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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus police have arrested five Syrians on suspicion of people trafficking after a police patrol boat plucked them and 32 of their countrymen from the sea when their rickety boats sank close to the island’s southeastern tip.
Police say the five men aged 46-53 face numerous charges including helping third-country citizens to illegally enter Cyprus for financial gain and transporting people on unsafe craft.
Police spokesman Christos Andreou told state-run Cyprus News Agency that the 37 Syrians — who included seven minors — were collected from the sea early Thursday.
Andreou said the five were placed under arrest after witnesses said they were in charge of their transport to Cyprus. One of the five had previously been deported from the east Mediterranean island nation.
Migrant arrivals to Cyprus from Syria and elsewhere to seek asylum continue in large numbers, mostly through the ethnically divided island nation’s breakaway Turkish Cypriot north.
European Union member Cyprus says the number of asylum-seekers in the first half of this year amounted to 12,000 — equal to the number for all of last year. It says asylum-seekers make up an EU high of 5% of the island’s 915,000 people in the internationally recognized south.
Cypriot law enforcement authorities have been stepping up arrests relating to people trafficking.
According to police statistics, 50 people have been arrested in Cyprus on people trafficking charges in 30 separate cases through the first seven months of this year, about equaling the tallies for all of 2021.
So far this year, 3,459 migrants who had their asylum applications rejected by Cyprus have either been deported or voluntarily repatriated. This year, four people have been sentenced to between three and 10 months in prison for assisting in the illegal entry of others. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-cyprus-arrests-5-after-2-boats-sink-37-migrants-saved/ | 2022-08-26T14:34:49Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-cyprus-arrests-5-after-2-boats-sink-37-migrants-saved/ | true |
Providence’s mayor proposed spending $10 million in federal coronavirus pandemic aid on financial literacy and homeownership, workforce training, small business development and other programs recently recommended by the city’s reparations commission.
Mayor Jorge Elorza’s spending plan, released Thursday, also calls for using $250,000 in federal money to launch a legal defense fund for residents facing eviction, $400,000 dedicated to directly support Black and Native American residents displaced and negatively impacted by urban renewal and $500,000 to expand the guaranteed income program for low income residents that launched last summer, among other initiatives.
The Democratic mayor also signed an executive order formally apologizing on behalf of Rhode Island’s capital city for its role in slavery, urban renewal and other racist and discriminatory practices. The spending proposal now goes to the city council for approval.
“While we cannot undo the harm that has been done, I am confident these programs and investments will make great strides in closing the racial wealth and equity gaps that exist in Providence,” Elorza said.
Rodney Davis, who chaired the Providence Municipal Reparations Commission, applauded the mayor for issuing a formal city apology, as the commission had recommended. But he demurred when asked if he thought the spending proposal was the best use of the federal money, given the commission’s many recommendations.
“We feel like $10 million is nice, but it’s definitely not enough for true reparations,” he said. “We also recognize this is a city effort and true reparations have to be on a larger scale. It has to not just be government, but also private enterprise.”
Ray Rickman, a prominent Black historian and former state lawmaker who attended Thursday’s announcement, was surprised Elorza wasn’t more forceful in calling on Brown University to contribute to the city’s efforts. The Ivy League college, located on the city’s wealthy East Side, has faced its own calls in recent years to pay reparations to slave descendants.
Terrell Osborne, a Black resident who also attended the announcement, said he’d like to see the city form a foundation to help coordinate the myriad efforts proposed and to marshal more resources and support from outside groups.
“All I see is ‘Let’s spend the money.’ But then what?” he said. “Who is implementing these things? Where’s the follow up coming from?”
The reparations commission report released Monday listed a range of programs and efforts Providence could undertake to begin atoning for its extensive ties to the transatlantic slave trade and the centuries of racism and discrimination that followed.
But it didn’t recommend giving out direct payments to Black and Native American residents impacted by slave and other discrimination, as some had called for. Instead, it defined “reparations” as efforts that close the “present-day racial wealth and equity gaps.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/ap-rhode-island-mayor-proposes-10m-reparations-spending-plan/ | 2022-08-26T14:37:47Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/ap-rhode-island-mayor-proposes-10m-reparations-spending-plan/ | true |
(The Hill) — Liberal lawmakers are pressing Democratic leaders in the House to not include a side deal undercutting environmental reviews worked out with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in a short-term measure funding the government.
House Natural Resources Chairman Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) is circulating a letter asking leadership to separate the Manchin deal out from a continuing resolution that would temporarily avert a government shutdown.
“Don’t attach it to a budget, to a CR, must-pass legislation and therefore take this essential Republican agenda and have Democrats pass it,” he told The Hill earlier this month.
The issue is expected to come to a head in September, when lawmakers return from recess, as Democrats try to secure funding for the government and prevent a shutdown.
The deal was part of the agreement Manchin made with Democratic leaders as they won his support for their now-passed climate, tax and health care bill.
Under the deal with Manchin, worked out by President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the trio agreed “to pass comprehensive permitting reform legislation before the end of this fiscal year,” which ends on October 1. The provisions are designed to expedite energy and infrastructure projects subject to environmental reviews.
That sets up a potential shutdown crisis if progressives block a funding bill over the inclusion of the permitting reform language and Democrats can’t find the votes elsewhere.
Democrats do not want to shut down the government months before the midterm elections, so an actual shutdown is highly unlikely.
Grijalva acknowledged that it would likely be difficult for many members to vote against funding the government.
“This is not trying to torpedo anything. This is saying the [continuing resolution] and the budget is critical, yes, but let’s do this other one where everybody is accountable,” he said.
While Grijalva’s office declined to say Thursday how many lawmakers are signing his letter, at least a few others have signaled resistance to the deal.
“If we want to streamline permitting for critically important projects that help solve the climate crisis there’s absolutely a conversation to be had and maybe a bill that would help with that, but this framework that came out of the smoke-filled room with Manchin and Schumer doesn’t work for me,” Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) told The Hill.
He also argued the standoff likely wouldn’t cause a shutdown, suggesting a clean measure known as a continuing resolution or “CR” could be approved to fund the government.
“You can tell members ‘if you vote against this you’re shutting down the government,’ but most of us are a little smarter than that and we know that you can have a backup CR ready to go that funds the government without all the fossil fuel baggage,” Huffman said.
If progressives do make a stand, it will complicate life for House Democratic leaders.
Democrats enjoy a very narrow majority in the House, meaning even a handful of progressive votes could block a measure to fund the government — if there’s not the Republican support to make up the difference. The more signatures on the Grijalva letter, the more leverage progressives could have.
Democratic leaders would face a difficult choice between passing a clean continuing resolution and potentially angering Manchin; convincing their own members to shed their environmental concerns and back the Manchin side deal, or leaning on GOP votes to prevent a shutdown.
Getting Republicans on board to counter any liberal defections is a very real possibility — dozens of GOP lawmakers supported a CR to prevent a shutdown last September — although Pelosi’s style has been to unite Democrats before bringing virtually any legislation to the floor, thereby avoiding a reliance on votes across the aisle. A wild card in the debate could be the inclusion of funding for natural disasters, which could sweeten the package for on-the-fence lawmakers in both parties.
A number of GOP members do support the permitting changes advanced by Manchin. Whether they’ll want to back a Democratic funding measure that includes them — or allow Democrats to fight it out internally ahead of the elections — is another question.
In the Senate, Democrats will need 10 GOP votes to back a package and overcome a filibuster.
Senate Republicans felt spurned by Manchin’s agreement with Schumer on the Inflation Reduction Act, which was passed under special budget rules in the Senate that avoid a filibuster.
The deal was announced immediately after the Senate approved a separate bipartisan bill to strengthen the semiconductor industry. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had previously threatened not to support the semiconductor bill if Democrats pursued their partisan package, and that measure moved at a time when the larger climate, tax and health care bill looked dead.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has pledged to vote against the permitting deal on principle, even if he may actually like the policies included in it.
“I will not vote for a continuing resolution that is part of a political payback scheme,” Graham said in a press conference this month. “Senator Manchin, if you think you’re going to get 60 votes to get the sweeteners that can’t be done in reconciliation, you need to think long and hard about what you’re doing.”
In a statement to The Hill on Thursday, Republican Conference Chairman and top GOP senator on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee John Barrasso (Wyo.) signaled that there could be another barrier to Manchin’s deal: The permitting language, which may not be strong enough to win GOP support.
“This narrow proposal does not go nearly far enough. It will not prevent the Biden administration from continuing its war on American energy,” he said.
A summary of the agreement released by Manchin’s office said the deal would direct the president to keep a list of 25 high-priority energy and infrastructure projects that would get prioritized permitting. Infrastructure projects in general would also be expedited under maximum timelines for environmental reviews and limits to state and tribal authorities from blocking projects that run through their waters.
The summary also includes the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a controversial pipeline that would bring natural gas from West Virginia to Virginia.
A separate summary has circulated among Senate Democrats in recent days. It makes a climate case for backing the deal.
The summary, which was obtained by The Hill, provided new details: saying that a certain number of these 25 projects have to be either renewables, electric transmission, critical minerals, hydrogen or fossil fuel projects that “significantly reduce emissions.”
It also said that the deal does not change federal environmental law requirements, instead setting “target timelines” for environmental reviews.
“The proposed Senate Permitting Package would help expedite the nationwide buildout of power sector transmission infrastructure that is critical to deploying the cleaner generation needed to hit President Biden’s climate goals,” the summary said.
The fight over passing the measure to keep the government open is likely to take more twists and turns in September as lawmakers scramble to get their work done and return to their home districts ahead of the midterms.
Congress will return to a lame-duck session in November when it will likely need to approve another package funding the government into the new year. | https://phl17.com/nmw/democrats-clash-over-manchin-side-deal-raising-shutdown-risk/ | 2022-08-26T14:38:48Z | https://phl17.com/nmw/democrats-clash-over-manchin-side-deal-raising-shutdown-risk/ | true |
Stolen mobile phones recovered, returned to owners
Madurai city police on Friday handed over 121 stolen and recovered mobile phones, worth ₹ 12.10 lakh, to the owners. Commissioner T. Senthil Kumar distributed the mobile phones in the presence of Deputy Commissioners of Police Mohan Raj and Srinivasa Perumal.
The Commissioner said that robbery of mobile phones was dealt with first information report and the phones were handed over to the court upon recovery.
"The owners have to get the recovered properties through court order. However, for those phones that go missing, we issue community service register receipts. When the Cyber Crime police recover them, we directly hand over them to the owners," he said.
The city police have so far recovered and handed over 821 mobile phones since September 2021.
Mr. Senthil Kumar said that permission had been granted to instal around 370 Lord Vinayaka idols in the city ahead of Ganesh Chathurthi. With a heavy demand for idols, police protection had been given to the places where idols were being made to avoid scuffle in collecting them, he added.
The police permitted taking up idols on September 1 to 4 amidst bandobust by a huge posse of police personnel.
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Customers shopping at Family Dollar may soon notice lower prices.
“Competitive pricing at Family Dollar will over the long term enhance our sales productivity and profitability, and ultimately our opportunity to accelerate store growth," said Mike Witynski, president and CEO of Dollar Tree Inc., which acquired Family Dollar.
The company will also invest in the type of products Family Dollar offers and sprucing up its stores.
"Combined with improvements in merchandising and store standards, we believe we are putting our best foot forward at a time when customers are coming to us to help them navigate difficult times," Witynski said.
The new pricing strategy forced the company to lower its full-year earnings forecast. However, Witynski believes the strategy will pay off in the long run.
"We are confident these pricing and other investments will generate very attractive returns over the long term," he said. | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/family-dollar-plans-to-slash-prices | 2022-08-26T14:40:56Z | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/family-dollar-plans-to-slash-prices | false |
Tiruchi Corporation permits layout promoters to develop infrastructure ahead of securing approval
Tiruchi Corporation has decided to permit developers to carry out infrastructure works in their layouts, with the intent of simplifying procedure for approval, in compliance with a recent order issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The simplification of the procedure comes in the wake of the developers expressing concern over urban local bodies taking much time to provide such amenities after remittance of the necessary fee. The developers had reasoned out that the delay in sale of plots was causing huge losses.
The request of the developers was that they be allowed to form road, storm water drain and street lights at their own expenses and thereafter secure final approval of the layouts by the local bodies.
Citing the government order, Mayor M. Anbazhagan said on Friday, while chairing the Council meeting, that, henceforth, owners / developers will be allowed either to carry out infrastructure works as per the standards specified by the city corporation , or pay the estimate cost to the local body.
The Corporation will prescribe the standards for the provision of basic infrastructure like roads, drains, and water supply for the layout, as per existing rules. Before taking over the infrastructure developed by the owners/ developers, the local bodies will ensure the quality of work. Reasonable period will be specified for upkeep of the facilities by the owners, an order issued last month by the Principal Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Department.
Hitherto, the urban bodies followed the procedure of collecting the necessary fee including charges for providing amenities like roads, storm water drains and street lights from the applicants. After collecting the necessary fee and the final layout sketch, permit of the planning authority along with the approval of local body used to be issued to the applicants directly.
This procedure was simplified after a consultation during April conducted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development with the Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department, Directorate of Municipal Administration and Commissionerate of Town Panchayats, in response to a representation from the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India, Tamil Nadu.
It was suggested at the meeting that a reasonable period be prescribed for upkeep and maintenance of the roads and drains by the developer as was being done by the contractor of the works. If the layouts were developed at a slow pace, the maintenance period will be extended until 60 percent of the plots have been sold out or five years whichever was later.
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HEFEI, China, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 26 Beijing Time, Gotion High-tech announced its interim results. During the Reporting Period, the Company achieved revenue of RMB 8,638 million, representing a year-on-year growth of 143.24%, of which revenue from overseas regions increased by 358.28% year-on-year to RMB1.279 billion, and is expected to achieve its target of 100% growth in total revenue over the previous year in the future.
Gotion High-tech is a leading power battery company in the field of new energy vehicles in China. Gotion High-tech generated revenue mainly from power lithium battery, energy storage battery and power transmission and distribution equipment. During the Reporting Period, company power lithium battery business maintained a solid growth trend, and achieved revenue of RMB 6.61 billion , representing a year-on-year increase of 113.93%, and was the company's biggest source of revenue. In particular, the energy storage battery business was disclosed for the first time in the financial report, achieving revenue of RMB1.28 billion during the period, accounting for 14.8% of the total revenue.
According to SNE Research, in the first half of the year, Gotion High-tech has battery installed capacity of 5.8 GWh, with a market share of 2.9%, up 1 percentage point from the same period of last year, ranking 8th in the world; and recorded over 250 thousand units for EV battery installed passenger vehicle in the world, accounting for a market share of approximately 5.9%, and ranked 5th in the global market.
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Woman accused of trying to run over boyfriend after argument about cheating, police say
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5/Gray News) – A woman in Arizona is accused of trying to run over her boyfriend with a truck, police say.
According to authorities, Jolina Morris, 38, confronted her boyfriend, who was not identified, about cheating with another woman.
Investigators say he went to a nearby bar after the argument and began drinking. Morris and another friend reportedly drove to the bar and also started drinking, AZ Family reported.
Morris told her boyfriend she threw away his truck keys when he asked to leave, but he saw she had them and tried to take the keys, police said.
Court documents stated they got into a short fight before the boyfriend took the keys and got in the truck. Morris and her friend struggled with the boyfriend some more and eventually got him out of the truck and he walked home.
According to the documents, Morris pulled into the driveway when her boyfriend approached the front door. She’s accused of hitting her boyfriend with the truck and pinning him against the house.
Investigators said she backed the truck up and yelled, “I will kill you!” while hitting her boyfriend again.
Police were able to identify Morris from a neighbor’s Ring camera that captured the whole incident.
The boyfriend was taken to the hospital with a shattered leg, cuts and other injuries.
Morris was booked on one count of attempted second-degree murder, one count of aggravated assault and one count of endangerment.
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A Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. (NASDAQ:APEN) insider increased their holdings by 160% last year
Looking at Apollo Endosurgery, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:APEN ) insider transactions over the last year, we can see that insiders were net buyers. That is, there were more number of shares purchased by insiders than there were sold.
While insider transactions are not the most important thing when it comes to long-term investing, logic dictates you should pay some attention to whether insiders are buying or selling shares.
The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At Apollo Endosurgery
Over the last year, we can see that the biggest insider purchase was by CFO, Secretary & Treasurer Jeffrey Black for US$229k worth of shares, at about US$6.20 per share. That means that an insider was happy to buy shares at above the current price of US$5.89. While their view may have changed since the purchase was made, this does at least suggest they have had confidence in the company's future. To us, it's very important to consider the price insiders pay for shares. As a general rule, we feel more positive about a stock when an insider has bought shares at above current prices, because that suggests they viewed the stock as good value, even at a higher price. Jeffrey Black was the only individual insider to buy during the last year.
You can see a visual depiction of insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last 12 months, below. By clicking on the graph below, you can see the precise details of each insider transaction!
There are always plenty of stocks that insiders are buying. So if that suits your style you could check each stock one by one or you could take a look at this free list of companies. (Hint: insiders have been buying them).
Insider Ownership Of Apollo Endosurgery
Many investors like to check how much of a company is owned by insiders. A high insider ownership often makes company leadership more mindful of shareholder interests. Insiders own 7.7% of Apollo Endosurgery shares, worth about US$18m. While this is a strong but not outstanding level of insider ownership, it's enough to indicate some alignment between management and smaller shareholders.
So What Does This Data Suggest About Apollo Endosurgery Insiders?
It doesn't really mean much that no insider has traded Apollo Endosurgery shares in the last quarter. On a brighter note, the transactions over the last year are encouraging. Insiders do have a stake in Apollo Endosurgery and their transactions don't cause us concern. In addition to knowing about insider transactions going on, it's beneficial to identify the risks facing Apollo Endosurgery. While conducting our analysis, we found that Apollo Endosurgery has 2 warning signs and it would be unwise to ignore them.
Of course, you might find a fantastic investment by looking elsewhere. So take a peek at this free list of interesting companies.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Novak Djokovic will not play in the U.S. Open, as expected, because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and thus is not allowed to travel to the United States.
Djokovic announced his withdrawal from the year’s last Grand Slam tournament on Twitter on Thursday, hours before the draw for the event was revealed.
“Sadly, I will not be able to travel to NY this time for US Open,” Djokovic wrote, wishing luck to his fellow players, and said he would “keep in good shape and positive spirit and wait for an opportunity to compete again.”
Play is scheduled to begin at Flushing Meadows on Monday.
Djokovic is a 35-year-old from Serbia who owns 21 major championships, one behind Rafael Nadal for the men’s record. Three of Djokovic’s Slam trophies came at the U.S. Open, in 2011, 2015 and 2018.
He also was the runner-up there a half-dozen times, including last season, when his pursuit of the first calendar-year Grand Slam in men’s tennis since 1969 ended with a loss in the final to Daniil Medvedev.
Foreign citizens who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 are currently unable to enter the U.S or Canada, and Djokovic has said he won’t get the shots, even if that prevents him from playing in certain tournaments.
The U.S. Tennis Association has said all along it will follow government rules about vaccination status for this year’s Open. There is no vaccine mandate at the tournament for players or their support teams — meaning that an unvaccinated American would be allowed to compete — and spectators will not be required to wear masks.
“Novak is a great champion and it is very unfortunate that he will be unable to compete at the 2022 U.S. Open, as he is unable to enter the country due to the federal government’s vaccination policy for non-U.S. citizens,” said Stacey Allaster, the U.S. Open tournament director. “We look forward to welcoming Novak back at the 2023 U.S. Open.”
Djokovic missed the Australian Open in January after a protracted legal saga ended with his deportation from that country because he isn’t vaccinated against COVID-19. He also sat out four significant tournaments in North America in 2022, including in Montreal and Cincinnati recently.
He did play in the French Open, where he lost in the quarterfinals to Nadal, and at Wimbledon, where Djokovic won the title.
After beating Nick Kyrgios in the Wimbledon final on July 10, Djokovic said he “would love” to participate in the last Grand Slam tournament of the year at Flushing Meadows, but he also acknowledged, “I’m not planning to get vaccinated.”
About three weeks later, Djokovic posted on social media that he was holding out hope of getting the chance to play in the U.S. Open, writing: “I am preparing as if I will be allowed to compete, while I await to hear if there is any room for me to travel to US. Fingers crossed!”
Djokovic has spent more weeks at No. 1 than anyone else in the history of the ATP rankings. He is No. 6 this week, in part because no rankings points were awarded at Wimbledon this year.
Among the other players who will not be at the U.S. Open for various reasons are No. 2-ranked Alexander Zverev, the 2020 runner-up in New York; 2016 champion Angelique Kerber; 2019 French Open finalist Marketa Vondrousova; Gael Monfils and Reilly Opelka.
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Suttur Mutt gives ₹1 lakh for feeding zoo animals
Shivarathri Deshikendra Swami of Suttur Mutt has donated ₹1 lakh towards a day’s feeding cost of all animals and birds at the Mysuru zoo on the occasion of the 107th birth anniversary of Shivarathri Rajendra Swami.
The birth anniversary is celebrated on August 29.
Zoo authorities have thanked the seer for the contribution. This is the 13th successive year that the donation is being made.
“Jagadguru Sri Veerasimhasana Mahasamsthana Mutt’s active participation in conservation activities of Mysuru zoo is inspiring and encourages other institutions and animal lovers to come forward and take part in the conservation efforts,” a release from the zoo said.
The cheque was handed over to zoo Director Ajit Kulkarni on Friday. ZAK chairman Shivakumar was present.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Established actor brings Hollywood to his hometown, and heads a film program at alma mater, Bethlehem Catholic High School
A well-known actor and director from Bethlehem is returning to his roots, to teach young students in his trade. Daniel Roebuck, known for movies like "The Fugitive" and "U.S. Marshals," will go back to where he went to high school to head up a film program.
Roebuck will also play Grandpa Munster in Rob Zombie's soon-to-be released version of "The Munsters."
"I've been in hundreds of movies, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of television episodes," Roebuck said.
But Bethlehem's own Daniel Roebuck is much more than just an actor, writer and director.
He's also the co-founder of the nonprofit, A Channel of Peace, producing films about family, forgiveness and faith.
"As a kid who grew up in Bethlehem, I had a dream of going to Hollywood becoming an actor," Roebuck said.
Now, Roebuck wants to bring Hollywood back to his hometown.
"There's a lot of amazing young people here in the Lehigh Valley, who want to be actors, they want to be writers, they want to be directors, producers, camera operators," he said.
That's why Roebuck, a graduate of Bethlehem Catholic High School, is bringing all that back to where it all began for him.
This September, he's starting a new film program at his alma mater. The program will initially just be offered for freshman and sophomore students as an extracurricular activity. Roebuck hopes it'll soon meet requirements to become an accredited course within a few years -- and not just at Bethlehem Catholic.
"If I can look five years in the future," he said, "I don't want there to be kid in the Valley who wants to make movies or has a heart for making movies, I don't want there to not be an opportunity for them to do that."
Roebuck says aside from being his alma mater, Bethehem Catholic is a great place to launch the program, because he'll have other dedicated teachers helping him. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/actor-and-director-daniel-roebuck-heads-film-program-at-bethlehem-catholic-high-school/article_c1f982f4-24d7-11ed-8896-f3f1fc70d6f7.html | 2022-08-26T14:45:51Z | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/actor-and-director-daniel-roebuck-heads-film-program-at-bethlehem-catholic-high-school/article_c1f982f4-24d7-11ed-8896-f3f1fc70d6f7.html | true |
JACKSON, N.J. (WPIX) — Multiple people were hurt while riding a roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey on Thursday evening, officials said.
Several people reported back pain after riding the El Toro roller coaster, a Six Flags spokesperson confirmed. Five people were taken to a local medical facility to be evaluated. El Toro has since been closed for inspection, the spokesperson said.
Additional details about how the people were hurt on the ride were not immediately available.
WPIX has reached out to New Jersey’s Department of Community Affairs, which has a Carnival-Amusement Ride Safety Unit.
There have been a number of incidents at the Six Flags location in recent years. In 2020, guests were briefly stuck on rides during a short power outage.
In 2021, a log flume malfunction sent two people to the hospital. The El Toro roller coaster along with Nitro and Joker were also briefly shut down over problems in 2021. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/multiple-riders-hurt-on-new-jersey-roller-coaster-officials-say/ | 2022-08-26T14:47:10Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/multiple-riders-hurt-on-new-jersey-roller-coaster-officials-say/ | true |
Expanded capacity supports increased natural gas demand in the Rockies and Western U.S.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To meet the growing energy demands in the Rockies and Western U.S., Spire Storage is proceeding with the expansion of its facilities in Wyoming, with partial availability of additional natural gas storage capacity in fiscal 2024 and more in 2025.
"We've seen an increasing recognition of the value of natural gas storage over the last few years given the impact on energy security caused by Winter Storm Uri in 2021 and recent global events. Natural gas plays a key role in ensuring that security for the future," said Scott Smith, president of Spire Storage. "Natural gas storage also helps to support and balance seasonal gas heating demand and the intermittent nature of renewable power generation, which is an increasingly important generation source in the Western U.S."
Consistent with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 7(c) project approval and FERC's issuance of a Notice to Proceed, Spire Storage started limited construction of the initial project phase in mid-August. Full project completion is expected to take place over the next two years during construction seasons that run April through October in Wyoming.
The expansion project will increase Spire Storage underground working gas storage capacity from 23 Bcf to 39 Bcf, and involves the addition of injection and withdrawal wells, compression, pipeline infrastructure, and gas processing capability. Capital expenditures for the project are expected to total $195 million.
With this expansion, Spire Storage will be in a stronger position to serve Western U.S. markets, given its interconnects with five pipelines serving California, the Rockies, and the Southwest and Northwest. The project is anticipated to deliver expanded services to existing and new customers, as well as a strong return on investment. We anticipate earnings per share accretion beginning in fiscal 2025.
About Spire
At Spire Inc. (NYSE: SR), we believe energy exists to help make people's lives better. It's a simple idea, but one that's at the heart of our company. Every day we serve 1.7 million homes and businesses making us the fifth largest publicly traded natural gas company in the country. We help families and business owners fuel their daily lives through our gas utilities serving Alabama, Mississippi and Missouri. Our natural gas-related businesses include Spire Marketing, Spire STL Pipeline and Spire Storage. We are committed to transforming our business through growing organically, investing in infrastructure, and advancing through innovation. Learn more at SpireEnergy.com.
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Spreading his wings to fly: Clark the bald eagle 'shows off a bit' as he goes through airport security in Charlotte after deciding to give his 'wings a break and go commercial'
- Clark, a bald eagle with the World Bird Sanctuary, got in line like everyone else to go through a checkpoint in North Carolina, as seen via Twitter
- The TSA's official account for airports in the region even remarked on his appearance
- 'Our special guest was Clark the Eagle with the World Bird Sanctuary, who decided to give his wings a break and fly commercial,' they wrote
- Clark was hatched with deformities on his feet, so he joined the World Bird Sanctuary's Eagle Flight Team and is one of WBS' flying ambassadors
- A spokesman for TSA says he's also witnessed baby cougars, penguins and even a 'service chicken' with dyed feathers go through their checkpoints
A bald eagle decided to give its wings a rest to fly the friendly skies like the rest of us, as it surprised TSA agents at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
Clark, a 19-year-old bald eagle with the World Bird Sanctuary, got in line with his handlers on Monday to go through a checkpoint in North Carolina, as seen via Twitter.
The TSA's official account for airports in the region even remarked on his appearance.
They wrote: 'TSA officers are used to seeing an eagle on their uniform as they look over their shoulder, but I’m sure the team at @CLTAirport Checkpoint A did a double take when they saw a real one earlier this week.
'Our special guest was Clark the Eagle with the World Bird Sanctuary, who decided to give his wings a break and fly commercial. His airline notified us and we screened him and his handler. Clark is trained to spread his wings, and even showed off a bit during screening.'
A bald eagle decided to give its wings a rest to fly the friendly skies like the rest of us, as Clark (pictured) surprised TSA agents at Charlotte Douglas International Airport earlier this week
Clark, a bald eagle with the World Bird Sanctuary, got in line with his handlers earlier this week to go through a checkpoint in North Carolina
It wasn't a total surprise, as Clark's handlers called in advance to prepare the agents for his flight.
Clark's story is a unique one, according to the WBS website: 'While all of Clark’s siblings were successfully released into the wild, Clark was hatched with scale deformities on his feet. The deformities meant that Clark’s feet would not be properly protected from the cold during the winter, and he would suffer from things like frostbite and loss of toes.'
Because of his disabilities, he joined the World Bird Sanctuary's Eagle Flight Team and is one of the organization's flying ambassadors.
In a video that has gotten thousands of views on Twitter, one person can be heard celebrating the bald eagle's presence by mentioning a cleaned-up version of a song from the film Team America: World Police, muttering 'America, heck yeah'.
Elijah Burke was the man singing along and called it 'a sight to see' while coming home from attending a wedding with his girlfriend, according to the Charlotte Observer.
Clark's handlers called in advance to prepare the agents for his flight
Clark was hatched with deformities on his feet, so he joined the World Bird Sanctuary's Eagle Flight Team and is one of WBS' flying ambassadors
In a video that has gotten thousands of views on Twitter, one person can be heard celebrating the bald eagle's presence by singing a cleaned up version of a song from the film Team America: World Police, humming 'America, heck yeah'
Mark Howell, a spokesman for TSA Southeast, said this isn't the strangest case of non-humans flying the friendly skies. He's witnessed baby cougars, penguins, and even a 'service chicken' with dyed feathers.
For Clark's trainer, Daniel Cone, it's just another day at a security checkpoint.
He told ABC News: I've traveled with this eagle so many times I don't even think twice about it anymore'.
Cone added that he and Clark don't mind the attention, even saying 'he's a ham, he eats it up'.
The agents put Clark through the same screening process they take with all service animals before he was allowed to fly. Cone has a custom-made carrier for the bird that fits in the bulkhead of the cabin. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11149365/Bald-eagle-shows-bit-goes-TSA-wings-break-fly-commercial.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-26T14:53:21Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11149365/Bald-eagle-shows-bit-goes-TSA-wings-break-fly-commercial.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
The only low fare daily, nonstop service option connecting South Florida and Nicaragua to resume Nov. 30, 2022
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MIRAMAR, Fla., Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spirit Airlines (NYSE: SAVE) today announced the resumption of its daily, nonstop service connecting Managua (MGA) and Fort Lauderdale (FLL). Spirit's return to the market plays a pivotal role in offering both convenience and affordability for family and friends to reconnect with one another, and the service provides opportunities to explore Nicaragua's historic sites, vibrant culture and natural beauty.
"We're eager to welcome back our Nicaraguan Guests and excited to make travel to and from Managua accessible for families, friends, and visitors again," said Camilo Martelo, Director of International Stations. "We have a 15-year history serving Nicaragua and are proud to give South Florida and Managua back the affordable fares and signature service they've come to know when traveling between our countries."
The daily, nonstop service to FLL starts November 30 and offers connections to 26 cities across Spirit's network.
The resumption of Managua service increases the airline's international service to 29 markets across Latin America and the Caribbean, including neighboring Central American destinations in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Panama.
Spirit's Elevated Guest Experience
Spirit continues its commitment to invest in the Guest, which entails a number of initiatives aimed at delivering the best value in the sky:
- Spirit's Fit Fleet® is one of the most fuel-efficient fleets in the industry, with 24 brand new planes planned for delivery this year, and 33 more planes projected for delivery in 2023.
- The Free Spirit® loyalty program, which is the fastest way to earn rewards and status*
- An all-new cabin interior with ergonomically-designed seats and more usable legroom, featuring the best deal in the sky with our unique Big Front Seat®.
