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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A jury has awarded $50,000 to a northern Virginia landlord who was shot three times with a stun gun when sheriff's deputies wrongly arrested him following a tenant's complaint.
Matthew Souter, 57, of The Plains, Virginia, was arrested at his home in November 2018 after a tenant in his 19th-century farmhouse claimed he had violated a protective order she had obtained a day earlier.
Before the trial began Tuesday in federal court, a judge ruled that the three Fauquier County sheriff's deputies who arrested Souter violated his constitutional rights.
The tenant claimed Souter violated the protective order by shutting off her utilities, which Souter denied. But even if he had cut off the power, Judge T.S. Ellis III said the plain language of the protective order merely barred Souter from committing acts of violence against the tenant, and shutting off the utilities would not qualify as a violation.
As a result, this week’s jury trial focused solely on the question of what damages, if any, should be awarded to Souter.
The jury decided late Thursday to award a total of $50,000 in compensatory damages, and no punitive damages.
The officers had argued that they should be held harmless; they noted that it was a magistrate who actually issued the arrest warrant, albeit at the request of one of the deputies. And they said they were entitled to qualified immunity, which protects law enforcement officers from a wide swath of legal liability.
Ellis, though, said that “qualified immunity is not for blunders,” and ruled as a matter of law that the deputies violated Souter's rights.
“If you have a lot of power, you've got to be carful how you exercise that power," Ellis told the lawyers at the trial's outset, outside the jury's presence. “It was a mistake a law enforcement officer should not have made.”
Ellis also said it's settled law that, based on rulings from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, that individuals are within their rights to resist an unlawful arrest, and that any force used to effectuate a false arrest is by definition excessive force.
On the question of damages, the deputies' lawyer, Alexander Francuzenko, asked jurors to consider the potential danger the officers faced as they weighed whether the deputies' actions were unreasonable. There was an alert in the system that warned deputies to bring backup if they were called to Souter's home, in part because of a 2015 misdemeanor conviction he had for brandishing a firearm.
One of the deputies, Andrew McCauley, testified that he used his Taser three times on Souter, and it was the first time in more than 10 years of duty that he had ever used it.
Souter, for his part, said the arrest and the Taser shots were the most excruciating pain he ever suffered in his life. He said the deputies beat and manhandled him for about seven minutes, and jurors saw photos of his bloodied face after the arrest.
Souter also said that when the officers came to arrest him, they gave him no warning. He testified that he stepped outside and gave a friendly greeting to the deputies. He said McCauley responded with a question about the electricity in his house and grabbed Souter's arm before ever telling Souter he was under arrest.
McCauley, in his own testimony, agreed that was what occurred, though he said he quickly told Souter after putting hands on him that he was under arrest.
Souter said if the officers had explained he was under arrest, he never would have resisted, even though he knew he had done nothing wrong.
“I wake up in sweats,” Souter told the jury. “I have a fear of police officers now. I've lost a lot of respect for police officers because of this.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Landlord-gets-50K-after-deputies-use-Taser-in-17385210.php | 2022-08-19T21:55:32Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Landlord-gets-50K-after-deputies-use-Taser-in-17385210.php | true |
The third Matchday of the English Premier League season has arrived and bettors should be treated to some great fixtures.
The obvious headline of the slate is Monday’s battle at Old Trafford between Manchester United and Liverpool, but the slate also features a battle between European hopefuls West Ham & Brighton on Sunday.
However, we’re here to focus on the Saturday slate and our best bets for those six fixtures. So, without further delay, allow me to present my pair of plays for tomorrow’s action. All odds come courtesy of BetMGM and are reflective at time of writing.
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Best Bet #1 - Tottenham Hotspur Goal-Line (-1.5) vs. Wolves (+105)
After rescuing a point at the death against Chelsea, Tottenham return home to battle an overrated Wolves side, in my opinion.
Given my projections make manager Bruno Lage’s side a bottom-half team over the course of the season, that brings a profitable historical trend for Tottenham into play. Including their Matchday One home victory against Southampton, Tottenham has now won 10 of its last 11 home matches against bottom-half sides.
In those 11 fixtures, manager Antonio Conte’s side has won six by at least one expected goal and has generated 2.01 expected goals per 90 minutes. All told, Spurs have a +1.04 xGDiff per 90 minutes in those 11 fixtures.
On the flip-side, Wolves struggled defensively away from home last season, particularly against good teams. In road matches against the top-nine last season, Lage’s side conceded 2.01 xG/90 minutes while generating only 1.06 expected goals per 90 minutes.
Although I’m slightly concerned it’s a letdown spot for Tottenham, I’ll lay the goal line at +100 or better.
Best Bet #2 - Leicester City/Southampton BTTS + Over 2.5 Goals (-125)
I expect this match will be pure chaos with both sides playing little defense.
Although it’s only a two-match sample, both of these sides rank in the bottom-six of the expected goals table. Plus, their two head-to-head meetings last season were WIDE OPEN and featured a number of scoring chances. In the most recent fixture at the King Power Stadium, Leicester won 4-1 in a match that saw a combined 4.35 expected goals and eight big scoring chances, per fotmob.com.
In the reverse fixture at St. Mary’s Stadium, there were 3.66 combined expected goals and six big scoring chances in a 2-2 draw.
Although it’s slightly concerning neither of these attacks have created much in the first two matches -- both are averaging below one xG/90 minutes -- I rate this is a good buy-low spot. Across its last 20 home fixtures, Leicester has failed to score only four times, two of which came against Manchester City and Chelsea.
At the same time, Leicester’s defense has kept only two clean sheets in its last eight head-to-head meetings against Southampton, which created 1.32 xG/90 minutes against non-Big Six sides on the road last season and failed to score in only three of those fixtures.
The Inquirer is not an online gambling operator, or a gambling site. We provide this information about sports betting for entertainment purposes only. | https://www.inquirer.com/sports/betting/soccer/english-premier-league-best-bets-saturday-august-20-20220819.html | 2022-08-19T21:56:38Z | https://www.inquirer.com/sports/betting/soccer/english-premier-league-best-bets-saturday-august-20-20220819.html | false |
'I cried when she came out!' James Haskell and Chloe Madeley reveal they've named their baby daughter Bodhi Rae Georgia as they share first snaps of the newborn
James Haskell and Chloe Madeley took to Instagram on Friday evening to share the first pictures of their baby daughter, as they revealed they'd named the newborn Bodhi Rae Georgia.
The former rugby star, 37, and TV personality, 34, gushed over their 'beautiful' baby girl after welcoming their first child last week.
Sharing a slew of sweet snaps with the tot, James admitted he 'cried like a baby when she came out.'
Sweet! James Haskell and Chloe Madeley took to Instagram on Friday evening to share the first pictures of their baby daughter, revealing they'd named her Bodhi Rae Georgia Haskell
The I'm A Celebrity star cuddled up to his wife and little girl in a precious photo from Chloe's hospital bed.
In another, the rugby star can been seen taking a snooze in the labour ward with Bodhi in his arms.
While another picture shows him kissing her head while he sits on an arm chair with the baby.
He captioned the snaps: 'Welcome to the world my beautiful daughter Bodhi Rae Georgia Haskell. yes I cried like a baby when she came out.
Precious: The couple gushed over their 'beautiful daughter' and revealed her adorable name after welcoming their first child last week
Adorable: Sharing a slew of sweet snaps with the tot, James admitted he 'cried like a baby when she came out'
Cute: In another, the rugby star can been seen taking a snooze in the labour ward with Bodhi in his arms
'I knew love but not like this! I finally understand what people have been banging on about when they talk about having children.
'To my mega wife @madeleychloe you have given me the best gift anyone could ever ask for.
'You were a proper machine during this period and are a natural born mum. To be fair you have had a lot of experience looking after me.
'Watching you with Bodhi is the best thing. You are already amazing. I love you.'
Perfect: Chloe, who is the daughter of TV stars Judy Finnigan, 74, and Richard Madeley, 66, shared a beautiful snap of their daughters face
He captioned the snaps: 'Welcome to the world my beautiful daughter Bodhi Rae Georgia Haskell. yes I cried like a baby when she came out
She captioned the emotional post: 'Our daughter, Bodhi Rae Georgia Haskell. Born 10.08.22 at 8:36am
Chloe, who is the daughter of TV stars Judy Finnigan, 74, and Richard Madeley, 66, shared a beautiful snap of their daughters face.
She captioned the emotional post: 'Our daughter, Bodhi Rae Georgia Haskell. Born 10.08.22 at 8:36am
'A love that escapes all words, and the best thing that has ever happened to me.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart @jameshaskell for going on this adventure with me. I’ve never been happier. I love you.'
It comes after Chloe thanked the caring midwives who helped her when her childbirth 'didn't go to plan' as she welcomed her daughter last week.
She honoured the 'skilled 'compassionate, knowledgeable and experienced women' in an Instagram post.
Chloe did not offer further detail about the complications of her daughter's birth, but offered a 'heartfelt thank you' to the women involved.
Baby mama: Chloe thanked the caring midwives who helped her when her childbirth 'didn't go to plan' as she welcomed her daughter last week
Chloe wrote: 'Forever grateful that even though my childbirth did not go to plan, I was surrounded by compassionate, skilled, knowledgeable and experienced women from start to finish.
'Here is my deepest, most heartfelt thank you to all the midwives out there who pull long shifts, have to make difficult decisions under pressure, have seen a hell of a lot of good and bad, and exercise compassion and reassurance every single day for those under their care.
'Also to the obstetricians who are exactly where they need to be, exactly when they need to be there, and who manage to see the whole thing through with what seems to be complete ease.'
Baby girl: She honoured the 'skilled 'compassionate, knowledgeable and experienced women' in an Instagram post
Chloe also shared a loving tribute to her husband James, who she described as her 'dream' birth partner.
She said: 'And James Haskell, after I nearly fired you from your post for fear you would be at another DJ gig when I went into labour, you were the DREAM birth partner.
'I couldn’t have wished for anyone better to hold my hand and talk me through everything from start to finish, thank you. I love you. We DO make cute babies.'
Chloe wrote: 'Forever grateful that even though my childbirth did not go to plan, I was surrounded by compassionate, skilled, knowledgeable and experienced women from start to finish'
Earlier in the day, James took to Instagram where he shared an intimate hospital snap of his wife Chloe in labour, and branded the new mum 'a star.'
The former rugby player's photo showed Chloe sitting up and smiling, wearing a black crop top with her bare bump out and a towel protecting her modesty.
James penned alongside: '8 days ago, when we had some semblance of a birth plan. @madeleychloe ready to be even more of a star than usual.'
Labour: Earlier in the day, James, 37, took to Instagram where he shared an intimate hospital snap of his wife Chloe in labour, and branded the new mum 'a star'
James penned alongside: '8 days ago, when we had some semblance of a birth plan. @madeleychloe ready to be even more of a star than usual.'
Chloe announced their happy baby news on Sunday, by sharing a sweet snap of her daughter's hand, while revealing the baby was born on Wednesday.
The TV personality wrote: 'We are delighted to welcome to the world our daughter. We are utterly besotted and beaming with pride.'
'Our baby girl was born Wednesday morning, 10/08/22, 8.36am.'
Cute: The TV personality announced their happy baby news on Sunday by sharing a sweet snap of her daughter's hand
Chloe announced she was expecting her first child with a sweet Instagram post in February.
In the announcement she shared a picture of her ultrasound as she posed with her mother Judy Finnigan, 73, and held up a pink onesie.
James also appeared on GMB - alongside Chloe's father Richard who was presenting - to make the announcement at the same time, where he joked he hopes the baby 'has her mother's looks' and said to Richard he would 'be a grandad once again'.
Family: Chloe announced she was expecting her first child with a sweet Instagram post in February as she she shared a picture of her ultrasound with her mother Judy Finnigan, 73
Chloe looked thrilled in the snap posted to her social media while Judy beamed beside her.
In the slew of images uploaded she also shared an up close image of her ultrasound as well as a loved-up snap with former rugby union player James, 36, who she married in 2018.
She then showed off her growing bump in a series of selfies as she posed in grey underwear and a T-shirt at 11 weeks, before changing into a white flowery body suit for a snap taken at 14 weeks.
She captioned the images: 'Little one', and was quickly flooded with well-wishes and congratulations from her followers.
Bundle of joy: In the slew of snaps uploaded she also shared an up close image of her ultrasound
Exciting: The model revealed she was expecting her first child with her husband James Haskell with a sweet Instagram post in February
Growth: She also shared a series of images of her bump, and in one gave a glimpse at her changing shape as she posed in grey underwear and a T-shirt
Bump watch: Chloe kept fans up to date with her pregnancy journey for the past 9 months
The couple married in an intimate ceremony held at Berkshire's All Saints Church on December 15, 2018.
The fitness guru said 'I do' in front of friends and family after proud father Richard drove her to the church.
The Body Blitz author was also joined by mother Judy Finnigan at the ceremony - which was blighted by rain - with guests sheltering themselves from the storm battering the country.
The new parents announced their engagement in April that year, after the sports star decided to pop the question to his girlfriend of three years.
He had got down on one knee during a romantic trip to Paris, with Chloe later admitting she was stunned by her beau's gesture.
Blushing bride: The fitness guru said 'I do' in front of friends and family, with the ceremony captured by HELLO! magazine (pictured trying on dresses in October 2018) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11128523/James-Haskell-Chloe-Madeley-reveal-theyve-named-baby-daughter-Bodhi-Rae-Georgia.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-19T21:58:30Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11128523/James-Haskell-Chloe-Madeley-reveal-theyve-named-baby-daughter-Bodhi-Rae-Georgia.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Michael Buble's wife Luisana Lopilato welcomes their fourth child, a daughter named Cielo Yoli Rose: 'Thank God for this infinite blessing'
Michael Buble's wife Luisana Lopilato has welcomed their fourth child.
The singer, 46, and the Argentinian actress, 35, shared the happy news to Instagram on Friday.
The baby girl has been named Cielo Yoli Rose Bublé. They already have daughter Vida, three, and sons Elias, six, and Noah, eight.
A fourth: Michael Buble's wife Luisana Lopilato welcomed their fourth child, they shared on Friday. The singer, 46, and the Argentinian actress, 35, posted the news on Instagram; seen in May
A first look: The baby girl's foot was shown in this image as the parents held hands
'From love comes life, light and her... our baby Cielo Yoli Rose Bublé. You finally arrived to our lives with your 3,8 kg!!!'
'Thank God for this infinite blessing, we love you!! Noah, Elias, Vida and your mom and dad ❤️'
Buble and Lopilato became engaged in 2009 and were married two years later in 2011.
Family: The couple has three children: Noah, eight, Elias, six, and three-year-old Vida; seen on Instagram
In February she showcased her growing baby bump in his new music video, I'll Never Not Love You.
The couple recreated iconic love scenes from classic romance movies in his latest music video which also revealed Luisana's pregnancy.
Luisana put her midsection on display as she left a grocery store with her husband, and their children at the end of the video.
Bumping along just nicely! Buble's wife Luisana showcased her growing baby bump in his music video, I'll Never Not Love You
Luisana was heavily featured in her husband's video as the two played famous couples in film, from Titanic's Rose and Jack to The Notebook's Noah and Allie.
Other fan favorite love stories to be featured included Sixteen Candles, Love, Actually, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, and Casablanca.
Michael and his wife announced her pregnancy at the end of the video, where the singer snaps out of his daydream and is guided out of the grocery store by his pregnant wife.
Buble confirmed his expanding family during an interview with On Air With Ryan Seacrest on Tuesday.
Family first: Luisana doted on her children as they left the grocery store
'This will be the first time that I actually say these words, but yes, my wife and I are grateful to be expecting our fourth,' Buble said.
News of the pregnancy broke on Monday after TMZ teased scenes of Lusiana and her bump from the video.
Michael tweeted of the new music earlier this weekend: "Haven't Met You Yet" was the beautiful start of a true romance. 10 years later, the story continues in the extraordinary sequel “I’ll Never Not Love You” 2.22.22.'
On Instagram, he teased the new video by sharing a clip from his 2009 music video, Haven't Met You Yet, which also starred his wife.
'222 the #angelnumber represents love, companionship, a reminder that you're on the right path. The story continues 2.22.22 #howitstartedvshowitsgoing,' he captioned the clip.
Before the baby arrived: The actress shared this image Friday of her daughter kissing her bump
Michael's new video pays tribute to some of cinemas romantic moments, and the subject felt fitting for the couple.
Speaking with ET Online last month, he said: '15 years ago, you saw that my wife had a song that I had written for her where I meet her in a grocery store, and it becomes this thing at the end of the song that it's all just a daydream, and so I had this idea in the Michael Bublé cinematic experience, 'Why can't I make the sequel? Why can't this be the sequel?'
'So, at the end of the video, we find out that like M. Night Shyamalan, instead of I see dead people, we realize that once again, I have imagined all of this, I fantasized the whole thing.
'My wife and I have gone through, I think, the most romantic parts of cinema and some of the greatest moments of cinematic history and pay tribute cause we love them so much, and we love each other and at the end of the video, you find out once again I'm daydreaming.
'But the difference is now, the girl from 'Haven't Met You Yet' video that was his girlfriend at the time, 15 years later, is his wife and they have three beautiful kids.'
Buble's eldest son, Noah, was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2016, and has been in remission since 2017.
He told PEOPLE in December that he lives 'a much deeper life now' following his son's cancer battle: 'I don't wish that kind of pain upon any human being, but I do feel that when you've truly suffered, when you've truly felt fear and loss, it allows you to live a deeper life.'
- Michael Buble's Wife Reveals She's Pregnant in Sneak Peek of New Music Video
- Michael Bublé Lives a 'Much Deeper Life' After Son's Cancer Battle | PEOPLE.com
- Michael Bublé Confirms He Is Expecting Fourth Child With Luisana Lopilato | KIIS FM | On Air With Ryan Seacrest
- Michael Bublé Talks Romantic Music Video With Wife Luisana and Their 11th Anniversary (Exclusive) | Entertainment Tonight | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11128641/Michael-Bubles-wife-Luisana-Lopilato-welcomes-fourth-child-daughter-named-Cielo.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-19T21:59:02Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11128641/Michael-Bubles-wife-Luisana-Lopilato-welcomes-fourth-child-daughter-named-Cielo.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday:
Ross Stores Inc., down 99 cents to $91.01.
The discount retailer lowered its profit forecast for the year as inflation crimps consumer spending.
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., down $7.52 to $11.03.
Activist investor Ryan Cohen confirmed that he no longer owns any shares or options related to the home goods retailer.
AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., down $1.27 to $18.02.
The chain of 950 movie theaters reaffirmed expectations for a weak slate of films during the third quarter.
General Motors Co., up 98 cents to $39.70.
The automaker reinstated its dividend.
Foot Locker Inc., up $6.41 to $38.39.
The athletic apparel and footwear company reported strong financial results and named a replacement for its retiring CEO.
Bill.com Holdings Inc., up $24.89 to $174.29.
The payment processing software company gave investors an encouraging earnings forecast for the year.
Madison Square Garden Entertainment Entertainment Corp., up $2.21 to $64.91.
The owner of Radio City Music Hall is considering separating its live entertainment business from its MSG Networks cable channel.
Wayfair Inc. down $14.33 to $57.01.
The furniture retailer is cutting about 870 employees, or 5% of its global workforce. | https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Wayfair-Ross-Stores-fall-General-Motors-Foot-17385189.php | 2022-08-19T22:00:30Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Wayfair-Ross-Stores-fall-General-Motors-Foot-17385189.php | false |
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A jury has awarded $50,000 to a northern Virginia landlord who was shot three times with a stun gun when sheriff's deputies wrongly arrested him following a tenant's complaint.
Matthew Souter, 57, of The Plains, Virginia, was arrested at his home in November 2018 after a tenant in his 19th-century farmhouse claimed he had violated a protective order she had obtained a day earlier.
Before the trial began Tuesday in federal court, a judge ruled that the three Fauquier County sheriff's deputies who arrested Souter violated his constitutional rights.
The tenant claimed Souter violated the protective order by shutting off her utilities, which Souter denied. But even if he had cut off the power, Judge T.S. Ellis III said the plain language of the protective order merely barred Souter from committing acts of violence against the tenant, and shutting off the utilities would not qualify as a violation.
As a result, this week’s jury trial focused solely on the question of what damages, if any, should be awarded to Souter.
The jury decided late Thursday to award a total of $50,000 in compensatory damages, and no punitive damages.
The officers had argued that they should be held harmless; they noted that it was a magistrate who actually issued the arrest warrant, albeit at the request of one of the deputies. And they said they were entitled to qualified immunity, which protects law enforcement officers from a wide swath of legal liability.
Ellis, though, said that “qualified immunity is not for blunders,” and ruled as a matter of law that the deputies violated Souter's rights.
“If you have a lot of power, you've got to be carful how you exercise that power," Ellis told the lawyers at the trial's outset, outside the jury's presence. “It was a mistake a law enforcement officer should not have made.”
Ellis also said it's settled law that, based on rulings from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, that individuals are within their rights to resist an unlawful arrest, and that any force used to effectuate a false arrest is by definition excessive force.
On the question of damages, the deputies' lawyer, Alexander Francuzenko, asked jurors to consider the potential danger the officers faced as they weighed whether the deputies' actions were unreasonable. There was an alert in the system that warned deputies to bring backup if they were called to Souter's home, in part because of a 2015 misdemeanor conviction he had for brandishing a firearm.
One of the deputies, Andrew McCauley, testified that he used his Taser three times on Souter, and it was the first time in more than 10 years of duty that he had ever used it.
Souter, for his part, said the arrest and the Taser shots were the most excruciating pain he ever suffered in his life. He said the deputies beat and manhandled him for about seven minutes, and jurors saw photos of his bloodied face after the arrest.
Souter also said that when the officers came to arrest him, they gave him no warning. He testified that he stepped outside and gave a friendly greeting to the deputies. He said McCauley responded with a question about the electricity in his house and grabbed Souter's arm before ever telling Souter he was under arrest.
McCauley, in his own testimony, agreed that was what occurred, though he said he quickly told Souter after putting hands on him that he was under arrest.
Souter said if the officers had explained he was under arrest, he never would have resisted, even though he knew he had done nothing wrong.
“I wake up in sweats,” Souter told the jury. “I have a fear of police officers now. I've lost a lot of respect for police officers because of this.” | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Landlord-gets-50K-after-deputies-use-Taser-in-17385210.php | 2022-08-19T22:01:44Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Landlord-gets-50K-after-deputies-use-Taser-in-17385210.php | false |
WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 19, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
406 PM CDT Fri Aug 19 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Arroyo and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of west central Texas, including the following
county, Crockett.
* WHEN...Until 600 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 405 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause arroyo and small stream
flooding. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Ozona, The Intersection Of I-10 And Highway 405, The
Intersection Of I-10 And Highway 290 and The Intersection Of
Us 190 And Highway 163.
- This includes the following highways...
Interstate 10 between Mile Markers 337 and 376.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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(The Hill) – Jared Kushner says former President Trump instructed his daughter, Ivanka Trump, to set up a meeting with Hillary Clinton following his political foe’s 2016 election loss in an attempt to develop a “cordial relationship.”
His father-in-law, Kushner writes in his memoir, “Breaking History,” obtained by The Hill and poised to be released on Tuesday, “genuinely wanted to help the country unite” in the days before he entered the White House.
According to Kushner, who served as a senior White House adviser under Trump, the then-soon-to-be 45th president tasked Ivanka with calling her once-friend, Chelsea Clinton, to coordinate a get-together with Hillary and Bill Clinton.
Ivanka, her husband writes, was meant to “convey that Trump had no intention of looking backward and hoped to have a cordial relationship with Hillary to unite the country.”
“He even told Ivanka to invite Hillary and Bill for dinner in the coming weeks,” Kushner wrote of Trump, who said in 2020 that he “100%” agreed with his supporters who would chant “lock her up” about the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee.
But, Kushner says, Trump quickly changed his tune.
“Ivanka did call Chelsea,” Kushner says in his book, “but days later Hillary backed [Green Party presidential nominee] Jill Stein’s challenge to the election, and Trump ended his outreach.”
A spokesman for Hillary Clinton didn’t return The Hill’s request for comment.
Kushner’s “Breaking History” also includes his account of former President Trump’s recovery from COVID-19, despite offering few details into how serious the illness was.
In one passage, Kushner claimed he knew his father-in-law was feeling better when he requested “one of his favorite meals,” which Kushner revealed to be a McDonald’s Big Mac, a Filet-o-Fish, an order of french fries and a vanilla milkshake. | https://phl17.com/hill-politics/kushner-says-trump-tasked-ivanka-with-setting-up-meeting-with-hillary-clinton-after-her-defeat/ | 2022-08-19T22:03:40Z | https://phl17.com/hill-politics/kushner-says-trump-tasked-ivanka-with-setting-up-meeting-with-hillary-clinton-after-her-defeat/ | false |
Abortion is still legal in Michigan after a circuit court judge ruled that county prosecutors can't charge providers with a felony. The decision blocks the enforcement of a 1931 pre-Roe abortion ban.
Copyright 2022 NPR
Abortion is still legal in Michigan after a circuit court judge ruled that county prosecutors can't charge providers with a felony. The decision blocks the enforcement of a 1931 pre-Roe abortion ban.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.kbia.org/2022-08-19/judge-blocks-prosecutors-from-enforcing-1931-abortion-ban-in-michigan | 2022-08-19T22:08:25Z | https://www.kbia.org/2022-08-19/judge-blocks-prosecutors-from-enforcing-1931-abortion-ban-in-michigan | true |
Greek Results
ATHENS, GREECE (AP) - Results from Greek football:
Volos NPS 3, Asteras Tripolis 3
Atromitos Athinon vs. OFI Crete, 1 p.m.
PAS Lamia 1964 vs. AEK Athens, 2:30 p.m.
PAOK vs. Panaitolikos Agrinio, 2:45 p.m.
Panathinaikos vs. Ionikos Nikea FC, 1 p.m.
Aris Thessaloniki vs. APO Levadiakos FC, 1:30 p.m.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE: FL) (the "Company"), the New York-based specialty athletic retailer, today announced that, in accordance with New York Stock Exchange rules, Mary N. Dillon will be granted an employment inducement award in reliance on NYSE Listed Company Manual Rule 303A.08. As previously announced, the Company and Ms. Dillon have entered into an employment agreement, dated as of August 16, 2022, for her employment with the Company commencing on August 19, 2022 in connection with her appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company by the Board of Directors, effective as of September 1, 2022. The employment inducement award will consist of (i) a restricted stock unit (RSU) award with a grant date fair value equal to $2,000,000 (which will vest on the third anniversary of her commencement date), (ii) a transformation grant of performance stock units (PSUs) with a grant date fair value equal to $5,000,000 (which will vest based on three years of continued employment and the achievement of performance metrics as determined by the Human Capital and Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (the "Compensation Committee")), and (iii) an annual grant with a grant date value of $8,000,000, pro-rated in respect of the Company's current fiscal year, consisting of PSUs (60%), RSUs (20%), and non-qualified stock options (20%) consistent with the terms of Ms. Dillon's employment agreement with the Company. These awards were approved by the Compensation Committee to be granted on August 24, 2022, without shareholder approval as "employment inducement awards" under the NYSE Listed Company Manual Rule 303A.08, which requires public announcement of inducement awards.
Foot Locker, Inc. leads the celebration of sneaker and youth culture around the globe through a portfolio of brands, including Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, Champs Sports, Eastbay, atmos, WSS, and Sidestep. With approximately 2,800 retail stores in 28 countries across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand as well as websites and mobile apps, the Company's purpose is to inspire and empower youth culture around the world, by fueling a shared passion for self-expression and creating unrivaled experiences at the heart of the global sneaker community. Foot Locker, Inc. has its corporate headquarters in New York. For additional information please visit footlocker-inc.com.
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GARDNER — It stands there in a merciless mid-summer sun, a big, old rambling house with black shutters and peeling maroon trim that looks for all the world like something Alfred Hitchcock would conjure up.
The famous horror film director would feel right at home here in a place of scary spirits and hair-raising ghost stories. A place where things go bump in the dark of night.
A big rambling home where doors slam without explanation. A place where, if you listen closely, you can hear the mischief-making of giddy ghosts who are able and eager to scare the bejesus out of you.
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Boo!
“You’re looking at me like I’m crazy,” Marion Luoma, the house’s caretaker, told me the other day as I toured the home with her and tried my darndest to keep my lower lip from quivering.
She’s seen what she’s seen and heard what she’s heard. And if you don’t want to believe her, that’s your problem.
She’s a believer. And she carries a small jar of holy water with her just in case.
“St. Michael’s spritz just for protection,” she said in a not entirely successful effort to calm my nerves as I stayed as close to her as I comfortably could. “It protects me from all harm.’’
