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(NewsNation) — FBI agents found dozens of classified documents during their search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago on Monday, sources confirmed to NewsNation.
Investigators discovered classified documents in two areas: Trump’s personal office above a ballroom and in a storage room near the pool. Sources say there were “boxes everywhere,” with some containing Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI). Those are considered some of the highest level of classified documents.
Since the documents are so secretive, it’s unknown whether investigators will ever publicly acknowledge what they’re in reference to, let alone release them.
Classified nuclear weapons documents may have been among the items the FBI found, according to a source cited by the Washington Post.
Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke publicly for the first time Thursday about the FBI search of Trump’s home, and although he did not reveal what the FBI was looking for, he did say he approved the search.
Garland said he would be asking a court to unseal the search warrant. Trump said Thursday night he doesn’t oppose its release and encouraged it to be unsealed immediately.
The judge has set a deadline of 3 p.m. Friday for Trump’s legal team to decide if they are going to object to the release of the warrant.
Questions have been circulating about exactly what it was the FBI was looking for and why they would engage in the unprecedented search of a former president’s home. According to the Washington Post, it may have been because federal authorities worried sensitive nuclear documents possibly in Trump’s possession could fall into the wrong hands.
The New York Times then reported Thursday night that the search was focused around material relating to “some of the most highly classified programs run by the United States,” according to an anonymous source cited by that publication.
The Washington Post’s source, which was anonymous, did not say whether or not any nuclear weapons documents were found in the home.
Sources confirmed to NewsNation that the execution of the search warrant is linked to an investigation into whether or not the former president mishandled presidential records related to the discovery of boxes full of White House records that were taken to Mar-a-Lago after Trump left office.
Trump lawyer Christina Bobb said on NewsNation’s “On Balance: With Leland Vittert” on Thursday that they were surprised by the FBI raid on Trump’s home, having believed to that point they had cooperated amply with federal investigators.
Bobb said Trump handed over everything investigators had asked for prior to the search. Federal authorities indicated otherwise with the search.
Neither the Department of Justice nor Trump’s legal team have made the search warrant or search receipt public yet.
Bobb said the Trump legal team would be open to making the documents public, but needed to confer with the Justice Department first.
“We’re waiting to hear back from them,” Bobb told NewsNation. “We’re very eager. We know that people want information, and we’re eager to respond as best as possible in coordination with the Department of Justice so we’re just waiting to hear back from them.”
Trump called the search of his estate a “surprise attack” and alleged it was a “targeted raid.”
“In early June, the DOJ and FBI asked my legal representatives to put an extra lock on the door leading to the place where boxes were stored in Mar-a-Lago — We agreed. They were shown the secured area, and the boxes themselves. Then on Monday, without notification or warning, an army of agents broke into Mar-a-Lago, went to the same storage area, and ripped open the lock that they had asked to be installed. A surprise attack,” Trump said on the social media platform Truth Social. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/fbi-agents-found-dozens-of-classified-documents-in-mar-a-lago-search-sources/ | 2022-08-12T16:09:01Z | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/fbi-agents-found-dozens-of-classified-documents-in-mar-a-lago-search-sources/ | false |
Tune in to Bloomberg TV to find out how we are transforming retail through our leading solutions
THOROFARE, N.J., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Checkpoint Systems was selected this year to be a part of the popular television series on Bloomberg TV. In the everchanging world of retail, utilizing technology to minimize risk and maximize profit has never been more important. Checkpoint Systems is a worldwide leader in Electronic Article Surveillance, Product Protection, and Apparel Labeling Solutions, that are designed to help retailers reduce theft and operate more profitably. "We think their story will be meaningful as well as educational to our viewers," said Kyle Freeman, Executive Producer of the show.
The upcoming episode neatly shows how Checkpoint's RF and RFID technologies are enabling retailers around the globe to protect their merchandise. By delivering this, Checkpoint is helping ensure their products are always available when the consumer wants to make a purchase. This is more important now than ever before, as consumers increasingly expect their shopping experience to be faultless whether it's in a physical or digital store. "We are delighted to have been singled out for our track record in delivering world leading, innovative retail technology solutions," said Eric McNaul, VP Sales & Customer Operations.
The episode will broadcast on Bloomberg TV on August 13th and August 20th. The airing times are listed below. Once the episode airs, the video will be available on the World's Greatest website site.
We've been helping retailers solve their problems for over 50 years with intelligent retail technology solutions to protect profits, products and people. The film will explain how our unique offering of software, hardware, and labels benefits stores, as well as showcasing how our integrated service provision allows us to design, manufacture and install all of our own solutions.
BLOOMBERG TV (airing information):
On DirecTV: Channel 353.
On DISH Network: Channel 203.
On Cable: Depends on your local area and carrier
Television Schedule Page: https://worldsgreatesttelevision.com/tv-schedule/
About Checkpoint Systems, Inc. (www.checkpointsystems.com)
A division of CCL Industries, Checkpoint Systems is a global leader in RF EAS, RFID and Alpha High Theft solutions for the retail industry, delivering loss prevention and merchandise visibility in a growing omni channel environment. As pioneers of retail technologies for over 50 years, Checkpoint Systems is a vertically integrated RF/RFID solution provider for the retail industry. Our Alpha High Theft Solutions provides retailers with innovative and technologically advanced products engineered to protect high-theft merchandise. Checkpoint Retail Solutions provides a unique offering of software, hardware, labels, tags and connected cloud-based solutions. Our solutions optimize retail operations and efficiencies with improved on-shelf availability, reduced shrink and intuitive real-time data throughout the supply chain and in-store, resulting in improved profitability and an enriched consumer experience.
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About CCL Industries
CCL Industries Inc., a world leader in specialty label and packaging solutions for global corporations, small businesses and consumers, employs over 21,000 people and operates over 180 production facilities in 40 countries on six continents with corporate offices in Toronto, Canada, and Framingham, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.cclind.com.
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Implied Volatility Surging for Capital One (COF) Stock Options
Investors in Capital One Financial Corporation COF need to pay close attention to the stock based on moves in the options market lately. That is because the Jan 20, 2023 $41.90 Call had some of the highest implied volatility of all equity options today.
What is Implied Volatility?
Implied volatility shows how much movement the market is expecting in the future. Options with high levels of implied volatility suggest that investors in the underlying stocks are expecting a big move in one direction or the other. It could also mean there is an event coming up soon that may cause a big rally or a huge sell-off. However, implied volatility is only one piece of the puzzle when putting together an options trading strategy.
What do the Analysts Think?
Clearly, options traders are pricing in a big move for Capital One shares, but what is the fundamental picture for the company? Currently, Capital One is a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) in the Financial - Consumer Loans industry that ranks in the Bottom 14% of our Zacks Industry Rank. Over the last 30 days, nine analysts have increased their earnings estimates for the current quarter, while five have dropped their estimates. The net effect has taken our Zacks Consensus Estimate for the current quarter from $5.06 per share to $5.14 in that period.
Given the way analysts feel about Capital One right now, this huge implied volatility could mean there’s a trade developing. Oftentimes, options traders look for options with high levels of implied volatility to sell premium. This is a strategy many seasoned traders use because it captures decay. At expiration, the hope for these traders is that the underlying stock does not move as much as originally expected.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a way to proudly display a treasured photograph in the car," said an inventor, from Edgecliff Village, Texas, "so I invented the VISOR FRAME. My design could help to promote positive thoughts while driving."
The invention provides a neat way to display a photograph within a vehicle interior. In doing so, it eliminates the need to tape or prop the photo up. As a result, it helps to keep the photo safe and nice and it prevents the photo from falling. The invention features a simple and attractive design that is easy to apply and use so it is ideal for vehicle owners, professional drivers, truck drivers, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Dallas sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-DLL-3907, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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ST. LOUIS, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE) today declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock of 59 cents per share. This dividend is payable Sept. 30, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Sept. 7, 2022.
Separately, the board of directors of Union Electric Company, doing business as Ameren Missouri, declared regular quarterly cash dividends on all classes of Union Electric Company's preferred stock. These preferred stock dividends are payable Nov. 15, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Oct. 21, 2022.
In addition, the board of directors of Ameren Illinois Company declared regular quarterly cash dividends on all classes of Ameren Illinois Company's preferred stock. These preferred stock dividends are payable Nov. 1, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Oct. 10, 2022.
About Ameren Corporation
St. Louis-based Ameren Corporation powers the quality of life for 2.4 million electric customers and more than 900,000 natural gas customers in a 64,000-square-mile area through its Ameren Missouri and Ameren Illinois rate-regulated utility subsidiaries. Ameren Illinois provides electric transmission and distribution service and natural gas distribution service. Ameren Missouri provides electric generation, transmission and distribution services, as well as natural gas distribution service. Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois operates a rate-regulated electric transmission business in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. For more information, visit Ameren.com, or follow us on Twitter at @AmerenCorp, Facebook.com/AmerenCorp, or LinkedIn.com/company/Ameren.
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(NewsNation) — Actor Anne Heche “is not expected to survive” after a fiery car crash last week left her in a coma, a representative for the family said in a statement released Thursday.
Heche’s car crashed Aug. 5 into a home located on the west side of Los Angeles. The vehicle erupted into flames and firefighters pulled Heche, who was alone, from the car.
According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, around 60 firefighters responded to the scene. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
Following the accident, Heche was hospitalized for critical injuries and slipped into a coma. She suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury,” a spokesperson said. She required mechanical ventilation and had severe burns.
Heche, 53, is being kept on life support to determine if any of her organs can be donated, according to the spokesperson.
“Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit. More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love,” the statement read. “She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.”
Images obtained by TMZ appear to show Heche’s car crashing into a garage and speeding down residential streets. Another image shows what appears to be a liquor bottle in the vehicle.
Minutes before the crash, salon owner Richard Glass told NewsNation that Heche bought a red wig from him. He described Heche as “coherent and polite” and said nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Heche was involved in the crash roughly 21 minutes later.
During her acting career, Heche appeared in movies with stars including Harrison Ford in “Six Days, Seven Nights” and Johnny Depp in “Donnie Brasco.”
The Ohio native first came on the Hollywood scene when she appeared in the NBC soap opera “Another World” from 1987 to 1991.
More recently, Heche acted on Broadway and in smaller films and TV shows, such as “Chicago P.D.” and “All Rise.” In 2020, she competed on “Dancing With the Stars.”
Heche was previously married to cameraman Coleman Laffoon from 2001 to 2009. They had a son together. She also has a son with actor James Tupper, her co-star in “Men In Trees.”
Heche openly spoke about experiencing an abusive childhood and struggling with her mental health.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/anne-heche-not-expected-to-survive-after-car-crash-rep-says/ | 2022-08-12T16:12:54Z | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/anne-heche-not-expected-to-survive-after-car-crash-rep-says/ | false |
(The Hill) — A Florida teacher quit days before the beginning of the school year after staff removed posters of Black leaders, sharing an account of the situation that conflicts with that of the school.
Michael James, a teacher at an Escambia County public school, said that the employee who removed the posters was exhibiting racist behavior when she said that the billboard he had designed was “age inappropriate,” the Pensacola News Journal reports.
James was using images of figures like Martin Luther King, Jr., Harriett Tubman and former President Obama.
“I’ve been teaching special education for 15 years, and it just really floored me when she did that,” said James of the incident.
The former Florida teacher, from Daphne, Ala., sent a letter of complaint to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday and resigned from his position at O.J. Semmes Elementary School the following morning.
“Our office was made aware of this employee’s resignation and his stated reasons for resigning very early this morning, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022,” read a statement from the school according to the Journal. “Around the same time, we were copied on an email written by this individual and released to the Governor’s Office and various media outlets before we had any opportunity to investigate…If these allegations are deemed factual, we will certainly take corrective action, as it is our aim that all of our teachers feel valued and supported.”
The school district said on Thursday that there were “inaccuracies” in James’s story and that the African-American figures had been removed because the bulletin board was required for “state-required curricular materials” he was required to teach his students, who have special educational needs.
“To be clear, due to the nature of this specific population of students, it is critical the instructional materials be within their line of sight during instruction, for the purposes of student focus and retention,” the school district wrote.
It continued: “The Behavior Analyst observed his bulletin board was ‘Awesome,’ because of the history tied to it, but the language and reading levels on the posters were too complex for this particular group of students.” | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/florida-teacher-quits-after-staff-removed-posters-of-black-leaders/ | 2022-08-12T16:13:01Z | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/florida-teacher-quits-after-staff-removed-posters-of-black-leaders/ | false |
Johnson & Johnson is pulling baby powder containing talc worldwide next year after it did the same in the U.S. and Canada amid thousands of lawsuits claiming it caused cancer.
Talc will be replaced by cornstarch, the company said.
The company has faced litigation alleging its talcum powder caused users to develop ovarian cancer, through use for feminine hygiene, or mesothelioma, a cancer that strikes the lungs and other organs.
J&J insists, and the overwhelming majority of medical research on talc indicates, that the talc baby powder is safe and doesn’t cause cancer.
However, demand for the company’s baby powder fell off, and J&J removed the talc-based product in most of North America in 2020.
The company did so after it saw demand drop due to “misleading talc litigation advertising that caused global confusion and unfounded concern,” about product safety a company spokeswoman said.
J&J said the change announced late Thursday will simplify its product selection and meet evolving global trends.
Last October, J&J said a separate subsidiary it created to manage talc litigation claims had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
J&J said then that it funded the subsidiary, named LTL Management, and established a $2 billion trust to pay claims the bankruptcy court determines that it owes.
The health care giant also said last fall that it will turn its consumer health business — which sells the baby powder, Band-Aids and other products — into a separate publicly traded company. The part of the company selling prescription drugs and medical devices will keep the J&J name.
Shares of Johnson & Johnson, based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, rose slightly before the opening bell Friday. The stock has performed better than the Dow Jones Industrial Average, of which J&J is a member, for most of the year. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/jj-to-end-sales-of-baby-powder-with-talc-globally-next-year/ | 2022-08-12T16:14:37Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/jj-to-end-sales-of-baby-powder-with-talc-globally-next-year/ | true |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland police responded to a shooting Thursday afternoon near the MAX light rail station on East Burnside Street and Southeast 122nd Avenue.
Authorities reportedly found a man at the scene with a non-life-threatening injury. He was taken to a local hospital.
The suspect was not found, but Portland police say they recovered some casings.
The Enhanced Community Safety Team also responded to the scene and is continuing the investigation. | https://www.koin.com/news/crime/non-fatal-shooting-near-max-station-on-e-burnside-no-suspect-found/ | 2022-08-12T16:15:28Z | https://www.koin.com/news/crime/non-fatal-shooting-near-max-station-on-e-burnside-no-suspect-found/ | false |
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced. The 75-year-old author was pushed or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained.
Rushdie was quickly surrounded by a small group of people who held up his legs, presumably to send more blood to his chest.
His condition was not immediately known.
Hundreds of people in the audience gasped at the sight of the attack and were then evacuated.
Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.
A bounty of over $3 million has also been offered for anyone who kills Rushdie.
Iran’s government has long since distanced itself from Khomeini’s decree, but anti-Rushdie sentiment has lingered. In 2012, a semi-official Iranian religious foundation raised the bounty for Rushdie from $2.8 million to $3.3 million.
Rushdie dismissed that threat at the time, saying there was “no evidence” of people being interested in the reward.
That year, Rushdie published a memoir, “Joseph Anton,” about the fatwa. The title came from the pseudonym Rushdie had used while in hiding.
Rushdie rose to prominence with his Booker Prize-winning 1981 novel “Midnight’s Children,” but his name became known around the world after “The Satanic Verses.”
The Chautauqua Institution, about 55 miles southwest of Buffalo in a rural corner of New York, is known for its summertime lecture series. Rushdie has spoken there before. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/entertainment/ct-ent-salman-rushdie-attacked-20220812-hvfpzg52r5dnxmtucjtqtfzrpy-story.html | 2022-08-12T16:16:16Z | https://www.capitalgazette.com/entertainment/ct-ent-salman-rushdie-attacked-20220812-hvfpzg52r5dnxmtucjtqtfzrpy-story.html | false |
CERRO GORDO COUNTY, Iowa - A 58-year-old Charles City man has been arrested for homicide by vehicle after a July 25 crash that killed a Mason City man.
Timothy Hoy was arrested Thursday night in relation to the crash last month that killed Steven Miles, 41, of Mason City.
The sheriff’s office said Hoy was driving a Nissan Altima when it crossed the center line and caused a head-on crash. Court documents state his blood-alcohol level was .179.
Hoy was arrested in Charles City and is being held in the Cerro Gordo Co. Jail on $25,000 bond. | https://www.kimt.com/news/cerro-gordo-county/charles-city-man-arrested-for-homicide-for-fatal-cerro-gordo-co-crash/article_5c05ecf0-1a35-11ed-b333-1faa45ff6b3a.html | 2022-08-12T16:22:05Z | https://www.kimt.com/news/cerro-gordo-county/charles-city-man-arrested-for-homicide-for-fatal-cerro-gordo-co-crash/article_5c05ecf0-1a35-11ed-b333-1faa45ff6b3a.html | true |
BELFAST, Maine (AP) — A private shipyard is preparing for a painstaking stem-to-stern restoration of a floating piece of presidential history.
The Sequoia is a 1925 motor yacht that served eight presidents before being sold by President Jimmy Carter in 1977.
French & Webb, a custom boat building company, was tapped for the restoration by the current owner. Strict guidelines must be followed because the vessel is on the National Register of Historic Places.
“It’s slowly happening, but the needle is moving,” Todd French told the Bangor Daily News.
For now, the 104-foot vessel remains under a white tarp. Behind the scenes, workers have created a three-dimensional model because the original design plans couldn't be found, and assembled materials including longleaf pine from the Southeast and white oak from Denmark.
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Once the physical work begins, likely in the spring, the restoration of the Sequoia should be a three-year project, he said.
Over the years, several different vessels have served as a floating White House for presidents.
The Sequoia was designed by a Norwegian-born naval architect and went through a couple of owners before going up for sale following the stock market crash of 1929.
President Herbert Hoover encouraged the Navy to buy the vessel, and began using it as a presidential yacht.
This Sequoia holds plenty of presidential history: John Kennedy celebrated his last birthday aboard the vessel; Harry Truman held atomic arms talks with the leaders of Canada and Great Britain after World War II; and Richard Nixon hosted Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
The vessel, which is owned by FE Partners LLC, a private investment firm based Washington, D.C., has been in Belfast since 2019. The pandemic delayed the start of work. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/former-presidential-yacht-to-be-restored-at-maine-shipyard/article_e1c0c8aa-c20c-5376-8ae6-c88b2bf65870.html | 2022-08-12T16:26:25Z | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/former-presidential-yacht-to-be-restored-at-maine-shipyard/article_e1c0c8aa-c20c-5376-8ae6-c88b2bf65870.html | false |
- Gold price records gains for four consecutive weeks, up 1.08%.
- Lower US inflation data during the week keeps investors cheerful and hopeful that the Fed will tighten “less” aggressive.
- The UoM Consumer Sentiment report for August exceeded expectations.
- Gold Price Forecast: Range-bound despite broad US dollar weakness throughout the week.
Gold price erases some of Thursday’s gains, though stays below $1800 due to falling US bond yields, spurred by earlier US inflation data revealed during the week. That consumer and wholesale prices are showing signs of easing could deter the US Federal Reserve from tightening aggressively. At the time of writing, the XAU/USD is trading at $1794.49 a troy ounce.
US Consumer Sentiment rises, while US inflation expectations are mixed
Global equities are recording gains, portraying an improved risk appetite. At the time of typing, the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment for August came better-than-estimated, at 55.1 vs. 52.5 expected, while inflation expectations for one year, easied to 5% from 5.2%, while for a five-year horizon uptick from 2.9% to 3.0%.
Joanne Hsu, director of the survey, said, “In spite of this strength in the labor market and some signs of improvement in inflation, consumer sentiment remains very low by historical standards.”
In the meantime, Fed speakers continued its campaign that they’re not done tackling inflation, led by San Francisco’s Fed Mary Daly. During an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, she said that inflation is too high, despite consumer and producer prices indicating inflation is slowing. She favors a 50 bps rate hike for the September meeting as a base case, but she does not take off a 75 bps out of the table and would depend on data. She downplayed recession fears and foresaw the Federal funds rate (FFR) to end at 3.4% by the end of the year.
Meanwhile, Richmond’s Fed Thomas Barkin said that inflation data this week is “welcome,” but he wants to see a sustained period under control. He added that more hikes are coming while saying that he’s undecided about the size of the rate increase.
The US Dollar Index, a gauge of the buck’s value against a basket of peers, is up 0.57% at 105.687, while the US 10-year bond yield drops three basis points to 2.857%, a tailwind for gold prices.
Apart from this, tensions between the US and China regarding Taiwan calmed throughout the day. However, Europe’s economic crisis may encounter another factor to consider, with the Rhine River in Germany breached its 40 cms level, which would halt navigation through it
What to watch
Next week, the US economic docket will feature the NY Fed Manufacturing, Housing data, Industrial Production, and Retail Sales.
Gold Price Forecast (XAU/USD): Technical outlook
During the last week, XAU/USD prices consolidated in the $1783-$1807 range. It’s worth noting that despite lower US inflation data reported, which propelled lower US bond yields, gold could not break the range and push towards the confluence of the 100 and 200-day EMA, around the $1837-$1842 area.
If XAU/USD breaks above $1807, traders could expect gold to test the latter. Otherwise, if the gold price continues below $1800, a move towards the 20-day EMA at $1753.49 is on the cards.
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KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2022 Creative Expo Taiwan, the largest cultural and creative event in Asia, is holding in Kaohsiung, at the Kaohsiung Exhibition Center and the Kaohsiung Music Center between Aug. 5-14, organized by Taiwan Design Research Institute. The theme of this year's exhibition is "Resonance Island," representing a to call to place the island experience at the forefront. In recent years, the cultural and creative industry has been regarded as an important indicator of competitiveness and become an industry that many young people flock to. Many enterprises and brands in Taiwan have used cultural and creative elements in many aspects such as events, competitions, etc., to enhance the brand value and show Taiwan's unique soft power.
The Creative Expo Taiwan presents two main sections—"Cultural Concepts" and "Trade Platform" covering three major exhibitions of cultural curatorial exhibition, Cultural and Creative Brands, and IP Licensing.
The Cultural section is themed "Island of Passion," and has five areas each symbolizing personal experiences. The Main pavilion, "Resonance Island," immerses visitors in experiences, as well as enabling the virtual co-creation of new experiences with artists residing in in remote islands. The Craft pavilion, "The Craft SHOP," enable visitors to experience journeys taken through objects. The Chiayi pavilion showcases the evolution of a contemporary modern city, Chiayi. The Matsu pavilion leads audiences wandering around islands and tracing back to the past of Matsu. The Response pavilion is launched by co-host city, Kaohsiung to present a vision where visitors take a dream-like flight over Taiwan.
The Creative section has the theme of "Ideal Adventure," gathering cultural and creative brands from across Taiwan and showcases the discerning tastes through a journey through curated selection of classic fashion, while also exploring local original creations through local revitalization through new perspectives. The Licensing section showcases "Super IPs," gathering innovative vocabularies of the new generation, original IPs, illustrated stories, digital entertainment, and other original intellectual properties to transport visitors through a world of co-branding in the digital realm, with the hope of unlocking boundless and interlinked markets.
The Creative Expo Taiwan enhances virtual-real integration and connection and expand its reach on virtual channels through 5G technology. In addition to the physical exhibition, the Creative Expo Taiwan has launched a new online platform, CET+, in order to provide all the participating brands a channel to promotes to both domestic and foreign buyers through the integration of online and offline. Besides CET+, the Creative Expo Taiwan has also partnered Pinkoi, one of Asia's leading online marketplaces for original design goods, digital creations and workshop experiences, to launch an online Creative Expo section to help domestic exhibitors to open up new markets and business opportunities.
This year the Creative Expo Taiwan also partners with XRSPACE, the pioneer of the Metaverse, to cooperate with the "GOXR Metaverse Creators Project to provide creators participating in "IP licensing brands" and "Talent 100" which includes 100 emerging brands and creators in Taiwan and abroad this year to have a multiverse experiential space.
The 2022 Taiwan Creative Expo "Resonance Island-Together, we sound in vibrant harmony." is based creating links in the cultural and creative industry to create a perspective in shared culture and lifestyles to show "It's All Connected." As participants of the co-creation process, people embark on an adventure to reexamine Taiwan through a macro lens, and the humanities from a micro lens to create more connections and views to reshape the island through resonance.
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- Vaccine fatigue may continue to be a barrier to the upcoming flu season
- Black Americans are less likely to get a flu vaccine compared to white Americans, increasing risk of flu-related complications or hospitalizations1
- People over 65 account for majority of flu-related hospitalizations and deaths2
- Panelists from the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, the American Lung Association and the National Minority Quality Forum joined Sanofi to discuss drivers of flu-related healthcare inequities across populations
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid signs that a more severe influenza season is approaching in the US, a panel of public health leaders today urged that people get vaccinated in preparation for the upcoming influenza season and warned that patients in high-risk populations tend to suffer significant flu-related health disparities.3
The conversation focused on how to increase protection for people over 65 and those with weakened immune systems, including those with chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cardiovascular disease. Experts also considered how inequities translate to higher rates of hospitalizations due to the flu among Black Americans and other under-represented communities.1
The virtual discussion, hosted by Sanofi with invited media in attendance, was moderated by Michael Greenberg, MD, MPH, North America Medical Head of Vaccines at Sanofi.
Michael Greenberg, MD, MPH
North America Medical Head of Vaccines at Sanofi
"We have the tools to help reduce the burden of disease in populations most severely affected by flu, especially among those over age 65. By partnering with organizations and healthcare providers, we can combat complacency among those who may be fatigued by vaccine news, and who may not understand the severe complications of a flu infection that vaccines can help prevent. As a leader in flu vaccines, Sanofi aims to help protect high-risk populations from flu and its related complications. We have a responsibility to help prevent as much flu as possible through vaccination."
