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TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Inc. revealed that Pyx Health is No. 1160 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list ranks the top successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. In its first year of eligibility, Pyx Health is also ranked No. 62 nationally and No. 4 in Arizona for health services, and No. 1 for growth overall in Tucson, Ariz., the location of its headquarters. The Inc. 5000 recognition puts Pyx Health in the top 0.07% of all privately-owned companies in America in terms of multi-year growth.
Pyx Health leads the health care and technology industries as the first and only proven solution to address loneliness and improve health outcomes at scale. From 2018 through 2021, the company increased revenues by 556%, more than double the median of 230% for the entire Inc. 5000 list.
"Loneliness is a pervasive and deadly problem, affecting more than 60% of our population," said Pyx Health founder and CEO, Cindy Jordan. "Our exponential growth is fueled by a health care industry that is demanding a solution for loneliness and our ability to provide measurable, inimitable results and impact for our clients."
The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine, which will be available on August 23.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
"In order to support our rapid expansion, maintaining our culture and staying true to our mission is critical for us," said Jordan. "Our culture enhances our ability to attract and retain talent, allows us to scale quickly, supports product innovation, and ensures our clients' success. Together, we're making the world less lonely."
Founded in 2017, Pyx Health now works with nearly 50 health plans nationally to reduce loneliness and social isolation and its health impacts for millions of people. In addition to the Inc. 5000 listing, Pyx Health achieved recertification as a Great Place to Work® for the second year in a row. Jordan is also currently a finalist for Phoenix Business Journal's 2022 Health Care Heroes in the Innovator category.
More about Pyx Health
Pyx Health offers the first loneliness and social isolation technology focused on helping the most vulnerable populations. Combining a digital platform with a Compassionate Support Center and timely human interventions, Pyx Health provides members and health insurance plans an innovative, scalable solution that effectively addresses the nation's critical loneliness epidemic. Pyx Health is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. More information is available at https://www.pyxhealth.com. Because no one gets better alone.™
More about Inc. and the Inc. 5000
Methodology
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The top 500 companies on the Inc. 5000 are featured in Inc. magazine's September issue. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
About Inc.
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
For more information on the Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala, visit http://conference.inc.com/.
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When you study the speaking style of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) — the unwavering tone of voice even as she’s delivering dire warnings about the precariousness of American democracy, the slight forward tilt of her head as she fixes a listener with her gaze, the unhurried cadence in her admonishment of election deniers, even the set of her jaw — it’s impossible not to see her father Dick Cheney. The former vice president’s mannerisms and style are forever present in his daughter.
On Tuesday, she went to her polling place in Jackson Hole, Wyo., with her father, he a stooped man in a blue oxford shirt with a breast-pocket full of pens, she an unbowed legislator in her blue checked shirt, dungarees and espadrilles. She was dressed in a manner that signifies regular folk, but of course, there’s nothing common about being part of a political dynasty. And there’s nothing average about Jackson Hole, which is in Teton County, which has one of the highest concentrations of wealth in the country. She is exceptional and privileged. But she is a politician, too. Cheney stood in line along with other voters. She chatted and smiled. She faced the cameras and the microphones.
Politicians dress to enhance their narrative and the one that Cheney has been weaving — and continues to tell — is about America at risk and the need for all of us to do something to save it. And so there she was on her fateful primary day dressed like an all-American Every Woman who was dutifully squeezing in a vote between grocery shopping and a video call with the office.
Cheney has been a marvel of defiance as she has refuted the new orthodoxy of the Republican Party, recast patriotism as a feminine virtue rather than an act of machismo, made brutal honesty into a healing salve and blind optimism into a kind of poison. She has a way of delivering sobering news that telegraphs urgency rather than panic. She also has a way of delivering good news and making it sound like a prologue to the apocalypse.
She infuriated the new Republican Party, the one that has pledged its allegiance to former president Donald Trump, traffics in election lies and is laying waste to democratic traditions. As the vice-chair of the Jan. 6 committee, one of only two Republicans on the panel, she has confronted Trump’s allies with facts and for that she has paid a tremendous political price, forced to wander in the political wilderness where she was befriended by Democrats aghast at right wing lies while also aghast at their sudden admiration for Cheney.
She ran for reelection in her state’s primary fully realizing that she was likely to lose and winning isn’t everything. That surely counts as a personal victory.
Cheney’s presence in American politics is both gratifying and jarring. Her conservative policy preferences are undeniable. Her voting record traumatizes liberals.
On recent bold face agenda items for the Biden administration, she has been a firm “nay.” To say that she’s been a splash of cold water would suggest that her votes have been out of character, a shock to the system. They were de rigueur. The congresswoman has voted no on the American Rescue Plan. She was not one of the handful of Republicans who crossed the aisle to support the infrastructure bill; she was a no on that. And most recently, she joined fellow Republicans in voting against the Inflation Reduction Act — a marvel of climate change and prescription drug legislation that has so pleased Democrats that they celebrated its likely passage, as well as its actual passage. They partied when the president signed it into law on Tuesday. And they plan to celebrate again in September with a splashy we-did-that extravaganza a few weeks before the midterm elections.
The country at large has heard Cheney speak more this year than it has during her entire career in Congress. On the Jan. 6 committee she is the counterbalance to Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.). He greets the in-person witnesses with a warm hospitality and spools out his opening statements like millions of television viewers have assembled on his front porch. Cheney has the calm detachment of a physician questioning a patient to confirm a diagnosis. There’s a flatness to her delivery, as if all the emotion has been carefully skimmed away so that all that remains are the devastating facts. And then, when a hearing finishes, she gives generous hugs to the witnesses.
She’s hailed the fearlessness of the women who have come forward to speak the truth about the circumstances surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. She reeled off the names of Cassidy Hutchinson, Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss, Ruby Freeman and Sarah Matthews, and called them “an inspiration to American women and to American girls.” She could simply have said they were an inspiration to Americans. But she is a traditionalist. Or old-fashioned. Or not liberal.
Cheney defies the cliches so often attached to women in circumstances of stress or pressure. It is the men in her party, her combatants, who give in to hysteria and hyperventilation. They are the ones who see offense at every turn, who swoon when they are challenged, who cannot stand the heat. It’s the former president who issues statements on social media and through email blasts that are mostly exclamation points periodically interrupted with all-caps bleats of oppression. Cheney is not a public complainer about her political fate.
When she is on the job and in her Washington wardrobe, it’s the usual unremarkable blazers and dresses. They are as standard as a traditional man’s suit in shades of gray or navy. They don’t speak to her distinct personality as much as they help to enshrine a different aesthetic code into the culture when the subject turns to courage, patriotism and defiance. Those ideals aren’t defined solely by a uniform full of ribbons, a baseball hat-wearing worker waving a flag or a kid in a costume. They are also symbolized by a lady in a jewel-tone sheath.
Cheney has favored shades of blue during the Jan. 6 hearings. She’s worn black. And white, too. And it’s possible to take those colors as representative of a multitude of notions: bipartisanship, sobriety, women’s self-determination. Perhaps that is how some would like to see it: Her wardrobe is just another way to rile an already outraged Republican Party. But Cheney is not leading the charge on policy compromises with Democrats. She’s not in mourning for America; she’s trying to get the patient to take its wounds seriously. And when it comes to abortion, she’s fine giving states’ rights precedence over the bodily autonomy of women.
Cheney has staked out political ground that is neither bipartisan nor independent. She is admirable and maddening. She is confounding. And that is respectable and rare kind of victory. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/16/winning-defiance-liz-cheney/ | 2022-08-17T01:10:12Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/16/winning-defiance-liz-cheney/ | false |
DALLAS — A new video obtained by WFAA shows another angle of the fatal shooting of a coach at a youth football game in Lancaster over the weekend.
In the video you see the moments before coach Mike Hickmon was shot.
Witnesses say a person wearing a hat and white sneakers in the video is former NFL cornerback, Aqib Talib. They say he walked across the field first to the opposing side.
Coach Heath Mays witnessed what happened.
”He ran across the field and ran over on our sideline and got in the ref's face,” said Mays.
Multiple witnesses say Aqib Talib was the one who started the brawl because he was upset about referees.
"He threw the first punch, and you see Mike trying to defend himself," said Mays.
Then you can hear the gunshots. Lancaster police arrested Aqib Talib’s brother, Yaqub Talib, saying he killed coach Hickmon.
In an arrest affidavit, police say this all started over an argument about the score of the game but doesn’t say who started the fight.
Aqib Talib’s lawyer, Frank Perez, issued a statement saying his client "was present when this unfortunate incident occurred and is very distraught and devasted over this terrible loss of life. He would like to convey his condolences to the family of the victim and to everyone who witnessed this unfortunate tragedy.”
The Talib brothers are no strangers to law enforcement and have been investigated for multiple shootings, including in 2016 when Dallas police believe Aqib Talib was shot at the V Live strip club. Two other people were also shot that night.
Aqib Talib and his brother were also investigated in 2015 after someone fired a gun inside a downtown Dallas night club. Dallas police say the brothers had gotten into a fight.
Police say they couldn’t find enough evidence to charge them with any crimes.
But now, Yaqub Talib is charged with murder while police continue to investigate if any other charges will be filed. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/witnesses-say-aqib-talib-started-brawl-led-to-fatal-shooting-of-youth-coach/287-e313872d-e507-4064-9652-1ea858f6a0d4 | 2022-08-17T01:12:54Z | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/witnesses-say-aqib-talib-started-brawl-led-to-fatal-shooting-of-youth-coach/287-e313872d-e507-4064-9652-1ea858f6a0d4 | false |
Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law Tuesday, August 16.
Biden said measure will allow spending on combating climate change and improving healthcare at the expense of increasing taxes on large corporations and drug manufacturers.
“The American people won, and the special interests lost,” the president said.
The $750 billion extends subsidies as part of the “Affordable Care Act,” reduces Medicare drug prices, and provides tax credits for clean energy items like solar panels.
The EPA said the act will go a long way in reducing the U.S. carbon footprint through measures like tax credits for solar panels.
(Michael Regan: Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency)
“This is good for the planet, it’s good for families, it’s good for global competitiveness,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said. “This is a win, win, win.”
The new law will also provide Americans with tax credits for electric cars.
“It means lower costs for Americans in several ways, including for a transportation specific example, lower costs of electric vehicles,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. “These are vehicles where you can save a lot of money, but only if you can afford to buy them in the first place. So we’ve been fighting to lower the price.”
But Republicans said the bill will cost consumers more money through tax increases. They also take issue with increasing the IRS budget by $80 billion.
(Rep. Michael Guest: (R) Mississippi)
“It creates an army of IRS agents and at a time when Americans, many of which are struggling to purchase gas. To put groceries and food on their table which will actually increase inflation, not decrease it,” Rep. Michael Guest, R-MS, said.
Most economists say the act will have virtually no effect on inflation in the next several years.
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Surface Duo and Surface Duo 2 owners are rejoicing this week, as Gmail's Android client is finally usable over the twin screens of the Duo. The improved support may be a quirk of development, but it shows how the Surface Duo experience will improve over the next few months with only a little input from Microsoft beyond an Android update.
Previously, Microsoft's dual-screen Android-powered Surface Duo and Surface Duo 2 required apps to recognise the two displays and to take appropriate action. For the countless number of 'list of items, and click on them to read' apps, the natural method would be to place the list (be it emails, invitations, scores, or whatever) on the left-hand side of the screen and the expanded view on the right.
Naturally, Microsoft's own apps manage this comfortably. I'm going to highlight Outlook's approach to this interface as the right way to do things; it uses both screens to get the most benefit, the physical feel of a book is relatable, and it allows the UI in a sense to move into the background let you get on with your work.
The problem is that not every developer coded for the dual-screen format when the Duo family arrived. Apps could run happily on one screen, but when the unique form factor was put to use, things could get ugly - the apps currently see the Duo as an Android tablet with a contagious screen, even though there's a massive physical bar down the middle. That made many third-party apps unusable.
These weren't esoteric apps. Some of the world's most widely used apps suffer from this flaw. That includes core apps like Google's Gmail. Your email list took up some of the left-hand side of the screen, while the body text of your emails was obscured and unreadable.
Until now.
Google has rolled out an update to Gmail that now places the email list on the left screen and the body of the email on the right screen when Surface Duo users span the app. Gmail is usable in all its forms.
This looks like the Surface Duo has benefitted from a redesign of the app to increase support for foldable devices in general. The central spine of a foldable is being replicated (at least in software) by the Duo's gap between the screens. Nevertheless, Gmail's support for foldables now extends to dual-screened devices.
This is a process that is likely to continue as foldable devices capture more market share. Manufacturers' adoption of Android 12L - a branch of Android designed to offer more specialised support for tablets, foldables, and dual-screened devices - will give developers various universal APIs into devices so their apps will run on a much wider range of transforming devices.
Microsoft has confirmed that the Surface Duo family will be adopting Android 12L in a future update. When that happens, the compatibility of apps with the dual-screen format will be on a par with other foldable phones and tablets. The Surface Duo has proven to be a solid device with a lot of utility around information management. With 12L and more apps supporting the form factor, the value of that utility can only increase.
Now read how Microsoft is challenging Apple's new MacBook Air... | https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2022/08/16/microsoft-surface-duo-android-12l-dual-screen-gmail-fix/ | 2022-08-17T01:14:59Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2022/08/16/microsoft-surface-duo-android-12l-dual-screen-gmail-fix/ | false |
HONG KONG, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Premia Partners, a leading ETF provider in Hong Kong, announces today listing of USD hedged unit class for Premia China Treasury & Policy Bank Bond Long Duration ETF.
The physically replicated ETF offers cost-efficient, unique and convenient access to long duration China government bond (CGB) in China. The new USD hedged unit class provides investors with differentiated option to partake in CGB opportunities and is Asia's first CGB ETF with USD hedging feature.
- Premia China Treasury & Policy Bank Bond Long Duration ETF (Tickers: 2817 HKD / 9817 USD/ 82817 RMB/ 9177 USD hedged unit class) tracks the ICE 10+ Year China Government & Policy Bank Index.
- It is globally the first and only ETF that provides direct access to ultra-long duration China treasury and policy bank bonds traded in onshore China, with stable A+/A1 sovereign ratings and much lower yield volatility among sovereign bonds.
- As of Aug 15th 2022, the ETF posted since Apr 2021 listing return of 12.2%, and average duration and average yield to maturity are 16.8 years and 3.2% respectively.
"Accessing Asia opportunities efficiently is always a topic close to our hearts at Premia. For us it is not just about launching new products, but also constantly updating features of our existing ETFs based on client feedback, for better and more relevant use cases." said Rebecca Chua, Managing Partner of Premia Partners. "The USD hedged unit class provides timely optionality for investors looking to maintain USD return during the current market environment."
"We've been pleased to work with Premia on this innovative solution for ultra-long USD hedged China government bonds, leveraging our industry leading fixed income evaluated pricing capabilities" said Magnus Cattan, Head of ICE Fixed Income & Data Services, Asia Pacific. "Several new ETF issuers have selected ICE's indices, resulting in growth in exciting new areas including regional fixed income and equity, thematic, climate and ESG ETFs in Asia."
About Premia Partners
Founded in 2016, Premia Partners is one of the leading ETF managers from Hong Kong, dedicated to building low-cost, efficient, best practice ETFs for Asia. As of Aug 15th 2022, Premia Partners manages 9 ETFs including Premia CSI Caixin China New Economy ETF which is the 4th largest broad based China A-shares ETF in Hong Kong. For more information on Premia or Premia ETFs covering China, Emerging ASEAN, Asia Metaverse/ Innovative Technology, Vietnam, China high yield bonds, China government bonds and US Treasury, please visit www.premia-partners.com
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
756 PM CDT Tue Aug 16 2022
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Texas...
Rio Grande At Foster Ranch affecting Val Verde County.
For the Rio Grande...including Foster Ranch, Pandale Crossing,
Langtry, Cauthorn Ranch Near Juno, Bakers Crossing 19N Of Comstock,
Pafford Crossing nr Comstock, Del Rio, Eagle Pass...Major flooding
is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued Wednesday morning at 800 AM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE TOMORROW EVENING...
* WHAT...Major flooding is occurring and major flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Rio Grande At Foster Ranch.
* WHEN...Until late tomorrow evening.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:15 PM CDT Tuesday the stage was 25.3 feet.
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 7:15 PM CDT Tuesday was 26.8 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage
late tomorrow morning and continue falling to 1.4 feet Sunday
evening.
- Flood stage is 14.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
25.9 feet on 09/23/2008.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Fld Observed Forecasts (7 pm CDT)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Wed Thu Fri
Rio Grande
Foster Ranc 14.0 25.3 Tue 7 pm CDT 5.0 2.0 1.5
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Indiana linebacker Cam Jones and quarterback Jack Tuttle took matters into their own hands this offseason.
They called their teammates together to discuss the goals and aspirations of the program, the need to always play with an edge and to break down precisely why things went wrong in 2021.
Now they're using the lessons from a players-only PowerPoint session to avoid a repeat this fall.
"It's never good going backwards," Jones said before acknowledging his team needed a real heart-to-heart to move forward. "I think if you have wrong mindset, that if you wake up with the wrong mindset, you're day is going to be bad. I think if you have the right mindset, you'll have a great day."
Or in this case, perhaps, a great season.
Of course, that was the Hoosiers' plan last fall, too. But after opening the season in the Top 25, a string of injuries and embarrassing losses ensued. The result: Two wins, none in Big Ten play, a humiliating 44-7 season-ending loss at rival Purdue and months of reflection.
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It led to a flurry of changes.
Starting quarterback Michael Penix Jr. left for Washington while Connor Bazelak, the 2020 co-SEC freshman of the year, arrived from Missouri. Bazelak and Tuttle will compete for the No. 1 job.
Indiana's three most productive runners are gone, though two experienced transfers — Shaun Shivers and Josh Henderson — could provide an immediate solution.
Defensively, the Hoosiers need to replace four starters.
Coach Tom Allen also shook up the coaching staff, firing offensive coordinator Nick Sheridan, hiring former UMass coach Walt Bell and reclaiming the signal-calling duties on defense after coordinator Charlton Warren went to North Carolina.
"Last year was something that was really, really hard and it's something I never want to go through again," Allen said. "At the same time it makes you appreciate how hard it is to be at a certain level."
Allen also knows the turnaround begins inside the locker room. He believes the work by Jones and Tuttle already has made a difference.
"Man, I was fired up. I knew right then that things were going to be different," Allen said. "It's never big things. But I'm telling you there's just some little, subtle stuff that I feel they recognized and they saw and noticed we talked about. I don't think I can put a value on it."
QB battle
Allen isn't likely to name a starting quarterback publicly before Indiana's Sept. 2 opener at home against Illinois.
Tuttle has made four starts in 14 career games and has been a steadying influence since coming to Indiana in 2019. But Bazelak completed nearly two-thirds of his throws at Missouri, passed for 5,058 yards and 23 touchdowns while throwing 17 interceptions in 24 games, and he may have the edge with a new coordinator.
"I would say experience, just a calmness and a coolness, doesn't get frazzled, not real emotional," Allen said when describing what he's seen from Bazelak. "The thing that out to me is just experience — been there, been in the big games, played in the big venues."
Changing times
Indiana lost two players after reporting to camp last season: Running back Sampson James left for Purdue in mid-August and Tim Baldwin Jr. entered the transfer portal in October.
Allen, like other coaches, is hoping college officials do more to to prevent in-season transfers. On the subject of names, image and likeness compensation for athletes, though, Allen is doing his best to keep the Hoosiers competitive.
"It's not going away," he said. "The programs and alumni bases, fundraising that can figure it out and get people involved, are going to be the ones that thrive. Who knows what the future holds, but I know we have to embrace it. We have to continue to grow the participation in it."
He's back
Injuries forced the Hoosiers to use four different starters at quarterback last year but the most devastating absence may have been cornerback Tiawan Mullin.
In 2020, he was named first team all-conference and also received national honors. Last year, he missed five games with injuries and only made four starts. Now he says he's healthy and ready to go.
"It was very frustrating," he said. "It was just a freak accident, a guy just fell on my ankle. We're just ready to bounce back and I'm ready to bounce back."
The schedule
The Hoosiers need to build momentum with a strong start and it all begins against a Big Ten foe in the Illinis under Friday night lights.
By late September, the usually challenging schedule kicks in. Indiana visits Cincinnati and Nebraska in back-to-back weeks, and then plays at Ohio State and Michigan State in consecutive weeks in November. Michigan, Penn State and Purdue all visit Bloomington this year., | https://www.nwitimes.com/sports/football/college/hoosiers-looking-for-a-turnaround-after-dismal-2021-season/article_971337cf-71e3-5b79-8cd6-dfcf49808945.html | 2022-08-17T01:18:44Z | https://www.nwitimes.com/sports/football/college/hoosiers-looking-for-a-turnaround-after-dismal-2021-season/article_971337cf-71e3-5b79-8cd6-dfcf49808945.html | false |
The Blue Angels will be back above the San Francisco Bay skies this fall headlining the 41st annual San Francisco Fleet Week Air Show, according to The Air Show Network which produces the event.
In addition to the famous U.S. Navy jets, flight performers from United Airlines, The Patriot Jet Team — a civilian-owned flight squad — and the U.S. Coast Guard will be part of the event slated to take place from Oct. 7 till Oct. 9 over the San Francisco Bay.
Also returning to the show is Gregory Colyer, a Marin resident and San Francisco native who performs stunts in his 1940s-era jet.
“We expect this year's Fleet Week Air Show, starring the Blue Angels and a host of world-class performers, to be yet another amazing event and inspire a new generation to create a tradition of their very own,” Jim Breen, president of The Air Show Network, stated in a press release.
The event, which began in 1981 under former-Mayor Dianne Feinstein, has become a fall tradition in the city and returned last year after a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The iconic Fleet Week Air Show has stood the test of time, ever growing and flourishing due to the tremendous support of loyal fans, our sponsors and the City of San Francisco,” Breen added. "The pandemic, economic downturns and even 9/11 never dampened the resolve of San Franciscans to carry on the tradition.”
Organizers are encouraging those who are looking to view the annual spectacle to watch from the Festival Center on Marina Green.
Although general admission to watch the event at the Festival Center is free, premium and VIP flight deck club tickets are available for purchase at fleetweeksf.org/air-show .
Joel Umanzor is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: joel.umanzor@chron.com | https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Get-ready-Blue-Angels-will-rip-through-S-F-17378246.php | 2022-08-17T01:19:14Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Get-ready-Blue-Angels-will-rip-through-S-F-17378246.php | true |
Breanna Stewart often looks for ways to improve her game. This season, her efforts culminated in more career milestones.
Wednesday's openers
5 p.m. No. 7 New York at No. 2 Chicago ESPN2
7 p.m. No. 8 Phoenix at No. 1 Las Vegas ESPN
The Seattle forward led the WNBA in scoring for the first time in her career, averaging 21.8 points, and on Tuesday, she became the first player to repeat as the Associated Press WNBA Player of the Year.
Stewart received six votes for AP Player of the Year by the 10-member media panel, narrowly edging Las Vegas’ A’ja Wilson, who received the other four votes. Stewart is the first two-time winner of the award since the AP voting began in 2016.
“It’s an honor to be recognized as the best in the league,” said Stewart, who also was the 2018 Player of the Year. “Since I started in the WNBA in 2016, just trying to get better. Elevate myself and the team, the league as a whole. A big honor, but we’re motivated by more and that’s trying to win a championship.”
Stewart’s Storm, seeded fourth, begin their postseason play Thursday in a best-of-three series against Washington.
The WNBA will announce its league awards over the course of the postseason, which begins Wednesday.
Wilson was selected as the AP’s Defensive Player of the Year, edging Alyssa Thomas and Natasha Cloud. Wilson anchored the Aces’ defense, averaging 1.9 blocks and 1.4 steals a game.
Her Aces teammate, Jackie Young, was chosen as the most improved player.
Atlanta’s Tanisha Wright became the first former WNBA player to win the AP Coach of the Year award. She was one of six former players to be head coaches in the league this season — five led their teams to the playoffs.
“It’s good practice to have former players on the bench, whether they are head coaches or assistant coaches,” Wright said. “We’ve come up through the fire and put our stamp on the WNBA. I’m proud to be part of that group of players that have played in this league and impacted it in a different way now.”
Other AP winners included:
• Sixth Woman of the Year. Brionna Jones was a unanimous choice a year after winning the AP’s Most Improved Player. She averaged 13.8 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.2 steals for Connecticut.
• Comeback Player of the Year. Alyssa Thomas earned the award after missing all but two games during the regular season last year because of an Achilles injury that she suffered in January 2021. Thomas averaged 13.4 points, 8.2 rebounds and 6.1 assists.
• Rookie of the Year. Rhyne Howard was the No. 1 pick of the Dream and a near-unanimous choice for the award. Howard averaged 16.2 points and 4.6 rebounds this season, helping Atlanta win six more games than last season.
“Rhy put us on her back and made a statement for herself and the organization and franchise,” Wright said. “Carry that load and do it with the grace and poise she did it with, I’m super proud of her and her accomplishments.”
• All-Rookie team. Howard was joined on the AP All-Rookie team by Shakira Austin of Washington, Rebekah Gardner of Chicago, NaLyssa Smith of Indiana and Sam Thomas of Phoenix.
• All-WNBA teams. Stewart and Wilson were unanimous first-team selections. Joining them on the first team are Candace Parker, Chicago; Kelsey Plum, Las Vegas; and Sabrina Ionescu, New York. The second team: Jonquel Jones, Connecticut; Nneka Ogwumike, Los Angeles; Alyssa Thomas, Connecticut; Courtney Vandersloot, Chicago; and Skylar Diggins-Smith, Phoenix.
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ATLANTA and NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine has revealed that West Physics has made its' annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. Appearing on this list nine previous times (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2020 and 2021) this marks the 10th time West Physics appears on the Inc. 5000 with a 3-year revenue growth rate of 84 percent.
The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy's most dynamic segment—independent small and medium-sized businesses. Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on this distinguished list.
"Of about 7 million small businesses in the U.S., only 5,000 make this list every year and multiple years is even more rare. In fact, there are only about 150 companies in the United States to have demonstrated the consistency of growth needed to achieve 10 years of being on this list since they started these rankings in 1982," stated Dr. Geoffrey West, President of West Physics. Dr. West continued: "Appearing on this list would not be possible without the tireless effort of our dedicated & loyal staff and leadership, and the trust and faith that our amazing customers bestow in us every single day. All of us at West Physics know that our success comes from remaining focused on helping our clients succeed; helping them achieve and maintain high levels of safety, ensure regulatory compliance and maintain accreditation in a highly complex, regulated industry."
West Physics, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is a leading global provider of integrated diagnostic medical and health physics testing and radiation safety consulting services. West Physics serves over 5,000 client sites, including hospitals, freestanding imaging centers, mobile imaging providers, and physician offices throughout the 50 U.S. states, federal territories, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. West Physics specializes in assisting healthcare providers in maintaining their accreditation with organizations such as The Joint Commission, the American College of Radiology, the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission, RadSite, and in radiation regulatory compliance with state and federal agencies. For more information, please visit www.westphysics.com.
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The U.S. Air Force tested an unarmed long-range nuclear-capable missile from Vandenberg Air Force base in California in the early morning hours on Tuesday.
The Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was launched just after midnight and traveled 4,200 miles to the remote Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The test, originally scheduled to be carried out earlier this month, had to be delayed citing concerns over U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Asia, which included a stop to meet with officials in self-governed Taiwan.
China followed up that visit by Pelosi to Taiwan with days of life-fire drills that made headlines and were seen as an intimidation tactic showing China's displeasure over the visit.
Military officials released a statement emphasizing that Tuesday's test was not a reaction to world events as tensions between the U.S. and China have roiled in the days following Pelosi's visit to the island, followed by visits from multiple U.S. lawmakers to meet with officials in Taiwan.
Maj. Armand Wong, commander of the test task force, said, "Our test launches are scheduled well in advance and are not reactionary to world events," he said. "A meticulous planning process for each launch begins six months to a year prior to launch."
But scrutiny over launches like these, especially now as Russia's Kremlin has recently put its country's nuclear capabilities on alert as it wages a sustained, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, has surfaced from military experts. Former Defense Secretary William Perry argued that bolstering the United States' nuclear arsenal now could welcome harsh responses from countries that see the exercises as a threat. There is also the possibility of a miscalculation when firing these weapons, which include ICBMs.
Col. Chris Cruise said, "This scheduled test launch is demonstrative of how our nation's ICBM fleet illustrates our readiness and reliability of the weapon system."
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers from Alabama criticized delaying the launch saying, "This news comes after China conducted live-fire exercises following the Speaker of the House's visit to Taiwan." He said, "These weak-kneed pearl-clutching attempts at appeasement hurt our readiness and will only invite further aggression by our adversaries."
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CHICAGO (AP) — White Sox manager Tony La Russa got a kick out of the idea that a screaming spectator convinced him to insert a pinch-runner during a winning rally this week.
The Hall of Fame skipper, the second-winningest manager in big league history, insisted Tuesday he had no idea a fan near the dugout was yelling for him to send Adam Engel to run for Eloy Jiménez the previous night against Houston.
Jiménez had just hit a tying, two-run double during a four-run eighth inning that propelled Chicago to a 4-2 victory.
“Make his day, tell him I heard him,” La Russa said, smiling.
La Russa said he and his staff were trying to decide: Do they keep Jiménez in for a potential at-bat later with the game tied in the eighth? Or do they have Engel run for him?
In a video posted on Twitter, a fan named Noah Weinstein can be seen screaming “Hey Tony! Hey Tony! Get Engel in there” from a spot near the front row on the home plate side of the third base dugout as José Abreu stepped into the box. While that was going on, La Russa motioned toward plate umpire Chris Conroy to call time and took a few steps onto the field.
Engel came in to run. The White Sox loaded the bases before Yoán Moncada lined a two-run single.
Weinstein, a self-described “diehard fan” who was at the game with his son, told WSCR-AM he walked down the aisle from his seat in about the 10th row after Jimenez's double. He said he wasn't sure La Russa heard him. But he thought he might have convinced the manager to have Engel run.
"He never looked at me. But something obviously happened, and he, as you saw, just sprung into action,” Weinstein said.
La Russa has been a lightning rod for White Sox fans since he was hired for a second stint in Chicago prior to last season. The White Sox won the AL Central in 2021 but have been one of baseball's biggest disappointments this year. Chicago was 60-56 and trailed first-place Cleveland by two games following Monday's win.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Matthew Stafford showed no throwing limitations while fully participating in a scrimmage with the Los Angeles Rams on Tuesday, further underlining the Super Bowl-winning quarterback's declaration that his injured elbow will be fine.
Stafford made all sorts of throws during the lengthy scrimmage at the Rams' training complex, and coach Sean McVay was pleased by the latest step in the veteran quarterback's increased workload.
“I thought he had great energy, great command all day,” McVay said. “I thought he threw the ball incredibly accurately in all parts of the field, really activated all parts of our pass game.”
The 34-year-old Stafford played through elbow pain last season while leading the Rams to the title in his first season with the team. He had an unspecified injection in his elbow during an offseason in which he didn't throw at all in team workouts.
Stafford began throwing to receivers in drills early in training camp, and he has steadily ramped up his workload with a particular focus on building chemistry with new receiver Allen Robinson. Tuesday's practice was the second straight at full participation for Stafford, who says his elbow is more of an irritation than an impediment.
McVay doesn't play his most important players in the preseason, so Stafford won't show off his arm in competition until the Rams' opener Sept. 8 against Buffalo. The Rams' preseason continues Friday night against Houston at SoFi Stadium.
The Rams are thin in the backfield with their top two running backs — Cam Akers and Darrell Henderson — missing this week's practices with what McVay called “soft-tissue injuries.” Youngsters Jake Funk and Kyren Williams got ample first-team snaps in the Rams' scrimmage.
Los Angeles released five players to get under the 85-man roster limit, dropping punter Cameron Dicker, offensive tackle Adrian Ealy, quarterback Luis Perez, tight end Jamal Pettigrew and defensive back Caesar Dancy-Williams.
The cuts mean former New York Giants punter Riley Dixon has won the competition to replace Johnny Hekker, the Rams' four-time All-Pro. Hekker, the Rams' punter since 2012, signed with Carolina last March after being released by the Rams.
Los Angeles also claimed defensive end T.J. Carter off waivers from New Orleans, waiving receiver Warren Jackson with an injury designation to make room.
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(The Hill) – President Biden signed into law a sweeping bill to lower health care costs and address climate change on Tuesday, sealing a legislative victory more than a year in the making.
The $740 billion bill was significantly slimmed down from the original $3.5 trillion package some envisioned last fall, but nevertheless represents an undeniable win for Biden and Democrats in Congress. It includes some of Biden’s key campaign promises and makes the largest investment in federal climate programs in history.
“With unwavering conviction, commitment, and patience, progress does come,” Biden said in the State Dining Room as he prepared to sign the legislation. “And when it does, like today, people’s lives are made better and the future becomes brighter and a nation can be transformed.”
Biden was introduced by House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who negotiated with Schumer to move the package forward, sat in the front row at the signing and was the only other senator in attendance. He received a round of applause when Schumer credited him with getting the legislation across the finish line.
Biden said he looked forward to signing the bill for 18 months and was flanked by lawmakers when he did so, handing the first pen dramatically off to Manchin.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, deputy national climate adviser Ali Zaidi and Reps. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) and Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), among others, attended the event at the White House.
The room gave a long standing ovation for Biden when he got to the podium. He wore a mask in the room when he wasn’t speaking because first lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 earlier on Tuesday.
“Joe, I never had a doubt,” Biden said, referring to Manchin, to laughter from the room.
The bill passed through party-line votes in the Senate and House in recent weeks; no Republicans voted in favor of the package.
By 2030, the law is expected to bring U.S. planet-warming emissions down to lower than they were in 2005 through many of its provisions to promote the deployment of clean energy. It also contains provisions that boost fossil fuels, which were included to secure the support of Manchin.
