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The Webb telescope will closely observe 20 exoplanets and their stars. Here's how you can name them
The James Webb Space Telescope is using infrared light to reveal otherwise invisible aspects of the universe — and capturing stunning imagery in the process.
Among the wonders it's discovering and observing are exoplanetary systems, which each consist of a planet outside of our solar system and its host star, and many of them are in need of a name.
The International Astronomical Union, the organization in charge of naming celestial objects, is launching the NameExoWorlds 2022 Competition to give the public a chance to christen some of the first exoplanetary systems to be seen by the telescope.
The IAU wants this to be a collaborative affair, so participants must create a team composed of teachers, students, astronomy enthusiasts, or professional or amateur astronomists.
Once the team selects its favorite names for one exoplanet and its host star, they are required to host a community outreach event that teaches the public about exoplanets. Only then can the team submit a written and video proposal that includes the names and justifications for their choices.
The video cannot be more than three minutes long, and the essay should not exceed 300 words. The team is also required to write a report no longer than 300 words on their public outreach initiative, which could be a talk by a scientist on exoplanet discoveries, and submit photos or video of the event.
Submissions can be made through this form.
Naming guidelines
If you were hoping to name a planet after yourself, you're out of luck.
Naming an exoplanetary system is a huge responsibility, so the IAU set forth a list of guidelines to follow.
To begin with, the names should have long-standing cultural, geographic or historical significance. Indigenous names are encouraged, but any team proposing one must be led by a member of an Indigenous community.
Additionally, the name of the exoplanet and its host star need to follow the same theme, meaning they must be related in some way.
Teams cannot submit names of people, pets or organizations. Any terms related to political, military or religious activities are also not allowed.
The public can submit their names through Nov. 11, 2022.
National vetting processes will take place between Nov. 15 and Dec. 15, 2022, and each country will select one proposal along with two backups. Afterward, an international committee will review the submissions and choose one for each exoplanet between Dec. 16, 2022, and March 16, 2023.
The winning names will be announced on March 20, 2023. | https://www.wmur.com/article/webb-telescope-exoplanets-stars-how-you-can-name-them/40933105 | 2022-08-18T20:30:26Z | https://www.wmur.com/article/webb-telescope-exoplanets-stars-how-you-can-name-them/40933105 | true |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
3-2-8-9
(three, two, eight, nine)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
3-2-8-9
(three, two, eight, nine) | https://www.milfordmirror.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17382523.php | 2022-08-18T20:36:03Z | https://www.milfordmirror.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17382523.php | true |
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Construction Risk Partners (CRP), a subsidiary of BRP Group, Inc. ("BRP Group" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: BRP), is pleased to announce the addition of Mark Gloriod to the team as a Partner.
Mr. Gloriod will lead CRP's geographic expansion into the mid-west. He will be responsible for building a team and book of business while collaborating with colleagues from CRP and BRP. He brings more than 25 years of experience in construction and insurance to CRP, and expertise in multiple lines of insurance coverage with an emphasis on property/casualty placements, wrap-ups, and builders' risk. He also has an extensive background in broking, underwriting, and claims management.
Most recently, Mr. Gloriod led Aon's Central Region Broking Team in addition to being an Account Executive on a $2M+ revenue book of business. He was responsible for program design, risk management, and broking of large construction clients and projects in casualty and builder's risk.
"Mark has the perfect mix of experience, culture, and entrepreneurship to help CRP expand our geographic footprint. We are extremely proud to welcome Mark to the CRP and BRP family," said Joe Charczenko, Partner, Construction Risk Partners.
"I am extremely excited to join CRP and start the next chapter of my career to help them expand into the Midwest," said Mr. Gloriod.
Construction Risk Partners is the leading specialist broker for owners, developers, general contractors, engineers, and subcontractors that need to mitigate financial risks related to construction activity. Our expertise and specialization in construction allows us to tailor our financial products and services to align perfectly. We offer insurance, surety, bonding, default insurance as well as our industry's most respected Loss Prevention and Wrap-Up services. Learn more at www.constructionriskpartners.com.
BRP Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRP) is an independent insurance distribution firm delivering tailored insurance and risk management insights and solutions that give our Clients the peace of mind to pursue their purpose, passion and dreams. We are innovating the industry by taking a holistic and tailored approach to risk management, insurance and employee benefits, and support our Clients, Colleagues, Insurance Company Partners and communities through the deployment of vanguard resources and capital to drive our growth. BRP Group represents over 1,200,000 Clients across the United States and internationally. For more information, please visit www.baldwinriskpartners.com.
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(NEXSTAR) – One of the world’s largest known moths has been reported for the first time in the United States, and experts are now asking residents to report any other sightings of the insect.
Entomologists in Washington state confirmed the discovery of an atlas moth in Bellevue, located west of Seattle, earlier this month. The Washington State Department of Agriculture said the moth, found on the side of a garage, was reported by a University of Washington professor in early July.
After confirming the species with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, experts now believe this is the first time the moth has been detected in the U.S.
The atlas moth is a native of Asia, primarily from India to the Philippines and south to Indonesia, according to the California Academy of Sciences. Its wingspan of 10 inches is second only to the white witch moth of Central and South America, which has a wingspan of 14 inches.
Its wings are also mesmerizing to some and serve as protection from birds looking for a snack. When open, the atlas moth’s wings may appear to instead be two cobra heads, deterring predators.
Despite its size, the atlas moth doesn’t live long. As London’s Natural History Museum explains, the moth’s proboscis – what butterflies and moths use to drink nectar – is very small and unusable. Because it has no way to eat, the moth typically lives only one to two weeks.
The moth gains much of its sustenance as a caterpillar. During this phase, they will eat leaves of cinnamon, citrus fruit, guava, and Jamaican cherry trees. Moth caterpillars produce silk, and the cocoons they leave behind are sometimes used as purses, according to the Museum.
The atlas moth is a federally quarantined pest in the U.S., according to Washington State officials. This means it is illegal to have or sell live atlas moths, regardless of their stage in life, without a permit from the USDA.
This is the only atlas moth reported in Washington so far, meaning there is no evidence a population has been established in the state. Without a known way to trap the moth, officials are now relying on reports from the public to determine if there are more in the state.
Officials haven’t explained how the moth may have found its way to the U.S.
Because it is a tropical species, Sven Spichiger, managing entomologist for the state’s Department of Agriculture, says its unclear whether the atlas moth could even survive the conditions of the Pacific Northwest.
“USDA is gathering available scientific and technical information about this moth and will provide response recommendations, but in the meantime, we hope residents will help us learn if this was a one-off escapee or whether there might indeed be a population in the area,” Spichiger said in a statement.
If you spot this mesmerizing moth, you are encouraged to take a photo of it, note where you spotted it, and notify your state or local agriculture department.
This rare sighting comes as officials on the other side of the country are warning residents to kill a stunning but invasive bug that could drastically impact certain trees and even grape and wine industries.
Measuring about one inch in size, the spotted lanternfly, with its spots and pair of bright red wings, was first detected in the U.S. in 2014. It has since spread to 11 states, primarily across the Northeast. The spotted lanternfly is a native of China and feasts off of fruit, ornamental, and woody trees, especially the tree of heaven, a fellow invasive species native to China, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
If allowed to spread, experts say the spotted lanternfly “could seriously impact the country’s grape, orchard, and logging industries.”
The Department of Agriculture considers most states at risk of being impacted by the spotted lanternfly. Using the department’s Pest Tracker, you can determine if your state could be a suitable home for the invasive bug, as well as 20 other “targeted Hungry Pests.” | https://www.wane.com/dont-miss/one-of-the-worlds-largest-moths-has-been-spotted-in-the-us-for-the-first-time/ | 2022-08-18T20:40:56Z | https://www.wane.com/dont-miss/one-of-the-worlds-largest-moths-has-been-spotted-in-the-us-for-the-first-time/ | true |
Grant Slated to Upgrade Food Bank's Technology
ATLANTA, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Atlanta Community Food Bank announces a $200,000 grant from Kroger stores. The grant will be used to update the nonprofit's technology with a new CRM system. The new system will help easily identify current needs and serve the Food Bank's agencies and clients more effectively.
The Food Bank anticipates saving approximately 50% on current annual support costs with the upgrade. By using a cloud-based solution, it will also reduce costs associated with hardware and maintenance and improve data management and reporting by combining client, agency, and supplier data into a single data structure.
"Kroger's investment will significantly improve how the Food Bank does business and is able to operate daily," said Kyle Waide, President & CEO of the Atlanta Community Food Bank. "We are grateful to partners like Kroger for helping us better serve our food-insecure neighbors."
In addition to the grant, Kroger has donated close to 4 million pounds of food this past year – the equivalent of 3.3 million meals – from 8,170 individual donations through their retail operations, fulfillment center and general donations. The grant project was financially assisted by The Kroger Co. Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation.
"The updated technology combined with the unwavering commitment of the Atlanta Community Food Bank and community volunteers will help achieve our mutual vision of communities free of hunger and waste," said Kroger Atlanta Division President Victor Smith. The grant is evidence of Kroger's commitment to its Zero Hunger | Zero Waste social and environmental impact plan, which aims to develop a more efficient, equitable, and charitable food system.
With one in ten people – including one in seven children – in the Atlanta community living in food insecurity, hunger remains a pressing issue that has a significant impact on the lives of many people. Individuals and families served by the Food Bank face daily challenges in ensuring they have enough food to last the day, week, or month.
The Atlanta Community Food Bank works to end hunger with the food, people and big ideas needed to ensure our neighbors have the nourishment to lead healthy and productive lives. Far too many people in our own community experience hunger every day, including children, seniors and working families. Through more than 700 nonprofit partners, we help more than 715,00 people get healthy food every year. Our goal is that all hungry people across metro Atlanta and North Georgia will have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them. It takes the power of our whole community to make that possible. Join us at ACFB.org.
The Kroger Co. Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity founded in 2018 that has given more than $30 million to organizations, innovators, and changemakers to address the fundamental absurdity in our food system: 35% of food produced in the U.S. is wasted, yet 42 million Americans experience hunger. The Foundation was formed to support initiatives that create communities free of hunger and waste.
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WARREN, Mich., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ULH) announced that Tim Phillips, Universal's Chief Executive Officer, and Jude Beres, Chief Financial Officer, will participate in a fireside chat at Cowen's 15th Annual Global Transportation & Sustainable Mobility Conference.
The event will begin at 12:20 PM ET on Wednesday, September 7, 2022, and will be broadcast live via webcast at http://www.universallogistics.com. To access the event, click on "Investor Relations" and follow the link to the webcast. A link to the replay will be available following the event.
About Universal
Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. ("Universal") is a holding company that owns subsidiaries engaged in providing a variety of customized transportation and logistics solutions throughout the United States, and in Mexico, Canada and Colombia. Our operating subsidiaries provide customers with supply chain solutions that can be scaled to meet their changing demands and volumes. Universal's consolidated subsidiaries offer customers a broad array of services across the entire supply chain, including truckload, brokerage, intermodal, dedicated, and value-added services. In this press release, the terms "us," "we," "our," or the "Company" refer to Universal and its consolidated subsidiaries.
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Report: 14% of doctors admit drinking or doing drugs at work to cope with stress
Published: Aug. 18, 2022 at 3:20 PM CDT|Updated: 21 minutes ago
(CNN) – The COVID-19 pandemic has some healthcare workers stressed out and looking for ways to ease their tensions.
According to a report on healthcare workers’ mental health released Thursday, 21% of physicians say they’ve taken drugs or drank alcohol more than once per day.
Additionally, 14% report consuming alcohol or controlled substances while at work.
The findings from the Mind-Body Health treatment chain APN were based on 1,000 healthcare workers questioned in July.
Researchers also say many of these healthcare workers suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder while experiencing trauma similar to what wartime soldiers go through.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU) today announced that its second quarter fiscal 2023 results will be released on Thursday, September 8, 2022, after the close of the market. The company will host a conference call at 1:30 p.m. PT (4:30 p.m. ET) to discuss its financial results. A live webcast of the event will be available on the DocuSign Investor Relations website at investor.docusign.com. A live dial-in will be available domestically at 877-407-0784 or internationally at 201-689-8560. A replay will be available domestically at 844-512-2921 or internationally at 412-317-6671 until midnight (ET) September 22, 2022 using the passcode 13732324.
DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act on, and manage agreements. As part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, DocuSign offers eSignature, the world's #1 way to sign electronically on practically any device, from almost anywhere, at any time. Today, over a million customers and more than a billion users in over 180 countries use the DocuSign Agreement Cloud to accelerate the process of doing business and to simplify people's lives.
For more information, visit www.docusign.com, call +1-877-720-2040, or follow @DocuSign on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine recently released that HumanN, an industry leader in functional nutrition and life sciences, was named for the eighth consecutive year on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
"We are honored that HumanN has achieved the rarified air of being named to the Inc. 5000 for 8 consecutive years!" says CEO and Co-Founder, Joel Kocher. "One of our company's values is to perpetually adapt to the new challenges every new year brings. Our supremely talented team has done that again and again, every year since HumanN was founded."
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. Together, those companies added more than 68,394 jobs over the past three years.
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."
Strategic innovation propels the team at HumanN to continue to adapt, developing new markets and opportunities each year. Says Kocher, "Our team simply understands that what got you here will never get you there [to the next phase of growth]."
A groundbreaking functional nutrition and life sciences company, HumanN was founded in affiliation with a leading academic research program and is committed to promoting healthy circulatory and blood flow function for optimal living. The innovators at HumanN bring forth smart, plant-based, and nutrition-forward science in the form of supplements in innovative form factors (powders, chews, gummies, tablets), to meet the demands of modern, health-conscious consumers. Its products are widely used by physicians, consumers, and athletes alike, including over 120 Professional and Division One Collegiate sports teams. HumanN's product line includes leading product brands such as SuperBeets, BeetElite, and Neo40. SuperBeets is the leading superfood brand sold at GNC and is also sold at leading U.S. retailers such as CVS Pharmacy, Publix, Target.com, and Sprouts.
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.
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Police: Mother facing charges after 3-year-old son found dead with drugs in system
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - A Kansas City woman is facing charges after police say they found her child unresponsive inside a home earlier this week.
According to court records, the Kansas City Police Department responded to reports of a child who died at a residence on Wednesday.
First responders reportedly found a 3-year-old boy unresponsive and covered up on a bed. Officers said they removed a blanket and saw the boy not moving with discolored feet.
KCTV reports the officers also noted seeing a raised, discolored scab on the boy’s back that indicated a possible infection.
Authorities said the 3-year-old’s body was taken to Children’s Mercy Hospital, where lab results indicated he had amphetamines in his system.
The boy’s mother, Michaela Chism, reportedly told police that she had stayed at the residence for about two weeks. She said the people in the home, including herself, consumed controlled substances, including methamphetamine and fentanyl.
Police said Chism told investigators that one evening she woke up and began watching TV and noticed her son was not moving. She went to check on him, and he was unresponsive.
According to court documents, Chism told police her son had died on the couch and was moved to a bedroom when police were initially called to the home for a welfare check.
Authorities said they obtained a search warrant and detectives found drug paraphernalia throughout the residence, crystal-like substances and multiple prescription pill bottles.
Police report Chism has been charged with first-degree child endangerment and first-degree child endangerment involving drugs in the case that remains under investigation.
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RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine group kicked off Instagram, Facebook
(AP) – Instagram and Facebook suspended Children’s Health Defense this week after the anti-vaccine group led by Robert Kennedy Jr. repeatedly violated rules prohibiting misinformation about COVID-19.
A nonprofit, Children’s Health Defense is one of the most influential anti-vaccine organizations active on social media, where it has spread misleading claims about vaccines and other public health measures designed to control the pandemic.
In a statement, Kennedy compared Facebook’s actions to government censorship, even though Facebook is a private company that can set and enforce its own rules about misinformation.
“Facebook is acting here as a surrogate for the federal government’s crusade to silence all criticism of draconian government policies,” Kennedy said.
Children’s Health Defense had hundreds of thousands of followers at the time of the suspension, according to a statement from the organization, which also noted that it has sued Facebook over its moderation policies.
Public health advocates and misinformation experts have criticized Facebook for not acting more swiftly to contain potentially harmful misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines.
Karen Kornbluh, director of the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund, said too many groups like Children’s Health Defense have been allowed to flourish on social media for too long. She noted that the group remains on Twitter.
“Today’s step is too late and too little,” Kornbluh said, adding that tech companies must address the reasons misinformation spreads so readily on social media.
Facebook and Instagram confirmed the company action on Thursday in a statement to The Associated Press.
“We removed these accounts for repeatedly violating our policies,” a spokesman for Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, told the AP. Under the platforms’ policies, suspensions are typically only enforced after multiple violations.
Several state affiliates of Children’s Health Defense remain on Facebook and Instagram despite the ban of the national organization. Kennedy was kicked off Instagram last year but continues to keep an active account on Facebook.
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Evergreen Climate Innovations, Nicor Gas partner to support entrepreneurs who are making a positive environmental impact in Illinois
NAPERVILLE, Ill., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kazadi Enterprises is the recipient of the 2022 Nicor Gas Multicultural Innovator Award. This is the second annual award presented by Nicor Gas and Evergreen Climate Innovations, formerly Clean Energy Trust, to support clean energy technology startups with a minority founder or CEO.
Nicor Gas, Evergreen Climate Innovations partner to support entreprenuers who are making a positive environmental impact
"Kazadi Enterprises is at the intersection of innovation and diversity, and we are proud to work with Evergreen Climate Innovations to support this Illinois startup," said Wendell Dallas, president and CEO of Nicor Gas. "This is another way we are fueling innovation and investing in our communities and businesses while reducing our environmental footprint and helping our customers do the same."
Kazadi is the second recipient of the Nicor Gas Multicultural Innovator Award and will receive a $25,000 equity and inclusion grant to support further development of its patented technology that converts ambient heat to energy. In addition to the grant, Kazadi leadership will receive 12 months of business mentorship and heightened exposure to investors and customers.
"Evergreen Climate Innovations is proud to continue its work with Nicor Gas and Illinois entrepreneurs to bring environmental innovations to a scalable reality," said Erik Birkerts, CEO of Evergreen Climate Innovations. "Kazadi Enteprises is tackling a sector whose negative environmental impacts often go unrecognized by offering a decarbonized alternative to traditional refrigeration and cooling systems."
It is estimated that commercial refrigeration systems produce the same amount of CO2 emissions as 100 million cars and leak, on average, 25% of their hazardous refrigerants into the atmosphere every year. Kazadi's patented technology leverages thermal energy in air, converting environmental heat into work and plugging into the natural hydrologic cycle, reducing the cost and carbon footprint of refrigeration.
"We are excited to work with Nicor Gas and Evergreen Energy Innovations as we continue to refine our technology that harnesses a free and nearly universal energy sources – environmental thermal energy," said Sanza Kazadi, CEO and founder of Kazadi Enterprises. "By harnessing the energy in the air and replacing conventional refrigerants with just plain water, we can help customers reduce their refrigeration energy usage by 80% while also reducing negative environmental attributes often associated with traditional refrigerants."
To learn more about Kazadi Enterprises, visit www.kazadienterprises.com.
About Nicor Gas
Nicor Gas is one of four natural gas distribution companies of Southern Company Gas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO). Nicor Gas serves more than 2.2 million customers in a service territory that encompasses most of the northern third of Illinois, excluding the city of Chicago. For more information, visit nicorgas.com.
About Southern Company Gas
Southern Company Gas is a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company (NYSE: SO), America's premier energy company. Southern Company Gas serves approximately 4.3 million natural gas utility customers through its regulated distribution companies in four states with approximately 600,000 retail customers through its companies that market natural gas. Other nonutility businesses include investments in interstate pipelines and ownership and operation of natural gas storage facilities. For more information, visit southerncompanygas.com.
About Evergreen Climate Innovations
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Woman withdraws petition to stop friend’s euthanasia bid
She had filed plea in Delhi HC not to grant ‘emigration clearance’
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The Delhi High Court on Thursday permitted a woman, who had sought to stop her friend from travelling to Switzerland to undergo euthanasia on account of his long-term debilitating sickness, to withdrew her petition.
Justice Yashwant Varma, before whom the petition came up for hearing, allowed the 49-year-old woman to withdrawn her plea and also directed the court registry to redact the particulars of the friend from court records.
“I would like to withdraw this petition as I came to know that [my friend] is deeply traumatised after hearing about it. I am afraid that the very purpose of filing this writ may go in vain if I proceed,” the counsel, representing the woman, told the High Court as soon as the case came up for hearing.
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Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
In her petition filed last week, through advocate Subash Chandran K.R., the woman, a resident of Bangalore, sought direction to the Centre to not grant “emigration clearance” to her close friend, in his late 40s and diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, to travel for physician-assisted suicide.
Medical board
The woman, in her petition, sought for constitution of a medical board to examine the medical condition of her friend and also provide necessary medical assistance considering his peculiar health condition.
The plea stated that the most common symptom of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is extreme tiredness and it can affect anyone, including children. “Studies say it is more common in women, and tends to develop in mid-40s. His symptoms started in 2014 and his condition deteriorated over the past eight years. He is now completely bed-bound and just able to walk a few steps inside home,” the woman said in her plea.
Finally, this year the man decided to go for euthanasia through Dignitas, an organisation in Zurich, Switzerland, which provides physician-assisted suicide. The woman said her friend had travelled to Zurich for the first round of psychological evaluation in June 2022.
She said the application was accepted by Dignitas and the first evaluation was approved. He is now awaiting the final decision by end of August, 2022.
The woman stressed that there was no financial constrains for providing her friend with better treatments within India or abroad. “But he is now adamant on his decision to go for euthanasia which affects the lives of his age-old parents miserably,” she urged. She submitted that there still persists a ray of hope for the betterment of his condition.
2 types of euthanasia
Active euthanasia entails an affirmative action of use of lethal substances or forces to cause the intentional death of a person by direct intervention, e.g., a lethal injection given to a person with terminal cancer who is in terrible agony.
Passive euthanasia, on the other hand, entails withdrawing of life-support measures or withholding of medical treatment for continuance of life, e.g., withholding of antibiotics in case of a patient where death is likely to occur as a result of not giving the said antibiotics or removal of the heart lung machine from a patient in coma.
In India active euthanasia is illegal and a crime under Section 302 (murder) or Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) Indian Penal Code. Physician assisted suicide is a crime under Section 306 IPC (abetment to suicide).
In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court had on March 9, 2018 allowed passive euthanasia in India noting that the right to die with dignity was a fundamental right.
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MURSKA SOBOTA, Slovenia (AP) — Former United States international Heather O'Reilly scored just four minutes into her Women's Champions League debut to give Irish team Shelbourne a 1-0 win over Slovenian club Pomurje on Thursday in the first round of qualifying for the group stage.
O'Reilly came out of retirement at the age of 37 in order to play in the competition for the first time, which she said was the only thing missing on a resume that includes three Olympic gold medals and a World Cup victory.
She retired from internationals in 2016 and from club soccer in 2019 before announcing her return last month.
In Slovenia, O'Reilly scored with a header that looped over the goalkeeper after the Slovenian team failed to clear a cross into the area just four minutes into the game.
“What a dream come true," O'Reilly said in an interview posted online by the club. "Playing in the champions League was such a life dream for me, and so I can’t believe it actually happened today. And to add to it, obviously to score, and that being the game winner is just amazing. ... I didn’t think it was going to be possible in my career.”
Shelbourne advances to a playoff final against Icelandic club Valur on Sunday where the winner will enter the second round of qualifying for the 16-team group stage.
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It's all too easy for a washing machine to accumulate mold, mildew and bacteria, stinking up your clothes and ruining your fresh load of laundry. But by giving your washer the routine clean it needs, you can banish that icky stuff and prevent it from coming back.
Here's how to get your clothes and washing machine smelling fresh and clean again, and how to keep the bad smells away in the future. (For more cleaning advice, here's how to get pet stains out of carpets, how to remove makeup stains from your bedding, and how to clean your mattress.)
The best way to kill mold and bacteria in your washer
If you've got mold in your washer, here's how to get rid of it. Doing this monthly will help prevent mold growth.
1. Put on gloves and grab an old towel that you don't care about.
2. Mix a solution of either bleach and hot water OR vinegar and hot water. (Never mix bleach and vinegar -- it creates chlorine gas, which is toxic.)
3. Dip the towel in the mixture and start scrubbing away at any visible mold. Make sure to get the detergent dispenser and around the gaskets.
4. Front-loading machines have a gasket around the door. If you have a front loader, clean and dry it thoroughly, including all the folds.
5. Run the wash cycle on the hottest setting your machine offers with a cup of bleach or vinegar. If using bleach, pour it into the compartment designated for bleach. If using vinegar, pour it into the detergent slot.
If your machine has a self-clean cycle, you can use that setting. This should kill any hidden mold that you may have missed.
6. Use another old towel and wipe away all the moisture in your washing machine. This includes the drum, dispensers, seals and any other areas you can reach.
7. Leave the washer door open to allow airflow to dry out any parts you missed.
Leave the lid open if you're not washing clothes
Mold grows in dark, moist areas, which is what your washer becomes after you've unloaded the clothes. Keeping the lid closed traps moisture, which can lead to built-up bacteria and a bad smell.
Leaving the washing machine door open helps ventilate the area and prevents mold from growing in the first place.
Remove wet clothes right away
Damp clothes are another breeding ground for mold. If you're throwing a load of laundry in, make sure you'll be home to remove the clothes right when the timer goes off
Not only does this prevent mold from growing in your washer, but it keeps mildew out of your clean clothing, bedding and towels.
Dry damp seals and other parts after each use
After you're finished using your washing machine for the day, make sure to wipe down any part of the washer that's damp. This includes the lid, drum, door, rubber gaskets and detergent dispenser (if your machine has that feature).