Welcome to the S.K. Pierce Haunted Mansion, a 21-room Victorian home that is beginning to build a team who will help bring the old home — built in 1875 — back to life.
And it seems the market for work in a haunted house is a healthy one.
Rob Conti, who now owns the spooky place on West Broadway, is building a staff of tour guides, maintenance workers, and other staff members who give hourlong tours each week.
If you’re expecting homogenized horror worthy of amusement park vendors and October pumpkin patch owners, you’ve stumbled into the wrong graveyard neighborhood.
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The house already has been a magnet for those attracted by history and architecture and unexplainable other-worldly stuff and has been featured on television shows focused on the paranormal.
For Luoma, it’s a place of work that is never routine. About as far from a 9-to-5 desk job as they come.
“I’ve seen full apparitions,” she said. “When I was in the master bedroom, I saw something come up the steps. I heard it on the steps. I was in the Red Room, and there was literally a white mist that went around the couch here. It was in the shape of the bottom part of a skirt.”
When does all this happen?
“Two o’clock in the afternoon,” she said. “Day. Night. It doesn’t matter. They work. They’re still active in here.”
The mansion measures almost 7,000 square feet and once boasted 10 bedrooms. It took 100 men to build with its carved moldings and cornices.
It was built in the late 19th century when Sylvester Pierce, a wealthy business owner who presided over a local furniture-making empire, decided he should have a home worthy of a man of his stature.
The result was an architectural jewel that, over time, faded into a boarding house for drinkers and gamblers. Folklore has tales of murder and mayhem and more.
There’s a story about a prostitute strangled in the second-story Red Room — a tale Luoma insists is more fanciful than fact. A Finnish immigrant burned to death in the master bedroom in 1963.
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Guests have chronicled a hair-raising history of disembodied voices, moving furniture, and full-body apparitions. In other words: Yikes!
All of it now grist for an architectural resurrection.
And, it appears, there is no shortage of people who want to make the rambling old Victorian their new place of employment.
Some 100 job applicants had to be turned away recently when all available job interview slots were filled within hours.
Soon, that staff will be leading tours and telling tales about a place that the city is promoting as a tourist destination.
There are plenty of stories to tell.
Luoma told me about something called an SLS camera. That’s a structured light sensor camera that can detect paranormal entities.
“You see stick people through it,” she told me the other day. “We were down in the basement investigating, and we saw a person at the bottom of the stairs.’’
“And he was going like this,” she said, pointing upward. “And I was like: ‘Do you want us to leave?’ And it was going like this. And I said, ‘If you want us to leave, put both hands up.’ And I said, ‘I’m out!’ It wanted us to leave.”
So, I asked her, just what did this ghost look like?
“It looked like a stick figure. It was an apparition. It was a stick figure with a head like kids draw. I was looking at the camera. When I looked around the camera, he wasn’t there. But when I looked at the camera again, he was there.”
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I think she detected a shift in my mood. A paleness in my skin. Sweat on my upper lip.
“You’ve got to come back,” she said. “Don’t be scared. First, come upstairs.”
You know those horror films where the poor guy about to meet his maker walks up the creaky stairs into a darkened bedroom where the knife-wielding killer awaits?
That’s precisely how I felt at that point.
But up I went.
And she told me more scary stories about ghosts and apparitions and unexplained phenomena that would make you want to turn all the lights on in your house.
“Some people have said they’ve seen things upstairs on the third floor,” Luoma said. “We’ve watched people walk through here. We’ve heard voices. I’d had my hair picked up like this. I’ve been poked. I’m not kidding you.
“The first time I was poked, I jumped out of my skin. I was in the kitchen and I got poked in the side and I was like, ‘What was that?’ That scared the (pause) out of me.”
And now those who believe in ghosts can come to Gardner and work right alongside them.
And join the creepy crusade.
Thomas Farragher is a Globe columnist. He can reached at thomas.farragher@globe.com. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/19/metro/want-be-ghost-host-come-gardner/ | 2022-08-19T22:12:56Z | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/19/metro/want-be-ghost-host-come-gardner/ | false |
25 years after the release of the 1997 Rodgers And Hammerstein's Cinderella, NPR's Juana Summers speaks with actor Paolo Montalbán on the movie's legacy.
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25 years after the release of the 1997 Rodgers And Hammerstein's Cinderella, NPR's Juana Summers speaks with actor Paolo Montalbán on the movie's legacy.
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Classical musicians who have been publicly linked to disgraced opera star Plácido Domingo have been arrested in Argentina or are still wanted by police in connection to an alleged crime ring. The group, which operated as the Buenos Aires Yoga School, was headed by 84-year-old Juan Percowicz. The group is accused of sexual trafficking, including of minors, as well as extortion and money laundering. No charges have been brought against Domingo.
At least three of the individuals whom Argentine prosecutors have identified as part of the alleged crime ring have performed or collaborated with Domingo since at least 1995, and have performed professionally with other major classical music artists and ensembles as well.
An Argentine law enforcement official told AP in a story published Thursday: "Plácido didn't commit a crime, nor is he part of the organization, but rather he was a consumer of prostitution." Prostitution is not a crime in Argentina.
Since Wednesday, NPR has repeatedly asked for comment from Domingo's representatives but has not received any response. Separately from the Argentine investigation, more than 20 women have come forward publicly since 2019 with sexual misconduct claims against the opera singer.
One of the people arrested in relation to the crime ring in Buenos Aires is Susana Mendelievich, whom the Argentine newspaper Clarin has identified as the woman called "Mendy" in police wiretap tapes released to media earlier this week.
Now 75 years old, Mendelievitch is a pianist and composer. In a 2000 biography of the composer Astor Piazzolla published by Oxford University Press, an Argentine pianist named Susana Mendelievich is mentioned as having rehearsed one of Piazzolla's works in Buenos Aires with the composer and Mstislav Rostropovich, one of the most revered cellists of the 20th century.
Though she seems to have little digital footprint of her own, Mendelievich is mentioned extensively on the website of an Argentine-born, New York-based singer and composer based in New York named Veronica Loiacono, who also cites her ties to Domingo at least eight times on her website, including a photo of the two singing together.
On Friday, the Argentine newspaper El Diario identified Loiacono and a woman named Verónica Ángela "Loia" Iácono as being the same person. Iácono, who is believed to be living in the U.S., is still wanted by police in connection to the alleged crime ring.
NPR contacted a phone number attributed to Loaicano's agent; an office number listed never connected to a machine or to a person, despite several attempts. The person who responded by text said that they were unavailable to comment before publication.
Per Loiacono's own website, she and Mendelievitch, along with two male Argentine musicians, refer to themselves as a composing "team" who have co-written an opera, a symphony and a ballet, among other works. Loicano's site also states that the four have performed with such renowned musicians as the late violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin and conductors Daniel Barenboim, the late Georg Solti and Zubin Mehta, as well as Domingo.
Mendelievitch and Loiacono's composing partners are listed as an oboist named Mariano Krauz and the late violinist Rubén González. González, who died in 2018, served as concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1986 until 1996.
Krauz has a limited online presence outside of Loiacono's website. With his last name spelled "Kraus," however, there are mentions of him in at least two reviews from the mid-1990s of performances in the U.S.
On Friday, the Argentine newspaper El Diario identified Krauz/Kraus as stage names of Mariano Krawczyk, one of the men arrested by Argentine police last week as part of the alleged crime ring.
Loiacono, Mendelievitch and Kraus are mentioned in a 1996 review from the Argentine newspaper La Nacion of a performance they gave with Domingo in Buenos Aires.
Another mention of Kraus is related to a performance he gave as a soloist with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra in November 1995, led by González. In a disparaging review, a Baltimore Sun critic called Kraus a performer "who bopped onstage wearing a flaming red leisure suit...jaws dropped all around me," adding: "Somebody in quality control was asleep on this one." The work he performed was excerpts of a symphony by González called Dionisia y Lobo Solitario (Dionysus and the Lone Wolf). The Sun's critic wrote that the piece was "a crazy quilt of kitschy encounters with big-band swing, Viennese waltzes, blues, a rumba, klezmer and, of all things, Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik!"
Despite the terrible review from Baltimore just months before, Kraus also appeared with the National Symphony Orchestra the following July performing the same symphony, which the Washington Post described in a largely unfavorable review as "a sort of oboe-driven Spanish klezmer music."
A 1995 opera called Cartas Marcadas, whose music was also written by the four, was based on a book written by the alleged crime group's leader, Juan Percowicz, and dedicated to Yehudi Menuhin. According to a 1995 article in La Nacion, Domingo praised the work, and included the opera's overture in a concert of his own. Within that article, La Nacion also mentioned that several of the opera's collaborative team were involved in the Buenos Aires Yoga School.
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Heroes recognized for saving life of Bryan ISD student
Raelynn Burton has made a full recovery after a medical emergency at Bryan High School in March
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - After suffering a medical emergency at Bryan High School, a student is being recognized along with the people who helped save her life.
Raelynn Burton was found unresponsive during the lunch period in early March. She was revived by CPR, but later transferred to the hospital due to a critical blockage.
After treatment at St. Joseph Health and Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, Raelynn was able to make a full recovery.
Bryan ISD School Resource Officer Billy Dunford received a Life-Saving Citation and Bryan ISD Nurses Monserrat Alvarado and Lyndsey Miller received Civilian Service Citations for their lifesaving efforts.
Raelynn and everyone involved were recognized at the Bryan ISD school board meeting.
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Breathitt County family ‘thankful to be alive’ after home swept away by flood water
BREATHITT COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - One family in Breathitt County said they are thankful to be alive after flood waters destroyed their home.
The creek next to the Fugate family’s house swept away their double wide when flooding hit, and other members of their family were trapped in a nearby house.
“The water has never got over the banks just a little,” said Bridgette Fugate. “Within minutes it started raising. That water within 10 minutes was up to my waist.”
When water began to rise in their home, Bridgett and her husband grabbed their two children and fought against the current to get to safety.
“When you’re scared to death you’ll climb a mountain,” she said.
Fugate’s oldest son, Martin, his wife, Whitney, and his three-year-old child live next door and were woken up by their front door being flung open and water rushing into their house.
“He came out and he’s looking at me like mom what do I do,” said Fugate. “This debris just kept hitting him and he looked over at me and said they’re going to die and I said no they’re not.”
She said she did the only thing she could think of in the moment: Pray.
“The first thing I did is I hit the ground and I lifted my hands up,” said Fugate. “I said father in the name of Jesus please stop the rain and lower the water and you can ask my son the rain slowed down and the water did drop enough for them to come out.”
After a while, water levels went down enough to get the couple and their child out of the home.
“He kind of pitched that child to my husband, and we brought them up here and my husband went back and got to Martin and Whitney,” said Fugate.
She said, though they have lost a lot, she is happy her family is okay.
“We’ve lost everything that we have worked for, for years, but we have our children. We made it,” said Fugate.
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BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Germany warned of heavy rainfall in the south Friday and put air rescue services on high alert, after severe storms killed at least 12 people elsewhere in Europe a day earlier.
Two girls, ages 4 and 8, were killed when sudden strong winds toppled trees late Thursday at a lake in the Lavant Valley of southern Austria. Officials said 13 people were injured, two of them seriously. Many of the victims were vacationers visiting the tourist region.
Austrian President Alexander Van Der Bellen called the children’s deaths “an unfathomable tragedy.” The mayor of the nearby town of Wolfsberg, Hannes Primus, said the area looked “like a battlefield.”
In Lower Austria, three women were killed when lightning struck a tree near the central town of Gaming, causing it to fall over.
Fierce storms also killed at least seven people in France and Italy on Thursday. French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said Friday during a visit to Corsica that five people were killed on the island – correcting a figure of six dead he had given a day earlier.
Germany’s national weather service DWD warned of “extremely abundant, prolonged rain” along the edge of the Alps could drop as much as 140 liters of water per square meter (5.5 inches) over a 48-hour period that could cause flooding.
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Finland's prime minister said Friday that she has taken a drug test following public backlash to videos that surfaced this week showing her dancing and singing with her friends.
"I consider these accusations to be very serious, and, though I consider the demand for a drug test unjust, for my own legal protection and to clear up any doubts, I have taken a drug test today, the results of which will come in about a week," Sanna Marin told reporters on Friday.
Objections to her partying and behavior came after two private videos were leaked. In them, Marin can be seen dancing and singing with her friends, who include Finnish celebrities and Finnish pop star Olavi Uusivirta, the BBC reported.
Marin said she did know that she was being filmed, the Finnish outlet Yle reported, but added that the videos were supposed to remain private.
"I am upset that these videos have become public," Marin said. "It was about me having a night out with friends. Partying — even in a boisterous way — dancing and singing."
The prime minister said previously that she did not consume any drugs, and just had some drinks containing alcohol.
Reactions have been mixed
Calls for a drug test came from members of opposition parties. And while some have criticized the prime minister for the behavior on social media, others have celebrated it. And it's not the first time Marin's after-work behavior has been commented on.
The 36-year-old has been photographed at music festivals in the past wearing cut-off denim shorts and a leather jacket. While some have called into question her professionalism, others have applauded her relatability and her ability to have a work-life balance.
Her time in office hasn't only been full of partying. Marin was elected to the prime minister position in 2019 and became Finland's youngest prime minister ever. She represents the Social Democratic Party and in her time in office the country has gone through the global pandemic, dealt with its neighbor, Russia launching a war in Ukraine, and most recently, Finland became poised to join NATO along with Sweden.
Many have asked how gender is playing into the scrutiny
The scrutiny that Marin has been under this week has made many ask the question if this behavior and the subsequent reactions would be the same if a man was in the prime minister position and filmed doing the same activities.
"There's a tendency to focus on women's personal lives, their appearance, and in general, I'd say that compared to men, women are more likely to have to really prove their credentials in terms of being capable politicians," said Farida Jalalzai, associate dean of global initiatives and engagement at Virginia Tech.
Women are often caught in a trap of having to go above and beyond what is expected of other people to prove that they are professional, Jalalzai said, adding that Marin's gender and age are likely playing a role in the coverage of these videos.
On the other hand, men in positions of power are not discussed as often in such personal ways, Jalalzai said, leaving women to pay the higher price in terms of the language used to describe them.
"Women have to sort of go out of their way to do even more than a male politician to try to stay out of those types of situations. And it's like, did [Marin] really do anything wrong if we're really just talking about dancing?" Jalalzai said.
"It just hearkens back [to] this time where women's behavior had a lot to do with the respect that they were given or their families were given in society — and it just seems sort of archaic," Jalalzai added.
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Regal will show MovieFarm's Beautiful Blue Eyes in 400+ theaters alongside JAWS
- Roy Scheider sadly died before filming wrapped, so the filmmakers had to wait for AI tech advances to release the movie as originally envisioned, more than a decade later
- Scheider asked for the movie title to be changed to reflect a moving scene within it
NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Excitement for movie lovers that started with news of the re-release of Steven Spielberg's epic JAWS in RealD 3D and IMAX, starring two-time Academy Award Nominee Roy Scheider (The French Connection, All That Jazz), is now bigger than ever. Global distributor MovieFarm announced today that Scheider's powerful final performance in the thriller Beautiful Blue Eyes, will also be seen by audiences exclusively at 431 Regal theaters across the US, from September 9, with its world premiere at NYC's Regal Union Square on September 8.
Movie critic Pete Hammond, said of writer/director Joshua Newton's film, "A beautifully made movie that will have audiences talking long afterward."
The story is about a NYPD cop (Scheider) who has spent decades haunted by the murder of his family during WWII. When he believes he has found the Nazi responsible, he enlists his estranged son to help him exact revenge.
September is the first time Roy Scheider has been seen widely on the big screen in decades, creating a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see two Roy Scheider movies on the big screen in unison. Beautiful Blue Eyes will play in every Regal location where JAWS is playing, across 431 theaters.
The cast also includes Scott Cohen (The Americans, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Sarah Bolger (A Good Woman is Hard to Find, The Tudors), Helmut Berger (The Damned, The Godfather: Part III), and Alexander Newton – who plays the young Joseph (Roy Scheider's character). Alexander also wrote and performed the title song.
Scheider's wish to the director of Beautiful Blue Eyes
Scheider told director Joshua Newton that he signed on to star in the film (then with a working title of "Iron Cross"), because of the meaning of "Beautiful Blue Eyes" in the film. Three days before his passing, Scheider asked Newton to change the movie's name to Beautiful Blue Eyes, which Newton has done in Scheider's honor.
Sadly, Scheider never got to see Beautiful Blue Eyes, as he passed away in 2008 after battling with multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer that came back after he cut his leg while moving house.
A previously unreleased movie now completed with the help of AI
It's no secret that making movies is hard. To make matters even harder for Beautiful Blue Eyes' director Newton, the film was incomplete when Scheider passed away in 2008. Due to a fault with one of the cameras, some shots had to be left out.
But now, AI technology has repaired the damaged frames allowing Newton to edit and release the movie, as he originally envisioned.
A previous version of the movie won awards at festivals, but the film was never distributed. Instead, Newton and fellow producer Kevin Farr, decided to hold back the release of Beautiful Blue Eyes until a time when it would be possible to show the correct version of the film to a wide audience in theaters.
Originally filmed in 2008 and re-post-produced in 2022, Beautiful Blue Eyes is being released in 4K.
- Tickets for Beautiful Blue Eyes will be available to pre-order at regmovies.com from August 26.
- Beautiful Blue Eyes trailer
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Kyle Larson attended last year’s Formula One season finale anticipating a behind-the-scenes look at the so-called best drivers in the world. Little did he know he’d soon be racing against a world champion.
NASCAR has a record seven different countries represented on the entry list for Sunday’s race at Watkins Glen International, and the headliner is 2007 F1 champion Kimi Raikkonen. The Finn ran two lower-level NASCAR races in 2011 during his one-year break from F1 but he never got a chance to enter the top Cup Series.
Now retired, Raikkonen will make his Cup debut on the Watkins Glen road course driving for TrackHouse Racing and its Project91 program designed to raise NASCAR’s international exposure. The Cup Series has raced four times so far on road courses, and TrackHouse drivers Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez have won on two of the circuits.
“Kimi being in a really good car should be able to adapt very well,” Larson said. “I’m looking forward to the opportunity to get to race against somebody like that who has strictly just basically road raced his whole life. I don’t know if there’s a Formula One Hall of Fame, but he’d probably be in someday.
“But I guess just to see how you stack up against like that. I know it’s a totally different race car, but his experience level is way more than mine on road courses. So just to see how you stack up and look at his data and see the kinds of things that a guy like that with an open-wheel background does differently behind the wheel. I think studying that stuff can make you become a better race car driver in the future.”
The field also includes its usual bulk of American drivers, as well as Suarez, who is Mexican. But Watkins Glen is also welcoming German road-racer Mike Rockenfeller, who will make his NASCAR debut for Spire Motorsports.
Kyle Tilley will represent England for Live Fast Motorsports and has four previous Cup starts. Loris Hezemans of Holland has made three Cup starts and will drive for Reaume Brothers Racing, and Daniil Kvyat is back for his second start with Team Hezeberg after the Russian made his debut last month at Indianapolis.
“Everyone loves racing where I am from,” Kvyat said at Indy. “Everyone likes to drive fast. In Europe, it can grow. The more F1 drivers who come to NASCAR, the more worldwide interest will grow.”
But there’s some skittishness over all the new faces. NASCAR has just two races remaining in the regular season and a playoff berth up for grabs. There have been 15 different winners so far who have claimed all but one of the 16 slots in the playoff field; Ryan Blaney and Martin Truex Jr. are in a tight fight for the final spot.
With so many newcomers on track Sunday and the inherent sloppiness of NASCAR drivers used to ovals trying to tackle a road course, those hoping to snatch that final playoff spot plan to be keenly aware of their surroundings. Although the newcomers Sunday are all experienced racers in their respective formulas, the Cup regulars don’t know any of them or their tendencies.
“There’s just a little bit of hesitancy when you get around cars that you don’t know,” said Chris Buescher, who needs to win in the final two races to earn a playoff spot. “Part-time drivers in our sport, they usually come around enough that we know who they are and what they’re like. That makes it a little bit different when we head into a race like this, where we’ve got first-timers. But at the same time, it feels wrong to put rookie stripes on some of the names.”
REGULAR-SEASON CHAMP
Chase Elliott can clinch the regular-season championship on Sunday by scoring just four points.
The 2020 Cup champion is so far ahead of second-place Ryan Blaney that a finish higher than 30th will wrap up the title with one race remaining. He’s got a 116-point advantage over Blaney, who is desperately trying to grab the final playoff spot.
Elliott has two career wins at Watkins Glen, in 2018 and 2019. He leads all active drivers with seven wins on road courses, which ranks him third on the overall list behind NASCAR Hall of Famers Jeff Gordon (nine) and Tony Stewart (eight).
ODDS AND ENDS
Chase Elliott is the FanDuel favorite to win Sunday. … Tyler Reddick will try Sunday to tie Kyle Larson as the only drivers to win three times in a season on a road course. Larson won last year at Sonoma, Watkins Glen and The Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Reddick has won so far at Road America and the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. … With 15 winners through 24 races, this season could set a record with another unique winner. Since the playoffs began in 2004, there have never been 16 or more winners through the 26-race regular season. This season is tied with the 2011 season for most different winners in a regular season.
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The National Pulse – by Natalie Winters
The Internal Revenue Service has spent tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars purchasing guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment.
Reports of the agency’s massive spend on weapons and combat equipment appear to be at odds with its stated purpose of “providing America’s taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities.” It also resurfaces as President Joe Biden deploying 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents to audit Americans.
Prior to the minting of President Biden’s nearly 100,000 new IRS agents, the agency already had a sizable budget, of which tens of millions of dollars had been spent on purchasing military-oriented gear.
Between the fiscal years 2006 and 2019, the agency spent $21.3 million on guns, ammunition and military-style equipment, using the funds to stockpile 4,500 guns and five million rounds of ammunition.
The government watchdog group Open The Books conducted a case study itemizing the items purchased by the IRS between fiscal years 2015 and 2019.
Of a total of $8.7 million spent, $4.5 million was directed towards guns and ammunition while $4.2 million was designated for combat equipment.
“As of January 1, 2019, the IRS owned 4,600 guns and stockpiled 5 million rounds of ammunition. This included 621 shotguns, 539 long-barrel rifles, [and] 15 submachine guns,” explains Open The Books in its report, “The Militarization of The U.S. Executive Agencies.”
The weapons and ammunition are believed to be used by the agency’s roughly 2,200 Special Agents, who are “investigative forensic accountants utilizing specialized technology to uncover sophisticated schemes to defraud the government, as well as assist in counterterrorism and anti-narcotics efforts,” noted Open The Books.
In addition to handguns, items such as long guns, shotgun ammunition, night vision scopes, ballistic shields, and several forms of body armor were also purchased by the IRS with its taxpayer-provided millions.
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Authorities in Iowa say a woman whose body was found dead in a ditch was killed by her own dogs.
According to NBC affiliate KTIV, Clay County Sheriff's Office said that on Monday, the body of Mindy Kiepe was found in a ditch by a man who initially thought she'd been involved in a motorcycle accident.
The news outlet reported that the sheriff's office said the man told them he couldn't get close because several large dogs were beside her.
Authorities later pronounced Kiepe dead at the scene, KTIV reported.
The 43-year-old lived on a farm near where her body was found, the Associated Press reported
CBS affiliate KIMT reported that an autopsy conducted by the Iowa State Medical Examiner's Office on Aug. 17 ruled that multiple dog bite injuries caused Kiepe's death.
According to the news outlets, an investigation determined that Kiepe's five Great Danes caused her death.
The news outlets reported that the sheriff's office said they were later euthanized. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/officials-iowa-womans-death-caused-by-her-5-great-danes | 2022-08-19T22:30:45Z | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/officials-iowa-womans-death-caused-by-her-5-great-danes | false |
BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho high school football season has finally arrived, with teams throughout the Gem State stepping under the Friday night lights for an early 2022 'Week 0' slate.
15 matchups are scheduled for this weekend across the state, including 11 games with a southern Idaho squad on the field.
In the 5A Southern Idaho Conference (SIC), an extra week of games helps the difficulty of scheduling matchups for a massive, 13-team league. 11 5A SIC teams kick off the regular season this weekend.
At Meridian, the Warriors host the Eagle Mustangs Friday in a battle of 2021 state semifinalists. In its first 5A SIC contest, Middleton faces off with Rocky Mountain at home Friday.
This week's other marque games include Owyhee hosting Madison, and a pair of cross-town matchups between Borah and Capital, and Timberline vs. Boise Saturday morning at Dona Larsen Park.
Week 0's schedule also features an interstate battle, with Skyview traveling to Elko (NV) Friday. Other local 4A teams beginning their regular season Friday includes Caldwell (at Payette) and Minico (vs. Thunder Ridge).
At the 3A level, Homedale will debut its new artificial turf Friday in an intriguing bout with Laguna Beach High School out of California.
To get caught up on teams from the 5A SIC, check out KTVB's previews of individual schools here.
During the News at 10 on Friday, KTVB sports director Jay Tust and Brady Frederick will have highlights and scores from games from around the Treasure Valley during the show.
Following the show, individual game highlights and scores will be added to this article. Make sure to check back for updates and more highlights.
Don't see your score? Text it directly to KTVB at 208-321-5614. You can also send pictures and videos from your games -- football, soccer, cross country, golf -- we may show them on air and/or online!
5A:
Meridian Warriors vs. Eagle Mustangs
- 7 p.m. Friday - Meridian High School
Centennial Patriots vs. Kuna Kavemen
- 7 p.m. Friday - Centennial High School
Middleton Vikings vs. Rocky Mountain Grizzlies
- 7 p.m. Friday - Middleton High School
Owyhee Storm vs. Madison Bobcats
- 7 p.m. Friday - Owyhee High School
Borah Lions vs. Capital Eagles
- 7 p.m. Friday - Dona Larsen Park
Timberline Wolves vs. Boise Brave
- 11 a.m. Saturday - Dona Larsen Park
4A:
Payette Pirates (3A) vs. Caldwell
- 7 p.m. Friday - Payette High School
Elko Indians (NV) vs. Skyview Hawks
- 6 p.m. Friday - Elko High School
Minico Spartans vs. Thunder Ridge Titans
- 7 p.m. Friday - Minico High School
3A:
Homedale Trojans vs. Laguna Beach Breakers (Calif.)
- 7 p.m. Friday - Homedale High School
2A:
Wendell Trojans vs. Cole Valley Christian Chargers
- 7 p.m. Friday - Wendell High School
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L.A. County will experience triple the number of hot days by 2053, study says
Los Angeles County will experience triple the number of hot days per year by 2053, according to a new study.
The county, where a typical hot day is just under 94 degrees, gets about seven days that exceed that per year, according to the report released this week by the First Street Foundation, a nonprofit, climate-focused research organization based in New York. By 2053, that number will jump to 21, the study found.
Los Angeles County is up there with Del Norte and Orange counties as the areas in California that will see the most severe jump in hot days. The increase will result in freak infrastructure accidents and cost the state more than half a billion dollars in air conditioning consumption.
“The results will be dire,” First Street Chief Executive Matthew Eby said about the rise in severely hot days across the country.
In 2053, California’s Imperial County is expected to have 116 days in which the temperature exceeds 100 degrees. Riverside County is expected to have 55 days of triple-digit heat — the second highest number for a California county — according to the study.
All areas of California, as well as the rest of the country, will see increased heat over the next 30 years, according to the report. The state will also see increasing numbers of heat waves — three straight days of the county’s average hot day — which are worse on the West Coast.
“The likelihood of a heat wave in California is much higher than the rest of the country,” Eby said.
The First Street study also suggests a steep increase in the number of Americans who will face days where the temperature goes above 125 degrees, including in places like Chicago.
By 2053, more than 100 million Americans will deal with days that hot, whereas just over 8 million currently do, according to the study.
The report refers to the counties that will experience a day over 125 degrees as the “extreme heat belt.”
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“It’s Slamabama, everyone is going to be there!” Chase Hubbard said as he mingled with friends. “I enjoy meeting up with old friends and acquaintances that you don’t get to see normally.” Summer is nearing its end and Slamabama is in town to take over Main Street in downtown Williston during the second to last Summer Nights On Main event of the year, sponsored by Red Rock Ford.
The four musicians of the group took to the stage from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 18th for the weekly event located in the downtown area. Traveling from Fargo, Slamabama is a very well-known and popular band in the area and has played at many different events in the community. Their music consists of country, pop, and rock, and they kept the evening crowds entertained and dancing with their energetic beats.
While music is one of the big draw-ins for the event, the next would be the food trucks. Every week, different food trucks come in to feed the many people coming for Summer Nights On Main. Some attendees even come just for the food.
