heavy rainfall and gusty winds due to the high heat and humidity. Lack of upper level atmospheric rotation and wind speed will reduce any severe weather risk besides gusty winds. Although showers will roll through, the humidity will not break until a cold front arrives tomorrow.
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TOKYO (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged countries with nuclear weapons to stick to their no-first-use commitment of their atomic arsenals, warning that the nuclear arms race has returned amid growing international tension.
“This is the moment … to ask the nuclear-armed countries to commit to the principle of non-first-use and to commit to not use and not threaten the non-nuclear countries,” Guterres said at a news conference in Tokyo, two days after he visited Hiroshima to commemorate victims of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing.
“I think that nobody, nobody can accept the idea that a new nuclear war would happen. This will be the destruction of the planet,” Guterres said. “What is clear is if nobody uses for the first time then there will be no nuclear war.”
Fears of a third atomic bombing have been on the rise amid Russia’s threats of a nuclear attack since its war on Ukraine began in February.
On Thursday, Moscow shelled the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, which holds Europe’s largest nuclear plant. When asked about the attack, Guterres said, “Any attack to a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing.”
He said he fully supports the International Atomic Energy Agency in their effort to stabilize the plant and have access to the facility to exercise its mandate.
Guterres said that after decades of nuclear disarmament efforts, the world is now “moving backwards,” noting that the world already has 13,000 nuclear bombs and huge investment going into modernization of atomic arsenals. “So this is the time to say: Stop it.”
Guterres said that the billions of dollars being used in the arms race should be spent on other pressing issues.
“The billions that are being used in this arms race need to be used to fighting climate change, fighting poverty, addressing the needs of the international community,” he said.
He said he will be also going to Mongolia and South Korea to discuss ways to address North Korea’s nuclear development.
Asked about China’s ongoing military exercises surrounding Taiwan in response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit last week to the self-governing island, Guterres said the U.N. abides by the general assembly resolution supporting the “One China” policy, which acknowledges Beijing’s view that it has sovereignty over Taiwan, but considers Taiwan’s status as unsettled.
“We all want that resolution to correspond to a peaceful environment,” he said, calling for “common sense and then restraint, allowing for de-escalation.”
Earlier Monday, Guterres met with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and shared “serious concern about the tense situation in the region and concurred on the importance of de-escalating the tension,” the ministry said in a statement.
At a time when geopolitical tensions are rising and the nuclear threat is back in focus, Japan’s strong and consistent voice on peace is more important than ever, Guterres said, urging Japan to use its unique position as the world’s only country to have suffered atomic attacks to act as “a bridge-builder and peacemaker to strengthen global cooperation and trust and solidarity.”
Guterres said he is counting on Japan’s potential to take leadership on the global fight against climate change, and specifically urged Tokyo to stop funding coal plants.
Japan, which has not clarified the timing when it will fully ban coal-fired plants, has been seen as reluctant to commit itself to banning coal power as soon as many European countries.
Current efforts in Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, are focused on developing methods to burn ammonia in conventional coal-fired plants and gradually phasing out use of coal possibly sometime in the 2040s. Japan also aims to promote the “clean coal” technology in Asia to achieve zero emissions.
Energy experts and critics say Japan currently has overly ambitious targets for nuclear energy to supply 20%-22% of its energy mix by 2030. By that time, the country has promised to cut emissions to 46% of 2013 levels.
“There is no such thing as clean coal,” Guterres said. “For a real change, I hope Japanese public and private capital will stop financing coal completely.”
Guterres said he expects Japan, through multilateral development banks, to “immediately deliver investments and support for developing countries to expand renewables and build climate resilience” to find solutions that fit their needs in addressing the climate emergency.
“I call for Japan to make the right choice — for Japan and for the world,” he said.
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This story corrects the timing of Guterres’ meeting with Hayashi. It was before the news conference, not afterwards.
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Former President Donald Trump said his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida was "raided" by FBI agents. Trump released the statement on Monday, writing that his "beautiful home" was "currently under siege."
Trump released a statement on his Truth Social platform, writing, "After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate."
It wasn't immediately clear what the specific reason for the FBI raid was or what specific part of an investigation it was connected to.
Trump wrote in his statement, "Nothing like this has ever happened to a president of the United States before," he said.
CNN reported that the FBI executed a search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, located in Palm Beach, Florida.
This is a developing story and will continue to be updated. | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/former-president-trump-says-fbi-raided-his-mar-a-lago-home | 2022-08-08T23:43:02Z | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/former-president-trump-says-fbi-raided-his-mar-a-lago-home | true |
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology company SoftBank Group posted a $23.4 billion loss in the April-June quarter as the value of its investments sank amid global worries about inflation and interest rates.
SoftBank Group Corp.’s loss of 3.16 trillion yen was a reversal from its 762 billion yen profit in the same quarter a year earlier. Quarterly sales rose 6% to 1.57 trillion yen ($11.6 billion).
“I must humbly and honestly acknowledge that things are really bad,” a somber Chief Executive Masayoshi Son told reporters Monday. “I must face up to this.”
Losses for the last six months totaled about 5 trillion yen ($37 billion), and the latest red ink was the worst quarterly loss since the company’s founding, he said.
For the fiscal year that ended in March, Softbank racked up losses of 1.7 trillion yen ($13 billion), a reversal from the 4.9 trillion yen profit for the previous year. Annual sales grew 10.5% to 6.2 trillion yen ($46 billion).
Although Softbank’s portfolio is not directly exposed to the war in Ukraine, the company warned that global uncertainty as well as inflation and soaring energy costs would likely hurt its profitability.
Much of the dip of the value in shares came from a drop in price of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, in which SoftBank is a major investor. The declining value of the yen also hurt Tokyo-based SoftBank’s bottom line because its borrowings must be repaid in yen.
How long the problems will persist is unclear, Son said, noting it could be months or even years because of global instability and inflation.
Softbank’s intended sale of British semiconductor and software design company Arm to Nvidia failed earlier this year. SoftBank is now promising lucrative future growth at Arm, including an initial public offering, although a date has not been announced for that offering.
SoftBank acquired Arm in 2016. Arm is a leader in artificial intelligence, IoT, cloud, the metaverse and autonomous driving. Its semiconductor design is widely licensed and used in virtually all smartphones, the majority of tablets and digital TVs. Such technology is considered key for autonomous driving cars.
Though Arm remains a bit of a positive for SoftBank, Son said he was not going to gloss over the overwhelmingly devastating results for the latest quarter.
Lower share prices might appear to be an opportunity to buy at bargain basement prices, but Son promised SoftBank will firmly hold back on new investments, cut costs and jobs, and instead focus on the more than 470 companies it’s already invested in, mostly companies focused on artificial intelligence.
He declined to say how many jobs were being reduced.
SoftBank also owns stakes in the SoftBank mobile carrier, Yahoo web services provider and vehicle-for-hire company Didi, which has suffered under a regulatory crackdown in China. SoftBank also has funds that include other global investors called Vision Funds.
Son stressed he still believes in the potential of the Vision Fund investments.
“We believe this is a source of future great wealth,” he said. “But we don’t really know for sure until it happens.”
He said some of the companies were exciting and may benefit humankind, but if dreams are pursued too recklessly, sometimes there is a risk of annihilation.
“And we must avoid annihilation at all costs,” said Son.
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CINCINNATI — It's official, Fiona the hippo is a big sister.
The Cincinnati Zoo confirmed Monday morning that Bibi gave birth to a baby boy!
“Bibi and the baby are doing great together. They are inseparable, which is why it took almost five days to be sure about the sex,” said Cincinnati Zoo's director of animal care, Christina Gorsuch. “They will continue to bond inside for another week or two. Fiona and Tucker are outside, so visitors will still be able to see hippos when they come to the Zoo.”
It’s a boy! Fiona has a little brother! 💙 https://t.co/lzYvMbo1eo pic.twitter.com/hZAW32zl4s
— Cincinnati Zoo (@CincinnatiZoo) August 8, 2022
The infant was born late last Wednesday night. Since the news broke of the birth, fans have been working hard to come up with name ideas.
Bubbles, Melon, Fibi, Petunia, and Glow are some of the names on social media.
And the Cincinnati Zoo wants to know all of your name ideas. You can submit your suggestion directly to the Cincinnati Zoo by clicking HERE.
Zoo officials said the new baby looks huge compared to its first baby hippo star, Fiona. Keepers estimated that the newborn weighs about 60 pounds.
"Fiona only weighed 29 pounds when she was born six weeks premature and wasn't able to stand on her own," said Gorsuch.
The baby's estimated due date was set for Aug. 15, but caretakers said a hippo's birth window could be 30 days before or after that estimation.
Zoo officials said Bibi and her newborn would be kept separated from 5-year-old Fiona and 19-year-old Tucker so that mom and baby have plenty of time to bond.
Hippo keepers shared this adorable video of Bibi and her new calf and said, "It looks like Fiona's world-famous ear wiggles run in the family."
Don't expect to see Bibi and her newborn right away.
They will not be in front of the public, but the zoo said members have access to live cams in the outdoor habitat and can watch all the action at Hippo Cove from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day. | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/its-a-boy-cincinnati-zoo-reveals-gender-of-fiona-the-hippos-sibling | 2022-08-08T23:43:08Z | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/its-a-boy-cincinnati-zoo-reveals-gender-of-fiona-the-hippos-sibling | true |
Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says.
Researchers looked through the medical literature of established cases of illnesses and found that 218 out of the known 375 human infectious diseases, or 58%, seemed to be made worse by one of 10 types of extreme weather connected to climate change, according to a study in Monday’s journal Nature Climate Change.
The study mapped out 1,006 pathways from the climate hazards to sick people. In some cases downpours and flooding sicken people through disease-carrying mosquitos, rats and deer. There are warming oceans and heat waves that taint seafood and other things we eat and droughts that bring bats carrying viral infections to people.
Doctors, going back to Hippocrates, have long connected disease to weather, but this study shows how widespread the influence of climate is on human health.
“If climate is changing, the risk of these diseases are changing,” said study co-author Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Doctors, such as Patz, said they need to think of the diseases as symptoms of a sick Earth.
“The findings of this study are terrifying and illustrate well the enormous consequences of climate change on human pathogens,” said Dr. Carlos del Rio, an Emory University infectious disease specialist, who was not part of the study. “Those of us in infectious diseases and microbiology need to make climate change one of our priorities, and we need to all work together to prevent what will be without doubt a catastrophe as a result of climate change.”
In addition to looking at infectious diseases, the researchers expanded their search to look at all type of human illnesses, including non-infectious sicknesses such as asthma, allergies and even animal bites to see how many maladies they could connect to climate hazards in some way, including infectious diseases. They found a total of 286 unique sicknesses and of those 223 of them seemed to be worsened by climate hazards, nine were diminished by climate hazards and 54 had cases of both aggravated and minimized, the study found.
The new study doesn’t do the calculations to attribute specific disease changes, odds or magnitude to climate change, but finds cases where extreme weather was a likely factor among many.
Study lead author Camilo Mora, a climate data analyst at the University of Hawaii, said what is important to note is that the study isn’t about predicting future cases.
“There is no speculation here whatsoever,” Mora said. “These are things that have already happened.”
One example Mora knows first-hand. About five years ago, Mora’s home in rural Colombia was flooded — for the first time in his memory water was in his living room, creating an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes — and Mora contracted Chikungunya, a nasty virus spread by mosquito bites. And even though he survived, he still feels joint pain years later.
Sometimes climate change acts in odd ways. Mora includes the 2016 case in Siberia when a decades-old reindeer carcass, dead from anthrax, was unearthed when the permafrost thawed from warming. A child touched it, got anthrax and started an outbreak.
Mora originally wanted to search medical cases to see how COVID-19 intersected with climate hazards, if at all. He found cases where extreme weather both exacerbated and diminished chances of COVID-19. In some cases, extreme heat in poor areas had people congregate together to cool off and get exposed to the disease, but in other situations, heavy downpours reduced COVID spread because people stayed home and indoors, away from others.
Longtime climate and public health expert Kristie Ebi at the University of Washington cautioned that she had concerns with how the conclusions were drawn and some of the methods in the study. It is an established fact that the burning of coal, oil and natural gas has led to more frequent and intense extreme weather, and research has shown that weather patterns are associated with many health issues, she said.
“However, correlation is not causation,” Ebi said in an email. “The authors did not discuss the extent to which the climate hazards reviewed changed over the time period of the study and the extent to which any changes have been attributed to climate change.”
But Dr. Aaron Bernstein, interim director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard School of Public Health, Emory’s del Rio and three other outside experts said the study is a good warning about climate and health for now and the future. Especially as global warming and habitat loss push animals and their diseases closer to humans, Bernstein said.
“This study underscores how climate change may load the dice to favor unwelcome infectious surprises,” Bernstein said in an email. “But of course it only reports on what we already know and what’s yet unknown about pathogens may be yet more compelling about how preventing further climate change may prevent future disasters like COVID-19.”
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Which Klorane product is best?
French beauty brand Klorane was one of the first companies to offer hair care products that took advantage of effective botanical ingredients instead of harsh chemicals. Klorane products are formulated for all hair types and textures. All the formulas are biodegradable, so they’re good for the environment as well as your hair. If you’re looking for a versatile treatment for dry hair, the Klorane Repairing 3-in-1 Mask with Organic Cupuacu Butter is a great choice.
What to know before you buy a Klorane product
Hair care concerns
Klorane has eight different product lines to address hair concerns ranging from dryness and damage to thinning hair. Full hair care routines featuring three or more products are available for improved effectiveness. Products such as dry shampoo can help you have a good hair day regardless of how busy you are.
Product format
Klorane is probably most well-known for its dry shampoo, but it makes an assortment of traditional shampoos and conditioners as well. Klorane hair care routines can also include products such as leave-in sprays, hair masks and even vitamin supplements intended to help grow stronger, healthier hair.
Botanically based ingredients
Klorane uses active plant-based ingredients to tackle specific hair concerns. Each product line is formulated around a single botanical ingredient to maximize its benefit. Klorane organically farms some of its key ingredients on company land in France. Others, such as strengthening quinine and blonde-protecting chamomile, are fair trade and sustainably sourced internationally.
What to look for in a quality Klorane product
Dry shampoos for different hair types
Dry shampoo may be designed to save time, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be as good for your hair as standard shampoo. Klorane offers seven different dry shampoos formulated for oily, dry or thinning hair, as well as formulas that detoxify and purify the scalp. Some dry shampoo formulas are even available tinted to help them blend in better on dark hair.
Botanical ingredients for your hair type
If you’re trying to address a specific hair concern, look for some of these key ingredients:
- Peony: soothes irritation
- Edelweiss: encourages hair growth
- Mango butter: hydrates hair and scalp
- Cupuacu butter: nourishes and restores dry hair
- Nettle extract: helps reduce oil production
- Oat milk: balances the scalp and protects hair
Eco-friendly products and practices
Klorane’s company philosophy focuses heavily on environmental responsibility. A portion of Klorane sales goes toward funding environmental education and restoring habitat. Klorane’s products are biodegradable, so they break down quickly in the environment to avoid leaving potentially harmful chemicals in soil or waterways.
Klorane also uses recycled and recyclable packaging in all its products, and its dry shampoos are available in both traditional and nonaerosol formats. Most Klorane bottles, tubes and caps can be recycled, depending on your local facilities.
Tester kits
If you’re undecided on the best Klorane hair care products for your needs, consider a trial kit. This includes smaller bottles of popular Klorane lines to help users test the product before committing to a full-size purchase. A trial kit is even available for Klorane dry shampoo, featuring three different formulas for different hair needs.
How much you can expect to spend on Klorane products
Klorane hair products cost between $20 for 3.2-ounce dry shampoo bottles, up to $30 for 13.5-ounce standard shampoo bottles. Mini or travel sizes of some products are available for $10.
Klorane product FAQ
Where is Klorane made?
A. Almost all Klorane hair care products are made in France in order to shorten supply chains and minimize the company’s environmental impact. Some dry shampoos, sprays and supplements are made elsewhere.
Is Klorane good for dandruff?
A. Klorane’s Soothing and Anti-Irritating Shampoo with Peony is specially formulated to soothe itchiness and irritation associated with dandruff. It’s pH balanced and contains peony extract to relieve itching and tightness.
What’s the best Klorane product to buy?
Top Klorane product
Klorane Repairing 3-in-1 Mask with Organic Cupuacu Butter
What you need to know: This lightweight treatment uses organic cupuacu butter to nourish and restore hair.
What you’ll love: It can be used as an in-shower treatment, a restorative leave-in cream or an overnight hair mask. Plant-based ingredients such as coconut and sunflower oils fortify hair and help it retain moisture.
What you should consider: Some users found it left their hair feeling sticky or greasy when used as a leave-in treatment.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty, Dermstore and Amazon
Top Klorane product for the money
Klorane Ultra-Gentle Dry Shampoo with Oat Milk
What you need to know: This popular dry shampoo can remove dirt and odors from hair without leaving behind a white residue.
What you’ll love: Organically harvested oat milk soothes and nourishes the scalp while corn and rice starches absorb oil, leaving behind clean hair. The ultrafine powder works quickly to refresh hair and add volume.
What you should consider: Users with dark hair may find that they need to brush and work product through hair to completely get rid of the appearance of white residue.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty, Dermstore and Amazon
Worth checking out
Klorane Detox Dry Shampoo with Aquatic Mint
What you need to know: This dry shampoo can help you go longer between hair washes thanks to its ability to detoxify the scalp and absorb excess oil.
What you’ll love: It has a beige tint to help it blend into all hair colors better. Rice starches help absorb oil and purify hair and scalp. With ingredients such as aquatic mint, menthol and camphor, it leaves the scalp with a refreshing cooling sensation.
What you should consider: Depending on your hair texture, you need to use more of this dry shampoo than usual. Not everyone is a fan of the scent.
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What are the best New Chapter vitamins?
For 40 years, the Vermont-based company New Chapter has produced premium-grade vitamins and health supplements. The mission is to make products that are easily absorbed by the digestive system and promote whole body wellness. This is accomplished through high-quality raw materials, fermentation and no genetically modified ingredients. As a certified B Corporation, they approach business holistically to care for people and the planet in addition to profits.
New Chapter manufactures a complete line of vitamins, including single vitamins like B12 and D3, multivitamins for men and women at different stages of life, and tasty gummies. For its impact on the immune system and stress response for women 40 and older, the best New Chapter vitamins are the New Chapter Every Woman’s One Daily 40-Plus Multivitamin.
What to know before you buy New Chapter vitamins
How does fermentation work?
New Chapter vitamins are considered to be especially good for the body because they are fermented. This means that organic yeast and whole foods are put through a probiotic fermentation process. The yeast absorbs nutrients into its cell structure and then fruit enzymes prepare them for pre-digestion by breaking down the cell wall.
Why is fermentation important?
Fermented vitamins and minerals have nutrients that are already broken down. This means they are pre-digested and ready for the body to absorb right away. Other vitamins have synthetic nutrients that can be harsh on the digestive system and may pass through without their full potential being experienced. Fermentation jump-starts the digestive process and ensures you get the most nutrients from each serving.
What forms do New Chapter vitamins come in?
New Chapter vitamins come in multivitamin tablets, tasty gummies and also a variety of single vitamin and mineral tablets, such as zinc, iron, vitamin C and vitamin B12. All tablets and gummies have been fermented for easy absorption by the body.
What to look for in New Chapter vitamins
Non-GMO
New Chapter vitamins are Non-GMO Project verified. This third-party verification ensures that the products do not have any genetically modified organisms, which are plant or microorganisms that have been genetically engineered in a laboratory.
Purity
New Chapter vitamins are made without any additives, and the raw materials are verified organic by the United States Department of Agriculture to ensure the highest quality of ingredients. The manufacturing process is certified organic by Where Food Comes from Organic.
They also have a gluten-free certification from the National Sanitation Federation.
Environmentally friendly containers
All bottles are made with 99% recycled material, excluding the cap, to remain committed to New Chapter’s mission of protecting the planet and people with their business processes.
Kosher vitamins
New Chapter vitamins have been certified kosher, which means there are no products or remnants in the production process of non-kosher ingredients.
Warranty
New Chapter offers a full money-back guarantee on its vitamins. You may return any New Chapter product for a full refund if you are not satisfied.
How much you can expect to spend on New Chapter vitamins
There are three forms of New Chapter vitamins.
- Gummies are priced at 40 cents per gummy.
- Multivitamins vary in price based on the application (women’s and men’s multivitamins range from $0.67-$1 per tablet and immune system multivitamins are $1.20 per tablet).
- Single vitamins range from 45-60 cents per tablet.
New Chapter vitamins FAQ
What is blue agave fiber?
A. Blue agave fiber comes from a Mexican succulent that can be extracted and turned into sugar. It is used to sweeten the vitamins without adding extra cane sugar.
Does the brand offer vitamins for pregnant women?
A. Yes, there are vitamins for each stage, from preconception to birth and postnatal care. The vitamins are designed to be easy to digest, and they help with energy, mood and the immune system for the mother or mother-to-be and provide essential nutrients for the baby’s development.
What is distinctive about men’s 40-plus and 55-plus vitamins?
A. These vitamins are formulated for men’s health as they get older. They focus on heart health and prostate support with saw palmetto and pumpkin seed.
What are the best New Chapter vitamins to buy?
Top New Chapter vitamins
New Chapter Every Woman’s One Daily 40-Plus Multivitamin
What you need to know: This multivitamin is formulated especially for women 40 and older and is focused on stress, energy, hormones, immune system and bone support.
What you’ll love: Fermented with whole foods and probiotics, these multivitamins are made for easy absorption. They can be consumed on an empty stomach any time of day with no nausea. They are made with super foods like turmeric, ginger and fenugreek.
What you should consider: The tablets are large and difficult to swallow for some consumers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
Top New Chapter vitamins for the money
New Chapter Kids Organic Elderberry Gummies
What you need to know: These affordable gummies are made from organic haschberg type black elderberry for children over two years old.
What you’ll love: These elderberry gummies are formulated to strengthen children’s immune systems. Parents love that they are made without corn syrup, cane sugar, artificial colors and flavors. They are also free of gluten and gelatin.
What you should consider: Some parents were concerned that over half of the packaging is cotton filler.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
Worth checking out
New Chapter Fermented Vitamin D3
What you need to know: Simple to swallow, these organic tablets come in fermented form for easy absorption of bioactive vitamin D3.
What you’ll love: There is 2,000 IU of vitamin D3 supported by Reishi mushrooms and fermented turmeric for better absorption. Intended to be taken daily, this vitamin supports the immune system, heart health and better absorption of calcium for bone health.
What you should consider: They are more expensive than a majority of vitamin D3 supplements on the market.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
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MALIBU—The nomination period for candidates running for Malibu City Council in the November 8, 2022 General Municipal Election ends on Friday, August 12 at 4:30 p.m. or Wednesday, August 17 if the incumbent does not file.
“Participating in elections, whether by voting or running as a candidate, is crucial to ensuring that the City reflects the needs, concerns and values of the entire community,” said Mayor Paul Grisanti.
Nomination packets can be picked up in person from the City Clerk’s Office at Malibu City Hall at 23825 Stuart Ranch Road, throughout the nomination period during the City Clerk’s office hours, which are posted on the website.
To schedule an appointment to pull nomination paperwork to begin the nomination process, email City Clerk Kelsey Pettijohn at KPettijohn@MalibuCity.org or call 310-456-2489, ext. 228.