- Fast onboard Wi-Fi that allows Guests to watch content from streaming services.
Recognition
Spirit was recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Employers for Diversity 2022 following its active efforts to create and celebrate a diverse workplace environment. The carrier also won "Best Airport Innovation" in the 2021 APEX/IFSA Awards for its groundbreaking self-bag drop system with biometric photo matching, which speeds up the check-in process and reduces face-to-face contact. Spirit also recently received the FAA's "Aviation Maintenance Technician Diamond Award of Excellence" for the fourth consecutive year.
* Based on points earned on published fares (excluding sale fares) and optional services using the Free Spirit Credit Card (the "Card"), and includes status qualifying points earned by spending on Spirit and everyday purchases using the Card.
About Spirit Airlines:
Spirit Airlines (NYSE: SAVE) is committed to delivering the best value in the sky. We are the leader in providing customizable travel options starting with an unbundled fare. This allows our Guests to pay only for the options they choose — like bags, seat assignments and refreshments — something we call À La Smarte®. We make it possible for our Guests to venture further and discover more than ever before. Our Fit Fleet® is one of the youngest and most fuel-efficient in the U.S. We serve destinations throughout the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean, and are dedicated to giving back and improving those communities. Come save with us at spirit.com.
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MOSCOW (AP) — The authoritarian leader of Belarus said Friday that the country's warplanes have been modified to carry nuclear weapons in line with an agreement with ally Russia.
President Alexander Lukashenko said the upgrade followed his June meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who offered to make Belarusian combat aircraft nuclear-capable at Russian factories and to help train pilots.
“Do you think it was all blather?” Lukashenko said to reporters Friday. “All of it has been done.”
Russia used the territory of Belarus as a staging ground to send troops into Ukraine, and Moscow and Minsk have maintained close military ties.
Lukashenko, who has been president since 1994, warned the United States and its allies against carrying out a “provocation” against Belarus. He said “the targets have been selected” for retaliation, if his warning is not heeded.
He didn't specify how many Belarusian warplanes received the upgrade to make them capable to carry nuclear warheads. The Kremlin had no immediate comment on Lukashenko's statement.
Earlier this year, Lukashenko said his country could host Russian nuclear weapons if the U.S. and its allies deployed nuclear weapons to NATO members Poland and Lithuania, which border Belarus.
Lukashenko has ruled Belarus with an iron hand for 28 years while relying on Russia's political and economic support. In 2020, Moscow helped him survive the largest and the most sustained wave of mass protests in the country’s history, which followed a presidential election that the opposition and the West denounced as rigged. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Leader-says-Belarusian-warplanes-made-ready-to-17400069.php | 2022-08-26T14:58:55Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Leader-says-Belarusian-warplanes-made-ready-to-17400069.php | true |
After Italy's fines for wearing bikinis – other seemingly innocent activities that could mean a hefty fine abroad, from building sandcastles to taking a souvenir pebble
- Italy's Sorrento resort has banned bikinis, with rule flouters risking a £425 fine
- Want to build a sandcastle on Levante Beach in Benidorm? You'll need a permit
- Want a pebble from Lalaria beach on Skiathos as a souvenir? Think again...
As if going abroad wasn't expensive enough, holidaymakers must also be vigilant about seemingly innocent activities that could land them with a hefty fine.
We recently reported that Italy's Sorrento resort has banned bikinis, with people wearing them risking a £425 (500-euro/$500) fine for 'indecency'.
Now FairFX has listed a few more surprising ways that holidaymakers could be fined, from building sandcastles to taking a souvenir pebble and from washing their hair on the beach to sleeping on one. It warns: 'Research your destination ahead of your departure to check for rules or restrictions that could cost you.' Scroll down to get a headstart…
Building a sandcastle on Levante Beach (above) in Benidorm could cost you
Want to build a sandcastle on Levante Beach in Benidorm? You'll need a municipal permit beforehand otherwise you could be fined up to 150 euros (£125/$150).
Smoking on the beach, sleeping on the beach and using shampoo or soap on beaches could also result in fines of hundreds of euros.
Fancy sipping a beer while out and about walking in Madrid or Barcelona? Beware. Drinking in public is banned in those cities. Flout this rule and you could be fined up to 600 euros (£500/$600).
And like Sorrento, there are some places in Spain where bikinis are banned.
Greece
Taking souvenir pebbles from Lalaria beach (above) on Skiathos is not allowed
Lalaria beach on the island of Skiathos – where Mamma Mia! was filmed - is festooned with beautiful round white pebbles. Tourists have found them irresistible and took to removing them to keep as souvenirs.
After worries surfaced that this was slowly destroying the beach, a 'take a picture, not a pebble' campaign was launched. And the removal of pebbles banned.
The authorities there even installed a pebble amnesty box at the airport.
Caught stealing one of the famed pebbles and you could be hit with a 775- (£655/$775) euro fine.
Portugal
Pitching a tent in Portugal in the wrong place could cost holidaymakers hundreds of euros
Wild camping is a no-no in Portugal and could result in a fine of up to 600 euros (£500/$600).
The country has also banned smoking in enclosed public areas, with fines of up to 750 euros (£635/$750) for those that flout the rule.
Italy
On top of the bikini ban in Sorrento, tourists should also be aware that from next year, they'll need to pay a fee of three to 10 euros (£2.50 to £8.50/three to 10 dollars) to visit Venice.
Those who don't pay up could be fined up to 300 euros (£255/$300).
Britons must display a UK sticker on their cars when driving them in the EU – the GB identifiers are no longer allowed
Across Europe
Britons must display a UK sticker on their cars when driving them in the EU – the GB identifiers are no longer allowed.
If they flout this rule they could be fined up to £120 (141 euros/$141).
Jack Mitchell, Head of Travel Money at FairFX, said: 'With holiday budgets being tightened amid the cost of living crisis, incurring unexpected fines abroad could put a significant strain on your budget. What's worrying is that you could be caught out visiting a country you've been to many times before as many rules have been recently introduced.
'To avoid any unexpected fines, make sure you research your destination ahead of your departure to check for rules or restrictions that could cost you. We'd recommend checking out the local news, talking to your travel provider or tourist information, and using an app or translation device to make sure you understand signs that could be warning you of hidden costs. In particular, we're seeing holiday hotspots introduce new rules to protect locals and the environment.
'If faced with a fine, always pay in the local currency or on a specialist currency card so you don't get caught out with hidden exchange fees.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-11148989/How-building-sandcastles-shampooing-hair-fine-holiday.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-08-26T15:03:42Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-11148989/How-building-sandcastles-shampooing-hair-fine-holiday.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | true |
Secret Service recovers $286M in stolen pandemic loans
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service said Friday that it has recovered $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic loans and is returning the money to the Small Business Administration.
The Secret Service said an investigation initiated by its Orlando office found that alleged conspirators submitted Economic Injury Disaster Loan applications by using fake or stolen employment and personal information and used an online bank, Green Dot, to conceal and move their criminal proceeds.
The agency worked with Green Dot to identify roughly 15,000 accounts and seize $286 million connected to the accounts.
“This forfeiture effort and those to come are a direct and necessary response to the unprecedented size and scope of pandemic relief fraud,” said Kevin Chambers, director for COVID-19 fraud enforcement at the Justice Department.
Billions have been fraudulently claimed through various pandemic relief programs — including Paycheck Protection Program loans, unemployment insurance and others that were rolled out in the midst of the worldwide pandemic that shutdown global economies for months.
In March, the Government Accountability Office reported that while agencies were able to distribute COVID-19 relief funds quickly, “the tradeoff was that they did not have systems in place to prevent and identify payment errors and fraud” due in part to “financial management weaknesses.”
As a result, the GAO has recommended several measures for agencies to prevent pandemic program fraud in the future, including better reporting on their fraud risk management efforts.
Since 2020, the Secret Service initiated more than 3,850 pandemic related fraud investigations, seized over $1.4 billion in fraudulently obtained funds and helped to return $2.3 billion to state unemployment insurance programs.
The latest seizure included a collaboration of efforts between Secret Service, the SBA’s Inspector General, DOJ and other offices.
Hannibal “Mike” Ware, the Small Business Administration’s inspector general, said the joint investigations will continue “to ensure that taxpayer dollars obtained through fraudulent means will be returned to taxpayers and fraudsters involved face justice.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is designating some toxic industrial compounds used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances under the so-called Superfund law.
The designation means that releases of long-lasting chemicals known as PFOA and PFOS that meet or exceed a certain quantity would have to be reported to federal, state or tribal officials. The requirement would increase understanding of the extent and locations of the contamination and help communities avoid or reduce contact with the potentially dangerous chemicals, the EPA said.
PFOA and PFOS have been voluntarily phased out by U.S. manufacturers but are still in limited use and remain in the environment because they do not degrade over time. The compounds are part of a larger cluster of “forever chemicals” known as PFAS that have been used in consumer products and industry since the 1940s.
PFAS is short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, which are used in nonstick frying pans, water-repellent sports gear, stain-resistant rugs, cosmetics and countless other consumer products.
The chemicals can accumulate and persist in the human body for long periods of time, and evidence from animal and human studies indicates that exposure to PFOA or PFOS may lead to cancer or other health problems.
“Communities have suffered far too long from exposure to these forever chemicals,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement Friday. “The action announced today will improve transparency and advance EPA’s aggressive efforts to confront this pollution.”
Under the proposed rule, “EPA will both help protect communities from PFAS pollution and seek to hold polluters accountable for their actions,” Regan said.
The EPA’s action follows a recent report by the National Academies of Science that calls PFAS a serious public health threat in the U.S. and worldwide.
Regan said many sources of PFAS contamination are near communities already overburdened with pollution. The proposed rule would provide the agency with improved data and the option to require cleanups and recover cleanup costs to protect public health, he said.
The move follows an EPA announcement in June that PFOA and PFOS are more dangerous than previously thought and pose health risks even at levels so low they cannot currently be detected.
The agency issued nonbinding health advisories that set health risk thresholds for PFOA and PFOS to near zero, replacing 2016 guidelines that had set them at 70 parts per trillion. The chemicals are found in products including cardboard packaging, carpets and firefighting foam and increasingly found in drinking water.
The EPA said in a statement that it is focused on holding responsible those who have manufactured and released significant amounts of PFOA and PFOS into the environment. The agency also said it is committed to further outreach and engagement to hear from communities affected by PFAS pollution.
Several states have set their own drinking water limits to address PFAS contamination that are far tougher than the federal guidance.
The revised health guidelines issued in June are based on new science and take into consideration lifetime exposure to the chemicals. Officials are no longer confident that PFAS levels allowed under the 2016 guidelines are safe from adverse health impacts, an EPA spokesman said.
Attorney Rob Bilott, an anti-PFAS advocate, said the EPA’s proposal “sends a loud and clear message to the entire world that the United States is finally acknowledging and accepting the now overwhelming evidence that these man-made poisons present substantial danger to the public health and the environment.”
Bilott, whose work to uncover the widespread presence of PFAS chemicals in the environment and in human blood was highlighted in the 2019 film “Dark Waters,” represents states, water providers and others affected by PFAS contamination. He said in a statement that any hazardous substance designation under the Superfund law must be implemented so the costs of cleaning up the toxins are borne by PFAS manufacturers who caused the contamination — “not the innocent victims of this pollution who didn’t create the toxins and were never warned any of this was ever happening.”
Erik Olson, a health and food expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, called the announcement an important step to clean up hundreds of contaminated sites across the country and protect millions of families exposed to the toxic chemicals.
“Listing PFOA and PFOS as hazardous under Superfund law should allow EPA to hold polluters responsible for that contamination,” he said. “Ratepayers and public utilities should not be footing the bill for industry’s decades of wonton use of these dangerous chemicals.”
The EPA said it expects to propose national drinking water regulations for PFOA and PFOS later this year, with a final rule expected in 2023.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark message Friday: The Fed will likely impose more large interest rate hikes in coming months and is resolutely focused on taming the highest inflation in four decades.
Powell also warned more explicitly than he has in the past that the Fed’s continued tightening of credit will cause pain for many households and businesses as its higher rates further slow the economy and potentially lead to job losses.
“These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation,” he said in a high-profile speech at the Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole. “But a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain.”
Investors had been hoping for a signal that the Fed might soon moderate its rate increases later this year if inflation were to show further signs of easing. But the Fed chair indicated that that time may not be near.
After hiking its key short term rate by three-quarters of a point at each of its past two meetings — part of the Fed’s fastest series of rate increases since the early 1980s — Powell said the Fed might ease up on that pace “at some point” — suggesting that any such slowing isn’t near.
Powell said the size of the Fed’s rate increase at its next meeting in late September — whether one-half or three-quarters of a percentage point — will depend on inflation and jobs data. An increase of either size, though, would exceed the Fed’s traditional quarter-point hike, a reflection of how severe inflation has become.
The Fed chair said that while lower inflation readings that have been reported for July have been “welcome,” “a single month’s improvement falls far short of what the Committee will need to see before we are confident that inflation is moving down.”
He noted that the history of high inflation in the 1970s, when the central bank sought to counter high prices with only intermittent rate hikes, shows that the Fed must stay focused.
“The historical record cautions strongly against prematurely” lowering interest rates, he said. “We must keep at it until the job is done.”
Powell’s speech is the marquee event of the the Fed’s annual economic symposium at Jackson Hole, the first time the conference of central bankers is being held in person since 2019, after it went virtual for two years during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since March, the Fed has implemented its fastest pace of rate increases in decades to try to curbinflation, which has punished households with soaring costs for food, gas, rent and other necessities. The central bank has lifted its benchmark rate by 2 full percentage points in just four meetings, to a range of 2.25% to 2.5%.
Those hikes have led to higher costs for mortgages, car loans and other consumer and business borrowing. Home sales have been plunging since the Fed first signaled it would raise borrowing costs.
In June, the Fed’s policymakers signaled that they expected their key rate to end 2022 in a range of 3.25% to 3.5% and then to rise further next year to between 3.75% and 4%. If rates reached their projected level at the end of this year, they would be at the highest point since 2008.
Powell is betting that he can engineer a high-risk outcome: Slow the economy enough to ease inflation pressures yet not so much as to trigger a recession.
His task has been complicated by the economy’s cloudy picture: On Thursday, the government said the economy shrank at a 0.6% annual rate in the April-June period, the second straight quarter of contraction. Yet employers are still hiring rapidly, and the number of people seeking unemployment aid, a measure of layoffs, remains relatively low.
At the same time, inflation is still crushingly high, though it has shown some signs of easing, notably in the form of declining gas prices.
At its meeting in July, Fed policymakers expressed two competing concerns that highlighted their delicate task.
According to minutes from that meeting, the officials — who aren’t identified by name — have prioritized their inflation fight. Still, some officials said there was a risk that the Fed would raise borrowing costs more than necessary, risking a recession. If inflation were to fall closer to the Fed’s 2% target and the economy weakened further, those diverging views could become hard to reconcile.
At last year’s Jackson Hole symposium, Powell listed five reasons why he thought inflation would be “transitory.” Yet instead it has persisted, and many economists have noted that those remarks haven’t aged well.
Powell indirectly acknowledged that history at the outset of his remarks Friday, when he said that, “at past Jackson Hole conferences, I have discussed broad topics such as the ever-changing structure of the economy and the challenges of conducting monetary policy.”
“Today,” he said, “my remarks will be shorter, my focus narrower and my message more direct.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-powells-jackson-hole-speech-will-stir-speculation-on-rates/ | 2022-08-26T15:20:39Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-powells-jackson-hole-speech-will-stir-speculation-on-rates/ | true |
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- Two men, who police said tried to shot and kill someone in a mall parking lot, are now behind bars, according to Fayetteville Police Department.
On Thursday around 7:00 p.m., officers responded to multiple calls of shots being fired in the Cross Creek Mall parking lot.
When officers arrived witnesses told police that the suspects, 21-year-old Jahrehl Malloy and 24-year-old Nyghil Kirk were trying to get away in a silver Volkswagen Golf.
Officers found the car in the parking lot and the two were taken into custody.
According to a preliminary investigation, a 22-year-old man was the intended shooting target. His identity is being withheld for his safety.
Police said as the victim exited the food court of the mall a suspect was hiding behind a vehicle in the parking lot as the other suspect walked up to him. The victim attempted to get away when both suspects began shooting at him.
Both Mallow and Kirk face multiple charges including attempted first-degree murder. They are being held at the Cumberland County Detention Center. | https://abc11.com/cross-creek-mall-arrests-made-jahrehl-malloy-nyghil-kirk/12168469/ | 2022-08-26T15:22:30Z | https://abc11.com/cross-creek-mall-arrests-made-jahrehl-malloy-nyghil-kirk/12168469/ | false |
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Summer may be coming to an end, but Oscar Mayer is not letting the hot dog’s most popular season go quietly.
The brand has teamed up with Popbar, a frozen dessert company known for gelato on a stick, to create the Cold Dog, a frozen treat that tastes like an Oscar Mayer wiener!
The brand says the Cold Dog, which is served on a stick, is both refreshing and smokey, with notes of Oscar Mayer’s hot dog and a drizzle of “mustard.” They do not say what the “mustard” actually is, but if you’re willing to try a frozen pop that tastes like a hot dog, we’re willing to bet you’re probably up for whatever that flavor is, too.
Unfortunately, not every hot dog fan will get a chance to try the Cold Dog, as it is only available for a limited time at Popbar locations in Long Beach, California; Alpharetta, Georgia (the Atlanta area); New Orleans; and New York City, while supplies last. If you live near one of the Popbar locations, you’ll find it on the menu for $2.
If it proves popular, however, perhaps Oscar Mayer will figure out a way to launch it nationwide so everyone can get their hands on one.
The Cold Dog is part of a “Stupid or Genius” campaign, which focuses on some unique ways to enjoy Oscar Mayer’s hot dog beyond traditional grilling and throwing it on a bun. The Cold Dog sparked a social media debate earlier this summer, but thousands of fans decided it was “genius,” so the brand made it a reality.
Even the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile has received an “icy” makeover in celebration. The 27-foot-long hot dog on wheels is now a frozen pop truck with frosted windows, icicle-inspired decorations and more.
“After the overwhelming fan excitement for our beloved Cold Dog, it was a no-brainer to make this hot dog-inspired frozen pop a reality,” Anne Field, head of North American brand communications at Oscar Mayer, said in a press release. “For more than 130 years, Oscar Mayer has been sparking smiles and bringing levity into everyday moments, and we are thrilled to bring fans another wonderfully odd way to enjoy our iconic wiener while beating the summer heat.”
While there’s no doubt a frozen pop flavored like a hotdog is a bit interesting, it’s not the first time Oscar Mayer has transformed one of their foods.
Earlier this year, the brand launched a bologna-inspired moisturizing face mask created with Korean beauty and skincare company Seoul Mamas. The mask looked like Oscar Mayer’s most well-known product — sliced bologna — and was made with witch hazel botanical and seaweed-derived ingredients, plus collagens to lock in moisture and promote skin elasticity. (As of this writing, they’re currently unavailable.)
Would you try Oscar Mayer’s new Cold Dog?
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA/SNN) – A chef who has cooked in some of the finest hotels across the world is making his authentic Cuban cuisine for residents at a Sarasota senior living community.
Chef Julio Rivero is bringing some delicious joy to tables at the Fountain at Lake Pointe Woods.
He spoke with the Suncoast News Network (SNN) on Thursday.
Chef Rivero began his career at Cuba’s Hotel Brisas Covarrubias. Now, he’s happy to bring his expertise to the Sarasota retirement community.
“The nice place to work, to live in, to share everything here, with residents, with workers,” Chef Rivero told SNN.
“He’s caring and he tries to please everyone,” said Rose Sobol, a five-year resident of Fountain at Lake Pointe Woods.
Last week, the chef hosted a Spanish Night for the seniors, cooking lamb, calamari and octopus.
“I love the Spanish night here because it reminded me of my visit to Spain,” Sobol said.
Chef Rivero said he makes everything with a “little bit of Cuba in every plate” along with the love he puts in to every dish.
The residents of Fountain at Lake Pointe Woods love him.
“He is so accommodating, he remembers everything I like and he’s very very good… he’s an outstanding chef and a lovely person,” said Sobol.
“I’m doing everything I can to make the residents happy,” said Chef Rivero.
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Three men were arrested by armed police today after a spate of BB gun shootings across Oldham. The suspects were stopped by officers in an Armed Response Vehicle in Salford.
The men's car was intercepted on Bury New Road, Higher Broughton, Salford just after 1am today near the McDonald's restaurant. A spokesperson for GMP said: "Three men were arrested on firearms offences and a number of BB guns were recovered. "
The swoop followed numerous reports of BB guns being fired in Oldham over the past five evenings. Three hours before the arrests a discharge of a firearm was reported in Villa Road, Oldham, off the main A627, at about 10pm.
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Then at midnight there was another BB gun shooting in Union Street in the town centre. A member of the public managed to get a registration number of the vehicle the culprit was in and it was circulated throughout the force. No one was injured during the series of shootings. Two other suspects were arrested in a separate swoop on another vehicle.
In an online post Oldham Police said: "We're aware of reports being made to us in recent days about the use of BB guns in the local area. We'll continue to take positive action and actively pursue lines of enquiry. Currently, we have five in custody as well as seizing two vehicles and five weapons."
Meanwhile in another incident in Oldham a boy of 16 was arrested after reports of a person with what was believed to be a firearm prowling a the town centre. The teenager was detained after the alarm was raised during the middle of the day. A large number of police responded and made the arrest in the Union Street area at 1pm yesterday.
Footage of the incident posted online shows there was a large police presence by the Oldham Central Metrolink tram stop and dozens of people gathered in the street.
A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police said: “We were called at around 1pm to a report of a man with what appeared to be a firearm on Union Street, Oldham. A 16-year-old boy was detained and taken to custody."
The suspect has since been released and no further action is being taken against him. The firearm turned out to be a paint ball gun. Police said recently several people in Oldham town centre had been shot at with a paint ball gun.
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Ongoing shift to digital media constricting real sales
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- US demand for paper industry machinery (including parts and attachments) is forecast to see less than 1.0% annual growth in nominal terms through 2026, according to Paper Industry Machinery: United States, a report recently released by Freedonia Focus Reports. Increases will be the result of rising prices for machinery and parts. Real gains will be prevented by declining demand for writing and printing paper, as individuals, offices, and schools continue to shift to digital media. Additionally, the large amount of capital investment by paper and paperboard producers in 2021 and 2022 will hinder investment in subsequent years. However, the ongoing shift to e-commerce will support investment in machinery for the production of paperboard packaging. Efforts among paper and board producers to reduce operating costs through upgrades to more efficient and faster machinery will also boost sales. Demand for paper industry machinery and parts is forecast to grow 1.7% in 2022, with nominal gains reflecting rising prices.
These and other key insights are featured in Paper Industry Machinery: United States. This report forecasts to 2022 and 2026 US paper industry machinery and parts demand and shipments in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level. Total demand is segmented by product in terms of:
- wood preparation and other pulp mill machinery
- converting machinery
- paper production machinery
- finishing machinery
- parts and attachments
To illustrate historical trends, total demand, total shipments, the various segments, and trade are provided in annual series from 2011 to 2021.
Printing machinery is excluded from the scope of this report. Re-exports of paper industry machinery are excluded from demand and trade figures. Trade figures include movements of used equipment.
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- segment-by-segment outlook in five-year forecasts
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NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for NBEV, BBBY, BXRX, ATHX, and BILI.
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OSLO, Norway, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nordic Nanovector ASA (OSE: NANOV) ("Nordic Nanovector" or the "Company") today announces that further to the decisions to discontinue the PARADIGME study for its lead asset Betalutin®, restructure the company and appoint Carnegie Investment Bank to explore strategic options the senior leadership team will be consolidated, and current Chief Executive Officer Erik Skullerud will transition out of his role.
Nordic Nanovector's Chief Financial Officer Malene Brondberg will assume the combined position of CFO and interim CEO while the Company continues to work with Carnegie to explore strategic options.
The Board has initiated this strategic exercise with the aim of optimising shareholder value, following the slow recruitment and subsequent disappointing data from the PARADIGME clinical trial, while in parallel recognising the need to conserve resources during the process.
Chairman, Jan H. Egberts commented: "It is important that we make the changes needed to restructure our business in the difficult circumstances we now face following the disappointing results from Betalutin® in third line FL. As a result, we have now implemented staff reductions at all levels of the company to minimise costs. While difficult, we believe this is the most responsible course of action given the interests of our stakeholders. I would like to extend my sincere gratitude and thanks to all of Nordic Nanovector's departing staff, including Erik Skullerud for his leadership and significant contributions and commitment to the company."
Further detail on the company's restructuring will be given at Nordic Nanovector's Q2 2022 results, which will be announced on 31 August 2022.
No assurances can be given as to the outcome or timing of the review process being conducted by Carnegie. Nordic Nanovector does not intend to make any further public comment regarding the review until it has been completed or the Company determines that disclosure is required or appropriate.
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About Nordic Nanovector:
Nordic Nanovector is committed to develop and deliver innovative therapies to patients to address major unmet medical needs and advance cancer care. The Company aspires to become a leader in radionuclide therapy of cancer. In addition to Betalutin®,for which Nordic Nanovector retains global marketing rights, the Company's novel pipeline includes Humalutin®, a radioimmunotherapy candidate based on a chimeric anti-CD37 antibody and the beta emitter lutetium-177 for NHL; Alpha37, a based on a chimeric anti-CD37 antibody and the alpha emitting radionuclide lead-212, currently being explored with partner Oranomed for relapsed refractory chronic lymphocytic leukaemia; a portfolio of fully humanized anti-CD37 antibodies with potential in haematological cancers and autoimmune diseases; and a CD37 DOTA CAR-T cell opportunity in haematological cancers, which is the subject of a research collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania.
Further information can be found at www.nordicnanovector.com.
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This stock exchange announcement was published by Malene Brondberg, chief financial officer at Nordic Nanovector on 26 August 2022 at the CEST time stated in this announcement on behalf of the Nordic Nanovector.
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Guitar Aficionados Sought to Verify John Lennon's Ownership of 1957 Gibson Les Paul
NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Daredevil Falls today announced the release of its self-titled debut album, produced by Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids, The Lumineers, Edward Sharpe, and the Magnetic Zeros). The project is helmed by independent singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Kimberlin.
A world of inventiveness can be found across Daredevil Falls, and each song has its own sonic atmosphere and emotional energy—as first heard on lead singles "4,444" and "Arms of Bliss." The album traverses the ups and downs, trials and tribulations, heartaches, heartbreaks, and joy we experience through love.
Daredevil Falls is moored to the honest sharing of real-life experiences. Its mood can appear chaotic at times, and this is fueled by Kimberlin's passionate curiosity about understanding human nature, which ultimately threads a beautiful narrative that is equal parts provocative, complex, and playful. Tonally, the album is bold and theatrical, with up-tempo, bluesy-funk-centric sounds that take listeners on a trippy and magical ride.
"With this record, I set out to create something different that speaks to my generation," Kimberlin says. "Since I didn't have any time constraints, like the deadline of a tour or a record company launch date, I could take the time to give each song its own uniqueness and story and weave them into this longer drama of a relationship and how it evolves and survives."
Across fourteen intricately arranged tracks, Kimberlin showcases his inventive musical exploration in songwriting and instrumentation. Daredevil Falls offers a collection of unique and unforgettable songs featuring intricate guitar work, intimate lyrics, and unexpected instrumental twists and turns.
Kimberlin has a storied past in the music business. He came up during the 1970's punk/glam rock scene, hanging out with the Ramones, auditioning for Jimmy Page's Swan Song label, and opening for rock legends The New York Dolls and KISS. During one memorable show at the Hotel Diplomat in 1973, KISS frontman Paul Stanley asked Kimberlin to trade guitars; Stanley swapped a 1957 Gibson Les Paul Sunburst that he alleged was once owned by John Lennon for Kimberlin's Gibson Flying V.
Coinciding with the album launch, Kimberlin is asking guitar geeks, social media sleuths, and obsessive Lennon historians to help validate whether his Gibson Les Paul was in fact once owned by Lennon. On proof of authentication, the 'winner' will receive a $1,000 gift card for Gibson.com. Those looking to join the hunt and become a #DaredevilDetective can follow the mystery on Reddit at u/daredevilfalls_.
Daredevil Falls is available on Spotify, Apple Music, and SoundCloud.
Kevin Kimberlin is an experienced and gifted singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and the force behind Daredevil Falls, an ambitious new album that's the culmination of a lifetime of lessons learned. Mr. Kimberlin also serves as chairman of an advanced technology development firm that discovers and supports life supporting ventures.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt slugged his 32nd and 33rd homers to highlight a five-RBI performance and position himself in the Triple Crown discussion, helping the St. Louis Cardinals roll to an 8-3 win Thursday over the Chicago Cubs.
Goldschmidt increased his NL-leading RBI total to 105 and also leads the NL in batting average (.339). He is second to Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies (35) in home runs, and Thursday was the the third time this season Goldschmidt had a multi-homer game and the 23rd time in his career.
“If something like that (the Triple Crown) happened, it would be a miracle,” Goldschmidt said. “So to think that’s realistic is probably pretty far-fetched. It would be amazing, but to think that’s a goal for anyone is a crazy standard.”
Goldschmidt, Corey Dickerson and Tommy Edman collected three hits apiece as the NL Central-leading Cardinals won for the 10th time in their last 12 games and concluded a 6-2 trip.
Dickerson set an expansion-era franchise record for consecutive hits — 10 in 10 consecutive plate appearances. He sparked a three-run first inning with an RBI single for his ninth consecutive hit, breaking the previous mark of eight held by Curt Flood (1964, 1968), Felix Jose (1991) and Fernando Tatis (1998).
The Cardinals collected 16 hits even without slugger Nolan Arenado, who returned to St. Louis to attend the birth of his first child. But that was plenty of support for Dakota Hudson (7-6), who pitched a season-high seven innings of five-hit ball.
The Cubs lost for the fourth time in six games. Starter Marcus Stroman (3-6) gave up 11 hits and five runs, all earned, in five innings. It was one more hit than he’d surrendered against them on June 3.
“It looked like it just took (Stroman) a minute to get going, and I don’t think he found that rhythm out of the stretch,” Cubs manager David Ross said. “He was in (the stretch) a lot. They were jumping on him early in the count sometimes.”
Nolan Gorman followed Dickerson’s first-inning hit with an RBI single, and Tyler O’Neill capped it with a sacrifice fly.
Goldschmidt hit a two-run single in the fourth off Stroman, then smacked a solo shot that landed near the top of the left-field bleachers off Sean Newcomb in the sixth and had a two-run shot in the eighth off Kervin Castro.
Cubs left fielder Ian Happ provided the bulk of the Cubs’ offense, hitting a double and scoring on a throwing error by Edman in the second, and following that with an RBI single in the third. Happ also hit a double that eluded right fielder Lars Nootbaar to score Nico Hoerner in the eighth.
THE LAST DANCE
Neither Albert Pujols nor Yadier Molina were in the lineup in their final visit to Wrigley Field.
Pujols, 42, an 11-time All-Star who ranks fifth all-time with 693 career home runs, and nine-time Gold Glove winner Molina, 40, were presented with Wrigley scoreboard panels with their numbers in a pregame ceremony.
“This guy has beat up on this club for a lot of years, and I wanted him to taste it one more time,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said of his failed attempt to give Pujols a pinch-hitting appearance in the ninth inning.
NO-GO TO TORONTO
The Cubs expect three to four players won’t travel to Toronto for a three-game series starting Monday, Cubs’ President of Business Operations Jed Hoyer said. The names of the players will be disclosed Sunday in Milwaukee.