Keep an old towel on hand for this purpose.
Make sure to dry the seals along with the rest of your washer to prevent moisture from sticking around. And while mold contamination can happen in any washer, it's especially common in high-efficiency (HE) front-loading washers. That's why you should regularly wash the gaskets and seals around the door and keep them dry. The gaskets make sure water doesn't leak out around the door and also do a good job of sealing in the moisture that can help mold grow.
You should also remove pet hair, crumpled paper or any other detritus from the machine right away.
Read more: How to Buy a Washing Machine
If you have a high-efficiency washing machine
Liquid detergents can leave a residue in your washing machine, giving mold a food source. So if you have a high-efficiency washer, the first thing to do to keep mold in check is to make sure you're using a laundry detergent made specifically for this type of washer, which will produce fewer suds. (Look for the letters HE on the bottle.)
Better yet, steer clear of liquid detergent altogether and switch to powder detergent or pods. Whichever you choose, make sure you're only using as much as you need to wash your clothes. If you use too much, your clothes may have a smell and residue.
Once you've cleaned your washer, it's time to move on to the rest of your house. Start with the bathroom: Here's a simple one-hour hack for degunking your showerhead and how to unclog a toilet without a plunger.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Abortions in North Carolina are no longer legal after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, eroding protections in one of the South’s few remaining safe havens for reproductive freedom.
U.S. District Judge William Osteen reinstated an unenforced 20-week abortion ban, with exceptions for urgent medical emergencies, after he said the June U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade erased the legal foundation for his 2019 ruling that placed an injunction on the 1973 state law.
His decision defies the recommendations of all named parties in the 2019 case, including doctors, district attorneys and the attorney general’s office, who earlier this month filed briefs requesting he let the injunction stand.
“Neither this court, nor the public, nor counsel, nor providers have the right to ignore the rule of law as determined by the Supreme Court,” wrote Osteen, who was appointed to the court by Republican President George W. Bush.
Unable to pass abortion restrictions that would survive Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto, the Republican General Assembly leaders urged Osteen to restore the ban in a July 27 friend-of-the-court brief after the state’s Democratic attorney general, an outspoken abortion rights supporter, rejected their demand that he bring the ban before a judge himself.
“I am encouraged that, although our attorney general has failed to do his duty, today we have a ruling that upholds the law,” House Speaker Tim Moore said, referring to North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein.
Osteen’s ruling adds fuel to an already contentious midterm election year after the Supreme Court ruling propelled state-level politics into the spotlight. North Carolina Republicans in November will aim to clinch the five additional seats they need for a veto-proof supermajority in the state legislature as Democrats stave off their challenges to preserve Cooper’s power.
Republican lawmakers say a successful election season could open the door to further abortion restrictions when the General Assembly reconvenes early next year. Moore told reporters on July 26 that he would like to see the legislature consider banning abortions once an ultrasound first detects fetal cardiac activity — typically around six weeks after fertilization and before some patients know they’re pregnant.
Cooper and other Democrats have already elevated abortion access as a key campaign issue. The governor signed an executive order on July 6 shielding out-of-state abortion patients from extradition and prohibiting state agencies under his control from aiding other states’ prosecutions of those who travel for the procedure.
“Denying women necessary medical care in extreme and threatening situations, even if rare, is fundamentally wrong, and we cannot let politicians mislead people about the real-world implications of this harmful law,” Cooper said Wednesday.
North Carolina has become a refuge for residents of its more restrictive neighboring states, like South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, where abortions are now illegal after six weeks.
Before Osteen’s ruling, abortions were legal in North Carolina until fetal viability, which generally falls between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy, or in certain medical emergencies.
As other Southeastern states continue to chip away at abortion access, Alison Kiser, executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes! South Atlantic, said limiting treatment in “a critical access point state” like North Carolina will have ripple effects across the region.
The number of out-of-state patients at North Carolina’s Planned Parenthood health centers has tripled since the Supreme Court ruling, Kiser said. So far in August, 36% of abortion patients traveled from other states, up from 14% in June.
But Republicans argue little will change with the 20-week ban back in place. In 2019, fewer than 1% of abortions nationwide were performed after 20 weeks of gestation, consistent with data from previous years when abortion access was protected at the federal level, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Abortions after 20 weeks are rare, but it’s still incredibly important that people have access to this care,” Kiser said. “The two primary reasons people need abortion care later in pregnancy is because they’ve received new medical information or, and ever more so now, they’re facing barriers that have delayed their care.”
The main delay, she said, is North Carolina’s 72-hour mandatory waiting period to receive an abortion after an initial doctor’s visit. The General Assembly extended the waiting period in 2015, making North Carolina the fifth state to require counseling three days before an abortion — one of the longest waiting periods in the country.
The 2015 bill also amended the state law that Osteen reinstated Wednesday, narrowing the criteria for medical emergencies that could warrant an abortion after 20 weeks.
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This summer has been defined by record heat around the world due to climate change, with global communities facing floods, fires, famine and pestilence. In the United States, July was the third hottest on record.
What will happen to the planet if we don’t intervene in the climate crisis as soon as yesterday? How can we adapt as a species to our changing, damaged environment? What would a non-human-centered approach to living on Earth look like, one that put the Earth first?
These are the questions at the heart of “MYR,” an exhibition on view at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, featuring 25 sculptures, textiles, photographs and videos by six artists from around the world. The show’s cryptic title is a bit of jargon borrowed from Earth science and astrology meaning one million years. Here, that unit of measurement is a reference to “deep time,” the scale of geological events unimaginable by human standards. Human configurations of time, and humanity writ large, as the show does well to point out, are a relatively recent phenomenon. But are they also fleeting, doomed to disappear?
Many of the works on view propose solutions that decenter humanoids in an attempt to move away from the negative impacts of the Anthropocene (the current geological age during which human activity has dominated). Miriam Simun’s wall vinyl “Training Transhumanism (I WANT TO BECOME A CEPHALOPOD),” 2022, is an instructional graphic for exercises meant to train new sensitivities and capabilities in the human body, based on the cephalopod, including shape-shifting, camouflage and distributed intelligence. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s “The Wilding of Mars,” 2019, is a four-channel video simulation of the growth of a wilderness of Earth lifeforms on Mars.
Other artworks are more poetic meditations on the big picture. Katie Paterson’s “Ideas,” 2016, is a series of six small, waterjet-cut sterling silver phrases dotted throughout the gallery, such as “The scent of rain left on the moon” and “The speed of light slowed to absolute stillness.” Their placement at random intervals reads like a voice responding to or contemplating the other pieces in the gallery. Paterson’s “To Burn, Forest, Fire,” 2021, is a repurposed stick of incense, presupposing the day when the scent of trees is a rarity as well as insinuating the reason for their disappearance.
“MYR” gave me a surge of anxiety. In that respect, the exhibition was probably a healthy kick in the pants: It can’t hurt to be reminded how dire the global warming situation is. But can it really help? I’ve seen plenty of art about climate change and it usually affects me as a form of activism, but rarely moves me as art.
“The vastness of geologic time stretching backwards remains an abstract truth,” writes the exhibition’s curator Elizabeth Thomas, “while its reach into the future is increasingly apocalyptic as humans confront the climate crisis. To imagine the millions of years behind us, we must also imagine the millions that might pass after us, on earth and throughout the universe.”
I agree with Thomas on the necessity of considering the impact of our actions on the future. But it doesn’t necessarily make for good art.
The most conceptually compelling piece in the show is Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s “Lovesick,” 2019, a multimedia piece incorporating video, sound, sculpture and a custom-made retrovirus that increases the infected individual’s Oxytocin production, literally making them sick with love. An audio component of the piece proposes the virus as “a cure for the coming alienation” resulting from the escalating climate crisis. But alienation isn’t a thing of the future. And neither is the cure.
Art, for me, functions as an antidote for alienation. It gives me the feeling that someone has been here before, that someone else has passed through whatever difficulty I am experiencing in the present and lived to tell of it, or that they have glimpsed a more beautiful vision of life and are offering it to me as a tool for my own survival. In other words, art is about a kind of communion. It is someone from the past reaching out a hand to me in the present. When we relate this way, we have no use for the future.
It is for policy makers and multinational corporations to solve the issues of climate change, for which they are largely responsible, while each of us chip in at the individual level. But it isn’t the job of artists to solve the world’s problems. And that is not to diminish what art can do. What art can do is of much greater value in an immediate sense. Because art can improve life and create connections between people in their fraught experiences of alienation.
Part of my discomfort viewing “MYR” comes from my genuine concern around the climate crisis. If the work in the exhibition offers me any sort of consolation, it’s in knowing that others are anxious about the future as well, and equally uncertain how to proceed. But that shared anxiety doesn’t get me very far and it doesn’t give me a rewarding art experience. Just like my best experiences with art, the future can be altered only by acting in the present.
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“MYR”
Where: McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, 1150 25th Street, Building B, S.F.
When: 11 a.m.-6 p.m.Wednesday through Sunday, through August 27.
Tickets: Free
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Florida Gov Ron DeSantis announces 20 people across the state have been charged with voter fraud for casting ballots after they were convicted of murder or sexual assault
- The governor did not say in what election they had voted but said they had come from Broward, Palm Beach and Miami Dade counties and
- He said they had been arrested for voting 'because they were convicted of murder or sexual assault'
- 'They did not go through any process. They did not get their rights restored and yet they went ahead and voted anyways,' DeSantis said
- The governor said the individuals could face a third degree felony with penalties up to $5,000 and up to five years in prison
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that 20 people across his state have been charged with voter fraud.
The governor did not say in what election they had voted but said they had come from Broward, Palm Beach and Miami Dade counties and had been arrested for voting 'because they were convicted of murder or sexual assault.'
Floridians passed a constitutional amendment restoring felons' voting rights after they've after they've served their sentences and paid all fines, fees and restitution, but those convicted of a sex offense or murder are banned from voting forever unless they are granted a pardon to do so.
'They did not go through any process. They did not get their rights restored and yet they went ahead and voted anyways,' DeSantis said. 'That is against the law and now they're going to pay the price for it.'
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that 20 people across his state have been charged with voter fraud
The governor did not say in what election they had voted but said they had come from Broward, Palm Beach and Miami Dade counties and had been arrested for voting 'because they were convicted of murder or sexual assault'
The governor said the individuals could face a third degree felony with penalties up to $5,000 and up to five years in prison.
DeSantis also said the state is telling all 67 election supervisors to preserve records related to the 2020 elections.
He praised the work of the new Election Crimes and Security Office which began work July 1 to investigate voter fraud and violations of election law. The governor added that further investigations could lead to more charges.
'Now this is only one class of voters that we know have violated the law, there are investigations ongoing into people that have voted in two different jurisdictions, and I imagine you are going to see prosecutions on that,' DeSantis teased. 'We also have folks who are voting who are illegal aliens.'
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Students in Jackson, Miss., are already back at their school desks. The district — like so many in the nation — is working to help students recover academically and emotionally from the pandemic.
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New survey shows utilities costs rising
Home energy audit, managing thermostat could help reduce bills
InvestigateTV - A recent energy industry survey by SaveOnEnergy revealed 85% of homeowners saw price increases in at least one utility bill with electricity being the most reported increase.
According to the survey, water, gas, cable and internet price increases rounded out the top five categories.
“Higher electricity prices are going to remain with us for quite some time now, I think definitely for the rest of the summer, if not for the rest of the year,” energy expert Saltanat Berdikeeva said,
As a result of these increases, 87% of Americans surveyed said they have taken measures to reduce home energy costs over the past year.
The report noted those hit hardest by the larger bills are families earning less than $40,000. These families and those struggling with utility bills may qualify for state or federal programs to the help.
If you are interested in assistance, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is one available program. They link to additional state resources on their site. You can also search for “energy assistance programs” online to find state and local resources.
Berdikeeva said a good way to cut costs is to conduct a home energy audit. This will show you where you are losing energy and wasting money.
Other tips from Berdikeeva included:
- Weatherize your home for each season, which includes insulating your doors and windows.
- Use energy efficient appliances
- Turn off the lights in rooms when you leave
- Take shorter showers to save on hot waters costs.
- Turn off your air conditioner when you aren’t using it
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WYATT, Mo. (AP) — A 3-year-old Missouri girl has died from injuries sustained in a gas explosion that killed her father and injured her mother, two siblings and five other relatives, authorities said Thursday.
The family's home in the far southern Missouri town of Wyatt erupted in flames on Monday, and the girl was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, for treatment. Wyatt is about 175 miles (280 kilometers) northwest of Nashville.
Tennessee officials notified the Mississippi County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri of the girl’s death on Thursday, said sheriff's Capt. Barry Morgan. He declined to release her name but identified her father as Corey Coleman, who died in the immediate aftermath of the blast.
He said the girl's mother and 6-month-old sister are in critical condition, fighting for their lives. The girl's 1-year-old brother, along with several cousins and an adult relative, also are hospitalized in stable condition.
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Morgan said the source of the explosion has been narrowed down to two propane-powered appliances — a stove and a water heater. But he said that the explosion was so bad that investigators haven't been able to narrow down which was to blame.
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WARREN, Mich., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ULH) announced that Tim Phillips, Universal's Chief Executive Officer, and Jude Beres, Chief Financial Officer, will participate in a fireside chat at Cowen's 15th Annual Global Transportation & Sustainable Mobility Conference.
The event will begin at 12:20 PM ET on Wednesday, September 7, 2022, and will be broadcast live via webcast at http://www.universallogistics.com. To access the event, click on "Investor Relations" and follow the link to the webcast. A link to the replay will be available following the event.
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Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. ("Universal") is a holding company that owns subsidiaries engaged in providing a variety of customized transportation and logistics solutions throughout the United States, and in Mexico, Canada and Colombia. Our operating subsidiaries provide customers with supply chain solutions that can be scaled to meet their changing demands and volumes. Universal's consolidated subsidiaries offer customers a broad array of services across the entire supply chain, including truckload, brokerage, intermodal, dedicated, and value-added services. In this press release, the terms "us," "we," "our," or the "Company" refer to Universal and its consolidated subsidiaries.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 18, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
331 PM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Galveston, west central Chambers and southeastern Harris Counties
through 400 PM CDT...
At 330 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Deer Park, moving southeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Pasadena, League City, Baytown, La Porte, Deer Park, South Houston,
Seabrook, Webster, Beach City, Kemah, Clear Lake, Channelview, South
Belt / Ellington, Highlands, Cloverleaf, Nassau Bay, Taylor Lake
Village, El Lago, Shoreacres and Clear Lake Shores.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2969 9526 2983 9511 2968 9483 2945 9511
TIME...MOT...LOC 2030Z 311DEG 15KT 2971 9514
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 18, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
256 PM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of central Texas, including the following
county, Milam.
* WHEN...Until 430 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms near
Rockdale and Thorndale. Low lying and/or poor drainage areas
will experience minor flooding in the advisory area. Between
1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall
amounts of 1 to 2 inches are possible.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Rockdale and Thorndale.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday announced criminal charges against 20 people for illegally voting in 2020, the first major public move from the Republican’s controversial new election police unit.
The charges mark the opening salvo from the Office of Election Crimes and Security, which from its conception drew widespread criticism from Democrats and voting rights groups who feared the unit would serve as a political tool for the governor.
DeSantis said the people charged were convicted of murder or a felony sexual offense and therefore exempt from a constitutional amendment that restores voting rights to some felons. He said most of those charged were from Broward, Miami-Dade or Palm Beach counties, all Democratic strongholds. He released few details.
The 20 people were among more than 11 million Florida voters who cast ballots in the 2020 election.
“They did not go through any process, they did not get their rights restored, and yet they went ahead and voted anyways,” DeSantis said at a campaign-style event in Fort Lauderdale before cheering supporters. “That is against the law and now they’re gonna pay the price for it.”
DeSantis, an ascendant Republican and potential 2024 presidential candidate, pushed the state legislature to create the election police unit to address voter fraud concerns that have proliferated in the GOP following former President Donald Trump’s false claims that his reelection was stolen.
Voter fraud is rare, typically occurs in isolated instances and is generally detected. An Associated Press investigation of the 2020 presidential election found fewer than 475 potential cases of voter fraud out of 25.5 million ballots cast in the six states where Trump and his allies disputed his loss to Democratic President Joe Biden. DeSantis has previously praised Florida for carrying out a smooth election in 2020.
The Office of Election Crimes and Security was created as part of a voting law package approved by the GOP-controlled Legislature earlier this year. The unit reviews fraud allegations and conducts preliminary investigations, with the law requiring the governor to appoint a group of special officers from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to pursue alleged violations.
Preexisting state law had allowed the governor to appoint officers to investigate violations of election law but did not require him to do so.
Peter Antonacci, a former Broward County Supervisor of Elections tapped by DeSantis to lead the election police unit, said more voter fraud charges were coming. Antonacci said he is “certain” there were illegal votes cast in a recent Broward County congressional election decided by five votes. He provided no additional details.
“You’ll see more of these actions, and you’ll see more of these actions until the people who are behind it quit promoting it and the people that want to take risks know that there is a downside risk to voting when you’re not eligible to vote,” he said.
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, a Democrat running for governor, said DeSantis’ announcement was meant “to intimidate voters and suppress turnout in the most Democratic counties in Florida.”
“Everybody wants elections to be secure, but Ron DeSantis — who has never refuted Donald Trump’s Big Lie— is the last person we can trust with ‘election police,’” she said. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/desantis-election-police-unit-announces-voter-fraud-cases/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-08-18T21:06:39Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/desantis-election-police-unit-announces-voter-fraud-cases/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | true |
A legal effort to halt the dispensary applying to open in a Hoboken condo building has been largely blocked, at least for now.
The condominium association for the 14th and Hudson streets building where Story Dispensary would open sued the dispensary applicants and the landlord of the retail unit in May. Jaclyn Fulop, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop’s wife, was named in the lawsuit because the Exchange Physical Therapy Group business she co-owns with Drew Nussbaum owns the unit. | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/08/lawsuit-to-halt-hoboken-dispensary-application-largely-dismissed-but-condo-owners-may-sue-again.html | 2022-08-18T21:06:59Z | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/08/lawsuit-to-halt-hoboken-dispensary-application-largely-dismissed-but-condo-owners-may-sue-again.html | true |
Shelby Detrick is a mother who knows the value of vaccines for children.
"I think vaccines are really important to help stop the spread of disease," she said.
Polio is one of more than a dozen vaccines the Centers for Disease Control recommends for children under 18.
The U.S. has immunized children against polio since the 1950s.
Every state has laws requiring children to have their polio shot series to attend school.
"Once they receive those four injections, they're very likely immune for life," said Dr. Reginald Washington, chief medical officer of Presbyterian St Luke's Medical Center and the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children.
It can be challenging for adults unsure if they've had their shots.
There is no national organization that maintains vaccination records. The only record out there is the one a person, or their parents or caregiver, have from that appointment.
The doctor or clinic takes a medical record then, too.
To track down Polio vaccine records, the CDC says first to ask a parent or caregiver if they kept them.
If that doesn't work, the CDC suggests checking baby books or high school records or a state's registry.
That can be time-dependent. For example, California's vaccine record registry didn't get information until the 90s and early 2000s. And not all providers participate.
Experts say if your doctor is retired, sometimes patient records are sent to a medical record storage company. That may cost a fee to get to.
"There's no downside if you're totally not aware of your status," Washington said.
Washington said when in doubt, call a doctor to schedule a polio vaccine.
"The vaccine has killed the virus. So, there's no way you can actually get polio from getting that injection," Washington stated.
New CDC findings show the polio virus has been in the wastewater of two New York counties as far back as April.
Only one case has been caught — a man who is now paralyzed. He was not vaccinated. The county he lives in has a polio vaccination rate that's nearly 20% below the state average and 33% below the national rate.
This is where herd immunity comes into play. In highly vaccinated communities — a school classroom, a neighborhood, a county — the polio virus can't spread it because it can't find a host. Even those unvaccinated are harder to get to.
That protection is much lower in a population with a lower vaccination rate because the immunity isn't there.
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WACO, Texas — A high-risk sex offender is back in custody after hiding in Waco for months, Texas DPS said.
Rodney Eugene Hunter, 50, was arrested on August 9 in south Waco by DPS Special Agents.
Hunter had been wanted since February when the McLennan County Sheriff's Office issued a warrant for his arrest on forgery.
This July, the Waco Police Department would issue an additional warrant for Hunter's arrest after he failed to comply with sex offender registration requirements.
Prior to these warrants, Hunter's previous convictions from 1992 included the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and two counts of burglary of a habitation.
He would later receive three nine-year sentences to be served concurrently.
In 1997, Hunter was convicted of two counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact following incidents involving a 7-year-old girl.
He was later given to two 15-year sentences in a Texas Department of Criminal Justice facility.
Texas Crime Stopper offers cash rewards to any person who provides information that leads to the arrest of one of Texas’ 10 Most Wanted Fugitives or Sex Offenders.
As of this year, DPS and other agencies have arrested 44 Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitives and Sex Offenders, including 17 gang members and 24 sex offenders.
In addition, $72,000 in rewards has been paid for tips that yielded arrests.
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Analysts' ratings shift in favor of Democrats in Pennsylvania Senate race, GOP in Oregon gubernatorial race
Pennsylvania's race could decide which party controls the Senate; Republicans haven't won Oregon's highest office since the 1980s
A wave of updated analyst race ratings were released Thursday, with a number of key races seeing shifts that could have significant implications for both parties following the November midterm elections.
According to Cook Political Report, the Pennsylvania Senate race between Republican nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz and Democratic nominee Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has been moved from "toss-up" to "lean Democratic," news that could further complicate Republican hopes of achieving a majority in the Senate.
Additionally, the University of Virginia Center for Politics has moved the Oregon gubernatorial race between Republican nominee Christine Drazan and Democratic nominee Tina Kotek to "toss-up" from "lean Democratic," providing hope to Republicans that they could win the state's highest office for the first time since 1982.
A number of other races also saw shifts, with Cook Political Report moving the Colorado Senate race from "likely Democratic" to "lean Democratic" and the Utah Senate race from "solid Republican" to "likely Republican."
The gubernatorial races in New York and Maryland also saw a shift in ratings by the University of Virginia Center for Politics, with each moving from "likely Democratic" to "safe Democratic."
Fox News Digital spoke with Drazan's campaign in Oregon to get reaction about the shift in her favor and received an exclusive statement predicting that the ratings meant her campaign would make history in a state long run by Democrats.
NEWT GINGRICH: JOHN FETTERMAN WILL PERFORM ‘FAR WORSE’ THAN OTHER DEMOCRATS
"This race is the best opportunity for Oregon Republicans in nearly four decades. With increasing violent crime, massive homelessness, failing schools and a growing affordability crisis, Oregon needs new leadership to solve these challenges, and Christine Drazan is ready to deliver," said campaign communications director John Burke.
"The eyes of the nation will be on Oregon this November. Christine is going to make history and lead Oregon in a new direction."
Fox News Digital also spoke to Oz's campaign, which dismissed the ratings shift and instead predicted he would win because his message aligned with voters across the political spectrum.
"Dr. Mehmet Oz is relentless in campaigning across the commonwealth, listening and sharing concerns of the people he meets and showing up for Pennsylvanians while Fetterman won't even agree to a single debate," campaign communications director Brittany Yanick said.
"Dr. Oz is focused on reducing the record levels of crime and combating rising inflation, while Fetterman wants to raise taxes and release one-third of prisoners in Pennsylvania. Dr. Oz will win because his policies and message align with Republicans, independents and many conservative Democrats."
Fox News Digital reached out to Fetterman's campaign but did not receive a response.
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The Senate is split evenly between Democrats and Republicans at 50-50, and analysts are predicting control following the elections will either be a toss-up or slightly in Democrats' favor. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/analysts-ratings-shift-democrats-pennsylvania-senate-race-republicans-oregon-gubernatorial | 2022-08-18T21:10:50Z | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/analysts-ratings-shift-democrats-pennsylvania-senate-race-republicans-oregon-gubernatorial | false |
NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Committee for Economic Development, the public policy center of The Conference Board (CED), issued the following statement in response to the announcement by Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), that the CDC will be undertaking major reforms:
The Committee for Economic Development, the public policy center of The Conference Board (CED), welcomes the announcement from the CDC's Director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, regarding the reorganization of the agency to prioritize public health needs, address continuing outbreaks, and restructure CDC communications to make guidance for the public clearer and easier to access. We share Dr. Walensky's goal of "a new, public health, action-oriented culture at the CDC that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, communication and timeliness." These and other reforms will help the agency respond much faster to public health emergencies, including the current monkeypox outbreak.
Many of the proposed reforms align with CED recommendations in its Solutions Brief, Preparing for the Next Health Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic:
- Significantly reforming the CDC to find better ways to implement scientific guidance in real-world contexts;
- Reducing the number and complexity of guidance documents (CDC released over 7,000 guidance documents in the pandemic);
- Clearly presenting public health data to reduce public confusion and skepticism and avoid the "start-stop" nature of changes in guidance that characterized this pandemic;
- Implementing reform to enable the release of data as fast as possible to encourage timeliness in public health responses;
- Establishing new authority to require reporting of data from all states. Additionally, building a "national network of precise, uniform, accurate data" from all states with uniform reporting standards to enable the fastest possible analysis and release of data.
Looking forward, the CDC should also consult more closely with business through an advisory committee to minimize disruptions to the economy during public health emergencies and plan for the future.
