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WASHINGTON (AP) — White House: First lady Jill Biden experiencing COVID-19 'rebound' case, president still testing negative.
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Ludhiana, August 24
An Income Tax raid has been conducted at the Gurmail Medical Stores in Ludhiana today. Highly placed sources in the department confirmed that about 150 IT sleuths, staff, police personnel are part of the team that is conducting raids at total 35 premises of Gurmail Medical Stores.
These include shops on Pakhowal Road, Near Mohan Dai Hospital, Medicity Hospital, etc.
A senior official, wishing not to be named, said the raid were conducted under the directions of Principal Director, Income Tax.
“The raids on premises are expected to continue for another 24-36 hours till the department gets each and every detail of the transactions made. There are doubts that huge investments are also made by them in connivance with political bigwigs. More than 50-60 vehicles of IT department with staff have arrived from Jalandhar, Patiala, etc., to conduct the raids,” said the official.
Meanwhile panic gripped the entire Pindi street (wholesale market of medicines) here as soon as chemists got to know about raids. Many shopkeepers did not even open the shops till late noon. | https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/ludhiana/income-tax-raid-at-35-premises-linked-to-gurmail-medical-stores-in-ludhiana-424920 | 2022-08-24T18:38:03Z | https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/ludhiana/income-tax-raid-at-35-premises-linked-to-gurmail-medical-stores-in-ludhiana-424920 | false |
Alteryx Server-FIPS enables users to more effectively scale analytics initiatives across public sector agencies
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alteryx, Inc. (NYSE: AYX), the Analytics Automation Company, today announced Alteryx Server-FIPS, a version of its Server offering that is aligned with the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) for data security and computer systems. The launch of Server-FIPS is monumental for the use of analytics in public sector environments that require enhanced data encryption. Alteryx Server-FIPS is a FIPS-capable and scalable server-based product for scheduling, sharing, and running apps and models created in Alteryx Designer-FIPS for others in the organization to leverage.
This announcement comes on the heels of Alteryx Designer-FIPS, demonstrating Alteryx's commitment to providing automated analytics to the public sector. The new offering allows analysts to share and collaborate on analytic workflows, macros, and analytic apps with other users throughout their organization. Additionally, IT leaders can trust that Alteryx Server-FIPS provides visibility, control, audibility, and FIPS capability needed to manage self-service analytics at scale, making analytic governance more achievable.
"With the launch of Alteryx Server-FIPS, we are doubling down on our enablement activities across the public sector with expanded access to secure analytics and a keen focus on building data literacy across the government workforce," said David Colberg, vice president, global government affairs and public policy, Alteryx. "This is an important step in our journey, and we will continue to prioritize the security compliance needs of our partners and customers in order to meet increasing demands across the government space."
Analysts at federal, state, and local government levels face pressing policy decisions that impact organizations and individuals within their jurisdiction. To make data-driven recommendations, analysts can utilize automated analytics to build workflows that give stakeholders the actionable intelligence they need to make rapid decisions that drive the organization forward. Public sector agencies can more accurately resource plan and provide personalized services to citizens to better protect national and economic interests with secure access to analytics.
"The federal government has stringent information security requirements, especially for software that manages and analyzes federal data. The launch of Alteryx Server-FIPS demonstrates a continued company commitment to meeting the needs of the federal government," said Nick Sinai, senior advisor, Insight Partners. "Alteryx is meeting the public sector where they are with automated analytics, helping government agencies build data skills and get more done."
For more information about how Alteryx is enabling the public sector to securely utilize analytics and make data driven decisions, visit the Alteryx Server-FIPS landing page or request a consultation.
About Alteryx
Alteryx (NYSE: AYX) powers analytics for all by providing our leading Analytics Automation Platform. Alteryx delivers easy end-to-end automation of data engineering, analytics, reporting, machine learning, and data science processes, enabling enterprises everywhere to democratize data analytics across their organizations for a broad range of use cases. More than 8,000 customers globally rely on Alteryx to deliver high-impact business outcomes. To learn more, visit www.alteryx.com.
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HUB Files draft prospectus F-4 to the SEC for the upcoming $1.28 billion SPAC Merger and listing of the company's shares for trading on Nasdaq
Published: Aug. 24, 2022 at 2:11 PM EDT|Updated: 27 minutes ago
TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HUB Cyber Security (Israel) Limited (TASE: HUB), a developer of Confidential Computing cybersecurity solutions and services ("HUB" or the "Company"), announced today that it has officially filed a non-confidential draft registration statement on Form F-4 which contains a preliminary proxy statement/prospectus to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), for the purpose of completing the merger with the SPAC, the offering of the company's securities to the shareholders of the SPAC and the start of trading in the company's securities on Nasdaq.
The completion of the merger and the start of trading is subject to a number of conditions precedent. Subject to Israeli court approval, the company's shares are expected to be traded on the Nasdaq (only) without parallel trading in Tel-Aviv. The meaning for the company's current shareholders is that every holder of the company's shares that are currently traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in Israel, will hold after the completion of the merger identical shares of the Company that will be traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
Upon completion of the transaction, the projected gross proceeds received by the Company, before transaction costs will be a minimum amount of $50 million, if the SPAC owners make a full redemption of their investment; and up to a potential of approximately $225 million, if none of the SPAC shareholders redeem their investment
A copy of the preliminary draft proxy statement/prospectus is available for review on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov
DIRECT LINK to the F-4 filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1905660/000110465922093927/tm2223104-1_f4.htm
About HUB Cyber Security (Israel) Limited
HUB Cyber Security (Israel) Limited ("HUB") was established in 2017 by veterans of the 8200 and 81 elite intelligence units of the Israeli Defense Forces. The company specializes in unique Cyber Security solutions protecting sensitive commercial and government information. The company debuted an advanced encrypted computing solution aimed at preventing hostile intrusions at the hardware level while introducing a novel set of data theft prevention solutions. HUB operates in over 30 countries and provides innovative cybersecurity computing appliances as well as a wide range of cybersecurity services worldwide.
About Mount Rainier Acquisition Corp.
Mount Rainier Acquisition Corp. is a blank check company sponsored by DC Rainier SPV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company managed by Dominion Capital LLC, whose business purpose is to effect a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements included in this press release are not historical facts but are forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or HUB's or RNER's future financial or operating performance. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may", "should", "would", "seem", "expect", "intend", "will", "estimate", "anticipate", "believe", "future", "predict", "potential," "forecast" or "continue", or the negatives of these terms or variations of them or similar terminology, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements.
These forward-looking statements are based upon estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by HUB and its management, and RNER and its management, as the case may be, are inherently uncertain. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on by any investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and may differ from assumptions. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond the control of HUB or RNER. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to: (i) expectations regarding HUB's strategies and future financial performance, including its future business plans or objectives, prospective performance and opportunities and competitors, revenues, products and services, pricing, operating expenses, market trends, liquidity, cash flows and uses of cash, capital expenditures, and HUB's ability to invest in growth initiatives and pursue acquisition opportunities; (ii) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of negotiations and any subsequent definitive agreements with respect to the proposed transactions; (iii) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against RNER, HUB, the Combined Company or others following the announcement of the proposed transactions and any definitive agreements with respect thereto; (iv) the inability to complete the proposed transactions due to, among other things, the failure to obtain approval of the stockholders of RNER or HUB, to obtain certain governmental and regulatory approvals or to satisfy other conditions to closing, including delays in obtaining, adverse conditions contained in, or the inability to obtain necessary regulatory approvals or complete regulatory reviews required to complete the proposed transactions; (v) the inability to obtain the financing necessary to consummate the proposed transactions; (vi) changes to the proposed structure of the proposed transactions that may be required or appropriate as a result of applicable laws or regulations or as a condition to obtaining regulatory approval of the proposed transactions; (vii) the ability to meet stock exchange listing standards following the consummation of the proposed transactions; (viii) the risk that the announcement and consummation of the proposed transactions disrupts HUB's current plans and operations; (ix) the lack of a third party valuation in determining whether or not to pursue the proposed transactions; (x) the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the proposed transactions, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of the Combined Company to grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers and retain its management and key employees; (xi) costs related to the proposed transactions; (xii) the amount of any redemptions by existing holders of RNER's common stock being greater than expected; (xiii) limited liquidity and trading of RNER's and HUB's securities; (xiv) geopolitical risk, including military action and related sanctions, and changes in applicable laws or regulations; (xv) geopolitical risk, including military action and related sanctions, and changes in applicable laws or regulations; (xvi) the possibility that RNER, HUB or the Combined Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; (xvii) inaccuracies for any reason in the estimates of expenses and profitability and projected financial information for HUB; and (xviii) other risks and uncertainties set forth in the section entitled "Risk Factors" and "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" in RNER's final prospectus relating to its initial public offering dated October 4, 2021.
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Nothing in this press release should be regarded as a representation by any person that the forward-looking statements set forth herein will be achieved or that any of the contemplated results of such forward-looking statements will be achieved. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Neither HUB nor RNER undertakes any duty to update these forward-looking statements.
Additional Information About the Transaction and Where to Find It
In connection with the proposed transaction, HUB intends to file with the SEC a registration statement on Form F-4 containing a proxy statement/prospectus, and after the registration statement is declared effective by the SEC, RNER will mail a definitive proxy statement/prospectus relating to the Proposed Business Combination to its stockholders. This press release does not contain all the information that should be considered concerning the proposed transaction and is not intended to form the basis of any investment decision or any other decision in respect of the proposed transaction. This press release is not a substitute for any registration statement or for any other document that HUB or RNER may file with the SEC in connection with the proposed transaction. Investors and security holders are advised to read, when available, the preliminary proxy statement/prospectus and the amendments thereto and the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed in connection with the proposed transaction, as these materials will contain important information about HUB, RNER and the proposed transaction.
When available, the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant materials for the proposed transaction will be mailed to stockholders of RNER as of a record date to be established for voting on the proposed transaction. Stockholders will also be able to obtain copies of the preliminary proxy statement/prospectus, the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed with the SEC, without charge, once available, through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov.
INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
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Best known for novelty songs like "King of the Road," Miller was also a serious songwriter who wrote ballads for artists such as Ray Price. Miller's '70 album A Trip in the Country is newly available.
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Best known for novelty songs like "King of the Road," Miller was also a serious songwriter who wrote ballads for artists such as Ray Price. Miller's '70 album A Trip in the Country is newly available.
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Greenleaf Trust has been recognized as the number one Cool Place to Work for medium sized businesses and the sixth overall by Crain's Detroit Business.
KALAMAZOO, Mich., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cool Places to Work in Michigan is a research-driven program from Best Companies Group. The award focuses on a company's practices, programs and benefits and surveys employees from their perspective. Best Companies group has specialized in identifying and recognizing great employers to work for over the last seventeen years through independent research.
The Cool Places to Work award reflects Greenleaf Trust's ongoing success in integrating "best practices" throughout its wealth management business, now with $16B in assets under advisement*.
"Greenleaf Trust sets high expectations for itself to be a place that embraces the people who work here. Our diligent focus on building a team that not only works together, but cares for each other has been pivotal to our success," said Karen Baldwin, Executive Vice President and Director of Human Resources at Greenleaf Trust.
The Cool Places to Work award falls within Crain's Detroit "Best Places" competition. Greenleaf Trust was recognized as the #1 "Cool" firm within the medium company (50 – 249 employees) category, and #6 in the all-inclusive category. In competing for the award, Greenleaf Trust was evaluated on its workplace policies, practices, and demographics, followed by a comprehensive survey of its employees.
*AUA as of April 2022
About Greenleaf Trust
With offices in Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Birmingham, Bay Harbor and Traverse City, Greenleaf Trust is an independent Michigan-chartered trust-only bank, exclusively focused on wealth management, trust and estate administration, and administration of company-sponsored retirement plans. Through our unique, client-centric team approach, we provide highly personal and customized client service, with no conflicts of interest, to ensure our clients' financial security from generation to generation. www.greenleaftrust.com
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Top Offerings for Digital Leaders Reinventing Operations and Transforming Business Models
BLUE BELL, Pa., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HRSoft today announced it was named to the Constellation ShortList™ for Compensation Management in Q3 2022. The technology vendors and service providers included in this program deliver critical transformation initiative requirements for early adopters and fast-follower organizations. This is HRSoft's fourth consecutive year making the ShortList.
HRSoft facilitates digital transformation in HR and compensation. Enterprise businesses leverage HRSoft's growing suite of flexible software solutions for compensation, performance management, total rewards and pay equity communication. HRSoft's award-winning compensation management product, COMPview™, is a SaaS cloud-based solution that streamlines complex compensation plans by systematically guiding, controlling and simplifying the calculation and allocation of merit, bonus and equity awards. The user-friendly software interface empowers customers to control the entire compensation cycle—boosting the ability to make fair decisions that improve business results and control total spend.
"COMPview is a powerful compensation management solution that gives executives, HR leaders, and line managers the control they need to make decisions that align with organizational goals and transform business processes," said Eric Dirks, Executive Vice President, HRSoft. "HRSoft is honored to be recognized, once again, as an innovative leader in compensation management by Constellation Research. Making the ShortList for the fourth year in a row cements our status as a global leader in compensation management and our clients' continued confidence and trust in HRSoft with their critical enterprise business requirements.
"Our success and recognition by Constellation Research would not be possible without the trust of our customers and partners and our employees' commitment to excellent customer support."
"Organizations must reconsider how they balance business models, work/life priorities, and new market conditions during the uncertain climate of the Great Refactoring," said R "Ray" Wang, chairman and founder at Constellation Research. "Constellation's ShortLists reflect the top vendors that matter most to our network of buy-side clients. We publish ShortLists to expedite the decision-making process for leaders making critical vendor selections, so they can find the right partners to enable their business success."
Constellation Research advises leaders on leveraging disruptive technologies to achieve business model transformation and streamline business processes. Products and services named to the Constellation ShortList meet the threshold criteria for this category as determined through client inquiries, partner conversations, customer references, vendor selection projects, market share, and internal research. The portfolio is updated at least once per year as the analyst team deems necessary based on market conditions.
For more information, visit constellationr.com.
HRSoft is the trusted global leader in Compensation Management, Total Rewards Communication and goals-based Performance Management solutions. The company's COMPview™ product is the leading compensation management system for enterprise clients. COMPview is proven to systematically control, simplify and streamline the process of managing even the most complex compensation plans. HRSoft's proprietary low-code development platform allows the company to quickly create or configure client specific features, functions and workflows within its products. For more information, visit www.hrsoft.com.
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SAN DIEGO — Robert Mason recalled what it was like being depressed.
"For me, it was having no energy, no motivation," he shared.
Isolation from the COVID-19 pandemic is just one trigger for depression. Others include genetics, lifestyle, lack of sleep or exercise, and poor diet.
Neuroscientists are using smart phones to create a more personalized approach to treat depression.
"We can get to know more about how a person is going about their daily lives," said Jyoti Mishra, a neuroscientist at UCSD.
Participants check in on an app three to four times a day for one month. Through their smart watch, researchers track sleep patterns, activity levels, diet, and aspects related to stress, such as heart rate, stress, brain activity, and breathing.
"We would see things like, how they slept, whether it was consistently or inconsistently, determining their depression," Mishra explained, "and for the very next person, we would see aspects of how active they were."
It's insight that helps doctors predict what triggers depression for each person and then get to the root of his or her problem.
"If I were to observe that a person's depression is determined by their sleep, then, in the next phase, what we're going to do is provide that person evidence-based sleep treatment, and another person might get evidence based physical activity training," Mishra said.
Researchers said they believe their findings could have broader implications than depression, and that anyone looking for greater well-being could benefit from information quantified from their own data. | https://www.wfmz.com/health/health-beat/health-beat-ai-treating-depression-using-your-smart-phone-to-personalize-treatment/article_a405ec70-23cd-11ed-b367-333866d69d3b.html | 2022-08-24T18:39:59Z | https://www.wfmz.com/health/health-beat/health-beat-ai-treating-depression-using-your-smart-phone-to-personalize-treatment/article_a405ec70-23cd-11ed-b367-333866d69d3b.html | true |
Pennsylvania utility earns accolade for innovation in electric grid operation
ALLENTOWN, Pa., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PPL Electric Utilities is proud to announce it has been named POWER Magazine's 2022 Smart Grid Award winner for its work in creating and deploying an innovative and automated self-healing grid that improves overall reliability and reduces outages.
"Our groundbreaking use of technology has allowed us to blaze trails for the benefit of our customers," said PPL Electric Utilities President Steph Raymond. "The smart grid has been a tremendous tool to help keep the lights on for our customers. It's making our grid more reliable, and it's a major catalyst in building the utility of the future, today."
Knowing that the energy landscape was beginning to change, PPL Electric began implementing various innovations across its electric grid over the past decade with the goal of improving the safety and reliability of its power distribution network. Through a partnership with GE Digital, PPL Electric was able to apply GE's Advanced Distribution Management Solution (ADMS) software to its entire electric grid.
The new ADMS system also included a technology called Fault Isolation Service Restoration (FISR) which was achieved by deploying state-of-the-art sensors and switches across the grid that segment customers into smaller spans. If an outage occurs, FISR senses the problem and automatically reroutes power around the trouble spot to get most customers restored within seconds, keeping the outage contained without any human intervention and often without the customer even noticing.
PPL Electric was the first utility to centrally install FISR across its entire service territory to automate restorations. That network of smart devices, coupled with GE's advanced software system, has assisted PPL Electric in creating an autonomous, self-healing grid. In fact, since 2015, PPL Electric's smart grid has helped prevent more than 1.4 million customer outages. And, in 2021 alone, customers experienced 34% fewer outages compared to the average over the prior five years.
The smart grid is also improving data and analytics to bolster reliability. This data helps PPL Electric make more informed decisions about both maintenance and investments. The smart grid can also pinpoint issues, allowing for the dispatch of crews to an exact location, saving both time and money. Other benefits include a Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Management System that manages two-way power flow and advanced meters that enable customers to see usage.
Using industry-leading technology and innovation, PPL Electric has created a smart grid that is likely unrecognizable to utility workers of past generations. The smart grid, combined with other groundbreaking advancements, is helping PPL Electric continue to build the utility of the future, today. For more information on what PPL Electric is doing to innovate and improve grid reliability, visit pplelectric.com/reliability.
The POWER Smart Grid Award has been handed out since 2011 and recognizes outstanding smart grid projects, throughout the world, that demonstrate the benefits of new data-rich technologies to power generators, distribution utilities, and customers. For more information about the award, as well as previous winners, visit powermag.com/power-awards.
PPL Electric Utilities delivers safe, reliable and affordable electricity to more than 1.4 million homes and businesses in eastern and central Pennsylvania. It regularly ranks among the country's best utility companies for reliability and customer satisfaction. PPL Electric Utilities is a major employer and an active supporter of the communities it serves. It is a part of the PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) family of companies. Visit pplelectric.com or connect on social media via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for energy efficiency tips, bill help information, guidance on shopping for an electricity supplier, storm updates and more.
POWER has been known as a magazine for many years but has evolved to a trusted brand that includes publications, trade events and conferences, as well as electronic media. In all its formats, POWER provides important business operations, legal and regulatory news as well as operations and maintenance information, for the power industry. Through POWER, industry professionals learn about best practices, safety issues, improved productivity, and more. To learn more about POWER, visit their website at powermag.com.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has found the country’s past military governments responsible for atrocities committed at Brothers Home, a state-funded “vagrants’ facility” where thousands were enslaved and abused from the 1960s to 1980s.
The landmark report on Wednesday came 35 years after a prosecutor first exposed the horrors at the facility in the southern port city of Busan and details an attempted cover-up of incriminating evidence that would have confirmed a state-sponsored crime.
The commission’s chairperson, Jung Geun-sik, urged South Korea’s current government to issue a formal apology to survivors and explore ways to ease their suffering as he announced the initial results of its investigation into Brothers, including extreme cases of forced labor, violence and deaths.
The commission also called for the government to review the conditions at current welfare facilities around the country and swiftly ratify the United Nations convention against enforced disappearances.
The commission “confirmed that the direct and indirect exercise of government authority resulted in the forced confinement of people deemed as vagrants at Brothers Home and caused serious violations of human rights, including forced labor, physical assault, cruel treatment, deaths and disappearances,” Jeung said in a news conference at the commission’s office in Seoul.
“The state has ignored pleas (by inmates) to correct the human rights violations at Brothers Home, had knowledge of the problems but did not act to resolve them, and attempted to distort and minimize the scale of the abuses after the Brothers Home incident became known in 1987, preventing proper legal handling (of the abuses) based on facts,” he said.
Lee Jae-seung, a senior commission official who oversees the Brothers inquiry, said he wouldn’t hesitate to define Brothers as a state crime.
The commission’s report was based on an examination of a broad range of evidence, including documents from police, prosecutors and courts, and Brothers’ own files, such as intake documents and death certificates. It also found records that suggest the facility abusively administered psychiatric drugs to control inmates.
The commission said the violence and abuse at Brothers were even worse than previously known. It said its examination of records so far point to at least 657 deaths at Brothers, which was higher than the previously known tally of 513 between 1975 and 1986 documented in the facility’s records.
The commission also confirmed that Busan police randomly seized people off the streets to send them to Brothers, regardless of whether they had easily identifiable homes or families. They often allowed Brothers employees, who toured the city in trucks, to do the kidnapping themselves.
Brothers, run by late owner Park In-keun and his family, also embezzled the wages of thousands of inmates who were forced into slave labor, which involved construction work both offsite and at Brothers, as well as work in factories making clothing, ballpoint pens and fishing hooks.
So far, no one has been held accountable for hundreds of deaths, rapes and beatings at Brothers.
Jung acknowledged that the recommendations the commission makes to the government aren’t binding but said its findings could be used as evidence for survivors if they pursue lawsuits for damages against the government or any remaining Brothers stakeholders. The commission did not directly recommend the pursuit of criminal charges.
The commission’s report was based on its investigation into the cases of 191 individuals, who were among 544 Brothers survivors who have so far filed applications. The commission plans to produce more reports as it continues its investigations.
Jung said the commission also plans to look into the foreign adoptions of Brothers children, which The Associated Press first confirmed in 2019. Through documents obtained from officials, lawmakers or through freedom of information requests, the AP found direct evidence that 19 children were adopted out of Brothers between 1979 and 1986, and indirect evidence suggesting at least 51 more adoptions.
Some Brothers survivors wept from their seats as Jung and Lee announced the results of the investigation.
Choi Seung-woo, who landed in Brothers as a schoolchild in 1982 after being kidnapped by police and endured severe beatings and sexual abuse for years, said the report gives survivors “hope and courage.” He urged the government to actively support survivors who are grappling with financial and health problems and intense “trauma.”
“(The commission’s findings) give us another opportunity to redeem ourselves in court, but no one knows how long that’s going to take,” Choi said.
Lee Chae-sik, another former inmate, said the commission’s truth-finding efforts won’t mean much if survivors don’t receive immediate help.
“I am fine. I run three convenience stores, but what about this guy?” Lee said, showing his text messages with another former inmate stuck in a long-term care hospital. “Our country has been waiting for us to die.”
From the 1960s to 1980s, South Korean military dictators ordered roundups to beautify the streets. Thousands — including homeless and disabled people, as well as children — were snatched off the streets and brought to facilities where they were detained and forced to work. The commission said such roundups were “illegal and unconstitutional” as they violated people’s fundamental rights and freedoms.
In interviews with dozens of former Brothers inmates, many said that as children, they were brought to the facility after police officers kidnapped them, and that their parents had no idea of their whereabouts.
Many inmates were enslaved, raped and, in hundreds of cases, beaten to death or left to die, their bodies dumped in the woods, according to dozens of interviews with survivors and a review of an extensive range of government and Brothers documents obtained by the AP.
The commission said the facility’s death records describe many of the victims as already dead upon arrival at hospitals, which it said either indicates dismal health conditions at the overcrowded facility or an attempt to conceal deaths caused by beatings and torture.
The commission said records show that Brothers, which had a designated ward for inmates with mental health problems, purchased abnormal volumes of psychiatric drugs. Such drugs were likely forced upon a broad range of inmates as the facility’s owners tried to maintain their grip over a sprawling compound they controlled with severe violence and military-style discipline.
“Brothers Home arbitrarily administered drugs to inmates who struggled to adjust or were rebellious, and the psychiatric ward was used as a so-called ‘disciplinary ward,’’’ the commission said in its report.
The commission also highlighted an extreme case of a former Brothers inmate who reunited with his relatives nearly five decades after he landed at the facility.
The man, identified only by his surname Seol, was grabbed from a Busan train station and locked up at Brothers sometime around 1974 and 1975. He was transferred years later to an orphanage, which registered him as an orphan, soon after his family registered him as dead following years of futile searches. Seol reunited with his relatives in June last year, following the commission’s investigation into his family background.
The roundups intensified as South Korea began preparing to bid for and host the 1988 Summer Olympics. Brothers, a mountainside compound in Busan, was the largest of these facilities and had around 4,000 inmates when its horrors were exposed in 1987.
Kim Yong Won, the former prosecutor who exposed Brothers, told the AP that high-ranking officials blocked his investigation under direction from the office of military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who feared an embarrassing international incident on the eve of the Olympics.
Following Kim’s watered-down investigation and narrow indictments, Park, the Brothers’ owner, was acquitted by the Supreme Court in 1989 of charges linked to illegal confinement of inmates. Park, who served a short prison term for embezzlement and other relatively minor charges, died in 2016.
The commission began investigating the Brothers abuse in May last year, following a yearslong struggle for redemption by Brothers survivors, many of whom are struggling with financial and health problems. | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/commission-seoul-government-responsible-for-facility-abuse/ | 2022-08-24T18:41:23Z | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/commission-seoul-government-responsible-for-facility-abuse/ | false |
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Denmark Yoga Centre opens space to community to handmake recycled rugs with the aim of healing country
The Denmark Yoga Centre is the latest group to join the movement of people across WA who are hand-making circular rugs in an effort to help heal country impacted by mining.
The project, titled Reclaim the Void, was an idea cultivated by Ngalia elders from Lenora in the northern Goldfields and Denmark’s Vivienne Robertson.
The idea behind the project is to symbolically “seal” a degraded mining pit with a large tapestry made of about 5000 handmade rugs sewn into a pattern that depicts an Indigenous story of country.
Nine years ago, Ms Roberston was invited by cultural custodian Kado Muri to meet with the Ngalia elders in Lenora to discuss art projects.
“We were talking about various things but I got this sense that there was something else here, so I asked the question ‘what is your deepest pain?’,” she said.
“One of the aunties responded, ‘it’s all those gaping mining holes left all over our country’.
“It was quite an incredible moment because the whole room felt quiet and there was this sense of gravitas
“I had this vision of one of those holes being covered with a pattern hat told the story of country and after much consideration one of the aunties said ‘yes, let’s do that’.”
The project has gained momentum in the past year and has since inspired cultural camps, workshops and school activities where people are encouraged to hand-weave the rugs out of discarded fabric.
The Denmark Yoga Centre has jumped on board the movement and are holding rug-making workshops fortnightly on Sundays at 3.30pm.
Co-owner Sonia Dezius said anyone was welcome to join the workshops.
“I went up to the camp last year because I have a connection to Vivienne and the country up there,” she said.
“The centre is another community space in Denmark and I enjoy having like-minded projects or workshops happening there that’s not just yoga.
“It was an opportunity to offer our space and I have a personal connection to the project already.”