The Babe Ruth World Series brought several athletes and their families to Williston, and many team shirts were seen in the streets during the event. Summer Nights on Main really helped highlight the buzzing atmosphere here in Williston, showing these out-of-towners what the city has to offer.
“I love the great selection of musical artists and sense of community that we all get. I love being able to be outside with this amazing weather and with these amazing people.” Chelsea Hill said of the event. Chelsea has come twice so far this year and has frequented the event for years.
There is only one more Summer Nights On Main this year, on August 25. Red Roses will headline starting at 5:00 p.m. | https://www.willistonherald.com/news/williston/slamabama-takes-the-stage-for-summer-nights-on-main/article_9629955e-1fcf-11ed-b4e5-57d3813ecd7b.html | 2022-08-19T22:38:38Z | https://www.willistonherald.com/news/williston/slamabama-takes-the-stage-for-summer-nights-on-main/article_9629955e-1fcf-11ed-b4e5-57d3813ecd7b.html | true |
Regal will show MovieFarm's Beautiful Blue Eyes in 400+ theaters alongside JAWS
- Roy Scheider sadly died before filming wrapped, so the filmmakers had to wait for AI tech advances to release the movie as originally envisioned, more than a decade later
- Scheider asked for the movie title to be changed to reflect a moving scene within it
NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Excitement for movie lovers that started with news of the re-release of Steven Spielberg's epic JAWS in RealD 3D and IMAX, starring two-time Academy Award Nominee Roy Scheider (The French Connection, All That Jazz), is now bigger than ever. Global distributor MovieFarm announced today that Scheider's powerful final performance in the thriller Beautiful Blue Eyes, will also be seen by audiences exclusively at 431 Regal theaters across the US, from September 9, with its world premiere at NYC's Regal Union Square on September 8.
Movie critic Pete Hammond, said of writer/director Joshua Newton's film, "A beautifully made movie that will have audiences talking long afterward."
The story is about a NYPD cop (Scheider) who has spent decades haunted by the murder of his family during WWII. When he believes he has found the Nazi responsible, he enlists his estranged son to help him exact revenge.
September is the first time Roy Scheider has been seen widely on the big screen in decades, creating a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see two Roy Scheider movies on the big screen in unison. Beautiful Blue Eyes will play in every Regal location where JAWS is playing, across 431 theaters.
The cast also includes Scott Cohen (The Americans, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Sarah Bolger (A Good Woman is Hard to Find, The Tudors), Helmut Berger (The Damned, The Godfather: Part III), and Alexander Newton – who plays the young Joseph (Roy Scheider's character). Alexander also wrote and performed the title song.
Scheider's wish to the director of Beautiful Blue Eyes
Scheider told director Joshua Newton that he signed on to star in the film (then with a working title of "Iron Cross"), because of the meaning of "Beautiful Blue Eyes" in the film. Three days before his passing, Scheider asked Newton to change the movie's name to Beautiful Blue Eyes, which Newton has done in Scheider's honor.
Sadly, Scheider never got to see Beautiful Blue Eyes, as he passed away in 2008 after battling with multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer that came back after he cut his leg while moving house.
A previously unreleased movie now completed with the help of AI
It's no secret that making movies is hard. To make matters even harder for Beautiful Blue Eyes' director Newton, the film was incomplete when Scheider passed away in 2008. Due to a fault with one of the cameras, some shots had to be left out.
But now, AI technology has repaired the damaged frames allowing Newton to edit and release the movie, as he originally envisioned.
A previous version of the movie won awards at festivals, but the film was never distributed. Instead, Newton and fellow producer Kevin Farr, decided to hold back the release of Beautiful Blue Eyes until a time when it would be possible to show the correct version of the film to a wide audience in theaters.
Originally filmed in 2008 and re-post-produced in 2022, Beautiful Blue Eyes is being released in 4K.
- Tickets for Beautiful Blue Eyes will be available to pre-order at regmovies.com from August 26.
- Beautiful Blue Eyes trailer
- Beautiful Blue Eyes song video
- Images
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Regal will show MovieFarm's Beautiful Blue Eyes in 400+ theaters alongside JAWS
- Roy Scheider sadly died before filming wrapped, so the filmmakers had to wait for AI tech advances to release the movie as originally envisioned, more than a decade later
- Scheider asked for the movie title to be changed to reflect a moving scene within it
NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Excitement for movie lovers that started with news of the re-release of Steven Spielberg's epic JAWS in RealD 3D and IMAX, starring two-time Academy Award Nominee Roy Scheider (The French Connection, All That Jazz), is now bigger than ever. Global distributor MovieFarm announced today that Scheider's powerful final performance in the thriller Beautiful Blue Eyes, will also be seen by audiences exclusively at 431 Regal theaters across the US, from September 9, with its world premiere at NYC's Regal Union Square on September 8.
Movie critic Pete Hammond, said of writer/director Joshua Newton's film, "A beautifully made movie that will have audiences talking long afterward."
The story is about a NYPD cop (Scheider) who has spent decades haunted by the murder of his family during WWII. When he believes he has found the Nazi responsible, he enlists his estranged son to help him exact revenge.
September is the first time Roy Scheider has been seen widely on the big screen in decades, creating a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see two Roy Scheider movies on the big screen in unison. Beautiful Blue Eyes will play in every Regal location where JAWS is playing, across 431 theaters.
The cast also includes Scott Cohen (The Americans, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Sarah Bolger (A Good Woman is Hard to Find, The Tudors), Helmut Berger (The Damned, The Godfather: Part III), and Alexander Newton – who plays the young Joseph (Roy Scheider's character). Alexander also wrote and performed the title song.
Scheider's wish to the director of Beautiful Blue Eyes
Scheider told director Joshua Newton that he signed on to star in the film (then with a working title of "Iron Cross"), because of the meaning of "Beautiful Blue Eyes" in the film. Three days before his passing, Scheider asked Newton to change the movie's name to Beautiful Blue Eyes, which Newton has done in Scheider's honor.
Sadly, Scheider never got to see Beautiful Blue Eyes, as he passed away in 2008 after battling with multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer that came back after he cut his leg while moving house.
A previously unreleased movie now completed with the help of AI
It's no secret that making movies is hard. To make matters even harder for Beautiful Blue Eyes' director Newton, the film was incomplete when Scheider passed away in 2008. Due to a fault with one of the cameras, some shots had to be left out.
But now, AI technology has repaired the damaged frames allowing Newton to edit and release the movie, as he originally envisioned.
A previous version of the movie won awards at festivals, but the film was never distributed. Instead, Newton and fellow producer Kevin Farr, decided to hold back the release of Beautiful Blue Eyes until a time when it would be possible to show the correct version of the film to a wide audience in theaters.
Originally filmed in 2008 and re-post-produced in 2022, Beautiful Blue Eyes is being released in 4K.
- Tickets for Beautiful Blue Eyes will be available to pre-order at regmovies.com from August 26.
- Beautiful Blue Eyes trailer
- Beautiful Blue Eyes song video
- Images
View original content:
SOURCE MovieFarm | https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/roy-scheider-returns-big-screen-with-two-movies/ | 2022-08-19T22:41:25Z | https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/roy-scheider-returns-big-screen-with-two-movies/ | false |
I'll be waiting at the prison gates for the thugs who left my husband like this: Wife shares her hunger for retribution after her husband was severely brain damaged while trying to save his son from a teenage gang
- Annie Wilson's husband Alan was attacked last year while protecting his son
- He has been left brain-damaged by the attack in which he was hit by a log
- His assailants Harry Furlong and Archie and George Tilley were recently named
Annie Willson's mood oscillates between anger and conciliation. She is torn between a desire for vengeance and a hope that one day she will be able to forgive.
When she thinks about the three young thugs who inflicted catastrophic brain injuries on her husband Alan — a man she describes as 'gentle, kind and so very loved' — she is conflicted. Alan has been unable to speak since he was bludgeoned repeatedly on the head with a log in April 2021 after rushing to defend his young son from bullies.
His unarticulated thoughts find no outlet other than tears. He has lost the sight in one eye; his teeth have been knocked out, his gait is unsteady and his brain is constantly fogged. He will never work again. Annie, too, is imprisoned by her husband's incapacity: he needs round-the-clock care.
This week, as the country collectively reeled in shock when an 87-year-old man on a mobility scooter was fatally stabbed, the Willsons' story is a salutary reminder of the far-reaching effects — to both victims and their families — of the epidemic of violence on our streets.
Incredibly, one of Alan's assailants, Harry Furlong, 18, found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm without intent this June, could be free from prison at the end of the month after serving just two months of a 20-month sentence.
Pictured: Alan in hospital after he was attacked by brothers Archie and George Tilley and Harry Furlong
Looking forward to a bright future together: A contented Annie and Alan on their wedding day in 2012
'I'm so angry,' says Annie. 'Harry will just get on with his life and I want him to imagine what he would feel if the injuries he inflicted on Alan had happened to someone he absolutely worshipped.
'I intend to be the first person he sees when he is released. I will be at the prison gates waiting for him. I'll say to him, 'I'd like you to come and see Alan; see what he endures — what we all endure — every day.' If his response is, 'I'm deeply sorry'; if he wrote me a letter, even asked 'How is your husband? How are your family?' and was genuinely remorseful, I could forgive him.'
Annie reserves the full force of her fury for the two younger assailants, brothers Archie and George Tilley who were just 14 and 13 when they beat Alan with such savagery that he suffered four traumatic brain injuries and came within a hair's breadth of dying. The brutal assault happened in a quiet suburban park in Worthing, West Sussex, on Easter Sunday last year. Alan, who had worked as an electronic cable builder before becoming a carer during the pandemic, spent more than three months in hospital.
Having cared for others, there is an awful irony in the fact that he now needs constant care himself.
The Tilley brothers, both classified as dangerous offenders, were given 12-year sentences to include a maximum of nine years in custody. Both were found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent.
Judge Christine Henson, sentencing them at Hove Crown Court in June, said it was 'in the interests of justice' to lift restrictions and name them, even though they are juveniles.
'These boys had a string of 32 previous offences between them, for violent attacks,' says Annie. 'They attacked children, a teacher; support workers. One victim was a 12-year-old boy.
'It's shocking and terrifying. And yet they never faced more severe punishment than fines.
'People ask me, 'What would you like to do to the Tilleys?' and, in my lowest moments, I think, 'I'd cut out their tongues and blind them in one eye,' because that is, in effect, what they did to Alan. But that would make me as bad as they are — and I'm not.'
Her hope is to bring in new legislation called Alan's Law which would permit the public naming of all dangerous juvenile criminals. At present, only a judge can decide if their identities should be revealed.
'Why should violent offenders be protected by anonymity just because they are under 18? The public need to be safeguarded. They have a right to know who these dangerous law-breakers are, so they can avoid them.
Pictured: Harry Furlong at an earlier hearing after he was involved in the attack that left Alan with life-changing injuries
'If they are already known to the police, they should be held in custody while on remand for serious violent offences,' she says. George and Archie Tilley, however, were allowed to pursue their reign of terror unchecked, and, even after they were charged with unspeakable violence against Alan, they — along with Harry Furlong — retained their freedom while on remand.
So a flawed criminal justice system heaped more inequity on the Willson family, who lived in fear of reprisals while the thugs remained at large.
'We were trapped in our home, scared to go out. The whole family was imprisoned,' says Annie. 'Our [then] 11-year-old son couldn't leave the house without an adult. Our back gate led to the woods where Alan was attacked. From the front of our house we could see where the Tilleys lived. We felt under siege. In the end, we were hounded out of our own home.'
The Willsons have now moved from the house, replete with so many awful memories, and it is one of the many cruel paradoxes of their tragedy that they had relocated to Worthing from London in 2016, in search of a better life for their children.
'We thought there would be much less violence in Worthing than London. We had a vision of fresh sea air and peace; a good life for the kids.'
Pictured: A mugshot of one of Alan's attackers, Harry Furlong
Annie, 51, has three children from previous marriages. She and Alan, 47, together for 15 years, have been married for a decade and have one adored son between them, Alan's only child. It was he whom Alan was protecting when he was so savagely attacked. Annie is a warm woman; articulate, thoughtful. She describes the man Alan once was: 'Very tactile, loving, full of 'I love yous'. He walked with a bounce and was so full of life and energy. He was softly-spoken, kind.
'He'd always be there for you, rain or shine. If he saw someone struggling he'd always help, whether it was fixing a kid's bike or reaching for a tin of beans for an old lady in the supermarket.
'And he treated all the kids as his own. He'd always say to my three, 'If anything happens to your mum, don't forget, you're all my children.' '
Annie remembers how the day that began prosaically escalated into one of unimaginable horror.
'Both Alan and I had been working as carers for the same company since the pandemic and it was Alan's weekend off, mine on,' she recalls. 'I'd gone to work at 6.30am. It was a job I loved, but it was tiring and, when I came home, Al said, 'Go back to bed and I'll bring you a cup of tea later.' '
Early that evening, their 11-year-old son had asked Alan if he could play in the park behind their house; he had agreed and their son and a friend had taken a Frisbee.
Brothers Archie and George Tilley, pictured were also involved in the attack which left Alan with catastrophic injuries
Around 7.30pm, Annie got a call from their son saying, 'Can you come? There are big boys here and they're hurting me.' It later emerged that one of Alan's three assailants had been physically bullying his son.
'I said, 'I'll send Dad. I'm sure everything will be fine,' ' recalls Annie. 'Alan went to the park but it can't have been ten minutes later when our son rang in hysterics, telling me, 'Come quickly. The boys are hitting Dad with big sticks.' I told him to come home at once, but he said, 'No, I can't leave Dad. They're hitting him really badly.'
'I ran as fast as I could, meeting our son in the alleyway and throwing him the door keys. I said, 'Don't look back, just run home.' Then I looked up the path and saw a pair of feet, then, as I approached, knees, thighs, then Alan's face.
'I'd never seen so much blood. I'd worked as a healthcare assistant in emergency operating theatres and I was used to seeing trauma victims, but Alan's injuries were like nothing I'd ever witnessed. His blood was clotted; he was bleeding from his ears and, from experience, I knew he had a fractured skull. He was gurgling his own blood. It was not even a gasp, more of a death rattle. I started screaming. I thought he was dying.
'A passer-by, a man walking his dog, had already phoned for an ambulance. There was a log lodged under Alan's side and I went to move it so I could make Alan more comfortable, but the dog-walker said, 'Don't touch it. Leave it.' He knew it would be vital evidence.'
Later, it emerged that Alan had been repeatedly battered with the 2.7 kg log and his three attackers had fled. An air ambulance flew Alan to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, and with no spare space in the helicopter for Annie, having ensured their son was safe with neighbours, she followed with a friend by car.
'At the hospital there were all these people; all there for Alan,' she recalls. 'A consultant told me, 'He's had a very, very serious brain injury. We need to operate now. You have three minutes, then we must take the pressure off his brain or he will die.' So I gave him a kiss. And by then I couldn't stop shaking. I was in shock. I went home. I couldn't eat or sleep. I thought, 'They will phone me any minute to tell me he is dead.' '
Alan, pictured before the attack, can no longer look after himself. Annie described him as a 'completely different man'
She pauses to show me a photo of Alan, taken at the time: his face so clogged and matted with blood he is unrecognisable; his eyes two swollen black orbs, one socket shattered. Annie has chosen to talk to me away from their home. She does not want to revive the trauma for her husband, who — though unable to speak — can still hear, understand; remember.
Only later do I visit him and see for myself the devastation that has been wrought on him; this dear, kind man, frustrated by his inability to speak, reduced to communicating in grunts while Annie — desperate to understand him — tries to make sense of the noises he makes.
He clasps my hands in greeting, kisses them, smiles. This wordless welcome is heart-rending.
'It is pitiful looking at Alan now,' says Annie. 'He is so grateful for everything. This is our world.'
She gestures round the small, neat sitting room, its furniture painted in the muted tones she knows calm her husband.
The day after the attack, Annie visited the hospital to find a police guard at the door and her husband in a coma. As well as the catastrophic head injuries, 12 of his ribs had been fractured.
During the bleak months of his hospitalisation, there were times when the family did not believe he would survive.
'At one point our son said, 'Is Daddy going to be home for my birthday?' I said that he wouldn't. Then he said, 'Is Daddy coming home at all?' And I'd been told then that his injuries were not survivable.
'I was told to go home and plan for his funeral. So I did. Down to the pallbearers. And I told our son gently, 'I don't think Daddy will come back' and as I hugged him I felt his heart crack.
'Daddy was the fun one, the one he kicked a football with, the one who played Lego. He said, 'Who is going to look after me?' and I said, 'I will.' Then he said, 'I've heard that praying helps,' and I turned away because I didn't want him to see me cry. But then Alan did survive and our boy said, 'See. I told you. You have to have hope.' ' And her eyes fill with tears again.
I ask about their day-to-day lives and she says: 'Alan needs prompting to go to the toilet. His food has to be cut into tiny pieces or he would choke on it.
'He is permanently dizzy; he can only walk a few steps without support and he totters like a drunk. He can't write — it would be so much easier if he could express himself through writing — and he can't even watch TV for too long or read. There's too much going on; too many sounds and pictures. We can't have a conversation. There is no intimacy except hugs and kisses.
'They say that the ultimate form of torture is knowing what you want to say but having no way of expressing it. And this is Alan.
'He cries so much. Just sobs. And I just put my arms round him and say, 'Team Willson will get through this.'
'The impact on the family has been huge. We have lived this past year without an 'I love you', without, 'goodnight kids', without laughing and joking.
'I'm trying so hard to get Alan the help he needs. I live in hope that there is someone who can help him speak again. The brain's capacity to forge new neural pathways is amazing so I am hoping, with the right help, his speech will return. I'm just hoping for a word, a starting point, a single brick we can build on.'
There have been days, she says, when she feels so defeated — so utterly bereft on Alan's behalf — that she thinks death would be a merciful release.
'The husband I loved is gone,' she says. 'People have said, 'You need to see a bereavement counsellor,' but, of course, I can't. Alan isn't dead. But he's not fully alive, either. Being carers, we had morbid conversations and he'd say, 'If I end up being dependent, I don't want to carry on.' And that's exactly what he is. In a way, it would have been kinder if they'd just hit him once more.'
But then she rallies, finds hope to cling to. 'Alan is a fighter. He will not give up. He couldn't do that. It would mean they had won, if he did, wouldn't it?' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11128369/Wife-shares-hunger-retribution-husband-attacked-left-brain-damaged.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-08-19T22:41:41Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11128369/Wife-shares-hunger-retribution-husband-attacked-left-brain-damaged.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | false |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin said he pays no attention to criticism or campaign donations when making decisions about what’s best for West Virginia.
Sounding somewhat exasperated when asked whether the dramatic bump in campaign contributions he’s received from oil and gas interests in recent months influenced his voting, the conservative Democrat said no.
During a roundtable discussion in Charleston on Friday, he said his office’s outsized role in drafting the sprawling economic package signed this week by U.S. President Joe Biden made him the target of the “far left,” environmental activists and the fossil fuel industry all at once.
“Nobody in their right mind would go through what I have gone through with my staff for the last eight months, taking all the crap we’ve taken from everybody in the country” if they weren’t doing what they believe is right, he said.
“I can be the hero and the villain all within a 24-hour shift,” he said. “The bottom line is, I make no excuses for what I think is right. I’ve always said this — If I can explain that, I can vote. I can take the criticism I know that goes with those votes. That’s part of the game.”
Manchin, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, offered a key vote needed to pass the Democrats’ flagship climate and health care bill in the 50-50 Senate. The House used a party-line 220-207 vote to pass the legislation, which Biden signed Tuesday.
The law, which places caps on prescription drug prices for seniors and extends subsidies meant to help Americans pay for health insurance, contains billions in incentives for clean energy. Owing largely to Manchin’s influence, it also offers renewed support for traditional fuel sources such as coal and natural gas with steps such as subsidies for technology that reduces carbon emissions.
“I wasn’t sure that they would ever agree because of my friends on the far left, the environmental community, was totally committed to dispersing and basically eliminating fossil,” Manchin said of the law.
But Manchin said there is “no way you can get rid of fossil in any short period of time.”
“You can use it cleaner as you basically transition, but it’s going to be with us, and you got to do the best you can with it,” he said. “So, I wanted to make sure they understood that.”
On the other side, he said he’s “been criticized by all my friends in the coal industry” because they think the bill doesn’t go far enough to protect their interests.
“(They) for some reason think that this is going to be harmful,” said Manchin, whose family owns Enersystems, a coal brokerage company. “I think it basically is a pathway forward so we can continue to produce industry, provide energy that our country needs.”
Under an agreement with the Democratic leadership, Manchin proposed a separate list of legislation to speed up federal permitting and make energy projects harder to block under federal acts. He also specifically asked that federal agencies “take all necessary actions” to streamline completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a project long opposed by environmental activists.
The 303-mile (487-kilometer) pipeline, now mostly finished, would transport natural gas drilled from the Appalachian Basin through West Virginia and Virginia. Legal battles have delayed completion by nearly four years and doubled the pipeline’s cost, now estimated at $6.6 billion.
This election cycle, Manchin has received more campaign contributions from natural gas pipeline companies than any other member of U.S. Congress — contributions that have increased from $20,000 in 2020 to $331,910 in 2022, according to campaign finance records compiled by Open Secrets.
On Friday, he said his agenda in advocating for the pipeline was to bring down the cost for consumers by increasing the size of the market and creating jobs. He insisted the campaign money had nothing to do with it.
“I understand the cynical part of that. People look at it and they go, ‘Well, they’re just taking care of themselves,'” he said. “I’m sorry people, I have no idea who contributes. I don’t look at that, I don’t go out and advocate that at all.”
He said lawmakers need to “rise above” corporate and party pressure to deliver for their constituents.
“Politics has become a very, very nasty, destructive type of process … both sides are guilty of weaponizing the good of America for the good of the party — both sides, and it’s just not right for our country,” he said. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/political-news/manchin-dismisses-critics-embraces-hero-and-villain-role/ | 2022-08-19T22:43:20Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/political-news/manchin-dismisses-critics-embraces-hero-and-villain-role/ | true |
ZOLOCHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dr. Ilona Butova almost looks out of place in her neatly pressed lavender scrubs as she walks through a door frame that hangs from a crumbled wall into what used to be an administrative office of her hospital in Zolochiv.
Not one building in the facility in the northeastern Ukrainian town near the Russian border has escaped getting hit by artillery shells.
Since Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24, space to treat patients at the hospital has shrunk constantly because of damage. Her staff has dwindled to 47 from 120. And the number of people seeking treatment in the small town 18 kilometers (11 miles) from the border is often higher now than before the fighting began.
Ukraine’s health care system struggled for years because of corruption, mismanagement and the COVID-19 pandemic. But the war has only made things worse, with facilities damaged or destroyed, medical staff relocating to safer places and many drugs unavailable or in short supply. Care is being provided in the hardest-hit areas by doctors who have refused to evacuate or have rushed in as volunteers, putting themselves at great risk.
“It’s very hard, but people need us. We have to stay and help,” said Butova, a neurologist who also is the administrator of the hospital in the town near Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. She added that she has had to do more with fewer resources.
The World Health Organization declared its highest level of emergency in Ukraine the day after the invasion, coordinating a major relief effort there and in neighboring countries whose medical systems also are under strain.
About 6.4 million people have fled to other European countries, and a slightly higher number are internally displaced, according to U.N. estimates. That presents a major challenge to a health care system built on family doctor referrals and regionally separate administrations.
Across Ukraine, 900 hospitals have been damaged and another 123 have been destroyed, said Health Minister Viktor Liashko, noting: “Those 123 are gone, and we’re having to find new sites to build replacements.”
In addition, scores of pharmacies and ambulances have been destroyed or are seriously damaged, and at least 18 civilian medical staff have been killed and 59 others seriously wounded, he said.
“In occupied areas, the referral system has totally broken down,” Liashko told The Associated Press. “People’s health and their lives are in danger.”
Kyiv’s economy was drained by the conflict with Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine that began in 2014. When he came to power five years later, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy inherited a health care system that was undermined by reforms launched under his predecessor that had slashed government subsidies and closed many small-town hospitals. During the pandemic, people in those communities had to seek care in large cities — sometimes waiting as long as eight hours for an ambulance in severe cases of COVID-19.
As Russia has expanded the territory it controls in eastern and southern Ukraine, the supply of drugs in those areas has dwindled, along with medical staff to administer them. In the southern front-line town of Mykolaiv, “things have been very difficult,” volunteer Andrii Skorokhod said.
“Pharmacies have not been working, and shortages have become increasingly acute: Hospital staff were among those evacuated, including specialists. We just need more staff,” said Skorokhod, who heads a Red Cross initiative to provide residents with free medications.
Volunteers like Skorokhod saved the life of 79-year-old Vanda Banderovska, whose home near Mykolaiv was destroyed by Russian artillery. Her 53-year-old son, Roman, was killed, and she was brought to the hospital badly bruised and barely conscious.
“My son went out to the car to get his mobile phone when the Russians started shelling. He was hit in the head,” she said at a recovery ward, her voice trembling with emotion. “They’ve destroyed everything and I have nothing left.”
Banderovska said she was deeply grateful to the people who saved her life but also overcome by grief and anger.
“The pain I feel is so great. When doctors took me to the hospital I was bruised black and blue but I slowly recovered,” she said.
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Derek Gatopoulos reported from Kyiv. Vasilisa Stepanenko and Hanna Arhirova contributed to this report from Kyiv.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ largest bank, Bank of Cyprus, said Friday it has rejected three successive cash bids over the last three months by LSF XI Investments LLC to buy all its share capital on the grounds that they “fundamentally undervalue” the financial institution.
In a statement, the bank’s Board said the first bid was made on May 5 at a price of 1.25 euros ($1.26) per share, followed by a second 15 days later at 1.31 euros ($1.32) per share.
The third bid by the Dallas-based, Cayman Island’s registered LSF XI Investments — also known as Lone Star — was made July 8 at a price of 1.51 euros ($1.52) per share.
The Board said it “unequivocally” rejected the bids because apart from undervaluing the company and its future prospects, they were “not in the best interests of the company.”
It added that the Lone Star buyout attempt also doesn’t “adequately address the complexities of completing a transaction to acquire Bank of Cyprus, given its strategic importance to Cyprus.”
The Bank of Cyprus has been weighed down by bad loans since a 2013 financial crisis that forced a nearly bankrupt Cyprus to secure a multibillion-euro rescue deal from its eurozone partners. It also resulted in the seizure of hundreds of millions in uninsured savings in the Bank of Cyprus and the closure of its second-largest lender, Laiki Bank.
The Bank of Cyprus board said it’s committed to becoming a “stronger, safer and more focused institution” and plans a return to dividend distributions next year. | https://www.kark.com/news/business/bank-of-cyprus-rejects-3-lone-star-bids-for-share-buyout/ | 2022-08-19T22:47:40Z | https://www.kark.com/news/business/bank-of-cyprus-rejects-3-lone-star-bids-for-share-buyout/ | true |
FILE – A demonstrator holds a placard reading “Scammer, thief, killer, Pfizer” during a protest against the vaccine pass and vaccinations to…
FILE – A demonstrator holds a placard reading “Scammer, thief, killer, Pfizer” during a protest against the vaccine pass and vaccinations to protect against COVID-19 in front of the Pfizer headquarters, in Paris, on Jan. 29, 2022. An anti-vaccine group that has harassed doctors and public officials in Italy and France is still active on platforms like Facebook despite efforts to rein in their abuse and misinformation. The organization, known as V_V, bombards its victims with dozens, hundreds or even thousands of abusive posts. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
Anti-vax group in Europe thrives online, thwarts tech effort
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FILE – A demonstrator holds a placard reading “Scammer, thief, killer, Pfizer” during a protest against the vaccine pass and vaccinations to protect against COVID-19 in front of the Pfizer headquarters, in Paris, on Jan. 29, 2022. An anti-vaccine group that has harassed doctors and public officials in Italy and France is still active on platforms like Facebook despite efforts to rein in their abuse and misinformation. The organization, known as V_V, bombards its victims with dozens, hundreds or even thousands of abusive posts. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) | https://www.kark.com/news/health/ap-health/anti-vax-group-in-europe-thrives-online-thwarts-tech-effort-2/ | 2022-08-19T22:49:39Z | https://www.kark.com/news/health/ap-health/anti-vax-group-in-europe-thrives-online-thwarts-tech-effort-2/ | true |
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So how's a lowly banana going to compete for attention?
Some stores are getting wise to shoppers' desires to eat better, as well as the challenges they face in doing so. Some are subtly shifting the focus to healthier products by using the same marketing tricks the large food companies and restaurants have used for years. The bonus for them is that they can sell more and waste less.