About CED
The Committee for Economic Development (CED) is the public policy center of The Conference Board. The nonprofit, nonpartisan, business-led organization delivers well-researched analysis and reasoned solutions in the nation's interest. CED Trustees are chief executive officers and key executives of leading US companies who bring their unique experience to address today's pressing policy issues. Collectively they represent 30+ industries, over a trillion dollars in revenue, and over 4 million employees. www.ced.org
About The Conference Board
The Conference Board is the member-driven think tank that delivers trusted insights for what's ahead. Founded in 1916, we are a non-partisan, not-for-profit entity holding 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt status in the United States.
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Yellowstone National Park employee finds foot floating in hot spring
The foot was found in the Abyss Pool in the southern part of Yellowstone National Park
A Yellowstone National Park employee found part of a foot still in a shoe floating in a hot spring on Thursday, according to park officials.
The body part was found in the Abyss Pool, a hot spring at the West Thumb Geyser Basin in the southern part of the park, which is about 53 feet deep and reaches 140 degrees.
The area was temporarily closed to the public on Thursday but has since been reopened.
NATURE'S FORCES ON DISPLAY IN YELLOWSTONE FLOOD
Park officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday about whether any foul play was suspected.
Hot springs can be found throughout Yellowstone. They're formed by precipitation that seeps into the ground and becomes superheated to temperatures exceeding 400 degrees.
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The superheated water rises to the surface, while colder and heavier water sinks around it, creating a natural "plumbing" system, according to the park.
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Amazon offers discounts on popular kids tech
Shopping for back-to-school items can put a strain on your budget. Especially this year, with all the shortages and inflation that we’ve been experiencing. Thankfully, Amazon has dropped a surprise sale of educational tech for kids that provides financial relief just when you need it the most. For instance, right now, you can get the Fire HD 8 Kids tablet or the Fire HD 8 Kids Pro tablet for half price.
In this article: Amazon Glow with Tangram Bits, Fire 7 Kids Tablet and Echo Dot (4th Generation) Kids
How deep do the discounts go?
This Amazon summer sale gives you a chance to purchase several items at discounts that are as deep as a Prime Day event. You can get popular products, such as Fire tablets, Echo devices and more on sale from 30% off to an unbeatable 50% off.
Which kids tech is currently on sale at Amazon?
Amazon Glow is an incredible, interactive product that was specifically designed to bring remote families closer together. The video call and play system lets adults and kids play board games together when they aren’t in the same location. Parents play on their phones or tablets while kids play on a 19-inch projected touchscreen during a video call. Normally, this bundle costs $329.98, but right now, you can get it for just $199.99.
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The Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet is the largest kids’ tablet. It has a 10.1-inch screen and is for kids ages 6 to 12. Purchase includes a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids Plus and a two-year worry-free guarantee — if it breaks, simply return it for a free replacement. Normally, this model costs $199.99, but right now, you can get it for just $139.99.
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Amazon’s Fire HD 10 Kids tablet is also a 10.1-inch model, only this one is suitable for kids ages 3 to 7. It has 32 gigabytes of storage and is available in aquamarine, lavender or sky blue. The tablet features dual cameras, a 1080p Full HD display, and a USB-C (2.0) port. Normally, this model costs $199.99, but right now, you can get it for just $139.99.
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The Fire HD 8 Kids Pro tablet is an 8-inch tablet that was released in 2021. It comes with a quad-core processor, 2GB RAM and 32GB of storage that is expandable up to 1 terabyte. This model is for kids ages 6 to 12 and is currently available for 50% off.
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Amazon’s Fire HD 8 Kids tablet is an 8-inch tablet that is designed for kids ages 3 to 7. It comes with a kid-proof case with a built-in stand that has a two-year worry-free guarantee. This model is currently available for 50% off.
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The Fire 7 Kids tablet is Amazon’s newest offering for kids ages 3 to 7. It was just released at the beginning of summer and offers up to 10 hours of battery life with a quad-core processor that is up to 30% faster than the previous generation. It has a 7-inch display and comes with a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids Plus. Normally, this model costs $109.99, but right now, you can get it for just $69.99.
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Amazon’s Kindle Kids is not a toy. It is a purpose-built, black-and-white reading device with a glare-free screen. It can deliver weeks of use per charge and has no games, videos or ads. It is a distraction-free device that encourages reading. This model is currently available for 45% off.
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Echo Dot (4th Generation) Kids
Echo Dot Kids is Amazon’s most popular smart speaker for kids. It delivers a robust sound, allows you to set daily time limits and filter explicit songs. This model is currently available for 42% off.
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The Echo Glow is a smart lamp designed for kids. It does not contain microphones or speakers and must be paired with an Alexa-enabled device for voice control functionality. It features a struggle-free setup and has a rainbow timer that gives kids a visual reminder to help establish routines. Normally, this model costs $29.99, but right now, you can get it for just $19.99.
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Hyde will lead ERIE's diversity, equity and inclusion team, bringing experience from Koppers, Inc., where he led global inclusion and diversity initiatives
ERIE, Pa., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Erie Insurance (ERIE) has named Lance Hyde to the role of Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), effective August 22. Hyde will report to ERIE's Chief Diversity and Community Development Officer Chris Marsh in the position and lead the company's DEI team and related enterprise initiatives.
Hyde brings more than 15 years of experience in diversity and inclusion practices, including significant supplier diversity and sustainability expertise, to the leadership role at ERIE. He joins the company after serving as Director of Global Inclusion and Diversity at Pittsburgh-based Koppers International.
"I am excited to welcome Lance to the ERIE Family and the Erie community," said Marsh. "With his demonstrated collaborative work style and results-driven approach, I'm confident Lance is well-equipped to help lead ERIE through our next evolution of DEI."
At Koppers, Hyde helped develop the company's global inclusion and diversity strategy while partnering with business unit leaders to create a robust supplier diversity program. Prior to joining Koppers, Hyde served in various leadership positions at EQT Corporation, including diversity manager and director of supplier diversity. While at EQT, he managed all D&I functions, including building HR diversity responsibilities, expanding and supporting Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and serving on the EQT Foundation. He worked closely with human resources to create and implement a successful "D&I Recruit and Retain" strategy and participated in global industry conferences to attract diverse talent to the industry and company.
Recognized nationally for his DEI thought leadership and supplier diversity expertise, Hyde has participated in more than 50 panel discussions on a variety of topics throughout his career and has been featured in national and regional media.
Hyde earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from California State University, East Bay in Hayward, Calif. and a master's in Business Administration from Waynesburg University in Waynesburg, Pa. He received the Timothy and Caroline Thyreen Service Leadership Award from Waynesburg University in 2021 and the Supplier Diversity Professional of the Year Award from the National Minority Supplier Development Council in 2019 for his accomplishments in supplier diversity initiatives with EQT.
According to A.M. Best Company, Erie Insurance Group, based in Erie, Pennsylvania, is the 11th largest homeowners insurer, 13th largest automobile insurer and 13th largest commercial lines insurer in the United States based on direct premiums written. Founded in 1925, Erie Insurance is a Fortune 500 company and the 19th largest property/casualty insurer in the United States based on total lines net premium written. Rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best, ERIE has more than 6 million policies in force and operates in 12 states and the District of Columbia. News releases and more information are available on ERIE's website at www.erieinsurance.com.
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CLEVELAND, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) today announced plans to host conference calls to review quarterly financial results on the following dates:
- Fourth quarter 2022 – Thursday, January 19th at 10:00am ET
- First quarter 2023 – Thursday, April 20th at 10:00am ET
- Second quarter 2023 – Thursday, July 20th at 10:00am ET
- Third quarter 2023 – Thursday, October 19th at 10:00am ET
The financial results are scheduled to be released before the market opens on the dates noted above, and the live audio webcast of the conference call and presentation materials will be available at www.key.com/ir. Dial-in information will be provided at a later date. If you are unable to join any of the live conference calls, or wish to hear a re-broadcast, access www.key.com/ir and select Quarterly Earnings Results.
For more information contact:
Investor Relations: Vernon Patterson, 216.689.0520, vernon_patterson@keybank.com
Investor Relations: Melanie Kaiser, 216.689.4545, melanie_s_kaiser@keybank.com
Media: Susan Donlan, 216.471.3133, susan_e_donlan@keybank.com
KeyCorp's roots trace nearly 200 years to Albany, New York. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Key is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $187.0 billion at June 30, 2022. Key provides deposit, lending, cash management, and investment services to individuals and businesses in 15 states under the name KeyBank National Association through a network of approximately 1,000 branches and approximately 1,300 ATMs. Key also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications, and derivatives to middle market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name. For more information, visit https://www.key.com. KeyBank is Member FDIC.
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“This is what a volcano eruption looks like from space,” wrote marketer Vala Afshar in a tweet liked 370,000 times. His Aug. 16 tweet was referring to a six-second video viewed at least 13 million times on Twitter alone.
The video shows a volcano on a peninsula with the curvature of the Earth visible in the background. It’s emitting a moving smoke plume. There is a shadow visible beneath half of the smoke plume, and the clouds visible in the video do not move.
Many of the replies to the tweet questioned if the video was fake. Some said the video must have been made with computer-generated graphics, while others posted what they claimed to be real videos of volcanic eruptions seen from space.
THE QUESTION
Is this a real video of a volcanic eruption as seen from space?
THE SOURCES
- NASA
- Ed Venzke, a volcano data researcher at the Global Volcanism Program
- Steven Sobieszczyk, a spokesperson for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and a hydrologist who has also worked for NASA
- National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
THE ANSWER
No, this is not a real video of a volcanic eruption as seen from space. It’s an animation someone created using a NASA photograph.
WHAT WE FOUND
The viral video is an animation placed over a real photo of an erupting volcano that was taken by an astronaut. The video’s creator animated the volcano’s smoke plume, but left everything else in the photo as is. There is no evidence the video was created by NASA or any other space agency.
“The original photo is so spectacular that it seems ridiculous to make a weird video animation,” said Ed Venzke, a volcano data researcher at the Global Volcanism Program.
The original photo can be found on NASA’s Video and Image Library, NASA’s Johnson Space Center Flickr account and in a NASA Earth Observatory article.
“I checked with our volcano observatory and they confirmed. That is not a live video,” said Steven Sobieszczyk, a spokesperson for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and a hydrologist who has also worked for NASA. “I've done my share of illustration work and that is a visualization using an ‘animate your photograph’ app or software.”
According to NASA, the original photo is of the Kliuchevskoi volcano in Russia’s Far East and was taken in 1994 by an astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The photograph was taken about 132 miles above Earth’s surface.
Venzke said that big volcano plumes can look like they do in the animation when there is a hard wind that blows the smoke horizontally, instead of straight up. But the way the animation depicts the smoke plume has a few inaccuracies.
“Even if that was a real video, I would have said it looks accelerated,” Venzke said, referring to the speed at which the smoke plume in the video moves. Not only is the plume moving too fast, it’s also far too consistent.
Venzke explained that there would need to be big, pulsating explosions — what he called “pulses” — to keep feeding the plume so it continues to rise up from the volcano. He said that evidence of older “pulses” are visible along the far end of the plume, but said they aren’t regular enough, nor are they actively repeating during the animation.
It’s easier to see what Venzke means with a visual. In April 2021, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites captured imagery of a Caribbean volcano’s eruption. The smoke plume in that eruption is blown in one direction by the wind, just like the eruption in the animation, but the plume is fed by several “pulses” from the volcano just as Venzke described. This is easiest to see in the infrared view that begins 36 seconds into the video.
Sobieszczyk echoed Venzke’s belief that the smoke plume moves far too fast than any real smoke plume could.
“For the eruption cloud to move that fast in an actual video, it would have to travel faster than the spacecraft,” Sobieszczyk said. He noted that the Space Shuttle Endeavour traveled at over 17,000 mph, whereas when ash reaches the atmosphere, it must travel on atmospheric currents that reach maximum speeds of 275 mph.
There are a few other ways to tell the video is an edit of a photo that don’t require much knowledge of volcanoes to identify. The clouds and shadows are totally stationary in the video, as is the camera. But in real video footage recorded from space, a shuttle would either continue to fly higher above the Earth, or it would be orbiting around Earth, so it would be impossible for these parts of the video to appear perfectly still.
Venzke noted that most “video” of eruptions recorded from space are actually just animated GIFs composed of photo image sequences. Satellite cameras typically take photographs, and astronauts rarely get such perfect opportunities to record volcanic eruptions with their personal cameras.
One example of a satellite “video” of a volcano eruption is of the January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, which experts say is one of the largest eruptions ever captured from space. The satellite video of the eruption is actually a timelapse of photos, and satellite radar shows how the plume quickly dissipated without further eruptions to fuel the plume.
“Honestly, my main problem with this is that it doesn’t have the volcano name or date shown on the video, which means that it will get re-used by others purporting to show some other eruption,” Venzke said. “Accurately showing real activity is important for hazard awareness and mitigation, so seeing things like this attributed to some other volcano can be harmful misinformation.”
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 18, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
251 PM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Liberty
County through 315 PM CDT...
At 250 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Hardin, or 13 miles southwest of Thicket, moving southeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Northeastern Liberty, Hardin and Moss Hill.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3014 9461 3009 9476 3027 9483 3030 9473
3020 9463
TIME...MOT...LOC 1950Z 329DEG 7KT 3024 9476
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL FURTHER
NOTICE...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and moderate flooding is
forecast.
* WHERE...Rio Grande below Presidio 5SE.
* WHEN...From this afternoon until further notice.
* IMPACTS...At 9.0 feet (2.7 meters), the river reaches minor flood
stage, and low lying areas begin to flood.
At 11.0 feet (3.4 meters), minor flooding continues along the
river. Irrigation pumps may need to be removed. No threats to
residences or other structures are known to occur.
At 13.0 feet (4.0 meters), the river reaches moderate flood
stage. Farmland near the river will be inundated. Water may
begin flooding low lying areas of FM 170.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 2:15 PM CDT Thursday the stage was 12.5 feet (3.8 meters).
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 2:15 PM CDT Thursday was 12.5 feet (3.8 meters).
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 13.3
feet (4.1 meters) late this afternoon. It will then fall
below flood stage tomorrow morning.
- Flood stage is 9.0 feet (2.7 meters).
- Flood History...No available flood history.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (feet):
Fld Observed Thu Fri Fri Fri
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 7pm 1am 7am 1pm
Rio Grande
Presidio 5SE 9.0 12.5 Thu 2pm 13.1 10.9 8.6 6.6
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (meters):
Presidio 5SE 2.7 3.8 Thu 2pm 4.0 3.3 2.6 2.0
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DUBLIN, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT) on Thursday, August 18, 2022, approved the fiscal year 2023 second quarter cash dividend of $0.68 per ordinary share, representing an 8% increase over the prior year. This quarterly declaration is consistent with the dividend announcement made by the company in May 2022. Medtronic is a constituent of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index, having increased its annual dividend payment for the past 45 consecutive years. The dividend is payable on October 14, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 23, 2022.
About Medtronic
Bold thinking. Bolder actions. We are Medtronic. Medtronic plc, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is the leading global healthcare technology company that boldly attacks the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people across 150 countries. Our technologies and therapies treat 70 health conditions and include cardiac devices, surgical robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems, and more. Powered by our diverse knowledge, insatiable curiosity, and desire to help all those who need it, we deliver innovative technologies that transform the lives of two people every second, every hour, every day. Expect more from us as we empower insight-driven care, experiences that put people first, and better outcomes for our world. In everything we do, we are engineering the extraordinary. For more information on Medtronic (NYSE:MDT), visit www.Medtronic.com and follow @Medtronic on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Any forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties such as those described in Medtronic's periodic reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The Commission to Study Reform of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, which was enacted as part of the 2023 New York State budget, will begin meeting in the coming months. The state’s liquor laws are almost 90 years old and the commission was made for modernization.
Through a majority vote of its 21 members, the delegation will recommend changes to the liquor laws. Any motion that receives a majority vote will be included in the end report as a sanction of the commission and will then be reviewed for possible legislative action.
The Chairman of the State Liquor Authority, Vincent Bradley, will direct the commission, which includes representatives from the Department of Taxation and Finance, the Empire State Development, Division of the Budget and the New York State Police. Ten members will be appointed by Governor Kathy Hochul, two each by the Senate Majority Leader and the Speaker of the Assembly, and one member each by the Senate Minority Leader and the Assembly Minority Leader.
The report on the new alcohol reforms is due on May 1, 2023. The committee will be covering the following topics:
- Impact of the alcohol industry on the state
- Development in the law and SLA resources to speed license application processing
- Business reform and modernization proposals as voted on by industry stakeholders
Here are the individuals that have been appointed by state officials for the CSRABCL:
- Courtney J. Armour, Chief Legal Officer for the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, Inc.
- Michael A. Correra, a third-generation liquor store owner of Michael-Towne Wines & Spirits in Brooklyn Heights
- Keven Danow, an attorney and founding member of Danow, McMullan & Panoff, P.C.
- Sonya del Peral, Proprietor and General Manager at Nine Pin Ciderworks in Albany
- Melissa Fleischut, the President and CEO of the New York State Restaurant Association
- Jeffrey Garcia, a retired NYPD 1st Grade Detective
- Stephen Hanson, a NYC hospitality veteran and founder of BR Guest Hospitality
- Mark A. Koslowe, Managing Partner of Buchman Law Firm, LLP
- Kimberly Wagner, producer of award-winning wines and spirits as the founder and owner of Stoutridge Vineyard
- Paul Vuber, Executive Vice President of The Business Council
- Evan Gallo, the Chief of Investigations & Counsel in the Office of New York State Senator James Skoufis
- Jeff Zacharia, a fourth-generation fine wine maker
- Steve Harris, President of Cordo & Company
- Andrew Rigie, the Executive Director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance
- Edward Cooper of Total Wine & More
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Stone, Deaconess Margaret Beatrice, services are 11 a.m. Friday at Second Missionary Baptist Church Sanctuary.
Brown, Jane, services are noon Friday at Shirley & Stout Funeral Home & Crematory, 1315 W. Lincoln Road, Kokomo.
Vavricka, Michael David, Mass of Christian burial will take place at 1 p.m. Friday at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 1204 N. Armstrong St., Kokomo.
Hosier, Larry Joseph, services are 2 p.m. Friday at College Corner Brethren Church, 8996 S. 500 West, Wabash.
Smith Sr., Brian K. “Heavy,” services are noon Saturday at Nazarene Church, 2734 S. Washington St., Kokomo.
Ryder, Joyce Margaretine, services are at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mount Hermon Missionary Baptist Church, 451 W. Second St., Peru.
Bandelier, Norma White, services are 1 p.m. Saturday at Judson Road Baptist Church, 1995 N. 750 West, Kokomo.
Alexander, Gregg, celebration of life is 3 p.m. Monday at Rock Prairie Church, Tipton.
Sullivan, Elliot Donald, services are 11 a.m. Tuesday at Crossroads Community Church, 4254 S. 00 East West, Kokomo.
Sedan, Dorothy Mae, services are 1 p.m. Wednesday at Ellers Mortuary, 3400 S. Webster St., Kokomo.
Munro, Kenneth, services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Shiloh United Methodist Church in Kokomo.
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(NEXSTAR) – One of the world’s largest known moths has been reported for the first time in the United States, and experts are now asking residents to report any other sightings of the insect.
Entomologists in Washington state confirmed the discovery of an atlas moth in Bellevue, located west of Seattle, earlier this month. The Washington State Department of Agriculture said the moth, found on the side of a garage, was reported by a University of Washington professor in early July.
After confirming the species with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, experts now believe this is the first time the moth has been detected in the U.S.
The atlas moth is a native of Asia, primarily from India to the Philippines and south to Indonesia, according to the California Academy of Sciences. Its wingspan of 10 inches is second only to the white witch moth of Central and South America, which has a wingspan of 14 inches.
Its wings are also mesmerizing to some and serve as protection from birds looking for a snack. When open, the atlas moth’s wings may appear to instead be two cobra heads, deterring predators.
Despite its size, the atlas moth doesn’t live long. As London’s Natural History Museum explains, the moth’s proboscis – what butterflies and moths use to drink nectar – is very small and unusable. Because it has no way to eat, the moth typically lives only one to two weeks.
The moth gains much of its sustenance as a caterpillar. During this phase, they will eat leaves of cinnamon, citrus fruit, guava, and Jamaican cherry trees. Moth caterpillars produce silk, and the cocoons they leave behind are sometimes used as purses, according to the Museum.
The atlas moth is a federally quarantined pest in the U.S., according to Washington State officials. This means it is illegal to have or sell live atlas moths, regardless of their stage in life, without a permit from the USDA.
This is the only atlas moth reported in Washington so far, meaning there is no evidence a population has been established in the state. Without a known way to trap the moth, officials are now relying on reports from the public to determine if there are more in the state.
Officials haven’t explained how the moth may have found its way to the U.S.
Because it is a tropical species, Sven Spichiger, managing entomologist for the state’s Department of Agriculture, says its unclear whether the atlas moth could even survive the conditions of the Pacific Northwest.
“USDA is gathering available scientific and technical information about this moth and will provide response recommendations, but in the meantime, we hope residents will help us learn if this was a one-off escapee or whether there might indeed be a population in the area,” Spichiger said in a statement.
If you spot this mesmerizing moth, you are encouraged to take a photo of it, note where you spotted it, and notify your state or local agriculture department.
This rare sighting comes as officials on the other side of the country are warning residents to kill a stunning but invasive bug that could drastically impact certain trees and even grape and wine industries.
Measuring about one inch in size, the spotted lanternfly, with its spots and pair of bright red wings, was first detected in the U.S. in 2014. It has since spread to 11 states, primarily across the Northeast. The spotted lanternfly is a native of China and feasts off of fruit, ornamental, and woody trees, especially the tree of heaven, a fellow invasive species native to China, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
If allowed to spread, experts say the spotted lanternfly “could seriously impact the country’s grape, orchard, and logging industries.”
The Department of Agriculture considers most states at risk of being impacted by the spotted lanternfly. Using the department’s Pest Tracker, you can determine if your state could be a suitable home for the invasive bug, as well as 20 other “targeted Hungry Pests.” | https://www.klfy.com/national/one-of-the-worlds-largest-moths-has-been-spotted-in-the-us-for-the-first-time/ | 2022-08-18T21:19:55Z | https://www.klfy.com/national/one-of-the-worlds-largest-moths-has-been-spotted-in-the-us-for-the-first-time/ | false |
Kansas City mother faces felony charges after her 3-year-old is found dead
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — A 36-year-old Kansas City woman is facing felony charges after one of her children was found lifeless in her residence.
Michaela Chism faces two first-degree charges of endangering the welfare of a child.
According to court records filed Thursday, Kansas City, Missouri, police responded to the 6500 block of Paseo Blvd. on reports that a child had died in the home.
The prosecutor’s office says police entered the residence to check on the child’s welfare. Once inside, they found a deceased three-year-old and another child who officers said was unharmed.
Officers also found what appeared to be drugs and drug paraphernalia in the home. After their initial search, Chism was then taken into custody.
Charging documents indicate the condition that the deceased child was found in.
“A notable defect was present on the right side of the child’s back, and a raised, discolored scab on top of the defect gave the indication of infection,” The charging documents read.
The report in the charging documents also indicates that the other child in the home was transported to Children’s Mercy Hospital, where lab analysis indicated the presence of amphetamines in his system.
One unnamed source that police interviewed said that Chism and her husband frequently consumed methamphetamine and heroin.
Police say Chism indicated to them that she noticed the 3-year-old had died at least the evening before police arrived. She told officers that the child died on the couch and was moved to the bedroom sometime after police arrived for the initial welfare check at the residence.
The investigation into the child’s death continues, and additional charges are possible.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced that an investigation was still underway through a press release on Thursday.
Chism has not yet been found or pleaded guilty to the crimes she has been charged with.
Prosecutors requested a $150,000 cash bond.
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CLEVELAND, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) today announced plans to host conference calls to review quarterly financial results on the following dates:
- Fourth quarter 2022 – Thursday, January 19th at 10:00am ET
- First quarter 2023 – Thursday, April 20th at 10:00am ET
- Second quarter 2023 – Thursday, July 20th at 10:00am ET
- Third quarter 2023 – Thursday, October 19th at 10:00am ET
The financial results are scheduled to be released before the market opens on the dates noted above, and the live audio webcast of the conference call and presentation materials will be available at www.key.com/ir. Dial-in information will be provided at a later date. If you are unable to join any of the live conference calls, or wish to hear a re-broadcast, access www.key.com/ir and select Quarterly Earnings Results.
For more information contact:
Investor Relations: Vernon Patterson, 216.689.0520, vernon_patterson@keybank.com
Investor Relations: Melanie Kaiser, 216.689.4545, melanie_s_kaiser@keybank.com
Media: Susan Donlan, 216.471.3133, susan_e_donlan@keybank.com
KeyCorp's roots trace nearly 200 years to Albany, New York. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Key is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $187.0 billion at June 30, 2022. Key provides deposit, lending, cash management, and investment services to individuals and businesses in 15 states under the name KeyBank National Association through a network of approximately 1,000 branches and approximately 1,300 ATMs. Key also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications, and derivatives to middle market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name. For more information, visit https://www.key.com. KeyBank is Member FDIC.
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Underwater snow reveals new clues about Europa as ocean world missions draw closer
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is an ocean world encased beneath a thick crust of ice — a place where snow floats upward.
The underwater snow forms in the global ocean and travels up though the water to attach to submerged ravines and inverted ice peaks, according to new research. This same phenomenon takes place below ice shelves on Earth — and it may be how Europa builds its ice shell.
The finding, published Monday in the journal Astrobiology, suggested Europa’s ice shell may not be as salty as scientists first thought. Understanding the salt content of the ice crust is crucial as engineers work on assembling NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, which is preparing to launch to Europa in October 2024.