Canada’s government states that all visitors must be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to enter the country.
“You want to play at full strength all the time, but we have to make certain decisions in order to make sure we’re able to fill out a roster and be competitive up there,” Hoyer said. “It’s not something we look forward to. It’s not idea. But it’s also baseball in 2022 when you go to Toronto.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cubs: C Willson Contreras (sore left ankle) missed his third consecutive start but is expected to return as soon as Friday. … RHP Adbert Alzolay (right shoulder strain) was scheduled to throw a bullpen session Thursday at Triple-A Iowa. … RHP Manny Rodriguez (right elbow strain) is scheduled to pitch this weekend for Iowa. Rodriguez has struck out five in his last two outings for Iowa.
TRANSACTIONS
Cardinals: RHP Ryan Helsley will rejoin the team Friday, manager Oliver Marmol said. Helsley was placed on the restricted list following the birth of his wife Alex’s first child.
UP NEXT
Cardinals: Will start LHP Jose Quintana (4-5, 3.45 ERA) Friday night at Atlanta. Quintana allowed four runs (two earned) in a season-low 2 2/3 innings in a 6-4 win Sunday over the Diamondbacks.
Cubs: Will start LHP Justin Steele (4-7, 3.25) Friday night at Milwaukee. Steele pitched six shutout innings Sunday in a 5-2 loss to the Brewers.
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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys left tackle Tyron Smith is expected to return at some point this season after sustaining a torn left hamstring that also injured the knee, team owner and general manager Jerry Jones said Thursday.
Jones said during an appearance on ESPN that he wasn’t sure if Smith’s injury would require surgery but that the eight-time Pro Bowler would return late in the season.
A person with knowledge of the injury, which happened in practice Wednesday night, said Smith had a torn hamstring with a knee fracture that resulted from the tendon pulling away from the bone. ESPN first reported the injury.
Speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because there was no official announcement of the injury, the person said it appeared Smith would be sidelined until December.
Smith was injured during 11-on-11 drills when he went to engage linebacker Leighton Vander Esch about 5 yards downfield before crumpling to the turf. He walked off the field without help and later walked past reporters outside the locker room.
The 31-year-old Smith has been hampered mostly by back, neck and ankle injuries in recent years. Smith has missed at least three games each season since 2016. He played just two games in 2020 before season-ending neck surgery.
Rookie first-round pick Tyler Smith could replace him. Tyler Smith has been working at left guard but was the starting left tackle at Tulsa. He missed both practices this week with an ankle injury.
“We’ve played a lot of games without Tyron,” Jones said on ESPN. “Not as successfully as we do with him. But in the meantime we’ve got a guy named Tyler Smith who’s come on the scene.”
The injury is a major blow to an offensive line that was already in transition.
The Cowboys were counting on Smith and five-time All-Pro right guard Zack Martin as the anchors for a unit that is young and relatively inexperienced at the other three spots. Dallas probably just added a fourth spot to that concern.
Josh Ball, a fourth-round pick last year, has replaced Tyron Smith at times during training camp this year. Ball missed all of his rookie season with an ankle injury.
If Tyler Smith moves to left tackle, third-year player Connor McGovern is the likely choice at left guard. Before Tyron Smith’s injury, McGovern, who missed all of his rookie year with a torn pectoral muscle, was expected to start ahead of Tyler Smith. Tyler Biadasz, another third-year player, is the center.
Without Tyron Smith, quarterback Dak Prescott is missing the veteran blocker on his blind side and two other starters from last year’s line while moving on without top receiver Amari Cooper, who was traded to Cleveland in a cost-cutting move in the offseason. CeeDee Lamb is taking over the No. 1 receiving role from Cooper.
The defending NFC East champs, who lost a wild-card game at home to San Francisco in January, open the season with two tough home games. The opener is against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sept. 11 before Joe Burrow and the AFC champion Cincinnati Bengals visit.
“I like where we are relative to our skill positions and frankly, our challenge is in our offensive line,” Jones said. “The offensive talent has got to step up with the recognition that we can’t count on what you might have had up there.”
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Who will snap up a piece of the multi-quadrillion-pound moon pie?
Worth a scarcely-believable multi-quadrillion pounds, the moon’s resources could solve the world’s energy crisis, meet the future demand for smartphones and electric cars, and get us to Mars and beyond.
But sitting there, 240,000 miles from Earth – and with no clear way of mining these precious metals, water and helium – these riches remain tantalisingly out of reach.
Not for long, however, with next week’s launch of NASA’s Artemis I moon rocket set to act as the starting gun for a return to the lunar surface and aspirations to create a human base on the moon.
Once that is in place, attention will turn to mining resources — first as a battle between nations such as the US and China, but before long many of the world’s biggest conglomerates.
They will all be hoping to grab a piece of the moon pie, which includes an estimated £168 billion ($206 billion) worth of water – vital for launching deep space missions from the lunar surface – billions of pounds of gold and £1.2 quadrillion ($1.5 quadrillion) of helium.
These are extremely rough estimates of value. No one knows quite how much water, metals and minerals exist deep within the moon, while the economics of supply and demand also have a huge bearing on putting a price on the riches.
But there is definitely huge wealth at stake and there will be no shortage of companies trying to get their hands on it, even if it does require significant technological advances to extract the materials.
Worth a scarcely-believable multi-quadrillion pounds, the moon’s resources could solve the world’s energy crisis, meet the future demand for smartphones and electric cars, and get us to Mars and beyond. Firms will all be hoping for a piece of the pie, which includes an estimated £168 billion ($206 billion) worth of water and £1.2 quadrillion ($1.5 quadrillion) of helium
At least six countries and a flurry of private firms have so far publicly announced more than 250 missions to the moon to take place within the next decade.
Many of these include plans for permanent lunar bases and are motivated in large part by ambitions to assess and begin utilising our lunar satellite’s natural resources.
Speaking to MailOnline, several experts shared their thoughts on what would be the main attractions for firms, ways they could mine the minerals and how it might benefit people on Earth.
Among them are basalt, iron, quartz and silicon, which could all be used for windows, stoneware and solar panels on Earth, while precious metals for electronics include platinum, palladium and rhodium.
Scandium, yttrium and other metals, which could be used in vehicle engines, to make glass or ceramics, electronic devices and radar systems, also exist within the lunar surface.
Scientists have even discovered titanium ore that is ten times richer than that found on Earth.
Rarer still is helium-3, a gas that could be used as a clean and powerful fuel for nuclear fusion reactors, while water trapped in lunar ice hidden deep in the shadow of polar craters could be turned into oxygen and rocket fuel.
Blast off! Next week’s launch of NASA’s Artemis I moon rocket will act as the starting gun for a return to the lunar surface and aspirations to create a human base on the moon
WATER
Considering there’s more than a billion cubic kilometres of water on Earth, it may seem strange to think of it being highly sought after.
But the reason it’s viewed as an almost priceless resource is because of what it could mean for the future of our civilisation and the potential to explore planets beyond our own.
That’s because it is very difficult to get a lot of water off Earth and into space due to its weight, with the cost of blasting one cubic metre of it into low Earth orbit coming in at an exorbitant £1 million (£830,000).
This means that having access to water already in space would be invaluable, not just for astronauts to drink and wash, but to use as rocket fuel — and NASA estimates there could be 600 million tonnes of water ice on the moon.
Water is one of the most valuable resources on the moon and is mostly located in craters at the south pole, left, and north pole, right. The blue in the images represents areas of surface ice
As the water molecule is H20 – made up of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen – it has the liquid oxygen and hydrogen needed to create rocket fuel.
This rocket fuel could then be used to blast a human spaceship from the moon off to Mars and beyond.
So the question is, just how much water is on the moon?
Well, for starters the lunar surface is really dry.
As a comparison, the Sahara Desert has 100 times the amount of water than what was detected in the lunar soil when NASA revealed conclusive evidence of water on our only natural satellite two years ago.
The US space agency confirmed the presence of H2O in sunlit areas of the moon, which it said indicated that water was widely distributed across the lunar surface.
‘The amount of water is roughly equivalent to a 12-ounce bottle of water in a cubic metre of lunar soil,’ said Casey Honniball, postdoctoral fellow at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
The first discovery was made from an airborne infrared telescope known as Sofia, which was onboard a modified Boeing 747 that flies above much of Earth’s atmosphere and gives a largely unobstructed view of the Solar System.
And just last month, a study confirmed that moon rocks collected by China’s Chang’e-5 lander do contain water, but not as much as scientists expected.
They found that the lunar soil had levels of H20 around 28.5 parts per million (ppm), which is relatively dry, even by the moon’s standards.
It was thought that this might have been because Chang’e-5 took the samples at a warm time of day. However, despite these discoveries, it is not yet clear whether this mineral-bound water could one day be used by humans on the moon.
If it could, the next question would be how to extract it.
One proposal from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab envisages beaming sunlight from giant reflectors located at mountain peaks that are exposed to near-constant sunlight into deep craters.
Robotic mining vehicles would then be sent into the now-illuminated craters to recover water ice using the reflected solar energy.
Professor Alex Ellery, Canada Research Chair in Space Robotics and Space Technology at Carleton University, wrote on the Conversation: ‘Water ice may be sublimed into vapour for recovery by direct thermal or microwave heating — because of its high heat capacity, this will consume a lot of energy, which must be supplied by the mirrors.
NASA will send an ice-mining experiment to the moon’s south pole, scheduled for late 2022, using Intuitive Machine’s Nova -C lander (pictured)
‘Alternatively, it may be physically dug out and subsequently melted at barely more modest temperatures.’
However, Professor Ellery said there were more preferable options.
‘Hydrogen reduction of ilmenite to yield iron metal, rutile and oxygen provides most of the advantages of exploiting water,’ he added.
‘Oxygen constitutes the lion’s share of the LH2/LOX mixture.
‘It involves no great infrastructure: thermal power may be generated by modest-sized solar concentrators integrated into the processing units.’
Water is so valuable that our lunar satellite could become the refuelling station of the Solar System.
A 2019 study calculated that ‘water produced on the moon has a current value of $10m per tonne, this value being based on the current costs to supply it from Earth.’
The research paper estimated that the value for the market over the next 30 years could be around £168 billion ($206 billion).
Dr Tony Cook, a research lecturer in the Department of Physics at Aberystwyth University, told MailOnline: ‘Water is present as ice in permanently shadowed craters at the lunar poles — more at the south than the north.
‘It’s also buried under lunar soil slightly further away from the poles. Estimates vary but maybe around a billion metric tonnes.
‘There are very tiny amounts of water on the sunlit parts of the moon at the 0.01-0.04 per cent level, perhaps more concentrated in volcanic glass which would make it easier to mine.’
METALS
In a bid to become more environmentally-friendly and to tackle climate change here on Earth, there has been a huge growth in electric cars, wind farms and solar panels.
But these all require huge quantities of metals known as ‘rare earths’, known as such because of their scarcity.
The Apollo astronauts who brought back moon rocks in the 1960s and 70s showed that the lunar regolith also contains some of these resources, although Professor Ian Crawford, of Birkbeck, University of London, admitted they may be hard to extract.
Resources: This colourised image of the moon reveals the presence of different materials
If that were the case, it would make the financial cost of returning them from the moon less economically viable, although not impossible.
‘It might be economically worse, but environmentally beneficial,’ he said.
The reason for this is because extracting rare earth metals such as neodymium – used in magnets – can cause high levels of contamination of the surrounding environment.
So rather than do it on Earth, because of how damaging it is, the moon may be seen as a preferable destination for it. If that were the case, it would likely be a multi-trillion pound market.
Professor Crawford told MailOnline: ‘I would say that we don’t yet know enough about the moon to know whether lunar resources will be economically viable or not, and we are still very much in the exploration phase.
‘I would see Artemis as part of this ongoing exploration activity.’
In a research paper on the topic, he added: ‘One would not go into space for a source of metals for use on Earth.
‘Nevertheless, many metals will be essential for constructing industrial and scientific infrastructures on the moon itself and in cis-lunar space.’
Titanium also makes up about 1-10 per cent of the material on the surface, Dr Cook said, adding: ‘You will find more of this in the dark mare areas we see from Earth.’
The strong, lightweight metal is found in abundance in lunar dirt and is used in medical devices, consumer electronics, and even paint.
‘Like titanium, aluminium is present too – again as an oxide – [and] ditto for Iron,’ Dr Cook said.
Silicon, meanwhile, is abundant in all rocks, which Professor Crawford said could be important ‘in the context of the future industrialisation of space’.
‘It is of potentially enormous importance for the production of arrays of solar cells for the conversion of sunlight into electricity,’ he added.
There has also been speculation that billions of pounds worth of gold could be lying in wait under the lunar surface.
It is possible that some of the asteroids that have made their way to our lunar satellite would have carried gold with them as they travelled through space, which upon impact may have sunk far beneath the surface.
HELIUM
There is a huge energy crisis gripping not just Britain but much of the world. So much so that bills could hit £6,552 next April, according to the latest eye-watering forecast.
Nuclear fusion has been mooted as a potential alternative to fossil fuels and is seen as the ‘Holy Grail’ of energy, with scientists hoping to imitate how the sun creates energy by turning hydrogen into helium.
One way to do this is to take a rare type of hydrogen (called deuterium), which can be extracted from seawater, with an even rarer type of helium that is known as helium-3.
Ready to mine: On some parts of the moon, including the Sea of Tranquility, there are helium-3 concentrations of 20 parts per billion in the surface material (pictured)
The latter is extremely rare on Earth but on some parts of the moon, including the Sea of Tranquility, there are helium-3 concentrations of 20 parts per billion in the surface material.
It is deposited there by solar wind because the moon has no atmosphere for protection.
The isotope is useful as an alternative to uranium for nuclear power plants because it is not radioactive.
According to Dr Cook, it is at ‘concentrations about a thousand times greater than we find in our atmosphere’.
There is estimated to be around £1.2 quadrillion ($1.5 quadrillion) worth of helium-3 on the moon but, despite the excitement, Professor Crawford shared a word of caution.
He told MailOnline he ‘can’t see anyway that will be economic as an energy source for Earth’, despite the allure of such rich deposits.
TOURISM
It may not be one of the moon’s resources, but space tourism will certainly generate a lot of money.
And with companies like Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin all looking to take advantage of the money-making venture, there will be no shortage of options for those who can afford it to travel to places like the moon.
Cashing in: Companies like Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic (pictured), Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX are all looking to take advantage of the space tourism industry
The financial services company UBS estimates the space travel market will be worth £2.5 billion ($3 billion) by 2030.
Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, which are both licensed for passenger space travel by the Federal Aviation Administration, are open for ticket sales.
The former won’t say what it charges but Branson’s company is selling seats for around £380,000 ($450,000). At the moment these are just for trips into space, but soon enough they are likely to advance to journeys to the moon and perhaps even beyond.
HOW THE MOON PIE WILL BE SPLIT?
So how will the race for these resources be policed?
Well, who owns the moon is a rather grey area.
However, the US has drafted the Artemis Accords, a non-legally binding set of principles to govern activity on the moon, Mars and beyond.
NASA says the initiative is grounded in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and forms the foundation of the space agency’s effort to kick-start mining operations of lucrative lunar elements.
The UN Outer Space Treaty, which made clear that no nation state can claim the moon, was signed by more than 100 countries, including all the major spacefaring nations.
Rules: The US has drafted the Artemis Accords, a non-legally binding set of principles to govern activity on the moon, Mars and beyond. The countries who have signed up are shown
However, China and Russia have led opposition to the new Artemis Accords. They are jointly promoting an alternative project on the moon they say is open to all other countries called the International Lunar Research Station.
NASA administrator Bill Nelson says that China wants to claim the moon as its own, adding: ‘We must be very concerned that China is landing on the moon and saying: It’s ours now and you stay out.’
Beijing, for its part, has rejected that assertion.
The legal situation is equally ambiguous for any business seeking to make a profit from the moon’s resources.
In 2015, the US passed the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, which made space mining legal, while other countries have introduced similar laws.
But there have been clamours from experts to address the rules and laws so that there is more of an international consensus, amid fears it will turn into a free-for-all among the companies with the richest backing.
Companies are already investing in exploratory missions to further scope out what’s on the moon and the feasibility of extracting it.
Among those selected by NASA are Lunar Outpost, ispace Japan, ispace Europe, and Masten Space Systems of California.
Firms like Astrobotic and Moon Express have also shared plans to send landers, experiments, and eventually cargo for paying customers to the moon.
The new space race has well and truly begun.
WHAT IS THE MOON’S TOTAL VALUE?
That’s an almost impossible question to answer.
According to Professor Crawford, the value of resources ultimately depends on supply and demand.
‘For example, we have recently seen the price of natural gas effectively triple, but the amount of natural gas on Earth has not changed,’ he told MailOnline.
Priceless: The value of resources on the mon ultimately depends on supply and demand
‘Moreover, if new reserves are brought to market, the price of commodities generally falls owing to the increased supply.
‘For all these reasons, you cannot add up all the perceived resources on the moon, convert to current prices, and present this as an estimate of their value. That would be meaningless!’
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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854 AM CDT Fri Aug 26 2022
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Texas...
Trinity River At Trinidad affecting Navarro and Henderson
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PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Do not drive cars through flooded areas.
Caution is urged when walking near riverbanks.
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...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL MONDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Trinity River At Trinidad.
* WHEN...Until Monday evening.
* IMPACTS...At 37.0 feet, Minor flooding to woodlands and low land
areas will occur on the right bank of the river.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 8:00 AM CDT Friday the stage was 37.1 feet.
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(The Hill) — Jared Kushner called model and television personality Chrissy Teigen a “nasty” troll for her attacks on his wife, Ivanka Trump, in a clip from a radio interview that was released Friday.
Kushner said while speaking with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that many people in the media praised Ivanka for pursuing a business brand of “empowering” women and helping people find “balance” in their lives, but that changed when she joined the Trump administration as an adviser.
“And then she basically gave up the actual business part and just went to pursue the mission, and the same people who praised her for it started attacking her, often viciously and very cruelly,” he said.
Teigen criticized Ivanka on Twitter on multiple occasions, posting in July 2020 that she has “had it with anyone who EVER defends this woman or puts her as the ‘sane’ one in this family.”
Teigen also slammed the former president’s daughter in March 2020 for a post she made encouraging families to plan a campout in their living rooms while they were stuck inside at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“After we quote pack unquote sandwiches can we please have Covid tests,” Teigen tweeted.
Kushner said Ivanka was hurt when people like Teigen would say the “most awful, horrible things” about her, but she never lowered herself to their level or “got into the mud.”
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Moscow Exchange plans to restart early morning FX trading in September
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MOSCOW, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Moscow Exchange (MOEX.MM), Russia's largest bourse, on Friday said it intends to restart its early morning trading session for currencies and derivatives in September and to widen the trading hours of the Chinese yuan before the end of the year.
Demand for the yuan in Russia has increased since Feb. 24 when Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine and the West imposed sweeping sanctions on Moscow, limiting its access to the dollar and euro markets.
"The use of the dollar and euro in the Russian economy is high, but we are seeing a gradual rise in interest in the yuan," Yana Pleshkova, head of sales in Moscow Exchange's FX market department, told reporters. "Its share in spot-market transactions now exceeds 10%."
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M6, M55, M61 and M65 traffic news LIVE: Long delays as thousands of bank holiday travellers descend on motorway network
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Witness appeal after motorcyclist suffers ‘serious injuries’ in Freckleton crash
A Vauxhall Corsa collided with a man riding a Suzuki motorbike travelling in the opposite direction in Kirkham Road at around 9.25am on Tuesday (August 23).
The motorcyclist, a man in his 40s from Freckleton, suffered a “serious injury to his leg” and was taken to Royal Preston Hospital for treatment.
The driver of the Vauxhall, a man in his 30s, also from Freckleton, was not injured.
Sgt Craig Booth, from Lancashire Police’s Tactical Operations, said: “We are urging any witnesses who saw what happened and have yet to speak to police to get in touch.”
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian security services were assessing an incident Friday during which a van drove at high speed into a sidewalk terrace in the center of Brussels and slightly injured at least three people.
The van's driver rode off after running into the some tables, police spokeswoman Ilse Vande Keere said. She refused to speculate about a possible motive or cause, saying the investigation was in too early a stage.
None of the people had to be treated at a hospital, Vande Keere said.
In past years, authorities in Europe have determined that people who drove into crowded public areas and caused multiple casualties sometimes held extremist beliefs or had mental health problems.
“We are in close contact with our security services and are following this from close by,” Belgian Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden said.
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University of Texas offers class based on Taylor Swift songs
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(CNN) - A professor at the University of Texas at Austin said Taylor Swift’s music uses a lot of the same techniques found in classic poetry, so she decided to base a class around it.
The professor is calling the course the Taylor Swift Songbook.
She says it’s not about celebrity or fame, but about the literary traditions that connect writing over the ages, whether the author is a pop star or a Pulitzer Prize winner.
The professor admits to being a fan but said her goal is to teach students about older material through a contemporary lens.
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$250 million St. Louis team leaves Wells Fargo for partnered independence
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanctuary Wealth, home to the next generation of elite advisors, welcomes Mackie & Waller Wealth Management Group in St. Louis to its continually growing network of partner firms. Formerly affiliated with Wells Fargo Advisors where they advised on $250 million in client assets, the named partners are Peter F. Mackie, AAMS ® and Paul P. Waller IV, CFP®. They are joining Sanctuary Wealth as an affiliate of another partner firm, Cape Rock Private Wealth in Jackson, Missouri.
"There are many routes from a bank or wirehouse to independence and Sanctuary Wealth is all about helping advisors find the road that is right for them," said Jim Dickson, CEO and Founder of Sanctuary Wealth. "For Mackie & Waller Wealth Management Group, the right path was to share resources with another one of our partner firms, Cape Rock Private Wealth which will make both firms even more efficient. Our mission is to facilitate the growth of all our partners and to assure they have access to the range of the resources they need to make that happen."
"Before making the move to independence we wanted to be sure that our clients would not be giving anything up. After Justin Martini at Cape Rock Private Wealth shared his own experience of making the transition, we were certain that joining Sanctuary Wealth would be the right move for us and most importantly for our clients," explained Paul Waller, CFP®, Founding Partner, Mackie & Waller Wealth Management Group. "By affiliating with Cape Rock and Sanctuary, we can be assured that we have a team behind us to handle things like oversight, compliance, and the other parts of running the business that take our attention away from clients."
Peter F. Mackie brings to the team decades of experience as an investment portfolio manager at Wells Fargo in St. Louis as well as the former Bankers Trust in New York, London, and Palm Beach. Throughout this invaluable experience, Peter has counseled clients across multiple economic and financial market cycles. He has earned the Accredited Asset Management Specialist (AAMS®) certification and is a graduate of Trinity College.
Paul Waller had been with Wells Fargo since 2008 and joined Mackie & Waller Wealth Management Group in 2014. His expertise includes investment planning, IRA distribution, and Federal benefits strategies. He is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Business Administration from Southeast Missouri State University and McKendree University, respectively.
"We're very excited to be joining Sanctuary through our affiliation with Cape Rock Private Wealth," added Peter Mackie, AAMS®, Founding Partner, Mackie & Waller Wealth Management Group. "We know we'll have access to a much wider array of solutions and other tools as well as up-to-date technology. Paul and I have wanted to build something of our own for a long time and now we're able to do it in a way that will really benefit our clients."
"Peter and Paul felt more comfortable sharing resources with one of our local partners, and we think that's great. We want advisors to find the flavor of independence that's right for them," said Vince Fertitta, President, Sanctuary Wealth. "Justin Martini at Cape Rock Private Wealth has a thriving practice and has been an outstanding partner. He is extremely interested in growing his firm inorganically through affiliations, tuck ins and acquisitions."
To learn more about Mackie & Waller Wealth Management Group, please visit: www.mackiewaller.com
Sanctuary Wealth (sanctuarywealth.com/) is the advanced platform for the next generation of elite advisors, who have the entrepreneurial spirit to build and own their own practices and desire the freedom to deliver the tailored service their clients deserve. Sanctuary Wealth's ecosystem of partnered independence provides a complete technology and operations platform, as well as support from a community of like-minded advisors and the resources of invaluable affiliated businesses. Currently, the Sanctuary Wealth network includes partner firms in 27 states across the country with approximately $25 billion in assets under advisement. Sanctuary Wealth includes the fully owned subsidiaries; Sanctuary Advisors LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser, Sanctuary Securities, Inc. a FINRA member broker-dealer as well as Sanctuary Alternative Holdings, Sanctuary Asset Management, Sanctuary Insurance Solutions, Sanctuary Global, and Sanctuary Global Family Office.
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The best things about the “bucket and spade” holiday include eating fish and chips on the beach, building sandcastles, and Mr Whippy ice cream, according to research.
A study of 2,000 adults took a nostalgic trip down memory lane, and found 51% love everything the traditional British seaside has to offer.
Crabbing and visiting local tea rooms also feature in the top 20 list, as do penny arcades, pier strolls, and beach ball games.
But on the flip side, some of the worst things about a beach break include getting divebombed by seagulls, and enduring sand in your sandwiches.
Having a nightmare trying to park, crammed beaches, and screaming kids everywhere are also unfortunate parts of a staycation.
Additionally, almost one in three (31%) admit their trip to the seaside can also go horribly wrong if they forget to take essentials – such as sun lotion, as well as contact lenses (9%), sunglasses (29%), or something to sit on (23%).
The research was commissioned by Vision Direct to highlight the joys of a beach break – but also what can go wrong if you forget crucial items.
This was brought to life as beach-goers were left stumped when they were tasked to count the number of beach balls in a visual puzzle – in sympathy for those who have left glasses or contact lenses at home.
Barney Streeting, general manager for the contact lens specialist, said: “Many of us will be familiar with the feeling of arriving at a staycation destination, excited to start relaxing – only to discover that you’ve forgotten an essential item like your contact lenses.”
The study also found sea views, and letting the kids dig holes in the sand, are other best things about a “bucket and spade” staycation – as well as sticks of rocks, donkey rides, and rock pooling.
But a trip can quickly fall apart when forgetting essentials, as more than a quarter (28%) of poor-sighted Brits have struggled to enjoy their seaside holiday after forgetting their prescription contact lenses or glasses.
This is despite 49% packing “everything including the kitchen sink” when going away, according to additional research of 2,000 UK holidaymakers.
And in spite of their thorough packing ability, two-thirds (68%) said it’s still likely they will leave something behind.
The beauty of a trip within the UK means you can pack twice as much as you would for a trip abroad, according to nearly half (46%) of holidaymakers.
Slippers, teabags, their own pillow, and a favourite mug are among the beloved items they stash in the back of the car for a staycation.
However, nearly three-quarters (73%) have had to hit up the local shops the moment they’ve reached their destination, to buy belongings they’d forgotten to pack.
Toiletries, phone chargers, and sunglasses are among some of the most commonly left behind items – but holidaymakers have also forgotten underwear, medicines, and contact lenses in the past.
The research, conducted via OnePoll, also revealed 28% have found themselves butting heads with another family member after carelessly leaving something at home during a UK break away.
Barney Streeting added: “We wanted to remind people of how clear vision can make or break a holiday.
“The best times often seem to go by in a blur, so it’s a good idea to make sure your eyesight doesn’t go the same way.”
TOP 20 BEST THINGS ABOUT A “BUCKET AND SPADE” HOLIDAY:
- Sea views
- Sea air
- Eating fish and chips on the beach
- Paddling
- Mr Whippy ice cream
- Warm sand under your feet
- Pier strolls
- Building sandcastles
- Swimming in the sea
- Penny arcades
- Visiting local tea rooms
- Not too far to travel
- Rock pooling
- Kids digging holes
- Sticks of rock
- Games with the beach ball
- Having a drink at a beach bar
- Donuts
- Donkey rides
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A Birmingham college student was struck by lightning on her first day of class, but she survived to talk about it.
Emma Egler, 18, of Birmingham, a freshman at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, was walking to class on Monday when lightning struck her and left her unconscious on the ground, according to ABC 3 WEAR in Pensacola.
“My shirt was like completely open,” she said. “Because of the lightning strike, it melted to me.”
“I was able to get my backpack off me,” she said. “But I could not feel my legs at all, and I was scared I was paralyzed.”
She was taken to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola and then to UAB Hospital in Birmingham.
She was released from the hospital and regained movement in her legs. She plans to return to classes next week.
Doctors said Eggler was lucky the lightning strike did not stop her heart.
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If a driver fails multiple breath tests his driving rights may immediately be arrested pending testing the vehicle which had probably given no further information until testing is achieved it is impossible tell then he been doing well during that 4 hour duration period or not but most would argue that a period of only half or at least nearly half the minimum drink- driving alcohol level required is sufficient basis the authorities of which decide further proceed it has therefore to decide, whether they believe in order a good cause exists arrest that it The clock is ticking on the Museum at Bethel Woods, which is collecting stories from the ever-dwindling number of living people who witnessed legend-inspiring performances by the likes of Joan Baez, the Grateful Dead, and Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock. If someone attended the famed 1969 concert and generational touchstone in upstate New York at age 25, that person would be 78 years old in 2022. Seventy-eight happens to be the average life expectancy in the United States.
Lisa Law of Santa Fe was there, and she’s looking for fellow New Mexicans who can make the same boast. It’s part of an effort by museum organizers to create a “pop-up history project,” dispatching volunteers to rapidly collect interviews with surviving attendees.
Law was involved with the event’s famed Hog Farmers, who took responsibility for security, fed many of the estimated 400,000 attendees, and made sure those coming down from drug trips were looked after. She also shot video and created large photo prints that now are featured at the museum, which is near Bethel, New York, less than a half-mile south of the 1969 Woodstock festival site.
People who are interviewed by Law will have their stories, ages, and genders listed at the museum as part of the project, but not their names.
“So, forever, you’ll be able to study what these people said about what happened at the original Woodstock and (hear) me doing the short interviews with them,” Law says.
Time is of the essence, she says, as Museum at Bethel Woods organizers plan to fly to New Mexico in September in part to review her findings. So far, she has found about five New Mexicans who have shared their Woodstock stories. “You have to understand, these people are 71 to 80 years old, right?” she says. “And a lot of them remember everything, while others don’t remember anything. Hardly anything. It’s really fun because I’m really learning about all these people — where they sat, what they ate, how they got to bathroom, and who were the best groups that they liked.”
Law says the experience has opened her eyes to the importance of historical interviews. “I’m having a really good time doing this,” she says. “I mean, I’m working for the museum. They hired me to do this because they know a lot of people from New Mexico came to it.”
People who contact Law can expect to be asked about what they experienced upon arriving at the concert grounds in 1969, how they got there, where they came from, what they brought with them, how long they stayed, and whether they swam in the pond on the grounds.
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Moderna sues Pfizer over patents behind COVID-19 vaccine
COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna is suing Pfizer and the German drugmaker BioNTech, accusing its main competitors of copying Moderna's technology in order to make their own vaccine.
Moderna said Friday that Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine Comirnaty infringes on patents Moderna filed several years ago protecting the technology behind its preventive shot, Spikevax. The company filed patent infringement lawsuits in both U.S. federal court and a German court.
A Pfizer spokeswoman declined to comment, saying the company had not been served with a copy of the litigation.
Moderna and Pfizer's two-shot vaccines both use mRNA technology to help patients fight the coronavirus.
The mRNA vaccines work by injecting a genetic code for the spike protein that coats the surface of the coronavirus. That code, the mRNA, is encased in a little ball of fat, and instructs the body's cells to make some harmless spike copies that train the immune system to recognize the real virus.
That approach is radically different than how vaccines have traditionally been made.