Before any candidate raises or spends money in connection with their campaign, they must fill out and sign the Declaration of Intent to Solicit and Receive Contributions Form and the Fair Political Practices Commission Form 501 and file them with the City Clerk.
Both forms are available online via the city of Malibu’s elections website, along with information on important dates, voter registration, vote-by-mail ballots, and candidates. The page will be regularly updated with new information. | https://www.canyon-news.com/nomination-period-for-malibu-city-council-ends-this-week/160840 | 2022-08-08T23:48:15Z | https://www.canyon-news.com/nomination-period-for-malibu-city-council-ends-this-week/160840 | true |
Kanye "Ye" West is speaking out on Kim Kardashian's split from Pete Davidson.
The 45-year-old rapper, who made countless headlines for sharing his unfiltered thoughts on the Saturday Night Live alum's relationship with West's estranged wife earlier this year, got back on Instagram Monday morning to throw in one more dig at Pete's expense. News broke on Friday that Kim and Pete had called it quits after nine months of dating.
In Kanye's caption-less post on Instagram, he simply shared a fake headline from The New York Times, reading, "Skete Davidson Dead at Age 28." In tiny font below, West addressed his ongoing feud with Kid Cudi by writing, "Kid Cudi meant to play funeral but fearful of bottle throwers."
The dig comes as Kim's lawyer, Laura Wasser, told a judge on Friday that her client and Ye were getting along amid their divorce proceedings.
"The parties are getting along and are in communication," she said. At the hearing, a Dec. 14 trial date was scheduled to settle unresolved issues pertaining to their divorce, such as shared property, which had been a point of contention.
While the divorce proceedings continue, Kim and Kanye are focused on co-parenting their four children -- North, 9, Saint, 6, Chicago, 4, and Psalm, 3. A source tells ET, "Kim and Kanye have been co-parenting in a healthy way lately. Things are cordial between them. Being a great dad has always been very important to Kanye and his main goal is to keep his children happy. He has been trying to keep any intense emotions out of anything and focus on what matters most to him, which is taking care of his family."
Kim, who filed for divorce from Kanye in February 2021 after six years of marriage, was declared legally single back in March.
But things weren't so rosy back then between her and Kanye. At that point, things appeared contentious, with Kanye taking issue with Kim's claims that he had "been putting a lot of misinformation regarding our private matters and co-parenting on social media."
Some of those posts included him attacking Pete. A source told ET back in January that Kim was upset by Kanye's "antics," which included him saying on social media that Kim didn't allow him to attend their daughter, Chicago's, fourth birthday party.
Since then, they've made up a lot of ground. Back in June, Kim dubbed him the "best dad" in a Father's Day tribute. Just recently, Kim shared snaps with her daughters, North and Chicago, sporting bold, futuristic-style Yeezy sunglasses in support of Kanye.
Meanwhile, a source tells ET that Kim and Pete's relationship fizzled because "the spark between" them "faded" and Kim "didn't feel ready for something serious with him."
The source added, "They had tons of chemistry, and still do, but she kind of wants to be single and date. Kim still adores Pete and will always be friends with him. She still thinks he's the nicest and sweetest guy in the world and there's no drama or anything weird between them now."
"She felt like Pete was the extreme opposite of Kanye and it was good for her then," the source continued. "She initially thought it would be a fun fling, but then it got more serious when they were spending so much time together. Kim wasn't feeling like she was willing to settle down with him just yet."
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BOISE, Idaho —
Firefighters have contained a grass fire that broke out Sunday night near Pierce Park Lane and Hill Road in Boise.
According to Ada County Dispatch, the fire was reported just after 7:15 p.m. Sunday. Boise Fire Department (BFD) and Eagle Fire Department responded to the fire with assistance from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
BFD said as of 9:50 p.m. Sunday, the fire was burning only within control lines.
The fire did not threaten any structures, and there were no civilian or firefighter injuries.
The fire was 100% contained Monday morning and is estimated to have burned 11 acres. BFD said one crew will stay out until midday to "make sure nothing flares up.”
Traffic was shut down on Pierce Park to Cartwright Road from Sunday night to Monday morning, but the road was fully reopened around noon on Monday.
at 7:55 a.m. Monday, the fire department said it would reopen later in the morning.
While the fire is still under investigation, BFD investigators have determined that it was human-caused.
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Man arrested for third time in single week after hitting woman in face with bat
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW/Gray News) - A man who was arrested for nonviolent crimes twice last week was later arrested Thursday morning after he hit a woman in the face with a baseball bat, according to WIBW.
The Riley County Police Department says around 2:30 a.m. officers were called for reports of an aggravated battery around 2:30 a.m. Aug. 4.
When officials arrived at the scene, they said a 42-year-old woman reported that a man, later identified as 41-year-old Nicholas Mainville, allegedly hit her in the face with a baseball bat.
The woman was rushed to a hospital in Manhattan, Kansas for treatment of her injuries.
Mainville was arrested and booked for aggravated battery.
Mainville was previously arrested Tuesday with a female co-conspirator for the theft of military uniforms and other items from the bed of a woman’s truck. RCPD said he bonded out for this crime around 7:30 p.m. that day.
Around 6 p.m. on Wednesday, RCPD said Mainville was arrested for the second time that week for distribution of opiates, criminal carry of weapons and use or possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia. He again bonded out of jail around 12:15 a.m. on Thursday, just over 2 hours before the third crime took place.
RCPD noted that Mainville remains confined to the Riley Co. Jail in lieu of bond this time.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister said Monday he was unaware that the country’s intelligence service had been bugging an opposition politician’s mobile phone for three months, insisting that he wouldn’t have allowed it had he known.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who faces elections next year, made the remarks in a televised address to the nation three days after a wiretapping scandal led to the resignations of the head of the National Intelligence Service, Panagiotis Kontoleon, and the general secretary of the prime minister’s office, Grigoris Dimitriadis.
“What happened might have been in accordance with the letter of the law, but it was wrong,” Mitsotakis said. “I didn’t know about it and obviously, I would never have allowed it.” The National Intelligence Service, known by its acronym EYP, answers directly to the prime minister’s office, a change Mitsotakis brought about himself after winning 2019 elections.
Mitsotakis said the mobile phones of Nikos Androulakis, who had been running for the leadership of the socialist PASOK opposition party at the time, had been placed under “legal surveillance” from Sept. 2021 for three months. The wiretaps had been halted “automatically” a few days after Androulakis won the party leadership race, he said, but did not elaborate on why the opposition politician was targeted.
“Even though everything happened legally, the National Intelligence Service underestimated the political dimension of the particular action,” Mitsotakis said. “It was formally adequate, but politically not acceptable. It should not have happened, causing rifts in citizens’ trust in the national security services.”
The prime minister said that since the handling of the issue was inappropriate, the head of EYP “was removed immediately” and his own office’s general secretary “assumed the objective political responsibility” by resigning.
On Friday, the prime minister’s office did not give any reason for Dimitriadis’ resignation. But a government official insisted it was “related to the toxic climate that has developed around him” and that it had nothing to do with spyware targeting Androulakis’ phone.
Androulakis dismissed Mitsotakis’ comments on Monday as a bid to play for time, saying the prime minister “methodically avoided providing explanations.”
“Mr. Mitsotakis, I request that the reason why I was under surveillance by EYP be announced forthright,” he said. “I won’t accept any cover-up.”
Androulakis filed a complaint with prosecutors at Greece’s Supreme Court on July 26 saying there had been an attempt to bug his cellphone with spyware named Predator.
The opposition politician, who is also a member of the European Parliament, said he became aware of the Predator bugging attempt after being informed by the European Parliament’s cyber security service a few days earlier.
“If it hadn’t been for the official report of the European Parliament’s special service, we would not have learnt anything about these dark practices,” Androulakis said Monday.
Androulakis was considered the favorite to succeed his party leadership vote. As head now of Greece’s third largest party, he is likely to hold the balance of power in the next election — due by mid-2023 at the latest — if no party wins enough seats to form a government without needing a coalition partner, as current opinion polls suggest.
Panos Skourletis, parliamentary representative of the main opposition SYRIZA party, said Richard Nixon resigned as U.S. president exactly 48 years ago because of a similar scandal and that his party expects Mitsotakis to “at least do the same today … to apologize and resign.”
Responsibility for the wiretaps, Skourletis said on private Open TV, “in no way … stops at Mr. Dimitriadis and Mr. Kontoleon.”
Responding to a SYRIZA request, the government said later Monday it agreed to shorten the summer recess for Parliament’s plenary session by nine days to debate the wiretaps on Aug. 22.
In April, Greek financial journalist Thanassis Koukakis said he had been notified by digital rights group Citizen Lab that his phone had been the target of surveillance by Predator software from July to September 2021. The Committee to Protect Journalists had called for a “swift and thorough investigation … (to) determine who orchestrated that monitoring, and hold them to account.”
The government has denied it uses Predator software, and Mitsotakis did not mention the journalist in his Monday address.
The prime minister said the government would propose changes to how EYP operates, including increasing its accountability and parliamentary supervision, and making internal changes to bolster transparency, personnel training and internal controls.
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Derek Gatopoulos in Athens contributed. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/greek-pm-unaware-of-prominent-politicians-wiretap/ | 2022-08-08T23:54:23Z | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/greek-pm-unaware-of-prominent-politicians-wiretap/ | true |
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister said Monday he was unaware that the country’s intelligence service had been bugging an opposition politician’s mobile phone for three months, insisting that he wouldn’t have allowed it had he known.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who faces elections next year, made the remarks in a televised address to the nation three days after a wiretapping scandal led to the resignations of the head of the National Intelligence Service, Panagiotis Kontoleon, and the general secretary of the prime minister’s office, Grigoris Dimitriadis.
“What happened might have been in accordance with the letter of the law, but it was wrong,” Mitsotakis said. “I didn’t know about it and obviously, I would never have allowed it.” The National Intelligence Service, known by its acronym EYP, answers directly to the prime minister’s office, a change Mitsotakis brought about himself after winning 2019 elections.
Mitsotakis said the mobile phones of Nikos Androulakis, who had been running for the leadership of the socialist PASOK opposition party at the time, had been placed under “legal surveillance” from Sept. 2021 for three months. The wiretaps had been halted “automatically” a few days after Androulakis won the party leadership race, he said, but did not elaborate on why the opposition politician was targeted.
“Even though everything happened legally, the National Intelligence Service underestimated the political dimension of the particular action,” Mitsotakis said. “It was formally adequate, but politically not acceptable. It should not have happened, causing rifts in citizens’ trust in the national security services.”
The prime minister said that since the handling of the issue was inappropriate, the head of EYP “was removed immediately” and his own office’s general secretary “assumed the objective political responsibility” by resigning.
On Friday, the prime minister’s office did not give any reason for Dimitriadis’ resignation. But a government official insisted it was “related to the toxic climate that has developed around him” and that it had nothing to do with spyware targeting Androulakis’ phone.
Androulakis dismissed Mitsotakis’ comments on Monday as a bid to play for time, saying the prime minister “methodically avoided providing explanations.”
“Mr. Mitsotakis, I request that the reason why I was under surveillance by EYP be announced forthright,” he said. “I won’t accept any cover-up.”
Androulakis filed a complaint with prosecutors at Greece’s Supreme Court on July 26 saying there had been an attempt to bug his cellphone with spyware named Predator.
The opposition politician, who is also a member of the European Parliament, said he became aware of the Predator bugging attempt after being informed by the European Parliament’s cyber security service a few days earlier.
“If it hadn’t been for the official report of the European Parliament’s special service, we would not have learnt anything about these dark practices,” Androulakis said Monday.
Androulakis was considered the favorite to succeed his party leadership vote. As head now of Greece’s third largest party, he is likely to hold the balance of power in the next election — due by mid-2023 at the latest — if no party wins enough seats to form a government without needing a coalition partner, as current opinion polls suggest.
Panos Skourletis, parliamentary representative of the main opposition SYRIZA party, said Richard Nixon resigned as U.S. president exactly 48 years ago because of a similar scandal and that his party expects Mitsotakis to “at least do the same today … to apologize and resign.”
Responsibility for the wiretaps, Skourletis said on private Open TV, “in no way … stops at Mr. Dimitriadis and Mr. Kontoleon.”
Responding to a SYRIZA request, the government said later Monday it agreed to shorten the summer recess for Parliament’s plenary session by nine days to debate the wiretaps on Aug. 22.
In April, Greek financial journalist Thanassis Koukakis said he had been notified by digital rights group Citizen Lab that his phone had been the target of surveillance by Predator software from July to September 2021. The Committee to Protect Journalists had called for a “swift and thorough investigation … (to) determine who orchestrated that monitoring, and hold them to account.”
The government has denied it uses Predator software, and Mitsotakis did not mention the journalist in his Monday address.
The prime minister said the government would propose changes to how EYP operates, including increasing its accountability and parliamentary supervision, and making internal changes to bolster transparency, personnel training and internal controls.
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Derek Gatopoulos in Athens contributed. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/greek-pm-unaware-of-prominent-politicians-wiretap/ | 2022-08-08T23:56:02Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/greek-pm-unaware-of-prominent-politicians-wiretap/ | true |
SÃO PAULO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ITAÚ UNIBANCO HOLDING S.A. informs its stockholders that its Board of Directors has approved, at the meeting held on this date, the payment of interest on capital, in the amount of R$0.306500 per share, with income tax withholding at a rate of 15%, resulting in net interest of R$0.260525 per share, except for the corporate stockholders able to prove that they are immune or exempt from such withholding. Such payment will be made on August 30, 2022, based on the final stockholding position recorded on August 18, 2022, with their shares traded ex-rights starting August 19, 2022.
For further information, please visit www.itau-unibanco.com.br/investor-relations, as follows: investor services > contact IR > IR services.
São Paulo (SP), August 8, 2022.
RENATO LULIA JACOB
Group Head of Investor Relations and Market Intelligence
Note: The amounts paid per share as interest on capital are the same for common shares (ITUB3) and preferred shares (ITUB4).
Contact:
Itaú Unibanco
Comunicação Corporativa
Telefone: (11) 5019-8880 / 8881
E-mail: imprensa@itau-unibanco.com.br
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 8, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
605 PM CDT Mon Aug 8 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Gray
and southwestern Roberts Counties through 630 PM CDT...
At 605 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 11
miles north of Codman, or 12 miles northwest of Miami, moving west at
5 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of northwestern Gray
and southwestern Roberts Counties.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3556 10108 3589 10109 3599 10108 3588 10074
3570 10073
TIME...MOT...LOC 2305Z 086DEG 5KT 3579 10083
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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Alabama defensive coordinator Pete Golding is consistently among the nation’s best recruiters.
Reference the 247Sports rankings and he was No. 3 a year ago among coaches nationally. He was credited with at least a part in landing eight prospects in the 2022 class and already has a quarterback committed for the 2023 haul.
So what’s his secret?
What’s the go-to pitch when sitting down with a star recruit and his family?
“I say ‘I work with the greatest coach of all time at the University of Alabama, what the hell is wrong with you?’” Golding said with a laugh when asked about his sales pitch Sunday.
He went on to discuss how the dynamic has evolved over the years
When I was in Division II and I-AA, it was about ‘Hey, who has the best relationship?” Golding said. “Who is willing to outwork everybody else? Who is the guy that’s going to help them make a decision, and why can we do it better than anybody else. It’s still like that for some guys. But for most, let’s be honest, it’s not.”
“At that point, all they want to know is ‘What is in it for me?’”
Golding’s top scores at Alabama according to the 247Sports composite include Dallas Turner (No. 9 overall in 2021), Kool-Aid McKinstry (No. 18 in 2021) and Jihaad Campbell (No. 19 in 2022).
Golding continued with his pitch to the prospects.
“You get to learn under the leadership of the best coach to ever do it, here is the strength and conditioning aspect of how we can make you better,” Golding said. “Now you’re using more of ‘What do I have to enhance their experience as a student-athlete for them to get what they want, and that’s the NFL. And the process, however, you need to use the University of Alabama’s brand, Nick Saban, to market your name, image and likeness to allow you to make more money while you’re enrolled as a student-athlete.
“I think the University of Alabama, and more importantly Nick Saban, allows young people to do that better here than anywhere else.”
The better the product, Golding said essentially, the easier it is to sell.
“You’ve still got to develop a relationship, you’ve still got to identify it right, and give them what they need,” Golding said. “That’s a piece of it. I know who I am, regardless of who it is. They’re either going to like that or they don’t. It’s my responsibility to find the information for them. Hopefully we have better stuff than everybody else and they make the best decision for them.”
Michael Casagrande is a reporter for the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @ByCasagrande or on Facebook. | https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2022/08/alabama-dc-pete-golding-reveals-his-recruiting-pitch.html | 2022-08-09T00:06:30Z | https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2022/08/alabama-dc-pete-golding-reveals-his-recruiting-pitch.html | true |
A Florida doctor accused of defrauding insurance companies out of $38 million has had to forfeit multiple homes and luxury vehicles as he heads to federal prison for 60 months, a judge has ordered.
63-year-old Armando Valdes of Miami was charged with submitting approximately $38 million in fraudulent claims to United Healthcare and Blue Cross Blue Shield, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. Valdes billed the insurance companies saying his practice was performing infusions of the prescription drug Infliximab.
Valdes was ordered by authorities to give up at least four properties, including a beachfront condominium, as well as "numerous" luxury vehicles, paid for with money obtained through his fraud scheme, the Department of Justice said.
As the Miami Herald reported, Valdes ended up forfeiting five pieces of real estate. The property addresses were listed, located in various areas, including Pompano Beach, Aventura, and Estero, Florida.
Authorities said Valdes tried to cover up his crimes by distancing himself on paper from his medical clinic. In one example, investigators say he hired a 91-year-old physician at this Gasiel Medical Services practice who was rarely found to have treated patients and had never prescribed Infliximab. Valdes listed the physician as the provider of the prescription infusions. | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/doctor-loses-at-least-four-homes-sentenced-to-federal-prison-for-healthcare-fraud-amounting-to-38m | 2022-08-09T00:11:10Z | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/doctor-loses-at-least-four-homes-sentenced-to-federal-prison-for-healthcare-fraud-amounting-to-38m | true |
WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 8, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
649 PM CDT Mon Aug 8 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Cass,
southwestern Bowie and northeastern Morris Counties through 730 PM
CDT...
At 649 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Naples, or 16 miles southwest of New Boston, moving northwest at 5
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of northwestern Cass,
southwestern Bowie and northeastern Morris Counties.
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.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3326 9449 3319 9458 3331 9475 3341 9463
TIME...MOT...LOC 2349Z 137DEG 6KT 3327 9459
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Astroport Space Technologies, Inc. has been awarded its second NASA Phase 1 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract for the construction of landing pads on the Moon.
Astroport and its research partner, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), will develop geotechnical engineering processes for "Lunar Surface Site Preparation for Landing/Launch Pad and Blast Shield Construction" with a focus on "regolith works" for bulk regolith excavation and movement. The project will build on Astroport's previous Phase 1 STTR-21 work on regolith melting technologies and robotic bricklaying system for lunar infrastructure construction.
The new research will describe a multi-step Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for "regolith works" executed by multiple machines operating autonomously or in remote control mode with step sequencing/timing to enable machine-to-machine collaboration. In particular, it will define conveyance techniques and sorting and filtering processes to prepare and deliver excavated regolith to Astroport's Lunatron™ bricklayer system.
The project will utilize space civil engineering expertise from the University of Adelaide's Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources (ATCSR) in Australia. Venturi Astrolab of Hawthorne, CA, will provide consulting support for integration into the overall system architecture of their FLEX rover as a baseline robotic mobility platform operating a suite of excavation tools.
Astroport's Founder/CEO and Space Architect, Sam Ximenes said, "we are pleased that NASA continues to place confidence in our team's ability to define and develop technologies and processes for lunar infrastructure construction. Under this new contract, the Astroport team will continue its work on the overall construction system architecture that we have started last year. Our objectives are to advance the state-of-art with geotechnical engineering and civil engineering processes for bulk regolith manipulation using a "regolith works" toolset for preparation of the lunar launch/landing site".
Principal investigator for UTSA, Dr. Sazzad Bin-Shafique, said "this research is a natural progression of the University's regolith liquefaction investigations, in that the Phase 1 study will develop discreet-event modeling of the bulk regolith conveyance methods to help determine feeds rates for Astroport's Lunatron™ bricklayer system." UTSA co-principal investigator, Dr. Ibukun Awolusi, assistant professor of construction science and management stated that "leveraging innovative technologies and systems such as those proposed in this study offers remarkable opportunities for the use of lunar materials, construction processes, and our efforts toward achieving space sustainability."
ATCSR is one of a handful of organizations globally that has focused on the development of "space civil engineering" processes for planetary construction. ATCSR has developed numerical modeling to represent the geotechnical behavior of the natural lunar regolith when subjected to load in a lunar environment. This numerical representation facilitates the modeling of a range of lunar construction activities, such as vehicular movement, excavation, and compaction.
John Culton, Director of the Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources at the University of Adelaide said, "ATCSR is proud to support cutting-edge US partners leading the development of critical off-Earth civil engineering processes required to return humans to the Moon, 'this time to stay'".
About Astroport: Astroport Space Technologies Inc. is a space construction and materials manufacturing company turning planetary resources into durable feedstock for autonomous construction of lunar surface infrastructure. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Astroport was founded with a vision to design, deploy, and operate interplanetary landing ports to facilitate safe, reliable, and efficient spaceflights to the Moon, Mars and beyond. Astroport is a deep tech startup founded in 2020, operating as a technology venture arm of Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc), a space architecture consulting design and engineering firm established in 2007.
About UTSA: The NASA MIRO Center for Advanced Measurements in Extreme Environments (CAMEE) at The University of Texas at San Antonio was established in 2019 to support NASA's Science, Aeronautics, and Space Technology Mission Directorates, with the vision of building a sustainable source of diverse, highly trained researchers to enter the Nation's workforce in NASA fields of earth system sciences, remote sensing and imaging technologies, computational fluid dynamics and data analytics, and experimental fluid mechanics. Space civil engineering has been added as a focus thrust area for the Center. Funding for the Center is provided through a NASA MUREP Institutional Research Opportunity (MIRO) award.
About ATCSR: The Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources (ATCSR) is the University of Adelaide's hub for space expertise, creating a collaborative interdisciplinary ecosystem with lunar simulation labs not found anywhere else in the Southern Hemisphere. Unique opportunities to make history are found here for students and industry to support long-term human presence in deep space focusing on habitation, agriculture, human health and space law. Outcomes of our work will not only benefit humans in space but will positively impact life here on Earth.
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WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 8, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
455 PM MDT Mon Aug 8 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Otero,
southeastern Dona Ana, northwestern Hudspeth and northern El Paso
Counties through 530 PM MDT...
At 455 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5
miles southwest of Hueco Tanks, moving west at 55 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
West El Paso, Northeast El Paso, Far East El Paso, Chaparral, Loma
Linda, Anthony, Hueco Tanks, Desert Haven, Anthony Gap, Canutillo,
Berino, Westway, Vinton, La Union, Homestead Meadows, Butterfield,
Hueco Mountain Estates, Fort Bliss Northeast, Montana Vista and Biggs
Field.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 10 in New Mexico between mile markers 159 and 164.
Interstate 10 in Texas between mile markers 1 and 7.
Highway 54 in New Mexico between mile markers 1 and 5.