Ms Dezius said participants were encouraged to bring their old bed sheets or fabrics to hand-weave into recycled rugs that will be contributed to the project.
More than 15 schools are involved with the project, including classes at Denmark Senior High School.
“I think it touches an aspect in people who know we have taken too much from the earth, and through mining we have taken too many resources,” Ms Robertson said.
“We are all a part of that and it’s a shared responsibility.
“It also touches people who feel they have caused pain to country and pain to custodians of country, they might not know how to give back but this is one way they can do that.”
Once the project is complete, the WA Museum will showcase an exhibition of the body of work at WA Museum Boola Bardip and the Museum of the Goldfields in late 2023 or early 2024
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SOFIA, Bulgaria — A 17-year-old pilot became the youngest person to fly solo around the world in a small aircraft after he landed on Wednesday in Bulgaria, where his journey kicked off five months ago.
Mack Rutherford, a Belgian-British dual national, landed on an airstrip west of Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, to complete his task and to claim two Guinness World Records. Along with becoming the youngest person to fly around the world by himself, Rutherford is the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe in a microlight plane.
Rutherford said he hoped his achievement would inspire young people to pursue their dreams.
“Just follow your dreams, no matter how old you are – work hard and move forward to achieve your goals,” he said after he stepped out of the aircraft.
His sister, Zara, who finished her own trip global flight in January at age 19, previously held the ultralight record. Mack Rutherford took the age record from Travis Ludlow of Britain, who was 18 when he made a solo flight around the world last year.
The journey, which began March 23, took Rutherford through 52 countries over five continents. He turned 17 during the trip. To set a mark recognized by the Guinness World Records, he crossed the equator twice.
Born into a family of aviators, Rutherford qualified for his pilot's license in 2020, which at the time, made him the youngest pilot in the world at the age of 15.
His solo trip flying around the world kicked off in Bulgaria because his sponsor, the web hosting company ICDSoft, is headquartered in Sofia and loaned him the plane.
Like his sister, Rutherford flew a Shark, one of the fastest ultralight aircraft in the world with a cruising speed reaching 300 kph (186 mph). Normally a two-seater, it was modified for his long journey by replacing the second seat with an extra fuel tank.
Initially planned to take up to three months, the trip lasted longer because of several unexpected obstacles along his way, including monsoon rains, sandstorms and extreme heat.
But most of the delays were caused by waits to obtain permits and other documents required for further flight or having to alter the scheduled route if they were rejected.
The flight took him through Africa and the Gulf region to India, China, South Korea and Japan. He crossed the northern Pacific and landed after 10 uninterrupted hours in the air on a volcanic island near the Bering Strait.
From there, he headed to Alaska and down the West Coast of the United States to Mexico. Rutherford then headed north again along the U.S. East Coast to Canada, and across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe.
On Wednesday, a huge crowd of people had arrived at the airport to welcome Rutherford and to celebrate his achievements. Among them were the three members of his immediate family.
His father, Sam Rutherford, said he was extremely happy and proud of his children’s achievements. He told reporters that such an event is especially encouraging for children to follow their dreams and parents to support them in their endeavors.
His sister, Zara Rutherford, said she kept in close touch with her younger brother during his journey.
“While he was flying, I constantly tried to keep in touch and help him. Our parents called him every day, and I joined in those conversations. I gave him advice on the route, on the flight, so that I could be useful to him,” she said.
Mack Rutherford said he will now focus on his education.
“The next thing I’m going to do is to go back to school and catch up as much as I can," he said. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/teen-pilot-sets-record-for-solo-flight-around-world/507-aba1b1fb-391c-455a-bba6-283bb8b277c3 | 2022-08-24T18:42:28Z | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/teen-pilot-sets-record-for-solo-flight-around-world/507-aba1b1fb-391c-455a-bba6-283bb8b277c3 | true |
New details have emerged about the murder plot of notorious Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger in a West Virginia prison.
According to new details stated in court on Monday, Justice Department prosecutors said that inmates knew ahead of time that Bulger was being moved to Penitentiary Hazleton, the Associated Press reported.
According to prosecutors, the plan began when one of the men charged with killing Bulger, Sean McKinnon, called his mother the night before the high-profile inmate's arrival, ABC News reported.
Bulger was found beaten to death inside his prison cell in October 2018, hours after he was transferred from a prison in Florida to USP Hazelton, the news outlets reported.
According to prosecutors, Fotios “Freddy” Geas, Paul J. DeCologero and McKinnon allegedly gathered outside Bulger's prison cell around 6:07 a.m., then went in, and stayed there for seven minutes before killing him, the news outlets reported.
Prison guards find Bulger's body by 8:07 a.m., according to ABC News.
NBC News reported that McKinnon is accused of being the looking man while Geas and DeCologero killed the 89-year-old.
The men were charged last week with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, the Associated Press reported. | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/prosecutors-say-inmates-knew-whitey-bulger-was-moving-to-prison | 2022-08-24T18:42:37Z | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/prosecutors-say-inmates-knew-whitey-bulger-was-moving-to-prison | true |
BERLIN (AP) — German officials launched what they say is the world’s first fleet of hydrogen-powered passenger trains Wednesday, replacing 15 diesel trains that previously operated on nonelectrified tracks in the state of Lower Saxony.
The 14 trains use hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity that powers the engines. The German government has backed expanding the use of hydrogen as a clean alternative to fossil fuels.
State governor Stephan Weil said the 93-million-euro ($92 million) project was an “excellent example” for Lower Saxony’s efforts to make its economy greener.
The trains manufactured by French company Alstom are operated by regional rail company LNVG on routes between the northern towns of Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervoerde and Buxtehude.
Alstom says the Coradia iLint trains have a range of up to 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) and a maximum speed of 140 kph (87 mph). By using hydrogen produced with renewable energy the trains will save 1.6 million liters (more than 422,000 gallons) of diesel fuel a year.
The hydrogen is currently produced as a byproduct in chemical processes, but German specialty gas company Linde plans to manufacture it locally using only renewable energy within three years. | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/fleet-of-hydrogen-passenger-trains-begins-service-in-germany/ | 2022-08-24T18:44:22Z | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/fleet-of-hydrogen-passenger-trains-begins-service-in-germany/ | false |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Whether it was in the huddle during the early days of the AFL or behind the microphone as the NFL grew into the behemoth it is today, Len Dawson carried himself with an unmistakable swagger and self-assurance that earned him the well-worn nickname “Lenny the Cool.”
He was a Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl championship and a Hall of Fame broadcaster who brought football into the homes of millions on the iconic HBO show “Inside the NFL.”
“He was so far advanced in his time,” Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes once said. “One of the best to ever do it.”
Dawson’s family announced his death Wednesday at the age of 87. No cause was given, though Dawson had had prostate cancer and quadruple heart bypass surgery over the years. He had been in hospice care since Aug. 12.
“With wife Linda at his side, it is with much sadness that we inform you of the passing of our beloved Len Dawson,” his family said in a statement issued by KMBC, the Kansas City-based TV station where Dawson spent his second career as a sports broadcaster. “Len was always grateful and many times overwhelmed by the countless bonds he made during his football and broadcast careers.”
Dawson was the MVP of the Chiefs’ 23-7 Super Bowl victory over the Vikings in January 1970, and he went on to set numerous franchise records that only now Mahomes is starting to surpass. He was enshrined in Canton as a player in 1987, then received the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2012.
“Len Dawson is synonymous with the Kansas City Chiefs,” team owner Clark Hunt said in a statement. “Len embraced and came to embody Kansas City and the people that call it home.”
Dawson’s career was going nowhere when he joined the Hunt family’s nascent AFL franchise, then located in Dallas. But along with coach Hank Stram, Dawson led it to three AFL titles and two Super Bowls. The Chiefs would lose to Green Bay in the inaugural one before beating Minnesota three years later at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans.
“Looking back on my career, I’ve been blessed for what I had the opportunity to do,” Dawson said told The Associated Press in 2017. “I could not have accomplished so much without my teammates and colleagues, and I’m grateful for each of them.”
Dawson remained a beloved figure in Kansas City, even though he cut back on public appearances several years ago, when his health began to fail. Yet he always had time for fans, whether it be a photograph or signature, the latter often scrawled upon a popular photo from halftime of that first Super Bowl: the exhausted quarterback, his white uniform covered in grass stains, sitting on a folding chair with a cigarette in his mouth and a bottle of Fresca at his feet.
It perfectly captured a time and place. And it perfectly captured “Lenny the Cool.”
“He was always under control,” Stram recalled years later. “I said to him once, ‘Leonard, make sure that you never let them see you sweat.’ And he said, ‘Coach, quarterbacks don’t sweat. Quarterbacks perspire.’”
Dawson was born June 20, 1935, the ninth of 11 children to fill the house of James and Annie Dawson in the manufacturing town of Alliance, Ohio. He was a three-sport athlete at Alliance High School, setting records in both football and basketball, and turned his success on the gridiron into a scholarship offer from Purdue.
He led the NCAA in passing efficiency as a sophomore while also playing defense and kicking, and by the end of his college career, Dawson had thrown for more than 3,000 yards in an era that favored ground-and-pound football.
He was chosen by the Steelers in the first round of the 1957 draft, but wound up riding the bench behind Earl Morrall as a rookie and then failed to beat out Bobby Layne for the starting job the following season. The Steelers ultimately traded him to the Browns, where Dawson was unable to beat out Milt Plum for the job and was released.
With freedom to play anywhere, Dawson jumped to the upstart AFL and the Texans, lured in part by the chance to play for one of his old coaches at Purdue. Stram managed to tap into his talent, helping Dawson quickly become one of the league’s prolific passers, and the Texans went 11-3 their first season and won the first of three titles.
The second came in 1966, when Dawson led the Chiefs to an 11-2-1 record and a 31-7 blowout of the Bills in the AFL title game. That earned the Chiefs the chance to face the powerhouse Packers of coach Vince Lombardi in the inaugural Super Bowl, where Dawson threw for 210 yards and a touchdown in a 35-10 defeat.
It was the 1969 season that proved to be the most memorable of Dawson’s career, though. He hurt his knee against the Patriots in Week 2, forcing him to miss the next five games, but returned to lead the Chiefs over the defending champion Jets and rival Raiders to reach what would be the final Super Bowl before the AFL-NFL merger.
He threw for 142 yards and a score in a 23-7 triumph over the Vikings.
“It was overwhelming,” Dawson said afterward. “It’s just, you know how that relief comes with you now that it’s over with, and we’ve been successful? That’s the feeling that I had when I came off the field.”
Dawson played six more seasons in Kansas City, setting many franchise records that stood until Mahomes came along. The two became fast friends, and Dawson was overjoyed when Mahomes led the Chiefs to their second Super Bowl title with a come-from-behind victory over the San Francisco 49ers in February 2020.
“RIP to the legend Len Dawson,” Mahomes tweeted Wednesday, accompanied by photos of them together. “The legacy and impact you made on Kansas City will live on forever.”
Many fans remember Dawson first for his broadcast work, which began as a publicity stunt in 1966 when then-Chiefs general manager Jack Steadman was trying to build support for the team in Kansas City. Steadman persuaded Dawson to anchor a sports segment on the nightly news, and his charisma and folksy style made him a natural.
Dawson turned toward TV and radio on a full-time basis after his playing days ended, first working in local TV and later doing game analysis for NBC. But he’s perhaps best known for his groundbreaking work alongside Nick Buoniconti on the HBO staple “Inside the NFL,” which helped the league reach millions of fans.
Dawson also served for more than three decades on the Chiefs’ radio broadcast team before retiring in 2018.
“I did all those postgames with him and I think the world of him,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said back then. “He has been there, he has done it — it doesn’t matter the age gap or the time away from being in the huddle. He just gets it. I love that part of it. He is a Hall of Famer all the way around.”
Dawson was married to his high school sweetheart, Jackie, from 1954 until her death in 1978, and they had two children. His second wife, Linda, remained by his side as Dawson entered hospice care.
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After NC statement on polls, Farooq says no such decision taken yet, asks Centre to clarify inclusion of non locals
After NC statement on polls, Farooq says no such decision taken yet, asks Centre to clarify inclusion of non locals
New Delhi: Shortly after Jammu & Kashmir National Conference said it would contest the upcoming assembly elections on all 90 seats as some of the constituents of the Gupkar alliance are targeting it, the party patron chief Farooq Abdullah said the party had not decided on the same and such a move would depend on Centre's clarification on what it meant by inclusion of non-locals as voters in J&K.
Speaking exclusively to ETV Bharat, Farooq said the party's provincial meeting in Srinagar on Wednesday was held against the backdrop of the latest announcement to include non-locals into the electoral roll.
"We are a democratic party and we share and discuss all the problems and try to come to a solution only after resolving all the disputes. So this statement that NC would contest all the 90 seats on their own is an issue shared by some of our party workers. But the main issue still revolves around the latest announcement to include the non-locals into the electoral process which is unacceptable to us", said Farooq.
Asked to clarify whether or not his party would fight the polls independently, Farooq said the issue would be discussed only after the Centre clarified what it meant to include all the non-locals in the election process in the upcoming elections. "They are saying that 25 lakhs new voters would get included Into this but who all will it include", Farooq said.
Also read: NC hints at pulling out of PAGD, party to fight all 90 seats, Omar asks for votes
With a sudden uptick in the militant attacks especially against the minorities including Kashmiri Pandits, non-locals and security officials, a new wave of insurgency is being observed in the erstwhile state with a fresh revamp into the recruitment into these terror groups being observed, the Union Territory now has been facing a new challenge on how to stop these recruitments which have been going on in dark and secret as experts review.
To this, Farooq said that an atmosphere of "fear is being observed here". "We are seeing a sudden surge in these militant attacks targeting Kashmiri Pandits, non-locals labourers and security officials. So this announcement to include non-locals in the electoral process might put their lives in danger. The Union Government should think before enacting or implementing any such rule here," he said.
The NC patron reiterated that India should engage in dialogue with Pakistan. "We have been talking with China. 16 rounds of talks have happened between the two countries despite the fact that nothing significant has been achieved. Then why not with Pakistan? The Government should understand that Kashmiris are being killed here every day and to stop this, peaceful talks should prevail otherwise this brutal trend would continue," he said.
"The Government talks about Dogras, Hindus and all this is being done in order to create chaos. This is a political gamble played out by the Centre. Now, you tell me what would happen if lakhs of non-locals would suddenly come here and cast their votes. This would shed away the identity of Dogras, Muslims and in totality the Kashmiris. We will never accept this and I would urge all the Kashmiris to come forward and cast their votes in maximum strength. This is the only way to restore democracy here," he said.
To a question over the statements by the LG Manoj Sinha that there is normalcy in the valley and that tourism and other sectors are growing up, Dr Abdullah replied that "Then why is that that nobody wants to invest here despite the fact that Centre has been continuously saying that foreign investors and others would set up their industries here which would give a boom to the employment. Has any foreign investor invested here.? The Government is only aiding a few of its handful people who are making huge sums of money here but what about the locals of J&K." | https://www.etvbharat.com/english/national/bharat/after-nc-statement-on-polls-farooq-says-no-such-decision-taken-yet-asks-centre-to-clarify-inclusion-of-non-locals/na20220824225412596596150 | 2022-08-24T18:46:38Z | https://www.etvbharat.com/english/national/bharat/after-nc-statement-on-polls-farooq-says-no-such-decision-taken-yet-asks-centre-to-clarify-inclusion-of-non-locals/na20220824225412596596150 | false |
OCALA, Fla., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HiBid.com hosted the sale of more than $45.6 million (gross auction proceeds) in assets last week. From August 15th through the 21st, HiBid.com averaged 1.65 million bids on the site per day, with nearly 600,000 lots sold in a combined total of 1,479 online-only and webcast auctions.
Among the hundreds of auctions on the site, there are currently numerous estate sales featuring antique toys and gadgets, lamps, motorcycles, pickup trucks, power tools, and a broad assortment of like-new, antique, and vintage home furnishings.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty years ago, scientists discovered a 7-million-year-old skull that they concluded belonged to a creature who walked upright and was our earliest known ancestor. Not everyone was convinced. Now, the researchers are back with more evidence they say strengthens their case.
Their new study published Wednesday analyzed arm and leg fossils found near the skull in Africa, looking for signs of walking on two feet instead of on all fours. When early humans started walking upright, it marked a key moment in our split away from apes
In the paper in the journal Nature, researchers again place the creature just on the human side of that evolutionary divide. The fossil species, named Sahelanthropus tchadensis, walked upright while still being able to climb around in trees, they reported.
The species has been dated to around 7 million years ago, which makes it the oldest known human ancestor, by a long shot. That’s about a million years older than other early known hominins.
But it’s been a source of fierce debate since the fossils were first unearthed in Chad in 2001.
Researchers — also led by scientists at the University of Poitiers in France — initially looked at the fossil creature’s skull, teeth and jaw. They argued that the creature must have walked on two feet and held its head upright, based on the location of the hole in the skull where the spinal cord connects to the brain.
Other experts weren’t swayed by the early evidence.
The latest work includes a thighbone that was not linked to S. tchadensis at first and went unstudied for years. Other researchers at the French university found the bone in the lab’s collection and realized it probably belonged to the fossil species.
Compared to bones from other species, the thighbone matched up better with upright-walking humans than knuckle-walking apes, according to the study.
“There is not one feature. There is just a total pattern of features,” co-author Franck Guy said of their analysis at a press briefing.
Still, the debate over the species is likely to continue.
Ashley Hammond, a scientist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York said more research is needed to find the creature’s place on the evolutionary tree.
“I’m not fully convinced yet,” Hammond said. “This could still also be a fossil ape.”
Another researcher at the French university, Roberto Macchiarelli, had previously examined the thighbone and determined the species was probably an ape. Looking at the new study, Macchiarelli said he still doesn’t believe the species was a hominin, though it might have walked on two legs at times.
Rick Potts, director of the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program, said the thighbone puts the species on “better footing” as a possible early human ancestor. But the real confirmation comes down to a common saying in the field: “Show me more fossils.”
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It was supposed to be a day for Olivia Wilde to shine a spotlight on her highly-anticipated psychological thriller “Don’t Worry Darling.”
But when the director, producer and star took the stage in front of a packed audience at ComicCon in Las Vegas this spring, things took an unexpected turn as she was suddenly handed an envelope containing custody papers.
It marked a shocking moment for the mother of two, who’d split from her former fiancé, “Ted Lasso” actor Jason Sudeikis, nearly two years earlier — a moment she’s now speaking out about in a new interview.
“It was my workplace,” the 38-year-old told Variety of the incident. “In any other workplace, it would be seen as an attack. It was really upsetting
"It shouldn’t have been able to happen. There was a huge breach in security, which is really scary," she continued. "The hurdles that you had to jump through to get into that room with several badges, plus special COVID tests that had to be taken days in advance, which gave you wristbands that were necessary to gain access to the event — this was something that required forethought.”
And being served in such a public way meant the impact didn’t simply affect her. The act itself generated headlines that far eclipsed the topic of her ComicCon visit.
“I hated that this nastiness distracted from the work of so many different people and the studio that I was up there representing,” she continued. “To try to sabotage that was really vicious. But I had a job to do; I’m not easily distracted.”
Shortly after the incident, sources close to her ex told NBC News, “Mr. Sudeikis had no prior knowledge of the time or place that the envelope would have been delivered as this would solely be up to the process service company involved and he would never condone her being served in such an inappropriate manner.”
But in her interview, Wilde seemed to imply otherwise, noting that being served onstage "was not something that was entirely surprising" to her.
"I mean, there’s a reason I left that relationship," she added.
A spokesperson for Sudeikis declined to comment following the Variety interview, but reiterated Sudeikis was not aware Wilde was going to be served at CinemaCon.
Ultimately, Wilde said that it wasn't her or the cast and crew of "Don't Worry Darling" who truly suffered from what happened on that stage.
“The only people who suffered were my kids, because they’ll have to see that, and they shouldn’t ever have to know that happened," she said.
Wilde and Sudeikis currently share custody of son Otis, 8, and daughter Daisy, 5.
"For me, it was appalling, but the victims were an 8- and 5-year-old, and that’s really sad," she explained. "I chose to become an actress; I willingly walked into the spotlight. But it’s not something my children have asked for. And when my kids are dragged into it, it’s deeply painful.” | https://www.today.com/popculture/popculture/olivia-wilde-speaks-out-about-being-served-custody-papers-onstage-rcna44620 | 2022-08-24T18:46:41Z | https://www.today.com/popculture/popculture/olivia-wilde-speaks-out-about-being-served-custody-papers-onstage-rcna44620 | false |
Top Offerings for Digital Leaders Reinventing Operations and Transforming Business Models
WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Salary.com® today announced it was named to the Constellation ShortList™ for Compensation Management in Q3 2022. The technology vendors and service providers included in this program deliver critical transformation initiative requirements for early adopters and fast-follower organizations.
"Receiving the Constellation ShortList award is a testament to how our data and software innovations are powering advancements in mission critical workforce objectives, including achieving pay equity and transparency," said Salary.com CEO Kent Plunkett. "Today's labor dynamics make it clear that maintaining the status quo is not an option. We're proud of our work with thousands of forward-thinking companies who are committed to getting pay right. We are especially proud to have achieved this honor for the fourth year in a row."
Salary.com's market leading CompAnalyst® SaaS platform accelerates compensation workflows, delivers real-time data, provides job description management, and powers accurate, equitable and competitive compensation. In allowing for deep analysis with a few clicks, CompAnalyst helps organizations quickly identify equity issues, flight risks, and other real-time talent intelligence insights that play a key role in winning the war for talent.
"Organizations must reconsider how they balance business models, work/life priorities, and new market conditions during the uncertain climate of the Great Refactoring," said R "Ray" Wang, chairman and founder at Constellation Research. "Constellation's ShortLists reflect the top vendors that matter most to our network of buy-side clients. We publish ShortLists to expedite the decision-making process for leaders making critical vendor selections, so they can find the right partners to enable their business success."
Constellation Research advises leaders on leveraging disruptive technologies to achieve business model transformation and streamline business processes. Products and services named to the Constellation ShortList meet the threshold criteria for this category as determined through client inquiries, partner conversations, customer references, vendor selection projects, market share, and internal research. The portfolio is updated at least once per year as the analyst team deems necessary based on market conditions.
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Barcelona host Manchester City in a mid-season club friendly at Camp Nou held for the noble cause of funding the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) research after former Barca goalkeeper and coach Juan Carlos Unzue was diagnosed with the disease two years ago.
Xavi's men are currently fifth in La Liga heading into the high-profile clash, with four points from a goalless draw against Rayo Vallecano and a 4-1 win over Real Sociedad in the domestic circuit so far.
Meanwhile, Pep Guardiola's side were last held to a 3-3 draw by Newcastle United in the Premier League but have made a positive start nonetheless with 2-0 and 4-0 wins over West Ham and Bournemouth respectively.
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Barcelona squad and team news
Even though the club haven't been able to register summer signing Jules Kounde to play in La Liga, Xavi has an opportunity to field the defender in the friendly, besides Raphinha and Franck Kessie.
The whole Barcelona squad is said to be available for selection, including Sergino Dest, who has been linked with a move away from the Camp Nou, while Miralem Pjanic, Sergi Roberto and Gerard Pique are expected to earn more gametime.
Similarly, Samuel Umtiti and Martin Braithwaite have been finding minutes hard to come by due to transfer possibilities of the duo as Robert Lewandowski could play the front role in the fundraiser.
Barcelona possible XI: Pena; Kounde, Pique, Alba; Kessie, Gavi; Roberto, Torres, Pjanic, Dembele; Lewandowski
Manchester City squad and team news
The Citizens are also likely to play new signings such as Kalvin Phillips, Julian Alvarez, Sergio Gomez and Stefan Ortega.
Despite the risk of a burn-out, being involved in the Premier League, Champions League, Carabao Cup and FA Cup as of now, Guardiola had promised a competitive side when the friendly was announced in June and the stars were indeed present at training.
However, one can expect minutes for a few others like Cole Palmer, while the sight of Barcelona target in Bernardo Silva could be interesting.
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Season 5 Viewership on CBS up by 12% Year over Year Averaging 516,000 Viewers Across 23 Hours of Live Games
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the BIG3 announced the ratings from their 2022 championship weekend in front of a sold-out crowd at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, GA. The inaugural 2022 All-Star Game and 2022 Championship Game marked the highest-rated BIG3 event since 2019, with the entire 2-hour telecast averaging 638,000 total viewers on CBS, up 56 percent from last year. The 2022 Championship Game averaged 681,000 total viewers, up 32 percent from last season's Championship Game and peaking at 1,019,000 viewers. The Inaugural All-Star Game averaged 587,000 viewers, up 100 percent from last year's consolation game in the same time window.
More than 1 million viewers tuned in Sunday evening to see the incredible finish as Trilogy's Isaiah Briscoe hit the game-winning layup to defeat Nancy Lieberman's Power, making the Stephen Jackson-led team the first-ever three-time BIG3 champions and the first team in league history to win back-to-back titles.
"These numbers and growth are further evidence of the kind of league we are building," said Ice Cube, BIG3 co-founder. "Every week, we have continued to deliver an exciting product and bring in more viewers than leagues twice, three times our age in a period of downturn in viewership. Even in the most competitive season yet, Trilogy was able to do what no team has done before and that is a testament to Stephen Jackson's leadership and every single player's commitment to the league. Players want to play for us, coaches want to coach with us, businesses want to work with us, and millions of people want to watch us. The BIG3 is here to stay and it will only go up from here."
These numbers come even after a packed weekend of programming as the BIG3 went head-to-head with preseason NFL, the final round of the BMW Championship, and the WNBA playoffs. In the sought-after 18-49 age range, the BIG3 averaged more viewers than the round 1 WNBA playoff games and rated higher than Sunday's MLB games. In total, the BIG3's fifth season averaged 516,000 total viewers on CBS, a 12 percent increase from last season's average of 458,000 total viewers on CBS.
This season saw some of the most competitive FIREBALL3 in the league's history. On top of the Dr. J Trophy, Trilogy picked up two end of year awards, Fireman of The Year for Isaiah Briscoe and Defensive Player of the Year for Earl Clark. Scoring champion Kevin Murphy from the 3-Headed Monsters took home this year's Most Valuable Player and Too Hard To Guard Awards. His coach, Reggie Theus, was the BIG3's 2022 Coach of the Year, coaching his team to the league's playoffs and narrowly losing out to Power. The Rookie Of The Year was awarded to number one overall pick Glen Rice Jr. from Power, who hit the game-winning shot to send Power to the 2022 Championship Game. Dajuan Summers of Tri-State won the 4th Man of The Year award and Mike Taylor from the Ghost Ballers won for the league's Best Trash Talker.
The Monster Energy BIG3 Celebrity Game played ahead of the All-Star and 2022 Championship games will air on CBS on Sunday, September 4. For more information on the Celebrity Game or to see the results and highlights from the All-Star game and Championship Game, go to BIG3.com and follow @thebig3 on twitter and instagram.
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Psychologist: School shooter didn’t get consistent treatment
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A psychologist who treated Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz when he was 8 years old testified Wednesday that Cruz was a “peculiar child” who had many behavioral and developmental issues but his widowed mother seemed overwhelmed and wasn’t consistent in her discipline or in getting him treatment.
Frederick Kravitz said he began treating Cruz in 2007 on a referral from Cruz’s psychiatrist with Lynda Cruz telling him her adopted son suffered from anxiety and nervousness and had trouble controlling his temper. But she also said he was friendly and got along fine with his peers — claims that a neighbor, preschool teachers and an elementary school special education counselor have testified were not true.