Moderna said it started developing its mRNA technology platform in 2010, and that helped the company quickly produce its COVID-19 vaccine after the pandemic arrived in early 2020.
By the end of that year, U.S. regulators had cleared shots from both Pfizer and Moderna for use after clinical research showed that both were highly effective.
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said in a prepared statement that the vaccine developer pioneered that technology and invested billions of dollars in creating it.
The company said it believes its rivals' vaccine infringes on patents Moderna filed between 2010 and 2016.
Moderna said it recognizes the importance of vaccine access and is not seeking to remove Comirnaty from the market. It also is not asking for an injunction to prevent future sales. | https://www.krgv.com/news/moderna-sues-pfizer-over-patents-behind-covid-19-vaccine | 2022-08-26T16:08:09Z | https://www.krgv.com/news/moderna-sues-pfizer-over-patents-behind-covid-19-vaccine | true |
Settlement checks could be going out soon to families in deadly Ida nursing home evacuation
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - If all goes well, settlement checks could be going out soon for victims of a deadly nursing home evacuation during Hurricane Ida.
Attorneys say they have won tentative approval for a multi-million dollar deal to compensate more than 800 nursing home residents who were sent to a nightmarish warehouse in Independence during Hurricane Ida.
Nearly one year ago, witnesses say it was bedlam at a massive old warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish. The residents, some elderly and in need of special medical attention, were forced to sleep on mattresses on the floor, without adequate staff, and poor sanitation.
“My dad said he was in his feces and urine for days. He said there was water everywhere, dirt everywhere, he was not eating,” says Rashell Powell.
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The Louisiana Department of Health moved in to shut down the inadequate shelter and took away the nursing home licenses of owner Bob Dean. Now attorneys for the victims say monetary relief is on the way.
“Last week we successfully achieved a preliminary settlement agreement against Bob Dean in the seven nursing homes,” said Blair Constant, with Couhig Partners.
That deal calls for 843 victims to recover from Dean’s insurance company, somewhere around $17,000 each, depending on the circumstance.
“We are breaking records here in advance of the one-year anniversary,” said Constant.
Katherine Russo died one month after being evacuated to the warehouse.
“She was intellectually disabled. She had the mind of a child. She laughed really loud and if you were in a bad mood she would brighten your day,” Russo’s niece Janice Verdin, who worked as a manager for Dean, says.
As troubling as the Ida evacuation was, Verdin says she was not surprised as Dean botched other evacuations during previous storms.
“In 2008, we had to evacuate and they put us in a Winn-Dixie,” she says.
Powell says her 67-year-old father Gerald Cavalier survived the ordeal but was forever changed.
“He became very frustrated and confused, just deteriorating and he was just like ‘why did this happen? where were yall?’” said Powell.
That memory will last forever, but now Powell hopes for a measure of justice if the court approves this tentative settlement which could happen sometime in October.
Victims’ attorneys say they will not give up their right to pursue other litigation against Bob Dean regardless of this deal.
Dean faces several felony charges and is now out of jail on a $350,000 bond.
FOX 8 reached out to Dean’s attorney for a comment but have not heard back.
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Odisha is bracing up for likely spell of heavy rain on Friday night and Saturday after being battered by twin floods in Mahanadi and Suranarekha river systems.
The IMD in its latest bulletin said Odisha is likely to witness heavy rain during the period and issued yellow warning for thunderstorm in Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Keonjhar, Cuttack, Jajpur, Balasore and Bhadrak, Boudh, Nayagarh, Khurda, Rayagada, Koraput, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur, Gajapati, Ganjam, Angul and Dhenkanal till 8.30 am on August 27.
The districts of Gajapati, Rayagada, Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Koraput and Malkangiri too will receive heavy precipitation on Saturday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Friday.
The same warning has been issued for Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Bargarh, Sambalpur, Deogarh, Angul, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj districts, besides Sonepur, Boudh, Nuapada, Balangir and Kalahandi.
Heavy rainfall warning has also been issued for Kandhamal, Nabarangpur, Rayagada, Koraput, Malkangiri, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam and Gajapati districts from 8.30 am on August 27 till 8.30 am on August 28.
The IMD said that Bhubaneswar and its adjoining areas will see partly cloudy sky with possibility of moderate rain or thundershower. There was no substantial precipitation during the day time on Friday, the IMD said.
Ten lakh people were affected by the flood in 14 Odisha districts and 100 villages are still marooned. At least six persons have lost their lives in the natural calamity, officials said.
(With PTI Inputs) | https://www.outlookindia.com/national/imd-forecasts-2-day-heavy-rainfall-in-odisha-news-219130 | 2022-08-26T16:13:08Z | https://www.outlookindia.com/national/imd-forecasts-2-day-heavy-rainfall-in-odisha-news-219130 | true |
While health concerns during the pandemic forced arts venues to temporarily shutter, it’s Boulder’s ongoing development and exorbitant real estate that’s pushing some local art organizations out the door.
BDT Stage — formerly known as Boulder’s Dinner Theatre — is likely to have its final curtain call in 2023. The land that the beloved venue sits on was sold for a reported $5.5 million to Quad Capital Partners, a multi-disciplinary real estate investment management and development firm.
Originally planning to shutter after its recent family-friendly production of “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical,” BDT Stage will now finish out its 45th season and continue to welcome theater-goers into its building, at 5501 Arapahoe Ave., through May of 2023.
“There are many feelings about the potential end to what has been such a special place for so many people,” said Seamus McDonough, BDT Stage’s producing artistic director. “But instead of dwelling on the sadness and the unknown, we are focusing on making this next season the best we can so that each night that folks come in they can make another memory with us.”
McDonough took on the producing artistic director role after longtime employee Michael Duran stepped into the role of BDT Stage’s executive producer.
Operating since 1977, the Front Range theater has seen an array of talented thespians pass through its doors.
Long before she starred in “Big Eyes,” “American Hustle,” “Junebug,” “Doubt” and “Enchanted,” award-winning actor Amy Adams was serving up food, dancing and singing at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre in the early 1990s.
She jumped at the chance to shine in BDT’s “A Chorus Line” after another performer was injured and had to step down from a role.
The dinner theater’s productions have also featured actress Annaleigh Ashford before she went on to star in Showtime’s “The Masters of Sex” and win a Tony Award for her portrayal of Essie Carmichael in “You Can’t Take it With You.”
For McDonough, who has taken on a number of jobs at BDT Stage — including technical director, bar manager and understudy — the venue is so much more than a place where over 160 musicals, tons of concerts and plays have taken place.
It’s where his parents met. And it’s where he literary learned to walk.
“This theater and this company has been my home and family since the day I was born,” McDonough said. “My father was the first employee in the building and worked here till 2012 — starting as the janitor, moving to bartender, then to stage manager, working his way up to being the [general manager]. I started working here in 1999, and getting to work side-by-side with my father for so many years was a gift. I can never express how much it means to me.”
The impending closure of BDT Stage will no doubt bring a significant void to the art scene.
In neighboring Longmont, Jesters Dinner Theatre shuttered this past spring after staging more than 25 years of musicals. Owners Scott and Mary Lou Moore announced the building was for sale — and after one crowdfunding bid and one declined group offer from folks connected to the theater to save the venue, it closed on May 29 after a final production of “Guys and Dolls.”
“We appreciate that there’s been enough support to keep it going for 23 years,” Scott Moore said in a March interview with the Times-Call. “Most businesses don’t even last three, and certainly the arts businesses don’t even last that long.”
It’s about supporters who become family, many of the creatives say.
“So many of our patrons have been coming for years — with their parents or grandparents and now bringing their own kids,” McDonough said. “It’s a pretty rare thing for a theater to have spanned that many generations, and we want to celebrate that. Our patrons know our performers on a personal level and vice versa. When they come in they are not just coming to see a performance, but going to see old friends.”
Finding a new location has been discussed, but with the lack of potential venues in Boulder County, high taxes and rents at an exorbitant rate, the outlook isn’t overwhelmingly positive, he said.
“There have been some talks, but nothing solid at this time,” McDonough said. “However, you never know. Our owners, Gene and Judy Bolles purchased the building and the company in 2003 when our former owner and founder Ross Haley was planning to close down. So there is always the possibility someone will come along to take the company somewhere else.”
For McDonough, “the people, hands down” have been the most rewarding aspect of helping to run this iconic venue.
During the pandemic, McDonough and Duran switched gears and offered streaming options as well as parking lot concerts.
“This company, even more so than most, is a family,” McDonough said. “The second someone new walks through the door to work here they become that. They could be gone for a production or for a few years and walk through the door and pick up right where they left off. As well as the patrons who I have gotten to know over the years that continue to support us. Truly it’s just the thing that makes us a staple for 45 years in the community.”
BDT Stage’s run of Nickelodeon’s “The SpongeBob Musical” recently wrapped. Up next, folks can catch Dueling Piano Road Show on Friday, Saturday and Sept. 2-3. A cappella rock vocal group Face returns to the stage Sept. 8.
Other September productions include Citizen Dan: A Steely Dan Experience, Mary Louise Lee Band: A Night of Whitney Houston, Cody Qualls and the Brand New Ancients, Those Crazy Nights: The Ultimate Journey Experience, Hazel Miller & The Collective with special guest Claudette King and The Petty Nicks Experience.
“Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story” will hit the stage on Oct. 21 and run through Jan. 28, 2023. Other upcoming productions include “Something Rotten” and “The Sound of Music.”
“You know, the things I am most excited for are things we haven’t even gotten to announce yet,” McDonough said. “So, folks will have to keep their eyes peeled for what things are coming up.”
‘The arts struggle here’
While BDT Stage has hopes to make the 45th season especially memorable, one visual art center has also been forced to close up shop.
The Boulder Creative Collective was founded in 2013 after friends Addrienne Amato and Kelly Cope Russack crafted the idea of creating a platform for diverse artists while on a hike.
From helping creatives of all types exhibit and sell work at various venues throughout town with pop-ups to later securing a brick-and-mortar space at 47th Street in Boulder, the two entrepreneurs worked tirelessly to create a space for new work and creatives to bloom.
In 2021, they moved The Boulder Creative Collective into a dream locale and went to work refurbishing and redesigning the space to better match their vision.
“When we decided to look for a potential new space we knew it had to meet our criteria — location, light and space for a gallery and studios,” Russack said. “Walking into 2208 Pearl was an immediate ‘yes’ for us, and with a signed three-year lease, we felt it was enough time to get on the downtown radar. Just two months after building out the space and opening with our second residency class on March 1, 2021 — to our surprise — a ‘for sale’ sign went up.”
The building was sold in October 2021 as part of a larger deal that encompassed 2206-2210 Pearl Street, which is a 21,209-square-foot parcel of land and its structures.
The buyer, stok Investment Group LLC, intends to redevelop the site for attainable and sustainable housing.
Amato and Russack announced the closure of Boulder Creative Collective — an inviting venue that provided artists with residencies and cutting-edge gallery exhibitions — this past June.
“After four years in our old location on 47th Street, we were tired of paying over $4,500 in rent — before utilities — for a hot, dirty space with a constantly leaky roof and plumbing problems,” Amato said. “The new space on Pearl Street was the first one we looked at in our search. The rent was lower, it was a much better location with tons of parking and we had the opportunity to gut and redesign the space that we felt supported the foundation and future of the BCC.”
The Boulder Creative Collective even came out the other side after the pandemic, but with the sale of the building, the two don’t have a lot of hope for the future of the business.
Amato, an artist herself, is searching for somewhere to work on new pieces.
“I haven’t found my own space to create in yet,” Amato said. “I’d love to find a studio here in Boulder, but as we know it comes at a premium. I have my own criteria in a workspace, and it’s not unlike the BCC studios — good light, a private or semi-private space, a community of artists nearby, close to downtown or centrally located so I could walk or bike.”
Russack has turned her attention to other altruistic causes.
“I was gutted by the food insecurity in our local food banks and have decided to spend my free time volunteering and directly serving the community,” Russack said.
Amato and Russack have previously utilized crowd-funding platforms to help meet goals, but at this time they said they don’t want to go that route to revive Boulder Creative Collective or to reinvent it.
“Although we’ve had great success with our Kickstarters, it’s not how we want to run our business,” Russack said. “We had hoped for community engagement and donations, but the community involvement has fallen short. The arts struggle here. People prefer to buy their expensive bikes instead of investing in art. It’s a fact. Grants in Boulder are also frustrating. We have tried, and the money seems to go to the same organizations.”
During the pandemic, over 30 Boulder County-based arts venues, organizations and live entertainment promoters received financial help from the Shuttered Venue Operations Grant.
As the art scene continues to gain footing and rebuild, many local establishments still struggle to attract the same amount of patrons that frequented establishments prior to the pandemic.
But more funding is being dispersed to help future growth. Boulder’s Office of Arts and Culture continues to work with the arts community to remedy the losses brought on by the COVID crisis.
This month, 10 arts organizations were named as recipients of the Arts Administration Rehiring Grants, and $87,900 each will be dispersed over three years — awardees getting around $30,000 a year through 2024. The recipients include Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 3rd Law Dance/Theater, Boulder Opera Company, Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, Boulder Symphony, Dairy Arts Center, Frequent Flyers Productions, Local Theater Company, Museum of Boulder and T2 Dance Company.
“The arts are vital for the well-being and unity of our community, particularly as we recover from the pandemic and other tragedies,” said Lauren Click, arts program manager at the Office of Arts and Culture for the City of Boulder. “We know from the research we conducted when we built the Community Cultural Plan that our community wants to be immersed in creativity throughout their daily lives. These grants keep our organizations, artists and classrooms working and flourishing.”
However, the lack of reasonably priced venues for arts organizations still remains an issue.
“It is a challenge we are aware of,” Click said. “Next year, we are likely to open up rental-assistance grants again to help with the venue affordability aspect of the issue. The arts industry, and performing arts in particular, have not yet recovered as much as the rest of the economy and performing arts tend to have the most complex venue needs.”
Click and others are aiming to address the needs of the creatives in the community.
“We all need to stay diligent in supporting the arts and look for creative solutions,” Click said. “For instance, City Council is discussing how the Community Culture Resilience and Safety Tax might help with the facility needs of nonprofits.”
With Boulder being home to 5,000 artists — the third-highest concentration in the country, according to the National Endowment for the Arts — competition for funding remains high.
“The General Operating Support Grants are an important piece of our organizations’ fundraising portfolios — and it makes them feel that the City of Boulder supports and is invested in their existence, which we are” Click said. “We know that our organizations and artists are integral to making Boulder feel like Boulder.”
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The swarm drone system equipped with cutting-edge technology that can identify targets using artificial intelligence-driven software is being inducted into the mechanized forces of the Indian Army.
Swarm drones consist of a number of drones controlled from the same station which can be programmed using an algorithm to carry out various tasks, including surveillance, sources said.
The Indian Army on Friday took to Twitter and said the new system will provide an "edge" to it in meeting future "security challenges".
"#SwarmDrones being inducted into the Mechanised Forces, duly embracing the niche & disruptive technologies will provide an edge to #IndianArmy in meeting future security challenges. #AtmaNirbharBharat #IndianArmy #InStrideWithTheFuture," the Additional Directorate General of Public Information of the Army tweeted.
The sources said using algorithms a swarm drone can be cast to carry out tasks such as surveillance. There is a dynamic mesh communication system so that "even if a few drones drop out, the swam will still complete the job and come back", they said. It is a complex but a "man in the loop" system, the sources added.
The Army is endeavoring to "embrace emerging and disruptive technologies" to transform itself into a "technology-enabled force to meet future operational challenges", they said. The AI-infused system enhances decision-making and engagement capability, the sources said.
"Swarm drones consist of a number of drones controlled from the same station and can carry a variety of payloads in a single mission, thus capable of overwhelming enemy defenses by undertaking collaborative attack," another source said.
The algorithms and AI software enable them to "operate autonomously with minimum human intervention" and to identify targets using the software thus "speeding up the engagement process," the sources said.
The Army has initiated a Make II case Autonomous Surveillance and Armed Drone Swarm (ASAD-S) with adequate ranges to "neutralize adversary targets in-depth areas," they said. | https://www.outlookindia.com/national/swarm-drones-being-inducted-into-mechanised-forces-of-indian-army-news-219120 | 2022-08-26T16:13:46Z | https://www.outlookindia.com/national/swarm-drones-being-inducted-into-mechanised-forces-of-indian-army-news-219120 | true |
Virtual fair to offer 100 jobs for women across IT domains
In a move aimed at furthering careers of women employees, Careernet, a talent solutions provider, has partnered with a bunch of firms to organise a virtual event that will offer more than 100 jobs.
Careernet will hold a career fair for women at 11 a.m. on Saturday in association with Biocon and Sapiens and roll out offers in companies such as Hitachi, Biocon, Sapiens, Shell, Smith and Nephew, PubMatic and Solera.
As many as 1,000 women professionals, including those from the PWD (persons with disability) and LGBT communities, possessing a range of work experience tenures, are expected to participate in the job fair.
The event would offer an opportunity to connect with employers from Pune, Bengaluru, Gurugram, Delhi and Hyderabad in the fields of AWS Developers, cloud engineering, data scientist, software engineering, QA automation engineering, big data analyst, full stack developers and others, the company said.
“Industry leaders must not only advocate gender parity, but also create more employment avenues for female talent to thrive,” said Careernet’s chief executive Anshuman Das.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
8-5-3-4, FIREBALL: 7
(eight, five, three, four; FIREBALL: seven)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
8-5-3-4, FIREBALL: 7
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Melting glaciers, lakes drying up, rivers running at record low levels, widespread drought – the effects of climate change and rising heat levels are making headlines around the world on a daily basis. Alongside the inevitable disruption and concern these events are creating, there has been an unexpected side effect – the revelation of things long hidden from our collective eyes and attentions.
Swathes of Europe are experiencing record temperatures and the worst droughts in more than a century. This has led to some of the lowest water levels ever recorded in its second longest river, the Danube and with it the resurfacing of 20 explosives-filled World War II warships along the Serbian area near Prahovo.
Part of the Nazi Black Sea Fleet, the 20 ships are thought to be carrying more than 10,000 pieces of explosive ordnance, many of them unexploded, posing a serious risk to passing ships, fishermen and even the water supply. The ships were sunk in 1944 by the retreating German Army to stop them falling into the hands of the Soviets. More are expected to surface over the coming weeks with the Serbian government estimating a £30million (around $35million) clean up bill.
Military experts were also called upon in Italy to defuse and carry out a controlled explosion on a thousand-pound WWII bomb that emerged from the River Po as it reached its lowest levels in 70 years. Meanwhile in the Tiber River in Rome, the foundations of a 2,000-year-old bridge rose from the dropping waters.
In the Swiss Alps, melting glaciers have revealed two sets of human remains long frozen in the ice. In late July, two hikers discovered a ‘mummified and slightly damaged but almost complete’ body near a ski resort in the Stockji glacier wearing neon-colored clothing ‘in the style of the 80s’. In early August French climbers discovered the skeletal remains of a single person in the canton of Valais in Switzerland, thought to have died in the 1970s or 1980s. Both sets of remains have been removed for identification.
At much the same time the Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland also offered up the wreckage of a plane – a Piper Cherokee that crashed on June 30, 1968 near the Jungfrau and Mönch mountain peaks with a teacher, a chief medical officer and his son, all from Zurich, on board. While the bodies were recovered at the time, technical limitations meant the wreckage wasn’t.
In Spain, a monument known as the Dolmen of Guadalperal, often likened to England’s Stonehenge and dated to between 2,000 and 3,000 BCE, has appeared in the heavily depleted Valdecañas reservoir west of Madrid. Equally as interesting are the emergence of what are known as ‘hunger stones’ along rivers across the continent. The stones were engraved in previous years of drought by locals to indicate the water levels and warn of poor harvests the following year. A famous example appeared in the Elbe River close to the town of Děčín in the Czech Republic with a chilling inscription from 1616: “If you see me, weep.”
It’s not just Europe that has seen such extraordinary and gruesome revelations. Formed by the Hoover Dam around 20 miles outside Las Vegas, Lake Mead has made regular and tragic headlines over recent months as its waters have delivered four sets of human remains. While one set found in May has been identified as Thomas Erndt who dived from a boat into the lake on 2 August 2002 and never emerged, investigations into the identity of other remains ongoing with at least one ruled a homicide after it was discovered in a barrel with a gunshot wound to the head.
Reaching back a little farther in time, the Dinosaur Valley State Park in Texas this week announced that severe drought conditions had dried up a river and revealed dinosaur tracks from approximately 113 million years ago. The deep, clear tracks are thought to belong to Acrocanthosaurus, a carnivore not dissimilar to the T-Rex that grew to 15 feet and could weigh up to seven tons. It was thought to prey on the significantly larger herbivore Sauroposeidon (Greek for Lizard Poseidon), whose tracks are also found in the area, and which could grow to about 60 feet tall and weigh about 44 tons as an adult, making it the tallest known dinosaur. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/duncanmadden/2022/08/26/extraordinary-and-gruesome-the-lost-things-reappearing-due-to-climate-change/ | 2022-08-26T16:21:33Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/duncanmadden/2022/08/26/extraordinary-and-gruesome-the-lost-things-reappearing-due-to-climate-change/ | false |
Man arrested at KIA, 14 kg of heroin seized
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DRI officials arrested a 45-year-old man from Telangana and recovered 14 kg of heroin concealed under false case of a bag he was carrying. The value of the seized drugs is estimated to be ₹100 crore.
The accused was pinned down as soon as he landed at the KIA from Addis Ababa.
The accused had gone to Addis Ababa to search for a job and is suspected to have been roped in by the international drug cartel offering him the job of a carrier.
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The accused was offered money along with tickets and stay in star hotel with an assignment to hand over the parcel to a contact in Delhi. The accused, soon after landing in KIA, was supposed to take a flight to Delhi, where he was supposed to meet his contact and hand over the consignment soon after getting out of the airport, officials said.
This is the eighth case the DRI has cracked since July 15 this year. Sources in the DRI said that special operations against narcotics has been launched since July as drug smuggling linked to Addis Ababa are on the rise. The total value of the seized drugs from all the eight cases is estimated to be ₹250 crore.
The officials suspect that the same international drug racket is operating and they are enrolling new faces as mules to smuggle drugs.
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LAWRENCE, Mass. , Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The five hundred unionized nurses of Lawrence General Hospital (LGH), who are represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), overwhelmingly voted in favor of ratifying their new three-year contract yesterday, August 25.
The ratification comes after 14 months of contract negotiations, 12 of which included a federal mediator. The tentative agreement for the now-ratified contract was reached in the early morning hours of July 28, just hours ahead of a planned informational picket by the nurses that was then called off.
The RNs, who have worked tirelessly to care for the people of Greater Lawrence through the two-plus years of the pandemic — often at great personal risk and with limited resources — have long been aware of the unique challenges facing both the hospital and its surrounding community. Lawrence had the distinction of having one of the highest rates of COVID-19 throughout the pandemic, a scenario that was further complicated by the fact that its residents earn, on average, far below the state's median household income and often struggle with access to basic resources as a result.
LGH nurses, with support from the MNA, have repeatedly pointed out to hospital administrators, local community leaders, and state and federal elected officials that "every single social predictor affecting health outcomes points to the need for maximum healthcare funding and resources to be directed to the greater Lawrence area."
"We talk forever about social determinates of health, and of lifting up immigrant gateway communities, and the public health crisis affecting people of color," said MNA co-chairperson and RN Laurie Spheekas. "We talk. But when it comes to doing, why does LGH remain in such constant and desperate need of federal and state funding? It must change."
"To all the government officials who have been struggling with us to direct the funding this hospital and community need, thank you," added Spheekas. "For those who have not yet joined us, please get on board. It's the only way to help and protect the people of this vibrant and important city."
Contract Highlights
The new agreement includes numerous workplace enhancements and improvements, including:
Staffing Improvements
Charge nurses will not have a patient assignment in the ICU and on the medical/surgical and telemetry units during the day and evening shifts. In addition, charge nurses will have no more than three patients during the night shifts. This is expected to significantly improve patient care conditions at Lawrence General as it will allow charge nurses to coordinate the overall needs of patients and nurses, as well as the workflow on each individual floor/unit. It will also allow the charge nurses to assist colleagues with more complex cases, while also picking up patient assignments should staff become overburdened.
Wages that Will Improve Nurse Recruitment and Retention
- For regular RNs, the elimination of a 20-year "tenure requirement" that previously stalled members on the wage scale at Step 19.
- Retroactive pay
- Over the three-year contract, regular nurses will see wage improvements of between 5% and 6.5% depending on their step placement. Per diem nurses will also see wage increases of up to 6.5%, with a marked improvement to the lower portion of that scale in the hopes that it will help recruit and retain newer nurses to the hospital.
Health Insurance
- Access to the health insurance program for part-time nurses working at least 20 hours per week
- Expansion of some "Tier 1" services which will provide nurses with more healthcare options/choices
- Preservation of the plans existing costs and benefits through 2024
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By Jennifer Nelson, Next Avenue
Robert Johnson, a professor of finance at Creighton University's Heider College of Business, retired from a career in financial education in 2018 but recognized that he wasn't comfortable spending his retirement years as if he were on perpetual vacation.
Johnson says that while playing golf, reading for pleasure and having completely unstructured days sounds terrific, the novelty wears off quickly, particularly for people who find purpose in their work.
"That doesn't mean you shouldn't consider retiring early, but you need to map out how to occupy your days," he says.
Retiring in your 50s sounds great in theory, but it can come with a few obstacles, the biggest of which could be boredom. "A non-financial reason for one to rethink retirement in their fifties concerns purpose," says Johnson.
What's more, if you don't plan carefully, your early retirement can also include many additional expenses that you won't have if you wait.
Before you join the Great Resignation permanently, carefully evaluate your finances with a financial planner. You may find that an arrangement in the gray area between all work and no work — a pre-retirement, sabbatical, "workcation," call it what you will — could be more of what you're after.
Why You Might Want to Rethink Retiring
Here are six reasons why you might want to rethink retiring in your 50s:
1. Fulfillment. In all likelihood, you are going to get bored, says Taylor Jesse, CPA, CFP, director of financial planning and an investment advisor at Taylor Hoffman in Richmond, Virginia. "You might enjoy doing nothing but sipping margaritas on the beach for a year or so, but after the initial 'honeymoon' period wears off, I'd be willing to bet that you'll want more out of life." Jesse believes humans have an innate desire to find purpose in their lives through meaningful work.
"Maybe that means cutting back your hours at work starting at 55 or changing careers in your fifties to pursue something you're more passionate about or volunteering more with a local charity," he adds, "but thinking that you'll quit any kind of work cold turkey and be happy for the next thirty years should give you pause."
Johnson founded a business with a handful of friends in a similar position. The biggest advantage was being able to choose whom he worked with. "I work only with people I like," he says. "I believe if people worked with people they liked, doing what they loved, they wouldn't consider it work."
Health Insurance Headache
2. Medicare. Once we leave the workforce, most of us will lose health insurance through employment. And most people aren't eligible for Medicare until age 65 unless they have a long-term disability. If you retire in your 50s, that leaves quite a gap in health care coverage, one you will have to shoulder.
While the Affordable Care Act (ACA) did enable people under 65 to find health insurance even with a pre-existing condition through their state marketplace, the policies available are typically high-deductible plans. They could tide you over a few years before Medicare eligibility, but when thinking about a gap of 10 or more years, your health insurance and related out-of-pocket expenses could add up quickly. The good news is that the ACA recently changed under the Biden administration to limit the cost of health insurance to 8.5% of your income.
"You may also qualify for subsidies (premium tax credits) that make self-purchased coverage more affordable than a lot of people expect it to be," says Louise Norris, a licensed broker, and analyst for healthinsurance.org. "If you're retiring early, you might find that your income dips enough to make you eligible for substantial subsidies," she adds.
Another option is COBRA, which allows you to keep your former employer's health care insurance but requires you to pay the full premium yourself and expires after 18 months.
Have You Saved Enough?
3. Savings. Your savings have to last a lot longer if you retire at 55 rather than at 70. You may not have saved enough to sustain yourself through the prolonged retirement that follows an early retirement. According to a study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, only 42% of workers 55 and older have confidence that they will have enough money to live comfortably in retirement.
This leaves a large portion of near-retirees feeling anxious about their ability to cover basic expenses. If you're unsure about your retirement savings, it may be worth delaying the date by at least a few years. Working longer postpones the need for you to start withdrawing your savings and gives you more time to contribute to and grow your nest egg, which can help provide greater financial security in retirement.
4. Retirement Accounts. You will have difficulty withdrawing money from your retirement accounts if you retire before 59 1/2. Early withdrawals from IRAs and 401(k)s result in a 10% tax penalty unless you qualify for one of a handful of exceptions. Recent IRS rule changes make it easier for people below 59 1/2 to withdraw from some retirement savings accounts without a penalty by using a Substantially Equal Periodic Payments plan, but just because you can withdraw doesn't mean you should.
Do the Math on IRA Withdrawals
Taking what's referred to as the SEPP or "72(t) exception" allows you to take money from qualified accounts before 59 1/2; the amount you can withdraw is determined using one of three methods based on age, lifespan and interest rate. Such transactions are complicated, risky, and may lead you to taking out too much of your money too early. Plus, you're still responsible for ordinary income tax on withdrawals.
For instance, if you had $1 million in a 401(k) at age 50 and apply a SEPP rule, you may be able to withdraw up to $60,300 annually. You're also obligated to stick with those withdrawals for 10 years. But by 60 you'd have depleted your account of well over half its total, leaving you with $500,000 and 20+ more years of retirement.
5. Social Security. Since benefits are based on the average of as many as 35 years of earnings, retiring early is likely to prevent your highest earning years from being used to calculate your monthly benefit. At the same time, Social Security will reduce your benefit if you ask to receive benefits before what it considers to be your "normal retirement age," which is based on the year you were born. If you apply to receive benefits three years before your normal retirement age, your monthly check will be reduced by 6.67%; if you apply four or more years early, your benefit will be reduced an additional 5% for each year.
Benefits of Being Busy
6. Shorter Life Span, Earlier Cognitive Decline. Some research suggests that people who stop working before age 65 have a shorter life span and earlier cognitive decline. "Continuing to work into your sixties, seventies and even eighties, keeps you active and engaged in society, warding off cognitive decline," says Maria Shriver, journalist, author and founder of the Women's Alzheimer's Movement.
"Studies show that working and sharpening our skills as we age decreases people's risk of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease," adds Shriver, who also co-founded and is the CEO of MOSH, a maker of nutrition bars. "The forced interactions we encounter in workplace settings, such as team meetings, watercooler talks and meeting customers, help boost our well-being and mental health, which is vital at any age."
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The unemployment rate is a key indicator of the health of any economy. A high unemployment rate indicates that the economy is not producing enough jobs - prolonged states of high unemployment erode purchasing power, drag down productivity, and eventually affect the physical and mental health of a workforce.
In contrast, a low unemployment rate indicates that the economy is doing well. This is reflected in the stock market, as investors are more likely to invest in companies that are thriving.
So how much can the unemployment rate determine stock prices, and how does that prediction affect particular stocks? Is there a link? Keep reading to learn more about the above topics in much more detail, including the relationship between unemployment, stock prices, inflation, and the economy.
Does the Unemployment Rate Forecast Stock Prices?
The unemployment rate can signal a healthy (or unhealthy) economy. Therefore, it can forecast stock prices to a certain degree. The more people are out of work, the less demand there will be for a company's services and products, so stock prices fall. Investors like to invest in companies in profitable businesses within stable economies, so their investing activity drops off when indicators (such as unemployment) show threats to profitability.