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 3194 10594 3176 10599 3192 10669 3217 10657
TIME...MOT...LOC 2255Z 112DEG 49KT 3187 10611
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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A wildfire that killed an elderly couple and destroyed more than 200 homes near Ruidoso in April was caused by Public Service Company of New Mexico’s failure to properly maintain vegetation near its power lines, according to a lawsuit filed by a California-based law firm.
The lawsuit filed Friday on behalf of Ruidoso property owners is the second such lawsuit filed this year alleging that PNM and a contractor negligently failed to prevent a tree from falling on utility lines, igniting the April 12 blaze.
Attorneys for the utility responded in July to the earlier lawsuit that “a tall and healthy pine tree outside of PNM’s right-of-way” blew over in a strong wind, striking a power line and apparently igniting the fire.
PNM spokesman Ray Sandoval said Monday that the utility uses “vegetation management and wildfire mitigation practices that comply with all applicable authorities.” He also said that the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
A spokeswoman for the New Mexico Forestry Division, the agency investigating the McBride Fire, asked the Journal to submit an Inspection of Public Records Act request seeking information about the cause of the fire. The agency did not immediately respond to the request on Monday.
The new 2nd Judicial District Court suit was filed by Singleton Schreiber, a San Diego-based law firm, on behalf of the owners of 26 properties in the Ruidoso area damaged by the 6,159-acre fire. The suit seeks unspecified damages.
PNM failed to properly inspect and report hazardous vegetation around its power lines and failed to protect PNM facilities “from tall, nearby pine trees, rooted in shallow soils, on a steep slope,” the suit alleges.
“PNM’s failure to abide by state laws during repairs, construction and maintenance put the public at risk,” said Vern Payne, a Los Lunas attorney for Singleton Schreiber who filed the lawsuit. “Making matters worse, they were made aware of these dangerous conditions and their subsequent behavior actually contributed to the size and spread of this fire.”
Powerful winds spread the McBride Fire quickly, destroying 207 primary residences and blackening more than 6,000 acres, including more than 4,500 acres in the Lincoln National Forest, the U.S. Forest Service has reported.
An elderly couple were killed April 12 when the fire destroyed their home at 569 Gavilan Canyon Road. Wind gusts up to 80 mph and extremely dry conditions contributed to the fire’s rapid spread and ferocity.
The earlier lawsuit, filed in April, is still pending in 2nd Judicial District Court. It was filed by three Texas residents who owned “vacation trailers and related property” destroyed by the fire at 530 Gavilan Canyon Road in Ruidoso.
Both suits also name as a defendant Trees Inc., a Houston-based company under contract with PNM to cull vegetation in PNM easements.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bert Fields, for decades the go-to lawyer for Hollywood A-listers including Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson, George Lucas and the Beatles, and a character as colorful as many of his clients, has died at age 93.
Fields died Sunday at his home in Malibu, California, with his wife, art consultant Barbara Guggenheim, at his side, according to an announcement from Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger, the law firm he helped make a Hollywood powerhouse.
Fields had been suffering from long-term neurological effects of COVID-19, firm spokesman Seth Horowitz said.
“Bert Fields was a gentleman; an extraordinary human being," Cruise, a longtime client, said in a statement. "He had a powerful intellect, a keen wit, and charm that made one enjoy every minute of his company. I loved him dearly and always will.”
Fields was known for his fierce advocacy in the courtroom and his personal flair outside it, with bespoke suits, chauffeured cars and an unmatched set of talents.
“He was extremely witty and charming with all the elegance of a true gentleman,” producer Jerry Bruckheimer said in a statement. “But he also had the determination and grit of a street fighter.”
Law partner and close friend Pierce O'Donnell called Fields “the greatest lawyer of his era” and "truly a Renaissance man: advocate, author, historian, actor, raconteur, recording artist, and a music enthusiast who knew every Cole Porter lyric.”
His cases included a multimillion-dollar judgment for Beatle George Harrison against his former business manager, and a win for Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Pictures in an attempted injunction against the release of the director's film “Amistad," and a successful attempt by Warren Beatty to prevent cuts to a TV showing of his film “Reds.”
Powerful clients meant taking on powerful opposition. Many of Fields' most famous cases came against the Walt Disney Co. He represented former executive Jeffrey Katzenberg in his heated split from the company, getting him a $250 million settlement. He represented Lucas in his negotiations with Disney parks. And he represented Harvey and Bob Weinstein in their attempt to separate their company, Miramax, from Disney. Fields would negotiate a deal where the brothers got money to start the new Weinstein Co. instead.
“In the entertainment business walking into litigation without Bert Fields is like walking into the Arctic without a jacket,” Harvey Weinstein, now a convicted rapist serving a prison sentence, told the New York Times in 2005.
In the early 2000s, Fields became entangled in the investigation of a private detective he used, Anthony Pellicano, who would later be sentenced to 15 years in prison for illegal wiretapping and other convictions. Fields was questioned by federal investigators, but denied any knowledge of illegal activity and was never charged.
Bertram Fields was born in Los Angeles on March 31, 1929, the son of a retired ballet dancer and an eye surgeon. He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, and Harvard Law School, and served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War before beginning his work as a lawyer.
He was also a prolific author, with published books on William Shakespeare and King Richard III.
His clients, who often became his close friends, were steadfast in their loyalty to him and effusive in their praise after his death.
“He was a brilliant renaissance man,” Dustin Hoffman said in a statement, “and, yet, he still had time to be an incredible, kind friend.”
Along with Guggenheim, Fields is survived by son James Elder Fields and grandchildren Michael and Annabelle.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A judge is considering whether Georgia officials should once again be prohibited from enforcing the state's restrictive abortion law while a legal challenge against it is pending.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney heard arguments Monday from lawyers for the state and for doctors and advocacy groups who filed a lawsuit challenging the law. He said he needed to think about the issues but that he would issue a ruling soon.
“I understand that this is something that needs immediate attention and I will give it that,” McBurney said at the end of the hearing.
The hearing focused on whether the judge has the power to block the law temporarily while the litigation plays out and whether the law was invalid from the start because it violated the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it was enacted.
Georgia's law was passed by state lawmakers and signed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in 2019 but it had been blocked from taking effect. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the state to begin enforcing it last month, just over three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which had protected the right to an abortion for nearly 50 years.
The law bans most abortions once a “detectable human heartbeat” is present. Cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound in cells within an embryo that will eventually become the heart as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. That means most abortions in Georgia are effectively banned at a point before many women know they are pregnant.
The law includes exceptions for rape and incest, as long as a police report is filed, and allows for later abortions when the mother’s life is at risk or a serious medical condition renders a fetus unviable.
The new lawsuit challenging Georgia's law was filed by doctors and advocacy groups July 26, less than a week after the 11th Circuit allowed the law to take effect.
The doctors and advocacy groups are asking the judge to block state officials from enforcing the ban on abortions at about six weeks, as well as another provision of the law that allows prosecutors to examine medical records without a subpoena, while the litigation is pending.
The lawsuit argues that the law violates the “fundamental rights to liberty and privacy" under the Georgia Constitution, which it argues are much broader than those granted by the U.S. Constitution. It also asserts that the law is invalid because it was in violation of the U.S. Constitution when it was signed and Georgia case law says that means it must be reenacted to become effective.
The state argues that the judge cannot stop enforcement of the law while the challenge to its constitutionality plays out. The state also rejects the idea that the law was unconstitutional when it passed arguing that the recent Supreme Court ruling overturning those precedents that made it unconstitutional were themselves wrong. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Judge-considers-whether-to-block-Georgia-abortion-17360355.php | 2022-08-09T00:23:53Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Judge-considers-whether-to-block-Georgia-abortion-17360355.php | true |
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Close to one-third of the Palestinians who died in the latest outbreak of violence between Israel and Gaza militants may have been killed by errant rockets fired by the Palestinian side, according to an Israeli military assessment that appears consistent with independent reporting by The Associated Press.
The Israeli military said 47 Palestinians were killed in the weekend of fighting — at least 14 of them by Islamic Jihad-fired rockets that fell short.
No one in Gaza with direct knowledge of the explosions in question was willing to speak about them publicly. But live TV footage showed militant rockets falling short in densely packed residential neighborhoods. And AP visits to the sites of two explosions that killed a total of 12 people lent support to suspicions they were caused by rockets that went off course.
Israel is claiming victory in the weekend clash, in part because it killed two senior Islamic Jihad commanders and because no Israelis were killed or seriously wounded. If it turns out that Islamic Jihad harmed some of those it claims to protect, it would make for an even more humiliating outcome for the militant group and its main sponsor, Iran.
In Gaza, the ruling Hamas militant group heavily polices dissent, and many Palestinians view armed groups as freedom fighters defending their homeland in the face of Israeli aggression.
Israel said it targeted only militants and made every effort to spare civilians. But at least one strike, which killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander in the southern city of Rafah late Saturday, also killed five civilians as Israel flattened one home and heavily damaged others.
The violence began Friday, when Israel launched a wave of airstrikes against Islamic Jihad because of what the military described as an imminent threat to Israelis living near the Gaza frontier. By the time a cease-fire took effect late Sunday, Islamic Jihad had fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, and Israeli aircraft had struck dozens of suspected militant targets.
The Israeli army said militants fired about 1,100 rockets, with about 200 landing inside the Palestinian enclave.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said 46 Palestinians were killed in the three days of fighting, including 16 children and four women. It does not differentiate between civilians and militants.
Islamic Jihad said 12 of its fighters were killed, a smaller armed group said it lost a fighter, and Hamas said two Hamas-affiliated policemen who did not take part in the fighting were killed. Israel said it killed at least 20 militants and seven civilians.
Neither Hamas nor Islamic Jihad responded to Israel’s claims that civilians were killed by misfired rockets. Instead, they have held Israel responsible for all the deaths.
Gaza-based human rights groups investigating the strikes also declined to address the claims. But their initial findings indicate that at least some of the explosions were questionable.
The Al-Mezan human rights group said some civilians were killed by “projectiles” rather than Israeli airstrikes. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said it has so far confirmed that 27 people were killed by Israeli strikes — far below the overall toll.
PCHR director Raji Sourani said that the group has issued statements on only those incidents in which there was no ambiguity, and that the others will take more time to investigate because of “contradicting allegations.” He did not elaborate.
“We need eyewitnesses, shrapnel, videos and evidence,” he said. “There must be an investigation.”
The suspicions are focused on three explosions in which at least 15 civilians were killed.
On Saturday night, seven Palestinians were killed in a blast in the crowded Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. The Israeli military said it carried out no operations in the area at the time. It released video footage purportedly showing a barrage of militant rockets, with one falling short.
Islamic Jihad had announced a rocket attack on the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, just north of Jebaliya, at around the same time as the explosion.
Video footage of the aftermath circulated online, showing what appeared to be a rocket casing sticking out of the ground on a narrow, busy street. When the AP visited the site on Monday, the casing was gone and the hole had been filled in with dirt. Palestinians are usually keen to display evidence of Israeli airstrikes to international media.
Al-Mezan attributed the blast to a “projectile,” and the PCHR said it was still investigating.
On Sunday night, an explosion killed five Palestinians ages 4 to 17 at a cemetery in Jebaliya, also around the same time Islamic Jihad announced a barrage of rockets. The Israeli military said it was investigating.
Visiting both sites in Jebaliya, the AP saw none of the telltale signs of an Israeli strike — the wide craters left by F-16s or the narrow holes caused by drone strikes.
In a third suspicious explosion, one of the Hamas-affiliated policemen, who was off-duty, was killed Sunday along with three of his young children in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. Hamas, a far more powerful militant group that has fought four wars with Israel, stayed out of the latest fighting, and Israel appears to have been careful not to target it.
Al-Mezan and the PCHR said they are still investigating that episode.
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Krauss reported from Ottawa, Ontario. Associated Press writer Ilan Ben Zion in Jerusalem contributed to this report. | https://www.wivb.com/news/misfired-rockets-may-have-killed-over-a-dozen-in-gaza-battle/ | 2022-08-09T00:25:40Z | https://www.wivb.com/news/misfired-rockets-may-have-killed-over-a-dozen-in-gaza-battle/ | false |
BEIJING (AP) — China said Monday it is extending threatening military exercises surrounding Taiwan that have disrupted shipping and air traffic and substantially raised concerns about the potential for conflict in a region crucial to global trade.
The announcement further increases uncertainty in the crisis that developed last week with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.
The exercises will include anti-submarine drills, apparently targeting U.S. support for Taiwan in the event of a potential Chinese invasion, according to social media posts from the eastern leadership of China’s ruling Communist Party’s military arm, the People’s Liberation Army.
China claims Taiwan as its own territory and its leader, Xi Jinping, has focused on bringing the self-governing island democracy under the mainland’s control, by force if necessary. The two sides split in 1949 after a civil war, but Beijing considers visits to Taiwan by foreign officials as recognizing its sovereignty.
Xi is seeking a third term as Communist Party leader later this year. His control over the armed forces and what he has defined as China’s “core interests” — including Taiwan, territorial claims in the South China Sea and historic adversary Japan — are key to maintaining his nationalist credentials.
The military has said the exercises, involving missile strikes, warplanes and ship movements crossing the midline of the Taiwan Strait dividing the sides, are a response to Pelosi’s visit.
China has ignored calls to calm the tensions, and there was no immediate indication of when it would end what amounts to a blockade.
On Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said China would “firmly safeguard China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, resolutely deter the U.S. from containing China with the Taiwan issue and resolutely shatter the Taiwan authorities’ illusion of “relying on the U.S. for independence.”
Asked in Dover, Delaware, on Monday about China’s response to Pelosi’s visit, U.S. President Joe Biden said: “I’m not worried, but I’m concerned they’re moving as much as they are. But I don’t think they’re going to do anything more than they are.”
China’s slowing economic growth, which has reduced options among migrant workers as well as college graduates, has raised the specter of social unrest. The party has maintained its power through total control of the press and social media, along with suppression of political opponents, independent lawyers and activists working on issues from online free speech to LGBTQ rights.
China doesn’t allow public opinion polls, and popular opinion is hard to judge. However, it generally skews in favor of the government and its efforts to restore China’s former dominant role in the region that puts it in conflict with the United States and its allies, including Japan and Australia.
Taiwan’s defense ministry said Sunday it detected a total of 66 aircraft and 14 warships conducting the naval and air exercises. The island has responded by putting its military on alert and deploying ships, planes and other assets to monitor Chinese aircraft, ships and drones that are “simulating attacks on the island of Taiwan and our ships at sea.”
Meanwhile, Taiwan’s official Central News Agency reported that Taiwan’s army will conduct live-fire artillery drills in southern Pingtung county on Tuesday and Thursday, in response to the Chinese exercises.
The drills will include snipers, combat vehicles, armored vehicles as well as attack helicopters, said the report, which cited an anonymous source.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has called on the international community to “support democratic Taiwan” and “halt any escalation of the regional security situation.” The Group of Seven industrialized nations has also criticized China’s actions, prompting Beijing to cancel a meeting between Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Japanese counterpart, Yoshimasa Hayashi.
China has cut off defense and climate talks with the U.S. and imposed sanctions on Pelosi in retaliation for her visit.
In Washington, Taiwanese de facto ambassador Bi-khim Hsiao said China had no reason to “be so furious” over Pelosi’s visit, which follows a long tradition of American lawmakers visiting Taiwan.
“Well, you know, we have been living under the threat from China for decades,” Hsiao told CBS News on Sunday. “If you have a kid being bullied at school, you don’t say you don’t go to school. You try to find a way to deal with the bully.
Colin Kahl, the U.S. under secretary of defense for policy, told reporters Monday that Beijing’s reaction to Pelosi’s visit was a “manufactured crisis,” noting that the U.S. policy toward Taiwan and China remains unchanged and that Congress is an independent body of government.
“Clearly, the PRC is trying to coerce Taiwan, clearly they’re trying to coerce the international community. And all I say is, we’re not going to take the bait and it’s not going to work,” he said.
He said U.S. forces in the region would continue to operate, fly and sail wherever is permitted under international law, including the Taiwan Strait.
On a visit to Myanmar, whose Chinese-backed military government has been accused of murdering its opponents, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Washington was “taking the opportunity to build up its military deployment in the region, which deserves high vigilance and resolute boycott from all sides.”
“China’s firm stance” is aimed at “earnestly safeguarding peace across the Taiwan Strait and regional stability,” Wang was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua News Agency.
Meanwhile, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong called for a cooling of tensions. “Australia continues to urge restraint, Australia continues to urge deescalation, and this is not something that solely Australia is calling for, and the whole region is concerned about the current situation, the whole region is calling for stability to be restored,” Wong told reporters in Canberra.
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Associated Press writers Seung Min Kim in Dover, Delaware, and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report. | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/china-extends-threatening-military-exercises-against-taiwan/ | 2022-08-09T00:28:01Z | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/china-extends-threatening-military-exercises-against-taiwan/ | false |
Chelsea have been warned about their treatment of Callum Hudson-Odoi as a potential sale this summer could come back to bite them. Hudson-Odoi, 21, was left out of the squad completely for Chelsea's first game against Everton, raising questions over his future at the club.
Ex-Blues winger Paul Canoville has said he is concerned his former side risk a repeat of last summer's wrongdoings after Tammy Abraham excelled at Roma under the tutelage of Jose Mourinho following an exit from Stamford Bridge.
Hudson-Odoi was once one of the most prized academy prospects at Chelsea but has since fallen down the pecking order under Thomas Tuchel.
Canoville unhappy with Tuchel's treatment of Hudson-Odoi
Canoville voiced his displeasure at the treatment of Hudson-Odoi on Twitter on Monday.
He tweeted: "Nah. I don’t like seeing that! Callum being treated like Tammy.
Nah. I don’t like seeing that! Callum being treated like Tammy. Kid bust a gut working through pre season to be fit again from injury. Freezing him out ain’t a good look. Nope! Not happy TT! #Chelsea
— Paul Canoville ⭐️⭐️ (@Kingcanners) August 8, 2022
"Kid bust a gut working through pre season to be fit again from injury. Freezing him out ain’t a good look. Nope! Not happy TT [Thomas Tuchel]!"
The bigger picture
Abraham could have been the ideal player to fill the void in the centre of Tuchel's front-line given the shortage of attacking options at Chelsea this summer. The form he showed for Roma last season (he scored 17 goals in Serie A) suggests his former side were hasty in their decision to sell the Cobham graduate, and Hudson-Odoi carries the potential to force similar regret.
Blues youth products Fikayo Tomori and Marc Guehi were also sold last summer - to AC Milan and Crystal Palace respectively - and have since been able to showcase their talents away from west London.
But there's also the need to raise funds for incoming transfers, and so Tuchel must strike a delicate balance on the market when handling talented fringe players. | https://www.goal.com/en-cm/news/tuchel-warned-hudson-odoi-treatment-ex-chelsea-star-worries/blt495d3a06b318f230 | 2022-08-09T00:29:34Z | https://www.goal.com/en-cm/news/tuchel-warned-hudson-odoi-treatment-ex-chelsea-star-worries/blt495d3a06b318f230 | false |
Everton are closing in on a deal for Wolves captain Conor Coady.
A move for the former Liverpool academy graduate was accelerated after Ben Godfrey broke his leg against Chelsea at the weekend and fellow centre-back Yerry Mina limped off injured.
Coady was at the club’s Finch Farm training complex on Monday afternoon to finalise an initial loan deal.
Everton later announced that Godfrey has undergone successful surgery on his fractured fibula and is expected to be out for around three months.
Meanwhile, Mina will this week see a specialist to discover the full extent of his issue after sustaining ankle ligament damage.
Everton are also on the verge of confirming the £33million signing of Lille midfielder Amadou Onana.
The 20-year-old Belgium international was at Goodison Park on Saturday to watch the 1-0 defeat to Chelsea after undergoing a medical earlier in the day.
Plans are also well advanced to bring former midfielder Idrissa Gueye back to the club from Paris St Germain, the 32-year-old having left in 2019 after three seasons.
Manager Frank Lampard has so far signed Burnley duo James Tarkowski and Dwight McNeil plus Sporting Lisbon left-back Ruben Vinagre on loan but the quest for reinforcements up front continue with striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin out for potentially six weeks with a knee problem. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3573652/everton-close-in-on-loan-deal-for-wolves-captain-conor-coady/ | 2022-08-09T00:31:18Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3573652/everton-close-in-on-loan-deal-for-wolves-captain-conor-coady/ | true |
The next step in a Morton County investigation of an assistant prosecutor running for the post of state’s attorney will give her an opportunity to respond to a complaint that she created a hostile work environment.
State’s Attorney Allen Koppy placed Assistant State’s Attorney Gabrielle Goter on administrative leave June 27. The move followed a complaint by an employee on June 7. Goter's attorney says the investigation into that complaint is being mishandled and is politically motivated.
County Human Resources Director Wendy Bent told the Tribune, “The complaint in general is a hostile work environment complaint. The remaining contents of the investigation are considered a closed record at the current time.”
Goter previously has stated the complaint came as a shock to her and that she would cooperate in the investigation “in any way necessary.” She and attorney Tom Dickson have not yet filed a response.
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“We have not seen the complaint,” Dickson told the Tribune.
Dickson in an Aug. 3 letter to Bent called the investigation unprofessional and harmful to Goter's reputation. He said it violates time constraints in county policy and "needs to be completed." He also said the probe "smacks of political opportunism at its worst."
"The undeniable fact that this endless investigation is being coordinated with the political rival of Ms. Goter is inappropriate and is a clear conflict of interest," Dickson wrote.
Goter is challenging Koppy in the November election. In the June 14 primary election, Goter garnered 1,517 votes or just more than 53%. Koppy had 1,333 or about 47%, according to the North Dakota Secretary of State's website. The top two candidates in the primary move on to the general election. There was not a third candidate. Koppy in 2018 overcame a primary deficit to beat Goter in the general election.
Koppy “was simply following the recommendations of Human Resources and our protocol to initiate the investigation” when he placed Goter on administrative leave, Bent said. Koppy has not commented on the matter.
Bent said the process includes investigation of the complaint, and interviews of witnesses and any secondary complainants. If there's an alleged violation of a county rule, policy or standard, the accused has the opportunity to evaluate and respond to the complaint. Officials will then interview additional witnesses and allegations.
County officials are finalizing complaint information and will then seek a response from Goter, Bent said. Officials after further evaluation with an attorney will complete the investigation by “substantiating or unsubstantiating each individual allegation” in the complaint, she said.
“Although this investigation has taken longer than we all hoped, we can assure the complainant, the witnesses and the accused that the process has been and will continue to be thorough, ethical, and law-abiding,” Bent said.
Goter’s administrative leave “is not considered disciplinary in nature,” Bent said, but is a way to separate an employee from the incident during the investigation.
Austin Gunderson, who served as an assistant prosecutor in the state's attorney's office for 4 ½ years before recently leaving for another job, told the Tribune the work environment in the office was "pretty normal." Doors were always open, and staff frequently turned to Goter for advice on cases and laws.
"She's the smartest and most hard-working attorney I've ever worked with or seen in the courtroom," Gunderson said, adding that no unprofessional conduct came to his attention while he was in the office.
Goter has continued to handle cases since being placed on leave, including the July sentencing hearing of a man who pleaded guilty to murder in the March death of a Mandan man. A judge sentenced Wade Bison, 39, to life in prison with no chance of parole.