Kravitz said that while he suggested weekly sessions for Cruz, his mother only brought him 15 times over a 13-month span, a decade before he murdered 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018.
He said that was a major issue — Lynda Cruz would agree that her son needed more consistent treatment and she needed to be more consistent in her discipline of him and his younger half-brother, Zachary, but did not follow through. She was 57, depressed from her husband’s sudden 2003 death and dealing with two “tumultuous” young children, he said.
They would yell, throw tantrums and break furnishings, he said.
“They raised it to an art form,” Kravitz said. “Nikolas was easily set off and Zachary seemed to derive some pleasure from pushing Nikolas’ buttons.”
That would set off their mother, something both boys seemed to enjoy.
“She lost her cool frequently and backed down to the boys frequently, which only made the problems worse,” he said. He said he tried to work with her, but she felt embarrassed by her sons’ behavior and felt people were judging her.
Cruz’s attorneys are in Day 3 of their defense, hoping to persuade his jury to sentence him to life without parole instead of death. Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder and the trial, which began July 18, is only to determine his sentence.
The defense is trying to overcome the prosecution’s case, which featured surveillance video of Cruz, then 19, mowing down students and staff with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle as he stalked a three-story building for seven minutes, photos of the aftermath and a jury visit to the building.
For Cruz to receive a death sentence, the jury must be unanimous. If one juror votes for life, that will be his sentence.
The defense has focused on the mental and emotional problems Cruz exhibited from his earliest days. Testimony has shown that his birth mother was a street prostitute who abused cocaine and alcohol and as a toddler he was developmentally delayed, often violent towards other children and teased and bullied for his small stature, unusual appearance and odd behavior. When he was 8, he acted like a 6-year-old, at best, Kravitz said.
“He stood out like a sore thumb,” he said.
He said Cruz had a fear of abandonment because of his father’s death and his adoption and had an active “bad imagination.”
“He was extremely fearful his mother would forget to pick him up (at school) and he would be stuck there,” Kravitz said, even though that never happened.
He said Cruz had some signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder — for example, he always had to have exactly eight chicken nuggets.
He said he asked Cruz what his three wishes would be.
“Pokemon, a dog and more Pokemon,” Kravitz said.
Lynda Cruz died in November 2017, about four months before the shooting.
Under cross-examination, Kravitz conceded that Cruz’s mother did get him further psychiatric and psychological treatment and might have been reluctant to keep her son’s appointments with him because of the $87 per visit copay her insurance required.
Prosecutor Jeff Marcus asked Kravitz is there was anything about Cruz when he was 8 that would have indicated he would eventually commit mass murder. He said no.
“I’ve worked with some other very damaged kids and certainly to the best of my knowledge none of them have ever acted out like this,” Kravitz said.
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Pennsylvania utility earns accolade for innovation in electric grid operation
ALLENTOWN, Pa., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PPL Electric Utilities is proud to announce it has been named POWER Magazine's 2022 Smart Grid Award winner for its work in creating and deploying an innovative and automated self-healing grid that improves overall reliability and reduces outages.
"Our groundbreaking use of technology has allowed us to blaze trails for the benefit of our customers," said PPL Electric Utilities President Steph Raymond. "The smart grid has been a tremendous tool to help keep the lights on for our customers. It's making our grid more reliable, and it's a major catalyst in building the utility of the future, today."
Knowing that the energy landscape was beginning to change, PPL Electric began implementing various innovations across its electric grid over the past decade with the goal of improving the safety and reliability of its power distribution network. Through a partnership with GE Digital, PPL Electric was able to apply GE's Advanced Distribution Management Solution (ADMS) software to its entire electric grid.
The new ADMS system also included a technology called Fault Isolation Service Restoration (FISR) which was achieved by deploying state-of-the-art sensors and switches across the grid that segment customers into smaller spans. If an outage occurs, FISR senses the problem and automatically reroutes power around the trouble spot to get most customers restored within seconds, keeping the outage contained without any human intervention and often without the customer even noticing.
PPL Electric was the first utility to centrally install FISR across its entire service territory to automate restorations. That network of smart devices, coupled with GE's advanced software system, has assisted PPL Electric in creating an autonomous, self-healing grid. In fact, since 2015, PPL Electric's smart grid has helped prevent more than 1.4 million customer outages. And, in 2021 alone, customers experienced 34% fewer outages compared to the average over the prior five years.
The smart grid is also improving data and analytics to bolster reliability. This data helps PPL Electric make more informed decisions about both maintenance and investments. The smart grid can also pinpoint issues, allowing for the dispatch of crews to an exact location, saving both time and money. Other benefits include a Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Management System that manages two-way power flow and advanced meters that enable customers to see usage.
Using industry-leading technology and innovation, PPL Electric has created a smart grid that is likely unrecognizable to utility workers of past generations. The smart grid, combined with other groundbreaking advancements, is helping PPL Electric continue to build the utility of the future, today. For more information on what PPL Electric is doing to innovate and improve grid reliability, visit pplelectric.com/reliability.
The POWER Smart Grid Award has been handed out since 2011 and recognizes outstanding smart grid projects, throughout the world, that demonstrate the benefits of new data-rich technologies to power generators, distribution utilities, and customers. For more information about the award, as well as previous winners, visit powermag.com/power-awards.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A local brewery is celebrating a major milestone.
Genesee Brewing Company is gearing up to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its Brew House.
A birthday bash party is planned for Sept. 10 in what will be the Brew House's first large community event since 2019.
The Brew House started as an old packaging center for Genesee Brewing before the company spent $4 million to transform the building.
"The Genesee Brew House has made Genesee accessible to everyone and people have come in droves over the years," said Mary Beth Popp, vice president of corporate communications for FICO USA. "The Brew House has helped refresh Genesee's image and gave people a new opportunity to experience the brand."
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NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of TG Therapeutics, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of TGTX during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: January 15, 2020 to May 31, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) clinical trials revealed significant concerns related to the benefit-risk ratio and overall survival data of the Company's therapeutic product candidates, Ublituximab and Umbralisib; (ii) accordingly, it was unlikely that the Company would be able to obtain approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of the Umbralisib marginal zone lymphoma and follicular lymphoma New Drug Application, the Biologics License Application for Ublituximab in combination with Umbralisib, the supplemental New Drug Application for Ublituximab in combination with Umbralisib, or the Ublituximab relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis Biologics License Application in their current forms; (iii) as a result, the Company had significantly overstated Ublituximab and Umbralisib's clinical and/or commercial prospects; and (iv) therefore, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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TORONTO, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - McLean & Company, the globally trusted partner of HR and business leaders, has named Maureen Cahill as Managing Partner of its Executive Services team. This appointment follows the company's rapid growth and increased client demand, marking another milestone for the HR research and advisory firm.
"As expectations of the workplace continue to trend to remote and hybrid work amidst a challenging labor market, HR leaders and executives are seeking ways to improve the employee experience within their organizations now more than ever," says Jennifer Rozon, president of McLean & Company. "Maureen's unique ability to translate strategic business objectives into people priorities, action plans, and results will advance our capacity to support our valued clients through every phase of the employee lifecycle. In turn, this leads to their increased organizational success, which is always our top priority."
An industry leader with experience in the for-profit, non-profit, private equity, and public sectors, Cahill has spent nearly three decades as a human resources practitioner, consultant, advisor, and business leader. She has worked with such organizations as Gartner, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Mindpath Health, and Highmark Inc. Cahill is passionate about positioning HR teams to optimize talent investments through the development of business-aligned HR strategies, effective business case development, and sound project execution.
"CHROs are facing differing challenges and priorities based on the industry and geographic footprint of the company. McLean & Company's extensive expertise and industry resources enable HR leaders to improve employee experience for tens of thousands of people," says Maureen Cahill, newly appointed managing partner at McLean & Company. "Most adults spend a significant portion of their waking hours at work and that experience often spills over into our personal life. Being part of an organization that is so committed to making the time we work more fulfilling is incredibly energizing and exciting."
As a former Chief HR Officer and strategic partner to dozens of HR executives, Cahill's skills and experience in building the HR infrastructure and teams needed to enable growth and create a positive employee experience make her uniquely positioned to lead McLean & Company's team of Executive Counselors and Advisors as they deliver the highest level of support and service to the firm's members.
Maureen holds a bachelor's degree in business management from North Central College and an MBA from the Keller Graduate School of Management. She is also a professional and executive coach, having received certifications from Duquesne University and the University of Georgia.
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We've pulled the comps and Selling the OC is proving to be a valuable property.
The Selling Sunset spin-off series changes things up by bringing male agents into the Oppenheim Group offices. In the debut season, fans will get to know Gio Helou, Tyler Stanaland, Sean Palmieri and Austin Victoria, all of whom are newcomers to the Oppenheim Group's Orange County-based office.
In all honesty, they're not too different from their female counterparts. However, if you asked Jason Oppenheim, he'd say the men are a positive addition to the team when compared to the Sunset offices. "It's co-ed. I'm not in an estrogen bowl like I am in Selling Sunset, so I get to really bro out and have fun," he told E! News. "Some of my most fun days filming have been with these guys."
All told, the male cast members think there's no way viewers can compare the two shows because the men change the dynamic so much. When asked if he was worried about comparisons, Gio told E! News, "I so strongly believe that this show is going to knock it out of the park. It's not a concern."
This predicted popularity might be because the drama is intensified by how straightforward the agents, including the women, are with each other. Sean even said, "Every single agent here has the most intense personality. I don't really see anyone here who is a pushover."
Case in point: Austin telling Alexandra Rose she's the most competitive and the biggest pot stirrer when she's right next to him. "Sorry," he added, "just being honest!"
This just goes to show that men can be drama queens, too!
Viewers will get to see how this tell-it-like-it-is attitude impacts the office dynamics when Selling the OC premieres Aug. 24 on Netflix.
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ROSEVILLE, Calif. — A man was arrested in Roseville after a traffic stop in Lincoln turned into a police chase.
Deputies with the Placer County Sheriff's Office made a traffic stop on August 18 at around 2 a.m. in rural Lincoln. The driver appeared to be under the influence, according to the sheriff's office.
The driver gave a deputy a license that allegedly did not belong to him and when asked to step out of the vehicle, the sheriff's office said he left the area. This led to a police chase where the driver reached 115 mph while running stop signs and driving in the wrong lane on Fiddyment Road, according to the Placer County Sheriff's Office.
The person continued driving and avoided a spike strip, eventually driving through a wooden fence and onto the Sierra Pines Golf Course in Roseville. The driver damaged multiple fences, left the vehicle and was arrested by deputies.
Chris Allen, a 47-year-old from Orland, was arrested on suspicion of evading an officer, obstruction, providing false information, driving under the influence and for multiple felony warrants.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — When it comes to mortality, Florida residents can now expect their lifelines to run just a little bit shorter. New data from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vital Statistics Report said the whole country will die sooner, including in Florida.
The CDC’s report said the state with the highest life expectancy in the country was Hawaii, where residents can expect to live as long as 80.7 years. Mississippi was the lowest life expectancy, at 71.9 years. For the Sunshine State, residents of Florida are looking at 77.5 years, down from 79 in 2019.
Based on the CDC data, Florida ranks 19th for life expectancy. Males in Florida have less time to live than their female counterparts, with 74.6 years compared to 80.5 years. The trend of women in all 50 states and the District of Columbia held, with women living longer across the whole country, no matter where they make their homes.
Across the various states, Florida proved an outlier when it came to average life expectancies, the only southern state with a life expectancy around 77, rather than the range of about 72 to 76.8 from North Carolina to New Mexico.
Nationally, the life expectancy fell by 1.8 years, “mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic and increases in unintentional injuries.” The CDC reported the unintentional injuries were “mainly drug overdose deaths.” In May, President Joe Biden marked an occasion for the deaths of one million Americans to COVID.
Midwestern states had similar life expectancies to southern states, as well as Northeast non-coastal areas. The CDC said “states with the lowest life expectancies at age 65 are mostly concentrated in the South, with Florida being a noted exception, and those with the highest life expectancies are mostly in the West and Northeast.”
When it comes to survival beyond age 65, Florida ranks higher, at No. 6. The average life expectancy beyond 65 in Florida is about 19.2 years, with men expected to survive to just about 83-years-old while women could make it to nearly 86-years-old, according to the federal data for 2020.
Every part of the country had decreases in average life expectancy from birth between 2019 and 2020. New York had the biggest drop, going down three years to 77.7 years from 80.7. The lowest drop was in Hawaii, where the average life expectancy only went down by 0.2 years.
The U.S. Census Bureau said from 2019 to 2020, the number of deaths in America increased by 19%, which the bureau calls the “largest spike in mortality in 100 years.” Deaths in 2021 were reportedly still elevated as the COVID-19 pandemic continued.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Six months ago, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine. The half-year mark comes on the same day — Aug. 24 — as a national holiday celebrating Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union, an event in 1991 noted for its lack of bloodshed. Today the holiday takes on new meaning for many Ukrainians, as the country continues to fight in what it calls a new "war for independence."
Over the course of six months, the war has captured the world's attention, disrupted the global distribution of food and fuel and left the country reeling. To understand some of the war's impact on Ukraine, here are six key numbers:
1. Over 13 million Ukrainians have been displaced
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. Since February, more than 13 million people have been forced to flee their homes, according to the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR. Nearly 6.7 million refugees have dispersed across Europe, with Poland taking in the largest share. Another 6.6 million people are internally displaced within Ukraine.
Most Ukrainians who have fled the country are women and children, as the government has barred men ages 18 to 60 from leaving. The European Union's migration department says almost 500,000 Ukrainian children have been integrated into schools in EU countries.
Meanwhile, as the war has stretched on and shifted course, many Ukrainians are going back home. According to a survey by the International Organization for Migration, 5.5 million previously displaced people have returned home.
2. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians may have lost their lives in the war
Both sides have reported losing military personnel since the invasion began in February. Exact figures are hard to come by, since each country is reluctant to admit losses and often inflates the number of enemy fighters they've killed.
Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhny, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed forces, said this week at a public forum that Ukraine has lost 9,000 military personnel. The Ukrainian military has also claimed to have killed or wounded 45,200 Russian military personnel, with the largest losses in the eastern Donetsk and southern Mykolaiv regions.
Meanwhile, the U.N. human rights office has documented nearly 5,600 civilians killed in Ukraine during the conflict but believes the actual toll is much higher.
Russia has been releasing scant information on military casualties. Officials there said 1,351 of their own soldiers died in the first weeks of the war, in March, but have not released updated data since. Independent Russian news outlet iStories says it counted (through open-source information) more than 5,000 Russian service members killed, but that the true number could be higher.
In March, Russian military officials estimated Ukrainian losses at around 14,000 killed and 16,000 out of action.
3. Russia occupies 20% of Ukrainian land
In 2014, Russia invaded and annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. Soon Russian-backed militants declared their intent to separate from Ukraine in the country's far east, launching a conflict that's been locked in a stalemate for nearly eight years.
In February, Russians controlled around 17,000 square miles of Ukrainian land, according to Ukraine's mission to the U.N. — Crimea being the size of Maryland and the self-proclaimed independent "republics" in Ukraine's east amounting to a territory about the size of New Jersey.
Six months into the full-scale invasion, Russia has expanded its territory in Ukraine almost threefold. In June, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia has occupied 20% of the country, or about 47,000 square miles. That's a territory about the size of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware and much of Maryland combined.
The line of contact between Russian and Ukrainian forces extends 570 miles, as of Monday.
4. Dozens of countries have pledged billions of dollars in military aid since the war began
Dozens of countries have supplied Ukraine with military assistance, including weapons systems and training. The bulk of the aid has come from the U.S. With President Biden's announcement Wednesday of another $3 billion, Washington has now committed $10.6 billion in security aid since Russia's February invasion. Billions more will be coming from an aid package passed in May.
On Ukrainian battlefields, Australia has become synonymous with the 88 armored vehicles it's provided, Turkey is known for its roughly 80 combat drones, Britain for the 22,000 soldiers it trained. Other countries have offered logistical support, like the 3.2 million gallons of diesel and jet fuel Slovakia provided.
When it comes to economic warfare, EU member states plus another 18 countries have levied individual sanctions against Russia in the past six months. But experts warn the sanctions could have a limited effect on Russia's export potential, as two-thirds of the world's population is concentrated in the countries that have either stayed neutral or supported Russia, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.
5. Ukraine's economy could shrink by as much as 45% because of the invasion
The invasion has devastated Ukraine's economy across the board. The World Bank estimated in April that the Ukrainian economy could shrink by 45% this year. Last week, Ukraine's economy minister said the country's gross domestic product of $200.9 billion in 2021 is likely to contract between 35% and 40% by the end of the year.
The conflict has cost Ukraine over $113.5 billion in damage, the Kyiv School of Economics says, with housing and transportation infrastructure hit particularly hard. KSE says the country will need upwards of $200 billion to recover.
Meanwhile, Reuters reports that Ukraine's Agriculture Ministry says grain exports are down 46% from last year due to a five-month blockade of the country's Black Sea ports. And despite a U.N.-brokered deal reached in July to allow food shipments to depart Ukraine, the agriculture sector is still expected to take a huge hit. The country's steel industry has also taken a beating.
Ukraine has lots of friends throughout the world who are trying to help keep its economy afloat. The U.S. alone has already pledged $8.5 billion in financial assistance to Kyiv this year to keep government offices open and staffed and utilities working. Meanwhile, the European Union has given billions of euros to Ukraine since February, and has recently fashioned a package to give 8 billion euros more in financial aid over the next six months.
6. Bake sales, spare change and "St. Javelin" have raised over $500 million in private money to help Ukraine
In February, a Canadian-Ukrainian writer, Christian Borys, and California artist Chris Shaw created a meme of a woman appearing like the Virgin Mary holding a rocket launcher. Borys called it "St. Javelin," after the U.S.-supplied anti-tank missiles. Since then, he's formed the meme into a brand that has sold more than $3 million worth of stickers and other merchandise to help Ukraine.
Borys' initiative is one of hundreds like it.
In June, Ukrainian TV personality Serhiy Prytula asked his fans to buy him a Turkish-made drone priced at $5 million. He ended up raising $55 million. Baykar, the company that makes the drone, refused to take the money. Instead, the company donated three drones. In August, Prytula used the funds he raised to purchase a reconnaissance satellite for Ukrainian intelligence.
As of July, Ukraine's National Bank reports to have collected $530 million in donations for the Ukrainian military — mostly from people rounding up at shop cash registers and fundraisers in the country. On Tuesday, residents of the small western Ukrainian town of Dubno raised $866.55 at a bake sale and flea market for the military.
Julian Hayda reported from Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ashley Westerman from Lviv and Elissa Nadworny from Kyiv. Polina Lytvynova contributed to this report.
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THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digi-Key Electronics, which offers the world's largest selection of electronic components in stock for immediate shipment, was named to the fourth-annual prestigious list of America's Best-in-State Employers 2022 by Forbes.
The list is based on an independent survey of 70,000 U.S. employees across 25 industry sectors and considered every aspect of an employee's experience such as working conditions, salary, potential for growth and diversity. Of the thousands of companies eligible for this recognition, only a select few were awarded in each state.
Digi-Key and a select few other Minnesota-based companies with more than 500 employees were recognized, with Digi-Key ranking #7 on the list of 50 companies. The full list of best employers in Minnesota can be viewed on the Forbes site.
"This honor is a testament to our entire team's dedication to Digi-Key's purpose of enabling the world's ideas," said Shane Zutz, vice president, human resources at Digi-Key. "When an entire team can rally around a goal they are passionate about, they can do anything, and that's how I feel about our 5,000+ member global team. We're so proud to be recognized among Forbes' list of outstanding Minnesota companies."
Digi-Key employees enjoy one of the leading benefits packages in the state, an abundance of on-site amenities, and robust educational and professional development opportunities. For more information on careers with Digi-Key, please visit their careers site.
Digi-Key Electronics, headquartered in Thief River Falls, Minn., is recognized worldwide as the leader, innovator and pioneer of electronic components and automation products distribution. They offer more than 13.4 million components from over 2,300 quality name-brand manufacturers. Digi-Key is a $4.5 billion company and employs more than 5,000 people. More information can be found at digikey.com and on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Aggieland Outfitters is putting its newest location on hold after residents near the construction site gave it a thumbs down.
An attorney for the homeowners alleges the new build is “illegal.”
The new location is set to be built at George Bush Drive and 100 Fairview Drive in College Station.
“This commercial building that Aggieland Outfitters are saying they want to build is in violation of deed restrictions that have been put in place for over 100 years,” said Gaines West, attorney representing Fred and Shirley Dupriest of College Station.
But legal counsel for Aggieland Outfitters says such deed restrictions are bad for business and too constricting.
“We respect their concerns about their neighborhood, but as far as restrictions they are alleging in this case – they’re unenforceable and we believe that’ll be the case in this second lawsuit,” said Matt Doss, attorney representing Nimitz Properties LLC (Aggieland Outfitters).
The Dupriests previously filed a similar lawsuit in 2017 against Nimitz Properties LLC, who owns Aggieland outfitters.
Five years later -- they're hoping to finally put a stop to it.
But Doss said they're hoping this case will be thrown out like the last one.
“The lawsuit was dismissed in 2018 – it’s still pending an appeal and rather than have the appellant process play itself out, they filed nearly an identical lawsuit stating the same claims that is not permitted by Texas law,” Doss said.
West says he is just wants the Dupriest’s to have their day in court.
“All we want to do is keep the status quo – no foundation is poured, no buildings are built, until Judge Hilburn has had a full opportunity to hear all the evidence on their matter,” West said.
Nimitz Properties LLC and the Dupriest’s are set to meet Friday in hopes to have the temporary injunction lifted to resume Construction on Aggieland Outfitters new location. | https://www.kxxv.com/brazos/lawsuit-filed-again-against-aggieland-outfitters-by-college-station-resident | 2022-08-24T19:01:08Z | https://www.kxxv.com/brazos/lawsuit-filed-again-against-aggieland-outfitters-by-college-station-resident | false |
NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The boom in Crypto, Blockchain and NFTs have become the subject of healthy skepticism. Scammers, flooded markets and dodgy, insecure blockchains have resulted in more than reduced market confidence: it has jeopardized whole newly developed ecosystems. But now a team of gamers, technologists and experienced entrepreneurs have 'flipped the script'.
GOATED's goal is to create a simple, safe, trusted, transparent and reliable platform for competitive gamers and content creators and their millions of fans and followers. GOATED rewards and supports the worldwide gamer community by developing innovative, valuable, yet affordable, digital collectable products, incentives and engagement opportunities. Fans can sell, trade and share their collectables on the goated.gg platform. Launching on the Solana Blockchain (one of the least-expensive and least energy consuming blockchains), GOATED combines gamer know-how and experience with the passion of their fans and followers.
What makes GOATED different from all the other projects that we have seen thus far? The GOATED developer team has analyzed the mistakes of previous NFT startups and has developed innovative ways for competitive gamers, content creators, along with their fans, to earn rewards by engaging with and supporting their favorite gamers and each other while easily collecting and trading unique, exclusive GamerClips, GamerCards and GamerCoins created by their favorite competitive gamers and content creators. Bruce Edward Spector, founder of GOATED, calls the GOATED methods Engage to Earn™.
The goated.gg roadmap will enable gamers to connect with their millions of fans and followers via Engage to Earn, a breakthrough model that allows gamers to earn rewards for what gamers already love doing. Engage to Earn will include: Watch to Earn, Comment to Earn, Collect to Earn, Trade to Earn, Stake to Earn, Subscribe to Earn, Follow to Earn, Nominate to Earn, Vote to Earn, and Share to Earn.
GOATED gamers and content creators also receive the highest percentage of primary sales of their NFTs of any marketplace operating today. GOATED Gamers and Content Creators are also paid continuing, perpetual royalties on all secondary market sales of their GOATED NFTs on the GOATED Marketplace (and other compatible marketplaces). GOATED members will also receive future rewards from their favorite GOATED creators in the form of GOATED CreatorCoins and royalties attached to their NFT collections.
GOATED hopes to finally bring some long-awaited trust, transparency, fairer and more equitable rewards, real value and confidence to the worldwide gamer community and the developing blockchain and NFT market.
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It's that time of year again: High school football is back in season. But the classic Friday night lights may have to be held on a different day.
That’s because there’s a referee shortage. In Aurora, Colorado, the striped-shirt guys will have to be spread throughout the week.
"They are a vital part of the DNA of all sports, but a lot of these officials, they're just tired of being berated," said Dennis York, head football coach at Hinkley High School in Aurora.
It’s a coast-to-coast problem. The National Federation of State High Schools says over the last three to four years, about 50,000 referees across all sports have hung up their whistles.
"The entire state — we are short, in fact, the entire nation," said Brent Rice, assistant director of the Michigan High School Athletic Association. "I just got back from a conference. The entire nation remains short of officials."
In Michigan, officials say don’t blame the kids.
"The No. 1 reason why folks say they're getting out of officiating or won't go into officiating is because of bad behavior by adult coaches and spectators," Rice said.
It’s not just football feeling the pinch.
Softball, baseball, and soccer games are also scrambling in suburban Cleveland, Ohio.
"Some of the older umpires that have the experience are just getting tired of it, and they're getting tired of getting yelled at by people," said Gary Diehl, parks and athletics manager in Broadview Heights, Ohio.
Refers have second thoughts when the harsh behavior is aimed at younger game officials.
"It's one thing when you're yelling at your TV, or if... you're yelling at the umpire," Diehl said. "But it's another thing when it's a nine-year-old girls soccer game, and you're yelling at a 15-year-old kid. That's not acceptable."
The Colorado High School Activities Association is promising referees that there will be a crackdown on abusive fans.
"We have to control it," said Michael Book, the association's assistant commissioner. "We have to put our foot down and say, 'We can't have that,' because we're not going to have officials, and if we don't have officials, we're not going to have games."
As for the future, the National Federation of High Schools is making a concerted effort to recruit new referees, appealing to people’s community spirit and trying to convince people they'd fit the uniform.
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Man dies in Delhi factory fire
Cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained
A 31-year-old man died in a fire at a factory in Patparganj Industrial Area of east Delhi on Wednesday, fire department officials said. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
The victim was earlier rescued and taken to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital where he was declared brought dead, Delhi Fire Service chief Atul Garg said.
The victim, identified as Veeru, was trapped when the fire broke out. According to preliminary enquiry, DCP (East) Priyanka Kashyap said the property belonged to Harsh Dahia.
It is a packaging unit of soil-testing kits. Six persons were working at the time of the incident.
“A call about the fire in the factory was received at 12.57 p.m. and a total of nine fire tenders were rushed to the site,” Mr. Garg said. According to an official, the factory is located near the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) office in Patparganj.
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Two persons were reported injured after an accident involving a school bus Tuesday afternoon.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Highway Patrol division says the accident occurred on Saks Road and Skyline Road in Calhoun County at 2:49 p.m. on Tuesday.
ALEA reports the accident resulted in an 11-year-old who was on the bus at the time of the collision being transported to a local area hospital, along with the 16-year-old driver of the passenger vehicle.
Calhoun County School Superintendent Dr. Jose Reyes told area media outlets all parents were notified of the accident and most students on the bus were then picked up by their parents.
Reyes added the remaining students were driven home by a different bus driver on a different bus.
