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3M Separation of Food Safety Business Remains on Track for Targeted September 1 Closing
ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier today, the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Indiana declined Aearo Technologies' request for a preliminary injunction to ongoing litigation against 3M related to Combat Arms Earplug Version 2 products.
Aearo Technologies and 3M disagree with the ruling and Aearo intends to appeal the decision. Aearo will continue in the chapter 11 proceedings, which it believes will offer a more efficient, equitable and expeditious pathway to resolution of these matters for all parties. 3M also will continue to vigorously defend its position in the multi-district litigation and in its appeals in that litigation.
3M continues to expect to complete the pending separation of its food safety business on the targeted closing date of September 1.
3M (NYSE: MMM) believes science helps create a brighter world for everyone. By unlocking the power of people, ideas and science to reimagine what's possible, our global team uniquely addresses the opportunities and challenges of our customers, communities, and planet. Learn how we're working to improve lives and make what's next at 3M.com/news or on Twitter at @3M or @3MNews.
This news release contains forward-looking information about 3M's financial results and estimates and business prospects that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. You can identify these statements by the use of words such as "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "aim," "project," "intend," "plan," "believe," "will," "should," "could," "target," "forecast" and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance or business plans or prospects. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, regulatory, capital markets and other external conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) risks related to public health crises such as the global pandemic associated with the coronavirus (COVID-19); (3) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (4) liabilities related to certain fluorochemicals, including lawsuits concerning various PFAS-related products and chemistries, and claims and governmental regulatory proceedings and inquiries related to PFAS in a variety of jurisdictions; (5) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2021, as updated by the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated April 26, 2022, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (the "Reports"); (6) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (7) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (8) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (11) operational execution, including scenarios where the Company generates fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (12) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; (13) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (14) tax-related external conditions, including changes in tax rates, laws or regulations; (15) matters relating to the pending separation of the Company's food safety business and the proposed spin-off of the Company's Health Care business, including in each case whether the transaction will be completed, or if completed, will be on the expected terms; the risk that the expected benefits will not be realized; the risk that the costs or dis-synergies will exceed the anticipated amounts; the ability to satisfy the various closing conditions; potential business disruption; the diversion of management time; the impact of the transaction (or its pendency) on the Company's ability to retain talent; potential impacts on the Company's relationships with its customers, suppliers, employees, regulators and other counterparties; the ability to realize the desired tax treatment (including whether an Internal Revenue Service private letter ruling will be sought or obtained); the risk that any consents or approvals required will not be obtained; risks associated with financings that may be undertaken and indebtedness that may be incurred in connection with the transaction; and (16) matters relating to the voluntary chapter 11 proceedings of the Company's subsidiary Aearo Technologies and certain of its affiliates (the "Aearo Entities"), including legal risks related to the chapter 11 proceedings; potential impacts to the Company's reputation and its relationships with customers, suppliers, employees, regulators and other counterparties and community members; potential impacts to the Company's liquidity or results of operations, including risks related to the amount that will be necessary to fully and finally resolve all of the Company's obligations to make payments to resolve such claims under the terms of its funding and indemnification agreement with the Aearo Entities; and the Aearo Entities' ability to navigate the chapter 11 proceedings to obtain approval and consummation of a plan of reorganization. Changes in such assumptions or factors could produce significantly different results. A further description of these factors is located in the Reports under "Cautionary Note Concerning Factors That May Affect Future Results" and "Risk Factors" in Part I, Items 1 and 1A (Annual Report) and in Part I, Item 2 and Part II, Item 1A (Quarterly Reports). The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements discussed herein as a result of new information or future events or developments.
In connection with the proposed transaction, Garden SpinCo Corporation ("SpinCo") filed a registration statement on Form S-4 and Form S-1 (Reg. No. 333-263669) in connection with its separation from 3M that contains a prospectus relating to the shares of SpinCo common stock to be issued in the proposed transaction (as amended and supplemented, the "SpinCo Registration Statement"), which was declared effective by the SEC on August 4, 2022 and Neogen Corporation ("Neogen") filed a registration statement on Form S-4 (Reg. No. 333-263667) that includes a prospectus relating to the shares of Neogen common stock to be issued in the proposed transaction (as amended and supplemented, the "Neogen Registration Statement"), which was declared effective by the SEC on August 4, 2022. In addition, 3M filed with the SEC on August 4, 2022 a Schedule TO (as amended and supplemented, the "3M Schedule TO") in connection with the proposed transaction. INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE SPINCO REGISTRATION STATEMENT, NEOGEN REGISTRATION STATEMENT, 3M SCHEDULE TO AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT ARE MADE AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT NEOGEN, 3M, SPINCO AND THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION. The SpinCo Registration Statement, Neogen Registration Statement, 3M Schedule TO and other documents relating to the proposed transaction (as they become available) can also be obtained free of charge from the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The SpinCo Registration Statement, Neogen Registration Statement, 3M Schedule TO and other documents (as they become available) can also be obtained free of charge from 3M upon written request to 3M Investor Relations Department, Bldg. 224-1 W-02, St. Paul, MN 55144, or by e-mailing investorrelations@3M.com or upon written request to Neogen's Investor Relations, 620 Lesher Place, Lansing, Michigan 48912 or by e-mailing ir@neogen.com.
This release is not intended to and shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or a solicitation of any vote of approval, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
Investor Contact:
Bruce Jermeland
(651) 733-1807
Diane Farrow
(612) 202-2449
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LITLLE ELM, Texas, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After years of anticipation, Tinman Social has finally announced the grand opening date of their new social venue in Little Elm, Texas. The date is August 29, 2022, and CEO Kenneth Wynn says they're nearing the finish line. "It's been a long time coming, but we're excited to turn dreams into reality finally."
For more information about Tinman Social, visit tinmansocial.com.
The project broke ground on March 19, 2021. "People thought we were crazy for taking on such an undertaking during times of uncertainty," Wynn recalled. "After dealing with supply chain issues, delays, and other challenges, I'm proud of how far we've come."
Tinman Social is a unique event space that will offer a variety of fun activities for all ages. Some of their activities include bowling, axe throwing, bocce ball, billiards, ping pong, corn hole, shuffleboard, a state-of-the-art arcade, and two full-service bars, a restaurant, and private rooms for parties and events.
To book a party or event, click here.
The company is currently taking reservations for parties and events starting in mid-September. "We've seen significant interest for birthday parties, rehearsal dinners, and fundraisers already. Our team is ready to provide the best possible experience for the local community so we can create lasting memories."
The ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled at 1pm CT on August 29, 2022.
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This is a guest opinion column
I write this letter with the hope of reaching as many Northern and Central Alabama Veterans and their family members as possible. New, ground-breaking legislation now allows us to better care for those Veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxic substances.
The PACT Act is a historic new law that expands VA health care and benefits for Veterans – and their survivors. It recognizes toxic exposure as a “cost of war” by addressing the full range of issues impacting toxic-exposed Veterans. This new law extends eligibility for VA health care to Veterans with toxic exposures of the Vietnam era, Gulf War era, and post-9/11 era.
Veterans will now be eligible for benefits for more than 20 burn pit or toxic-exposure-related conditions. The law solidifies VA’s new process for establishing presumptive service-connected conditions, which puts one goal above all else: getting Veterans and their survivor’s timely access to the benefits they have earned and deserve.
To put it briefly, the legislation expands eligibility for health care to Veterans not enrolled in VA care and possibly increases health care benefits for impacted Veterans already receiving care.
I know research shows how diseases related to these exposures have impacted Veterans lives and their families. We are honored and stand ready to meet the needs of these Veterans now and in the future.
We encourage all Veterans who believe they may be eligible for VA health care and benefits to visit www.va.gov/PACT or call 1-800-My-VA-411 (800-698-2411) to learn more. Veterans in Northern and Central Alabama may call 205-933-8101, ext. 332491 or ext. 334724.
We know you have a choice and thank you for choosing the Birmingham VA Health Care System. Please take the first step in getting the VA health care you have earned and deserve.
Thank you for your service.
Oladipo “Ladi” Kukoyi, MD, MS, VHA-CM is executive director of the Birmingham VA Health Care System | https://www.al.com/opinion/2022/08/guest-opinion-alabama-veterans-and-the-pact-act-of-2022.html | 2022-08-26T23:41:19Z | https://www.al.com/opinion/2022/08/guest-opinion-alabama-veterans-and-the-pact-act-of-2022.html | true |
Man gets deferred probation in sexual assault of 13-year-old girl: ‘He’s sorry this happened’
WACO, Texas (KWTX/Gray News) - A 20-year-old Texas man has been placed on felony deferred probation after pleading guilty in a sexual assault case that involved a 13-year-old girl.
KWTX reports Tevion Tyreek Mack pleaded guilty in June to sexual assault charges after Waco police arrested him in February 2020 on a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child.
On Friday, State District Judge Thomas West approved Mack’s request for deferred probation during a brief sentencing hearing.
Officials said West placed Mack on deferred probation for 10 years, fined him $1,000 and ordered him to work 120 days on a county work program as a condition of his probation.
Court documents stated the 13-year-old girl told police she had sex with Mack about 17 times. Officials said the 20-year-old was found in the girl’s home without her parents’ consent.
“He’s sorry this happened,” said Jason Darling, Mack’s attorney. “He’s happy the judge gave him the opportunity to make amends on probation and he apologizes to the victim.”
According to legal advisors, in deferred probation cases, there is no final judgment of guilt if a defendant completes the terms and conditions of probation.
Copyright 2022 KWTX via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wistv.com/2022/08/26/man-gets-deferred-probation-sexual-assault-13-year-old-girl-hes-sorry-this-happened/ | 2022-08-26T23:44:23Z | https://www.wistv.com/2022/08/26/man-gets-deferred-probation-sexual-assault-13-year-old-girl-hes-sorry-this-happened/ | true |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The White House Monkeypox Response Team held a briefing today to discuss the latest developments around the disease and the administration’s efforts to combat it.
“There have been nearly 17,000 cases of monkeypox identified across all 50 states,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
The Biden administration updated its approach to the monkeypox outbreak as the U.S becomes the global leader in infections.
“While we continue to deliver as much vaccines to states and jurisdictions as possible, our focus has to be getting those shots into arms,” White House Monkeypox Response Coordinator, Bob Fenton said.
So far the administration has rolled out more than one million vials of the vaccine as part of a four-part strategy.
“By the end of phase four, we will have provided enough vials to states and jurisdictions to provide more than three million doses of vaccines,” Preparedness and Response Assistant Secretary Dawn O’Connell said.
Still, the administration says some communities aren’t doing enough to take advantage of the available supply.
“With supply of vaccines increasing, I think we have a new opportunity and strategy which is bringing vaccines to people as opposed to trying to have people find vaccines,” White House Deputy Monkeypox Response Coordinator Dr. Demetre Daskalakis said.
The outbreak is showing signs of cooling down in hot spots like New York City and Chicago. However, health officials say there is reason to remain vigilant.
“Week over week, our numbers are still increasing, though the rate of rise is lower, but we are still seeing increases and we are of course a very diverse country and things are not even across the country,” Walensky said.
So far no one has died from monkeypox in the U.S, but deaths have been reported outside the country. | https://www.koin.com/news/health-officials-update-approach-to-monkeypox-outbreak-as-u-s-becomes-leader-in-infections/ | 2022-08-26T23:52:33Z | https://www.koin.com/news/health-officials-update-approach-to-monkeypox-outbreak-as-u-s-becomes-leader-in-infections/ | false |
(The Hill) — Moderna said Friday it is suing Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, alleging patent infringement over the COVID-19 vaccine.
The move sets up a showdown between two major vaccine makers that together have helped blunt the impacts of the pandemic in the United States and other countries.
“We believe that Pfizer and BioNTech unlawfully copied Moderna’s inventions, and they have continued to use them without permission,” Moderna Chief Legal Officer Shannon Thyme Klinger said in a statement.
Moderna is seeking compensation from Pfizer for the use of technology that Moderna says it pioneered.
The move also marks that Moderna views the pandemic as being in a different phase. The company said that it previously pledged not to enforce it patents while the pandemic continued. But, it said, “in March 2022, when the collective fight against COVID-19 entered a new phase and vaccine supply was no longer a barrier to access in many parts of the world, Moderna updated its pledge.”
It now says that while it will not enforce its patents in 92 low and middle-income countries, it will in other parts of the world.
“We have not been served and are unable to comment at this time,” Pfizer’s media relations department wrote in an email.
Moderna said that Pfizer infringed on work on its mRNA vaccine technology dating back as early as 2010, well before the pandemic began.
“This foundational platform, which we began building in 2010, along with our patented work on coronaviruses in 2015 and 2016, enabled us to produce a safe and highly effective COVID-19 vaccine in record time after the pandemic struck,” Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said in a statement.
Moderna said it is seeking compensation but not to block the use of the Pfizer vaccine.
“Recognizing the need to ensure continued access to these lifesaving vaccines, Moderna is not seeking to remove [the Pfizer vaccine] from the market and is not asking for an injunction to prevent its future sale,” Moderna said. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/lifestyle/coronavirus/moderna-sues-pfizer-biontech-over-covid-19-vaccine-patents/ | 2022-08-26T23:55:51Z | https://www.myarklamiss.com/lifestyle/coronavirus/moderna-sues-pfizer-biontech-over-covid-19-vaccine-patents/ | true |
LITLLE ELM, Texas, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After years of anticipation, Tinman Social has finally announced the grand opening date of their new social venue in Little Elm, Texas. The date is August 29, 2022, and CEO Kenneth Wynn says they're nearing the finish line. "It's been a long time coming, but we're excited to turn dreams into reality finally."
For more information about Tinman Social, visit tinmansocial.com.
The project broke ground on March 19, 2021. "People thought we were crazy for taking on such an undertaking during times of uncertainty," Wynn recalled. "After dealing with supply chain issues, delays, and other challenges, I'm proud of how far we've come."
Tinman Social is a unique event space that will offer a variety of fun activities for all ages. Some of their activities include bowling, axe throwing, bocce ball, billiards, ping pong, corn hole, shuffleboard, a state-of-the-art arcade, and two full-service bars, a restaurant, and private rooms for parties and events.
To book a party or event, click here.
The company is currently taking reservations for parties and events starting in mid-September. "We've seen significant interest for birthday parties, rehearsal dinners, and fundraisers already. Our team is ready to provide the best possible experience for the local community so we can create lasting memories."
The ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled at 1pm CT on August 29, 2022.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
6-8-8-3, FIREBALL: 5
(six, eight, eight, three; FIREBALL: five)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
6-8-8-3, FIREBALL: 5
(six, eight, eight, three; FIREBALL: five) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Evening-game-17401423.php | 2022-08-27T00:09:22Z | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Evening-game-17401423.php | false |
WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 26, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
649 PM CDT Fri Aug 26 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED...
The Flood Advisory has expired for a portion of south Texas,
including the following county, Victoria.
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
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Man gets deferred probation in sexual assault of 13-year-old girl: ‘He’s sorry this happened’
WACO, Texas (KWTX/Gray News) - A 20-year-old Texas man has been placed on felony deferred probation after pleading guilty in a sexual assault case that involved a 13-year-old girl.
KWTX reports Tevion Tyreek Mack pleaded guilty in June to sexual assault charges after Waco police arrested him in February 2020 on a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child.
On Friday, State District Judge Thomas West approved Mack’s request for deferred probation during a brief sentencing hearing.
Officials said West placed Mack on deferred probation for 10 years, fined him $1,000 and ordered him to work 120 days on a county work program as a condition of his probation.
Court documents stated the 13-year-old girl told police she had sex with Mack about 17 times. Officials said the 20-year-old was found in the girl’s home without her parents’ consent.
“He’s sorry this happened,” said Jason Darling, Mack’s attorney. “He’s happy the judge gave him the opportunity to make amends on probation and he apologizes to the victim.”
According to legal advisors, in deferred probation cases, there is no final judgment of guilt if a defendant completes the terms and conditions of probation.
Copyright 2022 KWTX via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.ktre.com/2022/08/26/man-gets-deferred-probation-sexual-assault-13-year-old-girl-hes-sorry-this-happened/ | 2022-08-27T00:12:36Z | https://www.ktre.com/2022/08/26/man-gets-deferred-probation-sexual-assault-13-year-old-girl-hes-sorry-this-happened/ | false |
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. -- The Chesterfield County Fair is up and running for its 111th year and will be naming the arts and crafts building after one of the fair's longtime volunteers, Mary Chalkley.
Chalkley is humbled by the recognition. She has spent 56 years volunteering with the fair, first as a secretary and now as the coordinator of the arts and crafts building that bears her name.
Chalkley has been connected to the fair since 1966 and remembers the previous locations before the permanent location in Chesterfield.
"It's a lot of memories when we started at the old courthouse, that's where the fair was, until 1987 and then we went to the airport in 1988 and we have been on these grounds since 1989," Chalkley said.
She even participated in the 4H program when she was nine years old, entering her prized steer. Now 85, Chalkley is the oldest volunteer with the fair and works long hours overseeing nine departments.
As for running the fair, Brenda White Vaughn is the general manager. In its early days, the fair was an agriculture showcase for farmers. These days, it offers a little bit of everything.
"This year, we are having our first annual classic horse show on Sunday the 28th," White Vaughn said.
There is also a new mobile dairy classroom with a live cow and a cowboy circus with Danny Grant which will be held the first weekend of the fair.
"He'll teach you how to lasso, how to ride on a barrel that's turning, things like that," White Vaughn said.
This year's fair will be Chalkley's last as a volunteer, but she plans to continue to support the fair by being a guest for years to come. | https://www.wtvr.com/community/a-list-events/hesterfield-county-fair-2022-mary-chalkley | 2022-08-27T00:13:34Z | https://www.wtvr.com/community/a-list-events/hesterfield-county-fair-2022-mary-chalkley | true |
WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 26, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service New York NY
655 PM EDT Fri Aug 26 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of western Suffolk
County through 745 PM EDT...
At 654 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Hauppauge, moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds up to 30 mph and isolated lightning strikes.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Isolated lightning strikes will pose a danger to those
outdoors.
Locations impacted include...
Brentwood, Centereach, Medford, Hauppauge, Ronkonkoma, Patchogue,
Middle Island, Coram, Holbrook, Sayville, Farmingville, Yaphank,
Central Islip, East Patchogue and Lake Ronkonkoma.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 4071 7298 4073 7295 4074 7301 4072 7303
4076 7328 4082 7329 4094 7289 4070 7292
TIME...MOT...LOC 2254Z 270DEG 18KT 4079 7320
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...<30 MPH
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 26, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
546 PM CDT Fri Aug 26 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south Texas, including the following county,
Victoria.
* WHEN...Until 645 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Ponding of water in urban or other areas is occurring or is
imminent. Water on Roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 545 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Victoria, Victoria College, Downtown Victoria, Victoria
Riverside Park and Victoria Colony Creek Country Club.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
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Pa. man who attacked police on Jan. 6 gets 46-month sentence
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pennsylvania man was sentenced Friday to 46 months in federal prison for attacking a police officer with a Donald Trump flag during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
The newspaper reported that Howard Richardson, 72, of King of Prussia, told the court in Washington “there’s no excuse” for his behavior and pleaded for mercy.
But U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly responded, “Your presence and actions in joining other insurrectionists was an inexcusable attack on our democracy.”
Richardson’s sentence is one of the longest yet among those who have been prosecuted for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 to disrupt the certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. In addition to the nearly four-year prison sentence, Richardson was ordered to serve three years under court supervision after his release and to pay $2,000 in restitution.
Richardson never entered the Capitol, the Inquirer reported, but prosecutors said his attack on a Washington, D.C., police officer merited a lengthy prison term.
According to the paper, police body camera footage showed Richardson bludgeoning an officer outside the Capitol with a metal flagpole. NBC News reported that Richardson also joined a mob using a giant Trump billboard as a battering ram.
Approximately 850 people have been charged with federal crimes for their conduct on Jan. 6. Over 350 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors, and over 230 have been sentenced. Dozens of Capitol riot defendants who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor offenses have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from seven days to five months.
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(The Hill) – A heavily redacted version of the affidavit that convinced a federal judge to approve a warrant to search former President Trump’s Florida home was released on Friday.
Despite numerous redactions necessary to protect “a broad range of civilian witnesses,” according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the document does shed some light on the search.
In particular, it indicates Trump had a much larger collection of classified documents than previously known, including some of the most sensitive secrets careful storage of records is designed to protect.
Here is what we’ve learned – and still don’t know – from the affidavit.
Agents believed Mar-a-Lago housed more classified documents, evidence of ‘obstruction’
The search of Mar-a-Lago earlier this month — and the affidavit justifying it — shows that investigators believed more classified documents were being housed at Trump’s residence even after the government previously retrieved more than 180 classified documents.
The unredacted portions of the affidavit make this conclusion plain: “There is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified (National Defense Information) or that are Presidential records subject to record retention requirements currently remain at the PREMISES,” the agent states in the affidavit.
The most eye-popping statute cited in the warrant, the Espionage Act, deals with mishandling of national defense information.
The agent goes on to say that there was probable cause to believe that “evidence of obstruction” would be found at Mar-a-Lago.
The newly unsealed court record shows the DOJ repeatedly informed Trump’s lawyers that Mar-a-Lago was “not authorized to store classified information.” According to the affidavit, DOJ lawyers, as recently as June, reiterated that point to Trump’s counsel, as well as a request to secure any remaining records on the premises.
“[W]e ask that the room at Mar-a-Lago where the documents had been stored be secured and that all of the boxes that were moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago (along with any other items in that room) be preserved in that room in their current condition until further notice,” reads the June 8 letter from DOJ to Trump’s attorneys.
Extensive redactions leave DOJ’s ‘probable cause’ basis largely unknown
One of the most heavily redacted sections of the affidavit pertains to evidence that led investigators to believe additional classified material was at Mar-a-Lago.
Toward the end of the document, a subheading reads: “There is Probable Cause to Believe That Documents Containing Classified NDI and Presidential Records Remain at the Premises.”
What follows are seven fully redacted paragraphs, totaling roughly three pages, followed by the agent’s stated belief that at least four rooms in Mar-a-Lago were not authorized to store classified information, or materials that fall under “national defense information.”
In an apparent reference to the redacted material, the agent then states: “As described above, evidence of the SUBJECT OFFENSES has been stored in multiple locations at the PREMISES.”
In keeping with department policy, officials said the redactions helped to shield key investigatory details and grand jury information.
Although the unsealed portions of the affidavit shed some new light on aspects of the probe, the extensive redactions that were applied to this section of the document means that much of the underlying facts supporting DOJ’s basis for carrying out the search of Trump’s residence remain largely unknown to the public.
Trump mischaracterized level of cooperation with federal officials
Trump has sought to characterize the search of his home as an unnecessary “break in” after his team was in lengthy negotiations with both the National Archives and DOJ.
In prior statements, Trump noted that he put a larger lock on his storage room at Mar-a-Lago at the request of the government – “We agreed. They were shown the secured area, and the boxes themselves.”
But the interaction does not appear to be as friendly as Trump suggested.
“They have not been handled in an appropriate manner or stored in an appropriate location,” DOJ wrote in the letter asking for the lock and the preservation of those records.
The affidavit indicates the National Archives first reached out about retrieving records as early as May 6, 2021 – just a few months after Trump left office. But it wasn’t until December that Trump’s team indicated it had boxes of documents ready for pick up.
And while Trump has relayed surprise by the execution of a search warrant, his legal team seemed to understand there could be pending charges in a May letter that followed receipt of a subpoena earlier that month.
His lawyer sought to push back on the idea that Trump could even face charges as a former president.
“Any attempt to impose criminal liability on a President or former President that involves his actions with respect to documents marked classified would implicate grave constitutional separation-of-powers issues,” Evan Corcoran wrote.
But he cites only one law to back his claim that “unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material does not apply to the President.”
That particular statute wasn’t cited in the warrant, however, as the government is relying on other statutes, including the Espionage Act, which only require mishandling national defense information that could be used to injure the United States.
The affidavit offers new details on classified records previously recovered from Trump
The affidavit points to a review of documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago in January as a basis for the search earlier this month.
It reveals Trump had far more classified documents than was previously known.
The affidavit indicates that among 15 boxes handed over to the National Archives, there were 184 classified documents, including 25 deemed to be particularly sensitive. These contained top secret information such as those gained from “clandestine human sources,” information prohibited from being shared with foreign governments, and information obtained by monitoring “foreign communications signals.”
When the January recovery became public in February, Trump released a statement saying the National Archives did not “find” anything.
However, Archives actually referred the matter to the Justice Department given the wide array of classified materials found in those initial boxes.
“It appears, based on the affidavit unsealed this morning, that among the improperly handled documents at Mar-a-Lago were some of our most sensitive intelligence,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner (R-Va.) said in a statement.
Why Trump held on to classified materials a mystery
Trump’s reasons for holding on to dozens of classified and top-secret documents more than a year after leaving office is still unclear, but the affidavit underscored the messy nature of the former president’s record keeping.
The affidavit indicated that the documents recovered during an initial search in January found classified and top-secret documents were intermixed with other materials in boxes.
Former administration officials have spoken publicly about the haphazard nature of document organization in the final days of the Trump White House, and he was known to discard or rip up documents throughout his time in the White House despite strict rules about preservation.
Multiple former Trump administration officials, including former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have said they did not take any classified materials with them when they left office even as they criticized the FBI for searching Mar-a-Lago.
Trump has maintained he could declassify documents unilaterally upon leaving office, allowing him to take them with him to Florida. But former administration officials and President Biden have rejected that theory as nonsense.
“Come on,” Biden said dismissively Friday when asked about Trump’s claim. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/five-takeaways-from-the-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit/ | 2022-08-27T00:23:59Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/five-takeaways-from-the-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit/ | true |
CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Pick 5 Evening" game were:
1-0-1-4-5
(one, zero, one, four, five)
CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Pick 5 Evening" game were:
1-0-1-4-5
(one, zero, one, four, five) | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/ohio/winning-numbers-drawn-in-pick-5-evening-game/EULXPQQXLRH4POEOJUBLQAIDYU/ | 2022-08-27T00:24:35Z | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/ohio/winning-numbers-drawn-in-pick-5-evening-game/EULXPQQXLRH4POEOJUBLQAIDYU/ | false |
It's being called the largest art auction in history, as Christie's auction house is set to auction off an estimated $1 billion collection from the late co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen.
According to Christie's, the proceeds from the action will be donated to charitable causes.
The massive collection includes one-of-a-kind pieces from art greats like Botticelli, Renoir, David Hockney and Roy Lichtenstein.
Allen co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with his friend Bill Gates. Mr. Allen left his role at Microsoft in 1983 after he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
He remained on the company's board until 2000, despite a reportedly rough relationship at times, with Gates.
He died in 2018 at the age of 65.
As the BBC reported, 150 works will go up for auction.
Guillaume Cerutti, CEO of Christie's, said, "The inspirational figure of Paul Allen, the extraordinary quality and diversity of works, and the dedication of all proceeds to philanthropy, create a unique combination that will make the sale of the Paul G Allen Collection an event of unprecedented magnitude." | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/largest-art-auction-in-history-estimated-1bn-collection-from-microsoft-co-founder-to-be-sold | 2022-08-27T00:24:36Z | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/largest-art-auction-in-history-estimated-1bn-collection-from-microsoft-co-founder-to-be-sold | false |
UPDATE: Highway 52 construction remains on schedule
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Road work on Highway 52 between Zumbrota and Cannon Falls continues as we head towards the tail end of the summer.
And that could have an impact on your travels, especially if you’re headed to the state fair this weekend.
Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is happy to report that construction work between Zumbrota and Cannon Falls is moving along well and is currently on schedule.
The concrete work is now happening on the bridge just south of Zumbrota and is expected to return to two lanes on each side by the middle to end of September.
The northbound bridge of the highway 57 interchange near Hader is complete and now crews are working on the southbound bridge.
That section of work, in addition to the concrete roadwork that extends towards Cannon Falls, is on track to be completed in late Oct. or early Nov.
So, when it comes to any late summer traveling, MnDOT wants to remind drivers to remain patient and to plan ahead.
“Just plan ahead for extra traffic,” MnDOT District 6 Spokesman Mike Dougherty said. “There are going to be more people on the road than normal and that means things might move slower. As you’re get into those work zones, really follow those signs and do the zipper merge. That helps traffic flow through faster and safer.”