Experts anticipate a rise in flu cases in the Northern Hemisphere this flu season compared with last year based on the steep rise in cases in the Southern Hemisphere this season.4 Today's panel, composed of chief medical officers of the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, the American Lung Association and the President and CEO of the National Minority Quality Forum, provided insights on the impact of flu in light of a decline in vaccination rates during the 2021-2022 flu season.
Gary A. Puckrein, PhD
President & CEO, National Minority Quality Forum
"The economic and health burden of vaccine-preventable influenza on communities of color is clear and access to effective vaccines is essential. The level of disparity in vaccine uptake, particularly among patients of color, points to structural deficits systematically hampering access to influenza vaccination.5"
Age can be a factor when it comes to flu-related complications and flu vaccinations can help reduce the burden of disease.6 In a study of influenza vaccine effectiveness in 3,135 adults over 18 during 2012-2015, of adults hospitalized as a result of the flu, vaccinated patients were 59% less likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit than those who had not been vaccinated.7 Importantly, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), an advisory body to the CDC, has recognized that certain flu vaccines are potentially more effective for people over 65.8
Comorbidities present the risk for added complications, according to the experts. Among adults hospitalized with influenza during recent flu seasons, about half had heart disease.9 In recent seasons, about 30% of adult flu hospitalizations had diabetes and during the 2021-22 flu season, 30.6% of flu-related hospitalizations were among adults with chronic lung disease.10,11
Eduardo Sanchez, MD, MPH, FAHA, FAAFP
Chief Medical Officer for Prevention, American Heart Association
"Hands down, your best protection from the flu this year comes from the flu shot, which is proven to be practical and cost-effective. Virtually everyone can benefit from the flu shot and that's especially true for people with heart disease and seniors who are more likely to be hospitalized with flu and flu-related complications.2,9 If you're over 65, you should ask about getting the specific flu vaccines this year which may potentially be more effective."
Robert Gabbay, MD
Chief Science & Medical Officer, American Diabetes Association
"People with diabetes are at high risk of serious flu complications, even when well-managed, which can result in flu-related hospitalization and sometimes even flu-related death.10 Preventing flu and its serious complications should be a global public health priority and we aim to encourage vaccinations as we approach the upcoming flu season."
Albert Rizzo, MD
Chief Medical Officer, American Lung Association
"While anyone can get the flu, certain people are at increased risk for developing serious flu complications such as those living with chronic medical conditions including asthma, COPD and other chronic lung diseases.3 The flu can be deadly, which is why we urge all eligible people six months or older to get the flu shot annually."
Participating organizations did not receive compensation for this discussion. The above quotes were adapted from each speaker's prepared remarks.
About Sanofi
We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions.
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1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Flu Disparities Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/disparities-racial-ethnic-minority-groups.html. Accessed July 27, 2022.
2 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Flu & People 65 Years and Older. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/65over.htm. Accessed July 27, 2022.
3 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People at Higher Risk for Flu Complications. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/index.htm. Accessed July 27, 2022.
4 Australian Government Department of Health. Australian Influenza Surveillance Report - 2022 Influenza Season in Australia. Available at: https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-surveil-ozflu-flucurr.htm. Accessed July 27, 2022.
5 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Flu Disparities Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/disparities-racial-ethnic-minority-groups.html. Accessed July 2022.
6 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Key Facts About Seasonal Flu. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm. Accessed July 27, 2022.
7 Thompson MG, Pierse N, Sue Huang Q, et al. Influenza vaccine effectiveness in preventing influenza-associated intensive care admissions and attenuating severe disease among adults in New Zealand 2012-2015. Vaccine. 2018;36(39):5916-5925.
8 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ACIP Flu Meeting Update: Flu Vaccines Worked Better than Reported & ACIP Recommends Specific Vaccines for Seniors. Available at https://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/2021-2022/specific-vaccines-seniors.htm. Accessed July 27, 2022.
9 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Flu and People with Heart Disease or History of Stroke. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/heartdisease.htm. Accessed July 27, 2022.
10 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Flu and People with Diabetes. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/diabetes.htm. Accessed July 27, 2022.
11 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. FluView Interactive. Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Hospitalizations. Available at: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/FluHospChars.html. Accessed July 12, 2022.
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Demand for 2022 games outpaces ticket sales ahead of the 2019 season by more than 10%
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With fans counting down the days to the start of the 2022 college football season, StubHub, the world's most trusted ticket marketplace, analyzed ticket trends to unveil the most in demand teams, conferences, matchups and more. Ohio State takes the lead as the hottest-selling team and also claims the biggest jump in demand since 2021. Largely driven by huge demand for the season's best-selling game between Alabama and Texas, the SEC dominates as the most in demand conference, while the Big 12 sees the biggest increase in sales since last year.
- Ohio State is StubHub's most in demand team for the first time, dethroning Alabama, last year's top team
- Texas Longhorns boast the second-highest sales jump, hot off a stellar recruiting streak
- Alabama at Texas is the season's hottest game, based on total sales
- The SEC and Big Ten lead demand, commanding over 66% of all college football sales
"College football demand is as strong as ever, ahead of what's sure to be an electric season – ticket demand on StubHub is already outpacing what we saw ahead of the 2019 season by more than 10 percent," said Adam Budelli, spokesperson for StubHub. "Ohio State, Notre Dame, Alabama and Texas are some of the notable schools topping our most in demand lists and driving considerable sales for the best-selling games of the season."
- Ohio State Buckeyes
- Alabama Crimson Tide
- Texas Longhorns
- Georgia Bulldogs
- Texas A&M Aggies
- Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Michigan Wolverines
- Penn State Nittany Lions
- LSU Tigers
- Auburn Tigers
- Alabama Crimson Tide at Texas Longhorns on September 10
- Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Ohio State Buckeyes on September 3
- Texas A&M Aggies at Alabama Crimson Tide on October 8
- Oregon Ducks vs. Georgia Bulldogs (Mercedes-Benz Stadium) on September 3
- Michigan Wolverines at Ohio State Buckeyes on November 26
- Auburn Tigers at Alabama Crimson Tide on November 26
- Clemson Tigers at Notre Dame Fighting Irish on November 5
- West Virginia Mountaineers at Pittsburgh Panthers on September 1
- Oklahoma Sooners at Nebraska Cornhuskers on September 17
- Florida State Seminoles vs. LSU Tigers (Caesars Superdome) on September 4
Rankings based on cumulative StubHub ticket sales as of August 12 for the 2022 season.
Ranking based on cumulative StubHub ticket sales as of August 12 for games within each conference, for the 2022 season. Number indicates the percentage of total college football sales.
With more than 100 NCAA integrations and partnerships, StubHub is the most trusted source for tickets to 2022 college football games. Fans can visit StubHub.com to buy and sell guaranteed tickets now.
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HOHENWALD, Tenn., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Postal Service celebrated the majestic, playful, and highly intelligent elephant with a first-day-of-issue stamp ceremony at The Elephant Discovery Center.
"We love elephants because of their physical characteristics, social intelligence, capacity for empathy, self-awareness, teamwork and because they share so many of our own best qualities," said Jeffery Adams, USPS corporate communications vice president, who served as the dedicating official. "What a pleasure it is to honor these magnificent creatures on World Elephant Day with a beautiful Forever stamp."
Joining Adams for the ceremony were master of ceremonies Vicki Yates, Channel 5 Nashville News anchor; Todd Montgomery, senior manager of external relations of The Elephant Sanctuary, the organization that oversees The Elephant Discovery Center; Dan Ashe, president and chief executive officer of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums; Richard Rhonda, board chair of The Elephant Sanctuary; Breanne Black, coordinator of community outreach and engagement for Working Dogs for Conservation; and Crystal Nash, director of the Lewis County Public Library and Archives.
"The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee has provided refuge and lifetime care for captive elephants for 27 years. The release of the Elephants Forever stamp offers an exciting opportunity to highlight the importance of elephants as a keystone species and to help spread awareness of the challenges they face in captivity and the wild," said Janice Zeitlin, chief executive officer of The Elephant Sanctuary. "We are thrilled to be hosting the U.S. Postal Service, and special guest speakers for the dedication ceremony at The Elephant Discover Center in downtown Hohenwald."
The stamp's fanciful, digital illustration of an elephant and its young calf depicts the affectionate nature of the beloved animals. Two stylized plants and a bright orange sun add whimsy and color to this lighthearted stamp. In the upper left-hand corner, the word "Forever" is in black, and the letters "USA" are in gray. The booklet cover includes a detail of the adult elephant, with a green plant and orange sun to the left. The title "Elephants" is in a black serif font. Artis Rafael López created the original art and designed the stamp. Derry Noyes was the art director.
The Elephants stamp is being issued as a Forever stamp in booklets of 20. News of the Elephants stamps are being shared with the hashtag #ElephantsStamps.
Background on Elephants in America
Americans have been intrigued by elephants since the first one arrived on our shores in 1796.
What is it about elephants that make people love them? The flapping ears and the mouth seemingly curved into a smile are charming, of course, but it is more than that. We seem to see ourselves in them: Their social complexity and expansive emotional range reflect those of humans. They practice teamwork, demonstrate the capacity for empathy and grief, and establish lifelong bonds of family. Herds are organized into complex matriarchal societies; calves are raised and mentored by the entire herd.
America's feelings toward elephants have evolved since the 18th-century introduction. The relationship was hard on elephants. While Americans loved the floppy-eared giants, they were not always conscientious in providing care and nurturing for the emotional and sensitive creatures. However, changing attitudes in the United States have increased the awareness of conditions for captive elephants, enabled legislation to ban ivory importation and encouraged conservation efforts for elephants in the wild.
These cute, fun stamps celebrate the affection and ever-evolving connection between humans and elephants.
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Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price.
A video of the ceremony will be available on facebook.com/usps. Information for ordering first-day-of-issue postmarks and covers is at usps.com/shop.
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BELFAST, Maine (AP) — A private shipyard is preparing for a painstaking stem-to-stern restoration of a floating piece of presidential history.
The Sequoia is a 1925 motor yacht that served eight presidents before being sold by President Jimmy Carter in 1977.
French & Webb, a custom boat building company, was tapped for the restoration by the current owner. Strict guidelines must be followed because the vessel is on the National Register of Historic Places.
“It’s slowly happening, but the needle is moving,” Todd French told the Bangor Daily News.
For now, the 104-foot vessel remains under a white tarp. Behind the scenes, workers have created a three-dimensional model because the original design plans couldn't be found, and assembled materials including longleaf pine from the Southeast and white oak from Denmark.
Once the physical work begins, likely in the spring, the restoration of the Sequoia should be a three-year project, he said.
Over the years, several different vessels have served as a floating White House for presidents.
The Sequoia was designed by a Norwegian-born naval architect and went through a couple of owners before going up for sale following the stock market crash of 1929.
President Herbert Hoover encouraged the Navy to buy the vessel, and began using it as a presidential yacht.
This Sequoia holds plenty of presidential history: John Kennedy celebrated his last birthday aboard the vessel; Harry Truman held atomic arms talks with the leaders of Canada and Great Britain after World War II; and Richard Nixon hosted Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
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At 21, Chris O'Connell learned his pediatric cardiologist had retired. He was assigned a new doctor for the annual checkups he'd had all his life.
"I know you've been told to not exercise hard or strain your heart, but that's the old way of thinking," the cardiologist told him. "Think of your heart as a muscle that needs to be worked out."
Chris was blindsided.
"Are you serious?" he asked.
Chris – who lives about an hour north of San Francisco in Rohnert Park, California – was an infant when he was diagnosed with a transitional atrioventricular canal defect. He was born with a condition in which extra blood travels to the lung arteries, which can make the heart and lungs work harder. This can cause the heart to enlarge and the lungs to become congested.
At 3, he underwent surgery to repair the problem. His pediatric cardiologist warned him not to exert himself because it could further strain his heart. His parents enforced what seemed like sound advice.
When Chris was young, he convinced his parents to let him play baseball. Although he was great at hitting the ball, he forced himself to run tepidly. In high school, he switched to golf.
Now, hearing this exciting news from his new doctor, he was receiving a different message – to cut loose and push himself.
"Maybe you can start running," suggested his wife, Emily O'Connell.
It took Chris a couple months to wrap his head around the idea. Then he decided, "If I'm going to do this, I'm going to go for it all the way."
One of his favorite TV shows was "American Ninja Warrior," a sports entertainment reality show where thousands of competitors attempt to complete a series of obstacle courses of increasing difficulty.
He would start training for the show.
Three years later, in 2013, Chris was finally ready to submit a video showing he was worthy of an audition. He was in the best shape of his life, having improved his upper-body strength, grip and balance, all important skills for the competition.
Before making the recording, he went for his annual cardiac checkup.
Days later, he was on the golf course when his cardiologist called. She told him there was a problem with his aortic valve. It needed to be repaired right away.
"Can we just wait a couple months?" he asked. "My wife is 8 months pregnant."
The doctor said no. Surgery was scheduled for two weeks later.
The valve repair was successful. But Chris had a complication – both lungs collapsed. He had an emergency surgery and remained in the hospital for 11 days.
When he returned home, he could barely walk and was told not to lift anything. Emily, still pregnant, had to do everything for him, including helping him sit up.
Their son, Cavan, was born less than a month later.
Everything went well with the delivery, and Cavan received a clean bill of health. Years earlier, the couple had been told it was unlikely they'd have a child with a heart defect, and it appeared that was the case.
Then, at Cavan's two-week checkup, the pediatrician listened to Cavan's heart for an extended time.
Chris and Emily looked at each other nervously.
"I already knew before he said anything," Chris said.
Cavan was diagnosed with two congenital heart defects. One, endocardial cushion defect, was similar to his father's. The other was mitral valve stenosis, a narrowing of the heart's mitral valve that can cause exhaustion and shortness of breath, among other problems.
Doctors said Cavan would need several surgeries throughout his life to repair the damage. The first surgery came when he was 2 months old.
"That first moment of seeing him at the ICU after the surgery with over a dozen wires hooked up to him with his chest open made me sick to my stomach," Emily said. "I felt like I was dying inside."
Cavan developed complications and ended up spending 36 days in the hospital.
Two years later, he needed a second surgery. That one went smoothly and he was home in four days. Now 8, he'll face others in the future.
Chris, meanwhile, never gave up on his dream of becoming an American Ninja Warrior.
Once he recovered from surgery and Cavan's health had stabilized, he returned to training. In 2018, he auditioned again.
"I'd been building up my upper body to do the obstacles, but I wasn't prepared for the actual obstacles," he said. "It's way harder on an actual course because you have to do all these specialty moves with your body."
He fell on the first obstacle, knocking him out of the competition.
In 2019, he was invited back. He made it to the second obstacle.
This year, he was back again. Now 32, he got through three obstacles, enough to put him on a televised episode. It was taped in mid-March and aired on July 11.
Before Chris competed, a video aired about his and Cavan's heart defects and surgeries. Then cameras cut to Cavan and Emily in the VIP section.
"At first I wanted to do it to prove to myself," said Chris, who competed under the name Heart Warrior Ninja. "Then I realized that if I can make it on the air, then I can help other people too by bringing focus to congenital heart defects. I also wanted to show Cavan that anything is possible, that he doesn't need to be afraid or slow down because of his heart."
Emily said Cavan already follows his father's lead.
"It's like Chris isn't afraid of anything, so Cavan has this fearless energy too," Emily said. "As a mom it's kind of scary, but it's also kind of cool. It's OK to be afraid, but you don't have to let fear rule your life."
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Federal work-safety investigators are looking into the death of an Amazon worker and an injury that potentially led to the death of another employee, adding to a probe already underway following a third fatality during the company’s annual Prime Day shopping event in mid-July.
All three Amazon workers died within the past month and were employed at company facilities in New Jersey.
The new Occupational Health and Safety Administration investigations are putting fresh scrutiny on Amazon’s injury rates and workplace-safety procedures, which have long been criticized by labor and safety advocates as inadequate.
Department of Labor spokesperson Denisha Braxton confirmed Thursday that the most-recent fatality took place last week at an Amazon facility in Monroe Township, about 20 miles (35 kilometers) northeast of Trenton. The second probe is looking into a July 24 accident at an Amazon facility in Robbinsville. The worker involved in that accident died three days later, according to Braxton.
In a statement, Robbinsville Police Chief Michael Polaski said police responded to the warehouse, called PNE5, on July 24 after receiving a report that a worker fell from a three-foot (one-meter) ladder and struck his head.
Polaski said the worker was conscious and alert when police arrived. But police were told CPR was conducted on the person by other workers prior to their arrival, he said. The person was transported to a hospital and OSHA was notified of the incident on the same day, he added.
Police in Monroe Township didn’t immediately reply for a request for comment on the incident there.
The two most recent deaths were first reported by the USA Today Network.
OSHA officials declined to provide additional information about any of the deaths, citing the open investigations. The agency has up to six month to complete each probe.
Sam Stephenson, a spokesperson for Seattle-based Amazon, said in a statement the company was “deeply saddened by the passing of our colleagues and offer our condolences to their family and friends.”
“Our investigations are ongoing and we’re cooperating with OSHA, which is conducting its own reviews of the events, as it often does in these situations,” Stephenson said.
Last month, OSHA launched another investigation into a worker fatality at an Amazon warehouse in the New Jersey town of Carteret during the company’s Prime Day shopping event, which turned out to be the biggest in the company’s history. Federal officials haven’t released additional details about the death, but news reports have identified the worker as 42-year-old Rafael Reynaldo Mota Frias.
A spokesperson for Amazon said the company’s internal investigation into the Carteret death shows it “was not a work-related incident, and instead was related to a personal medical condition.”
“OSHA is currently investigating the incident, and, based upon the evidence currently available to us, we fully expect that it will reach the same conclusion,” the spokesperson said.
News of the deaths comes amid broader scrutiny into the company’s operations. In late July, OSHA officials inspected Amazon facilities in New York, Illinois and Florida after receiving referrals alleging health and safety violations from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. The civil division of the U.S. attorney’s office is also investigating safety hazards at Amazon warehouses and “fraudulent conduct designed to hide injuries from OSHA and others,” according to a spokesperson for the office. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/business/osha-investigates-deaths-of-amazon-workers-in-new-jersey/ | 2022-08-12T16:42:47Z | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/business/osha-investigates-deaths-of-amazon-workers-in-new-jersey/ | true |
MUMBAI: MI Emirates today announced its team ahead of the inaugural edition of UAE's International League T20 (ILT20). The squad will be based in Abu Dhabi and includes a mix of current and past Mumbai Indians (MI) players, and new players who join the #OneFamily. Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo, Nicholas Pooran and Trent Boult are set to join the MI Emirates ahead of the inaugural edition and will adorn MI's iconic blue and gold amongst the others.
Akash M Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Jio, said, "I am delighted with our dynamic group of 14 players that will be part of our #Onefamily and represent 'MI Emirates'. We are glad to have one of our key pillars, Kieron Pollard continue with the MI Emirates. Joining us back are Dwayne Bravo, Trent Boult, and Nicholas Pooran. A very warm welcome to all players of MI Emirates. MI is known to strike a balance between experience and investing in young talent to unlock their true potential which will help us play the MI way. This is what fans expect from us and will drive the MI ethos forward." The players have been signed as per the league guidelines and the local players from UAE will be added to the squad in the near future: Kieron Pollard (West Indies), Dwayne Bravo (West Indies), Nicholas Pooran (West Indies), Trent Boult (New Zealand), Andre Fletcher (West Indies) Imran Tahir (South Africa), Samit Patel (England), Will Smeed (England), Jordan Thompson (England), Najibullah Zadran (Afghanistan), Zahir Khan (Afghanistan), Fazalhaq Farooqui (Afghanistan), Bradley Wheal (Scotland), Bas De Leede (Netherlands).
Earlier this week, MI announced the name and identity of 'MI Emirates' or phonetically "MY Emirates", a team dedicated to the fans across the Emirates geographies. The owner of the IPL cricket team Mumbai Indians, Reliance Industries on Wednesday unveiled the name and brand identity of the two new franchises which will be joining the Mumbai Indians family.
The two teams, MI Emirates in UAE's International League T20 and MI Cape Town in Cricket South Africa T20 League, will adorn the iconic blue and gold of the team. These names were chosen as they call out the specific regions from where the teams will be based, it said in a statement. In addition to unveiling the brand identities, the social media handles for both teams also went live on Wednesday.
The new entities take the iconic Mumbai Indians' identity and weave in the local influence. The global expansion of #OneFamily is expected to bring to the leagues the ethos and the values that have helped elevate Mumbai Indians to be one of the most loved teams in franchise cricket.
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes will start the Kansas City Chiefs’ preseason opener in Chicago on Saturday, bucking a trend across the NFL of coaches sitting their starting quarterbacks for the first of their three exhibition games.
Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Thursday he would stick to his usual routine of having each of the four quarterbacks in camp play for a quarter of the preseason opener. And while he acknowledged the number of snaps could change based on the way the game is going, Reid thinks it’s important for everybody — stars and backups alike — to get onto the field.
“I think it’s good to get the juices going, get yourself out there, even if it’s a limited amount of plays,” Reid said after the Chiefs wrapped up Thursday’s practice at Missouri Western State University.
“I’m not saying it’s wrong what others are doing,” Reid said. “That’s just where I’m at.”
The Raiders sat Derek Carr and the Jaguars played without Trevor Lawrence in last week’s Hall of Fame Game, though that’s typical given the game occurs a week earlier than the rest of the preseason openers. But plenty of teams are choosing to sit their starting quarterbacks this week, too, rather than risk an injury by subjecting them to unnecessary hits.
The Patriots planned to sit Mac Jones for their preseason opener against the Giants on Thursday night, when the Ravens were expected to have Lamar Jackson wearing a headset rather than a helmet for their game against the Titans.
Others sitting out include the Cowboys’ Dak Prescott, Bills starter Josh Allen and the Buccaneers’ Tom Brady, who is beginning an 11-day absence to deal with “personal things.” Aaron Rodgers also is unlikely to play for the Packers given that the four-time and reigning league MVP has not played in a preseason game for Green Bay since 2018.
“I like to get in there and get hit like, on time,” said Mahomes, who has played the preseason opener every season but 2020, when there wasn’t any because of the pandemic. “Once you get hit one time, you see what it is. Then you’re good to go.”
Mahomes threw only two passes in last year’s preseason opener against San Francisco before giving way to backup Chad Henne and the rest of the Kansas City quarterbacks. Mahomes had more extensive time in the second and third games.
When there was a four-game preseason schedule, he usually played the first three before sitting out the finale.
“It’ll be good this time to get in there with the new group of receivers we have, all the new running backs, and show how we do it in the game,” Mahomes said. “We’re doing it here in practice but we want to show how we do it in the game.”
Reid said his quarterbacks will be accompanied by their respective line on the depth chart, meaning Mahomes will play with the starting offense before Henne takes over with the backups. Shane Buechele and Dustin Crum will finish things out.
“It’s definitely about getting into rhythm. It’s getting into the game, seeing how the clock is running — everything in the game speeds up,” Mahomes explained. “So the guys need to think, execute, show off their talent. It’s going to be important to be in the game and see how all these guys do.”
As much as Mahomes wants to see how new wide receivers JuJu Smith-Schuster, Marquez Valdes-Scantling and second-round pick Skyy Moore fare on Saturday, most of the attention will be on the revamped defense.
First-round pick Trent McDuffie is expected to start at cornerback along with Justin Reid, who arrived from Houston in free agency. The Chiefs also expect to give plenty of work to another first-round pick, defensive end George Karlaftis, along with rookie defensive backs Joshua Williams, Jaylen Watson and Bryan Cook.
“It’s bare-bones football,” Justin Reid said, when asked what to expect when the playbook is condensed and the game plan largely nonexistent. “We know what you’re going to do. You know what we’re going to do. Let’s line up and do it. It’s a test of wills. This is about giving guys a chance to show what they got.”
NOTES: DE Frank Clark missed practice with an illness. DB Zayne Anderson (shoulder), WR Greg Jennings and OT Lucas Niang (knee) also remained out. WR Omar Bayless left early when his lower back tightened up. … TE Jody Fortson returned after hurting his quad earlier in camp. The plan is to slowly get him up to speed. … Andy Reid said he’s looking forward to getting DT Danny Shelton in camp after the Chiefs agreed to a contract with him this week. The 345-pound Shelton has not been added to the official roster yet. “I think we’ll get a lot out of him,” Reid said. “He’s a big guy. There’ll be a lot of him here.”
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House Republicans on Friday stood by former president Donald Trump despite the revelation that FBI agents sought classified documents relating to nuclear weapons in their search of his Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this week, underscoring Trump’s viselike grip on the GOP.
The comments came a day after Wray denounced the threats and violent rhetoric against the FBI as “deplorable and dangerous.”
“I’m always concerned about threats to law enforcement,” Wray said. “Violence against law enforcement is not the answer, no matter who you’re upset with.”
On Thursday, an armed man wearing body armor tried to breach the FBI’s Cincinnati field office, sparking an hours-long standoff that ended when he was gunned down after firing at officers, authorities said.
Since the search at Trump’s property, Republicans have directed their vitriol at the FBI and Attorney General Merrick Garland, accusing the agency and department of government overreach, issuing threats and comparing the actions to Gestapo tactics and “third-world” political persecution though the agents were executing a court-approved search warrant.
The Washington Post reported late Thursday that the classified documents were among the items FBI agents sought in the search, according to people familiar with the investigation. Experts in classified information said the unusual search underscores deep concern among government officials about the types of information they thought could be located at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property and potentially in danger of falling into the wrong hands.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Friday that holding onto documents relating to nuclear weapons “doesn’t seem like that’s something [Trump] would be doing.”
Republicans lashed out at Garland even after the Justice Department filed a motion requesting the search warrant for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property be unsealed.
McCarthy said he agrees with Trump that the search warrant and related documents should be released publicly.
McCarthy also took aim at Garland, who said Thursday that he had personally authorized the search of Trump’s residence.
“He has a real problem here,” McCarthy said. “Why would he divide the nation? … I think the attorney general has a lot of explaining to do.”
McCarthy suggested the Justice Department should have continued to seek cooperation from Trump rather than conduct a search. He also said Garland should have spoken at greater length when he addressed the public on Thursday.