ALEA says the investigation into the cause of the accident is continuing. | https://www.annistonstar.com/news/calhoun/two-injured-tuesday-in-school-bus-accident/article_ef86c952-23ce-11ed-b0fc-0b7969022a6c.html | 2022-08-24T19:01:52Z | https://www.annistonstar.com/news/calhoun/two-injured-tuesday-in-school-bus-accident/article_ef86c952-23ce-11ed-b0fc-0b7969022a6c.html | true |
The Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau invites the community to celebrate the grand opening of Endless Summer Spa.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place on Thursday, September 8 at 4 p.m. located at 1512 North H Street Suite G.
Endless Summer Spa focuses on improving not only the skin’s appearance but also the overall health of its members. They offer a variety of services including sunbed tanning, spray tanning, wellness treatments, body recovery wrap, red-light therapy, body massage, and an oxygen bar.
For more information on this Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, call the Lompoc Chamber at (805 )736-4567. | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/lompocs-endless-summer-spa-ribbon-cutting-ceremony | 2022-08-24T19:02:20Z | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/lompocs-endless-summer-spa-ribbon-cutting-ceremony | false |
(KRON) – A bill that would limit the admissible use of rap or hip-hop lyrics in a court of law is now on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk after passing both houses of the legislature.
Assembly Bill 2799, introduced by Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles), would require a judge to consider whether creative expression is “evidence of the defendant’s propensity for violence or criminal disposition,” and whether admitting it would “inject racial bias into the proceedings.”
“The bill would require a court to determine the admissibility of a form of creative expression in a hearing outside the presence and hearing of the jury, and state on the record the court’s ruling and reasoning therefore,” the legislative counsel’s digest states.
The Restoring Artistic Protection, or RAP, Act in the United States House of Representatives would make similar changes on the federal level. It, and the California version, are supported by major record labels and others in the music industry.
The Recording Industry Association of America stated, for example, in reference to AB 2799: “Hyperbole and fantastical imagery are customary, and often necessary, elements of that creative expression. Bob Marley and Eric Clapton understood this when they sang about shooting the sheriff. Johnny Cash understood it when he claimed to have ‘shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.’ The Beatles weren’t ones to truly subscribe to the notion that ‘Happiness is a Warm Gun.’ And no one truly believed that Freddie Mercury ‘just killed a man’ in Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’
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“Yet, when rap and hip hop artists adhere to this time-honored tradition of make-believe, their lyrics are too often – and unfairly – taken literally, stripped of the poetic license afforded other genres,” the statement continues.
If Newsom signs AB 2799 into law, California would be the first state to change its rules of evidence to limit the use of rap or hip-hop lyrics in court. | https://www.kron4.com/news/california/california-bill-would-limit-use-of-rap-hip-hop-lyrics-in-court/ | 2022-08-24T19:02:27Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/california/california-bill-would-limit-use-of-rap-hip-hop-lyrics-in-court/ | false |
Suburban Kansas City officers shoot and kill suspect
BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) - A 28-year-old suburban Kansas City man was shot and killed by law enforcement officers who were trying to arrest him, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.
Michael Saunders, of Blue Springs, died in the shooting Tuesday afternoon.
Blue Springs Police Chief Bob Muenz said Saunders had shot at a Cass County sheriff's deputy during a pursuit a few days previously.
Deputies investigating that shooting followed Saunders to a Walmart on Tuesday and asked Blue Springs officers for backup as he left the store.
Saunders ran from the officers and allegedly fired at them, Muenz said. He was shot by two officers about a block away from the store. Muenz said he didn't know how many times Saunders fired at the officers.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett is auctioning off a high-tech signed portrait of himself to raise money for one of his favorite charities, and the bidding has already topped $30,000.
The portrait of Buffett created by Motiva Art features a grid of letters over the picture that light up to spell out several of the legendary investor’s famous quotes. The eBay auction of this artwork probably won’t rival the $19 million someone paid earlier this year for a private lunch with Buffett, but it’s still likely to attract big bidders among the Berkshire Hathaway CEO’s devoted followers.
The auction that began earlier this week is set to wrap up on Buffett’s 92nd birthday on Aug. 30.
The proceeds from the art auction will go to Girls Inc. of Omaha, which provides educational, cultural and recreational programs for young women in Buffett’s hometown. The nonprofit has benefitted from a number of other things the investor has auctioned off over the years.
Buffett once sold off an old wallet of his that contained a stock tip, raising $210,000 for the organization. And in 2015, someone paid more than $122,000 for Buffett’s 2006 Cadillac with his signature on the dashboard.
The biggest Buffett payout for Girls Inc. came in 2018 when Buffett won a 10-year bet that an S&P 500 stock index fund would outperform a collection of hedge funds. That netted more than $2 million that Girls Inc. used to support a new residential program for young women leaving foster care.
The June lunch auction that raised $19 million for the California-based Glide Foundation that helps the homeless in San Francisco attracted such an astronomical winning bid because Buffett said this year’s auction would be the final one. Before the pandemic, he had auctioned off private lunches every year for 20 years and regularly raised millions for Glide. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/business/bids-for-signed-warren-buffett-portrait-already-top-30000/ | 2022-08-24T19:03:15Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/business/bids-for-signed-warren-buffett-portrait-already-top-30000/ | false |
The Ferry Building outpost for the uber-popular San Francisco Filipino-Mexican fusion chain Señor Sisig opened Wednesday, a culmination of the restaurant's outsized success and the overwhelming popularity of Pinoy cuisine in the Bay Area.
From its 2010 food truck opening, Señor Sisig felt like a modern San Francisco staple. It has the charm of a local's-only secret, even as it snagged the attention of Guy Fieri and expanded into brick-and-mortars across the bay. So to open in a larger location with so much foot traffic, chef and co-owner Gil Payumo told SFGATE that it feels like both an acknowledgment of its past acclaim and its current place in the city’s culinary firmament.
“We're definitely honored to be here,” Payumo said. “It just shows the big, great impact to not only the culture but the food industry, of being a staple here in San Francisco.”
Its most devout fans can expect all of the restaurant’s tried-and-true mainstays — sisig burritos, nachos, fries and rice bowls. At this location, you can now add a fried egg to any of the dishes, inspired by the common silog breakfasts in the Philippines; it sounds like a treat on nachos or on a rice bowl.
The new location, it seems, has emboldened Señor Sisig to up its collaboration game, joining forces with other Bay Area food brands that have outposts in the Ferry Building. Already, there’s the “Churron” ice cream flavor with Humphry Slocombe; the restaurant sources the bread for its new sisig tortas from Berkeley-based Acme Bread. A new collaboration with Peruvian empanada spot (and longtime friends) El Porteño is in the works, Payumo revealed.
The real stars of the expanded menu are outside the entree list. Take the pandan iced tea, a rich, almost milky tea beverage infused with pandan — a grassy, vanilla-tinged leaf common in Southeast Asia. It recalls a classic jasmine milk tea, but it also brings to mind the flavors of buko pandan — the delicious coconut-pandan jelly dessert.
The new item that feels most emblematic of Señor Sisig's M.O. is its churros, light, crispy, doused in ube and macapuno cream and topped with toasted coconut bits. In the Bay Area, ube feels like it's reached a saturation point, with entire cafes and festivals dedicated to the miraculously bright purple yam. Incorporating macapuno, a coconut variant with sweeter, softer flesh originally from the Philippines, is a clear homage to Red Ribbon cakes, Selecta ice cream and other Filipino treats that combine ube and macapuno. It’s a familiar flavor pairing, but somehow it makes ube feel brand new again given the flavor's overexposure. It’s the sort of thing that the restaurant does best: making Filipino culture and nostalgia feel inventive and accessible.
If this writer had to nitpick any issues, early press material for the new location promised a wealth of seafood options inspired by the oceanside location — none of which appear to be available in the restaurant's launch menu. Also currently unavailable are boozy offerings, also promised in its launch announcement. (Eater notes these offerings will come when its alcohol license is finalized.) But these feel like minor gripes for what is certainly a victory lap for the scrappy San Francisco success story.
“We're trying to make this a legacy, not only to bring out Filipino food or to highlight Mexican food, it's all about great food," Payumo said. "...We’re our own brand and we control our own legacy.”
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Dr. Mehmet Oz is taking a sharper tone in attacking the health of Democrat John Fetterman in their Pennsylvania Senate race, with the celebrity heart surgeon’s campaign saying that if the state’s lieutenant governor “had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn’t have had a major stroke.”
And in a phone call Wednesday to The Associated Press, an aide to the Republican nominee questioned whether Fetterman was “too sick to debate” — a suggestion brushed off by Fetterman’s campaign as Oz pushes for a televised debate Sept. 6.
The increasingly pointed and personal barbs come as Oz is trailing Fetterman in polls in the November matchup that could help decide Senate control. Democrats see the contest to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey as among their best opportunities nationally to pick up a seat.
Fetterman’s latest high-profile trolling of Oz on social media has focused on Oz’s effort to spotlight the country’s high inflation by shopping for “crudités” — raw vegetables cut up and served as an hors d’oeuvre — in a state with cities that pride themselves on cheesesteaks and pierogies, potato-filled dumplings.
Oz’s stepped-up claims about Fetterman’s health may reflect a vulnerability for the Democrat as he recovers from the stroke days before the May 17 primary. Party officials had initially been nervous about Fetterman’s disappearance from the campaign for nearly three months while he was on the mend. But they insist they are confident he is fully capable of running — and Fetterman says he wouldn’t be in the race if he weren’t able to campaign and win.
Oz, the former host of daytime TV’s “Dr. Oz Show,” has contended that Fetterman is hiding, refusing to commit to a debate and has conducted just two media interviews since the stroke.
Fetterman and his campaign say the Oz’s camp went too far in blaming Fetterman himself for his stroke.
“I had a stroke. I survived it. I’m truly so grateful to still be here today,” Fetterman said on Twitter. “I know politics can be nasty, but even then, I could (asterisk)never(asterisk) imagine ridiculing someone for their health challenges.”
A Fetterman campaign spokesperson, Joe Calvello, said Fetterman is healthy enough to debate, walks 5 miles to 6 miles a day and has been honest about his recovery, saying he is working with a therapist to deal with some speech and hearing problems.
An Oz campaign adviser, Barney Keller, said Oz and his team are simply giving Fetterman “good health advice” to eat vegetables.
As for the proposed debate at a Pittsburgh TV station, the Fetterman campaign said it’s not up to Oz to dictate the terms of the debate schedule.
Keller said Oz has done no such thing, leaving Oz’s campaign to conclude that Fetterman isn’t being honest about the extent to which he is affected by the stroke.
“Either he’s healthy enough to debate and should debate, or he’s not healthy enough to debate and he should say so,” Keller said. But, he added, “Why lie about it? Why continue to lie about how sick he is?”
Fetterman’s public schedule has been relatively light, although he did speak for four minutes at a steelworkers’ union rally in Pittsburgh on Tuesday.
The Oz’s campaign’s statement about Fetterman’s diet tries to play into the narrative that the Democrat is not being transparent about his health.
“If John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn’t have had a major stroke and wouldn’t be in the position of having to lie about it constantly,” Oz’s campaign said.
It came in response to Fetterman’s latest social media trolling, capitalizing on a video in which Oz tries to highlight rising inflation by pointing out the high prices for ingredients to make “crudités.”
Fetterman took to social media to tell Oz that “in PA we call this a … veggie tray,” a rebuke that slams Oz on two narratives favored by Fetterman’s campaign: that Oz is super wealthy and out of touch, and that Oz is really from New Jersey, not Pennsylvania.
Fetterman’s campaign said it raised more than a $1 million off its campaign to lampoon Oz’s “crudités” video.
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President Biden is speaking on Wednesday afternoon about the federal government’s plan to cancel up to $10,000 in student loan debt for some borrowers and an additional $10,000 for people who had the greatest need for college financial aid.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The former warden of a California women’s prison, who is already facing federal charges alleging he sexually abused inmates and forced them to pose nude for him, was charged Tuesday with sexually abusing two other female prisoners, the Justice Department said.
Ray Garcia, 55, was the warden at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California. An Associated Press investigation revealed a culture of abuse and cover-ups that had persisted for years at the prison, a women-only facility called the “rape club” by many who know it.
The Justice Department announced a superseding indictment against Garcia on Tuesday charging him with a total of seven counts of sexually abusive conduct involving three female victims who were serving prison sentences at the federal prison in Dublin, California, and one count of making false statements to government agents.
The former warden, arrested last September, is accused of molesting an inmate as she tried to push him away. Garcia made her and another inmate strip naked as he did rounds and took pictures that were found on his personal laptop computer and government-issued cell phone when the FBI raided his office and home last summer, prosecutors said. The abuse happened on multiple occasions from December 2019 to March 2020 and ended when the pandemic exploded and women were locked in their cells, the Justice Department has said.
“If they’re undressing, I’ve already looked,” Garcia, 54, told the FBI in July 2021, according to court records. “I don’t, like, schedule a time like ‘you be undressed, and I’ll be there.’”
Garcia, who retired a month after his arrest, is also accused of using his authority to intimidate one of his victims, telling her that he was “close friends” with the person responsible for investigating staff misconduct and boasting that he could not be fired, prosecutors said.
Garcia pleaded not guilty to the initial charges against him, and his lawyer has declined the AP’s repeated requests for an interview. A message seeking comment was left with Garcia’s lawyer on Tuesday.
The new indictment also alleges that Garcia sexually abused two other female inmates between March 2020 and July 2021. The Justice Departments alleges Garcia touched the three women “in a sexual manner” and that he had “asked multiple inmates to undress for him at a specific time.”
The indictment alleges that he sexually abused one of the women in a prison bathroom next to a visitation room and in prison warehouse. Prosecutors say Garcia forced another woman to touch his genitals in the laundry room and grabbed the third woman’s buttocks in the prison’s electrical shop.
The indictment also alleges that Garcia lied to federal agents who asked him if he had ever asked inmates to undress for him or had inappropriately touched a female inmate.
Four other Dublin workers have been charged with sexual abuse of inmates since June 2021. Others include a food service foreman and a prison chaplain. Two of the arrested workers have pleaded guilty. One is scheduled to be sentenced next week.
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What is the best slide projector?
Slide projectors have been around for well over a century, providing the opportunity to take images and display them on a bigger screen for clearer viewing.
Photography and film technology have advanced exponentially since they were invented, and nearly all of our pictures and videos today are digitized and captured with smartphones. But there are a lot of slides, negatives and 35-millimeter film stored in basements and attics that can be meaningful to look at and even digitize into a permanent format for future use.
For its high-quality resolution and transportability, the Rybozen LED Illuminated 35 mm Slide Viewer is the best.
What to know before you buy a slide projector
What type of slides do you have?
There are many types of 35 mm slides. Most have a mount size of 2 by 2 inches, but they have different sizes of film transparency. Knowing the kind you have leads to the best projector for you.
- Standard 35 mm slides are 2 by 2 inches and have a transparency film size of 24 by 36 millimeters.
- Half frame 35 mm slides are 2 by 2 inches but have a transparency film size of 18 by 24 millimeters, nearly half of the standard size. It looks much smaller than a standard slide but is easily displayed.
- 126 slides are 2 by 2 inches with a square transparency of 28 x 28 millimeters.
- 127 slides are 2 by 2 inches with a square transparency of 40 x 40 millimeters and fills up the mount more completely than a 126 slide.
- 127 super slides are uncommon, but the transparency is the full 2 x 2 inches of the slide with just the slightest border.
- There also are 110 slides that have a tiny 13 by 17 millimeter transparency. They come in both 2 by 2 and 1 by 1 inch mount sizes.
What can be done with 35 mm films?
Some slide projectors have a built-in scanner that digitizes 35 mm film. The film negatives are fed into the scanner a few frames at a time. The scanner saves the scanned images to a file or computer.
What is the difference between DLP, LCD and LED?
There are three main projection technologies.
- Digital light processing projectors display sharp images and don’t require filters. They also have 3-dimensional capabilities and a lamp life of 2,000 to 5,000 hours.
- Liquid crystal display projectors are quieter, less expensive, offer excellent color display and have no moving parts. They are excellent for movies, but they require regular monitoring of the filter.
- Light-emitting diode projectors produce little heat, use less energy, have low maintenance costs and run up to 20,000 hours. They do not offer the same brightness as DLP and LCD projectors.
What to look for in a quality slide projector
Mounting cartridge
Some slide projectors have cartridges that store multiple slide mounts for viewing in succession. Others have a single-loaded mount for viewing slides one at a time.
Adapters
More expensive projectors that also have scanners come with adapters for different types of negatives and film. These adapters attach to the machine, then feed that specific kind of transparency.
Focusing lens
Slide projectors include a focusing lens in addition to the display lens. This lens fine-tunes the image. It is most helpful when projecting images on a screen or wall.
How much you can expect to spend on a slide projector
Inexpensive slide projectors, which are small, portable and display one slide at a time, cost $20-$40. Middle-range slide projectors cost around $40-$75 and include multi-slide cartridges and some digitization capabilities. Expensive slide projectors run $75-$200. These include adapters for multiple types of negatives and film; they can digitize the images into multiple formats.
Slide projector FAQ
Will a microfiber cloth clean old negatives?
A. No. Using a microfiber cloth seems like a safe way to clean off old slides, but using one can smear or scratch the transparency. This leaves the slide permanently marred.
Should I wear gloves to handle negatives?
A. Yes, because they keep your fingers from touching film transparencies. Fingerprints on the emulsion side of the film can be difficult to remove and even cause degradation.
What’s the best slide projector to buy?
Top slide projector
Rybozen LED Lighted Illuminated 35 mm Slide Viewer
What you need to know: This compact slide viewer displays high-quality resolution and can be transported anywhere.
What you’ll love: Featuring a premium glass lens and 2x magnification, your 35-millimeter slides are viewed without blurriness. The viewer weighs just over 7 ounces and is easily carried to and from your home or studio. It comes with two AA batteries.
What you should consider: Some reviewers said the battery compartment can be difficult to open.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top slide projector for the money
Porta Slide PS-E2 Illuminated Slide Viewer
What you need to know: This portable slide viewer is designed for both tabletop and handheld operation.
What you’ll love: It works with both 35 millimeter and 2- by 2-inch slides. Weighing less than 6 ounces, it’s is ideal for handheld use. It has a metal folding support for displaying on a table. It comes with two AA batteries and a limited one-year warranty.
What you should consider: Some consumers found the screen too small for viewing.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Kodak Scanza Digital Film and Slide Scanner
What you need to know: From a leading brand, this scanner and viewer converts negatives and slides to JPEG files.
What you’ll love: It features a 3.5-inch high definition color display with adjustable brightness. The file conversion takes seconds. Multiple adapters and film inserts are included. It is compatible with both MAC and PC.
What you should consider: The picture quality of converted files varied.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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CEDAR FALLS – Anne Myles will launch her new chapbook, “What Woman That Was: Poems for Mary Dyer,” on Thursday as the Final Thursday Reading Series begins season 22.
The event begins at 7 p.m. with a creative writing open mic at the Hearst Center Sculpture Garden. In the event of inclement weather, the event will take place in Mae Latta Hall.
The chapbook is a collection of poems both about and from the perspective of Mary Dyer, a 17th-century Quaker martyr who played a central role in the Antinomian controversy. Myles’ reading will begin at 7:30 p.m. It can be streamed live by signing up at https://uni.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lduivrj8oG92ZUeGvm7EjSIy9DKb8rkuZ.
Other Fall 2022 Final Thursday Reading Series events are scheduled to take place in Mae Latta Hall: Jim O’Loughlin, “The Cord,” Sept. 29; Gary Eller, “True North,” Oct. 27; Anesa Kajtazovic, “War Changes Everything: My Life Leaving Bosnia,” Nov. 17 (one week early due to Thanksgiving). Open mic begins at 7 p.m., followed by readings at 7 p.m.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 24, 2022
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...FLOOD WATCH IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Watch is cancelled for a portion of east Texas, including
the following counties, Angelina, Sabine and San Augustine.
The flooding threat has ended. Therefore, the Flood Watch is being
cancelled.
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Blue Light Allows Surgeons to See 5-ALA-induced Fluorescence of Glioblastoma During Resection
CENTER VALLEY, Pa., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Olympus announced today the availability of the Blue Light Imaging Mode (BL) with the ORBEYE™ 4K 3D exoscope system. The ORBEYE 4K 3D exoscope systems offers a blue light imaging mode that helps to distinguish tissues that have accumulated certain fluorophores from tissues that have not. The blue light LED provides high contrast and illumination for real-time dissection and is fully integrated into the system.
Recent research comparing the ORBEYE exoscope to conventional analog microscopes in visualizing tumors fluoresced with 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) showed that use of the ORBEYE exoscope was feasible and associated with a high positive predictive value for tumor removal.i
Glioblastoma is a complex, treatment-resistant cancer affecting more than 13,000 Americans each year. The five-year survival rate is only 6.8 percent, but more complete removal of the tumor makes a difference.ii The use of 5-ALA in glioma resection has been shown to improve patient survival.iii
"In our clinical study, we found that the sensitivity and specificity to 5-ALA fluorescence was, essentially, identical to what had been previously reported for conventional analog microscopes. On the other hand, we felt that the visualization of the tumor, both in white light and blue light, was superior," said Michael Vogelbaum, MD, PhD, Program Leader of NeuroOncology and Chief of Neurosurgery at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. "I rarely use an analog microscope anymore. I much prefer using the exoscope."
The ORBEYE exoscope is a video microscope that:
- Enables 3D view of tissue, blood vessels and other anatomical features
- Provides up to 26x magnification at a resolution that is four times greater than HD
- Displays on a 55-inch 4K-3D monitor with no latency
Viewing the anatomy in 3D, neurosurgeons may benefit from natural depth perception and high magnification that allows for visualization of critical neural and vascular structures and assists in the physician's ability to differentiate tissue.iv The ORBEYE exoscope also allows physicians to operate in a heads-up position rather than leaning over to look through a conventional surgical microscope. Operating in a heads-up posture may support the reduction of surgeon fatigue and facilitates team decision-making in the operating room.v
It is recommended to customize the ORBEYE exoscope to the needs of each specialty, with features such as Auto Focus, Near Infrared Imaging Capabilities, Blue Light Imaging Capabilities and more. Individual user profiles offer enhanced customization to detailed settings on the ORBEYE, the camera head and foot pedal. Near Infrared Imaging Capabilities are only available for neuro-vascular procedures in adult patients. The safety and effectiveness of using both Infrared and Blue Light imaging functions have not been evaluated during the same procedure. Do not use both Infrared imaging functionality and Blue Light imaging functionality during the same, single procedure.
For more information about the imaging capabilities of the ORBEYE™ exoscope, visit: medical.olympusamerica.com/products/orbeye/imaging-capabilities
About Olympus
Olympus is passionate about creating customer-driven solutions for the medical industry. For more than 100 years, Olympus has focused on making people's lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling by helping to detect, prevent, and treat disease and further scientific research.
As a leading medical technology company, Olympus uses innovative capabilities in medical technology, therapeutic intervention, and precision manufacturing to help healthcare professionals deliver diagnostic, therapeutic, and minimally invasive procedures to improve clinical outcomes, reduce overall costs, and enhance the quality of life for patients and their safety. Olympus' Medical portfolio includes endoscopes, laparoscopes, and video imaging systems, as well as surgical energy devices, system integration solutions, medical services, and a wide range of endotherapy instruments for endoscopic and therapeutic applications. For more information, visit https://medical.olympusamerica.com.
i Vogelbaum MA, Kroll D, Etame A, Tran N, Liu J, et al. A Prospective Validation Study of the First 3D Digital Exoscope for Visualization of 5-ALA-Induced Fluorescence in High-Grade Gliomas. World Neurosurg. 2021 May;149:e498-e503. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.01.147..
ii Glioblastoma Facts & Figures. Braintumor.org. Published 2021. Accessed April 13, 2022. https://braintumor.org/take-action/about-gbm/.
iii Mirza AB, Christodoulides I, Lavrador JP, Giamouriadis A, Vastani A, et al. 5-Aminolevulinic acid-guided resection improves the overall survival of patients with glioblastoma—a comparative cohort study of 343 patients. Neuro-Oncology Advances. 2021;3(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/noajnl/vdab047
iv Mungadi IA. Refinement on surgical technique: role of magnification. J Surg Tech Case Rep. 2010;2(1):1-2. doi:10.4103/2006-8808.63705
v Ahmad, F.I.; Mericli, A.F.; DeFazio, M.V.; Chang, E.I.; Hanasono, M.M.; Pederson, W.C.; Kaufman, M.; Selber, J.C. Application of the ORBEYE three-dimensional exoscope for microsurgical procedures. Microsurgery. 2020;40:468–472.
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Mario Batali settles 2 lawsuits alleging sexual assault
BOSTON (AP) — Mario Batali has agreed to settle two Massachusetts lawsuits that accused the celebrity chef of sexual assault, attorneys for the women said on Wednesday.
The decision to settle the cases comes more than two months after the former Food Network personality was cleared of a criminal charge stemming from accusations by one of the women, who prosecutors alleged aggressively kissed and groped her while taking a selfie at a downtown Boston bar in 2017.
“The matters have been resolved to the satisfaction of all parties. We cannot comment further due to confidentiality obligations,” attorneys for the two women, Eric Baum and Matthew Fogelman, said in an emailed statement.
An email seeking comment was sent Wednesday to Batali’s attorney.
The women alleged that Batali had sexually assaulted them on separate occasions. The accusations by one of the women led to the only criminal case against the prominent chef and restauranteur at the height of the #MeToo movement.
One woman testified in May about how she felt confused and powerless to do anything to stop Batali at the time.
But Batali was acquitted of indecent assault and battery after a Boston judge agreed with Batali’s lawyers that the accuser had credibility issues and that photos suggested the encounter was amicable.
Batali’s lawyers portrayed the accuser as a liar who was financially motivated because of her civil lawsuit brought against the chef in 2018.
If convicted, Batali faced up to 2 1/2 years in jail and would have been required to register as a sex offender.
The other woman — who sued Batali in 2019 — similarly alleged that Batali had groped and kissed her at a restaurant in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood in 2016.
Batali stepped down from day-to-day operations at his restaurant empire and left the since-discontinued ABC cooking show “The Chew” after the sexual misconduct allegations surfaced.
Last year, Batali, his business partner and their New York City restaurant company agreed to pay $600,000 to resolve a four-year investigation by the New York attorney general’s office into allegations that Batali and other staff sexually harassed employees.
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SEC questions Twitter on how it calculates number of fake accounts on its platform
U.S. securities regulators are questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission in June asked the company about its methodology for calculating the false or spam accounts and "the underlying judgments and assumptions used by management.”
The agency's Division of Corporation Finance made the request in a June 15 letter, shortly before Tesla CEO Elon Musk raised the issue as grounds to back out of a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion.
Such questions can be routine, and it wasn't clear whether the SEC has opened a formal investigation into Twitter's fake accounts. The SEC wouldn't comment Wednesday; Twitter didn't immediately reply to a request for comment.
The law firm Wilson Sonsini of Palo Alto, California, replied in a June 22 letter saying the company believes it adequately disclosed the methodology in its annual report filed for 2021.
The letter says that Twitter makes its estimates of false accounts with an internal review of sample accounts. The number of fake accounts "represent the average false or spam accounts in the samples during each monthly analysis period during a quarter," the letter said.
It added that fewer than 5% of Twitter's “Monetizable Daily Active Usage or Users,” or mDAU, were fake accounts in the fourth quarter of last year, the period that the SEC had questioned.