Dougherty suggests checking the 511 website or app to track traffic flow before and during your travels.
Some other exciting news for drivers, Highway 60 east towards Mazeppa and Zumbro Falls is expected to reopen on or shortly after Labor Day.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 26, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
649 PM CDT Fri Aug 26 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED...
The Flood Advisory has expired for a portion of south Texas,
including the following county, Victoria.
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
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World Champion Magnus Carlsen returns to Saint Louis, MO
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The seventh edition of the Grand Chess Tour (GCT), a series of five elite chess tournaments held across the globe, will return to America's Chess Capital at the Saint Louis Chess Club from August 25 - 30, 2022. The Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz will kick off the festivities with 10 of the world's best chess players competing for $175,000 in prize money. The 2022 Grand Chess Tour will conclude with the prestigious Sinquefield Cup from September 1 - 12, 2022; it will be the second classical tournament on the tour, bookending the three rapid & blitz events. The reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen will headline the Sinquefield Cup as the wildcard player, where he will be joined by the nine full tour GCT players competing for the $350,000 total prize fund. The Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz and Sinquefield Cup tournaments are sponsored by the Saint Louis Chess Club.
"The Sinquefield Cup is one of the longest running international chess tournaments to be held in the United States," said Tony Rich, Executive Director of Saint Louis Chess Club. "We are proud to once again host the final leg of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour at the Saint Louis Chess Club. Our fans are sure to be thrilled to watch their favorite chess grandmasters compete in over 14 days of exhilarating rapid, blitz and classical chess."
The Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz will host 10 of the top players from around the world including World Number 3, Alireza Firouzja and the 2022 Superbet Chess Classic winner, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. The tournament will showcase eight GCT full tour players and two wildcards, American favorites Hikaru Nakamura and Sam Shankland. The Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz will be played as a rapid round robin and blitz double round robin format. This will be the fourth stop on the 2022 Grand Chess Tour.
The Sinquefield Cup will be the last event played on the Grand Chess Tour this season. The nine full-tour players will be joined by World Champion Magnus Carlsen in a 10-player classical round robin.
The top three finishers in this year's Tour automatically qualify to play in the 2023 Grand Chess Tour. If a playoff is required to determine 1st, 2nd and 3rd places of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour, it will occur on Monday, September 12th at 1:00pm CT. The top three finishers are also competing for the $150,000 in GCT bonus prizes.
This year, the Sinquefield Cup Opening ceremony date also falls on the 50th anniversary of the American Bobby Fischer's historic win over the Russian Boris Spassky in the legendary 1972 World Chess Championship, ending 24 years of Soviet dominance in the sport. The Sinquefield Cup Opening Ceremony will be held on September 1st from 5:30pm - 7:30pm at World's Fair Pavilion in Forest Park and will be open to the public. Learn more and purchase tickets.
Due to local COVID-19 restrictions live spectators will not be allowed in the tournament hall but fans can watch the full broadcast online or at the Saint Louis Chess Club featuring a Grandmaster commentary team of Yasser Seirawan, Cristian Chirila and Peter Svidler for the Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz and Yasswer Seirawan, Alejandro Ramirez and Peter Svidler for the Sinquefield Cup. Watch all the rounds daily at 12:50 p.m. CT exclusively on grandchesstour.org and on the Saint Louis Chess Club's YouTube and Twitch.tv channels.
About the Grand Chess Tour
The Grand Chess Tour is a circuit of international events, each demonstrating the highest level of organization for the world's best players. The legendary Garry Kasparov, one of the world's greatest ambassadors for chess, inspired the Grand Chess Tour and helped solidify the partnership between the organizers. All Grand Chess Tour 2022 events will comply with local and regional COVID-19 restrictions. For more information about the tour, please visit grandchesstour.org.
About the Saint Louis Chess Club
The Saint Louis Chess Club is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that is committed to making chess an important part of our community. In addition to providing a forum for the community to play tournaments and casual games, the club also offers chess improvement classes, beginner lessons and special lectures.
Recognizing the cognitive and behavioral benefits of chess, the Saint Louis Chess Club is committed to supporting those chess programs that already exist in area schools while encouraging the development of new in-school and after-school programs. For more information, visit saintlouischessclub.org.
About the Superbet Foundation
Founded in 2019, Superbet Foundation is a nonprofit organization. Its role is to coordinate Superbet Group's CSR activities and to connect with civil society organizations and the general public. Through its activity, the Foundation strives for a better world, with healthy and educated people and by supporting various projects it wants to inspire people to hold unbreakable moral values. It supports projects in domains like education, health, culture, performance in sport and, most notably, in chess. Since 2019, chess has become one of the backbones of Superbet Foundation by organizing its first tournament of the Grand Chess Tour in Bucharest. The Foundation is committed to turning GCT tournaments into a tradition for the Romanian and Polish chess communities. For more information, visit superchess.ro.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – As states across the country move to restrict abortion access, the White House is working to protect it.
President Joe Biden held a roundtable discussion on Friday with local leaders to talk about what comes next. During the discussion, leaders from across the country got to share their thoughts on reproductive rights with the president and his team.
White House Gender Policy Council official Jen Klein says getting to hear from them is an important part of the administration’s work.
“We’re hearing from state and local officials about what they’re seeing and the challenges that they’re facing and how the administration can help them,” Klein said.
Local leaders also say the conversations are critical as they partner with the Biden administration and each other to try to find creative ways to protect access to abortion in their states.
President Biden has already issued executive orders meant to ensure women can travel to receive and have privacy around reproductive health care.
Judge Lina Hidalgo from Harris County, Texas wants to see more federal action.
“My message to the president is we need help. We’re the last line of defense and right now we need support,” Hidalgo said. “In terms of funding for contraceptive care, in terms of support transporting women who need abortion out of state, fighting these laws in court.”
Durham, North Carolina Mayor Elaine O’Neal says cooperation with the federal government is crucial.
“It really has to be a coordinated effort,” O’Neal said.
Mount Vernon, New York Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard says states with abortion access have an important role in helping women in other states.
“We must provide a safe haven for them. We have to increase the access that’s available for those who have to cross state lines,” Patterson-Howard said.
Kansas State Sen. Dinah Sykes hopes her state’s recent vote to keep abortion rights in the Kansas Constitution serves as a powerful example.
“It’s going to take everyday citizens engaging so that we can right this ship,” Sykes said.
Ultimately, the president says the real solution is for voters to elect representatives that will pass federal abortion protections. | https://www.wfla.com/news/washington-dc/white-house-leans-on-local-leaders-in-fight-for-abortion-access/ | 2022-08-27T00:41:03Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/washington-dc/white-house-leans-on-local-leaders-in-fight-for-abortion-access/ | true |
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Oder mass fish deaths: Searching for clues to Polish-German border mystery
By Jenny Hill
BBC Berlin correspondent
- Published
The men in waders looked solemn as they heaved buckets of dead fish from a boat and lay the corpses on a tarpaulin stretched out on the riverbank.
They had been doing this for eight days near the city of Szczecin, faces masked against the nauseating stench. "I just feel numb now," said one worker, sadly.
Something is killing fish - in their thousands - on the River Oder.
The river forms a border between Poland and Germany. Despite weeks of investigation, experts from both countries have been unable to establish exactly what is to blame. Hundreds of tonnes of dead fish have already been removed.
Scientists suspect someone polluted the water with a substance that appears to have caused high salt levels. That encouraged golden algae to flourish. The toxins it emitted killed the fish. The rotting corpses then further reduced the water quality.
A deadly, chemical chain reaction which, they say, may have been exacerbated by a hot summer and low river levels. But they have yet to identify the original pollutant.
"It will be difficult to get a clear answer to what caused it," says Andrzej Kapusta, of the Inland Fisheries Institute. We joined him and his team on board a small boat as they tested the water in the Oder.
"The scale of this ecological disaster is unprecedented in Poland. It's a catastrophe. We have never found so many dead creatures, so many dead fish, clams or snails. It's the first time it's happened, and it is a serious warning."
Hundreds of miles up-river, near the city of Gliwice, Ewa Sternal looks out over the boats bobbing in a small marina and says she saw it coming.
Ewa runs the marina, which lies within a working port. Cranes shift large metal containers near piles of coal on the opposite bank as she explains that the water here flows, via the Gliwice canal, into the Oder.
People here first reported fish dying, and the water changing, back in March.
Ewa describes how the fish appeared to try to get out of the port, gathering near its entrance, "to gasp for air, for oxygen". When it happened again in June, she began to investigate for herself.
"All the signs and traces that I've followed led me to conclude that the pollution got into the water directly here. I talked to many people, conducted interviews. My conclusion is that someone dumped chemicals into the port."
But who? Suspicion has fallen, with as yet no evidence, on Polish industry and Polish mines.
Police have interviewed more than 200 witnesses and investigated 12 sites. A reward of more than €200,000 (£170,000) for information leading to the arrest of a perpetrator remains unclaimed.
Fishermen we spoke to near Gliwice, who told us they also saw fish dying in March, expressed scepticism that anyone would be caught. "Someone's responsible, someone's to blame, but we'll probably never find out who," said one.
Investigators have, however, discovered nearly 300 unregistered outflow pipes and are investigating nearly 60 of them in connection to the fish deaths.
The authorities on both sides of the Oder have acknowledged errors in the handling of the case. It is generally recognised that they were too slow to react to signs that something was wrong. And an undignified spat between the Polish and German authorities over their respective approaches was not helpful.
Experts, like Andrzej Kapusta, say it is important to review the way the river is used. Worryingly, they warn that it could happen again, particularly while the original source of pollution goes unidentified.
"We need a precise monitoring system, an online monitoring that will inform the adequate authorities much more quickly," he says. "A quicker response is certainly needed to prevent such disasters."
Meanwhile, fish continue to die. Their corpses collected and sent for incineration.
As the workers near Szczecin drag large dead carp and catfish from the river, a pump works away in a desperate attempt to get oxygen into the water. From here the river flows into a lagoon and on into the Baltic Sea.
It is hoped that the sheer amount of water means the toxins will be diluted, but there are concerns that what some here describe as a "wave of poison" will continue its deadly course downstream.
"Right now we have to wait for the worst to be over," says Lukas Potkanski, from the Polish Fishermen's Association. "The most poisonous water has to flow down and mix with the healthy water."
Lukas gestured to the corpses of carp and catfish and told us the fish recovered here were sometimes 20 or 30 years old.
Life, he believes, will return to the Oder. But it will be years, perhaps decades, before the river's health is fully restored.
- 24 August 2021 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62688036?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA | 2022-08-27T00:48:17Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62688036?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA | false |
SAN ANTONIO — A woman has been arrested after a video surfaced of her firing a gun several times into the air, hitting a stop sign and possibly a house nearby, according to Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar
At some point during the week, a family called Bexar County Sheriff's and reported that a bullet had entered their child's room without injuring the child.
Soon after BCSO began investigating the call, they found out about a video where a woman, now identified as 22-year-old Genesis Rodriguez, was recorded shooting a gun several times outside of the window of a moving car, BCSO says.
Sheriff Salazar says Rodriguez was arrested and charged with a class A misdemeanor, a violation of a protective order, and deadly conduct with a firearm which is a 3rd degree felony.
Since Rodriguez is under a protective order, she is not allowed to be in possession of a firearm.
BCSO has possession of a Chrysler 300 which has evidence that a shooting occurred and associated with this case.
BCSO is currently executing a warrant at a residence on the east side.
Sheriff Javier Salazar said there are possible multiple suspects who were out drinking all night and decided to drive throughout the neighborhood and start shooting. He also said he expects more arrests to be made. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/crime/22-year-old-woman-arrested-firing-gun-several-times-outside-of-car-captured-in-viral-video/273-a1e740a8-0163-473a-a41d-56e39d8a7e9f | 2022-08-27T00:55:32Z | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/crime/22-year-old-woman-arrested-firing-gun-several-times-outside-of-car-captured-in-viral-video/273-a1e740a8-0163-473a-a41d-56e39d8a7e9f | false |
Kenya's tech hub: Meeting the DIY coders and gurus of the future
- Published
In our series of letters from African journalists, Ismail Einashe goes for some tech lessons in Kenya.
On a balmy morning in Nairobi a group of children are building robots using motors and wires, while in an adjacent room a child is learning how to use software to spell their name on a computer.
This hive of tech activity is taking place at the headquarters of the Stem Impact Centre, a two-story bungalow in the centre of the Kenyan capital.
Established in September 2020, the centre supports schools by providing their students with the space to learn coding and robotics and take a DIY approach to learning technology.
The centre is the brainchild of Alex Magu, who founded it driven by a passion to "democratise computer science" in Kenya.
He believes giving every child access to tech-based resources is vital for the development of Kenya.
And it seems that the Kenyan government agrees with him.
In April, it announced it would implement a new technology curriculum for primary and secondary schools that will teach coding and tech skills.
Kenya has long been known as one of Africa's biggest tech hubs and is often dubbed the "Silicon Savannah" as many global tech giants have set up here, including Amazon and Google.
Physics matters
Mr Magu's own passion for computer science was sparked in his teens.
He was doing badly at school, so to motivate him, his father promised to buy him something.
Mr Magu desperately wanted a mountain bike, but in the end, he chose a computer, a bulky early 2000s Compaq.
Playing games on it was a revelation and that night he did not sleep at all.
He decided then aged 13 that he wanted to study computer science at university.
But at school he did not see the connection between studying physics and computer science, so he dropped the subject.
"I almost collapsed as I got the shock of my life that I could not study computer science at university without physics," he said.
This experience taught him the importance of instilling passion for science and mathematics in children from an early age.
In the end he studied political science, though he spent his spare time learning about electronics - and after he graduated, worked for a Danish tech company in Nairobi as a project associate.
It was during this period that he honed his skills and took part in a pilot schools programme on coding and robotics that inspired him to establish his centre.
Putting local first
The tech scene in Kenya is often associated with foreigners, who operate the majority of start-ups and attract the most financing.
His centre acts as an incubator for local tech-start-ups. These include a digital marketing company in Turkana, a new group that burns waste and uses water hyacinths to make electricity in Kisumu and an artificial intelligence (AI) firm that makes translation apps for deaf people in Nairobi.
Some of them are based at Stem with some of their employees also acting as mentors to the children.
One of these is John, a recent graduate and research engineer - whose name has been changed because of the sensitivity of some of his work.