“He is just inflaming the public,” McCarthy said. “And why would you only speak for a few moments?”
Garland said Thursday he could not say more because of the pending investigation.
Rep. Michael R. Turner (Ohio), the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, suggested that it was possible that Trump had in his possession documents related to nuclear weapons that were technically classified but not “truly classified.”
Turner spoke at a news conference with other Republicans. He stressed that he did not know what documents Trump might have had. But in response to a reporter’s question, he offered some speculation.
“I can tell you that there are a number of things that are classified that fall under the umbrella of nuclear weapons, but that are not necessarily things that are truly classified,” Turner said. “Many of them you can find on your own phone as we stand here. And if they fall within that category, they’re not an imminent national security threat that would rise to the level of you have to raid Donald Trump’s home and spend nine hours there.”
Speaking alongside Turner, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), the No. 3 Republican in the House leadership, called the FBI search a “complete abuse and overreach of its authority” and promoted baseless claims that the agency protected Hillary Clinton, former FBI director James B. Comey and Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son.
Shortly after members of the GOP spoke, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), in answering reporters questions, said, “You would think there would be an adult in the Republican room that would say just calm down, see what the facts are, and let’s go for that instead of insisting … assaults on law enforcement.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/12/trump-fbi-search-house-republicans-nuclear-documents/ | 2022-08-12T16:50:32Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/12/trump-fbi-search-house-republicans-nuclear-documents/ | true |
PM Modi to host CWG 2022 medal winners, Nikhat Zareen may get autograph on boxing gloves
From July 28 to August 8, nearly 200 Indian athletes competed for medals across 16 different sports at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham.
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host all the medal winners of the Commonwealth 2022 gamesat his official residence at 11 am on Saturday.
From July 28 to August 8, nearly 200 Indian athletes competed for medals across 16 different sports at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham.
India wrapped up its Commonwealth Games 2022 campaign at fourth position with 61 medals (22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze). Wrestling topped the medal chart with 12 medals including six gold while weightlifting accounted for 10 medals.
India has delivered its fifth-best performance of all time in their Commonwealth Games history, with their best being a total of 101 medals when the games were held at home in 2010. One of the major highlights of the mega event was the clinching of a gold medal by Nikhat Zareen.
After winning the medal in the final of the women's 50kg Light Flyweight category, Zareen said she is excited to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and added that she will take his autograph on her boxing gloves.
Indian star boxer and world champion Nikhat Zareen defeated Carly MC Naul of Northern Ireland in the final of women's 50kg (Light Flyweight) on Sunday.
Zareen lived up to her 'world champion' status as she dominated Carly across all three rounds. She won by 5-0 on basis of points scored.
"I am very excited to meet Prime Minister Modi; I took a selfie with him last time and want a new one now. Last time, I took his autograph on my T-shirt, now I will take it on my boxing gloves," Nikhat Zareen had told ANI after winning the gold on August 07.
The Commonwealth Games 2022 came to an end with a stunning closing ceremony at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham on Monday.
The Commonwealth Games flag was presented to the Governor of Victoria. The state of Victoria, Australia will be the next host of the Commonwealth Games in 2026. | https://www.thehansindia.com/news/national/pm-modi-to-host-cwg-2022-medal-winners-nikhat-zareen-may-get-autograph-on-boxing-gloves-757490 | 2022-08-12T16:50:47Z | https://www.thehansindia.com/news/national/pm-modi-to-host-cwg-2022-medal-winners-nikhat-zareen-may-get-autograph-on-boxing-gloves-757490 | false |
Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man confront Rushdie on stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing him 10 to 15 times as he was being introduced. The 75-year-old author was pushed or fell to the floor, and the man was arrested.
Rushdie was taken by helicopter to a hospital, state police said. His condition was not immediately known.
Rabbi Charles Savenor was among the hundreds of people in the audience. Amid gasps, spectators were ushered out of the outdoor amphitheater.
“This guy ran on to platform and started pounding on Mr. Rushdie. At first you’re like, ‘What’s going on?’ And then it became abundantly clear in a few seconds that he was being beaten,” Savenor said. He said the attack lasted about 20 seconds.
A bloodied Rushdie was quickly surrounded by a small group of people who held up his legs, presumably to send more blood to his chest.
Rushdie has been a prominent spokesman for free expression and liberal causes. He is a former president of PEN America, which said it was “reeling from shock and horror” at the attack.
“We can think of no comparable incident of a public violent attack on a literary writer on American soil,” CEO Suzanne Nossel said in a statement.
“Salman Rushdie has been targeted for his words for decades but has never flinched nor faltered,” she added.
His 1988 book “The Satanic Verses” was viewed as blasphemous by many Muslims. Often-violent protests against Rushdie erupted around the w world, including a riot that killed 12 people in Mumbai.
The novel was banned in Iran, where the late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.
A bounty of over $3 million has also been offered for anyone who kills Rushdie.
The death threats and bounty led Rushdie to go into hiding under a British government protection program, including a round-the-clock armed guard. Rushdie emerged after nine years of seclusion and cautiously resumed more public appearances, maintaining his outspoken criticism of religious extremism overall.
Iran’s government has long since distanced itself from Khomeini’s decree, but anti-Rushdie sentiment has lingered. The Index on Censorship, an organization promoting free expression, said money was raised to boost the reward for his killing as recently as 2016, underscoring that the fatwa for his death still stands.
In 2012, Rushdie published a memoir, “Joseph Anton,” about the fatwa. The title came from the pseudonym Rushdie had used while in hiding.
Rushdie rose to prominence with his Booker Prize-winning 1981 novel “Midnight’s Children,” but his name became known around the world after “The Satanic Verses.”
The Chautauqua Institution, about 55 miles southwest of Buffalo in a rural corner of New York, is known for its summertime lecture series. Rushdie has spoken there before. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/author-salman-rushdie-attacked-on-lecture-stage-in-new-york | 2022-08-12T16:51:58Z | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/author-salman-rushdie-attacked-on-lecture-stage-in-new-york | true |
CARR, Colo. — The cost of putting food on the table is the highest it's been in 40 years, and ground beef is one of the foods seeing the highest price increases. Beef costs 12% more now since this time last year. You might think that would mean big profits for ranchers, but ranchers are struggling to keep their own businesses running.
We spent a morning driving through the Colorado plains with cattle rancher Rick Wahlert to find out how rising prices are impacting those raising cattle. Ranching the land has been in his blood for generations, but the land may be the reason Wahlert loses what he loves most.
“We were talking about getting rid of part of our cows this summer because of high feed costs. No place to keep them,” said Wahlert, who cares for several herds in his community and is part of the Natural fort Grazing Association.
The drought is drying up the grass for cattle to feed on across the United States in places like Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Texas and Missouri. It's hurting the biggest beef production regions in the country.
“I know a person that just sold down to, out of 100, he kept 20 head because they would not have enough feed this winter to feed them all, and so they went ahead and made the decision to sell them all,” said Wahlert.
Ranchers being forced to sell off their herds means higher prices for consumers and less money for the families working the land.
“Others have to go get another job somewhere, or else 'Sorry, you don't get a paycheck this year. Hopefully, you saved enough money from the years before that you can get through,’” said Wahlert of how many ranching families are feeling. “It's kind of tough that way. It's not what we can control.”
Also out of control: feed and fertilizer prices.
“COVID started some of it, but it's supply and demand,” said Wahlert.
Stephen Koontz, a professor of agricultural economics at Colorado State University, said the supply chain problems and the severe drought happening today are not only hiking prices now, he expects prices to keep rising for a long time.
“The cattle numbers themselves were down, what, two and a half percent, so what that tells me is we're in for some very expensive beef prices, really probably three years down the road, two years down the road,” said Koontz. “I think it's not just going to be beef. It's going to be protein across the board.”
“You lay awake at night thinking about things. It is a struggle every day,” said Wahlert.
Wahlert is working with members of the Colorado Cattlemen's Association to develop solutions and paths forward for ranchers and their families to thrive.
Koontz said ranchers can invest more in insurance to protect themselves and their herds, but that won’t help in all cases. Yet, when it comes to the drought, there's not much anyone can do but wait and hope the land will once again give their livelihoods a place to prosper. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/rising-beef-prices-tough-on-shoppers-and-ranchers | 2022-08-12T16:52:10Z | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/rising-beef-prices-tough-on-shoppers-and-ranchers | false |
ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman is expected to open up about his personal health challenges as he officially returns to the campaign trail Friday, more than 90 days after the Democrat suffered a stroke that threatened his life and political prospects in one of the nation’s premier Senate contests.
Fetterman will address voters Friday evening in Erie County, a politically competitive region in the state’s northwestern corner. The appearance marks the 52-year-old lieutenant governor’s only scheduled rally this month, although he’s expected to appear at a handful of lower-profile events as he gradually ramps up his public schedule, according to campaign spokesman Joe Calvello.
Fetterman, who was hospitalized for several days after the May health scare, is expected to offer emotional remarks about his experience. He said in June that he almost died.
“He’ll talk about how blessed he is to be back,” Calvello said. “It’ll be somewhat emotional — a little raw about what he went through, how grateful he is to be campaigning again.”
Fetterman’s return marks a significant development in the race to fill retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey’s seat. The Pennsylvania contest offers Democrats perhaps their best pickup opportunity nationally as the two parties battle for Senate control in the November midterm elections. The chamber is now split 50-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris giving Democrats the narrowest of majorities with her tie-breaking vote.
Republican nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has railed against Fetterman’s prolonged public absence throughout the summer.
Oz posted a fake “Have You Seen This Person?” poster online last month. He needled Fetterman again Wednesday on social media. “It has been 90 DAYS since Fetterman’s last public campaign event,” Oz tweeted. “Pennsylvanians deserve answers.”
Fetterman’s physical appearance is a central element of his nontraditional political brand.
At 6 feet, 9 inches, he sports a shaved head and tattooed arms, while usually wearing shorts and a sweatshirt. He’s also an unapologetic progressive with a working-class background who supports legalizing marijuana, abolishing the Senate filibuster and establishing a national government health insurance program for everyone — “Medicare for all” in progressives’ campaign jargon.
Fetterman’s health has been a dominant issue in the Senate contest since the days before the May 17 primary, when his campaign revealed he had a stroke. He required surgery to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator, and later disclosed that he also had a serious heart condition.
His doctor offered a blunt letter in early June detailing Fetterman’s decision not to take prescribed medication or see a doctor for several years after a 2017 health scare.
“If he does what I’ve told him, and I do believe that he is taking his recovery and his health very seriously this time, he should be able to campaign and serve in the U.S. Senate without a problem,” Dr. Ramesh Chandra wrote.
Fetterman is now taking his medication as prescribed, eating a low-sodium diet and walking 3 to 5 miles most days, Calvello said: “He’s following the doctor’s orders.”
Voters may not detect any lingering symptoms, but he has mild speech and hearing issues.
“He’ll miss a word here or there when he’s speaking sometimes, or maybe in a crowded room he’ll miss hearing a word,” Calvello said. “Besides that, he’s rock solid.”
The high-profile Senate contest has been playing out on television and social media despite his extended absence.
Fetterman, who has dominated Oz in fundraising, has been running television ads promoting his candidacy for months. The Democrat has also drawn millions of views from creative social media posts, including one featuring a character from the infamous MTV show “Jersey Shore” telling Oz to come home. Oz is a former New Jersey resident, and it has been a major issue throughout the campaign.
Fetterman insisted he was well enough to win the Senate contest in a recent interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Supporters of Iran-backed Shiite groups rallied in Baghdad on Friday to denounce their rivals, followers of an influential Shiite cleric who stormed the parliament last month and have since been holding a sit-in outside the assembly building in the Iraqi capital.
The rivalry between the two sides shows the deep divisions within Iraq's Shiite community, which makes up about 60% of Iraq's population of over 40 million people. Unlike Iran-backed groups, cleric Muqtada al-Sadr wants better ties with Arab countries, including Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia, which is Shiite Iran's main rival in the region.
Al-Sadr has also been a harsh critic of widespread corruption in the oil-rich country torn by decades of violence, with a crumbing infrastructure, an impoverished majority and lack of basic services.
During their rally Friday, the protesters from the Coordination Framework, an alliance of Iran-backed parties, did not try to enter Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraq’s parliament, government buildings and foreign embassies — and where al-Sadr's followers are camped out. Ahead of their gathering, authorities had closed off the road leading into the Green Zone with giant cement blocks.
The counter-protest came after al-Sadr issued a deadline on Wednesday to the judiciary, giving it a week to dissolve the legislature. Al-Sadr, whose camp won most votes in last year's parliamentary elections last October, has not been able to form a majority government and after eight months of stalemate and jockeying with rival, Iran-backed Shiite factions, he abandoned those attempts.
Members of al-Sadr’s parliamentary bloc resigned but instead of allowing his rivals — the Coordination Framework — to try and form a government, al-Sadr has demanded the parliament be dissolved and that early elections are held. It's unclear whether he has any legal basis for those demands.
The inter-Shiite power struggle has left Iraq in political limbo and exacerbated the economic crisis. The impasse, now in its tenth month, is the longest in the country since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion reset the political order.
“We are protesting against the occupation of parliament and those who threaten the judiciary,” said university student, Abbas Salem, who was part of the rally Friday by Iran-backed groups.
Salem carried a poster of a top Iranian general, Qassim Soleimani, and a top Iraqi Shiite militia leader, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in a U.S. drone strike in January 2020. He said he worries that if al-Sadr forms a government, he will disband the Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella of mostly Iran-backed Shiite militias.
Another protester, Ahmad al-Maliki, 52, said they are opposed to al-Sadr followers' “occupation of parliament" and added that Iraq needs a new government as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, al-Sadr's supporters in Baghdad and most Iraqi Shiite-dominated provinces — except for the Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala — held their own rallies and preformed Friday prayers outdoors in a show of strength. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Rival-Iraq-protests-underscore-inter-Shiite-power-17369591.php | 2022-08-12T17:03:22Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Rival-Iraq-protests-underscore-inter-Shiite-power-17369591.php | false |
Two-day meet on data engineering gets under way at VIT-AP
DRDO scientist, HCL official share their knowledge with students
A two-day International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Engineering (ICCIDE-2022), organised by the School of Computer Science and Engineering in VIT-AP got under way on Friday.
Scientist and Associate Director of the Directorate of Special Projects-DRDO, Hyderabad Anupam Sharma and Associate General Manager, HCL Technologies, Chennai Caleb Andrews, shared their knowledge and experience on data engineering, IoT and security-related issues in computational intelligence.
The university Vice-Chancellor S.V. Kota Reddy said along with academics, the institution gave equal importance to research, innovation and incubation. He informed that the university had established Centres of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, IoT and Cyber Security in collaboration with multi-national companies and international universities, to strengthen research field. He said a central instrumentation facility would come up in the university soon.
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LUX, France — Once, a river ran through it. Now, white dust and thousands of dead fish cover the wide trench that winds amid rows of trees in France's Burgundy region in what was the Tille River in the village of Lux.
From dry and cracked reservoirs in Spain to falling water levels on major arteries like the Danube, the Rhine and the Po, an unprecedented drought is afflicting nearly half of the European continent. It is damaging farm economies, forcing water restrictions, causing wildfires and threatening aquatic species.
There has been no significant rainfall for almost two months in Western, Central and Southern Europe. And the dry period is expected to continue in what experts say could be the worst drought in 500 years.
Climate change is exacerbating conditions as hotter temperatures speed up evaporation, thirsty plants take in more moisture and reduced snowfall in the winter limits supplies of fresh water available for irrigation in the summer. Europe isn't alone in the crisis, with drought conditions also reported in East Africa, the western United States and northern Mexico.
As he walked in the 15-meter-wide (50-foot-wide) riverbed in Lux, Jean-Philippe Couasné, chief technician at the local Federation for Fishing and Protection of the Aquatic Environment, listed the species of fish that had died in the Tille.
"It's heartbreaking," he said. "On average, about 8,000 liters (about 2,100 gallons) per second are flowing. ... And now, zero liters."
In some areas upstream, some of the trout and other freshwater species are able take shelter in pools via fish ladders. But such systems aren't available everywhere.
Without rain, the river "will continue to empty. And yes, all fish will die. ... They are trapped upstream and downstream, there's no water coming in, so the oxygen level will keep decreasing as the (water) volume will go down," Couasné said. "These are species that will gradually disappear."
Jean-Pierre Sonvico, the regional head of the federation, said diverting the fish to other rivers won't help because those waterways also are affected, which will lead to overcrowding and more deaths.
"Yes, it's dramatic because what can we do? Nothing," he said. "We're waiting, hoping for storms with rain, but storms are very local so we can't count on it."
The European Commission's Joint Research Center warned this week that drought conditions will get worse and potentially affect 47% of the continent.
Andrea Toreti, a senior researcher at the European Drought Observatory, said a drought in 2018 was so extreme that there were no similar events for the last 500 years, "but this year, I think, it is really worse."
For the next three months, "we see still a very high risk of dry conditions over Western and Central Europe, as well as the U.K.," Toreti said.
The current situation is the result of long periods of dry weather caused by changes in world weather systems, said meteorologist Peter Hoffmann of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research near Berlin.
"It's just that in summer we feel it the most," he said. "But actually the drought builds up across the year."
Climate change has lessened the temperature differences between regions, sapping the forces that drive the jet stream, which normally brings wet Atlantic weather to Europe, he said.
A weaker or unstable jet stream can result in unusually hot air coming to Europe from North Africa, leading to prolonged periods of heat. The reverse is also true, when a polar vortex of cold air from the Arctic can cause freezing conditions far south of where it would normally reach.
Hoffmann said observations in recent years have all been at the upper end of what the existing climate models predicted.
The drought has caused some European countries to impose restrictions on water usage, and shipping is endangered on the Rhine and the Danube.
The Rhine could reach critical low levels in the coming days, making the transport of goods — including coal and gasoline — increasingly difficult. On the Danube, authorities in Serbia have started dredging sand to deepen the waterway and keep vessels moving smoothly.
In neighboring Hungary, wide parts of popular Lake Velence near Budapest, have turned into patches of dried mud, beaching small boats. Aeration and water circulation equipment have been installed to protect wildlife, but water quality has deteriorated to the point that a ban on swimming was imposed at one beach on weekends.
Stretches of the Po, Italy's longest river, are so low that barges and boats that sank decades ago are resurfacing.
The drought also has affected southern England, which received only 10% of its average rainfall in July. Firefighters are battling an unprecedented number of grass fires and people in several areas have been banned from watering their lawns.
The Rivers Trust charity said England's chalk streams — which allow underground springs to bubble up through the spongy layer of rock — are drying up, endangering aquatic wildlife like kingfishers and trout.
Even in countries like Spain and Portugal, which are used to long periods without rain, there have been major consequences. In the Spanish region of Andalucia, some avocado farmers have had to sacrifice hundreds of trees to save others from wilting as the Vinuela reservoir in Malaga province dropped to only 13% of capacity, down 55% from a year ago.
Some European farmers are using water from the tap for their livestock in areas where ponds and streams have gone dry, using up to 100 litres (26 gallons) a day per cow.
In normally green Burgundy, home to the source of Paris' Seine River, the grass has turned yellow-brown and tractors churn up giant clouds of dust.
Baptiste Colson, who owns dairy cows and grows feed crops in the village of Moloy, said his animals are suffering in the drought, with the quality and quantity of the milk decreasing.
The 31-year-old head of the local Jeunes Agriculteurs (Young Farmers) union said he has been forced to dip into his winter supply of fodder in August.
"That is the biggest concern," Colson said.
EU corn production is expected to be 12.5 million tons below last year and sunflower production is projected to be 1.6 million tons lower, according to a report from S&P Global Commodity Insights.
Colson expects at least a 30% drop in corn yield, a major problem for feeding his cows.
"We know we'll have to buy food ... so the cows can continue producing milk," he said. "From an economic point of view, the cost will be high."
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BELFAST, Maine (AP) — A private shipyard is preparing for a painstaking stem-to-stern restoration of a floating piece of presidential history.
The Sequoia is a 1925 motor yacht that served eight presidents before being sold by President Jimmy Carter in 1977.
French & Webb, a custom boat building company, was tapped for the restoration by the current owner. Strict guidelines must be followed because the vessel is on the National Register of Historic Places.
“It’s slowly happening, but the needle is moving,” Todd French told the Bangor Daily News.
For now, the 104-foot vessel remains under a white tarp. Behind the scenes, workers have created a three-dimensional model because the original design plans couldn't be found, and assembled materials including longleaf pine from the Southeast and white oak from Denmark.
Once the physical work begins, likely in the spring, the restoration of the Sequoia should be a three-year project, he said.
Over the years, several different vessels have served as a floating White House for presidents.
The Sequoia was designed by a Norwegian-born naval architect and went through a couple of owners before going up for sale following the stock market crash of 1929.
President Herbert Hoover encouraged the Navy to buy the vessel, and began using it as a presidential yacht.
This Sequoia holds plenty of presidential history: John Kennedy celebrated his last birthday aboard the vessel; Harry Truman held atomic arms talks with the leaders of Canada and Great Britain after World War II; and Richard Nixon hosted Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
The vessel, which is owned by FE Partners LLC, a private investment firm based Washington, D.C., has been in Belfast since 2019. The pandemic delayed the start of work. | https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Former-presidential-yacht-to-be-restored-at-Maine-17369452.php | 2022-08-12T17:05:59Z | https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Former-presidential-yacht-to-be-restored-at-Maine-17369452.php | false |
Ohio gunman appeared to threaten FBI after Trump search
WILMINGTON, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) - A gunman who died in a shootout after trying to get inside the FBI’s Cincinnati office appeared to have posted calls on social media for FBI agents to be killed and for people to take up arms and “be ready for combat” in the wake of the search at Donald Trump’s home, a law enforcement official said.
Federal investigators are examining social media accounts they believe are tied to the gunman, 42-year-old Ricky Shiffer, and posts that urged violence after the FBI entered Mar-a-Lago in Florida, according to the official, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
At least one of the social media messages appeared to have been posted after Shiffer tried to breach the FBI office. It said: “If you don’t hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the F.B.I.,” according to the official.
An autopsy will be performed on the suspect Friday. Officials said he fled from the FBI office to a farm field several miles away then used his car for cover as he exchanged gunfire with law enforcement.
He was killed following an hours-long standoff.
The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office said Shiffer’s body arrived at their morgue at about 10 p.m. Thursday. Clinton County has a contract with Montgomery County to handle its autopsies, according to Clinton County’s Emergency Management Agency director.
Law enforcement officials also are investigating whether Shiffer, who is from Columbus, had ties to far-right extremist groups including the Proud Boys, the Associated Press reports, citing an unnamed official.
Shiffer is believed to have been in Washington in the days leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, and may have been present at the U.S. Capitol building on the day of the attack, the AP reports.
He was armed with a nail gun and AR-15 rifle when he went to the FBI office and tried to breach the visitor screening facility around 9:15 a.m. Thursday, officials said.
An FBI Cincinnati statement late Thursday night called the incident an “agent-involved shooting,” though the jurisdiction of the officer or officers who killed the man remains unclear.
No law enforcement officers or bystanders were hurt.
“Unfounded attacks on the integrity of the FBI erode respect for the rule of law and are a grave disservice to the men and women who sacrifice so much to protect others,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement Thursday night.
“Violence and threats against law enforcement, including the FBI, are dangerous and should be deeply concerning to all Americans. Every day I see the men and women of the FBI doing their jobs professionally and with rigor, objectivity, and a fierce commitment to our mission of protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution. I am proud to serve alongside them.”
The FBI is investigating the attack as an act of domestic extremism, according to the law enforcement official.
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(NewsNation) — Actor Anne Heche “is not expected to survive” after a fiery car crash last week left her in a coma, a representative for the family said in a statement released Thursday.
Heche’s car crashed Aug. 5 into a home located on the west side of Los Angeles. The vehicle erupted into flames and firefighters pulled Heche, who was alone, from the car.
According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, around 60 firefighters responded to the scene. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
Following the accident, Heche was hospitalized for critical injuries and slipped into a coma. She suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury,” a spokesperson said. She required mechanical ventilation and had severe burns.
Heche, 53, is being kept on life support to determine if any of her organs can be donated, according to the spokesperson.
“Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit. More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love,” the statement read. “She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.”
Images obtained by TMZ appear to show Heche’s car crashing into a garage and speeding down residential streets. Another image shows what appears to be a liquor bottle in the vehicle.
Minutes before the crash, salon owner Richard Glass told NewsNation that Heche bought a red wig from him. He described Heche as “coherent and polite” and said nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Heche was involved in the crash roughly 21 minutes later.
During her acting career, Heche appeared in movies with stars including Harrison Ford in “Six Days, Seven Nights” and Johnny Depp in “Donnie Brasco.”
The Ohio native first came on the Hollywood scene when she appeared in the NBC soap opera “Another World” from 1987 to 1991.
More recently, Heche acted on Broadway and in smaller films and TV shows, such as “Chicago P.D.” and “All Rise.” In 2020, she competed on “Dancing With the Stars.”
Heche was previously married to cameraman Coleman Laffoon from 2001 to 2009. They had a son together. She also has a son with actor James Tupper, her co-star in “Men In Trees.”
Heche openly spoke about experiencing an abusive childhood and struggling with her mental health.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/anne-heche-not-expected-to-survive-after-car-crash-rep-says/ | 2022-08-12T17:10:02Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/anne-heche-not-expected-to-survive-after-car-crash-rep-says/ | true |
Mr Humphrey Kuutiel, the National Identification Authority (NIA) Registration Officer for Dormaa West has said nearly 2,000 Ghana Cards were yet to be collected by applicants in the district.
He said the authority was aware the Ghana Card had become “a major instrument for any transaction ID”, saying the office had plans to step up public education and sensitisation on the need for registered residents to visit the office to collect their cards.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Nkrankwanta, the district capital, in the Bono Region about the progress of applicants’ registration, Mr. Kuutiel said the office was witnessing overcrowding of people expected to be registered for the cards.