Europa Clipper will use ice-penetrating radar to look beneath the shell and determine if the moon’s ocean is potentially habitable for life. Any salt within the ice shell could impact how deep the radar can penetrate through it, so predictions about the shell’s composition are key.
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Clues about the ice shell could also help scientists determine more about Europa’s ocean, its salinity and its potential to harbor life.
Europa’s ice shell is between 10 and 15.5 miles (15 and 25 kilometers) thick, and it likely sits on top of an ocean that’s estimated to be 40 to 90 miles (60 to 150 kilometers) deep.
“When we’re exploring Europa, we’re interested in the salinity and composition of the ocean, because that’s one of the things that will govern its potential habitability or even the type of life that might live there,” said lead study author Natalie Wolfenbarger, a doctoral student researcher at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics in the UT Jackson School of Geosciences, in a statement.
Wolfenbarger is also a graduate student affiliate member of the Europa Clipper science team. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are developing the spacecraft’s ice penetrating radar.
Europa’s ocean nearest to its shell has a temperature, pressure and salinity similar to the water beneath ice shelves in Antarctica, previous research has suggested.
The researchers studied the two methods of water freezing beneath ice shelves on Earth: congelation ice and frazil ice.
What’s the difference? Congelation ice actually grows from beneath the ice shelf, while frazil ice drifts up through superchilled seawater in flakes before settling beneath the ice shelf.
Both of these types result in ice that has less salinity than seawater — and according to the researchers’ projections, seawater was even less salty when they applied this data to the age and scale of Europa’s ice shell.
Frazil ice may be the most common type on Europa, which would make the ice shell much more pure than previously believed. Frazil ice only preserves a tiny fraction of the salt that exists in seawater. The purity of the ice shell can impact its strength, ice tectonics and how heat flows through the shell.
“We can use Earth to evaluate Europa’s habitability, measure the exchange of impurities between the ice and ocean, and figure out where water is in the ice,” said study coauthor Donald Blankenship, a senior research scientist at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, in a statement. He is the principal investigator for Europa Clipper’s ice penetrating radar instrument.
The finding may suggest that Earth can be used as a model to better understand Europa’s habitability.
“This paper is opening up a whole new batch of possibilities for thinking about ocean worlds and how they work,” said Steve Vance, a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in a statement. “It sets the stage for how we might prepare for Europa Clipper’s analysis of the ice.” Vance was not involved in the study.
Meanwhile, work is underway on the core of the Europa Clipper spacecraft at the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The core, which stands 10 feet (3 meters) tall and 5 feet (1.5 meters) wide, has taken center stage in the clean room, where NASA teams have assembled spacecraft like Galileo, Cassini and the Mars rovers.
The flight hardware and science instruments will be installed on the spacecraft by the end of the year. Then, engineers will put the spacecraft through a series of tests during the lead-up to launch.
Europa Clipper will arrive at the Jovian moon in April 2030. Across nearly 50 planned flybys of Europa, the spacecraft will eventually transition from an altitude of 1,700 miles (2,735 kilometers) to just 16 miles (25 kilometers) above the moon’s surface.
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Alyssa Rosenberg’s Aug. 16 op-ed, “Putting parents first could be the secret to a successful return to office,” showed encouraging signs that employers are adapting, in this case by investing in on-site child care to lure working parents back to the office and facilitate employee retention.
Women and people of color — who are disproportionately represented among service workers — are disparately affected. Workforce shortages are directly related to unsustainable working conditions. The harsh personal and economic tolls of the pandemic on women and families underscore the urgent need for universal child care and paid leave so working families can thrive. As we reenvision the future of work, centering equity and respect for workers will improve workforce reliability.
Josephine Kalipeni, Champaign, Ill.
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MIAMI, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL) (the "Company") today announced that it has closed its private offering of $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 11.625% senior unsecured notes due 2027 (the "Notes"). The Notes will mature on August 15, 2027 unless earlier redeemed or repurchased.
The Notes will be issued under an Indenture, dated as of August 18, 2022, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee, principal paying agent, transfer agent and registrar.
The Company expects to use the net proceeds from the offering of the Notes to repay principal payments on debt maturing in 2022 and/or 2023 (including to pay fees and expenses in connection with such repayments). Pending such uses, the Company may temporarily apply the proceeds to repay borrowings under its revolving credit facilities or other borrowings.
Nothing contained herein shall constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security. The Notes are being offered only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and outside the United States, only to certain non-U.S. investors pursuant to Regulation S. The Notes will not be registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state laws.
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Berlin Biennale Responds as Artists Pull Work over Images of Abu Ghraib Torture
After several Iraqi artists removed their work from the 12th Berlin Biennale in protest of the exhibition’s display of works featuring images of torture taking place at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, the Biennale’s curator, Kader Attia, and his team today issued a statement on the matter. “We believe in dialogue and value the relationships we have with all artists taking part in the Berlin Biennale very much,” wrote the group. “We are still interested in working through the controversy and will remain open to a dialogue. We think the issues at stake are highly important and would therefore like to invite the parties involved to speak about them in a public discussion.”
Sajjad Abbas, Layth Kareem, and Rayad Mutar on August 16 asked that their work be removed from the Biennale following the July 29 publication in Artforum online of a letter written by curator and artist Rijin Sahakian and cosigned by more than four hundred artists, among them the three Biennale participants who ultimately pulled their work. Abbas, Kareem, Mutar, and Sahakian, supported by their peers, took issue with the placement of their work in proximity with Jean-Jacques Lebel’s 2013 Poison soluble. Scènes de l’occupation américaine à Bagdad (Soluble Poison. Scenes from the American Occupation in Baghdad), which comprises life-size images of Iraqi prisoners who were tortured and murdered by American troops at Abu Ghraib in the wake of the US-led occupation of Iraq. Though the work is accompanied by a trigger warning, visitors had to navigate it to see work by the Iraqi artists.
“This edition of the Biennale is said to be centered on decolonial engagement, to offer ‘repair… as a form of agency’ and ‘a starting point . . for critical conversation, in order to find ways together to care for the now,’” Sahakian wrote, referring to the Biennale’s curatorial statement. “Yet the Biennale made the decision to commodify photos of unlawfully imprisoned and brutalized Iraqi bodies under occupation, displaying them without the consent of the victims and without any input from the Biennale’s participating Iraqi artists, whose work was adjacently installed without their knowledge. Who is given agency in this form of ‘repair’?”
Attia and his team offered a response in Artforum which can be viewed in full immediately underneath Sahakian’s letter, in which he asserted that the Biennale’s curatorial team “deemed it important not to indulge the impulse to turn a blind eye to a very recent imperialist crime—a crime conducted under military occupation that was quickly brushed under the rug with the intention of prompting a swift forgetting,” noting that “this is how imperialism fabricates its impunity.”
The Biennale’s organizers that same day apologized for the placement of the Iraqi artists’ work and admitted that they had dragged their feet on moving the works elsewhere in the exhibition, as they ultimately did the contributions of Abbas and Mutar. Sahakian and the artists called the apology “paternalistic” and insincere, noting, “We have not been moved to accept the instrumentalization of our work and identities as Iraqi.” Abbas, Kareem, and Mutar then demanded the removal of their work from the Biennale altogether.
“We respect the artists’ decision, although we regret it very much,” wrote the Biennale’s organizers today, promising, “More information on this will follow soon.” | https://www.artforum.com/news/berlin-biennale-responds-as-artists-pull-work-over-images-of-abu-ghraib-torture-88900 | 2022-08-18T21:25:14Z | https://www.artforum.com/news/berlin-biennale-responds-as-artists-pull-work-over-images-of-abu-ghraib-torture-88900 | true |
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Three years ago, when Jobana Semones was working at one of Piedmont Advantage Credit Union's (PACU) branches in Winston-Salem, she never thought her idea for the credit union to adopt a mascot would lead her to not only bring her mascot design to life, but also to inspire the credit union's leadership to give her the opportunity to launch a new line of business aimed for children and teens from birth to 17 years old.
Now as a PACU Community Development Executive, Semones recently introduced to the credit union's membership the PACU Youth Program and its mascot, Al Pacu, of the alpaca family.
"Three years ago, with sketches in hand and an idea to pitch, I asked our new President & CEO at the time to consider adopting an alpaca, named Al Pacu, with the persona of an aviator, as our mascot. It never occurred to me these sketches and an idea would lead to our launching a comprehensive youth program with built-in parental involvement and account features of rewards, safeguards and benefits for our youth," Semones said.
"What's remarkable is every detail of this program, including the creation of Al Pacu, is a direct result of the feedback we received from PACU employees and their children," Semones added.
When pronounced, alpaca sounds remarkably similar to the credit union's acronym, PACU (pack-you), and the mascot's combined first and last name, Al Pacu. The reference to an aviator is a tribute to PACU's humble beginnings. In 1949, Piedmont Aviation formed the credit union to help its employees and employees of its subsidiary, Piedmont Airlines, establish savings and secure affordable credit.
"Unlike many other student savings and checking account products, our youth are the primary accountholders with their parents or legal guardians as joint. In their children's early years, parents are provided tools to help them initiate age-appropriate financial habits. By the time their children are 13 years old, a student checking is available, giving their children a new level of responsibility and independence to further their learning of good financial habits and relevant financial knowledge," she said.
The Al Pacu Club Savings account is open to members 17 years old and younger. They are compensated on milestone birthdays and rewarded for their academic achievements. PACU Student Checking is a checking account for members between the ages of 13 and 17. Students have no fees or overdrafts and receive perks, like shopping rewards and roadside assistance service.
"Most youth accounts are set up so that parents run the account. Our accounts are designed with features that are focused on the youth. We provide age-appropriate financial resources and tools that help them initiate and drive their own savings and learn good financial behaviors and independence," said President & CEO Dion Williams.
Williams recalls his meeting with Semones when he first joined the credit union. "We couldn't be more proud of her creativity, vision and collaborative spirit. Our youth members are going to benefit greatly because of her talents to advance the overall development of this one-of-a-kind program," he said.
For details about the PACU Youth Program and Al Pacu, go to PACU.com/Youth.
Headquartered in Winston-Salem and founded in 1949 within the aviation industry, Piedmont Advantage Credit Union (PACU) serves member-owners, who reside, work, worship, attend school or operate a business in one of the six counties it serves in North Carolina or who are employed by one of its many employer companies. These six counties are Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Iredell, Mecklenburg and Rockingham.
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ATLANTA, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Home Depot®, the world's largest home improvement retailer, today announced that its board of directors declared a second quarter cash dividend of $1.90 per share. The dividend is payable on September 15, 2022, to shareholders of record on the close of business on September 1, 2022. This is the 142nd consecutive quarter the company has paid a cash dividend.
The board of directors also authorized a new $15 billion share repurchase program, replacing its previous authorization.
The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer. At the end of the second quarter, the Company operated a total of 2,316 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico. The Company employs approximately 500,000 associates. The Home Depot's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The website for Birmingham’s Civilian Review Board is not currently operational as of Thursday afternoon.
The board, charged with accepting and reviewing grievances against Birmingham police officers, has not responded to media requests about the website’s outage as of this article’s publication.
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin established the Birmingham Civilian Review Board in April 2021 to “improve relationships between the community-at-large and the Birmingham Police Department,” according to the city’s top public official. The executive order creating the board was issued nearly a year after the death of George Floyd spurred protests against police brutality across the nation, including in the Magic City. The move came just a few months ahead of Woodfin’s re-election to a second term.
Since its creation, the board has done little toward serving its stated purpose. Initial reports indicated the board would begin accepting complaints against police officers from citizens in July 2021. The Civilian Review Board’s frequently asked questions’ (FAQ) document, which had previously been available on the entity’s website, stated that complaint processing would begin in October 2021. The city’s Peace and Police website said that “digital complaint forms will be made available shortly on the Office of Peace and Policy’s website, and paper forms will also be available in the Office of Peace of Policy.”
Despite that provided timeline, the board was delayed in accepting such grievances, only providing an avenue to do so after CBS 42’s reported on the delay.
The board’s problems also extend to its membership.
When the board’s creation was first announced in April 2021, a full list of members was also laid out by city officials. A five-member board, the body is required to have in its ranks one former judge or prosecutor, one Birmingham resident, one retired officer, one criminal defense attorney, and one at-large member to serve as chair.
To fill those roles, Woodfin chose former U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Rev. Lawrence Conoway, former Police Chief Annetta Dunn, defense attorney Victor Revill, and activist T. Marie King. However, Vance’s image was later removed from the board’s website, with one position listed as vacant.
Neither Vance or Woodfin’s office responded to questions regarding Vance’s position on the board sent as early as October 2021.
As of publication, the board has not responded to additional questions about the vacancy and about the number of complaints received and reviewed by the entity.
Under the executive order creating the board, Woodfin has the ability to appoint a replacement for Vance to the board at any time.
The form necessary to file a complaint against a Birmingham police officer, which had been available on the CRB website, is below.
Once completed and signed, it can be mailed to the following address. Complaints can also be called in at (205) 254-2118, according to the board, although that number is a general number for various city offices.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s chief financial officer is expected to plead guilty to tax violations Thursday in a deal that would require him to testify about illicit business practices at the former president’s company, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Allen Weisselberg is charged with taking more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation from the Trump Organization over several years, including untaxed perks like rent, car payments and school tuition.
The plea deal would require Weisselberg to speak in court Thursday about the company’s role in the alleged compensation arrangement and possibly serve as a witness when the Trump Organization goes on trial in October on related charges, the people said.
The two people were not authorized to speak publicly about the case and did so on condition of anonymity.
Weisselberg, 75, is likely to receive a sentence of five months in jail, to be served at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island complex, and he could be required to pay about $2 million in restitution, including taxes, penalties and interest, the people said. If that punishment holds, Weisselberg would be eligible for release after about 100 days.
Messages seeking comment were left with the Manhattan district attorney’s office and lawyers for Weisselberg and the Trump Organization.
Weisselberg is the only person to face criminal charges so far in the Manhattan district attorney’s long-running investigation of the company’s business practices.
Seen as one of Trump’s most loyal business associates, Weisselberg was arrested in July 2021. His lawyers have argued the Democrat-led district attorney’s office was punishing him because he wouldn’t offer information that would damage Trump.
The district attorney has also been investigating whether Trump or his company lied to banks or the government about the value of its properties to obtain loans or reduce tax bills.
Former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who started the investigation, last year directed his deputies to present evidence to a grand jury and seek an indictment of Trump, according to former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who previously led the probe.
But after Vance left office, his successor, Alvin Bragg, allowed the grand jury to disband without charges. Both prosecutors are Democrats. Bragg has said the investigation is continuing.
The Trump Organization is not involved in Weisselberg’s expected guilty plea Thursday and is scheduled to be tried in the alleged compensation scheme in October.
Prosecutors alleged that the company gave untaxed fringe benefits to senior executives, including Weisselberg, for 15 years. Weisselberg alone was accused of defrauding the federal government, state and city out of more than $900,000 in unpaid taxes and undeserved tax refunds.
Under state law, punishment for the most serious charge against Weisselberg, grand larceny, could carry a penalty as high as 15 years in prison. But the charge carries no mandatory minimum, and most first-time offenders in tax-related cases never end up behind bars.
The tax fraud charges against the Trump Organization are punishable by a fine of double the amount of unpaid taxes, or $250,000, whichever is larger.
Trump has not been charged in the criminal probe. The Republican has decried the New York investigations as a “political witch hunt,” has said his company’s actions were standard practice in the real estate business and in no way a crime.
Last week, Trump sat for a deposition in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ parallel civil investigation into allegations Trump’s company misled lenders and tax authorities about asset values. Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment protectionagainst self-incrimination more than 400 times.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Chris Young said he knew when joining the Texas Rangers as general manager in 2020 that his partnership with president of baseball operations Jon Daniels might not go beyond this year.
The departure of Daniels was no less emotional for Young, or jarring considering it came just two days after they sat next to each other in a news conference explaining their decision to fire manager Chris Woodward.
With the off-field shakeup of the Rangers apparently complete, Young is left with the task of finding a new manager and charting the direction of the roster with Texas on pace for a sixth consecutive losing season.
“It’s just been kind of recollecting our thoughts, recentering our focus as a group, honoring (Daniels), appropriately celebrating him,” Young said, “but also getting our ducks in a row in terms of the next steps and what we need to finish out this week, this month, this season and prepare to best position ourselves going into this offseason.”
From the time he was hired 20 months ago, Young knew Daniels' contract was up after this season. He refused to question the timing of owner Ray Davis' decision not to renew the contract and part ways with Daniels now.
Young also seemed unconcerned that he wasn't aware of Davis' plan with Daniels until the day the decision was announced.
“It's not my decision. It's for Ray to decide,” Young said. “He had to do what he felt was best for our organization. He's been unbelievably supportive. (Daniels) would say the same. (Daniels) has been nothing but glowing in how he feels about Ray.”
Young knows because he had contact with Daniels several times in the 24 hours after Daniels was let go, including a text with a photo of Daniels in a Rangers visor on his morning run Thursday.
Asked how Daniels was doing, Young cut his answer short in an apparent effort to keep his emotions in check.
“He’s been a tremendous partner, a mentor,” Young said. “There’s been a lot of emotions, tears, a lot. I love him. And that was he was a big part of why I came here. That said, I knew that this moment may come.”
The 6-foot-10 Young is a Dallas native who played played baseball and basketball at Princeton. He pitched in 13 major league seasons with five teams. His big league debut was with the Rangers in 2004, and he won a World Series title with Kansas City in 2015.
Young's search for a manager will include Tony Beasley, Woodward's interim replacement. Beasley was Young's second manager as a pro in the minor leagues, and is the longest-tenured member of the Texas coaching staff in his eighth season.
Now Young knows he won't be sharing that search with Daniels, who had been with the Rangers since 2002 and oversaw a seven-year stretch (2010-16) that included four AL West titles.
“I would say (Daniels) and I divided and conquered, but he exposed me to everything,” Young said. “Negotiated contracts, I’ve made trades, I’ve handled the draft, free agency. I’ve seen the whole cycle two times through now. I'm humble enough to know this is an immense job.”
The task is a bit taller with what is now the longest stretch of losing seasons since the franchise moved to Texas 50 years ago. Young says it's too early to say whether he'll split some of those duties the way Daniels shared them with him.
“That partnership extended beyond just me and (Daniels),” Young said. “We have a tremendous team, we’ve got great people, we’re doing great things and we have a vision and we’re going to continue that vision. So it doesn’t change in terms of losing (Daniels) as one of our partners. It’s an opportunity for all of us to step up and continue to progress and improve.”
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Cal Raleigh homered twice, Eugenio Suárez and Jesse Winker each hit a two-run shot, and the Seattle Mariners overcame Shohei Ohtani’s four-hit performance to complete a three-game sweep of the Los Angeles Angels with an 11-7 victory Wednesday.
Raleigh had the first multi-homer game of his career with a solo shot in the fifth inning and a two-run homer in the ninth for the Mariners, who moved into the top AL wild-card slot while scoring 25 runs in three straight wins at the Big A.
Ohtani hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning after getting an RBI triple and two singles earlier in his latest outstanding day at the plate. The AL MVP’s 27th homer of the season gave him four RBIs in this game and seven hits in the last two — both blowout losses for the Angels.
Carlos Santana had a two-run single during the Mariners’ four-run third inning, and George Kirby (5-3) pitched six-hit ball into the sixth while getting ample run support in his third consecutive victory.
Luis Rengifo added an RBI double before leaving with low back tightness for the Angels, who had won five of six until getting flattened in the path of Seattle’s push toward a playoff spot.
Seattle has the majors’ longest postseason drought at 20 years, while the Angels’ current seven-year drought — tied with Detroit — will become the longest in the sport if the Mariners and Philadelphia stay on track to reach the postseason this October.
Los Angeles got good news before the game when Mike Trout said he plans to return this weekend from a five-week injury absence, but the long-struggling club ended the day by getting swept in a series for the first time since the All-Star break.
After spot starter Touki Toussaint (1-1) opened with two scoreless innings for the Angels, six Mariners reached base against him in the third. Mitch Haniger had an RBI single and J.P. Crawford drew a bases-loaded walk before Santana chased Toussaint.
Suárez hit his 20th homer and Raleigh followed with his 17th against Mike Mayers. Winker added his two-run shot in the sixth.
Rengifo followed Ohtani’s RBI single with a run-scoring double in the fifth. Ohtani then tripled in the seventh and scored on Taylor Ward’s flyout.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: Rengifo didn’t return to the field in the eighth after grounding out in the seventh. He has been the Angels’ best hitter for most of the summer, getting a hit in 41 of his last 47 games. … Trout intends to return to the lineup Friday in Detroit. The three-time AL MVP has missed 30 games since July 12 with an injury to his upper back and ribcage, but he was determined not to have an early end to his second consecutive season after playing in only 36 games last year. The Halos likely will have to release a player to put Trout back on the roster.
UP NEXT
Mariners: After a day off, Marco Gonzales (7-12, 4.18 ERA) takes the mound at Oakland on Friday to open a three-game weekend series.
Angels: After a day off, hard-luck left-hander Patrick Sandoval (3-8, 3.42 ERA) takes the mound at Detroit on Friday to open a 10-game trip.
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Investing in a top-of-the-line robot vacuum or washing machine can make a huge difference in how clean your home looks and feels. However, new appliances can easily set you back hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars. So before you pay full price, make sure to check out the best appliance sales online. Right now, retailers like Samsung, Amazon and Best Buy are offering some great deals on appliances of all sizes to help you get what you need without breaking the bank.
Among the best appliance deals available now, we’ve spotted a the Roomba i3 EVO for almost 30% off, plus a kitchen bundle from Samsung for over $1,900 off—and that’s only the beginning. Below, browse eight appliance sales that’ll help you save big, along with 22 more deals you don’t want to miss.
Retailers With The Best Appliance Sales Happening Now
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- Lowe’s: Browse the Savings section at Lowe’s for discounts on over 1,500 major appliances.
- Bed Bath & Beyond: Filter Bed Bath & Beyond’s appliances section by “sale,” and you’ll find discounts on an assortment of small kitchen appliances.
- The Home Depot: The Home Depot is currently having a sale where you can snag 30% off laundry essentials and up to $750 off other appliances.
- Target: Shop over 1,600 deals on coffee makers, vacuums, mini fridges and other appliances in Target’s sale section. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2022/08/18/best-appliance-sales/ | 2022-08-18T21:29:54Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2022/08/18/best-appliance-sales/ | false |
Wisconsin tight ends Clay Cundiff, Jack Eschenbach are back from injuries and ready to bolster the tight end position
MADISON – About six months after he suffered a gruesome injury to his right leg, tight end Clay Cundiff toed the start line for his first 40-yard dash.
With Shaun Snee, Wisconsin’s director of football strength and conditioning, looking on Cundiff covered the distance in 4.66 seconds.
The importance of the time posted by the 6-foot-3, 236-pound Cundiff in late April?
His previous best was 4.77 seconds.
“The strength coaches were like: ‘Holy (expletive),’” Cundiff explained after practice Thursday. “I was like: ‘Oh my God.’
“It felt good to run that.”
Cundiff missed UW’s final five games last season after suffering a dislocated right ankle, broken fibula and torn ligament in the back of the foot on Oct. 30 against Iowa.
Fellow tight end Jack Eschenbach missed three games after suffering a dislocated right shoulder against Michigan and underwent offseason surgery.
Both players were held out of spring ball while recovering from their surgeries, but both players returned for summer workouts and have been full participants in camp this month.
“There was a little bit of rust the first few days,” Eschenbach said. “But now it feels no different than any other camp. It sucks to sit and watch more than you realize. It showed me not to take a single practice for granted.”
Meanwhile, UW was without two offensive linemen Thursday.
Left tackle Jack Nelson (thumb), who started all 13 games last season at right guard, could return next week.
Riley Mahlman, who is battling with Logan Brown to start at right tackle, filled in for Nelson on the left side Thursday. Brown worked at right tackle on the No. 1 unit.
Reserve center/guard Tanor Bortolini (knee) attended practice Thursday wearing a black sleeve on his right leg. According to a source, the injury suffered Monday is neither season-ending nor significant and Bortolini could return in two to three weeks.
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The return of Eschenbach and Cundiff is vital because UW must replace Jake Ferguson, a fourth-round pick of the Dallas Cowboys.
Ferguson last season led UW in catches (46), was second in receiving yards (450) and tied for the team lead in touchdown catches (three). He started 36 games and played in 47 at UW.
Eschenbach has played in a total of 18 games — four in 2019, six in 2020 and eight last season. The former walk-on, who played wide receiver in high school, has a total of five catches for 59 yards.
Cundiff has played in six games. He made his college debut in 2019 against Central Michigan and played in five games last season after not playing in 2020.
He has a total of three catches for 86 yards, all coming last season.
“I’m anticipating being out there every play, until someone comes in for me,” Cundiff said. “I’m prepared to be a factor in the run game and in the pass game.
“I talked to Graham (Mertz) and said: ‘Hey, you ever need a release valve just throw it up to me. I’m coming down with that thing.’”
Eshenbach, 6-6 and 241, entered camp focused on becoming a more proficient blocker.
“I’ve come a long way with my blocking,” he said. “Like anyone, there’s still a few things to clean up.”
Specifically: pad level, footwork and hand placement.
“The best blockers you see do that every single time,” he said. “I am trying to get to that level.
“I’ve always felt consistent with my routes but not as much with my blocking. That was my biggest goal for this camp: ‘How do I become consistent with my blocking?’
“That will make me the best player.”
Hayden Rucci, who generally plays on the line of scrimmage, Cundiff and Eschenbach appear to be the top three tight ends. Jaylan Franklin and Cole Dakovich will also be in the mix for playing time.
“As a group," Eschenbach said, "we want to be one of most solid groups in the country and contribute as much as we can."