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The letter was disclosed in a filing posted by the SEC on Wednesday, a day after Twitter’s former head of security alleged that the company misled regulators about its poor cybersecurity defenses and its negligence in attempting to root out fake accounts that spread disinformation.
Peiter Zatko, who served as Twitter’s security chief until he was fired early this year, filed the whistleblower complaints last month with the SEC, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. The legal nonprofit Whistleblower Aid, which is working with Zatko, said he exhausted all attempts to get his concerns resolved inside the company before his firing in January.
Among Zatko’s most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users. Zatko also accuses the company of deceptions involving its handling of “spam” or fake accounts, an allegation that is at the core of Musk’s attempt to back out of the Twitter takeover.
Twitter said Tuesday that Zatko was fired for “ineffective leadership and poor performance” and said the “allegations and opportunistic timing appear designed to capture attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers and its shareholders.” The company called his complaint “a false narrative” that is “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context.”
Musk called off the sale in July, alleging that Twitter had failed to provide detailed methodology for calculating fake accounts. But Twitter sued in Delaware Chancery Court, asking a judge to order Musk to go through with the purchase.
Twitter has set Sept. 13 as the date for its shareholders to vote on the company’s pending buyout by Musk, and the board is recommending approval.
A trial on Twitter’s lawsuit is scheduled for October.
Musk agreed in April to buy Twitter and take it private, offering $54.20 a share and vowing to loosen the company’s policing of content and to root out fake accounts. As part of the deal, Musk and Twitter had agreed to pay the other a $1 billion breakup fee if either was responsible for the deal collapsing.
In its response, Twitter said that the review of fake accounts is done manually by humans who check thousands of them. The accounts are chosen randomly, and the employees use a complex set of rules “that define spam and platform manipulation.” An account is deemed to be false if it violates one or more of the rules, the letter said. The fake accounts go through a multi-step review and are investigated by multiple trained employees, it said.
The SEC also questioned Twitter’s disclosure that it overestimated the number of monetizable accounts from the first quarter of 2019 through the end of last year. The agency wrote that the error persisted for three years and asked why the company didn’t consider that a weakness in its financial reporting and controls.
In response, Twitter said the overstatement of accounts had no impact on its financial statements, and that the overstatement was less than 1% of its monetizable daily average users.
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GREEN BAY — Christian Watson just couldn’t do it. He looked too good, he felt too good.
The Green Bay Packers rookie wide receiver knew he wasn’t playing in last week’s preseason game against the New Orleans Saints at Lambeau Field. Just off the physically unable to perform list, Watson hadn’t even taken a full-speed 11-on-11 snap in practice yet.
The only reason head coach Matt LaFleur had him dress in full uniform and pads was so Watson could go through pregame warm-ups — another step in his comeback from the offseason knee surgery that had sidelined him for the first half of training camp.
That’s not unusual. After deciding not to risk quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the rest of his veteran starters in Thursday night’s preseason finale at Kansas City, LaFleur is still having the entire team go through pregame warm-ups at Arrowhead Stadium — Rodgers included.
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But once those warm-ups end, you won't be seeing No. 12 on the visitors’ bench still in his pads and full uniform. Most players change out of their uniform and into normal sideline apparel once they’re done with their workout.
Just not Watson.
“I left mine on,” Watson said, proudly. “I felt really good. I came in (to the locker room) and I talked to Coach LaFleur. I was like, ‘Should I take it off?’ He was like, ‘Nah, you look good. Just leave it on.’ (I said), ‘Yeah, I feel good too.’
“Obviously, it was my first time putting it on and getting to go out there. Even if he didn’t tell me to leave it on. I probably would’ve left it on anyways. It felt really good. It’s better than street clothes.”
Well, except for the cleats.
“The shoes were a little tough. I just got some new ones. I was breaking them in. So, my feet were hurting a little bit,” Watson said, still beaming. “Aside from that, I felt good.”
LaFleur wouldn’t commit to Watson playing against the Chiefs. He was a full-fledged participant in practice all week, though, and even if he’s lining up with backup quarterback Jordan Love instead of Rodgers, it'd be beneficial.
“We’ll see where he’s at,” LaFleur said Tuesday. “But if he’s able to go, he will go.”
Even if he doesn’t, Watson has been doing everything in his power to get up to speed. And the most important thing the 6-foot-5, 208-pound Watson has been doing is following Rodgers around every chance he gets — coming off the field after an offensive series, heading back from practice, in the locker room, anywhere he can track the four-time NFL MVP down.
“He asks a lot of questions. He cares about it,” Rodgers said. “He comes over and tries to be on the same page if anything happened — whether it was good, bad or indifferent. So I enjoy his approach.
“He’s got a different skill set. He’s a big body who can run. (We’ve) just got to get him a little more consistent tracking the ball down the field, but the thing that I’ve seen with him is just mentally, the improvement from day to day.”
Rodgers said during Sunday’s practice, he made an adjustment to the play in the huddle — one of his patented not-on-the-paper-version-of-the-offense changes — to test him.
“It’s something he’s never done before, and he went out and did it perfect,” Rodgers recounted. “It’s those little things like that that start to gain that trust and that confidence — and gets you excited about (him).”
The next day, however, Rodgers gave him another adjustment at the line of scrimmage with a hand signal, and Watson missed it.
Rodgers also has clearly been testing Watson in other ways. There have been a number of 11-on-11 snaps where Watson probably wasn’t the primary read in the progression, but Rodgers threw to him anyway. Whether it’s Watson’s route-running or pass-catching, Rodgers wants to make up for lost time by seeing what the kid’s got.
“I feel like I can lean on him and rely on him for a lot,” Watson said of his relationship with Rodgers. “Obviously being a rook, I have a lot to learn. Even (with) knowing the offense and knowing the installs, there’s a lot more outside of that.
“I’ve been able to lean on him and ask him questions and he’s been open, talking and getting the nuances down. I’m excited to continue to go back in there. Obviously getting the live reps with him helps.”
Watson admitted that despite his dedication to taking mental reps while reduced to spectator earlier in camp, he’s definitely in catch-up mode. While fellow rookie Romeo Doubs has been one of the stars of camp, he has had his own struggles with drops and mental errors — the mistakes that come with being in your first NFL season.
“With Christian, it’s just staying on him. He was out for so long, that’s tough mentally,” Rodgers said. “Regardless of whether he’s behind or not from a preparation standpoint, it’s just hard to not be able to practice out there. So it’s (about) being intentional with those guys about conversations, (on a) friendship level, and getting those guys to feel comfortable here.
“Because as much as we’re going to hold them accountable, this still is a tight-knit group and we want everybody to feel great about their role here, to feel great about their spot on the team — and those two as much as anybody.”
What’s realistic to expect from Watson this season, starting with the Sept. 11 opener at Minnesota, is hard to say.
The Packers need a down-the-field threat to take the top off opposing defenses the way Marquez Valdes-Scantling did the past four years. With a 4.36-second 40-yard dash time coming out of North Dakota State, Watson fits the bill.
For his part, Watson wants to do as much as the coaches will give him. He did struggle early in the week with his conditioning despite his cardio work while rehabbing his knee — “If I’m feeling 100% with the knee, it’s not going to help if I’m only able to do three plays and I’m gassed,” he admitted — but believes there’s plenty of time for getting into football shape.
While running extra sprints after practice will help with that, running after Rodgers after mistakes or after practices will be even more helpful.
“There’s going to be a lot of trial and error obviously with the young guys because we haven’t been here — ‘12’ has a lot of experience; we don’t,” Watson said. “I know we’re rookies, but he’s not going to treat us like rookies. When he’s disappointed in what you’re doing, you really learn from those things, when you can see it immediately after a play.
“I feel like I’m here for a reason. I feel like I have the capabilities to go out there and play really well in the NFL. I think getting those live reps in practice will be more than enough to be on the same page with ‘12.’ I think when the time comes for me to play, I’ll be ready.” | https://www.kenoshanews.com/watson-dressed-for-success/article_f718d100-23d4-11ed-8140-5f2335cb3557.html | 2022-08-24T19:25:33Z | https://www.kenoshanews.com/watson-dressed-for-success/article_f718d100-23d4-11ed-8140-5f2335cb3557.html | false |
PETALUMA, Calif. (KRON) – Police in California are investigating a “suspicious death” after a deceased woman, believed to have been dead for over a year, was found in her home with another woman claiming to be her daughter.
Officers with the Petaluma Police Department responded to the residence just before 11 a.m. on Tuesday, after neighbors said 20-30 packages had accumulated on the porch and no one was answering the door, according to a press release issued Tuesday.
The woman who lived in the home had “not been seen for several weeks,” either, according to police.
Officers eventually entered the home and found the dead woman in the living room. Police said she was in “the advanced stages of decomposition” and estimated that she had been dead for more than a year.
There was also an adult female in the home, who officers found in a bedroom. She claimed to be the dead woman’s daughter, telling officers that the deceased woman had died of natural causes in April 2021. The purported daughter was taken to a hospital for medical evaluation and treatment. Police also said the home they shared was “uninhabitable” based on its interior conditions.
The local coroner’s office has yet to confirm the woman’s cause of death. An investigation into the woman’s death is ongoing, but police said there were “no outstanding suspects or safety concerns in the neighborhood” as of Tuesday.
The Petaluma Police Department Investigations Team and members of the Crime Scene Investigations Team are investigating the death. Anyone with information is asked to contact PPD’s Daniel Boyd at dboyd@cityofpetaluma.org or by phone at 707-778-4334. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/woman-dead-for-over-a-year-found-in-home-with-woman-claiming-to-be-daughter/ | 2022-08-24T19:29:08Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/woman-dead-for-over-a-year-found-in-home-with-woman-claiming-to-be-daughter/ | false |
BINGHAMTON, NY (WIVT/WBGH) – The largest crowd in memory showed up for the annual Ukrainian Independence Day flag raising outside of Binghamton City Hall today.
Nearly 150 people turned out to mark the 31st anniversary of Ukraine’s independence following the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The celebration comes at a difficult time for local Ukrainian-Americans as Russia continues its war which began 6 months ago today.
In addition to the flag raising, today’s ceremony includes numerous speakers, including clergy from local Ukrainian Orthodox, Catholic and Pentecostal churches.
There is also music, prayers and gratitude expressed for the donation of relief supplies and money to support Ukrainian residents and refugees.
The crowd flew Ukrainian flags and many wore traditional Ukrainian clothing.
Binghamton Mayor Jared Kraham read a proclamation declaring today Ukrainian Independence Day in the city and pledging Binghamton’s continued support of Ukraine in its defense of its country.
Ukrainian Independence Day has been celebrated in Binghamton going back to 1950.
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GREENSBORO, N.C., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Volvo Trucks North America announced the culmination of the Volvo LIGHTS project – an innovative three-year project that brought together 14 public and private partners to design and implement a blueprint for the robust support ecosystem necessary to deploy battery-electric trucks and equipment at scale. During the project, which ran from 2019 to 2022 in California's South Coast Air Basin, Volvo Trucks deployed its first Class 8 pilot Volvo VNR Electric trucks to fleet operators to collect real-world operating data and customer feedback ahead of announcing its commercial model in December 2020.
"By working closely with an extraordinary group of public and private partners through the Volvo LIGHTS project, we were able to validate key processes around Class 8 battery-electric truck adoption for commercial transport segments and identify challenges that needed to be addressed for widespread market introduction," said Peter Voorhoeve, president, Volvo Trucks North America. "The most valuable takeaway for our team was really experiencing the value of close cross-functional and cross-organizational collaboration as we continue to drive innovation and develop new solutions for sustainable transport."
The Volvo LIGHTS project was led by Volvo Group North America and California's South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD), and included NFI Industries (NFI), Dependable Highway Express (DHE), TEC Equipment, Shell Recharge Solutions (formerly Greenlots), Port of Long Beach, Port of Los Angeles, Southern California Edison (SCE), CALSTART, University of California, Riverside CE-CERT, Reach Out, Rio Hondo College, and San Bernardino Valley College.
During the multi-year project, Volvo Group North America collaborated with each organization to develop programs and best practices that would help lay the foundation for the successful commercialization of battery-electric freight trucks, including but not limited to:
- Identifying ideal routes for electrification – Volvo Trucks deployed 30 Volvo VNR Electric trucks to 11 fleets to operate in their daily Southern California fleet routes to assess many factors that may impact vehicle range, including topography, ambient temperature, traffic patterns, driving styles, and more. The insights gained were informative as Volvo Trucks introduced the Electric Performance Generator (EPG), its route planning tool which enables fleet managers to simulate real-world routes for their VNR Electric trucks.
- Comprehensive dealer support - TEC Equipment, Volvo Trucks' largest West Coast dealership, provided uptime support to the fleet customers that leased VNR Electrics through the Volvo LIGHTS project. The hands-on experience gained during the project led to TEC Equipment Fontana becoming the nation's first Volvo Trucks Certified Electric Vehicle Dealer and spurring the rollout of certified dealerships across North America.
- Reliable and cost-effective charging infrastructure - Multiple project partners collaborated with Shell Recharge Solutions and SCE on the installation and energization of 58 networked public and private electric vehicle charging stations, identifying opportunities to streamline processes, shorten installation timelines, and refine existing laws related to allowing entities other than utilities to re-sell electricity for EV charging. SCE also conducted a site grid system impact study to help plans for supporting a future of fully electrified goods movement.
- Technician training programs - Rio Hondo College and San Bernardino Valley College both collaborated with Volvo Trucks to launch heavy-duty electric truck technician training programs, with a combined total of more than 45 graduates throughout the project.
- First responder training programs - Throughout the project, Reach Out, a local outreach organization worked with Volvo Trucks to keep community stakeholders informed about the project. This partnership helped facilitate the development of training materials for first responders to raise awareness about the high-voltage components on the Volvo VNR Electric and develop the first responder safety document that is now publicly available from the National Fire Protection Agency.
"This project shows how important it is for public and private entities to work together to bring zero-emission technologies and infrastructure to the nation," said Ben J. Benoit, Chair of South Coast AQMD's Governing Board. "Now that the project is coming to an end, we look forward to seeing these cleaner trucks on the road, and the impact they will have on air quality."
In recognition of the project team's leadership and tangible results achieved through Volvo LIGHTS, the project received several awards, including:
- 2020 Innovation Award - Breathe Southern California
- 2020 Blue Sky Award - CALSTART
- 2021 Climate Leadership Award - Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and The Climate Registry
- 2022 Innovation Clean Air Technology Award – South Coast Air Quality Management District
- 2022 Outstanding Achievement in Sustainability - Southern California Association of Governments
Together with the Volvo Group, Volvo Trucks hosted a Volvo LIGHTS Roundup on August 23 at the Ontario Convention Center in Southern California to share exclusive insights from Volvo LIGHTS project partners on how to successfully scale truck freight electrification. The Volvo LIGHTS Roundup featured off-site tours, speaker panels, and a display of Volvo VNR Electric trucks from project participants, including NFI, Penske Truck Leasing (Penske), Medline, Quality Custom Distribution (QCD), 10 Roads Express, Saia and SCE.
"Zero emission trucks work – as this project shows – and we need strong rules, in many states and federally, promoting them. This project shows that this technology can serve business and deliver protections that will benefit the health of our communities that need it the most," said Craig Segall, California Air Resources Board (CARB) deputy executive officer for mobile sources and incentives.
The Volvo LIGHTS project was made possible by a $44.8 million award to South Coast AQMD from the CARB as part of California Climate Investments (CCI), a statewide initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars toward reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving both public health and the environment. South Coast AQMD also contributed $4 million from its Clean Fuels Fund. Volvo Group and its partners contributed $43 million in matching funds for a total project of $91 million.
A Volvo LIGHTS Lessons Learned Guidebook was produced to documents key insights gained as the project partners designed and implemented innovative programs and technologies critical for the widescale success of battery-electric freight movement. To download the 22-page guidebook, Bringing Battery-Electric Freight Trucks to Market: From Demonstration to Commercialization, visit https://www.lightsproject.com/downloads.
To learn more about the Volvo LIGHTS project and to access photos, videos, and other resources, visit www.lightsproject.com
To learn more about Volvo Trucks North America and the Volvo VNR Electric, visit the company website.
For further information, please contact:
Kyle Zimmerman
Public Relations Manager, Volvo Trucks North America
kyle.zimmerman@volvo.com
(704) 677-9757
High-resolution images associated with this press release and others are available at www.volvomediabank.com.
Volvo Trucks North America, headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, is one of the leading heavy-duty truck manufacturers in North America. Its Uptime Services commitment is delivered by a network of nearly 400 authorized dealers across North America and the 24/7 Volvo Trucks Uptime Center. Every Volvo truck is assembled in the Volvo Trucks New River Valley manufacturing facility in Dublin, Virginia, which meets the internationally recognized ISO 9001 standard for quality, 14001 standard for environmental care and holds a dual ISO 50001/Superior Energy Performance certification at the platinum level, indicating a sustained excellence in energy management. Volvo Trucks North America provides complete transport solutions for its customers, offering a full range of diesel, alternative-fuel and all-electric vehicles, and is part of the Volvo Trucks global organization.
Volvo Trucks supplies complete transport solutions for discerning professional customers with its full range of medium- and heavy-duty trucks. Customer support is provided via a global network of dealers with 2,200 service points in about 130 countries. Volvo trucks are assembled in 13 countries across the globe. In 2021 approximately 123,000 Volvo trucks were delivered worldwide. Volvo Trucks is part of the Volvo Group, one of the world's leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment and marine and industrial engines. The group also provides complete solutions for financing and service. Volvo Trucks' work is based on the core values of quality, safety and environmental care.
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Police: Petaluma woman caught living with mother’s corpse for more than year
PETALUMA, Calif. - Police said they searched a woman's home during a welfare check and found she had been living with her mother's corpse, which had been dead for over a year.
The corpse was found in a home on the 200 block of Windsor Drive at about 11 a.m. on Tuesday. Officers saw more than 20 to 30 packages stacked up on the porch.
No one answered the door when the officers rang, and having heard concerns from the reporting party; officers decided to enter the house.
Police located the corpse in the living room and a second adult woman in a bedroom who claimed to be her daughter. Police said she had been dead for over a year.
The daughter said her mother died in April 2021. She was taken to a local hospital for evaluation, police said.
Petaluma Police Department investigators initiated an unattended death investigation due to the unknown nature of the woman's death.
A search warrant was obtained, and the house was scoured, police said. The home has been "red tagged" due to the uninhabitable condition of the residence's interior, according to KTVU.
Police said there were no further suspects or safety concerns for the neighborhood.
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(The Hill) – First lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 days after receiving a negative test in a “rebound” case of the virus.
The first lady tested negative on Tuesday before receiving the positive test result on an antigen test on Wednesday afternoon, her office said.
“The First Lady has experienced no reemergence of symptoms, and will remain in Delaware where she has reinitiated isolation procedures,” Kelsey Donohue, the deputy communications director for the first lady, said in a statement.
Biden first tested positive for COVID-19 eight days ago and was given the antiviral drug Paxlovid. She tested positive while on vacation with President Biden and their family in South Carolina. The first lady had mild symptoms and remained there until receiving a negative test, then joined the president in Delaware where he had continued his vacation.
Rebound cases can happen in patients who take Paxlovid when a patient tests negative for the virus, only to test positive again a few days later.
The president had a similar rebound case after taking Paxlovid for his own COVID-19 infection late last month. He remained in isolation for another week because of the rebound case. | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/first-lady-tests-positive-in-covid-19-rebound-case/ | 2022-08-24T19:39:39Z | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/first-lady-tests-positive-in-covid-19-rebound-case/ | false |
- Creatd Ventures closes acquisition of healthy breakfast brand, Brave, with 100% stake in the brand, the transaction will be immediately accretive to Creatd's revenues.
NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creatd, Inc. (Nasdaq CM: CRTD) ("Creatd" or the "Company"), the parent company of Creatd Ventures, a creator-first holding company, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Brave, a plant-based food company that provides convenient and healthy breakfast food products that don't compromise on taste and quality. With the close of the transaction, Creatd will officially recognize Brave's revenues in its consolidated financial statements, increasing the overall value of Creatd Ventures' portfolio. Creatd's acquisition of 100% ownership in Brave marks the fourth majority ownership acquisition for Creatd Ventures, the arm of the Company focused on scaling creator-led eCommerce brands.
Commented CEO of Creatd Ventures Thomas Punch, "This acquisition marks another exciting step towards the expansion of Creatd Ventures: Brave's health-oriented superfood breakfast mixes are a natural fit within our portfolio as a wellness-rooted brand with multiple opportunities to develop new and innovative SKUs and expand our product offerings for new and existing subscribers. Creatd Ventures has fully consolidated its supply chain and continues to expand both its online and brick-and-mortar distribution channels for all of its recurring-revenue-based brands."
About Creatd
Creatd, Inc. (Nasdaq CM: CRTD) is a creator-first technology holding company and the parent company of the Vocal platform. Our mission is to empower creators, entrepreneurs, and brands through technology and partnership. We accomplish this through Creatd's four business pillars: Creatd Labs, Creatd Partners, Creatd Ventures, and Creatd Studios.
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Vocal Platform: https://vocal.media;
Investor Relations Contact: ir@creatd.com
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Arboriculture in Transmission and Distribution (T&D) is the topic of a new podcast from Houston energy and utility services firm Iapetus Infrastructure Services featuring industry leaders
HOUSTON, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Iapetus Infrastructure Services recently launched the Trees & Lines podcast, sharing expert insights into the future of the utility vegetation management industry. The podcast is hosted by utility vegetation management (UVM) veteran and past executive director of the Utility Arborists Association, Dr. Phil Charlton, and Iapetus COO, Tejpal Singh. Iapetus Infrastructure Services (Iapetus, pronounced EYE-AP-I-TUHS) offers safety, environmental sustainability, and education in right-of-way (ROW) management services to utilities across the country, including to risk mitigation, inspections, safety, audits, and high-tech imaging and reporting. Iapetus companies currently service the world's largest utilities, as well as oil and gas and pipeline/midstream. Iapetus is an operating company of Iapetus Holdings, LLC, a Houston-based privately held portfolio of energy and utility services companies focused on energy sustainability, efficiency, reliability and safety.
Trees and Lines hosts a variety of leaders in UVM. To date, guests include Pam Rauch, VP of External and Government Affairs at NextEra Energy, Sara Sankowich, Director of Sustainability and Shared Services at Unitil, John Goodfellow, Principal at BioCompliance Consulting, Inc. and Lewis Payne, Manager of Rights-of-Way and Environmental Services for the New York Power Authority.
The Trees & Lines guests share deep experience in the electric and gas utility industries in both the private and public sectors. Several have held positions responsible for vegetation management and forestry, T&D operations, maintenance, and engineering as well as renewables and sustainability. The episodes also touch on the need to build the pipeline of diverse and qualified foresters and other professionals in numerous fields to keep up with the growing demand in this fascinating industry. Rauch has been part of the lead team that has pioneered many of the advances of the world's leading utility, NextEra Energy. Sankowich is currently serving as the president of the New England Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture, ISA. She has had an impact in expanding diversity and inclusion in the UVM industry. Goodfellow has been the principal researcher on several research and development projects focusing on the modes and causes of trees cause power interruptions. His work has led to better understanding and the risks of tree-initiated electrical faults on overhead electric distribution lines. Payne's motto is "managing vegetation with vegetation". He's an expert on innovative technology, research on biodiverse habitats and sustainability reporting.
According to Dr. Charlton, "This podcast intends to advocate for the highest standards in UVM and look out for what we should be planning for the future of this fascinating industry most people don't know about". Singh added, "The idea of inviting thought leaders in this space is what moved us to kick it off. We want to give a platform to the voices that are shaping the future of how we evolve integrated vegetation management with smarter approaches and technologies."
Charlton is a pioneer in the field of utility vegetation management (UVM). He graduated West Virginia University with BSF, MSF, and PhD degrees in Forest Science. His career spans over forty years, including a significant tenure as President of ECI (Environmental Consultants, Inc.) where he paved the way for hundreds of electrical companies to develop UVM programs for distribution line clearance and transmission right-of-way (ROW) management. Charlton developed the industry's first electronic system for performance analytics of external workforce management. He has also served on the Right-of-Way Stewardship Council and is an expert witness for UVM. During his ten-year tenure at the UAA, Charlton grew the association's financials and membership to over five thousand members.
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Woodside Energy and Bechtel start construction on project site
KARRATHA, Western Australia, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Construction has commenced on the Pluto Train 2 project, a key milestone supporting jobs and economic growth in Western Australia.
The Deputy Premier of Western Australia, the Hon. Roger Cook MLA, officially launched construction on the project at a ceremony in Karratha today.
Pluto Train 2 will be the second liquefied natural gas (LNG) train at Woodside Energy's (Woodside) existing Pluto LNG onshore facility and will process gas from the Scarborough development. The construction site for Pluto Train 2 is within the existing Pluto LNG boundary.
The Pluto Train 2 project will deliver significant economic benefits for Western Australia. Woodside, as operator of Pluto Train 2 and Scarborough, has made commitments to the Western Australian Government in its community development plans to support positive and sustainable community outcomes in the Pilbara region.
Bechtel will execute the engineering, procurement, and construction of Pluto Train 2, which will have an LNG capacity of about 5 million tonnes per annum. To continue to support Australia's domestic market, additional domestic gas infrastructure will be installed with capacity of about 225 terajoules per day, equivalent to keeping the lights on for a year in about 10,000 households.
Woodside CEO Meg O'Neill said the start of construction on Pluto Train 2 was a key milestone towards the delivery of the Scarborough Project, which would provide significant long-term economic growth and local employment opportunities for Western Australia and supply domestic and export markets for decades to come.
"Woodside is proud to build on the economic contribution that it has made over 35 years to communities in Western Australia.
"Many opportunities will be realised in WA, providing a boost to long-term investment in education and training, growing jobs and bringing work through the supply chain.
"Scarborough gas processed through an expanded and efficient Pluto facility will support the decarbonisation goals of our customers in Asia," she said.
The Pluto Train 2 Project will employ about 2,000 people at peak in 2024, with a large contingent of employees expected to be drawn from within Western Australia. Bechtel has already engaged a number of local and Indigenous businesses to support delivery, with more awards anticipated as the project progresses.
Bechtel Energy President Paul Marsden said Bechtel was pleased to start work on such an important project for the Asia-Pacific region.
"We are proud to do our part to invest in local communities and improve the quality of life where we work by creating jobs and opportunities, while also bringing greater energy security for the region," he said.
Bechtel has commenced site preparation, including office, crib hut, and other facility installation. Initial earthworks and activities in the laydown and storage areas will start up before the end of 2022.
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On 1 January 2022, Woodside Energy issued Full Notice to Proceed (FNTP) to Bechtel (Western Australia) Pty Ltd and Bechtel International, Inc (Bechtel) for the Pluto Train 2 Project Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) scope of work.
Woodside is the largest energy producer and the ninth largest company listed on the ASX, and Bechtel is excited to be working with this key customer to help meet the increasing global demand for LNG as a transitional energy source.
Woodside has a global portfolio and is recognised for its world-class capabilities as an integrated upstream supplier of energy.
Bechtel has commenced the full engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning scope to support delivery of the Pluto Train 2 Project, building on the ongoing construction of the temporary Construction Accommodation Village to accommodate the non-local construction workforce at the Gap Ridge Village site in Karratha.
Bechtel is a trusted engineering, construction and project management partner to industry and government. Since 1898, five generations of the Bechtel family have led the company through more than 25,000 projects on all seven continents. Bechtel has operated in Australia for 65 years in every Australian state and territory often delivering Australian or industry first in relation to size, scale, quality and impact.