His family fled conflict in South Sudan and he was born in the Kakuma refugee camp in north-western Kenya.
When he was about five his family moved out of the camp to Nakuru, a city in Kenya's Rift Valley.
His father could not afford to send him and his sister to university at the same time - so while his sister studied, he managed to convince his father to give him his laptop.
John bought himself a portable dongle and would buy internet packages for about 50 Kenyan shillings ($0.40, £0.35) for 24 hours to get online.
He soon stumbled upon a free online course in computer science offered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.
He spent his nights downloading the course and spent his days learning everything from computational thinking and data science to software.
John never had any interaction directly with MIT, nor did he get a certificate, but this course deepened his interest in science and mathematics. When he finally got to university, he studied for a degree in aeronautical engineering.
In early 2021, a classmate of his started to work at the Stem Impact Centre. Intrigued by the work they were doing, he asked the friend to take him there - and eventually ended up doing his work placement there before getting a job with one of its start-ups after graduating.
He is excited about passing on his passion for technology to the young students - and about his ideas that can help tackle issues in rural areas like locust infestations.
Inspired by the success of John and others, Mr Magu is eyeing up opportunities to expand his programme and is currently setting up a pilot in Sudan, with support from a refugee charity that works in the region.
For John, his future ambitions are crystal clear: he wants to study applied mathematics at MIT.
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(NEXSTAR) – The ever-growing list of states where people can legally buy recreational marijuana could get a little longer this fall.
Recreational marijuana is already legal in 19 states, and legalization proposals are on the ballot this fall in South Dakota, Missouri and Maryland.
Supporters are also trying to get measures on the ballot in Arkansas, North Dakota and Oklahoma.
Backers of the Missouri ballot proposal are highlighting a provision that would erase past marijuana-related convictions for nonviolent offenders and those whose conviction didn’t include selling to minors or driving while high.
Despite 60% of Americans supporting the legalization of recreational marijuana in a 2021 Pew Research poll – and over 90% saying either medical or recreational pot should be legal – it doesn’t appear that federal law will be changing any time soon.
In July, Senators Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and Ron Wyden released a bill to legalize marijuana, but the legislation appears unlikely to have the 60 votes it would need to pass.
Recreational marijuana is currently legal in the following states:
- Alaska
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Illinois
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Montana
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- Oregon
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/recreational-marijuana-could-soon-be-legal-in-these-states/ | 2022-08-27T01:06:20Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/recreational-marijuana-could-soon-be-legal-in-these-states/ | true |
Mom of 6-year-old girl thankful doorbell camera captured alleged attempted abduction
By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN
A Ring doorbell camera captured the attempted abduction of a 6-year-old girl from the front of her house Tuesday in Hamilton, Ohio, according to court documents and the security camera footage obtained by CNN.
The video shows the girl standing next to a garbage can at the curb of a front yard, when a man, identified in court records as 33-year-old Deric McPherson, walks toward her and appears to touch her before turning back and dragging her down the sidewalk by her arm before she runs away.
Mandie Miller, the girl’s mother, told CNN Friday her daughter was taking out the garbage, as she’s done many times before, when McPherson reached out and groped her daughter.
Miller said McPherson let go after her daughter screamed, which is heard on the video recording.
“She came in with a blood-curling scream, she ran into the living room she said, ‘mommy someone tried to take me, he touched my private parts,'” Miller said. “I went outside and saw him walking down the sidewalk.”
Miller said she and her husband both tried to chase McPherson down the street by foot before her husband got in his car and followed McPherson until he was ultimately apprehended by Hamilton Police.
Miller said she’s already seeking counseling for her daughter and the family is looking into moving, which Miller said is at her daughter’s request.
McPherson is currently being held in Butler County Jail on a 5th degree felony abduction charge.
It is unclear when McPherson will next appear in court.
CNN has reached out to McPherson’s attorney for comment.
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 26, 2022
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DUST STORM ADVISORY
Dust Advisory
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
551 PM MST Fri Aug 26 2022
The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued a
* Dust Advisory for...
Northwestern La Paz County in west central Arizona...
Riverside County in southern California...
* Until 715 PM MST/715 PM PDT/.
* At 550 PM MST/550 PM PDT/, a wall of dust was along a line
extending from 7 miles east of Parker to 9 miles southeast of Big
River to 15 miles southwest of Earp, moving southeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Less than two miles visibility with strong wind in excess
of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Trained weather spotters.
IMPACT...Hazardous travel.
* This includes the following highways...
AZ Route 72 between mile markers 14 and 33.
AZ Route 95 between mile markers 112 and 146, and between mile
markers 148 and 150, and near mile marker 156.
CA Route 95 between mile markers 4 and 36.
Locations impacted include...
Parker, Quartzsite, Bouse, Buckskin Mountain Park and Poston.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Blowing dust brings reduced visibility, leading to dangerous driving
conditions. If driving, avoid blowing dust if possible. If caught in
dense blowing dust, pull off the road, turn off your lights and keep
your foot off the brake.
Motorists should not drive into an area of blowing dust. PULL ASIDE
STAY ALIVE!
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Marlins cut ties with veteran power-hitting 1B Jesús Aguilar
MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Marlins designated power-hitting Jesús Aguilar for assignment on Friday, moving past the first baseman after falling out of contention for a spot in the playoffs.
The 32-year-old Aguilar led the Marlins with his 15 home runs and 49 RBIs but he was hitting only 236.
With Miami losing 15 of 22 games in August and falling out of NL wild-card contention, Aguilar lost significant playing time to rookie Lewin Díaz. Garrett Cooper, who split time with Aguilar at first base and designated hitter, was activated from the injured list Friday.
“It didn’t come as a surprise because Cooper and three guys can’t be here,” Aguilar said before the Marlins opened a four-game home series against the NL-West leading Los Angeles Dodgers. “I understand the move and I understand the business.”
Aguilar signed with the Marlins after the Tampa Bay Rays released him following the 2019 season. The native of Venezuela was one of only five Marlins players who avoided the injured list during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season and helped Miami to its first playoff appearance since winning the World Series in 2003.
Last season, Aguilar had an NL-leading 93 RBIs before a knee injury sidelined him the final four weeks.
Aguilar said he hopes to find an opportunity with a contending team.
“We had talked to Jesús a bit ago about this and give him a chance to be on a playoff team,” Marlins general manager Kim Ng said. “He’s done a lot for this organization. These types of situations are never easy.”
Aguilar began his career in Cleveland but flourished after he joined the Milwaukee Brewers in 2017. He set career highs with 35 homers and 108 RBIs in 2018, when he was an All-Star.
Midway through the 2019 season, the Rays acquired Aguilar in a trade.
“I just want to say thank you for the opportunity of being a Marlin for a couple of years,” Aguilar said. “Hopefully, I can now go to one of the teams competing for a playoff spot.”
Aguilar has hit .255 with 108 homers in his 11-year career.
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Improved Sigma Commerce features help ecommerce brands streamline backend operations.
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sigma Commerce, a developer of software specially designed for ecommerce, announced that they had upgraded their flagship product, Sigma Commerce 1.0, to Sigma Commerce 1.5.
"Having the ability to manage inventory across multiple warehouses accurately is a key feature for ecommerce retailers with locations across the country," said Cary Samourkachian, President and CEO of Sigma Commerce. "Ecommerce is all about data, and Sigma Commerce 1.5 is a major improvement in reporting analytics giving business owners deep insights into their operations."
Sigma Commerce 1.5 allows each client one Order Management System (OMS) to connect to multiple Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). As a result, client operations can expand geographically with one web-based system to be competitive in the modern-day fulfillment industry.
New features include:
- Seamless management of inventory across many warehouses,
- Modern web-based platform for improved usability and access,
- New scanning technology to improve efficiencies and accuracy,
- Advanced dynamic reporting capabilities,
- Out-of-the-box integrations with all major shopping carts such as Shopify and WooCommerce, and
- Easy and custom API connections to interface with many existing systems.
Beta testing has successfully concluded, and the software is rolling out to clients in the coming months.
"Our goal is to make the implementation process quick and easy for new clients," shared Chris Mangino, Head of Information Technology. "Backend ecommerce operations must yield accurate and reliable data at every step of the process, and that's our focus."
For more information, visit www.SigmaCommerce.com.
Since 1982, Sigma Commerce has been a world-class developer of ERP software for the direct-to-consumer industry. Retail and manufacturing businesses can manage every step by integrating commerce, customer service, and business processes into one powerful software package. This omnichannel order management solution addresses promotional strategies, the customer-facing web store, and the call center.
Sigma Commerce is headquartered in Las Vegas and has an office in Indianapolis. Learn more at www.SigmaCommerce.com.
Contact: Amy Bouchard, APR, Sigma Commerce
(702) 640-5109, GearUp@SigmaCommerce.com
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Dog attacks on postal workers are a common hazard. It happens thousands of times a year
Dog attacks like the one that took the life of a mail carrier in Florida are a common hazard of the job, with thousands of postal workers attacked every year, according to the United States Postal Service.
A 61-year-old postal carrier died after being attacked by five dogs in rural northern Florida over the weekend, sheriff's officials said. Last year the state ranked among the top 10 for such attacks, with more than 5,400 postal workers across the U.S. victimized in 2021 alone, according to data released by the USPS in June.
The postal worker who was killed, Pamela Jane Rock of Melrose, was in the Interlachen Lakes Estates area on Sunday after her vehicle broke down, according to the Putnam County Sheriff's Office.
The assault on Rock was especially gruesome, with authorities not ruling out criminal charges against the owner of the dogs.
There were 201 dog attacks reported last year in Florida, according to USPS. California led the state rankings in dog attacks on postal workers with 656 assaults in 2021, followed by Texas with 368 such incidents. Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan rounded out the top five states for canine attacks. The full rankings can be found here at the U.S. Postal Service's website.
Cleveland topped the list of cities with the most dog attacks on postal workers, with 58 assaults in 2021, USPS said. Other cities cited by the postal service include Houston, Louisville and Los Angeles.
Residents in the rural Florida area where the deadly assault happened say they heard a woman scream for help. When they went outside, they found Rock on the ground with five dogs attacking her, witnesses told the sheriff's office.
Neighbors and the owners had to physically remove the dogs from Rock, according to Putnam County Sheriff Chief Deputy Colonel Joseph Wells. By the time deputies arrived, the postal carrier was on the ground, bleeding severely, the sheriff's office said.
Rock was taken to a nearby hospital and then flown to a trauma center in Gainesville where she died on Monday evening, the sheriff's office said.
An initial investigation revealed the dogs escaped from a fenced yard after they were able to move rocks lining the fence, according to Wells.
"We are in frequent communications with the state attorney's office as we explore options as far as possible criminal cases as this case continues," he said.
After the attack, animal control workers took custody of the dogs that witnesses identified as being involved in the attack. The owner relinquished custody of the dogs, and they were to be euthanized humanely, according to the sheriff's office.
Postal workers are trained to anticipate interactions with dogs along their route, the USPS says. They are taught not to startle a dog and their training has them keeping their eyes on the canines while never feeding or petting them.
But there are steps dog owners can take to reduce the possibility their dogs will attack.
In a June news release touting the postal service's annual National Dog Bite Awareness Week public service campaign, USPS employee safety and health awareness manager Leeann Theriault said the responsibility ultimately lies with dog owners.
"Every year, thousands of postal employees are attacked by dogs as they deliver America's mail," Theriault said. "And while it's a dog's natural instinct to protect their family and home, we ask all customers to act responsibly by taking safety precautions with their dogs while the mail is being delivered."
The USPS recommends keeping dogs inside the house, behind a fence, away from the door or on a leash when postal workers drop off mail. The postal service also recommends that children do not take mail directly from the postal carrier as dogs could view the carrier as a threat.
In addition, the postal service says since many people know approximately when their mail is delivered, they can anticipate the arrival of a postal worker by securing dogs beforehand. | https://www.kcra.com/article/dog-attacks-postal-workers-common-hazard/41004067 | 2022-08-27T01:07:40Z | https://www.kcra.com/article/dog-attacks-postal-workers-common-hazard/41004067 | true |
Avoid the injured list.
All year long that stood as a goal for Byron Buxton. For the better part of the five months, the star outfielder was able to dodge it despite lingering knee tendinitis that caused him to miss games at a time. Yet it never pushed Buxton to take a trip to the IL.
“In past years, the IL is what prevents me from playing a lot of games. So instead of being healthy, just try to avoid the IL,” Buxton said of his goals, speaking for the first time since heading to the 10-day injured list on Tuesday.
But that changed earlier this week when a low grade strain of his right hip forced the Twins’ hand. Still, Buxton said he tried to talk Rocco Baldelli into avoiding the injured list, “but in retrospect, I understand it wasn’t going to be something that was a couple days.”
“Just a sucky feeling for me,” he continued. “That was the goal for me, to not be on the IL this year. Unfortunately it happened.”
The focus now turns to treatment both for the ongoing knee issue as well as the hip injury, which he believes stems from “compensation” with the knee. He left the team after the injury on Monday to get treatment in Minneapolis and says it’s too early to know when he’ll be back. The pain he feels in the hip is in the same spot as last year, he revealed, when he missed six weeks with a hip strain. But he doesn’t believe it’s the same injury this time around.
“It’s in the same spot, but nothing feels the same. So I don’t think it’s anything to that measure,” he said.
Buxton called it a “tough situation,” but hopes he can be a positive influence in the clubhouse during his absence on the field. Buxton said he watched the team’s struggles in Houston.
“It didn’t look like we were smiling, being positive, having fun like we normally would. So that’s something I feel like I can bring back, turn it around, even if I’m not playing,” he said.
GARLICK RETURNS
After missing the Twins’ last 21 games with a right rib cage contusion, outfielder Kyle Garlick was activated Friday and returned to the lineup for the series opener against the San Francisco Giants. Baldelli doesn’t expect any lingering effects of the injury and said right now Garlick is “pain free.”
That’s good news for the Twins, who have missed Garlick’s bat in recent weeks, especially against left-handed pitching, which the Twins faced on Friday against Giants starter Alex Wood. As of Thursday, Garlick is batting .279 against left-handers this season. In his absence, the Twins hit just .217 in those situations.
“A lot of the games against left-handed pitching especially, where we’ve really broken things open and done a good job, when you think about it and go back and look he’s been right in the middle of everything almost in every one of those games,” Baldelli said.