Brian Wansink, the co-director of the Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs, says grocery store sales goals are compatible with public health goals. "Grocery stores want you to buy healthy things. They want you to buy produce, because if produce goes bad, they lose money," he says.
But just putting more produce and healthy food choices in the aisles is not going to cut it, he says. "Even when you give people these incredibly healthy stores, they're not buying escarole and tofu -- no, they're buying what they want. It's not escarole and tofu simply because it's in front of them," he says.
Wansink is also the author of Mindless Eating, a book about why we eat what we eat, and the subtle cues that make that happen.
He's done a lot of research on produce and found that there are small things stores can do that will help them move a lot more volume of the healthy stuff.
Take product placement and soft, focused lighting, for example. Items that are highlighted in this way -- even if they aren't on sale -- sell about 30 percent more, Wansink says. They just look more appealing than products under harsh, overhead fluorescent lights.
Leading Customers To Good Nutrition
One company that's taken some of this kind of advice to heart is Wegmans, a regional grocery store chain located primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region.
And it seems to work.
Like many people, Terri Williams of Bladensburg, Md., struggles with eating better. She wants to incorporate more fruits and vegetables in her diet, for one thing. But it's a challenge, she says. Her daughters are grown and out of the house, and she doesn't cook much for herself.
But when she walks into the brand new Wegmans in Lanham, Md., for the first time, she gets excited.
The produce section is front and center. Williams' eyes light up when she spies some of her favorite vegetables, lit by a soft spotlight, and right by the entrance.
"We're going to get some candy yams," she says excitedly, and starts piling several into her shopping cart and talking about how she'll roast them later.
And that's exactly the kind of enthusiasm Krystal Register wants to hear. She's a registered dietician and a staff nutritionist at Wegmans. It's her job to help customers and employees make healthier food choices.
"We actually have lightened the ceiling in this new store, and we're using some natural light with some high windows, and yes, we direct the lighting right on the product," she says.
Register shows off the new store to a visitor: Near the produce, a trained vegetable adviser prepares some of the featured items for customers to taste. She hands out advice and recipes with a smile.
"I love that the vegetables are right there, before you get to the processed food," says Gretchen Muir of Upper Marlboro, Md., who was shopping with her husband, Kenny, on a recent weekday.
Grocery stores want you to buy healthy things. They want you to buy produce, because if produce goes bad, they lose money.
Muir also thinks the store's varied offerings improve the neighborhood's food choices. "There's too much fast food in this area," she adds.
Around the corner from produce, there's the smell of prepared foods being cooked and served. Smells can be used as an enticer, rather than just "fanning them out of the building," as many stores do, says David Glenn, a doctoral student at the University of Connecticut. Glenn spent 20 years in food marketing before returning to school and is working on ways to improve kids' diets using marketing like this.
And then there's the Wegmans bakery, where rows of whole grain breads sit side by side with white bread -- they're not relegated to the back corner somewhere.
The frozen pizza is placed right next to the frozen vegetables at the end of another aisle, and that's by design, says Register.
"Our mission ... is to help our customers with good nutrition in the aisles, and on the plate," she says.
Aside from lighting, it's important to put healthy products at eye level, Wansink says. "What you're doing is encouraging people to take stuff that's right in front of their eyes," he says. That way, they don't have to work, looking up and down.
Signs Matter
Also, take a hint from a good restaurant menu. Describe the foods you want to highlight a little, he says.
For example, if you describe something as "succulent Italian seafood filet" rather than just "seafood filet," it will sell 27 percent more, according to Wansink's research for Mindless Eating.
And then there's the concept of anchoring. That's when stores offer a deal on a set amount of items. It makes people buy more than they ordinarily would, because that limited-amount number sticks in their brains, he says.
Wansink admits that even well-educated consumers fall for marketing. Shortly after he published research on anchoring, he found himself with a friend in the checkout aisle, where he saw a special on gum.
He says he saw a sign advertising eight packs for $1, and started counting them out on the conveyor belt. His friend pointed out that he had just done studies on the topic, and, he says, he started putting the gum back.
Don't Overdo It
The danger with these marketing tools is in going overboard, bombarding people with public health messages about how they should eat better. If people feel persuaded, they will resist, Wansink says. Stores have got to make the shoppers feel like it's their choice.
"It's like when you're at a stoplight and the light turns green and the person behind you honks all of a sudden, what do you do? You pull away a little slower," he says.
These marketing methods may be a little bit trickier when you're a small mom-and-pop shop. But research shows that some simple changes can work.
Romny Tejeda runs a small urban market in Hartford, Conn. When he first added fresh fruit and vegetables to the inventory of Romny Mini Mart a few years ago, he put them in the back of the store.
He found that he was throwing away a lot of spoiled produce -- until he moved those items up front, by the door, just like the bigger stores do.
"I used to probably sell a case of bananas every three days, now it's pretty much two a day -- two cases a day," he says.
The same goes for the avocados, peppers and tomatoes he's recently added. In fact, he's expanding his fresh food offerings and is putting in a large new refrigerator case to keep the items fresh.
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PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Summer is in full bloom, you might say. Mike Stevens has a look at what nature has allowed to happen in the PhotoLink Library.
Check out the PhotoLink Library Photo Gallery and learn how to submit your photos HERE.
Head on over to YouTube to see more of your pictures in the PhotoLink Library. | https://www.wnep.com/article/life/photolink/summer-in-full-bloom-in-the-photolink-library-pictures-photos-mike-stevens/523-f661f98e-e4d9-4c7f-bb7a-6a8d7799e31a | 2022-08-19T22:50:37Z | https://www.wnep.com/article/life/photolink/summer-in-full-bloom-in-the-photolink-library-pictures-photos-mike-stevens/523-f661f98e-e4d9-4c7f-bb7a-6a8d7799e31a | true |
Hi Guys
I use my Mikrotik RB750Gr3 to connect to Sparks UFB Since swapping over to the RB750Gr3 , I noticed that after updating my router to the latest build available or a power outage, really anything that causes my router to reboot, the internet will not reconnect unless the routerboard is switched off for at minimum 10 minutes, if this 10 minute stand down period is not observed. the internet will sit in a disconnected state until the 10 minute window is observed. I contacted Spark who were not overly helpful and stated that 3rd party modems could not be provided any form of technical support, and would not provide connection attempt logs and told me repeatedly that "Nothing abnormal was happening with my connection" As a result of this issue any hope of automating the route update process is out the window, since I know that it won't come back online afterwards without manual intervention.
Last night in my frustration i powered on the Spark Provided router, which was about to connect within 10 seconds of powering on with 10 minute cool down
I've not used Mikrotik before this router but followed the setup guide found here https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=66&topicid=161676 and once it is connected, everything runs like a significantly smoother and faster than the speeds i get from my Spark modem.
Thankfully once the connection is established, as long as i don't lose power or similar things, the connection stays active indefinitely. However I would love to get to the bottom of this, so if anyone has any ideas, I've reached the end of my knowledge :D.
I am currently Running MMIPS - 6.48 Stable
Cheers,
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Ben Burtt has lived in a galaxy far, far away from the very start.
"I first came out here with a gang led by George Lucas in 1978," Burtt said.
He was hired by George Lucas to record sounds for a movie called "Star Wars." His job was to find the sounds for ships, creatures and lightsabers.
"I was very fortunate to arrive on the scene in sound at a time when a revolution took place," Burtt said. "From a creative standpoint, there was more of a demand for — especially with special effects movies — demand for new material, not just a recycling of sound libraries from the past."
Burtt became a legendary sound designer who makes an appearance the new Disney+ documentary series, "Light & Magic." The six episodes highlight the groundbreaking visual effects in "Star Wars" and many other films.
"Light & Magic” director Larry Kasdan, who also co-wrote “The Empire Strikes Back” and a Han Solo spinoff, says a film just isn’t the same without good sound.
"That's always been the easiest experiment you can do in movies is turn off the sound," Kasdan said. "Suddenly it's just, 'Oh that's an interesting image, but I don't see what got me so excited.' Then you start adding back the sound, and you say, 'Oh, that’s it.'"
Skywalker Ranch is the secluded filmmaker's retreat George Lucas built near San Francisco after the success of "Star Wars." There, Burtt and his team found the perfect place to record a huge library of iconic movie sounds.
"When George Lucas first bought the ranch, this was an empty valley here," Burtt said while walking the grounds. "We had a shooting range right in this area where we are where we did all the guns for 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'" There's a nice redwood forest on that ridge there, and we used to go up in there because of the acoustics were really nice. We even did Luke running through the swamps of Dagobah, jumping, running along with Yoda on his back."
Burtt says that's the magic of sound: You can record it anywhere as long as you get the right kind.
He is now the winner of multiple Academy Awards.
"In a way, whatever [Industrial Light & Magic] does, however spectacular, the illusion is not complete until sound is added," Burtt said. "You always feel like you're part of the ILM team, in a sense. You're part of the film making team, giving a final touch to the illusions."
Burtt has upheld a legendary career, creating old-school sounds that are still helping shape the future of visual effects.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 19, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
409 PM CDT Fri Aug 19 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southeastern
Williamson, northeastern Travis, northeastern Bastrop and
northwestern Lee Counties through 500 PM CDT...
At 408 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Pflugerville to 8 miles east of Coupland.
Movement was northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Austin, Round Rock, Georgetown, Pflugerville, Taylor, Elgin, Granger,
Lexington, Windemere, Hutto, Manor, Thrall, Granger Dam, Tanglewood,
Camp Swift, Coupland, Circle D-KC Estates, Knobb Springs, Laneport
and Wells Branch.
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.
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Snap and HBO Max have partnered on a new Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon feature for Snapchat users. From Sunday, if you're in the right place you'll see Snapchat's new "Landmarker Lenses" starring dragons.
You'll have to be in certain cities and locations to unlock the full AR experience.
Here are the locations revealed so far for the special AR dragons on Snapchat:
- Los Angeles: Venice Beach Grand Canals
- Rio De Janeiro: Princess Isabel Statue
- London: Tower Bridge
- Chennai: Sankagiri Fort
- Mumbai: CST Station (IE Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus)
- Prague: Charles Bridge
You'll see dragon markers on your Snap Map when you get close to their locations. There will be 20 lenses released during the season as more dragons are introduced to the show, and Each AR lens was built by a different Snap lens creator.
There's also a filter all users can access that turns your face into a fire-breathing dragon, or, if you face the camera out, a dragon will fly across the screen.
House of the Dragon is set to premiere on Aug. 21.
Read more: Everything to Know About 'House of the Dragon,' HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Prequel | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/snapchat-brings-house-of-the-dragon-to-cities-across-the-world-via-ar/ | 2022-08-19T22:59:39Z | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/snapchat-brings-house-of-the-dragon-to-cities-across-the-world-via-ar/ | true |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin said he pays no attention to criticism or campaign donations when making decisions about what’s best for West Virginia.
Sounding somewhat exasperated when asked whether the dramatic bump in campaign contributions he’s received from oil and gas interests in recent months influenced his voting, the conservative Democrat said no.
During a roundtable discussion in Charleston on Friday, he said his office’s outsized role in drafting the sprawling economic package signed this week by U.S. President Joe Biden made him the target of the “far left,” environmental activists and the fossil fuel industry all at once.
“Nobody in their right mind would go through what I have gone through with my staff for the last eight months, taking all the crap we’ve taken from everybody in the country” if they weren’t doing what they believe is right, he said.
“I can be the hero and the villain all within a 24-hour shift,” he said. “The bottom line is, I make no excuses for what I think is right. I’ve always said this — If I can explain that, I can vote. I can take the criticism I know that goes with those votes. That’s part of the game.”
Manchin, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, offered a key vote needed to pass the Democrats’ flagship climate and health care bill in the 50-50 Senate. The House used a party-line 220-207 vote to pass the legislation, which Biden signed Tuesday.
The law, which places caps on prescription drug prices for seniors and extends subsidies meant to help Americans pay for health insurance, contains billions in incentives for clean energy. Owing largely to Manchin’s influence, it also offers renewed support for traditional fuel sources such as coal and natural gas with steps such as subsidies for technology that reduces carbon emissions.
“I wasn’t sure that they would ever agree because of my friends on the far left, the environmental community, was totally committed to dispersing and basically eliminating fossil,” Manchin said of the law.
But Manchin said there is “no way you can get rid of fossil in any short period of time.”
“You can use it cleaner as you basically transition, but it’s going to be with us, and you got to do the best you can with it,” he said. “So, I wanted to make sure they understood that.”
On the other side, he said he’s “been criticized by all my friends in the coal industry” because they think the bill doesn’t go far enough to protect their interests.
“(They) for some reason think that this is going to be harmful,” said Manchin, whose family owns Enersystems, a coal brokerage company. “I think it basically is a pathway forward so we can continue to produce industry, provide energy that our country needs.”
Under an agreement with the Democratic leadership, Manchin proposed a separate list of legislation to speed up federal permitting and make energy projects harder to block under federal acts. He also specifically asked that federal agencies “take all necessary actions” to streamline completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a project long opposed by environmental activists.
The 303-mile (487-kilometer) pipeline, now mostly finished, would transport natural gas drilled from the Appalachian Basin through West Virginia and Virginia. Legal battles have delayed completion by nearly four years and doubled the pipeline’s cost, now estimated at $6.6 billion.
This election cycle, Manchin has received more campaign contributions from natural gas pipeline companies than any other member of U.S. Congress — contributions that have increased from $20,000 in 2020 to $331,910 in 2022, according to campaign finance records compiled by Open Secrets.
On Friday, he said his agenda in advocating for the pipeline was to bring down the cost for consumers by increasing the size of the market and creating jobs. He insisted the campaign money had nothing to do with it.
“I understand the cynical part of that. People look at it and they go, ‘Well, they’re just taking care of themselves,'” he said. “I’m sorry people, I have no idea who contributes. I don’t look at that, I don’t go out and advocate that at all.”
He said lawmakers need to “rise above” corporate and party pressure to deliver for their constituents.
“Politics has become a very, very nasty, destructive type of process … both sides are guilty of weaponizing the good of America for the good of the party — both sides, and it’s just not right for our country,” he said. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/politics/manchin-dismisses-critics-embraces-hero-and-villain-role/ | 2022-08-19T23:01:58Z | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/politics/manchin-dismisses-critics-embraces-hero-and-villain-role/ | true |
Kitten born with two faces in Arkansas
HARRISON, Ark. (KY3/Gray News) - A pet owner in Arkansas has a cat that just gave birth to baby kittens, one of which was born with two faces.
“I went to go do laundry, I’d seen my cat was like meowing, and then all of the sudden babies started coming out, and I started yelling for my husband,” said Ariel Contreras, the owner of the kitten. “This is the second one, so whenever he came out, my husband said, ‘Honey, it has two heads!’ And I went, ‘No way!’”
Harvey is named after the fictional Batman villain Two Face, aka Harvey Dent. A Janus cat is a rare genetic mutation caused by excess protein production while in the womb.
“It has one of everything except for the extra skull,” said Dr. Tim Addis, a veterinarian with Alley Cat Animal Rescue. “Its odds of making it are just as good as its siblings’ if you’re feeding it with a bottle.”
Addis has more than 60 years of experience working with animals and says he’s never seen a mutation so rare.
“Well, they seem to be operating together, you can feed either mouth, and it takes nourishment through either mouth. It’s really different,” he said.
And different is right. Janus cats are extremely rare, with only a few known cases in the modern era.
“It’s actually bigger than the other ones, and it’s doing great. It’s absolutely doing great,” Conteras said.
Although there is little data, Janus cats historically have a low survival rate. Many are unable to live past the first 12 hours. But Harvey may already be defying the odds, born Wednesday and showing all signs of a healthy newborn kitten.
“There was one that made it 12 years and one that made it 15 years, so I’m really praying this one makes it that long, and we will do whatever it takes,” Contreras said.
“Well, the little kitten has the chance,” Addis said. “What the odds are, I don’t know. They’re hard to raise. But, it will make it if the Lord’s willing.”
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A five-year review by U.S. officials has determined that Endangered Species Act protections for ocean-going salmon and steelhead that reproduce in the Snake River and its Idaho tributaries must stay in effect.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fisheries division review made public Thursday found that steelhead, spring and summer chinook, sockeye and fall chinook that return to Idaho in rivers from the Pacific Ocean still need their federal protections.
The protections include limits on fishing, restrictions on how much water can be used for irrigation, pollution controls for industries and dam operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers.
The review said that threats from climate change increase the urgency of completing recommended fish recovery actions — including improving fish passage at hydropower dams, restoring their habitats, controlling predators and changing hatchery practices.
Of the four species that return to Idaho, sockeye salmon are considered the most imperiled and were classified as endangered in 1991. The fish reproduces in high mountain lakes in central Idaho and they teetered on extinction for much of the 1990s.
An elaborate hatchery program operated by the Idaho Department of Fish and game that tracks the genetic history of individual fish is aimed at restoring the species.
But the population of the sockeye salmon has not improved much since it was listed as endangered, the review said. The species remains “at high risk of extinction” amid challenges from climate change, a lack of food in oceans blamed on water warming and because of sea lion predation.
Snake River spring and summer chinook, classified as threatened in 1992, include fish populations in part of the Snake River and in Washington state in the Tucannon, Grande Ronde and Imnaha rivers. The fish are also deemed threatened in parts of Idaho’s Salmon River.
Historically, the fish spawned in Idaho areas that they can no longer reach, including above the Hells Canyon Dam and parts of the Clearwater River basin, the federal review said.
“Overall, the information analyzed for this 5-year review indicates an increased level of concern in the risk status” for the fish, researchers wrote.
The researchers cited declining population trends and that no fish populations are reaching a minimum threshold set by the Interior Columbia Technical Recovery Team. The team works to interpret information related to fish recovery.
Fall chinook were classified as threatened in 1992 and include fish in the mainstem Snake River below Hells Canyon Dam, the Salmon River and Clearwater River basins and in the Tucannon, Grande Ronde and Imnaha rivers in Washington state.
Those fish could be recovered by reintroducing them above above the Hells Canyon Dam complex. But Idaho officials have fought that option, fearing protections for fish above the dams could limit riverside farming and ranching operations.
The review found that the fish extinction risk has decreased for Snake River fall chinook, but “the implementation of sound management actions to address hydropower, habitat, hatcheries, harvest and predation remain essential to recovery.”
Steelhead, a favored sport fish classified as threatened in 1997, include fish in the Snake, Salmon and Clearwater rivers and in the Tucannon, Grande Ronde and Imnaha rivers in Washington state. The review noted that there are no longer any steelhead that once spawned in tributaries above Hells Canyon Dam. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/us-protections-for-idaho-salmon-steelhead-are-here-to-stay/ | 2022-08-19T23:05:38Z | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/us-protections-for-idaho-salmon-steelhead-are-here-to-stay/ | false |
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is planning to travel to Central Asia to meet with Russia's Vladimir Putin and other leaders at a regional summit next month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
The tentative addition of a trip to Xi's schedule comes after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan sparked fear in Beijing of an accidental military encounter, the report said, citing people familiar with the planning.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Friday night starts another season of Operation Football and we head to the west side to kick things off.
Ben Davis is hosting Brownsburg in Friday night's season opener and the Giants' marching band did the honors as the first Operation Football Band of the Week of the season.
Watch their performance in the video player above.
We'll feature a different band every Friday through the season as the Operation Football Band of the Week. You can watch them perform live on 13News each Friday at 5:45 p.m.!
Click here for complete Operation Football coverage. | https://www.wthr.com/article/sports/high-school/hs-football/band-of-the-week-operation-football/operation-football-band-of-the-week-ben-davis-high-school/531-437746e9-2b87-4a67-a412-5aabd9467b55 | 2022-08-19T23:14:26Z | https://www.wthr.com/article/sports/high-school/hs-football/band-of-the-week-operation-football/operation-football-band-of-the-week-ben-davis-high-school/531-437746e9-2b87-4a67-a412-5aabd9467b55 | false |
Warren Buffett turned Occidental Petroleum Corp. into the sort of company he could love by helping it dig its own hole. You can read the history of that here. It turns out his ardor is even fiercer than it appeared. With Berkshire Hathaway Inc. owning more than a fifth of Oxy already, a filing published by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Friday afternoon disclosed that Buffett’s company had applied for permission to buy up to half.
Given parallels to Berkshire’s piecemeal takeover of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad in 2009-10, dreams that Oxy is about to become BOxy helped push the stock up 10% on Friday. At just over four times forecast cash flow, Oxy’s relative valuation is almost back to where it was before the ill-timed Anadarko Petroleum Corp. bidding war — in which Buffett played a vital part — kicked off.
One of the mysteries of Buffett’s buying spree in Oxy over 2022 is that it didn’t have the usual effect of luring everyone else into following him. Friday’s more traditional sequence of a Buffett filing followed by a stock pop restored some harmony to the universe on that front at least.
Still, Oxy’s spike contrasted with a generally down day for energy stocks, a reminder that this remains a unique situation. Buffett’s $10 billion in 8% preferred shares enabled the Anadarko deal but also damaged the reputation of Oxy’s management and now weighs on the balance sheet. High oil prices have enabled Oxy to pay down roughly half its net debt since the deal closed. Now that it has partly restored its dividend and started buying back stock, it is approaching a point at which it would trigger an early call on the preferreds (at a 10% premium). This happens once the 12-month trailing payout hits $4 a share.
Using consensus forecasts, by my math Oxy could buy back $1 billion of stock per quarter and hit that threshold in the first quarter of 2023. By then, net debt would have dropped to an implied $14 billion or so. However, it would then face the prospect of borrowing to pay the $11 billion owed to Buffett.
Buffett’s stake in Oxy enables him to benefit in multiple ways. The preferreds, along with other lingering leverage from the Anadarko deal, act as a brake on management’s ambition, which is the bare minimum for a decent equity story in oil these days. They also pay a healthy yield and, by incentivizing buybacks, provide a kicker to the common equity Buffett owns. As an aside, the rise in Oxy’s stock price has also put the warrants he got in 2019 in the money. Taking Friday’s news into consideration, if Buffett raises his stake to 50%, the implied backing from the Berkshire hoard means Oxy should also find it easier (and cheaper) to borrow when it triggers that call on the preferreds.
On the downside, if a recession takes oil prices south, and Oxy slows its payouts, Buffett would still get the yield on his preferreds. And knowing that any recession is unlikely to be as deep as the pandemic-related crash Oxy endured in 2020 — especially as the company has cut its debts already — Buffett should be more comfortable about waiting for the next recovery and eventual redemption. Buffett is clearly bullish on oil, but he’s been making his own luck with Oxy for a while now.
More From Other Writers at Bloomberg Opinion:
• Who’s Got It Right on EVs: Musk or Buffett?: Anjani Trivedi
• The Limits of Warren Buffett’s Freedom to Pounce: Justin Fox
• Oil Demand Forecasts Aren’t as Bullish as They Seem: Julian Lee
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy and commodities. A former investment banker, he was editor of the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and a reporter for the Financial Times’s Lex column.
More stories like this are available on bloomberg.com/opinion
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Kowanyama dog control reduces disease and keeps community safe, but more is needed
By Mark Rigby and Holly RichardsonAs the sun begins to take the chill out of the morning air, a litter of puppies emerges from its den of building materials on a vacant block of land.
They are still young enough to feed from their mother's teat, but they sleep outside among pallets and insulation.
Soon the puppies disperse onto the streets, disappearing among dozens of other dogs that roam without boundary across Kowanyama, a remote Indigenous township in Queensland's far north.
In this town, roving dog packs are normal.
The western Cape York community has a problem with loose dogs.
They fight, they breed uncontrollably, they attack other animals and sometimes, they turn their attention on humans.
"We're supposed to love them," says Samuel 'Sinker' Hudson, Kowanyama's animal control officer.
"Not just get them as a pup, make them big and then let them walk around and not want them no more because they're not cute."
Mr Hudson is part of a small team of people trying to change the way locals care for their animals in Kowanyama.
And he has a big job on his hands.
Overcoming unchecked breeding
There are 455 dogs registered with Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire Council, about one for every 2.5 people in the community.
It's not known how many unregistered dogs there are, and unchecked breeding is an issue.
Innisfail-based veterinarian Zane Squarci covers the 500 kilometres separating the two towns every three months to treat and desex pets, staying between three and five days each time.
"I think I've desexed about 100 dogs this year so far," Dr Squarci says.
"But they're breeding quite rapidly so the rate that they're breeding versus the rate I'm desexing them is definitely the biggest challenge."
Things are beginning to change in the community, though.
Mr Hudson, Dr Squarci and the others who help them are slowly but surely rounding up the town's dogs and treating diseases and parasites that can threaten both canines and humans.
"With the efforts of our desexing, treating them for worms and ticks and mange and all that sort of stuff, the majority of the population is healthy," Dr Squarci says.
"The life expectancy of those dogs is definitely going up.
"Thankfully, with the hard work that we've put in, we now have a waiting list of people wanting to have their dogs desexed."
'There's a lot of mistrust'
The successes on display in Kowanyama are music to the ears of Brad Milligan, the manager of Environmental Health for the Queensland government's Tropical Public Health Service (TPHS).
"Improved animal health translates into improved human health due to the close proximity and living arrangements between Indigenous people and their animals," Mr Milligan says.
Queensland's health department provides funding to remote Indigenous council areas for public health measures, including animal management.
Mr Milligan admits it's a challenging issue.
"There are strong cultural beliefs with dogs in Aboriginal communities," he says.
"There's a lot of mistrust (because) people have gone into communities in the past and taken dogs off them because they think they're not looking after them."
Countering that mistrust requires people like Mr Hudson, who the community knows and respects.
"I do it for the animals, to make them healthy," Mr Hudson says.
"They can't go to the shop and say, 'Can I have a packet of tablets to get myself wormed?' or 'I'm hungry and I need water', we've got to do that.
"That's why I try teach this mob around town. They're getting the hang of it now, they're getting pretty good."
More dogs behind fences
Improving the health of Kowanyama's dog population and slowing down breeding presents the community with its next challenge — keeping animals behind gates and fences.
"Just shut the gate — that's what I want," Mr Hudsonsays.
"So people can walk around the town not worrying about walking down the road and getting bitten."
Dr Squarci says Mr Hudson's efforts within the community are securing more dogs behind fences, but better facilities are needed to help pet owners succeed.
"Their fences aren't tall enough, their yards aren't big enough, and those are the things that make keeping a large dog contained quite difficult," Dr Squarci says.
"At the end of the day, the people of Kowanyama want to have their dogs for as long as they can, just like everyone else.
"They love their pets, and they're pets that they really take care of once we show them what's required and what they need to do."
The Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire Council is funding a fence repair program for residential homes across the community. | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-20/kowanyama-dog-control-public-health-program/101348214 | 2022-08-19T23:21:25Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-20/kowanyama-dog-control-public-health-program/101348214 | true |
Troubled by the number of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients showing up at his hospital, the French doctor logged on to Facebook and uploaded a video urging people to get vaccinated.
He was soon swarmed by dozens, then hundreds, then more than 1,000 hateful messages from an anti-vaccine extremist group known as V_V. The group, active in France and Italy, has harassed doctors and public health officials, vandalized government offices and tried to disrupt vaccine clinics.
Alarmed by the abuse of its platform, Facebook kicked off several accounts tied to the group last December. But it didn’t stop V_V, which continues to use Facebook and other platforms and, like many anti-vaccine groups around the world, has expanded its portfolio to include climate change denialism and anti-democratic messaging.
“Let’s go and get them at home, they don’t have to sleep anymore,” reads one post from the group. “Fight with us!” reads another.
The largely unchecked nature of the attacks on the indisputable health benefits of the vaccine highlight the clear limits of a social media company to thwart even the most destructive kind of disinformation, particularly without a sustained aggressive effort.
Researchers at Reset, a U.K.-based nonprofit, identified more than 15,000 abusive or misinformation-laden Facebook posts from V_V — activity that peaked in spring 2022, months after the platform announced its actions against the organization. In a report on V_V’s activities, Reset’s researchers concluded that its continued presence on Facebook raises “questions about the effectiveness and consistency of Meta’s self-reported intervention.”
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, noted in response that its 2021 actions were never meant to eliminate all V_V content but to take down accounts found to be participating in coordinated harassment. After The Associated Press notified Facebook of the group’s continued activities on its platform, it said it removed an additional 100 accounts this week.
Meta said it’s trying to strike a balance between removing content from groups like V_V that clearly violate rules against harassment or dangerous misinformation, while not silencing innocent users. That can be particularly difficult when it comes to the contentious issue of vaccines.
“This is a highly adversarial space and our efforts are ongoing: since our initial takedown, we’ve taken numerous actions against this network’s attempts to come back,” a Meta spokesman told the AP.