Recruitment for Pluto Train 2 Project roles has now commenced. Registrations of Interest can be lodged on Bechtel's construction craft professional portal. All roles are also advertised on Bechtel's Job Portal.
Procurement activities have also commenced. Suppliers interested in the Pluto Train 2 Project are encouraged to email PlutoTrain2@bechtel.com.
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SEATTLE (AP) — An analysis of Washington State Ferries data shows ferries are running behind schedule this year more than they have in the past decade, with a consistent decline in on-time performance.
Ferries spokesperson Ian Sterling told The Seattle Times every summer, with 50% more passengers traveling by ferry, it is not unusual to see a dip in on-time performance from June to September.
But the delays are more pronounced this year and passengers on the Anacortes/San Juans route are particular problems, according to WSF data.
While this route usually records more delays than others, in June, nearly half of all sailings on this route ran behind schedule. The newspaper reports this is a 40 percentage-point gap from WSF’s target to run on time for 95% of trips.
WSF attributes the lower on-time performance to a staffing shortage and a higher number of passengers on busy routes.
On weekends, especially holiday weekends like Labor Day, passengers on popular tourist routes such as Anacortes/San Juans and Port Townsend/Coupeville are more likely to face delays on Thursday and Friday afternoon leaving the Seattle area and returning on Sunday and Monday afternoon.
As of July this year, WSF had a 6% decline in staffing since 2019, when it was running at full capacity. There is a shortage of more than 100 people in the agency.
Hires in the last month have brought the gap down to 4%. Still, it will be some time before the new hires are fully trained to help plug staffing shortages.
Currently WSF’s biggest staffing shortage is in the engine room — the department has 45 fewer engineers — a decline of over 10% from 2019, when it was operating at full capacity.
WSF’s slow replacement of its aging staff also extends to the deck crew, which is needed to run sailings. Since 2017, 66 captains and 24 mates have left WSF. Over 80% were retirements. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Washington-ferries-seeking-increased-delays-17395615.php | 2022-08-24T19:54:08Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Washington-ferries-seeking-increased-delays-17395615.php | false |
LA PORTE, Ind. — A La Porte police officer has resigned three days after being caught with his pants down in public while allegedly having sex with a woman in a parking lot outside of a bar in Northwest Indiana.
Brandon Wilkerson, 35, of Trail Creek has been charged with misdemeanor public indecency and misdemeanor public intoxication.
According to the police report, a Trail Creek police officer was patrolling near Decoy’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill in Michigan City on Aug. 12 at around 6:16 a.m. when he spotted a black pickup truck near the entrace of the bar with its door open.
As the officer drew closer, he noticed a man — later identified as Wilkerson — naked from the waist down, blue jeans around his ankles, standing in the open door of the pickup truck engaged in what appeared to be sexual intercourse with a woman. The officer noted both the bar and a 24-hour laundromat were in close proximity to where the truck was parked and Wilkerson was visible.
The Trail Creek officer reported recognizing Wilkerson as a La Porte police officer and noted the smell of alcohol on Wilkerson’s breath. After cuffing Wilkerson and giving him a breathalyzer test, Wilkerson’s blood alcohol level was revealed to be nearly twice the legal limit at .155%.
After being transported to La Porte County Jail, Wilkerson informed his arresting officer that he had a .380 caliber handgun in his boot.
La Porte Police Chief Paul Brettin told WSBT that Wilkerson had been off-duty and driving his own personal vehicle at the time of his arrest.
Wilkerson had been with the La Porte Police Department since Sept. 2013 and in June had even been recognized and given the “Medal of Distinguished Service” for safely disarming a man who had walked outside with a loaded rifle and pointed the weapon at officers.
According to the Northwest Indiana Times, Wilkerson resigned from his position with the La Porte Police Department three days after his arrest.
The Northwest Indiana Times also reported that the woman whom Wilkerson is accused of having intercourse with in a public space was also charged with public indecency three days after Wilkerson’s arrest.
According to the police report, the Trail Creek officer didn’t arrest the woman on Aug. 12 because he did not see her expose herself as he had with Wilkerson. | https://wgntv.com/northwest-indiana/northwest-indiana-officer-resigns-after-allegedly-caught-having-sex-in-parking-lot/ | 2022-08-24T20:03:24Z | https://wgntv.com/northwest-indiana/northwest-indiana-officer-resigns-after-allegedly-caught-having-sex-in-parking-lot/ | true |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces Wednesday launched a rocket attack on a train station in central Ukraine on the embattled country’s Independence Day, killing at least 15 people and wounding about 50, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after warning for days that Moscow might attempt “something particularly cruel” this week.
The lethal attack took place in Chaplyne, a town of about 3,500 people in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukrainian news agencies quoted Zelenskyy as telling the U.N. Security Council via video. The president’s office also reported that an 11-year-old child was killed by rocket fire in another part of the region.
Ukraine had been bracing for especially heavy attacks surrounding the national holiday that commemorates Ukraine’s declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Wednesday also marked the six-month point in the war.
Ahead of the holiday, Kyiv authorities banned large gatherings in the capital through Thursday for fear of missile strikes.
Residents of the capital, which has been largely spared in recent months, woke up Wednesday to air raid sirens, but no immediate strikes followed. As the day wore on, Russian bombardments were reported in the country’s east, west and central areas, with the most serious attack apparently at the train station.
Outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson marked the holiday with a visit to Kyiv — his third since the war broke out — and other European leaders used the occasion to pledge unwavering support for Ukraine, locked in a battle that was widely expected to be a lightning conquest by Moscow but has turned into a grinding war of attrition. The U.S. announced a major new military aid package totaling nearly $3 billion to help Ukrainian forces fight for years to come.
“Russian provocations and brutal strikes are a possibility,” Zelenskyy said in a statement before the train attack was reported. “Please strictly follow the safety rules. Please observe the curfew. Pay attention to the air sirens.”
Over the weekend, Zelenskyy likewise warned that Russia “may try to do something particularly nasty, something particularly cruel” this week.
Nevertheless, a festive atmosphere prevailed during the day at Kyiv’s Maidan square as thousands of residents posed for pictures next to burned-out Russian tanks put on display. Folk singers set up, and many revelers — ignoring the sirens — were out and about in traditionally embroidered dresses and shirts.
Others were fearful.
“I can’t sleep at night because of what I see and hear about what is being done in Ukraine,” said a retiree who gave only her first name, Tetyana, her voice shaking with emotion. “This is not a war. It is the destruction of the Ukrainian people.”
In a holiday message to the country, Zelenskyy exulted over Ukraine’s success in fending off Moscow’s forces since the invasion, saying: “On Feb. 24, we were told: You have no chance. On Aug. 24, we say: Happy Independence Day, Ukraine!”
Zelenskyy also addressed the U.N. Security Council over Russia’s objections, saying the “security of the entire world” is at stake in Ukraine’s battle against Moscow’s “insane aggression.”
U.S. President Joe Biden said the latest American aid package will allow Ukraine to acquire air defense and artillery systems and other weapons.
“I know this Independence Day is bittersweet for many Ukrainians as thousands have been killed or wounded, millions have been displaced from their homes, and so many others have fallen victim to Russian atrocities and attacks,” Biden said. “But six months of relentless attacks have only strengthened Ukrainians’ pride in themselves, in their country, and in their 31 years of independence.”
Britain’s Johnson urged Western allies to stand by Ukraine through the winter.
“This is not the time to put forward flimsy negotiating proposals,” he said. “You can’t negotiate with a bear when it’s eating your leg or with a street robber when he has you pinned to the floor.”
In Germany, Chancellor Olaf Scholz rebuked the Kremlin for its “backward imperialism” and declared that Ukraine “will drive away the dark shadow of war because it is strong and brave, because it has friends in Europe and all over the world.”
A car bombing outside Moscow that killed the 29-year-old daughter of right-wing Russian political theorist Alexander Dugin on Saturday also heightened fears that Russia might intensify attacks on Ukraine this week. Russian officials have blamed Ukraine for the death of Darya Dugina, a pro-Kremlin TV commentator. Ukraine has denied any involvement.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces have encountered unexpectedly stiff Ukrainian resistance in their invasion and abandoned their effort to storm the capital in the spring. The fighting has turned into a slog that has reduced neighborhoods to rubble and sent shock waves through the world economy.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, speaking Wednesday at a meeting of his counterparts from a security organization dominated by Russia and China, claimed the slow pace of Moscow’s military action was due to what he said was an effort to spare civilians.
Russian forces have repeatedly targeted civilian areas in cities, including hospitals and a Mariupol theater where hundreds of people were taking shelter.
But Shoigu said Russia is carrying out strikes with precision weapons against Ukrainian military targets, and “everything is done to avoid civilian casualties.”
“Undoubtedly, it slows down the pace of the offensive, but we do it deliberately,” he said.
He also criticized the U.S. and its allies for “continuing to pump weapons into Ukraine,” saying the aid is dragging out the conflict and increasing casualties.
On the battlefield, Russian forces struck several towns and villages in Donetsk province in the east over 24 hours, killing one person, authorities said. A building materials superstore in the city of Donetsk was hit by a shell and erupted in flames, the mayor said. There were no immediate reports of any injuries.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russians again shelled the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets, damaging several buildings and wounding people, authorities said. Russian troops also shelled the city of Zaporizhzhia, but no casualties were reported.
In addition, Russian rockets struck unspecified targets in the Khmelnytskyi region, about 300 kilometers (180 miles) west of Kyiv, the regional governor said. Attacks there have been infrequent.
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Varenytsia reported from Pokrovsk, Ukraine. Associated Press writers Hanna Arhirova in Kyiv and Lolita C. Baldor and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Sex offenders from across the state are making Marion County home. Marion County Sheriff Kerry Forestal says the state is making it easy for sex offenders to settle down here in the capitol city.
The sheriff says the number of sex offenders in the county has remained the same year-to-year. He blames the state for using Marion County as a dumping ground for sex offenders, saying that once they are released from prison, they come to Marion County for access to transportation and social services.
“It is a cool, nice area but there are perverts over here in this area,” said Tajuana Elliott, the mother of 10 children.
Three of her children were spending the morning with her at Brookside Park. Elliott says she has lived in the area for most of her adult life. Her younger children walk to school and she fears for their safety.
“I was just telling the school that my kids needed a bus because there are perverts in this area, child molesters,” said Elliot.
She is not wrong.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office told I-Team 8 that more than 30 registered sex offenders live within walking distance of Brookside Park. On Wednesday morning, deputies were looking for five registered sex offenders who had outstanding warrants and arrested one that was wanted on a rape charge.
“We still have way too many sex offenders in Marion County. There are 1,800 that are here. Over half of them have been sentenced from out-of-the-county or out-of-state,” said Sheriff Kerry Forestal.
Forestal says the access to social services, probation offices and other government services used by inmates recently released in Marion County.
“I’m not looking for the easy side of it. If they committed a crime in Tipton County or wherever else, then go back to that program up there,” Forestal said. “We have two people here from Idaho. Why did you come here from Idaho? Stay in Idaho.”
A month and half ago, a young girl was reported missing near 10th and Rural streets. The sheriff’s office maintains the sex offender registry and was asked by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department to help find the missing girl. During the investigation, deputies found 36 registered sex offenders were living in the area, which according to the sheriff, seemed like an unusually high number.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office is planning another sex offender round up in September. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/crime-watch-8/sheriff-state-makes-it-easy-for-sex-offenders-to-find-a-place-in-marion-county/ | 2022-08-24T20:04:41Z | https://www.wishtv.com/news/crime-watch-8/sheriff-state-makes-it-easy-for-sex-offenders-to-find-a-place-in-marion-county/ | false |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
5-1-9
(five, one, nine)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
5-1-9
(five, one, nine) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Day-game-17395666.php | 2022-08-24T20:04:42Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Day-game-17395666.php | false |
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — It has been 30 years since the historic landfall of Hurricane Andrew. On Aug. 24, 1992, the Category 5 hurricane came ashore in the pre-dawn hours in south Florida with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph. Andrew is one of only four Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S. since 1900.
The catastrophic storm destroyed approximately 49,000 homes and damaged an additional 108,000, according to NWS Miami. In total, it is estimated the damage was $26 billion. At the time, Hurricane Andrew was the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, but that would later be surpassed by Hurricane Katrina 13 years later.
Hurricane Andrew reached peak intensity with maximum sustained at 170 mph before striking the Bahamas in the days prior. After moving through South Florida, the storm re-emerged in the Gulf of Mexico and eventually made landfall once again in a sparsely populated part of Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane on Aug. 26. The storm as a whole directly caused 26 fatalities. | https://www.wishtv.com/weather/weather-stories/30th-anniversary-of-hurricane-andrew-making-landfall/ | 2022-08-24T20:05:27Z | https://www.wishtv.com/weather/weather-stories/30th-anniversary-of-hurricane-andrew-making-landfall/ | false |
NEW YORK (AP) — Two-time major champion and former No. 1 Victoria Azarenka was dropped Wednesday from a pre-U.S. Open exhibition event raising money for humanitarian assistance in Ukraine.
Azarenka is from Belarus, which helped Russia launch its invasion of Ukraine in February. At least one Ukrainian tennis player, Marta Kostyuk, questioned having a Belarusian player participate in the U.S. Tennis Association’s “Tennis Plays for Peace Exhibition,” scheduled for Wednesday night in Louis Armstrong Stadium at Flushing Meadows.
The USTA issued a statement Wednesday, saying: “In the last 24 hours, after careful consideration and dialogue with all parties involved, Victoria Azarenka will not be participating … this evening. Vika is a strong player leader and we appreciate her willingness to participate. Given the sensitivities to Ukrainian players, and the ongoing conflict, we believe this is the right course of action for us.”
Azarenka and all players representing Russia or Belarus were banned from entering Wimbledon — which was held in June and July — because of the invasion of Ukraine. The USTA announced in June that it would allow those athletes to compete in the U.S. Open.
Azarenka won the Australian Open in 2012 and 2013, and was the runner-up at the U.S. Open in 2012, 2013 and 2020.
Rafael Nadal, Coco Gauff, Carlos Alcarez, Iga Swiatek and Leylah Fernandez were among the other players set to participate in Wednesday’s event, with 100% of proceeds from sales of $25 and $50 tickets going to an international nonprofit organization.
It is part of the USTA’s effort to raise at least $2 million to benefit Ukraine by the end of the U.S. Open, which starts Monday.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
2-6-0-5, WB: 3
(two, six, zero, five; WB: three)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
2-6-0-5, WB: 3
(two, six, zero, five; WB: three) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Day-game-17395529.php | 2022-08-24T20:06:29Z | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Day-game-17395529.php | true |
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas teenager pleaded not guilty as an adult Wednesday to 10 felony charges including attempted murder and sexual assault stemming from an after-school attack on a teacher in April, court officials and his attorney said.
The boy was ruled competent to face trial and was indicted in August also on kidnapping and battery by strangulation charges in the attack that police said left the female teacher unconsciousness at Eldorado High School.
The then 16-year-old was arrested later that day while the teacher was hospitalized with multiple unspecified injuries.
The Associated Press is not naming the teen due to his age. He remains jailed on $500,000 bail pending trial, defense attorney Paul Adras said. He could face up to life in prison if he is convicted.
Adras said he will withdraw from the case, and Clark County District Judge Kathleen Delaney set a Sept. 7 date to appoint a public defender.
The attack at the campus serving about 2,000 students came amid a sharp rise in end-of-school-year violence in the sprawling Clark County School District — the nation’s fifth-largest with more than 300,000 students and about 336 schools.
District police Lt. Bryan Zink said Wednesday there have been few on-campus reports of fights or violence during the first 12 days of the new school year. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Teen-arraigned-as-adult-in-Vegas-schoolteacher-17395697.php | 2022-08-24T20:09:19Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Teen-arraigned-as-adult-in-Vegas-schoolteacher-17395697.php | false |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 24, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
215 PM CDT Wed Aug 24 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south central Texas, including the following
counties, Bandera, Medina and Uvalde.
* WHEN...Until 515 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Dangerous flows over low-water crossings.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 215 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Bandera, Tarpley, Hill Country State Natural Area, Bandera
Falls, Lakehills, Pipe Creek, Utopia and Lake Medina Shores.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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Six top tips revealed for stress free car travel with children
Google searches for "family road trip tips" are up 100 per cent since this time last year, as more family travel happens post pandemic!
Many of us know what it’s like when we have a car full of children and everryone is screaming and shouting and the car journey we are on is anything but stress free.
We begin to think if it is worthwhile trying to organise a trip out with the family or whether we should just give up and not bother at all.
However, all is not lost and a few useful tips should make the journey less stressful.
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To help families, the experts at The Edit by Silver Cross have put together some family travel tips.
Hamish McPhillips, Head of Car Safety at Silver Cross and dad of two, gives his tips for stress free car travel.
The summer holidays can be a busy time for parents, and it’s when most families get to go on holiday. Google search data has shown searches for “family road trip tips” are up 100 per cent year on year, as UK families keen for a summer break seek all the tips they can get!
Whether it’s in the UK or abroad, a trip in the car is often inevitable and when you have children, the seemingly simple process of a taking a drive can become a chore.
To help parents feel more prepared, The Edit by Silver Cross caught up with the brand’s head of Car Safety Hamish McPhillips, who shared his top tips for car journeys with children to ensure your holiday or even a day out goes as smoothly as possible.
Top Tips on Stress Free Car Travel
1. Route planning. Check, check and check again!
There’s nothing worse than traffic jams when you have children in the car and searches for “free driving route planner” are up 300 per cent compared to last year and “plan a drive google maps” up 200 per cent, showing many are anxious to be prepared before setting out on a long trip this summer.
“With kids growing hungry, tired or fidgety, the car can quickly become a very stressful place to be!” says Hamish.
“To avoid extending the journey more than it needs to be, I regularly check our route several days before we plan to travel using Google Maps or other online mapping software. It’s worth doing a final check just before you leave to avoid getting caught up in any recent traffic.”
2. Plan for the worst
Even if you do all the checking in the world, you can’t always prevent delays or breakdowns when travelling so “make sure you pack plenty of blankets to keep the little ones warm, spare clothes, snacks, drinks, nappies and toys to keep them entertained”, Hamish advises. “Make sure you have all the breakdown cover numbers in your phonebook including account numbers so you can make that call for assistance if needed.”
3. Timing
When travelling with children, timings are key. “I always aim to travel around the little ones’ naptime or bedtime, depending on the length of the journey”, says Hamish. “If arriving late to stay with friends or relatives, make them aware you’ll be arriving with sleepy children. Dimming the house lights on your arrival means you can get the children into bed without the stress of them waking up uncomfortable in their new environment.”
4. Pack the car correctly
To a degree, having a stress-free trip relies on you embracing the unpredictability and going with the flow. However, making sure you make a list of essential items can really help. “When possible, I pack the day before, loading the car carefully so all the bedtime essentials such as the travel cot, mattress, bedding and baby monitor are first to hand when arriving. Also, make sure all items you need along the journey such as snacks, water, dummies and favourite comforters are close to hand and reachable”, says Hamish.
5. Take regular breaks
“As yet, there is no published research confirming exactly how long you can keep a little one in a car seat for. However, health care professionals suggest a maximum of two hours for babies, getting them out of the seat in between to stretch and have a feed if needed”, Hamish says. “Ensure you make regular checks during the journey, particularly for newborns and babies younger than six months. A car seat mirror can be installed to help you keep an eye on them.”
6. Know Your Car Seat
Car seat safety is another important thing to remember when travelling by car with little ones. “If you’re switching car seats into a different vehicle before the journey, take an extra moment to check it’s secured correctly – the ISOFIX is latched, the support leg connected or the top tether secure (different fittings depend on the car seat model)” says Hamish. “Don’t put the child in the seat wearing thick jackets as this will limit the tightness of the harness due to the padding, making them less secure in the seat. Instead, use layers of blankets. Check you know how to recline the seat, as you may want to do this during the journey to maximise comfort as the little one is sleeping. Also, if the seat has been installed in the same car for a while, it is good practice just to check the fitting is OK - removing and refitting is a good way to ensure everything is correct and secure.” | https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/lifestyle/outdoors/six-top-tips-revealed-for-stress-free-car-travel-with-children-3818420 | 2022-08-24T20:09:29Z | https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/lifestyle/outdoors/six-top-tips-revealed-for-stress-free-car-travel-with-children-3818420 | false |
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WFO LAKE CHARLES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 25, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WATCH
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
240 PM CDT Wed Aug 24 2022
...FLOOD WATCH NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.
* WHERE...Portions of Louisiana and southeast Texas, including the
following areas and parishes, in Louisiana, Acadia, Allen,
Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis,
Rapides, St. Landry and Vernon. In southeast Texas, Hardin,
Jefferson, Northern Jasper, Northern Newton, Orange, Southern
Jasper, Southern Newton and Tyler.
* WHEN...Through Thursday evening.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Abundant moisture and upper level disturbances moving across
the region will continue to produce waves of showers and
storms. Some storms could produce very heavy rainfall,
leading to flooding in some locations.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood
Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared
to take action should flooding develop.
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(The Hill) — Authorities say they are investigating a 911 call that claimed a shooting was taking place at Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R) home early Wednesday morning.
The Rome Police Department said in a statement that officers responded to a 911 call at 1:03 a.m. claiming an individual was shot multiple times at Greene’s house.
“She assured the officers there was no issue, and the call was determined to be a false call commonly known as ‘swatting,’” the statement read.
Officials said they received a second call from the suspect, who was using a computer-generated voice, saying they were upset about Greene’s view on transgender youth rights.
The lawmaker has been an outspoken opponent of transgender rights and last week introduced a bill to make gender-affirming care a felony.
The Rome Police Department said they are investigating the incident alongside the U.S. Capitol Police. Capitol Police did not immediately return a request for comment.
Greene first revealed the incident in a tweet on Wednesday morning.
“Last night, I was swatted just after 1 am,” she tweeted. “I can’t express enough gratitude to my local law enforcement here in Rome, Floyd County. More details to come.”
When asked for further comment, Greene’s office called it a “political attack.”
“Right now, Congresswoman Greene’s safety is our number one concern,” her office said in a statement. “Late last night, she was a victim of a political attack on her family and home. Whoever who committed this violent crime will face the full extent of the law.”
Kandiss Taylor, a Georgia Republican who received 3.4 percent of the vote in the state’s May gubernatorial primary, also said she was swatted last month. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/police-investigating-swatting-call-directed-at-marjorie-taylor-greenes-home/ | 2022-08-24T20:16:16Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/police-investigating-swatting-call-directed-at-marjorie-taylor-greenes-home/ | false |
State Sen. Jason Brodeur of Lake Mary clobbered newcomer Denali Charres of Longwood to win the Republican primary for Senate District 10 with 85% of the vote, while state Rep. Geraldine Thompson won a Democrats-only race to take Senate District 15.
Also, several candidates for the state House fought tough races to move forward in November.
Brodeur will face off against Democrat Joy Goff-Marcil of Maitland, a member of the state House, to represent the newly drawn district.
“Tonight we celebrate, and tomorrow the work begins to contrast my proven record of delivering for the hardworking people of Central Florida with my opponent’s failure to pass a single bill,” Brodeur said in a news release.
Brodeur’s 2020 race was central to the “ghost candidate” scandal. Charres said the scandal was part of the reason she decided to challenge Brodeur.
Three people were charged in connection with the investigation, including Ben Paris, Brodeur’s former employee at the Seminole Chamber of Commerce. He has pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge.
In another important Central Florida Senate race, state Rep. Kamia Brown, 41, squared off against Thompson, 73, for District 15. Both live in Ocoee and represent parts of the Senate district left vacant by Sen. Randolph Bracy when he decided to run for U.S. Rep. Val Demings’ congressional seat after she chose to run for U.S. Senate.
With 96% of the ballots counted, Thompson had 52.8% of the vote to Brown’s 47.2%.
Since they were the only two candidates to file for the seat, the primary was open to all registered voters in the district, regardless of party affiliation.
They took swipes at each other’s record during the campaign and touted their own. Brown said she pushed for tough changes that helped people while Thompson endorsed easier-to-pass road-naming bills.
Brown said she’d push for incentives for developers to build more units beyond what can be offered by local governments. Thompson said the state should consider restricting the number of properties out-of-state firms purchase in an area or implement a tax to make such a purchase prohibitive.
House races
Several Central Florida House races also determined who would be moving forward to the general elections.
In District 37, Susan Plasencia, the sister of former Rep. Rene “Coach P” Plasencia, easily beat entrepreneur Kristopher Stark 74.2% to 24.8% with 84% of the votes counted. She will challenge Democrat Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith in November.
Political Pulse
Plasencia had an edge over Stark, given her brother’s legislative connections. She had the financial support of the Florida House Republican Campaign and the Republican Party of Florida as well as endorsement from incoming House Speaker Paul Renner.
In District 36, Rachel Plakon, wife of term-limited Rep. Scott Plakon, faced seasoned politico and self-described maverick Orange County Deputy Sheriff Rich Santos, and gun-rights advocate and newcomer Angelique Perry. Plakon got 65.3% of the vote, Santos got 28.2%, and Perry got 6.4%.
Longtime community advocate Deborah Poulalion beat U.S. Army veteran Rodenay Joseph, 70% to 30%, with 77% of the votes in for the Democrats.
In District 42, Republicans David Dwyer, a public insurance adjuster, and Bonnie Jackson, an international lawyer, vied for the chance to run against Democrat Rep. Anna Eskamani. Jackson beat Dwyer 53.7% to 46.3%.
In District 41, Rep. Travaris McCurdy was challenged by veteran politico Bruce Antone and two other Democrats to face a Green Party candidate in the fall. McCurdy and Antone were in a very tight race separated by about 100 votes, with Antone ahead 29.5% to 28.3%.
In District 39, political insiders Randy Ross and Charles Hart lost to Apopka Vice Mayor Doug Bankson for the GOP nomination to take on Democrat Tiffany Hughes in November. Bankson won with 53% of the vote.
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BRENHAM, Texas, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It all began in the kitchen because togetherness naturally centers around food. It started in a kitchen in 1982 when quality ingredients were blended into beloved recipes for salad dressing and Del Sol Food Company, manufacturers of BRIANNAS Fine Salad Dressing, was born. This year the company celebrates its 40th anniversary.
Located in Brenham, Tex., BRIANNAS is the number one premium salad dressing brand in the United States. BRIANNAS produces three salad dressing lines including Home Style, Organic and Avocado Oil. With a manufacturing facility and global distribution center, BRIANNAS maintains their commitment to using only the finest ingredients and an unwavering dedication to quality.
"For 40 years, BRIANNAS has been committed to producing high quality products, and we are proud to celebrate this achievement," said Scott Eckert, president, and CEO of BRIANNAS. "Through booms, recessions and, more recently, a global pandemic, BRIANNAS has stood the test of time simply because we have consistently made delicious salad dressings."
For a limited time, BRIANNAS will be commemorating their anniversary with special edition packaging on their top five Home Style flavors, including the best-selling Rich Poppy Seed, Blush Wine Vinaigrette, Asiago Caesar, Real French Vinaigrette, and New American Creamy Balsamic. Products with the special packaging are on store shelves now for a limited time.
For more information, including history, where to purchase BRIANNAS dressings, and recipe inspiration, visit www.BRIANNAS.com. Follow BRIANNAS social media pages for the latest news and flavor information.