Baldelli specifically referenced an April 30 win against the Tampa Bay Rays in which Garlick hit two home runs off left-handed starter Shane McClanahan along with an April win over Boston in which Garlick hit a two-run home run in the first inning off another left-hander.
Could Garlick’s addition alone help lift the team’s struggling offense?
“Almost never will quality offensive individuals go into an extended offensive break,” Baldelli said. “So I would expect the guys to snap out of it quickly either way, but adding Kyle Garlick especially with a left-hander on the mound today is definitely a good thing.”
To make room for Garlick on the roster, the team designated infielder Tim Beckham for release or assignment. Beckham played in 12 games after being called up on July 30, going 2-for-25 with one RBI and one run scored.
BRIEFLY
Tyler Mahle (shoulder) threw a bullpen session on Friday as he continues to work his way back into the rotation. Baldelli expected him to throw anywhere between 15-20 pitches. Mahle left after 2 ⅓ innings during his last start against the Kansas City Royals on Aug. 17.
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MALVERN, Ark. — An inmate at the Ouachita River Correctional Unit was found dead in an apparent suicide on Wednesday, August 24, 2022.
Staff found 42-year-old Jason Bramlett hanging in a locked single-man cell that morning.
They transferred him to the infirmary, where he was pronounced dead shortly after.
The Arkansas State Police has been notified and is working to investigate the death further.
Additionally, the Department of Corrections will be conducting an internal investigation into the matter.
Bramlett was serving a 55-year sentence out of Van Buren County for first-degree murder.
This investigation is currently ongoing. We will continue to update this article with more information as it becomes available. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/crime/ouachita-river-correctional-unit-inmate-dead-apparent-suicide/91-f23db43f-e6d1-423e-9448-0f6af29035ef | 2022-08-27T01:13:24Z | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/crime/ouachita-river-correctional-unit-inmate-dead-apparent-suicide/91-f23db43f-e6d1-423e-9448-0f6af29035ef | false |
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(NEXSTAR) – The ever-growing list of states where people can legally buy recreational marijuana could get a little longer this fall.
Recreational marijuana is already legal in 19 states, and legalization proposals are on the ballot this fall in South Dakota, Missouri and Maryland.
Supporters are also trying to get measures on the ballot in Arkansas, North Dakota and Oklahoma.
Backers of the Missouri ballot proposal are highlighting a provision that would erase past marijuana-related convictions for nonviolent offenders and those whose conviction didn’t include selling to minors or driving while high.
Despite 60% of Americans supporting the legalization of recreational marijuana in a 2021 Pew Research poll – and over 90% saying either medical or recreational pot should be legal – it doesn’t appear that federal law will be changing any time soon.
In July, Senators Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and Ron Wyden released a bill to legalize marijuana, but the legislation appears unlikely to have the 60 votes it would need to pass.
Recreational marijuana is currently legal in the following states:
- Alaska
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Illinois
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Montana
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- Oregon
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
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Players will take boats up the Yarra River as part of the revamped AFL Grand Final parade
Melbourne's traditional AFL Grand Final parade will return after a two-year break, with a new route incorporating the Yarra River for the first time.
Key points:
- The AFL Grand Final parade will return after a two-year absence due to COVID-19
- The revamped parade route will see players travel up the Yarra River by boat
- Four AFLW matches will also be held during a four-day AFL festival at Yarra Park
The parade was not held in Melbourne in 2020–21 as the COVID-19 pandemic forced the AFL Grand Finals in those years to be moved to Brisbane and Perth.
The AFL and the Victorian government have announced the revamped event is returning on September 23 as part of a four-day AFL festival.
As part of the new event, AFL players will travel by boat up the Yarra River from Southbank to Birrarung Marr, followed by a motorcade across William Barak Bridge to Yarra Park.
The Yarra Park precinct will host markets, food trucks, Auskick clinics and four AFLW games during the festival, from September 21–24.
AFL executive manager Kylie Rogers said fans of the sport were "starving" after having the parade cancelled the last two years.
"Footy and Melbourne have really bounced back after what's been an incredibly challenging two years and I have no doubt that Grand Final week will bring back the best of the football and the city of Melbourne together," she said.
Ms Rogers said having fans line the river bank for the parade would provide a different experience to previous years.
"We're just mixing it up. There's been five different parade routes over the years and after two years of not being able to have it in Melbourne we wanted to do things differently and really focus on family-friendly activations," she said.
Victoria's Tourism, Sport and Major Events Minister, Steve Dimopoulos, said the government was expecting up to 300,000 people to attend the parade in the CBD.
"We know the value of it to fans, we appreciate the fans' commitment to the game over many years and particularly over the last couple of years and also it's a boost for business in the CBD and surrounds," he said.
The AFLW matches to be played during the four-day festival include the Western Bulldogs-Kangaroos, and Sydney Swans-Hawthorn clashes at Punt Road Oval on September 23, the Richmond-Brisbane Lions match at the same venue on September 24, and the match between Collingwood and Essendon at Olympic Park on September 23. | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-27/melbourne-afl-grand-final-parade-to-return/101379160 | 2022-08-27T01:42:46Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-27/melbourne-afl-grand-final-parade-to-return/101379160 | true |
Noida twin tower demolition: One nautical mile of air space briefly unavailable for flights
2 min read . 07:04 AM ISTA nautical mile is equal to approximately 1.8 kilometres.
A nautical mile is equal to approximately 1.8 kilometres.
The Noida Authority has said that one nautical mile of air space around the twin tower demolition site will remain briefly unavailable for flights on 28 August.
The Noida Authority has said that one nautical mile of air space around the twin tower demolition site will remain briefly unavailable for flights on 28 August.
A nautical mile is equal to approximately 1.8 kilometres.
A nautical mile is equal to approximately 1.8 kilometres.
The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation has given its consent for this, the Noida Authority said as it oversaw preparations for demolition of the nearly 100-metre-tall twin towers on Sunday.
The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation has given its consent for this, the Noida Authority said as it oversaw preparations for demolition of the nearly 100-metre-tall twin towers on Sunday.
"In view of the dust generated after the demolition, on the recommendation of the Noida Authority, the Ministry of Aviation has given its consent for the non-availability of one nautical mile of air space for aircraft to fly at the time of demolition," it said in a statement.
"In view of the dust generated after the demolition, on the recommendation of the Noida Authority, the Ministry of Aviation has given its consent for the non-availability of one nautical mile of air space for aircraft to fly at the time of demolition," it said in a statement.
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Earlier, the Noida police on Thursday banned the use of drones in city skies from August 26 till August 31 citing security reasons in view of the demolition of Supertech's illegal towers.
Earlier, the Noida police on Thursday banned the use of drones in city skies from August 26 till August 31 citing security reasons in view of the demolition of Supertech's illegal towers.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Headquarters) Ram Badan Singh invoked the powers under CrPC Section 144 as he passed the ban order.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Headquarters) Ram Badan Singh invoked the powers under CrPC Section 144 as he passed the ban order.
Police had also declared that drones will be allowed but only beyond the "exclusion zone" of about 500 metres and that too with their permission.
Police had also declared that drones will be allowed but only beyond the "exclusion zone" of about 500 metres and that too with their permission.
No human, animal or vehicles would be allowed in the exclusion zone on August 28.
No human, animal or vehicles would be allowed in the exclusion zone on August 28.
The nearly 100-metre-tall Apex and Ceyane towers -taller than Delhi's iconic Qutub Minar--are scheduled to be demolished at 2.30 pm on August 28 in pursuance of a Supreme Court order that found their construction within Emerald Court premises in violation of norms.
The nearly 100-metre-tall Apex and Ceyane towers -taller than Delhi's iconic Qutub Minar--are scheduled to be demolished at 2.30 pm on August 28 in pursuance of a Supreme Court order that found their construction within Emerald Court premises in violation of norms.
Over 5,000 residents living in Emerald Court and adjoining ATS Village society will be evacuated on August 28. They will vacate premises by 7 am and allowed only after safety clearance post demolition by agencies concerned around 4 pm. As per the evacuation plan, the residents of Emerald Court and ATS Village will have to vacate the premises by 7.30 am on August 28 and can return after 4 pm only with safety clearance from Edifice.
Over 5,000 residents living in Emerald Court and adjoining ATS Village society will be evacuated on August 28. They will vacate premises by 7 am and allowed only after safety clearance post demolition by agencies concerned around 4 pm. As per the evacuation plan, the residents of Emerald Court and ATS Village will have to vacate the premises by 7.30 am on August 28 and can return after 4 pm only with safety clearance from Edifice.
According to officials of the demolition firm Edifice Engineering, more than 3,500 kg of explosives will be used to raze the twin towers.
According to officials of the demolition firm Edifice Engineering, more than 3,500 kg of explosives will be used to raze the twin towers.
(With inputs from PTI)
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BOSTON — In the nick of time, the Boston Police Department’s harbor patrol unit rescued a father and son who were desperately clinging to a drinks cooler at the outermost edge of Boston Harbor after their lobster boat sank.
Officers Stephen Merrick and Garrett Boyle responded to a call of a boat taking on water at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday near Graves Light Station, police said in a statement. The privately owned lighthouse is on a rocky islet about 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) from the coast.
On approach, the officers only saw a small portion of the vessel Glory Days' bow above water, but as they got closer they saw the two men holding on to the bobbing blue cooler.
“You could see the fear in their face," Merrick said. "They were cold. They looked very tired and weak."
The dramatic rescue was caught on police body camera video.
“We're so weak," the younger man is heard saying.
He then asked the officers to rescue his 76-year-old father, who was wearing a life vest.
“Help him up please," he said. “Help him up first."
The younger man, who was holding onto a life ring, was then pulled onto the police boat by the officers.
The men said their boat’s 28-foot (8.5-meter) engine got tangled in lobster lines and failed. The current pushed the boat onto the rocks and punctured the hull, police said.
The men were taken to shore where emergency medical technicians treated them for minor injuries. Their boat was towed from the scene. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/boston-harbor-cooler-rescue/507-c29bea65-5da1-41d9-9fa7-39ad8cf203dc | 2022-08-27T01:53:43Z | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/boston-harbor-cooler-rescue/507-c29bea65-5da1-41d9-9fa7-39ad8cf203dc | true |
More than three months into the U.S. monkeypox outbreak, there's a new – and welcome – phrase coming from the lips of health officials who are steering the country's response: cautious optimism.
The change in tone reflects early signs that rates of new infections are slowing in some of the major cities where the virus arrived early and spread quickly, in particular New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco.
Federal officials warn it's still too soon to make pronouncements about the country turning a corner. Still the slowdown in some parts of the U.S. – coupled with data about how those at highest risk are protecting themselves and getting vaccinated – are promising signs.
"Our numbers are still increasing, [but] the rate of rise is lower," Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters on Friday. "We're really hopeful that many of our harm reduction messages and our vaccines are getting out there and working."
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Reported case numbers have been trending down since mid August, based on an NPR analysis of data the CDC released Wednesday. Overall, there's been around a 25% drop in the 7-day average of new cases over the past two weeks.
However, health officials caution that lags in data reporting can offer an incomplete picture of the outbreak in recent weeks, making it hard to know if cases have truly peaked.
The decline in parts of the U.S. mirrors what's already being seen in some European countries, where the virus was detected a few weeks earlier. In both the U.K. and Germany, daily case counts have steadily dropped since late July. In several other countries, including the Netherlands and Italy, the number of new cases have plateaued.
Cases slow down in big cities
In New York City – one of the epicenters of the outbreak – the number of new people being infected has dropped 40% over the past month. San Francisco health officials are also seeing a decline in the rate of new cases.
"I'm cautiously optimistic," says Dr. Susan Philip, health officer for the city and county of San Francisco. "We know, though, it's going to take a lot of work and effort to sustain that downward curve and to make sure that cases continue to go down."
The picture is also improving in other cities like Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago where local health leaders say there are indications that infections are leveling off.
Key metrics – such as the average number of cases and the time it takes for cases to double – have decreased over the past couple of weeks, says Janna Kerins, medical director at the Chicago Department of Public Health. "I'm not sure we're ready to say this outbreak is truly ending," Kerins says, "But all of those things are encouraging."
The changes also track with modeling released this week that suggests the national outbreak is on the decline.
"We are seeing signs of a substantial slowdown and the forecasts suggest that this is going to go in the right direction," at least over the next four weeks, says Gerardo Chowell-Puente, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the Georgia State University, who's modeling the monkeypox outbreak
Changes in behavior drive the decline
Given the size and diversity of the U.S., there's still considerable uncertainty on how the outbreak will play out in different parts of the country, but infectious disease experts largely attribute the slowdown to efforts to change behavior among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men – a group that accounts for the vast majority of cases.
"Most of us in public health who work on this disease are quite confident that the majority of the reduction is due to change in behavior," says Dr. Jay Varma, director of the Cornell Center for Pandemic Prevention and Response at Weill Cornell Medicine.
More than 94% of monkeypox cases in the U.S. are associated with sexual activity. And on Friday, CDC officials highlighted new data showing that gay and queer communities are modifying their sexual behaviors in response to messaging around monkeypox.
In one online survey, about 50% of respondents said they had reduced "their number of sexual partners, one-time sexual encounters [or] use of dating apps because of the monkeypox outbreak." An accompanying modeling study released by the CDC showed that a "40% reduction in one-time sexual partnership might delay the spread of monkeypox and reduce the percentage of people infected" by up to about 30%.
"What this means is that the LGBTQIA+ people are doing things that are actually reducing their risk, and it's working," said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, White House monkeypox response deputy coordinator, at a press briefing Friday.
It's not entirely surprising that the virus appears to be slowing down in the U.S. as it has in Europe, says Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, a professor of medicine and infectious diseases, population and public health sciences at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.
"Most of the cities will see a decline in cases – that decline may not be as fast or as steep as the ascent," says Klausner.
Klausner notes that monkeypox has stayed mostly within certain relatively small sexual networks – that makes it harder for the virus to maintain momentum as vaccination increases, people build up immunity from infection and those at highest risk change their behavior.
"People who raised concerns about the spread of infection on college campuses and daycares and other kinds of settings where there's close personal contact, at this point, that hasn't occurred," he says.
Uncertainty remains
But other experts are not as sanguine about the trajectory of the outbreak – at least not yet.