Goter led the prosecution team in the August 2021 murder trial of Chad Isaak, who was convicted of the April 2019 shooting and stabbing deaths of four people in Mandan. He received four life sentences with no chance of parole. He died of suicide in late July. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/workplace-investigation-of-morton-assistant-prosecutor-continues-goters-attorney-says-probe-mishandled/article_694aafc4-1745-11ed-b517-0fb72d2393f8.html | 2022-08-09T00:34:23Z | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/workplace-investigation-of-morton-assistant-prosecutor-continues-goters-attorney-says-probe-mishandled/article_694aafc4-1745-11ed-b517-0fb72d2393f8.html | false |
(CNN) — The FBI executed a search warrant on Monday at Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, as part of an investigation into the handling of presidential documents, including classified documents, that may have been brought to Florida, three people familiar with the situation say.
Trump confirmed that FBI agents were at Mar-a-Lago and said “they even broke into my safe.”
“My beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” he said in a statement Monday evening.
The former President was not in Florida at the time that the search warrant was executed.
The search began early Monday morning and law enforcement personnel appeared to be focused on the area of the club where Trump’s offices and personal quarters are, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The Justice Department declined to comment to CNN, as did the White House. A White House official said it was not notified about the search.
CNN has reached out to the FBI for comment.
The Justice Department has two known active investigations connected to the former President, one on the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and January 6, 2021, and the other involving the handling of classified documents.
The National Archives, charged with collecting and sorting presidential material, has previously said at least 15 boxes of White House records were recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort — including some that were classified.
In April and May, aides to Trump at Mar-a-Lago were interviewed by the FBI as part of the probe into the handling of presidential records, according to a source familiar with the matter. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/breaking-news/fbi-executes-search-warrant-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-former-president-says/ | 2022-08-09T00:42:56Z | https://www.wishtv.com/news/breaking-news/fbi-executes-search-warrant-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-former-president-says/ | false |
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vial has announced that the VialConnect interface with ModMed® is now live. With VialConnect, research clinics that use ModMed's EHR EMA® can seamlessly filter their patient databases to streamline clinical trial study recruitment for free.
The ModMed interface is available to all clinics running clinical trials using VialConnect and delivers a customizable CTMS (clinical trials management system) that powers core workflows and an EMR filtering tool to sort potential trial subjects from a clinic's patient database. VialConnect is part of a series of tech-enabled solutions offered by Vial including EDC, eTMF, and eSource.
"VialConnect's EMR filtering tool allowed us to screen patients in record time and expedited our patient recruitment timelines. We look forward to using the tool for future studies," said Dr. Syed Ali, principal investigator at Acclaim Dermatology. Dr. Ali's site was part of Vial's initial pilot of the interface. Vial plans to roll out the interface across the Vial Site Network that use ModMed's EMA.
VialConnect's EMR filtering capabilities allow for complex querying within a user-friendly UI. Users can sort their database and find eligible subjects, and exclude ineligible ones, based on a number of criteria including indication, demographics, allergies, and current medications. The functionality is effective for indications with wide prevalence (psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, acne, rosacea, vitiligo, alopecia areata) as well as low prevalence, rare indications (prurigo nodularis, BCC, SCC, EB, among others).
Vial is a next-generation CRO that promises faster execution and high-quality trial outcomes by leveraging Vial's tech-enabled trial management system, streamlined study startup processes, and proven enrollment playbook. Together, these best-in-class services and operational excellence accelerate the development of new therapies and devices for sponsors.
To learn more about VialConnect, visit https://vial.com/vialconnect/.
See the full release here.
About Vial: Vial's mission is to empower scientists to cure all human diseases. Vial has executed that vision by launching a next-generation CRO (with slated launches in Ophthalmology CRO, Oncology CRO, Gastroenterology CRO, and a Neurology CRO), a site network (Dermatology Clinical Trials, Ophthalmology Clinical Trials, Gastroenterology Clinical Trials, Women's Health Clinical Trials, Neurology Clinical Trials), and technology platform (VialConnect CTMS) to accelerate research. Vial has over 125 employees and is based in San Francisco, California, and has contributed to over 750 trials from Phase I through Phase IV.
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Report: California doesn’t emphasize speedy jobless benefits
By ADAM BEAM
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California delayed or improperly denied unemployment benefits for roughly 6 million people during the pandemic because state policies “do not prioritize getting benefits to workers quickly,” according to a nonpartisan report released Monday by the Legislative Analyst’s Office.
The report said payments were delayed for about 5 million people — up to half of all workers who applied for benefits during the height of the pandemic. Meanwhile, the California Employment Development Department denied benefits for 3.4 million workers during that time. Of the 200,000 workers who appealed those denials, nearly 80% of them won their case.
“We believe many of the workers who did not appeal likely were eligible, meaning the state may have improperly denied 1 million additional claims,” said Chas Alamo, principal fiscal and policy analyst for the Legislative Analyst’s Office.
The report blamed these failures on the basic design of California’s unemployment program, which it said is geared more toward the businesses that fund the program than the workers who benefit from it.
Businesses’ tax rates go up each time one of their former workers is awarded unemployment benefits. From 2019 through 2021, more than half of the Employment Development Department’s decisions to deny benefits were overturned on appeal. But in other states, less than 25% of denials were overturned on appeal, according to the report.
“State policies and practices formed under this orientation would tend to emphasize holding down business costs potentially at the expense of making sure eligible workers can get benefits easily,” the report said.
Of the 3.4 million workers who had benefits denied during the pandemic, most of them were for not providing necessary documents on time — rules aimed at preventing fraud. But during that time, the report said the Employment Development Department had no system to process unopened mail and answered less than 1% of its phone calls because of overwhelming demand.
The report said California denied some benefits despite the fact that the claimants were clearly eligible. In one case reviewed by the Legislative Analyst’s Office, the state denied a claim because the worker was caring for her children while unemployed, thus making her “unavailable for work.” State rules allow parents to look after their children while they are unemployed, as long as they arrange child care once they get a new job.
“Individually, policies and actions aimed at preventing fraud may appear justified and reasonable,” the report said. “Viewed as a whole, however, the collection makes getting benefits unreasonably difficult for eligible workers.”
The Employment Development Department said it will “carefully review the LAO’s ideas,” adding that it has already adopted many of its recommendations. Earlier this year, the state Legislature gave the department $136 million for improved call centers, simplifying forms and notices, coming up with new tools to better reveal fraud and upgrading training for workers to get payments approved faster.
“During the pandemic, EDD has paid over $180 billion to Californians in need,” the department wrote in an unsigned email to The Associated Press. “The pandemic tested every benefit system in the country, exposing the need to deliver better systems and modernize operations.”
Michael Bernick, a former director of the Employment Development Department, said the report was unfair because it placed too much blame on the state. Unemployment benefits is a joint program with the federal government. Much of the anti-fraud policies are mandated by federal rules, he said.
At the start of the pandemic, California officials took several steps to speed up the payment of benefits. But soon it was clear the state was the victim of unprecedented amounts of fraud, with state officials estimating as much as $20 billion in unemployment payments going to criminals. Audits revealed hundreds of millions were paid in the names of death row inmates and, in one case, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Nearly all of that fraud came from a special federally funded program aimed at giving unemployment benefits to people who usually are not eligible to receive them because they are either independent contractors or self-employed. That special program, which has now ended, did not include many anti-fraud safeguards that are part of the traditional unemployment program.
In the face of intense criticism, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration reacted by installing new identify verification software and making other changes to root out fraud.
“There is a balance between rapid payment and paying out fraudulent or inappropriate claims, and it’s not true that EDD has not made getting benefits a priority,” Bernick said.
Assembly member Cottie Petrie-Norris, a Democrat and chair of the Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee, said lawmakers hope to see “major advances in how quickly the department can assess threats and resolve claims.”
Assembly member Jim Patterson, a Republican from Fresno, is skeptical. He noted the state was warned in an audit just before the pandemic that the state was not prepared to handle a large influx of claims.
“They were warned and didn’t do anything about it,” he said. “I just don’t buy the excuse they were overwhelmed.” | https://kion546.com/news/ap-california/2022/08/08/report-califonria-doesnt-emphasize-speedy-jobless-benefits/ | 2022-08-09T00:48:52Z | https://kion546.com/news/ap-california/2022/08/08/report-califonria-doesnt-emphasize-speedy-jobless-benefits/ | true |
WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 8, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
541 PM MDT Mon Aug 8 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Advisory is cancelled for a portion of western Texas,
including the following county, Hudspeth.
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
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Lori Loughlin gets judge's approval to enter Canada for film project … but still needs clearance from officials in country following college admissions conviction
Lori Loughlin has received clearance from a judge to travel to Canada to shoot a film there, but officials in the country could still block her entrance.
Loughlin, 58, has received an offer to appear in a film that is shooting in Canada, TMZ reported after reviewing court docs in the case.
The Queens, New York-born actress told the court that the project would be filmed in a timeframe between the middle of September and early October.
The latest: Lori Loughlin, 58, has received clearance from a judge to travel to Canada to shoot a film there, but officials in the country could still block her entrance. She was snapped in LA this past June
A judge approved of Loughlin's travel request, but she still requires authorization from Canadian officials, which could be challenging after she pleaded guilty to a felony in May of 2020 in connection with the college admissions scandal. She remains on probation in the incident.
The Canadian government has past denied entry to celebs with criminal records including Chris Brown and The Game.
According to US Weekly, Loughlin will have to apply for a Canadian Temporary Resident Permit for permission to work there.
The Full House star and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, 59, were indicted in 2019 in connection with allegations they paid admissions fixer Rick Singer $500,000 to arrange for the University of Southern California to recruit their daughters Isabella Rose, 23, and Olivia Jade, 22, onto the school's rowing team, despite that they had no background in the sport.
The Queens, New York-born actress told the court that the project would be filmed in a timeframe between the middle of September and early October
The Full House star and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, 59, were seen in Boston in 2019 amid court proceedings in the college admissions scandal
In May of 2020, the celeb couple pleaded guilty in connection with conspiracy charges in the case. Loughlin received a two-month jail sentence along with a fine of $150,000 and 150 hours of community service following the guilty plea. She began her sentence at a federal prison in Dublin, California in October of 2020 and was released that December.
Giannulli received a five-month sentence with a fine of $250,000 and 250 hours of community service. He began his prison sentence in November of 2020 and was transferred to home confinement in April of 2021, about a month before his sentence ended.
Professionally, Loughlin's legal troubles kept her sidelined from Fuller House's fifth season and her return to the small screen came late last year appearing on a two-part Christmas special for Hallmark titled When Hope Calls.
Loughlin earlier this summer appeared on her first red carpet in the wake of the scandal, as in June she was at RJ's Place for the DesignCare 2022 Gala in Los Angeles.
The event benefitted the HollyRod Foundation, which is actress Holly Robinson Peete and husband Rodney Peete's nonprofit organization aimed at helping families impacted by a loved one's diagnosis of autism or Parkinson's Disease. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11093529/Lori-Loughlin-gets-judges-approval-Canada-film-needs-clearance-country.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-09T00:52:37Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11093529/Lori-Loughlin-gets-judges-approval-Canada-film-needs-clearance-country.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 8, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
541 PM MDT Mon Aug 8 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Advisory is cancelled for a portion of western Texas,
including the following county, Hudspeth.
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
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Olivia Newton-John Dead at 73
Olivia Newton-John, the legendary singer and actress responsible for hits such as "Physical" and the classic musical Grease, has died. She was 73.
Newton-John's husband John Easterling confirmed the news with a post on the star's official Facebook page Monday (Aug. 8).
"Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends," the statement reads, requesting privacy and respect for Newton-John's family at this time.
"Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer," the statement continues. "Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer."
Read the full statement below:
TMZ confirmed the news Monday afternoon. An official cause of death has not yet been confirmed. However, a source who spoke to the outlet implied Newton-John passed away as a result of cancer.
The international icon was first diagnosed with the disease in 1992. She underwent a partial mastectomy at the time. Although she went into remission, she relapsed twice over the years — in 2013 and 2017, according to TMZ.
Her most recent relapse forced her to postpone several tour dates. Her Grease co-star John Travolta threw his support behind the icon at the time.
"I’d like to express my gratitude to all of you who sent such kind and loving messages of support over the past few months," she said the same year. "Your prayers and well wishes have truly helped me, and continued to lift my spirits."
On Monday, Travolta took to Instagram to react to the news of Newton-John's passing.
"My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better," he wrote alongside a photo of the star. "Your impact was incredible. I love you so much. We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever!"
Newton-John is survived by daughter Chloe Lattanzi, 36; husband Easterling, 70; a brother and sister; and multiple nieces and nephews.
Lattanzi honored her mom in a post on Instagram just days before the icon's passing.
"I worship this woman. My mother. My best friend," she captioned a photo of her and her mother. She uploaded a gallery of additional photos after the news of Newton-John's death broke.
Newton-John's last post on Instagram was a throwback of her posing with a radiant smile. It was simply captioned with a red heart emoji and the #FlashbackFriday hashtag.
Newton-John collected four Grammys and 12 nominations over the years. One of her biggest hits as a solo artist, "Physical," as awarded the Grammy for Video of the Year in 1983.
She was renowned in the '90s for speaking publicly about her experience with cancer, according to People. Her successful career as a musician started more than two decades before her diagnosis.
As an actress, Newton-John is most easily recognized for her work as Sandy in 1978's Grease. The musical features timeless hits including "Summer Nights," "Hopelessly Devoted to You" and "You're the One That I Want." She also starred in 1980's Xanadu and guest-starred on Glee.
The star's family has asked for donations to be made to the Olivia Newton-John Foundation. | https://q961.com/olivia-newton-john-death-obit/ | 2022-08-09T00:55:50Z | https://q961.com/olivia-newton-john-death-obit/ | false |
London police investigating Sunday morning homicide
London police are investigating a homicide Sunday after a man was discovered in east London with serious injuries, but later died in hospital.
According to a press release issued by the London Police Service (LPS), at approximately 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, police and EMS responded to the area of Clarke Road and Dundas Street after receiving a 9-1-1 call requesting help for an injured man.
The man was transported to hospital for treatment, but succumbed to his injuries a short time later.
Police say the identity of the victim is being withheld pending next-of-kin notifications.
According to CTV News London’s Jenn Basa, a large section of a Home Depot parking lot located off Dundas Street is taped off by police, and the Forensic Identification Unit iwas still on sceneas of late Sunday afternoon.
The investigation is now being handled by the LPS Major Crime Section.
London police ask anyone with information in relation to the incident, or with surveillance footage of the area of Dundas Street, Clarke Road and Wavell Street to contact the London Police Service at (519) 661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
— With files from CTV News London’s Jenn Basa
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Hockey Manitoba wants improvements at Hockey Canada but is confident in current leadership, executive director says
Provincial and territorial hockey federations, including Hockey Manitoba, are calling on Hockey Canada to do more to address its handling of sexual assault allegations in London, Ont. in 2018. | https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/london-police-investigating-sunday-morning-homicide-1.18348660 | 2022-08-09T01:02:13Z | https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/london-police-investigating-sunday-morning-homicide-1.18348660 | false |
WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 8, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
543 PM PDT Mon Aug 8 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern
Imperial County through 630 PM PDT...
At 542 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Ocotillo, moving west at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Motorists will encounter very hazardous
driving conditions.
Locations impacted include...
Plaster City, Ocotillo, Dixieland and Coyote Wells.
This includes the following highways...
CA Interstate 8 near mile marker 1, and between mile markers 3 and
25.
CA Route 98 between mile markers 1 and 18.
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 3305 11610 3295 11580 3264 11573 3262 11610
TIME...MOT...LOC 0042Z 103DEG 5KT 3267 11598
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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DALLAS (AP) — A Southwest Airlines flight attendant suffered a compression fracture to a vertebra in her upper back during a hard landing last month in California, according to federal safety investigators.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the impact of landing was so hard that the flight attendant thought the plane had crashed. She felt pain in her back and neck and could not move, and was taken to a hospital where she was diagnosed with the fracture.
The safety board completed its investigation without saying what caused the hard larding.
The NTSB said none of the other 141 people on board the plane were injured in the incident at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California.
The pilots told investigators that they were aiming for the normal touchdown zone on the relatively short runway.
“However, it ended up being a firm landing,” the NTSB said in its final report, dated Friday.
Dallas-based Southwest said in a statement Monday, “We reported the matter to the NTSB in accordance with regulatory requirements and conducted an internal review of the event.”
A spokeswoman for the airline did not respond when asked about the result of the internal investigation and whether the plane was inspected for evidence of damage that could occur in a hard landing. The plane has been making several flights a day, according to tracking services.
Shortly after the 18-year-old Boeing 737-700 taxied off the runway, the pilots — a 55-year-old captain and 49-year-old co-pilot — were told about the injury to the flight attendant, who was in a jump seat at the back of the plane.
The NTSB, which did not travel to the accident site, has not made its documents from the investigation publicly available.
The runway that the plane landed on is only 5,700 feet long (1,700 meters). By comparison, runways at nearby Los Angeles International Airport range between 8,900 and nearly 13,000 feet (2,700 to 3,900 meters).
The NTSB investigation was reported earlier by The Dallas Morning News.
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Nurses set to vote on walkout over pay as RCN boosts strike fund by £15m
Last month the Government announced a pay award the RCN said leaves an experienced nurse more than £1,000 worse off in real terms, describing it as "a national disgrace".
Tuesday 9 August 2022 00:55, UK
Nurses will begin voting next month on whether to strike over pay in what would be the first walkout by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in England and Wales.
The RCN is recommending hundreds of thousands of its members support industrial action in a ballot that opens on 15 September.
The college went on strike for the first time in its history in Northern Ireland in 2019.
The RCN also announced it has increased its industrial action strike fund to £50m, up from £35m, to provide financial support towards lost earnings during strikes.
Read more:
Who is going on strike in August and for how long
NHS faces 'greatest workforce crisis' in history
The college has called for a pay rise for nursing staff of 5% above RPI inflation, which is currently 11.8%.
Last month the government announced a pay award the RCN said leaves an experienced nurse more than £1,000 worse off in real terms, describing it as "a national disgrace".
Pat Cullen, RCN general secretary, said: "Nursing staff will stop at nothing to protect their patients.
"Staff shortages are putting patient safety at risk and the government's failure to listen has left us with no choice but to advocate for strike action.
"A lifetime of service must never mean a lifetime of poverty. Ministers' refusal to recognise the skill and responsibility of the job is pushing people out of the profession.
"The next prime minister must change course urgently."
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Carol Popplestone, who chairs the RCN Council, said in a message to members: "After years of underpayment and staff shortages, the fight for fair pay must strengthen.
"This year's pay award does not help you with the rising cost of living. It will do nothing to help to recruit or retain more nursing staff where you work and will not keep patients safe."
A formal pay announcement is still awaited in Northern Ireland, while in Scotland the college has urged its members to reject a 5% pay offer from the Scottish government. | https://news.sky.com/story/nurses-set-to-vote-on-walkout-over-pay-as-rcn-boosts-strike-fund-by-15m-12668798 | 2022-08-09T01:16:53Z | https://news.sky.com/story/nurses-set-to-vote-on-walkout-over-pay-as-rcn-boosts-strike-fund-by-15m-12668798 | false |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Perseid meteor shower is an astronomical highlight of the summer for many people – and it’s about to hit its peak.
Every summer, Perseid meteors fly across the sky between July and September, but they hit their peak shortly before mid-August. This year, astronomers expect the peak will occur on the night of August 11-12.
“We’re seeing the debris left behind by an apparent comet called Swift-Tuttle,” explained Jim Todd, director of space science education at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
He said ice particles and rocks that are often no larger than a grain of sand enter Earth’s atmosphere. They encounter friction and create plasma, which is the bright streak – either a meteor or shooting star – humans see flying across the sky.
Most are destroyed during entry, but the rare few that survive and hit Earth’s surface are known as meteorites.
The Perseid shower is named after the constellation Perseus, which the meteors appear to radiate from. Todd compared it to a showerhead and said if you follow the tail of a meteor backward, you’ll see it points toward Perseus.
Most years, at the Perseid Meteor Shower’s peak, people can see 60 to 100 meteors in an hour from a dark place, but those numbers might be a bit higher than what people can expect to see this week. That’s because of the full moon on August 11.
The moon’s brightness could result in people seeing about 20% fewer meteors than they normally would, Todd explained.
If that’s the case, Todd said to keep watching the sky in the days after the peak. You may end up seeing more meteors as the moon wanes and becomes dimmer.
“Sometimes you’ll see more … two or three days later than you will see on the peak,” Todd said. “It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to see the most on the 11th and 12th.”
The one convenient thing about the moon’s brightness is it means stargazers really won’t notice much of a difference spotting meteors if they stay in the city or venture out to the country. They’ll be difficult to spot either way.
For anyone hoping to capture photos of meteors in the sky, Todd recommended using a DSLR camera and setting it up with a long exposure of about 5 to 10 minutes. He said pointing it about 30 degrees northeast would be a good position to capture the sky. However, there is never a guarantee the timing or positioning will be right.
“It’s like going fishing. You put your line out, you just don’t know when you’re gonna catch it,” Todd said.
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The band, Two Weeks Notice, brought the heat with them to Summer Nights on Main Thursday for a very fun and exciting evening.
The band was formed by three brothers as Incredibly Real in 2012 and has since changed their name to 2 Weeks Notice. Using a fusion of rock and country with pop to entertain the Midwest since its formation, the band puts on quite a show.
Summer Nights On Main is a very popular event in Williston on Thursdays from 5:00p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Main Street in the downtown area. The event is weekly, wrapping up on August 25.
Each week features new entertainment. This last week, the band 2 Weeks Notice hit the stage, and they brought such fun energy to a crowd that may have normally been turned away by the high temperatures above 100 degrees.
“It’s a great event for the community. The music is always fantastic, there is great energy, and it’s a great time,” said Nichole DeLaunay, an attendee of the event as she stopped into a local downtown store to get out of the sun for a while. “[The heat] is driving us into nearby businesses. It’s fun!”
The Williston Downtowners Association puts on Summer Nights On Main from June through August every Thursday. Every week sees a different sponsor and live performance. This last week was sponsored by Lee Seuss. | https://www.willistonherald.com/news/williston/2-weeks-notice-brings-the-heat/article_62394236-1727-11ed-b2b9-77de64082487.html | 2022-08-09T01:20:37Z | https://www.willistonherald.com/news/williston/2-weeks-notice-brings-the-heat/article_62394236-1727-11ed-b2b9-77de64082487.html | false |
On loan keeper Ross Sinclair has revealed St Johnstone teammate Cammy Ballantyne helped sell the move to Montrose.
The Scotland under-21 keeper joined the Gable Endies on a season-long deal last month.
The young stopper is already off to a flying start with two clean sheets in as many games.
Montrose pursued the signing of Sinclair, who is tipped to be a future No.1 for the Perth side.
Excited for the challenge,Can’t wait to get started @MontroseFC 👐🏻⚽️ https://t.co/bTDXKz2qjX
— Ross Sinclair (@ross_sinclair01) July 28, 2022
He had a number of options as to where he would continue his development.
Ballantyne helped sell Montrose move
But the 21-year-old didn’t have to think too long about Links Park being his next destination after being given the nod of approval from teammate Cammy Ballantyne.
The attacking midfielder knows the club well having made 81 appearances over three loan spells for the Angus side.
After speaking with Ballantyne and a few of his now-Mo teammates, Sinclair was sold on the move.
“There was a couple of weeks of work that went into it,” he said.
“When it came up, I had options and it was a case of finding the right club for me.
“I know a couple of the boys anyway and Bally was here last year – they sold me the club.