Since 1982, BRIANNAS premium salad dressings have served retailers and distributors throughout the US and the world. Produced in Brenham, Texas, the gourmet dressings continue to grow in popularity among consumers who value great tasting food made in small batches with premium ingredients. BRIANNAS produces 16 home style flavors, 5 organic dressings, and 3 with avocado oil. None of the dressings contain high-fructose corn syrup or trans fats, 22 are gluten-free, 17 are certified Kosher and five, GMO-free.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Anne Heche will be laid to rest at a storied Los Angeles cemetery alongside many Hollywood luminaries, her family said Tuesday.
Heche was cremated and her ashes will be placed in a mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery at a later date.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Heche’s son Homer Laffoon said he and her other son Atlas Tupper “are convinced our Mom would love the site we have chosen for her; it’s beautiful, serene and she will be among her Hollywood peers.”
The details were released nearly two weeks after she was declared dead at a hospital from injuries suffered in a fiery car crash.
The cemetery has in recent years become a cultural hub for film screenings, musical performances and festivals.
Laffoon went to see the band My Morning Jacket there after his mother’s death, with tickets bought before she died. He loved the vibrancy of the location, and took it as a sign that her grave should be there.
“Hollywood Forever is a living place,” Laffoon’s statement said.
A small private memorial will be held once Heche’s headstone is etched.
“She was our Mom, but the kindness and the outpouring of the past few days reminded us that she also belongs to her fans, to the entertainment community, and now, to the ages,” the statement said.
Founded in 1899 and located near the Paramount Pictures lot, the cemetery is home to the graves and tombs of actors including Judy Garland and Douglas Fairbanks, and of musicians including Chris Cornell and Johnny Ramone.
Heche’s spot in the mausoleum will be in the cemetery’s Garden of Legends is near that of Mickey Rooney, and faces a lake where Burt Reynolds’ remains were recently relocated.
Heche, 53, was among the biggest film stars of the late 1990s, starring opposite actors including Johnny Depp and Harrison Ford, and had worked consistently in movies and television for more than three decades. But personal turmoil, which she described in a memoir and interviews, often followed her.
On Aug. 5, her car jumped a curb and smashed into a West Los Angeles home. Both the car and the home burst into flames. She was declared brain dead on Aug. 11, and was kept alive on life support for three more days so her organs could be donated.
Her death was ruled an accident, and the cause were inhalation injuries and burns, according to the Los Angeles County coroner.
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So close, yet so high: drug trips and brushes with death reduce fear of dying
Participants in a major study felt their experiences were ‘personally meaningful and spiritually significant’
24 August 2022 - 22:01
The fear of death tends to drop among people who have had near-death or similar extraordinary experiences and those who have had psychedelic drug experiences, a new study comparing both groups has found...
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Mhlakwana has come a long way since his legs turned to jelly at 2019 Comrades
This may be Nkosikhona Mhlakwana’s first down run, but he has the skill, speed and pedigree to win the fabled race
Nkosikhona Mhlakwana has come a long way since that dreadful Sunday in June 2019 when his legs gave up on him as he was approaching the Comrades Marathon finish line at Scottsville Racecourse in Pietermaritzburg. Then, running in the red and white colours of Maxed Elite, novice Mhlakwana lost out on a top 10 finish, having been in ninth spot before he crumbled to the ground — allowing Entsika Athletic Club’s duo of Gordon Lesetedi and Siya Mqambeli to overtake him...
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- This cohort of 9 new startups marks a key milestone in ZEBOX America's development in a wide range of industries, technologies, and product types.
- Officially inaugurated in April 2022, ZEBOX America already comprises 17 startups.
ARLINGTON, Va, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International startup incubator and accelerator ZEBOX America today announced a new cohort of 9 startups, marking a key milestone as the tech hub works to reimagine and revitalize the North American supply chain, logistics, mobility and Industry 4.0 sectors.
Initiated in 2018 by Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and CEO of the CMA CGM Group, a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, ZEBOX has supported in less than 4 years more than 85 startups, building successful businesses that have raised tens of millions of dollars in venture funding and created significant numbers of new high-skilled jobs. The newly announced cohorts of startups will benefit from the connections and industry expertise of ZEBOX's corporate partners, which include BNSF Railway, Cargomatic, CEVA Logistics, EDRAY, Ingram Industries, project44, the Port of Virginia, TRAC Intermodal, and RoadOne.
- BasicBlock, a freight-factoring app that simplifies payment for drivers and carriers.
- DriverFly, a digital job board connecting drivers with better opportunities;
- Haul, an employment solution for truck-less freight drivers;
- HeroWear, a lightweight spring-powered exoskeleton to support worker health;
- SiteTrax.io, a platform for tracking containers in real-time;
- Splice, a low-code platform for integration of the full logistics ecosystem.
- Tag-N-Trac, a breakthrough in wireless supply chain traceability and visibility;
- Voxel, an AI-powered solution for curbing operational risk and managing workplace safety;
- WARP, a middle-mile freight network to optimize shipping;
Through these partnerships, portfolio startups receive access to co-development programs, enabling faster and more market-attuned product development for emerging companies. Portfolio startups also benefit from exclusive access to ZEBOX's pool of top-flight angel investors and venture capitalists, as well as the accelerator's fast-growing international network of talented professionals in sales and marketing, engineering and operations.
The selected startups represent the cutting edge in logistics, mobility, transportation and supply chain innovation. Following a rigorous application process led by a seasoned selection committee, these startups represent a wide range of industries, technologies and product types to join the ZEBOX America program. They join ZEBOX America's founding cohort of 8 startups, selected in early 2022, many of which have already secured significant venture funding, investments, and industry partnerships.
"Selecting and welcoming new startups is one of the most exciting and important tasks we undertake at ZEBOX and it's something we take incredibly seriously," said Charley Dehoney, Vice President of ZEBOX America. "The new cohorts of startups have been through a rigorous selection process and they've proven their ability to unlock new technologies and propel the logistics and supply chain space in important new directions. In partnership with top industry leaders from across the world, I'm confident that our North America headquarters will continue raising the bar for innovation."
ZEBOX is a global incubator and accelerator dedicated to fostering innovation by forging compelling collaborations between early-stage startups and corporate stakeholders. Founded in 2018 by Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and CEO of CMA CGM Group, a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, ZEBOX enables the supply chain of the future by focusing on two key segments: Transportation/logistics and Industry 4.0. ZEBOX accelerates digitalization, automation, and sustainability by harnessing new technologies including AI, IoT, Big Data, and robotics.
ZEBOX is building a diverse ecosystem bringing together stakeholders including corporate partners, entrepreneurs, early-stage startups, and a wide range of professional services providers.
Launched in February 2021, ZEBOX America is led by Charley Dehoney, a veteran entrepreneur and recognized transportation, supply chain, and logistics technology expert.
To learn more about ZEBOX and its programs, please visit www.ze-box.io/en/.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Years late and billions over budget, NASA’s new moon rocket makes its debut next week in a high-stakes test flight before astronauts get on top.
The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket will attempt to send an empty crew capsule into a far-flung lunar orbit, 50 years after NASA’s famed Apollo moonshots.
If all goes well, astronauts could strap in as soon as 2024 for a lap around the moon, with NASA aiming to land two people on the lunar surface by the end of 2025.
Liftoff is set for Monday morning from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
The six-week test flight is risky and could be cut short if something fails, NASA officials warn.
“We’re going to stress it and test it. We’re going make it do things that we would never do with a crew on it in order to try to make it as safe as possible,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The retired founder of George Washington University’s space policy institute said a lot is riding on this trial run. Spiraling costs and long gaps between missions will make for a tough comeback if things go south, he noted.
“It is supposed to be the first step in a sustained program of human exploration of the moon, Mars, and beyond,” said John Logsdon. “Will the United States have the will to push forward in the face of a major malfunction?”
The price tag for this single mission: more than $4 billion. Add everything up since the program’s inception a decade ago until a 2025 lunar landing, and there’s even more sticker shock: $93 billion.
Here’s a rundown of the first flight of the Artemis program, named after Apollo’s mythological twin sister.
ROCKET POWER
The new rocket is shorter and slimmer than the Saturn V rockets that hurled 24 Apollo astronauts to the moon a half-century ago. But it’s mightier, packing 8.8 million pounds (4 million kilograms) of thrust. It’s called the Space Launch System rocket, SLS for short, but a less clunky name is under discussion, according to Nelson. Unlike the streamlined Saturn V, the new rocket has a pair of strap-on boosters refashioned from NASA’s space shuttles. The boosters will peel away after two minutes, just like the shuttle boosters did, but won’t be fished from the Atlantic for reuse. The core stage will keep firing before separating and crashing into the Pacific in pieces. Two hours after liftoff, an upper stage will send the capsule, Orion, racing toward the moon.
MOONSHIP
NASA’s high-tech, automated Orion capsule is named after the constellation, among the night sky’s brightest. At 11 feet (3 meters) tall, it’s roomier than Apollo’s capsule, seating four astronauts instead of three. For this test flight, a full-size dummy in an orange flight suit will occupy the commander’s seat, rigged with vibration and acceleration sensors. Two other mannequins made of material simulating human tissue — heads and female torsos, but no limbs — will measure cosmic radiation, one of the biggest risks of spaceflight. One torso is testing a protective vest from Israel. Unlike the rocket, Orion has launched before, making two laps around Earth in 2014. This time, the European Space Agency’s service module will be attached for propulsion and solar power via four wings.
FLIGHT PLAN
Orion’s flight is supposed to last six weeks from its Florida liftoff to Pacific splashdown, twice as long as astronaut trips in order to tax the systems. It will take nearly a week to reach the moon, 240,000 miles (386,000 kilometers) away. After whipping closely around the moon, the capsule will enter a distant orbit with a far point of 38,000 miles (61,000 kilometers). That will put Orion 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) from Earth, farther than Apollo. The big test comes at mission’s end, as Orion hits the atmosphere at 25,000 mph (40,000 kph) on its way to a splashdown in the Pacific. The heat shield uses the same material as the Apollo capsules to withstand reentry temperatures of 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,750 degrees Celsius). But the advanced design anticipates the faster, hotter returns by future Mars crews.
HITCHHIKERS
Besides three test dummies, the flight has a slew of stowaways for deep space research. Ten shoebox-size satellites will pop off once Orion is hurtling toward the moon. The problem is these so-called CubeSats were installed in the rocket a year ago, and the batteries for half of them couldn’t be recharged as the launch kept getting delayed. NASA expects some to fail, given the low-cost, high-risk nature of these mini satellites. The radiation-measuring CubeSats should be OK. Also in the clear: a solar sail demo targeting an asteroid. In a back-to-the-future salute, Orion will carry a few slivers of moon rocks collected by Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in 1969, and a bolt from one of their rocket engines, salvaged from the sea a decade ago. Aldrin isn’t attending the launch, according to NASA, but three of his former colleagues will be there: Apollo 7’s Walter Cunningham, Apollo 10’s Tom Stafford and Apollo 17’s Harrison Schmitt, the next-to-last man to walk on the moon.
APOLLO VS. ARTEMIS
More than 50 years later, Apollo still stands as NASA’s greatest achievement. Using 1960s technology, NASA took just eight years to go from launching its first astronaut, Alan Shepard, and landing Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon. By contrast, Artemis already has dragged on for more than a decade, despite building on the short-lived moon exploration program Constellation. Twelve Apollo astronauts walked on the moon from 1969 through 1972, staying no longer than three days at a time. For Artemis, NASA will be drawing from a diverse astronaut pool currently numbering 42 and is extending the time crews will spend on the moon to at least a week. The goal is to create a long-term lunar presence that will grease the skids for sending people to Mars. NASA’s Nelson, promises to announce the first Artemis moon crews once Orion is back on Earth.
WHAT’S NEXT
There’s a lot more to be done before astronauts step on the moon again. A second test flight will send four astronauts around the moon and back, perhaps as early as 2024. A year or so later, NASA aims to send another four up, with two of them touching down at the lunar south pole. Orion doesn’t come with its own lunar lander like the Apollo spacecraft did, so NASA has hired Elon Musk’s SpaceX to provide its Starship spacecraft for the first Artemis moon landing. Two other private companies are developing moonwalking suits. The sci-fi-looking Starship would link up with Orion at the moon and take a pair of astronauts to the surface and back to the capsule for the ride home. So far, Starship has only soared six miles (10 kilometers). Musk wants to launch Starship around Earth on SpaceX’s Super Heavy Booster before attempting a moon landing without a crew. One hitch: Starship will need a fill-up at an Earth-orbiting fuel depot, before heading to the moon.
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Jennifer Flavin, left, and Sylvester Stallone arrive at the Los Angeles premiere of "47 Meters Down: Uncaged" at the Regency Village Theatre on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019. Stallone says he and his wife Jennifer Flavin are "amicably and privately" divorcing.
Sylvester Stallone says he and his wife Jennifer Flavin are "amicably and privately" divorcing.
"I love my family. We are amicably and privately addressing these personal issues," Stallone said in a statement to CNN.
Flavin filed her petition in Palm Beach County, Florida on Friday, "for dissolution of marriage and other relief," according to People. The two wed in 1997.
"While we will no longer be married, I will always cherish the more than 30-year relationship that we shared, and I know we are both committed to our beautiful daughters," Flavin told the publication. "I ask for privacy for our family as we amicably move forward."
The two recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. They share three daughters together, Scarlet, 20, Sistine, 24, and Sophia, 25.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — North Texas’ home of the Dallas Cowboys will be playing host to a food festival that says it’s going to be smoking over 30,000 pounds of meat, count us all the way in!
AT&T Stadium will be the home of Q BBQ Fest in early November this fall. “The Q BBQ Fest is coming to Texas! Join us at the Miller Lite®House at AT&T Stadium on November 4-6, 2022. Don’t miss this chance to grab an ice-cold brew and sample pure smoked bliss from award-winning pitmasters from across the country.”
Tickets are set to go on sale at 10 a.m. on August 26th with entry prices at $15 with free parking. BBQ, drinks, and more will be available to purchase on-site. Doesn’t peak your interest? Check this out, you can purchase an all you can eat and drink Q Pit Pass!
The fest says, “Your Q Pit Pass gets you in any of our four exclusive Q Pit Lounges along Pit Row where you’ll enjoy 2.5 hours of:
- All you can eat BBQ
- Free signature cocktails, beer and soft drinks
- No waiting”
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Want to change your life, but utterly overwhelmed?
Satisfaction with UK living standards are the lowest they’ve been since 2014, a survey by Which? has revealed, with low incomes and soaring living costs playing a major role.
People are yearning for change post-pandemic too. More than a third of Brits are planning radical life changes ‘after the worst two years of their life’, according to a poll by StoryTerrace (storyterrace.com).
As the old adage goes, a change can be as good as a rest – but when you’re exhausted, unsure, and worried about bills, overwhelm can easily set in. So, where do you start?
Break it down
“When we sit and look at everything that’s not going well for us, it can feel totally overwhelming, knowing where to start feels almost impossible,” acknowledges life and career coach, Natalie Trice (natalietrice.co.uk). “Think about the times you’ve created massive resolutions to bring in the New Year – by doing that, you are putting even more pressure and stress on yourself, and it’s the same at the moment.
“Try to break things down into the various elements of your life and see where you are with each one. Using a simply wheel of life exercise, you can see how satisfied you are at work, with your health, your relationship, friends and family, as well as time to relax. In many cases, we find one or two things are OK but the rest could be really lacking – and then it’s a little like trying to drive a car with three flat tyres.”
Tackle one thing at a time
As Trice says: “You are only one person. Rather than trying to rebuild everything in your life, look at one thing that could make a difference and help get you back on track. Maybe talk to your manager about more flexible working, ask your partner for more support with the kids, or download an app and schedule a workout every day. Doing nothing keeps us stuck where we are, so doing one small thing will get us on the path to change.”
What’s really draining your energy right now?
It’s easy to fall into a rut, getting more and more drained. A new job or more money might be the goal – but looking at what’s going on ‘around’ those things could really help. “This is so important,” says Trice. “You can’t just put on a pair of trainers and run a marathon: this takes times, planning, training and dedication, and even that can be a challenge.
Michael Agyei, life coach and CEO of Inside Job Academy (michaelagyei.com), adds that it’s human nature to get to one goal, and then quickly want to move towards another: “This is why maintaining a balanced life and enjoying life around the goal is important for your mental health and wellbeing. Having time to relax will make you a more rounded individual.”
Become a budgeting pro
Money is such a big stressor right now and plays a huge part in feeling stuck and anxious. Alongside the big stuff (seeking help with debts and bills and seeing what support you might be eligible for if you are really struggling), the power of getting a sense of control over your finances cannot be underestimated.
“Having better money habits and working on your own personal finance journey – be it budgeting or saving – can help ease financial worries, provide clarity on what’s important to you financially (and where to prioritise in terms of saving AND spending money) and overall bring greater financial confidence when it comes to making decisions,” says ‘Personal Finance Cheerleader’ Jessie Leong, who shares relatable budgeting tips on her Instagram page @howifundthis.
“While we often find tackling our finances to be daunting and overwhelming to begin with, it’s often really empowering to have that sense of direction, control and understanding.”
Find your purpose
“Understanding what you stand for and what you want and need from work and home is the foundation to living a meaningful life,” says coach Ayesha Murray (ayeshamurray.com). “You can start by looking at these four areas (taken from the Japanese Ikigai model) to find those things that tick more than one of the boxes: What do you love? What are you good at? What brings you joy? What can you be paid for?”
Agyei agrees a sense of purpose is huge. “It gives meaning to why you are doing what you are doing and guides and sustains you. Even when you have setbacks and everything seems to be turning upside-down, a sense of purpose gives you stability and a sense of direction,” says Agyei. “It is also foundational to improving your overall wellbeing, because without a sense of purpose, you often don’t feel much fulfilment in life.”
Don’t worry if you’re unsure what that sense of purpose is for you. To help identify it, Agyei suggests trying mindfulness meditation, journaling (see what’s coming through as important for you), exploring your passions and getting clear on your gifts and strengths.
It might also help to consider “the people you love and admire the most, and think back to the best and most painful times in your life” – what might this tell you about your values and drives?
Do more of what brings you joy
Too much stress and graft is a recipe for burnout. Plus, it might take a long time to reach big goals – could we enjoy the journey a little more? “It sounds simple, but most of us don’t spend enough time doing what we love,” says Murray.
“We put our needs at the bottom of the list, allowing family, home and work commitments to take over. But we have to put on our own oxygen mask first before helping others. Once you’ve thought about what brings you real joy, decide on the first small step to make it happen and commit to doing that tomorrow.”
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If American states are laboratories of democracy, they’re also laboratories of democratic decay. North Carolina — close to the median state by party vote share — is offering a grim lesson in how polarization can lead to the partisan nullification of democratic outcomes. This time, it’s Democrats striking while they have the chance.
There’s no violent mob involved in North Carolina’s election nullification; the process is far more respectable than that. Last Friday, a four-justice Democratic majority on North Carolina’s Supreme Court (justices in the state are elected in partisan contests) invented a new constitutional theory that could allow for the invalidation of two Republican-supported constitutional amendments that passed in 2018.
Both amendments were approved by the requisite 60 percent of the state legislature. One, a voter-identification measure, was then ratified by voters with more than 55 percent of the state’s popular vote; another, a limit on the state’s top income-tax rate, was ratified with more than 57 percent support.
How could amendments passed according to the process prescribed in the North Carolina Constitution violate that same constitution? North Carolina’s Supreme Court majority claims in NAACP v. Moore that because the state legislature was gerrymandered in 2011, it likely lacked the authority to submit one or both amendments to voters. Legislators “can only exercise the sovereign power that the people have transmitted to the legislature if they validly hold legislative office,” the majority says.
But North Carolina’s legislators did validly hold their offices. A federal lawsuit filed in 2015 established that the state impermissibly took race into account in redistricting, with the U.S. Supreme Court weighing in twice (in 2017 and 2018). The resulting remedy was to put in place new district lines for the 2018 elections. The elections for representatives in the 2011 districts were never invalidated, and North Carolina officials “hold their positions,” the state constitution says, “until their successors are chosen and qualified.”
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 1962 redistricting case, wrote that “a legislature, though elected under an unfair apportionment scheme, is nonetheless a legislature empowered to act.” North Carolina’s liberal justices are creating a novel exception — that legislatures adjudicated to contain gerrymanders can pass ordinary legislation, but not advance certain constitutional amendments.
This is an arbitrary distinction with extraordinary implications. “The door has been opened,” the three-justice dissent notes, “for judicial dissolution of legislative authority in the future.” Gerrymandering has been a feature of American politics since the founding. What other laws, in North Carolina or elsewhere, might be called into question if lawyers can excavate a role for redistricting mischief in their passage?
If governors or presidents misbehave, they can be voted out of office — and if legislatures are gerrymandered, they can be redrawn. But Americans need to have confidence that the institutions that govern them do so legitimately. The certification of elections is an important process because it confers authority on elected officials.
Confidence in that authority is declining as Donald Trump attacks Joe Biden’s election and progressives denigrate the Constitution as undemocratic. Now partisan judges in a key swing state have announced that legislatures elected under the rules in place when votes were cast may be retroactively deemed to not have been real legislatures at all. We don’t want to keep pulling on this thread.
The events in North Carolina show the complexity of majority rule in America’s federal system. Some progressives celebrated the result of Kansas’s 59 percent vote to maintain abortion rights, but worried that in certain states, gerrymandering will prevent the “true” will of the people from being expressed. Maybe so, but in North Carolina, the voting and tax measures were subject to an up-or-down plebiscite. They won convincing victories even in a strong Democratic election year.
So who is frustrating small-d democracy in America’s ninth-most-populous state: the 170-member legislature, which put the measures on the ballot, or the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court, which may set the results aside? The answer should be clear to everyone involved.
One of the most unshakable convictions of intellectuals in Washington and the academy is that any “backsliding” of America’s democratic political system is the product of Republican norm-breaking and radicalism. But there is rarely only one mover in the dialectic process of polarization, as North Carolina’s experience shows.
At the beginning of the last decade, the legislature drew district lines aggressively to give the GOP an advantage, and in 2016 it tried to limit the powers of the incoming Democratic governor, Roy Cooper. The Democratic court’s latest usurpation of the legislature is best understood as another partisan escalation that is straining the foundations of state government.
As Princeton’s Keith E. Whittington notes, the dissent “practically begged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn this case.” But Democrats might lose their one-vote majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court in November’s election, and a Republican-controlled court could reverse the decision. Pressure is building in American democracy’s North Carolina “laboratory” — but Washington, rather than stepping into the breach, may be wiser to step back and let the experiment proceed. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/24/north-carolina-supreme-court-overreach/ | 2022-08-24T20:31:09Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/24/north-carolina-supreme-court-overreach/ | false |
Packers have new look as Rodgers continues Super Bowl chase
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will try to earn his elusive second Super Bowl berth without many of the guys who helped him earn MVP honors each of the last two seasons.
Two-time All-Pro receiver Davante Adams is now in Las Vegas. Former offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett is in Denver as the Broncos´ head coach. Former quarterbacks coach Luke Getsy is now the Chicago Bears´ offensive coordinator.
All those changes will make it tough for the Packers to post the NFC´s best regular-season record for a third straight year. Rodgers looks forward to the challenge.
He´s helped by the return of Tom Clements, who is back as quarterbacks coach after filling the same role during the Packers´ 2010 championship season. That season remains Rodgers´ lone Super Bowl appearance.
"It´s adjustments every single year, but happy for those guys and where they´re at," Rodgers said of the staff changes. "I definitely miss their friendship, but the guys who have taken those spots have done a really nice job."
Replacing Adams could prove much tougher.
Green Bay Packers' Aaron Rodgers runs a drill before an NFL football joint practice session with the New Orleans Saints Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
The Packers restocked their receiving corps by drafting Christian Watson in the second round, Romeo Doubs in the fourth and Samori Toure in the seventh.
When the young receivers were making mistakes in training camp, Rodgers and the veteran wideouts met with them to note what´s expected of them.
"This is the way that we do things here," veteran wideout Randall Cobb said. "It´s either you deal with it or you get out of the room and we´ll find somebody else that´s going to get on board with what we´re trying to accomplish."
The Packers also have concerns on the offensive line as David Bakhtiari and Elgton Jenkins return from knee injuries. Bakhtiari has appeared in only one game since tearing his left anterior cruciate ligament on Dec. 31, 2020.
If the Packers get the production they want at receiver and on the offensive line, they again should boast one of the NFC´s top teams.
"There´s enough talent in that room, no doubt about it," general manager Brian Gutekunst said. "Not every team can probably say that, but this team can. But they´re going to have to come together and be a team."
DANGEROUS DEFENSE
The Packers ranked ninth in total defense and tied for 13th in scoring defense last year but ought to fare even better this year.
They added two first-round picks to their defense by selecting former Georgia teammates Quay Walker at linebacker and Devonte Wyatt at defensive tackle. They also brought in veteran free agent lineman Jarran Reed and completed long-term deals with All-Pro linebacker De´Vondre Campbell and cornerback Rasul Douglas.
"I´m loving every piece of the defense," outside linebacker Rashan Gary said. "I´m loving how we´re jelling together and holding each other to that standard."
SEARCHING ON SPECIAL TEAMS
The Packers hired former Las Vegas Raiders interim head coach and longtime special teams coach Rich Bisaccia to upgrade a special teams unit that ranked as the NFL´s worst last season according to Football Outsiders efficiency metrics.
Green Bay gave up a 59-yard kickoff return, had 12 men on the field for one punt return and had 10 men on the field for another punt return in its second preseason game.
DYNAMIC DJUO
Aaron Jones and A.J. Dillon should give Green Bay one of the league´s top running back tandems.
Dillon rushed for 803 yards and five touchdowns and caught 34 passes for 313 yards and two more scores last year. Jones ran for 799 yards and four touchdowns and had 52 receptions for 391 yards and six scores.
Rodgers believes both could catch 50 passes this season.
"Last year, we wanted to get the ball in 17´s hands in space anywhere," Rodgers said in reference to Adams. "This year, 33 (Jones) and 28 (Dillon) are going to get a lot more opportunities."
OFFENSIVE LINE ISSUES
Jenkins and Bakhtiari were recently removed from the physically unable to perform list, raising hope they could be ready early in the season.
The Packers´ starting offensive line for their first two preseason games had Yosh Nijman at left tackle, Jon Runyan Jr. at left guard, Josh Myers at center, Jake Hanson at right guard and Royce Newman at right tackle.
STAFF CHANGES
The Packers promoted offensive line coach Adam Stenavich to replace Hackett as offensive coordinator. Luke Butkus took over for Stenavich as offensive line coach. Butkus, the nephew of Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus, was the Packers´ assistant offensive line coach from 2019-21.
Jason Rebrovich was hired as outside linebackers coach once Mike Smith left to join the Minnesota Vikings´ staff. John Dunn was promoted from senior analyst to tight ends coach after Justin Outten departed to become Hackett´s offensive coordinator in Denver.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Radiance Technologies (Radiance) and the Independence Bowl Foundation are proud to introduce the 2022-2023 Radiance Technologies Innovation Bowl.
The Radiance Technologies Innovation Bowl is an academic competition between schools and conferences affiliated with the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl. Schools compete for a $25,000 grand prize by developing innovative approaches to a current research and development topic selected by Radiance. This year's topic is, "How Can GEOSPATIAL Intelligence Data be Used to Monitor, Assess, and Predict the Impact of Climate Change."