"It's great to see some declines," says Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at UCLA who has studied monkeypox for years. "But if the downward trend is due to changes in behavior and vaccinations, it's not clear how long behavioral changes can be sustained, and how well the vaccinations actually work to prevent infections."
Health officials are urging members of affected communities to keep taking precautions to slow the spread of monkeypox.
"Let me be clear," Daskalakis said Friday. "The advice about how to reduce risk for monkeypox exposure is for now, not forever, and is an important part of our public health and community response as we urgently surge vaccinations to control this outbreak."
Still, there isn't robust real world data on how well the monkeypox vaccine – approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2019 – protects against infection and transmission. Further complicating the picture is that a shortage of vaccine has led the Biden administration to pursue a new strategy of offering the shots intradermally in order to stretch the supply.
"The laboratory data that we have on the vaccine suggests that it's going to be very effective in humans," says Varma. "But what we know in medicine is that until we see what happens in the real world, we never know for sure."
NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff contributed to this report.
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Boy meets the news of a crush—many, many years later.
Danielle Fishel shared a secret she had been holding onto since her days playing Topanga Lawrence on Boy Meets World. The 41-year-old revealed during the Aug. 24 episode of the Pod Meets World podcast, "I had a crush on Rider [Strong]."
Now, this crush may be news to fans, but it was also a major revelation to Rider himself. "That's not true," he replied. "You've never told me that."
Well, Danielle confirmed it. "It is too true," she assured him. "I had a crush on you."
As for when she took a special liking to her co-star? She recalled, "I think it started maybe later in season one and definitely through season two."
Looking back on her childhood love interest, Danielle—who is now married to Jensen Karp—shared what about Rider peaked her interest.
"You know one of my favorite things about Rider, and it still stands to this day: Rider is very effusive," she said. "He will tell you how he feels and he's very free with his compliments, but he doesn't throw them out willy-nilly."
She added, "When Rider compliments you, it is thoughtful, it has meaning. You can tell it's coming from a very real place."
But just because Danielle had a crush on Rider, it doesn't mean they always clicked while on set, according to the actress.
"I think when I first started Boy Meets World, Rider was probably annoyed by me," Danielle said. "I think I was like a stereotypical L.A. girl to him."
While Danielle said that she thinks Rider was a little bit "eye-rolly" about her, they eventually formed a deep bond. She added, "We had very meaningful conversation about whatever was going on in our lives."
We guess Danielle's crush never made it into those deep convos but hey, better late than never! | https://www.eonline.com/news/1343789/danielle-fishel-confesses-to-having-a-crush-on-rider-strong-while-filming-boy-meets-world?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-08-27T01:54:18Z | https://www.eonline.com/news/1343789/danielle-fishel-confesses-to-having-a-crush-on-rider-strong-while-filming-boy-meets-world?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | false |
It’s time to get your church ready for Serve Day 2022! Saved people serve people, and the Serve Day Committee is excited to announce that Serve Day 2022 will be held on Saturday, September 17, 2022. Serve Day is a day when Christians make it a point to get outside their church buildings and adopt projects to serve their communities..This is a national event that our community has participated in for more than six years. Normally Serve Day is held in July, but the committee voted to change to the fall this year to avoid the blistering heat of the summer months.
Serve day projects range from helping with local civic improvements like painting playgrounds, to hosting fun events for children and seniors, to holding rummage sales to benefit local charitable organizations. You can serve in your community and help show the love of Christ through cheerful service!
Get your church involved today by going to servedayportsmouth.com and signing up! | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/news/79164/serve-day-2022-will-be-held-on-saturday-september-17 | 2022-08-27T01:57:48Z | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/news/79164/serve-day-2022-will-be-held-on-saturday-september-17 | false |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – As states across the country move to restrict abortion access, the White House is working to protect it.
President Joe Biden held a roundtable discussion on Friday with local leaders to talk about what comes next. During the discussion, leaders from across the country got to share their thoughts on reproductive rights with the president and his team.
White House Gender Policy Council official Jen Klein says getting to hear from them is an important part of the administration’s work.
“We’re hearing from state and local officials about what they’re seeing and the challenges that they’re facing and how the administration can help them,” Klein said.
Local leaders also say the conversations are critical as they partner with the Biden administration and each other to try to find creative ways to protect access to abortion in their states.
President Biden has already issued executive orders meant to ensure women can travel to receive and have privacy around reproductive health care.
Judge Lina Hidalgo from Harris County, Texas wants to see more federal action.
“My message to the president is we need help. We’re the last line of defense and right now we need support,” Hidalgo said. “In terms of funding for contraceptive care, in terms of support transporting women who need abortion out of state, fighting these laws in court.”
Durham, North Carolina Mayor Elaine O’Neal says cooperation with the federal government is crucial.
“It really has to be a coordinated effort,” O’Neal said.
Mount Vernon, New York Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard says states with abortion access have an important role in helping women in other states.
“We must provide a safe haven for them. We have to increase the access that’s available for those who have to cross state lines,” Patterson-Howard said.
Kansas State Sen. Dinah Sykes hopes her state’s recent vote to keep abortion rights in the Kansas Constitution serves as a powerful example.
“It’s going to take everyday citizens engaging so that we can right this ship,” Sykes said.
Ultimately, the president says the real solution is for voters to elect representatives that will pass federal abortion protections. | https://www.cenlanow.com/washington-dc/white-house-leans-on-local-leaders-in-fight-for-abortion-access/ | 2022-08-27T02:00:20Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/washington-dc/white-house-leans-on-local-leaders-in-fight-for-abortion-access/ | false |
US suspends Chinese airline flights in COVID-19 dispute
The U.S. government is suspending 26 flights by Chinese airlines from the United States to China in a dispute over anti-virus controls after Beijing suspended flights by American carriers.
The Department of Transportation on Thursday complained Beijing violated an air travel agreement and treated airlines unfairly under a system that requires them to suspend flights if passengers test positive for COVID-19.
U.S. regulators suspended seven flights by Air China Ltd. from New York City and a total of 19 flights from Los Angeles by Air China, China Eastern Airlines Ltd., China Southern Airlines Ltd. and Xiamen Airlines Ltd., according to the Department of Transportation.
It said that was equal to the number of flights United Airlines, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines were required to cancel under Beijing's “circuit-breaker” system.
The ruling Communist Party's “zero COVID” strategy aims to keep the virus out of China while other governments are shifting to living with the disease. That has kept case numbers low but disrupted travel, manufacturing and trade. Beijing is easing travel curbs, but most foreign visitors still are barred from China.
Until Aug. 7, if up to nine passengers on a flight tested positive, a carrier could suspend a flight for two weeks or reduce the passengers it carried to 40% of the possible total, according to DoT. It said that since Aug. 7 airlines have been required to suspend a flight if the number of positive tests reaches 4% of passengers on one flight.
The agency complained that airlines face “undue culpability” for passengers who present negative test results before boarding but test positive after arriving in China.
China’s actions are “premised on circumstances wholly outside of the carriers’ control,” the U.S. statement said.
“We reserve the right to take additional action” if Beijing imposes “further circuit-breaker measures,” the statement said. | https://www.koat.com/article/us-suspends-chinese-airline-flights-covid-dispute/41004860 | 2022-08-27T02:06:51Z | https://www.koat.com/article/us-suspends-chinese-airline-flights-covid-dispute/41004860 | false |
MIDLAND COUNTY, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – Now in its 13th year, the Midland County Fair has it all!
Roughly 25,000 West Texans are expected to visit the fair this weekend, and they’ll get to experience 50 different vendors, 25 different food options, live music and other entertainers, and a whole lot more.
“If you can’t find something that you like to do out here then something’s wrong because there’s so much to do,” said the fair’s executive director, Kasey Kelly.
There’s a wide variety of local vendors and visiting vendors from other corners of the Lone Star State and beyond. The folks at Skip’s Salsa out of Amarillo have sold their products in Midland before but this is their first time at the fair.
“We are so excited just to see everybody, and sell some salsa and jelly, and just have fun,” said Tami Potts with Skip’s Salsa.
The Midland County Fair kicks off on Friday, August 26th and runs through Sunday. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/fun-times-at-the-midland-county-fair/ | 2022-08-27T02:07:39Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/fun-times-at-the-midland-county-fair/ | false |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — News Channel 8 is teaming up to give back to the community and collect baby supplies for families in Tampa Bay.
WFLA is hosting an 8 On Your Side Community Baby Shower, brought to you by Tampa General Hospital, from Sept. 6 through Sept. 9 to support the Healthy Start Coalitions of Pinellas and Hillsborough counties. The items collected will go to new moms in need to help offset the expenses of starting a family.
“Having a new baby is such a blessing, and one of the most challenging times in a mother’s life,” News Channel 8 morning anchor Avery Cotton said. “I hope that with the 8 On Your Side Community Baby Shower, we can help take some of the stress away for families by providing things they need to enjoy their precious time with their new bundle of joy!”
The following items will go a long way to help new moms in need of help:
- Diapers
- Diaper wipes
- Infant formula (Enfamil)
- Baby wash, shampoo & lotions
- Onesies
- Bibs
- Pacifiers
- Small noisy toys
“These gifts will truly make a difference in the lives of the pregnant women, infants, and families we serve by helping them achieve the joy of their healthy baby’s 1st birthday!” said Mary Jo Plews, LCSW, the executive director for the Healthy Start Coalition of Pinellas.
“We are excited to partner with WFLA as one of the Coalitions benefitting from the Community Baby Shower. Having these items on hand enables us to provide immediate help for families in our programs in need of some of the hard-to-get items, like specialized formula,” said Marisa Mowat, executive director of the Healthy Start of Hillsborough County. “The cost for essential items, like diapers and wipes, have gone up in price tremendously. Providing diapers will help ease a bit of the financial burden.”
The collection process runs from Sept. 6 through Sept. 9 and is an easy drop-off to the lobbies of Tampa General Hospital, News Channel 8 and a few other places listed below. If you can’t make the drop-off but would still like to help, see the links below to donate online.
DROP OFF LOCATIONS:
- News Channel 8: 200 S. Parker St., Tampa, FL 33603
- TGH Brandon Healthplex: 10740 Palm River Rd., Tampa, FL 33619
- Healthy Families Office: 1109 Marbella Plaza Dr, Tampa, Florida, 33619
- Healthy Start Coalition of Pinellas: 4000 Gateway Centre Boulevard, Suite 200, Pinellas Park, FL 33782
- The following Grow Financial Credit Union locations:
- Tampa – Gandy 4502 West Gandy Blvd, Tampa FL 33611
- St. Pete – 7301 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. N, St. Petersburg FL 33702
- Pinellas Park – 6900 Park Blvd, Pinellas Park FL 33781
- Largo – 10801 Starkey Rd Suite 103, Largo FL 33777
- Clearwater – 2474 State Rd 580 West, Clearwater, FL 33761
- Gulf to Bay – 2768 Gulf to Bay Blvd, Clearwater FL 33579
- Patrona Coffee: 13090 Gandy Blvd. N, St. Petersburg, FL 33702 (Tuesday – Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.)
TO MAKE A DONATION ONLINE:
Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County
- 2806 N. Armenia Ave., Suite 100 Tampa, FL 33607
- Website: https://www.healthystartcoalition.org/#donate
Healthy Start Coalition of Pinellas County
- Drop off Monday through Friday between 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- 4000 Gateway Centre Blvd. #200 Pinellas Park, FL 33782
- Website: https://healthystartpinellas.org/donate/ | https://www.wfla.com/news/local-news/8-on-your-side-community-baby-shower-to-benefit-tampa-bay-families/ | 2022-08-27T02:14:36Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/local-news/8-on-your-side-community-baby-shower-to-benefit-tampa-bay-families/ | false |
(The Hill) – A heavily redacted version of the affidavit that convinced a federal judge to approve a warrant to search former President Trump’s Florida home was released on Friday.
Despite numerous redactions necessary to protect “a broad range of civilian witnesses,” according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the document does shed some light on the search.
In particular, it indicates Trump had a much larger collection of classified documents than previously known, including some of the most sensitive secrets careful storage of records is designed to protect.
Here is what we’ve learned – and still don’t know – from the affidavit.
Agents believed Mar-a-Lago housed more classified documents, evidence of ‘obstruction’
The search of Mar-a-Lago earlier this month — and the affidavit justifying it — shows that investigators believed more classified documents were being housed at Trump’s residence even after the government previously retrieved more than 180 classified documents.
The unredacted portions of the affidavit make this conclusion plain: “There is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified (National Defense Information) or that are Presidential records subject to record retention requirements currently remain at the PREMISES,” the agent states in the affidavit.
The most eye-popping statute cited in the warrant, the Espionage Act, deals with mishandling of national defense information.
The agent goes on to say that there was probable cause to believe that “evidence of obstruction” would be found at Mar-a-Lago.
The newly unsealed court record shows the DOJ repeatedly informed Trump’s lawyers that Mar-a-Lago was “not authorized to store classified information.” According to the affidavit, DOJ lawyers, as recently as June, reiterated that point to Trump’s counsel, as well as a request to secure any remaining records on the premises.
“[W]e ask that the room at Mar-a-Lago where the documents had been stored be secured and that all of the boxes that were moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago (along with any other items in that room) be preserved in that room in their current condition until further notice,” reads the June 8 letter from DOJ to Trump’s attorneys.
Extensive redactions leave DOJ’s ‘probable cause’ basis largely unknown
One of the most heavily redacted sections of the affidavit pertains to evidence that led investigators to believe additional classified material was at Mar-a-Lago.
Toward the end of the document, a subheading reads: “There is Probable Cause to Believe That Documents Containing Classified NDI and Presidential Records Remain at the Premises.”
What follows are seven fully redacted paragraphs, totaling roughly three pages, followed by the agent’s stated belief that at least four rooms in Mar-a-Lago were not authorized to store classified information, or materials that fall under “national defense information.”
In an apparent reference to the redacted material, the agent then states: “As described above, evidence of the SUBJECT OFFENSES has been stored in multiple locations at the PREMISES.”
In keeping with department policy, officials said the redactions helped to shield key investigatory details and grand jury information.
Although the unsealed portions of the affidavit shed some new light on aspects of the probe, the extensive redactions that were applied to this section of the document means that much of the underlying facts supporting DOJ’s basis for carrying out the search of Trump’s residence remain largely unknown to the public.