“Once I heard Montrose were in for me it was a no-brainer.
“I wanted to get to the club and get playing, I didn’t want to leave it any longer. It was left long enough.
“I’m buzzing to be here.
“I’ve been to a few other clubs before and this is the best club I’ve had.
“I love the boys; it’s a close-knit group and it’s been great so far. Long may it continue.”
Sinclair predicts ‘good season’ ahead
Sinclair has been thrust into the action after Montrose regular Aaron Lennox dislocated his finger in their Premier Sports Cup defeat to Partick Thistle.
The Saints loanee has staked a real claim for a regular place with shutouts against League One title contenders Falkirk and Queen of the South.
“So far, I’ve been lucky,” Sinclair said. “We’ve had two good defensive performances.
“There are things to improve on but it’s the start of the season and we’ve got two clean sheets so we have to be happy with that and it’s a building block to push on to have a good season.
“If you look at the two clubs we have played as well, Falkirk and Queen of the South, two massive clubs.
“To go away from home then at home again and get two clean sheets is a great start.”
Ryan McGowan: Once St Johnstone get in full flow we might surprise a few people | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/st-johnstone/3572284/ross-sinclair-cammy-ballantyne-montrose/ | 2022-08-09T01:21:05Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/st-johnstone/3572284/ross-sinclair-cammy-ballantyne-montrose/ | true |
Travel issues have long plagued the WNBA, which has its players and staff fly commercial. Former Stanford star Nneka Ogwumike highlighted the difficulties of that this weekend.
Ogwumike, who plays for the Los Angeles Sparks, was part of a group of players stranded at a Washington, D.C., airport on Sunday following their game against the Mystics.
According to Ogwumike, the team flight was delayed multiple times before being canceled at 1 a.m. and then finally rescheduled for 9 a.m.
The Sparks are scheduled to face Connecticut at home Tuesday.
Ogwumike chronicled the issues on social media.
“This is my first time in 11 seasons that I’ve ever had to sleep in the airport,” Ogwumike, the president of the WNBA Players Association, said on a Twitter video.
“We are roaming the airport. Based on travel, it was only a matter of time. Half of us are sleeping at the airport, half of us are at a hotel — there weren’t enough rooms after our flight got delayed, delayed, delayed and then canceled at 1 a.m. It is now 1:44 and we’re here til 9 a.m.”
Brittney Sykes, Lexie Brown, and assistant coach Latricia Trammell also tweeted through the ordeal.
The WNBA requires all teams to fly commercial, it says, to avoid any competitive advantages that may come from one or a couple of teams chartering flights. The league supplied charter flights for the Commissioner’s Cup championship game and will do the same for the WNBA Finals, but players and league advocates have spoken up recently about the struggles of commercial travel.
In March, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said it would cost more than $20 million per season to charter flights, and told ESPN it would “jeopardize the financial health of the league.”
The New York Times reported in 2019 that the WNBA makes $25 million per season from its television deal with ESPN, which has brought it unprecedented notoriety in recent seasons.
Sports Illustrated reported before the season that the New York Liberty had been fined $500,000 for chartering flights in the second half last season. The WNBA refuted a claim from Liberty owner Joe Tsai that he had found a way to get charter flights compensated for every team in the league for three years.
After airlines dropped their mask mandates in April, more players began publicly talking about the WNBA’s commercial flight policy.
“Just want y’all to know we’re still flying comfort + even after the mask mandate has been lifted. So yes. On commercial flights, trying to have a Covid free season…while being surrounded by random people not wearing masks,” Washington’s Natasha Cloud tweeted in April.
Cloud missed time in May in the league’s health and safety protocol, when she brought up the issue again.
“Shoutout to the WNBA for flying us commercial during a pandemic. (And no mask mandates),” she wrote on Twitter.
“Fly commercial next to random a— people with no mask…COVID,” she added on Instagram at the time. “At what point do players’ safety come first? I’m doing my part.”
Liz Cambage, who recently had her contract ceased with the Sparks, told the Los Angeles Times in May that she often uses her own money to upgrade to first class.
Las Vegas Aces star Kelsey Plum in May noted that travel days in the league can leave players fatigued and at a competitive disadvantage, and at times, it can become a safety issues.
“I think I’m the best conditioned player in this league, respectfully, and I feel like to play that type of game against Seattle (in May) then to get on a delayed flight for 5½ hours, fly across the country, wake up and play the next day — I mean, I was tired today,” Plum told reporters. “Let’s be real, I mean, I’m not here to blame a charter flight for the reason that we lost, but normally a team would fly out that night and have that whole day to rest and get your legs back under you and then go play the next day. So you know those little things make a difference. Hopefully we’re on our way.”
Marisa Ingemi is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: marisa.ingemi@sfchronicle.com | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/WNBA-travel-policy-draws-additional-ire-as-Sparks-17360469.php | 2022-08-09T01:23:26Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/WNBA-travel-policy-draws-additional-ire-as-Sparks-17360469.php | false |
Sania Khan: She TikToked her divorce, then her husband killed her
By Sam Cabral
BBC News, Washington
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When she left a bad marriage, Sania Khan said some members of her South Asian Muslim community made her feel like she had "failed at life". Through TikTok, she found support and comfort in strangers - until her ex returned and murdered her.
This story contains details that may be upsetting to some readers.
Her bags were packed. She was ready to be free.
The 21st of July was to be the day Sania Khan, 29, left Chicago, Illinois - and the trauma of a relationship gone wrong - to begin a new solo chapter in her native Chattanooga.
Instead, that day, she returned home to Tennessee in a casket.
Three days earlier, officers had found Khan unresponsive near the front door of the Chicago condominium she had once shared with her estranged husband, Raheel Ahmad, 36. She had a gunshot wound to the back of her head and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Upon arrival of the police, Ahmad had turned the gun on himself, taking his own life.
According to police reports shared with the Chicago Sun-Times, the pair were "going through a divorce", and Ahmad, who had gone to live in a different state while separated from Khan, had travelled some 700 miles back to their former home "to salvage the marriage".
The grisly murder-suicide was the tragic final chapter in the life of Khan, a young Pakistani-American photographer who had recently found recognition on the social-media platform TikTok as a voice for women fighting marriage trauma and divorce stigma in the South Asian community.
Her death has left her friends shaken, and has reverberated with her online followers and other South Asian women who say they have felt the pressure to stay in unhealthy relationships for the sake of appearances.
"She said 29 is going to be her year and it's going to be a new beginning," said BriAnna Williams, a university friend. "She was so excited."
To her friends, Khan was a joy to be around - authentic, positive and selfless almost to a fault.
"She was someone who would give you the shirt off her back," said Mehru Sheikh, 31, who called Khan her best friend.
"Even when she was going through some really tough times in her life, she would be the first to call you and ask you how your day is going."
On Instagram, where she first built a public platform, she described her passion for photography with a biographic line that read: "I help people fall in love with themselves and with each other in front of the camera."
Khan photographed weddings, maternity shoots, baby showers and other milestones, often for big-paying clients but also for many of her friends.
"Behind the camera is where she came alive," said Ms Sheikh. "She had a knack for making people comfortable in front of the camera, for capturing raw emotion and joy."
Meanwhile she sought the same kind of joy in her own life. After dating Ahmad for about five years, she married him in June 2021 and they moved to Chicago together.
"They had a fabulous, big, fat Pakistani wedding,"a childhood friend recalled. "But the marriage was built on a foundation of lies and manipulation."
Khan's friends claim Ahmad had long-standing mental health issues. The couple had been mostly in a long distance relationship before marrying, which her friends say likely obscured the extent of their incompatibility.
The problems came to a head last December when, her friend said, Khan told her that Ahmad had a mental-health crisis and she felt unsafe. The BBC was unable to reach the Ahmad family for comment.
Members of the Khan family declined, through Khan's friends, to comment for this story.
About a dozen murder-suicides take place in the US every week, about two-thirds of which involve intimate partners, according to the Violence Policy Center.
Mental illness and relationship troubles are often identified among the top risk factors for women facing abuse by their partners. Domestic violence experts say women are most at risk of being killed by an intimate partner when they are leaving the relationship.
The December episode convinced Khan - who had until then kept details of the relationship private - to open up about her unhappy marriage, friends said.
They said Khan discussed the struggles in her marriage, telling them that her husband wasn't sleeping and often acted strangely, that he was refusing her pleas to seek help or go to therapy, and that she felt his mental health struggles had become her burden.
But friends allege that, while they told Khan to leave the marriage, others counselled her to stay in it.
Ms Williams, 26, said her old friend broke down when they last met in Chicago in May.
"She told me that divorce was considered shameful and she was extremely lonely," she told the BBC - recounting how Khan used the phrase "what will people say", more commonly known in Urdu and Hindi as log kya kahenge.
Herself a child of divorce, Khan said she had witnessed first-hand the stigma some South Asian communities attach to women who leave their marriages.
"There's a lot of cultural pressure around the impacted family and how it looks to the outside world," said Neha Gill, executive director of Apna Ghar, a Chicago-based organisation that offers culturally sensitive services to predominantly South Asian women facing intimate partner abuse.
Many South Asian communities continue to see women as inferior and needing to be controlled, Ms Gill said, adding: "The cultures are very communal, so it's about prioritising family or community over a person's safety and well-being".
But with the support of her friends, Khan filed for divorce and secured an August hearing to finalise the split.
She also filed a restraining order and changed the locks on her doors, friends said.
And she began sharing her story on TikTok, describing herself as "the black sheep" in her community.
One post reads: "Going through a divorce as a South Asian woman feels like you failed at life sometimes."
"My family members told me if I left my husband I would be letting Shaytan [the devil in Arabic] 'win', that I dress like a prostitute and if I move back to my hometown they'll kill themselves," says another.
Another university friend, Naty, 28, who asked that her surname not be published, vividly remembers the first time Khan went viral on the platform.
"She was blowing up my phone and she said this is what I'm meant to do: To spread the word about my relationship and be a leader for women leaving their toxic marriages."
With each post, Khan found solace and strength, even as she "received backlash" for airing out the breakdown of her marriage, according to Naty.
At the time of her death, more than 20,000 people were following Khan on TikTok.
Bisma Parvez, 35, a fellow Pakistani-American Muslim woman, was one of them.
"I remember, [after] the first video that I saw of hers, I just prayed for her," she said.
"Women in these situations are told to have 'sabr' [patience in Arabic] and, in an abusive relationship, patience is not the answer."
She lamented Khan's death in a TikTok video of her own that has been among many shared across the platform.
The conversation has only swelled since then.
Apna Ghar, the Chicago domestic violence organisation, said it plans to hold a virtual panel discussion to commemorate Khan's one-month death anniversary later this month.
And amid the outpouring of love from friends and followers on social media, former classmates at Khan's high school - the Chattanooga School for Arts and Sciences - established a memorial scholarship in her name.
"Everyone's hush-hush, but social media helps you realise what a worldwide problem this is," said Ms Parvez.
"We're always telling women to protect themselves, but it's important to also raise sons who respect women. That training starts at home and each household has to make that change."
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A house has collapsed amid a fire and explosion in Croydon.
Firefighters were called to the scene in Galpin’s Road in Thornton Heath shortly after 7am on Monday.
London Fire Brigade (LFB) said the cause of the fire and explosion is not known.
Six fire engines and around 40 firefighters were sent to the scene where the terraced house collapsed.
LFB said it had taken 13 calls to the incident since 7.08am.
Fire crews from Norbury, Mitcham, West Norwood, Woodside and surrounding fire stations were sent to the scene.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed officers are also at the scene.
A statement on Twitter said: “Officers are at the scene in Galpin’s Road as part of the emergency services response to this incident. Please follow @LondonFire for updates.”
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BY LARRY LAGE
AP Sports Writer
BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — NASCAR just got more interesting down the stretch.
Kevin Harvick won his first Cup race in nearly two years at Michigan International Speedway over the weekend — a result that could mean a driver who has a win getting knocked out of the playoffs.
“It creates a big bubble,” Harvick said Sunday. “I think some of those guys that have won races that hadn’t been doing very good, it creates a real scenario to where there could be at least 16 winners. There’s a lot of things that can still happen.”
Just three races remain in the regular season— the next being Sunday at Richmond Raceway in Virginia, and time is running out to secure a spot in the 16-driver postseason.
Fifteen different drivers have won races this year. If there are two new winners in the final weeks at Richmond, Watkins Glen or Daytona, someone with one win will be eliminated from the playoff based on a tiebreaker on points.
Martin Truex Jr. is No. 4 in points, but he does not have a win and desperately needs one to earn a spot in the round of 16 at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. Ryan Blaney is second in points, but he, too, is without a victory.
Should they both land a first-place finish at a race, someone like Austin Cindric or Chase Briscoe could be staying at home next month.
“We’re racing 19 (Cindric) — obviously for points — and try to win the race,” Blaney said after making a late pass to finish fifth.
No one could catch Harvick in his No. 4 Ford following a restart with 35 laps to go at the FireKeepers Casino 400. Bubba Wallace had maybe the best chance to compete with Harvick, but he choose a path for the No. 23 Toyota that he later lamented.
“I want to win so bad, and this was the best opportunity,” Wallace said after finishing second following his first career pole.
Harvick, meanwhile, won his 59th career Cup event and ended a 65-race drought that started after winning his ninth race during the 2020 playoffs at Bristol Motor Speedway.
“I’ve been through longer winless streaks,” he said with a shrug.
That’s a fact: Harvick’s longest streak is 115 races from 2007 to 2010.
The Stewart-Haas Racing driver went to Michigan sitting at No. 17 in points and left in ninth place. It was his sixth win overall at the two-mile oval. The 46-year-old insisted he didn’t need the latest result to boost his confidence.
“Maybe I’m overconfident,” he said. “I expect to win until the door closes.”
Ford certainly needed assurances it could win with the Next Gen car, considering Chevrolet has dominated the series with 13 victories, including four for points leader Chase Elliott.
Harvick gave Ford its first Cup win in two months and fifth of the season to pull into a second-place tie with Toyota.
“We just have to keep pushing and try to run with those (top) guys and we have,” Harvick crew chief Rodney Childers said. “If we can do that in the playoffs and be consistent and get through a round or two, we can make some noise.”
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine traded accusations Monday that each side is shelling Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. Russia claimed that Ukrainian shelling caused a power surge and fire and forced staff to lower output from two reactors, while Ukraine has blamed Russian troops for storing weapons there.
Nuclear experts have warned that more shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, which was captured by Russia early in the war, is fraught with danger.
The Kremlin echoed that Monday, claiming that Kyiv was attacking the plant and urging Western powers to force a stop to that.
“Shelling of the territory of the nuclear plant by the Ukrainian armed forces is highly dangerous,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “It’s fraught with catastrophic consequences for vast territories, for the entire Europe.”
Ukraine’s military intelligence spokesman, Andriy Yusov, countered that Russian forces have planted explosives at the plant to head off an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive in the region. Previously, Ukrainian officials have said Russia is launching attacks from the plant and using Ukrainian workers there as human shields.
Yusov called on Russia to “make a goodwill gesture and hand over control of the plant to an international commission and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), if not to the Ukrainian military.”
Ukraine’s ombudsman, Dmytro Lubinets, likewise urged that the United Nations, the IAEA and the international community send a delegation to “completely demilitarize the territory” and provide security guarantees to plant employees and the city where the plant is based, Enerhodar.
The IAEA is the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog. Its director-general, Rafael Grossi, told The Associated Press last week that the situation surrounding the Zaporizhzhia plant “is completely out of control,” and issued an urgent plea to Russia and Ukraine to allow experts to visit the complex to stabilize the situation and avoid a nuclear accident.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced support for that idea Monday, saying, “any attack to a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing.”
One expert in nuclear materials at Imperial College London said the reactor at Zaporizhzhia is modern and housed inside a heavily reinforced steel-and-concrete building designed to protect against disasters.
“As such, I do not believe there would be a high probably of a breach of the containment building, even if it was accidently struck by an explosive shell, and even less likely the reactor itself could be damaged,” said Mark Wenman at the college’s Nuclear Energy Futures.
He also said the complex’s spent fuel tanks, where the shells reportedly hit, are strong and probably don’t contain much spent fuel.
“Although it may seem worrying, and any fighting on a nuclear site would be illegal according to international law, the likelihood of a serious nuclear release is still small,” he said.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said the attack Sunday caused a power surge and smoke, triggering an emergency shutdown. Fire teams extinguished flames, and the plant’s personnel lowered the output of reactors No. 5 and No. 6 to 500 megawatts, he said.
And the head of the Ukrainian company operating the plant said all but one power line connecting it to Ukraine’s energy system had been destroyed. Petro Kotin, head of the Ukrainian state corporation Eherhoatom, blamed Russian shelling and said a blackout would be “very unsafe for such a nuclear facility.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy decried “the shelling and mining” of the plant and called it “nuclear blackmail.” He called for sanctions against Moscow’s nuclear industry.
As fighting continued on the front lines, the United States on Monday pledged another $1 billion in new military aid for Ukraine. It would be the biggest delivery yet of rockets, ammunition and other arms straight from U.S. Department of Defense stocks for Ukrainian forces.
The latest announcement brings total U.S. security assistance committed to Ukraine by the Biden administration to $9.1 billion since Russian troops invaded on Feb. 24.
Ukraine’s presidential office said the Russians had shelled seven Ukrainian regions over the previous 24 hours, killing five people. Among the targets, it said, was Nikopol, just across the Dnieper River from the Zaporizhzhia plant. Thousands of people were without electricity there.
Russian rockets and artillery also hit across the Sumy region, killing one person, and the Ukrainian governor of the eastern Donetsk region said the cities of Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Lyman had emerged as fighting hotspots.
Ukrainian forces struck Russian-controlled areas in the south, officials there said, including the strategic Antonivskiy bridge in the southern city of Kherson. An artery for Russian military supplies, the bridge has been closed in recent weeks because of earlier shelling. Plans to reopen it on Wednesday were now shelved, said Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Moscow-appointed administration of the Kherson region.
Meanwhile, one of the ships that left Ukraine on Friday under a deal to unblock grain supplies and stave off a global food crisis arrived in Turkey, the first loaded vessel to reach its destination. The Turkey-flagged Polarnet was laden with 12,000 tons of corn.
“This sends a message of hope to every family in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia: Ukraine won’t abandon you,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted. “If Russia sticks to its obligations, the ‘grain corridor’ will keep maintaining global food security.”
Twelve ships have now been authorized to sail under the grain deal between Ukraine and Russia, which was brokered by Turkey and the United Nations — 10 outbound and two inbound. Some 322,000 metric tons of agricultural products have left Ukrainian ports, the bulk of it corn but also sunflower oil and soya.
Four ships that left Ukraine on Sunday were expected to anchor near Istanbul on Monday evening for inspection to make sure they are carrying only food.
The first cargo ship to leave Ukraine, the Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni, which left Odesa on Aug. 1, hit a snag with delivery, however. It was heading for Lebanon with 26,000 metric tons of corn for chicken feed but the corn’s buyer in Lebanon refused to accept the cargo, since it was delivered much later than its contract, Ukraine’s embassy in Beirut said.
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Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut, Mehmet Guzel in Derince, Turkey, and Andrew Wilks in Istanbul contributed.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Republican Joe Kent, who challenged incumbent Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler over her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump, has taken a narrow lead in the race for the second spot in Washington state’s top two primary.
Under the state’s primary system, all candidates run on the same ballot, and the top two vote getters advance to the November election, regardless of party.
Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez had already advanced to the November ballot since she was the top vote getter after the Aug. 2 primary, with 31% of the vote. Herrera Beutler, who had about 24% on Election Night, dropped to just over 22% by Monday, and was trailing Kent – a former Green Beret endorsed by Trump who surged in late returns and had nearly 23% of the vote— by 960 votes.
A mandatory recount would occur if the margin of votes between the No. 2 and No. 3 candidates is less than half of 1% and closer than 2,000 votes.
An estimated 10,000 votes are left to count in Clark County, the district’s largest, and another update won’t occur until Tuesday afternoon. Several hundred votes remain to be counted in the district’s other counties, but counties have until Aug. 16 to finish their count and for canvassing boards to certify the results, followed by certification by the secretary of state by Aug. 19.
Because Washington is a vote-by-mail state and ballots just need to be in by Election Day, it often takes days to learn final results in close races as ballots arrive at county election offices throughout the week.
Of the 10 House Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment, four opted not to run for reelection. Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer was defeated in a primary Tuesday by Trump-endorsed John Gibbs and Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina lost to a Trump-endorsed challenger in June. Rep. David Valadao of California — which has an open primary like Washington — survived a primary challenge. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming is bracing for defeat in her Aug. 16 primary against a Trump-backed rival.
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Which Hamilton Beach 2-Way FlexBrew coffee maker is best?
If coffee sets the pace of your day and is a morning non-negotiable, you already know how important having a great coffee maker is.
Whether you make coffee for a crowd or drink a quiet cup of java on your own, the Hamilton Beach 49976 FlexBrew Trio 2-Way Coffee Maker is a versatile machine that makes a great cup of coffee.
What to know before you buy a Hamilton Beach 2-Way FlexBrew coffee maker
Number of coffee drinkers
Hamilton Beach coffee makers can accommodate single-cup coffee drinkers and those who need more than one mug to get going. For households needing extra morning coffee, choose a carafe that holds 10 or 12 cups.
Not enough room on the counter for a large coffee maker? Look for single-serve FlexBrew machines without a reservoir.
Glass vs. metal carafe
For machines that come with both a single-serve and a carafe option, you can choose between a glass or metal carafe.
- Glass: Glass is classic and works well for households that make short work of a full pot of coffee. They do get hot, and coffee can get bitter the longer it sits.
- Metal: You may need to purchase a separate metal carafe (although some Hamilton Beach coffee makers come with a metal carafe). These keep coffee hot without continuing to cook it, and they work well as a serving vessel at the table.
Height of the single-brew space
If you opt for a single-brew coffee maker, it needs to be tall enough for a travel mug. Look for Hamilton Beach machines with an adjustable height to accommodate the most frequently used mugs.
What to look for in a quality Hamilton Beach 2-Way FlexBrew coffee maker
Programmable
You don’t have to wake up bleary-eyed while trying to find everything you need to make your first cup of coffee any longer. Hamilton Beach 2-Way FlexBrew coffee makers feature programmable settings for a full pot of coffee.
Large water reservoir
A large water reservoir for single-brew coffee means less refilling and hot water on demand. Look for reservoirs that hold 50 ounces of water or more.
Fast brewing
When it comes to a morning cup of joe, faster is better. Hamilton Beach coffee makers with water reservoirs can brew a single cup of coffee in 90 seconds.
Customizable brew strength
How do you take your coffee? Regular strength or bold? Customize the brew strength for both a single cup and a full pot of coffee.
Accessories
While it is possible to purchase separate accessories for your coffee maker, some machines come with them. These include:
- Coffee measuring scoop
- Reusable K-cup
- Reusable filter
How much you can expect to spend on a Hamilton Beach 2-Way FlexBrew coffee maker
The price varies depending on whether you choose a single-brew coffee maker or one with the capability to brew one cup and a full pot. You should expect to spend $70-$150.
Hamilton Beach 2-Way FlexBrew coffee maker FAQ
How do you care for a Hamilton Beach coffee maker?