He said applicants who reported with missing cards were redirected to the regional office in Sunyani to register for a replacement at a fee of GhC30.
Mr Kuutiel said the office was not having challenges regarding logistics and working staff.
He urged Ghanaians who had not yet registered to take the exercise serious. | https://newsghana.com.gh/dormaa-west-close-to-2000-ghana-cards-await-collection/ | 2022-08-12T17:10:39Z | https://newsghana.com.gh/dormaa-west-close-to-2000-ghana-cards-await-collection/ | false |
CHAUTAUQUA, Nueva York, EE.UU (AP) — Policía de Nueva York dice que autor Salman Rushdie recibió una puñalada en el cuello y lo han transportado a hospital.
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Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan distributes welfare aid at beneficiaries homes
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Madurai Central MLA and Minister for Finance P.T.R. Palanivel Thiaga Rajan went an extra mile to distribute welfare aid to differently abled at their doorsteps here on Friday.
The Minister visited nine homes and gave away five smartphones and four hearing aids to differently abled people including visually and hearing impaired in wards 22, 57 and 58.
The beneficiaries had submitted petitions seeking these welfare aid in the differently abled camps which were held as a special initiative taken by the Minister.
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M. Vijaya, wife of a hearing impaired person residing at Arapalayam, said that it was a great honour to receive the welfare aid from the Minister himself. “He spent time with us, spoke to our grandchildren and wished us the best. It was such a warm gesture,” she added.
Mayor Indrani Pon Vasanth, Collector S. Aneesh Sekhar, Corporation Commissioner Simranjeet Singh Kahlon, District Differently Abled Welfare Officer R. Ravichandran and others were present.
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An Orlando parking division employee has been suspended while city officials investigate complaints the employee used a city vehicle to block the driveway of a women’s health care center, which provides abortion services, and harassed volunteers who wanted the car moved.
“The investigation is currently active and ongoing,” city spokesperson Ashley Papagni said in a short email response Friday.
Papagni did not identify the employee other than to confirm the employee worked in the parking division.
The complaint, lodged with the city Aug. 1, alleged the city worker parked a Nissan Leaf with “orlando.org” on the rear bumper so that it blocked the driveway of the Orlando Women’s Health Center on Lucerne Terrace, and wouldn’t move the car when asked.
The complaint noted it was the second clash between the employee and staff at the women’s clinic. On July 23, the complaint alleged, the employee also blocked the clinic driveway with a vehicle and refused to move, impeding a doctor from entering the center.
A volunteer, who spoke to Fox 35, which first reported the complaint, said the employee also talked with anti-abortion protestors outside the clinic, which also provides breast-cancer screenings, pregnancy testing and diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infection.
A clinic receptionist said Friday there have been no other incidents since the complaint was filed.
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The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, signed into law in 1994 by President Bill Clinton, prohibits “physical force, threat of physical force or physical obstruction” intended to intimidate or interfere with any person seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services.
Penalties range in severity depending on the nature of the offense and an offender’s record of similar offenses.
A nonviolent, first offense carries a maximum six-month jail sentence and a maximum fine of $10,000.
The law was passed in the wake of the murder of Dr. David Gunn, the first of four doctors killed by anti-abortion extremists.
Gunn, an obstetrician and gynecologist whose medical practice included abortion procedures, was shot in the back three times outside a women’s health clinic in Pensacola by Michael F. Griffin, who shouted “Don’t kill any more babies” as he opened fire with a shotgun.
Griffin, now 60, is serving 25 years to life in prison at Blackwater River Correctional Facility in Milton, Florida, in the Panhandle.
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INDIANAPOLIS — After 52 years, IUPUI is getting a new vision, splitting the joint institute into separate academic organizations.
On Friday, Indiana University and Purdue University announced that they are taking a new look at how the Indianapolis campus is operated. The new vision, outlined in a Memorandum of Understanding, will transform the joint venture between the two universities into separate academic organizations.
Under the new vision, the universities will govern their own programs. The memorandum calls for a more energized role for each university and the production of more graduates ready to participate in the modern economy.
“This new vision will enable the number of Purdue’s STEM graduates to grow and also provide more opportunities to our students and faculty both in Indianapolis and in West Lafayette,” said Purdue University’s president Mitch Daniels. “What we are announcing today responds to calls we have heard from Indianapolis and across the state for a bigger and more visible Purdue in Indianapolis. Our state and its largest city require a world-class, high-technology research presence of the quality Purdue represents.”
In a release, the presidents of both universities pointed to the joint institute as an example of how this agreement brings them together in ways that will create transformational change in Indianapolis and the state, creating a global center of research and an engine of growth.
“This is an historic moment for Indianapolis, for IU, and for our entire state,” Indiana University’s president Pam Whitten said. “We are building on IUPUI’s more than 50 years of accomplishment to propel us into becoming one of the preeminent urban research universities in this country. In addition to expanding our science and technology programs, we plan to grow across the board, create more opportunities for students, and become even more deeply integrated with the Indianapolis community through close relationships with local businesses, nonprofits, sports organizations, and more.”
While Indiana University owns and operates the IUPUI, certain programs grant Purdue degrees. Under the agreement, IU will take over the operation of what is currently the School of Science, except for the Department of Computer Science. IU says it will expand its Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with new computer science programs in Indianapolis.
IU will also enhance the integration of its science programs with its School of Medicine and other allied health science schools. The release said it will establish collaborations with new research areas.
Meanwhile, Purdue will assume responsibility for engineering, computer science and technology as an integrated expansion of Purdue West Lafayette. The university also plans to open a branch of its Purdue Applied Research Institute on or near the current IUPUI.
Indiana University will continue to provide certain administrative services for both academic organizations and maintain the intercollegiate athletic program.
The universities said working groups will be formed to address a variety of specific areas, and both universities are committed to executing a smooth transition that puts students first. The completion of the realignment is expected in time for the fall 2024 semester, at which time the new academic organizations will become official. | https://fox59.com/news/education/iu-purdue-split-iupui-into-separate-academic-organizations/ | 2022-08-12T17:13:34Z | https://fox59.com/news/education/iu-purdue-split-iupui-into-separate-academic-organizations/ | false |
It looks like Millie Bobby Brown is staying ever grateful, ever true to her “Stranger Things” character’s Indiana ties.
The 18-year-old actress, who plays telekinetic phenom Eleven, revealed during an interview with Allure magazine that she was taking online courses at Purdue University in human services.
“You learn about the system and how to help young people,” Brown told Allure.
A representative for Purdue University, which is based in West Lafayette, said the online courses were not related to the central campus and were more likely associated to Purdue University Global — a public online university that was once Kaplan University.
“Stranger Things”, which is set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, has referenced Purdue University before.
In the premiere episode of season three, former golden boy Steve Harrington (played by Joe Keery) chats up a female customer at Scoops Ahoy who’s wearing a Purdue shirt.
The vintage-style shirt created such a frenzy among Boilermaker fans it was recreated and sold to the masses by Purdue Team Store. | https://cbs4indy.com/indiana-news/stranger-things-star-reveals-enrollment-in-online-classes-at-purdue/ | 2022-08-12T17:14:04Z | https://cbs4indy.com/indiana-news/stranger-things-star-reveals-enrollment-in-online-classes-at-purdue/ | true |
DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Egypt. Australia. A hot dog place in Pennsylvania. A junior college in Chicago.
If Major League Baseball is looking for another place for a game, oh man, do we have some fun ideas.
The second “Field of Dreams” game is Thursday night in the cornfields of eastern Iowa, near the site of the beloved 1989 movie. The Chicago Cubs play the Cincinnati Reds after the 2021 game — a wild 9-8 victory for the Chicago White Sox against the New York Yankees — was a smashing success.
But Major League Baseball wants to wait before making a decision on a third “Field of Dreams” date. It has been in contact with multiple cities about future games — including Evansville, Indiana, about Bosse Field, where parts of the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own” were filmed — and it has an internal working group examining the possibilities.
In the meantime, The Associated Press asked several sports and entertainment figures where they would take a major league game if they had a choice, and they responded with sites all over the world.
John Thorn, Major League Baseball’s official historian, wants to return to Egypt. Not only did major leaguers play a February 1889 game near the pyramids, but the earliest record of a bat-and-ball game — seker-hemat, played by Egyptian pharaohs — is from a wall relief in an Egyptian temple.
“Such a game played today would be doubly important as Egypt is not only the cradle of civilization but also the cradle of baseball,” Thorn said in an email.
Chicago White Sox closer Liam Hendriks wanted to play a game in his native Australia.
“Ideally, I’d like to take it to Baseball Park in Perth because that’s where I grew up playing,” Hendriks said. “Especially in Perth, we don’t really get anyone on that coast very often, so being able to take it there would be a treat for everybody involved.”
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks opened the 2014 season in Australia, with the Dodgers sweeping a pair of games at Sydney Cricket Ground.
Actor Michael Imperioli decided on Rome because he said it’s his favorite city in the world. But he wasn’t sure how it would be received.
“They love basketball there and obviously soccer,” he said. “But I don’t know if baseball translates so well. Although it would be pretty fun to do it there.”
Pretty fun, indeed.
The connection to home was a recurring theme.
Bonnie Hunt, an actor and lifelong Cubs fan, suggested Wilbur Wright College near where she grew up in her hometown of Chicago.
“I would do it there because I remember my dad hitting the ball out for us seven kids out in the outfield, me and my six siblings, and we’d run and get the ball,” said Hunt, the writer, director and showrunner for “ Amber Brown,” a new series on Apple TV+.
“My dad would throw the ball up in the air and hit it himself. And that would be my ‘Field of Dreams’ … to go back to the old neighborhood and be with all the kids I grew up with.”
Cleveland Guardians manager Terry Francona had a similar thought, but with a twist. Francona and his father, Tito, another former major leaguer, both grew up in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
Terry Francona, 63, wants to play in his hometown — because of Brighton Hot Dog Shoppe.
“Hot dogs after the game,” a grinning Francona said. “Before and after.”
Like Francona, Phoenix Mercury guard Diamond DeShields also has strong family ties to baseball. DeShields’ father, Delino, spent 13 years in the majors, and her brother, Delino Jr., has appeared in 601 games with three teams over seven seasons.
Diamond DeShields had a more unusual idea.
“I think inside an airport hangar would be cool or an aircraft carrier if it was big enough to have a field like they do in college basketball,” she said. “I’d say like at an army base. Inside a hangar would be great.”
The Miami Marlins beat the Atlanta Braves 5-2 in a temporary ballpark at Fort Bragg on July 3, 2016, and a return to a U.S. military post might be an appealing option for MLB.
Bob Kendrick, the president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, hit on a couple more possibilities that very well could be under consideration.
“I’m partisan to those few remaining places that the Negro Leagues called home,” Kendrick said in an email, “Rickwood Field as a tribute to Willie Mays and the Birmingham Black Barons or Paterson, (New Jersey) at Hinchliffe when it’s restored as a tribute to Monte Irvin, Larry Doby and teams like the (New York) Black Yankees and others that played on that historic site.” | https://www.wane.com/dont-miss/as-mlb-considers-future-game-sites-check-out-these-ideas/ | 2022-08-12T17:15:08Z | https://www.wane.com/dont-miss/as-mlb-considers-future-game-sites-check-out-these-ideas/ | true |
Which Yeti tumbler for camping is best?
When you go camping, you need a reliable drink container to keep things hot or cold for extended amounts of time. Yeti is known for having premium-level options for insulated containers of all kinds. This brand has a reputation for producing some of the best in drinkware and coolers. If you are looking for the ideal tumbler to take camping with you, the Yeti Rambler 20-Ounce Travel Mug is the top choice.
What is a camping tumbler?
A camping tumbler is an insulated drink container that you can comfortably take with you on an outdoor adventure. It is made of metal with some mugs maintaining the steel look, but it can also come in assorted colors ranging from black to vibrant pinks or greens. Tumblers come in different sizes but a standard one is around 20 ounces and fits in your average cup holder.
What types of drinkware does Yeti have for camping?
- Tumbler: This is a classic hand-held size container with or without a handle and a lid that can be sealed or opened for drinking.
- Bottle: Bottles are containers with closed, screw-top lids that must be opened and removed to take a drink from it.
- Mug: Mugs come in smaller sizes and have lids that can be closed or opened to drink without removing them.
- Jug: These are similar to bottles because their lids must be completely removed to drink from the jug. They come in big sizes and are typically meant for carrying large amounts of water.
What to know before you buy a Yeti tumbler for camping
Material
Yeti tumblers are made from reliable stainless steel that won’t chip, puncture or rust and are machine washable. When you go camping, you need drinkware reliable enough to keep your drink as is. Yeti uses double-wall vacuum sealing to insulate and maintain your drink’s temperature. Tumbler lids are made with BPA-free plastic and many of them are designed to be leak-free.
Beverage
Deciding on the right tumbler for you may depend on what you like to drink. Yeti tumblers can maintain hot or cold drinks, however, some mugs are not meant for carbonated beverages. You may want multiple beverages and therefore need multiple tumblers. If this is the case you can have a coffee mug, a water jug and a tumbler for tea, apple cider or other assorted camping drinks.
Camping grounds
If you’re glamping (glamorous camping), you can bring any drinkware that sparks your fancy. These trips are meant to bring the comforts of home into nature. However, if you are camping-camping, you may want something more durable. Tumblers can come with or without extra firm grip handles.
What to look for in a quality Yeti tumbler for camping
Leakage
Yeti is a strong, durable brand that should keep your drink inside the container. Stronghold lids that twist on and off further prevent any leaks from happening when your drink is moved or tilted. Many of its products are leakproof as long as they are closed properly.
Washable
You can wash any Yeti tumbler by hand or simply throw it in the dishwasher. It’s designed to wash out easily without leaving behind any lingering smells from previous drinks. If you are using a dishwasher, remove the lid from the tumbler before putting it in.
Easy to hold and use
Tumblers are convenient to hold and carry about as you set up camp. For some, this requires a handle. Others may not want one because handles can sometimes prevent tumblers from sitting correctly in every cup holder. Yeti tumblers have lids designed for the specific drink container they go with and cannot be switched out for other styles.
How much you can expect to spend on a Yeti tumbler for camping
Yeti brand tumblers cost anywhere from $30-$45 depending on the size you buy.
Yeti tumbler for camping FAQ
What are the best tumblers to keep things hot?
A. Mugs are the best type of tumblers for hot drinks. They give the feel of a traditional hot tea or coffee mug which are designed this way to keep your hands safe from the heat.
Which tumbler stays cold the longest?
A. All Yeti tumblers can keep drinks cold for anywhere from six hours to a couple of days depending on the outside temperature. They have amazing insulation that keeps your drink cold whether you have ice in it or not.
What’s the best Yeti tumbler for camping to buy?
Top Yeti Tumbler for camping
Yeti Rambler 20-Ounce Travel Mug
What you need to know: This tumbler is great for any beverage throughout your camping trip and it has a handle.
What you’ll love: The vacuum-sealed container lid keeps your drink from spilling or leaking in unstable terrain. Twist it on to seal and off to remove and clean. This mug with a firm grip handle comes in 13 colors, including seafoam green and alpine yellow.
What you should consider: This is an expensive tumbler and is only compatible with its stronghold lid.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Yeti Tumbler for camping for the money
What you need to know: This is a compact-size rambler mug to keep your drinks at temperature for hours.
What you’ll love: This mug comes in 23 colors, including copper and stainless steel, to give your mug a more authentic feel. They are machine washable and coated in Duracoat which prevents sweat or slips.
What you should consider: This is a smaller size container with a lid and the size may be awkward for standard cup holders.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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What you need to know: This is a classically styled tumbler to keep drinks cold or hot for hours.
What you’ll love: It is a stainless steel container that fits in any standard cup holder and comes in 35 colors. The lid is leakproof and made of BPA-free plastic.
What you should consider: This option does not have a handle
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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School syllabus to include India’s military valour of past 75 years
The Minister of Higher Education spoke at an event organised to felicitate 25 winners of the “Veer Gatha” contest of the Ministry of Defence
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In order to inculcate patriotism among students from an early age, the government will develop a syllabus which will include the country’s military valour in the past 75 years since Independence, Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan said on Friday.
“In order to inculcate love towards the country, and the feeling of sacrifice, the Defence Forces must develop a repository on the wars since Independence, and we will share this through a website with all the students. In the days to come this will not just be an extra-curricular activity, but will be part of a course. The work is on a new syllabus under the New Education Policy, and I urge the Defence Minister to guide us. I take up the responsibility to introduce our military valour in the past 75 years in school syllabus,” Mr. Pradhan said at an event.
“Today when we are bringing the Agneepath scheme and envisioning agniveer, at such a time the new generation [should know] about the past 75 years during which we haven’t lost a single war barring one, which was a conspiracy of China,” the Minister added.
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The Minister was speaking at an event organised to felicitate 25 winners of the “Veer Gatha” contest of the Ministry of Defence. It included essay, poem and drawing competitions on the sacrifices of the Armed Forces.
Elevating status of competition
The Minister said that he will bring a scheme to “elevate” the status of the competition by ensuring that its winners earn credits in their school syllabus. This will be done to “permanently institutionalise” the competition programme, he said
The Defence Ministry announced the competition to motivate students to do projects based on gallantry award winners. The contest was held between October 21 and November 20, 2021. As many as 5000 schools and 8 lakh students participated in it and a total of 25 students were selected as winners.
The Education Minister said that the competition would be taken to all schools to ensure participation of 1 crore students.
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DMYTRIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — One of the last working dairy farms on Ukrainian-controlled territory in the eastern Donbas region is doing everything it can to stay afloat in a place where neither workers nor animals are safe from Russia’s devastating war.
Only around 200 head of cattle remain of the nearly 1,300 kept at the farm before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. The 8,000-acre (3,200-hectare) farm, set amid rolling hills in embattled Donetsk province, is producing two tons of milk a day compared to 11 tons daily before the war, its managers say.
While a significant proportion of the KramAgroSvit farm’s revenues also once came from cultivating wheat, continuing that work comes with risks. As a farm employee harvested wheat with a grain combine on Sunday, the machine hit two land mines, resulting in a fire that burned more than 60% of the worker’s body.
The worker survived, but is in critical condition as doctors tend to an infection.
An inspection by an emergency services team found 19 additional mines in the field, said Ihor Kriuchenko, the farm’s senior livestock technician, adding that going out to harvest now is “very dangerous due to the shelling and mines.” Farmhands drive combines around visible artillery fragments to avoid them.
Such realities of war have created a cascading series of complications that coalesced to drive the farm’s business down dramatically. In the nearby city of Kramatorsk, the provisional capital of Donetsk province, Russia’s attacks and a lack of gas for heating and cooking have caused most residents to evacuate, creating less demand for dairy products and, consequently, falling profits.
Business also took a hit as Russian forces captured several other cities where the farm had distributed its milk and those markets disappeared behind the front line.
Such conditions — disrupted demand and supply chains along with danger from shelling and mines — have made the prospect of farming in eastern Ukraine fraught with risks that threaten the future of the KramAgroSvit farm, which has been in business since 2003.
“This farm was hit (by a rocket), and 38 cows were killed, plus some of our farming equipment and vehicles were destroyed. Investors decided it was too risky to keep so many cows here, so they were sold abroad,” Kriuchenko said.
The farm’s owner had all the pigs and rabbits once raised there slaughtered and sold amid the uncertainty, he said.
Anna Lavrenyuk, general director of Ukraine’s Association of Milk Producers, said at the end of June that Ukrainian dairy farms lost at least 50,000 head of cattle worth an estimated $136 million during the first three months of the war.
Approximately 800 industrial dairy farms lost assets that included animals, barns, farming equipment and animal feed, Lavrenyuk said, while milk yields in front-line and Russian-occupied territories dropped by more than half since the war began.
Ukrainian milk production was likely to fall to 2 million tons for the year, down by 750,000 tons since 2021, she said.
Only around a third of the KramAgroSvit farm’s previous staff of 63 employees remains, Kriuchenko said, and revenues have dropped six-fold since Russian forces launched their offensive to seize the Donbas, an industrial region made up of Donetsk and neighboring Luhansk province.
One such worker, Nataliia Onatska, lined up around 50 cows side by side on Wednesday and attached vacuum pumps to their udders in one of the farm’s long, musty milking hangars.
She’s spent her entire life on a farm and calls her job “the point of my life.”
“I wish everything was like it was before and everyone had kept their jobs,” Onatska said. “It’s scary to live now. I’m just living from day to day.”
The farm now feeds its wheat to the cows as grain prices have fallen and logistics costs have spiked, Kriuchenko said. The crop wasn’t profitable on the market because of a Russian naval blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports that a U.N.-brokered agreement is only now slowly remedying.
But of all the myriad challenges facing the farm, he said, the most difficult part has been saying goodbye to colleagues who had invested so much in its success. Amid the cutbacks, he said, he had to fire his wife.
“It was very hard and sad to let all our staff go. Our team was brought together from nothing, and there was great teamwork, everything was good,” he said. “It was a shock for me to say goodbye to them.”
As Halyna Borysenko, another worker in the dairy, finished milking the cows for the day, she said she pitied them for also having to live through the war.
“The animals are acting differently. They’re scared just like we are,” she said. “They just can’t say it out loud.”
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(NEXSTAR) – The Department of Transportation has proposed a new package of rules that would make it easier for Americans to get their money back when things go wrong in air travel.
DOT says it has received “a flood” of complaints from travelers who have had their plans disrupted by COVID-19 and pandemic-related fallout, and lost money due to non-refundable ticket purchases.
The new rule would give people the right to a cash refund – not a voucher – “if airlines cancel or significantly change their flights.”
“Significant changes” is defined by the DOT as:
- Anything that affects departure or arrival times by three hours (or more) on domestic flights and six hours (or more) on international flights
- A change to which airport your flight departs from or arrives at
- A change to the number of connections in your itinerary
- If your aircraft type changes and “it causes a significant downgrade in the air travel experience or amenities available onboard the flight”
Under the new rule, you’ll also be eligible for a voucher if you cancel your flight for pandemic-related reasons. Those reasons can include:
- New government travel restrictions
- Closed borders
- Situations in which passengers are advised not to travel for their health or the health of others
These vouchers should not have an expiration date, the DOT says.
“When Americans buy an airline ticket, they should get to their destination safely, reliably, and affordably,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in the DOT announcement. “This new proposed rule would protect the rights of travelers and help ensure they get the timely refunds they deserve from the airlines.”
The rule, proposed on August 3, is open for public comment for 90 days. After the public comment period ends, the proposal may be modified before the final rule is adopted and take effect.
Lawmakers also introduced a bill Monday that would codify the proposed DOT rule. The Cash Refunds for Flight Cancellations Act goes even further than the DOT proposal by giving travelers the option to get a cash refund as long as they cancel their flight 48 hours before departure, the Hill reported. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/consumer/new-dot-rule-could-make-air-travel-less-hellish-how-it-could-help-you/ | 2022-08-12T17:17:21Z | https://www.wjhl.com/news/consumer/new-dot-rule-could-make-air-travel-less-hellish-how-it-could-help-you/ | true |
Chicken Galore: Hundreds queue for Orkney cruise liner food
By Huw Williams
BBC Scotland reporter
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Hundreds of people have queued on a Kirkwall industrial estate to collect an estimated 13 tonnes of frozen food donated by a visiting cruise liner.
The giveaway included chicken, chips, mini ice-cream cones, and vegetables.
Some dubbed the operation Chicken Galore, a reference to the 1949 Ealing comedy Whisky Galore which tells the story of islanders rescuing bottles of alcohol from a sunken ship.
But this was artichoke hearts and asparagus spears instead of whisky.
Someone in the queue of up to 500 people said: "If it had been whisky, I'd have been at the front of the queue."
The transatlantic liner had been forced to spend an extra night in Orkney because of bad weather in the Faroe Islands, which meant many guests took the chance to eat in Kirkwall restaurants instead of on the ship.
The number of sailing days had to be cut further which also left unwanted food.
The distribution was organised by local charity Greener Orkney.
The charity said it wanted to get the message across about not wasting food, and finding uses for surplus food, so it did not just get dumped.
However, it has never had to deal with so much at once before.
As the pallets were unwrapped, volunteers got their first sense of exactly what they had been given.
"We've got some blackcurrants, and some apricots", one tells me. "There are tonnes of chickpeas, but what's underneath is still a mystery."
One Greener Orkney member walks down the queue, asking if anyone is interested in a box of frozen spinach.
And there are boxes and boxes of chicken necks - "great for making soup", one woman explains.
Charlie Millar from Orkney Harbours said the food would all have gone to landfill, if the people of Kirkwall had not been able to take it which he said was "terrible, in this day and age."
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Ex-police officer gets 7-plus years in prison in Jan. 6 case
An off-duty Virginia police officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan, 6, 2021, with a fellow officer was sentenced Thursday to more than seven years in prison, matching the longest prison sentence so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases.
Former Rocky Mount Police Sgt. Thomas Robertson declined to address the court before U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper sentenced him to seven years and three months in prison. Cooper also sentenced Robertson to three years of supervised release after his prison term.
Federal prosecutors had recommended an eight-year prison sentence for Robertson. His sentence equals that of Guy Reffitt, a Texas man who attacked the Capitol while armed with a holstered handgun.
Robertson gets credit for the 13 months he has already spent in custody. Robertson has been jailed since Cooper ruled last year that he violated the terms of his pretrial release by possessing firearms.
The judge said he was troubled by Robertson's conduct since his arrest - not only his stockpiling of guns but also his words advocating for violence. After Jan. 6, Robertson told a friend that he was prepared to fight and die in a civil war and he clung to baseless conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump, the judge noted.
Sentencing guidelines calculated by Cooper recommended a prison term ranging from seven years and three months to nine years.
“It's a long time because it reflects the seriousness of the offenses that you were convicted of,” the judge said.
In April, a jury convicted Robertson of attacking the Capitol to obstruct Congress from certifying Joe Biden's 2020 presidential victory. Jurors found Robertson guilty of all six counts in his indictment, including charges that he interfered with police officers at the Capitol and that he entered a restricted area with a dangerous weapon, a large wooden stick.