V_V is also active on Twitter, where Reset researchers found hundreds of accounts and thousands of posts from the group. Many of the accounts were created shortly after Facebook took action on the program last winter, Reset found.
In response to Reset’s report, Twitter said it took enforcement actions against several accounts linked to V_V but did not detail those actions.
V_V has proved especially resilient to efforts to stop it. Named for the movie “V for Vendetta,” in which a lone, masked man seeks revenge on an authoritarian government, the group uses fake accounts to evade detection, and often coordinates its messaging and activities on platforms such as Telegram that lack Facebook’s more aggressive moderation policies.
That adaptability is one reason why it’s been hard to stop the group, according to Jack Stubbs, a researcher at Graphika, a data analysis firm that has tracked V_V’s activities.
“They understand how the internet works,” Stubbs said.
Graphika estimated the group’s membership to be 20,000 in late 2021, with a smaller core of members involved in its online harassment efforts. In addition to Italy and France, Graphika’s team found evidence that V_V is trying to create chapters in Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil and Germany, where a similar anti-government movement known as Querdenken is active.
Groups and movements such as V_V and Querdenken have increasingly alarmed law enforcement and extremism researchers who say there’s evidence that far-right groups are using skepticism about COVID-19 and vaccines to expand their reach.
Increasingly, such groups are moving from online harassment to real world action.
For instance, in April, V_V used Telegram to announce plans to pay a 10,000 Euro bounty to vandals who spray painted the group’s symbol (two red Vs in a circle) on public buildings or vaccine clinics. The group then used Telegram to disseminate photos of the vandalism.
A month before Facebook took action on V_V, Italian police raided the homes of 17 anti-vaccine activists who had used Telegram to make threats against government, medical and media figures for their perceived support of COVID-19 restrictions.
Social media companies have struggled with responding to a wave of misinformation about vaccines since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, Facebook and Instagram suspended Children’s Health Defense, an influential anti-vaccine organization led by Robert Kennedy Jr.
One reason is the tricky balancing act between moderating harmful content and protecting free expression, according to Joshua Tucker of New York University, who co-directs NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics and is a senior advisor at Kroll, a tech, government and economic consulting firm.
Striking the right balance is especially important because social media has emerged as a key source of news and information around the world. Leave up too much bad content and users may be misinformed. Take down too much and users will begin to distrust the platform.
“It is dangerous for society for us to be moving in a direction in which nobody feels they can trust information,” Tucker said.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police say they have arrested a man they suspect spray-painted swastikas on a rainbow crosswalk meant to honor the city's LGTBQ community, as well as at other sites.
Police tell local news outlets that they went to an apartment in Atlanta's Midtown neighborhood around noon Friday seeking the man. A SWAT team was called after the man refused to come out. Around 5 p.m., the man, who has not been named, emerged and was arrested.
The first swastika was found Wednesday on the crosswalk. A second swastika, as well as an obscenity and an anti-gay slur, were found on the crosswalk in Midtown on Friday.
A swastika and other graffiti were also painted before dawn Friday on the nearby Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Police said security cameras at both locations captured images of a man.
“This is an unacceptable act in this city, anywhere in this city or in any form where citizens are targeted by hate,” interim police chief Darin Schierbaum told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “This department is aggressively looking now for the individual who did this.”
Police said they believe the same man painted the swastika on Wednesday, releasing video of both incidents.
Schierbaum said the police department is investigating the acts as hate crimes. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Atlanta-police-arrest-man-suspected-of-anti-LGBTQ-17385564.php | 2022-08-19T23:27:18Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Atlanta-police-arrest-man-suspected-of-anti-LGBTQ-17385564.php | false |
Philadelphia school board gets earful on ‘out of touch’ masking policy
This story originally appeared on Chalkbeat Philadelphia
Speakers at Thursday’s Philadelphia Board of Education meeting said the district’s policy requiring students and teachers to wear masks for the first 10 days of school is unwarranted, out of step with the times, and harmful to children.
School districts across the country and around the world are dropping mask mandates, the speakers noted. The share of U.S. schools requiring masks for students or teachers fell from 75% to 15% over the course of the last school year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Philadelphia is requiring all students and staffers to wear masks for the first 10 school days. After that, masks will be optional except under certain circumstances, such as an increase in the COVID-19 transmission rate or the period following an extended break.
The district says any student or staffer who tests positive for COVID-19 must isolate for five days. After that, there’s a “mask-to-stay” policy that requires the person to wear a “high-quality mask” and eat in a designated area or isolate at home for 10 days.
Chief Medical Officer Kendra McDow said a typo in an earlier version of the guidelines indicated students with COVID-19 symptoms who test negative would have to stay home until they were symptom-free and diagnosed with something other than COVID. She said that in fact, students would need to be symptom free or be diagnosed with a non-COVID condition in order to return to school, not both. This error has been corrected on the district’s website, McDow said.
But masks were the focus of many of the comments about the district’s COVID protocols. Parent Robert Ziegler called the district’s mask policy “out of touch with our current reality.”
“Districts all over the world are eliminating mask mandates, and so should this one,” Ziegler said.
Others echoed that view, saying the policy might cause families to consider leaving the district for neighboring communities with no mask rules.
“Where is the absolutely necessary risk-benefit analysis?” asked parent Vincent Feldman.
Feldman said he has two children in the district and is president of the Pennsylvania chapter of Children’s Health Defense, a Robert Kennedy Jr.-led group recently suspended by Facebook and Instagram for violating community standards on misinformation.
Other speakers who protested the mandate also identified themselves as affiliated with groups opposed to some COVID protocols. They included Lynn Landes, co-founder of HealthAlertPhilly.org, and Diane Soucy, director of the Activities for Daily Living Center. Suzanne Shaheen, a parent who was featured on “Fox & Friends First,” told the board her son was “put in isolation” because he “cannot wear his mask.”
“Students with disabilities or a medical condition that prevents them from being able to wear a mask can seek accommodations,” McDow said.
Only one speaker praised the mandate. “I’m here to thank you for maintaining at least some level of COVID precautions in our schools,” parent Stephanie King told the board. “It’s a pity that COVID is so politicized that saying, ‘We should try to protect people from catching a potentially deadly illness with unknown long-term side effects,’ is seen as a radical proposition,” she said.
King told Chalkbeat she decided to speak because she had expected groups opposed to the policy would rally parents to voice their concerns. “It’s what you do in school advocacy.”
Philadelphia schools are poorly ventilated and serve families that may be at higher risk for COVID-19 complications and have less access to health care, King added. “I think these restrictions reflect the reality on the ground,” she said.
Teacher leave policy causes concern
Meanwhile, board members questioned the district’s policy on so-called “direct quarantine leave” for teachers. Each teacher is allowed 10 days of leave for COVID-19, after which sick days, personal time, and vacation days must be used. Any time off after that would be unpaid, and absences would count as “occurrences” on an employee’s record, McDow said.
“I’m just concerned it’s going to cause people to come to work sick,” said board member Mallory Fix-Lopez.
Fellow board member Cecelia Thompson agreed, saying that people shouldn’t be blamed if they contract COVID more than once despite being careful and following rules. “Sometimes these things happen,” she said.
In response, Superintendent Tony Watlington Sr. said that the school community as a whole, and not just schools themselves, is responsible for managing and mitigating COVID in the community.
However, he said, “We are sensitive to the issue of not wanting anyone to lose pay by no fault of their own.”
McDow suggested the board “get an update” on the issue as it relates to collective bargaining agreements to “help everyone decide how to proceed.”
Staffing update
School officials at the meeting also updated the board on staffing for the coming school year. The district is about 97% staffed, “about where we were when we started the school year last year,” Chief Talent Officer Larisa Shambaugh said.
Principal roles are 99% filled, as are 97.4% of teaching positions, she said. That latter figure doesn’t include teachers scheduled to be on leave, and not every teacher is assigned to a classroom, she said.
The vacancy rates for non-instructional jobs, such as building engineers are higher, but new hires are in the pipeline waiting for their paperwork to be processed, she said.
The district has made “good progress this month” on teacher hiring, Shambaugh said. More than 700 new teachers attended a five-day orientation earlier this month, and the district made more than 30 offers to potential teachers in the five days preceding the meeting, she said.
“We’re still hiring,” though vacancies remain, particularly in special education and the middle grades, she said. | https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-mask-mandate-students-teachers-covid-policy-parent-backlash/ | 2022-08-19T23:27:42Z | https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-mask-mandate-students-teachers-covid-policy-parent-backlash/ | false |
Which Under Armour women’s shoes are best?
Shopping for a new pair of athletic shoes can be overwhelming given the sheer number of brands, models and styles to choose from. However, if you want to narrow it down, Under Armour is a top athletic-wear brand with plenty of quality women’s shoes.
The best Under Armour women’s shoes provide long-lasting comfort and are durable enough to get you through your workout or your day. For example, the Under Armour Women’s Project Rock 4 Training Shoes are excellent for anyone looking for versatile athletic shoes. They’re comfortable, lightweight and responsive.
What to know before you buy Under Armour women’s shoes
Size
Whether you plan on wearing your shoes at work, to run errands or work out, they must fit comfortably. Although both the shape and build of the shoes play a role in how comfortable they feel, the most important thing is wearing the correct size.
If you wear shoes that are too tight, you’ll soon feel discomfort, and if you wear shoes that are too large, you may find yourself tripping more often than you’d like. Neither scenario is appealing, so getting shoes with a snug fit and a bit of room in the toe area is ideal.
Men’s vs. women’s shoes
Men’s and women’s Under Armour shoes look nearly identical, so you may wonder what their differences are. Regarding functionality, there are none. However, there are some differences in arch support, width and the size of the toe area. Also, men’s sizing charts differ from women’s, and you’re far more likely to find women’s shoes with traditionally feminine color styles.
What do you want to get out of your Under Armour shoes?
Unless you want them to play a specific sport, most Under Armour shoes are versatile enough to wear for various activities. Under Armour makes its shoes durable, comfortable and lightweight, so you can wear them for jogging, weightlifting, light yard work, running errands, and even at work if athletic shoes are permitted.
What to look for in quality Under Armour women’s shoes
Breathability
Whether you’re jogging or running errands, your shoes must be breathable. A mesh knit upper facilitates air ventilation and helps keep your feet cool and dry for extended periods. It also makes a shoe more flexible and suitable for fast strides or quick lateral movements.
Midsole cushioning
The midsoles of any athletic shoes must contain sufficient foam cushioning if you want to feel comfortable while wearing them. Some shoes have a long piece of foam that helps prevent them from twisting, making them more stable. Others have several pockets of cushioning in the midsole to provide added comfort in high-impact zones such as the heel.
Grip
If you’ve ever owned shoes with poor grip, you know how frustrating and dangerous they can be. The rubber outsole should be thick, durable and have a textured pattern on the bottom that lets them grip various surfaces. It helps prevent slipping and sliding and is necessary for running or jogging.
How much you can expect to spend on Under Armour women’s shoes
If you’re looking for a reliable pair of Under Armour shoes, you can find one for $50-$125. However, if you want something more durable made with advanced technology, expect to pay up to $200.
Under Armour women’s shoes FAQ
Are there Under Armour shoes with a broader build?
A. Most Under Armour shoes are designed with a sleek shape and provide a snug fit. However, some models have an alternative wide-foot option.
How long do Under Armour shoes last?
A. They’re made with high-quality materials, so on average, they should last about six to 24 months, depending on how often you use them.
What are the best Under Armour women’s shoes to buy?
Top Under Armour women’s shoes
Under Armour Women’s Project Rock 4 Training Shoes
What you need to know: These breathable shoes provide all-day comfort and responsiveness, making them ideal for running and other high-impact exercises.
What you’ll love: The midsoles are packed with cushioning for efficient energy transfer and more explosiveness on each stride. The bottom plate has the company’s TriBase technology for superior stability and grip, and the sockliner and knit collar make them comfortable enough to wear for extended periods.
What you should consider: Some reviewers report that the memory foam in the heel feels awkward in the toe area during lateral movements.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top Under Armour women’s shoes for the money
Under Armour Women’s Charged Impulse Knit Running Shoes
What you need to know: These shoes have a traditional Under Armour design and are excellent for jogging and moderate exercise.
What you’ll love: They’re lightweight, have a breathable mesh upper for superior air ventilation and flexibility, and the bootie construction offers a secure fit. They have Dual-Layer Charged cushioning in the midsole for stability, responsiveness and shock absorption, and the reflective details help boost visibility in low-light environments.
What you should consider: They run small, and some customers found them less flexible than other Under Armour shoes.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
Under Armour Women’s Flow Synchronicity Running Shoes
What you need to know: These shoes offer excellent performance on various surfaces and are ideal for dedicated runners and joggers.
What you’ll love: These shoes were engineered using 3D foot scans to enhance them specifically for women. The ankle collar provides a secure fit, and the sockliner delivers a plush feel on every step. Also, the one-piece Flow technology midsole offers added comfort and responsiveness.
What you should consider: They run large.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
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Over half of people infected with the omicron variant didn’t know it, a study finds
The majority of people likely infected with the omicron variant that causes COVID-19 were not aware they contracted the virus, which likely played a role in the rapid spread of omicron, according to a study published this week.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai, a nonprofit health organization based in Los Angeles, examined the infectious status of individuals during the omicron surge in the U.S.
Omicron was first detected in November 2021 and has become the most dominant strain of COVID-19. Common symptoms are typically less severe than other variants and include cough, headache, fatigue, sore throat, and a runny nose, according to the researchers.
What did researchers find?
The study analyzed 2,479 blood samples from adult employees and patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center around the time of the omicron variant surge.
Of the 210 people who likely contracted the omicron variant — based on antibodies in their blood — 56% percent did not know they had the virus, the researchers found.
They also found that only 10% of those who were unaware reported having any symptoms relating to a common cold or other types of infection.
“We hope people will read these findings and think, ‘I was just at a gathering where someone tested positive,’ or, ‘I just started to feel a little under the weather. Maybe I should get a quick test,'” said Dr. Susan Cheng, one of the authors of the study.
“The better we understand our own risks, the better we will be at protecting the health of the public as well as ourselves,” said Cheng, who directs the Institute for Research on Healthy Aging in the Department of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai’s Smidt Heart Institute.
The findings help us understand how omicron spreads
A lack of awareness could be a major factor in the rapid transmission of the virus between individuals, according to the study.
“Our study findings add to evidence that undiagnosed infections can increase transmission of the virus,” said Dr. Sandy Y. Joung, first author of the study who serves as an investigator at Cedars-Sinai.
“A low level of infection awareness has likely contributed to the fast spread of Omicron,” Young said.
Although awareness among health care employees was slightly higher, the researchers said it remained low overall.
Researchers say further studies are needed, “involving larger numbers of people from diverse ethnicities and communities … to learn what specific factors are associated with a lack of infection awareness,” according to the news release. | https://whyy.org/npr_story_post/omicron-variant-unaware-covid-research-study/ | 2022-08-19T23:28:02Z | https://whyy.org/npr_story_post/omicron-variant-unaware-covid-research-study/ | false |
Michigan GOP governor nominee Dixon picks running mate
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Republican gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon has chosen former state Rep. Shane Hernandez of Port Huron as her running mate in her bid to unseat Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Hernandez served two terms in the Michigan House ending in 2020, when he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House. He chaired the powerful budget-writing House Appropriations Committee for one term. Dixon said in a statement Friday that “Hernandez as lieutenant governor will help to improve our schools, create safer communities and improve our economy.” Hernandez said Dixon’s “vision is the right one for Michigan.” | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/08/19/michigan-gop-governor-nominee-dixon-picks-running-mate/ | 2022-08-19T23:28:36Z | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/08/19/michigan-gop-governor-nominee-dixon-picks-running-mate/ | false |
NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton is expected to begin a rehab assignment Saturday and could rejoin the AL East leaders in the middle of next week as their designated hitter.
Stanton, who hasn’t played since July 23 due to left Achilles tendinitis, worked out again at Yankee Stadium prior to Friday night’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Manager Aaron Boone said Stanton was then slated to head to Bowie, Maryland, to serve as the DH in rehab games for Double-A Somerset on Saturday and Sunday.
“First things first, want to get him in that DH spot and just get him back in,” Boone said.
Stuck in an offensive slump, the Yankees had lost 13 of 17 going into the weekend.
Stanton will return to Yankee Stadium on Tuesday to oppose Luis Severino (right lat strain) in a live batting practice session. Boone said Stanton could be activated immediately thereafter and eased back into action as the DH.
The Yankees followed a similar plan with Stanton last year, when he missed two weeks in May with a left quad strain. Stanton played exclusively as the designated hitter in his first 45 starts following his activation before starting in left or right field 26 times in the final 58 games of the regular season.
“We’ll kind of — like we did last year, where we built on the run — (add) the outfield reps and hopefully make that a part at some point, but not immediately,” Boone said.
Stanton is hitting .228 with 24 homers and 61 RBIs this season. He has almost evenly split his time between the outfield and designated hitter, making 38 starts between left field and right field and 37 starts as the DH.
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CARY, N.C. (AP) — Former major leaguer Mark DeRosa has been named Team USA manager for the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
USA Baseball, based in Cary, North Carolina, announced the appointment Friday. DeRosa’s professional coaching debut puts him in charge of the defending world champions next spring.
He is currently a co-host of MLB Network’s daily morning program, MLB Central.
“Mark DeRosa brings a lifetime of baseball knowledge to the dugout for Team USA,” general manager Tony Reagins said. “(DeRosa) is well-respected both on and off the field and his experience and leadership as a player in the 2009 Classic will be a valued asset as we navigate this process.”
The U.S. won the title in 2017, beating Puerto Rico 8-0 in the title game at Dodger Stadium.
The 47-year-old DeRosa played for eight teams during 16 years in the majors, batting .268 with 100 homers and 494 RBIs in 1,241 games. He made his major league debut with Atlanta in 1998 and played in his last game with Toronto in 2013.
DeRosa, who won the 2010 World Series with San Francisco, first joined MLB Network as a guest analyst during the 2011 and 2013 postseasons.
Next year’s tournament will be played from March 8-21. Games will be held in Phoenix, Miami, Taichung, Taiwan, and the Tokyo Dome in Japan. The semifinals and title game will be at loanDepot park in Miami from March 19-21.
USA Baseball will announce the full coaching staff next week.
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(WFLA) — An Alabama man is a new millionaire after purchasing a winning ticket from the Florida Lottery.
The Lottery said Thomas Fotopoulos, 53, of Dothan won a $1 million prize from the 500X THE CASH Scratch-Off game after purchasing a ticket at Fortune Liquors in Campbellton, Florida.
Fotopoulos said he has been playing the Lottery since 1988.
“I’ve been playing the Florida Lottery since it began,” he said. “I just had a feeling about the 500X THE CASH game. I still can’t believe it!”
The man received his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $820,000.00. Fortune Liquors will also receive a $2,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
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Canada beats Czech Republic 5-2 in world junior semifinals
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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Dylan Garand made 31 saves, Kent Johnson had a goal and two assists and Canada beat the Czech Republic 5-2 on Friday to advance to the world junior hockey championship game.
Canada will face Finland or Sweden on Saturday night.
Logan Stankoven added goal and an assist to help Canada improve to 6-0. Connor Bedard, Mason McTavish and Joshua Roy also scored.
Jan Mysak and David Jiricek scored for the Czech Republic. Tomas Suchanek made 22 saves in the first two periods, and Pavel Cajan stopped eight shots in the third.
The Czech Republic upset the United States 4-2 in the quarterfinals Wednesday night. | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/Canada-beats-Czech-Republic-5-2-in-world-junior-17385675.php | 2022-08-19T23:33:45Z | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/Canada-beats-Czech-Republic-5-2-in-world-junior-17385675.php | false |
Dublin High School celebrating 1,000th game, start of 100th season
"It makes us more ready for the game, and our intensity and everything is more up, all time high."
DUBLIN, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT)— Dublin High School is cheering on its football team as they kick off their 100th season of football, and play in its 1,000th game. The school celebrated with a parade on Friday.
Head Football Coach Roger Holmes says he’s excited for the season.
“It’s wonderful feeling going around and with this historic event the involvement in the community has been tremendous.”
He’s already looking towards the future of his team.
“Our goal every year is the same here in Dublin Georgia, we want to be a good enough football team to get into the playoffs, and when the first round of the playoffs come around we’re playing our best football of the year,” said Holmes.
Coach Holmes is asking the community to bring the energy each game this year.
Quarterback Jaquairius Evans says he’s excited to get the season started.
“It makes us more ready for the game, and our intensity and everything is more up, all time high,” he said.
Of course, when going to a game you have to tailgate. Ronald Pierce is in charge of the tailgating festivities, and is known as the “Tailgating King”. His children were also part of the football team.
“We’re having fun and we just love doing what we do to support the community and support our kids, we’re Dublin Irish all the way,” said Pierce.
The team says their goal is to win, but to also have fun.
The team is facing Wilkinson County High School Friday night. Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m. | https://www.41nbc.com/dublin-high-school-celebrating-1000th-game-start-of-100th-season/ | 2022-08-19T23:34:02Z | https://www.41nbc.com/dublin-high-school-celebrating-1000th-game-start-of-100th-season/ | false |
Disabled teacher wins discrimination case in Supreme Court
The teacher Net Ram Yadav had asked for transfer from his then working place, 550 km away from his native district, so that he could be near his family
A physically-handicapped teacher, a member of the OBC community, who fought the Rajasthan government's decision to demote him in return for transferring him to his home town won his case in the Supreme Court, which declared the marginalisation of the disabled as a human rights issue.
The Supreme Court took exception to the hard bargain the disabled teacher had to endure. A Bench led by Justice Indira Banerjee also noted how the High Court did not appreciate the plight of the teacher, Net Ram Yadav, represented by advocate Rahul Shyam Bhandari.
Mr. Yadav had asked for transfer from his then working place, 550 kms. away from his native district, so that he could be near his family who could support him.
The Court's attention was drawn to a circular issued by the State government in 2000 enabling handicapped employees to be posted at a convenient place near their family, relatives, friends or institutional support.
The Court said the benefit of the circular should be extended to Mr. Yadav though he had joined as a teacher in 1993.
"Exclusion of the benefit of the circular to handicapped employees already in employment at the time of its issuance, would violate the fundamental right of equality of those employees," Justice Banerjee wrote in the judgment.
There is an increasing global concern about the sidelining of the disabled, the Court noted.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (UNCRPD) aims at protecting the human rights and dignity of persons with disability. India is one of 177 countries which has ratified the UNCRPD.
"Equally important is the right of nondiscrimination… Respect for difference and acceptance of persons with disabilities as part of human diversity and humanity lie at the core of the dignity of persons with disability," Justice Banerjee observed.
The State was ordered to give Mr. Yadav the full seniority and benefits of his years of teaching service.
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Authorities in New Zealand say the human remains found in suitcases that a family bought as part of a storage unit auction online belonged to two children.
At a press conference, New Zealand Police Detective Inspector Tofilau Faamanuia Vaaelua said Thursday that they were working on identifying the children, who they believe had been dead “a number of years,” The Washington Post reported.
Vaaelua said the children were likely between the ages of 5 and 10, the New York Times reported.
The Counties Manukau Police said they were alerted about the discovery by the unsuspected family on Aug. 11 after they went through the suitcases back at their residence.
The newspapers reported that during the press conference, Vaaelua said the suitcases had been in the storage center for three or four years before the family purchased them.
Police said they the family who made the discovery were not involved in the incident, the newspapers reported.
Police said they are investigating the incident as a homicide.
Police said they were working with Interpol, the newspapers reported. | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/police-remains-found-in-suitcases-by-new-zealand-family-were-of-2-children | 2022-08-19T23:46:51Z | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/police-remains-found-in-suitcases-by-new-zealand-family-were-of-2-children | false |
Harry Shum Jr. finally made mom proud. The Crazy Rich Asians star joked to ET's Denny Directo that his latest gig, a recurring role as a medical resident on season 19 of Grey's Anatomy, meant he had achieved his parents' dream of him becoming a doctor.
"I made my mom and dad really happy. They're very happy," he said with a laugh, while promoting his new crime thriller podcast, Realm's Echo Park. "They're like, 'Yes, yes, this is what we wanted!' But my sister is an OR nurse and so it's really exciting to see her excitement and to feel like I'm doing something legit finally."
Shum plays Benson "Blue" Kwan, described as "a sharp-witted, impatient and brilliant" first-year surgical resident. His character is "generous by nature but competitive to a fault, naturally gifted and used to winning at everything," according to the official character description, which hints at a past "family crisis" that "interfered with his career plans and now he’s got a lot to prove."
The 40-year-old actor shared a tidbit about his character's unique nickname, Blue. "It's not just 'cause he's wearing blue right now in scrubs," Shum quipped. "He comes from a background where he got the nickname, Blue, because he won a lot of blue ribbons. He was... he's used to winning. But definitely, he might hit a couple of walls and not being used to maybe taking some L's."
Shum also revealed that he has already worked with Ellen Pompeo, who will take on a reduced role in the new season. "We have," he confirmed when asked about sharing scenes with Meredith Grey. "She's just so sweet and she comes in with so much energy and also wonderful advice."
While Shum is busy scrubbing in on Grey's, he also recently launched a new scripted podcast, Echo Park, a crime thriller set in a not-so-futuristic Los Angeles where clones exist and live on the outskirts of society. A civil advisor for the LAPD harboring a secret addiction, James (Shum) relies on Terrance -- his genetic clone -- to help him pass mandatory drug testing. But when Terrance suddenly goes missing, and multiple clones end up dead, the clues left in his wake lead to a conspiracy even more cold-blooded than murder.
Shum agreed that Echo Park gives off "Westworld vibes," but what sets it apart is that "you don't know if you might have a clone out there." "It was so much fun to record," the actor said. "[A] wealth of characters but this whole world is fascinating to me."
Shum also serves as an executive producer on the podcast and said the "narrative podcast boom has been really exciting." "So many people are in their cars, so many people are just taking walks, which is so beautiful, but being able to use your imagination has been really beautiful," he said. "And to be behind the booth doing a lot of these different character voices -- kind of arguing with myself -- which I now get to do for a living as opposed to doing it at home by myself."
He didn't shy away from the possibility of expanding Echo Park into more than just a podcast one day should the stars align, as several other narrative podcasts have been turned into proper TV shows. (See: Amazon Prime Video's Homecoming, Apple TV+'s WeCrashed, Hulu's The Dropout and many more.)
"I would love that," the Everything Everywhere All at Once star said. "We're talking about that right now but we're excited to get this out there so people can put their own interpretation from what we've been able to put [out]. The team at Realm is wonderful because of the sound design, I’m learning so much about their lighting and how they shade it with the voices is really beautiful."
But if he were to interact with a genetic clone in real life, Shum said he'd "want to have a beer" with it. "But it’s so strange. It’s kind of like looking at this monitor and then it turns its head when you don’t turn your head. That’s the difference."
As for an update on the anticipated Crazy Rich Asians follow-up to the blockbuster 2018, screenwriter Amy Wang has been tapped to pen the script. And in May, it was reported that a new sequel spinoff movie starring Shum's Charlie Wu and Gemma Chan's Astrid Young, which would pick up after their post-credits scene in Crazy Rich Asians, was in early development.
"They're currently writing [Crazy Rich Asians 2] and they're feverishly writing it trying to get it all right," Shum said. "There’s just so many characters, so many things to put in from the book and what’s gonna make it in or not. But I'm really excited, the team is excited, the producers are really gearing up to and ready to try and get this thing going."
Echo Park is available wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. The podcast, which drops new episodes every week through Oct. 13, is also available for subscribers to Realm+ and Realm Unlimited.
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EL CAJON, Calif. — An El Cajon mother is outraged after she says a San Diego area swimming instructor was too rough with her two-year-old son during swim lessons.
The video, recorded by the toddler's nanny, shows the swimming instructor drop the child under water several times as the toddler cries out.
It's a video that Mahshid Wadeea, the child's mother, says haunts her.
The video shows her two-year-old son Adam thrown into the water by his swimming instructor after throwing a fit and hitting his teacher as he cries.
"I'm distraught. I'm still distraught. I'm still on a state of shock, because we trust him to teach our son how to swim and that's the extent of it, not to drown him. My son is terrified to go into the water," said Wadeea.
Wadeea who’s nine months pregnant and on bed rest, says she recently signed her son up for swimming lessons for peace of mind since the family has a pool in their backyard.
"We have friends that have used him in the past and for me, it was really important to get him in before this baby comes so that I can have that peace of mind. And we were really excited," added Wadeea.
Wadeea says her nanny has been taking Adam to the lessons while she stays home.
"His first day was August 8. And Mr. John has this 10 day 10 minutes approximately philosophy and he's supposed to teach them a life skill that you know, if they were to accidentally fall into the pool, they'll be able to kind of paddle to the corner and grab the wall," said Wadeea.