A. To keep brewing the most delicious coffee, you’ll need to take good care of your coffee maker. This means making sure the carafe is clean and descaling your coffee maker once a month. Descaling removes limescale, the name for deposits of minerals like potassium and calcium found inside your machine. Trace amounts of these minerals are found in drinking water and are not harmful, but over time the build-up can block water lines, slowing down your coffee and affecting the taste.
To descale, you’ll need to use a commercial descaler as directed on the bottle. Alternatively, you can add one cup of white vinegar to the water reservoir and brew it through your coffee maker. Repeat this process two or three times, with one cup of white vinegar per full reservoir, then run clean, fresh water through another two or three times to remove any lingering deposits.
As for your coffee filter basket and reusable K-cup, make sure these are clean, too. It can be run through the dishwasher, or you can wash them by hand.
Is there a specific type of coffee that works best?
A. More important than the type of coffee you select is the grind. For best results, make sure that your coffee is ground specifically for use in either a coffee filter basket or a reusable K-cup.
What’s the best Hamilton Beach 2-Way FlexBrew coffee maker to buy?
Top Hamilton Beach 2-Way FlexBrew coffee maker
Hamilton Beach 49976 FlexBrew Trio 2-Way Coffee Maker
What you need to know: You need to use K-cups, reusable K-cups or grounds in this flexible machine.
What you’ll love: It has an easily filled, visible water tank for each brewing function. The carafe hot plate automatically shuts off after 2 hours. This machine allows you to brew regular strength or bold coffee.
What you should consider: You can only program the size that makes a full pot. This machine is also larger and may not work when counter space is at a premium.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Hamilton Beach 2-Way FlexBrew coffee maker for the money
Hamilton Beach 49979 FlexBrew Single-Serve Coffee Maker
What you need to know: If you never need a full carafe of coffee, this single-cup FlexBrew machine is the best for you.
What you’ll love: A refillable grounds basket is included, but you can use K-Cup pds with this option, too. You can choose from bold or regular brew strengths. The mug rest is adjustable, which means it fits larger mugs, too. It’s available in four finishes.
What you should consider: This machine does not have a water reservoir. You’ll need to add water each time you brew, which means a single cup of coffee takes three minutes to brew.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Hamilton Beach 49902 FlexBrew Trio 2-Way Coffee Maker
What you need to know: This machine fits travel mugs up to 7 inches tall.
What you’ll love: Brew coffee with a pod or reusable K-Cup, or fill the carafe with up to 12 cups of ground coffee. Single cups brew in less than two minutes, and you can brew seven single cups without refilling the generous 56-ounce water reservoir.
What you should consider: As with other FlexBrew machines, this one only allows programming for the full carafe side.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
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The PGA Tour asked a federal judge in San Francisco to deny the appeal of three suspended players who joined Saudi-backed LIV Golf and now want to compete in the tour’s lucrative postseason, arguing the players knew the consequences two months ago.
Talor Gooch, Matt Jones and Hudson Swafford are seeking a temporary restraining order. They are among 10 players who filed an antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour last week.
The hearing is scheduled for 1 p.m. PDT Tuesday in San Jose, California, two days before the first of three FedEx Cup playoff events in the chase for the $18 million top prize.
The FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Tennessee, has a $15 million purse, and the top 70 players advance to the second postseason event in Wilmington, Delaware.
Gooch (No. 20), Jones (No. 65) and Swafford (No. 67) are among nine players who have joined LIV Golf and finished the regular season among the top 125 in the FedEx Cup standings. The other six who joined LIV Golf are not asking to play in the tour’s postseason.
In a court filing Monday to oppose the temporary restraining order, the tour argued antitrust laws do not allow the three players “to have their cake and eat it, too.”
Gooch, Swafford and Jones used the same phrase in separate, legal-heavy letters to tour officials last month in protesting their suspensions and claiming the regulations were onerous and kept them from playing elsewhere.
“I am a free agent and independent contractor. The Tour cannot have its cake and eat it too by trying to control me as one might an employee, while not providing me the rights and benefits an employee would receive,” each letter said.
The PGA Tour argued in its opposing motion, “Despite knowing full well that they would breach TOUR Regulations and be suspended for doing so, Plaintiffs have joined competing golf league LIV Golf, which has paid them tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in guaranteed money supplied by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.”
LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman said in a statement, “I believe players have the right to play when and where they choose so their talents can take them as far and high as possible.”
“I believe all players — whether they choose to play with LIV or the PGA Tour — understand and appreciate the purpose and importance of the players’ legal actions, across the globe,” Norman said. “The PGA Tour is trying to cast this as ‘us’ against ‘them.’ The players know better.”
The three players were not among the highest-sought players for Norman’s rival league, though they were among the initial group of players who signed with LIV Golf. Gooch was the only one among the top 50 in the world, mainly from his only PGA Tour win last November.
“Plaintiffs have waited nearly two months to seek relief from the Court, fabricating an ‘emergency’ they now maintain requires immediate action,” the filing said. “It doesn’t.”
The tour contends player knew they would be ineligible for the FedEx Cup playoffs “when they accepted millions from LIV to breach their agreements” with the tour.
Players were not suspended until they actually teed off in a LIV Golf event.
The LIV Golf events, with a 48-man field, consist of 54 holes and offer $25 million in total prize money for each event. Seventeen players already have earned $1 million or more in three or fewer events. Five more events remain on this year’s schedule, and LIV Golf already has announced a 14-tournament schedule for 2023.
The next LIV event does not start until after the PGA Tour’s season ends at East Lake in Atlanta with the FedEx Cup, which pays $18 million to the champion.
Even though LIV Golf players have been suspended, they remain eligible for the FedEx Cup bonus package. Anyone finishing in the top 125 gets $120,000. Those who finish inside the top 150, such as Pat Perez and Paul Casey, would get $85,000.
Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed and Sergio Garcia are among LIV Golf players who chose to resign their PGA Tour membership. Reed is playing two Asian Tour-International Series tournaments this month.
The lawsuit was filed Aug. 3 by 11 players. The manager for Carlos Ortiz told The Associated Press that Ortiz is no longer part of the lawsuit, though it has not been reflected in court documents yet.
“Carlos does not want to be involved in any legal battles,” his manager, Carlos Rodriguez, said in a text message. “He is thankful for the opportunity he had to play on the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour the last few years.”
Ortiz in two LIV events has made nearly $3.5 million, about 44% of his career PGA Tour earnings from 160 tournaments.
The field for Memphis currently is at 122 players from the 125 who are eligible and in good standing. Three players chose not to compete because of injury or scheduling.
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RIO VISTA, Calif. (AP) — Charlie Hamilton hasn’t irrigated his vineyards with water from the Sacramento River since early May, even though it flows just yards from his crop.
Nearby to the south, the industrial Bay Area city of Antioch has supplied its people with water from the San Joaquin River for just 32 days this year, compared to roughly 128 days by this time in a wet year.
They may be close by, but these two rivers, central arms of California’s water system, have become too salty to use in some places as the state’s punishing drought drags on.
In dry winters like the one California just had, less fresh water flows down from the mountains into the Sacramento River, the state’s largest. That allows saltier water from Pacific Ocean tides to push farther into the state’s main water hub, known as the Delta. It helps supply water to two-thirds of the state’s 39 million people and to farms that grow fruits and vegetables for the whole nation, playing a key but sometimes underappreciated role in the state’s economy.
A drought that scientists say is part of the U.S. West’s driest period in 1,200 years plus sea level rise are exposing the fragility of that system, forcing state water managers, cities, and farmers to look for new ways to stabilize their supply of fresh water. The Delta’s challenges offer a harbinger of the risks to come for critical water supplies elsewhere in the nation amid a changing climate.
Planners and farmers are coming at the problem of saltwater intrusion with a desalination plant, an artificial rock barrier and groundwater pumps. Those who can’t engineer their way out of the problem are left with a fervent hope that things will change.
“We just try to hang on and hope the water quality gets better,” said Bobby Costa, a farmer who has seen his cucumber yields go down by 25% this year compared to wetter years.
The Delta is the largest estuary on the west coast of the Americas. It’s home to endangered species such as chinook salmon and Delta smelt that require certain water flows, temperatures and salt mixes, as well as hundreds of square miles of farmland and millions of people who live, work and recreate in the region.
Other estuaries such as the Chesapeake Bay and within the Everglades don’t play as critical a role in directly supplying water for drinking and farming. But those estuaries are also at risk of creeping salt, causing problems for ecosystems, groundwater supplies and other needs.
Giant pumping systems built more than a half a century ago send Delta water south to major urban centers like Los Angeles and huge farming operations. The farther east the salt moves, the more at risk that water system becomes. Brackish water that creeps into the system isn’t as salty as ocean water, but it’s salty enough to render it undrinkable for some crops and for people.
“The fallout of losing control of the Delta is very serious,” said Jacob McQuirk, principal engineer for the state’s Department of Water Resources.
Last year, the state hauled 112,000 tons of rock and stacked it 30 feet (9 meters) deep in a key Delta river to stop salty water from getting too close to the pumps. It was the second time in the past decade the barrier was needed; the Department of Water Resources first installed it during the last drought in 2015.
It was supposed to be only temporary, but plans to remove the barrier last fall were scrapped due to dry conditions, though a notch was cut to allow fish to swim through. Officials still hope to take it out this November.
The state has asked the federal government for permission to build two more barriers further north if the drought worsens, arguing it will be necessary to protect water supplies. In the longer term, the state wants to construct a massive tunnel that would move water around the Delta entirely, which officials say would make it easier to capture more during times of heavy rain and guard against the risks of this salt water intrusion.
But advocates for the region worry it’s just another solution that will leave the farmers, fish and people who rely on Delta water high and dry.
While the barrier protects the pumps, it does little to help some interests within the Delta who rely on fresh water before it heads south.
Take Hamilton, who leases about 50 acres of vineyards to grow wine grapes along the Sacramento River. The land belongs to Al Medvitz, who farms alfalfa and other crops on more than five square miles of land. The water they draw from the river has always been tidally influenced, and they’ve learned how to pump from it when the tides are out and the salt content low.
But since early May, Hamilton hasn’t been able to pull out any water at all, even during low tides, because it’s too salty for his grapes. If he continued to use it, first the edges of the leaves on the vine would begin to burn and crinkle, then fewer grapes would be able to grow on each bunch, eventually rendering the crop unusable.
To avoid that, he taps groundwater from a well farther up the property and runs it through a ditch down to his drip irrigation lines, a process that takes longer. The owner’s alfalfa, which is used to feed cows, can withstand higher salt levels, so for now it can still drink up the river water.
The two men want approval from the state to build a small reservoir on the property to store fresh water for use in dry times. If they are forced to turn to salty water more and more, it will hurt the soil over time.
Hamilton’s goal, he said, is “to have a soil that my kids will be able to farm in.”
Others, like Costa, don’t have as many options. He farms about four square miles (10 square kilometers) of land in the southern reach of the Delta. He gets water from several rivers in the Delta, delivered by an irrigation district through a ditch on his property. This year, the water’s higher salt content is evident, leaving white stains on the dirt in his fields and hurting his cucumber crop.
He sells the cucumbers to a company that turns them into pickles for use at Subway and other stores. His yield is down about 25% this year, and more of the cucumbers he picks are crooked, making them harder to use for pickling.
“If you don’t repulse salinity in the Delta, then the ocean slowly creeps in and at some point you get water that’s unusable and people are ruined,” said John Herrick, general counsel for the South Delta Water Agency, which is responsible for protecting the region’s water supply.
Meanwhile in Antioch, a city of 115,000 people, officials are investing in desalination. Last year, things were so bad the city couldn’t pull water from the river at all.
The plant will be the state’s first inland desalination plant for brackish surface water, said John Samuelson, the city engineer and director of public works.
Desalination plants are often controversial; earlier this year the state rejected a proposal in Orange County that would draw water from the ocean. But water in the Delta isn’t as salty, so it takes less energy to make it fresh. Samuelson said other Bay Area cities are reaching out to Antioch to learn more about its effort as they consider their own options for stabilizing the water supply as climate risks grow.
“We just know that this problem is going to continue to get worse in the future,” Samuelson said. “We want to make sure that we are being forward thinking and solving the problem today.”
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No one spoke in opposition Monday to a proposal for 322 apartments on Getz Road at a Fort Wayne Plan Commission public hearing.
Flats of Walnut Hills has been proposed for 38 acres in the 2000 block of Getz Road, south of Constitution Drive. The development would have 12 three-story buildings with a clubhouse, heated pool and walking trails.
The site was zoned for multifamily use in 2015 for a proposed 672-unit apartment complex, but the approval expired without anything being built. John Lassaux, CRG Residential’s director of development, said the developers decided a more appropriate plan for the property would be 322 apartments.
The plans include 169 one-bedroom apartments, 141 two-bedroom units, 12 three-bedroom flats, and 491 parking spaces. The Flaugh Maria drain would run through the middle of the apartment complex.
Along with the plans, Lassaux asked for approval for two waivers. One waiver would allow the buildings to be up to 45 feet and 11 inches tall, instead of the 40 feet multifamily developments are limited to.
A waiver for setbacks of less than the required 40 feet was also requested for two areas – by the pool area and by Building 8, which neighbors an office building.
The plans include three access points with two on Getz and one on Constitution Drive. One of the Getz entrances is dependent on the Indiana Department of Natural Resources approval on a box culvert bridge design.
Don Schmidt, plan commission vice president, said one letter was submitted for the public hearing, but he didn’t say if it was in support or opposition of the project. Aside from Lassaux, no one spoke at the meeting.
Members Rachel Tobin-Smith, Connie Haas Zuber and Councilman Tom Freistroffer, R-at large, were absent.
The members will discuss the plan before voting on a decision at a 5:30 p.m. meeting Monday in Room 30 of Citizens Square. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/no-one-speaks-in-opposition-to-plans-for-322-apartments-on-getz-road/article_0a2365f8-1778-11ed-8f0c-db8b939ee732.html | 2022-08-09T01:40:12Z | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/no-one-speaks-in-opposition-to-plans-for-322-apartments-on-getz-road/article_0a2365f8-1778-11ed-8f0c-db8b939ee732.html | false |
Church to host kickoff event for Operation Christmas Child
CHEROKEE VILLAGE, Ark. (KAIT) - A church in Northeast Arkansas is working to help third-world countries have a Merry Christmas.
Many churches in the region participate in Operation Christmas Child, which sends shoeboxes packed full of supplies to kids in need overseas.
The Village Bible Church in Cherokee Village will be hosting a kickoff event to get churches involved in the operation.
The training will be held on Saturday, Aug. 13 at 10:30 am, and anyone is welcome to join.
Attendees will learn different ways to pack a shoebox, how to join the area team that fills the boxes, and hear how the operation is doing.
Howard Lisech, the Sharp County Shoebox Dropoff Coordinator, said the project is something he considers important.
Due to circumstances, Lisech can’t travel to third-world countries anymore, but thanks to Operation Christmas Child, he can still help regardless.
“Some of us are older. We can’t go back to the mission field. I can send shoeboxes that touch children’s lives,” he said.
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The cast of Grease remains devoted to their beloved Sandy Olsson.
Those who acted alongside Olivia Newton-John are remembering her life and her legacy after she passed away on Aug. 8 at the age of 73 years old, as her husband shared in a statement to her Instagram.
While many will always remember Olivia for her singing and acting, those who worked close with her have proven she will be remembered for a number of qualities beyond her sheer talent. For Stockard Channing, who played the fiery and sarcastic Betty Rizzo, Olivia's essence will stay with her.
"I don't know if I've known a lovelier human being," Stockard shared in a statement to E! News. "Olivia was the essence of summer—her sunniness, her warmth and her grace are what always come to mind when I think of her. I will miss her enormously."
And that warm and bright energy even translated over an email. Barry Pearl, who played Frenchy's boyfriend and member of the T-Birds Doody, shared with E! News that Liv always signed her emails to him with 'Love and Light, Olivia.'"
Barry recalled that he wrote back to her last week to say, "YOU, Liv, ARE the 'love and the light.'" Now remembering her legacy, Barry noted "And, simply….that is exactly what she now is…more than ever."
Michael Tucci, who portrayed T-Birds member Sonny, told E! News that Olivia "was so very special."
"She was a treasure to me and my family," he shared. "She was so incredibly sweet and gracious to everyone she encountered. I grieve for her family, and for John [Travolta]."
As for John, who played Sandy's love interest Danny Zuko, the actor took to Instagram after the news broke to pay tribute to his "dearest Olivia."
"Your impact was incredible," he wrote. "I love you so much. We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!"
Fellow Grease alum Lorenzo Lamas, who played the captain of Rydell's football team Tom Chisum, also paid tribute to the fallen star by noting that she was gone "much too soon."
"My heart is heavy," Lorenzo shared in a statement. "Olivia was such a special human being. An inspiration to millions battling this dreadful disease with courage and grace."
Olivia was diagnosed with cancer three times throughout her life. After having been first diagnosed in 1992, the actress became an advocate for the research of breast cancer. She created the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in 2008.
While Olivia's legacy will continue to inspire the next generation, the person she was has not been forgotten. According to Dinah Manoff, who played one of the Pink Ladies known as Marty Maraschino, Olivia was "one of the kindest, most generous souls ever to grace the earth."
"I was one lucky Pink Lady to have spent time with her during the filming of Grease," Dinah shared in a statement to E! News. "She brought light and laughter wherever she went." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1341295/how-stockard-channing-and-more-grease-stars-are-paying-tribute-to-olivia-newton-john | 2022-08-09T01:51:44Z | https://www.eonline.com/news/1341295/how-stockard-channing-and-more-grease-stars-are-paying-tribute-to-olivia-newton-john | true |
Insurance Company Reaped 665% Increase in Profits from 2019 to 2020
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CSAA – the northern California Auto Club affiliate – overcharged its customers by at least $150 million for auto insurance during the pandemic, and they're going to court to get their money back, said Consumer Watchdog today.
A lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior Court on behalf of CSAA's policyholders says the state's seventh-largest auto insurance company charged inflated premiums during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many of its customers were required to stay at home with their cars in their driveways. The company violated the protections of Proposition 103 and orders issued by the California Insurance Commissioner to reduce its rates. The complaint also alleges that CSAA acted unfairly at a time of great hardship for many Californians.
During the pandemic, which began in March 2020, the number of miles driven by motorists fell dramatically and auto insurance claims submitted to CSAA dropped precipitously. In 2020, CSAA only paid about 48.2 cents in claims for every dollar in premiums it collected from its auto policyholders. According to the complaint, CSAA overcharged its customers by at least $250 million between March 2020 and June 2021; of that amount, CSAA repaid only about $96 million.
As a result, CSAA's profits on its auto insurance business skyrocketed 665% in 2020.
"The California Insurance Commissioner singled out CSAA as one of three companies that most flagrantly violated its orders to refund excessive premiums. Our pre-filing investigation shows that his identification of CSAA was fully justified," said Jay Angoff of Mehri and Skalet, one of three law firms representing CSAA policyholders in the lawsuit.
"So many Californians suffered enormously from COVID and its economic fallout, and big insurance companies like CSAA should not be allowed to profiteer during this historic pandemic," said David Borgen, of Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho.
"California law requires insurance companies to maintain fair rates at all times," said Harvey Rosenfield, a Consumer Watchdog lawyer on the case and the author of Proposition 103. "As a result of its pandemic profiteering, CSAA reaped an astounding financial windfall—money that belongs to its customers."
Read the lawsuit. https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2022-08/2022-08-03%20Complaint.pdf
Proposition 103, enacted by California voters in 1988, requires insurance companies to maintain reasonable insurance prices at all times. It specifies that "[n]o [insurance] rate shall be approved or remain in effect which is excessive, inadequate, unfairly discriminatory or otherwise in violation of this chapter."
Ignoring this requirement, CSAA continued to charge auto insurance premiums during the pandemic that had been approved by the Insurance Commissioner in 2019—based on projections of accident claims that did not contemplate the unprecedented "stay at home" orders issued by the State of California in March 2020. CSAA issued modest refunds through June of 2020, but nothing after that, despite repeated orders by the Insurance Commissioner requiring insurance companies to reduce their rates or provide additional refunds.
The lawsuit, Early v. CSAA, Case No. 22CV015548, asks the Alameda County Superior Court to order CSAA to fully refund the overcharges. It is brought under Proposition 103, which authorizes consumers to sue insurance companies in court when they violate the measure's protections.
The case is being prosecuted by three nationally recognized law firms: Mehri and Skalet, a Washington, D.C.–based law firm that has successfully brought many class action lawsuits, including insurance-related suits; Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho, based in Oakland, California, which litigates civil and worker rights; and Consumer Watchdog, a California-based non-profit organization whose mission includes challenging violations of insurance reform Proposition 103.
Consumer Watchdog is a non-profit public interest organization. Visit us on the web at www.ConsumerWatchdog.org.
Read the Complaint here: https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2022-08/2022-08-03%20Complaint.pdf
Read more about Proposition 103 here: https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/prop-103-california-insurance-reform.
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1 dead after US Coast Guard, boat collide in Puerto Rico
Published: Aug. 8, 2022 at 9:31 PM EDT|Updated: 24 minutes ago
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard cutter and a Puerto Rico fishing boat collided Monday in an incident that killed one person and injured another, officials said.
Monday’s accident occurred in the early afternoon near the northern coastal town of Dorado, according to a U.S. Coast Guard statement.
The agency identified the dead fisherman as Carlos Rosario and said his brother, Samuel Rosario, was injured.
The two were aboard a 23-foot (seven-meter) commercial fishing vessel called Desakata, while the U.S. Coast Guard was traveling in 154-foot (47-meter) fast-response cutter, officials said.
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Insurance Company Reaped 665% Increase in Profits from 2019 to 2020
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CSAA – the northern California Auto Club affiliate – overcharged its customers by at least $150 million for auto insurance during the pandemic, and they're going to court to get their money back, said Consumer Watchdog today.
A lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior Court on behalf of CSAA's policyholders says the state's seventh-largest auto insurance company charged inflated premiums during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many of its customers were required to stay at home with their cars in their driveways. The company violated the protections of Proposition 103 and orders issued by the California Insurance Commissioner to reduce its rates. The complaint also alleges that CSAA acted unfairly at a time of great hardship for many Californians.
During the pandemic, which began in March 2020, the number of miles driven by motorists fell dramatically and auto insurance claims submitted to CSAA dropped precipitously. In 2020, CSAA only paid about 48.2 cents in claims for every dollar in premiums it collected from its auto policyholders. According to the complaint, CSAA overcharged its customers by at least $250 million between March 2020 and June 2021; of that amount, CSAA repaid only about $96 million.
As a result, CSAA's profits on its auto insurance business skyrocketed 665% in 2020.
"The California Insurance Commissioner singled out CSAA as one of three companies that most flagrantly violated its orders to refund excessive premiums. Our pre-filing investigation shows that his identification of CSAA was fully justified," said Jay Angoff of Mehri and Skalet, one of three law firms representing CSAA policyholders in the lawsuit.
"So many Californians suffered enormously from COVID and its economic fallout, and big insurance companies like CSAA should not be allowed to profiteer during this historic pandemic," said David Borgen, of Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho.
"California law requires insurance companies to maintain fair rates at all times," said Harvey Rosenfield, a Consumer Watchdog lawyer on the case and the author of Proposition 103. "As a result of its pandemic profiteering, CSAA reaped an astounding financial windfall—money that belongs to its customers."
Read the lawsuit. https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2022-08/2022-08-03%20Complaint.pdf
Proposition 103, enacted by California voters in 1988, requires insurance companies to maintain reasonable insurance prices at all times. It specifies that "[n]o [insurance] rate shall be approved or remain in effect which is excessive, inadequate, unfairly discriminatory or otherwise in violation of this chapter."