Robertson's lawyers said the Army veteran was using the stick to help him walk because he has a limp from getting shot in the right thigh while working as a private contractor for the Defense Department in Afghanistan in 2011.
The judge said he agreed with jurors that Robertson went to the Capitol to interfere with the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6. Robertson was an “active and willing participant,” not “some bystander” who got swept up in the crowd, Cooper said.
Robertson traveled to Washington on that morning with another off-duty Rocky Mount police officer, Jacob Fracker, and a third man, a neighbor who wasn't charged in the case.
Fracker was scheduled to be tried alongside Robertson before he pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in March and agreed to cooperate with federal authorities. Cooper is scheduled to sentence Fracker next Tuesday.
Prosecutors have asked Cooper to spare Fracker from a prison term and sentence him to six months of probation along with a period of home detention or “community confinement.” They said Fracker's “fulsome” cooperation and trial testimony was crucial in securing convictions against Robertson.
Robertson's lawyer, Mark Rollins, sought a prison sentence below two years and three months. He questioned the fairness of the wide gap in sentences that prosecutors recommended for Robertson and Fracker given their similar conduct.
Robertson served his country and community with distinction, his lawyer told the judge.
“His life already is in shambles,” Rollins said.
Robertson and Fracker were among several current or former law enforcement officers who joined in the riot. Prosecutors say Robertson used his law enforcement and military training to block police officers who were trying to hold off the advancing mob.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Aloi said Robertson was prepared for violence when he went to the Capitol and did a “victory lap” inside the building, where he posed for a selfie with Fracker.
“The defendant is, by all accounts, proud of his conduct on Jan. 6,” she said.
Jurors saw some of Robertson's posts on social media before and after the riot. In a Facebook post on Nov. 7, 2020, Robertson said “being disenfranchised by fraud is my hard line.”
“I've spent most of my adult life fighting a counter insurgency. (I'm) about to become part of one, and a very effective one,” he wrote.
In a letter addressed to the judge, Robertson said he took full responsibility for his actions on Jan. 6 and “any poor decisions I made.” He blamed the vitriolic content of his social media posts on a mix of stress, alcohol abuse and “submersion in deep `rabbit holes' of election conspiracy theory.”
“I sat around at night drinking too much and reacting to articles and sites given to me by Facebook” algorithms, he wrote.
The town fired Robertson and Fracker after the riot. Rocky Mount is about 25 miles (40 kilometres) south of Roanoke, Virginia, and has about 5,000 residents.
Roughly 850 people have been charged with federal crimes for their conduct on Jan. 6. More than 350 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanor offenses, and more than 230 have been sentenced so far.
Robertson's jury trial was the second for a Capitol riot case; Reffitt's was the first. Jurors have unanimously convicted seven Capitol rioters of all charges in their respective indictments.
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Attorneys elevated to partner in firm's Dallas, Frisco offices
DALLAS, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Family Law firm Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson, LLP (ONDA) is proud to announce that attorneys John Kappel and David Findley have been promoted to partner.
"John and David are both Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, an achievement that fewer than 900 attorneys in Texas can claim," said ONDA managing partner Scott Downing. "They have demonstrated a commitment to their practice and to the clients they serve, and we are proud to welcome them as partners."
Mr. Kappel, who joined the firm's Dallas office in 2019, handles international child custody cases and appellate matters in addition to his work in estate planning and probate disputes. He has received recognition from peers with honors in D Magazine's Best Lawyers Under 40. Mr. Kappel earned his law degree from SMU Dedman School of Law and his undergraduate degree from Baylor University.
Mr. Findley has represented the firm's Family Law clients in the Frisco office since his arrival in 2020. His expertise includes issues surrounding divorce, child custody and property division, as well as probate disputes. He earned his law degree from Baylor Law School and his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University.
"John and David are two great examples of the caliber of Family Lawyer at our firm," said Jeff Anderson, senior partner in ONDA's Frisco office. "We take pride in elevating our attorneys and encouraging their professional growth."
Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson has served families for almost 30 years. With offices in Dallas, Frisco, Fort Worth and San Antonio, ONDA is one of Texas' largest Family Law firms. Each partner is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, as well as a member of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a reusable and biodegradable bandage option that can be used to comfortably cover cuts or other wounds," said an inventor, from Olympia, Wash., "so I invented the TEARLESS. My design could help to reduce the impact of disposable bandages on landfills."
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BAGHDAD — Supporters of Iran-backed Shiite groups rallied in Baghdad on Friday to denounce their rivals, followers of an influential Shiite cleric who stormed the parliament last month and have since been holding a sit-in outside the assembly building in the Iraqi capital.
Al-Sadr has also been a harsh critic of widespread corruption in the oil-rich country torn by decades of violence, with a crumbing infrastructure, an impoverished majority and lack of basic services.
During their rally Friday, the protesters from the Coordination Framework, an alliance of Iran-backed parties, did not try to enter Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraq’s parliament, government buildings and foreign embassies — and where al-Sadr’s followers are camped out. Ahead of their gathering, authorities had closed off the road leading into the Green Zone with giant cement blocks.
The counter-protest came after al-Sadr issued a deadline on Wednesday to the judiciary, giving it a week to dissolve the legislature. Al-Sadr, whose camp won most votes in last year’s parliamentary elections last October, has not been able to form a majority government and after eight months of stalemate and jockeying with rival, Iran-backed Shiite factions, he abandoned those attempts.
Members of al-Sadr’s parliamentary bloc resigned but instead of allowing his rivals — the Coordination Framework — to try and form a government, al-Sadr has demanded the parliament be dissolved and that early elections are held. It’s unclear whether he has any legal basis for those demands.
The inter-Shiite power struggle has left Iraq in political limbo and exacerbated the economic crisis. The impasse, now in its tenth month, is the longest in the country since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion reset the political order.
“We are protesting against the occupation of parliament and those who threaten the judiciary,” said university student, Abbas Salem, who was part of the rally Friday by Iran-backed groups.
Salem carried a poster of a top Iranian general, Qassim Soleimani, and a top Iraqi Shiite militia leader, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in a U.S. drone strike in January 2020. He said he worries that if al-Sadr forms a government, he will disband the Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella of mostly Iran-backed Shiite militias.
Another protester, Ahmad al-Maliki, 52, said they are opposed to al-Sadr followers’ “occupation of parliament” and added that Iraq needs a new government as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, al-Sadr’s supporters in Baghdad and most Iraqi Shiite-dominated provinces — except for the Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala — held their own rallies and preformed Friday prayers outdoors in a show of strength. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rival-iraq-protests-underscore-inter-shiite-power-struggle/2022/08/12/ba954494-1a5a-11ed-b998-b2ab68f58468_story.html | 2022-08-12T17:31:11Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rival-iraq-protests-underscore-inter-shiite-power-struggle/2022/08/12/ba954494-1a5a-11ed-b998-b2ab68f58468_story.html | true |
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STL Fringe Fest returns to stages across St. Louis, brings local and national artists together to celebrate independent art. | https://news.stlpublicradio.org/tags/stl-fringe-fest | 2022-08-12T17:31:50Z | https://news.stlpublicradio.org/tags/stl-fringe-fest | false |
Rail passengers will face more disruption on Saturday (August 13) due to strikes by train drivers. More industrial action is planned in the coming weeks amid the worsening disputes over jobs, pay and conditions.
Members of Aslef at nine train companies will walk out for 24 hours, crippling large parts of the network, with some parts of the country having no services. Football fans, tourists and holidaymakers will be among tens of thousands of passengers affected by the strikes.
Aslef will mount picket lines outside railway stations, with officials saying they expect continuing support from the public despite the impact of the action. Mick Whelan, Aslef’s general secretary, told the PA news agency that the train companies were unable to offer a pay rise without the permission of the Department for Transport, but the government was insisting it had nothing to do with them.
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He warned that if there is no breakthrough to the long-running row soon, more strikes are likely to be called. Aslef said that drivers on strike on Saturday have not had a pay increase for three years.
The union is also balloting drivers at Chiltern Railways, Northern Trains and TransPennine Express for strikes, with the results due later this month. Steve Montgomery, chairman of the Rail Delivery Group, said: “The Aslef leadership has for the second time in as many weeks decided to impose yet more uncertainty for passengers and businesses by disrupting passengers’ weekend plans.
“My open invitation for talks with Aslef stands. The railway is too important to this country to allow decline but, with passenger numbers still 20% below pre-pandemic levels, securing a bright future means we have to adapt to attract more people back.
“We call on Aslef to come to the table, so we can fund the pay rise we want to give our people while delivering the improvements in Sunday services and greater punctuality our passengers deserve.
“While we will do all that we can to minimise disruption and to get people where they need to be, if you are going to travel on the routes affected, please plan ahead and check the latest travel advice and be aware that services may start later the morning after strikes.”
The strikes on Saturday will hit the following services:
- Avanti West Coast
- CrossCountry
- Greater Anglia
- Great Western Railway
- Hull Trains
- LNER
- London Overground
- Southeastern
- West Midlands Trains
Members of the RMT and TSSA unions will strike on Thursday August 18 and Saturday August 20 while industrial action will be taken on Friday August 19 by London Underground and London bus drivers. Meanwhile, a row continued to rage over cuts to Sunday services on Avanti West Coast, which the company and Transport Secretary Grant Shapps blamed on unofficial action by Aslef, which the union strongly denied.
A Department for Transport spokesperson said of timetable changes announced by the company: “People deserve certainty and confidence that their train will run on time, and while this move was unavoidable, it should minimise the fallout for passengers. This is a prime example of why we need to modernise our railways, so that passengers benefit from reliable timetables which don’t rely on the good will of drivers volunteering to work overtime in the first place.”
The Department for Transport said it was “entirely false” to claim the government was blocking negotiations. We have said from the outset we urge the unions and industry to agree a deal that is fair for railway staff, passengers and taxpayers.”
The department pointed out that £16 billion was spent to keep the railway running during the height of the pandemic, adding that without that support there was a risk companies would have collapsed, and thousands of jobs could have been lost.
Rail workers have seen above average pay increases over the past decade, with their wages increasing by around 25% from £35,000 in 2011 to £44,000 in 2021, said the department, adding that rail staff pay increases must be “fair and in line with the wider public sector.”
Read next: | https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/more-rail-strikes-planned-saturday-24745050 | 2022-08-12T17:34:55Z | https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/more-rail-strikes-planned-saturday-24745050 | true |
Multiple VERIFY readers reached out to ask about suspicious grant offers they got from people claiming to represent the federal government on Facebook.
One person asked about a “Trust Community Foundation” that offered as much as $100,000 in grant money available with “essentially no strings attached.”
Another reader was messaged by someone on Facebook about an apparent government organization called “American Development Grant Program” that they said had received $70,000 from. When the reader followed up with the alleged grant organization, they were told they had to pay as much as $1,000 for processing fees before they would be paid.
THE QUESTION
Does the federal government make unsolicited grant offers to people?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, the federal government does not make unsolicited grant offers to people. Unsolicited grant offers appearing to come from the federal government are scams.
WHAT WE FOUND
The federal government will not reach out to people to offer grants they’ve never applied for, and it will not directly contact people to tell them to apply for a grant. These unsolicited grant offers are scams.
There are a number of ways the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Better Business Bureau (BBB) say government grant scammers may target you. Sometimes they use online ads for their fake grants, and sometimes they may contact you directly by calling, texting or emailing you. But the most common way for a government grant scammer to target their victims, according to the AARP, is to use social media.
Through social media, a scammer may impersonate a person you trust by hacking or cloning that person’s account, or they might just pose as a government agent who either messages you directly or advertises their fake grant with a public post. If impersonating someone you trust, they will often tell you a story about how they’ve received and used thousands of dollars from a grant they apparently applied for and were awarded.
Government grant scams often have the same goals as most scams: they want to trick you into giving the scammer money, or trick you into giving the scammer your personal information.
The scammer may claim you have to pay for processing fees before you can claim your grant money, and will often tell you to make the payment through a money order or similar payment method that’s difficult to track. A scammer might just contact you to try to sell you a list of available grants — even though the only official list for federal grants is available for free through grants.gov.
If the scammer has told you that you’re qualified for a grant or told you that you should apply for one, they could be looking to collect your credit card number, banking information or Social Security number through their “application.” They could drain money from your banking accounts without your knowledge or commit identity theft with this information.
Regardless of the scammer’s end goal, they never have any intention of sending the victim the grant money they were supposedly awarded.
Luckily, once you know what to look out for, it’s easy to spot a government grant scam. Grants.gov has a page that lists the major red flags that a grant offer isn’t legit.
A government agent shouldn’t ever directly contact you to tell you about a grant you haven’t applied for. The government doesn’t notify individuals that they may qualify for a grant and they should apply for one, and it doesn’t directly reach out to people to tell them they’re being awarded for a grant they’ve never applied for.
You shouldn’t need to pay a fee to receive grant money. The federal government will never require grant recipients pay money to receive their grant. While some grants require you to include financial information in your application, you will only ever have to submit that while using a government website with a .gov URL.
There is no such thing as a federal grant that doesn’t require an application. If someone tells you that you can claim a grant without ever applying for it, then it’s a scam. All federal grants first require you fill out an application before you can be awarded them, and there are no federal grants awarded based on a raffle, drawing or lottery.
You shouldn’t be able to apply for a federal grant anywhere except for a .gov website. If someone claiming to represent the government tells you to fill out your application for a grant over social media, text message, email or phone call, that’s a scam. Government websites are the only places you can apply for federal grants.
Any government agency or department offering a grant should be real. Many government grant scams pose as fake government agencies, departments or programs with names that sound like they could be legitimate. Check online to see if you can find any information about the agency or department offering you the grant; if you can’t find anything, that’s a major red flag.
A federal grant should be awarded for use in a specific way. Federal grants are usually awarded for specific programs, research or projects, and are never awarded so that you can use the money however you want. While there might be programs to help you pay off bills or start a business, there are no government grants designed for that purpose.
“If it sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is,” the AARP says of government grant scams. | https://www.kare11.com/article/news/verify/scams-verify/unprompted-grant-offers-scams-not-federal-government/536-584eb76c-51e4-4599-8bc8-1b6dbc728300 | 2022-08-12T17:38:27Z | https://www.kare11.com/article/news/verify/scams-verify/unprompted-grant-offers-scams-not-federal-government/536-584eb76c-51e4-4599-8bc8-1b6dbc728300 | true |
Lots of time for this to happen for real – when did Gretusky play last? And when are teams coming around after the Olympic period for him? If only O-Z and G got it to happen… G could get that 25 mil that he crappy contract has left him… That seems just crazious for someone with the least amount possible miles as per the average player at present!!!… The Kings really don have very many prospect/N.N and draft TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Following a staff shake-up at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, state officials announced two new appointments, Friday.
The governor's office said Derek Miller would be moving from legislative affairs director at the Department of Elder Affairs to take the same position at FDLE.
Matt Walsh will also be transitioning from special agent in charge at the Jacksonville Regional Operations Center to assistant commissioner over public safety services at FDLE.
FDLE Acting Commissioner Mark Glass cheered Walsh's appointment in a note to staff. He called the new assistant commissioner someone who has "faithfully served with FDLE for nearly 20 years, with a law enforcement career spanning more than 25."
"From his early days as a special agent investigating organized crime, homicide and public integrity cases in the Sebring Field Office and FMROC to his role as an SAS over the Major Case Squad and Organized Crime Squad in JROC to his tenure as ASAC and SAC of JROC more recently, AC Walsh has proven himself to be a dedicated public servant and inspiring leader who brings out the best in his people," Glass said.
The appointments come days after Glass asked for the resignation of two high-ranking FDLE officials.
A spokesman with the department announced the departure of Chief of Staff Ron Draa and Assistant Commissioner Michelle Pyle on Wednesday.
“Acting Commissioner Glass appreciates their leadership and service to FDLE and the citizens of Florida," FDLE Director of Communication Gretl Plessinger said in a statement. "He believes a new leadership team is best suited to lead FDLE at this time."
Plessinger didn't offer further details on the resignations but said the last day in the office for both was Aug. 10, with an effective date of Nov. 3.
Gov. Ron DeSantis' Deputy Press Secretary Bryan Griffin also said the changes came after Glass felt a "new direction" was needed at FDLE. He said it was a decision made within the department and that the governor was not involved.
Glass was appointed by DeSantis in May following the retirement of previous Commissioner Rick Swearingen. | https://www.wptv.com/news/state/2-florida-department-of-law-enforcement-appointments-announced-after-staff-shake-up | 2022-08-12T17:39:26Z | https://www.wptv.com/news/state/2-florida-department-of-law-enforcement-appointments-announced-after-staff-shake-up | true |
Exasperated Justin Thomas reveals he 'had to go to the bar to get a drink' to avoid discussing LIV Golf at a wedding as US PGA winner tells Saudi rebels to eat 'their large amount of cake on your own means' and not on the PGA Tour
- Justin Thomas claimed the lawsuit filed by LIV Golf rebels feels 'personal'
- Three players were denied a temporary restraining order to play in the playoffs
- The US PGA champion said he would 'prefer not talking about' the breakaway
- He claimed he had to hit the bar after being asked about LIV Golf at a wedding
Justin Thomas is becoming increasingly fed up with golf's rebel tour and the battle it has dragged the PGA Tour into as he revealed he had to hit the bar when asked about LIV Golf by a fan.
The ongoing civil war between the Saudi-backed breakaway and the Tour penned its latest chapter this week after Talor Gooch, Matt Jones and Hudson Swafford were denied a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Tuesday to be able to play in the FedEx playoffs this week.
The news has loomed over the tournament in Memphis, Tennessee with players being asked about LIV Golf and its defectors in the build up to the first of the three playoff events, which began Thursday.
Justin Thomas is becoming increasingly fed up with LIV Golf as he slammed the Saudi rebels
At the St Jude Championship this week, Thomas admitted the saga feels personal as he slammed the defectors, insisting they did not 'have to have their cake and eat it too'.
In a press conference, he said: 'It was personal to me from the beginning but I would just say it's getting more and more in-depth. It's like I said from the start, those guys were given an opportunity to go play and just go play.
'You can have your cake but you don't need to eat it too and they got their fair share of a large, large amount of cake. Go eat it on your own means, you don't need to bring in on to our tour.'
Talor Gooch (right), Matt Jones and Hudson Swafford (left) were denied a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Tuesday to be able to play in the FedEx playoffs beginning this week
Last week, 11 LIV players, including Thomas's former Ryder Cup teammates Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau, filed an antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour.
It appears the situation is beginning to wear on the PGA Championship winner as he revealed that he resorted to taking a detour to the bar when asked about LIV Golf during a friend's wedding.
'A couple of weeks ago, I had some really close friends getting married,' he said. 'I was at the wedding and the reception and I was on the way to the bathroom and got stopped by someone, got talking, he said he was a fan.
'And then, bam, next thing you know he starts asking me questions about that (LIV Golf) and my detour, instead of going to the restroom, went straight to the bar to get a drink because I'm like, "I am not in the mood for this right now."
The US PGA champion revealed he hit the bar after being questioned about LIV at a wedding
Phil Mickelson led a group of 11 LIV players who filed an antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour
'So, it's just little stuff like that, you know, where you would just prefer not talking about it.'
The American star has previously spoken out against the defectors and joined Rory McIlroy in welcoming the PGA Tour's suspension of the rebels following the inaugural LIV Golf event in June.
Any player to leave the PGA Tour for LIV Golf has been banned by the organization and commissioner Jay Monahan's stance received the support of Thomas and four-time major winner Rory McIlroy.
Thomas and Rory McIlroy (left) supported the PGA Tour's decision to suspended LIV players
'I'm pleased,' Thomas added. 'I think anybody that's shocked clearly hasn't been listening to the message that Jay and everybody's been putting out. They took that risk going into it, whether they thought it was a risk or not.
'Like I've said the whole time, I have great belief and great confidence in the PGA Tour and where we're going and continuing to grow to, and those guys just aren't going to be a part of it.'
While the Northern Irishman insisted Monahan was simply 'going by the book' and had 'done the right thing'. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/golf/article-11106371/LIV-Golf-Justin-Thomas-bar-drink-avoid-rebel-tour-talk.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-12T17:39:41Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/golf/article-11106371/LIV-Golf-Justin-Thomas-bar-drink-avoid-rebel-tour-talk.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
BERLIN (AP) — Former German leader Gerhard Schroeder is suing to restore the perks he enjoyed as ex-chancellor after he was stripped of them by parliament following criticism over his ties with Russia.
Schroeder, who was chancellor from 1998 to 2005, has long had a close relationship with Russian energy companies and President Vladimir Putin. Those links came under heightened scrutiny following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly six months ago.
German news agency dpa quoted Schroeder’s lawyer, Michael Nagel, saying Friday that his client had filed a suit with Berlin’s administrative court to restore the necessary funding he previously received for his office and staff.
The Bundestag had changed the rules in May to link some privileges former chancellors receive to their actual duties. In their decision, lawmakers didn’t explicitly state Schroeder’s ties to Russia. But Nagel told dpa that the reasons for the change were obvious and wouldn’t withstand legal challenge.
Earlier this week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party rejected a bid to expel Schroeder, who had refused to distance himself from Putin and recently met with the Russian leader on a visit to Moscow in late July. | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/german-ex-leader-schroeder-sues-to-restore-official-perks/ | 2022-08-12T17:39:52Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/german-ex-leader-schroeder-sues-to-restore-official-perks/ | true |
N.B. RCMP investigating tree-cutting that led to power outage in Moncton
The New Brunswick RCMP is investigating after a tree was cut down, leading to a significant power outage in the province this week.
NB Power learned of the outage, which affected nearly 50,000 customers in the Moncton area, around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday.
Police say the source of the outage was traced to a tree that had fallen on a transmission line in Moncton, near the intersection of McLaughlin Drive and Highway 2.
When NB Power crews arrived on scene, they discovered that the tree had been cut down.
The utility reported the incident to the RCMP Thursday morning.
Police are trying to determine who cut the tree down and why. They are looking to speak to anyone who may have noticed suspicious activity, or who has video footage or images from the area, between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Wednesday,
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Codiac Regional RCMP.
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Scientists are keeping an eye on the Langya virus, a new pathogen that appears to have been transmitted from animals to humans in China and causes symptoms similar to COVID-19 or the flu. | https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/n-b-rcmp-investigating-tree-cutting-that-led-to-power-outage-in-moncton-1.6024882 | 2022-08-12T17:40:30Z | https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/n-b-rcmp-investigating-tree-cutting-that-led-to-power-outage-in-moncton-1.6024882 | true |
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An American tourist died in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, three days after he was shot during a confrontation between local drug dealers and vigilantes.
The U.S Consulate in Rio and hospital Samaritano Botafogo confirmed Trey Barber’s death in separate statements. The consulate did not offer more details due to family privacy issues.
Barber was initially identified by police and the hospital as 28-year-old Joseph Trey Thomas. He was shot in the neck in an apartment in Northern Rio.
Police said Barber was visiting a friend when he was shot. Brazilian media reported he was in Rio on vacation since July and taught Portuguese language classes in Los Angeles.
Local police also found another dead man after the same shootout.
According to Instituto Fogo Cruzado, which counts shootings in several Brazilian cities, 116 people were shot in Rio’s metropolitan area in 2021. Twenty four of them died. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/american-tourist-dies-in-rio-after-being-hit-by-stray-bullet/ | 2022-08-12T17:40:40Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/american-tourist-dies-in-rio-after-being-hit-by-stray-bullet/ | true |
BBMP to conduct survey to identify new potholes created after recent rains
Of 17,585 potholes identified from May to July, 16,739 have been repaired, says BBMP
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Complaints of the poor condition of the city’s roads have been pouring in from citizens, prompting the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to start a survey to identify fresh potholes created after recent rains in Bengaluru.
In Bengaluru, 17,585 potholes have been identified from May to July. Of these, 16,739 potholes have been repaired by the palike said Prahalad, Chief Engineer (Road and Infrastructure), BBMP. “There are 856 potholes to be filled. After the rain in the last few days, new potholes have been created in various parts of the city. We will conduct another fresh survey to identify the potholes and fill it up.”
He also said that the civic body has decided to fix potholes on roads with cold mix asphalt since preparing hot mix is not possible now due to the rainy weather.
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“Scientifically, during rains, fixing potholes using hot mix is not possible since it requires jelly and asphalt which are mixed and heated to 150 degrees Celsius and maintained at 100 degrees Celsius. Cold mix asphalt is easy to prepare, but does not last long. However, it is widely used during the rainy season,” another BBMP official said.
Earlier, during the various civic agency coordination meetings, Tushar Giri Nath, Chief Civic Commissioner, had directed the BBMP Road Department officials to use this solution.
The civic body had conducted a survey before and marked the potholes identified on the Fix My Street app developed by BBMP to identify potholes. Now, officials will take the help of the app again wherein zonal level civic officials will map the potholes under their jurisdiction on the app along with photographs of the potholes.
“The BBMP officials concerned have to inspect the roads, take photographs, measure the potholes and then upload it on the app,” an official explained.
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Nagesh denies disrespecting national flag
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Minister for Primary and Secondary Education B.C. Nagesh on Friday denied showing disrespect to the national flag.
Fielding reporters queries on the complaint lodged against him by the Youth Congress in Tiptur, Mr. Nagesh said he was holding the national flag and the photographs and videos appearing in the mainstream media would hold a mirror to the truth.
He accused the Congress of using a distorted photograph to lodge a complaint against him. “What I was holding was the national flag. I don’t know what was behind me,” he said. He also claimed that the Congress leaders did not even know the colours of the national flag properly.
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Reacting to former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s question over the BJP’s contribution to the country’s independence, Mr. Nagesh said the Congress that participated in the freedom movement was different from the present-day Congress. Though Mahatma Gandhi had said that the Congress be dissolved after the country’s independence, a few people retained the party for their selfish and political purposes.
While leaders of the pre-Independence Congress went to jail for the sake of the country’s freedom, no leader of the present-day Congress had either participated in the freedom struggle or sent to jail. “The present-day Congress leaders had gone to jail for different reasons that I don’t want to spell out,” he said.