After suffering injuries last season and missing all of spring ball, Cundiff and Eschenbach are back in position to contribute at a critical position.
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How to make the best pizzelle
“Pizzelle” means “round, flat and small,” and pizzelle are traditional Italian cookies that are round and flat like a pizza. They’re made with flour, sugar, butter and eggs, whisked together with flavorings such as anise, lemon, vanilla and cocoa, then baked in a special device.
“Pizzelle” is the plural form of the name; a single cookie is a “pizzella.”
What is a pizzelle maker?
Traditional pizzelle makers were heavy cast-iron skillets used over an open fire. A few aluminum pizzelle makers are still made to be used over a heat source, but modern pizzelle makers are electric and plug into the nearest outlet.
Pizzelle makers have two sides, joined by a hinge at the back. Inside are two removable metal cooking plates that nest inside the lids. The sides are held together by a mechanism that locks the two-part handle.
How does a pizzelle maker work?
You pour the batter into the mold on the base plate, close the lid and wait a few minutes while the batter bakes. When the dough is crisp, remove the pizzelle and add whatever fillings you wish.
How do you use a pizzelle maker?
Prepare
Start by brushing oil or melted butter on the pizzelle maker’s metal cooking plates.
- Handheld: If you’re using a handheld version, set your stove on medium heat and wait until water sizzles when sprinkled on the burner before you start cooking. Without a timer or preset temperature, you’ll have to work out your best cooking times.
- Electric: If you’re using an automated electric pizzelle maker with the cooking time and temperature preset, plug it in, turn it on and wait for the indicator light to tell you it’s ready.
Load
Drop a spoon of batter onto the hot plate, close the lid and your pizzelle are crisp, brown and ready to eat in only a few minutes. Some pizzelle makers take less than two minutes.
Fill
Pizzelle taste even better when filled with something sweet, such as mascarpone, ricotta, custard or fruit fillings.
Dip
Some cooks like to dip their cookies into melted chocolate.
Dust
You can add a fine dusting of powdered sugar to make your crispy dessert even more fun to eat.
How do you get patterns in your pizzelle?
One of the charming things about the world’s oldest cookie is that the plates that press the batter between them have ridged designs that bake right into the cookie. Those designs were originally religious images, family crests and galloping horses, but later became floral patterns, snowflakes and abstract geometric patterns, too.
What you need to buy for making pizzelle
Whiskware Batter Mixer and Dispenser
The clever product takes all the mess out of handling batter for pizzelle, waffles, pancakes and crepes. Add your ingredients, toss in the blender ball and shake. The wide opening makes it easy to add ingredients and the heat-resistant silicone spout won’t melt if it accidentally touches the griddle.
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The cone roller turns pizzelle into waffle cones, curled Norwegian krumkake and more. Use this handy 9-inch tool to roll up your thin cookies while they are still warm and fill them with ice cream, jams, jellies and more.
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The Bakers Dozen Heavy Duty Disposable Pastry Bags
You get a pack of 100 16-inch heavy-duty anti-burst plastic bags for an easy way of adding fillings to your pizzelle-based cannolis.
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Suuker Three-Piece Pastry Filling and Decorating Tips
These stainless steel tips are handy for injecting fillings into waffle cones, cupcakes and doughnuts.
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Wilton Cupcakes, Cones and Cannolis Baking Rack
This special cooling rack holds a dozen pizzelle, cannolis and waffle cones while you add your own special fillings.
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Kingzhuo 50-Piece Paper Waffle Cone Holders
These cone holders are made of kraft paper and are perfect for serving pizzelle to your family and friends. They have flat bottoms so they can stand on their own on a tray.
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Best pizzelle makers
Top pizzelle makers under $50
Cucina Pro Piccolo Pizzelle Baker
The extra-thick baking plates distribute the heat evenly for making four crispy, browned 3-inch pizzelle cookies at a time. The nonstick surfaces make for easy cleaning and a steam guard protects your hands when you open the lid.
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This little press bakes two 4-inch cookies at a time. You can customize your pizzelle by choosing from five shades of browning from dark, hard and crisp to light, soft and chewy. A rolling pin, measuring scoop and recipe book are included.
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This mini press has two traditional Italian pizzelle patterns to choose from and makes one 4-inch pizzella at a time. Use it also as a grill for making burgers and breakfast sandwiches.
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Top pizzelle makers $50-$100
Chef’s Choice Toscano Pizzelle Maker
This cookie maker has instant recovery times so you don’t have to wait between batches. Just remove your two pizzelle and add more batter. Its 900 watts of power are greater than most pizzelle makers.
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Nordic Ware Krumkake Iron and Pizzelle Maker
You can make old-school dessert traditions from two countries with this cookie press that embosses patterns of flowers and leaves on Italian pizzelle or thin Scandinavian cone cookies. The aluminum body is safe to use on all gas and electric stovetops.
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Top pizzelle makers over $100
Toastmaster Pizzelle and Cookie Maker
This cookie maker makes two 4-inch pizzelle at once on easy-to-clean non-stick surface plates that have an overflow trough to contain any spill.
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Use this to make two thin 4-inch cookies in half the time required by hand irons. This 7-pound iron pizzelle maker has cast aluminum plates, cool plastic handles and bakes with 800 watts of power.
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BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pacific Financial Group (TPFG), a wealth management innovator and leader in Self-Directed Brokerage Account Management (SDBA) announced it will be hosting 13 regional financial advisor education and networking events in September and October 2022.
The event series entitled SDBA & In-Plan Advice: A Growth Formula Workshop is designed to demystify and educate financial advisors on Self-Directed Brokerage Account Management and the coming trend toward providing In-Plan advice to retirement plan participants. Brokerage windows are now open in well over 100,000 workplace 401k, 403b, and 457 plans across the country, and the list of open plans grows every day. This provides financial advisors with one of the most innovative and rewarding practice growth opportunities the industry has seen in decades. A dedicated website has been launched at www.GrowWithTPFG.com.
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CANNES – George Miller's “Three Thousand Years of Longing” spans millennia, but it can often feel longer waiting in between films from the “Mad Max” director.
Seven years after Miller's “Fury Road” blazed its way across movie screens, the 77-year-old filmmaker is finally back with a movie two decades in the works, and with a lot on its mind about what's temporary and what's eternal.
In “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” which opens in theaters Aug. 26, Tilda Swinton plays an academic named Alithea, a “narratologist" specializing in stories about stories, who encounters a wish-granting djinn (Idris Elba) who emerges from an old glass bottle bought in Istanbul's Grand Bazaar. When no wish comes to her mind, he tells her 3,000 years worth of stories that hurtle the film through time and that ultimately bring Alithea and the djinn closer. If “Fury Road” beat a ferocious, straightforward narrative line, “Three Thousand Years,” adapted from an A.S. Byatt short story, ruminatively skips through time. It's an intimate chamber piece sculpted in epic proportions.
“Big cinema,” Swinton called it as she, Elba and Miller assembled earlier this year in a hotel room in Cannes, France, shortly before “The Thousand Years of Longing” made its red-carpet premiere and while Miller's “Fury Road” follow-up, “Furiosa,” was ramping up production back in Australia.
In the discussion that followed, the trio were clearly enthralled to be together again after shooting the film through the pandemic, and still animated by the movie's ideas and its widescreen ambitions. “The faith to throw oneself over the highest bar,” Swinton said of Miller's long-gesticulating endeavor. “Who better to jump that bar?”
Remarks have been edited for length and clarity.
AP: The film opens with wonder and enchantment as something like endangered species in a modern digital world. Is that a feeling you three connect with?
SWINTON: I’m really happy to hear you use the word “enchantment.” It is about enchantment. It’s about faith. It’s about the willingness to take a leap and essentially be open to change. It’s not that it’s necessarily threatened but it can get obscured. Reality is overrated.
ELBA: As an actor, you sometimes live in this weird space of reality. It’s a bit like the djinn. People see me and they go, “Oh my God. Can you give me something?” It’s a picture or a signature or whatever. I find myself wondering what am I, really? Who am I? But I realize my role in my life or in society as a storyteller and someone who makes people believe something is incredibly important. To get to sit in a room with the master, himself (gestures toward Miller), and to be able to tell a story about storytelling is incredible. Enchantment is an incredible word. I don’t think it will ever get lost.
MILLER: What’s really interesting to me, despite all these technological advances, is that we remain definitely hardwired for story. You could argue there are more stories being told today than ever before. I was really struck by the fact that Napoleon had read every single book that existed at his time. Now it’s impossible to read every book, see every TV show, every movie. I don’t think stories are replaced. I think they just continuously evolve. There was a British census where people were asked what their religion was and a very high percentage put in Jedi. It’s replacing one form of mythology for the other. I think the more bewildering the world becomes, the more we tend to fall into story. Sometimes those stories can be toxic.
SWINTON: We’ve now had a very sharp reminder that it’s possible for an entire nation, an entire culture to be told a story and believe it, to the exclusion of any other story. Maybe what we’re talking about is a kind of porousness of stories, so it’s possible to be open to many stories. Maybe that’s the mentally healthy and spiritually healthy thing to propose.
AP: You're refencing Russia's war in Ukraine but when you began “Three Thousand Years” were your thoughts on moments that storytelling shaped your own lives?
ELBA: My father started off his stories “I’ll tell you something for nothing.” This is my late dad.
SWINTON: Do you tell those stories to your son?
ELBA: If we’re driving to school and I try to avoid the phone. The only way to keep him looking interested with me is by telling a story. I’ll be like: “Well, today, I’m working in this plane. And you wouldn’t believe it. This plane, they took the wings off.” And I’m in. In that magic moment of him listening, questioning is the rich stuff.
AP: George, as a myth-maker who can conjure worlds, you're not so unlike the djinn. Why were you drawn toward a movie that digs into the nature of storytelling?
MILLER: One of my favorite quotes about story is the Swahili storyteller who end their story by saying: "The story has been told. If it was bad, it was my fault because I’m the storyteller. If it was good, then it belongs to everybody.” There’s absolutely no question that stories, once told, get traction or not and they mean something to people in one way or the other. So you can’t think about them lightly. I’ve known people who can beguile you with their stories. I know that I struggle with that. I can’t get up and spontaneously tell a story well. But I can do it in the ultra-slow motion of telling a movie where I think about every nuance, every rhythm of it, and it’s finally there. After all, it’s just 100 minutes.
AP: Tilda and Idris, does making a movie like this prompt you to reflect on what compels you as actors to tell stories?
SWINTON: I’ve never made anything quite like this. Even though in a funny way the film is about one of my favorite things — inarticulacy — or rather the effort that we go to communicate with one another. Knowing that it’s almost impossible to understand each other, we still try, and that really touches me. It’s certainly one of the things that keeps me making films. It always feels very difficult to get something out of your head and convey it to someone else. But the fact that one makes the gesture is very moving. This film is about that but it’s very articulately made. To actually shoot with George and to understand how he constructs the architecture of the film even if the film is about something quite amorphous and quite tender, that’s a masterclass. Keeping that center soft was something we talked a lot about.
ELBA: I’m a bit like George. I’d be fascinated with my dad telling stories but I was never good at that. I remember when I went to a boy’s school. I was one of the funny boys. In the drama class, those kids couldn’t do it. They couldn’t make believe. I never forget the teacher's phrase “make believe” and how it resonated with me. Suddenly, I could tell you the best story in the world because I was making you believe I could. I was really aware of the irony of working with George and Tilda and I’m playing a guy who has to tell stories honestly to get his freedom. I was Idris acting his socks off playing a man who was not allowed to act his socks off but had to tell these honest, engaging stories.
AP: George, you first encountered the short story this is based on in the late 1990s. Why do you think that this film stuck with you for so long?
MILLER: There’s lots of stories that I had. It’s a bit Darwinian. Some of them insist on themselves. I felt it was a very potent story. It’s like a metal detector or a Geiger counter, when something really activates it. You go: "Oh, there’s a rich seam in here somewhere.” You don’t know where it will go. You can sort of vaguely sense where it will go when you read the richness of scene. Time will tell. You hope the story belongs to everybody.
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OMAHA, Neb. – A child likely died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in an eastern Nebraska river, health officials said, making it the second such probable death in the Midwest this summer and raising the question of whether climate change is playing a role.
The Douglas County Department of Health based in Omaha, Nebraska, reported Wednesday that doctors believe the child died of primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a usually fatal infection caused by the naegleria fowleri amoeba. Health officials believe the child came into contact with the amoeba on Sunday while swimming in the Elkhorn River just west of Omaha.
Officials have not released the child's identity.
Last month, a Missouri resident died of the same infection likely caused by the amoeba at Lake of Three Fires in southwestern Iowa. Iowa officials closed the lake's beach as a precaution for nearly three weeks.
People are usually infected when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose while swimming or diving into lakes and rivers. Other sources have been documented, including tainted tap water in a Houston-area city in 2020. Symptoms include fever, headache, nausea or vomiting, progressing to a stiff neck, loss of balance, hallucinations and seizures.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says naegleria fowleri infections are rare — there are about three cases in the United States every year — but that those infections are overwhelmingly fatal.
There were 154 cases reported between 1962 and 2021 in the U.S., with only four survivors, according to the CDC. Of those, 71 cases were reported between 2000 and 2021. Texas and Florida recorded the most infections with 39 and 37 cases respectively, and the amoeba is typically found in southern states because it thrives in waters that are warmer than 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius).
But infections have migrated north in recent years, including two cases in Minnesota since 2010, Douglas County Health Director Dr. Lindsey Huse noted during a news conference Thursday.
“Our regions are becoming warmer,” she said. “As things warm up, the water warms up and water levels drop because of drought, you see that this organism is a lot happier and more typically grows in those situations.”
According to the National Water Information System, the surface water temperature near where the child was swimming was between 86 and 92 degrees.
Jacob Lorenzo-Morales, a researcher at the Universidad de La Laguna in the Canary Islands who has studied naegleria fowleri, said Thursday that an increase in infections since 2000 can be blamed on two factors: better knowledge and diagnosis of the disease, and the rising temperature in bodies of water providing “a perfect environment” for the amoeba to thrive.
Researcher Sutherland Maciver, who has studied the amoeba at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at Edinburgh Medical School in Scotland, says not all infections are reported and that the 430 cases that have ever been reported worldwide are almost certainly an undercount. And, he said, scientists cannot say with certainty that the Nebraska case is directly attributable to climate change.
The two researchers co-authored a paper titled “Is Naegleria fowleri an Emerging Parasite?” that examined factors behind the increase in reported cases.
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MAYVILLE, N.Y. — A judge refused to grant bail Thursday to the man accused of trying to kill Salman Rushdie as the acclaimed author prepared to give a talk in western New York.
Hadi Matar, 24, appeared in a western New York courtroom after a grand jury indicted him on charges that he rushed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and stabbed Rushdie multiple times in front of a horrified crowd.
Dressed in a black and white jail uniform, Matar stayed quiet during the hearing while his lawyer unsuccessfully tried to persuade the judge that he should be released while he awaited trial. Public defender Nathaniel Barone said Matar had no criminal record and wouldn't flee the country if released.
Barone also asked the judge to do something to stop reporters from trying to contact Matar at the Chautauqua County jail. The lawyer said the jail had received "several hundred phone calls" from people trying to reach Matar.
Some of that media outreach resulted in Matar giving a brief interview to The New York Post, in which he talked about disliking Rushdie and praised Iran's late supreme leader, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Khomeini issued an edict in 1989 demanding Rushdie's death over his novel "The Satanic Verses," which some Muslims consider blasphemous. A semiofficial Iranian foundation had posted a bounty of over $3 million.
Matar's lawyer complained that the media coverage could potentially lead to a biased jury.
"He's entitled to a fair trial. He's entitled to due process, no matter what he's accused of," Barone said.
Judge David Foley declined that request, but he ordered the lawyers involved in the case not to give interviews.
"No speaking to the press until we have resolved this issue," the judge said.
Rushdie, 75, is getting treatment in a Pennsylvania hospital for severe wounds.
Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt said during the court hearing that Matar stabbed Mr. Rushdie a dozen times in the neck, stomach, chest, hand and right eye, before he could be stopped by shocked bystanders.
"He doesn't care about his own freedom, judge, and is so driven by his motives that his mission to kill Mr. Rushdie is greater in his mind and outweighs his own personal freedom," Schmidt told the judge.
The author was seated in a chair at the lakeside retreat Aug. 12, waiting to be introduced for a discussion of protections for writers in exile and freedom of expression when Matar jumped onstage.
Henry Reese, 73, the cofounder of Pittsburgh's City of Asylum, was onstage with Rushdie and suffered a gash to his forehead, bruising and other minor injuries.
Matar, who lived in Fairview, New Jersey, with his mother, is charged with attempted murder and assault. He could get decades in prison if convicted. He has pleaded not guilty.
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Sydney bus driver critical after crash
A bus driver has been critically injured and a truck driver arrested by police after a late night collision in Sydney's west.
The crash happened at an intersection of the Liverpool-Parramatta Transitway at Wetherill Park, around 11.45pm on Thursday.
Police say the 74-year-old bus driver became trapped in the vehicle on impact and had to be freed by fire and rescue officers.
He was taken to Liverpool Hospital in a critical condition with leg, back and head injuries.
Four passengers on the bus were also treated by ambulance paramedics for minor injuries.
The 26-year-old driver of the truck was unhurt and sent to Liverpool Hospital for mandatory testing.
Following inquiries, police say he was arrested and taken to Fairfield Police Station where he was assisting detectives.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aeglea BioTherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AGLE), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a new generation of human enzyme therapeutics to benefit people with rare metabolic diseases, today announced that a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for pegzilarginase for the treatment of Arginase 1 Deficiency (ARG1-D) has been submitted to and successfully validated by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The MAA was submitted by Immedica Pharma AB, Aeglea's commercialization partner in Europe and the Middle East.
Pegzilarginase is a novel, recombinant human arginase 1 enzyme that in clinical trials has been shown to normalize the elevated levels of the amino acid arginine in patients with ARG1-D, a rare, progressive disease characterized by high levels of arginine. People living with ARG1-D experience severe spasticity-related mobility limitations, seizures, developmental delay, intellectual disability, and early mortality.
"For progressive diseases like ARG1-D, every day that passes without an approved therapy increases the disease burden and worsens the outcome for patients and their families. If approved, we believe pegzilarginase has the potential to benefit these families," said Anthony G. Quinn, M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of Aeglea. "We are thrilled with the progress being made with the validation of the MAA and look forward to continuing to work with and support our partner Immedica throughout the EMA review process."
Dr. Quinn continued, "I would like to thank all the patients, families, investigators, staff and advocates who participated in our clinical trials and helped in the advancement of pegzilarginase, potentially the first health authority-approved treatment to address the underlying driver of ARG1-D, elevated arginine levels."
Immedica's MAA submission includes data from multiple clinical studies in ARG1-D, including the double-blind, placebo-controlled PEACE Phase 3 study and its ongoing long-term extension, a Phase 1/2 clinical trial and an open-label extension study. Results from these trials demonstrate that pegzilarginase is able to rapidly and sustainably lower arginine levels and showed improvements in measures of mobility. In the PEACE study, most treatment-emergent adverse events were mild or moderate in severity and there were no discontinuations due to treatment-emergent adverse events. The EMA has granted pegzilarginase Orphan Drug Designation.
Pegzilarginase is a novel recombinant human enzyme engineered to degrade the amino acid arginine and has been shown to rapidly and sustainably lower levels of the amino acid arginine in plasma. Aeglea is developing pegzilarginase for the treatment of people with Arginase 1 Deficiency (ARG1-D), a rare debilitating and progressive disease characterized by the accumulation of arginine. ARG1-D presents in early childhood and patients experience spasticity, seizures, developmental delay, intellectual disability and early mortality.
The PEACE Phase 3 clinical trial met its primary endpoint with a 76.7% reduction in mean plasma arginine compared to placebo. Additionally, 90.5% of pegzilarginase treated patients achieved normal plasma arginine levels. The arginine lowering was accompanied by a positive trend in Gross Motor Function Measure Part E, a measure of patient mobility. Aeglea's Phase 1/2 and Phase 2 Open-Label Extension (OLE) data for pegzilarginase in patients with ARG1-D demonstrated clinical improvements and sustained lowering of plasma arginine. Pegzilarginase has received multiple regulatory designations, including Rare Pediatric Disease, Breakthrough Therapy, Fast Track and Orphan Drug designations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as well as Orphan Drug Designation from the European Medicines Agency.
Aeglea BioTherapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company redefining the potential of human enzyme therapeutics to benefit people with rare metabolic diseases with limited treatment options. Pegzilarginase achieved the primary endpoint of arginine reduction in the PEACE Phase 3 clinical trial and has received both Rare Pediatric Disease and Breakthrough Therapy Designations. Aeglea also has an ongoing Phase 1/2 clinical trial of AGLE-177 for the treatment of Homocystinuria. AGLE-177 has been granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation. Aeglea has an active discovery platform focused on engineering small changes in human enzymes to have a big impact on the lives of patients and their families. For more information, please visit http://aeglea.com.
Safe Harbor / Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as: "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "goal," "seek," "believe," "project," "estimate," "expect," "strategy," "future," "likely," "may," "should," "will" and similar references to future periods. These statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from what we expect. Examples of forward-looking statements include, among others, statements we make regarding our ability to obtain regulatory approval for, and commercialize, pegzilarginase, recognize milestone and royalty payments from our agreement with Immedica, the timing and success of our clinical trials and related data, the timing and expectations for regulatory submissions and approvals, including the MAA for pegzilarginase in Europe, timing and results of meetings with regulators, the timing of announcements and updates relating to our clinical trials and related data, our ability to enroll patients into our clinical trials, the expected impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations and clinical trials, success in our collaborations, the length of time that we believe our existing cash resources will fund operations, the potential addressable markets of our product candidates and the potential therapeutic benefits and economic value of our lead product candidate or other product candidates. Further information on potential risk factors that could affect our business and its financial results are detailed in our most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and other reports as filed with the SEC. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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Child dies from suspected brain-eating amoeba infection, health officials say
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT/Gray News) – Health officials in Nebraska said a child died after what they suspect was a brain-eating amoeba infection.
Dr. Lindsay Huse said the CDC is working to confirm that the death was caused by primary amebic meningoencephalitis – the disease caused by infection with the amoeba called Naegleria fowleri – after the child went swimming in the Elkhorn River on Aug. 8.
Dr. Kari Neeman, an infectious disease expert at Children’s Hospital in Omaha, said the child had symptoms about five days after exposure and went to the hospital within 48 hours of the onset of those symptoms.
If confirmed, the death would mark the first Naegleria fowleri case in Nebraska history.
The Douglas County Health Department (DCHD) is now urging extra caution when coming into contact with freshwater sources like rivers, lakes and streams.
Huse said the DCHD will not be releasing further details about the child because of privacy concerns. She said it was possible that others swimming in the same area at the time came in contact with the amoeba but were not infected.
Naegleria fowleri is often present in freshwater, and if it gets up your nose, it can gain access to the central nervous system and into the brain, according to Dr. Mark Rupp, an infectious disease expert at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Officials suggest keeping your head above water when swimming in rivers, lakes and streams. If you do go underwater, officials say to plug your nose when swimming or diving.
Health officials said you cannot be infected by drinking contaminated water.
Symptoms, which typically occur within 12 days of an infection, can include headache, fever, nausea or vomiting, but can progress to stiffness in the neck, confusion and seizures.
While the disease is extremely rare, its mortality rate is more than 97%. Patients are very unlikely to survive.
“The real tragedy behind this is that the treatments are not great, and the mortality is very, very high, almost universal,” Rupp said.
According to the CDC, 154 known cases have been reported since 1962, and only four of those people survived.
Of the 31 cases reported in the last 10 years, 28 people were infected by recreational water, two people were infected after performing nasal irrigation using contaminated tap water, and one person was infected by contaminated tap water used on a backyard slip-n-slide, the CDC said.
The DCHD does not have any plans to shut down access points along the Elkhorn River where the child was infected but is advising swimmers to use awareness and caution.
A similar case led to the death of a Missouri resident who was likely infected while swimming in an Iowa lake last month. The lake was closed to swimmers for several days while the CDC tested the waters to confirm the presence of Naegleria fowleri.
Huse said the recent cases aren’t necessarily related, noting that the case in Iowa was in water not connected to the Elkhorn River. But regions are becoming warmer, and the organism loves heat and thrives in drought conditions — particularly warmer, stagnant, shallow waters, she said.
Health officials said the best way to reduce your chance of infection is to simply not allow water to get up your nose.
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The Revolution hit the jackpot with Carles Gil, who joined MLS unheralded in 2019 and became the league’s MVP last season.
Now the Revolution are hoping for a similar boost from Gil’s brother, Nacho Gil, who signed with the team Thursday.
Nacho (short for Ignacio) Gil, 26, three years younger than Carles, followed his brother into the Valencia CF system and has proven to be a skillful journeyman pro, mostly competing at the second division level. Nacho, a free agent after performing for CF Cartagena last season, has played 218 games since turning pro in 2014, 22 of them in La Liga, Spain’s first division, with Valencia and Las Palmas.
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Nacho, a right-footed left winger/midfielder, is listed at 5 feet 7 inches, slightly shorter than Carles, who is left-footed. Nacho’s experience has mostly been in La Liga II, playing alongside teammates such as former Revolution midfielder Wilfried Zahibo and forward Cristian (Chicho) Arango, now Los Angeles FC’s leading scorer, with Valencia’s “B” team in Mestalla. Nacho also played for Elche and Ponferradina.
The Revolution (8-7-10, 34 points) have overcome injuries in compiling a five-game unbeaten streak going into a visit to CF Montreal Saturday. The latest Revolution player to go down was midfielder Wilfrid Kaptoum, injured in the first half of a 2-2 tie at Toronto FC Wednesday.