Trump mischaracterized level of cooperation with federal officials
Trump has sought to characterize the search of his home as an unnecessary “break in” after his team was in lengthy negotiations with both the National Archives and DOJ.
In prior statements, Trump noted that he put a larger lock on his storage room at Mar-a-Lago at the request of the government – “We agreed. They were shown the secured area, and the boxes themselves.”
But the interaction does not appear to be as friendly as Trump suggested.
“They have not been handled in an appropriate manner or stored in an appropriate location,” DOJ wrote in the letter asking for the lock and the preservation of those records.
The affidavit indicates the National Archives first reached out about retrieving records as early as May 6, 2021 – just a few months after Trump left office. But it wasn’t until December that Trump’s team indicated it had boxes of documents ready for pick up.
And while Trump has relayed surprise by the execution of a search warrant, his legal team seemed to understand there could be pending charges in a May letter that followed receipt of a subpoena earlier that month.
His lawyer sought to push back on the idea that Trump could even face charges as a former president.
“Any attempt to impose criminal liability on a President or former President that involves his actions with respect to documents marked classified would implicate grave constitutional separation-of-powers issues,” Evan Corcoran wrote.
But he cites only one law to back his claim that “unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material does not apply to the President.”
That particular statute wasn’t cited in the warrant, however, as the government is relying on other statutes, including the Espionage Act, which only require mishandling national defense information that could be used to injure the United States.
The affidavit offers new details on classified records previously recovered from Trump
The affidavit points to a review of documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago in January as a basis for the search earlier this month.
It reveals Trump had far more classified documents than was previously known.
The affidavit indicates that among 15 boxes handed over to the National Archives, there were 184 classified documents, including 25 deemed to be particularly sensitive. These contained top secret information such as those gained from “clandestine human sources,” information prohibited from being shared with foreign governments, and information obtained by monitoring “foreign communications signals.”
When the January recovery became public in February, Trump released a statement saying the National Archives did not “find” anything.
However, Archives actually referred the matter to the Justice Department given the wide array of classified materials found in those initial boxes.
“It appears, based on the affidavit unsealed this morning, that among the improperly handled documents at Mar-a-Lago were some of our most sensitive intelligence,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner (R-Va.) said in a statement.
Why Trump held on to classified materials a mystery
Trump’s reasons for holding on to dozens of classified and top-secret documents more than a year after leaving office is still unclear, but the affidavit underscored the messy nature of the former president’s record keeping.
The affidavit indicated that the documents recovered during an initial search in January found classified and top-secret documents were intermixed with other materials in boxes.
Former administration officials have spoken publicly about the haphazard nature of document organization in the final days of the Trump White House, and he was known to discard or rip up documents throughout his time in the White House despite strict rules about preservation.
Multiple former Trump administration officials, including former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have said they did not take any classified materials with them when they left office even as they criticized the FBI for searching Mar-a-Lago.
Trump has maintained he could declassify documents unilaterally upon leaving office, allowing him to take them with him to Florida. But former administration officials and President Biden have rejected that theory as nonsense.
“Come on,” Biden said dismissively Friday when asked about Trump’s claim. | https://www.ksn.com/hill-politics/five-takeaways-from-the-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit/ | 2022-08-27T02:22:19Z | https://www.ksn.com/hill-politics/five-takeaways-from-the-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit/ | true |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities began distributing iodine tablets to residents near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant Friday in case of a radiation leak, amid mounting fears that the fighting around the complex could trigger a catastrophe.
The move came a day after the plant was temporarily knocked offline because of what officials said was fire damage to a transmission line. The incident heightened dread of a nuclear disaster in a country still haunted by the 1986 explosion at Chernobyl.
Continued shelling was reported in the area overnight, and satellite images from Planet Labs showed fires burning around the complex — Europe’s biggest nuclear plant — over the last several days.
Iodine tablets, which help block the absorption of radioactive iodine by the thyroid gland in a nuclear accident, were issued in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia, about 45 kilometers (27 miles) from the plant. A woman and her small daughter were among those receiving the pills.
The U.N.’s atomic energy agency has been trying to send a team in to inspect and help secure the plant. Officials said preparations for the trip were underway, but it remained unclear when it might take place.
The Zaporizhzhia plant has been occupied by Russian forces and run by Ukrainian workers since the early days of the 6-month-old war. The two sides have repeatedly accused each other of shelling the site.
In Thursday’s incident, Ukraine and Russia blamed one another for the transmission-line damage that knocked the plant off the power grid.
Exactly what went wrong was not clear, but Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy said the plant’s emergency backup diesel generators had to be activated to supply electricity to operate the complex.
The plant requires power to run the reactors’ vital cooling systems. A loss of cooling could lead to a nuclear meltdown.
Ukrenergo, Ukraine’s transmission system operator, reported Friday that two damaged main lines supplying the plant with electricity had resumed operation, ensuring a stable power supply.
The country’s nuclear power agency, Energoatom, said the plant had been reconnected to the grid and was producing electricity “for Ukraine’s needs.”
“The nuclear workers of Zaporizhzhia power plant are real heroes! They tirelessly and firmly uphold the nuclear and radiation safety of Ukraine and the whole of Europe on their shoulders,” the agency said in a statement.
Russia-installed officials in the Zaporizhzhia region, however, said that the plant was supplying electricity only to Russia-controlled areas of the country and not the rest of Ukraine.
Concerns about the site have reverberated across Europe.
French President Emmanuel Macron said a visit by the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency should be allowed to take place “very quickly,” warning: “Civilian nuclear power must not be an instrument of war.”
Lana Zerkal, an adviser to Ukraine’s energy minister, told Ukrainian media that the logistics for an IAEA visit were still being worked out. Zerkal accused Russia of trying to sabotage the visit.
Ukraine has claimed Russia is using the plant as a shield by storing weapons there and launching attacks from around it. Moscow, for its part, accuses Ukraine of recklessly firing on the place.
Zaporizhzhia’s reactors are protected by thick, reinforced concrete containment domes that experts say can withstand an errant artillery shell. Many of the fears center instead on a possible loss of the cooling system, and also the risk that an attack on the cooling ponds where spent fuel rods are kept could scatter radioactive material.
Continued Russian shelling of Nikopol, a city across the Dnieper River from the Zaporizhzhia plant, damaged 10 houses, a school and a health care facility but caused no injuries, Dnipropetrovsk Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko said.
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Follow AP coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-iaea-mission-seeks-to-visit-zaporizhzhia-plant-amid-concerns/ | 2022-08-27T02:42:06Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-iaea-mission-seeks-to-visit-zaporizhzhia-plant-amid-concerns/ | false |
MOSCOW (AP) — The 44th Moscow International Film Festival opened Friday with reduced foreign representation amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Festival head Nikita Mikhalkov, the Academy Award-winning director of “Burnt By The Sun,” brushed that off, saying “It makes no difference how big are the stars that come. I’m interested in people who come, because they are interested in meeting us.”
Mikhalkov also praised Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
“These days, the heroes are in Donbas,” he said, referring to eastern Ukraine’s industrial heartland, two regions that Russia recognized as sovereign this year after Russia-backed separatists began fighting the Ukrainian government there in 2014.
“That is where the new elite and the new heroes are being born. Actually, a new world and a new society are being born there. The problem is that unfortunately not everybody understands that this is serious and it’s here to stay,” he said.
The festival opened with the premiere of a widely anticipated Russian historical epic: “Land of Legends,” directed by Anton Megerdichev. | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-moscow-film-festival-opens-with-praise-of-soldiers-in-donbas/ | 2022-08-27T02:42:31Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-moscow-film-festival-opens-with-praise-of-soldiers-in-donbas/ | false |
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So how's that 'revolution of our time' going? - people chuckling at the thought of it for years now 🤡
Don't hype over fantasy, China's been waiting almost 10 years for US to follow through on rhetoric over SCS construction. US lost in Taiwan conflict war games. China hit moving ship in SCS with ballistic missiles in 2020 from Qinghai and Zhejiang.
World is ignoring the western boy who cried wolf for 5 years and counting. Nobody who matters believes any of this. Last time a fake push unfortunately coincided with discovering mass graves at "schools" for Native Americans. Latest push has the sad timing with a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school. Ironic how the West's own atrocious human rights record, especially with children, keeps stealing the spotlight from their own disinformation.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish pop star Gulsen has been arrested on charges of “inciting hatred and enmity” with a joke she made about Turkey’s religious schools, the country’s state-run news agency reported.
The 46-year-old singer and songwriter, whose full name is Gulsen Colakoglu, was taken away from her home in Istanbul for questioning and formally arrested late Thursday. She was then taken to a prison pending trial.
The arrest sparked outrage on social media. Government critics said the move was an effort by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to consolidate support from his religious and conservative ahead of elections in 10 months.
The charges were based on a joke Gulsen made during an April concert in Istanbul, where she quipped that one of her musicians’ “perversion” stemmed from attending a religious school. A video of the singer’s comment began circulating on social media recently, with a hashtag calling for her arrest.
Gulsen — who previously became a target in Islamic circles due to her revealing stage outfits and for unfurling an LGBTQ flag at a concert — apologized for the offense the joke caused but said her comments were seized on by those wanting to deepen polarization in the country.
During her questioning by court authorities, Gulsen rejected accusations that she incited hatred and enmity, and said she had “endless respect for the values and sensitivities of my country,” the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Her request to be released from custody pending the outcome of a trial was rejected.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of Turkey’s main opposition party, called on Turkey’s judges and prosecutors to release Gulsen.
“Don’t betray the law and justice; release the artist now!” he wrote on Twitter.
The spokesman for Erdogan’s Justice and Development party, known by its Turkish acronym AKP, appeared however, to defend the decision to arrest the singer, saying “inciting hatred is not an art form.”
“Targeting a segment of society with the allegation of “perversion” and trying to polarize Turkey is a hate crime and a disgrace to humanity,” AKP spokesman Omer Celik tweeted.
Erdogan and many members of his Islam-based ruling party are graduates of religious schools, which were originally established to train imams. The number of religious schools in Turkey has increased under Erdogan, who has promised to raise a “pious generation.”
Among those calling for Gulsen’s release was Turkish pop star, Tarkan, best known internationally for song “Kiss Kiss.”
“Our legal system, which turns a blind eye to corruption, thieves, those who break the law and massacre nature, those who kill animals and those who use religion to polarize society through their bigoted ideas – has arrested Gulsen in one whack,” Tarkan said in a statement posted on Twitter. | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-turkish-pop-star-jailed-over-joke-about-religious-schools/ | 2022-08-27T02:44:09Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-turkish-pop-star-jailed-over-joke-about-religious-schools/ | false |
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The publisher of a weekly newspaper in New Hampshire is accusing the state attorney general’s office of government overreach after she was arrested on charges that she published advertisements for local races without properly marking them as political advertising.
The six misdemeanor charges allege that Debra Paul, publisher of The Londonderry Times, failed to identify the ads with “appropriate language” indicating that they were ads and saying who paid for them as required by state law, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said in a news release, after reviewing cases that go back to 2019.
“This is clearly a case of a small business needing to defend itself against overreaching government,” Paul, 62, who’s also a member of the town council in Londonderry, responded in a statement.
“I would like to think the attorney generals office has more important matters to deal with than to send press releases out on misdemeanors such as this,” the statement said. “With multiple unsolved homicides over the past year, this seems a bit absurd.”
The attorney general’s office first issued Paul a letter pointing out the language omission in a political ad that ran in the weeks leading up to an election in March 2019, according to a police affidavit. The letter asked her to include the language going forward.
It issued a second letter in March 2021 after receiving a complaint about another political ad that didn’t receive the required “paid for” language, and that an investigator from the office followed up with with a phone call to her, the affidavit said.
The office sent another letter to her in September saying another ad “failed to contain” name and address information, and did not mark it as “political advertising.” She was notified that this was her “second and final warning” and if the law was violated again, the attorney general’s office “may pursue appropriate enforcement action.”
After the attorney general’s office received more complaints this year, the February and March issues of the paper were reviewed, the affidavit said. Two political ads leading up to a local election in March did not contain the “paid for” language and a third had no “political advertisement” designation, it said.
Two candidates who had placed ads during that time told the investigator that they had worked with Paul on them. They said they were not aware of language requirements and that any omissions were unintentional.
Paul, who along with her husband are the only two employees at the paper, was contacted by the investigator in May and said she originally believed the state’s complaint involved advertising rates, the affidavit said. She said she was trying to review the ads and believed that the “paid for by” address information was only required on political signage, not ads, the affidavit said.
The affidavit said altogether, nearly 60 violations in the Times and a related publication were counted between 2020 and this year.
“My understanding is that I’m accused by someone of neglecting to use the phrase, “Political Advertisements,” when it was an obvious political ad,” Paul said in her statement.
The charges carry a maximum penalty of up to a year in jail. Paul, who is not in custody, is scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 19.
“The Londonderry Times is among the dwindling numbers of small newspapers in New Hampshire, as well as around the country,” her lawyer, Tony Naro, said in a statement Friday. “The Londonderry Times does their absolute best to put out a quality publication with limited staff and a limited budget. Ms. Paul acted with no criminal intent, denies the allegations, and is presumed innocent.”
A spokesperson for the attorney general’s office said the office could not comment on the case further but said its election law unit receives hundreds of calls or complaints about political advertising each election cycle, and that the overwhelming majority of them are resolved without opening a matter for formal investigation.
As an example of another matter the office investigated, the spokesperson provided a letter dated Aug. 8 and sent to the publisher of a periodical who is running for office regarding a complaint it received about the publisher’s own campaign ad. The letter said the candidate was not complying with campaign finance obligations and didn’t mark ads as political advertising.
– | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-newspaper-publisher-cries-foul-over-political-ad-arrest/ | 2022-08-27T02:45:21Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-newspaper-publisher-cries-foul-over-political-ad-arrest/ | false |
On Friday, the giant slide on Belle Isle Park reopened. It closed last week Friday after receiving widespread notoriety for the wrong reasons.
There were videos of people tumbling and bouncing hard down the slide that went viral last weekend.
My lil sis got on the giant slide at belle isle 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/XeczOBwybu
— Autumn & Myah (@myleafz) August 22, 2022
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said it made some small adjustments to smoothen and slow down the ride.
Friday, there was nonstop action with a steady stream of riders. Some went down several times, while others backed out.
Some, like 10-year-old Robert Gannon, had a change of heart, backing out when they reached the top.