The bill became tailored to focus on bringing down health care costs and addressing climate change throughout negotiations over the past year. It will allow Medicare to negotiate prices for some drugs and shore up health insurance subsidies, giving Democrats a victory over a pharmaceutical industry that has long opposed such measures.
“In this historic moment, Democrats sided with the American people and every single Republican in the congress sided with the special interests,” Biden told the room.
The White House has pointed to the bill as a way to lower costs for American families during a period of high inflation, though some of the provisions of the bill that will ultimately lower prescription drug costs will take years to go into effect.
Still, Democrats view the climate change provisions in particular as game-changing investments.
“It will make the U.S. a global clean energy powerhouse and very likely we will look back on this as the start of a clean energy economic revolution in the same way we look back at the early 1990s as the IT revolution,” said Josh Freed, leader of the climate and energy program at centrist Democratic think tank Third Way.
In introductory remarks, Clyburn declared that the bill would “lead to transformative change in this country.”
Schumer declared it the “boldest climate bill ever.”
“If the last two months could be summed up in a word, it would be persistence,” Schumer added.
Biden’s signing of the bill is expected to kick off a multistate tour to promote the legislation and other administration accomplishments, with less than three months until the November midterm elections.
Biden, who is headed home to Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday night for the remainder of his summer vacation, is scheduled to attend a Democratic National Committee event in Maryland next Thursday. The president is also expected to host another event early next month to celebrate the passage of the bill.
Through the end of August, Cabinet members like Vice President Harris, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, are expected to take 35 trips to 23 states to discuss the benefits of the new law with the public.
The bill would pay for climate and health measures by introducing new taxes on large corporations with the package’s tax plan involving a 15 percent minimum tax on the income that big companies report to shareholders. The tax would exempt companies taking advantage of accelerated depreciation, a popular deduction that helps pay for capital investments, which was included to secure the support of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.).
The bill also places a 1 percent excise tax on stock buybacks. And it includes a boost to the IRS to go after high-income Americans who are paying less in taxes. The IRS will receive $80 billion to increase enforcement and another $15 million to fund a task force on determining how the IRS can deliver a “direct e-file tax return system.” | https://www.ksn.com/news/politics/biden-signs-expansive-health-climate-bill-into-law/ | 2022-08-17T01:28:30Z | https://www.ksn.com/news/politics/biden-signs-expansive-health-climate-bill-into-law/ | false |
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Meme stocks are back. Both GameStop (GME) and Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) saw their stock prices spike on Tuesday, an echo of the huge swings in meme stock prices that we saw last year.
In 2021, meme stocks like GameStop exploded in price due to large groups of retail investors promoting massive purchases online. A coordinated "short squeeze" of GameStop in January 2021 took its stock price to over $500 -- 30 times more than its $17.25 valuation at the start of the year.
Hedge funds who had heavily "shorted" GameStop -- expecting its price to fall -- freaked out. Popular online brokerage Robinhood froze trading for GameStop and other meme stocks, earning the ire of both investors and politicians, as well as a class-action lawsuit.
Meme stocks -- stocks that gain popularity through social media, often through the sharing of memes -- gradually disappeared from the headlines last year, but the latest rise of BBBY and GME indicates that this investing phenomenon is far from finished.
What are meme stocks and why are they making news in the stock market now? Learn why these stocks often trade for much more than their indicated worth and how online campaigns for meme stocks operate.
Note: Meme stocks are highly volatile and have seen wild price swings up and down over the past few years. These stocks come with a high level of risk and should be treated accordingly. If you're not an experienced investor, we recommend getting professional financial advice before investing any money in the stock market.
What are meme stocks?
Meme stocks are the shares of companies that have gone viral online, primarily propelled by social media hype. The price of a meme stock often rises considerably higher than the value suggested by its company's financial performance.
Meme stock companies are promoted in online message boards and on social media sites like Reddit, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, typically through the sharing of memes. A meme is an idea or cultural signifier -- often a humorous image or animated gif -- that becomes popular online, usually via social media platforms.
Communities promoting meme stocks have their own terms and slang, including "stonks" (a funny term for stocks) and "bagholder" (someone who holds onto a meme stock after its price has crashed).
Who is promoting meme stocks online?
The subreddit WallStreetBets -- commonly referred to as /r/WallStreetBets or WSB -- on the social-media site Reddit is the epicenter of meme stocks. Started in 2012 by Jaime Rogozinski, the community message board has since experienced drama related to removing moderators with possible conflicts of interest.
WallStreetBets moved from internet niche to household name when it pushed GameStop in January 2021. First promoted by user Roaring Kitty in August 2020, the short squeeze of GameStop hit the right notes for going viral -- an outdated but popular gaming company that Wall Street had left for dead, plus a chance for small investors to "stick it to the man" by hurting hedge funds that had shorted the stock heavily.
The WallStreetBets subreddit hit its zenith of virality on Jan. 26, 2021, when Elon Musk tweeted out a link to the board with a one-word message: "Gamestonk!!" The WallStreetBets community currently has 12.4 million members.
Before GameStop, WallStreetBets had become popular online for its aggressive trading strategies, low-brow humor and YOLO ("you only live once") attitude toward investing, with Vice magazine labeling it "the 4chan of finance." An increase in contributors to the subreddit in the late 2010s was likely fueled by the rise of no-commission brokerages like Robinhood and mobile stock trading.
Other internet sites, such as the social media company StockTwits, have been involved in promoting meme stocks, but not on the same scale or with as large an impact as WallStreetBets.
How do meme stocks prices get so high?
It's all about critical mass. For any meme stock to make a noticeable spike in price, enough investors need to be convinced to buy the stock. As early adopters convince investors to buy in, the price starts to rise, attracting more investors struck by FOMO ("fear of missing out"). At some point in a meme stock's rise, owners of the stock start to cash out, bringing the price downward again.
In the case of GameStop, the heavily shorted positions held by hedge funds further helped fuel the rise of the stock price. As investors pushed the price of GameStop skyward, short sellers were forced to buy the stock to cover their positions, making the price of the stock go even higher.
What are the companies whose shares have become meme stocks?
Aside from GameStop and the currently popular Bed Bath & Beyond, several more companies have been taken on the meme stock ride over the past few years. These companies include:
- AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc (AMC). -- A US movie theater chain
- Blackberry Ltd. (BB) -- A Canadian cybersecurity company best known for its outdated portable devices
- Express Inc. (EXPR) -- An American fashion retailer
- Koss Corp. (KOSS) -- A US manufacturer of headphones
- Nio (NIO) -- A Chinese electric car producer
- Nokia Corp. (NOK) -- A Finnish telecommunications company best known for its "brick" mobile phones
- Novavax (NVAX) -- An American pharmaceutical company
- Palantir (PLTR) -- An US software company
- Peloton (PTON) -- An American bicycle/exercise company
- Robinhood Markets Inc. (HOOD) -- An online, commission-free stock brokerage
- Snap (SNAP) -- An American social media company
- Tesla (TSLA) -- A US electric vehicle company
- Tilray Brands (TLRY) -- An American packaged goods and cannabis company
- Vinco Ventures Inc. (BBIG) -- A holding company for digital businesses
- Virgin Galactic (SPCE) -- A US spaceflight company
One interesting potential new meme stock making a splash recently is AMTD Digital Inc., a Hong Kong-based financial technology company with about 50 employees. Near $16 in mid-July, its stock price leapt up to more than $2,000 in early August, putting its value at 4,000 times its earnings and placing it temporarily in the top 10 most valuable publicly traded companies in the world. Its price has since dropped back to slightly under $200.
What's different about meme stocks in 2022?
While the practice of pumping up stock prices far beyond their companies' value has been popular in the past few years, the novelty of the concept may have worn off in 2022.
Casual investors who took part in the GameStop squeeze might not be as motivated to participate in pumping up less-iconic companies like Tilray Brands or Palantir. They might also have lost significant money last year when GameStop's price crashed in 2021 from a peak of $483 to $53.50 in about a week.
In an interview with Yahoo Finance, Interactive Brokers' chief strategist Steve Sosnick argues that the pool of meme-stock investors has shrunk considerably, making GameStop-style stock price spikes less likely.
"[With] the initial meme stock craze you had people coming in who never invested before putting money into these stocks and investing," Sosnick said. "Now it seems to be the same cast of characters chasing the same list of names with a couple of new exceptions every so often."
Ironically, meme stocks may have become part of the traditional stock-market industry that they were threatening in 2021. Financial advisor Roundhill Investments has created an exchange-traded fund (a tradeable mutual fund) based on meme stocks. The fund currently includes securities such as AMC, Palantir and Novavax. | https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/investing/stock-market/rise-of-the-meme-stocks-bed-bath-beyond-and-gamestop-skyrocket-again/ | 2022-08-17T01:31:58Z | https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/investing/stock-market/rise-of-the-meme-stocks-bed-bath-beyond-and-gamestop-skyrocket-again/ | false |
FRESNO, Calif. — A former U.S. Congressman from central California was arrested Tuesday by federal agents on wire fraud, money laundering, and campaign contribution fraud charges stemming from “multiple fraud schemes,” federal prosecutors said.
Terrance “T.J.” Cox was arrested by agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigations in Fresno, where he was booked to the Fresno County jail on a U.S. Marshals hold, jail records showed. It was not immediately known if he has an attorney who can speak on his behalf. An email message sent to Cox Tuesday was not immediately answered.
Cox, a Democrat, represented the 21st Congressional District from January 2019 to January 2021. The district is in the agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley and includes Kings County and portions of Fresno, Kern and Tulare counties.
Cox, 59, was charged with 15 counts of wire fraud, 11 counts of money laundering, one count of financial institution fraud, and one count of campaign contribution fraud, U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert said in a statement.
Talbert said that between 2013 and 2018, Cox allegedly obtained $1.7 million from funds he solicited from clients and loans he got for his companies and then stole by diverting the money to “off-the-book bank accounts.”
Cox partially owned, managed and was employed by several companies and non-profit organizations, including a business that helped companies get loans and federal tax credits, an almond processing company and a non-profit that operated Granite Park, a recreation facility in Fresno, according to the complaint.
Cox also fraudulently obtained a $1.5 million construction loan to develop Granite Park, Talbert said.
After his nonprofit could not qualify for the construction loan for the recreation facility without a party guaranteeing the loan, Cox said that one of the companies he co-owned would guarantee the loan, and submitted a fabricated board resolution that falsely stated that during a meeting all company owners had agreed to guarantee the Granite Park loan.
“No meeting took place, and the other owners did not agree to back the loan," Talbert said.
The loan later went into default, causing a loss of more than $1.28 million, he said.
According to the indictment, when Cox was campaigning in 2017 for the U.S. House of Representatives he reimbursed family members and associates for donations to his campaign, prosecutors said. Cox arranged for over $25,000 in illegal straw or conduit donations to his campaign, Talbert said.
If convicted, Cox faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for wire fraud and money laundering, and up to 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine for wire fraud affecting a financial institution. The charge of campaign contribution fraud carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/former-us-congressman-from-california-arrested/507-ee19adc6-471f-4eac-ae5e-7d20aabe1133 | 2022-08-17T01:38:38Z | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/former-us-congressman-from-california-arrested/507-ee19adc6-471f-4eac-ae5e-7d20aabe1133 | false |
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary incident report regarding a plane’s emergency landing and a co-pilot’s fatal fall mid-flight in North Carolina last month.
In late July, a small aircraft made an emergency landing at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) after losing its main wheel. Officials later found the body of Charles Hew Crooks and released 911 calls revealing that he may have jumped from the aircraft.
Before the incident, the pilot-in-command (PIC) – whose name has not been released – said that the plane flew two skydiving runs, then descended to the Raeford West Airport to pick up a third group of skydivers.
According to the report, Crooks was flying into Raeford when the plane descended below the tree line and “dropped.” Crooks attempted to maneuver the plane, but, before he could stop the sink rate and initiate a climb, the right main landing gear hit the surface of the runway.
The PIC said he then instructed Crooks to declare an emergency and request a diversion to RDU. While flying to RDU, the PIC flew the plane and Crooks communicated with air traffic control.
Shortly after the plane diverted to RDU, Crooks “became visibly upset about the hard landing,” the report said.
In his final transmission to air traffic control, Crooks acknowledged the path the plane was heading.
The newly released NTSB report said Crooks then opened the cockpit window because he “may have gotten sick” and felt like he needed air. The PIC explained there was also some turbulence during the flight.
Crooks then reportedly lowered the ramp in the back of the airplane.
The report said Crooks “got up from his seat, removed his headset, apologized, and departed the airplane via the aft ramp door.”
There was a bar about six feet above the ramp, but the pilot said he did not see Crooks grab it before exiting the plane.
About a minute-and-a-half after Crooks told air traffic control where the plane was heading, the PIC told air traffic control that Crooks exited the plane without a parachute.
The plane then made an emergency landing at RDU and was retained for further examination. The pilot was taken to the hospital, where officials said he was okay.
The full report can be read below.
Shortly after the plane landed, local emergency units began searching for Crooks. Authorities were flagged down by someone who heard a noise in their yard. Crooks was then found dead in the Sonoma Springs Neighborhood, roughly 30 miles south of RDU.
Crooks’ father Hew told Nexstar’s WNCN that his son was “very serious” and an experienced, professional commercial pilot. Crooks was also a flight instructor for a company based at RDU. | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/pilot-may-have-gotten-sick-before-deadly-mid-flight-fall-in-north-carolina-ntsb-report-reveals/ | 2022-08-17T01:40:40Z | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/pilot-may-have-gotten-sick-before-deadly-mid-flight-fall-in-north-carolina-ntsb-report-reveals/ | true |
Aussie rugby star who won Olympic gold tells all about transitioning to become a man in the 'best decision' of his life after 'inner demons' forced him to get help for serious mental health issues
- Australian Rugby 7s Olympic gold medallist Ellia Green has transitioned to male
- He announced the decision in a video to be shown at a inclusivity summit
- Green played 149 matches for Australia, scoring 141 tries
Aussie rugby sevens star and Olympic gold medallist Ellia Green has announced in a video that he has transitioned to male, something he called 'the best decision of his life'.
The 28-year-old realised as a young child that the gender he was assigned at birth was not the identity he felt deep down.
In an inspirational video released by the Bingham Cup, colloquially known as rugby union's gay/inclusive World Cup, Green told the world that he had transitioned to male.
One of Australia's greatest Sevens players, Green won gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics and also played NRLW footy for the New Zealand Warriors - but those sporting achievement pale into insignificance as he attempts to be an inspiration for others who experience similar feelings about their gender identity.
Ellia Green (right) with his partner Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts and their daughter Waitui
Green, who has kept the same name, revealed making the transition to male is the best decision of his life.
The gold medallist has been through some 'dark times', but thanks to the help of his beautiful partner Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts and their daughter Waitui, is in a much better place since the transition.
Green said he's a 'full-time daddy, and it's hard, maybe harder' than anything he's ever done.
He also credits Vanessa, who has a law degree and is now doing her doctorate as someone who has 'inspired me every single day.'
Ellia Green scores a try during the Women's Rugby Sevens World Cup final in 2018. He's since retired after an illustrious career and made the transition to male
Green hopes his story will inspire other trans people to be confident in their decisions about who they want to be.
'I just knew it was going to be the most liberating feeling when I had that surgery and to be in the body I knew I had to be,' Green said in the video announcing the transition.
'That was a bright spark in my mind during these dark times facing demons, but I knew there was light at the end of the tunnel.
'I knew something that would make me really happy is that, No. 1, I am going to live the rest of my life with my partner and my daughter (Waitui). And that I am going to live the rest of my life as her dad,' said Green.
Ellia Green is pictured with his daughter Waitui at home in Sydney. He has gushed over the role of being a father to his adorable daughter
Gender identity in rugby has been a controversial issue since global governing body World Rugby last year banned transgender women from taking part in the women's game over safety concerns.
While not overly keen to centre his own transition in the debate, Green is certain that when it comes to balancing the various issues, inclusion needs to come out at the top.
'People deserve a choice to do what they want and achieve their dreams,' he said.
'No one likes to be excluded because of how they identify, it's like being bullied and judged ... and that's when you see the rates of suicide increase and mental health illness and depression.
'After finishing up my rugby career, that was something I was really excited about because I had been planning it for a while.
'I knew I couldn't do hormone therapy or surgery during my career ... it's all happened so quickly,' Green told Reuters.
Ellia Green scores a try at the Rio Olympics. Green also won a Commonwealth Games silver medal for Australia in 2018
While the retirement from rugby has since had an overwhelmingly positive conclusive, Green admits to some very 'dark days' before the transition.
The rampaging winger and human highlights reel represented Australia for almost 10 years, wearing green and gold for 149 games, as well as playing for the Warriors in the 2020 NRLW competition.
Green was previously a talented sprinter, before being identified as a possible elite recruit for rugby sevens in 2012.
Ellia Green was a sprinter before being discovered by Rugby Sevens recruiters. It led to him playing 149 games for Australia before retiring in November of last year
And the rest, as they say, is history.
The 172cm, 78kg wrecking ball went on to score an incredible 141 tries (the fourth most in history) and 739 points over the 149 matches, and was almost impossible to stop once he had a full head of steam.
He was poetry in motion whenever he had the ball in hand.
Despite the storied career, Green was controversially left out of Australia's rugby sevens squad for the Tokyo Olympics last year, something coach John Manenti described at the time as the 'toughest call of his career'.
It led to a downward spiral of sorts, with Green, like many athletes, linking a disappointment in the sporting world to some sort of blight on her character - a devastating reality many athletes experience that can lead to serious mental health issues.
'This is what happened to me. Pretty much my rugby career ended and I had been in and out of mental health facilities for serious issues. My depression hit a new level of sadness,' Green told AP.
'I spent a lot of time after I finished up my career with Australian rugby just in the house, in a dark room, I didn´t have the confidence to see anyone.
'I was ashamed of myself, I felt I had let a lot of people down, especially myself and my mom. I felt like a complete failure, it was heartbreaking,' he added, explaining the feelings that lingered after being left off the Olympic team.
'The one thing that did keep me positive is that I had already planned my surgery and treatment towards my transition. It was something I was counting down the days with my partner.'
Ellia Green is all smiles with his daughter Waitui in a recent photoshoot at the family's house in Sydney
Ellia Green (left) with partner Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts after she graduated with a law degree from the University of NSW
He's in a much better place now, mentally and physically, with Vanessa and their infant daughter, Waitui.
'Vanessa was pregnant and having to come to hospital to visit, I was having bad episodes. That´s the last time I want her to have to see me like that,' Green said.
'But the only way to help heal is to talk about it ... I'd like to help someone not feel so isolated by telling my story.'
Realising that sharing his experience could be lifesaving for others is what compelled Green to go public in a video to be shown Tuesday to participants at an international summit on ending transphobia and homophobia in sport.
Ellia Green with his partner Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts and their daughter Waitui
The summit is being hosted in Ottawa as part of the Bingham Cup - essentially the Rugby World Cup for gay, transgender and gender fluid people, which has been going for 20 years.
The tournament was first held in 2002 in memory of 9/11 gay rugby hero Mark Bingham, one of the passengers who fought back against hijackers on board United flight 93.
It is now the largest amateur rugby union tournament in the world.
The Bingham Cup was famously promoted by Wallabies star Israel Folau before his Instagram rant condemning gay people, and saying they must repent or go to hell on a now infamous Instagram post that essentially ended his career in Australia.
The only other transgender or gender diverse Olympic gold medalists are Caitlyn Jenner and Quinn, who goes by one name and was part of Canada's winning womens soccer team in Tokyo last year.
Caitlyn Jenner is the most high-profile Olympian to transition after her career - she previously won decathalon gold (as Bruce Jenner) at the 1976 Montreal Olympics
Seeing so few trans athletes at the elite level and so much negative commentary on social media, particularly since World Rugby's decision to bar transgender women from playing women´s rugby, hastened Green's push to highlight the harm those things can cause some children.
Most importantly, it's an attempt to draw attention to a serious health issue - some studies say more than 40 per cent of trans youth had considered attempting suicide.
The story of Ellia Green, who competed in SAS Australia earlier this year, has been a difficult one at times.
Green, who was assigned female at birth, was adopted by Yolanta and Evan Green and moved to Australia from Fiji at age 3.
Ellia Green (left) with mother Yolanta. The rugby star has opened up on what was, at times, a very traumatic upbringing involving domestic violence against his mother
Recalling later childhood memories of domestic violence, seeing Yolanta being abused in another relationship, Green said 'caused a lot of long-lasting trauma.'
'I guess from witnessing that, I knew from an early age that was not (the kind of) relationship I wanted to have, but it shaped me to know how a woman should be treated,' Green said.
'I do believe that even through traumatic circumstances there was a lot to learn from it.'
It was also a childhood that for Green was marked by an overwhelming realization.
Ellia Green is now a proud and doting father to daughter Waitua
'As a kid I remember I thought I was a boy in public, I had a short (haircut) and whenever we met new people they thought I was a boy,' Green said.
'I always used to wear my brother´s clothes, played with tools, and ran around with no shirt on. Until I grew breasts, and I thought 'oh no'.
'My mom would dress me in girlie outfits . . . I always wanted to make her happy, so if she wanted me to wear a dress, I wore a dress,' said Green.
Fate: According to Green (pictured as a child), destiny has always played a huge part in his life - he was lucky to be adopted by chance by the Greens, and later when he started rugby
Yolanta also helped channel Green into sports, and excellence as a sprinter in track and field eventually led to a professional career in rugby.
Sadly, Yolanta passed away four years ago, leaving Green devastated.
Now Green wants to advocate for others, emphasizing the harm that can be caused when sporting bans are introduced and how those policies can amplify negativity toward trans and gender diverse people.
'Banning transgender people from sport is disgraceful and hurtful. 'It only means the rates of suicide and mental health issues will get even worse,' he said in the video.
Ellia Green with his partner Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts and their daughter Waitui pose at their home in Sydney
Green's comments coincide with the release of a study by the University of British Columbia in Canada and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia which shows a disconnect between rugby´s leaders and the women who play rugby.
The survey shows that while about 30 per cent of women think trans women have an unfair advantage they overwhelmingly do not support banning trans athletes from rugby.
Fans, friends and pundits flocked to social media in support of Green's couragement announcement.
Playing rugby at any level, or even coaching, is not on Green's radar for now.
He's currently working at the Sydney International Container Terminal, but is also studying for a university degree in international security and has ambitions to be advising companies on general and cyber security. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-11118057/Australian-rugby-sevens-star-Olympic-gold-medallist-Ellia-Green-transitions-male.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-08-17T01:42:08Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-11118057/Australian-rugby-sevens-star-Olympic-gold-medallist-Ellia-Green-transitions-male.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | true |
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a memoir coming out this fall. “Bibi: My Story” will be published Nov. 22, three weeks after parliamentary elections are to be held in Israel.
“Born a year after the founding of the Jewish state, I have dedicated my life to combat the forces that seek its destruction and make peace with those that do not,” Netanyahu, 72, said in a statement released Tuesday by Threshold Editions, a division of Simon & Schuster that publishes conservative books.
“My story is one of tragedy and triumph, setbacks and successes, lessons learned and loved ones cherished. It is woven with that of Israel, which has proven that faith and resolve can overcome insurmountable odds to forge a brilliant future.”
Other Threshold authors have included former Vice President Dick Cheney and former President Donald Trump, a close ally of Netanyahu’s while he was in the White House. Netanyahu has previously written “A Durable Peace” and “Fighting Terrorism,” among other books.
Before being ousted in elections in 2021, Netanyahu was Israel’s longest-serving leader — and its most polarizing, supported and condemned for his hard-line stance against the Palestinians. He now stands at the center of Israel’s protracted political crisis, where a cluster of parties has refused to sit with him in government because he is on trial for corruption: Israel has held five elections in less than four years.
Netanyahu’s 12-year tenure included heightened settlement building in the occupied West Bank and the presiding over three wars against the Hamas militant group ruling Gaza. He was also a leading opponent of the 2015 nuclear accord between Iran and several world powers, including the United States. Iran resumed some of its nuclear activities after Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018.
Netanyahu is the son of a prominent Zionist and educator, Benzion Netanyahu, and brother of Jonathan Netanyahu, who was killed while leading the famed 1976 rescue of hostages on a hijacked plane in Entebbe, Uganda. A longtime leader of the nationalist Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu also served as prime minister from 1996-1999.
According to Threshold, “Bibi” will range from Netanyahu’s early years to “his singular perspective on the geopolitics of the Middle East” and “his negotiations with Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Trump to secure the future of his country.”
Known as a political wizard able to outmaneuver his opponents, Netanyahu has vowed to regain his old job. But he currently faces charges in three separate cases, including allegations that while in office, he accepted gifts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from Hollywood film producer Arnon Milchan and Australian billionaire James Packer. He is also accused of trying to orchestrate positive coverage in a major Israeli paper in exchange for promoting legislation that would have hampered the news outlet’s chief rival, a free pro-Netanyahu daily.
Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing. | https://www.wdtn.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/former-israeli-pm-netanyahu-has-memoir-coming-in-november/ | 2022-08-17T01:42:57Z | https://www.wdtn.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/former-israeli-pm-netanyahu-has-memoir-coming-in-november/ | false |
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) —
A mural that was painted in a Vermont synagogue more than 100 years ago by a Lithuanian immigrant — and hidden behind a wall for years— has been termed a rare piece of art and has been painstakingly moved and restored.
The large colorful triptych painted by sign painter Ben Zion Black in 1910 shows the Ten Commandments with a lion on both sides, the sun beaming down, and columns and rich curtains at the borders. Now known as the “Lost Mural,” it’s a rare representation of a kind of art that graced wooden synagogues in Europe that were largely destroyed during the Holocaust, experts say.
“When I learned about the mural and what it is and the story behind the artist, I was completely amazed, and there is nothing like this elsewhere in this country,” said Josh Perelman, chief curator and director of exhibitions and interpretation at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.
It’s a representation of a style that was present throughout Europe but Perelman said he has never heard of anyone bringing that style to the United States.
“It makes it both a treasure and also a significant work, both in American Jewish religious life and the world of art in this country,” he said.
Black, who was also a musician, playwright and poet, as well as a sign maker, decorated the inside of what was then the Chai Adam Synagogue in 1910 in a Jewish neighborhood in Burlington known as Little Jerusalem. He painted the triptych — the Lost Mural — in the apse of the building, as well as other murals in the synagogue’s interior.
But the synagogue closed in 1939 when it merged with another one, Ohavi Zedek, and the original building went on to have other uses, including a carpet store, according to the Lost Mural website.
When the building was being turned into apartments in 1986, Ohavi Zedek archivist Aaron Goldberg and a fellow synagogue member got the owner to install a wall in front of the mural, according to the website. Black’s two daughters donated money to have archival photographs taken of the art, but it was unclear at the time whether the mural could be saved, Goldberg said.
More than 20 years later, the wall board was cut away, and photographs were taken and sent to museums around the country and world asking what should be done with the artwork, Goldberg said.
“The universal consensus then was that we needed to do everything we could and take all the possible measures to take out the original mural because of its uniqueness, because it really is a symbol for perhaps thousands of murals and this type of painting that were lost in Eastern Europe and and Western Europe,” Goldberg said.
The plaster was in poor condition and paint was flaking off in many sections. The plaster was stabilized and a conservator worked to reattach the paint. Then a temporary structure was built so that the building’s roof could be removed, the mural’s lathes reinforced, and the artwork could be encased in a metal frame for the move in 2015 by crane and then truck to the current Ohavi Zedek Synagogue.
In its new home, conservators restored damaged sections of paint and cleaned the entire mural, revealing its original vibrant color and detail. Paint was also matched and added where it had fallen off. That work took place this and last year, during the coronavirus pandemic, when the building was largely unused.
About $1 million was raised for the project through donations from local, state, national and international donors. The Lost Mural Project, an independent secular nonprofit, is still seeking donations to replicate the green corridors on the original painting that did not survive, said Goldberg, its president.
The renewed mural was unveiled this summer, and tours are ongoing.
Senior Rabbi Amy Small saw the beauty of the restoration step by step, when she came to the office or sanctuary, which she said was a reminder of how significant the mural is.
It’s significant not only to the Jewish community and the descendants of those early settlers of Burlington, but also to other immigrants in the United States, which offered safety for Jewish and other families fleeing from many parts of the world, she said.
“It’s both a Jewish story and an American story,” Small said, as well as a “universal story.”
Another part of the Lost Mural story is the “magnificent, creative and devoted people who have nurtured its preservation and its re-presentation to the world,” Perelman said. “The Burlington community, the Burlington Jewish community, the state of Vermont, have been marvelous in their sense of the importance of this work of art and their commitment to bringing it back to view.” | https://www.wdtn.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/long-hidden-synagogue-mural-gets-rehabbed-relocated/ | 2022-08-17T01:43:11Z | https://www.wdtn.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/long-hidden-synagogue-mural-gets-rehabbed-relocated/ | true |
New Braunfels City Manager Robert Camareno has introduced a balanced $368.67 million budget proposal for fiscal year 2022-23, which includes employee compensation increases of 5.5%, new police and firefighter positions and a property tax rate reduction to support it.
Camareno introduced his proposal during a special City Council meeting last week.
All city funds will total $368,673,416, combining $312,090,024 in budgeted expenditures with $56,583,392 in year-ending fund balance. That’s an increase of about $46.3 million from the current adopted budget, driven by multiple factors, such as one-time funding to support various equipment and initiatives in the general fund of about $12 million. In addition, the city’s grant fund includes the allocation of all active and pending grants, which totals nearly $27 million.
“Each of the budgets that I’ve been part of in my career have not been able to address all the needs of the organization,” Camareno told council members during the budget presentation. “The goal is to try to address as many as possible. We’re trying to strike a balance of those needs of the organization, and I believe that this proposed budget addresses many of the needs of this organization — certainly not all.”
The proposed budget includes $175,623,890 in total revenue, an increase of about $21 million in comparison to the last fiscal year. The increase is driven by a number of factors, such as the continued return to pre-pandemic revenue in the general fund, enterprise funds and other special revenue funds — projected state and federal revenue to offset active and awarded grants.
Available funds to support the budget also include $108,475,593 in capital reserves and $84,573,933 in reserves.
“Such an important thing to do is to maintain strong financial reserves,” Camareno said. “That goes into the ratings that the bond rating agencies give us, which then determines the interest rate of which we issue debt.”
Expenditures for all funds come to $312,090,024, an increase of about $39 million in comparison to the last fiscal year. The increase is driven by a number of factors, such as one-time funding in the general fund and the full allocation of all active and pending grant-related expenditures.
The budget allocates all available capital funds, a large portion of which will not be spent on projects for two to three years. The increase in debt service is associated with the remaining 2013 and 2019 bonds as well as a recently approved $10 million public safety tax note.
Camareno added that conservative budgeting since the onset of the pandemic allows for a significant investment in one-time equipment, technology and initiatives for the upcoming fiscal year.
Tax rates
The budget was calculated with a 2022 proposed combined property tax rate of 41.39 cents per $100 assessed property valuation, a reduction of about 6.15 cents from the current tax rate of 47.54 cents.
That’s the largest property tax rate decrease since 1996, according to Camareno.
The 2022 no-new-revenue tax rate, previously known as the effective tax rate, is 39.09 cents, and the voter approval tax rate is 42.33 cents.
The proposed rate for operations and maintenance, the city’s primary operating fund, is 20.5 cents, a decrease of about 4.24 cents from fiscal year 2021.
Senate Bill 2, passed by state lawmakers in 2019, prevents public entities from raising taxes by more than 3.5% annually to support the operation and maintenance rate without voter approval.
The proposed interest and sinking rate, used for debt service, is 20.89 cents, a decrease of 1.91 cents from the 2021 rate.
Council members unanimously approved the preliminary tax rate last week.
According to Camareno, the higher than anticipated growth in taxable values has provided sufficient borrowing capacity at the proposed lower rate to support the proposed $10 million public safety tax note, which was approved by council members on Monday, as well as the proposed 2023 bond program.
Fund balance
The city’s fund balance policy requires that the general fund maintain a fund balance of at least 25% or three months of operating costs. The overall proposed budget would maintain a 30% fund balance, Camareno said.
Camareno reported that adjusted city appraisals of certified values in Comal and Guadalupe counties increased from $10.23 billion in 2021 to $12.28 billion this year, with taxable values rising from $8.72 billion to $10.72 billion.
General fund revenues, which support the majority of the city’s core services, are projected at about $88.4 million, an increase of about $9 million from the previous year, driven by multiple factors such as budget to budget growth in sales taxes and the full recovery and growth of revenue sources impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic such as Das Rec, parks and recreation and interest earnings.
General fund expenditures are projected at $100.5 million, an increase of about $10.1 million from the previous fiscal year, driven by increased one-time investments of about $12.6 million, additional positions to support current demands for services, planned compensation increases for all city employees, inflationary adjustments to operating budgets as well as full-year funding for compensation increases and positions added in fiscal year 2022.
Sales taxes (34.6%), property taxes (29.9%) and other taxes and franchise fees (14.1%) make up nearly 76% of all general fund revenue sources.
Capital improvement projects, general government and public safety comprise the largest slices of budgeted general fund expenditures.
Proposed expenditures for other funds are as follows: capital funds, $111,048,092; special revenue funds, $46,447,617; debt service fund, $25,752,596; enterprise funds $19,744,990; and internal service funds, $8,480,870.
A significant majority of capital funds will not be spent until fiscal years 2024 to 2026, when several large bond projects are scheduled to occur.
New positions
Camareno said positions were added throughout the organization to address the increased demand for services.
The proposed budget includes six additional firefighters that will eventually be assigned to Fire Station No. 7, a project that broke ground last week. The proposed budget also includes a civilian fire inspector to improve and maintain inspection schedules.
Funding is included to add four additional police officers, two school resource officers, a crime analyst position and a part-time training division position.
The proposal allows for staff augmentation in the Transportation and Capital Improvements Department to support the Drainage Area Master Plan Update, which is primarily grant funded, and a part-time permit technician, a cost-neutral position in the general fund.