If the unemployment rate is high, this prompts action from the Federal Reserve, including lowering of interest rates and open market asset purchases. When the Fed decreases interest rates on borrowers and businesses, its goal is to lower the unemployment rate. Lower interest rates encourage people to borrow and spend money, which boosts demand for products and services, and hence, creates more jobs.
If the unemployment rate is low, this signals a healthy and vibrant economy. A healthy economy prompts investors to purchase assets, as they assume demand will increase. The Federal Reserve will remain hands-off as long as the growth continues at a steady pace.
Whether for good or for ill, the unemployment rate impacts stock prices due to the Federal Reserve's involvement in the stock market's preservation. Here are the two main ways the Federal Reserve is involved in the stock market.
Federal Funds Rate
This is the interest rates banks charge each other to borrow and lend money overnight. Raising this rate makes it easier or harder to borrow money, depending on whether the Fed raises or lowers rates. When it is harder to borrow money, interest rates rise and economic growth is suppressed. Companies then will lower their growth estimates, making investors less interested in buying their stock because risk has increased. As a result, the market as a whole will decline.
For example, if an investor expects a 9% return on their money but the company says they expect future growth of 4%, the investor is better off investing in a less risky investment, possibly bonds.
The same is true with the opposite. If the federal funds rate is lowered, it will be easier to borrow money. Companies can grow faster in this environment because there is cheap money to borrow to fund future growth. As a result, the stock market will rise.
Quantitative Easing
The other way the Federal Reserve impacts the stock market (albeit indirectly) is through asset purchases. This is also called quantitative easing or tapering. In this scenario, the Federal Reserve purchases Treasury securities — a type of bond issued by the federal U.S. government.
When this happens, bond yields are lower since bond prices and yields are inverted. With the increased demand from the Fed buying these securities, their price rises and the interest rates go down.
With lower bond yields, companies can borrow money cheaply, allowing for faster growth. When the Fed stops buying these securities or sells them back into the market, bond prices will decrease and bond yields will increase, making it more expensive for companies to borrow money. The result is slower growth and a decline in stock prices.
How the Unemployment Rate is Calculated
The unemployment rate is the percentage of the total workforce that is unemployed and actively seeking work. This is calculated by taking the total number of unemployed individuals, dividing it by the number of people in the workforce, and multiplying it by 100.
Assuming there are 25,500,000 people unemployed and the whole workforce totals 330,500,000, the unemployment rate would be 7% (25,500,000 / 330,500,000) x 100 = 7%
When this rate increases or decreases, those actions affect the economy, as detailed above.
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Unemployment vs. The Stock Market
Unemployment rates can inform investors on the best time to buy stocks.
Historically, stock prices have increased when unemployment was low and decreased when unemployment was high.
However, that's not all there is to it. The relationship between unemployment and the stock market is a complicated one. The correlation between the two is not always linear, and many factors influence this relationship.
One of these factors is inflation, which can lead to higher interest rates. Higher interest rates can lead to more expensive borrowing and lower stock demand.
This is true for all investors. For people trading on margin, they will see an increase in the margin interest rate they pay to borrow money to invest. With a higher interest rate, they will be less likely to borrow money because the return they need to achieve to earn a profit will be harder to attain since the market as a whole will slow.
Retail investors will be less likely to invest as well. This reason is two-fold. First, with a smaller return, people will put their money in other places, including in bonds or in savings accounts. Additionally, with higher borrowing costs, the interest rates on their credit cards, mortgages, and other debt will increase. If they are taking out an auto loan or mortgage, the interest rate will be higher, costing them more money every month. Many people will see more of their monthly income go towards debt repayment, decreasing what they can afford to invest in securities.
Unemployment vs. the S&P 500The unemployment rate and the price of the S&P 500 have a close inverse relationship, meaning when the unemployment rate goes down, the S&P goes up. When the unemployment rate goes up, stock prices go down.
However, this relationship doesn’t always happen at the same time, or over a prolonged period. If you simply look at annual charts, you may miss the correlation. Many times the S&P 500 will fall before unemployment peaks, and by the time of the peak, the market as a whole has already begun to head higher.
Look at 2020 as an example. If you look at the annual return of the S&P 500, you see the index gained 16% that year. However, unemployment rapidly increased due to the pandemic. As a result, the market dropped significantly.
In another example, from 2000 to 2002, the unemployment rate slowly increased each year. At the same time, the S&P 500 decreased.
Unemployment vs. NASDAQLike the S&P 500, the NASDAQ has a largely inverse relationship between its stock prices and unemployment rates.
However, since the NASDAQ comprises more technology stocks, the impact of unemployment is magnified. This is due to the fact that tech stocks grow more aggressively, so a slowdown in the economy hurts these stocks more. Conversely, when the slowdown is over, the NASDAQ will see greater growth.
To illustrate this, during the recession from 2000 to 2002, the S&P 500 Index fell an average of 15% annually. The NASDAQ fell an average of 35% annually.
In the three years after the recession was over, the S&P 500 gained an average of 13% per year, while the NASDAQ grew an average of 20% per year.
Can Unemployment Rates Predict Stock Prices?Economic indicators can be classified into two main groups: leading indicators and lagging indicators. A leading indicator tells you economic trouble is coming. A lagging indicator tells you there was economic trouble, but only after the fact.
The stock market is a leading indicator, and because of this, stock prices will fall before a recession takes place.
Whether or not businesses have enough workers to earn profits and whether investors have enough money to continue to buy shares both influence the growth of the stock market.
This can be seen by looking back to times when unemployment was high. In 1982, inflation was over 13% and to get control of it, then Fed Chairman Paul Vockler began to aggressively raise interest rates up to 20%.
This aggressive action led to the unemployment rate increasing to 10%. With business growth slowing and demand from consumers waning because so many were unemployed, the stock market declined.
If you look at a chart of the market however, you will see that the S&P 500 Index was up 14% in 1982. This is because the market is a leading indicator, as mentioned previously. The market had already begun to decline in 1981, resulting in a 10% drop that year. The only reason the market rebounded so quickly was because of the aggressive action of the Federal Reserve.
The early 1990s is another example. This was a more mild inflationary period, but the Federal Reserve tightened the money supply. The stock market lost over 6% in 1990, but because the recession was tame, it was short lived.
Bottom Line on The Unemployment RateThe unemployment rate is an important indicator of the economy's health and significantly impacts the stock market. When you see the unemployment rate increase, you can expect that stock prices will fall since there will be lower demand for stocks, as well as goods and services.
If you are a stock market investor, keep a close eye on the fluctuations in employment rate and be prepared to act accordingly.
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HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) — Two people were killed and two were wounded in a shooting at a homeless shelter for men in western Kentucky, and a suspect has been arrested, authorities said.
Officers responded Thursday evening to a report of an active shooter at the Harbor House Christian Center, the Henderson Police Department said in a statement on social media.
The shooting occurred around 7:40 p.m. when about 15 people were inside the facility, Henderson City Commissioner Robert Pruitt told The Courier & Press in Evansville, Indiana.
Police identified the suspect as Kenneth B. Gibbs of Henderson and said he was found and taken into custody shortly before 10 p.m.
Henderson Police Chief Sean McKinney told the newspaper Gibbs was identified as the shooter by witnesses at the shelter and was armed when he was found.
Gibbs has been charged with two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder, Henderson Police Lt. Stuart O'Nan said Friday. He said the wounded men were in stable condition.
Gibbs was being held at the Henderson County jail. Online records don't indicate whether he has an attorney.
O'Nan said both Gibbs and the victims were residents of the shelter. He did not release a motive in the shooting.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with Henderson this morning after a senseless act of violence," Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear tweeted Friday morning. “Britainy and I pray those injured recover quickly and we give thanks to our brave first responders. Henderson, we stand with you.”
Police had said earlier that four people were injured but later lowered that number to two.
Harbor House is described on its Facebook page as a Christian-based homeless shelter and a “safe harbor for men in need."
Pruitt said Harbor House has been an asset for the community since it opened in 1989, but “tonight puts a scar on that.”
Harbor House resident Brian McClain told the newspaper a church service had just ended and he was resting in a dorm room when a man he believed to be the shooter turned the lights on suddenly.
“He looked at me funny and shut the light back off, and when he went out the dorm room, it wasn’t five seconds later I heard shots,” he said.
He said he jumped out of bed, unlocked a window and climbed out.
“It’s crazy,” he said. “I don’t know what the hell is wrong with people, man.”
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ALBANY, N.Y. — Are wolves hunting and howling in the Northeast woods again, more than a century after they were rooted out of the region?
Advocates who think so say a recent DNA analysis shows a strapping canine shot by a coyote hunter in upstate New York last winter was actually a wolf. They believe there are other wolves in New York and New England, saying they could be crossing the frozen St. Lawrence River while heading south from Canada. And they want the government to protect them.
“There has to be other wolves here,” said John Glowa, president of the Maine Wolf Coalition. “We have no doubt that eastern wolves are coming down and crossing the St. Lawrence. And they’re being killed. And they’re being called coyotes.”
Not everyone is convinced.
The test results are the latest entry in a long-running disagreement in the Northeast about the presence of a charismatic wild animal dogged by a reputation as a big, bad villain in children's stories and as a livestock poacher to farmers. It's a surprisingly complicated question, in part because eastern coyotes typically share some genetic material with wolves.
“The question is: What is a wolf? And that is not as simple as it sounds,” said Daniel Rosenblatt, New York Department of Environmental Conservation wildlife biologist.
Critics claim wildlife officials are slow to acknowledge wolves in their midst because they would have to accommodate the presence of a federally protected species.
State wildlife officials say there's no evidence wild wolves have reestablished themselves in the region, though some concede the possibility of scattered lone wolves. They're not showing up on trail cameras, they say. Maine Wildlife Division Director Nate Webb said if wolves were back in any numbers in his state, they'd be preying on moose.
“I worked on wolves for over a decade and have been to hundreds of wolves kills personally. And it’s pretty, pretty easy to tell when a moose has been killed by wolves,” Webb said. “And that’s just not occurring here in Maine.”
Wolves were effectively shot, trapped and poisoned out of the Northeast by the start of the 20th century, leaving a gap for coyotes to fill. Smaller than wolves with pointier muzzles and ears, eastern coyotes are now common in the region.
But it's not unusual for people in the Northeast report canines seemingly too big and bulky to be coyotes, which typically weigh around 40 pounds (18 kilograms).
In New York’s Adirondack Mountains, wolf advocate Joseph Butera said his friends and neighbors have seen animals bigger than German shepherds, and he constantly sees large canine tracks in the woods.
“And once in a blue moon, you'll hear a howl that you know is not a coyote,” said Butera, president of the Northeast Ecological Recovery Society.
Wolf sightings can be dismissed as people wrongly identifying coyotes, domestic animals or wolf-dog hybrids.
But a 2011 academic study using carbon isotopes to distinguish wild from captive wolves suggested that at least three wild wolves were living in Vermont and New York in the previous decade.
Glowa, citing DNA analyses and other evidence, said at least a half dozen wolves were killed in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine from 1993 to 2007. He believes these cases likely represent a fraction of the wolves in the Northeast.
Advocates note that wolves can travel hundreds of miles, and that wolf populations have already rebounded around the Great Lakes and farther west.
Some canine researchers say it’s not clear if there are sustained populations in the Northeast, but it appears likely wolves are wandering into the region.
“In all honesty, I don’t know how there can’t be, just based on the biology that canines disperse incredible distances. By pure fact alone, why would there not be? Unless they’re always hunted,” said Bridgett vonHoldt, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Princeton University.
In the case of the recent New York animal, Glowa said he was tipped off about pictures posted online by a hunter with his kill this winter west of Albany, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of the Canadian border. The hunter agreed to provide a tissue sample of the 85-pound (39-kilogram) animal to advocates. A lab analysis showed predominantly wolf ancestry, with a very small amount of coyote genetic material.
However, New York environmental officials say a separate DNA analysis they commissioned determined the animal was most closely identified as an eastern coyote. The conclusion was based in part on maternal DNA markers, though the analysis found ample evidence of wolf genetic material.
VonHoldt, leader of the North American Canine Ancestry Project, said both tests relied on a limited amount of genetic data. In her opinion, it was not possible to conclude the animal was a coyote or a wolf without more data.
The Princeton lab is performing additional tests on samples from the animal.
The issue any genetic analyst must face is the blurry line between wolves and eastern coyotes. Researchers believe coyotes heading east over the Great Lakes bred with wolves. The result is that eastern coyotes are a bit brawnier than those out west. Some people even use the term “coywolves.”
“Where do you draw the line between the two?” asked New Hampshire Fish and Game Department wildlife biologist Patrick Tate. “How much wolf DNA can you need before it’s a wild wolf? How much coyote DNA do you need before it’s a coyote?”
Rosenblatt said New York not only is retesting this animal, but also is trying to collect more genetic data on coyotes so they have a better sense of makeup of the canines at large in the woods.
“We know this question is not going to go away,” he said. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/debate-over-presence-of-wolves-in-northeast/507-2c0347c4-bdec-4b18-98f5-36ff96250f6b | 2022-08-26T16:29:01Z | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/debate-over-presence-of-wolves-in-northeast/507-2c0347c4-bdec-4b18-98f5-36ff96250f6b | true |
ANGOLA — A Fremont man was found guilty of Level 6 felony battery resulting in moderate injury by a six-person Steuben Superior Court jury on Thursday.
Derrick E. Carter, 55, served as his own attorney at trial, even though Judge William Fee strongly advised against doing so.
Robert Hardy, who serves as pauper counsel in many criminal cases in Steuben County, sat by Carter as standby counsel.
Carter was found guilty of battering an Orland man, who would have been 73 at the time of the incident, on July 17, 2019, at Tom's Donuts, Angola. Both were employed in the kitchen at the restaurant.
Carter was arrested on a warrant on Oct. 14, 2019, following an investigation by Angola Police and the Steuben County Prosecutor's Office.
The guilty verdict, which came after about 15 minutes of deliberation on Thursday, is notable because the victim did not testify at trial; he died on May 12, 2022, at an Angola nursing home, at the age of 76.
Prosecutor Jeremy Musser said the victim's widow did testify at trial about the pain her husband received due to the incident. The case was tried for the state by deputy prosecutors Ryan Frey and David Brown.
In a probable cause affidavit filed in court, Angola Police Department Detective Michael Wood wrote that there was an argument between Carter and the victim over the volume of a radio playing in the kitchen at Tom's. The incident was captured on video equipment in use at the restaurant, which was turned over to police.
The video shows the two having a heated conversation.
"Derrick gets close to Joseph's face and then Joseph gets closer to Derrick's face and then Derrick pushes Joseph causing him to fall to his left side," the court document said.
The victim ended up receiving medical treatment at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne.
Police at Parkview examined the victim and informed Wood that he sustained "severe bruising on the left hip, buttocks and leg ... The bruising extended from the hip to the thigh."
Court documents also indicate the victim might have sustained a head injury, also.
Following the incident the men reportedly apologized to each other, court documents say.
Carter is facing a maximum sentence of 2 1/2 years of incarceration. He will be sentenced on Oct. 18. | https://www.kpcnews.com/heraldrepublican/article_2834edda-fc6c-519b-a3fb-bb370c91b703.html | 2022-08-26T16:36:53Z | https://www.kpcnews.com/heraldrepublican/article_2834edda-fc6c-519b-a3fb-bb370c91b703.html | true |
Iowa City West football shows big-play potential, but inconsistency leads to season-opening loss
CEDAR RAPIDS — The Iowa City West football team had an uneven performance in its season-opener Thursday, falling to Cedar Rapids Kennedy 28-19.
The Trojans had a handful of plays that showed positive strides. But special teams woes, penalties, and inconsistency on both sides of the football wound up costing them.
"We made too many mistakes," Trojans coach Garrett Hartwig said. "I credit Kennedy because I said that they were a team that would not beat themselves. We had to beat them. I still feel good in a strange way because we did show flashes of what we would become."
Overall, it was a performance that should inspire hope for the Trojans, coming off a 2-7 season. Here's what we learned.
More:Sophomore quarterback Jack Wallace ready to lead Iowa City West football: 'My mindset has changed'
The Jack Wallace-Christian Janis connection is going to give defenses fits
Before the season, Hartwig talked in-depth about the strides he expected his squad to take, specifically his offense.
With the continued development of sophomore quarterback Jack Wallace and the return of senior wide receiver Christian Janis, he believed there was a chance for this group to turn some heads early.
He proved to be prophetic Thursday after the duo was nearly unstoppable against the Cougars.
They connected on five passes for 171 yards and all three touchdowns. Two of those scores came in the first half, from 86 and 56 yards out.
In his first game since suffering a broken collarbone a year ago, Janis said the performance meant a lot to him.
"It feels really good to be back on the field," Janis said. "Last year, it was hard knowing that I could not do anything from the sidelines to contribute because of my injury, especially in close games."
Though their stellar performance came during a defeat, it is safe to say that as long as they can both stay healthy, this pair has a chance to wreak havoc all season.
More:Football preview 2022: Iowa City West believes it can make last year's struggles a distant memory
Ashton Honore is a tackling machine
No matter what Kennedy called, there always seemed to be someone infiltrating its offensive backfield.
More times than not, it was West's junior linebacker Ashton Honore who was the culprit, taking down Cougars running backs seemingly at will.
He ended the game leading his team in tackles and even had a pivotal quarterback hurry to force an incomplete pass on one third down.
Priding himself on his ability to always find his way to the ball carrier, Honore said that he hopes to build off his performance.
"I think I played great," Honore said. "I read the quarterback well and was able to get past linemen. I just need to work on being better at getting quarterbacks down for sacks."
Even though the Trojans showed promise, there is much work to be done
In the first half, the Trojans gave the Cougars little room to breathe.
They remained in step with them offensively and their defense did a fine job of getting off the field on third down. They trailed 14-13 at intermission.
However, in the second half, it seemed like the team had lost the spark that made them so captivating in the first half.
The lone exception was a 24-yard touchdown from Wallace to Janis that made it a 21-19 game at the beginning of the fourth quarter.
Noticing changes in the looks that the Cougars were giving him, Wallace said they were double-teaming Janis.
"We as a team have to work on spreading the ball around," Wallace said. "During the fourth quarter, they had a safety over him. Defenses are going to pick up on me throwing to him like Kennedy did, so we have to do better."
The Cougars' persistent run game began to wear West down, which allowed them to make more big plays down the stretch.
Special teams had been worrisome all night, with the frustrating play of the night coming on a 93-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Kennedy.
Hoping to have a more balanced performance next week when the Trojans host Muscatine, Hartwig said that he plans to focus on fundamentals when the team returns to practice.
"I want to focus on discipline," Hartwig said. "We came out of the gate in the second half with five penalties. We can't do that against a team like Kennedy. Along with their kickoff return touchdown, that was probably the biggest difference for us in the game."
Raven Moore covers high school sports for the Iowa City Press-Citizen. You can reach her at RSMoore@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter at @Raven_XReport. | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/sports/2022/08/26/inconsistent-iowa-city-west-trojans-football-team-falls-opener-cedar-rapids-kennedy-christian-janis/7867061001/ | 2022-08-26T16:37:10Z | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/sports/2022/08/26/inconsistent-iowa-city-west-trojans-football-team-falls-opener-cedar-rapids-kennedy-christian-janis/7867061001/ | false |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Kansas Turnpike Authority invites the public to provide feedback on their Turnpike travel experience by participating in its annual Customer Satisfaction Survey.
Anyone who uses the Turnpike, whether daily or occasionally, is encouraged to share their thoughts to help KTA prioritize future projects and make internal improvements.
Previous improvements and enhancements that came from customer feedback include electric vehicle charging stations, increased vertical bridge clearance and KTA’s transition to cashless tolling in 2024.
“We are proud to be a customer-driven organization,” said Steve Hewitt, KTA’s CEO. “Customer feedback helps drive our decisions for future projects. It’s why we highly encourage our travelers to fill out this survey each year.”
Those who complete the survey will be entered to win one of six $50 Amazon gift cards.
The survey is open until Sept. 30 by clicking here. | https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/kansas-turnpike-seeks-driver-feedback/ | 2022-08-26T16:37:38Z | https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/kansas-turnpike-seeks-driver-feedback/ | true |
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Police officers and sheriff’s deputies in Virginia shot and killed a person who fired on them when they responded to a call early Friday, officials said.
Blacksburg Police officers and Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call on Yellow Sulphur Road in Blacksburg around 2 a.m., Blacksburg police said in a news release. A male subject on the scene fired on the officers and deputies and they returned fire, police said.
The officers and deputies administered first aid and Blacksburg Rescue responded, but the person died, officials said. The responding officers and deputies were not injured.
Officials have not released further details about the circumstances surrounding the shooting, the person who was killed or the officers involved. Officials said the police department and the sheriff’s office are following their protocols for such shootings, but did not say what those are. Virginia State Police are investigating the shooting. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Police-Officers-shoot-kill-person-who-fired-at-17400160.php | 2022-08-26T16:38:37Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Police-Officers-shoot-kill-person-who-fired-at-17400160.php | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will set up a new center in the next year to help avoid civilian casualties in military operations around the world through better education and training and increased screening before strikes are launched.
The plan ordered by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and released Thursday comes on the heels of widespread criticism over a U.S. airstrike in Kabul last August that killed 10 civilians, including children, during the final chaotic days of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
A senior defense official said the development of a new Civilian Protection Center of Excellence and other improvements will cost “tens of millions of dollars” per year, and the plan more broadly would involve the addition of about 150 staff. The center would initially start operations in the 2023 budget year that begins Oct. 1, and would be fully staffed and working by 2025. The official spoke on condition of anonymity under department rules to provide details of the plan.
Laid out in a 36-page action plan, the changes approved by Austin call for updated policies and guidelines for military operations, and steps that must be taken in order to better analyze threats, assess who is on the ground and determine what other civilian structures could be affected.
A key criticism of the Afghanistan drone strike was that those making the final decision were too quick to conclude that the white Toyota Corolla under watch aligned with the intelligence and confirmed their conclusion to bomb what turned out to be the wrong vehicle. The new Pentagon plan is aimed at preventing such “confirmation bias” and more consistently involving teams to specifically challenge assumptions to make sure a strike is appropriate.
The plan would put new personnel in each of the combatant commands that are in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Indo-Pacific, South America and U.S. Northern Command in Colorado, as well as in all the military services, other senior commands and vital places such as Special Operations Command, Cyber Command and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
There has been persistent criticism, particularly from human rights organizations, that U.S. military strikes in Syria, Iraq and other battlefields have killed civilians but that officials have failed or been slow to acknowledge those deaths. In some cases, the U.S. military’s inability to get to a strike location in its immediate aftermath has led to conclusions that allegations of civilian deaths were not confirmable.
An independent review done late last year found that better communication between those making the strike decision and other support personnel might have raised more doubts about the Kabul attack or possibly prevented it.
Under Austin’s plan, there will be ongoing education and training and more specific policies about getting positive identification for targeting. Civilian casualty assessments will become a consistent element in military exercises so troops can practice how best to avoid killing the innocent.
The new system will improve data collection and investigations so that the Pentagon can more precisely report civilian deaths. It will set up a new framework for how the Defense Department responds to deaths, including acknowledging them and providing condolences and other aid in the aftermath.
More broadly, the plan accounts for better assessment in counterterrorism strikes as well as the prospects of civilian casualties in a large-scale war, such as one with China or Russia.
A review by RAND Corp. of the August 2021 airstrike in Afghanistan concluded that military’s focus on civilian casualties has for years largely involved operations in places such as Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. RAND said the Pentagon is not prepared to deal with the issue in that larger type of war, which likely would involve combat in urban areas where it would be more difficult to distinguish between civilian and military targets.
The Aug. 29 drone strike in Afghanistan killed Zemerai Ahmadi and nine family members, including seven children. Ahmadi, 37, was a longtime employee of an American humanitarian organization and was not a militant, as first claimed by military officials.
The Pentagon initially said the attack was valid, despite 10 civilian deaths, but later acknowledged it was a “tragic mistake.” The independent Pentagon review concluded there was no misconduct or negligence.
RAND’s review concluded that the U.S. military follows a flawed and inadequate process for assessing and investigating suspected civilian damage and casualties caused by U.S. airstrikes. It said internal reporting on civilian casualties can be unreliable and incomplete, and it recommended the military take a broader view of damage to include structural damage that hurts basic community functions. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-pentagon-plan-aims-to-help-avoid-civilian-deaths-in-strikes/ | 2022-08-26T16:42:26Z | https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-pentagon-plan-aims-to-help-avoid-civilian-deaths-in-strikes/ | false |
TEAM NEWS
Wolves striker Raul Jimenez could make his first Premier League start of the season, having scored in the midweek EFL Cup win against Preston.
Newcastle head coach Eddie Howe says he hopes club-record signing Alexander Isak will be available after completing his move from Real Sociedad on Friday.
Callum Wilson will be out for several weeks with a hamstring injury.
Dan Burn could return after missing the midweek win at Tranmere in the EFL Cup because of the concussion protocol.
Emil Krafth is facing a spell on the sidelines after being stretchered off in Wednesday's game at Prenton Park.
SUTTON'S PREDICTION
Wolves just don't score. They create numerous opportunities and have some talented players, I don't know how long we have said this about them but it is just that finishing touch.
Because of that, I think they might come a cropper against Newcastle, who were absolutely brilliant against Manchester City in the 3-3 draw at St James' Park last weekend.
The way they played, the way they got bodies forward and the way they attacked with real confidence, I am going to go for Newcastle.
Prediction: 1-2
Chris Sutton's full predictions v Ross MacDonald, bassist with The 1975
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
- This fixture at Molineux has finished 1-1 in three of the last four seasons.
- Newcastle have scored in all 14 of their Premier League games against Wolves.
Wolverhampton Wanderers
- Wolves are winless in 10 Premier League matches (D3, L7) since beating Aston Villa 2-1 on 2 April.
- Against Tottenham, club-record signing Matheus Nunes became the 19th player from Portugal to appear for Wolves in the Premier League, eight more than any other club.
- Raul Jimenez has scored six goals in 35 Premier League appearances since returning from a fractured skull - he netted 34 times in 86 matches before the injury.
Newcastle United
- Newcastle are unbeaten in this season's Premier League (W1, D2). They last enjoyed a four-match unbeaten start to a league season in 2011-12, when they went on to finish fifth.
- They have won 43 Premier League points in in 2022 - prior to the latest round of fixtures, only Liverpool (53), Manchester City (50) and Tottenham Hotspur (48) have better records.
- Chris Wood has scored six goals in eight Premier League appearances against Wolves.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt slugged his 32nd and 33rd homers to highlight a five-RBI performance and position himself in the Triple Crown discussion, helping the St. Louis Cardinals roll to an 8-3 win Thursday over the Chicago Cubs.
Goldschmidt increased his NL-leading RBI total to 105 and also leads the NL in batting average (.339). He is second to Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies (35) in home runs, and Thursday was the the third time this season Goldschmidt had a multi-homer game and the 23rd time in his career.
“If something like that (the Triple Crown) happened, it would be a miracle,” Goldschmidt said. “So to think that’s realistic is probably pretty far-fetched. It would be amazing, but to think that’s a goal for anyone is a crazy standard.”
Goldschmidt, Corey Dickerson and Tommy Edman collected three hits apiece as the NL Central-leading Cardinals won for the 10th time in their last 12 games and concluded a 6-2 trip.
Dickerson set an expansion-era franchise record for consecutive hits — 10 in 10 consecutive plate appearances. He sparked a three-run first inning with an RBI single for his ninth consecutive hit, breaking the previous mark of eight held by Curt Flood (1964, 1968), Felix Jose (1991) and Fernando Tatis (1998).
The Cardinals collected 16 hits even without slugger Nolan Arenado, who returned to St. Louis to attend the birth of his first child. But that was plenty of support for Dakota Hudson (7-6), who pitched a season-high seven innings of five-hit ball.
The Cubs lost for the fourth time in six games. Starter Marcus Stroman (3-6) gave up 11 hits and five runs, all earned, in five innings. It was one more hit than he’d surrendered against them on June 3.
“It looked like it just took (Stroman) a minute to get going, and I don’t think he found that rhythm out of the stretch,” Cubs manager David Ross said. “He was in (the stretch) a lot. They were jumping on him early in the count sometimes.”
Nolan Gorman followed Dickerson’s first-inning hit with an RBI single, and Tyler O’Neill capped it with a sacrifice fly.
Goldschmidt hit a two-run single in the fourth off Stroman, then smacked a solo shot that landed near the top of the left-field bleachers off Sean Newcomb in the sixth and had a two-run shot in the eighth off Kervin Castro.
Cubs left fielder Ian Happ provided the bulk of the Cubs’ offense, hitting a double and scoring on a throwing error by Edman in the second, and following that with an RBI single in the third. Happ also hit a double that eluded right fielder Lars Nootbaar to score Nico Hoerner in the eighth.
THE LAST DANCE
Neither Albert Pujols nor Yadier Molina were in the lineup in their final visit to Wrigley Field.
Pujols, 42, an 11-time All-Star who ranks fifth all-time with 693 career home runs, and nine-time Gold Glove winner Molina, 40, were presented with Wrigley scoreboard panels with their numbers in a pregame ceremony.
“This guy has beat up on this club for a lot of years, and I wanted him to taste it one more time,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said of his failed attempt to give Pujols a pinch-hitting appearance in the ninth inning.
NO-GO TO TORONTO
The Cubs expect three to four players won’t travel to Toronto for a three-game series starting Monday, Cubs’ President of Business Operations Jed Hoyer said. The names of the players will be disclosed Sunday in Milwaukee.
Canada’s government states that all visitors must be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to enter the country.
“You want to play at full strength all the time, but we have to make certain decisions in order to make sure we’re able to fill out a roster and be competitive up there,” Hoyer said. “It’s not something we look forward to. It’s not idea. But it’s also baseball in 2022 when you go to Toronto.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cubs: C Willson Contreras (sore left ankle) missed his third consecutive start but is expected to return as soon as Friday. … RHP Adbert Alzolay (right shoulder strain) was scheduled to throw a bullpen session Thursday at Triple-A Iowa. … RHP Manny Rodriguez (right elbow strain) is scheduled to pitch this weekend for Iowa. Rodriguez has struck out five in his last two outings for Iowa.
TRANSACTIONS
Cardinals: RHP Ryan Helsley will rejoin the team Friday, manager Oliver Marmol said. Helsley was placed on the restricted list following the birth of his wife Alex’s first child.
UP NEXT
Cardinals: Will start LHP Jose Quintana (4-5, 3.45 ERA) Friday night at Atlanta. Quintana allowed four runs (two earned) in a season-low 2 2/3 innings in a 6-4 win Sunday over the Diamondbacks.
Cubs: Will start LHP Justin Steele (4-7, 3.25) Friday night at Milwaukee. Steele pitched six shutout innings Sunday in a 5-2 loss to the Brewers.
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On Tuesday morning, the City swept a long-standing encampment of around 20 people behind the Home Depot on Aurora Ave. Hidden from the public on land that some say used to be a lake overflow, residents enjoyed a kind of security and stability that allowed them to build large, more permanent homes like one found family that built a home with heating, cooling, a full kitchen, and a thriving garden. Given those deep roots, the residents would not go happily.
On the morning of the sweep, The Stranger picked up a camera and followed Pedro, aka "Cuba," a resident who had already weathered two sweeps this year. He said a City employee told him to go to the encampment behind Home Depot because the City wouldn’t bother him there.
But the City did, in fact, bother him. The City bothered the whole neighborhood.
When the City came to destroy their homes, a group of residents barricaded themselves behind a ring of shopping carts and presented a list of demands.