Ignoring this requirement, CSAA continued to charge auto insurance premiums during the pandemic that had been approved by the Insurance Commissioner in 2019—based on projections of accident claims that did not contemplate the unprecedented "stay at home" orders issued by the State of California in March 2020. CSAA issued modest refunds through June of 2020, but nothing after that, despite repeated orders by the Insurance Commissioner requiring insurance companies to reduce their rates or provide additional refunds.
The lawsuit, Early v. CSAA, Case No. 22CV015548, asks the Alameda County Superior Court to order CSAA to fully refund the overcharges. It is brought under Proposition 103, which authorizes consumers to sue insurance companies in court when they violate the measure's protections.
The case is being prosecuted by three nationally recognized law firms: Mehri and Skalet, a Washington, D.C.–based law firm that has successfully brought many class action lawsuits, including insurance-related suits; Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho, based in Oakland, California, which litigates civil and worker rights; and Consumer Watchdog, a California-based non-profit organization whose mission includes challenging violations of insurance reform Proposition 103.
Consumer Watchdog is a non-profit public interest organization. Visit us on the web at www.ConsumerWatchdog.org.
Read the Complaint here: https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2022-08/2022-08-03%20Complaint.pdf
Read more about Proposition 103 here: https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/prop-103-california-insurance-reform.
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NEW YORK (AP) — David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, has died. He was 89.
McCullough died Sunday in Hingham, Massachusetts, according to his publisher, Simon & Schuster. He had been in failing health and died less than two months after his beloved wife, Rosalee.
“I think because of David a lot of us feel a twin obligation,” fellow historian Jon Meacham said Monday. “One is to the historical record and to the analysis. And the other is to the reader who would like to be transported, both intellectually and viscerally.”
A joyous and tireless student of the past, McCullough dedicated himself to sharing his own passion for history with the general public. He saw himself as an everyman blessed with lifelong curiosity and the chance to take on the subjects he cared most about. His fascination with architecture and construction inspired his early works on the Panama Canal and the Brooklyn Bridge, while his admiration for leaders whom he believed were good men drew him to Adams and Truman. In his 70s and 80s, he indulged his affection for Paris with the 2011 release “The Greater Journey” and for aviation with a best-seller on the Wright Brothers that came out in 2015.
Beyond his books, the handsome, white-haired McCullough may have had the most recognizable presence of any historian, his fatherly baritone known to fans of PBS’s “The American Experience” and Ken Burns’ epic “Civil War” documentary. “Hamilton” author Ron Chernow once called McCullough “both the name and the voice of American history,” while on Monday Burns tweeted that McCullough was a friend and “gifted teacher” to him.
McCullough’s celebrations of the American past also led to the toughest criticism against him — that affection turned too easily to romanticization. His 2019 book “The Pioneers” was faulted for minimizing the atrocities committed against Native Americans as 19th century settlers moved westward. In earlier works, he was accused him of avoiding the harder truths about Truman, Adams and others and of placing storytelling above analysis.
“McCullough’s specific contribution has been to treat large-scale historical biography as yet another genre of spectatorial appreciation, an exercise in character recognition, a reliable source of edification and pleasant uplift,” Sean Wilentz wrote in The New Republic in 2001. Interviewed that same year by The Associated Press, McCullough responded to criticism that he was too soft by saying that “some people not only want their leaders to have feet of clay, but to be all clay.”
But even peers who found flaws in his work praised his kindness and generosity and acknowledged his talent. And millions of readers, and the smaller circle of award givers, were moved by his stories. For years, from a wireless cottage on the grounds of his house on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, McCullough completed works on a Royal Standard typewriter that changed minds and shaped the marketplace.
He helped raise the reputations of Truman and Adams, and he started a wave of best-sellers about the American Revolution, including McCullough’s own “1776.” Well into his 80s, his books remained popular and seemed to inspire renewed interest in the subject.
“Often, as I wrote on an old typewriter in the small shed in which I work, I would think of David, writing on an old typewriter in a small shed very like mine, and feel a sense of comradeship,” Robert Caro wrote in an email statement to The Associated Press. “I have lost a friend. The world has lost a great man of letters.”
McCullough received the National Book Award for “The Path Between the Seas,” about the building of the Panama Canal; and for “Mornings on Horseback,” a biography of Theodore Roosevelt; and Pulitzers for “Truman,” in 1992, and for “John Adams” in 2002. “The Great Bridge,” a lengthy exploration of the Brooklyn Bridge’s construction, was ranked No. 48 on the Modern Library’s list of the best 100 nonfiction works of the 20th century and is still widely regarded as the definitive text of the great 19th century project. Upon his 80th birthday, his native Pittsburgh renamed the 16th Street Bridge the “David McCullough Bridge.”
McCullough also was a favorite in Washington, D.C. He addressed a joint session of Congress in 1989 and, in 2006, received a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Politicians frequently claimed to have read his books, especially his biographies of Truman and Adams. Jimmy Carter cited “The Path Between the Seas″ as a factor in pushing for the 1977 treaties which returned control of the Panama Canal to Panama, and politicians on both sides of the issue cited it during debate. Barack Obama included McCullough among a gathering of scholars who met at the White House soon after he was elected.
“David brought some of the most important people and events of our past back to life with rich research, vivid writing, and his wonderful, recognizable, trustworthy voice,” former President George W. Bush said in a statement. “While we and our country will miss David, we need only reach for the bookshelf to be with him again.”
The historian was non-partisan for much of his life, but spoke out against Donald Trump in 2016, leading a group of peers that included Burns and Chernow in denouncing the Republican presidential nominee as a “monstrous clown with a monstrous ego.” McCullough also had one emphatic cause: education. He worried that Americans knew too little about history and didn’t appreciate the sacrifices of the Revolutionary era. He spoke often at campuses and before Congress, once telling a Senate Committee that because of the No Child Left Behind act “history is being put on the back burner or taken off the stove altogether in many or most schools, in favor of math and reading.”
Impassioned about the past, McCullough was active in the preservation of historical regions. He opposed the building of a residential tower near the Brooklyn Bridge and was among the historians and authors in the 1990s who criticized the Walt Disney Company’s planned Civil War theme park in a region of northern Virginia of particular historical significance.
“We have so little left that’s authentic and real,” McCullough said at the time. “To replace what we have with plastic, contrived history, mechanical history is almost sacrilege.”
McCullough took on a few rascals in his books, notably the conniving New York politicians involved with the Brooklyn Bridge, but he preferred to write about people he liked, comparing it to the choice of a roommate. Revulsion at the private life of Pablo Picasso drove him to abandon a planned book on the artist, while his biography on Adams was originally supposed to be on Adams and Thomas Jefferson, whose character also proved too flawed.
McCullough, whose father and grandfather founded the McCullough Electric Company, was born in Pittsburgh in 1933. He loved history as a child, recalling lively dinner conversations, portraits of Washington and Lincoln that seemed to hang in every home and the field trip to a nearby site where Washington fought one of his earliest battles. He majored in English at Yale University and met playwright Thornton Wilder, who encouraged the young student to write. McCullough worked at the United States Information Agency, Sports Illustrated and the American Heritage Publishing Company before deciding that he wanted to try a book about an event that took place in his home state in 1889 — the Johnstown Flood, which killed more than 2,000 people and was as much a disaster in its time as Hurricane Katrina was more than a century later.
McCullough researched the book in his spare time, and pleaded in vain with Little, Brown and Company to publish him. He ended up with Simon & Schuster, which released the book in 1968 — for an advance of $5,000 — and remained his publisher for the rest of his career.
“The Johnstown Flood” was successful enough that McCullough worried he would be typecast as an author of failure, “Bad News McCullough.” Publishers were asking him to write about the Chicago Fire and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. So for his next book, “The Great Bridge,” he told a story of success. “That I knew little or nothing about civil engineering, that I had never done well in math or physics or had much interest in things mechanical didn’t deter me in the least,” he later wrote. “I was too excited. There was so much I wanted to know.”
McCullough followed with “The Path Between the Seas”; and “Mornings on Horseback,” published in 1981 and praised by Gore Vidal as “part of a new and welcome genre: the biographical sketch.” “Mornings on Horseback” won the National Book Award, but, Vidal noted, was overshadowed by the release of Edmund Morris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.” It would be the last time a McCullough book received second billing.
He had considered a biography of Franklin Roosevelt, but instead related to Roosevelt’s less dynamic, more forthright successor, Harry Truman. McCullough spent the next decade writing the book, living for a time in Truman’s hometown, Independence, Missouri, and making a daily routine, as the former president did, of a morning walk.
“Truman,” published in 1992, was a million seller that capped and confirmed a long rise in the standing of a man who had left office 40 years earlier with an approval rating under 30% and now was virtually canonized as an honest and tenacious leader. Among the book’s fans were presidential hopeful Ross Perot, who bluntly compared himself to Truman, and the first President Bush, who even consulted with McCullough during his unsuccessful bid for re-election.
“John Adams,” published in 2001, was just as popular and just as helpful to its subject, with Congress passing legislation later that year to build a monument in honor of the second president. “1776″ came out in 2005, followed by an illustrated edition two years later. An HBO miniseries based on “John Adams,” starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, aired in 2008. Tom Hanks was planning a miniseries based on McCullough’s book on the Wright brothers.
McCullough had five children and an affinity for happily married politicians such as Truman and Adams that could be traced to his wife, Rosalee Barnes, whom he married in 1954 and who died in June. She was his editor, muse and closest friend. At his home in Martha’s Vineyard, McCullough would proudly show visiting reporters a photograph of their first meeting, at a spring dance, the two gazing upon each other. | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/david-mccullough-pulitzer-winning-historian-dies-at-89/ | 2022-08-09T02:06:41Z | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/david-mccullough-pulitzer-winning-historian-dies-at-89/ | false |
The phrase “potential playoff matchup” hasn’t been uttered by baseball folks in Seattle for a long time.
The Mariners haven’t reached the postseason since 2001, the longest drought in North America’s four major men’s professional sports.
But with the Mariners in the thick of the American League’s wild-card race and the AL East-leading New York Yankees coming to town for a three-game series starting Monday night, the potential is there.
The Mariners took two of three games from New York last week in the Bronx, sending the Yankees into a five-game losing streak.
“We need to play better, to be quite frank,” Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson said after Sunday’s 12-9 loss at St. Louis. “At the end of the day, we still feel very good about our team. It’s a little slide right now. We need to get back on track and continue playing hard.”
The Cardinals kept the Yankees, who by far lead the majors in home runs with 186, from going deep during the three-game sweep until DJ LeMahieu’s solo shot in the ninth inning of Sunday’s series finale. The Yankees had homered in 19 consecutive games before this trip.
“We’re definitely going through it right now,” LeMahieu said. “I’m frustrated with how we’ve played, but I still feel really good about our team and how we’ve done this year as a whole.”
The Mariners salvaged a split of a four-game series with the visiting Los Angeles Angels on Sunday as Jesse Winker hit a grand slam.
Winker, acquired by Seattle along with third baseman Eugenio Suarez from Cincinnati in the offseason for prospects, has struggled in his first season in Seattle. He’s batting .230 with 11 homers and 42 RBIs.
“Early on, I may have been maybe trying to force the issue a little bit,” Winker said. “This was the first time I was traded. Not that that’s an excuse, but it was the first time I got traded and had an expectation — on myself. …
“Now it’s just baseball. And it’s being a part of a winning atmosphere and a winning culture that all the guys that have been here have set. So when you come into something like that, I think early on you just really want to show why you were acquired, right? And once I got through that, now it’s just playing — trying to just play winning baseball and do what you can to help the team win.”
In Monday’s series opener, the Yankees’ Jameson Taillon (10-2, 3.96 ERA) is scheduled to oppose fellow right-hander Logan Gilbert (10-4, 3.09).
Taillon allowed six runs (five earned) over 4 2/3 innings of an 8-6 loss to the Mariners on Tuesday. Gilbert gave up six runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings in the same game. Taillon is 2-0 with a 3.57 ERA in three career starts against Seattle; Gilbert is 1-0 with a 4.38 ERA in two starts vs. New York.
The Yankees might be without first baseman Anthony Rizzo, who has missed the past three games with an ailing back.
The Mariners got outfielder Mitch Haniger back this past weekend after he had been out since late April with a high right-ankle sprain. Haniger went 1-for-3 on both Saturday and Sunday and is batting .220 for the season, with three homers and seven RBIs in 11 games.
Mariners All-Star rookie Julio Rodriguez remains on the 10-day injured list with a right-wrist contusion and won’t be eligible to be activated until Wednesday afternoon’s series finale.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A judge authorized the United States on Monday to seize a $90 million jet belonging to a Russian oligarch in a continuing effort to diminish the financial pillars of the Russian government after its invasion of Ukraine.
The effort to seize Andrei Skoch’s private plane, an Airbus A319-100, was part of a monthslong pursuit of sanctioned Russian oligarchs and their blocked property, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams announced.
Skoch, a steel magnate, is one of the wealthiest men in Russia’s Duma, or parliament. His fortune is valued at about $6.6 billion, according to Forbes. The U.S. Treasury first sanctioned Skoch in April 2018 over his ties to organized crime and for being “a deputy of the Russian Federation’s State Duma.”
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued additional sanctions against Skoch and his assets, including by identifying the Airbus in June as property in which Skoch had an interest, according to a release from law enforcement authorities.
The warrant to seize the plane, which is now in Kazakhstan, was signed by U.S. District Judge Robert W. Lehrburger in New York after a federal agent submitted an affidavit explaining how Skoch is the owner of the Airbus through a series of shell companies and trusts tied to his romantic partner. Authorities said the jet is worth more than $90 million.
“Once again U.S. law enforcement has demonstrated that international shell games will not suffice to hide the fruits of corruption and money laundering,” said Andrew C. Adams, director of a task force pursing the assets of Russian oligarchs.
The United States had already revealed it was seeking to seize a $156 million superyacht, the Madame Gu, belonging to Skoch. The 324-foot (98-meter) yacht has a helicopter pad, gym, beach club and elevator.
In June, Treasury issued additional sanctions against Skoch and his assets, banning American entities from conducting business with the superyacht. The yacht is registered in the Cayman Islands but has most recently been docked at Port Rashid in Dubai. Skoch is also sanctioned by the European Union.
The United Arab Emirates has not taken sides after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and has welcomed the influx of Russian money to its beachfront villas and luxury hotels. The UAE has become a safe haven for some Russian oligarchs to park their assets.
In June, a U.S. court ordered the seizure of two aircraft worth over $400 million believed to be owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. A court filing said that the former Chelsea soccer club owner’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner was in the UAE. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national/us-obtains-warrant-to-seize-90m-jet-of-russian-oligarch/ | 2022-08-09T02:11:56Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/national/us-obtains-warrant-to-seize-90m-jet-of-russian-oligarch/ | true |
Insurance Company Reaped 665% Increase in Profits from 2019 to 2020
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CSAA – the northern California Auto Club affiliate – overcharged its customers by at least $150 million for auto insurance during the pandemic, and they're going to court to get their money back, said Consumer Watchdog today.
A lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior Court on behalf of CSAA's policyholders says the state's seventh-largest auto insurance company charged inflated premiums during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many of its customers were required to stay at home with their cars in their driveways. The company violated the protections of Proposition 103 and orders issued by the California Insurance Commissioner to reduce its rates. The complaint also alleges that CSAA acted unfairly at a time of great hardship for many Californians.
During the pandemic, which began in March 2020, the number of miles driven by motorists fell dramatically and auto insurance claims submitted to CSAA dropped precipitously. In 2020, CSAA only paid about 48.2 cents in claims for every dollar in premiums it collected from its auto policyholders. According to the complaint, CSAA overcharged its customers by at least $250 million between March 2020 and June 2021; of that amount, CSAA repaid only about $96 million.
As a result, CSAA's profits on its auto insurance business skyrocketed 665% in 2020.
"The California Insurance Commissioner singled out CSAA as one of three companies that most flagrantly violated its orders to refund excessive premiums. Our pre-filing investigation shows that his identification of CSAA was fully justified," said Jay Angoff of Mehri and Skalet, one of three law firms representing CSAA policyholders in the lawsuit.
"So many Californians suffered enormously from COVID and its economic fallout, and big insurance companies like CSAA should not be allowed to profiteer during this historic pandemic," said David Borgen, of Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho.
"California law requires insurance companies to maintain fair rates at all times," said Harvey Rosenfield, a Consumer Watchdog lawyer on the case and the author of Proposition 103. "As a result of its pandemic profiteering, CSAA reaped an astounding financial windfall—money that belongs to its customers."
Read the lawsuit. https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2022-08/2022-08-03%20Complaint.pdf
Proposition 103, enacted by California voters in 1988, requires insurance companies to maintain reasonable insurance prices at all times. It specifies that "[n]o [insurance] rate shall be approved or remain in effect which is excessive, inadequate, unfairly discriminatory or otherwise in violation of this chapter."
Ignoring this requirement, CSAA continued to charge auto insurance premiums during the pandemic that had been approved by the Insurance Commissioner in 2019—based on projections of accident claims that did not contemplate the unprecedented "stay at home" orders issued by the State of California in March 2020. CSAA issued modest refunds through June of 2020, but nothing after that, despite repeated orders by the Insurance Commissioner requiring insurance companies to reduce their rates or provide additional refunds.
The lawsuit, Early v. CSAA, Case No. 22CV015548, asks the Alameda County Superior Court to order CSAA to fully refund the overcharges. It is brought under Proposition 103, which authorizes consumers to sue insurance companies in court when they violate the measure's protections.
The case is being prosecuted by three nationally recognized law firms: Mehri and Skalet, a Washington, D.C.–based law firm that has successfully brought many class action lawsuits, including insurance-related suits; Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho, based in Oakland, California, which litigates civil and worker rights; and Consumer Watchdog, a California-based non-profit organization whose mission includes challenging violations of insurance reform Proposition 103.
Consumer Watchdog is a non-profit public interest organization. Visit us on the web at www.ConsumerWatchdog.org.
Read the Complaint here: https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2022-08/2022-08-03%20Complaint.pdf
Read more about Proposition 103 here: https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/prop-103-california-insurance-reform.
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Pelosi says America stands with Taiwan...gets it surrounded and violated, like SUPER violated 🥴
Biden: Military say a Pelosi Taiwan trip 'not a good idea' National Security Council spokesman John Kirby "We have said that we do not support Taiwan independence", Pelosi sneaks in after being too scared to include Taiwan in itinerary with real countries, propagandists -> "this was a great idea and well planned, our own military definitely didn't say otherwise and we have no idea why Taiwan is treated so differently from real countries 🙃"
Pelosi only cares about her legacy, but photo op is meaningless. China will extract a steep price in security and Pelosi's self aggrandizing is going to provide the excuse. Diaoyu Islands or SCS Islands, playing games has only resulted in a defacto situation heavily tilted for China and Taiwan island won't be different. Imagine the strait getting swarmed on a permanent basis because an old lady wanted selfies and trying to pass it off as a better than before for Taiwan. Taiwan left out of US gov press release Even if she goes, USA literally acting like a voyeur in the bushes. Apparently 'supporting Taiwan' is done under cover of darkness like a coward. Stand for it or don't even bother. Shameful. 🤡
So how's that 'revolution of our time' going? - people chuckling at the thought of it for years now 🤡
Don't hype over fantasy, China's been waiting almost 10 years for US to follow through on rhetoric over SCS construction. US lost in Taiwan conflict war games. China hit moving ship in SCS with ballistic missiles in 2020 from Qinghai and Zhejiang.
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Q. Our first question is from Snout team who says: I hear lots of people saying you can’t compare Haselwood to Burks. Burks was a generational talent. But if Haselwood was the number 1 WR in the nation and had a 9965 rating and Burks was 16th WR in the nation with a 9544 rating why wouldn’t we compare them?
A. I think the answer most fans would give is pretty simple. Haselwood was overrated in high school and Burks was underrated. The star system isn’t perfect.
But I think there is more too it when it comes to Haselwood. Arkansas’s current running backs coach coached Haselwood in high school. Jimmy Smith said on Saturday that Haselwood was frustrated by his performance at Oklahoma which is one of the reasons why he transferred to Arkansas. According to Smith, Haselwood doesn’t accept the notion that he was overrated in high school and he’s determined to play like a five-star athlete this fall.
Also A. J. Green said that Haselwood didn’t come in like a normal transfer, kind of quiet until he could adjust to his new coaches and teammates. Instead he became a vocal leader in the spring and has continued that right into August camp.
So hopefully Haselwood can pick up where Burks left off.
Q. Armon Abbe says: Arkansas’ defensive tackle commit out of Georgia, the kid’s a monster at 6′ 6″ 350 pounds. He’s only listed as a 3-star and Auburn was the only other SEC school that offered. Is it because he’s too slow for the position?
A. He’s not slow. Watch some of his high school highlights. The kid is on quarterbacks quicker than a hiccup.
Otis kirk tells me that Arkansas coaches are comparing Ian Geffrard to John Ridgway. The young man blows up plays before they get started. The difference is Arkansas had Ridgeway for a year. Hopefully they’ll have Geffrard for at least three seasons.
Otis also says Geffrard is not one of those guys who goes to every camp, getting himself in front of recruiters. Otis says his recruiting will start to blow up later this fall and he could get elevated to 4-star status. Hopefully he’ll stay committed to the Hogs
Q. Ryan Spears says: I think I read something about Jefferson saying he was planning on losing 5 pounds before the season. Unless the coaching staff wants him to lose weight, he looks fine to me. I think keeping him healthy is paramount.
A. Most of us covering practice have noticed that K.J. has shed a few pounds. It’s nothing dramatic but he says he feels quicker. I think he plans to lose a few more pounds before the season starts. But trust me, he still has that same linebacker-type look. Watching him the first few days of camp he’s not going to change. He will continue to be a true run\pass quarterback who runs around but mostly right over defenders.
The Jefferson wants to do his second season as the starting quarterback, is become a better decision maker.
Q. Lanny says: A current Hogville poll asks Win or Lose for every team on Arkansas schedule this season. Hogville members give Arkansas a 50-50 chance or better to beat every team they play except for Alabama. The number on that game is only 20%. Clearly the Tide is in the heads of Razorback football fans.
A. For good reason. Arkansas has never beaten a Nick Saban coached Alabama team. So even though most Arkansas fans have a lot of confidence in where the program is right now less than three years removed from the Chad Morris disaster, when it comes to ‘Bama that game is gonna be one of those, I’ll believe it when I see it deals.
What’s interesting about that poll are the odds on every other game BUT Alabama. Let’s look at it.
95% of those polled think Arkansas will win the season opener against Cincinnati. That’s a really high number.
94% see South Carolina as a win.
98% believe Bobby Petrino will go down in his return to Fayetteville and slightly over half think Arkansas will extend its winning streak to two games over the Aggies.
Maybe the Alabama number is a little surprising since Arkansas gave the Tide a scare last year and the game is in Fayetteville this year.
Mississippi State, perhaps some respect for Mike Leach here. Only 67% predict a Hog win. BYU, pretty much the same thing, as 66% of those polled think Arkansas will come back from Provo with a win. Hogville Hogs are pretty confident about beating a team this year that has had Arkansas number for while. 82.% think Arkansas will go to the plains of Eastern Alabama and come back with a win. Arkansas fans with a high confidence that Hugh Freeze will not pull off an upset, 98% say it won’t happen. And look at the LSU number. Almost 80 % think Arkansas will take down the Bayou Bengals.