The budget includes two business analyst positions to support existing and new software systems in the Information Technology Department, a part-time claims assistant position for the Human Resources Department, a part-time administrative assistant and a buyer position in the Finance Department.
Funding is included to support a special events coordinator position in the Communications Department to centralize community event planning and facilitation and staff augmentation in the Economic Development Department to expand access to federal funding, specifically targeted at housing initiatives.
For the Municipal Court, two part-time positions, a bailiff and a court clerk to enhance security efforts and support the current caseload are proposed.
The proposed budget calls for reclassifying a current part-time position to full-time at the Westside Community Center in anticipation of growth in visitation and program participation.
In the Parks and Recreation Department, the proposal calls for reclassifying three part-time rangers to two full-time positions, allowing for better support of year-round patrol and event management demands.
The proposed budget also includes a part-time customer service representative to enhance the development process and staff availability at the front counter and an assistant planner to provide support in maintaining statutory requirements and internal goals for development review.
The proposed budget also includes the elimination of two seasonal positions and addition of one full-time maintenance worker at Landa Park Golf Course and adding one team member at New Braunfels National Airport to support terminal operations.
Equipment & initiatives
Last week, council members moved forward with a $10 million tax note to support several critical public safety equipment and initiatives that were originally considered for the 2023 bond program. The action allows the city to initiate the purchase of the equipment and projects earlier, mitigating supply chain concerns and cost increases.
The equipment and initiatives supported by the tax note include public safety radio replacement, ladder truck replacement for the Fire Department, the renovation and expansion of Fire Station No. 5 and replacement of a police command vehicle.
A total of $1.1 million is included to support one-time equipment and initiatives for the fire department, with the largest investment being three squad/hybrid use trucks deployed at the three busiest fire stations, providing significant relief to the department’s engine and ladder fleet. An additional ambulance remount is also included in the proposed budget ($205,000).
In the general fund, $187,000 is allocated to support various EMS and specialized response equipment such as IV pumps, automated external defibrillators, ventilators, rope/rescue gear and dive gear.
The police department’s proposed budget also includes about $1 million in one-time equipment and initiatives, including replacement of the body-worn camera inventory, purchase of a Truck-Mounted Attenuator to block traffic during traffic accidents and other traffic control incidents, and SWAT and patrol-related equipment.
About $1 million is included to support street maintenance equipment that includes an emulsion storage tank, an additional motor grader, an additional oversized dump truck, a drum roller, battery backup for traffic signals and the first stage of non-compliant signage replacement.
To support the city’s drainage division, $280,000 is included to replace and upgrade multiple tractor and shredder attachments. With this additional equipment, city officials anticipate that existing crews will have the capacity to provide mowing services along key Texas Department of Transportation right-of-way areas and medians such as Farm-to-Market Road 306 and Loop 337.
The proposal also includes $115,000 to support the rehabilitation of the Landa Park Aquatics Complex parking lot. The repaving funding is part of an overall stormwater treatment basin project. In total, the project is anticipated to cost approximately $900,000, the majority of which will be federally funded through the city’s Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan program.
A copy of the proposed budget and plan of municipal services is on file in the City Secretary’s Office for public inspection between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the New Braunfels City Hall, 550 Landa St.
A copy is also on reserve at the New Braunfels Public Library, 700 East Common St., during regular library hours.
A copy is also available on the city website at www.newbraunfels.gov.
A public hearing on the proposed budget and tax rate is set for 6 p.m. on Sept. 8 in the council chambers at City Hall. Council members are expected to consider the first reading of the proposed budget and tax rate at that meeting.
A second reading on the proposed budget and Plan of Municipal Services, along with the property tax rate, is scheduled for Sept. 12.
The new fiscal year begins Oct. 1. | https://herald-zeitung.com/community_alert/city-of-new-braunfels-aims-to-add-more-firefighters-and-police-with-368-67m-budget/article_78c31774-1da4-11ed-aaad-c7d127ce9eba.html | 2022-08-17T01:48:46Z | https://herald-zeitung.com/community_alert/city-of-new-braunfels-aims-to-add-more-firefighters-and-police-with-368-67m-budget/article_78c31774-1da4-11ed-aaad-c7d127ce9eba.html | false |
Canadian rapper Drake smashes 55-year-old record previously held by The Beatles
Canadian rapper Drake has surpassed a long-held record held by The Beatles.
Key points:
- The Beatles had the most top five hits on Billboard's Hot 100 chart for 55 years
- Drake has now beaten that record, landing his 30th track in the top five
- It's one of many Billboard records the Canadian rapper has broken
For 55 years, The Beatles had the most top five hits on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, with 29.
Now, Drake is the artist with the most top five hits in Hot 100 history, having had 30 songs reach that milestone.
Drake features on DJ Khaled's Staying Alive, also featuring Lil Baby, which debuted at number five on this week's chart.
It's the latest in a long list of Drake releases to create Billboard chart history.
It means Drake has also extended his records for the most top 10s, top 20s, top 40s and overall Hot 100 entries in the chart's 64-year history.
The rapper celebrated his achievement on social media, with Billboard also posting a video announcement.
The Hot 100 has included streaming data for the past decade, which means an entire album's tracklist can chart after its debut.
It used to be that only songs that were released commercially for individual purchase were eligible to chart.
Drake has broken record after record after record
The Grammy award-winning artist has numerous Billboard accolades, including the most Hot 100 hits at 277.
Drake has also had a record seven songs peak at number one on the Hot 100.
He also has 44 songs that have debuted in the top 10 of the Hot 100, meaning he has the most top 10 Hot 100 debuts of any artist.
Drake was born Aubrey Drake Graham in Toronto in 1986.
He first rose to stardom as an actor in the TV teenage drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation.
His musical breakthrough came in 2009 when he released the mixtape So Far Gone, which included the hit single Best I Ever Had.
He has taken on other substantial projects in entertainment, becoming an executive producer of TV series Euphoria, starring Emmy award-winner Zendaya, in 2019. | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-17/drake-beats-the-beatles-55-year-old-record/101341298 | 2022-08-17T01:49:23Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-17/drake-beats-the-beatles-55-year-old-record/101341298 | false |
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The PGA Tour is in Delaware for the first time and the buzz still surrounded Tiger Woods, even if he didn’t have clubs and wasn’t even at the golf course.
Woods flew to Wilmington on Tuesday for a private meeting of top players to discuss the threat of Saudi-funded LIV Golf, according to two people aware of the plans at the BMW Championship.
They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the privacy of the meeting. One person invited to the meeting said it was to get on the same page against LIV Golf, along with taking more ownership in the direction of the PGA Tour.
That meeting led to a previously scheduled Player Advisory Council meeting being moved back an hour or so to later Tuesday afternoon. Woods flew up from his home in Florida with Rickie Fowler, who didn’t qualify for the second FedEx Cup playoff event.
The meeting was held away from Wilmington Country Club at a hotel, according to another person aware of the details. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan was not invited.
“There is a player meeting, but that’s all I can tell you about that,” Jon Rahm said.
Monahan met with the players informally last week following a hearing in which a federal judge denied a request by three LIV Golf players seeking to play in the PGA Tour postseason.
He also met with the players a week after the U.S. Open to detail plans for big increases in prize money on the PGA Tour, qualifying changes and a new schedule that will return to a January start to the season in 2024.
“I’m not sure what, if anything, will change, what will be the result of it,” Patrick Cantlay said. “I think it’s good that a lot of the players are getting together to discuss the situation out here, especially given the current circumstances.”
Woods has been a strong opponent of LIV Golf. The rival league’s leader, Greg Norman, confirmed in an interview with Fox News last month that Woods was offered in the range of $700 to $800 million to take part. Norman said that was before he was hired to run LIV Golf.
Norman and Woods have never been close, going back to when Woods arrived on the PGA Tour and instantly became the biggest star golf had seen in generations.
Woods was particularly forceful at the British Open last month when he said of Norman not being invited to festivities around the 150th Open, “Greg has done some things that I don’t think is in the best interest of our game.”
He said he disagreed with players getting enormous signing bonuses to defect to LIV Golf, saying they have turned their backs on the tour that made them famous.
The PGA Tour has reacted to the depth of Saudi funding with a $50 million bonus pool called the Player Impact Program that pays 10 leading players based on how much attention they get. Some players, such as Cantlay, the defending FedEx Cup champion, don’t like the program.
Also in the works is a series of overseas tournaments at the end of the year that will reward the top performers. The tour hasn’t announced set details or a sponsor.
LIV Golf has played three events offering $25 million apiece in prize money to a group of players that includes Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau. It resumes its eight-tournament schedule after the FedEx Cup ends next week.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WARNING
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Warning
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
833 PM CDT Tue Aug 16 2022
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south Texas, including the following county,
Webb.
* WHEN...Until 815 PM CDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying
and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 831 PM CDT, emergency management reported widespread
flooding on Highway 44 from Encinal to the Duval-Webb county
line. Recent heavy rainfall has led to sharp rises on the San
Casimiro, Black, and Colmena Creeks. Water levels will be
slow to subside over the next couple of days.
- This includes the following streams and drainages...
Nueces River, Salado Creek, San Casimiro Creek, Colmena
Creek, Olmos Creek, Los, Black Creek, Venado Creek, Becerra
Creek, Alamito Creek, Carrizitos Creek, Charamusca Creek and
Jaboncillo Creek.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
mainly rural areas of Northeastern Webb County
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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Meady indicted in connection with a Columbus shooting
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – A man has been indicted in connection with a Columbus shooting.
The grand jury indicted Willie Meady on four counts of aggravated assault and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
This indictment comes from a September 2021 incident.
The shooting happened in a store parking lot on the city’s southside.
At the time, former Police Chief Fred Shelton told WCBI that Meady was shooting at suspect Caleb Gardner as he drove away.
A car that had two small children inside of the vehicle was struck and had nothing to do with the shooting.
There was an argument inside the store before the shooting started.
No trial date has been set for Meady. | https://www.wcbi.com/meady-indicted-in-connection-with-a-columbus-shooting/ | 2022-08-17T01:55:38Z | https://www.wcbi.com/meady-indicted-in-connection-with-a-columbus-shooting/ | true |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
744 PM CDT Tue Aug 16 2022
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Texas...
Rio Grande At Foster Ranch affecting Val Verde County.
For the Rio Grande...including Foster Ranch, Pandale Crossing,
Langtry, Cauthorn Ranch Near Juno, Bakers Crossing 19N Of Comstock,
Pafford Crossing nr Comstock, Del Rio, Eagle Pass...Major flooding
is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Even 6 inches of fast-moving flood water can knock you off your feet
and a depth of 2 feet will float your car. Never try to walk, swim,
or drive through such swift water. If you come upon flood waters,
stop, turn around and go another way.
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Flooding is occurring or is imminent. Most flood related deaths
occur in automobiles. Do not attempt to cross water covered bridges,
dips, or low water crossings. Never try to cross a flowing stream,
even a small one, on foot. To escape rising water find another route
over higher ground.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued Wednesday morning at 700 AM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL TOMORROW MORNING...
* WHAT...Major flooding is occurring and major flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Rio Grande At Foster Ranch.
* WHEN...Until tomorrow morning.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 2:15 PM CDT Tuesday the stage was 26.5 feet.
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 2:15 PM CDT Tuesday was 26.8 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage
late tonight and continue falling to 1.5 feet early Sunday
afternoon.
- Flood stage is 14.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
25.9 feet on 09/23/2008.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Fld Observed Forecasts (7 pm CDT)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Wed Thu Fri
Rio Grande
Foster Ranc 14.0 26.5 Tue 2 pm CDT 5.0 2.0 1.5
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People like talking to Jake Silberman. Want to discuss your love life while you’re wasted in a Denver parking lot? He’ll listen. The former Portland comedy stalwart has a knack for getting people to open up—especially when they shouldn’t.
That raw, chaotic impropriety fuels Silberman’s new documentary, Back at It, which captures his ability to ad-lib in unpredictable company (whether onstage or approaching a stranger on the street, he scarcely sets down his microphone). Premiering on YouTube today, the film documents Silberman’s cross-country van tour in June 2021, watching as he observes America process, deny and party its way through politics and the pandemic.
Though Silberman moved away from Portland just two months ago, he’s spent this summer again crisscrossing the nation in his no-frills white van (and doesn’t take up official New York City residency until November). WW caught up with him to discuss his steely interviewing nerves, last summer’s distinct COVID-19 dynamics, and whether he still wonders about his film’s colorful road characters.
WW: Between this documentary and your Jake on the Streets web series, what have you learned about interviewing?
Jake Silberman: A lot of my style is to let [people] talk. I don’t try to interject my perspective. But it’s weird as a comedian because it’s like, “Should I try to make this funny? Or more documentarian?” That’s my biggest tension all the time.
Do you view impromptu interviewing as an extension of your crowd work?
Yes and no. You’re performing for the camera, which is much harder than for a live audience where you’re reading the room. I don’t think I’m great at it yet. But it’s a good skill to have, and people like living vicariously through video. I enjoy being at the heart of the action.
A lot of the interviewees in this film are 2 am drunk, but others seem to be going through real stuff. Do you still think about any of them?
Some of them! There was the moment in Denver where the guy got pretty upset about my Star of David [pendant]. It didn’t really offend me. It’s more like, “Man, what is this dude about that he’s so enraged by a dude wearing a necklace on a Saturday night?” It’s so funny too because I’m just this broke comic in a van trying to get funny interviews on the street, and he took it to this place where I represent all this shit in his life. I’m nobody, dude.
Have you always been good at tolerating discomfort?
Comedy obviously has helped that: hecklers, bad sets, whatever. But I was kind of a little shit-talker as a kid. I was the guy in my friend group who’d mouth off to somebody bigger. But there’s something about the microphone and the camera that gives it more of a “What are these people gonna do? Swing on me?” They know whatever happens is on camera. And I’ve found there is something about humans that they want to talk on camera and are OK telling a guy they don’t know personal shit.
When you reflect on summer 2021, was it a distinct social era?
That summer was unique because people were pent up. That summer, once you got vaccinated, you really did think, “This is all over for me.” So people were going out with that energy. And it was weird for [comedians]! Getting back on stage was so strange. When I was editing the doc, I was looking at how out of practice I was. I wasn’t in game shape.
As a comedian, what do you hope making a documentary accomplishes?
I’ve been doing comedy for over nine years, and it’s still weird for me to say I’m a comedian. You have that self-doubt. Now, I would never call myself a filmmaker, but I have made a film. It would be really nice if it opened a door to a job going around the country interviewing people—even if it wasn’t a comedy thing. I love talking to people, hearing their stories, going to new places. Now, I’ve been doing comedy long enough to know most things you do don’t lead to anything. I just hope it gets out to people who enjoy it and realize it was something we put a lot of effort into.
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Cheney braces for loss as Trump tested in Wyoming and Alaska
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Polls closed across Wyoming Tuesday night as Rep. Liz Cheney, a leader in the Republican resistance to former President Donald Trump, fought to save her seat in Congress as voters weigh in on the direction of the GOP.
Cheney is bracing for a loss against a Trump-backed challenger in the state in which he won by the largest of margins during the 2020 campaign.
Win or lose, the 56-year-old daughter of a vice president is vowing to remain an active presence in national politics as she contemplates a 2024 presidential bid. But in the short term, Cheney is facing a dire threat from Republican opponent Harriet Hageman, a Cheyenne ranching industry attorney who has harnessed the full fury of the Trump movement in her bid to expel Cheney from the House.
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“Today, no matter what the outcome is, is certainly the beginning of a battle that is going to continue,” Cheney told CBS News after casting her vote Tuesday, standing alongside her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney. “We’re facing a moment where our democracy really is under attack and under threat. And those of us across the board — Republicans, Democrats and independents who believe deeply in freedom and who care about the Constitution and the future of the country — have an obligation to put that above party."
Many of Wyoming's voters don't seem to agree with their three-term Republican congresswoman.
Biden signs massive climate and health care legislation
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill into law on Tuesday, delivering what he has called the “final piece” of his pared-down domestic agenda, as he aims to boost his party’s standing with voters less than three months before the midterm elections.
The legislation includes the most substantial federal investment in history to fight climate change — some $375 billion over the decade — and would cap prescription drug costs at $2,000 out-of-pocket annually for Medicare recipients. It also would help an estimated 13 million Americans pay for health care insurance by extending subsidies provided during the coronavirus pandemic.
The measure is paid for by new taxes on large companies and stepped-up IRS enforcement of wealthy individuals and entities, with additional funds going to reduce the federal deficit.
In a triumphant signing event at the White House, Biden pointed to the law as proof that democracy — no matter how long or messy the process — can still deliver for voters in America as he road-tested a line he will likely repeat later this fall ahead of the midterms: “The American people won, and the special interests lost.”
“In this historic moment, Democrats sided with the American people, and every single Republican in the Congress sided with the special interests in this vote,” Biden said, repeatedly seizing on the contrast between his party and the GOP. “Every single one.”
Western states hit with more cuts to Colorado River water
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — For the second year in a row, Arizona and Nevada will face cuts in the amount of water they can draw from the Colorado River as the West endures more drought, federal officials announced Tuesday.
Though the cuts will not result in any immediate new restrictions — like banning lawn watering or car washing — they signal that unpopular decisions about how to reduce consumption are on the horizon, including whether to prioritize growing cities or agricultural areas. Mexico will also face cuts.
But those reductions represent just a fraction of the potential pain to come for the 40 million Americans in seven states that rely on the river. Because the states failed to meet a federal deadline to figure out how to cut their water use by at least 15%, they could see even deeper cuts that the government has said are needed to prevent reservoirs from falling so low they cannot be pumped.
"The states collectively have not identified and adopted specific actions of sufficient magnitude that would stabilize the system,” Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton said.
Together, the missed deadline and the latest cuts put officials responsible for providing water to cities and farms under renewed pressure to plan for a hotter, drier future and a growing population.
Trump's angry words spur warnings of real violence
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man armed with an AR-15 dies in a shootout after trying to breach FBI offices in Cincinnati. A Pennsylvania man is arrested after he posts death threats against agents on social media. In cyberspace, calls for armed uprisings and civil war grow stronger.
This could be just the beginning, federal authorities and private extremism monitors warn. A growing number of ardent Donald Trump supporters seem ready to strike back against the FBI or others who they believe go too far in investigating the former president.
Law enforcement officials across the country are warning and being warned about an increase in threats and the potential for violent attacks on federal agents or buildings in the wake of the FBI’s search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.
Experts who study radicalization and online disinformation — such as Trump's aggressive false claims about a stolen election — note that the recent increase was sparked by a legal search of Trump's Florida home. What might happen in the event of arrests or indictments?
“When messaging reaches a certain pitch, things start to happen in the real world,” said former New Jersey Attorney General John Farmer, a onetime federal prosecutor who now directs the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. “And when people in positions of power and public trust start to echo extremist rhetoric, it’s even more likely that we’re going to see real-world consequences.”
Explosions rock Crimea in suspected Ukrainian attack
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Explosions and fires ripped through an ammunition depot in Russian-occupied Crimea on Tuesday in the second suspected Ukrainian attack on the peninsula in just over a week, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 people.
Russia blamed the blasts in the village of Mayskoye on an “act of sabotage,” without naming the perpetrators.
Separately, the Russian business newspaper Kommersant quoted residents as saying plumes of black smoke also rose over an air base in Crimea’s Gvardeyskoye.
Ukraine stopped short of publicly claiming responsibility for any of the blasts, including those that destroyed nine Russian planes at another Crimean air base last week. Russia seized the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and has used it to launch attacks against Ukraine in the war that began nearly six months ago.
If Ukrainian forces were behind the explosions, that would represent a significant escalation in the war. Such attacks could also indicate that Ukrainian operatives are able to penetrate deeply into Russian-occupied territory.
Scientists say new climate law is likely to reduce warming
WASHINGTON (AP) — Massive incentives for clean energy in the U.S. law signed Tuesday by President Joe Biden should reduce future global warming “not a lot, but not insignificantly either,” according to a climate scientist who led an independent analysis of the package.
Even with nearly $375 billion in tax credits and other financial enticements for renewable energy in the law, the United States still isn’t doing its share to help the world stay within another few tenths of a degree of warming, a new analysis by Climate Action Tracker says. The group of scientists examines and rates each country’s climate goals and actions. It still rates American action as “insufficient" but hailed some progress.
“This is the biggest thing to happen to the U.S. on climate policy,” said Bill Hare, the Australia-based director of Climate Analytics which puts out the tracker. “When you think back over the last decades, you know, not wanting to be impolite, there’s a lot of talk, but not much action.”
This is action, he said. Not as much as Europe, and Americans still spew twice as much heat-trapping gases per person as Europeans, Hare said. The U.S. has also put more heat-trapping gas into the air over time than any other nation.
Before the law, Climate Action Tracker calculated that if every other nation made efforts similar to those of the U.S., it would lead to a world with catastrophic warming — 5.4 to 7.2 degrees (3 to 4 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial times. Now in the best case scenario, which Hare said is reasonable and likely, U.S. actions, if mimicked, would lead to only 3.6 degrees (2 degrees Celsius) of warming. If things don’t work quite as optimistically as Hare thinks, it would be 5.4 degrees (3 degrees Celsius) of warming, the analysis said.
Kansas abortion vote: Why recount with such a large margin?
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas on Tuesday began a partial hand recount of this month’s decisive statewide vote in favor of abortion rights, a move forced by two Republican activists even though the margin was so large that the recount won’t change the outcome.
Nine of the state’s 105 counties are doing the recount at the request of Melissa Leavitt, of Colby, in far northwestern Kansas, who has pushed for tighter election laws. A longtime anti-abortion activist, Mark Gietzen, of Wichita, is covering most of the costs.
A larger than expected turnout of voters on Aug. 2 rejected a ballot measure that would have removed protections for abortion rights from the Kansas Constitution and given to the Legislature the right to further restrict abortion or ban it. It failed by 18 percentage points, or 165,000 votes statewide.
It drew broad attention because it was the first state referendum on abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
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Serena Williams loses to Raducanu; US Open next
MASON, Ohio (AP) — The second stop on Serena Williams’ farewell tour was a short one.
The 40-year-old Williams fell to 0-2 in matches since announcing “the countdown has begun” on her career, losing 6-4, 6-0 to U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu in the Western & Southern Open on Tuesday night.
Williams said last week in a Vogue magazine essay and an Instagram post that her career was winding down, although she did not explicitly say the U.S. Open, which begins Aug. 29 in New York, would be her last tournament.
The Cincinnati event was the second U.S. Open tuneup for Williams, and the next time she takes the court will be at Flushing Meadows. She lost to Belinda Bencic in straight sets last week in Toronto. A day before the announcement, Williams beat Nuria Parrizas-Diaz for her first match win since the 2021 French Open.
Williams is a 23-time Grand Slam champion, most recently in 2017 at the Australian Open, when she was pregnant with daughter Olympia. She said wanting to expand her family was a big reason she plans to step away.
Columbia River's salmon are at the core of ancient religion
ALONG THE COLUMBIA RIVER (AP) — James Kiona stands on a rocky ledge overlooking Lyle Falls where the water froths and rushes through steep canyon walls just before merging with the Columbia River. His silvery ponytail flutters in the wind, and a string of eagle claws adorns his neck.
Kiona has fished for Chinook salmon for decades on his family’s scaffold at the edge of the falls, using a dip net suspended from a 33-foot pole — like his father did before him, and his son will after.
“Fishing is an art and a spiritual practice,” says Kiona, a Yakama Nation elder. “You feel exhilaration in your body when you dip that net in the water and feel the fish. Then, you’re fighting the fish. The fish is fighting you, tearing holes in the net, jerking you off the scaffold.”
He finds strength, sanctity, even salvation in that struggle. The river saved Kiona when he returned from the war in Vietnam. As he battled addiction, depression and trauma, the river gave him therapy no hospital could.
When he lies on the rocks by the rushing river and closes his eyes, he hears the songs and the voices of his ancestors. The water, he says, holds the history of the land and his people.
Wolfgang Petersen, blockbuster filmmaker of 'Das Boot,' dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker whose World War II submarine epic “Das Boot” propelled him into a blockbuster Hollywood career that included the films “In the Line of Fire,” “Air Force One” and “The Perfect Storm,” has died. He was 81.
Petersen died Friday at his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood after a battle with pancreatic cancer, said representative Michelle Bega.
Petersen, born in the north German port city of Emden, made two features before his 1982 breakthrough, “Das Boot," then the most expensive movie in German film history. The 149-minute film (the original cut ran 210 minutes) chronicled the intense claustrophobia of life aboard a doomed German U-boat during the Battle of the Atlantic, with Jürgen Prochnow as the submarine’s commander.
Heralded as an antiwar masterpiece, “Das Boot” was nominated for six Oscars, including for Petersen's direction and his adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim’s best-selling 1973 novel.
Petersen, born in 1941, recalled as a child running alongside American ships as they threw down food. In the confusion of postwar Germany, Petersen — who started out in theater before attending Berlin’s Film and Television Academy in the late 1960s — gravitated toward Hollywood films with clear clashes of good and evil. John Ford was a major influence. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-in-brief-at-9-04-p-m-edt/article_02421f74-df7b-59f4-a360-4a1b6efc9a74.html | 2022-08-17T02:06:38Z | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-in-brief-at-9-04-p-m-edt/article_02421f74-df7b-59f4-a360-4a1b6efc9a74.html | false |
The Storm Team 11 Forecast calls for passing clouds overnight with a 30% chance of scattered showers or a stray thunderstorm. The chance of rain is 30%. The low will be 62 degrees.
Wednesday will give way to a mix of sun and clouds along with a 30% chance of scattered showers and possible thunderstorms. The high will be 80 degrees.
Mostly cloudy skies are forecast for Wednesday night with a 20% chance of scattered showers. The low will be 60 degrees.
Thursday will give way to a mix of sun and clouds along with a 30% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms. The high will be 82 degrees.
We may see a shower Thursday night with a low of 62 degrees.
Look for a mix of sun and clouds on Friday with a 50% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms. The high will be 82 degrees.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms are forecast for Saturday with a high of 82 degrees. The rain chance Saturday will be 50%.
Mostly cloudy skies are forecast Sunday with a 50% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms. The high will be 82 degrees.
Mostly cloudy skies are forecast Monday and Tuesday with a 70% chance of showers and thunderstorms both days. The high will be near 79 degrees both days with low temperatures in the middle 60’s.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
756 PM CDT Tue Aug 16 2022
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Texas...
Rio Grande At Foster Ranch affecting Val Verde County.
For the Rio Grande...including Foster Ranch, Pandale Crossing,
Langtry, Cauthorn Ranch Near Juno, Bakers Crossing 19N Of Comstock,
Pafford Crossing nr Comstock, Del Rio, Eagle Pass...Major flooding
is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued Wednesday morning at 800 AM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE TOMORROW EVENING...
* WHAT...Major flooding is occurring and major flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Rio Grande At Foster Ranch.
* WHEN...Until late tomorrow evening.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:15 PM CDT Tuesday the stage was 25.3 feet.
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 7:15 PM CDT Tuesday was 26.8 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage
late tomorrow morning and continue falling to 1.4 feet Sunday
evening.
- Flood stage is 14.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
25.9 feet on 09/23/2008.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Fld Observed Forecasts (7 pm CDT)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Wed Thu Fri
Rio Grande
Foster Ranc 14.0 25.3 Tue 7 pm CDT 5.0 2.0 1.5
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Blanchard Springs Caverns to reopen after two years
Published: Aug. 16, 2022 at 8:46 PM CDT|Updated: 25 minutes ago
FIFTY-SIX, Ark. (KAIT) – For those who loved to visit the Blanchard Springs Caverns, you’ll get your opportunity to do so once again!
Officials announced the popular destination will be opening Thursday, Aug. 18 after being closed for two years.
They said multiple factors, most notably ongoing facility repairs and safety measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic, forced the shutdown.
You can plan your return trip to the famed limestone caverns by clicking here.
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Anne Heche car crash scene footage released: Inside damaged Los Angeles home
Anne Heche was removed from life support Sunday and died at the age of 53
New video footage documenting the aftermath of Anne Heche's car crash Aug. 5 revealed damage to the house after the late actress crashed her car into the house, and it erupted into flames.
Representatives from multiple law enforcement agencies combed through the uninhabitable home in the Mar Vista neighborhood near Venice Beach where Lynne Mishele lived with her pets.
In video provided to Fox News Digital, a Los Angeles Police Department official stands in what used to be a doorway with the sky visible through the ceiling between charred wooden beams.
A woman who appears to be Mishele, who rented the home, is seen sifting through the wreckage in an attempt to find salvageable belongings.
ANNE HECHE ‘PEACEFULLY TAKEN OFF LIFE SUPPORT’
In the video, a firefighter is seen measuring the distance from the car's entry point to a back wall.
"That's where the car was," the firefighter says.
The Emmy Award-winning actress was removed from life support Sunday after being declared brain dead two days earlier.
ANNE HECHE'S LIFETIME MOVIE STILL SET TO AIR FOLLOWING HER DEATH
Mishele described Heche's death as "devastating" while updating fans in a video posted on Instagram Friday.
"Her family and her friends and her children, especially, really have suffered a great loss, and my heart goes out for them," Mishele said.
"This entire situation is tragic, and there really just are no words. I'm sending love to everybody involved."
In a previous social media post, Mishele noted that she was "still recovering and trying to figure out up from down."
"I did want to send a huge, huge thank-you to everybody from all over the world, for the overwhelming amount of love and compassion and generosity and kindness that people have shown over the past week," she added.
A GoFundMe set up by the owners of the property on behalf of Mishele has raised over $178,000.
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In overhead video captured from the Aug. 5 scene, Heche was wheeled out from the burning home on a stretcher by firefighters with a white protective sheet covering her body.
Just as they reached the ambulance, she abruptly sat up for a moment before entering the emergency medical vehicle. Following the crash, her rep confirmed Heche never "regained consciousness since shortly after the accident."
Heche suffered a "severe anoxic brain injury" and remained "in a coma" under medical care at the Grossman Burn Center in West Hills for the opportunity to donate her organs through the OneLegacy Foundation.
"It has long been her choice to donate her organs, and she's being kept on life support to determine if any are viable," her representative confirmed last week.
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A blood test later revealed "the presence of drugs," the Los Angeles Police Department told Fox News Digital. But additional testing was necessary to "rule out any substances that were administered at the hospital as part of her medical treatment."
Heche found small-screen success on soap operas in the ‘80s and portrayed twins on "Another World," which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards.
She rose to fame on the silver screen in the late ‘90s for her starring roles alongside Johnny Depp in "Donnie Brasco," with Harrison Ford in "Six Days, Seven Nights" and in Gus Van Sant’s remake of "Psycho." | https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/anne-heche-car-crash-scene-footage-released-inside-damaged-los-angeles-home | 2022-08-17T02:19:43Z | https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/anne-heche-car-crash-scene-footage-released-inside-damaged-los-angeles-home | false |
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Creating peer leaders for adolescent health and empowerment
In India, as much as 23 per cent of girls aged 20-24 were married before they turned 18. Around 6.9 per cent of married girls aged 1-19 gave birth to children before they were 21. In many parts of India, girls don’t get the opportunity to actualize their potential. Married early, they begin childbearing at ages when they are still too young and unprepared to be mothers.
In many parts of India, girls don’t get the opportunity to actualize their potential. Married early, they begin childbearing at ages when they are still too young and unprepared to be mothers. According to NFHS-5 data, in India, as much as 23 per cent of girls aged 20-24 were married before they turned 18. Around 6.9 per cent of married girls aged 1-19 gave birth to children before they were 21.
With such startling numbers, it is no wonder that many adolescent girls suffer poor health and nutrition and limited access to education. Unfortunately, these barriers open a wide range of disabling gender norms that severely restrict their overall wellbeing and development.
The government on its part has proactively introduced several healthcare programmes such as the Kishori Shakti Yojana, Balika Samridhi Yojana, Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and the Adolescent Reproductive Sexual Health Programme. Recognizing the importance of schools and the critical role they play in helping students establish lifelong healthy behaviours, school-based health promotion activities have been incorporated as a part of the Health and Wellness component of the Ayushman Bharat Programme. The School Health & Wellness Programme was launched in February 2020.
While these measures are very commendable, most are service and entitlement based and are hampered the lack of the adolescent voice in planning and implementation. The Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) launched in 2014, attempted to address this gap. The key principles of this programme is adolescent participation and leadership, equity and inclusion, gender equity and strategic partnerships with other sectors and stakeholders (teachers, caregivers, parents and other family members). It introduces community-based interventions through peer educators and is underpinned by collaborations with other ministries and state governments.
However, two critical issues need to be considered to make any intervention for adolescents successful.
First, adolescents should not be viewed as one homogeneous group. Intervention strategies need to be designed to accommodate geographical and socioeconomic factors. Second, there is a need to recognize adolescents as a group that can lead their own intervention, in recognition also with the UN Convention for the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) principles that highlights the need for participation (of the child) in designing interventions.
Realizing the wide diversity among adolescents, and with the motto of working with the most vulnerable communities, KHPT also developed a vulnerability framework to help identify the most vulnerable sub segments within the broader adolescent population based on indicators highlighting their disparities. KHPT implemented the Sphoorthi programme for adolescent girls in one of the most backward pockets of Karnataka, namely Koppal. Sphoorthi is a community-centric model, with a holistic approach that aims to improve the health and wellbeing of adolescent girls using an empowerment approach. It does not just work with individual girls as their experience has shown them that paying attention to the contexts in which the girls live equally matters. In addition, it is an empowerment-based programme that uses a role model approach to create young adolescent leaders who can demonstrate positive attitudes and perspectives and bring about change in their own communities.