We still need more bodies to support these residents!! Come to the sweep on N 120th Ave and Stone Ave N, behind the home depot (11616 Aurora Ave N)! pic.twitter.com/ci4jeno22P
— Stop The Sweeps Seattle (@Stop_Sweeps_SEA) August 23, 2022
Between the threat of resistance and shouting matches with Pedro, the City partially gave in to the demands from the unhoused people. Outreach workers found congregate shelter or tiny shelters for the handful of residents behind the barricade, and they allowed some people with more permanent homes to have an extra day to pack up. The City initially gave some residents a 15-minute timeline to move after posting 72-hour notices on Friday morning.
One organizer from Stop the Sweeps, a group that helps unhoused people move during encampment removals, said that residents and organizers wanted to resist the City’s cruel and destabilizing procedure, but ultimately they didn’t have the numbers to stand up to the cops.
The residents and organizers did, however, delay the sweep and pressure the City to give out more shelter referrals. Still, some residents and advocates saw the day-of referrals as coercive: Even if some wanted to resist, people will tend to pick shelter over facing off against the cops, even if that tiny shelter is far away or doesn’t suit needs.
Those who did not accept referrals or did not receive them to begin with said they don’t know where they will go. Anywhere they end up, the City will certainly chase them out again. Pedro said he might just come right back in a few days. Hopefully, the City will have spared some of his garden. | https://www.thestranger.com/news/2022/08/26/78256200/aurora-ave-sweep-slowed-but-not-stopped | 2022-08-26T16:45:44Z | https://www.thestranger.com/news/2022/08/26/78256200/aurora-ave-sweep-slowed-but-not-stopped | false |
USDA scattering rabies vaccines for wildlife in 13 states
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun scattering millions of packets of oral rabies vaccine from helicopters and planes over 13 states from Maine to Alabama.
The major aim is to keep raccoons from spreading their strain of the deadly virus to states where it hasn’t been found or isn’t widespread, said field trial coordinator Jordona Kirby.
The USDA is also continuing tests of a vaccine approved in Canada to immunize skunks as well as raccoons, said Kirby of Wildlife Services, which is part of the agriculture department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
Rabies is spread through an infected animal’s saliva, usually through bites. However, saliva that gets into the eyes, nose or mouth can also infect someone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Thirteen people in South Carolina were considered potentially exposed in March because they had bottle-fed or given medicine to a sick calf that turned out to have rabies, said Dr. Michael Neault, the state veterinarian.
Globally, the virus kills 60,000 people a year, most bitten by dogs, the World Health Organization states.
That’s about the same number that get shots to prevent rabies in the U.S. after being bitten or scratched by an infected or possibly infected animal, according to the CDC.
State and local pet vaccination laws mean the virus is mostly spread by wildlife in the U.S.
The national rabies control program started in 1997 in Texas, where coyotes were spreading the canine variant of the virus, Kirby said.
She said vaccine drops eliminated that variant in 2004. Three years later, the CDC declared the nation free of canine rabies.
That doesn’t mean unvaccinated pets are safe. Canine rabies is among more than 20 variants — seven found in terrestrial mammals and more than 13 in species of bats, said rabies control program coordinator Richard Chipman.
A bite from an animal infected with any variant can make any other mammal sick. Scratches occasionally do so, since animals lick their paws.
A three-year program in Arizona and New Mexico eliminated a bat rabies strain in foxes, Kirby said. And Texas, with help from USDA, dropped 1.1 million baits along the Mexican border in January to keep coyotes from bringing the canine variant back.
Raccoons are the main rabies reservoir in 18 states along and near the East Coast and skunks in 21 others, according to data from 2020, the latest year available.
Bats made up 31% of the nearly 4,500 animals found with rabies in 2020. But since nearly all of the 40-plus bat species found in the U.S. eat insects and the rest drink nectar or eat fruit, oral vaccines would be much trickier.
Some scientists have speculated that bats could be vaccinated during hibernation, perhaps with a fine mist or with a gel that could be transferred from bat to bat, Chipman said. Early research is testing the idea in vampire bats, which live in Mexico and Central and South America and might spread such a vaccine within a colony by grooming each other.
Rabid wildlife isn’t just a rural problem. A rabid fox on Capitol Hill was caught less than 24 hours after the first report in April. By then, about a half-dozen people had reported bites or nips to U.S. Capitol Police, but others may have gone to other agencies, a Capitol Police spokesperson said by email.
Raccoon rabies campaigns started in August in parts of northern Maine, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and southwestern Virginia. The 348,000 Raboral V-RG baits in Maine and 535,000 in the three other states are being dropped from planes in rural areas and from vehicles in urban and suburban areas.
In all, about 3.75 million packets — coated with a fishmeal attractant or encased in 1-inch (2.5-centimeter) fish meal cubes — will be distributed in nine states, ending when 1.1 million are dropped in Alabama in October.
The vaccine has been found safe for more than 60 kinds of animals including domestic dogs and cats. Eating a large number of vaccine packets might give dogs an upset stomach but wouldn’t cause any permanent problem, APHIS says.
About 3.5 million doses of the experimental vaccine Onrab are being distributed in parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Tennessee — which also are getting the approved vaccine — plus four other states.
Onrab comes in blister packs with green, marshmallow-flavored coating. Wildlife Services hopes it may be approved next year in spite of lingering pandemic-related delays.
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RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say five people were injured after an overnight shooting south of Milwaukee.
Four males and one female were shot about 2:30 a.m. Friday in Racine. Three of them were taken to a Milwaukee hospital. Their conditions are unknown, police said.
Racine police are asking for help from the public in gathering information on the shooting. A police spokeswoman did not immediately return a phone message seeking more details.
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CASSVILLE, Mo. — A school district in southwest Missouri has decided to bring back spanking as a form of discipline for students, but only if their parents agree.
The policy states that corporal punishment will be used only when other forms of discipline, such as suspensions, have failed and then only with the superintendent’s permission.
District spokeswoman Mindi Artherton was out of the office Friday and a woman who answered the phone in her office suggested reading the policy. She said staff had already done interviews. “At this time we will focus on educating our students,” she added, before hanging up.
Superintendent Merlyn Johnson told The Springfield News-Leader the decision to revive corporal punishment came after an anonymous survey sent to parents, students and school employees found they were concerned about student behavior and discipline.
Johnson said many parents have complained that the district doesn’t use corporal punishment.
“We’ve had people actually thank us for it,” he said. “Surprisingly, those on social media would probably be appalled to hear us say these things, but the majority of people that I’ve run into have been supportive.”
The policy also says a witness from the district must be present and the discipline will not be used in front of other students.
“When it becomes necessary to use corporal punishment, it shall be administered so that there can be no chance of bodily injury or harm,” the policy says. “Striking a student on the head or face is not permitted.”
Missouri is one of 19 states that allows corporal punishment in schools. Periodic efforts to ban corporal punishment in schools have failed to gain traction in the state Legislature.
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The Multi-Campus Tour Kicks Off at the National Battle of The Bands in Houston, Texas, Celebrates Black Excellence and Inspires the Next Generation of Black Leaders
PURCHASE, N.Y., Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Music, sports, community, food, and culture are the hallmarks of HBCUs and this year, PepsiCo is bringing its Historically Better platform back to celebrate, elevate, and engage students as they get ready for a new year.
Kicking off at the start of HBCU football season at the National Battle of the Bands, Historically Better: Powered by Pepsi Stronger Together and Doritos SOLID BLACK is a multi-campus tour that empowers and celebrates multi-generational Black changemakers. The nearly four-month tour will hit a variety of stops and culminate at the SWAC Championship game.
"With Historically Better, our goal is to utilize the power of PepsiCo's diverse brand portfolio to address inequity and level the playing field for HBCU students with an end-to-end experience that inspires them by celebrating Black excellence in all its forms," said Derek Lewis, PepsiCo, President, Multicultural. "Our breadth of programming demonstrates our commitment to HBCUs across our brands and is designed to benefit students, alumni, and fans alike. We're creating access to career opportunities, spotlighting cultural changemakers and entrepreneurs, and engaging with HBCU students at every step."
The program complements PepsiCo's larger Racial Equality Journey commitments, a five-year, more than $400 million investment to increase Black representation at PepsiCo, support and elevate Black businesses and voices, and economic opportunity in Black communities. Programming will come to life across our REJ three pillars of people, business, and community, including:
- People - On-Campus Recruitment at HBCUs:
- Business - Elevating Black Voices and Businesses with Doritos SOLID BLACK and Pepsi Dig In:
- Community - Inspiring the Next Generation of HBCU Students:
Fans can follow @pepsistrongertogether #HistoricallyBetter for more information on the Historically Better tour and recruitment efforts as updates are released closer to event dates.
About Pepsi Stronger Together
Pepsi Stronger Together (PST) is a national initiative to empower and engage communities around the country by providing tailored programming and resources that bring people together. It was conceived with the idea that now, more than ever, we must foster a sense of connection and belonging, starting by investing locally. Launched in May of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic – PST engaged its network of partners in the South to shine a spotlight on essential front-line workers in a variety of industries. Since then, PST has expanded its reach and impact through a variety of partnerships and initiatives, including partnerships with NBA teams, community leaders, and environmental and charitable organizations.
Driven by the PepsiCo positive (pep+) vision to catalyze positive change for people and the planet, Pepsi Stronger Together is continually evolving to respond to the cultural moment and meet the needs of communities across the United States. Stay up to date and learn how to engage at http://www.pepsistrongertogether.com. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @pepsistrongertogether.
About Doritos
Doritos believes there's boldness in everyone. We champion those who are true to themselves, who live life fully engaged and take bold action by stepping outside of their comfort zone and pushing the limits. Doritos is one of many Frito-Lay North America brands – the $19 billion convenient foods division of PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP), which is headquartered in Purchase, NY. Learn more about Frito-Lay at the corporate website, http://www.fritolay.com/, and on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/fritolay.
About PepsiCo
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.
Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability at the center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for the planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com.
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DETROIT (AP) — California will require all new cars, trucks and SUVs sold in the state to run on electricity or hydrogen by 2035 in an ambitious move away from gasoline-powered vehicles and the pollution they emit.
The requirements come in phases starting in 2026, and it will take 13 years for them become fully effective. But there are many challenges to meeting them.
EVs now cost substantially more than gas-powered vehicles. There are shortages of precious metals needed for their batteries. The U.S. has little battery manufacturing capacity.
But a lot can change in 13 years. Here’s what we know about the problem areas and what’s being done about them:
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WILL AUTOMAKERS BE ABLE TO MAKE ENOUGH ELECTRIC VEHICLES?
More than likely. During the first half of this year, electric vehicle sales accounted for about 15% of California’s new vehicle market. New vehicle sales in the state normally run around 2 million per year. That’s roughly a 1.5 million difference that has to be made up by 2035. But almost every day, automakers are announcing new EV models, battery factories and assembly plants. Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Hyundai-Kia, Stellantis and VinFast have announced plans for 10 U.S. battery plants.
“New plants are coming in and old plants are being converted,” said Sam Fiorani, vice president of AutoForecast Solutions. “The plans are in place for a large amount of vehicles being ready for the U.S. and global markets.”
The big ifs, though, are whether there will be enough precious metals, such as lithium, to make the batteries, and whether EV prices will come down quickly enough. Laurie Holmes, senior manager of government affairs for Kia, told California officials Thursday that the industry could have difficulty meeting sales targets. She urged the state to support incentives for consumers to buy EVs and to help build out a charging system.
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CAN THE ELECTRIC GRID HANDLE THE LOAD?
The California Energy Commission expects electric vehicles to add only a small amount of power use in the next 10 years. The commission estimates that 3.7 million light-duty electric vehicles will be in use in the state in 2030, and they will account for only about 2.6% of electricity use during peak hours. David Reichmuth, a senior engineer for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said EV charging can be timed to off-peak hours, especially during the day when wind and solar power are more available. Utilities will be able to send messages to cars to start or stop charging depending on electricity demand, he said.
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WON’T ELECTRIC VEHICLES BE TOO EXPENSIVE FOR MANY PEOPLE?
That’s possible, although prices are coming down, and they are expected to get lower as costs are spread out among more vehicles and new battery chemistries are developed that don’t use many expensive precious metals. Currently most U.S. EVs are targeted at higher-income luxury or pickup-truck buyers and start at $40,000 or more, beyond the reach of many. But prices are starting to come down. For instance, General Motors says it will offer a small Chevrolet SUV with a starting price tag of around $30,000 that’s expected to get close to 300 miles (500 kilometers) per charge. The federal government next year will offer $7,500 tax credits for EVs made in North America, bringing purchase prices down. And California is offering cash, rebates and special financing for low-income buyers. Also, EV buyers will save on fuel and maintenance costs.
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DO EVS REALLY POLLUTE LESS, GIVEN MANUFACTURING AND MINING OF METALS FOR BATTERIES?
Multiple studies, including some by the Massachussets Institute of Technology, say yes. While there is pollution from mining, EVs are so much cleaner than gas vehicles on the road that it only takes a short time for them to make up for the mining. A study released this summer by the Union of Concerned Scientists looked at lifetime emissions, including the manufacturing process.
“Altogether, the lifetime emissions for an electric car or and electric pickup are less than half that of a gasoline vehicle,” Reichmuth said. The gap between gas and electric will grow as more electricity comes from renewable sources such as wind and solar, he said.
“There’s nothing that we’re going to do when it comes to aggressively promoting electrification that will be worse for the planet than burning fossil fuels,” said Margo Oge, chair of the International Council for Clean Transportation and a former top U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official.
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WILL OTHER STATES FOLLOW CALIFORNIA?
Currently 17 other states have adopted California’s greenhouse gas emissions requirements, most on the coasts. In total they account for about 40% of all U.S. new vehicle sales. The state of Washington has already started the process to follow the EV sales requirements, and others are expected to. It will take the other states longer to go through the process, and many don’t have the electric vehicle demand or charging infrastructure that California does.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kevin Hart already has a thriving comedy and acting career, and now he's aiming for people's stomachs.
The prolific actor-comedian opened his first plant-based, fast-food restaurant called Hart House on Thursday in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles near the city's airport. He wants this new venture to attract regular plant-base eaters along with those who haven’t yet been introduced to that world of healthy eating.
“Our business is in the business of feeling good. That’s what Kevin Hart is about,” he said in an interview before the restaurant's official opening, which got off to a strong start with a long lines of customers throughout the day. While sitting alongside his wife, Eniko Hart, the actor scarfed down a plant-based crispy chick’n sandwich, chick’n nuggets and tots.
Rapper Lil Baby showed up to the preview to place an order from the fully plant-based menu that also features burgers, salads, fries, ice teas and a limeade. The restaurant’s milkshakes are made from an oat-and-soy blend.
“I say this all the time: ‘Live, love, laugh,’” Hart continued. “Here, we say ‘Eat your hart out.’ People have a curiosity about plant-based food. It’s something I eat. It’s really good. When you look at other restaurants, Hart House is just as good and maybe even better in some respects.”
Hart felt the need to create a healthy space within the fast-food spectrum that’s affordable for customers. There are several other plant-based, fast-food options located throughout Los Angeles, but Hart House’s approach is to serve quality food with sandwiches and burgers that are within the $5-$7 price range — less than competitors.
“It’s a major priority for us,” Hart said. “We want to make an environment where people feel good.”
In creating Hart House, the comedian-actor teamed up with restaurateur Andy Hooper, chef Mike Salem and businessman Michael Rubin, who was an investor.
Salem, who developed Hart House’s menu options, was the head of culinary innovation at Burger King where he helped launch the Impossible Whopper.
“One of the cool things about our leadership is that the majority of us are carnivores,” he said. “But we wanted to create this plant-base concept and bring Kevin’s vision to light. We wanted to keep this simple. This is straightforward classic American comfort food.”
Along with his flagship location, Hart wants to open six more Hart House restaurants by the end of the year. He already has two locations under construction in Los Angeles including one in the Hollywood area.
“We’re being open minded,” he said. “This is a new generation and new way of thinking when it comes to food consumption. This is the beginning stages for us. We will continue to get better over time.”
It's a busy week for Hart, whose latest film, “Me Time” with Mark Wahlberg and Regina Hall, released on Netflix on Friday. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Kevin-Hart-opens-new-plant-based-fast-food-17400376.php | 2022-08-26T16:58:58Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Kevin-Hart-opens-new-plant-based-fast-food-17400376.php | false |
GUNDRY MD VITAL RECHARGE DIETARY SUPPLEMENT IS AN INVIGORATING BLEND OF VITAMINS, POLYPHENOLS, AND ELECTROLYTES TO HELP SUPPORT HYDRATION AND ENERGY LEVELS FROM DR. STEVEN GUNDRY AND GUNDRY MD
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gundry MD™ Vital Recharge dietary supplement is the newest addition to Dr. Steven Gundry's line of wellness dietary supplements. With its launch, Gundry MD introduces RiaGev®, a first-of-its-kind proprietary complex featuring a form of Vitamin B3 and D-Ribose, shown to help support NAD, ATP and glutathione production, which can help boost energy and contribute to a balanced mood. Gundry MD products are crafted with science-backed ingredients to nourish health with powerful nutrients that many of us lack in our everyday diet.
Gundry MD Vital Recharge Powder is fueled with 13 sources of vitamins, minerals, and electrolytes that help "supercharge" your cells to help promote strength, endurance, focus, and fitness levels — no matter your age. Dr. Gundry has been a major proponent of polyphenols for decades, so Vital Recharge also contains a unique blend of pomegranate, dragon fruit and blueberry to help boost stamina and energy throughout the day.
Vital Recharge Powder is Gundry MD's latest tool to help support human health and vitality.
- RiaGev® is a combination of nicotinamide (a form of Vitamin B3) and Bioenergy Ribose®—a first-of-its-kind proprietary complex that has been shown to help support NAD, ATP, and glutathione production, helping to boost energy and metabolism while helping to balance mood.*†
- Powerful Polyphenol blend combines pomegranate, dragon fruit, and blueberry to help boost stamina for all-day energy, support blood sugar metabolism, and help maintain a healthy heart and brain.*†
- Essential electrolyte minerals, like calcium and magnesium in glycerophosphate form, helps optimize and restore body hydration with like, making them highly bioavailable.*†
Consumers are able to purchase Vital Recharge through the Gundry MD website at GundryMD.com, the product is currently available on the home page while stocks last.
*All individuals are unique. Your results can and will vary.
†These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Founded in 2015 by Dr. Steven Gundry, Gundry MD is dedicated to innovative solutions using science-backed ingredients to offer all-day energy, a "fired-up" metabolism, smooth, easy digestion, and a younger-feeling mind and body. It all starts with feeding your body powerful nutrients like polyphenols, one of the most powerful health-boosters out there while avoiding plant proteins called lectins — which can wreak havoc on your digestion, energy, and vitality. Based on 20 years of research evaluating how nutrition affects the body, Dr. Gundry personally designs every Gundry MD product. In addition, Gundry MD formulas are third-party tested for quality. Best-selling Gundry MD products include Energy Renew, Total Restore, Polyphenol Dark Spot Diminisher, and Polyphenol-Rich Olive Oil. For more information, visit gundrymd.com, @gundrymd on Instagram and GundryMd on Tiktok.
Founder of Gundry MD, Dr. Steven Gundry is one of the world's top cardiothoracic surgeons and a pioneer in nutrition, as well as medical director at The International Heart and Lung Institute and The Centers for Restorative Medicine in Palm Springs and Santa Barbara, California. He has spent the last two decades helping people restore their health by optimizing nutrition and lifestyle choices. Steven Gundry, MD is also the host of the popular podcast, The Dr. Gundry Podcast and author of four New York Times best-selling books including The Plant Paradox™ which details his famous lectin-free diet or Plant Paradox Diet. Since his first Paradox book release, Dr. Gundry has been in the media spotlight, interviewed by Goop, MindBodyGreen, New York Times, Morning Joe and so many more outlets. Dr Gundry's newest book, Unlocking the Keto Code is now a national bestseller. For more information, visit www.drgundry.com, @drstevengundry on Instagram, or @drgundry on Twitter.
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DEAR DOCTORS: I was diagnosed with inactive lupus six years ago and put on Plaquenil (chemical name hydroxychloroquine). Since lupus is an autoimmune disorder, should I avoid products that may boost the immune system? Does diet play a role? I may never get rid of lupus, but I want to prevent it from becoming worse.
DEAR READER: Your questions show you have a strong grasp of what you’re facing with your lupus diagnosis.
It’s correct that lupus is an autoimmune disease. This refers to a condition that occurs when the immune system malfunctions and mistakenly attacks the body’s own tissues. Lupus is seen most often in women, who account for 90% of diagnoses. And it typically appears during the reproductive years, from about age 15 to 44.
Although the disease takes several forms, the most common is systemic lupus. That means the immune system attacks the tissues of the skin, joints and some internal organs, including the kidneys and the heart. It causes symptoms that include fatigue, exhaustion, fever, rash and painful or swollen joints.
Lupus is also chronic. It doesn’t go away. As with all long-term diseases, the goal is management. This is done by taking steps to minimize symptoms, improve quality of life and prevent unnecessary hospitalizations. For people living with lupus, this includes taking immunosuppressive medications, such as the one you’re taking; vigilant and often specialized medical care; and lifestyle changes.
Many cases of lupus are marked by alternating periods during which the disease is somewhat quiet and episodes of increased symptoms. These are known as flares. Your own diagnosis means that at this time, your symptoms remain consistently mild or even absent.
Plaquenil, also known as hydroxychloroquine, is prescribed for use in inflammatory or autoimmune diseases. It works by reducing the immune system’s ability to cause inflammation. It can help ease symptoms and reduce the occurrence of flares.
Due to a rare but potentially serious complication that involves the retina, individuals who are using this drug long-term are strongly advised to undergo a complete ophthalmologic checkup each year. This is to identify any early signs of toxicity. Be sure to let the ophthalmologist know about the drug.
We think your idea about avoiding supplements or medications that claim to boost the immune system is a good one. Your aim is to live an anti-inflammatory lifestyle. This includes taking part in regular physical activity and eating a plant-forward diet that is low in red meat, sugar and processed foods. Keep a close eye on sodium intake to help protect your kidneys.
Many people with lupus are sensitive to ultraviolet radiation, including sunlight. For some, it can trigger a flare. As a result, they avoid extended exposure. This makes it possible to become deficient in vitamin D. Your doctor can tell you if you’re getting enough vitamin D through fortified foods, and whether a supplement may be needed.
Lupus flares can also be triggered by stress, overwork and not enough rest, so make your mental and emotional health a priority. Yoga, meditation, tai chi and mindfulness exercises are all helpful.
Eve Glazier, M.D., MBA, is an internist and associate professor of medicine at UCLA Health. Elizabeth Ko, M.D., is an internist and assistant professor of medicine at UCLA Health. Send your questions to askthedoctors@mednet.ucla.edu, or write: Ask the Doctors, c/o UCLA Health Sciences Media Relations, 10960 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1955, Los Angeles, CA, 90024. | https://www.times-news.com/community/lupus-is-autoimmune-disease-with-many-forms/article_4744cf54-24ab-11ed-a9b0-3b48b6869005.html | 2022-08-26T17:02:35Z | https://www.times-news.com/community/lupus-is-autoimmune-disease-with-many-forms/article_4744cf54-24ab-11ed-a9b0-3b48b6869005.html | false |
VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - good natured Products Inc. (the "Company" or "good natured®") (TSXV: GDNP) (OTCQX: GDNPF), a North American leader in plant-based products, today announced it has completed a senior secured revolving credit facility (the "Senior Credit Facility") with Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. ("Wells Fargo"), through its wholly owned subsidiary Wells Fargo Capital Finance Corporation Canada, consisting of a USD $30 million asset-based revolving credit facility with a 4-year term and an uncommitted USD $25 million revolving facility, available at the discretion of Wells Fargo. In addition, the Company has closed a CAD $6.6 million financing (the "Mortgage Refinancing") with Business Development Bank of Canada ("BDC").
The initial draw on the Senior Credit Facility was used to retire CAD $13.7 million of outstanding credit facility debt with National Bank of Canada ("National Bank"), referenced previously in a press release dated June 29, 2022 as the "primary lender". This consisted of approximately CAD $11.2 million on the CAD $15 million revolving working capital credit facility and CAD $2.5 million on the CAD $4 million revolving term capital expenditure credit facility. Proceeds from the Mortgage Refinancing was used to retire CAD $6.6 million of outstanding non-revolving term credit facility with National Bank of Canada that was secured by a first mortgage on the Company's Brampton, Ontario manufacturing location ("Brampton").
"Attracting one of the largest banks in the U.S. as a partner to fuel our current and future growth initiatives is an incredible milestone for the Company and speaks to the strong commercial viability of our sustainable value proposition," stated Paul Antoniadis, CEO of good natured®. "We're also very excited to have BDC, one of our largest shareholders, extend its support at this important juncture, and are very pleased that Wells Fargo and BDC share a common vision regarding our long-term path for growth, value creation, and in making better everyday products® that create a healthy sustainable future for our planet and its people."
The Senior Credit Facility with Wells Fargo provides up to USD $55 million in funding, replacing the National Bank credit agreement of CAD $35.8 million, previously announced on October 13, 2021. The secured Senior Credit Facility is comprised of a USD $30 million asset-based revolving credit facility with a 4-year term and an uncommitted USD $25 million revolving facility, available at the discretion of Wells Fargo. The Senior Credit Facility is to be used to retire amounts outstanding on credit facility debt with National Bank described earlier, for acquisitions, capital asset additions, working capital and general corporate purposes. The Senior Credit Facility will bear interest at the U.S. Secured Overnight Financing Rate ("SOFR") plus 2.50 - 3.00% subject to certain operating benchmarks. The Senior Credit Facility is secured by a general security interest over the assets of all existing and future subsidiaries of the Company.
The facility with Wells Fargo provides greater flexibility with respect to covenants that supports the Company to execute its growth strategy.
The secured Mortgage Refinancing on the Brampton location with BDC features a principal amount of CAD $6.6 million, amortized over a 25-year period with monthly interest and principal repayments. BDC has made an additional $3.9 million available as funding toward future capital projects. The mortgage loan will bear interest at BDC's Base Rate minus 0.25%, with future downward adjustments, and is secured by, among other collateral, the land and buildings at Brampton.
The good natured® corporate profile can be found at: investor.goodnaturedproducts.com and at on SEDAR (sedar.com) under the Company's issuer profile.
good natured® is passionately pursuing its goal of becoming North America's leading earth-friendly product company by offering the broadest assortment of plant-based products made from rapidly renewable resources instead of fossil fuels. The Company is focused on making it easy and affordable for business owners and consumers to shift away from petroleum to better everyday products® that use more renewable materials, less fossil fuel, and no chemicals of concern.
good natured® offers over 400 products and services through wholesale, direct to business, and retail channels. From plant-based home organization products to certified compostable food containers, bio-based industrial supplies and medical packaging, the Company is focused on making plant-based products more readily accessible to people as a means to create meaningful environmental and social impact.
For more information: goodnaturedproducts.com
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Paul Antoniadis – Executive Chair & CEO
Contact: 1-604-566-8466
Investor Contact:
Spencer Churchill
Investor Relations
1-877-286-0617 ext. 113
invest@goodnaturedproducts.com
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibilities for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This news release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of securities laws including statements related to the potential benefits of the Senior Credit Facility and the Mortgage Refinancing. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or other future events, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking information contained in this news release is based on our current estimates, expectations and projections regarding, among other things, future growth, sales volume and pricing which we believe are reasonable as of the current date. The reader should not place undue importance on forward-looking information and should not rely upon this information as of any other date.
If relying on the Company's forward-looking statements and information to make decisions, investors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties and potential events. The Company has assumed that the material factors referred to herein will not cause such forward-looking statements and information to differ materially from actual results or events. However, there can be no assurance that such assumptions will reflect the actual outcome of such items or factors.
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(NewsNation) — Teachers in 2021 earned 23.5% less than comparable college graduates, a new record, according to new data.
The Economic Policy Institute, or EPI, has been tracking teacher wage trends over the past 18 years, and its analysis of 2021 data concludes that teacher pay has remained relatively flat since 1996. Moreover, teachers make considerably less than peers working in other industries.
The report released this month further adds to conversations surrounding teacher pay and overall classroom funding. Just this week, educators in the largest school district in Ohio went on strike over disagreements about pay and learning conditions.
The EPI data, pulled from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows that the average weekly wages of public school teachers was $1,348 in 2021, slightly higher than $1,319 in 1996. By comparison, other college graduates brought in, on average, $2,009 a week in 2021.
The report’s author, Sylvia Allegretto, wrote that the disparity highlights the stagnation of teacher pay over the last quarter-century.
“The wages of nonteacher college graduates jumped by 13.5% from 1996 to 2002 during an unusual time of exceptional wage growth among low-, middle-, and high-wage earners,” Allegretto said. “But inflation-adjusted wages of teachers did not grow strongly during this period, in part because teacher pay is often set by long-term contracts, and public-sector wages are not as volatile as private-sector wages.”
The Institute also analyzed what it calls a teacher “wage penalty,” which measures how much less teachers are paid relative to other college graduates. In 2021, the penalty hit a record-high 23.5%, meaning that on average, teachers earned 76.5 cents on the dollar compared with other college grads working in other professions.
“Generally, the teacher wage penalty has been on a worsening trajectory since the mid-1990s,” Allegretto wrote.
In 1979, women teachers actually earned a “premium,” making on average 6.5% more in weekly wages than their nonteacher peers. The wage penalty is worst among men, who made 35% less than their nonteacher peers in 2021.
The disparities exists nationwide. A teacher wage penalty is present in each state, with the largest gap in Colorado, where teachers make 35.9% less than nonteachers. The smallest wage penalty is in Rhode Island at 3.4%.
“The picture that continues to emerge is one of a long-steep relative erosion of teacher wages,” Allegretto wrote. “Among those students who would like to dedicate their careers to teaching, many are undoubtedly choosing to forgo a public school teaching career in lieu of a better-paying career choice.” | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/teacher-pay-stuck-in-the-1990s-analysis-finds/ | 2022-08-26T17:06:04Z | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/teacher-pay-stuck-in-the-1990s-analysis-finds/ | true |
Officials confirm death of Jeffrey Epstein mentor Hoffenberg
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Medical examiners confirmed Friday that convicted Ponzi schemer and Jeffrey Epstein mentor Steven Hoffenberg was the person found dead in a Connecticut apartment earlier this week.
Hoffenberg, 77, is believed to have died at least seven days before his body was found Tuesday in Derby by police, who responded to a request to check on his welfare, authorities said. He had to be identified through dental records because of the decomposition of his body, police said.
His cause of death is pending toxicology test results. An autopsy showed no signs of trauma, and there were no indications of a struggle or forced entry at the apartment, officials said.
Epstein, the disgraced financier who killed himself in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on allegations he sexually abused dozens of girls, worked for Hoffenberg's bill collection company, Towers Financial Corp., in the late 1980s, when prosecutors said the Ponzi scheme began.
Hoffenberg, who once tried buying the New York Post, ended up getting busted in one of the country's largest frauds. He admitted he swindled thousands of investors out of $460 million and was sentenced in 1997 to 20 years in prison. He claimed Epstein was actually the architect of the scheme, but Epstein was never charged.
He was released from federal custody in 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. It was not immediately clear how he ended up living in a small apartment in a multifamily home in Derby, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) northeast of Bridgeport.