Ole Miss, not much respect for Lane Kiffin coming to Fayeteville year three for him in Oxford.
And Dinky Dinkwitz, Arkansas fans say yeah, Mizzou will go down in Columbia.
Interesting poll. If you buy into it Arkansas has a chance of going 11-1 in the regular season.
Q. Arkie Redneck asks: Does ESPN have something against Arkansas? I saw on Twitter that that it’s been almost 16 years since ESPN Gameday came to Fayetteville. Every SEC team has been the host site since then, some several times. That needs to change.
A. Clearly there have been some lean years in that stretch but I thought they might have come in for the 2010 Alabama game. There are several factors that have kept ESPN away from Fayetteville. The absence of a national game of the week-type match up in Fayetteville. I think they look at the TV market size for Arkansas and it’s one of the smallest in the SEC. Getting all that equipment in and out of an SEC gameday site, I think they tend to go with locations they are familiar with and also Arkansas fans don’t have a history of showing up at the stadium in huge numbers early Saturday mornings. But I do think it’s coming. It might happen this season with Alabama.
Q. TL Slaten says: Why does everybody freak out over August Camp? Every year it’s hype, hype, hype and then the season starts and everything changes. If some of you in the media got held accountable for the things you say in August you’d be fired before the season is over.
A. That’s funny and it’s not entirely incorrect. There’s a lot we don’t see after our 20 minutes watching the first part of practice is over. We have to rely on the coaches and players to tell us what’s going on. If you have a source who gets to watch the whole thing, that helps.
As far as everybody freaking out over August camp, not everybody does but if you’re a football fanatic the season is so close you can taste it but you still have to occupy your time for the next three weeks. So following media coverage of camp is the next best thing.
I wouldn’t call the Razorback media homers. I think we report what we know and a lot of it is positive. But we don’t back away from problems.
If you want to look at homer-type media coverage follow A&M. Those guys might as well be leading midnight yell practice in Mr. Clean outfits.
Q. WizardofhOgZ says: You need to get the term “pods” out of your head. It has long since been replaced by a “permanent opponents” model. With 3 permanent Arkansas may play Texas, OU and Mizzou each season, but that doesn’t mean those other 3 teams also play each other every year.
A. As far as I know there has been nothing even close to official as to how this whole thing will line up when Texas and OU join the league. Yes, the permanent opponent model is superior to a pod system and it solves some problems. But not the big one of unequal schedules. One team could end up playing the top three teams in a season. Another might only play one of those teams. I would like to see two divisions with 8 teams each. You play 7 games against teams in your division and as many as five rotators from the other division but those games don’t count in the conference standings. Every team in your division plays the same opponents.
Rotating schedules are unfair. There’s no way to make them equal for every team.
Q. teamOTIS wants to know: What do you think of Rocket?
A. Watching him in camp it’s hard to believe that a little over a year ago he was a receiver. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a kid make that kind of quick adjustment to a new position. He looks like he’s been a running back since grade school. He’s big and physical and he’s fast. That’s an unbeatable combination.
Q. mousetown says: I use Twitter to keep up with Razorback sports a lot more than Facebook these days. It’s mostly great but I spend too much time having to block jerk fans of other SEC schools. Could you give me your list of the most annoying SEC fan bases? Also the best.
A. Okay but keep in mind we’re talking fans on Twitter. Just my opinion based on what I read scanning Twitter several times a day.
A&M is the most annoying. Delusional fans. Always posting comments like a national championship is for sure coming right up. Blind loyalty. They have no problem at all with trying to buy a championship with big money. In fact they brag about the NIL money their recruits are getting.
They also retweet stuff from the homer Aggie Media and it’s like every day something amazing happens at August Camp that’s further proof that Alabama is going down and the Aggies are gonna win the national championship.
Next, Tennessee. Vols fans on Twitter are basically posting the same bold predictions for the SEC East that Aggies predict for the West. The difference is that while the Aggies rarely refer to past failures, Tennessee fans on Twitter like to make excuses. We would have challenged Georgia last year but this happened or that happened and it messed us up. But this year is going to be the year that we win the East.
Finally I’d go with LSU. LSU fans are very combative on Twitter. They come after other fans who make them mad. They also go after their own coaches and players more than most fans.
The best. I like Mississippi State fans on Twitter. Very low key. Always hopeful of a good season but very little bragging or predictions.
Hog fans are a little more combative and challenging on Twitter than I like but they are also really plugged in. They know what’s going on and they can generally back up what they post. I also like the way they go after fans who post nonsense.
Then there’s Georgia fans. After winning it all last season I figured it would go to their heads. It hasn’t, although Courtney says I’m wrong about that. Maybe only nice Georgia fans show up on my Twitter feed.
Q. LR Tackett says: You’ve mentioned the factors that caused to to take a job covering Arkansas back in the 70’s. Clearly you think you made the right choice for a team to cover. But if not Arkansas what other job would you have gone after. I’ll say Texas Tech since you are from the Lubbock area.
A. You would be wrong about that. I enjoyed growing up out there and I go back every summer to see a lot of my friends in the Lubbock area but I would not live there. I have a lot of issues with Texas Tech’s athletics administration. Gerald Meyers and after him Kirby Hocutt…they’ve made some really bad decisions. Tech fans should have demanded that both of them be fired. Meyers of course is retired these days but Hocutt is still there.
If I couldn’t cover the Hogs my second choice would have been Oklahoma. They hate the Longhorns more than Arkansas fans. There’s something very reassuring about that.
Baylor is another school I looked at before getting a job in Arkansas.
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EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Robert Almeida was looking forward to his sister’s wedding in Portugal in 2020, but then the pandemic forced airlines to shut down for some time.
Like many, he was forced to rebook his flight.
“They gave me a voucher to buy more tickets for the following August,” Almeida said.
Almeida purchased new tickets with the voucher, but the wedding was once again put on hold.
He tells Nexstar’s WPRI that he’s been trying to get his money back ever since, but he keeps getting the runaround from the travel agency and the airline.
The lack of refund forced him to make a tough financial decision.
“I missed my sister’s wedding this weekend,” he said.
The U.S. Department of Transportation Department has introduced a proposal to protect travelers like Almeida.
The transportation department proposal would require airlines to offer passengers a refund if their flight schedule is changed significantly or the airline makes major changes to their itinerary.
It would require airlines to give refunds if their departure or arrival time changes by three hours or more for a domestic flight or at least six hours for an international one.
Refunds would also be due if the airline changes the passenger’s departure or arrival airport, adds stops in their itinerary, or causes “a significant downgrade” in the travel experience by switching to a different type of plane.
The rule would apply even for travelers who buy nonrefundable tickets, which usually cost less and are favored by many leisure travelers.
The department proposes to require that airlines and ticket agents give vouchers that don’t expire for passengers who are told not to travel during a pandemic for health reasons or because borders are closed.
The Aviation Consumer Protection Advisory Committee is hosting a virtual public meeting for the proposal that is open to public comment on Aug. 22. Public comments will be accepted on the proposal for 90 days.
Currently, airlines are required to offer refunds to passengers whose flights are canceled or significantly changed, but it has never defined a cancellation or significant change. Because of that, airlines have challenged the Transportation Department’s authority to force them to pay refunds.
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Jittery Kenya votes in close-fought election race
Raila Odinga (left) and William Ruto are the frontrunners in the presidential race
Millions of Kenyans go to the polls Tuesday, with East Africa's powerhouse on edge as two political heavyweights battle it out in a fiercely contested race for the presidency.
Kenyans are praying for a peaceful transition of power after almost a decade under President Uhuru Kenyatta, but concerns about vote-rigging linger in a nation still haunted by previous election disputes that descended into deadly violence.
The vote is taking place as the country struggles with soaring prices for food and fuel, a punishing drought that has left millions hungry, and deep disenchantment with the political elite, particularly among young voters.
In the presidential race, the deputy president and erstwhile heir apparent William Ruto, 55, is pitted against Raila Odinga, the 77-year-old veteran opposition leader now backed by Kenyatta after a stunning shift in political allegiances.
Analysts have in recent days suggested that Odinga, a onetime political prisoner and former prime minister who is making his fifth bid for the top job, could edge past his younger rival.
But if neither wins more than 50 percent of the vote, Kenya would be forced to hold a run-off for the first time in its history.
More than 22 million people have registered for the Kenyan elections
Despite mudslinging and widespread disinformation, campaigning passed off largely peacefully in contrast to previous polls.
Pressure is now on the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission to ensure a free and fair vote in all six polls -- for the presidency as well as senators, governors, lawmakers, woman representatives and some 1,500 county officials.
But already, the election has run into some hitches, with six IEBC officials arrested on Monday and the commission suspending constituency or gubernatorial polls in several counties because of erroneous ballot papers.
IEBC head Wafula Chebukati vowed that the body would not hesitate to take "stern action" against any official flouting election laws.
"Let us collectively rise up and show the world that Kenya is a vibrant democracy."
- Beacon of stability -
Kenya's international partners are keenly watching the vote in a country considered a beacon of stability and democracy in a troubled region, with diplomats voicing cautious optimism it will pass off largely violence-free.
The election campaign was largely peaceful despite vitriolic mudslinging and disinformation
Both Ruto and Odinga have called for a peaceful vote, but fears remain that if the losing candidate challenges the outcome -- as widely expected -- the discord could erupt into street fighting.
Security is tight, with more than 150,000 officers ready to ensure the safety of the polls.
The trauma of the 2007 election, which was followed by a horrific bout of politically motivated ethnic clashes that killed more than 1,100 people, still looms large.
And Odinga's challenge to the 2017 election result that saw then foe Kenyatta re-elected was met with a heavy-handed police response which left dozens dead.
The electoral body is under pressure to ensure a free and fair vote
The Supreme Court ordered a re-run of the 2017 vote, citing widespread irregularities in the counting process and mismanagement by the IEBC.
No presidential election outcome has gone uncontested since 2002, and there will be an anxious wait for this year's results which are not expected for several days.
"Kenya votes, East Africa holds breath," was the headline in The East African regional newspaper.
With neither Ruto nor Odinga belonging to the dominant Kikuyu tribe, which has produced three of the country's four presidents, the election will open a new chapter in Kenya's history.
More than 22 million people have registered to vote out of a population of about 50 million and polling stations are open from 6:00 am to 5:00 pm (0300 GMT to 1400 GMT).
- 'Jobs, jobs, jobs' -
Ruto, whose party symbol is the wheelbarrow, has painted the election as a battle between the ordinary "hustlers" and the "dynasties" -- the Kenyatta and Odinga families that have dominated Kenyan politics since independence from Britain in 1963.
Some observers say economic pressures could compete with tribal allegiances as the key factor driving voter behaviour in a country where a third of the population lives in poverty.
Ruto says he is standing on behalf of ordinary 'hustlers' trying to make ends meet
"The reshaped electoral chessboard means the outcome will probably come down to the degree to which Odinga and Ruto can muster support outside their respective bases," the International Crisis Group's East and Southern Africa analyst Meron Elias said in a note.
Lawyers David Mwaure and George Wajackoyah -- the latter an eccentric former spy who wants to legalise marijuana -- are also running but are likely to trail far behind the frontrunners.
If Odinga wins, his running mate Martha Karua would become deputy president, the first woman to hold the post.
Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga is now backed by the ruling party
Both candidates have vowed to get the economy back on its feet, rein in Kenya's mammoth $70 billion debt mountain and tackle the corruption that infects every level of society.
Already hit hard by the Covid pandemic that threw hundreds of thousands out of work, Kenyans are battling soaring inflation as the Ukraine war sends prices of basic necessities spiralling.
"I want them all (the politicians) to accept the election so the country can continue in peace," said Grace Kawira, a 32-year-old unemployed mother of two at Ruto's final campaign rally.
"We want jobs, jobs, jobs." | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-11093781/Jittery-Kenya-votes-close-fought-election-race.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-09T02:37:00Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-11093781/Jittery-Kenya-votes-close-fought-election-race.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Raza at the controls of high-flying Zimbabwe
Airborne: Zimbabwe batting hero Sikandar Raza had dreams to fly fighter jets
With all the noise going on elsewhere in the wealthy world of white ball cricket, it is easy to miss a small revolution taking place in a territory that since 2003 has become something of a backwater.
On Sunday, Zimbabwe pulled off a great run chase for the second time in three days to beat Bangladesh by five wickets and take a winning 2-0 lead in a three-match one-day international series, which closes in Harare on Wednesday.
It followed hard on the heels of a 2-1 T20I series win against the same opponents and a convincing qualification for the T20 World Cup later this year.
At the heart of these successes is one man, a 36-year-old all-rounder whose boyhood dream lay not on the cricket field but in the skies, as a fighter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force (PAF).
"The things that Sikandar Raza has been doing in recent weeks with the bat deserve wider recognition. Back to back ODI centuries. #ZIMvBAN," tweeted former West Indies fast bowler Ian Bishop, suggesting that Raza is the new (not quite so young) kid on the block.
Batting in the middle-order, Raza has been in outstanding form.
On Sunday, he creamed 117 not out and shared a match-winning partnership of 201 with Regis Chakabva, who made 102. Two days earlier Raza struck 135 not out and shared a 192-run partnership with the inexperienced Innocent Kaia who hit his maiden ODI century.
But that is only half the tale. In the space of four weeks, Raza has rattled up 607 runs across formats at an average of 101.16, with four half-centuries to add to those two hundreds.
Zimbabwe's Sikandar Raza has scored 607 runs in the last month, including back-to-back ODI centuries against Bangladesh
With his off-spin, he has also picked up 11 wickets at 22.18 apiece, and took 4 for 8 against the Netherlands in the final of the T20 World Cup qualifiers.
At the age of 36, when many players are considering retirement, Raza has become an 'overnight' success.
- 'Always a fighter' -
Born in Pakistan and arriving in Zimbabwe with his parents in 2002, he never had thoughts of a cricket career, instead spending three years training to be a fighter pilot.
He did not make the final cut because of a glitch in his eyesight but he credits the experience for his resilience on the pitch and ability to deal with pressure.
"There's pressure to do well and win the game, I won't lie," Raza told ESPNcricinfo last week.
"Of course, it helps that I am from an Air Force background. We don't give up. I get hit, I get hurt, broken fingers, toes, etc. I don't care.
"I personally feel it helps spending the three-and-a-half years in PAF college. I will always be a fighter within myself. I couldn't become a fighter pilot. But I think as a person, I will always be a fighter.
"The training mentally and physically is paying dividends now."
That toughness also helped when he had to undergo bone marrow surgery in his right shoulder last year.
Fortunately it was not cancerous but he has had to alter his bowling action, although as recent returns show that does not seem to have posed a problem.
Hugs all round: Zimbabwe's influential coach David Houghton (R) looks on as batting coach Lance Klusener (L) congratulates Sikandar Raza after Sunday's win over Bangladesh
Raza's rise, which may well lead to the riches of T20 franchise competitions around the world, coincides with the return of the doughty Dave Houghton as coach, an experienced head who played a key role in helping elevate Zimbabwe from Associate to Test status in the 1980s and 90s.
"Since Dave came back, we have put a lot of emphasis on a lot of good things and to be able to achieve that, it is such a humbling feeling," said Raza after Sunday's win.
With this key combination, the future is looking up for Zimbabwe. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-11093801/Raza-controls-high-flying-Zimbabwe.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-09T02:37:13Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-11093801/Raza-controls-high-flying-Zimbabwe.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
SEOUL, South Korea — Heavy rains drenched South Korea’s capital region, turning the streets of Seoul’s affluent Gangnam district into a river, leaving submerged vehicles and overwhelming public transport systems. At least seven people were killed and six others were missing.
While most of the Seoul metropolitan area’s subway services were back to normal operations, around 80 roads and dozens of riverside parking lots remained closed due to safety concerns.
President Yoon Suk Yeol had called for public employers and private companies to adjust their commuting hours and urged aggressive action in restoring damaged facilities and evacuating people in danger areas to prevent further deaths.
The rain began Monday morning and intensified through the evening hours. Nearly 800 buildings in Seoul and nearby cities were damaged while more than 400 people were forced to evacuate from their homes, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said.
People were seen wading through thigh-high waters Monday night in streets near the Gangnam subway station, one of Seoul’s most bustling business and leisure districts, where passenger cars, taxis and buses were stuck in mud-brown waters. Commuters evacuated as water cascaded down the stairs of the Isu subway station like a waterfall. In the nearby city of Seongnam, a rain-weakened hillside collapsed into a university soccer field.
Rescue workers failed to reach three people who called for help before drowning in a basement home in the Gwanak district of southern Seoul Monday night. Another woman drowned at her home in the nearby Dongjak district, where a public worker died while clearing up fallen trees, likely from electrocution. Choi Seon-yeong, an official from the Dongjak district ward office, said it wasn’t immediately clear whether the water was electrified because of a damaged power source or equipment the man was using.
Two people were found dead in the debris of a collapsed bus station and a landslide in the nearby city of Gwangju.
The country’s weather agency maintained a heavy rain warning for the Seoul metropolitan area and nearby regions on Tuesday and said the precipitation may reach 5 to 10 centimeters an hour (2 to 4 inches) in some areas.
More than 42 centimeters (16.5 inches) of rain were measured in Seoul’s hardest-hit Dongjak district from Monday to 9 a.m. Tuesday. The per-hour precipitation in that area exceeded 14 centimeters (5.5 inches) at one point Monday night, which was the highest hourly downpour measured in Seoul since 1942.
Rainstorms also pounded North Korea, where authorities issued heavy rain warnings for the southern and western parts of the country. The North’s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper described the rain as potentially “disastrous” and called for measures to protect farmland and prevent flooding on the Taedong river, which flows through the capital, Pyongyang. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/rains-in-s-korea-turn-seouls-roads-to-rivers-leave-7-dead/2022/08/08/c8def902-1783-11ed-b998-b2ab68f58468_story.html | 2022-08-09T02:39:21Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/rains-in-s-korea-turn-seouls-roads-to-rivers-leave-7-dead/2022/08/08/c8def902-1783-11ed-b998-b2ab68f58468_story.html | false |
(WJW) — Actor Ashton Kutcher recently revealed he was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder that took away his ability to walk, see and hear.
The 44-year-old star opened up about the health scare in an episode of “Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge,” a show where celebrities adventure with Grylls through the wilderness while learning and applying survival skills.
“Two years ago, I had this weird, super rare form of vasculitis that knocked out my vision, it knocked out my hearing, it knocked out all my equilibrium,” Kutcher said during a portion of the episode, which aired Monday on National Geographic.
Kutcher said it took nearly an entire year to get back to full strength, making clear he’s “lucky to be alive.”
“Don’t really appreciate it until it’s gone,” he told Grylls. “Until you go, ‘I don’t know if I’m ever going to be able to see again, I don’t know if I’m ever going to be able to hear again, I don’t know if I’m ever going to be able to walk again.'”
Vasculitis causes blood vessels to inflame, according to the Cleveland Clinic, which can lead to aneurysms, thinning of the blood vessels, or the blood vessels can become closed off. The cause of the disorder is unknown but experts say in most cases, something has caused an immune or allergic reaction in the walls of the blood vessels.
This isn’t the Iowa-born celebrity’s first time dealing with major health issues. He also notably ended up in the hospital while filming the Steve Jobs biopic “Jobs” after trying to follow the Apple co-founder’s diet. Drinking mostly carrot juice reportedly gave Kutcher pancreatitis, twice.
He is married to fellow “That ’70s Show” actor Mila Kunis, and the pair have two children. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/lucky-to-be-alive-ashton-kutcher-opens-up-about-rare-autoimmune-disorder/ | 2022-08-09T02:39:37Z | https://who13.com/news/national-news/lucky-to-be-alive-ashton-kutcher-opens-up-about-rare-autoimmune-disorder/ | true |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Perseid meteor shower is an astronomical highlight of the summer for many people – and it’s about to hit its peak.
Every summer, Perseid meteors fly across the sky between July and September, but they hit their peak shortly before mid-August. This year, astronomers expect the peak will occur on the night of August 11-12.
“We’re seeing the debris left behind by an apparent comet called Swift-Tuttle,” explained Jim Todd, director of space science education at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
He said ice particles and rocks that are often no larger than a grain of sand enter Earth’s atmosphere. They encounter friction and create plasma, which is the bright streak – either a meteor or shooting star – humans see flying across the sky.
Most are destroyed during entry, but the rare few that survive and hit Earth’s surface are known as meteorites.
The Perseid shower is named after the constellation Perseus, which the meteors appear to radiate from. Todd compared it to a showerhead and said if you follow the tail of a meteor backward, you’ll see it points toward Perseus.
Most years, at the Perseid Meteor Shower’s peak, people can see 60 to 100 meteors in an hour from a dark place, but those numbers might be a bit higher than what people can expect to see this week. That’s because of the full moon on August 11.
The moon’s brightness could result in people seeing about 20% fewer meteors than they normally would, Todd explained.
If that’s the case, Todd said to keep watching the sky in the days after the peak. You may end up seeing more meteors as the moon wanes and becomes dimmer.
“Sometimes you’ll see more … two or three days later than you will see on the peak,” Todd said. “It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to see the most on the 11th and 12th.”
The one convenient thing about the moon’s brightness is it means stargazers really won’t notice much of a difference spotting meteors if they stay in the city or venture out to the country. They’ll be difficult to spot either way.
For anyone hoping to capture photos of meteors in the sky, Todd recommended using a DSLR camera and setting it up with a long exposure of about 5 to 10 minutes. He said pointing it about 30 degrees northeast would be a good position to capture the sky. However, there is never a guarantee the timing or positioning will be right.
“It’s like going fishing. You put your line out, you just don’t know when you’re gonna catch it,” Todd said.
The bright moon will likely make some photos overexposed, he warned. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/perseid-meteor-shower-reaches-peak-this-week-when-to-see-it/ | 2022-08-09T02:39:50Z | https://who13.com/news/national-news/perseid-meteor-shower-reaches-peak-this-week-when-to-see-it/ | true |
The Insiders Part 1
DES MOINES, Iowa — U.S. Representative Ashley Hinson, 1st District Republican from Marion, has joined with more than a dozen other Republicans in calling for a “Sunset Act.” Hinson said that both Democratic and Republican administrations in the past have overstepped their authority. She wants Congress to have the responsibility to look at actions after 10 years. If Congress doesn’t reauthorize the action/program, then it would end.
Here is the bill.
The Insiders, Part 2
Barack Obama and Pete Buttigieg both won the Iowa Caucuses during their presidential campaigns on their way to Washington, D.C. Obama won his party’s nomination after winning the caucuses in 2008. Buttigieg did not but President Joe Biden ended up naming him U.S. Secretary of Transportation.
Lis Smith worked for both candidates. In her new book, “Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story,” Smith shares what it’s like working on political campaigns, including what happens when her personal life becomes part of the story.
The Insiders Part 3
Democratic strategist Lis Smith looks at the recent statewide vote in Kansas–where voters reaffirmed the legal constitutional right to an abortion–and what role the issue of abortion rights could have in Iowa’s general election this November.
Lis Smith does this week’s Insiders Quick 6. | https://who13.com/news/politics/insiders-hinson-wants-sunset-act-to-limit-executive-action/ | 2022-08-09T02:40:08Z | https://who13.com/news/politics/insiders-hinson-wants-sunset-act-to-limit-executive-action/ | false |
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