Nacho, who began training with the Revolution last week, will fill an international roster spot vacated by outside midfielder Arnor Traustason, who joined IFK Norrkoping last week. The Revolution have been seeking replacements on the wing for Traustason and Sebastian Lletget (traded to FC Dallas), and depth behind Dylan Borrero (leg injury). Nacho can fill in on either wing and also provide depth in central midfield.
Nacho totaled 24 appearances and one goal for Cartagena last year, missing part of the season with a shoulder injury.
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DENVER (AP) — Ken Mauldin was jolted awake last weekend with his wife screaming incessantly in their split level home in Colorado's mountain town of Steamboat Springs where their three children were sleeping one floor below. Then she yelled: “There's a bear in the house!”
Kelly Mauldin had just been awakened by the couple's barking dogs that didn't wake up her husband before dawn on Saturday. She walked to the door of the couple's bedroom and found herself staring at a male black bear weighing about 400 pounds (181 kilograms) — about 10 feet (3 meters) away in the dining room.
In an interview, Ken Mauldin said he grabbed his 40-caliber pistol, took his wife’s place at the door and shot once, aiming for the center of the bear’s body. He thinks the first shot hit the bear and it charged him as Mauldin continued firing.
As he was shooting, the bear got as close as 5 feet (1.5 meters) from Mauldin and then turned toward the stairs leading to the home’s front door. The bear crashed through a bannister as Mauldin emptied the gun and slid down the stairs, mortally wounded.
The couple didn’t know it at the time, but officials believe the bear got inside their home by flipping down the lever of their unlocked front door handle and pushing the door.
After it was shot, the bear lay breathing and heaving between Mauldin and his three sons on the home's lower floor, but he didn't think the bear would get back up. He called 911 and one of his sons called him on his cellphone and Mauldin told the son to stay put in his room.
“My only thought was protecting my family and putting that bear down,” said Mauldin.
The bear had moved an unopened bag of dog food across the dining room. Police and state wildlife officers arrived a short time later and determined that the bear was dead. They used a winch to pull it into a truck and were impressed by its size, said Justin Pollock, a Colorado Parks and Wildlife officer for 21-years.
“I deal with bears a lot and I’d say this was a big bear,” he said.
Colorado has about 12,000 bears and break-ins aren’t uncommon in Rocky Mountain towns, but homeowners shooting bears in their homes is rare, said Rachael Gonzales, spokesperson for Colorado Parks and Wildlife. State law allows people to shoot bears if the people feel threatened, she said.
The lush mountain area where the Mauldin family lives is home to many bears because of its habitat, which includes oak brush that they use to hide, a river and vegetation that they eat.
In the days before the bear opened the door to the Maudlin's home, neighbors had talked about a bear getting into their garages and other homeowners had reported bear break-ins. Mauldin said the family always does a nightly check to close windows and lock doors, but that night the front door had been left unlocked.
Gonzales said there's no way of knowing if the same bear seeking food at other homes broke into the Mauldin family's home. Black bears avoid humans but once they realize food is behind a window or stuffed inside a bird feeder, they will return, Pollock said.
“Bears are very smart," Gonzales said. "Once they learn that it’s easy to access food in a certain area, they are going to keep doing it.”
The bear's hide and meat will be donated to people who have signed up on a list to receive them and its head will go up for auction, Pollock said.
Mauldin hopes the break-in at his home sparks greater awareness to prompt “something good from something so terrible that happened.”
“We are in a situation now where we have town bears that have lost all of their natural fear of humans," Mauldin said. "In my mind that’s what we have to address."
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NEW YORK (AP) — This summer has been a breakthrough for streaming, with the time viewers spent watching services like Netflix and Hulu outpacing broadcast and cable television networks in July for the first month ever.
Viewers spent 35% of their time with streamers, 34% on cable networks and 22% watching broadcast television last month, the Nielsen company said Thursday. Video on demand or DVD playback accounted for much of the other time.
July is an unusual month — broadcast TV is essentially on vacation with little live sports or scripted programming and a prime-time schedule clogged with game shows — but it's a clear indication of how rapidly the business is changing.
“It was inevitable,” said David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University and critic on NPR's “Fresh Air.” “I knew it had to happen, but I didn't know it would happen as quickly as it did.”
Streaming's audience share in July was up 23% compared to July 2021, Nielsen said. Broadcast television's share was down 10% and cable down 9%.
Streaming services learned from what cable did in its infancy, using broadcasting's quiet summer months to put forward some of their best programming, said Brian Fuhrer, Nielsen's senior vice president for product strategy and thought leadership. New episodes of “Stranger Things” alone on Netflix accounted for 18 billion minutes of streaming, while “Virgin River” and “The Umbrella Academy” also did well.
Netflix is still the top streamer, but it no longer dominates the field the way it once did. In July, Hulu had strong numbers for “Only Murders in the Building” and “The Bear,” while Amazon Prime hit with “The Terminal List” and “The Boys.”
With pandemic-related pauses in shooting schedules now largely over, the streamers have a backlog of fresh material, Fuhrer said.
Many viewers became familiar with streaming and added it to their media diets during the pandemic, he said. They haven't looked back. Each week in July had more total minutes of streaming than any other weeks Nielsen has ever counted, with the exception of the week between Christmas and New Year's last year.
The return of football games and a new season of fresh scripted shows this fall should boost the broadcast networks, Fuhrer said.
Yet it's hard to see them pushing back to a level of dominance approaching anything in the past. For one thing, media companies that own broadcast networks also have sister streaming services — CBS and Paramount+, NBC and Peacock, for instance — and generally see streaming as the future, he said.
“The networks have collectively decided not only that streaming is the future, but they can't wait to get there as fast as they can,” Bianculli said. “They're not doing anything to slow down the charge.”
Fuhrer said it will be interesting this fall when large football audiences return to broadcast TV to see whether those networks will spend a great deal of time promoting their own shows.
“This month and the next two to three months may be the most pivotal in the history of television in terms of all the media companies and their strategies,” he said.
Some business experts believe streaming services are in a pre-shakeout period, with several trying to establish themselves before the industry learns there are only so many outlets consumers are willing to pay for. The result may be a period of consolidation.
“It’s a great time to be a TV viewer,” Bianculli said, “and I can’t imagine there will ever be a greater time to go into television creatively.”
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GURUGRAM, India, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ReNew Energy Global Plc ("ReNew" or "the Company") (Nasdaq: RNW, RNWWW), India's leading renewable energy company in terms of total commissioned capacity, today announced its consolidated results for Q1 FY23 ended June 30, 2022.
Operating Highlights:
- As of June 30, 2022, the Company's portfolio consisted of 12.9 GWs, a 30.3% increase year on year, of which 7.6 GWs are commissioned and 5.3 GWs are committed. Subsequent to the end of the quarter, the Company signed an additional ~0.3 GWs of PPAs bringing the Company's total portfolio to 13.2 GWs currently.
- Total Income (or total revenue) for Q1 FY23 was INR 25,007 million (US$ 316 million), an increase of 48.8% over Q1 FY22.
- Adjusted EBITDA(2) for Q1 FY23 was INR 20,157 million (US$ 255 million), an increase of 49.7% over Q1 FY22.
- Net loss for Q1 FY23 was INR 104 million (US$ 1 million) compared to a net profit of INR 425 million (US$ 5 million) for Q1 FY22. The net loss includes a one-time expense for debt premium and the impact of a reclassification of a hedge loss from the Balance Sheet of INR 2,531 million (US$ 32 million) for the refinancing of USD bonds with lower cost rupee debt.
- Cash Flow to equity(2) ("CFe") for Q1 FY23 was INR 14,562 million (US$ 184 million), an increase of 104.0% over Q1 FY22.
Note: the translation of Indian rupees into U.S. dollars has been made at INR 79.02 to US$ 1.00. See note 1 for more information.
FY 23 Guidance
The Company is reiterating its Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA per share, Cash Flow to equity and Cash Flow to equity per share guidance for FY23:
Form 6-K containing financial statements and discussion of financial results has been filed with the SEC and can be accessed at www.sec.gov
Webcast and Conference Call Information
A conference call has been scheduled to discuss the earnings results at 8:30 AM EDT (6:00 PM IST) on August 19, 2022. The conference call can be accessed live at https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/qb3qf6a7 or by phone (toll-free) by dialing:
US / Canada: (+1) 855 881 1339
UK: (+44) 0800 051 8245
India: (+91) 0008 0010 08443
Singapore: (+65) 800 101 2785
Japan: (+81) 005 3116 1281
Rest of the world: (+61) 7 3145 4010 (toll)
An audio replay will be available following the call on our investor relations website at https://investor.renewpower.in/news-events/events
Notes:
(1) This press release contains translations of certain Indian rupee amounts into U.S. dollars at specified rates solely for the convenience of the reader. Unless otherwise stated, the translation of Indian rupees into U.S. dollars has been made at INR 79.02 to US$ 1.00, which was the noon buying rate in New York City for cable transfer in non-U.S. currencies as certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on June 30, 2022. We make no representation that the Indian rupee or U.S. dollar amounts referred to in this press release could have been converted into U.S. dollars or Indian rupees, as the case may be, at any particular rate or at all.
(2) This is a non-IFRS measure. For more information, see "Use of Non-IFRS Measures" elsewhere in this release. IFRS refers to International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board. In addition, reconciliations of non-IFRS measures to IFRS financial measures, and operating results are included at the end of this release.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding our future financial and operating guidance, operational and financial results such as estimates of nominal contracted payments remaining and portfolio run rate, and the assumptions related to the calculation of the foregoing metrics. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include: the availability of additional financing on acceptable terms; changes in the commercial and retail prices of traditional utility generated electricity; changes in tariffs at which long-term PPAs are entered into; changes in policies and regulations including net metering and interconnection limits or caps; the availability of rebates, tax credits and other incentives; the availability of solar panels and other raw materials; our limited operating history, particularly as a relatively new public company; our ability to attract and retain relationships with third parties, including solar partners; our ability to meet the covenants in our debt facilities; meteorological conditions; issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic; supply disruptions; solar power curtailments by state electricity authorities and such other risks identified in the registration statements and reports that our Company has filed or furnished with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, from time to time. Portfolio represents the aggregate megawatts capacity of solar power plants pursuant to PPAs, signed or allotted or where we have received a letter of award. There is no assurance that we will be able to sign a PPA even though we have received a letter of award. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
About ReNew
Unless the context otherwise requires, all references in this press release to "we," "us," or "our" refers to ReNew Power and its subsidiaries.
ReNew is one of the largest renewable energy Independent Power Producers in India and globally. ReNew develops, builds, owns, and operates utility-scale wind and solar energy projects, hydro projects, and distributed solar energy projects. As of August 18, 2022, ReNew had a gross total portfolio of ~13.2 GWs of renewable energy projects across India, including commissioned and committed projects. For more information, please visit www.renewpower.in and follow us on Linked In, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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BEIJING (AP) — A sudden rainstorm in western China triggered a landslide that diverted a river and caused flash flooding in populated areas, killing at least 16 people and leaving 18 others missing, Chinese state media said Thursday.
Rescuers, who earlier reported 36 people missing, had found 18 of them by early afternoon, state broadcaster CCTV said in an online update. The Wednesday night disaster affected more than 6,000 people in six villages in Qinghai province, CCTV said.
China is facing both heavy rains and flooding in some parts of the country this summer and extreme heat and drought in other regions. State media have described the prolonged heat and drought as the worst since record keeping started 60 years ago.
Emergency authorities described the flash flooding in Qinghai’s Datong county as a “mountain torrent.” Such torrents generally result from heavy squalls in mountainous areas. Water running down the mountain can turn gullies or streams into raging rivers, catching people by surprise.
Video posted by the Beijing News website showed muddy water rushing down a wide street at night and debris-strewn areas with uprooted trees, partially washed-away roads and overturned cars after the waters had receded.
Seven people died last weekend from a mountain torrent in southwestern China’s Sichuan province.
Elsewhere in Sichuan and other provinces, crops are wilting and factories have been shut down as a drought cut hydropower supplies and high temperatures raised demand for electricity to run air conditioners.
Tesla Ltd. and SAIC, one of China’s biggest state-owned automakers, suspended production at factories in Shanghai due to a lack of components from 16 suppliers in Sichuan that shut down, the Shanghai Economic and Information Industry Committee said in a letter released Thursday.
The Shanghai committee appealed to its counterpart in Sichuan to make sure auto components factories have adequate power during daytime working hours to avoid supply disruptions.
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The government must provide a redacted affidavit justifying the Mar-a-Lago search
The government must provide a redacted affidavit justifying the Mar-a-Lago search
A judge today told the Justice Department it must provide a redacted version of the affidavit behind the search of Trump's Mar-A-Lago residence by next Thursday, Aug. 25. | https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118271882/the-government-must-provide-a-redacted-affidavit-justifying-the-mar-a-lago-searc | 2022-08-18T21:41:57Z | https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118271882/the-government-must-provide-a-redacted-affidavit-justifying-the-mar-a-lago-searc | false |
Some survivors remain traumatized a year after a flood killed 20 in Waverly, Tenn.
Some survivors remain traumatized a year after a flood killed 20 in Waverly, Tenn.
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WFO LAKE CHARLES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 18, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
418 PM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southeastern Tyler,
northeastern Hardin and southeastern Jasper Counties through 445 PM
CDT...
At 417 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Fred to 6 miles east of Village Mills.
Movement was southeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Silsbee, Kirbyville, Evadale, Fred, Spurger, Caney Head and Village
Mills.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3064 9388 3027 9412 3050 9442 3073 9434
TIME...MOT...LOC 2117Z 298DEG 21KT 3061 9423 3047 9429
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern
Montgomery, east central Waller and northwestern Harris Counties
through 445 PM CDT...
At 420 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Waller, or near Prairie View, moving southeast at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
Prairie View, Pinehurst, Hockley, Waller, Pine Island and Stagecoach.
LAT...LON 3005 9603 3017 9568 3002 9561 2993 9596
TIME...MOT...LOC 2120Z 330DEG 6KT 3004 9590
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE
SATURDAY NIGHT...
* WHAT...Areal flooding caused by excessive rainfall. Widespread
rain totals of 1 to 3 inches with locally higher amounts.
* WHERE...Portions of southern New Mexico, including Grant, Sierra,
Otero, Luna, Hidalgo, and Dona Ana Counties. Portions of far west
Texas, including El Paso and Hudspeth Counties.
* WHEN...From Friday afternoon through late Saturday night.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas. Low-water
crossings may be impassable through the weekend. Storm drains and
ditches may become clogged with debris. Extensive street flooding
and flooding of creeks and rivers are possible.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Moist ground from recent rains will allow for quick runoff of
any additional moderate or heavy rain, resulting in flash
flooding and possible flooding of area rivers.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 18, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
318 PM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southeastern
Williamson, northwestern Caldwell, northeastern Hays, Travis, Bastrop
and Lee Counties through 400 PM CDT...
At 318 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Fedor to near Bear Creek. Movement was
south at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Austin, San Marcos, Pflugerville, Kyle, Taylor, Buda, Elgin, Bastrop,
Giddings, Dripping Springs, Lexington, Tanglewood Forest, Austin
Bergstrom Int Airport, Manor, Bee Cave, West Lake Hills, Rollingwood,
Uhland, Mustang Ridge and Thrall.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3009 9690 2993 9795 3027 9801 3062 9722
3046 9715 3054 9699 3012 9684
TIME...MOT...LOC 2018Z 339DEG 10KT 3033 9711 3021 9790
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 18, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
318 PM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southeastern
Williamson, northwestern Caldwell, northeastern Hays, Travis, Bastrop
and Lee Counties through 400 PM CDT...
At 318 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Fedor to near Bear Creek. Movement was
south at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Austin, San Marcos, Pflugerville, Kyle, Taylor, Buda, Elgin, Bastrop,
Giddings, Dripping Springs, Lexington, Tanglewood Forest, Austin
Bergstrom Int Airport, Manor, Bee Cave, West Lake Hills, Rollingwood,
Uhland, Mustang Ridge and Thrall.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3009 9690 2993 9795 3027 9801 3062 9722
3046 9715 3054 9699 3012 9684
TIME...MOT...LOC 2018Z 339DEG 10KT 3033 9711 3021 9790
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Another Quarter of Strong Results
Second quarter revenues of $429.3 million, up 40.6% year-over-year
IFRS Diluted EPS of $0.87 for the second quarter
Non-IFRS Diluted EPS of $1.22 for the second quarter
LUXEMBOURG, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Globant (NYSE: GLOB), a digitally native technology services company, today announced results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022.
Please see highlights below, including certain Non-IFRS measures. Note that reconciliations between Non-IFRS financial measures and IFRS operating results are disclosed at the end of this press release.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights
- Revenues rose to $429.3 million, representing 40.6% year-over-year growth.
- IFRS Gross Profit Margin was 37.6% compared to 38.0% in the second quarter of 2021.
- Non-IFRS Adjusted Gross Profit Margin was 39.1% compared to 39.3% in the second quarter of 2021.
- IFRS Profit from Operations Margin was 11.4% compared to 10.1% in the second quarter of 2021.
- Non-IFRS Adjusted Profit from Operations Margin was 16.1% compared to 16.2% in the second quarter of 2021.
- IFRS Diluted EPS was $0.87 compared to $0.48 in the second quarter of 2021.
- Non-IFRS Adjusted Diluted EPS was $1.22 compared to $0.88 in the second quarter of 2021.
Six months ended June 30, 2022 Financial Highlights
- Revenues rose to $830.6 million, representing 44.4% year-over-year growth.
- IFRS Gross Profit Margin was 37.8% compared to 38.1% in the first six months of 2021.
- Non-IFRS Adjusted Gross Profit Margin was 39.3% compared to 39.4% in the first six months of 2021.
- IFRS Profit from Operations Margin was 12.0% compared to 10.6% in the first six months of 2021.
- Non-IFRS Adjusted Profit from Operations Margin was 16.5% compared to 16.4% in the first six months of 2021.
- IFRS Diluted EPS was $1.72 compared to $1.01 in the first six months of 2021.
- Non-IFRS Adjusted Diluted EPS was $2.41 compared to $1.71 in the first six months of 2021.
Other Metrics as of and for the quarter ended June 30, 2022
- Cash and cash equivalents and Short-term investments were $361.7 million as of June 30, 2022, a decrease of $98.7 million from $460.4 million as of December 31, 2021, driven by seasonal impacts of tax and bonus payments, and M&A earnout payments. As of June 30, 2022, our credit facility was fully undrawn.
- Globant completed the second quarter of 2022 with 25,924 Globers, 24,410 of whom were technology, design and innovation professionals.
- The geographic revenue breakdown for the second quarter of 2022 was as follows: 64.5% from North America (top country: US), 23.8% from Latin America (top country: Argentina), 9.7% from EMEA (top country: Spain) and 2.0% from Asia and Oceania (top country: India).
- In terms of currencies, 79.0% of Globant's revenues for the second quarter of 2022 were denominated in US dollars.
- During the twelve months ended June 30, 2022, Globant served a total of 1,043 customers (with revenues over $10,000 in the last twelve months) and continued to increase its wallet share, with 233 accounts generating more than $1 million of annual revenues, compared to 154 for the same period one year ago.
- Globant's top customer, top five customers and top ten customers for the second quarter of 2022 represented 10.5%, 25.7% and 36.7% of revenues, respectively.
"In the eight years since our IPO, Globant has consistently delivered industry leading growth with an approximate 31% revenue CAGR. We will keep to our growth mindset as Globant expands in its geographies, reinvention offering and array of platforms. We continue to experience increasing demand for our services. Business leaders are seeking new and improved ways to reach broader audiences and gain efficiencies. To address this demand, we have recently launched our new Retail and Automotive Studios, which will expand the scope of our offerings, and our new Fast Code Studio, addressing a profound transformation in software development," said Martín Migoya, Globant's CEO and co-founder.
"We are happy to share with you our solid financial results for the second quarter of 2022. We delivered another quarter of industry-leading revenue growth, coupled with high levels of profitability and cash generation. Second quarter revenues reached $429.3 million, an increase of 40.6% compared to the second quarter of 2021. On a constant currency basis, second quarter revenue growth was 42.1% year over year; 1.5 percentage points above our headline figure. In organic terms, we posted a 36.6% year-over-year top-line growth. This elevated level of top-line growth continues to reflect the robust demand for our services. Clients continue to choose Globant for our technical capabilities, the speed in which we deliver value to our customers, and the scale of the digital engagements we are able to provide. With this in mind, we continue to be confident in our ability to drive strong growth and robust levels of profitability, as well as maintain a solid balance sheet position," explained Juan Urthiague, Globant's CFO.
2022 Third Quarter and Full Year Outlook
Based on current market conditions, Globant is providing the following estimates for the third quarter and the full year of 2022:
- Third quarter 2022 Revenues are estimated to be at least $456 million, or 33.4% year-over-year growth. This expected growth includes a negative FX impact of 2.0 percentage points.
- Third quarter 2022 Non-IFRS Adjusted Profit from Operations Margin is estimated to be in the range of 16%-17%.
- Third quarter 2022 Non-IFRS Adjusted Diluted EPS is estimated to be at least $1.24 (assuming an average of 42.9 million diluted shares outstanding during the third quarter).
- Fiscal year 2022 Revenues are estimated to be at least $1,775 million, or 36.8% year-over-year growth. This expected revenue growth includes a negative FX impact of 3.0 percentage points.
- Fiscal year 2022 Non-IFRS Adjusted Profit from Operations Margin is estimated to be in the range of 16%-17%.
- Fiscal year 2022 Non-IFRS Adjusted Diluted EPS is estimated to be at least $5.03 (assuming an average of 42.9 million diluted shares outstanding during 2022).
Conference Call and Webcast
Martín Migoya and Juan Urthiague will discuss the second quarter 2022 results in a video conference call today beginning at 4:30pm ET.
Video conference call access information is:
https://more.globant.com/F2Q22EarningsCall
Webcast http://investors.globant.com/
About Globant (NYSE:GLOB)
We are a digitally native company that helps organizations reinvent themselves to create a way forward and unleash their potential. We are the place where innovation, design and engineering meet scale.
We have more than 25,900 employees and we are present in 20 countries working for companies like Google, Rockwell Automation, Electronic Arts and Santander, among others.
We were named a Worldwide Leader in CX Improvement by IDC MarketScape report. We were also featured as a business case study at Harvard, MIT and Stanford. We are a member of the Cybersecurity Tech Accord.
For more information, please visit www.globant.com
Non-IFRS Financial Measures
While the financial figures included in this press release have been computed in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board ("IASB") applicable to interim periods, this announcement does not contain sufficient information to constitute an interim financial report as defined in International Accounting Standards 34, "Interim Financial Reporting" nor a financial statement as defined by International Accounting Standards 1 "Presentation of Financial Statements". The financial information in this press release has not been audited.
Globant provides non-IFRS financial measures in addition to reported IFRS results prepared in accordance with IFRS. Management believes these measures help illustrate underlying trends in the company's business and uses the non-IFRS financial measures to establish budgets and operational goals, communicated internally and externally, for managing the company's business and evaluating its performance. The company anticipates that it will continue to report both IFRS and certain non-IFRS financial measures in its financial results, including non-IFRS measures that exclude share-based compensation expense, depreciation and amortization, impairment of non-financial assets, acquisition-related charges, COVID-19 related charges and the related effect on income taxes of the pre-tax adjustments. Because the company's non-IFRS financial measures are not calculated according to IFRS, these measures are not comparable to IFRS and may not necessarily be comparable to similarly described non-IFRS measures reported by other companies within the company's industry. Consequently, Globant's non-IFRS financial measures should not be evaluated in isolation or supplant comparable IFRS measures, but, rather, should be considered together with its condensed interim consolidated statements of financial position as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021 and its condensed interim consolidated statement of comprehensive income for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, prepared in accordance with International Accounting Standard (IAS) 34, Interim Financial Reporting.
Globant is not providing a quantitative reconciliation of forward-looking Non-IFRS Adjusted Profit from Operations Margin or Non-IFRS Adjusted Diluted EPS to the most directly comparable IFRS measure because it is unable to predict with reasonable certainty the ultimate outcome of certain significant items without unreasonable effort. These items include, but are not limited to, share-based compensation expense, impairment of assets, acquisition-related charges, and the tax effect of non-IFRS adjustments. These items are uncertain, depend on various factors, and could have a material impact on IFRS reported results for the guidance period.
Forward Looking Statements
In addition to historical information, this release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "believe," "may," "will," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "should," "plan," "expect," "predict," "potential," or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our future financial and operating performance, including our outlook and guidance, and our strategies, priorities and business plans. Our expectations and beliefs regarding these matters may not materialize, and actual results in future periods are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Factors that could impact our actual results include: the impact and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic; our ability to maintain current resource utilization rates and productivity levels; our ability to manage attrition and attract and retain highly-skilled IT professionals; our ability to accurately price our client contracts; our ability to achieve our anticipated growth; our ability to effectively manage our rapid growth; our ability to retain our senior management team and other key employees; our ability to continue to innovate and remain at the forefront of emerging technologies and related market trends; our ability to retain our business relationships and client contracts; our ability to manage the impact of global adverse economic conditions; our ability to manage uncertainty concerning the instability in the current economic, political and social environment in Latin America; and other factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in our most recent Form 20-F filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and any other risk factors we include in subsequent reports on Form 6-K.
Because of these uncertainties, you should not make any investment decisions based on our estimates and forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements for any reason after the date of this press release whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Globant S.A.
Condensed Interim Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income
(In thousands of U.S. dollars, except per share amounts, unaudited)
Globant S.A.
Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Financial Position as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021
(In thousands of U.S. dollars, unaudited)
Globant S.A.
Selected Cash Flow Data
(In thousands of U.S. dollars, unaudited)
Globant S.A.
Supplemental Non-IFRS Financial Information
(In thousands of U.S. dollars, unaudited)
(a) Acquisition-related charges include, when applicable, amortization of purchased intangible assets included in depreciation and amortization expense line on our condensed interim consolidated statements of comprehensive income, external deal costs, acquisition-related retention bonuses, integration costs, changes in the fair value of contingent consideration liabilities, charges for impairment of acquired intangible assets and other acquisition-related costs. We cannot provide acquisition-related charges on a forward-looking basis without unreasonable effort as such charges may fluctuate based on the timing, size, and complexity of future acquisitions as well as other uncertainty inherent in mergers and acquisitions.
(b) COVID-19 related charges include, when applicable, bad debt provision related to the effect of COVID-19 on our customers businesses, donations and other expenses directly attributable to the pandemic that are both incremental to charges incurred prior to the outbreak and not expected to recur once the crisis has subsided and operations return to normal and clearly separable from normal operations. Moreover, these charges also include rent concessions that we were granted due to the pandemic environment.
Globant S.A.
Schedule of Supplemental Information (unaudited)
(*) Represents customers with more than $10,000 in revenues in the last twelve months.
Investor Relations Contact:
Arturo Langa, Globant
investors@globant.com
+1 (877) 215-5230
Media Contact:
Wanda Weigert, Globant
pr@globant.com
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ROCKVILLE, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man was sentenced Thursday to 65 years in prison for the 2015 killing of his wife, who prosecutors say was wearing a Fitbit exercise activity tracker with data that contradicted his statements to police.
Richard Dabate, 46, of Ellington, was convicted by a jury in May of murder and other charges. He maintains his innocence and intends to appeal the verdicts, his lawyer, Trent LaLima, said after the hearing at Rockville Superior Court.
The fatal shooting of Connie Dabate, 39, at the couple's home two days before Christmas in 2015 while their two young sons were in school drew national attention, with the unusual Fitbit evidence and details of Richard Dabate's affair with a woman who was pregnant at the time of the killing and later gave birth to their child.
Dabate told police a masked man broke into their home, killed his wife and tied him up. Police found him with superficial knife wounds, with one arm and one leg zip-tied to a folding chair.
State police said Dabate gave them a timeline of events that conflicted with data on his wife's Fitbit, which showed she was moving around for about an hour after the time Dabate said she was shot. There were also no signs of a struggle in the house, state police said.
In his closing arguments, prosecutor Matthew Gedansky said Dabate hatched a plan to kill his wife and stage a home invasion as his life was about to unravel because of the affair with the other woman and her pregnancy.
LaLima has questioned the reliability of Fitbit data. He also said Dabate's version of the events was bolstered by unknown DNA found in the home and a witness who said she may have seen an unknown person or deer in the neighborhood on the day of the killing.
More than 100 people testified during the five-week trial.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Michter's is proud to announce that its Master of Maturation Andrea Wilson will be inducted into The Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame®. In 2009, Andrea "broke the glass ceiling" when she became the first woman to ever Chair the Kentucky Distillers' Association. Established in 2001, The Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame® recognizes individuals and organizations who have had a transformative impact on the Bourbon industry.
"Andrea is enormously talented, and she is a terrific leader. She has contributed tremendously to both the growth of Michter's Distillery and to the growth of the entire Kentucky Bourbon industry as well," stated Michter's President Joseph J. Magliocco. "There is no one more deserving of this high honor." Wilson added, "I am humbled to be recognized by The Kentucky Distillers' Association for my impact on our industry. I am enormously grateful to have been given the opportunity to play a role in fostering the growth of Kentucky Bourbon and the American Whiskey Category. It is an honor to be included among the six outstanding individuals who will be inducted next month."
Andrea Wilson was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and as a child she would listen attentively to her grandfather recount stories about his moonshining days. Upon graduating from the University of Louisville with a Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, Wilson went on to earn a Master of Engineering, Chemical Engineering there as well. In 2018, the JB Speed School of Engineering honored Andrea with its Professional Award in Chemical Engineering.
Prior to her tenure at Michter's, Andrea had a distinguished career at Diageo, where she rose to the position of Director of Distillation and Maturation, North America. Upon joining Michter's in 2014, Andrea embarked on a series of roles at the company. Having done work essential to the growth at Michter's Shively Distillery, Andrea took on key roles in establishing Michter's Fort Nelson Distillery and the company's Farm and Operations in Springfield. Currently Andrea does outstanding work as Michter's Master of Maturation and Chief Operating Officer. Incidentally, we are unaware of any Master of Maturation in Kentucky prior to Andrea being named one.
Since 2005, Andrea has served as either a board member or an alternate board member of the Kentucky Distillers' Association. Different organizations have called upon Andrea to help them, and she has been recognized for her service. Andrea worked as a member of the Frazier Museum Task Force for the development of the new Kentucky Bourbon Trail Welcome Center and the Spirit of Kentucky Exhibition. In 2004 Andrea was nominated for The Business and Professional Women Young Careerist Award. The KET documentary Kentucky Bourbon Tales: Distilling the Family Business highlighted Andrea, and in 2018 the Bourbon Women Association honored her with its Lois Mateus Networking Award.
Andrea resides in Fisherville, Kentucky with her wonderful husband Randy Wilson and three cats.
Contact: Joseph J. Magliocco
502-774-2300 x580
jmagliocco@michters.com
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One minute was all it took for an EF1 tornado to destroy a significant portion of the 359-person town of Rudd in December.
The Rudd Public Library was one of the buildings damaged.
The roof was torn off and walls caved in. What wasn’t immediately destroyed by the tornado was lost in the aftermath.
Lions Club International members from Iowa’s North Central District attended a post-tornado meeting of the Rudd City Council and thought they could best help the Rudd Library with the purchase of new computers.
Attending that meeting was Stanley Johnson, former North Central District Governor, and Lions Club member John Pearson. They had Darwin Meyer, Lions Club International Foundation representative, apply for a $5,000 community impact grant.
When the grant money was received, seven computers were purchased from the Lenovo Company in California for approximately $4,300.
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“The Lions’ Club International Foundation, it’s our arm for what we do for disaster relief, for vision, for hunger, and for diabetes in our community here and around the world,” Meyer said.
Johnson said the club wanted to help because the Rudd Public Library is used as part of the Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock Community School District’s education programming, and it has members in those communities.
The library is still temporarily housed in the Rudd City Hall conference room. “The most important thing about a library is the books, not the building,” said Shelly Sharp, library director.
However, a new building is in the works.
Sharp said the city is working with OPN Architects and has received the first-phase sketch for the new library. They plan on breaking ground by spring hope to open by the end of 2023 or the beginning of 2024.
The new library will be located on the corner of Sixth and Floyd streets, adjacent to the Community Betterment Center, the former Rudd school building. “The bus stops here for kids. It’s a well-traveled street and will be a highly visual building,” Sharp said.
“It’s a slow process, but we’re moving,” Sharp said with a smile.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU) today announced that its second quarter fiscal 2023 results will be released on Thursday, September 8, 2022, after the close of the market. The company will host a conference call at 1:30 p.m. PT (4:30 p.m. ET) to discuss its financial results. A live webcast of the event will be available on the DocuSign Investor Relations website at investor.docusign.com. A live dial-in will be available domestically at 877-407-0784 or internationally at 201-689-8560. A replay will be available domestically at 844-512-2921 or internationally at 412-317-6671 until midnight (ET) September 22, 2022 using the passcode 13732324.
DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act on, and manage agreements. As part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, DocuSign offers eSignature, the world's #1 way to sign electronically on practically any device, from almost anywhere, at any time. Today, over a million customers and more than a billion users in over 180 countries use the DocuSign Agreement Cloud to accelerate the process of doing business and to simplify people's lives.
For more information, visit www.docusign.com, call +1-877-720-2040, or follow @DocuSign on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
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DUBLIN, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT) on Thursday, August 18, 2022, approved the fiscal year 2023 second quarter cash dividend of $0.68 per ordinary share, representing an 8% increase over the prior year. This quarterly declaration is consistent with the dividend announcement made by the company in May 2022. Medtronic is a constituent of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index, having increased its annual dividend payment for the past 45 consecutive years. The dividend is payable on October 14, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 23, 2022.
About Medtronic
Bold thinking. Bolder actions. We are Medtronic. Medtronic plc, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is the leading global healthcare technology company that boldly attacks the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people across 150 countries. Our technologies and therapies treat 70 health conditions and include cardiac devices, surgical robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems, and more. Powered by our diverse knowledge, insatiable curiosity, and desire to help all those who need it, we deliver innovative technologies that transform the lives of two people every second, every hour, every day. Expect more from us as we empower insight-driven care, experiences that put people first, and better outcomes for our world. In everything we do, we are engineering the extraordinary. For more information on Medtronic (NYSE:MDT), visit www.Medtronic.com and follow @Medtronic on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Any forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties such as those described in Medtronic's periodic reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results.
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7,000,000 organizations applied. 5,000 make the list. Leaving Pioneer in the top .01% of fastest- growing private American companies.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. revealed that Pioneer Management Consulting is No. 2198 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, which ranks the fastest-growing private companies in America.
The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. Inc. 5000 honorees have not only been successful but have also demonstrated resilience amid challenging market conditions.
Brian Westerhaus, Partner and Founder expresses his respect for other honorees:
"We have tremendous respect for every company on this list, especially our fellow entrepreneurs and small businesses owners. From our company to yours—thank you—for having the courage and grit it takes to start businesses, create jobs, fuel the economy, and serve in more important and innovative ways than imaginable. We are proud to be on this list with you."
- Approaching every decision it makes through the lens of its core values; humble, hungry and connected
- Creating new ways for employees to stay connected to the organization, their colleagues and clients, resulting in a 99% employee engagement score
- Focusing on complete client satisfaction—so much so, that it only incents consultants to do good work, resulting in a 97% client satisfaction score
- Introducing a national organizational design and opening a second office in Denver, CO, in 2022.
Molly Koenen, Partner and Co-Owner expresses her gratitude:
"To our clients, thank you for trusting us. We don't take that responsibility lightly.
Know our growth objectives remain the same:
(1) To get to 75 of the most elite consultants in each market,
(2) So we can continue to serve in guaranteed ways,
(3) To accumulate the capital we need to invest in the communities we care about most.
Most importantly, a huge thank you to team Pioneer.
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ATLANTA, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Home Depot®, the world's largest home improvement retailer, today announced that its board of directors declared a second quarter cash dividend of $1.90 per share. The dividend is payable on September 15, 2022, to shareholders of record on the close of business on September 1, 2022. This is the 142nd consecutive quarter the company has paid a cash dividend.
The board of directors also authorized a new $15 billion share repurchase program, replacing its previous authorization.
The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer. At the end of the second quarter, the Company operated a total of 2,316 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico. The Company employs approximately 500,000 associates. The Home Depot's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index.
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MIAMI, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL) (the "Company") today announced that it has closed its private offering of $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 11.625% senior unsecured notes due 2027 (the "Notes"). The Notes will mature on August 15, 2027 unless earlier redeemed or repurchased.
The Notes will be issued under an Indenture, dated as of August 18, 2022, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee, principal paying agent, transfer agent and registrar.
The Company expects to use the net proceeds from the offering of the Notes to repay principal payments on debt maturing in 2022 and/or 2023 (including to pay fees and expenses in connection with such repayments). Pending such uses, the Company may temporarily apply the proceeds to repay borrowings under its revolving credit facilities or other borrowings.
Nothing contained herein shall constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security. The Notes are being offered only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and outside the United States, only to certain non-U.S. investors pursuant to Regulation S. The Notes will not be registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state laws.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes or any other securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. This press release is being issued pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 135c under the Securities Act.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) today announced it has granted equity awards under its 2022 Inducement Equity Incentive Plan to new employees who joined PayPal. As previously disclosed, the Plan was approved and adopted by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of PayPal Holdings, Inc. in June 2022. Information regarding the equity awards can be found on the company's investor relations website at: https://investor.pypl.com/news-and-events/news/
PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering 429 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit https://www.paypal.com.
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Students at the Keller Independent School District outside Fort Worth, Texas, went back to school Wednesday. But instead of the focus being on their return, much of the attention has been heaped on an email that was sent out the day before, instructing school staff to pull all copies of a list of more than 40 books from classrooms and school libraries.
The books that were pulled include the graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank's diary, all versions of the Bible and numerous books with LGBTQ+ themes or characters. The School Board did not say why the Bible and the Anne Frank book were removed, but parents had objected to them, according to the list.
The books on the list have been challenged at the district in the past and while some have been reviewed and put back on shelves, they must all undergo another review under new criteria set by the school board, the school district said in a statement to NPR.
"Right now, Keller ISD's administration is asking our campus staff and librarians to review books that were challenged last year to determine if they meet the requirements of the new policy," it said.
"All of the books included in Tuesday's email have been included on Keller ISD's Book Challenge list over the past year. Books that meet the new guidelines will be returned to the libraries as soon as it is confirmed they comply with the new policy."
Some of the school board's new members were backed by Patriot Mobile Action, a conservative Christian political action committee, the PAC said in a news release.
How the new policy will work is not completely clear to parents, they told NPR. The Texas Tribune reports that the new Keller ISD policies are based on a model from the Texas Education Agency, and that, ultimately, school board members have the ability to accept or reject any material.
Some parents worry about banning books for everyone
Laney Hawes is a parent to four children in the district ranging from first to ninth grade. She said she understands and agrees with parents who don't want their children to read material that is inappropriate for their age. But she doesn't think this is the right way to go about it.
"All of our children are capable and able and ready for different materials," Hawes said. "Not everyone is ready for the same. I agree with that, and I think that those decisions should be made by parents for their own children specifically. I don't think that certain materials that you don't feel like are appropriate for your children should be withheld from my children, too."
Hawes is one of a group of parents who have become more involved with the district in recent years. Hawes and another parent, Gretchen Veling, both volunteered to be part of the group that reviewed books when they were challenged.
Some of the books were already reviewed and put back on shelves under the old policy
Hawes was involved in the review of Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation, while Veling was in the group that reviewed Flamer, the semi-autobiographical graphic novel by Mike Curato.
Both books were discussed within the last year by parents, librarians and teachers who all chose to keep the books on the shelves. But with the books under review again, there are no guarantees they will made available to students.
Veling said she first got involved in the book review committee when she realized that many of the titles being challenged were LGBTQ+ books. She said both her sons are openly gay and when they want to read a book, she typically buys it for them. But her concern is for kids who might not have that same support at home.
"If they don't have access to a book that is reflective of who they are, does it just continue to make them feel like they're in a homophobic area? So I started speaking up because of that," Veling said. "It's to all the other kids that won't have access to it, who really do need access to it."
Keller ISD did not say if there was a timeline for when the book reviews would be completed. But in the meantime, Hawes said she thinks the school board will continue implementing conservative Christian policies.
"They really, really want to attack our curriculum and make sure that no social emotional learning ever enters our curriculum," Hawes said, adding that there are two other spots on the school board that will be up for election next May.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – Some schools in the Mountain State will be getting four-legged students walking around.
WOWK featured Jasper, the Wonder Pup at Lewis County High School on Wednesday, and now seven more “Friends with Paws” therapy dogs will be at schools across the state, according to the governor’s office. West Virginia Governor Jim Justice, First Lady Cathy Justice and their English bulldog Babydog made the announcement Thursday, Aug. 18.
“Friends with Paws” was announced last school year to place therapy dogs in schools to bring comfort to students. The program is a partnership between the Governor’s Office, West Virginia Communities In Schools (CIS) Nonprofit, and the West Virginia Department of Education. Justice says it’s current focus is on schools in communities disproportionately affected by poverty, substance misuse, or other at-risk situations.
The seven new schools receiving a four-legged friend for the Fall 2022 semester include:
- Pineville Elementary School in Wyoming County – a male Yellow Labrador named River.
- Moorefield Elementary School in Hardy County – a male Black Labrador named Shadow.
- Spring Mills High School in Berkeley County – a male Yellow Labrador named Jet.
- Wayne Elementary School in Wayne County – a female Apricot Labradoodle named Emily.
- Lenore Elementary School in Mingo County – a male Black Labrador named Kylo.
- Green Bank Elementary-Middle School in Pocahontas County – a female Yellow Labrador named Kasha.
- Greenbrier East High School in Greenbrier County – a male Cream/White Labradoodle named Marshal.
During a press conference announcing the dogs’ new roles, Justice talked about his thoughts on the healing power of dogs using a very familiar face – Babydog.
“This is great stuff, I’ll promise you,” Justice said. “This little rascal (Babydog) has saved my life because the last couple years have been really tough, and the one thing she does – when you look at this thing, she makes you smile.”
There are now 10 certified therapy dogs in schools across the Mountain State. Earlier this year, Jasper, a female Yellow Labrador was placed at Lewis County High School, Foster, a male Golden Labradoodle, was placed at Buckhannon Academy Elementary; and the first Friend with Paws to be placed, Coal, a male Black Labrador, was placed at Welch Elementary. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/therapy-friends-with-paws-coming-to-more-west-virginia-schools/ | 2022-08-18T22:02:57Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/therapy-friends-with-paws-coming-to-more-west-virginia-schools/ | true |
WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 18, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
416 PM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern
Galveston and southeastern Chambers Counties through 445 PM CDT...
At 416 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Stowell, or 10 miles southwest of Hamshire, moving south at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Stowell and Winnie.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 2956 9467 2976 9460 2981 9436 2960 9435
TIME...MOT...LOC 2116Z 342DEG 5KT 2974 9443
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
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Scots mechanic turned soldier hailed a war hero by Ukrainians
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A Scot fighting Russia on the Ukrainian frontline has been hailed as a hero in his adopted country.
Adam Ennis, 35, left his garage business to join the international legion, with just basic training he gained from a cadet scheme at school.
Since March, he has seen action in at least two major fronts.
His parents have not seen him since he returned to action in July so were surprised to discover he was featured in a film and exhibition in Kyiv.
Adam, from Biggar in South Lanarkshire, is one of 10 soldiers featured in the photographic exhibition "Warriors of the World - Warriors of Light" alongside a documentary "International Legion" at the Bouquet Kyiv Stage Festival.
Organisers describe the group as "warriors from different countries, who are defending our state".
His father Brian told BBC Scotland: "We don't hear from him a great deal. When he is at the front, it's just a few minutes every two or three weeks.
"So it was a complete surprise to see his face on this big poster Ukraine."
Brian and his wife Linda only knew about the exhibition because a friend of Adam's tagged him on Facebook. He then discovered his son was being hailed a hero.
"A wee boy from Symington, working in Biggar and here he is being recognised in such a short period of time for his efforts," he said.
"They call him a hero but, as he says in the documentary, he recognises the true heroes are the people of Ukraine."
In March, just weeks after the Russian invasion, Adam ignored official warnings and headed to the war zone.
The Foreign Office has warned against travel to Ukraine to fight.
However, Adam made his way to country and joined the International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine (ILDU), training at Yavoriv military base near the Polish border.
His rifle skills, earned in the combined cadet force at Merchiston Castle school in Edinburgh, saw him selected for a unit heading to defend Kyiv from advancing Russian troops.
He told BBC Scotland he witnessed "atrocities and devastation".
'People are people'
In the Ukrainian documentary, Adam describes scenes from his first deployment in Irpin, outside Kyiv: "I have never seen anything like that and never thought I would in my lifetime. Total devastation, buildings destroyed, lives destroyed, lives lost.
"We were on the frontline, the Russians were about 200m away. There were flats, buildings on fire and people were still in their homes, living their lives as normal.
"There was artillery coming down, and there was a guy out walking his dog, in his garden, it was surreal. But they have no option, what can they do? This is their home."
He explains why he felt the need to get involved in another country's war.
"When things like this happen, it doesn't matter nationality, colour or religion. People are people. Ukraine is no different to Scotland and we stand together.
After returning to Scotland in June to raise money to take an armoured truck back to the war-torn country, he went back in July.
Brian made the journey with his son to the Polish border.
"We drove through five countries. On the way, we were met with great acts of kindness - people helping with work on the truck, others paid for our petrol."
It was a chance for him to get a flavour of why his son was risking his life in another country.
"He was showing me where he went when he first arrived," he said.
'Kids were traumatised'
"The railway station was the first place in Poland the refugees appeared and it was chaos when he was first there at the height of the mass evacuation.
"When I arrived, there were only about 300 people - women, children, some elderly men - but what got me was the total silence in the station as I was cutting through.
"These kids were just traumatised from what had happened to them. It was quite upsetting to see their wee faces. They were getting aid and some had only a plastic bag with them."
Brian said it was very difficult to say goodbye to his son as he crossed over into Ukraine.
"We were hoping he wouldn't go back but his unit needed a medical vehicle and that's what he came back for.
"I understood that he is more committed than he has ever been to helping the Ukrainian people.
"As a parent we would rather he would be here, out of harm's way. We are proud of him, but we worry."
"He is appreciated very much by the Ukrainian people for what he is doing. He certainly feels valued for what he does."
The Foreign Office website advises against travel to the area, and says: "If you travel to eastern Ukraine to fight, or to assist others engaged in the conflict, your activities may amount to offences against UK terrorism or other legislation and you could be prosecuted on your return to the UK." | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-62594325 | 2022-08-18T22:05:17Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-62594325 | false |
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Two weeks before the start of the 2022 season, Mizzou football’s non-student season ticket sales have already exceeded last year’s totals but are overall lagging behind recent season figures.
As of Aug. 10, Mizzou had sold 18,589 non-student season ticket packages and 5,071 student season ticket packages for a total of 23,660, according to university figures submitted to the Post-Dispatch through an open records request. Last season, Mizzou sold 18,247 non-student season packages and 7,108 student packages for a total of 25,355.
The Tigers kick off Eli Drinkwitz’s third season as head coach on Sept. 1 against Louisiana Tech, a rare Thursday night game at Memorial Stadium.
As athletics director Desiree Reed-Francois begins her second year at Mizzou, the athletics department has been exploring new ways to boost ticket sales. The school is launching a first-of-its-kind program that allows MU students to sell single-game tickets to sporting events for a 20% commission. Also, for the Sept. 1 opener, Mizzou recently announced a sales special, offering university and staff faculty members four tickets for $50. Single-game tickets for Mizzou's seven home games went on sale earlier this month.
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Despite a reduced stadium capacity of 61,620, Mizzou didn’t draw 50,000 for a single home game last year and has announced only one home sellout since Gary Pinkel’s last season in 2015. The only sellout over the last six years came in 2019 when the Tigers hosted Mississippi for homecoming.
Mizzou home crowds averaged 46,516 last season, which ranked 13th in the Southeastern Conference — ahead of only Vanderbilt — and No. 41 among all FBS programs.
Memorial Stadium’s capacity was reduced to around 11,700 for six home games in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. That year, Mizzou sold 6,013 overall season tickets.
In 2019, Barry Odom’s last season as head coach, Mizzou sold 19,869 non-student ticket packages and 6,662 student packages. In 2018, when the Tigers finished 8-5, the school sold 20,883 non-student packages and 4,693 student packages. That dropped from 2017, when MU sold 24,312 non-student packages and 6,660 student packages. | https://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/mizzou/mizzou-football-season-ticket-sales-on-uptick-but-lag-behind-past-years/article_38d2c15a-d8e0-548a-8f34-3d76e967fe90.html | 2022-08-18T22:05:49Z | https://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/mizzou/mizzou-football-season-ticket-sales-on-uptick-but-lag-behind-past-years/article_38d2c15a-d8e0-548a-8f34-3d76e967fe90.html | true |
Giants quarterback Daniel Jones revealed on Thursday that he underwent a “non-football related procedure” on his neck “early in the winter.”
Jones said the previously undisclosed surgery was “completely unrelated” to the “neck strain” that prematurely ended his 2021 NFL season after a Week 12 injury in Philadelphia.
A small scar at the bottom of Jones’ neck, in a photo circulated on social media, prompted a question about whether he’d had surgery to correct last season’s injury.
“No, I didn’t. I didn’t at all,” he said. “I had a non-football related procedure done on my neck. I saw there was some [speculation] about it [online]. But it was completely unrelated. I feel good. Neck’s great.”
Jones added that the surgery happened “early in the winter” and reiterated that it was “unrelated” to last season’s injury. The press conference was cut off at that point, and he took no more questions on the topic.
It’s unheard of nowadays for an NFL team to successfully keep a surgery to its starting quarterback under wraps. This story isn’t over, though.
Understanding the exact nature of the procedure is important. Any potential health issue that required surgery on Jones’ neck is relevant, if not possibly concerning.
NOT QUITE THERE
Special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey said Kadarius Toney isn’t in the mix for kick or punt returners at the moment because he isn’t on the field.
“Well, he hasn’t done a lot of anything right now,” McGaughey said. “As soon as he gets back on the field, he’ll be pushed right back into the mix. It’s just a matter of him getting healed up and get to where he can just function as a football player.”
Toney sat out 11-on-11 again Thursday, meaning he has failed to participate fully in eight of the Giants’ 15 practices this summer.
O-LINE TAKING A BEATING
Center Ben Bredeson left Thursday’s practice with an apparent right arm injury while filling in for injured top center Jon Feliciano. Left guard Max Garcia, filling in for injured starter Shane Lemieux (foot), finished practice snapping to Daniel Jones with backup tackle Devery Henderson at left guard. The Giants are decimated by injuries as a team, including on the line, where they’ve lost tackles Korey Cunningham (released), Matt Gono (released), Marcus McKethan (IR), Lemieux, guard Jamil Douglas (ankle) and Feliciano (undisclosed) since the start of camp. Reserve guard Garrett McGhinn was even slow to get up on the final snap of the day. Feliciano did individual drills but not team drills. Douglas continues to rehab on the side.