He also claimed that several BJP leaders had been jailed when “freedom” was snatched from the people of the country during the Emergency.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a better way for people with hand deformities to wear latex gloves without the hassle of excess or empty material," said an inventor, from St. Louis, Mo., "so I invented UNIVERSAL LATEX GLOVES. My design would allow everyone to protect their hands from disease-causing germs, regardless of their hand shape."
The patent-pending invention provides latex glove options for people with hand deformities. In doing so, it ensures that the gloves offer a proper and comfortable fit. As a result, it provides added protection and peace of mind and it eliminates the need to wear standard gloves that may be awkward and ineffective. The invention features a user-friendly design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for individuals with missing fingers, shorter fingers, partial fingers, club hands and amputations. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Kansas City sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CWC-145, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Attorneys elevated to partner in firm's Dallas, Frisco offices
DALLAS, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Family Law firm Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson, LLP (ONDA) is proud to announce that attorneys John Kappel and David Findley have been promoted to partner.
"John and David are both Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, an achievement that fewer than 900 attorneys in Texas can claim," said ONDA managing partner Scott Downing. "They have demonstrated a commitment to their practice and to the clients they serve, and we are proud to welcome them as partners."
Mr. Kappel, who joined the firm's Dallas office in 2019, handles international child custody cases and appellate matters in addition to his work in estate planning and probate disputes. He has received recognition from peers with honors in D Magazine's Best Lawyers Under 40. Mr. Kappel earned his law degree from SMU Dedman School of Law and his undergraduate degree from Baylor University.
Mr. Findley has represented the firm's Family Law clients in the Frisco office since his arrival in 2020. His expertise includes issues surrounding divorce, child custody and property division, as well as probate disputes. He earned his law degree from Baylor Law School and his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University.
"John and David are two great examples of the caliber of Family Lawyer at our firm," said Jeff Anderson, senior partner in ONDA's Frisco office. "We take pride in elevating our attorneys and encouraging their professional growth."
Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson has served families for almost 30 years. With offices in Dallas, Frisco, Fort Worth and San Antonio, ONDA is one of Texas' largest Family Law firms. Each partner is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, as well as a member of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Anne Heche sustained a catastrophic brain injury in the fiery Mar Vista crash last week and is not expected to survive, her representative said in a statement.
“Unfortunately, due to her accident, Anne Heche suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and remains in a coma, in critical condition. She is not expected to survive,” the statement read.
Heche is “being kept on life support to determine if any [of her organs] are viable” for donation, the statement added.
“Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit. More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love. She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light,” the spokesperson added.
Earlier on Thursday, the Los Angeles Police Department announced Heche was being investigated for felony driving under the influence.
The crash was originally investigated as a misdemeanor, but the case was updated to a felony after a victim came forward, Officer Annie Hernandez told KTLA.
Law enforcement sources told TMZ that Heche was under the influence of cocaine and possibly fentanyl.
The crash occurred on Aug. 5 when witnesses saw Heche’s car speeding through city streets before crashing in a two-story house and starting a fire.
Heche had to be extricated from the wreckage. It took firefighters more than an hour to extinguish the fire, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Sky5 video showed Heche’s blue Mini Cooper Clubman being towed out of the home, with a woman sitting up on a stretcher and struggling as firefighters put her in an ambulance.
Heche is being treated at Grossman Burn Center in West Hills, CNN reported, and in the spokesperson’s statement, they extended thanks to “the dedicated staff and wonderful nurses that cared for Anne,” as well as “everyone for their kind wishes and prayers for Anne’s recovery.”
The LAPD confirmed they took a blood sample from Heche as part of a standard investigation but did not reveal what was found in her system.
Authorities say the investigation is ongoing and evidence, including final toxicology results, is still being gathered.
They intend to eventually present the case to either the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office or the county district attorney, LAPD officials said in a news release Tuesday. | https://pix11.com/entertainment/anne-heche-not-expected-to-survive-after-fiery-crash-spokesperson-says/ | 2022-08-12T17:47:03Z | https://pix11.com/entertainment/anne-heche-not-expected-to-survive-after-fiery-crash-spokesperson-says/ | false |
Attorneys elevated to partner in firm's Dallas, Frisco offices
DALLAS, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Family Law firm Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson, LLP (ONDA) is proud to announce that attorneys John Kappel and David Findley have been promoted to partner.
"John and David are both Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, an achievement that fewer than 900 attorneys in Texas can claim," said ONDA managing partner Scott Downing. "They have demonstrated a commitment to their practice and to the clients they serve, and we are proud to welcome them as partners."
Mr. Kappel, who joined the firm's Dallas office in 2019, handles international child custody cases and appellate matters in addition to his work in estate planning and probate disputes. He has received recognition from peers with honors in D Magazine's Best Lawyers Under 40. Mr. Kappel earned his law degree from SMU Dedman School of Law and his undergraduate degree from Baylor University.
Mr. Findley has represented the firm's Family Law clients in the Frisco office since his arrival in 2020. His expertise includes issues surrounding divorce, child custody and property division, as well as probate disputes. He earned his law degree from Baylor Law School and his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University.
"John and David are two great examples of the caliber of Family Lawyer at our firm," said Jeff Anderson, senior partner in ONDA's Frisco office. "We take pride in elevating our attorneys and encouraging their professional growth."
Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson has served families for almost 30 years. With offices in Dallas, Frisco, Fort Worth and San Antonio, ONDA is one of Texas' largest Family Law firms. Each partner is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, as well as a member of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists.
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Woman alleges San Francisco firefighter injected her with sedative at abortion protest
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman is suing the San Francisco Fire Department claiming a firefighter injected her with a sedative against her will while she was protesting abortion rights at a Warriors game this summer.
Kareim McKnight, who is being represented by well-known civil rights attorney John Burris, filed the federal lawsuit against San Francisco, as well as its police and fire departments on Tuesday, demanding damages for being assaulted and given a drug called Versed – which is a benzodiazepine and can cause drowsiness and relieve anxiety -- without her consent.
San Francisco police and the San Francisco Fire Department referred all comment Wednesday to the city attorney's office. City Attorney David Chiu told KTVU he could not comment because the city had not yet been served.
According to the suit, McKnight and her friend, Amanda Piasecki, were at the Warriors playoff game at Chase Center on June 13 against the Boston Celtics.
Both women were also protesting the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade inside the stadium. They carried a banner that read: "Overturn Roe? Hell no!"
As they reached the main floor, the suit states they were met by Allied Universal Security guards who dragged them out of the arena into the stadium garage.
An activist group called Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights Bay Area provided some video of the women being pulled out by their feet by men in suits, which the Burris law firm posted on YouTube.
McKnight then said a security guard put a knee on her back before she was handcuffed. She continued to chant pro-abortion slogans.
"At this time, a San Francisco police officer threatened Ms. McKnight that she would be injected with a sedative if she did not comply," the suit states. "Ms. McKnight strongly refused to be injected with a sedative."
Then, without her consent, a San Francisco fire employee injected McKnight "with a sedative/hypnotic agent against her will while she lay strapped to a gurney," the suit states.
McKnight told Burris she knows what drug she was given because she looked at her medical records. There is also no video that was provided of McKnight being sedated.
The venue is private and the protest came during basketball season's most-watched event. Still, McKnight never threatened anyone or became violent, her legal team said.
The Burris firm also posted video from inside the ambulance, which appears as though McKnight took herself. She is alert and speaking coherently throughout.
"I'm worried about whatever drug they gave me," McKnight is heard saying. "And if it's going to affect me."
A man inside the ambulance notes that she didn't have any kind of reaction.
"If I would have had a reaction then f--- me?" she said. "You just give people drugs and you don't know if they're going to be allergic? It was completely unnecessary to do that. The only person who has been violently attacked in here is me…and you injected me."
She goes on: "And I have to ask? Is this something you would just reserve for Black people? How often do you do this to protesters? Have you ever done this to a protester?"
The employees in the ambulance say something that sounds like "stop talking" to McKnight.
She was taken to Kaiser Hospital, where she was released shortly afterward.
McKnight also took about a 10-minute video of herself from inside the ambulance, talking into her phone about the horrors of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. | https://www.fox13news.com/news/woman-alleges-san-francisco-firefighter-injected-her-with-sedative-at-abortion-protest | 2022-08-12T17:49:46Z | https://www.fox13news.com/news/woman-alleges-san-francisco-firefighter-injected-her-with-sedative-at-abortion-protest | true |
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A new San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology exhibit at Port San Antonio will give visitors a virtual ride in electric-powered aircraft, a tour of 3-D printed moon habitats and a chance to learn what makes a self-driving vehicle go.
Sounds like fun, but David Monroe, founder and CEO of the museum, says the exhibit has a serious goal: introducing schoolchildren and adults to STEM-based education to foster interest in jobs in cybersecurity, aerospace, lunar architecture, robotics and bioscience work in San Antonio.
“We’re trying to inspire children at an early age to join the fascination of science and technology,” he said during a sneak peek tour of the 20,000-square-foot exhibit this week. “Right now, there’s a lot of open tech jobs, so if children and young adults develop interests in those areas they have a lot of opportunity to land those high-paying jobs and make real significant contributions.”
Called Area 21, the free exhibit is set to open to the public Monday at Tech Port Center + Arena. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Thursday afternoon, as crews were putting final touches on the space, Monroe stopped to look over a mini-city built of Lego components.
The display created by SAMSAT interns includes mockups of buildings, homes, streets — even an airport. The interns collaborated with Port-based CACI International Inc., which provides cybersecurity services for defense agencies, to integrate the sort of systems that control electric grids and water and sewage plants in cities across the U.S.
“This is a cyber city,” Monroe said. “This is a teaching tool to teach children how infrastructure operates and how these controls can be protected.” He stopped to reflect on the city and other displays, and added: “This room is not just a museum. It’s a workplace. It’s a learning place.”
Drawing power
For the past five years, the Port has invited San Antonians fascinated by the early days of computing, camera phones and cybersecurity hardware to explore the main museum in the former Kelly Air Force Base chapel.
It, too, is an effort to foster interest in STEM programs and cultivate the next generation of talent for companies at the Port. Since opening that modest facility in 2017, an annual average of 20,000 students from across San Antonio have visited to take part in hands-on learning experiences.
During that time, companies on the Port campus have created more than 5,000 jobs “in the very sectors that are being showcased at SAMSAT and around which some terrific learning experiences are being built,” Port President and CEO Jim Perschbach said in a statement. “There are some significant opportunities ahead to keep growing these leading-edge industries right here in San Antonio as our innovations are being used around the world.”
The “key to this success and to future growth” relies in part on raising awareness of innovations that already exist in the community while delivering the tools for young people to learn the technology and science skills to find work in the future, he said.
Port officials say the new space will draw more than 100,000 K-12 students every year. They’d come to see revolving exhibits and take part in a host of STEM programs coordinated with area school districts, as well as summer camps and internship and volunteer opportunities.
Port San Antonio’s sprawling 1,900-acre campus is home to about 80 companies employing nearly 16,000 people, mostly in technology. It’s also home to the Air Force Medical Operations Agency, and adjacent to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, where the Air Force Civil Engineering Center and the 16th Air Force, known as Air Forces Cyber, are located.
Tech Port
In April, the Port opened its $70 million Tech Port. Since then, it has announce the launches of an e-sports gaming center and an office for Capital Factory, the Austin-based accelerator working to connect local startups with Defense Department contracts.
The SAMSAT exhibit is the last big component to open at the new center.
The Port had contributed “hundreds of thousands of dollars” over the years to support SAMSAT and its program development, including its first cybersecurity simulator and the addition of a large training center to support K-12 and workforce training, Monroe said.
Now, the Area 21 space is offered at no cost to SAMSAT.
The Port’s board of directors has has directed all profits from Tech Port, including net proceeds from concerts, conferences and industry events, to the Kelly Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit established to fund STEM and workforce development programs.
On Thursday, Monroe stepped past cables and crews using forklifts to move items around the space, including the Motoman EA 1400, a welding robot — one of the first industrial robots deployed in San Antonio.
He greeted Sam Ximenes, founder and chief executive of space architecture firm Exploration Architecture, or XArc, as well as a space construction company called Astroport. The San Antonio native is also founder and board chair of the WEX Foundation, an entity focused on space education for middle and high schoolers.
Ximenes has worked with researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio and garnered funding from NASA to study how to melt moon rocks to help humans build lunar outposts. One idea involves melting moon dust, or regolith, to create bricks.
Thursday, he was wrapping up the setup for his exhibit which features a prototype of the 3-D printing technology he hopes will one day make bricks on the moon. There, moon dust would be its raw material. Here, the printer will use basalt found in the Knippa Quarry off Texas 90 between Sabinal and Uvalde to show visitors what habitats on the moon could look like. He hopes it will inspire students to enter the field of space engineering.
“We’re trying to make San Antonio known as a space community, specifically with a niche in space construction,” he said. “When the kids come through here, they’ll see this is actually happening in San Antonio. They can be part of the space program. They don’t have to go anywhere else.”
Also in the exhibit is one of Southwest Research Institute’s autonomous vehicle prototypes.
In 2006, the local nonprofit research and development organization began its Mobile Autonomous Robotics Technology Initiative to build combat military ground vehicles, passenger cars, commercial trucks, industrial tractors and mobile robots. Two years later, SwRI demonstrated its first automated vehicle, known as MARTI, in New York City as part of the ITS World Congress, a global event focused on transportation technologies.
SwRI recently donated MARTI to Area 21.
“We love it when we can find San Antonio history,” Monroe said. “San Antonio has a huge legacy of technology innovation but it’s a well-kept secret. We want to change that and help San Antonio get its place on the map.”
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Which picket fence is best?
The right picket fence can add a personal touch to your front or backyard while deterring unwanted animals such as dogs or even deer from entering. It can also keep pets and young children inside the yard, protecting them from potential dangers on the road. These small fences come in many colors, shapes, sizes and styles, making them both functional and aesthetic. The best prebuilt picket fence is the WamBam Fence No-Dig Permanent Nantucket Vinyl Picket Fence Panel because it’s easy to install, has a classic design and offers many practical benefits.
What to know before you buy a picket fence
Intended purpose
Picket fences can be used for many purposes, including:
- Keep people or dogs from entering your yard uninvited
- Discourage deer from getting to your garden
- Obstruct the view of your front or back yard for added privacy
- Prevent dogs from escaping the yard, especially if you have an invisible fence, too
- Discourage children from leaving the property unattended
- Add to the overall decor or highlight specific sections of the property
- Establish property lines for yourself, neighbors or service people
- Serve as a place for climbing plants to grow and flourish
When choosing one, consider your main goal or goals first. Taller fences with thicker pickets or pickets that are placed close together are generally ideal for security or privacy purposes. Those that have sharp tips can also help keep intruders out.
Coverage and measurements
Although there are some design variations, picket fences all follow a similar setup, which is:
- Pickets: The pickets are the vertical structures that make up the majority of the fence. Between every picket is a gap that varies in spacing. This gap is also present between the posts and the pickets. A larger gap means fewer pickets.
- Posts: These are inserted into the ground and add to the fence’s stability. The post height affects how deep you can dig into the ground for positioning purposes. Some areas have local building codes with rules on this, so check those before getting a fence.
- Rails: These run horizontally across each picket to connect them and add stability to the entire structure. They also connect to the posts.
When adding any kind of fence to your yard, measure and plan out the area you want to be contained first. That way, you can get an idea of how large of a fence you need and get an estimate of the project’s cost. There are some online calculators you can use to figure out the size and number of posts and pickets you need.
Rules and considerations
If you’re part of a Homeowners Association, there are certain rules you must follow. In some neighborhoods, this includes restrictions on the exterior of your home and the structures you install, including fences. Make sure the fence you want corresponds to the Association’s rules, especially regarding the height, size and overall aesthetic.
Before putting up a fence, it’s also important to know the exact location of your property line. If you install a fence in a neighbor’s yard by mistake, you could be required to remove it. Consider hiring a licensed surveyor to figure out where the property lines are.
What to look for in a quality picket fence
Style and design
Most picket fences follow the same kind of general design. There are a few different styles and themes, though, which can change the overall look of your front or backyard. These include:
- Simple and classic spear style where the pickets have a single triangular point at the top and feature straight lines all the way down.
- Functional spear style which looks similar but has points designed to also help shed excess water.
As for the pickets, here are some common styles:
- Pointed top
- Rounded sections
- Geometric shapes
- Distinct or uniform patterns
The posts of the fence can also be decorative. Some are sharper at the top, while others are flat and more decorative. A few are rounded or have an aesthetic piece at the top.
Some fences incorporate latticework or have irregular heights throughout to catch the eye. Many are rectangular, but some are designed with an arc-like shape.
Material
The primary materials used in a picket fence help determine how durable it is and how much maintenance is needed. Maintenance includes repainting, cleaning and fixing loose pickets. Common materials include:
- Metal: Many fences incorporate metal, such as steel and lightweight aluminum, into their design. Metal is durable and unlikely to fall over, crack or break. Certain metals, such as galvanized steel, are also less prone to corrosion or rust.
- Wood: Traditional picket fences consisted of wood, such as cedar, pine or spruce. The main advantage of wood is that it’s easy to paint. Some wood types, including cedar, are also resistant to warping or water damage.
- Vinyl or polyvinyl chloride: Highly durable and low-maintenance, this is a great option for those who want something that lasts. This material can stand up against harsh environmental conditions, though it doesn’t always handle direct sunlight well.
- Composite: Composite consists of wood, plastic and other materials to create a durable fence. These fences are generally weather-resistant and lightweight. They’re also more budget-friendly than solid wood or certain metals.
Assembly
When it comes to purchasing and assembly, here are the main options:
- Prefabricated fences: These come already assembled and are easy to install. They do not require specific measurements. Design options are sometimes limited.
- Ready-to-assemble fences: With these, you get all the necessary pickets, posts and rails. You simply need to assemble them.
- Do-it-yourself fences: These are ideal for those who want a more custom option, but they do require some know-how and patience.
Alternatively, you can opt for a professional to help you assemble and install your fence.
How much you can expect to spend on a picket fence
The cost depends on the materials, the size and whether you plan to install it yourself or with a professional. Smaller fences cost around $50, while larger ones cost about $140. Larger projects with a professional installation service range from around $200-$1,000 or so.
Picket fence FAQ
Can I design my own fence?
A. Yes, but it requires specific materials and tools. For example, you might need something to cut the wood into the desired shape and size. You also need safety equipment, measuring tape, a post level, stakes and gravel or dirt to position the fence upright. Some places, such as Home Depot, can help you create a fence and install it for you. Alternatively, you can get a contractor to help build it.
What are some alternatives to a picket fence?
A. If you’re looking for privacy and decor, plant some large bushes, hedges or trees to help conceal your yard. Brushwood and bamboo are also good options. Alternatively, put up a stone wall for added security and separation from the neighbors, sidewalk or road.
What’s the best picket fence to buy?
Top picket fence
WamBam Fence No-Dig Permanent Nantucket Vinyl Picket Fence Panel
What you need to know: This vinyl picket fence is easy to assemble and has a classic design.
What you’ll love: Weather-resistant and durable, this fence comes with either pointed or flat top pickets. It’s professional-grade and doesn’t require much work to put it together. All that’s needed is a hammer to drive the posts into the ground. It comes with 13 pickets and is 72 inches wide by 48 inches tall.
What you should consider: It’s not very tall.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot and Wayfair
Top picket fence for the money
Zippity Outdoor Products Permanent All American Vinyl Picket Fence Panel Kit
What you need to know: This affordable picket fence kit does not require digging, making it easy to install.
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Jaclyn Hill is mourning the devastating loss of her ex-husband, Jon Hill.
The 32-year-old shared the tragic news of the musician's passing in a statement Aug. 11. "It is with profound remorse and sorrow that we must report that our beloved Andrew Jonathan Hill passed away on August 10, 2022," the statement shared to Instagram Stories read. "We are all devastated by the sudden tragedy. The Hill family requests privacy during this overtly difficult time."
Before posting the sad announcement, Jaclyn explained that she shared the statement with her fans on behalf of Jon's family. He was 33 years old.
In May 2018, the makeup mogul announced her and Jon's decision to divorce after nearly nine years of marriage.
"Although this has been one of the hardest decisions of our lives, I know it's what is best for both of us," she said in a statement shared to Instagram at the time. "I will always have love for him, and I am so grateful for all the good times we shared together. My heart is broken by this, but I still believe in love and believe everyone has a chance for a happy ending."
Jon reflected on their relationship and subsequent split in a 2019 interview with Billboard. In his interview, Jon also opened up about his past struggles with addiction and the impact it had on their marriage, sharing that the breakup came as a "shock."
"We were married for nine years," he told the publication. "For some reason, I was thinking about how amazing it would be to enjoy Christmas with her while being clean. She often said, 'You don't love me because you never want to do things with me.' But it was because I kept having to hide [my addiction] from her all the time."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Trillions of insects migrate across the globe each year, yet little is known about their journeys. So to look for clues, scientists in Germany took to the skies, placing tiny trackers on the backs of giant moths and following them by plane.
To the researchers’ surprise, the moths seemed to have a strong sense of where they were going. Even when the winds changed, the insects stayed on a straight course, the scientists reported in a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
Their flight paths suggest these death’s-head hawk moths have some complex navigation skills, the authors said, challenging earlier ideas that insects are just wanderers.
“For many, many years, it was thought that insect migration was mostly just dictated by winds, and they were blowing around,” said lead author Myles Menz, now a zoologist at James Cook University in Australia.
It’s been tough for scientists to get a close look at how insects travel, in part because of their small size, Menz said. The kinds of radio tags used to follow birds can be too heavy for smaller fliers.
But transmitters have gotten tinier. And it helps that the death’s-head hawk moth is huge compared to other insects, with a wingspan up to 5 inches (127 millimeters).
The iconic species — dark colored with yellow underwings and skull-like markings — was able to fly well with the tiny tracker glued to its back, said Martin Wikelski, a study co-author and migration researcher at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior.
The moths are thought to migrate thousands of miles between Europe and Africa in the autumn, flying by night.
For the study, researchers released tagged moths in Germany in the hopes they’d start flying on their migration path toward the Alps.
Wikelski, the study’s pilot, took off in his plane, circling the area and waiting for any moths on the move. If he did pick up a signal from a tiny traveler, he would follow its radio blips for hours at a time.
“The little moth is guiding you,” he said.
The researchers followed the flight paths of 14 moths, with their longest track around 56 miles (90 kilometers).
Not only did the moths fly in straight lines, but they also seemed to work around wind conditions, Menz said, flying low to the ground when the winds were against them, or rising up to catch a helpful tail wind.
Though the number of moths tracked was fairly small, getting any close-up look at insect migration is significant, said Ryan Norris, an insect and bird migration researcher at the University of Guelph in Canada, who was not involved in the study.
“I was surprised at how far they could track them,” Norris said. “And it certainly is surprising that individual moths stay on this straight trajectory.”
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After pleading guilty in April to charges of money laundering and wire fraud, 66-year-old Debra Gean Roeber of Butte was sentenced on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 to one year and a day in prison, according to U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich.
Court documents say Roeber was appointed as guardian and conservator for the victim, identified as Jane Doe, who was unable to care for herself or her financial needs without assistance because she was blind.
Prosecutors alleged that from roughly January 2017 until June 2020, Roeber stole $661,549 from Jane Doe and used the money for, among other things, construction projects on lake property at Canyon Ferry, vehicles, furniture, a pontoon boat, and cash.
None of the expenditures was authorized, and Roeber allegedly admitted to investigators that she lied “a lot” to Doe, who is now deceased.
“Motivated purely by greed, Roeber defrauded the victim and betrayed her trust. This was a truly reprehensible crime aggravated by the fact that the victim was blind,” said Special Agent in Charge Dennis Rice of the Salt Lake City FBI. “Our elderly citizens should be valued, not victimized. The FBI and our law enforcement partners will hold accountable those who prey on society’s vulnerable populations.”
U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen presided and additionally ordered Roeber to pa $661,549.00 in restitution and serve three years of supervised release after her prison term.
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A Southeast Texas family game show will return for a 10th anniversary reboot special featuring two local non-profits.
Family Knows Best will return for a one-time, one-hour special featuring the Christus Southeast Texas Foundation and the Alzheimer's Association Houston and Southeast Texas Chapter at noon Aug. 20. The special will air on Fox 4.
According to a Joshua Productions news release, the special will give the two non-profits the "opportunity to compete in a memorable hourlong episode in order to bring awareness to their missions."
Family Knows Best is a game show featuring two family teams who compete in mental and physical games. The games are designed to only be completed when the family works together and depend on each other.
"Family Knows Best premiered in October 2012, and ran for two successful seasons in the Beaumont, TX market before being taken on the road to area schools as part of drug free programs and family fun nights from 2014-2015," the news release states. "The show received both local and national attention for its community-centered fun and unique opportunity for Southeast Texans."
The 10th anniversary special was produced in Family Knows Best's original studio at Lamar University by Joshua Productions.
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UNION COUNTY, N.C. — A North Carolina child is back home safe, thanks to the keen nose of a four-legged officer named Maverick.
On its Facebook page, the Union County Sheriff's Office said deputies were called to a residence earlier this month regarding a missing child.
While at the residence, the missing child's family gave deputies a blanket for Maverick, a white English Labrador, to use as a scent article, the department said.
The department said Maverick and his handler, Deputy Dye, immediately began tracking to find the missing child, which led them along a busy highway.
Shortly thereafter, the department said the child was found unharmed and returned safely back home to its family.
“We are proud of K9 Maverick and Deputy J. Dye for their hard work and dedication and consider them to be a huge asset for Union County," Sgt. Presson said in the Facebook post.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning film producer and industry thought leader Evan Shapiro will keynote the 2022 NAB Show New York opening event on Wednesday, October 19 at 10:30 a.m. at the Javits Center. In his keynote address titled, "Bringing Media Into the Current Century, Now," Shapiro's notoriously interactive presentation will engage NAB Show New York attendees in examining the shifts occurring in today's media landscape.
Shapiro's address will take place in the Content Theater located on the show floor following welcome remarks by National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) President and CEO Curtis LeGeyt.