When our organization began the Sphoorthi programme in Koppal in North Karnataka (in 2018), it was found that 25 per cent of adolescent girls were married before the age of 18 years, while 10 per cent of girls between 15-19 years had begun childbearing. According to the Public Affairs Index report (2020), Karnataka ranks low (1.22) on the Gender Parity Index. This means that the situation is much worse and adolescent girls are at a higher risk for school dropout, early marriage, and childbirth. After many consultations with marginalized adolescent girls in northern Karnataka, we identified a clear lacuna on the ground- the absence of local peer role models to raise girls’ aspirations, and inspire them to stay in school and build a future for themselves..
To bring girls to safe spaces where they could exercise their own agency, life skill education sessions, samvadas (dialogues), leadership, communication camps and exposure visits (where they were introduced to women achievers) were carried out. These were critical to engendering self-esteem and confidence, helping girls take control of their lives. The power that emanated from within and gave them the confidence to negotiate with the community and eventually influence them. The intervention has found that peers influence people’s attitudes, aspirations, and behaviours, particularly concerning schooling. Local role models of adolescent girls and parents who demonstrated and championed the importance of girls' education, delayed marriage, improved nutrition, and better hygiene were created among their peers.
The aim of the project is not just to mobilize and train adolescent girls and parents as role models who will demonstrate and champion the importance and benefits of girls’ education and equitable gender norms among their peers in one district, but to create such peer role models in each village across the country to empower adolescent girls and in turn help them assert their right to good health and development.
By using these peer leader models, it is easy to focus on creating and empowering role models from within the communities. By doing so the programme increased their rates of secondary school completion, reduced the rates of child marriage and increased nutritional parameters. The role model girls then transfer the batton of power to their won peers in their villages and the powerful cycle of change and empowerment will continue.
Mallika Tharakan is Lead, Knowledge Management, KHPT
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To avoid a shortage and help ensure patients have access to an adequate supply of the medicine, FDA will not object to the temporary distribution of Sitagliptin containing NTTP above the acceptable intake limit of 37 ng per day, and up to 246.7 ng per day.
The acquisition marks the entry of the group in the state of Haryana. The upcoming integrated healthcare complex located on the Golf Course Road at Gurugram would be commissioned in a span of 24 months. | https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/creating-peer-leaders-for-adolescent-health-and-empowerment/93578319 | 2022-08-17T02:20:41Z | https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/creating-peer-leaders-for-adolescent-health-and-empowerment/93578319 | false |
The level and depth of talent more than jumps off the page.
You have a 6-foot-7, 400-pound freshman offensive line.
Then there’s several freshmen wide receivers starting on Friday nights.
And the main attraction is one of the fastest players in the state—a world-class athlete coming off a junior season as Southeast Conference running back of the year.
Yes, the Bradford football team impresses at just about every level, and the Red Devils hope to make noise in a competitive league in 2022.
Keany Parks.
Yup, that’s the entire sentence.
This 6-foot-1, 180-pound super athlete totaled 1,270 yards (810 rushing, 460 receiving) with 13 total touchdowns as a junior.
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Bradford head coach Gazmeni Osmani called Parks “the best football player I’ve ever coached.”
Parks has a verbal commitment to play D1 college football at Wyoming University next fall.
But this fall, Osmani is hoping Parks takes that next step up to help the Red Devils improve on last year’s 5-5 mark and 5-2 SEC record.
Don’t let that 5-5 fool you, though.
Bradford lost in the playoffs to a great Arrowhead team, 43-27, in a hard-fought contest, and obviously state champion Franklin took care of the Red Devils.
But the Red Devils finished the season winners of three of their last four games, beat both Tremper and Indian Trail, and right now can claim the unofficial title of “King of Kenosha” in the public school realm based on last season’s standings.
This year, things will be more challenging. Bradford graduated 25 seniors, and only 10 letter-winners return.
Parks and junior quarterback Devin Wheaton are back, but much of the starting lineup with young and new to varsity.
“We are inexperienced but have a very athletic group of kids that have played football, but not at the varsity level,” Osmani said. “We expect to compete with all the teams in our conference and state.”
Don’t get it twisted, though, these freshmen can play. The raw, pure talent is definitely there.
“We are returning one of the best players in the state in Keany Parks,” Osmani said. “It is nice to always have a D1 commit to lead your team. With the additions of QB Devin Wheaton and some great young talented freshmen, I am excited about our potential. We also have Ethan McClain and Jay’veon Williams that are tough as nails at linebacker, they play with great passion and drive. It may take a little for these guys to learn how to play together, but once they do it will get interesting. I see us competing in our conference and maybe surprising a few teams.”
So far, so good.
On Saturday, the first action of the season, the Red Devils came out of their scrimmage healthy and hopeful.
“It went well,” Osmani added. “I was very happy with how the O-line played, and my freshmen wide receivers did very well in their first varsity action.”
“Wheaton played well and impressed with his composure and throws.”
Key returning letter-winners include McClain, Corbin Ramos (LB/RB), Addison Funk (OL) and Christian Aries Sowma (OL).
Osmani said other letter-winners that should play big roles will be Wheaton under center, tight end Nolan Shiplett, Colin Freitag at safety, linebacker Jay’veon Williams and Marcus Childers.
The newcomers is where it gets interesting.
Montrel Seals is a 6-foot-5, 400-pound monster up front on the O-line, and Osmani added three exclamation points after the number 400 when listing Seals.
It’s safe to say Seals will turn plenty of heads.
Plus, freshmen receivers Brandon Walton and Tony Jones are already making an impact.
Freshmen defensive back Ma’kye Watkins and junior d-back Kemonie Parks will also play key roles.
There will be no off nights in the Southeast Conference, and Osmani knows that.
He describes a league where every victory is earned, and no team can be overlooked.
“Our conference goes through state winner Franklin,” Osmani said. “Until our conference can beat them, they will be favored to win it. Every team in our conference will be better this year. Our cross town rivals ITA and Tremper are always tough to beat and Horlick, Oak Creek, and Case will be well-coached and ready to play.” | https://www.kenoshanews.com/sports/high-school/high-school-football-parks-to-add-plenty-of-flash-to-a-youthful-bradford-team/article_e2dfb016-1d8d-11ed-b78e-9718e6abb524.html | 2022-08-17T02:23:02Z | https://www.kenoshanews.com/sports/high-school/high-school-football-parks-to-add-plenty-of-flash-to-a-youthful-bradford-team/article_e2dfb016-1d8d-11ed-b78e-9718e6abb524.html | false |
Florida Primary is one week away as early voting continues, gubernatorial candidates campaign
TAMPA, Fla. - Seven days from now, the Florida Primary will be here.
It’s been over a week now since early voting began, and Floridians are weighing in. As of Monday morning, more than 156,000 have shown up to the polls over the past 8 days, and another 1.1 million have cast their vote by mail. Democratic voters are leading the way with mail-in ballots, while GOP voters have cast the majority of in-person votes by about 20,000.
As of Monday morning, 156,192 people had voted at the sites, including 80,404 registered Republicans and 63,923 registered Democrats, according to the state Division of Elections website.
Democrats, meanwhile, were outpacing Republicans in voting by mail, by a margin of 528,808 ballots to 429,245.
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More than 14.3 million Floridians are eligible to vote in the primary elections, with Republicans holding a registration edge over Democrats of nearly 229,000 voters.
READ: Crist, Fried hitting the road ahead of Aug. 23 Florida Primary
As early voting continues, several key races are heating up, including the governor's race. The candidates vying to challenge Gov. Ron DeSantis in November are now crisscrossing the state, trying to drum up support.
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Gubernatorial candidate and U.S. Representative Charlie Christ is currently leading the polls to become the Democratic nominee. Crist is making the most of these final days, touring around Florida, hosting numerous rallies. He said his goal is to make DeSantis a one-term governor. He’s set to be in Pensacola for a round table discussion Tuesday.
MORE: One-on-one with Charlie Crist: His views on abortion, home insurance crisis
Agricultural commissioner Nikki Fried may be trailing behind Crist in the polls, but she isn’t too far behind. Fried is using the remaining days of her campaign to give an all-out effort to reach as many voters as possible.
The Democratic candidate will be on the road for most of the next week on her "Get Out The Vote" bus tour as she plans to hit as many Florida cities as possible including Tallahassee, Jacksonville, and the Bay Area. Meanwhile, fried is set to give her closing speech this evening in Tallahassee.
READ: One-on-one with Nikki Fried: Her views from marijuana to home insurance crisis
And to Governor Desantis, whose attention recently has been on a more national scale as he is traveling around the U.S. to build support for candidates endorsed by former President Donald J. Trump.
But, despite rumors of a possible presidential run himself, he said his sights are still set on remaining in the governor's mansion for another term. He plans to tour part of Florida to help promote school board candidates he had endorsed for school board races
Early voting sites will be open through this Saturday, with some counties also planning to open sites on Sunday. The primaries are scheduled for Tuesday, August. 23.
The News Service of Florida contributed to this report | https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-primary-is-one-week-away-as-early-voting-continues-gubernatorial-candidates-campaign | 2022-08-17T02:23:44Z | https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-primary-is-one-week-away-as-early-voting-continues-gubernatorial-candidates-campaign | false |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
756 PM CDT Tue Aug 16 2022
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Texas...
Rio Grande At Foster Ranch affecting Val Verde County.
For the Rio Grande...including Foster Ranch, Pandale Crossing,
Langtry, Cauthorn Ranch Near Juno, Bakers Crossing 19N Of Comstock,
Pafford Crossing nr Comstock, Del Rio, Eagle Pass...Major flooding
is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued Wednesday morning at 800 AM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE TOMORROW EVENING...
* WHAT...Major flooding is occurring and major flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Rio Grande At Foster Ranch.
* WHEN...Until late tomorrow evening.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:15 PM CDT Tuesday the stage was 25.3 feet.
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 7:15 PM CDT Tuesday was 26.8 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage
late tomorrow morning and continue falling to 1.4 feet Sunday
evening.
- Flood stage is 14.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
25.9 feet on 09/23/2008.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Fld Observed Forecasts (7 pm CDT)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Wed Thu Fri
Rio Grande
Foster Ranc 14.0 25.3 Tue 7 pm CDT 5.0 2.0 1.5
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Bismarck police stop driver with tire spikes after high-speed chase on motorcycle and in car
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - A Jamestown man is in custody after police say he led them on a high-speed chase through Bismarck.
Bismarck police say 32-year-old Brandon Schweitzer was driving a motorcycle with no rear plates Monday evening. They say they attempted to stop him, but he fled down River Road and up Burnt Boat Drive, periodically turning off his headlights and recklessly passing other cars. They say he pulled up to a passenger car before fleeing again the wrong way down N 7th Street.
Several hours after the chase began, police say Schweitzer jumped in a passenger car and fled again. A woman who had gotten out of the car identified Schweitzer to police. Police used the NDHP aircraft to track Schweitzer, and officers say he drove over tire spikes on West Divide Avenue. With debris falling from his tires, he came to stop and police arrested him.
Schweitzer told police the red and blue lights had triggered his PTSD from prison.
Schweitzer is charged with reckless endangerment and fleeing among other charges.
He has three additional open felony cases in Burleigh and Morton Counties that all include fleeing from police charges.
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TIJUANA (Border Report) — Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero is being applauded for “being gutsy” and “standing up to drug cartels,” but others worry her statements are reckless and have only placed a bullseye on her back.
Caballero has held several news conferences since Friday night when a cartel promised widespread mayhem in Tijuana and other cities across Northern Baja California.
During one encounter with the media, Caballero suggested that organized crime organizations settle their debts with “those who owe them and not families or citizens.”
But Mario Delgado Carrillo, president of the executive committee for the Morena Party, to which Caballero and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador belong, called the mayor’s comments “unfortunate and militant.”
“You can’t tell them to ‘collect from those who owe you,'” he said. “The most important thing is to coordinate efforts within your government to make sure this doesn’t happen again instead of encouraging further acts of violence.”
Adán Augusto López Hernández, Mexico’s Interior Secretary, blamed Caballero’s comments on “nerves getting the best of her.”
“I wouldn’t give it too much importance,” he said. “Let’s understand the time and circumstances of the news conference (happened early Saturday morning) she had been through very tense moments with all the vehicle fires and that’s what probably prompted her comments.”
Since her initial meeting with the media, Caballero has gone on to make other comments that have been considered incendiary, such as, “We’re not going to let organized crime dictate the rules to us,” and “Don’t involve my people, the citizens of Tijuana.”
She’s also tried to justify her remarks by saying, “People along the border speak boldly and wildly.”
But on social media, most of the responses to her statements have been very critical.
A woman named Liz said, “It’s best she doesn’t say anything instead of speaking ‘wildly’ while trying to justify her lack of communication skills.”
A man named Conrado Acevedo tweeted, “It’s great we speak directly and boldly along the border but you should not be promoting ‘collecting debts to narcos.'”
Miguel Cataro wrote, “She wants to fix things by letting crime go on as long as it’s between criminals.”
And Rafa, from Mexicali, tweeted, “Everything is clear, allow these criminals to please continue torturing, mutilating and shooting themselves publicly as long as they don’t bother the public, perfect.”
A citizens group that calls itself Movimiento Ciudadano de Baja California, is demanding an apology from Caballero.
It sent a statement to media outlets across the state saying: “We are demanding a public apology from the mayor for the offensive remarks made against the citizenry, if not we will ask the state’s congress to begin removal procedures against her.”
On Tuesday, Caballero went on a national radio broadcast to “clarify” her comments on Joaquin López Dóriga’s show with Radio Fórmula based in Mexico City.
“I want to clear things up, I did not mean to normalize criminal activity in Tijuana … the message that night from organized crime was for citizens to stay inside, no criminal is going to order what we can do, we’re not going to allow it, all I meant to say is we’re not going to allow you to touch any Tijuana resident.” | https://www.texomashomepage.com/border-report/tijuana-mayors-comments-about-organized-crime-draw-praise-criticism/ | 2022-08-17T02:28:27Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/border-report/tijuana-mayors-comments-about-organized-crime-draw-praise-criticism/ | true |
RICHMOND, Va. -- Large racial disparities among Virginia organ donors have kept some patients on the organ transplant waiting list for years, while others never get the call that a life-saving match was found. LifeNet, a nonprofit that works with people in need of new organs, wants to renew hope by putting a spotlight on National Multi-Ethnic Donation Awareness Month.
"I’ve been waiting for this call for seven years now. I’m kind of losing hope," Darrell Jackson, who is in need of a kidney donation, said.
While he waits for a donation, his life revolves around dialysis four hours a day, three times a week.
"It’s just hard on you," he said. "Hard on your body. Hard on your mind."
CJ Richardson knows the angst Jackson and others feel as they wait for a kidney match.
The Richmond-area comedian and community activist is also a kidney transplant recipient.
He recently shared a video on social media, celebrating seven years since a donor saved his life. The video stressed the importance of organ donation.
Richardson said he understood the significant racial disparities among organ donors in Virginia.
According to LifeNet Health, while African Americans make up 19 percent of Virginia’s population, they represent 50 percent of the patients on the state’s organ transplant waiting list.
"The need is this, there are people waiting on the list and unfortunately people die waiting," Kia Potts, with LifeNet Health, said.
Potts said family members of potential African American donors are less likely to consent to their loved one being a donor and African American majority geographical areas show significantly lower levels of donor registrations.
She and Richardson, who uses his comedy platform to raise awareness about organ donation, said the best thing to do is to talk about it.
"There are multiple ways you can give life. Doesn’t have to be a deceased donor. You can be a living donor. I’m constantly saying all the time, we have to educate our people," Richardson said. "We have to make it a household conversation. A day-to-day conversation. Doesn’t have to be an uncomfortable conversation to discuss organ donation, which it is in some homes and communities, that’s why the numbers are so low."
By spreading knowledge, LifeNet hopes more donors will sign up and make a life-saving difference.
"Any opportunity that there is community, there is a place to talk and have a conversation, that’s where we want to be," Potts said. "We want to build trust in the community and want them to know we are trying to save lives restore health and give hope."
To become an organ donor, you can go to your closest DMV or register here. If you want to see if you’re a match for Darrell Jackson, it’s as simple as contacting his care team at VCU Medical Center.
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
2-8-8-1
(two, eight, eight, one)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
2-8-8-1
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Super Retail Group sales up 1pct to $3.6b
Super Retail Group says sales rebounded in the second half of fiscal 2022 and the new year is off to a strong start, but it's expecting that momentum to slow as interest rates hikes and inflation bite.
The Supercheap Auto, Rebel Sports, BCF (Boating, Camping and Fishing) and Macpac brand owner on Wednesday reported $3.55 billion in sales for the 53 weeks to July 2.
That's sales growth of 1.0 per cent compared to the prior fiscal year, when adjusted for the fact it was a week shorter.
Super Retail Group reported its normalised profit after tax fell after tax fell 20 per cent to $244.1 million, as the company faced increased costs from global supply chain disruptions, particularly at BCF, and invested in its store network.
The company refurbished some existing stores and opened 21 new ones, for a total of 716 stores across Australia and New Zealand.
The result beat consensus estimates of $223 million in net profit after tax (NPAT). Shares in Super Retail Group shares were up 7.5 per cent to a six-month high of $10.99 at 10.43am AEST.
Managing director and chief executive Anthony Heraghty said it was a "strong set of financial results with another year of record sales".
Online sales were up 44 per cent to $601 million, representing 17 per cent of total group sales. Click and collect sales were up 73 per cent to $332 million, accounting for 55 per cent of all online sales.
For the first six weeks of FY23, sales are up 17 per cent compared to a year ago, but much of Australia was in lockdown at the time.
"While current trading remains strong, the Group expects rising interest rates and higher costs of living will start to impact consumer spending in the second half and that elevated levels of demand which arose during the pandemic will begin to subside," Super Retail Group said, adding it is taking action to control costs.
It is also targeting up to 30 store openings in 2022/23, including a BCF superstore in Townsville.
The company reports 11 rCX (Rebel Customer Experience) concept stores are now open and performing strongly and it expects to convert another five of its 155 Rebel stores to the format, which offers a more immersive customer experience including gaming and a sports hub.
The retailer declared a full-franked final dividend of 43 cents per share, compared to 55 cents per share a year ago. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11118431/Super-Retail-Group-sales-1pct-3-6b.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-17T02:33:47Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11118431/Super-Retail-Group-sales-1pct-3-6b.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
805 PM CDT Tue Aug 16 2022
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Texas...
Nueces River Near Tilden affecting McMullen County.
For the Nueces River...including Tilden...Major flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov/crp.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY EVENING UNTIL FURTHER
NOTICE...
* WHAT...Major flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Nueces River Near Tilden.
* WHEN...From Wednesday evening until further notice.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:30 PM CDT Tuesday the stage was 2.5 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage
tomorrow evening and continue rising to a crest of 23.0 feet
early Friday morning.
- Flood stage is 14.0 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Fld Observed Forecasts (7 pm)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Nueces River
Tilden 14.0 2.5 Tue 7 pm 12.8 22.8 22.5 21.0 18.7
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Blasts hit Russian base in Crimea, Ukraine targets supply lines
By Natalia Zinets
KYIV, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Russia blamed sabotage for explosions at one of its military bases in Moscow-annexed Crimea while Kyiv hinted it was responsible as Ukrainian officials said their strategy was to destroy supply lines supporting Russia's invasion.
The blasts on Tuesday engulfed an ammunition depot at a military base in the north of the Crimean peninsula, disrupting trains and forcing the evacuation of 2,000 people from a nearby village, according to Russian officials and news agencies.
Plumes of smoke were later seen at a second Russian military base in central Crimea, Russia's Kommersant newspaper said. The action followed explosions at a Russian military air base in western Crimea last week that destroyed eight warplanes.
Russia's defence ministry said Tuesday's explosions at the ammunition depot were "a result of sabotage". The Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014, is the main supply route for Russian forces in southern Ukraine and the base for its Black Sea fleet.
Ukraine did not confirm or deny responsibility for the explosions though its officials openly cheered Russia's setbacks there.
Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak and chief of staff Andriy Yermak both exulted on social media at "demilitarisation", an apparent mocking reference to the word Russia uses to justify its invasion.
"Operation 'demilitarisation' in the precise style of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will continue until the complete de-occupation of Ukraine's territories," Yermak wrote on Telegram.
Podolyak told Britain's Guardian newspaper later that Ukraine's strategy was to destroy Russian "logistics, supply lines and ammunition depots and other objects of military infrastructure. It's creating a chaos within their own forces."
As Kyiv considers a potential counter-offensive in the south, the explosions raised the prospect of new dynamics in the six-month-old war if Ukraine now has capability to strike deeper in Russian-occupied territory or pro-Kyiv groups are having success with guerrilla-style attacks.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Ukrainians to steer clear of Russian military bases and ammunition stores and said the explosions could have a number of causes, including incompetence.
"But they all mean the same thing - the destruction of the occupiers' logistics, their ammunition, military and other equipment, and command posts, saves the lives of our people," he said in an evening address.
In Tuesday's blasts, an electricity substation also caught fire, according to footage on Russian state TV. Seven trains were delayed and rail traffic on part of the line in northern Crimea had been suspended, Russia's RIA news agency said.
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
Attention has also focused in recent days on shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactor complex, Europe's largest, in a Russian-occupied area of southeastern Ukraine.
Russian-installed officials there, quoted by Interfax news agency, said on Tuesday Ukrainian forces shelled the city of Enerhodar where the plant is located. They accused Ukraine of doing so to provoke Russia into returning fire.
Later on Tuesday, 20 Russian rockets and 10 artillery rounds hit the city of Nikopol on the Ukrainian government-controlled bank of the Dnipro river across from Enerhodar, the Ukrainian regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko wrote on Telegram.
He said four people were wounded.
Reuters could not immediately verify either side's accounts.
Each side has blamed the other for heightened risks to the Zaporizhzhia plant, which Russia seized in March, though Ukrainian technicians continue to operate it.
The Ukraine conflict has caused millions to flee, killed thousands and deepened a geopolitical rift between the West and Moscow, which calls its invasion a "special military operation" to demilitarise its neighbour and protect Russian-speaking communities. Ukraine, which was part of the Russian-dominated Soviet Union until its 1991 break-up, accuses Russia of waging an imperial-style war of conquest.
GRAIN EXPORT PROGRESS
There was further progress on a U.N.-brokered deal for Ukrainian grain exports to resume, after a Russian blockade of Black Sea ports had worsened a global food crisis.
With ports unblocked, the ship Brave Commander left the Ukrainian port of Pivdennyi carrying the first cargo of food aid bound for Africa from Ukraine since Russia's invasion.
And the first ship to leave under the July deal, the Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni, docked in the Syrian port city of Tartous.
Ukraine can export 3 million tonnes of grain from its ports in September and may eventually be able to export 4 million tonnes monthly, a government official said.
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres will visit Odesa, Ukraine's main Black Sea port, on Friday while on a trip to the country. He will meet Zelenskiy and President Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, which helped engineer the grain accord, a U.N. spokesman said.
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EU admits to "double standards" on Ukraine, Palestine
MADRID, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- The European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell admitted recently that the EU has applied double standards on the Ukraine crisis, as opposed to the situation in Gaza.
"We are very often criticized for double standards. But international politics is largely about applying double standards. We do not use the same criteria for all problems," Borrell, the bloc's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, told the Spanish-language daily El Pais during a recent interview.
The Ukraine crisis directly affects Europe, Borrell said.
Meanwhile, he called Gaza, with neither electricity nor drinking water, an "open-air prison," saying that resolving the Middle East conflict "is not in the hands of the EU."
Commenting on Borrell's remarks on applying double standards in international politics, Jose Luis Centella, president of the Communist Party of Spain, told Xinhua on Monday that "this shows the cynicism typical of a colonial mentality."
He called on the international community to actively promote the reform of the world governance system to make it fairer, more supportive, and more effective in solving the problems and challenges that humanity faces today.
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A peregrine falcon that had found its home in Leicester has died amid bird flu fears. The bird of prey was one of several that had settled at Leicester Cathedral in 2017.
A webcam previously set up as part of a local conservation project follows the lives of the Leicester peregrines with viewers regularly updated on the latest news through an accompanying blog. But in an update on Monday, August 15, Leicester Peregrines announced the female adult had died after looking unwell for several days.
The falcon's death follows Leicester City Council's announcement of the closure of Abbey Park's animal enclosure after the Avian Influenza virus was detected in the city. The Leicester Peregrines Project said in a statement that bird flue was the "probable" cause.
READ MORE: Pets Corner forced to shut to limit bird flu spread after virus detected in two of the city's parks
The statement, shared by Leicestershire and Rutland Ornithological Society, which runs the project alongside the city council and the cathedral, said: "Regular viewers of the Leicester Peregrines webcam and blog may have noticed a lack of updates in recent days. We had become concerned about the health of the adult female who was spending more time in the box and didn't appear to be feeding particularly well, despite the opportunities.
"She was becoming lethargic and very sleepy. Whilst initially this was considered to be due to the extreme temperatures we have been having, her posture was beginning to look strange and unnatural.
"Unfortunately, she fell from the platform in the early hours of August 15. Her body has been found and will be collected by Defra to determine the cause.
"We are aware that there is an outbreak of Avian Influenza in the city, and it is very probable that this will be identified as the cause. This is yet another dramatic twist in the history of the Leicester Peregrines, but it is only through the monitoring of sites like ours that show how precarious the life of a Peregrine is.
"Our fingers are crossed that both the male and juvenile TJC will remain healthy."
Four new eggs were hatched at the Leicester Cathedral earlier this year, much to the delight of regular webcam viewers.
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Dear J.T. & Dale: A company I applied to online had me submit a résumé and application. Afterward, an email came stating that I should follow a link and fill out questions. The link states, “Company participates in the federal government Work Opportunity Tax Credit Program.” They wanted my birth date, Social Security number and other information. I, of course, did not fill it out, but it is odd. It even asks if you have used unemployment. What? — Jenna
J.T.: Actually, this is a real thing, and it’s run through the Department of Labor. Here’s what the DOL website says: “The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a federal tax credit available to employers who invest in American job seekers who have consistently faced barriers to employment. Employers may meet their business needs and claim a tax credit if they hire an individual who is in a WOTC targeted group.”
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DALE: The target groups include those who’ve been receiving government assistance, like unemployment or SNAP (food stamps), as well as residents of certain communities, some veterans and ex-felons.
J.T.: The website goes on to say, “Employers must apply for and receive a certification verifying the new hire is a member of a targeted group before they can claim the tax credit.” So, the company you applied to is looking to save money, and the people who filled in the information are probably being considered first. You may want to go back in and add the info, if you think you may qualify. Otherwise, leave it blank.
DALE: This type of hiring is not terribly common yet, perhaps because companies are required to do a fair amount of reporting. However, with companies getting tax credits of $2,400-$9,600 per qualified employee, and with suppliers like ADP providing an automated system, we’re likely to see more of it.
Jeanine “J.T.” Tanner O’Donnell is a career coach and the founder of the leading career site www.workitdaily.com. Dale Dauten is founder of The Innovators’ Lab and author of a novel about HR, “The Weary Optimist.” Please visit them at jtanddale.com, where you can send questions via email, or write to them in care of King Features Syndicate, 628 Virginia Dr., Orlando, FL 32803. | https://tucson.com/business/jt-dale-talk-jobs-why-are-they-asking-me-for-all-this-information/article_d32f5e46-18c4-11ed-a875-1b7942f3412c.html | 2022-08-17T02:49:17Z | https://tucson.com/business/jt-dale-talk-jobs-why-are-they-asking-me-for-all-this-information/article_d32f5e46-18c4-11ed-a875-1b7942f3412c.html | true |
WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
904 PM CDT Tue Aug 16 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT/2 AM MDT/ WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Arroyo and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southwest Texas, including the following
counties, Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio and Reeves.
* WHEN...Until 300 AM CDT /200 AM MDT/.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Rises in small streams and normally dry arroyos. Dangerous flows
over low-water crossings.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 904 PM CDT /804 PM MDT/, Doppler radar and automated rain
gauges indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. This is
causing arroyo and small stream flooding. Between 1 and 3
inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Alpine, Van Horn, Marfa, Kent, Fort Davis, Pine Springs,
Valentine, Plateau, McDonald Observatory, Bloys Camp, Davis
Mountains State Park, Balmorhea State Park, Camp Mitre Peak,
McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Black
Mountain, Buffalo Trail Scout Camp and Lobo.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
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Chardon football coach Mitch Hewitt isn’t much of a card-player, but he sure knows how to stack a deck.
When formulating plans of how to fill out positions for his highly successful Hilltopper football team, Hewitt and his staff treat it somewhat like a lopsided fantasy football draft.
“Offense gets the first pick, which is the quarterback, and from there the defense gets the next 11,” Hewitt said.
That doesn’t mean the Chardon offense is understaffed. On the contrary. Chardon’s Wing-T offense, now in its 42nd year of employment in the program, is one of the most consistently dominating offenses in the state of Ohio.
But the defense is stacked — with talent and draft picks.
That defense is a major reason why the Hilltoppers will enter the 2022 season with the longest current winning streak in Ohio at 28 games.
Chardon’s defense is, by Hewitt’s estimation, loaded yearly with the No. 2-through-12 draft picks on his team’s roster. They play fast, violent and with the mindset that demands they run to the ball as fast as they can, and get their in a bad mood.
Talent plus effort equals … well … 28 wins in a row.
“Effort is the thing we coach the hardest because it’s the one thing year in and year out that you can hang your hat on,” Hewitt said. “There are so many variables you can’t account for in football. All you can do is control what you control, and that’s effort.
“If you can’t run to the ball and play hard, you can’t play for us.”
The proof is certainly in the numbers.
Over the past two seasons — a 12-0 record in 2021 and a 16-0 mark in 2022 — Chardon has outscored the opposition 1,117-229, an average score of 39.9-8.2. Yes, the Chardon offense has piled up a lot of points, but the defense has been punishingly effective, limiting teams to 181 yards per game while piling up 62 takeaways via fumble recoveries or interceptions.
One could go back into the 2019 season and see the dominance start there. Chardon won seven straight before watching a 19-0 halftime lead against Aurora disappear in a regional semifinal loss, 22-19.
Including the ending of the 2019 season, Chardon has won 35 of 36 games, outscored those 36 teams by an average score of 38.0-8.6 and outgained those 36 teams by 193 yards per game — with a monstrous 77 takeaways (48 interceptions and 29 fumble recoveries).
Yes, offense lights up the scoreboard, but defense wins championships.
“You’ve got to be dedicated to it,” said Chardon defensive coordinator Brian Landies when asked what makes the Chardon defense so effective. “You have to know what you’re doing, you have to be violent and you have to be fast.
“I always tell our guys there are two certainties — 1, Mistakes are going to be made, 2, our effort and speed will make up for all of those mistakes.”
In short, defenders must get there, get there fast and arrive in a bad mood.
If there were mistakes made last year, they weren’t very evident on the scoreboard. Youngstown Ursuline was the only team to score more than 14 points on the Hilltoppers, falling in Chardon, 36-27, on Sept. 3. Five teams were shut out by Landies’ defense and 11 of the 16 foes were held to seven points or less.
And that was with a defense that returned only three starters from the 2021 state championship team — lineman Alex McDonald, linebacker Christian Hall and safety Nathanael Sulka.
When the Hilltoppers take the field for an Aug. 19 season-opener against visiting Olmsted Falls, they will do so with twice as many returning starters as last season — six — including defensive linemen Cooper Felger and Alex Kisley, linebacker Heath Fetchik and defensive backs Trey Liebhardt, Andrew Bruce and Leo Colombi. Colombi, Fetchik, Kisley and Liebhardt all return having earned All-Ohio honors a year ago.
“A.J Bruce has D-I offers, Leo is a D-I and — no knock on them — but Trey is our best and he doesn’t have a D-I yet,” Hewitt said. “I think we have the best defensive backfield in the state.
“Kisley and Coop are menaces. They are good kids — foxhole kids — who love the weight room. They have that senior ‘It’ factor.”
Fetchik had the game-clinching interception in the state final against Hamilton Badin last year.
“We like our numbers at linebacker,” Hewitt said. “I remember the days when we were lucky to find a 170-pound kid there. Now we’re 200 (pounds) across the board with kids who can run and jump.”
AND play with an edge, which makes all the difference at Chardon.
“All game, go as hard as you can and be as violent as you can until you can’t go no more,” said Felger, a physical defensive tackle.
“Yeah,” said Kisley, who had more than 30 TFLs last year. “I feel like we rely on the defense to set the tone for the whole game.”
When the defensive front seven gets the fast, disruptive pressure, that means the talent-rich defensive backfield can pile up the PBUs and picks. Such as Colombi, who hauled in seven interceptions a year ago.
“You can’t dog it,” Colombi said of the defensive mindset. “Run to the ball … every single play … no matter what.”
If you DO dog it?
“Oh, you’re going to get yelled at, pulled out and you’re gonna run,” Colombi said. “No matter who it is. If you don’t show the effort, you’re gong to the sidelines and you’re going to run.
“That what makes us special (on defense) — it’s 11 hats to the ball every play.”
Not everything is perfect. Yet.
While Chardon does return six starters to the defensive side of the ball, there will be five new starters this year. But it’s a group of players that has practiced and waited diligently for their turn. That time as arrived for guys. Players such as linebackers Mario Tolo, Jacob Green and Austin Leszynski, linemen Maddox Ciancibello, Kyle Kisley, Caleb Scheutzman and Robert Vunderink, and defensive backs Will Francis and Caleb Hewitt.
One thing is for certain — numbers won’t be a problem. The Hilltoppers have 91 players from grades 10 through 12 and on a much broader scale, more than 300 players from youth through varsity.
It’s a young Chardon team by recent standards, with only 14 seniors, but it’s a hungry team.
Hewitt quickly points out that the past two state championship seasons means nothing toward this season. Many, if not most, of those players are gone.
And there’s a whole new list of teams who want to say they are the ones that knocked the Hilltoppers off their pedestal.
“Olmsted Falls called us,” Hewitt said of the Week 1 foe. “The last team to call us was Canfield, and they beat our faces in (35-13 in 2018). For (Olmsted Falls) to do that, they want a shot at Chardon.”