Wadeea says she always asked her nanny to record the lessons to see the progress Adam made, but a week into the lessons (day 7), and she says was shocked when she watched the latest video.
"We sent him there to learn how to swim. We didn't send him there to learn boot camp or military or discipline or what approach he was taking. It's not right for our son. So we're distraught I'm still shaken over it to be honest," added Wadeea.
CBS 8 reached out to instructor John Ruffu, who's seen in the video, he runs ‘Swim2John,' swimming instruction lessons in the San Diego area. Ruffu has nearly 20 years of experience in the business. His program has stellar online reviews.
He didn’t want to go on camera, but did provide a statement to CBS 8, in which he says, he never disciplined the child, instead he says dropping the child is a part of his program, saying: "drop drills are a major portion of what we do to prepare the kids. I’m right there the whole time, we do it as a training. And that is what was going on, just a freak coincidence of timing, which happened to coincide with him hitting."
Ruffu has been teaching lessons since 2003 and says what’s seen in the video, is nothing out of the ordinary.
For Wadeea, she says what angers her is that he can be heard telling Adam not to hit him in the video, which according to her, shows he dropped her son in the water in order to discipline him.
"My hearts broken. He’s defenseless. He's two and a half years old. It's not like he can say help me out. He's learning how to swim. He can't bring himself up afloat. He comes out of the video coughing and swallowing water and choking and he's still kept them in the water," added Wadeea.
Wadeea says she has since pulled Adam out of the swimming lessons and has been reimbursed.
The video of the lesson, submitted to CBS 8, was taken by the toddler's nanny: | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/el-cajon-mother-outraged-over-childs-swim-lessons/509-e4cca3dd-9a73-4002-8c1c-3175628fa90b | 2022-08-19T23:49:52Z | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/el-cajon-mother-outraged-over-childs-swim-lessons/509-e4cca3dd-9a73-4002-8c1c-3175628fa90b | false |
NEW YORK — Walmart, the nation’s largest employer, is expanding its abortion coverage for employees after staying largely mum on the issue for months following the Supreme Court ruling that scrapped a nationwide right to abortion.
In a memo sent to employees on Friday, the company said its health care plans will now cover abortion for employees “when there is a health risk to the mother, rape or incest, ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage or lack of fetal viability.”
The new policy will also offer “travel support” for workers and dependents covered under their health care plans so they can access services that are not available within 100 miles of their locations, Donna Morris, the retailer’s chief people officer, said in the memo.
Walmart employs nearly 1.6 million people in the U.S. In Arkansas, where the company is based, abortion is banned under all circumstances unless the procedure is needed to protect the life of the mother in a medical emergency. There are no exceptions for rape or incest.
A Walmart spokesperson did not immediately reply for a request for comment on whether the company's health plan — or travel support — will cover elective abortions.
Previously, the company’s benefits plan had covered abortion only in cases “when the health of the mother would be in danger if the fetus were carried to term, the fetus could not survive the birthing process, or death would be imminent after birth,” according to a copy of the policy viewed by The Associated Press but not confirmed by Walmart.
Many companies — including Meta, American Express and Bank of America — have said they will cover travel costs for their employees in the aftermath of the high court ruling that tossed out Roe v. Wade. But dozens of others corporations, and organizations that represent some of the nation’s most powerful companies have continued to stay quiet. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-world/walmart-expands-abortion-coverage-for-employees-after-roe-v-wade-supreme-court-ruling-overturned/507-7abcf413-7f6c-49bb-8013-5c1b11c4914b | 2022-08-19T23:50:05Z | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-world/walmart-expands-abortion-coverage-for-employees-after-roe-v-wade-supreme-court-ruling-overturned/507-7abcf413-7f6c-49bb-8013-5c1b11c4914b | true |
Chicago police sergeant facing felony charges after kneeling on teenager’s back
A Chicago police officer has been charged with official misconduct and aggravated battery after he pinned down a 14-year-old boy while off duty last month.
Video showed Sergeant Michael Vitellaro kneeling on the boy’s back in Park Ridge, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, on July 1. A lawyer for the boy’s family alleged in a release after the incident that the 14-year-old was moving a bike so he could pass it with his own bike.
Vitellaro accused the boy of attempting to steal his son’s bike and pinned him to the ground on his stomach, the release states.
The Park Ridge Police Department said in a statement on Thursday that the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office approved charges against Vitellaro after an investigation by department detectives. Vitellaro turned himself in to police custody.
Chief Frank Kaminski said he is proud of his staff for conducting a “complete and thorough” investigation that was taken seriously and is grateful to the attorney’s office for bringing a resolution to the investigation.
“The Park Ridge Police Department has and will continue to honor their oath of office, continuing to serve our community with professionalism, dedication, pride, and respect,” he said.
Video shows others present at the scene helping the boy return to his feet and telling Vitellaro to take his hands off him.
The boy’s parents, Angel and Nicole Nieves, said in a release that they are relieved to see charges filed against Vitellaro and want to thank the police and attorney’s office for this “important step for justice” for their son.
“We are still trying to assess the full impact of this traumatic incident on our son, who is only 14 and still processing all that happened to him,” they said. “There is absolutely no room in our community for this type of unnecessary aggression against our children and we are grateful for today’s progress.”
Antonio Romanucci, one of the family’s lawyers, said the charges are an “accurate reflection” of what was seen in the video, an abuse of power with no cause. He said the legal team is preparing to file a civil complaint and wants to make sure the officer cannot abuse his power again.
“The felony charges show the gravity of this type of aggression and that the enforcement of laws in our communities must start with law enforcement officers themselves,” he said. “There can be no impunity for officers who break the law, and they must be held to the same standards as regular citizens.”
Vitellaro’s attorney did not immediately return a request from The Hill for comment.
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Large-scale gun, drug busts latest in crime crackdown
Separate federal raids in the Twin Cities and Rochester this week yielded the seizure of dozens of firearms — including devices to turn them into machine guns — and the takedown of a large-scale meth trafficking group, U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said Friday.
The operations, which included help from a national team of federal tactical responders, marked the latest chapter in Luger's new violent crime strategy launched in May and added 25 people to the growing tally of those arrested and facing serious federal prison time.
"What law enforcement is encountering on the streets of Minneapolis, St. Paul and other cities today is far more disturbing than even the alarming numbers show," Luger said. "By their actions, their weapons and their words, violent offenders are displaying an absolute disdain for the law and a disregard for human life."
Luger unveiled the results of the Thursday raids with an hourlong morning news conference in his office alongside nearly a dozen federal and state law enforcement leaders from the area.
He illustrated a criminal landscape where violent offenders feel more emboldened to deploy militaristic weapons while trafficking potentially lethal doses of fentanyl all out of a belief that they will not be caught or held accountable. Luger attributed that ethos to feedback from some of those arrested in recent operations.
More than 100 officers — including those from out-of-state special response teams — convened in the Twin Cities on Thursday to arrest 15 people on federal gun charges. The operation included the seizure of 29 firearms and three auto sear devices used to turn otherwise semiautomatic weapons into fully automatic machine guns, Luger said.
The special response teams, a tactical group, travel to high-crime areas to help arrest those deemed to present the highest risk of violence.
"While we are fortunate that two of these elite teams traveled to our communities to arrest high-level targets," Luger said, "it is sad news that we in Minnesota need them in the first place. But we do."
Jeffrey Reed, assistant special agent in charge of the St. Paul division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), said Friday that local divisions call in such teams based on certain offenders' criminal histories and potential for violence.
Thursday's deployment of the teams was precautionary, Reed said, and the five suspects deemed "high risk" were safely arrested. This was just the latest example of resources pouring in from elsewhere to assist in the Twin Cities: Reed said the ATF's St. Paul division has pulled in research specialists and additional agents from other divisions to increase its capacity this summer.
"Right now the top priority on every law enforcement officer's mind is reducing the violent gun crime that is affecting the Twin Cities," he said.
Also Thursday, federal drug enforcement agents and state authorities arrested 10 people in the Rochester area on federal methamphetamine conspiracy charges while seizing drugs and firearms during their arrests.
Luger made prosecuting violent crime his top focus upon beginning his second term as U.S. Attorney this year. He has ordered all criminal prosecutors to handle violent crime cases and plans to also prosecute such cases himself.
Luger said Friday that his office has charged about 35 "high-risk" offenders in recent weeks with crimes ranging from serial convenience store robbery, carjacking, illegal firearms possession and other gang-related activities.
He highlighted the recent case of Derrick Scott, a man with eight prior felony convictions before being arrested for allegedly selling fentanyl pills and possessing a machine gun to protect his trade. When brought into custody, Luger said, Scott told officers he would have no trouble doing federal prison time before returning to the street.
"He then proclaimed, 'I will still be the king,'" Luger said.
That bravado is misplaced, Luger said, noting that possessing a machine gun while trafficking fentanyl has a mandatory 30-year prison sentence if convicted.
Other recent cases include new charges against four men accused of targeting Uber and Lyft ride share drivers with carjacking while violently forcing the drivers to turn over access to mobile banking apps. Another man recently arrested after a prior 15-year prison stint was linked to seven shootings, including one fatal, over the course of just a few days.
Friday's update included another public service announcement video produced by Luger's officer that is seeking help tracking down those who possess or use "auto sear" devices.
Justin King, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Omaha division, said Friday that the agency is noting a sharp rise in violence associated with drug trafficking: The DEA reported seizing 8,700 firearms last year connected to trafficking organizations. DEA lab testing is also finding that 4 out of every 10 fake pills containing fentanyl have potentially lethal dosages.
Fentanyl is likewise surging in state laboratories, said Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). Evans said the BCA's lab is reporting about 120 cases per month involving drugs with fentanyl in them.
Minneapolis interim Police Chief Amelia Huffman said her department continues to note a rise in carjacking cases, something it did not track before 2020. The 343 carjacking cases so far in 2022 are up from 277 the same time last year, she said.
Huffman also provided an updated tally on gunfire in the city: More than 350 people have been shot so far this year, adding to the 600 shot in 2021. Huffman said there have been 5,800 shooting or shots fired calls in Minneapolis and Shotspotter technology has recorded 13,000 rounds fired in the city.
"The real world impact of these numbers is staggering," Huffman said. "Behind the statistics are people — our friends and neighbors, our colleagues, our family members — whose lives have been impacted and forever changed by violent crime." | https://news.yahoo.com/large-scale-gun-drug-busts-230100134.html | 2022-08-19T23:54:58Z | https://news.yahoo.com/large-scale-gun-drug-busts-230100134.html | false |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — Shopping at wholesale clubs can help shoppers save big bucks, depending on their needs. Both Sam’s Club and Costco are currently offering ways to save on memberships — here’s how.
Sam’s Club
Sam’s Club has a deal through September 11 that will basically get you a free 1-year membership.
The membership cost is $45 for one year, however, members will get $45 in instant savings when they spend that amount or more on qualifying purchases. The purchases must be made on one transaction within the first 60 days of membership, Sam’s Club says.
The fine print says you must show the offer on your phone when you buy a membership to get the deal.
If $45 is too much right now, Sam’s Club has another offer.
You can buy a 1-year membership for $14.99. The same membership normally costs $55 a year.
If you purchase before August 31, you’ll also receive a $10 Sam’s Club e-gift card. After factoring this in, membership will cost $4.99.
WHAT TO CONSIDER BEFORE BUYING
- If you take this deal, you’ll be enrolled in Sam’s Club auto-renewal and will be charged normal price when it’s time to renew your membership, unless you cancel before then.
- Existing members are not eligible for the deal.
- The $10 e-gift card will be emailed instead of being loaded onto membership cards. Contact Sam’s Club, or the membership desk in a store location if you don’t receive it.
EXTRAS
Some locations offer other perks, like free health screenings/tests, discounted gas at Sam’s stations, and use of the Sam’s Club vacation program.
WHAT TO BUY AT SAM’S CLUB
Southern Living editors recommend purchasing Sam’s Club’s $5 rotisserie chickens and gas, which can be offered at up to 5 cents per gallon below the average cost.
Costco
Costco doesn’t offer free memberships, but there are several ways you can still save.
COSTCO SHOP CARD
If you have a friend with a Costco membership, ask them to buy you a Costco Shop Card. It’ll be be mailed to you with a zero balance, but you can add money to it. While you have to be a member to buy a Costco Shop Card, you don’t have to have a membership to use it in stores or online.
You can also use a Costco Shop Card at Costco gas stations.
SHOP ONLINE
Non-members can technically shop online at Costco.com, though some items are priced higher than in stores, and other items are members-only purchases. Non-members will also pay for delivery, depending on purchase amounts.
DISCOUNTED MEMBERSHIPS
Keep an eye on Groupon if you’re thinking of taking the Costco plunge. Once or twice a year a Costco deal will be offered.
It’s typically in the realm of $60 for a 1-year-membership that includes a $40 Costco Shop Card and a coupon for $40 off $250. If you use both bonuses, you’ll technically make $20.
Costco last offered the deal in July.
BEST THINGS TO BUY AT COSTCO
Among a list of other items, Parade recommends Costco’s rotisserie chicken ($4.99) and egg cartons (up to 34% cheaper than other retailers), as top picks from the beloved retailer.
BJ ‘s Wholesale Club
Though the company ended its three-month free trial membership, it now offers a free One Day Pass, but it can only be used on BJ’s “Ship It” service.
Meanwhile, the cost for BJ’s Inner Circle membership is $55 per year and includes a complimentary membership for one person in your household, in addition to three add-on members for $30 each annually. BJ’s Perks Rewards membership is $110 per year and includes 2% cash back on most BJ’s purchases, in addition to exclusive events throughout the year. BJ’s business memberships are also available for $55 and $110 tiers and allow “tax exempt and resale privileges.” Business members can also add on eight memberships at a discounted rate.
The company also offers discounted Inner Circle memberships in some, but not all locations.
BEST THINGS TO BUY AT BJ’S
CNBC recommends buying baby supplies (similar quantities sold for less than at other membership stores) and fresh meats (up to $1.37 cheaper per pound than other membership stores, per CNBC). | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/how-to-get-free-sams-club-costco-memberships/ | 2022-08-19T23:56:44Z | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/how-to-get-free-sams-club-costco-memberships/ | false |
Some Susquehanna Valley school districts still looking for teachers
There's a shortage of teachers nationwide. And while some schools in the Susquehanna Valley are working hard to fill vacant positions, there are concerns about the long-term for hiring teachers.
In the Cumberland Valley School District, the buildings are nearly fully staffed after aggressive efforts to hire. But there are still some positions that need to be filled.
"We have to be actively recruiting candidates," Superintendent David Christopher said.
The district started hiring for this fall semester back in January. Christopher said teacher turnover is high across Pennsylvania, and hiring has become a year-round process at CV.
"The teaching numbers are just going to get worse," he said.
Pennsylvania census data shows there are 22,000 fewer people working in education this year than there were in 2020.
Chris Lilienthal, with the Pennsylvania State Education Association, said rural and urban school districts, in particular, are finding it hard to hire, meaning many educators are being asked to do more.
"Suddenly those teachers are being pulled into other classrooms. They are losing their lunch period. They're losing their prep period, or they're finding that half of another classroom is now suddenly in their classroom," he said.
Christopher said there are long-term concerns if the trend can't be reversed.
"You're going to see a lot of school districts really looking at alternate ways to certify staff, and you're going to have to do things like, we’re going to have to evaluate certain curriculum if we cannot find certified staff members to teach it," he said.
Christopher said the district is looking at how to create pipelines for paraprofessionals to more easily become teachers.
Overall, the PSEA said there's an estimated shortage of 300,000 educators nationwide. | https://www.wgal.com/article/some-susquehanna-valley-school-districts-still-trying-to-hire-teachers/40944372 | 2022-08-19T23:57:06Z | https://www.wgal.com/article/some-susquehanna-valley-school-districts-still-trying-to-hire-teachers/40944372 | false |
SALMON, ID - The Moose Fire near Salmon, Idaho has grown to 89,344 acres with containment remaining at 34%.
The latest updates on the evacuation orders issued by the Lemhi County Sheriff’s Office can be found here.
Fire managers report the western edge of the blaze continues to be the most active and depending on fire activity, there is a potential for road closure changes on Panther Creek Road. The fire is within ¼ mile of the road and it is expected to burn down to the edge of the road.
When the fire reaches Panther Creek Road, there is a potential for short-duration closures to allow firefighters room to safely work the fire including anticipated debris falling on the road, according to the Friday update.
Fire managers also note that it's expected, as conditions allow, that the closed portion of the Salmon River Road will have short duration openings Saturday morning. For current road status information, contact the Fire Information Line at 208-742-6690.
There are 776 people assigned to the Moose Fire which was sparked on July 17 near the confluence of Moose Creek and the Salmon River.
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GLENSIDE, Pa., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the eighth straight year, Arcadia University has been named one of The Princeton Review's Best Northeastern schools. The designation, in its "2023 Best Colleges: Region by Region" web feature, reflects the Review assessment of Arcadia as "academically outstanding and well worth consideration" for any prospective student.
The Review evaluates universities and colleges on academics, admissions selectivity, financial aid, safety, quality of life, environmental efforts, and the accessibility of faculty. It also considers data from its survey of administrators at several hundred colleges in each region, information from staff visits to schools over the years, and the opinions of college counselors and advisors whose perspectives The Review solicits. Student ratings are factored in as well.
- "Students at Arcadia receive 'a global and integrative learning experience with lots of personal attention,' among people who share their 'love of learning.'"
- "What really brings people here is the study abroad program. What keeps them here are the people."
- "Lots of colleges claim to give their students a 'global perspective,' but Arcadia really delivers."
- "It has a phenomenal study abroad program with 'many pathways' for international study and travel. Students 'tend to get addicted to it,' and many go abroad two or more times during their college career."
- "Classes are small, leading to many chances for 'one-on-one' attention from professors."
- "Its faculty and administrative staff are exceptional. Professors are unbelievably talented and accessible. They're always willing to give a helping hand in any project brought to their attention."
- "Opportunities are available to go beyond the typical classroom experience by working on individual projects or helping professors with research."
The Review's "Best Northeastern" list consists of schools in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia.
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 19, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
525 PM CDT Fri Aug 19 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern
Lampasas County through 600 PM CDT...
At 524 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles east of Bend, or 12 miles northwest of Lampasas, moving
southeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Lampasas and Lometa.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3114 9853 3116 9852 3116 9851 3118 9854
3119 9854 3131 9833 3120 9812 3103 9821
3103 9844 3106 9848 3108 9846 3110 9847
3111 9846 3112 9850 3109 9853 3113 9855
TIME...MOT...LOC 2224Z 322DEG 7KT 3114 9838
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 19, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
538 PM CDT Fri Aug 19 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Brewster
County through 630 PM CDT...
At 538 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 16
miles south of Marathon, or 34 miles southeast of Alpine, moving
north at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Marathon.
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 2990 10317 2990 10338 3024 10345 3025 10310
TIME...MOT...LOC 2238Z 177DEG 16KT 2998 10328
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Small stream flooding caused by excessive rainfall is
expected.
* WHERE...A portion of west central Texas, including the following
counties, Mason and San Saba.
* WHEN...Until 730 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 538 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause small stream flooding. Between
1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Pontotoc.
- This includes the following Low Water Crossings...
FM 1030 crossing Wallace Creek, Old Union crossing San
Fernando Creek and crossings along County Road 238.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Arroyo and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
county, Crockett.
* WHEN...Until 745 PM CDT.
- At 540 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause arroyo and small stream
flooding. Between 1.5 and 2 inches of rain have fallen.
mainly rural areas of Northwestern Crockett County
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- Novavax' vaccine is the first protein-based COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S.
- Doses of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted are now available and primary series immunizations for adolescents can begin once a policy recommendation from the CDC is received
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing and commercializing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced that the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted (NVX-CoV2373) has received expanded emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide a two-dose primary series for active immunization to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in adolescents aged 12 through 17.
"Having more vaccine options for use in both adults and adolescents, like the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted will hopefully help increase vaccination rates, particularly as we prepare for ongoing surges of COVID-19 with the start of fall and the back-to-school season," said Stanley C. Erck, President and Chief Executive Officer, Novavax. "We hope that our vaccine, developed using an innovative approach to recombinant protein vaccine technology, may have a special role in adolescent vaccination based on parents' and caregivers' familiarity with protein-based vaccines used in other disease areas."
The FDA EUA decision was based on data from the ongoing pediatric expansion of the Phase 3 PREVENT-19 trial of 2,247 adolescents aged 12 through 17 years across 75 sites in the U.S., to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted. In pediatric expansion, the vaccine achieved its primary efficacy endpoint with clinical efficacy of 78.29% (95% CI: 37.55%, 92.45%) overall at a time when the Delta variant was the predominant circulating SARS-CoV-2 strain in the U.S. The efficacy analysis was supported by assessment of antibody titers that were shown to be higher in adolescents than in young adults.
Safety data from the pediatric expansion showed the vaccine to be generally well-tolerated. Serious and severe adverse reactions (AR) were low in number and balanced between vaccine and placebo groups, and not considered related to the vaccine. Local and systemic reactogenicity was generally lower than or similar to adults, after the first and second dose. No new safety signal was observed through the placebo-controlled portion of the study. Among participants 12 through 17 years of age, solicited ARs following administration of any dose of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted were injection site pain/tenderness (75.0%), headache (56.9%), fatigue/malaise (57.9%), muscle pain (49.0%), nausea/vomiting (19.9%), joint pain (16.2%), fever (16.9%), injection site swelling (8.0%), and injection site redness (7.5%). Most were mild-to-moderate in severity and lasted less than two days.
The next step for the vaccine is a policy recommendation for use from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Doses of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted are available for use in adolescents upon the CDC's recommendation.
In July 2022 the U.S. FDA had granted EUA for a two-dose primary series in adults aged 18 and older, followed by a recommendation from the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and endorsement from the CDC.
This project has been supported in part with federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response; Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), through the Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND) under contract number MCDC2011-001.
Use of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted in the U.S.
The Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted has not been approved or licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but has been authorized for emergency use by FDA, under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to provide a two-dose primary series to individuals 12 years of age and older to prevent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The emergency use of this product is only authorized for the duration of the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of the medical product under Section 564(b)(1) of the FD&C Act unless the declaration is terminated or authorization revoked sooner.
Authorized Use
The Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted is authorized for use under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to provide a two-dose primary series for active immunization to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in individuals 12 years of age and older.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Contraindications
Do not administer the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted to individuals with a known history of a severe allergic reaction (e.g., anaphylaxis) to any component of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted.
Warnings and Precautions
Management of Acute Allergic Reactions: Appropriate medical treatment to manage immediate allergic reactions must be immediately available in the event an acute anaphylactic reaction occurs following administration of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted. Monitor the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted recipients for the occurrence of immediate adverse reactions according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention guidelines.
Myocarditis and Pericarditis: Clinical trials data provide evidence for increased risks of myocarditis and pericarditis following administration of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted (see Full EUA Prescribing Information).
Syncope (fainting): May occur in association with administration of injectable vaccines. Procedures should be in place to avoid injury from fainting.
Altered Immunocompetence: Immunocompromised persons, including individuals receiving immunosuppressant therapy, may have a diminished immune response to the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted.
Limitations of Vaccine Effectiveness: The Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted may not protect all vaccine recipients.
Adverse Reactions
Adverse reactions reported in clinical trials following administration of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted include injection site pain/tenderness, fatigue/malaise, muscle pain, headache, joint pain, nausea/vomiting, injection site redness, injection site swelling, fever, chills, injection site pruritus, hypersensitivity reactions, lymphadenopathy-related reactions, myocarditis, and pericarditis.
Myocarditis, pericarditis, anaphylaxis, paresthesia, and hypoesthesia have been reported following administration of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted outside of clinical trials.
Additional adverse reactions, some of which may be serious, may become apparent with more widespread use of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted.
Reporting Adverse Events and Vaccine Administration Errors
The vaccination provider enrolled in the federal COVID-19 Vaccination Program is responsible for mandatory reporting of the following to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS):
- vaccine administration errors whether or not associated with an adverse event,
- serious adverse events (irrespective of attribution to vaccination),
- cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS), in adults and children, and
- cases of COVID-19 that results in hospitalization or death.
Complete and submit reports to VAERS online: For further assistance with reporting to VAERS, call 1-800-822-7967. The reports should include the words "Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted EUA" in the description section of the report.
To the extent feasible, report adverse events to Novavax, Inc. using the following contact information or by providing a copy of the VAERS form to Novavax, Inc. Website: www.NovavaxMedInfo.com, Fax Number: 1-888-988-8809, Telephone Number: 1-844-NOVAVAX (1-844-668-2829).
Please click to see the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers Administering Vaccine (Vaccination Providers) and EUA Full Prescribing Information.
Please click to see the Fact Sheet for Recipients and Caregivers.
About NVX-CoV2373 (Novavax' COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted)
NVX-CoV2373 is a protein-based vaccine engineered from the genetic sequence of the first strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease. The vaccine was created using Novavax' recombinant nanoparticle technology to generate antigen derived from the coronavirus spike (S) protein and is formulated with Novavax' patented saponin-based Matrix-M™ adjuvant to enhance the immune response and stimulate high levels of neutralizing antibodies. NVX-CoV2373 contains purified protein antigen and can neither replicate, nor can it cause COVID-19.
NVX-CoV2373 is packaged as a ready-to-use liquid formulation in a vial containing ten doses. The vaccination regimen calls for two 0.5 ml doses (5 mcg antigen and 50 mcg Matrix-M adjuvant) given intramuscularly 21 days apart. The vaccine is stored at 2°- 8° Celsius, enabling the use of existing vaccine supply and cold chain channels. Use of the vaccine should be in accordance with official recommendations.
The PREVENT-19 trial of NVX-CoV2373 is being conducted with support from the U.S. government, including the Department of Defense, BARDA, part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the HHS, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health at HHS. BARDA is providing up to $1.75 billion under a Department of Defense agreement (number MCDC2011-001). JPEO-CBRND is also providing funding of up to $45.7 million under a separate agreement. To date, the U.S. government has agreed to order 3.2 million doses of NVX-CoV2373 under these existing agreements. Novavax and the U.S. government will determine the timing, pricing, and amounts for delivery of any additional NVX-CoV2373 doses. Novavax intends to pursue additional U.S. procurement of both NVX-CoV2373 doses and other potential formulations.
Novavax has established partnerships for the manufacture, commercialization and distribution of NVX-CoV2373 worldwide. Existing authorizations leverage Novavax' manufacturing partnership with Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by volume. They will later be supplemented with data from additional manufacturing sites throughout Novavax' global supply chain.
About Matrix-M™ Adjuvant
Novavax' patented saponin-based Matrix-M adjuvant has demonstrated a potent and well-tolerated effect by stimulating the entry of antigen-presenting cells into the injection site and enhancing antigen presentation in local lymph nodes, boosting immune response.
About Novavax
Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) is a biotechnology company that promotes improved health globally through the discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative vaccines to prevent serious infectious diseases. The company's proprietary recombinant technology platform harnesses the power and speed of genetic engineering to efficiently produce highly immunogenic nanoparticles designed to address urgent global health needs. NVX-CoV2373, the company's COVID-19 vaccine, has received authorization from multiple regulatory authorities globally, including the FDA, European Commission and the World Health Organization. The vaccine is currently under review by multiple regulatory agencies worldwide. In addition to its COVID-19 vaccine, Novavax is also currently evaluating a COVID-seasonal influenza combination vaccine candidate in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial, which combines NVX-CoV2373 and NanoFlu*, its quadrivalent influenza investigational vaccine candidate, and is also evaluating an Omicron strain-based vaccine (NVX-CoV2515) as well as a bivalent format Omicron-based / original strain-based vaccine. These vaccine candidates incorporate Novavax' proprietary saponin-based Matrix-M adjuvant to enhance the immune response and stimulate high levels of neutralizing antibodies.
For more information, visit www.novavax.com and connect with us on LinkedIn.