Evan Shapiro is an Emmy and Peabody Award winning producer of film, TV and podcasts. He is a professor of Media Studies at New York University and Fordham University schools of business and co-hosts a podcast called Cancel Culture. Many in media know him as the official, unofficial cartographer of the media universe. Using his specific point of view, Shapiro has mapped the tech and entertainment ecosystem, and through his essays, helps chart media's future. Shapiro uses these insights to power his change agency, ESHAP, which offers partners and consumers media insight as a service.
"With an impressive resume of award-winning projects, unique insight into the competition for audience's attention and influential thinking about the future of the business, Evan Shapiro is a sought-after voice for preparing media professionals for the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow," said Chris Brown, NAB executive vice president and managing director, Global Connections and Events. "We are excited to have Evan share his perspective with our community as we kick off the return to an in-person NAB Show New York."
Shapiro will also participate in an exclusive interview on NAB Amplify as a preview to his NAB Show New York keynote address.
Press registration for NAB Show New York is available here.
Produced by the National Association of Broadcasters and co-located with the AES New York 2022 Convention, NAB Show New York will be held October 17-20, 2022 (exhibits October 19-20) at the Javits Center. Located in the media capital of the world, NAB Show New York offers hands-on learning, discovery and insights into the technology and business strategies that are transforming media and entertainment. Through exhibits, conferences and networking events, NAB Show New York spotlights the products, practices and leaders promoting superior audio and video experiences. Learn more at www.nabshowny.com.
The National Association of Broadcasters is the premier advocacy association for America's broadcasters. NAB advances radio and television interests in legislative, regulatory and public affairs. Through advocacy, education and innovation, NAB enables broadcasters to best serve their communities, strengthen their businesses and seize new opportunities in the digital age. Learn more at www.nab.org.
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A young Mainer has been infected with the monkeypox virus.
It’s the first time a case has been reported in a Mainer under age 18 since the global outbreak began in the spring, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Maine CDC said Friday it will not be releasing further information about the case, citing patient privacy. The agency is working to identify close contacts and anyone who may have been exposed.
To date, there have been at least three confirmed cases of the virus in Maine: two in Aroostook County and one in York County, according to state data. The first case was reported in July.
Maine has received enough doses of the monkeypox vaccine Jynneos for 311 people. The vaccine will be made available to any close contacts.
The Maine CDC advised anyone who believes they have been exposed or have developed unexplained lesions to contact their doctor for evaluation, testing, and referral for vaccination.
Monkeypox is a rare disease in the same family of viruses that includes smallpox. The virus is transmitted by close contact with a symptomatic patient, including physical, skin-to-skin contact, such as sex, according to the Maine CDC.
Symptoms include rashes, sores and a flu-like illness. Monkeypox can be painful and disfiguring, with serious cases requiring hospitalization. But it is rarely fatal, according to the Maine CDC.
Mainers can protect themselves against infection by avoiding close contact with anyone who appears to have monkeypox-like rash; sharing food, utensils and cups used by an infected patient; handling bedding, towels and clothing used by someone who has been infected; and to wash their hands often with warm water and soap or using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
The virus has been present in New England since at least May 18, when the first case was confirmed in Massachusetts. The virus was confirmed to be in New Hampshire late June.
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Thanks to a genetic defect, one lucky lobster has been spared the boiling pot.
A father and son fishing off Peaks Island in Casco Bay on Thursday morning hauled in a rare blue lobster, according to the Portland Press Herald.
That bright blue crustacean was an immediate head-turner when the duo brought it to a dealer at the Custom House Wharf in Portland, the Press Herald reported.
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Rather than becoming a meal, the lobster will be fed a diet of fish before eventually moving into its new home in a tank at Becky’s Diner on Commercial Street, where they hope the lobster will entertain diners, according to the newspaper.
The blue color is caused by a genetic defect, and occurs only once in every 2 million lobsters.
As unusual a sight as it is, blue lobsters are far from the most rare variety lurking off the coast. Calico lobsters occur about once in every 30 million lobsters, half red lobsters occur only once in every 50 million and, perhaps the most rare, ghost lobsters occur only once in every 100 million. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/08/12/news/portland/blue-lobster-beckys-diner/ | 2022-08-12T18:03:10Z | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/08/12/news/portland/blue-lobster-beckys-diner/ | false |
JACKSONVILLE — It didn't take long for Jacksonville State's season to go down hill last year. It can be traced back to the opening game, when safety Jeremiah Harris suffered an elbow injury.
JSU lost to UAB 31-0, and Harris — called the quarterback of the defense by then-coach John Grass — was out for the year.
Harris is back this year, and even with a new coaching staff in place at Jacksonville State, he's just as valuable. He's a sixth-year senior, getting to play an extra season because of the NCAA's blanket waiver for athletes whose seasons were affected by the pandemic in 2020.
"With his experience, when we lost him last year, he was one of the pieces we didn't want to lose on the back end," said JSU safeties coach Kelvin Sigler, who also was on the staff a year ago.
"He's coming back stronger, better than last year. He's stronger, faster. His football IQ is real high. He does a great job of leading the young guys and getting the older guys ready to go."
As one of the older guys on the JSU defense, he's working to be a leader. He'll lead by example, as he did in the preseason's first scrimmage last week when he ran down receiver Sterling Galban, who appeared headed for a long catch-and-run for a touchdown. Harris dove and managed to grab Galban's foot, tripping him up and preventing a score.
But, he's also trying to lead with his words, too, as observers at practice can see readily. He isn't shy about talking and doing his best to keep everyone focused.
"I'm just trying to lead the guys, communicate with them, talk to them on the field, push them," he said.
Sigler said Harris wasn't always so vocal.
"We've talked to him about, and Coach (Rich Rodriguez) has talked with him, too — just him being a leader, going into his senior year and the experience he's had on the field," Sigler said. "He wasn't as vocal when he was younger. He kind of let his play lead by example. He's been talking more to the younger guys and taking them under his wing."
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Ask a room full of parents how many would like to help their children be better readers, and every hand goes up.
Ask the same group how many are already overwhelmed with all they’re trying to manage in their busy lives, and most of the same hands go up again.
When time is short and the stakes are high, are there easy things parents can do to help?
I recently interviewed Dr. Danny Brassell, who is known as “America’s Leading Reading Ambassador.” In this article, you’ll learn three practical strategies for improving reading achievement at home and gain access to other resources.
20 minutes a day
According to Brassell, research shows that students performing in the bottom 20 percent spent less than a minute a day outside of school reading. Average students spent 9.6 minutes a day outside of school reading for fun. The top students, those in the upper 10 percent, spent just over 20 minutes a day outside of school reading for fun. Just 20 minutes made the difference.
Could you find 20 minutes a day in your household?
Brassell goes on to say that those minutes don’t need to be consecutive. Furthermore, being read aloud to also counts.
Said Brassell: “If you have a 10-minute commute back and forth to school with your kid, put in an audio book. You just covered your 20 minutes.”
Turn on closed captioning
Parents often complain about not having reading material in the home.
Brassell offers an easy solution: “President Bush Sr., over 30 years ago signed a very important law in this country that says every single television set in America has to have closed captioning.”
Brassell pointed out an interesting statistic.
“If you look at reading scores around the world, the more kids watch television, the lower their reading scores are in every single country in the world … except for one,” he said. “The country with the highest reading scores in the world also watches the most television in the world. It’s Finland.”
How could that be?
“Finland makes really bad TV shows,” Brassell said.
To compensate, they import old American shows such as “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Brady Bunch.”
“They have to subtitle all of them,” he said. “The kids are constantly reading the screen.”
Turn on closed captioning. Could that one simple strategy work in your home?
Find their interest
During the interview, Brassell talked about one of the great teachers from his formative years.
“He used the single greatest strategy I’ve ever seen a teacher use to get a person interested in reading,” he said. “He found out what I was interested in.”
Every week, this teacher would come up to Brassell with a book on that subject and suggest it.
It’s a technique Brassell uses.
“By the fourth time I do that with a person, they are going to try to read that book,” he said.
You can watch the entire interview at frankbuck.org/danny-brassell.
In the body of the blog post, you will also see links to free gifts and other resources.
Brassell is on a mission to bring joy back into the classroom. I hope his suggestions also help bring a love of reading into your household.
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ITV has announced that it will broadcast La Liga games in a new three season deal.
It adds to ITV’s growing coverage of football, with the channel showing the 2021 men’s euros with a panel that includes the likes of Sam Matterface, Lee Dixon and more.
One of the best leagues in the world featuring some of the games biggest mega stars such as Karim Benzema and more will be broadcasted on the channel until at least 2025.
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When will coverage begin?
The deal will begin from the upcoming season, and will allow La Liga fans in the UK the chance to view La Liga with Sky Sports slowing down on their coverage of the Spanish top-tier in recent years.
The deal ensures current Champions League holders Real Madrid will be broadcast live, as well and free to air on ITV, ITV 4 and ITV Hub.
Which games will be shown?
The rights allow ITV to broadcast 10 matches per season, and the games shown will strictly involve one of Madrid or Barcelona.
The first game to be shown on ITV will be Real Sociedad v Barcelona on Sunday 21 August with coverage beginning at 8:30pm shortly before the game kicks off at 9pm.
Niall Sloane, ITV Director of Sport said: “This deal ensures free to air coverage for all football fans of one of the most entertaining leagues in the world.
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Veteran, being held captive in Ukraine, able to call mother again
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Alex Drueke, former U.S. soldier being held captive by Russian-backed forces, was able to telephone his mother again and update Lois “Bunny” Drueke and a case manager at the U.S. Department of State on his situation.
Drueke and fellow American Andy Huynh have been declared Prisoners of War by Ukrainian government spokespeople, according to Dianna Shaw, Drueke’s aunt.
“Several things he said seem to indicate they are still in the Donetsk region of Ukraine,” Mrs. Drueke said about Thursday’s phone call. “When he was able to call two weeks ago, he said they had been moved to an actual prison, so we weren’t sure if they had maybe been relocated to Russia. But now I don’t think they have,” she said.
“Alex mentioned the nearby bombing of a water filtration plant that left a lot of Donetsk without running water, so they have been given bottled water the past couple of days,” Mrs. Drueke said.
“He said when he and others are being allowed time outside, they can hear bombing in the distance, but it has ‘never been really close’,” Mrs. Drueke said. “And he asked if the news in America was showing that ‘people are dying here in Donetsk and Donbas’,” she said. “Putting all this together, it sounds to me like they are still in Ukraine.”
The U.S. Department of State has not yet confirmed that Drueke and Huynh remain in the Donetsk region, according to Shaw.
Alex Drueke’s mother learned more about Alex’s and Andy’s conditions during the Thursday conversation. “Alex just sounded stronger and more like himself than ever before,” she said.
“He said he and Andy [Huynh] are still in a cell together with a third American,” Dianna Shaw said. “Alex didn’t give his name, but said he was born in Rwanda and has American citizenship, and that he is also ‘doing fine’,” she said.
“Alex said they keep each other’s spirits up by playing ‘mind games’ and that they had improvised a chess board out of trash,” she said.
Drueke pressed his mother for details about the amount of coverage of the war and of their captivity in the American press. “While it sounds just like Alex to want to know about this, we also assume this is something his captors wanted him to ask because he kept returning to the subject throughout the call,” Ms. Shaw said.
“Alex made a couple of statements that clearly were provided to him and intended to portray Russia as non-aggressors in the conflict,” Ms. Shaw added. The family will not be repeating these to the press. “POWs are often used for propaganda purposes, so we want to remind the public to be skeptical of any statements the men make in Russian-generated media,” she added.
The families of Drueke and Huynh continue to be briefed frequently by government officials and supported by NGOs that serve families of hostages and detainees.
Drueke and Huynh were serving in the Ukrainian Army when the unit they were assigned to came under heavy fire on June 9, 2022. The families first learned the men were missing in action on June 13, and received evidence of their captivity two days later.
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Fagan not happy with AFL taggers on Neale
Brisbane coach Chris Fagan claims star midfielder Lachie Neale is having to fight his way through "rough treatment" from AFL opponents.
One of the competition's premier ball-winners, Neale was held to just 16 disposals by St Kilda tagger Marcus Windhager on Friday night.
The Brownlow medallist appeared frustrated at times and he was involved in several off-the-ball incidents.
The Lions ran out 15-point winners in a boost to their top-four prospects but Fagan wasn't all smiles post-match.
"I thought (Neale) played a really selfless team role tonight and I was really pleased about that," Fagan said.
"It was interesting how he was tagged, I'll just say that, that he was blocked off the ball and various other things during the night.
"I guess that's the way it goes. He gets pretty rough treatment, I reckon."
Fagan hinted he might seek clarification from the AFL umpiring department about some tactics being used against Neale.
"I'd like to have a look at the tape and see what it looks like, and I know it happens a lot, but players shouldn't get blocked from getting to the ball like he does," Fagan said.
"I want all ball players to be looked after, not just the blokes in my team."
While Neale was kept relatively quiet, midfield partner Hugh McCluggage played a crucial role in Brisbane's win at Marvel Stadium.
McCluggage had 23 disposals just hours after driving back to Melbourne from Warrnambool, where he attended his grandmother's funeral on the day of the match.
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VALENCIA, Calif., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cunard today announced updated Covid-19 protocols and guidelines, with adjusted pre-travel testing requirements.
From Tuesday, September 6, 2022 self-testing prior to travel will change from "mandatory" to "highly recommended" for vaccinated guests on the vast majority of voyages.
Only guests sailing on longer, more complex itineraries will be required to have an observed or in person antigen or PCR test with a fit to travel certificate prior to departure. These include a number of sailings of 16 nights or more and other specific voyages.
These new guidelines apply to all Cunard itineraries sailing from Southampton, England, and all other departure points, with the exception of countries where government regulations and protocols may vary including Canada and Australia.
The vaccination policy for Cunard guests remains the same and full details can be found at: Our assurance to you (cunard.com)
"These updated protocols reflect the current environment across the world and while certain key elements have relaxed, our commitment to protect the health and wellbeing of all guests, crew and the communities we visit remains an ongoing and vital consideration," said Matt Gleaves, vice president, Commercial, North America and Australasia. "They also ensure that the ease of cruising remains at the fore and that all guests of all ages can enjoy a voyage with unrivalled dining, relaxation and exploration options and unmatched service levels at extraordinary value for money."
Exact requirements will be communicated to all guests in due course with the latest updates on www.cunard.com from early September.
All the updated guidelines and protocols are subject to local regulations of applicable homeports and destinations.
The company is part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE:CUK).
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Cunard is the operator of luxury cruise ships Queen Mary 2®, Queen Victoria® and Queen Elizabeth®. Renowned for impeccable White Star Service, gourmet dining and world-class entertainment, all three Queens offer luxury accommodations in Britannia, Britannia Club, Princess Grill Suite and Queens Grill Suite staterooms. Cunard is the only line to offer regularly scheduled Transatlantic service between New York and London, and it continues to celebrate the freedom of travel on exciting World Voyage and Grand Voyage itineraries that visit Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Awarded '#1 Mega-Ship Ocean Cruise Line' by Travel + Leisure's 2017 and 2016 World's Best Awards and 'Best World Cruise Itineraries' and 'Best Trans-Atlantic Itineraries' by Porthole Cruise Magazine's 2016 Readers Choice Awards, Cunard is a proud member of World's Leading Cruise Lines, a part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the largest cruise vacation company in the world. Together Cunard, Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, Seabourn, AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, P&O Cruises (Australia) and P&O Cruises (UK) operate 102 ships visiting over 700 ports around the world and totalling 226,000 lower berths.
Queen Elizabeth: Spacious decks offering a true sense of freedom, days filled with possibilities and evenings where the night is always young. Queen Elizabeth's world is vibrant and inviting. Enjoy a round of croquet on her Games Deck, savour a perfectly poured G&T at Gin & Fizz, or swim a few lengths under the open sky in her exquisite Pavilion Pool.
Queen Mary 2: Welcomed wherever she sails, Queen Mary 2's style, elegance, and freedom of space are legendary. Decipher the mysteries of the night sky in her on board planetarium, Illuminations. Test your palate in a guided wine tasting or savour the attentive but imperceptible service of your personal butler in her luxurious Queens Grill Suites.
Queen Victoria: A guest favourite, Queen Victoria's art deco elegance and refined style enchant all who step on board. Toast to new adventures with a champagne cocktail in her Gin & Fizz bar. Bask in the freedom of her light-infused Winter Garden and indulge your senses in the serenity of her Mareel Spa.
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CHICAGO — Despite her age, 19-year-old Emily Wegmann knows a lot about joint pain. At two, she was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. By 10, she was bone-on-bone on her left hip.
"I couldn't even get myself dressed," Wegmann shared. "I couldn't do my hair. I couldn't get myself to walk into school."
Medications and steroids worked for short periods of time, but flare ups held Wegmann back during childhood.
"Seeing my friends go out and me trying to keep up with them was very hard," she recalled.
"Her arthritis was so aggressive that it was actually damaging her acetabulum on her hip socket," explained Dr. Craig J. Della Valle, an orthopedic surgeon, at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush.
She developed an uneven leg length, which caused more pain in her knees, feet, and back. At 14, doctors recommended that Wegmann have a hip replacement and it worked. With new modern materials for hip replacements, her hip can last a really long time.
"It's possible that this could last her longer than 20 years, 30, 40, 50 years and hopefully her lifetime," Valle said.
Five years in, her right hip is still going strong, and she got her left hip replaced the summer before she started her freshman year of college.
"Ever since then, I have been able to live like a normal teenager would," Wegmann said.
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis may not only affect the joints, it can also cause inflammation in the eyes, lungs, heart, liver, and other organs. | https://www.wfmz.com/health/health-beat/health-beat-hip-replacements-for-jra-how-young-is-too-young/article_efc2ed86-1a57-11ed-97a1-fba9f14929a8.html | 2022-08-12T18:19:30Z | https://www.wfmz.com/health/health-beat/health-beat-hip-replacements-for-jra-how-young-is-too-young/article_efc2ed86-1a57-11ed-97a1-fba9f14929a8.html | true |
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to find a way to help lift a car with the assistance of a motorized system," said the inventor from Exeter, Calif. "I thought of this idea to make it easier for individuals to lift a car with minimal manual labor involved."
He invented EASY JACK, patent-pending, to provide a quick and safe means of lifting a flat tire off the ground for replacement with the spare. This device would not require motorists to use a traditional jack and help save time, effort, and an individuals clothes from becoming dirty. It can help simplify the tire changing procedure and provide an added measure of safety for an individual changing a tire. Additionally, this permanent installation would ensure the motorist is never caught with a misplaced jack.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-FMB-130, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Wheaton Precious Metals™ Corp. ("Wheaton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has declared its third quarterly cash dividend payment for 2022 of US$0.15 per common share.
The third quarterly cash dividend for 2022 of US$0.15 will be paid to holders of record of Wheaton common shares as of the close of business on August 26, 2022 and will be distributed on or about September 8, 2022. The ex-dividend trading date is August 25th, 2022.
Under the Company's revised dividend policy, for the 2022 calendar year, the quarterly dividend per common share is targeted to equal the greater of 30% of the average cash generated by operating activities in the previous four quarters divided by the Company's then outstanding common shares, all rounded to the nearest cent and the dividend declared in the prior quarter. To minimize volatility in quarterly dividends, the Company has set a minimum quarterly dividend for the duration of 2022 equal to the dividend per common share declared in the prior quarter.
The declaration, timing, amount and payment of future dividends remain at the discretion of the Board of Directors. This dividend qualifies as an 'eligible dividend' for Canadian income tax purposes.
The Company has previously implemented a Dividend Reinvestment Plan ("DRIP"). Participation in the DRIP is optional. For the purposes of this quarterly dividend, the Company has elected to issue common shares under the DRIP through treasury at a 1% discount to the Average Market Price, as defined in the DRIP. However, the Company may, from time to time, in its discretion, change or eliminate the discount applicable to Treasury Acquisitions, as defined in the DRIP, or direct that such common shares be purchased in Market Acquisitions, as defined in the DRIP, at the prevailing market price, any of which would be publicly announced.
The DRIP and enrollment forms, including direct deposit, are available for download on the Company's website at www.wheatonpm.com, in the 'investors' section under the 'dividends' tab.
Registered shareholders may also enroll in the DRIP online through the plan agent's self-service web portal at: https://tsxtrust.com/DRIP
Beneficial shareholders should contact their financial intermediary to arrange enrollment. All shareholders considering enrollment in the DRIP should carefully review the terms of the DRIP and consult with their advisors as to the implications of enrollment in the DRIP.
This press release is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer of securities. A registration statement relating to the DRIP has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and may be obtained under the Company's profile on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov. A written copy of the prospectus included in the registration statement may be obtained by contacting the Corporate Secretary of the Company at 1021 West Hastings Street, Suite 3500, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6E 0C3.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation concerning the business, operations and financial performance of Wheaton. Forward-looking statements, which are all statements other than statements of historical fact, include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to future dividends. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Wheaton to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements including risks discussed in the section entitled "Description of the Business – Risk Factors" in Wheaton's Annual Information Form available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and Wheaton's Form 40-F for the year ended December 31, 2021 and Form 6-K filed March 31, 2022 both on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on EDGAR. Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions management currently believes to be reasonable, including (without limitation) that there will be no material adverse change in the market price of commodities, that the mining operations from which Wheaton purchases precious metals will continue to operate, that each party will satisfy their obligations in accordance with the precious metals purchase agreements, that neither Wheaton nor the Mining Operations will suffer significant impacts as a result of an epidemic (including the COVID-19 virus pandemic) and that Wheaton's application of the CRA Settlement for years subsequent to 2010 is accurate (including the Company's assessment that there will be no material change in the Company's facts or change in law or jurisprudence for years subsequent to 2010) and possible domestic audits for taxation years subsequent to 2016 and international audits.
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Global stocks rise, U.S. yields fall as inflation slows
By Chibuike Oguh
NEW YORK Aug 12 (Reuters) - Global equity markets rose while U.S. Treasury yields fell on Friday as investors tempered their expectations of the scale of the Federal Reserve's interest rate raising cycle as falling oil prices helped to cool inflation.
Market sentiment has been buoyed by U.S. Labor Department data this week showing a slowdown in consumer and producer prices in July following a series of interest rate hikes by the Fed.
"With inflation now backing off, all the managers who stayed in cash and didn't believe we could move off the June lows are now being forced back into the market," said Thomas Hayes, chairman at Great Hill Capital.
The MSCI world equity index, which tracks shares in 50 countries, was up 0.63%. The pan-European STOXX 600 index gained 0.16%.
U.S. Treasury yields were down as traders weighed a likely moderation of the Fed's monetary policy stance. Benchmark 10-year note yields dipped to 2.8639%, after reaching 2.902% on Thursday, the highest since July 22.
"With inflation coming down, consumer confidence is going to be coming back, and employment is still strong, you could see a situation where the market has stabilized and the economic numbers continue to slow based on the lag effect of the Fed tightening that has already happened," Hayes added.
All three main Wall Street indexes traded higher, led by stocks in technology, healthcare, communication services, consumer discretionary and financials.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.76% to 33,588.53, the S&P 500 gained 1.00% to 4,249.25 and the Nasdaq Composite added 1.32% to 12,948.90.
Oil prices dipped around 2% on expectations that supply disruptions in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico would be short-term, while recession fears clouded the demand outlook.
Brent crude futures were down 1.43% at $$98.16 a barrel while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fell 2.02% to $92.42.
The dollar rallied but was set for a weekly drop as traders weighed the improving U.S. inflation data against comments from Fed officials who cautioned that the battle against rising prices was far from over.
San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly on Thursday said she was open to the possibility of another 75 basis point hike in September.
The dollar index rose 0.561%, while the euro was down 0.61%.
Gold prices advanced, helped by a drop in U.S. Treasury yields, and setting bullion on path for a fourth straight week of gains.
Spot gold added 0.4% to $1,797.30 an ounce, while U.S. gold futures rose 0.1% to $1,808.50.
(Reporting by Chibuike Oguh in New York; Editing by Matthew Lewis and Barbara Lewis) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11106777/Global-stocks-rise-U-S-yields-fall-inflation-slows.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-12T18:22:21Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11106777/Global-stocks-rise-U-S-yields-fall-inflation-slows.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Georgetown Police Department’s Mounted Patrol Unit is running out of money, which could mean the end of this popular program beloved by the community.
“We have had very good feedback from our citizens about this program,” said Chief Michael Bosse of the Georgetown Police Department. “People really like that our city brings the horses to Georgetown events.”
To help fund the training, food and equipment needed for the program, the Friends of the Georgetown Mounted Police, Inc. has created a GoFundMe page. The organization’s goal is to raise $6,000 each year during its annual campaign drive.
The Mounted Patrol program has been part of the department for three years, making appearances at events such as the parade at the annual Festival of the Horse. Three officers are currently trained for the program, which uses horses from and facilities at Sadieville’s Rockbridge Stables.
“Horses are very much a part of our history and our culture in central Kentucky,” said Bosse. “The Georgetown Police Department wants to keep this part of our identity alive and visible to our community.”
The police department’s goal is to expand its current program so appearances by the Mounted Patrol Unit become a fairly regular event, on Main Street and at events like the Scott County Farmers Market.
“Each time we use the horses, we must pay for their use,” said Bosse. “No tax payer money is used, except on duty time for the officers when they train or ride.”
Said Georgetown Mayor Tom Prather: “We are Kentucky’s Horse Headquarters in the midst of Kentucky Horse Country. Nothing embodies this identity more than a mounted police patrol presiding over events like the Festival of the Horse, which is all about celebrating horse heritage in the Bluegrass.”
If you would like to donate to Georgetown Police Department’s Mounted Patrol Unit, visit https://gofund.me/6afc02f9. | https://www.news-graphic.com/news/gpd-mounted-police-create-gofundme-page/article_8187c688-19b3-11ed-b65c-a3596c83c7b6.html | 2022-08-12T18:24:52Z | https://www.news-graphic.com/news/gpd-mounted-police-create-gofundme-page/article_8187c688-19b3-11ed-b65c-a3596c83c7b6.html | true |
Dollar store manager in critical condition after being stabbed by shoplifter, Alabama police say
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA/Gray News) – The manager of a Family Dollar store in Alabama is in critical condition after police say she was stabbed by a shoplifter.