With two out-of-state teams following the Olmsted Falls opener, then a Week 4 game against Riverside that many feel is a battle between the top two teams in the Western Reserve Conference, the schedule is stacked against the Hilltoppers. But Hewitt admitted his program will lean on what has gotten it to this point.
“We’re going to hang our hats on our defense, especially early on,” Hewitt said. “”We’re taking 90 (stereotypically) selfish adolescent males and telling them we have to work together for a championship. That’s a hard thing to do this day and age.”
But the results of the last two seasons show it’s attainable.
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By KATE BRUMBACK and JILL COLVIN
ATLANTA — Rudy Giuliani is a target of the criminal investigation into possible illegal attempts by then-President Donald Trump and others to interfere in the 2020 general election in Georgia, prosecutors informed attorneys for the former New York mayor on Monday.
The revelation that Giuliani, an outspoken Trump defender, could face criminal charges from the investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis edges the probe closer to the former president. Willis has said she is considering calling Trump himself to testify before the special grand jury, and the former president has hired a criminal defense attorney in Atlanta.
Law enforcement scrutiny of Trump has escalated dramatically. Last week, the FBI searched his Florida home as part of its investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to Mar-a-Lago. He is also facing a civil investigation in New York over allegations that his company, the Trump Organization, misled banks and tax authorities about the value of his assets. And the Justice Department is investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters as well as efforts by him and his allies to overturn the election he falsely claimed was stolen.
Giuliani, who spread false claims of election fraud in Atlanta’s Fulton County as he led election-challenging efforts in Georgia, is to testify Wednesday before a special grand jury that was impaneled at Willis’ request. Giuliani’s lawyer declined to say whether he would answer questions or decline.
Special prosecutor Nathan Wade alerted Giuliani’s team in Atlanta that he was an investigation target, Giuliani attorney Robert Costello said Monday. News of the disclosure was first reported by The New York Times.
Speaking on a New York radio show Monday, Giuliani said he had been serving as Trump’s attorney in Georgia.
“You do this to a lawyer, we don’t have America anymore,” he said.
Earlier Monday, a federal judge said U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham must testify before the special grand jury. Prosecutors have said they want to ask Graham about phone calls they say he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff in the weeks following the election.
Willis’s investigation was spurred by a phone call between Trump and Raffensperger. During that January 2021 conversation, Trump suggested that Raffensperger “find” the votes needed to reverse his narrow loss in the state.
Willis last month filed petitions seeking to compel testimony from seven Trump associates and advisers.
In seeking Giuliani’s testimony, Willis identified him as both a personal attorney for Trump and a lead attorney for his campaign. She wrote that he and others appeared at a state Senate committee meeting and presented a video that Giuliani said showed election workers producing “suitcases” of unlawful ballots from unknown sources, outside the view of election poll watchers.
Within 24 hours of that Dec. 3, 2020, hearing, Raffensperger’s office had debunked the video. But Giuliani continued to make statements to the public and in subsequent legislative hearings claiming widespread voter fraud using the debunked video, Willis wrote.
Evidence shows that Giuliani’s hearing appearance and testimony were “part of a multi-state, coordinated plan by the Trump Campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere,” her petition says.
Two of the election workers seen in the video, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, said they faced relentless harassment online and in person after it was shown at a Dec. 3 Georgia legislative hearing where Giuliani appeared. At another hearing a week later, Giuliani said the footage showed the women “surreptitiously passing around USB ports as if they are vials of heroin or cocaine.” They actually were passing a piece of candy.
Willis also wrote in a petition seeking the testimony of attorney Kenneth Chesebro that he worked with Giuliani to coordinate and carry out a plan to have Georgia Republicans serve as fake electors. Those 16 people signed a certificate declaring falsely that Trump had won the 2020 presidential election and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors even though Joe Biden had won the state and a slate of Democratic electors was certified.
All 16 of those fake electors have received letters saying they are targets of the investigation, Willis said in a court filing last month.
As for Graham, attorneys for the South Carolina Republican have argued that his position as a U.S. senator provides him immunity from having to appear before the investigative panel. But U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May wrote in an order Monday that immunities related to his role as a senator do not protect him from having to testify. Graham’s subpoena instructs him to appear before the special grand jury on Aug. 23, but his office said Monday he plans to appeal.
May last month rejected a similar attempt by U.S. Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., to avoid testifying before the special grand jury.
Graham’s office said in a statement Monday that the senator disagrees with the judge’s interpretation of the provision of the Constitution he believes protects him from being questioned by a state official. His lawyers have said he was making inquiries that were part of his legislative duties, related to certification of the vote and to a proposal of election-related legislation.
But the judge wrote that that ignores “the fact that individuals on the calls have publicly suggested that Senator Graham was not simply engaged in legislative factfinding but was instead suggesting or implying that Georgia election officials change their processes or otherwise potentially alter the state’s results.”
In calls made shortly after the 2020 general election, Graham “questioned Raffensperger and his staff about reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump,” Willis wrote in a petition.
Graham also “made reference to allegations of widespread voter fraud in the November 2020 election in Georgia, consistent with public statements made by known affiliates of the Trump Campaign,” she wrote.
Republican and Democratic state election officials across the country, courts and even Trump’s attorney general have found there was no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to affect the outcome of his 2020 presidential election loss.
Trump-allied lawmakers were planning to challenge the tallies from several battleground states when Congress convened on Jan. 6, 2021, to certify the results under the Electoral Count Act, but after the Capitol attack that day Georgia’s tally was never contested.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has described his call to Raffensperger as “perfect.”
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Colvin reported from New York. Associated Press writers Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, and Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed to this report.
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HOUSTON, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boxer Parent Company Inc. (the "Company"), the indirect parent company of BMC Software, Inc. ("BMC"), today announced that it has commenced a cash tender offer to purchase (the "Offer") its 8.375% Senior Notes due 2026 (the "Euro Notes") and its 9.125% Senior Second Lien Notes due 2026 (the "Dollar Notes" and, together with the Euro Notes, the "Notes") for an aggregate purchase price, excluding Accrued Interest (as defined below), of up to $100 million (as it may be increased or decreased, the "Total Maximum Amount"); provided that the Company will only accept Dollar Notes up to an aggregate purchase price, excluding Accrued Interest, of $45 million (the "Dollar Notes Maximum Amount"). The Offer is being made subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated August 16, 2022 (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the "Offer to Purchase"). Capitalized terms used in this announcement but not defined have the meaning given to them in the Offer to Purchase.
The table below summarizes the key economic terms of the Offer:
The Offer will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City Time, on September 13, 2022 (unless the Offer is extended or terminated) (such time and date, as the same may be extended, the "Expiration Time"). To be eligible to receive the "Total Consideration" for a series of Notes, which includes an early tender premium of €50.00 per €1,000 principal amount of Euro Notes or $50.00 per $1,000 principal amount of Dollar Notes, accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offer (the "Early Tender Premium"), Holders must validly tender and not validly withdraw their Notes at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City Time, on August 29, 2022 (unless extended or terminated) (such date and time, as the same may be extended, the "Early Tender Time"). Holders who validly tender their Notes after the Early Tender Time and at or prior to the Expiration Time will be eligible to receive only the Tender Offer Consideration, which is an amount equal to the Total Consideration less the Early Tender Premium. Holders who tender their Notes prior to the Early Tender Time may withdraw such Notes at any time prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City Time, on August 29, 2022 (unless extended or terminated) (such date and time, as the same may be extended, the "Withdrawal Time").
In addition to the Tender Offer Consideration or the Total Consideration, as applicable, all Holders of Notes accepted for purchase will also receive accrued and unpaid interest ("Accrued Interest") on such Notes, rounded to the nearest cent per €1,000 principal amount of Euro Notes or the nearest cent per $1,000 principal amount of Dollar Notes, from the last interest payment date up to, but not including, the Early Settlement Date or the Final Settlement Date (each as defined below), as applicable.
Notes accepted for purchase will be accepted in accordance with their Acceptance Priority Levels (with 1 being the highest Acceptance Priority Level and 2 being the lowest Acceptance Priority Level), subject to the limitations that (i) the overall aggregate purchase price to be paid in the Offer will not exceed the Total Maximum Amount and (ii) the aggregate purchase price to be paid for the Dollar Notes will not exceed the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount (in each case, exclusive of Accrued Interest).
Subject to any increase or decrease to the Total Maximum Amount or the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount, as applicable, if on the Early Settlement Date or the Final Settlement Date, there would be sufficient funds to purchase some, but not all, of the unpurchased tendered Notes in any Acceptance Priority Level without exceeding the Total Maximum Amount or the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount, as applicable, the Company will accept for payment such tendered Notes on a prorated basis, with the proration factor for such Acceptance Priority Level depending on the aggregate principal amount of Notes of such Acceptance Priority Level validly tendered and not validly withdrawn. Furthermore, (i) if the aggregate purchase price of all Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to or at the Early Tender Time exceeds the Total Maximum Amount, Holders who validly tender Notes after the Early Tender Time will not have any of their Notes accepted for purchase regardless of the Acceptance Priority Level of such Notes unless the Company increases the Total Maximum Amount and (ii) if the aggregate purchase price of all Dollar Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to or at the Early Tender Time exceeds the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount, Holders who validly tender Dollar Notes after the Early Tender Time will not have any of their Notes accepted for purchase unless the Company increases the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount.
The Company expressly reserves the right, but is not obligated, to increase or decrease the Total Maximum Amount or the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount in its sole discretion without extending the Early Tender Time, the Expiration Time, or the Withdrawal Time, or otherwise providing withdrawal rights, subject to applicable law.
The Company will accept Notes for purchase only in Authorized Denominations, as further described in the Offer to Purchase. The Company intends to fund the Offer with cash on hand.
Any Notes validly tendered at or prior to the Early Tender Time and purchased pursuant to the Offer will be paid for in immediately available funds on the Early Settlement Date, which, subject to satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, is expected to occur promptly following the Early Tender Time, and, assuming the Offer is not extended or terminated, is expected to be on or about August 31, 2022.
Any Notes validly tendered at or prior to the Expiration Time but after the Early Tender Time and purchased pursuant to the Offer will be paid for in immediately available funds on the Final Settlement Date, which, subject to satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, is expected to occur promptly following the Expiration Time, and, assuming the Offer is not extended or terminated, is expected to be on or about September 15, 2022.
Subject to applicable law and the terms and conditions of the Offer to Purchase, the Company expressly reserves the right to accept for purchase and pay for up to the Total Maximum Amount (subject to the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount), exclusive of Accrued Interest, all Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Early Tender Time; extend each of the Early Tender Time and the Expiration Time to a later date and time as announced by the Company; increase or decrease the Total Maximum Amount or the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount; waive any or all conditions of the Offer; or terminate, re-open or amend the Offer.
To the extent permitted by applicable law and whether or not the Offer is consummated, the Company and its affiliates may from time to time following the Expiration Time acquire any Notes that remain outstanding through one or more additional tender offers, exchange offers, open market purchases, redemptions or otherwise, on terms that may be more or less favorable to Holders of Notes than the terms of the Offer. Any future purchases by the Company or its affiliates will depend on various factors existing at that time. There can be no assurance as to which, if any, of these alternatives (or combinations thereof) the Company or its affiliates will choose to pursue in the future.
The Company has retained D.F. King & Co., Inc. to act as Tender and Information Agent for the Offer. Questions regarding procedures for tendering Notes may be directed to:
D.F. King & Co, Inc.
Email: bmc@dfking.com
Offer Website: www.dfking.com/bmc
48 Wall Street
22nd Floor
New York, NY 10005
Banks and Brokers call: (212) 269-5550
All others call (toll free): (866) 207-2356
The Dealer Manager for the Offer is:
None of the Company, the Dealer Manager, the Tender and Information Agent or the trustee for the Euro Notes or Dollar Notes (nor any director, officer, employee, agent or affiliate of any such person) makes any recommendation whether Holders should tender or refrain from tendering Notes in the Offer. Holders must make their own decision as to whether to tender Notes and, if so, the principal amount of the Notes to tender.
OFFER AND DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS
This news release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security. Neither this news release nor the Offer to Purchase constitutes an invitation to participate in the Offer in or from any jurisdiction in or from which, or to any person to or from whom, it is unlawful to make such invitation or for there to be such participation under applicable securities laws and regulations. The distribution of this news release and the Offer to Purchase in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by laws and regulations. Persons into whose possession this news release or the Offer to Purchase comes are required by each of the Company, the Dealer Manager and the Tender and Information Agent to inform themselves about, and to observe, any such restrictions.
United Kingdom
The communication of this news release and any other documents or materials relating to the Offer is not being made, and such documents or materials have not been approved, by an authorized person for the purposes of Section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended (the "FSMA"). Accordingly, such documents or materials are not being distributed to, and must not be passed on to, the general public in the United Kingdom. The communication of such documents or materials is exempt from the restriction on financial promotions under Section 21 of the FSMA on the basis that it is only directed at and may be communicated to (i) persons who have professional experience in matters relating to investments, being investment professionals as defined in Article 19 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the "Financial Promotion Order"); (ii) persons who fall within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) ("high net worth companies, unincorporated associations etc.") of the Financial Promotion Order; (iii) any other persons who are existing noteholders or other persons falling within Article 43 of the Financial Promotion Order; (iv) persons who are outside the United Kingdom; or (v) persons who are persons to whom an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) in connection with the issue or sale of any securities may otherwise lawfully be communicated or caused to be communicated (all such persons together being referred to as "relevant persons"). This news release is directed only at relevant persons and must not be acted on or relied on by persons who are not relevant persons. Any investment or investment activity to which this news release relates is available only to relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant persons.
Italy
None of the Offer, this news release or any other document or materials relating to the Offer have been or will be submitted to the clearance procedures of the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa ("CONSOB") pursuant to Italian laws and regulations. The Offer is being carried out in the Republic of Italy ("Italy") as an exempted offer pursuant to article 101-bis, paragraph 3-bis of Legislative Decree No. 58 of 24 February 1998, as amended (the "Financial Services Act") and article 35-bis, paragraph 4 of CONSOB Regulation No. 11971 of 14 May 1999, as amended. Holders or beneficial owners of the Notes that are located in Italy can tender Notes for purchase in the Offer through authorized persons (such as investment firms, banks or financial intermediaries permitted to conduct such activities in Italy in accordance with the Financial Services Act, CONSOB Regulation No. 20307 of 15 February 2018, as amended from time to time, and Legislative Decree No. 385 of 1 September 1993, as amended) and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations or with requirements imposed by CONSOB or any other Italian authority.
France
The Offer is not being made, directly or indirectly, to the public in the Republic of France ("France"). Neither this news release nor any other document or material relating to the Offer has been or shall be distributed to the public in France and only qualified investors (investisseurs qualifiés) within the meaning of Article 2(e) of the Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (the "Prospectus Regulation"), are eligible to participate in the Offer. This news release has not been and will not be submitted for clearance to nor approved by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.
Belgium
Neither this news release nor any other documents or materials relating to the Offer have been submitted to or will be submitted for approval or recognition to the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (Autorité des services et marches financiers / Autoriteit financiële diensten en markten) and, accordingly, the Offer may not be made in Belgium by way of a public offering, as defined in Article 3 of the Belgian Law of April 1, 2007 on public takeover bids, as amended or replaced from time to time. Accordingly, the Offer may not be advertised and the Offer will not be extended, and neither this news release nor any other documents or materials relating to the Offer (including any memorandum, information circular, brochure or any similar documents) has been or shall be distributed or made available, directly or indirectly, to any person in Belgium other than "qualified investors" (investisseur qualifié/gekwalificeerede belegger) within the meaning of Article 10 of the Belgian Law of June 16, 2006 on public offerings of investment instruments and the admission of investment instruments to trading on regulated markets (as amended from time to time).
European Economic Area
This news release and any other documents or materials relating to the Offer are only addressed to and directed at persons in member states of the European Economic Area who are "qualified investors" within the meaning of Article 2(1)(e) of the Prospectus Regulation. The Offer is only available to qualified investors within the meaning of Article 2(1)(e) of the Prospectus Regulation. None of the information in this news release and any other documents and materials relating to the Offer should be acted upon or relied upon in any member state of the European Economic Area by persons who are not qualified investors within the meaning of Article 2(1)(e) of the Prospectus Regulation.
Switzerland
This news release and any other documents or materials relating to the Offer do not constitute an offering prospectus and have been prepared without regard to the disclosure standards for prospectuses under the Swiss Code of Obligations, the Swiss Financial Services Act or the disclosure standards for listing prospectuses under the SIX Listing Rules or the listing rules of any other stock exchange or regulated trading facility in Switzerland. Neither this news release nor any other documents or materials relating to the Offer may be publicly distributed or otherwise made publicly available in Switzerland. Neither this news release nor any other documents or materials relating to the Offer has been or will be filed with or approved by any Swiss regulatory authority. In particular, this news release will not be filed with, and the Offer will not be supervised by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority and the Offer has not been and will not be authorized under the Swiss Federal Act on Collective Investment Schemes.
General
This news release does not constitute an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell Notes (and tenders of Notes in the Offer will not be accepted from Holders) in any circumstances in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. In those jurisdictions where the securities, blue sky or other laws require the Offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer and the Dealer Manager or any of the Dealer Manager's affiliates is such a licensed broker or dealer in any such jurisdiction, the Offer shall be deemed to be made by the Dealer Manager or such affiliate, as the case may be, on behalf of the Company in such jurisdiction.
In addition to the representations referred to above in respect of the United States, each Holder participating in the Offer will also be deemed to give certain representations in respect of the other jurisdictions referred to above and generally as set out in "The Offer—Procedure for Tendering Notes" in the Offer to Purchase. Any tender of Notes for purchase pursuant to the Offer from a Holder that is unable to make these representations will not be accepted. Each of the Company, the Dealer Manager and the Tender and Information Agent reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, to investigate, in relation to any tender of Notes for purchase pursuant to the Offer, whether any such representation given by a Holder is correct and, if such investigation is undertaken and as a result the Company determines (for any reason) that such representation is not correct, such tender shall not be accepted.
Forward-Looking Statements:
This release may contain forward-looking statements (including without limitation information concerning the timing and results of the Offer and statements to the effect that the Company or its management "will," "believes," "expects," "anticipates," "plans" or other similar expressions). Actual results may differ materially as a result of a number of factors. Caution must be exercised in relying on these and other forward-looking statements. Due to known and unknown risks, the Company's results may differ materially from its expectations and projections.
The Company disclaims any intent or obligation other than as required by law to update its forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A monitor in Arizona's dugout at Oracle Park showed a live television feed during the first inning of Monday night's game between the Diamondbacks and Giants, and D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said a day later that he quickly informed umpires about the technical snafu.
Arizona lost 6-1 on Monday night. Lovullo said Tuesday he alerted crew chief Dan Bellino about the live feed to make sure there was no misunderstanding about possible cheating.
Lovullo also told Bellino he had instructed his players not to look at the two monitors in one corner of the dugout. The two screens typically show feeds of the two clubs' bullpens, but something was awry with the control center for one of the monitors on Arizona's side.
“We have zero control over them, zero,” Lovullo said. “It's all in-house, upstairs, the play-by-play. After the first pitch it popped on as a live feed — we had a live game feed inside of our dugout, so everybody was trying to turn it off. I said, ‘Stay away from it, it’s like fire, don't even go near it,' because if something happens where somebody sees us trying to turn it off and there's a live feed you're going to get accused of something.”
Rather than stop play — “I felt that was unfair,” Lovullo said — he waited until the conclusion of the inning. Carson Kelly struck out looking to end the inning on a ball down the middle of the plate, which Lovullo said at least showed nobody was cheating.
The monitor was switched to the bullpen feed in the bottom of the first.
Lovullo also spoke to Giants manager Gabe Kapler to make sure there was no live feed in the Giants' dugout. There wasn't.
“Yes, I thought Torey was thoughtful for us,” Kapler said in a text message before the game. The subject didn't come up in his earlier pregame media session.
Lovullo didn't take any chances.
“It's a very, very hot topic in baseball,” he said. “I don't ever want to be accused of cheating. This organization does things with integrity and I just wanted to make sure I was as honest as possible.”
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 16, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
706 PM PDT Tue Aug 16 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 715 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
The Flood Advisory will expire at 715 PM PDT this evening for a
portion of southeast California, including the following county,
Imperial.
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
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The Flagstaff Unified School District’s (FUSD) governing board at its meeting last week discussed plans for flooding at its school sites, focusing mostly on Sechrist Elementary, as the portion of Highway 180 directly in front of the school has flooded multiple times this summer.
During the Sechrist flooding events, water has covered the school’s parking lot, but so far it has not entered the building.
Justin DiNardi, the district’s director of operations, said at the meeting that he had met with the county, city and other stakeholders in recent weeks to identify the best course of action should there be flooding when school is in session.
The plan, which had been sent to families last week before the start of school, centered on the students sheltering in place while the roadway is closed. Families have been asked to wait to pick up children until any order is lifted for their safety and to aid cleanup efforts.
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“We believe it’s safest to have [students] remain in the school until the floodwaters have receded and Highway 180 has opened,” said FUSD Superintendent Michael Penca. “We wouldn't release students; that's a lot of students who walk into the neighborhoods who attend that school ... Even if our parking lot’s OK, other areas might still be impacted by the floodwaters. We would hold them there until it’s safe to reunify or do that controlled release with families, and we would message them those details and that time and the procedures for doing so.”
DiNardi said the same plan will be in place for Cromer Elementary, which could be potentially impacted by flooding from the east side of the San Francisco Peaks.
“Cromer school will most certainly be a shelter in place scenario. However, that school site does have more options for release of children,” he said.
The district said it is working with ADOT to identify paths of travel to and from Cromer. DiNardi said it will be communicating the plan to stakeholders once it is finished.
FUSD will inform families at an affected school of a shelter-in-place action using phone, email and text should flooding affect a building or close the highway while school is in session.
Students who live in the affected area but attend other district schools will also be sheltering in place while the district establishes a reunification point at Flagstaff High School.
DiNardi said it was not expected that floodwaters would enter the building. The district does have a plan, though: “Shelter in place would be the go-to until we can facilitate the evacuation of the school site to a reunification point in Flagstaff High School.” He added that the Coconino Center of the Arts had been identified as the evacuation point, should Sechrist need one.
The western entrance is the part of the building most likely to be affected by the flooding based on current patterns. Students will be released from the buildings north and south entrances -- which the waters have not interfered with -- should there be any flooding of the parking lot or building.
“The floodpath at Sechrist itself does come over the parking lot directly,” DiNardi said. “Any efforts to stop that floodwater from coming through the parking lot would be to the deficit of the community. ... If we were to put any systems in place to prevent the water from coming onto our campus through our parking lot and further impacting our facilities, it would be pushing down the water to Highway 180 and further into the communities on the west side of 180.”
Sandbags have been placed along the west side of the building to protect it, and there are gaps to allow students to move from the pavement to the sidewalk when they are getting dropped off and picked up on days without an event. There are plans to close those gaps on the weekends, DiNardi said, and the walls can be fortified in event of a storm.
“We certainly intend to refortify and build that system as best as is possible to keep the floodwaters from coming out,” he said. “ ... I will get more sandbags out there, given the results of the storm (last Sunday).”
Board member Carole Gilmore commended a teacher and members of nearby neighborhoods she had seen helping protect Sechrist from flooding earlier in the season.
“I think we have a really concerned neighborhood that doesn't want something to happen to the school,” she said. “ ... Having the water run through the parking lot, nobody imagined that that water was going to go and be there."
The district is looking toward flood mitigation efforts in its capital planning, DiNardi said, and the city and county will be creating a new detention basin at the junction of Schultz Creek and 180.
The effects of the mitigation won’t be seen at the school until next year’s monsoon, however.
“I want to make sure that our school sites are prepared for these unforeseen events and that ... we can plan at these sites as we move forward,” he said.
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Leadership North Texas Builds Regional Stewards through Graduate-Level Program
IRVING, Texas, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The North Texas Commission, a public-private partnership dedicated to advancing the vibrancy of the North Texas region, has selected the members of Leadership North Texas Class 14. Leadership North Texas is a graduate-level, regional leadership program that recruits, develops and supports stewards of our region. Oncor is the presenting sponsor for the program.
Class 14 is made up of 32 leaders from across North Texas in a variety of industry sectors including elected officials, municipal leaders, education leaders and the business community.
Since the program launched in 2008, Leadership North Texas has graduated over 400 leaders including a state representative, numerous mayors and city council members, a county commissioner, business and non-profit executives and higher education leaders.
"Leadership North Texas continues to be the region's top professional development program for management level executives proving that regionalism is a must in North Texas," said Chris Wallace, President and CEO of the North Texas Commission and an alumnus of the program. "Convening public and private sector leaders together to address our region's greatest challenges is the bedrock of the Commission. LNT participants have a long track record of becoming regionalists who work together to ensure that we improve our region's sustainability and inclusivity to further grow our economy."
Leadership North Texas meets nine times and covers topics such as regionalism, the North Texas economy, education and workforce, racial inequity, the cost of incarceration, and transportation and sustainability.
Jerod Anderson, City of Coppell
Amy Arnold, City of White Settlement
Jeannette Benefee, DFW International Airport
Kervin Campbell, Dunaway
Councilman Don Carroll, City of Coppell
Camilo Carvajal, MEMCO
Thuy Cobb, DFW International Airport
Dr. Jasmine Collier, Year Up
Cristina Criado, Criado & Associates, Inc.
Martha Fernandez, Dallas College
Janet Foreman, The Ascend Institute - Dallas College
Andrew Fortune, City of Plano
Joshua Griffith, Hillwood
Hon. Clyde C. Hairston, City of Lancaster
Sadaf Haq, Be In Health Foundation
Fraser Hay, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano
John Heerwagen, Aetna, a CVS Health Company
Shannon Hicks, Town of Addison
June Jenkins, Noir Lifestyles of Collin County
Dr. LaJuanda Jones, Dallas College
Councilmember Jennifer Justice, City of Richardson
Dana MacDonald, Quest Employment Services
Rob Matwick, Texas Rangers Baseball Club
Shanee' Moore, Dallas College North Lake Campus
Trent Newell, Fidelity Investments
Andjelka Pavlovic, The Cooper Institute
Dylan Rafaty, North Texas Disability Chamber
Catherine Riggle, Children's Health
Mary Rosenbleeth, Town of Addison
Jane Santa Cruz, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Megan Stoub, Oncor
Alexandria Woodward, City of Mesquite
Established in 1971, the North Texas Commission is a unique public-private partnership that drives large impactful projects and legislative issues benefiting a robust 13-county region, and tackles the region's greatest challenges with board and staff subject matter experts who provide resources to market the region and educate future leaders. The Commission also manages the region's unified advocacy voice at the state and federal levels.
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Authorities: Man caught with pipe bomb, drugs in Cochise County
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - A Cochise County man is facing charges after he was allegedly found with a pipe bomb, drugs and firearms earlier this month.
Authorities said they searched the shed in the back yard of Thomas Bannister’s home on Pomerene Road on Aug. 3. They reportedly found the bomb, methamphetamine, more than five pounds of marijuana, multiple drug paraphernalia items and several firearms. The pipe bomb was rendered safe by the sheriff’s office’s EOD personnel.
Deputies located and arrested Bannister two days later and booked him into the Cochise County Jail on charges of weapons misconduct, possession of dangerous drugs, possession of marijuana for sale and possession of drug paraphernalia.
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EXCLUSIVE: Britney Spears' ex Jason Alexander could face MORE jail time for 'stealing his landlady's $2,000 diamond bracelet and pawning it for $180' seven years before crashing popstar's wedding to Sam Asghari
- Britney Spears’ first husband Jason Alexander faces more jail time after being accused of stealing his landlady's $2,000 diamond bracelet and pawning it off
- An arrest affidavit obtained by DailyMail.com says he admitted the 2015 theft and offered to replace the bracelet for the 55-year-old victim, who rejected it
- The victim described Alexander as a 'disgusting person' who also allegedly kicked her dog and used drugs in her American Canyon home
- It comes after Alexander was charged for trespassing into Spear's home during her dream wedding to Sam Ashgari, 28
Britney Spears’ first husband Jason Alexander is facing more time behind bars after being hauled off to Napa County on two outstanding theft charges, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The 40-year-old has spent the last two months in jail in Ventura, California, after being collared sneaking into the singer’s Thousand Oaks home on the day of her wedding to Sam Ashgari, 28.
Alexander livestreamed the incident, which showed roaming the grounds of her $7m mansion screaming: 'I'm Jason Alexander. The first husband. I'm here to crash the wedding'.
He was then seen grappling with security before cops arrived and arrested him on the outstanding warrant from Napa in northern California.
Last week, he pleaded guilty to one count of trespassing and another of battery while crashing Britney’s wedding and was sentenced to time served after spending 64 days in jail.
Now DailyMail.com can reveal he was transported direct from the Ventura County Jail to Napa where he has been booked for allegedly stealing his landlady’s $2,000 diamond tennis bracelet and pawning it for $180 at Best Collateral in Vallejo, California in August 2015.
A mugshot exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com shows the 40-year-old looking shamefaced ahead of a court appearance scheduled for Wednesday morning.
A mugshot exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com shows Jason Alexander, 40, looking shamefaced ahead of a court appearance scheduled for Wednesday morning. He had two outstanding theft charges on him from an incident in 2015
Alexander was recently charged with trespassing on ex Britney Spears' California home during her wedding, which led him to spending 64 days in jail
Alexander appeared slim and gaunt in a remote courtroom appearance from prison last week (left). At right: The 40-year-old poses for pictures shortly after his marriage to Britney Spears
An arrest affidavit obtained by DailyMail.com says he admitted the theft when confronted and his name appears in records held by the pawn shop.
According to the affidavit, he said he was unable to get the bracelet back and offered to replace it with a different one but the 55-year-old victim turned it down and reported him to police in February 2016.
By then, Alexander had left the area but police issued a warrant for his arrest on charges that included grand theft and buying or receiving stolen property, and they were able to return the bracelet to the victim.
Speaking to DailyMail.com about the case, his former landlady – who asked not to be named - called him a ‘disgusting person’ who kicked her daughter’s dog and took drugs in her American Canyon home.
She said: ‘I kicked him out of the house when I caught him stealing stuff. He lived in my house for six months and I trusted him. He was a client [at her medical cannabis business].
‘I never had a roommate in my life and I let him and his dad stay there because he was going to be homeless – he was required to stay in San Francisco as part of his probation.
‘He couldn’t go back to Louisiana. His dad had come from Louisiana to get him but he couldn’t go back because of that.
‘That was the only reason I rented to him. It broke up my business partnership too because my partner, she was dead against it. She was right I guess.
‘At the time, I felt bad for him – mainly because his dad made me believe he was a different person.’
Alexander is pictured at the Ventura County Courthouse following his intrusion of the wedding
Britney and longtime partner Sam Asghari are pictured at their fairytale wedding in June
Alexander livestreamed himself breaking into his ex's home on her wedding day
Alexander moved in in August 2015 after completing a 111-day sentence at the San Francisco County Jail for domestic abuse.
The victim was a former girlfriend with whom he has a child. According to court papers, he was also handed three years’ probation and ordered to complete drug and alcohol programs.
His ex-girlfriend also obtained a restraining order against him and he was told to complete a domestic violence counseling program as well as do 25-days community service.
His landlady told DailyMail.com that she took him in because she felt sorry for him and even got him a job in a coffee shop – only to be left furious when he stole from her.
She also claims he kicked her daughter’s dog and routinely took drugs, despite being on anti-narcotic medication.
The 55-year-old said: ‘I have vet bills for my daughter’s dog – they were in Thailand and I was pet sitting.
‘He had to go to the vet emergency and they said nothing could have created an injury like that other than being kicked.
‘Then I found out afterwards [Alexander] had abused his lady friend’s dog. He’s disgusting. He’s a really disgusting person.’
She added: ‘I had to get my ex-boyfriend to come because I didn’t feel safe getting him out of my house.
‘I didn’t realize who I’d let into my house. I guess they consider it a non-violent crime because it’s a jewelry theft. Thank God for Britney – now something might get done.’
An arrest affidavit obtained by DailyMail.com says he admitted the 2015 theft and offered to replace the bracelet for the 55-year-old victim, who rejected it. Pictured: Jason Alexander posing with the LG Mobile Phone models
The landlady also revealed that she had called the cops about Alexander three weeks before he crashed Britney’s wedding after seeing a series of bizarre posts on his Instagram page.
She said: ‘He was posting all this crazy s*** on Instagram down in southern California and I was like, he’s down there stalking somebody and as far as I know, he’s still on probation.
‘I don’t know why they would let him be on probation when he’s facing other charges. I talked to victim witness in the DA’s office. They said they can’t do anything unless he’s arrested.’
The landlady added: ‘He’s been arrested many, many times over the last couple of years. I felt bad for him at first but I was an idiot.
‘He’s a piece of sh**. They’ve let him out so many times – he’s had DUIs and drugs charges too but they keep letting him out.’
Alexander, who was infamously married to Britney for 55-hours in 2004, is now facing jail time in Napa over the theft.
The 40-year-old has been arrested four times in the last 13 months, including for stalking an unidentified woman in December 2021.
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How do you clean a front-load washer?
Front-load washers are energy efficient, quiet and use less water than top-load machines. But like any appliance, they need regular maintenance and cleaning to keep them at their best.
While cleaning the parts of the washer you can see is simple enough, it’s the buildup of dirt and grime in the parts you can’t see that typically causes problems. Learning some easy methods for cleaning your washing machine’s filters, pipes and drum lengthens its life and keeps it functioning as it should.
Why should you clean your front-load washer?
Any appliance that uses water is prone to mold. Even with its built-in drainage, your front-load washer can develop mold due to the warm, damp environment it produces during a washing cycle.
Pair the mold with the dirt and traces of detergent that get left behind after each wash, and it’s not surprising that your washer can develop a bad odor.