FILE - Steven Hoffenberg, left, is escorted by FBI agents in a Little Rock, Ark., parking garage after turning himself in, Feb. 15, 1996. Medical examiners have confirmed that convicted Ponzi schemer and Jeffrey Epstein mentor Hoffenberg was the person found dead in a Connecticut apartment earlier this week. The 77-year-old Hoffenberg is believed to have died at least seven days before his body was found in an apartment in Derby on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, as police performed a welfare check. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
Gary Baise, one of Hoffenberg's friends and lawyers and a former acting deputy U.S. attorney general, said Hoffenberg and Epstein had a "special relationship" and Hoffenberg said Epstein was the smartest person he knew when it came to money.
Baise said Hoffenberg also was very intelligent, which may have contributed to his downfall.
"He was too smart for his own good," Baise said in a phone interview Friday. "He thought he could get away with his Ponzi scheme but he could not. He did not have self-control. He always thought he was smarter than the next guy and that was one of his problems. ... But he was a good man."
Baise, who said he had not had contact with Hoffenberg for several months, said he wasn't surprised by his death because Hoffenberg did not appear to be taking good care of himself.
Police in Derby were asked to do a welfare check on Hoffenberg on Tuesday by a private investigator for a woman who identified herself as close to Hoffenberg and a sexual abuse victim of Epstein's, Derby police Lt. Justin Stanko said. The investigator said the woman had not heard from Hoffenberg for five days, and that was unusual, Stanko said.
Hoffenberg briefly took over the New York Post in 1993 while bidding to own it. The Post reported that Hoffenberg funded the paper for three months and rescued it from bankruptcy. His efforts to buy the paper were derailed by civil fraud allegations by the Securities and Exchange Commission that led to the criminal prosecution of the Ponzi case.
FILE- Steven Hoffenberg talks with the media outside U.S. Bankruptcy Court, in New York, March 19, 1993. Medical examiners have confirmed that convicted Ponzi schemer and Jeffrey Epstein mentor Hoffenberg was the person found dead in a Connecticut apartment earlier this week. The 77-year-old Hoffenberg is believed to have died at least seven days before his body was found in an apartment in Derby on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, as police performed a welfare check. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11150135/Officials-confirm-death-Jeffrey-Epstein-mentor-Hoffenberg.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-26T17:09:39Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11150135/Officials-confirm-death-Jeffrey-Epstein-mentor-Hoffenberg.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Florida sex offender offered to buy mother's child for $100,000 at grocery store, again, police say
PORT ORANGE, Fla. - A Florida man – and a registered sex offender – was arrested Thursday after he offered to buy a woman's daughter for $100,000 while at the grocery store, according to Port Orange Police Department. In 2018, the same man allegedly offered to purchase a woman's child for $200,000.
Police said the latest incident happened on Aug. 16, 2022, at a Winn-Dixie grocery store in Port Orange, which is northeast of Orlando, and north of New Smyrna Beach. Hellmuth Kolb "attempted to purchase a female minor for $100,000.00 from her parent," police said in a Facebook post.
"Due to the parent's clear concern that someone was insistent on attempting to purchase their daughter in a grocery store, we were notified. Unfortunately for him, we were able to confirm through his Probation Officer that Mr. Kolb is currently on probation for similar issues, and he is not to have any contact with minor children," police said.
He was arrested and booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail.
According to a 2018 FOX 35 News report, Kolb, who is reportedly from Austria, was arrested after he allegedly approached a woman and her eight-year-old daughter inside a Walmart store and offered $200,000 to buy her. He reportedly made a similar offer to another mother and daughter a month before that, according to that report.
According to Florida's online sex offender registry, Kolb pleaded no contest to a false imprisonment charge in 2019.
According to the online records, in 2018, Kolb was arrested on a battery charge after he allegedly touched a girl's arm inside a Walmart at Port Orange, and said her skin was soft "like ice cream." In that incident, the mother walked her child away, and the child's father intervened, according to the arrest report. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/florida-sex-offender-offered-to-buy-mothers-child-for-100000-at-grocery-store-again-police-say | 2022-08-26T17:15:29Z | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/florida-sex-offender-offered-to-buy-mothers-child-for-100000-at-grocery-store-again-police-say | false |
Snoopy returning to space as ‘zero-G indicator’ on Artemis I flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - When NASA’s Artemis I mission reaches space, there won’t be any astronauts aboard but a familiar face will be floating around the Orion capsule. Snoopy, the famous comic strip beagle, is serving as a "zero-gravity indicator" for the flight.
Artemis I is a test flight for NASA’s giant new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. The capsule will spend several weeks in space, swinging around the moon before returning to Earth – trying out a variety of things the space program hasn’t accomplished since the Apollo days, which is when the Snoopy-NASA association began.
During the moon race of the 1960s, ‘Peanuts’ creator Charles M. Schulz created ‘Snoopy on the Moon’ comic strips, helping capture public excitement about the space program. The communications caps worn by Apollo astronauts under their helmets became known as "Snoopy caps" because of their distinctive black and white appearance.
And just two months before the Apollo 11 lunar landing, the astronauts of Apollo 10 came within a few miles of landing on the moon, riding aboard a lunar module nicknamed ‘Snoopy’ and a command module they dubbed ‘Charlie Brown.’
It’s also NASA tradition to hand out ‘Silver Snoopy’ awards to employees and contractors to celebrate mission success and program safety achievements. The silver pins are all flown in space, and Artemis I will be carrying some as well.
Snoopy himself finally made it to space aboard space shuttle Columbia’s STS-32 mission in 1990. Now, he’s headed for lunar orbit aboard Artemis I as the zero-G indicator – a visual indicator that the spacecraft has reached the weightlessness of space.
Also aboard will be a pen nib that Charles Schulz used to draw his iconic characters. Schulz passed away in 2000, but the museum that carries on his legacy provided the nib, which will be wrapped in a space-themed comic strip.
The Peanuts gang continues to inspire kids with new ‘Snoopy in Space’ episodes on Apple TV+. (Apple image)
LEGO figures, tree seeds, and some Apollo 11 artifacts are among the other items aboard the flight, in addition to manikins that will be wearing flight suits and other sensors to collect as much information as possible about the flight from an astronaut’s perspective.
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The elections have already taken place. And the rooms are largely already formed. It happened between 8 am on 21 August and 8 pm the following day, when candidacies and lists were filed, never so surgically constructed around the names of those who have decided to enter parliament. Party leaders, of course, established this. And then the current leaders and some notables, if strong enough to make their voices weigh. As for the voters, rather than choosing their own representatives, on 25 September they will mostly limit themselves to ratifying a decision already taken by others.
This is not new. Not in an absolute sense, at least. But never had it happened so clearly. “The parties have always been ravenous, in an attempt to rob the voters of the power to decide who should sit in parliament. But this time they crossed the line ”, wrote Antonio Polito in Corriere della Sera. If this could have happened, the reason is to be found at least in part in the system with which you will go to vote.
The law provides that the three-eighths of the seats in the chamber and senate – about one third of the total: 147 in the chamber and 74 in the senate out of a total of 600 parliamentarians – are assigned to single-member constituencies with a majority system, and therefore go to those who take at least one vote more than the opponent. The others are assigned to multi-member constituencies with a proportional system, and therefore on the basis of the votes obtained from the lists with which the candidates presented themselves. But here we will vote on blocked lists, and therefore on names proposed as a whole by the parties, without the voter being able to express a preference. Nor is it possible to vote separately, that is, to vote for a candidate from one party to the majority and vote for another party to the proportional one. Furthermore, the card is unique for each room, more proportional to the majority.
In short, take it or leave it. Moreover, the analyzes that have been circulating in recent weeks say that the constituencies of the majority in which the result is uncertain are very few, especially after the breakdown of the pact between the Action and the Democratic Party. And, as a simulation developed by Youtrend and Cattaneo-Zanetto & Co suggests, much of this can already be attributed to the right, unless the polls are completely wrong. Therefore, for some time now it has been possible to identify with reasonable approximation, and barring sensational surprises, a good part of the colleges in which each political force will elect its own parliamentarians. The result is in the paradox that Fabio Martini described in the press: “In the next thirty-two days all the leaders will continue to exchange flaming invectives, but in the meantime the competition for the choice of parliamentarians has already closed”.
But that’s not all yet. The next one is in fact the first parliament for which the reduction in the number of parliamentarians approved in 2019 and confirmed with a constitutional referendum the following year will be valid. The chamber will go from 630 deputies to 400, in the senate from 315 senators to 200. In total, there are 600 parliamentarians: 345 fewer than the parliament currently in office. And this has further complicated the situation. Just think of the phenomenon that Stefano Cappellini in Repubblica defined “political nomadism”.
This is the case, for example, of those politicians who are candidates in a constituency other than their own to be sure of being elected. “In these hours it is as if the skies of Italy were full of open parachutes and aspiring deputies and senators in controlled descent towards more or less unknown lands,” Cappellini wrote. And this means that on September 25 the voters will not only be called upon to ratify choices already made by others, but that the relationship between parliamentarians and the territory will also weaken. Thus, in the next parliament, deputies and senators will end up representing more the power that chose them than the territory that elected them. And perhaps not by chance in recent years the response of the voters to the consolidation of these processes has been an increasingly massive abstention.
In this way, the community dimension of politics continues to be weakened
Moreover, the same political leaders in some cases have stood as candidates far from their own territory. Some of them have also chosen to avoid the single-member constituencies of the majority, which can present some pitfalls. The names of Enrico Letta, Matteo Salvini, Giuseppe Conte and Matteo Renzi, for example, will only be present in the blocked proportional lists. Silvio Berlusconi, Carlo Calenda, Luigi Di Maio, Angelo Bonelli and Giorgia Meloni will instead also run in a majority college, but without renouncing the safety offered by the proportional, even if for some the choice to apply also in other proportional colleges instead arises from the desire to magnetize a few more votes for the party.
As mentioned, these are not new phenomena. But the electoral laws adopted from time to time only partially explain them. More generally, it is instead the result of a process of personalization of politics which in the last thirty years has progressively handed power into the hands of the leaders of the organizations that have replaced the popular parties. Of course, even after the war and up to the 1990s, the power of the parties could be excessive. And it is no coincidence that in that era there was talk of party politics. However, the presence of democratic structures that went back from the territory to the secretariats, and the celebration of national congresses, had made power more horizontal and widespread for decades than it is today.
At the beginning of the nineties, however, everything changes. Popular parties are replaced by lighter organizations, in all similar to electoral committees built around the figure of the leader. The glue that holds the group together is no longer an idea of society but loyalty to the boss. It is not surprising, then, that the leaders have used, and are increasingly using, the composition of the electoral lists to shape the body of the parties on themselves. And, if this is the scheme, it is also clear why, at least for now, the electoral campaign, net of the personal clash between the leaders, is living above all on the debate around the rules of the institutions. The discussion on presidentialism is there to prove it. Instead, the company seems to have disappeared.
Along this path, the community dimension of politics continues to weaken, while the old militancy has for some time been flanked, if not completely replaced, by the representation of an interest that is primarily individual. This also explains the number and quality of the often broken reactions of many politicians to the failure to re-nominate, or to candidacy in unwelcome colleges because they are considered difficult. This explains above all the publicity that some of them in recent days have felt they have to give to their complaints, calling press conferences or giving interviews against their own party, despite having been re-nominated anyway. And this also explains the choice of those who announced their farewell to the party to immediately move elsewhere. And these too, although not new phenomena, have now assumed unprecedented dimensions.
Unfortunately, among the consequences of this increasingly radical personalization of politics there is also the terrible electoral campaign that Italians are witnessing, among the worst that can be remembered. On the other hand, it would have been naive to expect something different from candidates brought up in parties that, structurally incapable of political elaboration, for thirty years have ended up rebuilding their identity against their opponents and not on new ideas.
There is still a month left to vote, and we have already reached the bottom of the abyss, when even the video of a rape has become campaign ground. The only hope is that the next few weeks go by without too much damage. | https://www.breakinglatest.news/news/the-new-parliament-has-already-been-decided-alessandro-calvi/ | 2022-08-26T17:15:41Z | https://www.breakinglatest.news/news/the-new-parliament-has-already-been-decided-alessandro-calvi/ | false |
Justice Department releases redacted version of Mar-a-Lago search affidavit
Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate earlier this year contained documents with classification markings, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday explaining the justification for the search of the property this month.
The 32-page affidavit, even in its redacted form, contains additional details about an ongoing criminal investigation that has brought fresh legal peril for Trump just as he lays the groundwork for another presidential run. It underscores the volume of sensitive government documents located at Mar-a-Lago and reveals FBI concerns that the records were being retained illegally.
Though the document offers the most substantial description of the investigation, federal officials also redacted significant portions of it to protect the identity of witnesses and to avoid revealing sensitive investigative tactics.
The FBI submitted the affidavit, or sworn statement, to a judge so it could obtain a warrant to search Trump's property. Affidavits typically contain vital information about an investigation, with agents spelling out the justification for why they want to search a particular property and why they believe they’re likely to find evidence of a potential crime there. But affidavits routinely remain sealed during pending investigations, making the judge’s decision to reveal portions of it all the more striking.
In an acknowledgment of the extraordinary public interest in the investigation, U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart on Thursday ordered the department by Friday to make public a redacted version of the affidavit. The directive came hours after federal law enforcement officials submitted under seal the portions of the affidavit that they want to keep secret as their investigation moves forward.
The redactions proposed by the Justice Department are extensive given the sensitivity of the investigation, lessening the likelihood that the document will offer a comprehensive look at the basis for the unprecedented search or significant insights about the direction of the probe. Yet even a redacted affidavit can contain at least some fresh revelations about the investigation, and is likely to help explain why federal agents who had tried for months to recover sensitive government records from Mar-a-Lago ultimately felt compelled to obtain a search warrant.
Documents previously made public show the FBI retrieved from the property 11 sets of classified documents, including information marked at the top secret level. They also show that federal agents are investigating potential violations of three federal laws, including one that governs gathering, transmitting or losing defense information under the Espionage Act. The other statutes address the concealment, mutilation or removal of records and the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations.
It's possible that the affidavit, particularly in its unredacted form, could shed light on key unanswered questions, including why sensitive presidential documents — classified documents, among them — were transported to Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House and why Trump and his representatives did not supply the entire tranche of material to the National Archives and Records Administration despite repeated entreaties.
It could also offer additional details on the back-and-forth between Trump and the FBI, including a subpoena for documents that was issued last spring, as well as a June visit by FBI and Justice Department officials to assess how the materials were being stored.
The Justice Department had earlier contested arguments by media organizations to make the affidavit public, saying any disclosure could contain private information about witnesses and about investigative tactics. But Reinhart, acknowledging the extraordinary public interest in the investigation, said last week that he was disinclined to keep the entire document sealed and told federal officials to submit to him in private the redactions it wanted to make.
In his order Thursday, Reinhart said the department had made compelling arguments to leave sealed broad swaths of the document that, if disclosed, would reveal grand jury information; the identities of witnesses and “uncharged parties"; and details about the investigation's “strategy, direction, scope, sources and methods.”
But he also said he was satisfied “that the Government has met its burden of showing that its proposed redactions are narrowly tailored to serve the Government’s legitimate interest in the integrity of the ongoing investigation and are the least onerous alternative to sealing the entire Affidavit.” | https://www.koat.com/article/redacted-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit-released/41002307 | 2022-08-26T17:16:07Z | https://www.koat.com/article/redacted-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit-released/41002307 | true |
Valve only started shipping Steam Deck earlier this year, but the company on Thursday hinted at plans to release "new versions" of its portable gaming PC. It came in a guide to the current version ahead of the device's launch in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
"This is a multigenerational product line," the company wrote. "We will learn from the Steam community about new uses for our hardware that we haven't thought of yet, and we will build new versions to be even more open and capable than the first version of Steam Deck has been."
In February, its designers expressed confidence that Steam Deck will be multigenerational in an interview with GamesRadar, so Valve essentially has confirmed their hopes.
There are more than 130 million players on Steam, Valve's digital game distribution service, each month (and 27 million people playing at any given time), with more than 30,000 games available on the service, the company noted. More than 4,500 of those games are playable on Steam Deck, and it's working to add more to the list.
You can reserve a Steam Deck now. Valve currently estimates that you'll be able to order one sometime in the fourth quarter this year. | https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/valve-confirms-steam-deck-will-be-multi-generational/ | 2022-08-26T17:18:17Z | https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/valve-confirms-steam-deck-will-be-multi-generational/ | false |
JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – Migrants from all over the world have come to Juarez in the past three years on their way to the United States. They speak Creole, Portuguese, Turkish and other tongues but their presence here is fleeting.
Now city officials are trying to accommodate a non-Spanish speaking population that has grown by the thousands in the past two decades and is here to stay.
“We are the first city in the state to recognize our (Indigenous) communities. We have 12 of them here,” said Juarez Councilwoman Patricia Mendoza, who spearheaded the creation of a commission to facilitate access to government services for members of Mazahua, Mixtec, Raramuri and Huichol communities in Juarez.
The commission’s first job will be to avail translation and interpretation services to these tribes so they can get basic services and documents, and alert authorities to crimes committed against them.
“It’s not about putting on ethnic festivals or events. We want to address the basic daily needs of these communities, make sure they get assistance and support in dealing with the government. We know it is difficult for them to understand language and process. This is something totally new and totally positive and totally permanent,” said Karen Mora, a Social Development Department official helping get the commission off the ground.
Mendoza says Indigenous people in Mexico have been traditionally discriminated. She worries language and cultural barriers may be preventing them from reporting not only acts of discrimination but crimes as well. Juarez, for instance, fields an estimated 1,200 domestic violence calls per month.
“We want women to know their rights such as education, work, inclusion and the freedom to make their own choices,” the councilwoman said. “Everyone has to know their rights so they can be part of society.”
City officials would like the commission to be composed of members of the tribes so that they can do the interpretations and show cultural sensitivity. Mendoza said some Indigenous families have been in Juarez for 20 to 30 years, and their bilingual children who, nonetheless, retain their culture would be perfect for the job.
Mendoza doesn’t know exactly how many Indigenous people live in Juarez because the last census grouped them in the city’s “floating” or transient population. “They’re not a floating population, and they’re in the thousands,” she said.
In the long run, Juarez officials also will consider expanding interpretation services to the transient Central American Indigenous populations that pass through or remain briefly in the city on their way to the U.S. International advocacy groups say Mayan-dialect speaking migrants are often targeted by criminals, and need to make themselves understood when seeking help.
“That is something we have to work on and that is part of our work regarding human and migrant rights,” Mora said. “Yes, we will do it. We have plans. The goal is to identify the problems and create solutions” for Indigenous people in the city. | https://www.cenlanow.com/border-report-tour/juarez-to-provide-interpreters-for-indigenous-communities/ | 2022-08-26T17:18:20Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/border-report-tour/juarez-to-provide-interpreters-for-indigenous-communities/ | true |
The Multi-Campus Tour Kicks Off at the National Battle of The Bands in Houston, Texas, Celebrates Black Excellence and Inspires the Next Generation of Black Leaders
PURCHASE, N.Y., Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Music, sports, community, food, and culture are the hallmarks of HBCUs and this year, PepsiCo is bringing its Historically Better platform back to celebrate, elevate, and engage students as they get ready for a new year.
Kicking off at the start of HBCU football season at the National Battle of the Bands, Historically Better: Powered by Pepsi Stronger Together and Doritos SOLID BLACK is a multi-campus tour that empowers and celebrates multi-generational Black changemakers. The nearly four-month tour will hit a variety of stops and culminate at the SWAC Championship game.
"With Historically Better, our goal is to utilize the power of PepsiCo's diverse brand portfolio to address inequity and level the playing field for HBCU students with an end-to-end experience that inspires them by celebrating Black excellence in all its forms," said Derek Lewis, PepsiCo, President, Multicultural. "Our breadth of programming demonstrates our commitment to HBCUs across our brands and is designed to benefit students, alumni, and fans alike. We're creating access to career opportunities, spotlighting cultural changemakers and entrepreneurs, and engaging with HBCU students at every step."
The program complements PepsiCo's larger Racial Equality Journey commitments, a five-year, more than $400 million investment to increase Black representation at PepsiCo, support and elevate Black businesses and voices, and economic opportunity in Black communities. Programming will come to life across our REJ three pillars of people, business, and community, including:
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Pepsi Stronger Together (PST) is a national initiative to empower and engage communities around the country by providing tailored programming and resources that bring people together. It was conceived with the idea that now, more than ever, we must foster a sense of connection and belonging, starting by investing locally. Launched in May of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic – PST engaged its network of partners in the South to shine a spotlight on essential front-line workers in a variety of industries. Since then, PST has expanded its reach and impact through a variety of partnerships and initiatives, including partnerships with NBA teams, community leaders, and environmental and charitable organizations.
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Games to watch: New quarterbacks to lead Abernathy, Childress football in season opener
One of the biggest games of the opening week of the high school football season came about almost by accident.
Abernathy and Childress both struggled to find teams willing to play them in Week 1, so they decided to play each other. What's usually a bi-district playoff game will open the 2022 campaign with the Bobcats visiting the Antelopes on Friday night at 7 p.m.
Friday will be the first game of Bo Helm's head coaching career. Having spent time as Childress' defensive coordinator, Helm has had to adjust some of his habits, namely paying attention to all three aspects of the game. He also expects some nerves to hit as the game gets going, but he's ready.
"I do feel like once the game kicks off, everything starts flowing, I'll settle into that role pretty well," Helm said. "I've got a lot of confidence in those coordinators to call a great game. I've got a lot of confidence in this new leadership."
Helm and his counterpart, Abernathy head coach Justin Wiley, will both be breaking in new quarterbacks after the graduation of two of the best QBs in the state.
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For Abernathy, it'll be 6-foot-3 senior Kaleb Harrell stepping in. Harrell is a different type of quarterback than Jess Hoel was for the Antelopes, which means Abernathy will have a bit of a different look on offense this year.
"He has a different skillset," Wiley said of Harrell, "but we've tried to tailor our offense to fit our kids and he's done a good job with what we've given them so far."
Likewise, Childress is looking to replace Colin Bishop.
Initially, it was Scout Smith getting the nod. However, Smith suffered an injury in last week's scrimmage and is considered week-to-week. This will give the 6-foot-1 Seth Taylor the start in Friday's opener.
"He's an extremely good competitor," Helm said of Taylor, who is also a starting linebacker for the Bobcats. "We're excited to have depth there, which is not something that a lot of schools our size can say."
Sophomore Jake Rabe has been called up to the varsity has a "just in case" option for Childress.
Childress holds an 8-3 record over Abernathy all-time, the latest game being in the 2020 bi-district round. Both teams will look significantly different since that 28-21 Bobcat victory, but Wiley expects Childress to be about the same as it always is.
"They've always got a good group of linebackers that really fly to the football," Wiley said. "They'll always be athletic in the secondary and they got some big ol' linemen up front."
Here are the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal's high school football district predictions
Helm also expects Abernathy to continue doing the things that the Antelopes have done well for years.
"They look big," Helm said. "They look very physical. It looks like the two scrimmages, they're a team that will not beat themselves. They're very well coached. So we're gonna have to play really, really well to win this game.
"But it's also good for us. I feel like we'll learn a lot about who we are early in the season."
On the Radar
►Lubbock-Cooper at Dumas — The Pirates hit the road for a unique matchup with the Demons. These teams have only played each other twice (2015 and 2017) with Lubbock-Cooper winning a pair of tight games.
► Levelland at Plainview — Last year's encounter was literally decided in the last second. Plainview hasn't won a season opener since 2006. Will the Bulldogs get their revenge after last year's setback to the Lobos?
► Trinity Christian at Albany — The Lions are putting themselves to the ultimate test, kicking off the season against the top-ranked team in Class 2A Division II.
► Seagraves at Lockney — A couple teams looking to make an early statement on their new identities. Both teams want to throw the ball more than they have in the past. How will that look in the first week?
► Roosevelt at Amarillo River Road — Fresh off the best season in team history, how do the Eagles replace the majority of last year's state semifinalist team? And how will they look in their first game as a new-look team?
Childress at Abernathy
When: 7 p.m. Friday
Where: Antelope Stadium
Last year's records: Abernathy 12-2, Childress 9-1
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(The Hill) – The Justice Department on Friday complied with a judge’s order to release a redacted version of the affidavit that convinced him to approve a warrant to search former President Trump’s Florida home.
Its release comes after Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the Justice Department to propose redactions to a document that the department argued a full release of would compromise their ongoing investigation.
Read the redacted document below.
The Justice Department previously unsealed portions of the warrant related to the search of Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, indicated that the government seized 11 different sets of classified materials, along with other information about Trump’s decision to pardon ally Roger Stone.
The warrant also indicated that Trump was under investigation for a possible violation of the Espionage Act, as well as two other statutes: one that bars concealing, removing and mutilating government documents, and another that prohibits similar actions when done “with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence [an] investigation.” | https://cbs4indy.com/news/read-the-unsealed-department-of-justices-trump-warrant-affidavit/ | 2022-08-26T17:21:53Z | https://cbs4indy.com/news/read-the-unsealed-department-of-justices-trump-warrant-affidavit/ | false |
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark message Friday: The Fed is determined to fight inflation with more sharp interest rate hikes, which will likely cause pain for Americans in the form of a weaker economy and job losses.
“These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation,” Powell said in a high-profile speech at the Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole. “But a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain.”
Investors had been hoping for a signal from Powell that the Fed might soon moderate its rate increases later this year if inflation were to show further signs of easing. But the Fed chair indicated that that time may not be near.
Runaway price increases have soured most Americans on the economy, even as the unemployment rate has fallen to a half-century low of 3.5%. It has also created political risks for President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats in this fall’s elections, with Republicans denouncing Biden’s $1.9 trillion financial support package, approved last year, as having fueled inflation.
Stocks tumbled after Powell’s remarks, and bond yields rose, a sign that investors foresee more large interest rate hikes ahead. Some on Wall Street expect the economy to fall into recession later this year or early next year, after which they expect the Fed to reverse itself and reduce rates.
A number of Fed officials, though, have pushed back against that notion. Powell’s remarks suggested that the Fed is aiming to raise its benchmark rate — to about 3.75% to 4% by next year — yet not so high as to tank the economy, in hopes of slowing growth long enough to conquer high inflation.
“The idea they are trying to hammer into the market’s head is that their approach makes a rapid pivot to (rate cuts) unlikely,” said Eric Winograd, an economist at asset manager AllianceBernstein. “They are going to stay tight even when it hurts.”
After raising its key short-term rate by a steep three-quarters of a point at each of its past two meetings — part of the Fed’s fastest series of hikes since the early 1980s — Powell said the Fed might ease up on that pace “at some point” — suggesting that any such slowing isn’t near.
Powell said the size of the Fed’s rate increase at its next meeting in late September — whether one-half or three-quarters of a percentage point — will depend on inflation and jobs data. An increase of either size, though, would exceed the Fed’s traditional quarter-point hike, a reflection of how severe inflation has become.
The Fed chair said that while lower inflation readings that have been reported for July have been “welcome,” he added that, “a single month’s improvement falls far short of what (Fed policymakers) will need to see before we are confident that inflation is moving down.”
On Friday, an inflation gauge that is closely monitored by the Fed showed that prices actually declined 0.1% from June to July. Though prices did jump 6.3% in July from 12 months earlier, that was down from a 6.8% year-over-year jump in June, which had been the highest since 1982. The drop largely reflected lower gas prices.
In his speech Friday, Powell noted that the history of high inflation in the 1970s, when the central bank sought to counter high prices with only intermittent rate hikes, shows that the Fed must stay focused.
“The historical record cautions strongly against prematurely” lowering interest rates, he said. “We must keep at it until the job is done.”
What particularly worries Powell and other Fed officials is the prospect that inflation would become entrenched, leading consumers and businesses to change their behavior in ways that would perpetuate higher prices. If, for example, workers began demanding higher pay to match higher inflation, many employers would then pass on those higher labor costs to consumers in the form of higher prices.
Many analysts speculate that Fed officials want to see roughly six months or so of lower monthly inflation readings, similar to July’s, before stopping their rate hikes.
Powell’s speech was the marquee event of the the Fed’s annual economic symposium at Jackson Hole, the first time the conference of central bankers is being held in person since 2019, after it went virtual for two years during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since March, the Fed has implemented its fastest pace of rate increases in decades to try to curb inflation, which has punished households with soaring costs for food, gas, rent and other necessities. The central bank has lifted its benchmark rate by 2 full percentage points in just four meetings, to a range of 2.25% to 2.5%.
Those hikes have led to higher costs for mortgages, car loans and other consumer and business borrowing. Home sales have been plunging since the Fed first signaled it would raise borrowing costs.
In June, the Fed’s policymakers signaled that they expected their key rate to end 2022 in a range of 3.25% to 3.5% and then to rise further next year to between 3.75% and 4%. If rates reached their projected level at the end of this year, they would be at the highest point since 2008.
Powell is betting that he can engineer a high-risk outcome: Slow the economy enough to ease inflation pressures yet not so much as to trigger a recession.
His task has been complicated by the economy’s cloudy picture: On Thursday, the government said the economy shrank at a 0.6% annual rate in the April-June period, the second straight quarter of contraction. Yet employers are still hiring rapidly, and the number of people seeking unemployment aid, a measure of layoffs, remains relatively low.
At its meeting in July, Fed policymakers expressed two competing concerns that highlighted their delicate task.
According to minutes from that meeting, the officials — who aren’t identified by name — have prioritized their inflation fight. Still, some officials said there was a risk that the Fed would raise borrowing costs more than necessary, risking a recession. If inflation were to fall closer to the Fed’s 2% target and the economy weakened further, those diverging views could become hard to reconcile.
At last year’s Jackson Hole symposium, Powell listed five reasons why he thought inflation would be “transitory.” Yet instead it has persisted, and many economists have noted that those remarks haven’t aged well.
Powell indirectly acknowledged that history at the outset of his remarks Friday, when he said that, “at past Jackson Hole conferences, I have discussed broad topics such as the ever-changing structure of the economy and the challenges of conducting monetary policy.”
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — With Prince’s “Raspberry Beret” blaring in the background, about 20 New Hampshire educators grabbed wooden sticks and began pounding their tables to the beat.
Emily Daniels, who was leading a two-day workshop on burnout, encouraged the group including teachers, school counselors, occupational therapists and social workers to stand up inside a hotel conference room. Before long, the group was banging on walls and whatever else they could find. Laughter filled the air. A few started dancing.
“Rhythm making offers the body a different kind of predictability that you can do every single day,” said Daniels, a former school counselor who created The Regulated Classroom which trains teachers on how to manage their own nervous system and, in turn, reduce stress in the classroom.
The training session is part of a growing and, some would say long overdue, effort to address the strains on educators’ mental health.
Addressing the mental health challenges of students coming out of the pandemic has emerged as a priority for schools nationwide. Many districts, facing hiring challenges, see tending to the educators as a way to help them help students and to retain them, amid stressors that range from behavioral problems to fears of shootings.
School districts have provided increased mental health training for staff, classroom support as well as resources and systems aimed at identifying burned out teachers and getting instructors connected to help.
Karen Bowden-Gurley, a fifth grade teacher, said she attended the New Hampshire training because of teacher burnout, but she also feels student burnout.
“The demands on all of us were really high and we were trying to make up for lost time for the couple of years that they fell back on their curriculum. But we forgot that they haven’t been in school for a couple of years so they missed that social-emotional piece. We are dealing with that in the classroom.”
In a survey by the Rand Corporation, twice as many principals and teachers reported frequent job-related stress as other working adults. A study from a coalition of mental health organizations of New Orleans found educators working during the pandemic reported rates of emotional distress similar to health care workers — 36% screened positive for anxiety, 35% for depression and 19% for post-traumatic stress syndrome.