Evaluation of submissions is a two-step process where teams submit their ideas and approaches to Radiance Technologies prior to the end of the fall term. Scientists and researchers within Radiance Technologies will pick three finalists, announced at the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl. These teams will then further develop their ideas in the spring semester through prototypes, models and simulation or experimentation and present their findings in person to a panel of experts. From these live presentations, a winning team will be selected and awarded the $25,000 grand prize.
For more information, please visit radiancetech.com/innovationbowl.
About Radiance Technologies:
Radiance Technologies is an employee-owned small business prime contractor founded in 1999. Radiance has over 1000 employee-owners across the United States serving the Department of Defense, national intelligence community and other government agencies. From concepts to capabilities, Radiance leads the way in developing customer-focused solutions in the areas of cyber security, systems engineering, prototyping and integration as well as operational and strategic intelligence including scientific and technical intelligence.
About the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl:
Established in 1976, the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl is the nation's 11th-oldest bowl game, and the 46th edition will be played on the afternoon of Friday, December 23, 2022. The projected match is between Army West Point and a team form the American Athletic Conference. The Independence Bowl Foundation is prevalent in the Shreveport-Bossier City area throughout the year, hosting events to help enhance the economic impact and growth of their community. The Mission of the Independence Bowl is to attract and provide quality, nationally recognized football competition oriented to the Ark-La-Tex region.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rainbow Realty Group, LLC ("Rainbow") and its affiliates announced closing a loan cross-collateralized by 9 properties in Sacramento, CA. At the properties there are 13 tenants, of which 12 are licensed cannabis operators. License-types include: 3 operating dispensaries, 2 dispensaries in development, 2 cultivators, 2 manufacturers, 2 delivery businesses, and a microbusiness.
Funds from this transaction will be used for improvements at the properties as the tenants continue to invest in their operations. Per the city of Sacramento there was $820,400,000 of legal cannabis sales in 2021, an increase of 78.6% over 2020. The 5 dispensaries within the collateral represent 12.5% of the total 40 licenses awarded in Sacramento.
Kyle Shenfeld, President of Rainbow, remarked: "We are pleased to close this transaction and support the burgeoning Sacramento cannabis market. The properties within the portfolio – a blend of retail, industrial, and office – have inherent non-cannabis use cases. We have high regard for our borrower, who holds the lead market share in Sacramento."
About Rainbow Realty Group
Rainbow Realty Group and its affiliates are real estate companies focused on retail, industrial and greenhouse properties with cannabis companies in the United States. Rainbow offers sale-leaseback and mortgage financing with a portfolio consisting of 50 properties across 8 states. Rainbow's parent co, Gould Investors L.P., has been in the real estate industry for 60+ years. Gould is a significant shareholder of NYSE:BRT and NYSE:OLP. For additional information please visit: https://rainbowrg.com/.
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Space Camp Explores Many Extraordinary Throws in Fall Launch
TORONTO, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A ground-breaking new PFP NFT called Throwing Dude Space Camp (TDSC) is launching in the Fall. 10,000 NFTs will be available. TDSC features next level art, astonishing rarity, and a ground-breaking road map. Click here to join the waitlist.
Gyro Plasmic (pseudonym), Founder of TDSC says; "From football to disc golf, to boomerangs, to baseballs and even galaxies; Throwing Dudes Space Camp, creates 10,000 unique and different profile avatars that all express the joy of all the different kinds throwing and the joy of being a throwing dude. As an expression of the creatively inspired life; Space Camp is the place where our Dudes get together from around the universe to hone their craft and have a lot of fun doing it. Adding to this joy, some of our dudes even have little dude buddies." https://throwingdudespacecamp.com/
We will also achieve greater rarity through the processes of constraining and information is randomly included with our Dudes. With over 75 throwing objects, rarity is deeper versus the other PFP NFT projects. In addition, we discovered how to create different gender identities within our universe of Dudes. Our Throwing Dudes will be he/him. She/her, and they/them. Join our waitlist.
No matter your skill level, or where you come from in our universe, Throwing Dude Space Camp galactically celebrates the comradery of Space Camp and throwing. Join our waitlist.
Since our Dudes are from across our Universe, some of their capabilities go well beyond just throwing earthly objects. Click for TDSC waitlist.
We are in it for the long haul and as TDCS gets resourced through revenue, we plan to introduce benefits to the Throwing Dude Space Camp membership, which may include: our 57 planets digital art reveal, exclusive member merchandise, space camping festival under our aurora borealis, release of space camp song anthem and more. TDSC will push the boundaries of what is possible for an avatar profile NFT.
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Myanmar nationals in Australia face passport limbo as calls for sanctions against military junta grow
By Erin HandleyWhen Nwayoo — not her real name — got a letter from the Department of Home Affairs asking her to explain why her passport was invalid, her heart sank.
Key points:
- The Myanmar embassy in Australia is loyal to the military junta, which overthrew the government last year
- Some Myanmar nationals have had passports cancelled and fear renewing the documents could put their families at risk
- New MP Zoe Daniel is the latest voice calling for targeted sanctions against the regime
Her passport had been revoked by the Myanmar embassy in Australia.
It was because she opposed a brutal military coup in her homeland, after the army overthrew the democratically-elected government on February 1 last year.
Since then, the military junta (also called the Tatmadaw) has revoked the passports of dozens of high-profile opponents to their regime and some have had their citizenship cancelled.
The embassy in Australia has also been accused of intimidation after sending out letters demanding individuals pledge allegiance to the junta and condemn the civil disobedience movement opposing the coup.
In the past 18 months, the South-East Asian nation has descended into chaos — the junta has executed political prisoners and stands accused of burning villages and torture.
More than 15,000 have been arrested since the coup and more than 2,230 have been killed by the junta, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.
Without a valid passport, Nwayoo feared she would be sent back to the conflict-riddled nation.
Home Affairs told her they had received "unfavourable information" from her embassy and that her passport was declared void, giving her 28 days to offer an explanation.
"If they do not accept my explanation, I will have to go back," she said.
"If I go back to my country, firstly, at the airport, they will arrest me. And they will also arrest my family."
The Australian office of the National Unity Government (NUG) — a group of elected civilian MPs, ethnic group leaders and anti-coup protesters formed after the coup — wrote a letter vouching for her predicament and a handful of others.
But some find themselves in the precarious situation of having a valid visa — meaning they can legally stay in Australia — but without a valid passport.
'I don't want to play a dangerous game'
Many Myanmar passports have not been cancelled but are on the verge of expiring — a number that will only increase as more time passes.
Myanmar citizen Prudence — not her real name — told the ABC she feared going to the embassy to renew her passports.
She was concerned the extensive information she would be required to hand over — the names of relatives and their addresses — could expose and endanger her loved ones.
"I don't want to play a very risky game with them. They are very dangerous," Prudence said.
"If I go to the embassy, they're going to check my details. If they found out [the whereabouts] of my family back home, there's going to be a problem.
"They cannot do anything to me, but they might do [something] to my family."
Prudence and Nwayoo wanted to speak out about what's happening in Myanmar and the issues facing the diaspora, but spoke to the ABC on the condition of anonymity due to fears for the safety of their families.
The NUG's Australian representative Dr Tun-Aung Shwe said he wanted to work with Australia's Home Affairs and Immigration departments to find a more permanent solution to his office writing letters on a case-by-case basis.
"We need the Department of Home Affairs and Ministry of Immigration's thorough consideration to resolve this problem," he said.
"Now they [the embassy] are using the passport issue as a tool to repress the Myanmar citizens, even if they are in Australia."
The Myanmar embassy in Australia told the ABC this was "misinformation" and the office continues to renew and issue passports as quickly as possible.
'Without ID, we are nobody here'
Not having a valid passport — the key identity document for international residents in Australia — has caused some logistical headaches in everyday life, too.
It has complicated work and housing options — some said that not having a valid passport left prospective employers unable to check their visa status on the website Vevo, meaning they might be overlooked in favour of other candidates.
Youth activist Lisa Mon said even the simple task of picking up a parcel from the post office was difficult without a passport.
"Without ID, we are nobody here," she said.
Some are unable to reach 100 points of identification required for many government services, or found it was a barrier when applying for rental properties.
"I was trying to get [other] ID, like a driver's licence. But the problem is, I can't get ID without ID," Prudence said.
Some said there was also a lack of understanding about why they could not simply go to their embassy to renew their passports.
A person who is recognised as a refugee can apply to DFAT for a "convention travel document", which can be used as ID or for international travel.
Those who are not refugees might be eligible for a certificate of identity from DFAT.
Dr Shwe and other activists also hope the Australian government will recognise the NUG as the legitimate government of Myanmar over the junta.
So far, only the Czech Republic has taken that step.
In May, Australia moved to downgrade diplomatic ties with Myanmar in the wake of the coup by not appointing a new ambassador, and instead appointing a head of mission called a Charge D'Affaires.
If the NUG was to be recognised, Dr Shwe hoped that would empower his newly-opened office to issue passports or other official documents, giving Myanmar nationals here more certainty.
The ABC approached the departments of Home Affairs and Immigration for comment.
In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said they encourage Myanmar nationals to consult with Home Affairs on visa options.
"Australia has a longstanding policy of recognising states, not governments," DFAT said.
"We appreciate the importance of understanding the many voices for democracy in Myanmar, and Australian officials have engaged with National Unity Government (NUG) representatives and others on a regular basis."
Nwayoo said she wanted return to her home country once it was safe to help rebuild her broken nation.
But she also felt she was out of options and has applied for a protection visa in Australia.
She's not alone – since the coup, around 700 people from Myanmar have applied for onshore protection visas.
Mounting calls for sanctions
There are growing calls from Myanmar people for Australia to sanction the military regime, and Foreign Minister Penny Wong has repeatedly said sanctions are under active consideration.
Australia has an existing arms embargo and in 2018 slapped financial sanctions and travel bans against five individuals with direct responsibility for atrocities against the Rohingya Muslim population in Rakhine State.
But Australia has imposed no new sanctions imposed since the February 1 coup, despite sanctions from allies including the US, the UK and Canada.
Newly-elected independent MP Zoe Daniel, a former ABC South-East Asia correspondent, this week said it was time for Australia to sanction the two largest military-owned conglomerates — Myanma Economic Holdings Public Company Limited (MEHL) and Myanmar Economic Corporation Limited (MEC) — to sever the junta's access to foreign revenue.
"These funds are being used to purchase the arms, heavy artillery and jets used in systematic attacks against civilians," she said in a statement.
Tasneem Roc, from the Myanmar Campaign Network, said there have also been calls from prominent US senators to sanction the state-owned enterprise Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE).
"Unfortunately because of what's happening in the Ukraine and other places around the world, Myanmar has taken a back seat," Ms Roc said.
The network wants targeted sanctions against the top generals to be imposed by August 28, marking 100 days since the Labor government was elected.
"The Foreign Minister can decide to do this immediately. It's really important because the Myanmar military, businesses and economy is very much integrated into the global economy," she said.
"Cutting off that revenue will limit their power."
The ABC's Foreign Correspondent last week highlighted the plight of many young people and students whose future hopes were crushed by the coup.
Ms Roc said young people who should be studying at university are taking up arms as a last resort.
"Seeing their passion and their determination against one of the biggest militaries in South-East Asia — it's very inspiring, but it's also really heartbreaking.
"We need to look at the Myanmar crisis from an Australian perspective, and Australia can create solutions." | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-25/myanmar-passport-limbo-military-coup-junta-australia-sanctions/101339390 | 2022-08-24T20:36:18Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-25/myanmar-passport-limbo-military-coup-junta-australia-sanctions/101339390 | true |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Fernando Tatis Jr. apologized privately to his San Diego Padres teammates for testing positive for a performance enhancing-drug.
"I have made a mistake, and I regret every single step I have taken in these days," Tatis said.
Tatis has been given an 80-game suspension that will keep him off the field well into next season.
The star shortstop says he's “really sorry for mistakes” and that his dreams have turned into his worst nightmares.
He was suspended on Aug. 12 after MLB said he tested positive for Clostebol, an anabolic steroid.
Tatis claimed the steroid got into his system after taking a skin medication to treat an infection.
He said there's no one to blame other than himself because he should know what's going into his body. However, he dismissed claims that he was taking the steroid to improve his physical performance. | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/tatis-apologizes-to-padres-fans-for-80-game-drug-suspension | 2022-08-24T20:37:32Z | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/tatis-apologizes-to-padres-fans-for-80-game-drug-suspension | true |
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Kellogg Co. tapped its chief legal officer to lead a spinoff of its less-profitable cereal division.
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LOS ANGELES — Sean McVay became the youngest head coach in modern NFL history in part because he’s an excellent communicator and teacher who always seems to know what to say.
“Let’s turn the page,” McVay said when asked to articulate his message to the defending champions. “Let’s not minimize what a great year last year was, but that’s not going to have anything to do with this year.”
It’s a familiar mindset for champions trying to repeat the greatest achievement of their professional lives. But McVay excels at the deceptively simple art of getting his players in the right frame of mind to perform, and he thinks the Rams will have no hangover from last February and a clear vision toward next February.
“We’re still hungry, even if we just won,” edge rusher Justin Hollins said. “Everybody wants another one. It’s football heaven. We want to stay in football heaven, you know what I mean?”
After five winning seasons, four playoff berths, three NFC West titles, two Super Bowl trips and one championship, the Rams know they can trust McVay. His team won nine of 10 down the stretch last season, all the way to that thrilling finale in its home stadium.
The challenge looming this season feels even bigger, but the Rams also seem quite capable of handling it.
“We realize that now we’re the ones with the targets on our back,” center Brian Allen said. “We’re not chasing the Tampa Bays, the teams that won the year before. We know we’re going to have a tough schedule this year, and we’re going to get everyone’s best shot. Bring it on.”
So the mindset is in place to become the NFL’s first repeat champions in 18 years, and the talent appears to be sufficient as well. The cornerstones of the title team are nearly all in place, from Matthew Stafford and Cooper Kupp to Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey.
There were changes, of course: midseason rental Von Miller, cornerback Darious Williams and right guard Austin Corbett all left for more free-agent money elsewhere, and left tackle Andrew Whitworth retired after spending the last five seasons of his decorated 16-year career as a key part of McVay’s project.
What remains is execution, health and luck. The Rams excelled in all of those areas last season, and they’re hoping this year is just as generous.
“Just because we did something last year doesn’t mean anything’s going to happen this year,” Stafford said. “We’ve got to go out there and earn it. Those opportunities that we got to play in those games last year were earned. You ask yourself, what kind of opportunities are you willing to earn? It comes with sacrifice and hard work and being a great teammate.”
DYNAMIC DUO
The Rams acquired quality over quantity in free agency by adding receiver Allen Robinson and inside linebacker Bobby Wagner.
Returning home to Southern California after a decade in Seattle, Wagner will be the Rams’ defensive signal-caller and a major contributor at a position traditionally discounted in Los Angeles’ roster-building strategy.
Robinson appears to be poised for a prolific year after eight seasons with Jacksonville and Chicago. The physical pass-catcher has never played with a quarterback of Stafford’s caliber, and the Rams need Robinson to produce after they traded Robert Woods.
RAISE THE KUPP?
Kupp will be hard-pressed to duplicate last season’s feats: He won the NFL’s triple crown of receiving, earned the AP’s offensive player of the year award and received All-Pro honors before claiming the Super Bowl MVP trophy with the eventual winning TD catch.
But the ever-industrious Kupp claims he can be even better, citing his run blocking and certain nuances of route-running.
“I think there’s a lot of parts of the game that my game was lacking,” Kupp said.
FRESH STARTERS
The Rams must replace seven starters from their Super Bowl team. Miller’s absence will be felt, but the Rams already were a strong pass-rushing team with Donald, Leonard Floyd and Hollins applying pressure before Miller arrived.
David Long Jr. and returnee Troy Hill appear to be starting defensive backs, while veteran Coleman Shelton has replaced Corbett on the line. Joseph Noteboom takes over for Whitworth at left tackle, and Riley Dixon is replacing four-time All-Pro punter Johnny Hekker.
OBJ’S NEXT JOB
At some point in the season, Odell Beckham Jr.’s injured knee likely will be healed enough for the veteran receiver to decide his next step. The Rams are publicly campaigning for Beckham to return to the team with which he caught a TD pass in the Super Bowl, but if Beckham looks ready to contribute down the stretch, there will be competitors for his services.
The fact that Beckham hasn’t already re-signed with LA during his rehab seems to be a discouraging sign for a reunion, yet Beckham clearly still feels close to the Rams, who overwrote a portion of his dramatic past. Beckham could be a huge midseason addition for the second straight year, or he could follow Miller’s path out the door with a ring and a half-season of memories for slightly more money.
SCHEDULE
Even though 10 of their 17 games are at SoFi Stadium, the Rams’ slate is considered the toughest in the league by some metrics, starting from that difficult opening-night showdown with Miller’s Bills. Both chances to break their embarrassing regular-season losing streak to the rival 49ers occur in October, while long trips to Tampa Bay, New Orleans and Kansas City all loom in November — followed by a chilly date in Green Bay on Dec. 19. Los Angeles hosts Denver on Christmas and plays a “road” game against the Chargers on New Year’s Day.
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SEC questions Twitter on how it calculates number of fake accounts on its platform
U.S. securities regulators are questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission in June asked the company about its methodology for calculating the false or spam accounts and "the underlying judgments and assumptions used by management.”
The agency's Division of Corporation Finance made the request in a June 15 letter, shortly before Tesla CEO Elon Musk raised the issue as grounds to back out of a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion.
Such questions can be routine, and it wasn't clear whether the SEC has opened a formal investigation into Twitter's fake accounts. The SEC wouldn't comment Wednesday; Twitter didn't immediately reply to a request for comment.
The law firm Wilson Sonsini of Palo Alto, California, replied in a June 22 letter saying the company believes it adequately disclosed the methodology in its annual report filed for 2021.
The letter says that Twitter makes its estimates of false accounts with an internal review of sample accounts. The number of fake accounts "represent the average false or spam accounts in the samples during each monthly analysis period during a quarter," the letter said.
It added that fewer than 5% of Twitter's “Monetizable Daily Active Usage or Users,” or mDAU, were fake accounts in the fourth quarter of last year, the period that the SEC had questioned.
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The letter was disclosed in a filing posted by the SEC on Wednesday, a day after Twitter’s former head of security alleged that the company misled regulators about its poor cybersecurity defenses and its negligence in attempting to root out fake accounts that spread disinformation.
Peiter Zatko, who served as Twitter’s security chief until he was fired early this year, filed the whistleblower complaints last month with the SEC, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. The legal nonprofit Whistleblower Aid, which is working with Zatko, said he exhausted all attempts to get his concerns resolved inside the company before his firing in January.
Among Zatko’s most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users. Zatko also accuses the company of deceptions involving its handling of “spam” or fake accounts, an allegation that is at the core of Musk’s attempt to back out of the Twitter takeover.
Twitter said Tuesday that Zatko was fired for “ineffective leadership and poor performance” and said the “allegations and opportunistic timing appear designed to capture attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers and its shareholders.” The company called his complaint “a false narrative” that is “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context.”
Musk called off the sale in July, alleging that Twitter had failed to provide detailed methodology for calculating fake accounts. But Twitter sued in Delaware Chancery Court, asking a judge to order Musk to go through with the purchase.
Twitter has set Sept. 13 as the date for its shareholders to vote on the company’s pending buyout by Musk, and the board is recommending approval.
A trial on Twitter’s lawsuit is scheduled for October.
Musk agreed in April to buy Twitter and take it private, offering $54.20 a share and vowing to loosen the company’s policing of content and to root out fake accounts. As part of the deal, Musk and Twitter had agreed to pay the other a $1 billion breakup fee if either was responsible for the deal collapsing.
In its response, Twitter said that the review of fake accounts is done manually by humans who check thousands of them. The accounts are chosen randomly, and the employees use a complex set of rules “that define spam and platform manipulation.” An account is deemed to be false if it violates one or more of the rules, the letter said. The fake accounts go through a multi-step review and are investigated by multiple trained employees, it said.
The SEC also questioned Twitter’s disclosure that it overestimated the number of monetizable accounts from the first quarter of 2019 through the end of last year. The agency wrote that the error persisted for three years and asked why the company didn’t consider that a weakness in its financial reporting and controls.
In response, Twitter said the overstatement of accounts had no impact on its financial statements, and that the overstatement was less than 1% of its monetizable daily average users.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Carvana Co. (NYSE: CVNA) between May 6, 2020 and June 24, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 3, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action commenced by the firm.
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Ukraine war: Shock and defiance on Independence Day - round-up
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Wednesday was a significant day for Ukraine, as it marked 31 years of independence from the Soviet Union, and six months since that union's most influential member, Russia, launched its invasion of Ukraine.
In the streets, there was a lingering sense of shock and defiance.
That defiance was shared with their leader, President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has promised to "liberate" all occupied Ukrainian territory, without "concession or compromise".
And he received plenty of support today - Independence Day, a national holiday in Ukraine.
Outgoing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson travelled to Kyiv again to tell President Zelensky in person that "what happens in Ukraine matters to us all."
US President Joe Biden, for his part, confirmed the US was sending Ukraine nearly $3bn (£2.5bn) in a fresh package of weapons and equipment - the biggest tranche of American security assistance sent to Kyiv to date.
Mr Biden said Ukrainians had "inspired the world with their extraordinary courage and dedication to freedom" - and he vowed that the country would remain a "sovereign and independent nation".
However the horrors of war continued. At least 15 people were killed and a further 50 injured in a Russian strike at a railway station in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, President Zelensky told the UN security council. Moscow is yet to comment, but has previously denied targeting civilian infrastructure.
Shock in Kyiv
Normally, a massive military parade marches to the city centre on Independence Day, but public events in the capital were banned this year because of concerns they could become a target.
Residents of Kyiv have been sharing their thoughts on the war with us.
Remembering the fallen
Across the country, commemorations were held to honour those who have died in the past six months - and more.
In the western city of Lviv, dignitaries and families attended a ceremony at the graves of fallen soldiers in Lychakiv cemetery.
The war is static, but ousting Russia is a seismic task
Analysis by James Waterhouse, BBC News, Kyiv
So far Western weapons are helping Ukraine to hold the line and frustrate Russian supply lines, but it will take something seismic for the momentum to shift and for Kyiv to force Russia out completely.
Therefore, this military status quo looks set to continue at a growing, unimaginable cost for tens of thousands of families.
Also - while widely viewed as the country's war hero, President Zelensky is now facing criticism for how he prepared for Russia's attack. Notably over his decision not to act on warnings from the US, saying it would cause panic and damage Ukraine's economy.
Another symbol of Ukrainian defiance is in the newsroom of the Kyiv Independent.
This English language news site was set up weeks before the invasion. Within days their online following went from tens of thousands to millions.
"It's the Independence Day we didn't know was going to happen," says editor-in-chief Olga Rudenko.
Russia goes quiet
By Will Vernon, BBC News, Moscow
Russian officials and state TV have made almost no mention today of the six-month anniversary of the start of Russia's "special military operation," as the Kremlin likes to call it.
It's possible that the authorities are not keen to emphasise the extent to which the campaign has become drawn out - certainly for much longer than Moscow intended.
State TV channels were leading their news bulletins on Ukraine, but, as usual, the coverage focused on alleged Ukrainian war crimes, such as the alleged shelling of civilian areas, and Russia's diplomatic efforts to resolve the situation around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Last opposition voice 'silenced'
One of Russia's last remaining opposition voices has been detained by police, in the latest crackdown on dissent by the Kremlin.
Yevgeny Roizman, a former mayor of Yekaterinburg near the Ural mountains, was arrested on charges of "discrediting the Russian army", security services said.
The offence, introduced by authorities after the invasion of Ukraine, can carry a sentence of five years in prison.
He was one of the last remaining prominent opposition politicians in Russia who hadn't been killed, arrested, or forced out of the country.
UK fuel imports from Russia cease
The UK imported no fuel from Russia in June for the first time on record, according to official figures.
After pledging to phase out Russian oil imports by the end of the year and gas imports as soon as possible, Russian fuel imports fell by £499m - or 100% - compared with the average for the previous 12 months to February.
Imports of goods from Russia also fell to £33m in June, the lowest level since records began in January 1997, the Office for National Statics (ONS) said.
Where is the fighting taking place?
Ukraine is trying to push back Russian forces in the south whilst Russian troops continue to advance in the east.
Apart from Kherson:
- Russian forces are attacking positions south of Izyum
- Tensions are particularly high following a string of explosions and attacks in Russian-occupied Crimea
More on the Ukraine conflict: | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62666046 | 2022-08-24T20:40:41Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62666046 | true |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
2-6-8
(two, six, eight)
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2-6-8
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Kyle Wright allowed two hits over seven efficient innings, Matt Olson hit a grand slam that found the Allegheny River and the Atlanta Braves drilled the sloppy Pittsburgh Pirates 14-2 on Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep.
Wright (16-5) struck out eight and walked one to tie Houston's Justin Verlander and the Los Angeles Dodgers' Tony Gonsolin for most victories in the majors. Wright needed just 73 pitches to record 21 outs while trimming his ERA to 2.99.
Atlanta has won 14 of 16 overall to keep pressure on the NL East-leading New York Mets.
The lone highlight for the Pirates came from rookie Oneil Cruz, who ripped the hardest-hit ball since Major League Baseball began measuring exit velocity in 2015. The ball left Cruz's bat at 122.4 mph and slammed into the 21-foot-high Clemente Wall in right field with two outs in the third. He was held to a single.
Olson hit it plenty hard, too. He turned on a pitch from Pittsburgh reliever Cam Vieaux and sent it well over the right-field stands in the eighth for his 27th home run of the season and his fifth career grand slam.
The ball landed 420 feet from home plate before finding its way to the river on the bounce, the 66th time in the history of PNC Park that a home run has ended with a splash.
William Contreras added his 17th home run for Atlanta, bashing a pitch from Mitch Keller (4-10) into the left-field bleachers in the second inning to give the Braves an early lead. Dansby Swanson had a two-out, bases-clearing double during Atlanta's five-run fourth, an inning that was extended because of two errors by Pittsburgh first baseman Josh Van Meter.
Olson and Robbie Grossman finished with three hits each. Swanson and Contreras had two hits.
The Pirates have lost five straight, going 2-5 during a nine-game homestand. Pittsburgh is 9-29 in its last 38 games and last in the NL Central.
The World Series champion Braves have gone 7-0 against the Pirates, outscoring Pittsburgh by a combined score of 44-14.
Pittsburgh's Kevin Newman hit his first home run of the season in the ninth.
Keller, who was given a couple of extra days of rest after getting knocked around in his previous start against Boston, wasn't particularly sharp. He allowed seven runs, two earned, on seven hits in 3 2/3 innings with two walks and five strikeouts.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Pirates: All-Star closer David Bednar (back) is playing catch and could be cleared to throw off a slope by late next week. ... C Roberto Perez, out for the season with a hamstring injury, caught a side bullpen session on Tuesday in what the team described as part of the “strengthening phase” of his rehabilitation. ... RHP Colin Holderman was removed in the eighth with right shoulder discomfort. Holderman did not retire any of the five batters he faced.
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Braves: Are off Thursday before heading to St. Louis for a three-game set against the NL-Central leading Cardinals. Spencer Strider (7-4, 2.95 ERA) faces José Quintana (4-5, 3.45) on Friday.
Pirates: Travel east to Philadelphia for a three-game series starting Friday. Bryse Wilson (2-7, 5.74) will make his 15th start of the season in the opener.
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