But the problem goes beyond an unpleasant smell. Letting grime and mold build up in the recesses of your machine can make it less efficient at cleaning laundry. The debris can clog the mechanisms of your machine over time and reduce its ability to produce hot water or spin properly.
If the problem is left to fester long enough, you may need replacement parts or even an entirely new washer.
How often should you clean a front-load washer?
That depends on how often you use it. Generally, you should do some quick maintenance once a week on its exterior. Deep cleaning that targets the inner mechanisms to keep them clear of bacteria, dirt and mold should be done about once a month.
Steps for cleaning a front-load washer
First, make sure you have cleaning supplies on hand. You’ll need:
- White vinegar
- Baking soda
- A clean cloth
Microfiber cloths are preferable because they pick up more dust and dirt. It’s also a good idea to choose distilled white vinegar in a spray bottle to make the process easier.
Step 1: Wipe down the washer’s outside and door
Spray some vinegar on the door’s inside and outside. Wipe vigorously with a microfiber cloth until all dirt is removed.
Make sure you also spray and clean the rubber seals around the door and at the washer’s opening. You can use a smaller tool such as a toothbrush to get in between any crevices.
Step 2: Clean the washer’s detergent drawer
Open the detergent drawer and remove it. You can typically remove the drawer by holding the handle and lifting upward and outward.
Rinse the drawer thoroughly and use a microfiber cloth sprayed lightly with white vinegar to remove any stubborn debris or congealed detergent. Once clean, replace the drawer in the machine.
Next, add approximately two cups of white vinegar directly into the washer’s detergent dispenser. If your washer has a detergent drawer with separate slots for detergent and fabric softener, distribute the vinegar evenly into each compartment.
Step 3: Clean the washer’s drum
Spray more white vinegar into the washer’s steel drum . Use a microfiber cloth to wipe down the drum’s surface.
Step 4: Run the hottest, longest cycle
With the white vinegar still sitting in the detergent slots, close the machine’s detergent drawer and door. Set your washer to the longest, hottest cycle available.
Step 5: Add some baking soda to the drum
Once the wash cycle has finished, open the washer door. Add approximately half a cup of baking powder into the drum. Now run the washing machine again at a high temperature.
Step 7: Air out the washer
Once the second wash has finished, open the washer’s door and detergent drawer. This lets the machine dry out completely and prevents mold and bacteria from growing in an enclosed, damp environment.
What you need to buy for cleaning a front-load washer
Lucy’s Family Owned Natural Distilled White Vinegar
This vinegar is all natural and at 5% acidity, it’s strong enough to clear dirt and grunge from your front-load washer’s inner mechanisms. It’s ready to use so you don’t have to worry about diluting it with water.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Arm and Hammer Pure Baking Soda
This baking soda can be used for multiple cleaning and cooking purposes, including cleaning your washing machine. The cardboard box is compact but must be stored in a clean, dry spot.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Watch: Shikhar Dhawan Fails To Grasp Reporter's Accent, Leaves Everyone In Splits
ZIM vs IND: Shikhar Dhawan is India's vice-captain on their tour of Zimbabwe.
- NDTV Sports Desk
- Updated: August 17, 2022 08:39 AM IST
India will take on Zimbabwe in a three-match ODI series, starting with the first game in Harare on Thursday, August 18. On Tuesday, India's designated vice-captain for the series Shikhar Dhawan attended one of the pre-match press conferences, and answered a series of questions from various journalists. However, the veteran opening batter failed to grasp one of the questions, saying that he couldn't understand the accent of the reporter.
"Shikhar, how difficult is it to play a team like Zimbabwe at this moment... who have been struggling for a long period. They haven't even played much against the Indian team. Do you expect to beat a team like Zimbabwe," the reporter asked.
Dhawan was taken aback by the question and he responded: "Ah, I didn't get it. Can you repeat? I couldn't understand your accent, sir".
His reaction drew a laughter from everyone present inside the press box.
— Guess Karo (@KuchNahiUkhada) August 16, 2022
After grasping the question after the second time of asking, Dhawan said that India playing Zimbabwe is good thing for the development of the sport.
"It is good that they (Zimbabwe) won against Bangladesh. I am sure they are playing good cricket. This is good for us too. It will keep us on our toes and we would not take anything for granted. We are here to perform. Irrespective of the team and time, we should focus on getting the process right so that we get the right results," Dhawan said.
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The ODI will be followed by the second and third ODI at the same venue.
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The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Tuesday:
7-7-0
(seven, seven, zero)
8-3-6
(eight, three, six)
7-7-8-3
(seven, seven, eight, three)
1-9-6-4
(one, nine, six, four)
01-21-22-33-36
(one, twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty-three, thirty-six)
Estimated jackpot: $130,000
0-0-0
(zero, zero, zero)
2-6-7
(two, six, seven)
8-8-4-5
(eight, eight, four, five)
1st:1 Gold Rush-2nd:10 Solid Gold-3rd:8 Gorgeous George, Race Time: 1:49.83
(1st: 1 Gold Rush, 2nd: 10 Solid Gold, 3rd: 8 Gorgeous George; Race Time: one: 49.83)
14-20-21-26-32
(fourteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-six, thirty-two)
3-0-0
(three, zero, zero)
9-5-6
(nine, five, six)
0-8-7, WB: 2
(zero, eight, seven; WB: two)
9-7-2-7, WB: 4
(nine, seven, two, seven; WB: four)
1-4-5
(one, four, five)
6-4-0
(six, four, zero)
7-3-8-1
(seven, three, eight, one)
0-5-2-3
(zero, five, two, three)
3-3
(three, three)
7-1
(seven, one)
5-0-8
(five, zero, eight)
3-2-7
(three, two, seven)
1-1-2-3
(one, one, two, three)
8-5-5-5
(eight, five, five, five)
8-8-1-7-0
(eight, eight, one, seven, zero)
7-8-9-2-1
(seven, eight, nine, two, one)
6-6, FB: 3
(six, six; FB: three)
7-9-7, FB: 3
(seven, nine, seven; FB: three)
5-9-5-1, FB: 3
(five, nine, five, one; FB: three)
4-7-1-0-9, FB: 3
(four, seven, one, zero, nine; FB: three)
5-6-2
(five, six, two)
3-6-0
(three, six, zero)
0-3-1-3
(zero, three, one, three)
6-8-9-0
(six, eight, nine, zero)
6-6-2-7-2
(six, six, two, seven, two)
2-5-0-9-6
(two, five, zero, nine, six)
6-9-6
(six, nine, six)
5-7-7
(five, seven, seven)
1-9-5-3
(one, nine, five, three)
1-9-8-0
(one, nine, eight, zero)
08-13-17-20-27
(eight, thirteen, seventeen, twenty, twenty-seven)
20-21-24-25-35
(twenty, twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-five, thirty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $1,050,000
02-03-04-05-06-09-11-15-19-27-28-31-32-34-42-48-64-67-75-76, BE: 67
(two, three, four, five, six, nine, eleven, fifteen, nineteen, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-four, forty-two, forty-eight, sixty-four, sixty-seven, seventy-five, seventy-six; BE: sixty-seven)
8-3-0, SB: 2
(eight, three, zero; SB: two)
8-0-1-7, SB: 2
(eight, zero, one, seven; SB: two)
8-3-0
(eight, three, zero)
8-0-1-7
(eight, zero, one, seven)
1-6-4
(one, six, four)
1-6-0
(one, six, zero)
2-4-9
(two, four, nine)
2-7-1-0
(two, seven, one, zero)
QC-5C-6C-10C-7S
(QC, 5C, 6C, 10C, 7S)
14-15-19-30-33, Bonus: 26
(fourteen, fifteen, nineteen, thirty, thirty-three; Bonus: twenty-six)
2-6-6
(two, six, six)
8-1-5
(eight, one, five)
2-9-6-3
(two, nine, six, three)
2-9-4-9
(two, nine, four, nine)
7-4-6-8-7
(seven, four, six, eight, seven)
6-4-4-9-7
(six, four, four, nine, seven)
11-19-20-21-28
(eleven, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-eight)
2-8-8-1
(two, eight, eight, one)
9-1-9-7
(nine, one, nine, seven)
01-10-13-14-24
(one, ten, thirteen, fourteen, twenty-four)
JD-AD-AS-7D-10D
(JD, AD, AS, 7D, 10D)
9-3-0
(nine, three, zero)
5-4-0-7
(five, four, zero, seven)
7-7-5
(seven, seven, five)
1-3-1-6
(one, three, one, six)
14-17-26-27-31
(fourteen, seventeen, twenty-six, twenty-seven, thirty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $144,000
01-04-05-09-11-18-28-29-30-33-34-35-40-51-53-55-61-69-70-72-75-77
(one, four, five, nine, eleven, eighteen, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, forty, fifty-one, fifty-three, fifty-five, sixty-one, sixty-nine, seventy, seventy-two, seventy-five, seventy-seven)
07-13-16-22-30
(seven, thirteen, sixteen, twenty-two, thirty)
Estimated jackpot: $66,000
4-5-7
(four, five, seven)
4-9-5
(four, nine, five)
1-2-0
(one, two, zero)
0-0-5-3
(zero, zero, five, three)
4-3-8-9
(four, three, eight, nine)
11-20-27-28-34
(eleven, twenty, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, thirty-four)
03-14-18-21, Bonus: 3
(three, fourteen, eighteen, twenty-one; Bonus: three)
Month: 5, Day: 31, Year: 37
(Month: five; Day: thirty-one; Year: thirty-seven)
6-7-9, Fireball: 1
(six, seven, nine; Fireball: one)
9-2-7-7, Fireball: 1
(nine, two, seven, seven; Fireball: one)
4-7-4
(four, seven, four)
4-4-0-1
(four, four, zero, one)
10-17-29-33-37
(ten, seventeen, twenty-nine, thirty-three, thirty-seven)
3-6-2
(three, six, two)
6-1-0-1
(six, one, zero, one)
02-05-07-08-12-14-15-21-24-29-30-31-33-36-39-64-66-68-72-78
(two, five, seven, eight, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-three, thirty-six, thirty-nine, sixty-four, sixty-six, sixty-eight, seventy-two, seventy-eight)
1-0-0, Lucky Sum: 1
(one, zero, zero; Lucky Sum: one)
5-9-8-7, Lucky Sum: 29
(five, nine, eight, seven; Lucky Sum: twenty-nine)
4-1-0
(four, one, zero)
0-0-9
(zero, zero, nine)
9-0-1-0
(nine, zero, one, zero)
7-5-4-2
(seven, five, four, two)
4-4-5-9-3
(four, four, five, nine, three)
6-3-9-4-4
(six, three, nine, four, four)
12-26-32-34-39
(twelve, twenty-six, thirty-two, thirty-four, thirty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $216,000
03-12-16-17-27
(three, twelve, sixteen, seventeen, twenty-seven)
7-8-8
(seven, eight, eight)
03-07-11-16-17-22-25-31
(three, seven, eleven, sixteen, seventeen, twenty-two, twenty-five, thirty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $15,000
2-4-1-3
(two, four, one, three)
3-9-2-9
(three, nine, two, nine)
8-2-2-5
(eight, two, two, five)
13-16-18-24-33
(thirteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty-four, thirty-three)
Estimated jackpot: $350,000
02-16-21-25-38-43
(two, sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-five, thirty-eight, forty-three)
Estimated jackpot: $710,000
4-1, Wild:
(four, one; Wild: zero)
9-4, Wild: 2
(nine, four; Wild: two)
6-3-5, Wild:
(six, three, five; Wild: zero)
6-3-3, Wild: 2
(six, three, three; Wild: two)
4-2-8-5, Wild:
(four, two, eight, five; Wild: zero)
8-1-3-3, Wild: 2
(eight, one, three, three; Wild: two)
0-4-0-4-5, Wild:
(zero, four, zero, four, five; Wild: zero)
2-9-8-7-8, Wild: 2
(two, nine, eight, seven, eight; Wild: two)
12-18-19-20-28
(twelve, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $80,000
6-4-7-4
(six, four, seven, four)
9-3-7-2
(nine, three, seven, two)
03-14-19-21-37, Extra: 5
(three, fourteen, nineteen, twenty-one, thirty-seven; Extra: five)
Estimated jackpot: $93,000
07-21-23-26-31, Power-Up: 2
(seven, twenty-one, twenty-three, twenty-six, thirty-one; Power, Up: two)
1-3-3, FB:
(one, three, three; FB: zero)
7-2-7, FB: 4
(seven, two, seven; FB: four)
5-5-7-3, FB:
(five, five, seven, three; FB: zero)
9-0-5-2, FB: 4
(nine, zero, five, two; FB: four)
2-5-3, Wild: 1
(two, five, three; Wild: one)
1-1-9, Wild: 7
(one, one, nine; Wild: seven)
9-5-3, Wild:
(nine, five, three; Wild: zero)
9-4-7-8, Wild:
(nine, four, seven, eight; Wild: zero)
3-7-3-5, Wild: 1
(three, seven, three, five; Wild: one)
5-7-9-3, Wild: 7
(five, seven, nine, three; Wild: seven)
03-04-07-09-10-12-13-14-15-19-21-22
(three, four, seven, nine, ten, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-two)
01-02-03-04-08-12-16-17-19-21-23-24
(one, two, three, four, eight, twelve, sixteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-three, twenty-four)
01-04-07-09-11-15-17-18-19-20-21-23
(one, four, seven, nine, eleven, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-three)
7-5-7-3, FIREBALL: 3
(seven, five, seven, three; FIREBALL: three)
3-5-3-1, FIREBALL: 6
(three, five, three, one; FIREBALL: six)
3-2-0-8, FIREBALL: 4
(three, two, zero, eight; FIREBALL: four)
6-8-7, FIREBALL: 9
(six, eight, seven; FIREBALL: nine)
7-3-4, FIREBALL: 9
(seven, three, four; FIREBALL: nine)
3-4-9, FIREBALL: 3
(three, four, nine; FIREBALL: three)
8-9-8, FB: 6
(eight, nine, eight; FB: six)
7-2-4-2, FB: 7
(seven, two, four, two; FB: seven)
03-06-12-15-20-22
(three, six, twelve, fifteen, twenty, twenty-two)
0-2-0
(zero, two, zero)
4-6-9-6
(four, six, nine, six)
01-02-05-06-09-12-15-17-18-20-22
(one, two, five, six, nine, twelve, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-two)
1-4-0
(one, four, zero)
9-0-1-7
(nine, zero, one, seven)
01-02-10-14-27
(one, two, ten, fourteen, twenty-seven) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Lottery-State-by-State-All-17378432.php | 2022-08-17T03:37:36Z | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Lottery-State-by-State-All-17378432.php | false |
ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:
33-35-41-45-51, Mega Ball: 1, Megaplier: 2
(thirty-three, thirty-five, forty-one, forty-five, fifty-one; Mega Ball: one; Megaplier: two)
ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:
33-35-41-45-51, Mega Ball: 1, Megaplier: 2
(thirty-three, thirty-five, forty-one, forty-five, fifty-one; Mega Ball: one; Megaplier: two) | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Mega-Millions-game-17378499.php | 2022-08-17T03:39:02Z | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Mega-Millions-game-17378499.php | false |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Six people were wounded in a shooting that led to a lockdown of a hospital early Tuesday in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities said.
Memphis police said the six were shot shortly after midnight by people in a black SUV near Methodist North Hospital.
Two children were taken to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in critical condition, police said in a statement. The condition of one of the children later improved to non-critical, police said.
Four other people were taken in critical condition to Regional One Health Medical Center. Police said one of those shot was later listed as non-critical.
Methodist North Hospital was placed on a lockdown that has since been lifted, police said. Three of those shot were detained by police on suspicion that they were in possession of a stolen vehicle, police said.
A sedan was left riddled with bullet holes outside Methodist North. Police also taped off the scene at a gas station several miles away where an assault rifle could be seen on the pavement near the pumps, WREG-TV reported.
No information on a motive for the shooting was immediately released by police. | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/national/memphis-hospital-locks-down-while-treating-shooting-victims/ | 2022-08-17T03:39:50Z | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/national/memphis-hospital-locks-down-while-treating-shooting-victims/ | true |
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska voters got their first shot at using ranked voting in a statewide race Tuesday in a special U.S. House election in which Sarah Palin seeks a return to elected office.
Also, Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski faces 18 challengers in a primary in which the top four vote-getters will advance to November’s general election.
The special election and regular primaries for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor and lieutenant governor and state legislative seats are on opposite sides of a two-sided ballot. It could take until Aug. 31 to know the winner of the special election.
The three candidates competing in the House special election are Republicans Palin and Nick Begich and Democrat Mary Peltola. The winner will serve the remainder of the late Rep. Don Young ‘s term. Young, a Republican, held the state’s only House seat for 49 years. He died in March.
Palin, the 2008 vice presidential nominee and a former Alaska governor, renewed her “drill, baby, drill” calls for increased oil production and said she would use her connections to the benefit of Alaska. She said the new, voter-approved system under which elections are being conducted this year creates confusion and should be changed.
Begich, a businessman from a family of prominent Democrats, has come out hard against Palin, seeking to cast her as someone chasing fame and a quitter; Palin resigned during her term as governor in 2009. In one Begich ad, a woman says: “I’m voting for smart — not Sarah.”
Palin “does not have a strong track record of effective advocacy for the state, and that’s not going to work for us,” Begich said in an interview.
A narrator in one of Palin’s ads refers to Begich as “negative Nick” and says Palin wants to serve in Congress “to carry Don Young’s torch.”
Peltola, a former lawmaker, most recently worked at a commission whose goal is to rebuild salmon resources on the Kuskokwim River. She has cast herself as a “regular Alaskan” and consensus builder. If successful, she would be the first Alaska Native woman elected to the House.
“Vote, vote, vote and vote for me twice, literally,” Peltola told supporters in Juneau days before the election.
All three said they planned to pursue a full, two-year House term, regardless of how the special election turns out. They, along with Republican Tara Sweeney, who was an assistant secretary for Indian Affairs in the U.S. Interior Department during the Trump administration, were the most prominent candidates in a 22-person field in the U.S. House primary.
Sweeney also filed days before the special election as a write-in candidate for that race. Palin’s campaign on Friday sent an email wrongly stating there were no official write-in candidates in the race.
Alaska’s elections process, approved by voters in 2020 and used for the first time this year, ends party primaries and institutes ranked voting for general elections. In the primary, all candidates in a race are listed together; each voter picks one candidate per race. The four candidates who win the most votes in each race advance to the November general election, in which ranked voting will be used.
Bob Cruise left a Peltola fundraiser in Juneau Friday with a yard sign. He said his three granddaughters are of indigenous heritage. “It’s important to me for them to see an indigenous woman go to Washington, D.C., as Alaska’s representative. That would mean the world to me, especially one with the leadership abilities and all the wonderful qualities that Mary has,” he said.
Murkowski, a moderate who has been in the Senate for nearly 20 years and has at times been at odds with her party, faces 18 challengers, including fellow Republican Kelly Tshibaka, who is backed by former President Donald Trump.
Trump has lashed out against Murkowski, who voted to convict him in his second impeachment trial after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Trump was acquitted.
Murkowski told reporters Tuesday there will be four winners in the primary, and she would “absolutely” be among them. But “what matters is winning in November,” she said.
She said that if Tshibaka derives her sole strength from Trump’s endorsement, “what does that really say about her as a candidate with what she has to offer Alaska? Is it just that she will be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump? I don’t think that all Alaskans are really seeking that. Not the ones that I’m talking to.”
Trump participated in a rally last month with Tshibaka and Palin, whom he’s endorsed for the House. He has also done tele-rallies for Tshibaka and Palin.
Tshibaka has sought to cast Murkowski as a Washington insider who is cozy with President Joe Biden. She has said Alaskans want a change.
Kevin Durling, a co-chair of Tshibaka’s campaign, said Tshibaka’s commitment to business and family and her values are important to him. He said Trump’s endorsement of her is an added bonus.
The most visible Democrat in the race is retired educator Pat Chesbro, who jumped in late and has struggled to gain fundraising traction.
Candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run as teams in the primary. Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy is seeking reelection. He is running with Nancy Dahlstrom, who resigned as head of the state corrections department to join the ticket. Former Gov. Bill Walker, an independent, is running with Heidi Drygas, who was his labor department commissioner. Democrat Les Gara, a former lawmaker, is running with Jessica Cook, a teacher.
Other tickets include Republican state Rep. Christopher Kurka, running with Paul Hueper, and Charlie Pierce, a Republican borough mayor, running with Edie Grunwald.
Fifty-nine of the Legislature’s 60 seats are up for election, but just one primary race has more than four candidates.
Beth Kerttula, a Democratic former state legislator, said she is supporting Peltola, Walker and Murkowski. Kerttula, who was in the Legislature with Peltola and Murkowski, said for many Alaskans “what really matters is the person” versus the party.
“I mean, we all supported Ted Stevens, too,” she said, referring to the late, longtime Republican U.S. senator. Alaska elections history includes periods when there were open primaries. | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/politics/palin-murkowski-highlight-alaskas-2-elections-on-tuesday/ | 2022-08-17T03:41:22Z | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/politics/palin-murkowski-highlight-alaskas-2-elections-on-tuesday/ | false |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
1-2-3-0, FIREBALL: 3
(one, two, three, zero; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
1-2-3-0, FIREBALL: 3
(one, two, three, zero; FIREBALL: three) | https://www.michigansthumb.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Night-game-17378523.php | 2022-08-17T03:46:34Z | https://www.michigansthumb.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Night-game-17378523.php | false |
Last year, the U.S. branch of the Jesuits pledged to raise $100 million for a reconciliation initiative in partnership with descendants of people once enslaved by the Catholic order. On Tuesday, a leader of those descendants expressed deep dissatisfaction with the order’s lack of progress since then.
Joseph Stewart, in a publicly released letter to the head of the order, contends the Jesuits have failed to uphold their side of the partnership with the urgency the circumstances demand. Stewart and other descendants are the progeny of 272 enslaved men, women and children sold in 1838 by the Jesuit owners of Georgetown University to Louisiana plantation owners to pay off the school’s debts.
The Jesuits “are in a state of disillusionment,” Stewart wrote, warning of the possible disintegration of the partnership between the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, and the GU272 Descendants Association, which represents those whose ancestors were sold.
If the partnership falls apart, “the Jesuits leaders of today will effectively betray Descendants today just as the Jesuits of the past betrayed our ancestors,” Stewart wrote. “Jesuits will attempt to put Reconciliation back on the shelf for another 200 years as voices for ‘reparation’ get stronger and stronger and louder and louder.”
Their partnership and joint creation of the Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation was announced in March 2021. The Jesuits pledged to raise $100 million within five years with a broader goal of reaching $1 billion from an array of donors. The money would pay for educational opportunities for current and future descendants, and the foundation would oversee fundraising and grant allocation.
In his letter to the international religious order’s leader, the Rev. Arturo Sosa, Stewart called on the Jesuits to act urgently and fund the descendants’ trust so racial reconciliation grants, scholarships and care for the elderly could move forward.
Stewart suggested the funding delay has been caused by the Jesuits’ reluctance to move about $57 million in proceeds from 2009 plantation land sales into the trust. In his letter to Sosa, he urged the sale of remaining plantation lands and depositing those proceeds by Christmas. Stewart also laid out an incremental, multiyear funding timeline that starts with a $100 million deposit by July 2023 and finishes with a $1 billion addition by July 2029.
“Fundraising alone has not produced sufficient resources to make the foundation effective and to begin delivering on the promise,” Stewart told The Associated Press. “It has not derailed the initiative, but it’s just going too slow. We need to accelerate it.”
The Jesuit USA East Province has hired two firms to help sell the remaining Jesuit-owned land with proceeds going entirely to the descendants trust, the East Province said in a statement Monday.
It also is in discussions about how the province can use the proceeds from the 2009 sale of the Maryland plantation to benefit the descendants trust, but one province or conference cannot make a unilateral decision for the order, the statement said. Some of that $57 million was used to build a retirement center and supplement a fund that helps African American students attending Jesuit schools, with the remaining money being deposited into the Jesuit aged and infirm trust.
The Rev. Timothy Kesicki, the chair of the descendants’ trust and past president of the Jesuit conference, said the process of transferring funds from the land sale to the trust is already in motion, but it is complex and “the pace of the fundraising has been rough.” He added that the process is so new to all involved.
“How this foundation will operate is still in question. There is still a lot of work we’re doing to bring this vision to a broader community,” Kesicki said. “I’m not surprised by a slow start. But we are committed to seeing it through to the finish line.”
The Jesuits are still on track to transfer $100 million into the the trust within three to five years of their March 2021 announcement, he said. Kesicki is seeking grants to bring in more people and money to accomplish those goals.
In 2017, he delivered an apology to the descendants of the 272 enslaved people who were sold by the university’s Jesuit owners. Stewart would like Pope Francis to make a similar apology. In his letter to Sosa, he asked after his April invitation for Francis to visit with the descendants.
It would be a deeply meaningful papal act, said Stewart, who spoke of the hurt he personally endured as a devout Catholic whose ancestors were enslaved by the church he holds dear.
“It all starts with admitting the wrong,” he said. “But if you apologize and walk away, there is no value to it. It has to be stepping off point to make change that uplifts lives.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran CNBC chief Mark Hoffman is leaving the network after 28 years, with London-based executive KC Sullivan replacing him early next month, the network said on Tuesday.
Hoffman was named president of the financial news network in 2005 and elevated to chairman in 2015.
“During his tenure, CNBC became a world leader and every year it has grown better and stronger,” said Cesar Conde, chairman of the NBCUniversal News Group.
Sullivan, who begins as CNBC president on Sept. 12, is currently president and managing director of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, and has been based in London. He was in executive roles at NBC and CNBC for the decade before that. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/mark-hoffman-out-as-cnbc-chief-kc-sullivan-replacing-him/ | 2022-08-17T03:47:47Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/mark-hoffman-out-as-cnbc-chief-kc-sullivan-replacing-him/ | true |
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor on Tuesday announced a public-private partnership to overhaul the island’s cruise ship docks as part of a $425 million project to boost the U.S. territory’s tourism sector.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said the project aims to transform Puerto Rico into the Caribbean’s main cruise ship destination by modernizing, repairing and expanding nine docks located in the capital of San Juan to receive larger vessels and more passengers.
“It’s an extremely important day for tourism in Puerto Rico,” said Carlos Mercado, executive director for the island’s Tourism Company.
San Juan Cruise Port — a subsidiary of London-based Global Ports Holding, the world’s largest cruise port operator — will be responsible for operating and overseeing the project as part of a 30-year deal with Puerto Rico’s Ports Authority that was five years in the making. The contract states the island’s government will receive annual payments representing at least 5% of the operator’s gross income.
As part of the deal, the number of docks currently capable of serving as base port for four cruise ships at a time will double to eight. Crews also will modernize docks battered by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 and that have been worn down throughout the decades, with the first one being built in the 1970.
“We haven’t been able to compete on a large scale with other jurisdictions,” Pierluisi said.
Joel Pizá, executive director of Puerto Rico’s Ports Authority, said the docks are currently not designed to receive larger ships or 5,000 passengers or more at a time. He also noted that the agency is $350 million in debt, which makes it hard to issue bonds to repair and improve docks despite federal officials identifying serious structural deficiencies that would require more than $200 million to fix.
“This is the reality,” he said. “Capital investment is more than needed at this moment.”
The maximum docking fee and passenger fee are not expected to change as part of the deal, officials said.
The announcement is the latest public-private partnership that the U.S. territory has launched as the central government and certain public agencies emerge from a deep bankruptcy amid an ongoing economic crisis. Previous partnerships have led private companies to take over management and operation of the island’s main international airport, certain highways and the transmission and distribution of power, among others.
Some have criticized the newest partnership, demanding that federal officials scrutinize the privatization of some $5 billion of infrastructure for an upfront initial investment of $75 million. Puerto Rico Rep. Ángel Matos García, spokesman for the majority of the island’s House of Representatives, said he and other politicians will be meeting with federal officials in Washington, D.C. to talk about the deal.
Tourism represents less than 7% of Puerto Rico’s economy, but officials hope to change that with the newest partnership, with work slated to start next year.
Puerto Rico saw a record number of cruise ship passengers prior to the pandemic, only for the docks to shut down for 16 months. But business has since rebounded. The government reported more than 420,000 passengers in fiscal year 2021-2022, a 23% recovery compared with the 2018-2019 fiscal year
This fiscal year, officials expect more than 1 million passengers — roughly 80% of pre-pandemic traffic — with eight new cruise ships scheduled to visit the San Juan port for the first time. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/puerto-rico-cruise-ship-docks-face-425m-public-private-deal/ | 2022-08-17T03:49:22Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/puerto-rico-cruise-ship-docks-face-425m-public-private-deal/ | true |
With much fanfare, ship after ship loaded with grain has sailed from Ukraine after being stuck in the country’s Black Sea ports for nearly six months. More quietly, a parallel wartime deal met Moscow’s demands to clear the way for its wheat to get to the world, too, boosting an industry vital to Russia’s economy that had been ensnared in wider sanctions.
While the U.S. and its European allies work to crush Russia’s finances with a web of penalties for invading Ukraine, they have avoided directly sanctioning grains and other goods that feed people worldwide.
Russian and Ukrainian wheat, barley, corn and sunflower oil are important to countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, where millions rely on subsidized bread for survival. As the war spiked food and energy prices, millions of people have been pushed into poverty or closer to the brink of starvation.
Two deals that the U.N. and Turkey brokered last month to unblock food supplies depend on each other: one protects ships exporting Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea and the other assures Russia that its food and fertilizer won’t face sanctions, safeguarding one of the pillars of its economy and helping ease concerns from insurers and banks.
The agreement allowed a Western shipper to move two vessels of grain out of Russia in a matter of weeks. It used to take months because Western banks refused to transfer payments to Russia. Although U.S. and European Union sanctions don’t directly target Russian agriculture, Western banks have been wary of running afoul, hindering buyers’ and shippers’ access to Russian grain.
“You have to invest time with the banks to make them understand this whole thing because the authority says, ‘Go ahead there’s no sanction,’ but the banks self-sanction,” said Gaurav Srivastava, whose company Harvest Commodities buys, ships and sells grains from the Black Sea region.
He called the process with banks a “labor intensive exercise.”
What’s changed in recent weeks, Srivastava said, is “the appearance … of this being sort of a truce between all parties.”
The deal mattered to Russia because it’s the world’s biggest exporter of wheat, accounting for almost a fifth of global shipments, and the country is expected to have one of its best-ever crop seasons this year. Agriculture accounts for around 4% of Russia’s gross domestic product, according to the World Bank.
“What is more important is employment,” said Russian economist Sergey Aleksashenko, referring to jobs created by agriculture. “It’s like 7 to 8% of employment.”
Farming provides 5-6 million Russian jobs, with some regions almost entirely dependent on it for their livelihood, he said.
Srivastava, whose company operates from Los Angeles and Geneva, hopes to be able to ship out 10-15 million tons of Russian grain over the coming year.
He also has been able to move out two chartered ships that were stuck at Ukrainian ports since the start of the war on Feb. 24. He said the company is aiming to pick up 1 million tons of grain from Ukraine under the four-month-long U.N. deal.
“We are a commercial business, but we are trying to help the plight of farmers in both Russia and Ukraine,” Srivastava said. “I’m very optimistic, especially in the last couple of weeks.”
Russia’s demands for the deal included public statements from the U.S. and EU that sanctions don’t target Russian food and fertilizer. It also raised issues around financial transactions to the Russian Agricultural Bank, access for Russian-flagged vessels at ports and ammonia exports needed for fertilizer production.
A week before Russia signed the agreement, the U.S. Treasury Department issued statements with such assurances. It made clear that Washington hadn’t imposed sanctions on the sale or transport of agricultural commodities or medicine from Russia.
Treasury also issued a broad license to authorize certain transactions related to agricultural commodities, saying the U.S. “strongly supports efforts by the United Nations to bring both Ukrainian and Russian grain to world markets and to reduce the impact of Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine on global food supplies and prices.”
The EU also reiterated that Russian agriculture hadn’t been sanctioned and blamed the global spike in food prices on the war and the Kremlin’s agricultural export caps meant to protect its domestic market. The 27-nation bloc said its sanctions provide exceptions, such as allowing EU countries to authorize access to ports for Russian-flagged vessels for trade in agricultural or food products.
Russia says it’s still facing challenges.
The country’s agriculture ministry says difficulty with the supply of imported farming equipment, which isn’t directly sanctioned, also threatens the grain harvest. It said domestic needs would be met, but that exports might be affected.
Even after the deal was signed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chided Western assurances that agriculture was exempt from sanctions. During a diplomatic tour of Africa focused on food exports, he said a “half-truth is worse than a lie” while pointing to the chilling effect of sanctions.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres “committed himself to press the Western countries to lift those restrictions,” Lavrov said. “We’ll see whether he can succeed.”
Meanwhile, Russian and Ukrainian grains are ever more critical to averting hunger in developing countries. S&P Global Commodity Insights said in a June report that 41 million tons of Russian wheat could be available for export this year.
But overall, the world is expected to produce 12.2 million tons less wheat and 19 million tons less corn for the 2022-2023 harvest compared with the previous year, International Grains Council Executive Director Arnaud Petit said. This is in part due to the war in Ukraine and drought in Europe, he said.
While a strong U.S. dollar and inflation may force some countries to ration food imports, Petit noted that some countries are imposing export controls that could impact the availability of grains in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
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Raf Casert contributed to this report from Brussels.
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Rachel Bilson laughs as she gives VERY NSFW response when asked what she misses about ex Bill Hader
He is notoriously private about his love life.
But Barry star Bill Hader evidently has one intimate secret that was too enormous to be kept under wraps forever.
When his ex Rachel Bilson, 40, was asked on her Broad Ideas podcast what she missed most about him, she replied with a laugh: 'His big d***.'
'His big d***': Rachel Bilson has revealed what she most misses about her ex Bill Hader, whom she is pictured with at the 2020 Golden Globes
The OC actress was first linked to Bill near the end of 2019 but their relationship reportedly ended during the following summer.