Police said the stabbing happened at the store in Mobile on Thursday afternoon.
A store employee who witnessed the attack told WALA that a woman, identified as Takea Shackleford, was trying to steal bottles of dish detergent when the store manager started watching her. The employee, who did not want to be named, said that’s when Shackleford became aggressive and pulled out a knife.
“She bum-rushed her, and that’s when the lady swung the knife at her, twice, or three times,” the witness said. “She swung the knife at her three times and my manager was trying to fight back, but by that time she had already stabbed her in the neck.”
Police said the manager’s injuries are critical and she remains in the hospital.
As Shackleford was being escorted out of police headquarters, she admitted to WALA on camera that she was shoplifting and that she stabbed the manager. However, she claims the stabbing was in self-defense.
“That lady came at me and I was scared for my life. That’s why I stabbed her,” Shackleford said.
She also admitted that she was trying to steal a bag of Tide pods from the Family Dollar store and admitted she has been “shoplifting for days out of Walmart.”
Shackleford has been charged with attempted murder and first-degree robbery.
According to police, Shackleford faces additional charges connected to an incident at a local Walmart in July. In that case, police said she stole items from the store and hit two people with her car as she escaped. They suffered minor injuries.
Mobile Police Corporal Katrina Frazier is warning retail workers about the dangers of confronting suspected shoplifters.
“If you are working at a store, anywhere where you’re dealing with the general public, and they are attempting to leave that store with items, do not attempt to stop them because you do not know if they are armed with any type of weapon,” Frazier said. “And your life is more important than merchandise.”
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The man sought in connection with a Birmingham arson and murder was nabbed in Oklahama after he tried to rob a woman of her vehicle.
Oklahama court records obtained Friday by AL.com say Youit De Witt Jones, 35, was held down by McDonald’s employees in the restaurant parking lot until police could arrive.
The incident happened in the city of Ardmore which is in Carter County, Okla. That location is about 100 miles south of Oklahoma City.
Jones has not yet been charged with any crime in relation to the Alabama homicide, which was discovered Tuesday morning on Birmingham’s west side. Birmingham police had issued an “urgent” lookout bulletin for Jones and labeled him “armed and dangerous.”
Birmingham homicide detectives have gone to Oklahoma to interview Jones.
The ordeal in Ardmore began at 10:38 p.m. Wednesday at the McDonald’s on Cooper Drive. Police were initially dispatched to a report of a disturbance there and learned while they were en route that a man was being held down in the parking lot by restaurant employees, according to charging documents against Jones in Oklahoma.
The female victim was sitting in a Nissan Altima waiting for her boyfriend to get off work, she told police. Jones approached her car and asked her if he could sit inside the vehicle with her.
The victim told him no because she was waiting for her boyfriend and because she didn’t know him. Jones, the affidavit states, then told her that her boyfriend said he could drive the car.
At that point he tried breaking into the vehicle and opened the car door. He hopped into the front seat with her, where he managed to push the start button and put the car in reverse.
The victim said she was hunched over the steering wheel honking the horn to try to get the attention of McDonald’s workers. One of the employees ran to her aid, at which point Jones was restrained.
Police have charged Jones with second-degree robbery, which is punishable in Oklahoma by up to 10 years in prison. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he has yet had a court appearance in Oklahoma.
On Friday, Jones remained held in the Carter County Jail on $200,000 bond.
Police are questioning Jones about the death of a person found inside a burning abandoned house in Alabama.
Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service responded at 2:45 a.m. Tuesday to the 1300 block of Eufaula Avenue on a report of a house fire. Firefighters arrived on the scene to find the abandoned house in flames.
Once they extinguished the blaze, they found a badly burned body inside. Authorities have not yet identified the victim, and Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates said it could take anywhere between days and months to do so.
Less than one block away, authorities discovered the car of a missing Jefferson County man.
Nathan Gemeinhart, 42, left his southern Jefferson County home about 7:45 a.m. Monday and was going to check on some properties over on the west side of the county. He was supposed to meet his wife at 11:30 a.m. for his daughters’ Meet the Teacher school event, but never showed up.
Gemeinhart’s 2007 Toyota Corolla was spotted on surveillance cameras at 8:40 a.m. Monday on Aaron Aranov Drive in Fairfield. There was phone data at 8:49 a.m. and then nothing after that time.
Investigators said the probe is ongoing, and they are not commenting on any possible link to Gemeinhart’s car being found near the arson/homicide scene.
A GoFundMe for Gemeinhart, which says, “As we prepare to celebrate Nathan’s life,” has raised more than $100,000. The GoFundMe was started by Red Mountain Church where Gemeinhart’s wife, Jessica, is an administrator and director of the children’s ministry.
Gemeinhart’s car was found parked in front of a home on Pike Road. One house away is where Jones most recently had been living.
Only an alley separates Jones’ house from the abandoned house where the body was found.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Birmingham’s SWAT team descended on a house next to where Gemeinhart’s car was found. Detectives and evidence technicians conducted an extensive search of the home but what, if anything, they found has not been disclosed.
Court records show Jones has lengthy history of arrests, mostly for property crimes, drug charge and traffic violations.
In 2019, he pleaded guilty to second-degree arson and received a 10-year suspended sentence.
Most recently, Jones was arrested Aug. 6 in Autauga County after Alabama State Troopers said he was driving 114 mph on I-65 southbound and almost hit a state trooper. He was charged with attempting to elude, reckless endangerment and reckless driving.
In that case, Jones was a dark brown 2016 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, which is the initial vehicle Birmingham police listed in the lookout bulletin for him but later said was recovered in a separate “incident.”
Jones was released from the Autauga County Jail the following day, Sunday, Aug. 7, on his own recognizance.
Anyone with information in the case is asked to call Birmingham homicide detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777. | https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2022/08/man-sought-in-birmingham-murder-held-down-by-oklahoma-mcdonalds-employees-after-carjacking-attempt.html | 2022-08-12T18:25:49Z | https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2022/08/man-sought-in-birmingham-murder-held-down-by-oklahoma-mcdonalds-employees-after-carjacking-attempt.html | true |
Did you get a chance to witness the fourth and final supermoon of 2022?
The last supermoon of the year illuminated the night sky Thursday. The moon had various hues and appeared bigger and brighter than when the moon is at its farthest point away from Earth.
Referred to as the Sturgeon Moon, the astronomical event did not become visible until 9:36 p.m. EDT. NASA says the supermoon will remain in this phase until Saturday morning.
Here's a glimpse of the supermoon from all over the world in case you missed it.
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Expert tips for overcoming corn rootworm, soil compaction issues resulting from a late planting
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmers are adept at making the most out of less-than-ideal conditions, whether it's an abridged growing season, pest pressure or marginal acres. This summer, many are facing challenges wrought by a cold start and a late planting, which set the stage for corn rootworm pressure and other issues.
"While no two growing seasons are alike, this one is unfortunately shaping up to be similar to the last few in terms of corn rootworm pressure, which has been trending upwards," says Joe Bollman, NK Seeds Corn Product Manager. "It's a billion-dollar-a-year issue and is arguably the No. 1 challenge that farmers contend with. It's intensified by a late planting, which gives corn rootworm a head start and younger plants to feed on."
The NK Seeds corn portfolio features DuracadeViptera™ trait stacks to protect yield potential from 16 above- and below-ground pests while helping to produce cleaner ears for improved grain quality. The Duracade™ component is a novel Syngenta corn rootworm trait to help farmers limit the effects of corn rootworm and to maximize their yield potential.
"Significant corn rootworm pressure can rob farmers of yield potential," warns Bollman. "On top of that, it limits the plant's ability to take up nutrients, especially in drought conditions. Thus, this increases the risk for stalk lodging in the fall on top of the root lodging risk from the reduced root mass due to corn rootworm feeding. These inefficiencies make corn rootworm a fundamental challenge — one that DuracadeViptera was created to combat."
In addition to recommending hybrids that offer corn rootworm protection, Bollman encourages farmers to monitor and manage corn rootworm this summer. Scouting or trapping corn rootworm beetles with sticky traps can help to determine whether economic thresholds have been surpassed and what future management plans are needed. Farmers should also develop multi-year, field-by-field management plans that, in addition to trait stacks, may consist of crop rotation and soil- or foliar-applied insecticides.
If you planted your 2022 corn crop late, you were likely in a hurry to take to the field when Mother Nature finally allowed. And if you ran your planters or tillage equipment over wet soil last spring, you may be noticing the ramifications of soil compaction this summer.
Running planters or tillage equipment across wet soil can cause soil compaction issues that reduce the size and amount of pore space and decrease water and oxygen movement — causing issues that you'll contend with all season long.
"We now have the ability to plant a crop in a hurry, compared to 10 or 15 years ago, which is both a blessing and a curse," says Bollman. "If you were lucky to get good conditions after planting, you probably got off to a strong start and made up for lost time. But if you were forced to plant into marginal conditions, your acres may now be susceptible to issues like soil compaction. Everyone knows, we only get one chance to plant, and a mistake can affect an entire season."
While the best way to manage soil is to prevent compaction from happening, there are steps farmers can take to make the most out of their compacted soil this summer.
- Diagnose the depth of compaction before deciding on the right compaction management tool.
- In a no-till environment, consider planting an aggressively growing cover crop to break compaction layers.
- A deep tillage pass at an angle to the normal cropping rows may be considered in the fall.
- For late-season management, monitor the fields for any potential stalk or root lodging, and plan to harvest those fields early to help minimize losses.
To see the NK Seeds lineup of corn hybrids with DuracadeViptera, consult the 2023 NK Seed Guide. To get help assessing and managing soil compaction, contact your local agronomist.
Syngenta Crop Protection and Syngenta Seeds are part of Syngenta Group, one of the world's leading agriculture companies. Our ambition is to help safely feed the world while taking care of the planet. We aim to improve the sustainability, quality and safety of agriculture with world class science and innovative crop solutions. Our technologies enable millions of farmers around the world to make better use of limited agricultural resources.
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PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. transportation officials announced $2.2 billion for local infrastructure projects on Thursday, paving the way for new bridges, roads, bike lanes, railways and ports in scores of communities across the country.
The competitive grants are more than double the amount awarded the previous year under the same program. The influx comes from a $1 trillion infrastructure law backed by President Joe Biden, which provided an additional $7.5 billion over five years for the grants.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the projects would help modernize America’s transportation systems.
“This is a program that recognizes many of the most interesting and compelling ideas and designs and plans aren’t going to come from Washington, but more of the funding should,” Buttigieg said. “That’s what we’re delivering here.”
Buttigieg traveled to Arizona to highlight projects in Phoenix and Tucson, each of which are receiving the maximum $25 million. In Phoenix, the money will help build a new bike and pedestrian bridge over the Rio Salado, connecting the city’s southern area with downtown.
In Tucson, the money will revamp a prominent street and replace a 1960s-era vehicle bridge that’s in poor condition. It also will add a separate bicycle and pedestrian bridge as part of what Mayor Regina Romero called “a transformative investment in Tucson’s infrastructure.”
While the Tucson project will expand the number lanes for motorists, some projects elsewhere will reduce them. For example, a $17 million grant will help narrow a five-lane road to three lanes in the Chicago suburb of Munster, Indiana, in an effort to decrease traffic crashes. The money also will fund a 10-foot-wide multi-purpose path along the street and plant more than 250 trees.
For many road improvement grants, “we’re doing it in mind of also benefitting the bike and pedestrian side,” Buttigieg said.
Other newly announced projects in the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity program also provide funding for bicycle and pedestrian paths.
Texas and Kansas are each receiving about $25 million for hiking and biking trails. Huntsville, Alabama, is getting $20 million to improve a pedestrian corridor linking downtown to isolated neighborhoods. Another $20 million is helping finance a new bike and pedestrian bridge over the Potomac River between Arlington, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
Buttigieg said the U.S. Department of Transportation received about $13 billion in grant applications.
A total of 166 projects across the country are getting a slice of the $2.2 billion. The funding marks a significant increase from the $983 million distributed among 90 projects in 2021. The allotment is the largest dating to 2009 for a program that has undergone multiple name and emphasis changes during the presidential administrations of Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
Though still substantial, the funding doesn’t have quite the buying power as anticipated when the infrastructure legislation passed Congress last year. That’s because inflation has driven up the cost of key transportation construction materials, such as steel plates for bridges and asphalt for paving roads.
This year’s projects range from a new seawall and port improvements in Sitka, Alaska, to the construction of a four-lane parkway in the Virgin Islands.
Among other projects, New Jersey is getting $20 million to elevate a roadway that serves as a main evacuation route for Atlantic City and its casino industry. In Louisiana, $20 million will go toward the design and construction of two train stations along a planned route between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Whatcom County, Washington, will get $25 million to replace a 60-year-old ferry serving rural Lummi Island with an electric hybrid model.
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Lieb reported from Jefferson City, Mo. | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/over-2b-announced-for-roads-bridges-bike-lanes-across-us/ | 2022-08-12T18:29:47Z | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/over-2b-announced-for-roads-bridges-bike-lanes-across-us/ | false |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
2-9-1
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2-9-1
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The last thing the world needs, you might think, is another Princess Diana documentary.
It’s a fair thought considering that almost 25 years after her death, her life and impact is still media fodder. Whether it’s a magazine cover or a book claiming to have new revelations or just an image of Kristen Stewart in a re-creation of her wedding dress for the movie “Spencer” or Elizabeth Debicki sporting the “revenge dress” for the series “The Crown,” the culture continues to have an insatiable appetite for all things Diana.
And yet documentarian Ed Perkins managed to find a novel way in: by turning the lens back on us.
“The obvious truth is that Diana’s story is one of the most told and retold stories probably in the past 30 years,” Perkins said in an interview this week. “We only felt it was worth us adding to that conversation if we really felt like we had a new perspective to offer up.”
“ The Princess ” has no talking heads and no traditional narrator. Instead, it tells the story of her public life using only archival footage from news broadcasts, talk shows and radio programs. It begins from the time of her earliest moments being trailed by cameras at the news of her royal courtship to the aftermath of her death in 1997. It premieres Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
Perkins never met Diana. He was 11 when she died and remembers his mother waking him up with tears flooding down her eyes. For the next week, they were glued to the television leading up to her funeral, as much of the world was. At the time, he recalled just feeling confused and taken aback by what he said was a “very un-British outpouring of grief.”
This was someone most people only knew through the media, he thought. Why were they acting as if they’d lost a mother or a sister? Why had millions cheered on her wedding? Why, for 17 years, did everyone dissect “everything she did, everything she said, everything she wore?”
“There’s something about her story which has always felt strangely personal to me,” he said. “I think millions of people around the world have a sort of similar relationship. There’s something about her or what she represented that sort of got under lots of people’s skin and became a part of the kind of collective consciousness or understanding of who we were.”
They were questions that lingered over the years. And at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, he and his archival team decided to try to answer the why. As you can imagine for one of the most photographed people in history, the archive was enormous. For six months, Perkins watched footage for eight to 12 hours a day, trying to find moments that spoke to him (and stay awake).
“It was often about trying to find subtext and body language,” he said. “Diana is almost like a silent movie star. She doesn’t speak publicly that much throughout her public life. And yet I think she was incredibly adept, almost masterful, at sort of projecting her own very public/private story publicly and sort of trying to tell us how to feel, how she was feeling.”
He also used the many hours of the public’s phone-in commentary that aired on British radio shows over the years to function as a kind of Greek chorus.
The film, which got raves at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, is trying to take audiences on both an emotional and intellectual journey as it unfolds in the present tense. For Perkins, it’s not just an historical document either: It’s an origin story for some things that are happening today.
“I want the film to allow us to turn the camera back on all of us and force ourselves to ask some difficult questions about our relationship, yes to Diana, but perhaps more broadly, our relationship to the royal family and more broadly still, what is our relationship to celebrity,” Perkins said. “Then the most important and interesting — but perhaps most difficult — thing to talk about with regard to this story is what was our role in this story? What was our complicity in this tragic tale?”
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Follow AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ldbahr | https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/In-The-Princess-a-documentary-on-Diana-17369650.php | 2022-08-12T18:31:37Z | https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/In-The-Princess-a-documentary-on-Diana-17369650.php | false |
By Otis Kirk
FAYETTEVILLE — Sam Pittman was an assistant at Arkansas from 2013-2015 before leaving to take a job at Georgia under Kirby Smart.
He stayed at Georgia until after the 2019 season when he accepted the head coaching job at Arkansas. While Georgia and Arkansas are just two of the seven Power 5 schools he has coached it’s easy to see Smart influenced a lot of what he does today that has made him successful with the Hogs. Pittman is 12-11 as head coach at Arkansas including a 2020 season that included an all-SEC schedule.
On Thursday, Pittman talked about how he’s a better head coach after working for Smart.
“Well, that’s such a good question,” Pittman said. “In go down a list. Number one, of the urgency of recruiting in the SEC. And I felt like I recruited hard when I was here before and all that but not like your hair is on fire. So, that’s one. The templates of practice are from Georgia, which were from, I’m assuming, Alabama. Sitting back in four years, you can learn from anybody, but when your team is winning the SEC, they’re winning the Rose Bowl, they’re going to the National Championship, you would assume more than they just have really good players. You would assume that they have a really good system. And so, without Kirby, I can promise you, I’d try my hardest but I wouldn’t be as successful. I don’t know. That makes me sound like we’ve done something. I don’t mean that, but I wouldn’t have the success that we’ve had, had I not gone to Georgia, and that’s 100% real.”
Other Power 5 stops for Pittman have been Tennessee, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas and North Carolina. His first SEC job was offensive line coach with the Vols in 2012. He stayed there one year before heading to Arkansas and has been in the SEC ever since.
Pittman went into the hiring process with Hunter Yurachek talking about the assistants he felt he could hire.
“When you interview for a job, you’ve got to have an idea kind of because the AD’s going to ask you.” Pittman said. “You know. If you’re an O-line coach, you ain’t never had no head coaching. Who can you get? And you say, Barry Odom. He’s been a coach. Okay, well, that’ll help you. You know, things of that nature. So, I already had several of those guys.”
Pittman admitted there’s things he has learned as a head coach that allows him to do things differently in fall camp.
“I learned a lot, and I learn a lot,” Pittman said. “I’ve made so many mistakes. I don’t mean to, and it’s not that I haven’t thought about it and things of that nature. I think people are going to make mistakes, it’s just if they are going to learn from them. Yeah, I made a lot of mistakes and I have to get better at a lot of things.
I will say this, I try in practice to do everything we can in practice to where if it’s in the game, we’re taking our players from ‘I hope this works’ to ‘Hey we practiced it enough, I know it’s going to work.’ So everything you do in practice, you think about Saturday and you go okay, when we’re in this situation are the kids going to hope that we can do it or are they going to know that we can do it, because we’ve got a great plan, we’ve executed it and we’ve done it at practice. I remember when I was an offensive line coach and I’m not prepared for something. Shame on me by the way. I’m going into the game and man if they move a lot, I hope they don’t move a lot today. I hope they don’t twist game us a tremendous amount.
“Where then you take your game and your coaching into ‘you know what? If they do, we’ve got this, this and this, and we can crush ‘em with it. If they do this, we’re ready for it. We’ve practiced it.’ Those are probably the biggest things in coaching that I’m continuing to try to do. Like I thought we were really good in two-minute last year, and it was because, in my opinion, we did it so much. Even some of the guys on staff thought it was too much. But I wanted not only them to be prepared for that situation, I wanted to be prepared for that situation. Because at that point and time, it’s that last minute, minute and a half that’s going to decide the outcome of the ball game. So, I’m trying to get better at that. So everything on our piece of paper and on our board and stuff in our tape, I know. And if we can do that at practice, we’ve done a pretty good job as a coaching staff. There’s a lot of things. Everything keeps hitting, NIL and portal and all. There’s something new all the time. And you make mistakes, and hopefully you learn from them.”
Pittman feels other coaches also have learned from Smart including Shane Beamer at South Carolina.
“Yeah, Kirby,” Pittman said. “We took a lot of things from what Georgia does. And I’m sure Kirby took a lot from what Coach (Nick) Saban did. I’m not saying that, but I’m pretty sure. So we took the template, per se, of that, and then we modified what we wanted to modify. But certainly we took from when we left Georgia the template I guess of what we felt was successful, and it was at Georgia and Alabama. It was at South Carolina. I don’t know what Shane’s doing over there, but I’m assuming he’s got some of Kirby’s stuff in his scheduling.”
Arkansas will practice this afternoon and hold a scrimmage for Saturday. | https://www.kark.com/pig-trail-nation/pittman-better-head-coach-because-of-smart/ | 2022-08-12T18:33:51Z | https://www.kark.com/pig-trail-nation/pittman-better-head-coach-because-of-smart/ | false |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to extend the life of the state’s last operating nuclear power plant by at least five to 10 years to maintain reliable power supplies in the climate change era.
A draft bill obtained Friday by The Associated Press said the plan would allow the plant to continue operating beyond a scheduled closing by 2025.
The draft proposal also includes a possible loan for operator Pacific Gas & Electric for up to $1.4 billion.
The proposal was confirmed by Newsom spokesman Anthony York. The bill says impacts of climate change are occurring sooner than anticipated and are simultaneously driving up electrical demand while reducing power supplies.
The draft was obtained ahead of a California Energy Commission meeting on the state’s energy needs and the role the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant could play. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/California-governor-wants-to-extend-nuclear-17369937.php | 2022-08-12T18:34:55Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/California-governor-wants-to-extend-nuclear-17369937.php | true |
Expert tips for overcoming corn rootworm, soil compaction issues resulting from a late planting
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmers are adept at making the most out of less-than-ideal conditions, whether it's an abridged growing season, pest pressure or marginal acres. This summer, many are facing challenges wrought by a cold start and a late planting, which set the stage for corn rootworm pressure and other issues.
"While no two growing seasons are alike, this one is unfortunately shaping up to be similar to the last few in terms of corn rootworm pressure, which has been trending upwards," says Joe Bollman, NK Seeds Corn Product Manager. "It's a billion-dollar-a-year issue and is arguably the No. 1 challenge that farmers contend with. It's intensified by a late planting, which gives corn rootworm a head start and younger plants to feed on."
The NK Seeds corn portfolio features DuracadeViptera™ trait stacks to protect yield potential from 16 above- and below-ground pests while helping to produce cleaner ears for improved grain quality. The Duracade™ component is a novel Syngenta corn rootworm trait to help farmers limit the effects of corn rootworm and to maximize their yield potential.
"Significant corn rootworm pressure can rob farmers of yield potential," warns Bollman. "On top of that, it limits the plant's ability to take up nutrients, especially in drought conditions. Thus, this increases the risk for stalk lodging in the fall on top of the root lodging risk from the reduced root mass due to corn rootworm feeding. These inefficiencies make corn rootworm a fundamental challenge — one that DuracadeViptera was created to combat."
In addition to recommending hybrids that offer corn rootworm protection, Bollman encourages farmers to monitor and manage corn rootworm this summer. Scouting or trapping corn rootworm beetles with sticky traps can help to determine whether economic thresholds have been surpassed and what future management plans are needed. Farmers should also develop multi-year, field-by-field management plans that, in addition to trait stacks, may consist of crop rotation and soil- or foliar-applied insecticides.
If you planted your 2022 corn crop late, you were likely in a hurry to take to the field when Mother Nature finally allowed. And if you ran your planters or tillage equipment over wet soil last spring, you may be noticing the ramifications of soil compaction this summer.
Running planters or tillage equipment across wet soil can cause soil compaction issues that reduce the size and amount of pore space and decrease water and oxygen movement — causing issues that you'll contend with all season long.
"We now have the ability to plant a crop in a hurry, compared to 10 or 15 years ago, which is both a blessing and a curse," says Bollman. "If you were lucky to get good conditions after planting, you probably got off to a strong start and made up for lost time. But if you were forced to plant into marginal conditions, your acres may now be susceptible to issues like soil compaction. Everyone knows, we only get one chance to plant, and a mistake can affect an entire season."
While the best way to manage soil is to prevent compaction from happening, there are steps farmers can take to make the most out of their compacted soil this summer.
- Diagnose the depth of compaction before deciding on the right compaction management tool.
- In a no-till environment, consider planting an aggressively growing cover crop to break compaction layers.
- A deep tillage pass at an angle to the normal cropping rows may be considered in the fall.
- For late-season management, monitor the fields for any potential stalk or root lodging, and plan to harvest those fields early to help minimize losses.
To see the NK Seeds lineup of corn hybrids with DuracadeViptera, consult the 2023 NK Seed Guide. To get help assessing and managing soil compaction, contact your local agronomist.
Syngenta Crop Protection and Syngenta Seeds are part of Syngenta Group, one of the world's leading agriculture companies. Our ambition is to help safely feed the world while taking care of the planet. We aim to improve the sustainability, quality and safety of agriculture with world class science and innovative crop solutions. Our technologies enable millions of farmers around the world to make better use of limited agricultural resources.
The content of this release is for information purposes only. This release is not, and should not be construed as an offer to sell or issue or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or other property interests.
To learn more visit www.syngenta.com and www.goodgrowthplan.com. Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/SyngentaUS and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/syngenta.
This document contains forward-looking statements, which can be identified by terminology such as 'expect', 'would', 'will', 'potential', 'plans', 'prospects', 'estimated', 'aiming', 'on track' and similar expressions. Such statements may be subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from these statements. For Syngenta, such risks and uncertainties include risks relating to legal proceedings, regulatory approvals, new product development, increasing competition, customer credit risk, general economic and market conditions, compliance and remediation, intellectual property rights, implementation of organizational changes, impairment of intangible assets, consumer perceptions of genetically modified crops and organisms or crop protection chemicals, climatic variations, fluctuations in exchange rates and/or commodity prices, single source supply arrangements, political uncertainty, natural disasters, and breaches of data security or other disruptions of information technology. Syngenta assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, changed assumptions or other factors.
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