*NanoFlu identifies a recombinant hemagglutinin (HA) protein nanoparticle influenza vaccine candidate produced by Novavax. This investigational candidate was evaluated during a controlled phase 3 trial conducted during the 2019-2020 influenza season.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements herein relating to the future of Novavax, its operating plans and prospects, its partnerships, the potential for subsequent orders from the U.S. government for additional doses of NVX-CoV2373 and other potential formulations, the timing of clinical trial results, the ongoing development of NVX-CoV2373, including an Omicron strain based vaccine and bivalent Omicron-based / original strain based vaccine, a COVID-seasonal influenza investigational vaccine candidate, the scope, timing and outcome of future regulatory filings and actions, including Novavax' plans to supplement existing authorizations with data from the additional manufacturing sites in Novavax' global supply chain, additional worldwide authorizations of NVX-CoV2373, the potential impact and reach of Novavax and NVX-CoV2373 in addressing vaccine access, controlling the pandemic and protecting populations, the efficacy, safety and intended utilization of NVX-CoV2373, and expected administration of NVX-CoV2373 are forward-looking statements. Novavax cautions that these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, challenges satisfying, alone or together with partners, various safety, efficacy, and product characterization requirements, including those related to process qualification and assay validation, necessary to satisfy applicable regulatory authorities; unanticipated challenges or delays in conducting clinical trials; difficulty obtaining scarce raw materials and supplies; resource constraints, including human capital and manufacturing capacity, on the ability of Novavax to pursue planned regulatory pathways; unanticipated challenges or delays in conducting clinical trials; challenges meeting contractual requirements under agreements with multiple commercial, governmental, and other entities; and those other risk factors identified in the "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections of Novavax' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We caution investors not to place considerable reliance on forward-looking statements contained in this press release. You are encouraged to read our filings with the SEC, available at www.sec.gov and www.novavax.com, for a discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date of this document, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any of the statements. Our business is subject to substantial risks and uncertainties, including those referenced above. Investors, potential investors, and others should give careful consideration to these risks and uncertainties.
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Fundraiser for WPD officer battling cancer set for Saturday
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Honore Adversis Foundation detailed plans for a benefit dinner Saturday, Aug. 20, organized to help a Wichita Police Department officer battling cancer.
The Officer Daniel Gumm Benefit Dinner / Auction is set for 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Church of the Holy Spirit , 18218 W. 54, in Goddard.
The Wagonmasters, Cargill, Stroots Lockers, Cracker Barrel and Broadway Burgers will provide the dinner for the event that also will include a silent auction.
Auction items up for bid include fully guided hunts, vintage firearms, vacations, KU basketball tickets, a signed 2022 KU National Championship basketball and tour of Allen Fieldhouse and the KU Basketball Hall of Fame, a signed Patrick Mahomes jersey, custom-made fire pits, and a half-carat diamond necklace donated by Jewelry Savers.
Officer Daniel Gumm is an 18-year veteran and K-9 handler with the WPD. He was diagnosed with etastatic esophageal cancer that spread to his liver.
In 2017, Gumm’s K-9 partner, Rooster, died on the job during an arrest attempt. Saturday’s dinner and auction, A#294SRONG Benefit, is among several efforts organized by the Honore Adversis Foundation to support Officer Gumm and his family.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Keno" game were:
07-08-11-12-15-20-26-33-35-37-40-41-43-46-47-59-66-71-72-75-79-80
(seven, eight, eleven, twelve, fifteen, twenty, twenty-six, thirty-three, thirty-five, thirty-seven, forty, forty-one, forty-three, forty-six, forty-seven, fifty-nine, sixty-six, seventy-one, seventy-two, seventy-five, seventy-nine, eighty) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-17385787.php | 2022-08-20T00:08:34Z | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-17385787.php | true |
After nabbing just one win during coach Rocky Smart’s first season in 2019, Sanger flipped the script the next year with an impressive 8-2 finish.
The Indians took a bit of a step back last year at 5-6, snagging the fourth playoff spot in a five-team district before a first-round exit against Graham. Sanger returns 13 starters and 17 lettermen overall, providing reason for optimism heading into the fall.
The following is a look at the Indians heading into the 2022 season.
Star power: Wide receiver Steven Bush’s importance in Sanger’s offense will grow after star quarterback Rylan Smart, son of Rocky, was lost to graduation along with leading rusher Colby Lewis and four other offensive starters.
Bush was the Indians’ top receiver last year, hauling in 45 passes for 755 yards and nine touchdowns. He also chipped in 17 tackles, two pass breakups and a fumble recovery from the defensive backfield.
Bush will be a key weapon and likely security blanket for Sanger’s next quarterback. Fellow wideouts Kollin Shumate and Chandler Bowland should help in that regard, too, after combining for 51 catches, 616 yards and nine touchdowns.
Look for Bush to set the tone for the group once again this fall.
Team strength: As is the case with a few other area teams, Sanger’s biggest strength is an experienced defense. Just three of the Indians’ top 10 tacklers graduated and they return eight starters.
Linebacker Logan Lewis led the team with 88 tackles last season while also contributing at several spots on the offensive side. He has seen time at quarterback this fall and looks like a good bet to factor in heavily on both sides this season.
Beyond Lewis, defensive linemen Aidan Beukema and Jyreese Jones should be forces once again up front. They combined for 167 total tackles and 15 tackles for a loss last season.
Area of concern: Losing Rylan Smart to graduation deals a big blow to Sanger’s offense and leaves uncertainty at the quarterback position.
The dual-threat quarterback completed just under 60 percent of his passes for 2,642 yards and 29 touchdowns. He added 523 rushing yards and 10 scores as one of the Indians’ two rushers to eclipse 100 yards.
It will be no small task to replace that production after the team also lost its leading rusher and second and third receivers. Filling the void will take a group effort from players at several positions.
Lewis saw plenty of reps at quarterback during summer practice and Sanger’s scrimmage against Ponder, flashing ability on the ground and through the air.
Whether he or another player is ultimately at the helm, the quality of quarterback play this season could determine if the Indians make a run at a playoff berth.
Game of the year: The same contest we highlighted as Krum’s most important is also Sanger’s game of the year for many of the same reasons.
One of the Indians’ biggest obstacles as they look to secure a third straight playoff berth will be the Bobcats. Sanger’s lone district win last season came in its narrow 24-20 defeat of Krum, a victory which sealed the former’s playoff spot and left the latter sitting at home.
With a combined 30 returning starters between the two teams, it goes without saying they will remember last season’s battle. Those elements make for a fascinating midseason showdown between two area rivals.
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Online grocery shopping looks like it will be one of the few pandemic behaviors that really does stick.
The arrival of COVID-19 disrupted lifestyles, and prognosticators weighed in on the long-term changes that would bring. Now, even as Americans list their Peloton bikes on Craigslist, cancel their Netflix accounts and slow down their home-remodeling plans, they refuse to give up the convenience of online grocery shopping.
Against a backdrop of the highest inflation in four decades, now around 8.5%, shoppers are still willing to pay a premium for that convenience. There's also mounting evidence that consumers are trading down amid all these price hikes, and yet e-grocery revenue is still rising.
After posting year-over-year declines in March and April, online grocery sales rebounded and have increased in the past three months, according to data from Brick Meets Click and Mercatus Technologies Inc., which both provide online services to food retailers. That includes July, when sales rose 17% from last year's, reaching $7.8 billion. Though it has come down from its pre-vaccine heights, overall, the average monthly sales thus far in 2022 are four times as high as the pre-COVID sales rate, David Bishop of Brick Meets Click told Bloomberg. The number of monthly active users has more than doubled since August 2019.
"Grocery benefits from the fact that it's an essential, everyday necessity," Bishop said, which creates a "figurative moat" around it, protecting it from consumer pullback. Consumers are navigating a number of factors in deciding to use e-grocery, including inflation but also possible COVID infection, marketing promotions and convenience, he said. Within the category there's still trading down, to store brands from national brands or to mass retailers from supermarkets. But overall, Americans need groceries, and many of them are choosing to stock up online, even if it's more expensive.
Plus, said Alex Frederick, an analyst at Pitchbook, offering the option to pick orders up at stores eliminates pricey delivery fees and has helped retain customers. Allowing shoppers to quickly compare prices from other sites before checking out is also a "significant benefit" of e-grocery during a high-inflation environment, he said.
Though the pandemic didn't create e-grocery, it bolstered it substantially by turning it into a necessary option for many who wanted to reduce their chances of getting COVID by avoiding public places. That sped up investments and the rollout of services, such as picking up orders at stores. To meet their customers' needs quickly, many chains signed deals with with Instacart Inc., an online grocery service, to pick items from their stores and deliver them.
Many online food retailers now are finding that even inflation-wary consumers are willing to spend more for the right products and good service.
"At any moment, you can find something more cheaply, I'm not going to argue with that," said Dave Bass, managing director for Ahold Delhaize's FreshDirect, a New York-area e-grocer. Still, the company continues to see gains in new customers, which Bass said is because of its focus on freshness and premium offerings. "We have a consumer base that wants and expects the high quality."
It's not just the higher end of the market that is bucking expectations. Discount online supermarket Misfits Market has also generated significant growth, Chief Executive Officer Abhi Ramesh said. As consumers seek more value, Misfits' average order size has grown 40% in the first half of 2022 compared with the same period last year.
Thrive Market, a discount online seller in the organic and natural categories, is also seeing higher sales, according to CEO Nick Green. As prices at the store go up, Thrive membership becomes more valuable for shoppers who don't want "to shop down to unhealthy processed-foods options," he said. Prices on the site haven't risen significantly, he said. Instead, it has started offering volume discounts and more free samples with orders.
Meanwhile, major grocers and mass retailers have invested heavily in e-commerce. Kroger is building food distribution centers that will rely on robots. Walmart expanded a service to deliver groceries to customers' refrigerators. Amazon.com, which jump-started the growth in e-grocery with its purchase of Whole Foods Market in 2017, has a similar offering that drops off orders in a home's garage. And like many chains, Target quickly bolstered its curbside pickup during the pandemic.
But as competition has intensified, with supermarkets creating their own e-commerce sites and food-delivery giants DoorDash Inc. and Uber Inc. also jumping into the expanding category, industry bellwether Instacart saw a major investor slash its valuation in July. Instacart declined to comment.
For many consumers, the competition is a boon: More products and ways to get them, and sometimes more discounts and freebies, too. Even without the promotions, though, the convenience of online grocery shopping is proving to be worth the higher price, even if name-brand peanut butter isn't. "Behaviors are stabilizing," Bishop said, and buying groceries online is now an "embedded, new routine for a sizable group." | https://www.phillytrib.com/lockdowns-long-over-americans-still-hooked-on-online-groceries/article_46de7f46-c330-572f-9aa5-7a77b9c3561c.html | 2022-08-20T00:10:36Z | https://www.phillytrib.com/lockdowns-long-over-americans-still-hooked-on-online-groceries/article_46de7f46-c330-572f-9aa5-7a77b9c3561c.html | false |
Bees have become increasingly stressed by climate change over the past 100 years, museum collections indicate.
An analysis of bumblebee wings from a network of UK institutions shows signs of stress linked to conditions getting hotter and wetter.
As well as revealing what is linked to stress in bees in the past, the study can help predict when and where bees will face most stress and potential decline in the future, researchers suggest.
Scientists from Imperial College London and the Natural History Museum have published two papers analysing UK bumblebee populations.
The first investigated the body shapes of bee specimens dating back to 1900.
Using digital images, researchers looked at asymmetry in bumblebee wings as an indicator of stress.
High asymmetry – very differently shaped right and left wings – indicated the creatures experienced stress during development – an external factor that affected their normal growth.
Looking at four UK bumblebee species, the group found evidence of stress getting higher as the century progressed from its lowest point around 1925.
Further analysis, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, showed that each species displayed a consistently higher proxy of stress in the latter half of the century.
When assessing the climate conditions during the year of collection, the team found that in hotter and wetter years bees showed higher wing asymmetry.
Co-author Aoife Cantwell-Jones, from the department of life sciences (Silwood Park) at Imperial College London, said: “By using a proxy of stress visible on the bee’s external anatomy and caused by stress during development just days or weeks before, we can look to more accurately track factors placing populations under pressure through historic space and time.”
Co-author Dr Andres Arce, now at the University of Suffolk, added: “Our goal is to better understand responses to specific environmental factors and learn from the past to predict the future.
“We hope to be able to forecast where and when bumblebees will be most at risk and target effective conservation action.”
Senior co-author Dr Richard Gill, also from Imperial, said: “With hotter and wetter conditions predicted to place bumblebees under higher stress, the fact these conditions will become more frequent under climate change means bumblebees may be in for a rough time over the 21st century.”
In a second study, published in Methods in Ecology & Evolution, the team successfully sequenced the genomes of more than a hundred bumblebee museum specimens dating back more than 130 years.
They used methods typically used for studying woolly mammoths and ancient humans on an insect population for the first time.
As well as providing a new reference genome, the team will now use this data to study how bee genomes have changed over time, gaining an understanding of how whole populations have adapted – or not – to changing environments.
Co-author Dr Victoria Mullin, from the Natural History Museum, said: “Museum insect collections offer an unparalleled opportunity to directly study how the genomes of populations and species have been affected by environmental changes through time.
“However, they are a finite resource and understanding how best to utilise them for genetic studies is important.” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3605323/bees-increasingly-stressed-by-climate-change-over-the-past-100-years-study/ | 2022-08-20T00:11:05Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3605323/bees-increasingly-stressed-by-climate-change-over-the-past-100-years-study/ | false |
A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul during evening prayers has killed at least 21 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 33 others, witnesses and police said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on Wednesday night, the latest to strike the country in the year since the Taliban seized power.
Several children were reported to be among the wounded.
The so-called Islamic State group’s local affiliate has stepped up attacks targeting the Taliban and civilians since the former insurgents’ takeover last August as US and Nato troops were in the final stages of their withdrawal from the country.
Last week, the extremists claimed responsibility for killing a prominent Taliban cleric at his religious centre in Kabul.
Khalid Zadran, the spokesman for Kabul’s Taliban police chief, gave the figures to the Associated Press (AP) for the bombing at the Siddiquiya mosque in the city’s Kher Khanna neighbourhood.
A witness told the AP the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber.
The killed cleric was Mullah Amir Mohammad Kabuli, the witness said.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid condemned the explosion and vowed that the “perpetrators of such crimes will soon be brought to justice and will be punished”.
There were fears the casualty numbers could rise further.
On Thursday morning, one witness to the blast who gave his name as Qyaamuddin told the AP he believed as many as 25 people may have been killed in the blast.
“It was evening prayer time, and I was attending the prayer with others, when the explosion happened,” Qyaamuddin said.
Some Afghans go by a single name.
AP journalists could see the blue-roofed, Sunni mosque from a nearby hillside.
The Taliban parked police trucks and other vehicles at the mosque, while several men carried out one coffin for a victim of the attack.
A US-led invasion toppled the previous Taliban government, which had hosted al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, following the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
Since regaining power, the former insurgents have faced a crippling economic crisis as the international community, which does not recognise the Taliban government, froze funding to the country.
On Thursday, the Taliban hosted a gathering of 3,000 tribal elders, religious scholars and others in Kandahar, their state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported.
It was not immediately clear what topics they planned to discuss.
Separately, the Taliban confirmed on Wednesday that they had captured and killed Mehdi Mujahid in western Herat province as he was trying to cross the border into Iran.
Mujahid was a former Taliban commander in the district of Balkhab in northern Sar-e-Pul province, and the only member of the minority Shiite Hazara community among the Taliban ranks.
Mujahid had turned against the Taliban over the past year, after opposing decisions made by Taliban leaders in Kabul. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3605518/prominent-cleric-among-21-killed-in-kabul-mosque-bombing/ | 2022-08-20T00:12:03Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3605518/prominent-cleric-among-21-killed-in-kabul-mosque-bombing/ | false |
Little League player on a journey to a ‘long recovery’ after fracturing his skull
Posted/updated on: August 19, 2022 at 6:39 pm(WILLIAMSBURG, Pa.) -- A 12-year-old Little League player sustained a fractured skull after falling from a bunk bed in the League's dormitories in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania.
Easton Oliverson, a Santa Clara, Utah native, is conscious and starting to walk, the family said on an Instagram account set up in honor of his recovery journey.
Easton plays for the Snow Canyon team in the Little League, part of the team's first squad to advance to the World Series championship in its 75-year history.
According to his father, Jace Oliverson, Easton fell from his bunk bed on Sunday. Easton had an epidural hematoma, where his fractured skull injury was coupled with a punctured artery outside the brain which caused internal bleeding.
Since Monday, doctors were able to stop the hematoma and stopped the bleeding, Oliverson said.
The Little League released a statement on Monday confirming the fall. It said Easton was transported to the Geisinger Janet Weis Children's Hospital after the fall where he is currently still receiving treatment.
In a later statement, the League said it would be removing all bunk beds from its dormitories, out of an "abundance of caution." The bunk beds do not have guard rails, the statement said.
"Since 1992, Little League has used institutional-style bunk beds to offer the most space for the players to enjoy their time in the dorms," read the statement. "While these beds do not have guard rails, Little League is unaware of any serious injuries ever occurring during that period of time."
Easton's family posted a video on Friday of two nurses helping him walk down the hospital hallway.
"We are at a loss for words. There are none that seem fitting other than: God is Good," the caption read.
"We love our Easton so much. Thank you for loving, and supporting him with us. Keep the prayers coming- he's getting stronger everyday," it continued.
Easton has also been moved out of the Intensive Care Unit, according to his family.
With Easton in the hospital, the Snow Canyon Little League has decided to add his little brother, Brogan, 10, to the roster. According to the Oliverson's, Brogan was selected as an alternate for the team prior to his brother's injury.
The team is scheduled to play its first game of the World Series championship at 3 p.m. eastern time on Friday.
Easton has seen remarkable support online since his admission to the hospital. Both the Brigham Young University football team and Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts posted videos on Instagram wishing the young player well.
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Save Mart and Lucky supermarkets are shuttering their nearly 90 pharmacies across California and Nevada, including several locations in the Bay Area.
Save Mart Companies, which owns Save Mart, Lucky and other stores, will be moving its pharmacy services to Walgreens, a spokesperson for the company wrote in a statement to The Chronicle on Friday.
The United Food and Commercial Workers union, or UFCW, which represents thousands of workers at unionized Save Mart stores, expressed concern about what the pharmacy closures mean for its members.
“The primary issue affecting the members of UFCW 8-Golden State and UFCW Locals 5 and 648 is their potential loss of employment and Union-negotiated health care and pension benefits,” UFCW 8-Golden State President Jacques Loveall said in an email.
Loveall said that discussions between UFCW 8-Golden State and Save Mart have “resulted in opportunities for displaced Pharmacy department employees to remain with Save Mart in other parts of their store, continuing their current wage and Union-negotiated benefits.” He also said that UFCW Locals 5 and 648, located in Hayward and San Francisco, respectively, are in discussions with Save Mart “to protect their membership.”
Save Mart Companies wrote that “Walgreens expressed great interest in hiring and has the intention to hire as many of our Pharmacy associates as possible.”
However, UFCW 8-Golden State wrote in a notice that Walgreens is not a part of the union’s pharmacy network and that it will facilitate getting its members from closed or soon-to-be closed Save Mart pharmacies hired at in-network pharmacies, such as Safeway or Rite Aid. The union has also urged its members to transfer their family’s prescriptions to an in-network pharmacy.
Save Mart Companies said in their statement that “Save Mart and Lucky Pharmacy staff will work closely with their patients to make this transition of services as convenient and seamless as possible,” the statement continued.
But some communities are already struggling with the movement of services to Walgreens.
On Tuesday, the Petaluma Argus-Courier reported that the closure of a Lucky pharmacy in east Petaluma, could be an obstacle to equitable access to pharmacy and prescription services, particularly for senior citizens, people experiencing homelessness, and those without access to reliable transportation.
The nearest Walgreens to the Petaluma Lucky pharmacy - scheduled to close next Wednesday - is in Cotati, miles away.
Earlier this year, Save Mart Companies announced that it had been acquired by Kingswood Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm.
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Wayfair is cutting about 870 employees, or 5% of its global workforce, as part of a plan previously announced by the home goods company to manage operating costs and realign its investment priorities after the pandemic.
With millions sheltering at home in 2020, the Boston company reported 55% sales growth as families spent heavily to furnish living rooms and other parts of the house. Last year, as more people ventured out, sales at Wayfair declined 3.1%.
Wayfair Inc. expects costs related to the job cuts to run between $30 million and $40 million in the third quarter, mostly related to employee severance and benefits.
The company said that it’s also in the process of making substantial cuts to third party labor costs as well.
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(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is probing an E.coli bacteria outbreak in four states from an unknown food source, with many of the affected reported to have had sandwiches at Wendy's Co.
Of the 37 sick, 22 people were said to have consumed Wendy's sandwiches with romaine lettuce in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania in the week before they fell ill, the agency said on Friday.
The investigators, however, are yet to confirm if romaine lettuce is the cause and also if the vegetable used in Wendy's sandwiches was served or sold at other businesses.
The burger chain said it is taking the precaution of removing sandwich lettuce from its restaurants in the region. Nearly 1,100 of roughly 5,940 Wendy's U.S. restaurants are located in the four states.
Illness started between July 26 and Aug. 8 and a total of 10 people have been hospitalized, of which three in Michigan have developed a type of kidney failure.
E.coli bacteria normally lives in the intestines of healthy people and animals. Although many strains are harmless, certain types can cause severe abdominal cramps, bloody diarrhea and vomiting.
The CDC said the exact number of affected people is likely higher and the outbreak may not be limited to the four states.
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HUNTINGTON — The Huntington Police Department has asked the public to help identify a man accused of luring two children into his vehicle Wednesday.
The children — a 9-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl — said they were approached by a man in a dark-colored Subaru Forester around 5 p.m. Wednesday at 7th Street West and 5th Avenue West in Huntington.
The vehicle had a passenger-side doughnut tire and the driver was the sole occupant. The man, whom the children did not know, was described as being a heavy-set white man in his 30s or 40s, clean-shaven and bald, and he had a skull tattoo on his upper right arm.
According to the police department, the man offered the children $20 to babysit. The man drove the children to an area near 19th Street and 10th Avenue.
The man then asked the boy to get out of the vehicle to inspect a tire, driving off when the boy got out. Police say the driver ignored the girl’s request to be let out, but she was able to open a passenger door and exit the vehicle.
The children were not injured.
To report information about the incident or vehicle, call the police department’s Detective Bureau at 304-696-4420, ext. 1034. For anonymous tips, call the HPD Anonymous Tip Line at 304-696-4444.
The following information was provided by reports from the Huntington Police Department:
The Huntington Police Department reported 15 incidents in the 24-hour period ending at 4:01 a.m. Friday. However, the individual police reports were not made available, so these are the only known details.
Petit larceny, 4:01 a.m. Friday, 1500 block of 6th Avenue.
Domestic battery, 1:27 a.m. Friday, 1000 block of 19th Street.
Information report, 11:28 a.m. Aug. 7, 200 block of 19th Street.
Information report, 9:05 p.m. Thursday, 1100 block of 28th Street.
Possession of controlled substance with intent to deliver, delivery of a controlled substance, 4 p.m. Thursday, 200 block of Main Street, Guyandotte.
Petit larceny, 8 a.m. Thursday, corner of West 8th Street and Madison Avenue.
Petit larceny, 3 a.m. Thursday, 2000 block of Buffington Avenue.
Stolen auto or auto theft, 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, 3500 block of Norwood Road.
Grand larceny, 8 a.m. July 16, 1000 block of 5th Avenue.
Destruction of property, 9:30 a.m. Thursday, 1100 block of 9th Avenue.
Burglary, entry of a dwelling or outbuilding, 10:56 a.m. Thursday, 3400 block of Park Avenue.
Grand larceny, noon Tuesday, 2600 block of 1st Avenue.
Petit larceny, 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, 600 block of 10th Street.
Warrant service or execution, 4:05 a.m. Thursday, 1500 block of Harvey Road.
The following information was provided by booking records at Western Regional Jail:
Delores Chaney, 56, was jailed at 5:40 p.m. Thursday. Authorities in Wayne County charged Chaney with grand larceny. Bond was set at $10,000.
Jeremiah Matthew Kidd, 23, was jailed at 3:10 a.m. Friday. Authorities in Wayne County charged Kidd with possession of controlled substance and obstructing. Bond was set at $8,000.
David Bryant Burgess, 60, was jailed at 11:10 p.m. Thursday. Authorities in Putnam County charged Burgess with strangulation, domestic battery, brandishing and domestic assault. Bond was set at $10,000.
Christopher Grant Cummings, 31, was jailed at 4:50 p.m. Thursday. Authorities in Putnam County charged Cummings with possession of controlled substance with intent to deliver. Bond was set at $25,000.
Colby Michael Dewitt, 24, was jailed at 8:40 p.m. Thursday. Authorities in Mason County charged Dewitt with fugitive from justice. Bond was not set.
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MATTAPOISETT, Mass. (AP) — A huge fire at a Massachusetts marina turned several boats, buildings and vehicles into burned-out shells Friday, producing a plume of black smoke so thick it was picked up by weather radar.
Aerial video taken by WCVB-TV showed much of the boatyard in Mattapoisett engulfed in flames, with the fire apparently limited to buildings and boats on land. A firefighting vessel could be seen pulled up to the dock, getting as close as possible as it sprayed a jet of water onto one of the smoldering sailboats.
“A boat caught fire in one of the sheds, and it went up very, very fast,” Tim Price, a mechanic at the boatyard, told WJAR-TV. “Everything went up. I think we lost everything.”
Price said he knew of one person who was injured, but did not elaborate.
The cause of blaze is under investigation, and officials at the Mattapoisett fire and police departments said no one was available to comment. Firefighters from around the region responded to the blaze, including from as far as Providence, Rhode Island, about 30 miles away.
Drought conditions and high winds Friday in the Mattapoisett area had prompted the National Weather Service to issue a warning of elevated fire risk. The blaze at the marina sent dense black smoke over southeastern Massachusetts that could be seen for miles.
The Weather Service said on Twitter that its radar had detected “what is most likely a smoke plume” in Mattapoisett.
Mattapoisett resident Richard Walker, 72, was heading out on a motorcycle ride when he spotted the cloud of smoke. He said he could see it 5 miles (8 kilometers) away as he continued on his ride.
“There were flames and billowing black smoke. So much of it,” Walker said. “Thankfully, it looks like a lot of people had their boats out in the harbor. There didn’t seem to be too many in the yard.”
Pamela Fleming saw the fire from the back deck of her summer home. She said the fire knocked out power to the area and forced the closure of a road to a popular beach and lighthouse just beyond the marina.
“The popping sounds of all the fuel and other combustibles exploding was very eerie,” Fleming said. “The smoke was aggressively billowing from the area. As soon as it rose, there was more black heavy rolling smoke to take its place.”
Several other people posted images and video of the fire and smoke on social media.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Roland Bolduc, a professional driver with FedEx Express, was named Bendix Grand Champion tonight at the conclusion of the 85th National Truck Driving and Step Van Driving Championships.
Bolduc, competing in the sleeper berth, bested a field of 408 drivers with nearly 730 million combined accident-free miles to claim the coveted title of Grand Champion at this year's Super Bowl of Safety.
"Congratulations to Roland and the great team at FedEx for being crowned Bendix Grand Champion," said American Trucking Associations President and CEO Chris Spear. "It has been a long road for these drivers to get here, and to emerge as the best of a truly elite group is a tremendous honor. Roland's commitment to safety and professionalism is an example of what this industry and this event are truly about."
This is Bolduc's second Bendix Grand Championship, having won the coveted title in 2017. A resident of East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, he has more than 2.5 million safe driving miles in his more than 40-year-long career. Bolduc was named an America's Road Team Captain in 2000.
In addition, ATA crowned Tyler Tollefson, from FedEx Freight, as 2022 Rookie of the Year. To compete as an NTDC rookie, a driver must be a first-time competitor at their state competition who advanced to nationals. This year, there were 22 rookies competing at the National Truck Driving Championships.
ATA also recognized the state of North Carolina with the NTDC Team Championship, placing five drivers into the finals. New York finished second in the team competition and Connecticut finished third.
The National Truck Driving Championships are made possible by dozens of NTDC committee members and volunteers who judge the course, serve as liaisons to the drivers, conduct course walk-throughs and perform a number of other key tasks. As such, ATA and ATA's Safety Management Council honor one volunteer each year with the Sam Gillette Volunteer of the Year Award. This year's Sam Gillette Volunteer of the Year Award was presented to Michelle Wells of the South Dakota Trucking Association.
In addition, Anthony Spero, a professional driver with ABF Freight System Inc., was recognized with the Neil Darmstadter Professional Excellence Award as the competitor "who most exemplifies all the best attributes of a professional truck driver."
"NTDC was a tremendous success thanks to all the drivers, staff and volunteers who made it happen," said ATA Chairman Harold Sumerford Jr., president of J&M Tank Lines Inc. "After two long years, it was great to be back and see this competition in person, getting to observe the professionalism and dedication to safety of these drivers was a great privilege."