While interviewing Mandy Moore on Broad Ideas this year, Rachel revealed that she underwent a pandemic breakup she described as 'harder than childbirth.'
'I could not leave my house, you know what I mean? I had nothing else to do but sit in it, and deal with it and feel it,' she revealed.
'It was probably the hardest thing I've ever done, harder than childbirth. It hurt like a motherf******!' she said without naming names.
Candor: While interviewing Mandy Moore on Broad Ideas this year, Rachel revealed that she underwent a pandemic breakup she described as 'harder than childbirth'
Another Mr. BDE?: The OC actress was first linked to Bill near the end of 2019; he is pictured that April during an event at CinemaCon in Las Vegas
Rachel shared her tips for coping: 'If you actually face it, you can come out of it and be like: "OK, I did that and I'm ready for the next thing."'
Shortly thereafter on another episode of Broad Ideas, she confirmed to Aubrey Plaza that she had been romantically involved with Bill 'two years ago!'
She pointed out: 'I went with him to the f****** Golden Globes with him!' referring to the award show held in January 2020 on the brink of the coronavirus lockdowns.
Throwback: Rachel has a daughter called Briar Rose, seven, with her ex Hayden Christensen, the star Wars heartthrob she is pictured with at the 2010 Met Gala
Rachel has a daughter called Briar Rose, seven, with her ex Hayden Christensen, the star Wars heartthrob she dated off and on from 2008 to 2017.
Meanwhile Bill shares his daughters Hannah, 12, Harper, 10, and Hayley, seven, with his ex-wife Maggie Carey, whom he was married to from 2006 until 2018.
After his split from Rachel, Bill reportedly dated Anna Kendrick for over a year and a half until an Entertainment Tonight source confirmed this June that they have split.
The way they were: Bill shares his daughters Hannah, 12, Harper, 10, and Hayley, seven, with his ex-wife Maggie Carey, whom he is pictured with in 2016 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11118397/Rachel-Bilson-laughs-gives-NSFW-response-asked-misses-ex-Bill-Hader.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-17T03:56:00Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11118397/Rachel-Bilson-laughs-gives-NSFW-response-asked-misses-ex-Bill-Hader.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Hannah Tashjian had a revelation.
She was working with a letter handwritten by Mark Twain in 1876. The missive was glued on its left edge to a slightly thicker piece of paper, probably in an attempt to protect it, recalled Tashjian, the interim head of preservation at the UC Berkeley Library. The backing forced the viewer to flip the letter like the page of a book to read the text on the reverse side, which made the precious artifact more difficult to study, and put it at greater risk of damage.
When Tashjian detached the backing, she discovered something unexpected — a semicolon that had been obscured by the adhesive.
“I got to reveal a semicolon that Mark Twain wrote,” she said. “I might have been the first person to see that punctuation mark in more than 100 years. That was an exciting moment.”
Bob Hirst, general editor of The Bancroft Library’s Mark Twain Papers and Project, called the discovery “the sort of thing that makes your whole week,” noting that it was particularly relevant in regard to Twain, who was known to be protective of punctuation.
Revelations are part and parcel of the work happening every day in the Library’s Preservation Department. It’s one component of an often unseen profession, which steps into the spotlight this week with the launch of a new exhibit, Shelf Life: Preserving the Library’s Collections. The revelatory exhibition, on display in the Doe Library’s Brown Gallery through January, showcases the tools, techniques, and terminology of preservation. An online version will also be available in fall.
“(The exhibit is) a behind-the-scenes look at some of the invisible work that goes into making sure that library collections are not lost to time,” Tashjian said. “I’m excited for people to learn more about the interesting and obscure aspects of what we do.”
Opening up the past
Among the most unique of those tasks is working with 2,000-year-old papyrus fragments from ancient Egypt through Bancroft’s Center for the Tebtunis Papyri.
Papyri are sheets of material that were written on and sometimes reused later to embalm mummified remains. The sheets contain text detailing everything from property records to poetry. In fact, the preservation team once worked with a papyrus fragment that contained text from Homer’s Iliad.
Martha Little, a conservator in the department’s Conservation Treatment Division, said it is gratifying to remove dirt, realign fibers, or unfold creases that reveal script that is several thousand years old. But even more importantly, it is vital to understanding history.
“What we do with the papyri is important to researchers around the world who are studying and writing about ancient Egypt,” she said. “Our work helps them do theirs.”
Both Little and Tashjian find joy in the meticulous process of preservation, whether they are working on an item of historical importance or something more ordinary.
“I really like conserving the sort of ephemeral and quotidian things that are most likely to get forgotten or overlooked,” Tashjian said. “Conserving that stuff is very important, because of course everyone is going to make sure a Shakespeare folio is taken care of, but who is going to look out for the little guy — the interesting doodles on a cocktail napkin written by some luminary in a bar in San Francisco?”
Back to the future
Besides making artifacts from special collections accessible to today’s scholars, the department ensures that current materials will be available to the scholars of the future.
That means protecting and repairing items from the circulating collections, such as books or periodicals regularly used by Library visitors. When a book is returned damaged, the team selects the best method of repair, oftentimes consulting with other library units. The book could, for example, be sent to the University of California Bindery in Richmond, where it will be re-bound with a durable cover. If a book is missing a page, the team can replace the page with a photocopy.
Serials such as magazines are often bound together as volumes to ensure individual issues don’t get misplaced. For newspapers, which tend to deteriorate quickly, the team will often recommend converting an item to microfilm, which guarantees a longer life, while also saving space.
Rosemary Sallee, the head of the Bindery Preparation and Preservation Replacement divisions, emphasized the value of preserving paper collections.
“There are whole language groups where that literature and that scholarship isn’t well represented in the digital world,” she said. “Publishers are not producing these books in digital formats for libraries to acquire. Likewise, a lot of the newspapers that we microfilm are not available digitally. So preserving print, binding it, or filming it is still really important.”
Sallee noted a recent example in which her team facilitated the microfilming of a series of Kurdish newspapers from Turkey. The media outlet was shut down by the government because of its political content, Sallee recalled, but other successor newspapers started up publication soon after to ensure that a unique journalistic voice wasn’t silenced.
“Being able to preserve those items that we’re going to look back on, something very historic, and something of great interest to researchers — that is really special to me,” she said.
One size does not fit all
John Shepard, the curator of music collections at the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, lauds the Preservation Department’s work. With a plethora of priceless musical scores and texts under his care, he appreciates the assistance in keeping materials protected and accessible.
Shepard said the department assists his work in many ways. The team maintains a disaster response plan for the library (and all of the university’s more than 20 libraries) that prioritizes which items conservators would save first in the event of a flood, fire, or other emergency. The team also monitors the climate in the library’s special collections, regularly collecting temperature and humidity readings to ensure the best possible environment.
The most consistent support the team offers is creating customized preservation solutions.
“I know they are busy, so I try to go in with very minimal requests,” Shepard said. “I ask them to just put something in a basic box for me. But they really care, so they tend to want to go further. ‘Do you want us to repair this thing here?’ or ‘How do you want to handle this?’ I’m always very impressed by their work.”
As an example of the team’s approach, Shepard cites a manuscript of Handel’s opera Siroe, which was copied by a scribe around 1740. The manuscript came to the library disbound and broken into several pieces, with the first page detached. The preservation team put that first page into a Mylar sleeve, while the rest of the pages were placed in enclosures by groups, keeping them protected and organized.
In some cases, conservators decide the best course of action is not to repair an item at all.
“We ask a lot of questions about the item, so we can take its unique situation into consideration,” conservator Erika Lindensmith said. “Sometimes it’s important to preserve the history of the object. For example, we might leave the spine exposed so researchers can see how that book was made.”
Tashjian said one of the fundamental principles in conservation is to think carefully about the ways in which an artifact may be permanently changed by a treatment.
“We have the best intentions in conserving collections, but we can’t predict the future,” she said. “When we intervene with an item, we need to make sure our work can be undone, so that in 300 years, when they are like, ‘Why did they do that?’ they’ll be able to undo it.”
Thankfully, those interested in the processes — and mysteries — of the preservation profession don’t need to wait nearly so long to learn more. With the new exhibit now open, people can see for themselves the unique mix of art, science, and magic that is library preservation. | https://news.lib.berkeley.edu/shelf-life-exhibit | 2022-08-17T04:04:50Z | https://news.lib.berkeley.edu/shelf-life-exhibit | false |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
03-09-21-27-34
(three, nine, twenty-one, twenty-seven, thirty-four)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
03-09-21-27-34
(three, nine, twenty-one, twenty-seven, thirty-four) | https://www.ctinsider.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17378545.php | 2022-08-17T04:06:50Z | https://www.ctinsider.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17378545.php | false |
Jury to hear opening statements at R Kelly trial in Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) - Opening statements set for Wednesday give prosecutors and R. Kelly's attorneys their first chance to address jurors directly about charges that accuse the R&B singer of enticing of minors for sex, producing child pornography and rigging his 2008 pornography trial.
Both the prosecution and Kelly's legal team told the judge earlier in the week that they would like about an hour each to tell jurors about the kind evidence they can expect to see and hear. The evidentiary stage of the trial is expect to last about a month.
Lawyers for two Kelly co-defendants will also address jurors before the government begins calling witnesses later Wednesday. Prosecutors haven't said who they will call first.
The jury was impaneled Tuesday night with prosecutors and defense attorneys arguing toward the end of the process about whether the government was improperly attempting to keep some Blacks off the jury.
Kelly, who is Black, is accused of enticing minors for sex, of producing child pornography and of fixing his 2008 state child pornography trial at which he was acquitted.
As the sides began exercising peremptory challenges - in which they can remove a fixed number of potential jurors from the pool - Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean accused prosecutors of seeking to strike Blacks "to deny Mr. Kelly a jury of his peers."
FILE - Musician R. Kelly leaves the Leighton Criminal Court building in Chicago on June 6, 2019. Kelly's federal trial starts Monday in Chicago. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky, File)
Prosecutors noted multiple African Americans had already made it onto the jury before the defense objected, and they argued their reasons for wanting to strike some had nothing to do with race. In one case, they said one older man appeared to have a hard time staying awake.
Judge Harry Leinenweber partially agreed with the defense, disallowing prosecutors from striking three Blacks from the jury, and restoring them. About half the 12 jurors impaneled were identified as Black by the judge, prosecutor and defense attorneys.
Six alternates were also selected.
Some of the jurors selected had watched at least part of a six-part documentary series, "Surviving R. Kelly," about sex abuse allegations against the Grammy award-winning singer. Watching it wasn´t an automatic disqualification as long as a would-be juror could assure Judge Leinenweber they could still be impartial.
Among the 12 jurors selected was a retired real estate agent who had one son who was a prosecutor and another son who was a defense attorney. Another juror was a librarian.
Among those dismissed was a woman who said she had unfavorable views of police and judges and a man who said he didn't think the IRS should exist.
One central focus of the trial will be on whether Kelly threatened and paid off a girl with whom he allegedly videotaped himself having sex when he was about 30 and she was no older than 14. That's the allegation underpinning another of the charges against Kelly, conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Jurors in the 2008 child pornography trial acquitted Kelly, with some later explaining that they felt they had no choice because the girl did not testify. The woman, now in her 30s and referred to in court filings only as "Minor 1," will be the government´s star witness in the federal trial that's expected to last four weeks.
When she testifies, prosecutors explained in court Monday that they won´t use her real name and won't refer to her as Minor 1. Instead, they will call her by a single pseudonym, "Jane." Kelly's lawyers suggested they could contest where some of his accusers were minors at the time Kelly is accused if video recording or enticing them,
Kelly, 55, already has already been sentenced by a New York federal judge to a 30-year prison term for a 2021 conviction on charges that he used his fame to sexually abuse other young fans.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago´s South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, will be around 80 before qualifying for early release based on his sentence imposed in New York, which he is appealing. .
Kelly faces four counts of enticement of minors for sex - one each for four other accusers. They, too, are expected to testify.
Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants at the Chicago trial. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they also have denied wrongdoing.
Minor 1 is expected to testify that she was on video having sex with Kelly. The recording was at the heart of the monthlong 2008 trial and was played for jurors almost every day. Prosecutors say Kelly threatened and sought to pay off Minor 1 and her parents so they wouldn't testify in 2008. None of them did.
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FILE - R. Kelly performs at the BET Awards in Los Angeles on June 30, 2013. Kelly's federal trial starts Monday in Chicago. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/Invision/AP, File)
R. Kelly's defense attorneys, Ashley Cohen, left, and Jennifer Bonjean, walk into the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago as jury selection is scheduled to begin as the R&B superstar faces charges alleging child pornography, obstruction of justice and the enticement of minors into criminal sexual activity, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
R. Kelly's defense attorneys, Ashley Cohen, left, and Jennifer Bonjean, walk into the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago as jury selection is scheduled to begin as the R&B superstar faces charges alleging child pornography, obstruction of justice and the enticement of minors into criminal sexual activity, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
R. Kelly's defense attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, walks into the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago as jury selection is scheduled to begin as the R&B superstar faces charges alleging child pornography, obstruction of justice and the enticement of minors into criminal sexual activity, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
R. Kelly's defense attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, walks into the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago as jury selection is scheduled to begin as the R&B superstar faces charges alleging child pornography, obstruction of justice and the enticement of minors into criminal sexual activity, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11118655/Jury-hear-opening-statements-R-Kelly-trial-Chicago.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-17T04:12:01Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11118655/Jury-hear-opening-statements-R-Kelly-trial-Chicago.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Braves third. Michael Harris II strikes out swinging. Robbie Grossman homers to right field. Ronald Acuna Jr. walks. Dansby Swanson flies out to shallow right field to Jeff McNeil.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Braves 1, Mets 0.
Braves fourth. Austin Riley walks. Matt Olson homers to right field. Austin Riley scores. Travis d'Arnaud singles to left field. William Contreras singles to left field. Travis d'Arnaud to second. Vaughn Grissom called out on strikes. Michael Harris II grounds out to first base, Pete Alonso to R.J. Alvarez. William Contreras to second. Travis d'Arnaud to third. Robbie Grossman flies out to deep right center field to Starling Marte.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Braves 3, Mets 0.
Braves seventh. Robbie Grossman pops out to Deven Marrero. Ronald Acuna Jr. walks. Dansby Swanson singles to left center field, advances to 2nd. Ronald Acuna Jr. scores. Fielding error by Tyler Naquin. Austin Riley grounds out to first base to Pete Alonso. Dansby Swanson to third. Matt Olson singles to left field. Dansby Swanson scores. Travis d'Arnaud strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 1 left on. Braves 5, Mets 0. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/N-Y-Mets-Atlanta-Runs-17378417.php | 2022-08-17T04:12:53Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/N-Y-Mets-Atlanta-Runs-17378417.php | false |
With much fanfare, ship after ship loaded with grain has sailed from Ukraine after being stuck in the country’s Black Sea ports for nearly six months. More quietly, a parallel wartime deal met Moscow’s demands to clear the way for its wheat to get to the world, too, boosting an industry vital to Russia’s economy that had been ensnared in wider sanctions.
While the U.S. and its European allies work to crush Russia’s finances with a web of penalties for invading Ukraine, they have avoided directly sanctioning grains and other goods that feed people worldwide.
Russian and Ukrainian wheat, barley, corn and sunflower oil are important to countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, where millions rely on subsidized bread for survival. As the war spiked food and energy prices, millions of people have been pushed into poverty or closer to the brink of starvation.
Two deals that the U.N. and Turkey brokered last month to unblock food supplies depend on each other: one protects ships exporting Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea and the other assures Russia that its food and fertilizer won’t face sanctions, safeguarding one of the pillars of its economy and helping ease concerns from insurers and banks.
The agreement allowed a Western shipper to move two vessels of grain out of Russia in a matter of weeks. It used to take months because Western banks refused to transfer payments to Russia. Although U.S. and European Union sanctions don’t directly target Russian agriculture, Western banks have been wary of running afoul, hindering buyers’ and shippers’ access to Russian grain.
“You have to invest time with the banks to make them understand this whole thing because the authority says, ‘Go ahead there’s no sanction,’ but the banks self-sanction,” said Gaurav Srivastava, whose company Harvest Commodities buys, ships and sells grains from the Black Sea region.
He called the process with banks a “labor intensive exercise.”
What’s changed in recent weeks, Srivastava said, is “the appearance … of this being sort of a truce between all parties.”
The deal mattered to Russia because it’s the world’s biggest exporter of wheat, accounting for almost a fifth of global shipments, and the country is expected to have one of its best-ever crop seasons this year. Agriculture accounts for around 4% of Russia’s gross domestic product, according to the World Bank.
“What is more important is employment,” said Russian economist Sergey Aleksashenko, referring to jobs created by agriculture. “It’s like 7 to 8% of employment.”
Farming provides 5-6 million Russian jobs, with some regions almost entirely dependent on it for their livelihood, he said.
Srivastava, whose company operates from Los Angeles and Geneva, hopes to be able to ship out 10-15 million tons of Russian grain over the coming year.
He also has been able to move out two chartered ships that were stuck at Ukrainian ports since the start of the war on Feb. 24. He said the company is aiming to pick up 1 million tons of grain from Ukraine under the four-month-long U.N. deal.
“We are a commercial business, but we are trying to help the plight of farmers in both Russia and Ukraine,” Srivastava said. “I’m very optimistic, especially in the last couple of weeks.”
Russia’s demands for the deal included public statements from the U.S. and EU that sanctions don’t target Russian food and fertilizer. It also raised issues around financial transactions to the Russian Agricultural Bank, access for Russian-flagged vessels at ports and ammonia exports needed for fertilizer production.
A week before Russia signed the agreement, the U.S. Treasury Department issued statements with such assurances. It made clear that Washington hadn’t imposed sanctions on the sale or transport of agricultural commodities or medicine from Russia.
Treasury also issued a broad license to authorize certain transactions related to agricultural commodities, saying the U.S. “strongly supports efforts by the United Nations to bring both Ukrainian and Russian grain to world markets and to reduce the impact of Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine on global food supplies and prices.”
The EU also reiterated that Russian agriculture hadn’t been sanctioned and blamed the global spike in food prices on the war and the Kremlin’s agricultural export caps meant to protect its domestic market. The 27-nation bloc said its sanctions provide exceptions, such as allowing EU countries to authorize access to ports for Russian-flagged vessels for trade in agricultural or food products.
Russia says it’s still facing challenges.
The country’s agriculture ministry says difficulty with the supply of imported farming equipment, which isn’t directly sanctioned, also threatens the grain harvest. It said domestic needs would be met, but that exports might be affected.
Even after the deal was signed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chided Western assurances that agriculture was exempt from sanctions. During a diplomatic tour of Africa focused on food exports, he said a “half-truth is worse than a lie” while pointing to the chilling effect of sanctions.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres “committed himself to press the Western countries to lift those restrictions,” Lavrov said. “We’ll see whether he can succeed.”
Meanwhile, Russian and Ukrainian grains are ever more critical to averting hunger in developing countries. S&P Global Commodity Insights said in a June report that 41 million tons of Russian wheat could be available for export this year.
But overall, the world is expected to produce 12.2 million tons less wheat and 19 million tons less corn for the 2022-2023 harvest compared with the previous year, International Grains Council Executive Director Arnaud Petit said. This is in part due to the war in Ukraine and drought in Europe, he said.
While a strong U.S. dollar and inflation may force some countries to ration food imports, Petit noted that some countries are imposing export controls that could impact the availability of grains in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
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Raf Casert contributed to this report from Brussels.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican adversary in Congress, was defeated in a GOP primary Tuesday, falling to a rival backed by the former president in a rout that reinforced his grip on the party’s base.
The third-term congresswoman and her allies entered the day downbeat about her prospects, aware that Trump’s backing gave Harriet Hageman considerable lift in the state where he won by the largest margin during the 2020 campaign. Cheney was already looking ahead to a political future beyond Capitol Hill that could include a 2024 presidential run, potentially putting her on another collision course with Trump.
Cheney described her loss as the beginning of a new chapter in her political career as she addressed a small collection of supporters, including her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, on the edge of a vast field flanked by mountains and bales of hay.
“Our work is far from over,” she said Tuesday evening, evoking Abraham Lincoln, who also lost congressional elections before ascending to the presidency and preserving the union.
The results — and the roughly 30-point margin — were a powerful reminder of the GOP’s rapid shift to the right. A party once dominated by national security-oriented, business-friendly conservatives like her father now belongs to Trump, animated by his populist appeal and, above all, his denial of defeat in the 2020 election.
Such lies, which have been roundly rejected by federal and state election officials along with Trump’s own attorney general and judges he appointed, transformed Cheney from an occasional critic of the former president to the clearest voice inside the GOP warning that he represents a threat to democratic norms. She’s the top Republican on the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, an attack she referenced in nodding to her political future.
“I have said since Jan. 6 that I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office — and I mean it,” she said.
Four hundred miles to the east of Cheney’s concession speech, festive Hageman supporters gathered at a sprawling outdoor rodeo and Western culture festival in Cheyenne, many wearing cowboy boots, hats and blue jeans.
“Obviously we’re all very grateful to President Trump, who recognizes that Wyoming has only one congressional representative and we have to make it count,” said Hageman, a ranching industry attorney who had finished third in a previous bid for governor.
Echoing Trump’s conspiracy theories, she falsely claimed the 2020 election was “rigged” as she courted his loyalists in the runup to the election.
Trump and his team celebrated Cheney’s loss, which may represent his biggest political victory in a primary season full of them. The former president called the results “a complete rebuke” of the Jan. 6 committee.
“Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others,” he wrote on his social media platform. “Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now. Thank you WYOMING!”
The news offered a welcome break from Trump’s focus on his growing legal entanglements. Just eight days earlier, federal agents executing a search warrant recovered 11 sets of classified records from the former president’s Florida estate.
Cheney’s defeat would have been unthinkable just two years ago. The daughter of a former vice president, she hails from one of the most prominent political families in Wyoming. And in Washington, she was the No. 3 House Republican, an influential voice in GOP politics and policy with a sterling conservative voting record.
Cheney will now be forced from Congress at the end of her third and final term in January. She is not expected to leave Capitol Hill quietly.
She will continue in her leadership role on the congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack until it dissolves at the end of the year. And she is actively considering a 2024 White House bid — as a Republican or independent — having vowed to do everything in her power to fight Trump’s influence in her party.
With Cheney’s loss, Republicans who voted to impeach Trump are going extinct.
In all, seven Republican senators and 10 Republican House members backed Trump’s impeachment in the days after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as Congress tried to certify President Joe Biden’s victory. Just two of those 10 House members have won their primaries this year. After two Senate retirements, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is the only such Senate Republican on this year’s ballot.
Cheney was forced to seek assistance from the state’s tiny Democratic minority in her bid to pull off a victory. But Democrats across America, major donors among them, took notice. She raised at least $15 million for her election, a stunning figure for a Wyoming political contest.
Voters responded to the interest in the race. With a little more than half of the vote counted, turnout ran about 50% higher than in the 2018 Republican primary for governor.
If Cheney does ultimately run for president — either as a Republican or an independent — don’t expect her to win Wyoming’s three electoral votes.
“We like Trump. She tried to impeach Trump,” Cheyenne voter Chester Barkell said of Cheney on Tuesday. “I don’t trust Liz Cheney.”
And in Jackson, Republican voter Dan Winder said he felt betrayed by his congresswoman.
“Over 70% of the state of Wyoming voted Republican in the last presidential election and she turned right around and voted against us,” said Winder, a hotel manager. “She was our representative, not her own.”
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Peoples reported from New York. AP writers Thomas Peipert in Cheyenne and Jill Colvin in new York contributed. | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/cheney-braces-for-loss-as-trump-tested-in-wyoming-and-alaska/ | 2022-08-17T04:22:31Z | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/cheney-braces-for-loss-as-trump-tested-in-wyoming-and-alaska/ | false |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
1-8-6-1
(one, eight, six, one)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
1-8-6-1
(one, eight, six, one) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Evening-game-17378542.php | 2022-08-17T04:23:21Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Evening-game-17378542.php | true |
MIAMI, Florida (AP) — A Miami-Dade police officer was critically wounded and an armed robbery suspect was killed in an exchange of gunfire during a car chase Monday night, authorities said.
The suspect smashed his vehicle into a police cruiser and another car while trying to flee following a reported armed robbery near the Liberty City neighborhood, the Miami-Dade Police Department said in a statement.
“An altercation ensued and shots were fired resulting in both the officer and subject shot,” the statement said.
The suspect died at the scene. The officer was hospitalized in critical condition, officials said.
“We ask for your prayers,” the department said on Twitter.
An unknown number of occupants from the car that was struck were hospitalized in stable condition, the police statement said.
No other information was immediately available.
TV news footage showed a line of police cars outside the Ryder Trauma Center, where the officer was being treated. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/miami-dade-officer-critical-after-shooting-suspect-killed/ | 2022-08-17T04:25:18Z | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/miami-dade-officer-critical-after-shooting-suspect-killed/ | false |
Multiple emergency services called to ‘disturbance’ at rural property south of Perth By Amie Flett August 16 2022, 7.32pm Updated: August 16 2022, 10.54pm Police vehicles and an ambulance attending the incident near Forgandenny. [[intro]] [[title]] [[text]] [[button_text]] [[outro]] More from Perth & Kinross Conservative supporters pelted with eggs in Perth as Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak prepare… Plans for nearly 90 homes in Stanley lodged with council 0 Five Royal Mail vans vandalised at Perth delivery office 0 Diabetic dad led police on low-speed chase near Perth after blood-sugar levels dropped Busy Perth road closed for flood repairs 0 LISTEN: How today's Conservative leadership husting in Perth could be affected by Liz Truss'… Creep caught on CCTV sexually assaulting woman who passed out in boyfriend's car outside… VIDEO: Is Dundee still a Yes city and will Perth say No again? We… 3 Alyth joiner gifted 88-year-old signature of grandad after it was unearthed in town house 0 VIDEO: Tayside donations for war-torn Ukraine have 'slowed down to a trickle' More from The Courier Dylan Levitt injury update as Dundee United sweat over ex-Manchester United starlet 0 5 things you need to know about the next prime minister after Perth leader… Firefighters battle blaze at the back of Kirkcaldy High street 12 weeks of work to fix flooding on Arbroath cycle path gets under way 0 Conservative supporters pelted with eggs in Perth as Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak prepare… Dundee hairdresser's free back-to-school cuts snapped up in cost-of-living crisis 0 | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/perth-kinross/3600448/police-fire-ambulance-incident-forgandenny/ | 2022-08-17T04:25:34Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/perth-kinross/3600448/police-fire-ambulance-incident-forgandenny/ | true |
The Flash star Ezra Miller has reportedly begun treatment to help with a series of “complex mental health issues”.
The actor, who identifies as they/them, apologised to those they had “alarmed and upset” with their past behaviour and said they were “committed” to recovery.
It comes after Miller was charged by US police over an alleged burglary in the state of Vermont, and is expected to appear in Vermont Superior Court in September.
They have been embroiled in multiple controversies in the past several months, including being arrested twice in Hawaii on charges of second-degree assault and disorderly conduct at a karaoke bar.
The 29-year-old has also been accused of the abuse and grooming of a young girl.
“Having recently gone through a time of intense crisis, I now understand that I am suffering complex mental health issues and have begun ongoing treatment,” Miller said in a statement shared with US media outlets.
“I want to apologise to everyone that I have alarmed and upset with my past behaviour.
“I am committed to doing the necessary work to get back to a healthy, safe and productive stage in my life.”
It comes as Warner Bros confirmed that superhero blockbuster The Flash is still going ahead amid the ongoing controversies with its star, with DC franchise boss David Zaslav saying he was “very excited” for the movie to be released. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/lifestyle/3596803/ezra-miller-reportedly-begins-treatment-for-complex-mental-health-issues/ | 2022-08-17T04:28:06Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/lifestyle/3596803/ezra-miller-reportedly-begins-treatment-for-complex-mental-health-issues/ | false |
The tyres of five Royal Mail vans have been vandalised in a car park in Perth, causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage and disruption to local mail services.
Officers said the attacks on the vehicles were targeted.
They happened in the car park of the delivery office in the city’s Breadalbane Terrace between 6pm on Saturday and 6am on Monday.
Officers are appealing to witnesses to the incident to come forward.
Constable Frank Shek, Perth Police Station, said: “This was obviously a deliberate act.
“The damage runs into hundreds of pounds not to mention the inconvenience to the mail delivery in the area.
“Officers have been checking local CCTV since the vandalism was reported, however, we would appeal to anyone who may have been in the area at the time, who may for example have dashcam footage, to get in touch.
“The sorting office is in a business complex but it is also near a gym and a supermarket and is on the route to a residential area, so although it appears the sorting office was closed when the vandalism took place, it’s possible people visiting the gym of the supermarket may have seen someone acting suspiciously in the area.
“If you have any information that would assist officers with their inquiry, then please call police via 101 quoting reference number 0757 of Monday 15 August 2022. Alternatively, Crimestoppers can be contacted anonymously on 0800 555 111.”. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/scotland/3599542/royal-mail-services-disrupted-as-vans-have-tyres-vandalised-in-attack/ | 2022-08-17T04:29:03Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/scotland/3599542/royal-mail-services-disrupted-as-vans-have-tyres-vandalised-in-attack/ | false |
Flash floods and thunderstorms hitting parts of the UK over the coming days will give way to breezier weather by the end of the week, forecasters have said.
The fresher conditions, expected from late Wednesday onwards, will no doubt come as a relief to many after scorching temperatures over the weekend were quickly followed by heavy downpours and ongoing humidity.
The Met Office has issued an amber thunderstorm warning for areas of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset – with the likely chance of homes and businesses flooding, power cuts, and transport chaos.
Yellow warnings are also in place for most of the UK on Tuesday and for southern England on Wednesday.
It comes after weeks of little rain and warm conditions have caused droughts across parts of the UK, leaving land parched.
The National Drought Group on Friday moved parts of the South West, southern and central England, and the east of England into official drought status – while six water companies have already or are planning to impose hosepipe bans.
Heavy showers caused flooding in areas of Cornwall and Devon on Monday afternoon while thunderstorms developed in east-coast counties like Essex, Suffolk and Lincolnshire.
Hail, frequent lightning and flash flooding is possible in areas further south, with heavy rain predicted across England and Wales on Tuesday.
The rain will likely later become more concentrated in southern parts of England.
Downpours are expected across Scotland on Tuesday but will gradually clear as the day goes on, while Northern Ireland will be the driest.
Met Office meteorologist Greg Dewhurst said: “Temperatures will be lower, looking at highs of around 27C as a maximum temperature, but it will still be on the humid side tomorrow (on Tuesday).
“Thundery showers across central and southern parts of England on Wednesday and temperatures will be around 26C as a maximum.”
Mr Dewhurst warned that the bad weather conditions could pose difficulties for those hoping to travel and urged people to stay up to date with developments in their local area.
“We’ll see some very heavy showers develop over the coming days, hail, frequent lightning, some flash flooding is possible like we’ve seen in places today so our advice is to stay tuned to latest forecasts and local radio stations as well, to get the latest information,” he said.
“It is worth being aware that there could be disruptions or delays to travel.”
He added: “It will be in turns fairly breezy as we end the week, with some showery rain, particularly across the north of the UK, so temperatures generally around average for many but could possibly be a bit above for the far south, which is the mid-20s.
“It looks probably most likely from late Wednesday to Thursday onwards it will become fresher for everyone.”
Footage shared to social media showed a roundabout near the river in Truro, Cornwall quickly flooding with water on Monday afternoon as showers moved in.
Earlier, Professor Hannah Cloke, an expert in hydrology at the University of Reading, explained why there is the potential for floods in drought-hit areas.
She said: “The ground is really dry and when it is so dry it acts a little bit like concrete and that water can’t get in so it drains straight off.
“There is the damage to homes and businesses these floods can cause, and inconvenience with transport disruptions, but if it is very heavy in one place it can also be very dangerous.”
Explaining why this heavy rain will not alleviate drought-hit areas, she said: “It’s a drop in the ocean really. It is not soaking into the soil which is how we really need it. We need it back into the system where it can be stored.
“We really need a long winter of rain to replenish this.” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3596749/flash-floods-and-thunderstorms-will-give-way-to-breezy-conditions-by-end-of-week/ | 2022-08-17T04:29:26Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3596749/flash-floods-and-thunderstorms-will-give-way-to-breezy-conditions-by-end-of-week/ | true |
US carries out missile test delayed over Chinese drills
The United States military on Tuesday said it carried out a test of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile that had been delayed to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing during China's show of force near Taiwan earlier this month.
China deployed scores of planes and fired live missiles in the Taiwan Strait after US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a trip to the self-ruled island. China considers Taiwan part of its territory and has never renounced using force to bring it under its control.
The test showed "the readiness of US nuclear forces and provides confidence in the lethality and effectiveness of the nation's nuclear deterrent," a US military statement said.
The re-entry vehicle traveled about 4,200 miles (6760 km) and was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The military said about 300 such tests have been carried out previously and that it was not the result of any specific global event.
The test suggests that Washington is less worried about the situation escalating around Taiwan in the short-term at least.
President Joe Biden's administration has said that it would continue to carry out routine air and naval operations in the Taiwan Strait in the coming weeks.
China's military said it carried out more exercises near Taiwan on Monday as a group of US lawmakers visited the Chinese-claimed island and met President Tsai Ing-wen, who said her government was committed to maintaining stability.
The US military also canceled a test of its Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile in April. That delay had aimed to lower nuclear tensions with Russia during the ongoing war in Ukraine.
The nuclear-capable Minuteman III, made by Boeing Co. (BA.N), is key to the US military's strategic arsenal. The missile has a range of 6,000-plus miles (9,660-plus kms) and can travel at a speed of approximately 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 kph).
Missiles are dispersed in hardened underground silos operated by launch crews.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in February that his nation's nuclear forces should be put on high alert, raising fears that Russia's invasion of Ukraine could lead to nuclear war. But US officials have said they have seen no reason so far to change Washington's nuclear alert levels.