“It’s all pretty bad,” said Leigh McLean, the primary investigator at the Teacher Emotions, Characteristics, and Health Lab at the University of Delaware School of Education, who has found levels of depression, anxiety and emotional exhaustion among elementary school teachers that are 100% to 400% higher than before the pandemic.
She saw those issues increasing the most among early career teachers and teachers of color.
“So it seems like the patterns among teachers are mirroring inequities that we’re seeing in the general population with underrepresented groups being hit the hardest, which is really unfortunate,” she said.
Some districts have or are planning to invest federal COVID-19 relief money in teacher mental health, seeing it as a way to also improve the classroom environment, boost retention and ultimately benefit the students themselves. Among the states singling out teacher mental health as priorities are Nebraska and Pennsylvania.
The Atlanta school district launched a service with Emory University using federal funds to provide mental health services. Dubbed Urgent Behavioral Health Response, it funds 11 clinicians from Emory who provide emotional and behavioral assistance during school hours for struggling school employees.
A Delaware district, meanwhile, hired two social and emotional learning coaches who work to address problems teachers are having in the classroom.
“If you can imagine a teacher has a classroom where students are engaged, they are helping each other and there is a positive supportive culture, their job satisfaction is likely to be higher,” Jon Cooper, the director of the Colonial School District’s health and wellness division. “They are less likely to leave the profession, and in turn, that supports their well being.”
Houston, which started building calming rooms where students can go to decompress, is hoping to do the same for teachers, according to Sean Ricks, the Houston Independent School District’s senior manager of crisis intervention, noting that he has seen a “significant rise in teachers that were in distress.”
The rooms would be different from the traditional teacher break rooms and a place where teachers could go during time off to “calm down and chill out,” Ricks said, adding they could have “could have some aromatherapy, maybe some soft music.”
“We want them to be able to understand that we have to take mindfulness breaks and self-care breaks during the academic day sometimes,” Ricks said.
An elementary school in Indiana starts the week with Mindful Mondays, where teachers guide their classes in deep breathing techniques. There are also Thoughtful Thursdays, where a student is called on to write a letter to a staff member to show appreciation, and Friday Focus, when students and teachers talk about self-care.
“My teachers know when they need to take breaks throughout the day I want them to take those breaks,” said Allison Allen-Lenzo, the principal at O’Bannon Elementary School.
A growing number of groups offer training that incorporates breathing exercises, yoga, gentle movements and meditation.
One of these is Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education or CARE. In studies of its use among 224 New York City teachers, researchers found statistically significant improvements including reductions in emotional psychological distress, stress that comes from not having enough time as well as improvements in quality classroom interactions. Researchers also found that it extended to the students who showed increased engagement.
“Your stress level can rise without you even realizing it because your attention is so outwardly directed at everything else that’s going on around you,” said Tish Jennings, a University of Virginia education professor who led the team that developed CARE and was the lead researcher studying the program. “So what these practices do is build the capacity to be more aware of how you’re feeling at any given moment, so that you can be proactive.”
Back in New Hampshire, the educators pushed aside the tables and were mastering a series of stretching movements known as qigong. Then, they gathered in a circle for an exercise that aims to synchronizing their nervous system. Known as collective rhythm making, they began clapping their hands and snapping their fingers in unison.
The educators at The Regulated Classroom training believe these new tools — though on first glance a little unorthodox — invigorated them. Bowden-Gurley felt they allowed her to “train her brain to think differently” and planned to use them in the classroom to build a better sense of community and more confidence with her students.
Kelly Hurd, a kindergarten teacher, said the training gave her a sense of what is possible going into the new school year.
“I love teaching and I love the kids but it’s also hard,” Hurd, who experienced burnout before the pandemic and was part of the New Hampshire training, said. “The pandemic was so hard and so impactful and so stressful. I feel a sense of renewal and excitement and I do feel like I’ve been given permission to have more fun and focus on joy in school.”
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Associated Press writer Jocelyn Gecker in San Francisco contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained documents with classification markings, including at the top secret level, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday explaining the justification for this month’s search of the property.
The 32-page affidavit, even in its heavily redacted form, offers the most detailed description to date of the government records being stored at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property long after he left the White House and reveals the gravity of the government’s concerns that the documents were there illegally.
“The government is conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper removal and storage of classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful concealment or removal of government records,” an FBI agent wrote on the first page of the affidavit in seeking a judge’s permission for a warrant to search the property.
The affidavit does not provide new details about the 11 sets of classified records recovered during the Aug. 8 search at Mar-a-Lago but instead concerns a separate batch of 15 boxes that the National Archives and Records Administration retrieved from the home in January.
In those boxes, according to the affidavit, officials located 184 documents bearing classification markings, including 25 documents marked as top secret. Agents who inspected the boxes found markings related to information provided by confidential human sources as well as information related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Taken together, the affidavit reveals additional details about an ongoing criminal investigation that has brought fresh legal peril for Trump just as he lays the groundwork for another presidential run. It also shows in stark detail the volume of sensitive government documents that were stored at Mar-a-Lago instead of being turned over to the National Archives.
The FBI submitted the affidavit, or sworn statement, to a judge so it could obtain the warrant to search Trump’s property. Affidavits typically contain vital information about an investigation, with agents spelling out the justification for why they want to search a particular property and why they believe they’re likely to find evidence of a potential crime there.
But affidavits routinely remain sealed during pending investigations, making the decision by Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart to reveal portions of it all the more striking.
In an acknowledgment of the extraordinary public interest in the investigation, Reinhart on Thursday ordered the department by Friday to make public a redacted version of the affidavit. The directive came hours after federal law enforcement officials submitted under seal the portions of the affidavit that they wanted to keep secret as their investigation moves forward.
Documents previously made public show the FBI retrieved from the property 11 sets of classified documents, including information marked at the top secret level. They also show that federal agents are investigating potential violations of three federal laws, including one that governs gathering, transmitting or losing defense information under the Espionage Act. The other statutes address the concealment, mutilation or removal of records and the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations.
It’s possible that the affidavit, particularly in its unredacted form, could shed light on key unanswered questions, including why sensitive presidential documents — classified documents, among them — were transported to Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House and why Trump and his representatives did not supply the entire tranche of material to the National Archives and Records Administration despite repeated entreaties.
It could also offer additional details on the back-and-forth between Trump and the FBI, including a subpoena for documents that was issued last spring, as well as a June visit by FBI and Justice Department officials to assess how the materials were being stored.
The Justice Department had earlier contested arguments by media organizations to make the affidavit public, saying any disclosure could contain private information about witnesses and about investigative tactics. But Reinhart, acknowledging the extraordinary public interest in the investigation, said last week that he was disinclined to keep the entire document sealed and told federal officials to submit to him in private the redactions it wanted to make.
In his order Thursday, Reinhart said the department had made compelling arguments to leave sealed broad swaths of the document that, if disclosed, would reveal grand jury information; the identities of witnesses and “uncharged parties”; and details about the investigation’s “strategy, direction, scope, sources and methods.”
But he also said he was satisfied “that the Government has met its burden of showing that its proposed redactions are narrowly tailored to serve the Government’s legitimate interest in the integrity of the ongoing investigation and are the least onerous alternative to sealing the entire Affidavit.”
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Harry Styles to play in Edinburgh on UK leg of 2023 tour
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Harry Styles has announced he will perform one date in Edinburgh during the UK leg of his 2023 tour.
The solo singer, formerly of boy band One Direction, will play 19 dates across the UK and Europe including a night at Murrayfield on 26 May.
He performed in Glasgow this year with fans camping outside Ibrox stadium for days before his arrival.
Tickets for his latest run - named Love On Tour - go on sale on 2 September at 10:00.
The 28-year-old's British and European live shows were postponed in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In June, eager fans travelled to Glasgow from the US and Europe to see him perform.
About 50,000 fans were at the sell-out gig, which was the first at Rangers FC's stadium in almost 20 years.
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(NEXSTAR) – In addition to announcing widespread student loan forgiveness, the Biden administration says it is working to reform the way borrowers will repay their loans going forward.
As part of this, the Biden administration is proposing a rule that would create a new income-driven repayment plan intended to “substantially reduce future monthly payments for lower- and middle-income borrowers.”
There are four income-driven repayment plans: Pay as You Earn, Revised Pay as You Earn, Income-Based, and Income-Contingent. All four have monthly payments set at a level “intended to be affordable based on your income and family size,” according to the U.S. Department of Education.
For each plan, your payment is based on a different percentage of your discretionary income (the difference between your annual income and a certain percentage of the poverty guidelines based on your family size and where you live).
The newly proposed income-driven repayment (IDR) plan would drastically differ from the aforementioned plans.
According to data from the White House, borrowers would be required to pay no more than 5% of their discretionary income on undergraduate loans, down from the 10% rates available on the current IDR plans.
The amount of income considered non-discretionary income would also rise, meaning no borrowers earning under 225% of the federal poverty level ($30,577.50 for a single borrower) would owe a monthly payment.
Borrowers below that threshold could see payments as low as $0.
If, for example, you are making $44,000 a year, a current IDR plan could require you to make monthly payments of $197. Under the new plan, that would drop to $56 a month, saving you almost $1,700.
If you were making slightly less — let’s say $35,000 — your monthly payment would drop from the roughly $122 you’d pay under a current plan to $19. With an income of $77,000 a year, your payment drops from $294 to $61.
Here’s how you can calculate what your payment would be under the proposed plan:
- Determine your federal poverty guideline based on state and family size using this chart.
- Multiple that by 2.25. (This is the 225% rate mentioned above.)
- Subtract that number from your income.
- Multiple that by 0.05. (This is the 5% of your discretionary income mentioned above.)
- Divide that number by 12 for your monthly payment.
According to the White House, “no borrower’s loan balance will grow as long as they make their monthly payments—even when that monthly payment is $0 because their income is low.” This is not currently the case with other IDR plans.
Additionally, after 10 years of payments, borrowers with an initial loan balance of $12,000 or less will have their remaining debt forgiven.
Like other aspects of President Joe Biden’s Wednesday announcement, further details about this plan haven’t yet been released. We do know that monthly payments could change, primarily because of a change in your income or household size, and that there could be certain requirements you would have to meet to qualify for this plan.
The Education Department says the proposed regulation will be published soon on the Federal Register and the public will be invited to common on the draft rule for 30 days.
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Sheriff subpoenas schools for records of former teacher charged with sexual assault
By Stephen Borowy
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GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan (WNEM) — The Genesee County Sheriff’s Office has served subpoenas to school districts where a former teacher, who is charged with sexual assault, worked at.
Eugene Pratt, 57, of Davison, is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct and accused of sexually assaulting a former student on June 1, 2013.
Sheriff Chris Swanson is asking all personal records relating to Pratt be handed over to his office within a week.
According to Swanson, the schools that have been subpoenaed include Kearsley, Westwood Heights, Caniff, and New Paths in Flint.
Beecher Schools have already given the requested records, according to Swanson.
The sheriff is hoping to learn what the schools knew and how they handled any complaints against Pratt.
Pratt was a well-known teacher and administrator. His education career began in 1986 at Beecher Community Schools where he was a student teacher.
From there, he went on to Kearsley Community Schools, Hamady Community Schools, and Grand Blanc Community Schools where he served as a substitute teacher. After that, he worked as a teacher at Kearsley Community Schools until June 1999. He then worked at the Davison Athletic Club, and Hamady Middle and High School before returning to Beecher Community Schools in 2006 where he served as principal for Beecher Adult and Alternative Education until 2013.
Since Pratt’s arrest, Swans says tips have been pouring in from around the country. Pratt remains in the Genesee County Jail on a $25,000 bond.
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PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wilsonville Foot Health Center, led by Dr. Stephen Fekete, has partnered with Unity MSK and is now part of the Northwest Extremity Specialists (NES) group in Portland, Oregon.
Unity MSK, a management services company providing support to orthopedic and podiatry practices across the United States, partnered with Northwest Extremity Specialists, the largest podiatry practice in Oregon, in February of 2021. Unity MSK and NES also added Portland-based Tigard Orthopedics and Fracture Clinic as an initial expansion into the orthopedic specialty area in June.
"I am excited to partner with Northwest Extremity Specialists and Unity MSK to provide access to great podiatric care in the Portland metro area. I am happy to add this additional location in Wilsonville to the high-quality network of podiatry clinics that NES has built over the years," said Dr. Stephen Fekete, who has been practicing podiatry in Portland for 34 years.
"We are excited to take this step to partner with Dr. Fekete and add another great podiatrist, as well as an additional location to the services offered within the Northwest Extremity Specialists family," said Dr. Thomas Melillo, a lead partner physician with NES.
NES also recently welcomed Dr. Lacey Lockhart to their growing team of professionals. Dr. Lockhart earned her degree in podiatric medicine at California School of Podiatric Medicine at Samuel Merritt University and completed her 3-year surgical training residency at Legacy Health Foot and Ankle Reconstructive Surgery Program in Portland, Oregon.
"We are very excited to have Dr. Lacey Beth Lockhart join Northwest Extremity Specialists in our Wilsonville, Sherwood, and Newberg locations. Dr. Lockhart brings a tremendous wealth of knowledge and skill within the specialty of podiatric medicine, as well as many years of experience treating patients in the greater Portland area. She will certainly contribute to NES' growing network of centers and physicians in providing the highest quality care to the communities we serve," commented Dr. Clifford Mah, NES Physician Leader.
The Wilsonville Foot Health Center, located at 29756 Town Center Loop W, Wilsonville, OR 97070, will remain in that location but will change its name to Northwest Extremity Specialists in the near future.
Formed in 2015, Northwest Extremity Specialists offers state-of-the-art podiatry and orthopedics care. NES has been providing medical and surgical treatment of the foot and ankle for 25 years and just recently added orthopedics with the Tigard Orthopedic and Fracture Clinic. NES' providers offer full-service podiatric and orthopedic care from 15 locations throughout the Portland metropolitan area. For more information, visit www.nespecialists.com.
Unity MSK is a national platform providing support services to practices offering the full continuum of musculoskeletal care. Unity MSK's scalable, best-in-class support promotes robust practice growth while allowing physicians to focus on providing the highest-quality clinical treatment for patients. Unity MSK is led by a team of executives and administrative support specialists with extensive clinical support experience. For more information, visit www.unitymsk.com. For further inquiries, please call Unity MSK at 800-990-1301. If interested in discussing physician partnership opportunities, please contact Ryan Pahler at rpahler@unitymsk.com.
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‘Old school meets new school’ at Barcelona as Xavi and Pep Guardiola face off as managers
By Jaide Timm-Garcia, CNN
It felt almost like a family reunion at Barcelona’s Camp Nou as Xavi Hernández and Pep Guardiola faced each other for the first time as managers this week.
Guardiola, a former Barça player and manager, always receives a reverent welcome from the club’s supporters, and Wednesday was no exception as his City side faced the Blaugrana in a charity match.
The two managers embraced each other before and after the match — an amicable energy that spilled into the crowd as excited fans came from all over the world to see the “Xavi versus Pep” debut and watch the European giants in a friendly clash.
Sharing a pitch is nothing new to Guardiola and Xavi, who first played together as teammates in 1998 when Xavi joined Barcelona’s senior squad.
Ten years later, they reunited with Guardiola as head coach on the sidelines and Xavi as captain of Barcelona, and now they enter a new era by assuming the same vantage point, side-by-side but from opposing coaching boxes.
“It’s like old-school Barça meets new-school Barça,” lifelong fan and Barcelona resident Ciprian Adrián told CNN Sport as he looked down at both teams warming up.
“We love Pep after all he’s done for the club and, of course, have always wanted him to come back. But Xavi has been really good for Barcelona.”
Xavi was appointed as Barça manager last year and has overseen an upturn in results, although the start of this season has been overshadowed by the club’s financial problems off the field and a disappointing 0-0 draw against Rayo Vallecano at home.
More than a manager
Xavi and Guardiola made football history together when they curated Barcelona’s “golden era” between 2008 and 2012, including winning the club’s first treble and two Champions League titles under Guardiola’s leadership.
Since his departure, the team has had six full time managers, one interim manager, and faced hardships both on the field and in the boardroom — to the point where many fans were clamoring for Guardiola’s return.
What they got instead in Xavi was an emerging coach with lots of potential to change the club’s fortunes.
The two Catalans grew up playing at Barcelona’s youth academy, La Masía, and adopted the football philosophy established by club icon Johan Cruyff. They each anchored the field as central midfielders, commanding the creative and tactical flow of each game, using possession as the key ingredient for their playing strategy and coaching methodology.
Xavi established himself as one of the best midfielders of all time by combining Barcelona’s tiki-taka style with his own play-making vision and ability to find space on and off the ball.
As a player, he embodied Barcelona’s mes que un club (“more than a club”) ethos, and this week’s charity match is evidence that he has the same priorities as a manager as well.
The proceeds of the match on August 24 went to supporting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease — research on behalf of former Barcelona goalkeeper Juan Carlos Unzué, who served as Guardiola’s assistant coach during part of the golden era and was diagnosed with ALS two years ago.
It’s rare for a friendly match to take place just weeks after the start of the European season, but for both Xavi and Guardiola, the cause was near to their hearts and reverberated within the Barcelona family.
Unzué took to the field in his wheelchair, flanked by the starting lineups of both teams, and made an honorary kick-off to a burst of applause and cheers from the crowd and the players.
He spent the match as honorary assistant coach to Xavi and later accompanied Xavi and Guardiola to the post-match press conference, where all three reiterated their support for the fight against ALS.
Pleasing the crowd
The match itself left no fan wanting — a 3-3 draw in which both coaches experimented with their lineups and made more substitutions than fans could keep track of.
City opened the scoring after a goalkeeper error from Iñaki Peña allowed Argentine striker Julián Alvarez to tap the ball into the goal, but Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang quickly equalized with a beautiful, one-touch volley from an interrupted free-kick outside the box.
The rapid scoring continued back and forth, with Barça’s Frenkie de Jong putting the second goal away in the 66th minute, only to have City’s Cole Palmer score four minutes later.
The final goals of the night were from Memphis Depay after an excellent grounded cross from Sergi Roberto, followed by a penalty kick taken in added time by Riyad Mahrez.
The match, though friendly and fun, proved to be competitive enough for the fans.
Anton Rinas is a Barcelona fan and German host of YouTube channel ViscaBarca. He follows the team and covers their matches on his channel and said he thinks Xavi is putting to rest any doubts people had about him joining as head coach too soon.
“Xavi said he learned almost everything from Pep, and Pep said he’s super convinced that Xavi will be a great coach,” Rinas told CNN Sport.
Looking into the future, Rinas remarked that the two coaches know each other so well that it’s guaranteed to be an amazing duel every time their sides face each other.
While this friendly was the perfect warm up for what’s going to be an exciting future watching the two managers go head-to-head, Rinas shared the sentiments of many fans about the ultimate goal.
“This match is nice, but I hope we face each other in the Champions League,” he said.
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Police are investigating after a woman was raped by a man driving a white van near Gloucester last weekend. The police say the man pulled up in a layby before approaching her and raping her in Highnam on Sunday, August 21.
It reportedly took place at around 4.30pm when the white van pulled into a gravel layby on Two Mile Lane. The offender pushed the victim to the ground, sexually assaulted and raped her.
He then left the scene in the white van. Investigating officers are urging anyone who may have seen the vehicle on he A40 or B4215 between 4.30pm and 5pm that day to come forward.
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Gloucestershire Constabulary said in a statement: "The suspect was described as a white, tanned man, aged in his mid to late 20s, with short dark hair."
It added: "Specialist officers have been working with the victim for the past week while the investigation has progressed with CCTV searches and forensic works. Officers are now in a position to appeal for the public's help.
"Police are asking anyone who may have witnessed the incident, the suspect or the vehicle in the area at the time or have relevant CCTV or dashcam footage to get in touch."
You can contact police by completing this online form, quoting incident 348 of August 21. Alternatively, call 101.
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GHS Volleyball stays undefeated with sweep of Grayling
GAYLORD — I know we are all excited about football starting; believe me, there may be no one more excited for the start of the 2022 season on the gridiron than me.
But keep your eyes on the local volleyball teams, because all three may have something special in the works
For Gaylord, the Blue Devils have stormed out of the gates this season, sporting back-to-back wins over Ogemaw Heights and Sault Ste. Marie to start the new campaign with a 2-0 record, dropping just one of the first six sets to start the new year.
Back at home on Wednesday, Aug. 24, and it was more of the same for head coach Brittany Cornish's team against Grayling as the Blue Devils earned another sweep, 25-12, 25-20 and 25-21, defeating the Vikings in straight sets to stay undefeated in regular season matches in 2022.
"This group is a family," Cornish said. "Their willingness to fight with and for one another makes me so proud to be their coach. "
It was another big day for the Gaylord seniors as Abby Radulski and Alexis Kozlowski led the way again. Radulski had a team-high 14 kills along with six digs and one ace, while Kozlowski led the Blue Devils with 16 digs along with seven kills and two aces. Maddi Dipzinski, another senior, also had a big day with a team-high 21 assists along with five digs and a block.
"I do not have enough praise for my senior leadership," Cornish said.
Through the first three matches of 2022, the Class of 2023 duo of Radulski and Kozlowski have been leading by example. Radulski is up to 33 kills, 20 digs and four aces, while Kozlowski has racked up 34 digs, 25 kills and 11 aces.
This, plus the weekend tournament in Reed City sets up the volleyball program nicely for a big week upcoming. The Blue Devils head to Cheboygan on Monday and open up league play with Traverse City West on Wednesday. All that sets up their rivalry matchup with Petoskey on Wednesday, Sep. 7.
Full Statistics
Maddi Dipzinski: 21 assists, 1 block, 5 digs
Meghan Keen: 5 kills, 1 block
Alexis Kozlowski: 2 aces, 7 kills, 16 digs
Kennedy Wangler: 3 aces, 10 digs, 2 kills
Hannah Fisher: 2 aces, 10 digs
Emma Gerstenberger: 3 digs
Izzy Dobrzelewski: 3 aces, 2 digs, 3 assists
Addison Wangler: 2 aces, 1 kill, 3 digs
Addison McDonald: 2 kills
Abby Radulski: 1 ace, 14 kills, 6 digs | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/sports/2022/08/26/ghs-volleyball-stays-undefeated-with-sweep-of-grayling/65458509007/ | 2022-08-26T17:32:16Z | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/sports/2022/08/26/ghs-volleyball-stays-undefeated-with-sweep-of-grayling/65458509007/ | true |
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark message Friday: The Fed is determined to fight inflation with more sharp interest rate hikes, which will likely cause pain for Americans in the form of a weaker economy and job losses.
“These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation,” Powell said in a high-profile speech at the Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole. “But a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain.”
Investors had been hoping for a signal from Powell that the Fed might soon moderate its rate increases later this year if inflation were to show further signs of easing. But the Fed chair indicated that that time may not be near.
Runaway price increases have soured most Americans on the economy, even as the unemployment rate has fallen to a half-century low of 3.5%. It has also created political risks for President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats in this fall’s elections, with Republicans denouncing Biden’s $1.9 trillion financial support package, approved last year, as having fueled inflation.
Stocks tumbled after Powell’s remarks, and bond yields rose, a sign that investors foresee more large interest rate hikes ahead. Some on Wall Street expect the economy to fall into recession later this year or early next year, after which they expect the Fed to reverse itself and reduce rates.
A number of Fed officials, though, have pushed back against that notion. Powell’s remarks suggested that the Fed is aiming to raise its benchmark rate — to about 3.75% to 4% by next year — yet not so high as to tank the economy, in hopes of slowing growth long enough to conquer high inflation.
“The idea they are trying to hammer into the market’s head is that their approach makes a rapid pivot to (rate cuts) unlikely,” said Eric Winograd, an economist at asset manager AllianceBernstein. “They are going to stay tight even when it hurts.”
After raising its key short-term rate by a steep three-quarters of a point at each of its past two meetings — part of the Fed’s fastest series of hikes since the early 1980s — Powell said the Fed might ease up on that pace “at some point” — suggesting that any such slowing isn’t near.
Powell said the size of the Fed’s rate increase at its next meeting in late September — whether one-half or three-quarters of a percentage point — will depend on inflation and jobs data. An increase of either size, though, would exceed the Fed’s traditional quarter-point hike, a reflection of how severe inflation has become.
The Fed chair said that while lower inflation readings that have been reported for July have been “welcome,” he added that, “a single month’s improvement falls far short of what (Fed policymakers) will need to see before we are confident that inflation is moving down.”
On Friday, an inflation gauge that is closely monitored by the Fed showed that prices actually declined 0.1% from June to July. Though prices did jump 6.3% in July from 12 months earlier, that was down from a 6.8% year-over-year jump in June, which had been the highest since 1982. The drop largely reflected lower gas prices.
In his speech Friday, Powell noted that the history of high inflation in the 1970s, when the central bank sought to counter high prices with only intermittent rate hikes, shows that the Fed must stay focused.
“The historical record cautions strongly against prematurely” lowering interest rates, he said. “We must keep at it until the job is done.”
What particularly worries Powell and other Fed officials is the prospect that inflation would become entrenched, leading consumers and businesses to change their behavior in ways that would perpetuate higher prices. If, for example, workers began demanding higher pay to match higher inflation, many employers would then pass on those higher labor costs to consumers in the form of higher prices.
Many analysts speculate that Fed officials want to see roughly six months or so of lower monthly inflation readings, similar to July’s, before stopping their rate hikes.
Powell’s speech was the marquee event of the the Fed’s annual economic symposium at Jackson Hole, the first time the conference of central bankers is being held in person since 2019, after it went virtual for two years during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since March, the Fed has implemented its fastest pace of rate increases in decades to try to curb inflation, which has punished households with soaring costs for food, gas, rent and other necessities. The central bank has lifted its benchmark rate by 2 full percentage points in just four meetings, to a range of 2.25% to 2.5%.
Those hikes have led to higher costs for mortgages, car loans and other consumer and business borrowing. Home sales have been plunging since the Fed first signaled it would raise borrowing costs.
In June, the Fed’s policymakers signaled that they expected their key rate to end 2022 in a range of 3.25% to 3.5% and then to rise further next year to between 3.75% and 4%. If rates reached their projected level at the end of this year, they would be at the highest point since 2008.
Powell is betting that he can engineer a high-risk outcome: Slow the economy enough to ease inflation pressures yet not so much as to trigger a recession.
His task has been complicated by the economy’s cloudy picture: On Thursday, the government said the economy shrank at a 0.6% annual rate in the April-June period, the second straight quarter of contraction. Yet employers are still hiring rapidly, and the number of people seeking unemployment aid, a measure of layoffs, remains relatively low.
At its meeting in July, Fed policymakers expressed two competing concerns that highlighted their delicate task.
According to minutes from that meeting, the officials — who aren’t identified by name — have prioritized their inflation fight. Still, some officials said there was a risk that the Fed would raise borrowing costs more than necessary, risking a recession. If inflation were to fall closer to the Fed’s 2% target and the economy weakened further, those diverging views could become hard to reconcile.
At last year’s Jackson Hole symposium, Powell listed five reasons why he thought inflation would be “transitory.” Yet instead it has persisted, and many economists have noted that those remarks haven’t aged well.
Powell indirectly acknowledged that history at the outset of his remarks Friday, when he said that, “at past Jackson Hole conferences, I have discussed broad topics such as the ever-changing structure of the economy and the challenges of conducting monetary policy.”
“Today,” he said, “my remarks will be shorter, my focus narrower and my message more direct.” | https://fox59.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-powell-fed-could-keep-lifting-rates-sharply-for-some-time/ | 2022-08-26T17:32:32Z | https://fox59.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-powell-fed-could-keep-lifting-rates-sharply-for-some-time/ | false |
MCMINN COUNTY, Tenn. — The principal of a McMinn County private school was arrested Friday morning and charged with sexual assault and solicitation of a minor, according to McMinn County Sheriff Joe Guy.
Jason L. Kennedy, 46, was charged with two counts of sexual assault by an authority figure and one count of solicitation of a minor. Kennedy is both the principal and a teacher at Liberty Christian Academy, Guy said.
A second employee, 28-year-old Brittany Branham, was charged with one count of solicitation of a minor. Branham is a secretary and a home-school coordinator at the Liberty Christian Academy, according to Guy.
“It appears, at this point, the case involves a single juvenile female who was previously a student at Liberty Christian Academy. At this point, the incidents occurred in the Kennedy home where Ms. Branham also lives,” Guy said. “But we are continuing the investigation. It is always possible in cases like this that there may be other victims, and if so, we hope they will contact us. We will always work to provide justice, closure, and support for victims of crime.”
Kennedy was booked under a $60,000 bond and Branham under a $15,000 bond. Both have since made bonds and were released, according to Guy. | https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/principal-east-tennessee-athens-sex-crimes/51-75a3e2af-821a-4213-95bc-0e069f40e3e0 | 2022-08-26T17:32:40Z | https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/principal-east-tennessee-athens-sex-crimes/51-75a3e2af-821a-4213-95bc-0e069f40e3e0 | true |
Agency Continues to Monitor Supply Chain to Help Ensure Continued Access
SILVER SPRING, Md., Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the removal of N95 respirators from the agency's medical device shortage list, signaling that demand or projected demand for this type of face protection device commonly used in health care settings no longer exceeds the supply. This action is the result of increased domestic manufacturing of N95 respirators, as well as updates to the FDA's supply chain assessment based on engagement with industry and federal stakeholders, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's (NIOSH) approval of new disposable N95s and reusable respirators.
"Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the FDA's top priorities has been to ensure frontline health care workers have access to the critical protections they need," said Suzanne Schwartz, M.D., M.B.A., director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health's Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation. "We have worked very closely with our partners at NIOSH, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and with U.S. manufacturers to stabilize, rebuild and secure health care access to high-quality, single-use respirators, including those that are American-made. Today, our national capacity for production of these devices is stronger and our supply chain is more resilient because of these collective efforts on behalf of the dedicated people working to save lives."
Since the start of the pandemic, the FDA has been closely monitoring the respirator supply chain and working with federal partners and industry to address critical shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), including respirators, which were one of the first medical devices identified as being in critical shortage during the public health emergency. The FDA has taken many actions to provide flexible policies and help ensure that patients and health care providers have timely and continued access to high-quality medical devices. These actions included issuing Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) and guidance documents to provide recommendations and help expand the availability and capability for various protective medical devices in high demand during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
The FDA is required by law to maintain a device shortage list to provide transparency to the American public, particularly those who use or purchase medical devices. The FDA determines it is appropriate to remove a product code from the device shortage list when the agency finds the demand or projected demand for the device no longer exceeds the supply for a period of time.
The FDA continues to take a phased approach to ensuring the availability of PPE and supply chain impacts. The removal of respirators from the device shortages list does not impact the existing Enforcement Policy for Face Masks, Barrier Face Coverings, Face Shields, Surgical Masks, and Respirators During the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency guidance or the NIOSH-Approved Air Purifying Respirators for Use in Health Care Settings During Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency EUA at this time. These policies remain in effect.
The FDA will continue to monitor the supply chain and update the device shortage list and device discontinuance list as the COVID-19 public health emergency evolves.
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Dogs Toilet Training: Here are the 10 breeds of adorable dog that are simple to house train - including the loving Labrador 🐕
If you value your carpets then these are the pups that will take their business outside with little effort.
A huge number of us decided to welcome new puppies into our homes in the last couple of years – Kennel Club figures show dog ownership soared by nearly 8 percent when the pandemic hit and post-lockdown demand for four-legged friends remains high.
There are a whopping 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, alongside numerous crossbreeds, so there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your family’s latest addition.
One of the trickiest prospects for new owners is ensuring that their new pet is quickly toilet trained – knowning to go outside to relieve themselves. So, here are the 10 breeds of dog that are easiest to house train.
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