At other positions, promising rookie defensive lineman Ryder Anderson hurt his left foot or ankle but got it taped and returned to finish practice. … Linebacker Blake Martinez was on the field, doing limited work, for the first time since Aug. 8. … Corner Aaron Robinson was down for a while and left the field after a collision with Kenny Golladay on an incompletion, but it appeared Robinson may have just been hit below the belt.
PRACTICE NOTES
Defensive coordinator Wink Martindale said the defense purposefully played more “front-and-coverage” on Thursday, with less aggressiveness and blitzing, to work on their technique. …
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Jones completed a 40 or 50-yard pass to Golladay down the left sideline, Golladay’s third catch of practice and Jones’ deepest completion of camp. The QB then threw a near interception on the next play, intended for TE Daniel Bellinger, that LB Tae Crowder dropped. …
Wideout C.J. Board caught TDs from both Jones and Tyrod Taylor. David Sills had a couple good catches on Jones passes in his first full practice since Aug. 3. …
Rookie Jashaun Corbin received the bulk of the carries with the first-team offense with Saquon Barkley resting, Matt Breida and Gary Brightwell still limited, and Antonio Williams working in. …
Alex Bachman had a good day at receiver, including a TD catch from Taylor. Darius Slayton also hauled in a TD from Taylor. …
Martindale said the practice was going to be “noisy” because “the emphasis today is communicating well.” That was needed after a couple of low-energy practices to start the week. Sterling Shepard, still on the PUP list rehabbing, was loud and exuberant on the offense’s sideline. Shepard also looked great running routes with trainers, better than he has all camp. It seems like he’s getting closer coming off last season’s Achilles tear. …
McGaughey said Gillan was “the player of the game” on special teams in the preseason opener at New England. “His first punt was 52 yards, two yards from the boundary. You couldn’t walk down there and place it any better than that one,” he said. …
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Former Manchester United icon Nani has told Erik ten Hag that he has two options for dealing with his players after Saturday's embarrassing defeat to Brentford.
United were at sixes and sevens against Brentford last Saturday as they fell to back-to-back Premier League defeats to start the season. Josh Dasilva, Mathias Jensen, Ben Mee and Bryan Mbeumo all scored in the first half as the Bees ran the Reds ragged at the Brentford Community Stadium.
In the aftermath of the defeat, MEN Sport understands that Ten Hag is considering dropping Harry Maguire for their next Premier League fixture against Liverpool. Meanwhile, United have approached Real Madrid over the prospect of signing Casemiro while also coming to the decision to sell highly-rated youngster James Garner.
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On the training pitch, Ten Hag will be working hard to see an improvement from his players ahead of the visit of Jurgen Klopp's side who have also had a slow start to the season with two draws from their opening league fixtures. Nani spent eight years at Manchester United and he told Rio Ferdinand's Vibe with Five podcast that Ten Hag has two ways of approaching the United players ahead of the Liverpool match.
"I think the manager could do two things," Nani explained. "Don't say nothing.
"The next game we know he will change a lot and then every player that week will be thinking: 'Ooh the manager is angry and not saying nothing'. Then they will be thinking: 'Who is going to play?'
"That way everyone is fighting on the field. Rio will know that because we have had some situation when we lose, even 1-0 or 2-1 against Liverpool or something like that.
"Or he will try to talk to everyone and point to the responsibility of each player. But I prefer the one where he don't say nothing because you can have a bad day, it can happen, but it will make the players think: 'I need to change or I am not good enough'."
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Armed police stand-off in Cheshire: Man and woman are refusing the leave house and are 'making threats'
- Cheshire Police say they went to address in Uplands, Runcorn, at 1.30pm today
- They were inquiring about an armed robbery which happened in Widnes earlier
- Occupants of the address, a man and a woman, have refused to leave property
Police have been in a stand-off with a man and a woman who are 'making threats' after officers went to the address inquiring about an armed robbery.
Cheshire Police have confirmed that at around 1.30pm on Thursday, August 18, officers attended a bungalow on the Uplands housing estate in Runcorn, as part of enquiries following an armed robbery in Widnes earlier today.
The occupants of the address, a man and a woman, refused to leave the property and a 'number of threats have been made'.
Police have been in a stand-off with a man and a woman who are 'making threats' after officers went to the address in Uplands in Runcorn inquiring about an armed robbery
The occupants of the address, a man and a woman, refused to leave the property and a 'number of threats have been made' (emergency services at the scene)
A police cordon has been put in place and residents are being urged to avoid the area.
However there is not believed to be any risk to the general public.
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HOUSTON, Miss. (WTVA) - The arrest of a trespasser on Houston High School’s campus has raised many questions within the community.
Amiro Alomari, 20, was arrested on Wednesday, Aug. 17.
Chickasaw County School District Superintendent John Ellison said Alomari posed as a new student.
"That's when we realized this is not a new student, this is someone who's not supposed to be in here," he said on Thursday.
Ellison said a teacher approached the 20-year-old and asked for his name, but Alomari did not answer.
The principal took him outside and questioned him about his name and purpose of being on the campus.
"Just looking at conversations leading up to, it looked like this guy was just trying to see if I [Alomari] could get on school campus and get inside a classroom; and that was his goal from what we read."
Ellison said he’s heard the incident may have been a social media challenge but administrations have no clarity on that.
Alomari was searched and officials came to the conclusion there was not a threat to the school.
Houston police then made the arrest. Alomari is charged with trespassing and disturbance of a school.
The superintendent said no weapons were brought into any of the buildings.
There are a lot of new faces at the beginning of a school year, he added, but reassured students’ safety.
"We just put some extra procedures in place that will ensure if a new student comes to our campus that they will not get past our front office until we've had a chance to view their records, make sure they are legitimate.
He said multiple law enforcement officers were on the campus Thursday and will return on Friday.
WTVA reporter Keaundria Milloy spoke with one parent who did not wish to be named.
The mother said her daughter informed her about the situation.
"She did say, ‘Mom, there was a guy in the building and he's been here all day.’"
She claims the school district did not notify parents immediately about the situation. The school district shared a statement on its Facebook page at 1:22 p.m. on Wednesday.
“This morning an individual trespassing on the Houston High School campus was arrested. This person has been removed from the campus by the Houston Police Department. The school is secure and there is no threat at this time. As always, we will review all of our procedures and protocols to ensure that our campuses are secure and safe. Thank you.”
"How did he get inside the building if they are supposed to buzz in to get inside the building?" she asked.
"There needs to be more security. They need to make aware whoever buzzes in they know who it is."
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Colleges taking new approach to remedial education
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) - The number of students coming out of high school needing remedial courses to make it in college is dropping. According to the Alabama Commission on Higher Education, the number of students needing remedial courses in college has dropped by from around 49 percent to 22 percent, especially at community colleges.
Nearly a quarter of students who get into college in Alabama, aren’t prepared to take college level math or English classes.
Jim Purcell with the Alabama Commission on Higher Education says before, these students were enrolled in remedial classes that were often time consuming.
“And they had to go through the whole gauntlet to get through English 101 or the first math course and it just took a lot of time,” said Purcell.
Over time, higher education realized the ‘medicine’ seemed to do more harm than good, so they changed the model. Purcell credits the community college system in Alabama for turning it around.
“So now what we do, we allow them, or at least most of the students placed in the development, into the college course and then we provide supplemental instructions by having labs and address the academic need at that particular time,” Purcell said.
Another way to look at this is the fact that colleges and universities are tackling remedial education through what’s known as ‘co-requisite’ courses, a blend of remedial courses with traditional coursework. The new approach seems to be working: more students are graduating from college on time and it has reduced the number of courses students would have had to take otherwise.
“Our belief is, and we’re still studying it, it’s going to increase the graduation rate and the success of these individuals. And I would say the community college system did a very thoughtful analysis, because there had to be a lot of conversations among faculty and staff to get the buy-in,” Purcell said.
Another major benefit from this model, according to Purcell, is the confidence students often feel. It helps reinforce the belief ‘I can do it’, and that can make all the difference.
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Online-wagering platform partner DraftKings readies for timely debut of online and mobile sports betting in Kansas
OLATHE, Kan., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Butler National Corporation (OTCQB: BUKS), through its wholly-owned subsidiary that manages Boot Hill Casino & Resort in Dodge City, Kansas, has received Sports Wagering Management Contract approval from the Kansas Lottery.
Earlier this summer, Butler National announced sports wagering platform agreements with DraftKings and Bally's Corporation.
The Sports Wagering Management Contract provides for the management of sports wagering, both in-house at the Boot Hill Casino, as well as through three Kansas Lottery approved Interactive Sports Wagering Platforms. The contract term is for five years and provides the statutory revenue share of ten percent to the state.
"We've been working diligently with our current online wagering platform partners to bring online sports betting to Kansans just as soon as regulators give us the green light," said Clark Stewart, CEO, Butler National Corporation. "The approval of the Sports Wagering Management Contract brings us one step closer to that significant achievement."
In anticipation of the launch of sports wagering by the Kansas Lottery, DraftKings expects a timely debut of its Kansas platform on the day the regulators approve the initial launch.
Boot Hill Casino & Resort, located in Dodge City, Kansas, also anticipates unveiling its on-site interim sportsbook and plans to accept wagers shortly after launch of the Interactive Sports Wagering Platform.
"Our team is focused on the timely launch of the DraftKings mobile platform and the DraftKings retail sports book at Boot Hill Casino in Dodge City," said Stewart. "We are thrilled to bring the excitement of sports wagering to our casino guests and to all Kansans."
Butler National is a recognized provider of professional management services in the gaming industry and a leader in special mission aircraft modifications.
Once the Kansas Lottery launches sports wagering, anyone legally permitted within the geographical boundaries of Kansas can place bets directly from their mobile devices or computers by accessing a participating sports book or eventually by visiting a lottery gaming facility.
Butler National Corporation has been a recognized provider of professional management services in the gaming industry for more than 20 years. Following the enactment of the Kansas Expanded Lottery Act (KELA), Butler National competed for a contract to manage a Lottery Gaming Facility for the State of Kansas. In 2008, Butler National Service Corporation (a Butler National Corporation subsidiary) proposed and was awarded a contract to manage the Boot Hill Casino & Resort in Dodge City. When Boot Hill Casino opened in 2009, it was the first state-owned and -operated casino in Kansas. In addition to its gaming division, Butler National manufactures, sells and services support systems for private, commercial and military aircraft.
Boot Hill Casino & Resort, managed by BHCMC, LLC and Butler National Service Corporation, wholly-owned subsidiaries of Butler National Corporation (OTCQB: BUKS), features over 500 electronic gaming machines, 14 table games, and a 150-seat casual dining restaurant known as Firesides at Boot Hill.
The $90 million Boot Hill Casino project opened in December 2009. The lottery facility games at Boot Hill Casino & Resort are owned and operated by the Kansas Lottery. The Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission provides regulatory oversight for the casino. For more information about Boot Hill Casino & Resort, please visit us at www.boothillcasino.com, or call us at 1.877.906.0777.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following is a statement by Jen Judson, President of the National Press Club and Gil Klein, President of the National Press Club Journalism Institute marking 100 days since the killing of Al Jazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was reporting from the field when she was shot.
"One hundred days after the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh we still do not have justice for Shireen, and we do not think enough has been done to ensure safety for journalists currently working in Gaza and the West Bank.
We stand with Shireen's family and her colleagues at Al Jazeera calling for an independent investigation lead by the United States to determine facts related to the killing of this American citizen and veteran journalist. We appreciate the bipartisan support of members of Congress who are speaking out on this as well.
All known evidence points to the deadly shots being fired from an area where IDF forces were stationed and had control. There is no longer any suggestion that this was crossfire or suppressing fire or involved Palestinian fire of any kind. Secretary Blinken has recently asked to begin a process to renew safety measure related to IDF use of live fire. We applaud his efforts in this matter and are disappointed to read the initial push back from Israel.
We hope that all parties can agree that the best thing to do right now is to take the shooter off duty until an investigation can take place, and to also, as a precaution. Take from the field pending an investigation, the officer who approved the deadly shot. Allowing this team to remain on duty with live ammunition puts all journalists working in the field at great risk. For whatever reasons, they ignored clear markings that Shireen was press.
The Press Club announced earlier this month our plans to recognize Shireen August 31 at the National Press Club by presenting her family with The President's Award during our National Press Club Awards Dinner. We have learned today that the family will be represented by Lina Abu Akleh who will speak at the event after receiving the award for her aunt.
Founded in 1908, the National Press Club is the world's leading professional organization for journalists. With 3,000 members representing nearly every major journalism organization, the Club is a leading voice for press freedom in the U.S. and worldwide.
The National Press Club Journalism Institute promotes an engaged global citizenry through an independent and free press and equips journalists with skills and standards to inform the public in ways that inspire a more representative democracy. As the non-profit affiliate of the National Press Club, the Institute powers journalism in the public interest.
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For every box of Shaklee's Meology™ Kids sold, a child in need receives life-changing nutritional support, through Shaklee's partnership with Vitamin Angels
PLEASANTON, Calif., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shaklee, a leading wellness company, announces today it has reached more than 133,000 at-risk children through its partnership with Vitamin Angels. With every Meology Kids all-in-one vitamin gummy pack sold, Shaklee provides essential nutrients and access to nutritional health to children in at-risk communities throughout the world. In addition to the impact of the Meology Kids purchases either online or via one of Shaklee's more than 2 million ambassadors, the organization provides its online shoppers the opportunity to round-up their cart at checkout to support children with this vital nutrition.
"With food prices soaring, undernourishment is a growing, often overlooked issue in the U.S.," said Roger Barnett, Chairman and CEO, Shaklee Corporation. "Our work with Vitamin Angels helps to ensure children get the nutrients they would otherwise be missing in their diet, all of which are vital to healthy growth and development."
The Shaklee-Vitamin Angels Partnership is a key pillar of Shaklee Cares, a foundation that furthers the company's mission to bring true wellness to the world by investing in nutritional and environmental health for the next generation. Since its formation in 1992, Shaklee Cares has:
- Reached more than 133,000 children with essential nutrients
- Helped 150,000 families in need during times of natural disasters
- Donated more than $3 million in Shaklee products
- Provided $650,000+ in family grants
Since Shaklee's inception more than 65 years ago, the vitamin and nutrition company has quietly led the way in support of make a positive impact on the world. To learn more about Shaklee and its charitable initiatives, visit: https://us.shaklee.com/shakleecares.
About Shaklee
Shaklee is a leading wellness company founded by Dr. Shaklee, who invented the first multivitamin in the U.S. more than 100 years ago. As a pioneer in sustainability, Shaklee was the first company in the world to fully offset its carbon emissions and have a net zero impact on our planet. Shaklee products are backed by over 110 published clinical studies proving safety and efficacy and are marketed through more than 2 million micro-influencers in North America and Asia. With a complete wellness portfolio, Shaklee is committed to providing consumers with the products and support they need to live their healthiest lives. For more information, visit us.shaklee.com, follow @shakleehq on Instagram, or like us on Facebook.
About Roger Barnett
Roger Barnett is the Chairman and CEO of Shaklee Corporation, the first company in the world to become certified carbon neutral. A graduate of Yale College, Yale Law School, and Harvard Business School, Roger has spent the majority of his career as an impact investor. In 2004, he acquired control of Shaklee, the pioneer of nutritional supplements, and has since transformed this once analog business into a digital powerhouse with a network of 2 million ambassadors across the globe. He has been selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum and is a member of the Harvard and Yale Schools of Public Health Leadership Councils, the University Council of Yale University, and the Yale University President's Council on International Activities.
About Vitamin Angels
Vitamin Angels is a global public health nutrition organization that provides evidence-based nutrition interventions to underserved pregnant women and children under five in the U.S. and around the world. In 2020, Vitamin Angels reached 60 million women and children in 65 countries, including the U.S. Both Charity Navigator and GuideStar give Vitamin Angels their highest marks for financial transparency. To learn more, visit www.vitaminangels.org.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear pointed to signs of progress Thursday as federal emergency personnel respond to requests for assistance in flood-ravaged eastern Kentucky, but stressed it's “still not enough” as people work to recover from the disaster that swept away homes and inundated communities.
A week ago, the Democratic governor berated the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response, just days after President Joe Biden visited the stricken Appalachian region and declared the federal government would provide support until residents were back on their feet. The catastrophic flooding caused at least 39 deaths. Two women in the region are still missing.
Beshear was more upbeat Thursday in his updated assessment of FEMA's response, while stressing that the state is closely monitoring the agency's handling of relief requests.
Since flash flooding engulfed parts of eastern Kentucky late last month, FEMA has approved more than $40 million in grants for 5,267 households under its Individuals and Households Program, the governor said. About half the total requests for the assistance have been approved so far, up from the “30-something percent” figure he saw initially, he said.
“Still not enough, but it is progress," Beshear said at a news conference. "And when our federal partners, even if we’re frustrated sometimes, are making real progress, we want to say thank you, while also continuing to push FEMA to help out our families.”
That money distributed by FEMA includes more than $32 million in housing assistance grants to help people restore their homes to “sanitary and habitable conditions,” Beshear said. Another $8 million has gone to help people meet other immediate needs, such as medical and dental expenses, moving and storage costs and child care, he said.
Of more than 10,000 applications for the assistance, 1,502 are deemed ineligible at this point, FEMA said Thursday. It said the reasons can include when FEMA aid would duplicate benefits from other sources, including insurance. Other reasons can include issues with verifying the applicant’s identity or homeowner status or other missing documents.
A denial of assistance isn't “necessarily the end of the road” in seeking relief, FEMA has said. Agency personnel are reaching out to people being denied to review their applications.
Beshear on Thursday urged people in those situations to “keep pushing" and to meet with FEMA officials “eye to eye” to do a thorough review. The agency also is texting people who haven’t responded to calls as another means to reach out, the governor said.
He praised those efforts, saying: "It’s got to happen, because our people are depending on it.”
The governor said there are a lot of “moving pieces” regarding the government relief effort.
“We’re going to try to further drill down on the different buckets," the governor said. "How many are pending, how many have been denied, how many have been denied and then later approved, what are the reasons. But we are getting more transparency and more numbers. It will help us to be good advocates. ... And it will help families to know the additional work they need to do.”
Kentucky leaders, meanwhile, are crafting a state relief package for the flood-stricken region. Beshear said he's “getting closer” to calling a special legislative session to take up the legislation.
“We've got to have agreement up front on all the pieces to it,” the governor said. “That is going well. I hope in the next day or so we can get a firm date on it.”
Meanwhile, more than 450 people left homeless by the flood are being housed in state parks, churches, schools and community centers, Beshear said. Of that total, 319 are staying at state parks.
In response to the mental stress caused by the disaster, crisis counseling teams are working in flood affected-areas, he said. The teams are working through the local Community Mental Health Centers.
In urging people to reach out if they need the support, the governor said: “It is OK to not be OK. I don't know how anybody can be OK if they've lost everything and/or lost a loved one.” | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Beshear-cites-progress-in-FEMA-response-to-17382859.php | 2022-08-18T22:16:13Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Beshear-cites-progress-in-FEMA-response-to-17382859.php | true |
Judge In Bismarck To Hear Arguments over Abortion Trigger Ban on Friday
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — A Burleigh County District Court judge will hear arguments Friday in the lawsuit over North Dakota’s abortion trigger law.
The ban will take effect next week unless it is blocked by the court.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Red River Women’s Clinic, the only clinic that performs abortions in the state.
They argue that the ban violates the state constitution which “guarantees the rights of life, liberty, safety, and happiness, all of which protect the right to abortion.”
If the court takes no action, the abortion ban takes effect on August 26.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The housing market’s comedown from its high-flying days early this year is deepening, with home sales in July falling for the sixth straight month.
Sharply higher mortgage rates, surging inflation and prices that remain near all-time highs are making homes less affordable. Sales fell 20.2% from July last year, reaching the slowest pace since May 2020, near the start of the pandemic.
But the slowdown has begun to tip the homebuying equation, if ever so slightly, in favor of house hunters who can afford to stay in the market and away from sellers, who’d previously been able to offload their homes at prices they may have never dreamed of.
Homes are still selling lightning fast, on average, and many continue to fetch multiple offers. But many sellers have had to become more flexible on their asking price and find they no longer can demand would-be buyers waive important safeguards like a home inspection before closing the deal.
The shift doesn’t mean it’s a buyer’s market now — it’ll take a sharp increase in the number of homes on the market before that happens. Still, it is a notable reversal after a housing shortage, rock-bottom mortgage rates and soaring home prices skewed the housing market strongly in sellers’ favor in recent years.
“We know that homes are taking longer to sell, sellers are having to price more carefully and are having to adjust if they’re not priced competitively,” said Danielle Hale, chief economist for Realtor.com. “So, it’s moving in a buyer-friendly direction, but I’m not sure it’s quite there yet.”
New data show somewhat of a mixed picture of the housing market, with sales continuing to decline while the tight inventory of properties for sale keep prices climbing.
The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that existing home sales fell 5.9% last month from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.81 million. Excluding the pandemic slowdown, sales in July were running at the slowest pace since November 2015, NAR said. The last six-month losing streak happened between August 2013 and January 2014.
Despite the softer market, many sellers are still entertaining several offers. A typical home received 2.8 offers last month, though that’s down from 4.5 offers a year earlier, NAR said.
Nicholas Brooks and Nathan Giddings put their four-bedroom, 2.5-bath house in Flower Mound, Texas, roughly 20 miles northwest of Dallas, on the market in early June for $575,000 and got several offers. They ended up accepting a $645,000 bid, but it fell apart soon after. The couple, which now live in Portland, Maine, relisted the house a few weeks later, but ended up accepting a $615,000 offer.
“We started super-optimistic, we got a ton of offers over asking and then clearly a month later it was a couple of offers and much less,” said Brooks, a systems analyst. “We definitely thought if we left it on the market the offers would get lower and lower.”
Even as the housing market is losing steam, home prices have continued to rise sharply. The national median home price jumped 10.8% in July from a year earlier to $403,800. But earlier in the year, prices were climbing annually by around 20%.
Before the pandemic, the median home price was rising about 5% a year, said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist.
“So, it’s still rising quite strongly, even though it is moderating from a super-heated pace,” he said.
At the start of the year, when the real estate market was still red hot, competition fueled bidding wars that often resulted in homes selling within days of going on sale and for well above their listing price. As the market has cooled, however, the difference between the price homes are listed for and what they end up fetching has narrowed nationally.
In January, the median U.S. home sale price was 14.4% below the median listing price, but by May the difference increased to 19.5%, according to an analysis by Realtor.com. Even in a red-hot market, on a national basis, homes typically sell at below asking price.
Data suggest some metropolitan areas where homes on average were selling above the asking price have reversed entirely and are no longer sellers’ markets as buyers have regained more leverage to negotiate a more favorable price.
For example, in the Memphis metropolitan area the median home sale price in January was 11.1% higher than the median listing price. That flipped by May, with the median sale price ending up 11.4% lower than the median listing price, according to Realtor.com.
The trend isn’t confined to one particular region. Among those locations less favorable for sellers are metro areas around Honolulu, Miami, Detroit, Milwaukee and Little Rock, Arkansas.
Another sign that the market has turned more favorably for buyers: A surge in the share of property listings that have had their price reduced. In January, before mortgage rates began their sharp climb, only 6.4% of U.S. homes listed for sale had their asking price reduced, according to Realtor.com. That increased steadily as the year went on, reaching 19.1% by July.
“Sellers are having to drop their price to more realistic terms or kind of a little bit under where they want it to be,” said Jessie Rittenhouse, an agent with Century 21 in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.
In addition, sellers are sometimes offering to pay buyers’ closing costs or to give them thousands of dollars to offset the impact of higher mortgage rates, Rittenhouse said.
Still, competition for the most affordable homes remains tight, even as demand overall has cooled.
An analysis of home sales by Zillow shows that sellers with homes priced in the lowest third of the market are reducing their asking price less frequently than those selling homes in the middle and upper end of the market.
That holds true in the most-expensive markets, such as Los Angeles, New York and Seattle, as well as in more affordable markets such as Atlanta, Kansas City and Tampa, the real estate data company found.
For first-time buyers and others looking at properties on the lower end of the price spectrum, that means their homeownership prospects aren’t necessarily improving.
“Affordability has plunged to the lowest level in 30 years,” said Yun at the NAR. “That’s why home sales are coming down.” | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/us-home-sales-fell-in-july-some-buyers-see-silver-lining/ | 2022-08-18T22:21:16Z | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/us-home-sales-fell-in-july-some-buyers-see-silver-lining/ | true |
A local journalist in small town New York and an aspiring writer in Eastern Ukraine discovered they had a lot more to learn from each other than either expected.
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A local journalist in small town New York and an aspiring writer in Eastern Ukraine discovered they had a lot more to learn from each other than either expected.
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2 men arrested for stealing 57 watermelons, sheriff’s office says
MERCED, Calif. (Gray News) – Two men in California were arrested for stealing 57 watermelons from a field Monday evening, according to officials.
The Merced County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to a property for a report of trespassing. When they arrived, they spoke to a man who said that people were stealing watermelons from his field.
Deputies said they witnessed a car leaving the field and were able to stop the vehicle. Deputies found 57 watermelons in the backseat and trunk of the car.
The sheriff’s office said Erick Vasquez, 23, and Brayan Vasquez Buenrostro, 30, were arrested.
According to jail records, the two face numerous charges related to the incident, including felony grand theft of fruit.
The watermelons were returned to the victim.
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