Champions from each of the nine vehicle classes were also announced. Joining Bolduc on the list of national champions are:
Three-Axle Division
- Wilbert Vano, XPO Logistics Inc. (New Jersey)
- Chris Poynor, XPO Logistics Inc. (Washington)
- Brian Walker, TForce Freight (North Carolina)
Four-Axle Division
- Martin McMahon, RIST Transport (New York)
- Miguel Corral, UPS (Illinois)
- David Rohman, FedEx Express (North Carolina)
Five-Axle Division
- David Guinn, Publix Super Markets Inc. (Florida)
- Timothy Banasiak, UPS (Illinois)
- Alphonso Lewis, Yellow (Alabama)
Flatbed Division
- Eric Ramsdell, Walmart Transportation LLC (Arizona)
- Raymond Waage, FedEx Freight (New York)
- Kenneth Rageth, FedEx Freight (Wyoming)
Sleeper Berth Division
- Roland Bolduc, FedEx Express (Connecticut)
- Eric Courville, FedEx Freight (Louisiana)
- Charles White, Walmart Transportation LLC (Indiana)
Straight Truck Division
- Christopher Shaw, FedEx Express (New Mexico)
- Michael Bills, FedEx Express (North Carolina)
- Jesse Benkert, FedEx Ground (Kentucky)
Tank Truck Division
- Michael Flippin, FedEx Freight (Colorado)
- Heladio Fernandez, FedEx Freight (Oregon)
- Dennis Shirar, Walmart Transportation LLC (Indiana)
Twins Division
- Damien Hebert, XPO Logistics Inc. (Louisiana)
- Leslie Smyth, FedEx Freight (Florida)
- Jeffrey Langenhahn, XPO Logistics Inc. (Wisconsin)
Step Van Division
- Gregory Long, FedEx Express (Maryland)
- Ceth Christensen, UPS (Illinois)
- Jerome De La Cruz, FedEx Express (Alaska)
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This year's Prop. 65 Conference will be the first in person meeting since the COVID pandemic. Over two hundred businesses, trade associations, attorneys, and regulators are expected to attend the one-day gathering.*
Building on last year's successful virtual event, this year's Prop. 65 Conference will explore the ramifications of the groundbreaking case, Lee v. Amazon, which allows online retailers to be sued for failing to provide a Prop. 65 warning for third party products sold on their websites—despite the existence of a Federal law that shields internet providers from liability over third party provided information.
Other panels will include discussions:
- for stakeholders to reach out to Prop. 65 regulators on issues affecting business;
- on what it means to bring a Prop. 65 action in "the Public Interest";
- on what companies need to do before and after getting a Prop. 65 notice; and
- on regulatory updates on hot button issues concerning, acrylamide, glyphosate, PFAS, cannabis and THC, and BPA.
This year's Prop. 65 Conference will be chaired by Renee D. Wasserman, shareholder at Rogers Joseph O'Donnell. Renee has nearly 40 years of litigation experience representing the retail industry, including helping national retailers and their manufacturers and suppliers comply with Proposition 65. She has represented clients in some of the biggest Prop. 65 cases including Environmental Law Foundation v. Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp.; People et al., v. Costco Wholesale Corp. et al.- Prop 65 Fish Cases JCCP; and CERT v Starbucks, Corp., Brad Barry Co. Ltd. et. al.
David Roe, who was instrumental in drafting Prop. 65 in 1987, will be the lunch time speaker.
*Due to continued COVID-19 uncertainties, this year's Conference will be both in person and virtual.
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Attendees can register at: https://prop65ch.com/conference/registration
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‘We’re excited’: Zoo having a record-setting year welcoming 19 cheetah cubs
CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - A Virginia zoo says it has already had a record-setting year regarding new cheetah cubs at the facility.
WWBT reports that the Metro Richmond Zoo has welcomed 19 cheetah cubs from six different litters this year. The number represents the most cubs born in a year in the zoo’s history.
According to the zoo, the cubs’ births cover the months of March, June, July and August.
“We’re excited that we’ve got some new blood entering the captive cheetah population here in the United States,” said Jim Andelin, director of the Metro Richmond Zoo.
According to Andelin, the Zoological Association of America has an animal management plan for cheetahs, recommending the cubs’ mothers for breeding.
The zoo said a thriving population of cheetahs with diverse genetics is necessary to protect the species, as the cheetah population in the wild has decreased 93% in the last 120 years.
“There’s less than 7,000 of them in the wild. We’re maintaining a good, genetically diverse population here in the United States, so we can potentially send some back,” Andelin said.
Officials at the zoo said the cheetah cubs go through several veterinarian examinations, ensuring they are in good health while getting acclimated to their new environment.
Since 2013, 96 cheetahs have been born at the zoo, a cheetah boom to further conservation efforts.
“We want to make sure this population doesn’t decline any more than it already has,” Andelin said.
Once cheetahs can live independently, officials said many are transferred to other nationally accredited zoos under the animal management plan.
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Lincoln Police arrest 19-year-old for allegedly hitting officer
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) -A 19-year-old man was arrested by Lincoln police Friday morning after an incident last week where authorities say he drove his motorcycle into an LPD officer’s bicycle.
LPD said 19-year-old Alexander Nelson was riding a green motorcycle with green lights on Aug. 11 when Nelson hit and injured an LPD bike patrol officer near Centennial Mall and P Street.
Authorities say Nelson fled the scene, but he was taken into custody eight days later early Friday morning. The motorcycle had been spray-painted and sold in an effort to conceal it, but investigators tracked it down.
Nelson was cited for Second-Degree Assault on an Officer, Use of a Deadly Weapon to Commit a Felony, Operating a Motor Vehicle to Avoid Arrest, and Tampering with Physical Evidence.
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Daycare worker charged with felony after 3-year-old boy left on hot bus, police say
PICAYUNE, Miss. (WLOX/Gray News) - A daycare worker in Mississippi is facing a felony charge after allegedly leaving a 3-year-old child on a hot company bus.
WLOX reports that 3-year-old Kaysen Breaux was hospitalized after being left inside a daycare bus at First Step Learning Lab on Monday.
The boy’s mother, Stephanie Breaux, said she believes her son was left on the bus for up to two hours.
She said he suffered exhaustion and hypothermia that day, along with an extremely low body temperature that dropped after he got home.
According to Stephanie Breaux, if her son had been inside any longer, he might not have made it out alive.
“I just feared that something like this could happen. You read about it, you see it on the news, that babies die in hot cars. And to know my baby was left, it’s careless,” Stephanie Breaux said.
The Picayune Police Department said the bus driver, 40-year-old Treshay Mashette Quinn, has been charged with child deprivation and booked into the Lenoir Rowell Criminal Justice Center.
“I can’t believe the daycare is still up and running. I’m thankful that she [the bus driver] has been incarcerated for this,” Stephanie Breaux said.
Picayune police also reported that the owner of the daycare, Wanda Worley, was running the business in an unauthorized residential area. They said Worley had not updated her occupancy permit and was issued citations for violating city ordinances.
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Plaintiffs alleging widespread dysfunction within Oregon’s foster care system can now sue on behalf of all children within that system, a judge ruled this week.
With that decision by U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken, a three-year-old lawsuit against the state can potentially achieve a greater impact on a system that plaintiffs say struggles to place children in adequate facilities, doesn’t set kids up to live alone once they age out of the system and frequently traumatizes thousands of youth in state custody.
Aiken’s ruling, over the objection of state attorneys, means that the suit can proceed as a class action. Rather than merely seeking remedies for 10 current or former foster children named in the initial filing, the suit now represents a general class including every child who is or eventually will be, in state care.
Aiken also certified three “subclasses” of that group: youth who are aging out of the system, who are disabled, or who are LGBTQ. Children in those categories have been subjected to unique harms, the plaintiffs argue, and should be treated separately.
For each of those classes to be certified, the plaintiffs’ attorneys had to show that the claims made by the 10 named defendants were likely to apply to a wide range of children in foster care and that actions to remedy those harms would also help the greater group.
“The Court concludes that Plaintiff has shown that the injuries claimed by the named Plaintiffs are certain to recur on other similarly situated individuals,” Aiken wrote in her ruling.
The lawsuit was filed in 2019 by Disability Rights Oregon, the nonprofit A Better Childhood and attorneys at the firm Davis Wright Tremaine. Named as defendants are Gov. Kate Brown, Director of the Oregon Department of Human Services Fariborz Pakseresht, Director of Child Welfare Marilyn Jones and the Oregon Department of Human Services.
The suit alleges that Oregon has failed children in its care for years, employing too few caseworkers, identifying too few facilities or homes where children may stay, providing inadequate training for care providers, and not properly evaluating the needs of foster kids, among other problems.
The suit includes detailed narratives of the 10 named defendants, offering a picture of a system in which kids are separated from siblings, denied necessary medications, frequently moved between homes and facilities, and generally unable to access care specific to their needs.
“What we’re seeking to do is make the system better and make it better for kids,” said Marcia Lowry, an attorney and executive director of A Better Childhood. “This case was filed in 2019 and kids are still suffering in Oregon.”
Lowry’s organization has worked to improve foster care conditions in more than a dozen states. She told OPB it has rarely encountered as aggressive a defense as that by the state of Oregon.
“One of the things that’s unfortunate here is that this is a dysfunctional system, this is a harmful system, and the state has been spending a huge amount of money to defend this,” Lowry said.
Oregon has made some changes to its foster care system since the lawsuit was first filed, such as a 2020 decision to bring back youth who had been sent for care in other states. But foster youth advocates say Oregon still has more work to do.
The Oregon Department of Justice declined to comment on the pending litigation Friday. The agency paid attorneys with law firm Markowitz Herbold more than $11 million for representation in the case through May, a spokeswoman said.
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ROGERS, Ark. — Channel 5 parent company TEGNA and its foundation recently awarded four nonprofits a total of $10,000. One of those agencies is the Arkansas Crisis Center.
"We were established in 1985 after a rash of suicides at the Rogers High School. So a group of volunteers decided that these students needed someone to talk to. So they developed a hotline for them to call in and to have someone listen to their needs on the other end of the line," said Rebecca Brubaker, the Arkansas Crisis Center (ACC) executive director.
The ACC is now in its 37th year serving those in Northwest Arkansas and around the state. It offers its own hotline and helps the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline with calls in Arkansas.
"Our calls since COVID started in 2020 have risen 700% so prior to COVID, we were serving about 296 individuals on our lines. And today we’re serving 2,470 per month," Brubaker said.
Right now, the Crisis Center has seven to eight call specialists with a 75% answer rate and only one person per shift. But new federal funding will help double that number along with this local grant.
"We’re very happy to receive the money from the TEGNA Foundation, Channel 5. We will use the money to help with operating expenses," Brubaker said. "With the 988 new easy-to-remember number and so many individuals stressed with mental health issues, I think our numbers are going to continue to climb."
If you are struggling and need help, don't hesitate to pick up the phone.
"There’s a listening ear available 24/7 through our agency and we would love to talk to you," Brubaker said.
The Arkansas Crisis Center is also working on adding text and chat features to its hotline. Training for staff will begin soon and those services will be available once the center is accredited to offer those extra options sometime in the next six to nine months.
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Daycare worker charged with felony after 3-year-old boy left on hot bus, police say
PICAYUNE, Miss. (WLOX/Gray News) - A daycare worker in Mississippi is facing a felony charge after allegedly leaving a 3-year-old child on a hot company bus.
WLOX reports that 3-year-old Kaysen Breaux was hospitalized after being left inside a daycare bus at First Step Learning Lab on Monday.
The boy’s mother, Stephanie Breaux, said she believes her son was left on the bus for up to two hours.
She said he suffered exhaustion and hypothermia that day, along with an extremely low body temperature that dropped after he got home.
According to Stephanie Breaux, if her son had been inside any longer, he might not have made it out alive.
“I just feared that something like this could happen. You read about it, you see it on the news, that babies die in hot cars. And to know my baby was left, it’s careless,” Stephanie Breaux said.
The Picayune Police Department said the bus driver, 40-year-old Treshay Mashette Quinn, has been charged with child deprivation and booked into the Lenoir Rowell Criminal Justice Center.
“I can’t believe the daycare is still up and running. I’m thankful that she [the bus driver] has been incarcerated for this,” Stephanie Breaux said.
Picayune police also reported that the owner of the daycare, Wanda Worley, was running the business in an unauthorized residential area. They said Worley had not updated her occupancy permit and was issued citations for violating city ordinances.
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Vanessa Bryant's day in court has officially arrived.
On Aug. 19, the 40-year-old appeared in a federal courtroom where she took the stand in her ongoing trial against Los Angeles County.
While testifying in front of a jury, Vanessa recounted the devastating moment she learned that several Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and firefighters had allegedly shared unauthorized photos from the January 2020 helicopter crash that killed nine people, including her husband Kobe Bryant and their 13-year-old daughter Gianna Bryant.
According to Vanessa, she was nursing her youngest daughter Capri, now 3, when she was informed that Los Angeles Times had published an article reporting how photos of the crash site had been circulating amongst Los Angeles County staffers. Sobbing, Vanessa told the court that she was with her kids, as well as family friend Pau Gasol and his wife Catherine McDonnell, at the time.
"I just remember not wanting to react with my girls in the room," she recalled, adding that she "broke down and cried" after running out of the house. "I just felt like I wanted to run down the block and scream."
Describing herself as "blindsided, devastated, hurt" and "betrayed" by existence of the photos, Vanessa said she filed her lawsuit against the county because she "wanted answers."
"I live in fear every day," she explained, adding that she never wants her kids Capri, Bianka, 5, and Natalia, 19, to ever see the pictures. "All you want to do is protect your babies."
Elsewhere in her testimony, Vanessa accused those who took the photos of exploiting her late daughter. She claimed they took advantage of the situation by taking images of her remains because "her daddy couldn't protect her, because he was at the morgue."
"[I] expected them to have more compassion and respect," she said. "My husband and my daughter deserve dignity."
The trial comes almost two years after Vanessa originally filed her suit against Los Angeles County officials.
In the lawsuit, obtained by E! News, Vanessa and her legal team alleged, "No fewer than eight sheriff's deputies at the crash site, pulled out their personal cell phones and snapped photos of the dead children, parents and coaches. The deputies took these photos for their own personal gratification."
Vanessa, according to the lawsuit, "feels ill at the thought of strangers gawking at images of her deceased husband and child, and she lives in fear that she or her children will one day confront horrific images of their loved ones online."
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages, including punitive damages.
In regards to the lawsuit, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department previously released a statement on Sept. 22, 2020. "Shortly following this tragic crash, Sheriff Alex Villanueva sponsored legislation which now makes it a crime for public safety personnel to take or share non-official pictures of this nature," the statement read. "As a result of the swift actions we took under extraordinary circumstances, no pictures made it into the public arena. We continue to offer our heartfelt sympathies for the victims and their families."
The county of Los Angeles also argues Vanessa's lawsuit is without legal merit, per the Aug. 3 defendants' trial brief obtained by E! News. | https://www.eonline.com/news/1342624/vanessa-bryant-recounts-devastating-moment-she-learned-about-kobe-and-gianna-bryant-crash-site-photos?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-08-20T00:45:17Z | https://www.eonline.com/news/1342624/vanessa-bryant-recounts-devastating-moment-she-learned-about-kobe-and-gianna-bryant-crash-site-photos?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | false |
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Caleb Sharpe, who shot one classmate to death and wounded three others five years ago in a Washington state high school, apologized to his victims before he was sentenced Friday to at least 40 years in prison.
Sharpe, who was 15 at the time of the 2017 shootings, pleaded guilty early this year in Spokane County Superior Court. The 20-year-old Sharpe showed no emotion as Superior Court Judge Michael Price handed down a sentence that was twice what defense attorneys had requested.
After serving his sentence, Sharpe will have to go before a sentencing review board prior to his release, Price ruled. The board will evaluate Sharpe’s likelihood to reoffend and his level of rehabilitation.
He will get credit for the nearly five years he has already been in custody, the judge said.
After closing statements by attorneys for both sides, Sharpe made his first public comments since his arrest five years ago.
“I’m sorry to this entire community,” Sharpe said Friday. “I’m sorry to the people who can’t sleep at night.”
Sharpe also directly apologized to his three wounded victims and to Ami Strahan, the mother of 15-year-old Sam Strahan, who died in the attack.
“Most of all I am sorry to Ami and Emily for taking Sam from them,” Sharpe said.
“Evil has no place in my heart,” Sharpe said. “I can never do enough penance to pay back what I have taken. I pray for forgiveness.”
On Thursday, Ami Strahan and the three wounded girls gave statements, all saying they wanted Sharpe to serve the maximum time in prison, which was 45 years.
Sharpe brought several weapons to school the morning of Sept. 13, 2017, and opened fire in a hallway, hitting four students before he was confronted and surrendered to a custodian.
After years of court delays, Sharpe pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder in January.
On Thursday, victims Emma Nees and Gracie Jensen described what happened the day Sharpe shot them on the second-floor hallway of their school.
“As I lay there, I watched you walk by me. Lockdown alarm blaring, wearing all black with the most emotionless face I’ve ever seen,” Jensen said to Sharpe. “Shooting at my classmates as they run for their lives into classrooms. I screamed. There was nothing else I could do.”
“I started running and was so scared because I felt like I was running in slow motion,” Emma Nees said in her testimony. “My mission was to get to the nearest classroom as fast as possible. As I was running, I began thinking there’s absolutely no way I’m getting out of this.”
Ami Strahan said she was at work when friends came up to her desk and told her to get off the phone. They said there had been a shooting at Freeman High.
When she arrived at the school, she noticed she was being led to a different area than other parents: She was taken to the sheriff.
When she told Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich who she was, he just shook his head.
“I screamed twice, loud,” Strahan said. “And I fell down.”
“You took my son in the worst way possible and you have zero remorse,” Strahan told Sharpe. “You ruined my life.”
She called Sharpe a “sick, evil coward.”
Brooke Foley, Sharpe’s public defender, earlier asked the judge for a sentence of 20 years, because of Sharpe’s age and lack of maturity at the time of the shooting.
Deputy Prosecutor Sharon Hedlund agreed that Sharpe’s sentence should be below the standard range, but urged Price to issue a 35-year sentence.
On the day of the shootings, Sharpe brought a duffel bag onto his school bus which contained an AR-15 rifle and handgun, along with numerous boxes of .223 ammunition.
At school Sharpe headed straight to a second-floor hallway, where he dropped the duffel bag and removed the assault rifle. He started to load the gun, which jammed.
As Sharpe struggled to load the weapon, Strahan approached him.
“I always knew you were going to shoot up the school,” Strahan told Sharpe, according to court documents. “You know that is going to get you in trouble.”
Sharpe then pulled the pistol from under his coat and fired a single shot, striking Strahan in the stomach. Strahan collapsed forward, at which point Sharpe shot him again, this time in the face.
Sharpe continued to walk down the hallway and shot and wounded the three girls.
After firing into the crowd, Sharpe threw the handgun down. At this point, he was confronted by custodian Joe Bowen. Sharpe raised his hands above his head in surrender as Bowen approached. | https://www.koin.com/news/washington/washington-state-school-shooter-sentenced-to-40-years/ | 2022-08-20T00:46:18Z | https://www.koin.com/news/washington/washington-state-school-shooter-sentenced-to-40-years/ | true |
Former Macomb County resident sentenced to 11 years for investment fraud
A 55-year-old former Macomb County man who defrauded 17 people of more than $4 million in a fraudulent investment scheme was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison this week, United States Attorney Dawn Ison said Friday.
After Gino Accettola pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges in April, U.S. District Judge Laurie J. Michelson sentenced him to 135 months in prison, Ison's office said in a statement.
The judge also ordered Accettola pay $4,199,846.35 in restitution to the victims.
From 2014-16, Accettola, according to court records, offered associates and acquaintances abnormally high short-term returns, telling them the money invested would back commercial construction projects in Michigan and Florida.
But many of these projects didn't actually exist, investigators said.
In one instance, Accettola sought investments supposedly for a Michigan-based manufacturing facility, claiming to be friends with the managing partner of the manufacturer when he had no connection, according to the release.
Accettola was previously convicted of sixteen fraud crimes between 1991 and 2019, officials reported.
“This defendant lied to his victims in order to carry out his fraud," Ison said. "He told his victims that he was investing their money for legitimate construction projects when in reality he used their money on himself at casinos, restaurants, and on entertainment."
The case was investigated by the FBI and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Sara Woodward. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/08/19/former-macomb-county-resident-defrauded-17-people-investment-scheme/7847969001/ | 2022-08-20T00:48:46Z | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/08/19/former-macomb-county-resident-defrauded-17-people-investment-scheme/7847969001/ | false |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
05-08-19-29-38
(five, eight, nineteen, twenty-nine, thirty-eight)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
05-08-19-29-38
(five, eight, nineteen, twenty-nine, thirty-eight) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-Double-Play-17385780.php | 2022-08-20T01:02:11Z | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-Double-Play-17385780.php | true |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – With there being so many children in foster care in the Natural State waiting to be adopted currently, organizations like Restoration Conferences are trying to help.
The organization helps provide children with a home away from home.
On Thursday August 25th, the non-profit is hosting a benefit concert at The Center for the Arts in Russellville featuring Todd Tilghman, winner of season 18 of NBC’s The Voice.
Todd sat down with KARK to discuss more about the event and why he is so dedicated to the cause.
To buy tickets or get more information, visit RestorationConferences.org. | https://www.kark.com/entertainment-news/winner-of-nbcs-the-voice-todd-tilghman-to-host-benefit-concert-in-russellville/ | 2022-08-20T01:03:16Z | https://www.kark.com/entertainment-news/winner-of-nbcs-the-voice-todd-tilghman-to-host-benefit-concert-in-russellville/ | false |
Pence says he didn’t leave office with classified material
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he didn’t take any classified information with him when he left office.
Pence made the comment during an interview with The Associated Press in Iowa a week and a half after the FBI seized classified and top secret information during a search at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
Asked directly if he retained any classified information upon leaving office, Pence said, “No, not to my knowledge.”
The disclosure — which would typically be unremarkable for a former vice president — is notable given that FBI agents took 11 sets of classified records from his former boss’s estate on Aug. 8 while investigating potential violations of three different federal laws. Trump has claimed that the documents seized by agents were “all declassified” and argued that he would have turned them over if the Justice Department had asked.
Despite the inclusion of material marked “top secret” in the government’s list of items recovered from Mar-a-Lago, Pence said, “I honestly don’t want to prejudge it before until we know all the facts.”
Pence on Friday also weighed in on Republican U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney’s primary defeat earlier in the week to a rival backed by Trump. Cheney, who is arguably Trump’s most prominent Republican critic, has called the former president “a very grave threat and risk to our republic” and further raised his ire through her role as vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
“My reaction was, the people of Wyoming have spoken,” said Pence, who was targeted at the Capitol that day by angry rioters, including some who chanted, “Hang Mike Pence!” “And, you know, I accept their judgment about the kind of representation they want on Capitol Hill.”
Pence said he has “great respect” for Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who served two terms under President George W. Bush.
“And I appreciate the conservative stance Congresswoman Cheney has taken over the years,” Pence continued. “But I’ve been disappointed in the partisan taint of the Jan. 6 committee from early on.”
Speaking further about the search of Mar-a-Lago, the former vice president raised the possibility, as he has previously, that the investigation was politically motivated and called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to disclose more details on what led authorities to conduct the search.
“The concern that millions of Americans felt is only going to be resolved with daylight,” Pence said Friday. “I know that’s not customary in an investigation. But this is unprecedented action by the Justice Department, and I think it merits an unprecedented transparency.”
Days ago, while speaking at a political breakfast in New Hampshire, Pence urged his fellow Republicans to stop lashing out at rank-and-file members of the FBI over the search of Mar-a-Lago. At the Wednesday event, he sought to tamp down on some of the increasing threats against the FBI by ardent Trump supporters who are angry that Trump’s home was searched.
“The Republican Party is the party of law and order,” Pence said Wednesday. “Our party stands with the men and women who stand on the thin blue line at the federal and state and local level, and these attacks on the FBI must stop.”
Pence was in Iowa on Friday as part of a two-day trip to the state, which is scheduled to host the 2024 leadoff Republican presidential caucuses. Pence said Friday that he would make a decision early next year about whether to run for the White House, a move that his aides have said will be independent of what Trump decides to do.
Having visited the Iowa State Fair on Friday afternoon, Pence also headlined a fundraiser earlier in the day for Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and was scheduled to speak to a Christian conservative group and a northern Iowa county Republican Party fundraiser before leaving Saturday.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2022/08/20/pence-says-he-didnt-leave-office-with-classified-material/ | 2022-08-20T01:04:07Z | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2022/08/20/pence-says-he-didnt-leave-office-with-classified-material/ | false |
(Motor Authority) — It was gone and it wasn’t supposed to return. Now the most powerful (gas-powered) SUV ever launched is back.
On Monday during its Dodge Speed Week festivities at the M1 Concourse in Pontiac, Michigan, Dodge announced the Durango SRT Hellcat will return for 2023 in all its 710-hp glory. Dodge says it revived the Durango Hellcat due to popular demand.
The Durango SRT Hellcat debuted for the 2021 model year and was supposed to be limited to 2,000 examples. Dodge eventually opened up more production to build one for every sold order, expanding the number to 3,000 units.
While an ability to meet 2022 emissions standards was originally quoted as a reason for the vehicle’s one-and-done stature, Dodge has fixed that issue so the Durango Hellcat can return for 2023.
Like the 2021 model, the new Durango Hellcat is the most powerful gas SUV ever thanks to a supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 that makes 645 lb-ft of torque in addition to its 710 horses. Teamed with standard all-wheel drive, that’s good for a 0-60 mph run of 3.5 seconds, an 11.5-second quarter-mile time, and a top speed of 180 mph. It can also carry up to seven passengers can tow up to 8,700 lb.
All that power can be hard to put to the pavement, so Dodge provides both Launch Control and Launch Assist to achieve those performance figures. The latter uses wheel-speed sensors to detect wheel hop then adjusts the torque to regain grip.
The Hellcat V-8 uses a 2.4-liter supercharger that can spin up to 13,000 rpm. The V-8 is teamed with 8-speed automatic transmission with steering-wheel paddle shifters for manual control. The Durango Hellcat also has seven driving modes, including Auto, Sport, Track, Snow, Tow, Eco, and Valet.
But the Durango Hellcat gets more than just a monster engine. Big Brembo brakes help haul it down from its extra-legal speeds. Up front, it has two-piece 6-piston calipers that clamp down on 15.8-inch vented rotors, while out back it gets 4-piston calipers and 13.8-inch vented rotors. Dodge also tunes the suspension to handle the power and provide a sportier feel.
Hellcat exterior styling elements consist of a front fascia with a chin splitter, engine oil cooler duct, air guide, and a snorkel for cold air induction. A rear spoiler provides 140 lb of downforce at 180 mph, while SRT Hellcat fender badges tell onlookers what lurks under the sculpted hood.
Inside, the 2023 Durango Hellcat gets red-accented gauges and Nappa leather- and suede-covered sport seats with heating, cooling, and embroidered SRT logos. Launch Control is accessed via a dashboard toggle, and drivers will see a “Smoke Show” startup sequence, as well as other Hellcat-only graphics on the digital instrument cluster and 10.1-inch center touchscreen. An available Plus package adds Laguna leather seats, a sunroof, a trailer towing package, and additional safety features. On top of that, a Premium package adds red seat belts, a leather-wrapped instrument panel, carbon-fiber interior trim, and a Harman Kardon 19-speaker sound system.
Those who missed out on the first run of 3,000 vehicles can put in their orders for the new Hellcat in September and expect to get their vehicles in early 2023. The SRT Hellcat joins a 2023 Durango lineup that also contains SXT, GT, R/T, Citadel, and SRT 392 trim levels. | https://who13.com/automotive/2023-dodge-durango-srt-hellcat-marks-comeback-for-powerful-suv/ | 2022-08-20T01:08:38Z | https://who13.com/automotive/2023-dodge-durango-srt-hellcat-marks-comeback-for-powerful-suv/ | false |
Tanker truck in Yellowstone spills nearly 5K gallons of gas
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) - A tanker truck hauling gasoline in Yellowstone National Park rolled over Friday and spilled an estimated 4,800 gallons (18,200 liters), officials said.
An investigation was underway to determine whether any of the unleaded gas entered an area creek.
The truck's driver lost control of the rig during the early morning accident along Highway 191, which runs through the western side of the park near the Montana-Wyoming border, park officials said in a statement.
No injuries were reported and it was not immediately known if any fuel entered Grayling Creek, a small waterway that flows from the Gallatin Mountains and drains into Montana's Hebgen Lake.
One lane of the highway was closed Friday evening as cleanup efforts were underway. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11128949/Tanker-truck-Yellowstone-spills-nearly-5K-gallons-gas.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-20T01:11:25Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11128949/Tanker-truck-Yellowstone-spills-nearly-5K-gallons-gas.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
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