Russia and the United States have by far the biggest arsenals of nuclear warheads after the Cold War that divided the world for much of the 20th century, pitting the West against the Soviet Union and its allies. | https://www.tbsnews.net/world/us-carries-out-missile-test-delayed-over-chinese-drills-478670 | 2022-08-17T04:33:05Z | https://www.tbsnews.net/world/us-carries-out-missile-test-delayed-over-chinese-drills-478670 | false |
WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in Midland/Odessa has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
East Central Culberson County in southwestern Texas...
Northeastern Jeff Davis County in southwestern Texas...
Southwestern Reeves County in southwestern Texas...
* Until 100 AM CDT /midnight MDT/.
* At 1002 PM CDT /902 PM MDT/, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms
producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 3
inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2
inches are possible in the warned area with locally higher amounts
possible. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Kent, Balmorhea, Balmorhea State Park, Balmorhea Lake, Saragosa,
Toyahvale and Buffalo Trail Scout Camp.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
In hilly terrain there are hundreds of low water crossings which are
potentially dangerous in heavy rain. Do not attempt to cross flooded
roads. Find an alternate route.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
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SALISBURY, Md. - The Maryland State Police (MSP) say they are searching for the vehicle and driver believed to be involved in a deadly hit and run early Tuesday morning near Oliphant St. on Route 13 in Salisbury.
According to MSP, the investigation found that the victim, driving a motorized scooter, was using a median crossover to get on northbound Route 13 around 3:40 a.m. They say that when the victim pulled out on to the highway, he crossed all the way to the farthest lane. MSP states that that is when a commercial bobtail truck, driving in the far lane that the victim was trying to merge in to, hit the victim.
MSP says they have video surveillance of the crash, which shows the accused bobtail as a blue truck with a sleeper berth and a white stripe down the side, not pulling a trailer. They also say that the victim, a 29-year-old man from Lewes, DE, was pronounced dead on the scene by paramedics.
Troopers from the Maryland State Police Salisbury Barrack responded to the scene, along with deputies from the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office, the Salisbury Police Department, and the Office of the State's Attorney in Wicomico County, according to MSP.
MSP also says that the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration helped with road closures and detours, with the MSP Crash Team leading the investigation.
MSP urges anyone with information that could help identify the owner or operator of the truck to contact the Maryland State Police Salisbury Barrack at 410-749-3101 Corporal Kevin Moore of the Maryland State Police Crash Team at 410-819-4721. Below is a surveillance image of the truck. | https://www.wrde.com/news/driver-and-vehicle-wanted-in-deadly-salisbury-hit-and-run/article_3a8a5f16-1d96-11ed-83ce-d3458dfda5b5.html | 2022-08-17T04:38:35Z | https://www.wrde.com/news/driver-and-vehicle-wanted-in-deadly-salisbury-hit-and-run/article_3a8a5f16-1d96-11ed-83ce-d3458dfda5b5.html | true |
HUYA Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2022 Unaudited Financial Results
GUANGZHOU, China, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HUYA Inc. ("Huya" or the "Company") (NYSE: HUYA), a leading game live streaming platform in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Second Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Total net revenues for the second quarter of 2022 were RMB2,275.2 million (US$339.7 million), compared with RMB2,962.4 million for the same period of 2021.
- Net loss attributable to HUYA Inc. was RMB19.4 million (US$2.9 million) for the second quarter of 2022, compared with net income attributable to HUYA Inc. of RMB186.3 million for the same period of 2021.
- Non-GAAP net income attributable to HUYA Inc.[1] was RMB5.9 million (US$0.9 million) for the second quarter of 2022, compared with RMB250.1 million for the same period of 2021.
- Average mobile MAUs[2]of Huya Live for the second quarter of 2022 increased by 7.7% to 83.6 million from 77.6 million for the same period of 2021.
- Total number of paying users[3]of Huya Live for the second quarter of 2022 was 5.6 million, compared with 5.6 million for the same period of 2021.
"Our steady focus on content enrichment and product upgrades continues to drive value for our users and pave the way for our sustainable, long-term growth. For the second quarter of 2022, Huya Live's mobile MAUs maintained solid momentum, growing 7.7% year-over-year to 83.6 million," said Mr. Rongjie Dong, Chief Executive Officer of Huya. "While the turbulence in the macro and regulatory environment has decelerated our monetization in the short term, we remain confident in the broad-based strength of our solid business foundation that underpins our ability to satisfy our users' core needs. As a leader in the game live streaming market in China, we are constantly iterating our technology and products to provide high-quality, compliant content for our users and amplify our value proposition with our stakeholders across the game industry value chain."
Ms. Ashley Xin Wu, Vice President of Finance of Huya, commented, "Against the backdrop of macro headwinds, our revenues were approximately RMB2.3 billion for the second quarter of 2022, and our gross profit came in at RMB219.1 million as we continued our strategic efforts in ramping up investment in new and relevant content. We believe we are well-positioned to drive continued momentum in our user community expansion. Despite external uncertainties, we remain diligent in improving our operational efficiency and optimizing our business expenses in a nimble way, delivering 17.0% quarter-over-quarter and 21.6% year-over-year deductions in total operating expenses. Going forward, we aim to further strengthen our monetization capabilities, improve our cost and expense structure, and solidify our business fundamentals to achieve sustainable business development over the long term."
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Total net revenues for the second quarter of 2022 were RMB2,275.2 million (US$339.7 million), compared with RMB2,962.4 million for the same period of 2021.
Live streaming revenues were RMB2,051.9 million (US$306.3 million) for the second quarter of 2022, compared with RMB2,579.2 million for the same period of 2021, primarily due to decreased average spending per paying user on Huya Live, as the recent macro and regulatory environment adversely affected the sentiment of the Company's paying users.
Advertising and other revenues were RMB223.3 million (US$33.3 million) for the second quarter of 2022, compared with RMB383.2 million for the same period of 2021, primarily due to the decrease in content sub-licensing revenues, as well as soft demand for advertising services resulting from the challenging macro environment.
Cost of revenues decreased by 13.6% to RMB2,056.1 million (US$307.0 million) for the second quarter of 2022 from RMB2,381.1 million for the same period of 2021, primarily due to decreased revenue sharing fees and content costs, as well as bandwidth costs.
Revenue sharing fees and content costs decreased by 13.3% to RMB1,767.8 million (US$263.9 million) for the second quarter of 2022 from RMB2,039.2 million for the same period of 2021, primarily due to the decrease in revenue sharing fees associated with declined live streaming revenues.
Bandwidth costs decreased by 9.9% to RMB154.4 million (US$23.0 million) for the second quarter of 2022 from RMB171.4 million for the same period of 2021, primarily due to improved bandwidth cost management and continued technology enhancement efforts.
Gross profit was RMB219.1 million (US$32.7 million) for the second quarter of 2022, compared with RMB581.3 million for the same period of 2021, primarily due to lower revenues. Gross margin was 9.6% for the second quarter of 2022, compared with 19.6% for the same period of 2021.
Research and development expenses decreased by 19.0% to RMB168.4 million (US$25.1 million) for the second quarter of 2022 from RMB207.9 million for the same period of 2021, primarily due to the decrease in share-based compensation expenses.
Sales and marketing expenses decreased by 40.0% to RMB100.3 million (US$15.0 million) for the second quarter of 2022 from RMB167.0 million for the same period of 2021, primarily due to decreased marketing and promotion fees as well as personnel-related expenses.
General and administrative expenses increased by 13.5% to RMB81.8 million (US$12.2 million) for the second quarter of 2022 from RMB72.1 million for the same period of 2021, primarily due to the increase in professional service fees and personnel-related expenses.
Other income was RMB50.3 million (US$7.5 million) for the second quarter of 2022, compared with RMB47.6 million for the same period of 2021.
Operating loss was RMB81.1 million (US$12.1 million) for the second quarter of 2022, compared with operating income of RMB181.9 million for the same period of 2021.
Interest and short-term investments income were RMB65.6 million (US$9.8 million) for the second quarter of 2022, compared with RMB57.7 million for the same period of 2021.
Income tax expenses were RMB1.3 million (US$0.2 million) for the second quarter of 2022, compared with RMB58.3 million for the same period of 2021, primarily due to the lower taxable income.
Net lossattributable to HUYA Inc. was RMB19.4 million (US$2.9 million) for the second quarter of 2022, compared with net income attributable to HUYA Inc. of RMB186.3 million for the same period of 2021.
Non-GAAP net income attributable to HUYA Inc., which excludes share-based compensation expenses, was RMB5.9 million (US$0.9 million) for the second quarter of 2022, compared with RMB250.1 million for the same period of 2021, which excludes share-based compensation expenses, gains on fair value change of investments and equity investees' investments, and gain arising from partial disposal of an investment owned by an equity investee, net of income taxes.
Diluted net loss per American depositary share ("ADS") was RMB0.08(US$0.01) for the second quarter of 2022, compared with diluted net income per ADS of RMB0.77 for the same period of 2021. Each ADS represents one Class A ordinary share of the Company.
Non-GAAP diluted net income per ADS was RMB0.02(US$0.004) for the second quarter of 2022, compared with RMB1.04 for the same period of 2021.
As of June 30, 2022, the Company had cash and cash equivalents, short-term deposits and short-term investments of RMB10,716.7 million (US$1,600.0 million), compared with RMB10,473.4 million as of March 31, 2022.
Conference Call
The Company's management will host an earnings conference call at 7:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time on August 16, 2022 (7:00 p.m.Beijing/Hong Kong time on August 16, 2022).
For participants who wish to join the call, please complete online registration using the link provided below 20 minutes prior to the scheduled call start time. Upon registration, participants will receive the conference call access information, including dial-in numbers, a personal PIN and an e-mail with detailed instructions to join the conference call.
Participant Online Registration:https://register.vevent.com/register/BIa451f7eabc6c4462aa4aa81302702803
Once complete the registration, please dial-in at least 10 minutes before the scheduled start time of the earnings call and enter the personal PIN as instructed to connect to the call.
A live webcast of the earnings call will be accessible at https://ir.huya.com and a replay of the webcast will be available following the session.
About HUYA Inc.
HUYA Inc. is a leading game live streaming platform in China with a large and active game live streaming community. The Company cooperates with e-sports event organizers, as well as major game developers and publishers, and has developed e-sports live streaming as one of the most popular content genres on its platform. The Company has created an engaged, interactive and immersive community for game enthusiasts of China's young generation. Building on its success in game live streaming, Huya has also extended its content to other entertainment content genres. Huya's open platform also functions as a marketplace for broadcasters and talent agencies to congregate and closely collaborate with the Company.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The unaudited condensed consolidated financial information is prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("U.S. GAAP"), except that the consolidated statement of changes in shareholders' equity, consolidated statements of cash flows, and the detailed notes have not been presented. Huya uses non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP operating income (loss), non-GAAP net income (loss) attributable to HUYA Inc., non-GAAP net income (loss) attributable to ordinary shareholders, non-GAAP basic and diluted net income (loss) per ordinary shares, and non-GAAP basic and diluted net income (loss) per ADS, which are non-GAAP financial measures. Non-GAAP gross profit is gross profit excluding share-based compensation expenses allocated in cost of revenues. Non-GAAP operating income (loss) is operating income (loss) excluding share-based compensation expenses. Non-GAAP net income (loss) attributable to HUYA Inc. is net income (loss) attributable to HUYA Inc. excluding share-based compensation expenses, gains on fair value change of investments and equity investee's investments, and gain arising from partial disposal of an investment owned by an equity investee, net of income taxes. Non-GAAP net income (loss) attributable to ordinary shareholders is net income (loss) attributable to ordinary shareholders excluding share-based compensation expenses, gains on fair value change of investments and equity investee's investments, and gain arising from partial disposal of an investment owned by an equity investee, net of income taxes. Non-GAAP basic and diluted net income (loss) per ADS is non-GAAP net income (loss) attributable to ordinary shareholders divided by weighted average number of ADS used in the calculation of non-GAAP basic and diluted net income (loss) per ADS. The Company believes that separate analysis and exclusion of the impact of (i) share-based compensation expenses, and (ii) gains on fair value change of investments and equity investee's investments; and gain arising from partial disposal of an investment owned by an equity investee, net of income taxes add clarity to the constituent parts of its performance. The Company reviews these non-GAAP financial measures together with GAAP financial measures to obtain a better understanding of its operating performance. It uses the non-GAAP financial measure for planning, forecasting and measuring results against the forecast. The Company believes that non-GAAP financial measure is useful supplemental information for investors and analysts to assess its operating performance without the effect of (i) share-based compensation expenses, which have been and will continue to be significant recurring expenses in its business, and (ii) gains on fair value change of investments and equity investee's investments; and gain arising from partial disposal of an investment owned by an equity investee, net of income taxes, which may recur when there is observable price change in the future. However, the use of non-GAAP financial measures has material limitations as an analytical tool. One of the limitations of using non-GAAP financial measures is that they do not include all items that impact the Company's net income for the period. In addition, because non-GAAP financial measures are not measured in the same manner by all companies, they may not be comparable to other similar titled measures used by other companies. In light of the foregoing limitations, you should not consider non-GAAP financial measure in isolation from or as an alternative to the financial measure prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. For more information on these non-GAAP financial measures, please see the table captioned "HUYA Inc. Reconciliations of GAAP and Non-GAAP Results" at the end of this announcement.
Exchange Rate Information
This announcement contains translations of certain RMB amounts into U.S. dollars at a specified rate solely for the convenience of the reader. Unless otherwise noted, all translations from RMB to U.S. dollars are made at a rate of RMB6.6981 to US$1.00, the noon buying rate in effect on June 30, 2022, in the H.10 statistical release of the Federal Reserve Board. The Company makes no representation that the Renminbi or U.S. dollars amounts referred to in this announcement could have been or could be converted into U.S. dollars or Renminbi, as the case may be, at any particular rate or at all.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar statements. Among other things, the business outlook and quotations from management in this announcement, as well as Huya's strategic and operational plans, contain forward-looking statements. Huya may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Huya's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: Huya's goals and strategies; Huya's future business development, results of operations and financial condition; the expected growth of the game live streaming market; the expectation regarding the rate at which to gain active users, especially paying users; Huya's ability to monetize the user base; Huya's efforts in complying with applicable data privacy and security regulations; fluctuations in general economic and business conditions in China; the impact of the COVID-19 to Huya's business operations and the economy in China and elsewhere generally; any regulatory developments in laws, regulations, rules, policies or guidelines applicable to Huya; and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Huya's filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and Huya does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
HUYA Inc.
Investor Relations
Tel: +86-20-2290-7829
E-mail: ir@huya.com
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Jenny Cai
Tel: +86-10-6508-0677
E-mail: huya@tpg-ir.com
In the United States:
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Brandi Piacente
Tel: +1-212-481-2050
E-mail: huya@tpg-ir.com
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ATLANTA — Frustrated parents said their children arrived at Clark Atlanta University for the start of the school semester, only to find out housing wasn't available.
Classes start Wednesday morning and at least three families said their children are unsure of where they will live.
“We have no clue what’s going on at this point," said Jalen Dennis, whose daughter is a freshman at CAU.
Rosland Hawkins' daughter returned for her senior year.
“I feel like I want to have a tantrum. That's how frustrated I am," said Hawkins.
Hawkins, Dennis, and a third parent reached out to 11Alive Tuesday, worried when they found out their children didn't have dorm room assignments.
“My daughter gets to campus last week, excited to be a freshman and be with everybody and come to find out, they said that she didn’t have a room. Mind you the deposit was taken out of her account in April 11," said Dennis. "And there's no rooms available still."
Hawkins' daughter was sent an email with the promise a link would be provided to sign up for a room in the summer of 2022. However, her daughter said she never received a link. After Hawkins contacted the school, she was assured her daughter was on a waitlist.
"We were calling them probably about weekly, every few days," said Hawkins. "Now I call today, I call residence life today, like, 'What is going on? What is going on with her housing?' And so the person that answered her phone, she tells me that my daughter's name is not even on the waitlist."
Both parents are upset because it’s not the first time. Dennis said this is the second time his daughter arrived at the campus, and had no room waiting for her. As for Hawkins, she said, “This will be our third time.”
Their daughters were a part of the more than 400 students who didn’t have dorms ready at the beginning of the semester in 2021, because of unfinished renovations.
“And when they did give her a room, it was absolutely filthy, like it hadn’t been cleaned all summer," said Dennis, who shared video showing a leaky ceiling in his daughter's original room.
And in January of 2022, Hawkins' daughter was told she took the wrong COVID test.
”They informed us that she would not be allowed to move into her dorm. My argument then was you had her test results for a week, you could not have informed us that she didn't take the right test so that we could go take the correct test," explained Hawkins.
Now the parents said they're experiencing the frustration all over again, with very little communication from the school. 11Alive reviewed emails appearing to have been sent to Clark officials from Hawkins. Dennis said he's emailed and called the Dean and student housing with no clear-cut answers on if they'll receive a refund for their deposit or if they will have a room soon.
Dennis’ daughter is still waiting for a room assignment in Atlanta. Hawkins' daughter is back in Ohio, trying to get online classes but may have to sit out the semester.
“She’s in bed. She’s asleep. She’s been crying about it off and on,” she said.
Hawkins said the main reason she decided to send her daughter back to CAU for her senior year is because she's afraid many of her credits won't transfer to a different school.
Both parents said the financial strain of trying to find housing last minute is not what they signed up for when choosing CAU.
“Clark has a few opportunities to do better by these students. This is bad. I wish they would do better," said Dennis.
CAU paid for hotels for students in 2012 and gave students discounts on their dorm fees.
11Alive reached out to CAU to find out how big or small the housing problem is this semester and how the situation is being handled.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
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Court upholds decision to deny parentless teen abortion
(CNN) - A Florida appellate court is upholding a lower court’s decision to deny a pregnant teenager a waiver to have an abortion without parental consent.
The 16-year-old, referred to in court documents as Jane Doe 22-B, doesn’t have parents. Florida law requires written consent from a parent or legal guardian before terminating a pregnancy of anyone under 18.
According to the appellate court decision, the teen did not prove that she was sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy.
The teen told the court she is not ready to have a baby, does not have a job, is still in school and the child’s father is unable to assist her.
One of the appellate judges involved in the case said in a dissent he did not fully agree with the circuit judge’s decision and that the appellate court should return the case to the lower court.
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Court upholds decision to deny parentless teen abortion
(CNN) - A Florida appellate court is upholding a lower court’s decision to deny a pregnant teenager a waiver to have an abortion without parental consent.
The 16-year-old, referred to in court documents as Jane Doe 22-B, doesn’t have parents. Florida law requires written consent from a parent or legal guardian before terminating a pregnancy of anyone under 18.
According to the appellate court decision, the teen did not prove that she was sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy.
The teen told the court she is not ready to have a baby, does not have a job, is still in school and the child’s father is unable to assist her.
One of the appellate judges involved in the case said in a dissent he did not fully agree with the circuit judge’s decision and that the appellate court should return the case to the lower court.
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The desperate McDonald's boss offering a $1,000 sign-on bonus for new workers whether you're casual or full-time
- A Maccas owner put up a $1,000 bonus for new workers in a bid to attract staff
- Darren Tyrrell said his West Australian store has struggled to get new employees
- Covid restrictions have brought business owners to their knees in keeping afloat
A McDonald's store owner has advertised a $1,000 bonus for new employees whether casual, part-time or full-time as he tries to cover staff shortages.
Darren Tyrrell, who owns a McDonald's in Albany at the southern tip of Western Australia, said he had struggled to find workers while many of his staff were off with Covid-19.
'Like most other businesses in town, we've experienced some difficulty in finding people,' Mr Tyrrell told PerthNow.
A West Australian business owner said 'we've experienced some difficulty in finding people,' after a horror month when dozens of his staff were away because of Covid (pictured, stock image of a McDonald's worker)
The Albany McDonald's (pictured) is offering $1,000 bonuses to new workers, whether casual, full-time or part-time
'We want to attract really good quality candidates, particularly for the day crew.'
He added the bonus would be paid out in $100 weekly instalments for 10 weeks after the employee started work.
The roles range from barista work to daytime and night shifts, with full-time, part-time and casual roles up for grabs.
McDonalds owner Darren Tyrrell (pictured) said the bonus would be paid out in $100 weekly instalments for 10 weeks after the employee started work
'It's only been going for about a week or so, and we've certainly seen an increase in applications, but we're really encouraging people over the remaining two weeks to apply for a great job at Maccas,' Mr Tyrrell said.
He said the bonus offer was prompted by Western Australia's devastating wave of Covid infections in May, when dozens of his staff couldn't work - including 26 who were impacted by the disease at one time.
The workers either had the disease, were close contacts or were isolating, waiting for results, forcing the 24-hour store to close overnight.
Since then, staff levels have improved but isn't where it needs to be, according to Mr Tyrrell.
The call out for new staff comes on the heels of a devastating wave of Covid infections in May when dozens of Mr Tyrrell's staff couldn't work - including 26 who were infected (picture, a stock photo)
It comes after the Western Australian Government introduced legislation to state parliament in May to ensure specific Covid-19 restrictions could remain in place.
The new laws covered a range of directions including the seven-day isolation requirement for Covid cases and the use of face masks by close contacts.
The restrictions caused employers grief as they grappled to keep their business running while staff were unwell.
The Albany McDonald's hasn't been the only restaurant reaching out for workers offering big pay packets.
A chicken shop in South Hedland and a coffee place in Broome were recently offering prospective employees annual salaries up to $130,000 and $92,000 respectively.
Mr Tyrrell said he wants to attract 'really good quality candidates,' particularly for the day crew (pictured, a stock photo) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11118345/McDonalds-boss-Albany-WA-offering-1-000-sign-bonus-new-casual-time-workers.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-17T05:09:00Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11118345/McDonalds-boss-Albany-WA-offering-1-000-sign-bonus-new-casual-time-workers.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Quick Draw Evening" game were:
06-13-17-18-19-20-26-27-28-34-47-54-58-60-61-62-63-64-69-71, BE: 64
(six, thirteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, thirty-four, forty-seven, fifty-four, fifty-eight, sixty, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-four, sixty-nine, seventy-one; BE: sixty-four) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Quick-Draw-Evening-game-17378546.php | 2022-08-17T05:10:04Z | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Quick-Draw-Evening-game-17378546.php | true |
Clubhouse Media Group, Inc. Closes Promo Deal With Josh Altman, "Million Dollar Listing" Reality TV Star
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clubhouse Media Group, Inc. (OTCMKTS: CMGR) ("CMGR"), an influencer-based social media firm and digital talent management agency, announced that they have finalized a brand promotional deal with Josh Altman, through their majority owned Reiman Agency. Altman is a real estate investor and a reality television personality, appearing on Bravo!'s hit series, Million Dollar Listing. He has also appeared on Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
"Josh's representatives were such a pleasure to work with and we are excited to do more with him in the future," said Julia Salmon, Sales Executive at The Reiman Agency.
About Clubhouse Media Group, Inc.CMGR offers management, production, and deal-making services to its handpicked influencers, a management division for individual influencer clients, and an investment arm for joint ventures and acquisitions for companies in the social media influencer space.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Explosions and fires ripped through an ammunition depot in Russian-occupied Crimea on Tuesday in the second suspected Ukrainian attack on the peninsula in just over a week, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 people.
Russia blamed the blasts in the village of Mayskoye on an “act of sabotage,” without naming the perpetrators.
Separately, the Russian business newspaper Kommersant quoted residents as saying plumes of black smoke also rose over an air base in Crimea’s Gvardeyskoye.
Ukraine stopped short of publicly claiming responsibility for any of the blasts, including those that destroyed nine Russian planes at another Crimean air base last week. Russia seized the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and has used it to launch attacks against Ukraine in the war that began nearly six months ago.
If Ukrainian forces were behind the explosions, that would represent a significant escalation in the war. Such attacks could also indicate that Ukrainian operatives are able to penetrate deeply into Russian-occupied territory.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alluded to Ukrainian attacks behind enemy lines when he included individuals “who oppose the occupiers in their rear” in a list of people he thanked for supporting the country’s war effort.
In a video address Tuesday night, he also warned people not go near Russian military installations and storage sites for ammunition and equipment.
In another reported act of sabotage, Russia’s Tass news service quoted the FSB security agency as saying Ukrainian operatives blew up six high-voltage transmission towers earlier this month in Russia’s Kursk region, close to Ukraine.
The Kremlin has demanded that Kyiv recognize Crimea as part of Russia as a condition for ending the fighting, while Ukraine has vowed to drive Moscow’s forces from the peninsula on the Black Sea.
Videos posted on social media showed thick columns of smoke rising over raging flames in Mayskoye, and a series of explosions could be heard. The Russian Defense Ministry said a power plant, electrical lines, railroad tracks and apartment buildings were damaged.
“We came out to take a look and saw clouds of smoke coming from the cowshed where the military warehouses are,” said resident Maksim Moldovskiy. “We stayed there until about 7-8 a.m. Everything was exploding — flashes, fragments, debris falling on us. Then the emergency guys came and said they were evacuating everybody.”
Crimea’s regional leader, Sergei Aksyonov, said two people were injured and more than 3,000 evacuated from two villages.
“The detonations are rather strong. Ammunition is strewn all over the ground,” he said, adding that several homes burned down.
In what may have been retaliation for the attacks in Crimea, Russian warplanes fired missiles at a military airfield in Zhytomyr, 87 miles (140 kilometers) west of Kyiv, damaging a runway and vehicles, Ukrainian officials reported.
Crimea is a popular summer destination for Russian tourists, and last week’s explosions at Crimea’s Saki air base sent sunbathers on beaches fleeing as flames and pillars of smoke rose over the horizon.
Ukrainian officials warned Tuesday that Crimea would not be spared the ravages of war.
Rather than a travel destination, “Crimea occupied by Russians is about warehouse explosions and a high risk of death for invaders and thieves,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Twitter.
Russia blamed last week’s explosions on an accidental detonation of munitions, but satellite photos and other evidence — including the dispersed blast sites — pointed to a Ukrainian attack, perhaps with anti-ship missiles, military analysts said.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said in an intelligence update that vessels in Russia’s Black Sea Fleet are in an “extremely defensive posture” in the waters off Crimea, with ships barely venturing out of sight of the coastline. Russia’s flagship Moskva went down in the Black Sea in April, and last month Ukrainian forces retook strategic Snake Island.
The Russian fleet’s “limited effectiveness undermines Russia’s overall invasion strategy,” the British said. “This means Ukraine can divert resources to press Russian ground forces elsewhere.”
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu charged that in addition to supplying arms to Ukraine, Western allies have provided detailed intelligence and instructors to help Ukraine operate weapons that can hit deep in occupied territory.
“Western intelligence agencies not only have provided target coordinates for launching strikes, but Western specialists also have overseen the input of those data into weapons systems,” Shoigu said.
In other developments:
— A U.N.-chartered ship loaded with Ukrainian grain set out for the hunger-stricken Horn of Africa in the first such relief delivery of the war. The shipment was made possible by an internationally brokered deal to free up grain trapped in Ukrainian ports by the fighting and establish safe corridors through the mined water of the Black Sea.
— U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres plans to travel to Ukraine for a meeting Thursday in the western city of Lviv with Zelenskyy and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. They are expected to discuss the grain shipments and a possible fact-finding mission to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of shelling. Guterres will also visit Odesa on Friday. During Guterres’ last trip to Ukraine, in April, Russia forces launched an airstrike on Kyiv while he was visiting the capital.
— Samantha Power, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said the United States is giving more than $68 million in additional funding to the U.N. World Food Program “to purchase, move, and store up to 150,000 metric tons of Ukrainian wheat to help respond to the global food crisis.”
— Russian shelling killed at least two civilians in the industrial Donbas region in the east and in the city of Kharkiv in the northeast, Ukrainian authorities said.
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Associated Press writer Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.
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INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD spent several hours Tuesday investigating the shooting of a man at Lake Castleton Apartments on the city’s northeast side.
“I’m really tired of seeing blood,” said Jasmine Klepinger, who lives at the complex with her boyfriend.
Klepinger said she’s seen her share, though, always accompanied by police cars and yellow crime scene tape.
“This is the second time I’ve seen blood everywhere,” she explained.
This time, Klepinger said, it was right as she pulled into the complex.
“We saw a guy right here with blood all over on the street,” she said, pointing to a sidewalk near the entrance.
According to IMPD, the man had been wounded, but was "awake and breathing" in the aftermath.
Tuesday’s police cars and lights were a familiar sight that brought back bad memories for Klepinger. Last July, her friend, a woman in her 50s was stabbed to death in her apartment here.
Just a few months earlier, in May, police say a man was shot to death in the same complex.
“They promised to put a gate on the community and monitor who’s coming in and out and the gate never gets used,” said Klepinger.
“I’ve been living in Lake Castleton going on two years and it’s stabbings and shootings happening in this neighborhood every couple days,” added resident Sandy Claire.
That’s why Claire, who has a 5-year-old, is ready to get out of there.
“My lease ends in two months and I’m gone,” she said.
Klepinger said she and her boyfriend aren’t far behind.
“We don’t even know where we’re going to move yet, but we just want out of here so bad. We’re willing to do anything to get out,” Klepinger said.
13News asked on-site management for a comment about residents’ concerns. They told us, “No comment” before asking us to leave the property.
IMPD investigators have not said what led to the shooting or if they have any suspects. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/tired-of-seeing-blood-residents-frustrated-with-ongoing-violence-around-their-northeast-indy-apartments-impd-guns-crime/531-674f164f-e23d-40ef-b019-55c954f48bcd | 2022-08-17T05:15:22Z | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/tired-of-seeing-blood-residents-frustrated-with-ongoing-violence-around-their-northeast-indy-apartments-impd-guns-crime/531-674f164f-e23d-40ef-b019-55c954f48bcd | false |
The day before it is being forced to vote on reducing service, TCAT announced new funding for adding more clean buses.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration and U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office notified TCAT General Manager Scot Vanderpool that his agency was awarded an $8.74 million grant through the FTA’s Low or No Emission (Low-No) Grant Program. The money will be used to purchase 10 more battery-electric transit vehicles, to include six 40-foot and four smaller buses.
In April 2021, TCAT launched seven of its first-ever electric-battery buses, manufactured by Proterra, after securing money from the Low-No program. TCAT’s goal is to transform its entire fleet of what is now comprised of more than 50 buses to become entirely emissions free by 2035.
“Our riders and community members have been so appreciative to see emission-free mass transit vehicles on the street; tangible evidence that we are making strides toward a cleaner-and-greener future,” Vanderpool said. “Our community has always been forward-thinking in pushing for environmental sustainability, which in turn has inspired TCAT to aggressively pursue funding over the past several years to make that vision a reality.”
According to an FTA news release issued on Tuesday, that reality from a national standpoint translates to hundreds of cleaner vehicles on the country’s thoroughfares. “With today's awards, we’re helping communities across America – in cities, suburbs, and rural areas alike – purchase more than 1,800 new buses, and most of them are zero-emission,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, in the news release. “Funded through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, this announcement means more good jobs for people across the country, cleaner air in our communities, and more affordable and reliable options to help people get to where they need to go.”
Earlier this year, TCAT started the lengthy procurement process to purchase what was initially proposed to be five more full-sized Proterra buses to arrive on site by late spring of 2023. TCAT is still finalizing the funding mechanism to pay for those buses, which might include money from a combination of state-administered capital funding programs and existing capital money from TCAT’s own coffers. Due to financial constraints, however, that acquisition is not yet finalized and the number of buses from that order might be reduced to three or four, Vanderpool said.
“Naturally, this week’s FTA award announcement really took a great deal of financial pressure off of TCAT to fulfill much-needed capital improvements,” Vanderpool said, “And, we are so thankful to the Biden Administration, to New York’s U.S. lawmakers to include both Sen. Schumer and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and our many other advocates for their tireless efforts at getting this massive clean-energy legislation through its many hurdles.”
Vanderpool said the next step is for TCAT staff to establish a timeline for yet another procurement process, noting that it takes several months to manufacture any type of transit bus. He said the current plan is to use the award to fund six 40-foot Proterra Model ZX5 electric buses; four smaller Lightning E Motor electric micro buses; overhead chargers to be installed at TCAT’s facility; and money to train TCAT mechanics on emission-free technology. | https://www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/tcat-to-receive-8-7-million-to-buy-more-electric-buses-for-ithaca/article_a42765e6-1dae-11ed-848c-73bf2c7a14c1.html | 2022-08-17T05:19:31Z | https://www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/tcat-to-receive-8-7-million-to-buy-more-electric-buses-for-ithaca/article_a42765e6-1dae-11ed-848c-73bf2c7a14c1.html | false |
Ahead of next school year, a national organization is warning of the ongoing substitute teacher shortage and how those interested in subbing can apply. WVIA’s Kat Bolus has more.
Read the full story at: https://www.wvianews.org/local/2022-08-04/a-national-staffing-agency-is-hoping-to-lessen-the-demand-for-substitute-teachers
(Original air-date: 8/16/22) | https://www.wdiy.org/pa-state-news/2022-08-17/national-staffing-agency-hopes-to-lessen-demand-for-substitute-teachers | 2022-08-17T05:26:14Z | https://www.wdiy.org/pa-state-news/2022-08-17/national-staffing-agency-hopes-to-lessen-demand-for-substitute-teachers | true |
Court upholds decision to deny parentless teen abortion
(CNN) - A Florida appellate court is upholding a lower court’s decision to deny a pregnant teenager a waiver to have an abortion without parental consent.
The 16-year-old, referred to in court documents as Jane Doe 22-B, doesn’t have parents. Florida law requires written consent from a parent or legal guardian before terminating a pregnancy of anyone under 18.
According to the appellate court decision, the teen did not prove that she was sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy.
The teen told the court she is not ready to have a baby, does not have a job, is still in school and the child’s father is unable to assist her.
One of the appellate judges involved in the case said in a dissent he did not fully agree with the circuit judge’s decision and that the appellate court should return the case to the lower court.
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