“I rather check myself before I wreck myself," Gannon said.
It was a smooth ride for most as long as they followed instructions and leaned forward.
“When I went down that time, I like flew. Not really high, even though I was leaning forward,” Piper Brook, 7, said.
Tondia White, who took a hard tumble, said with a laugh, “It was horrible. No, it was.”
Jayden Talbert, a small kid who rotated and bumped his head explained, “I was trying to lean forward but I leaned back, and it was kind of scary.”
Sarah Horton and Jeremy Cohen said they're in Detroit from the East Coast.
“We were scared. I’m not going to lie — going on," Horton chuckled.
"Adrenaline’s pumping and then all of a sudden, you see more news crews. Maybe it’s getting a little more intense than I thought when I first got here," Cohen explained.
Rapper Gmac Cash, who made a song about the slide that’s gone viral, showed up. He said he was preparing to shoot a music video for the song.
“I'm loving the feedback for sure, man," Gmac Cash said.
Nicoli Novak, 53, said, "I think it’s wonderful. I lived in Detroit all my life, and [with] the stigma, and I know some people want to think negative about it, but I think it’s just really fun. I think a lot of fun. I think a lot of us have used the slide in the 70s. Had a great time."
“And so, we’re having a great time — young and old," she added.
Joy Jackson, 62, said, “Amazing time. It takes you back to the child within.”
After working up the courage to ride the slide himself, 7 Action News Reporter Darren Cunningham went twice.
“All in all, it’s a lot of fun. But if you plan to ride the giant slide, be sure to follow instructions and lean forward,” Cunningham said.
The DNR said the slide will be open Fridays through Sundays until Labor Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For each ride down the slide, the DNR charges $1, and all riders must be at least 48 inches tall. | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/popular-michigan-slide-reopens-after-slick-experience-dangerously-jetted-riders | 2022-08-27T02:46:33Z | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/popular-michigan-slide-reopens-after-slick-experience-dangerously-jetted-riders | false |
Pak team would try to repeat its last performance against India: Shadab Khan
Dubai: With India and Pakistan set to play against each other in their Asia Cup campaign at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday, Pakistan’s Vice Captain Shadab Khan has said that his team will try to repeat the performance it has given in the last clash against the Indian side.
The last time the two sides met in the T20 World Cup in October 2021, Pakistan had thrashed India by 10 wickets.
“Every match is a new start. The last match was history, but we will carry that mindset to beat India. We would try to repeat that performance,” Khan said, adding that there is always pressure when the two sides face each other, but his team takes it in a positive manner.
“Friendship and bond between us (India and Pakistan) has strengthened during Covid period,” he said.
On Virat Kohli, the Pakistani vice captain said, “Kohli is a legend. We wish him his best, though he is performing very well but not as per his standard. I wish to see his century but not against us. He is a threat to us when he is on the pitch.”
On Shaheen & Waseem’s injury, he said, “Injury is not in our hands. It is not an individual’s game, it’s a team game. Everyone team member is a match winner, we have to believe in them.” | https://www.mangalorean.com/pak-team-would-try-to-repeat-its-last-performance-against-india-shadab-khan/ | 2022-08-27T02:55:26Z | https://www.mangalorean.com/pak-team-would-try-to-repeat-its-last-performance-against-india-shadab-khan/ | true |
FBI: Trump mixed top secret docs with magazines, other items
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday.
No space at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was authorized for the storage of classified material, according to the court papers, which laid out the FBI's rationale for searching the property this month, including “probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found.”
The 32-page affidavit — heavily redacted to protect the safety of witnesses and law enforcement officials and “the integrity of the ongoing investigation” — offers the most detailed description to date of the government records being stored at Mar-a-Lago long after Trump left the White House. It also reveals the gravity of the government’s concerns that the documents were there illegally.
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The document makes clear how the haphazard retention of top secret government records, and the apparent failure to safeguard them despite months of entreaties from U.S. officials, has exposed Trump to fresh legal peril just as he lays the groundwork for another potential presidential run in 2024.
“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.
Powell: Fed's inflation fight could bring 'pain,' job losses
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark warning Friday about the Fed’s determination to fight inflation with more sharp interest rate hikes: It will likely cause pain for Americans in the form of a weaker economy and job losses.
The message landed with a thud on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 1,000 points for the day.
“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, and stocks tumbled in response.
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.
Trump election probe in Georgia cites voting system breach
ATLANTA (AP) — The prosecutor investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking information about the alleged involvement of a Trump ally in the breach of voting equipment at a county roughly 200 miles south of her Atlanta office.
The widening of the probe highlights the latest instance in which unauthorized people appear to have gained access to voting equipment since the 2020 election, primarily in battleground states lost by Trump. Election experts have raised concerns that sensitive information shared online about the equipment may have exposed vulnerabilities that could be exploited by people intent on disrupting future elections.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is seeking to have attorney Sidney Powell, who tried persistently to overturn Trump's loss, testify before a special grand jury seated for the investigation into possible illegal election interference. In her court petition filed Thursday, Willis said Powell is “known to be affiliated” with Trump and the Trump campaign and has unique knowledge about her communications with them and others “involved in the multi-state, coordinated efforts to influence the results of the November 2020 elections in Georgia and elsewhere."
The scope of Willis’ criminal investigation has expanded considerably since it began, prompted by a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call in which Trump suggested Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger could “find” the votes needed to overturn Trump’s narrow election loss in the state. Among other things, Willis wrote that she wants to ask Powell about rural Coffee County, where Trump beat President Joe Biden by nearly 40 percentage points.
Emails and other records first reported this month by The Washington Post and also obtained by The Associated Press show that Powell was involved in arranging for a team from data solutions company SullivanStrickler to travel to the county's elections office.
GOP, Dems seek political boost from student loan debt plan
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — To Democrats championing the White House’s student loan forgiveness plan, it was the long-awaited delivery of one of President Joe Biden’s campaign promises.
To Republicans — and even some in the president’s own party — it was an ill-advised move that was unfair to those who had diligently paid back their loans or decided not to go to college.
In the student debt relief plan, both parties see an opportunity to boost their own political message ahead of the critical November midterm elections. While Democrats contended that the loan forgiveness would provide a lifeline for struggling working-class families, Republicans charged that it's a giveaway to the “elites.”
For the midterms, the elitist rhetoric tactic “plays right in line with the GOP’s current brand of grievance and victimization politics,” conservative strategist Chip Felkel said, “giving them another rallying point to fire up their base and maybe attract some like-minded independents who see this action as ‘unfair.’”
Both the White House and some of Biden’s top allies argued that it was instead Republicans who were focused on the elite and that the potential beneficiaries of the student loan debt relief include more than just the wealthy.
Fears of a radiation leak mount near Ukrainian nuclear plant
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities began distributing iodine tablets to residents near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant Friday in case of a radiation leak, amid mounting fears that the fighting around the complex could trigger a catastrophe.
The move came a day after the plant was temporarily knocked offline because of what officials said was fire damage to a transmission line. The incident heightened dread of a nuclear disaster in a country still haunted by the 1986 explosion at Chernobyl.
Continued shelling was reported in the area overnight, and satellite images from Planet Labs showed fires burning around the complex — Europe's biggest nuclear plant — over the last several days.
Iodine tablets, which help block the absorption of radioactive iodine by the thyroid gland in a nuclear accident, were issued in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia, about 45 kilometers (27 miles) from the plant. A woman and her small daughter were among those receiving the pills.
The U.N.'s atomic energy agency has been trying to send a team in to inspect and help secure the plant. Officials said preparations for the trip were underway, but it remained unclear when it might take place.
Official: 6 of 43 missing Mexican students given to army
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Six of the 43 college students “disappeared” in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed, the Mexican government official leading a Truth Commission said Friday.
Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas made the shocking revelation directly tying the military to one of Mexico's worst human rights scandals, and it came with little fanfare as he made a lengthy defense of the commission’s report released a week earlier.
Last week, despite declaring the abductions and disappearances a “state crime” and saying that the army watched it happen without intervening, Encinas made no mention of six students being turned over to Col. José Rodríguez Pérez.
On Friday, Encinas said authorities were closely monitoring the students from the radical teachers’ college at Ayotzinapa from the time they left their campus through their abduction by local police in the town of Iguala that night. A soldier who had infiltrated the school was among the abducted students, and Encinas asserted the army did not follow its own protocols and try to rescue him.
“There is also information corroborated with emergency 089 telephone calls where allegedly six of the 43 disappeared students were held during several days and alive in what they call the old warehouse and from there were turned over to the colonel,” Encinas said. “Allegedly the six students were alive for as many as four days after the events and were killed and disappeared on orders of the colonel, allegedly the then Col. José Rodríguez Pérez.”
Herschel Walker skips details in bid to oust Raphael Warnock
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — Republican Herschel Walker has plenty to say about how his Democratic rival, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, does his job in Washington. But Walker is considerably less revealing about what he’d do with the role himself.
A former football star and friend of former President Donald Trump, Walker tells voters he supports agriculture, veterans and law enforcement. He sells cultural conservatism and his mental health advocacy. He tags Warnock as a yes-man for President Joe Biden. Yet when asked for concrete alternatives to what he calls “the Biden-Warnock agenda,” Walker defaults mostly to generalities and stem-winding tangents — or he turns the question around.
“Have you asked my opponent? Don’t play games. You’re playing games,” Walker told reporters recently when pressed to clarify his stance on exceptions to abortion bans.
The broader approach tracks the way many political challengers — including Warnock two years ago — try to put incumbents on the defensive. That method is especially salient for Republican candidates in a midterm election year when Democrats must run alongside sustained inflation. But Walker’s rendition, as much as any GOP candidacy nationwide, is testing the bounds of that strategy as Democrats hammer the political novice as unfit for high office.
“There is a stark difference between me and my opponent,” Warnock said at a recent campaign stop, theatrically stretching the word “stark” as he smiled. “This race,” the senator continued, “is about who’s ready to represent Georgia.”
Bills' investigation of Araiza didn't include alleged victim
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The attorney for a California teenager who has accused a Buffalo Bills rookie and two of his former college teammates of gang rape last fall said Friday the NFL team has not contacted him for details despite saying it had conducted a “thorough investigation.”
The Bills selected Matt Araiza out of San Diego State in the sixth round of the NFL draft in April, and named him their starting punter this week. A person familiar with the case told the AP the Bills were not aware of the allegations against Araiza in April. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team is not commenting publicly about the allegations.
Executives from two different teams told the AP they became aware of Araiza’s involvement in an incident during the draft process, but neither person knew the extent of the allegations.
Dan Gilleon, who represents the California teenager, said he has not heard from team officials since first informing them of the allegations against Araiza in late July, when he says he had a phone conversation with team counsel Kathryn D’Angelo.
“She seemed like she was concerned. She says she’ll get back to me, and then she never did,” said Gilleon, who posted and then deleted a screenshot on social media of the email he says he sent to D’Angelo. “I even followed up and said, `Hey, you guys haven’t talked to me and called me back like you said you would.′ And they just ignored that, too.”
Grown kids recall Vegas dad whose bones ID'd from Lake Mead
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The identification of bones found in May on the receding shoreline of Lake Mead has resurfaced family memories of a 42-year-old Las Vegas father believed to have drowned 20 years ago.
Thomas Erndt’s son, also named Tom Erndt, told KSNV-TV in Las Vegas that his father began to struggle after jumping into the water during a nighttime family boat outing late Aug. 2, 2002. The younger Tom Erndt said he was 10 at the time.
“It is going to take a lot of time for me to move forward and remember this,” he told KVVU-TV, recalling that he spent a lot of time with his father, an aircraft mechanic, at his job.
Family members did not immediately respond Friday to email messages from The Associated Press.
The Clark County coroner’s office said Wednesday that Thomas Erndt’s bones were the ones found May 7 near a former marina at the shrinking Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam.
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. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-in-brief-at-9-04-p-m-edt/article_4671d88b-a500-5a63-87d8-0da9b64e0701.html | 2022-08-27T02:56:44Z | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-in-brief-at-9-04-p-m-edt/article_4671d88b-a500-5a63-87d8-0da9b64e0701.html | false |
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), announces that KSF continues its investigation into BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (NasdaqGS: BMRN).
On August 19, 2020, the Company disclosed that it received a Complete Response Letter ("CRL") from the FDA rejecting its Biologics License Application ("BLA") for its product, valoctocogene roxaparvovec, and recommending two years of data from the Company's ongoing 270-301 study (Phase 3) and that the Company "complete the Phase 3 Study and submit two-year follow-up safety and efficacy data on all study participants," thus requiring a lengthier study before approval would be considered.
Thereafter, the Company and certain of its executives were sued in a securities class action lawsuit, charging them with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws. Recently, the court presiding over the case denied the Company's motion to reconsider the court's decision denying in part the Company's motion to dismiss, allowing the case to move forward.
KSF's investigation is focusing on whether BioMarin's officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to BioMarin's shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws.
If you have information that would assist KSF in its investigation, or have been a long-term holder of BioMarin shares and would like to discuss your legal rights, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://ksfcounsel.com/cases/biomarin-pharmaceutical-inc-nasdaqgs-bmrn/ to learn more.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking to recover investment losses due to corporate fraud and malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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Ford is raising the price of its new electric Mustang just days before the models go out and new orders come in.
The 2023 Mustang comes in a rear-wheel drive base model, starting at about $46,000.
The new price is about $3,000 more than last year's version, CNN reported.
Other higher-end models could cost as much as $70,000 but would feature state-of-the-art technology.
Features could include advanced driver assistance technology and an extended range battery pack allowing drivers to go around 290 miles before needing a charge.
Ford cites supply chain issues and ever-changing market conditions for its price hike.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Donovan Solano hit a two-run double off Cade Cavalli in the pitching prospect’s big league debut, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Washington Nationals 7-3 on Friday night.
Aristides Aquino drove in three runs for Cincinnati, which had dropped four in a row. Mike Minor (3-10) pitched seven sparkling innings for his second straight win.
Cavalli, the No. 22 selection in the 2020 amateur draft, was tagged for seven runs and six hits in 4 1/3 innings. The right-hander, who turned 24 on Aug. 14, was called up from the minors earlier in the day.
For Washington, the worst team in the majors and less than a month removed from trading Juan Soto to San Diego as the latest step in a multiyear teardown, Cavalli’s debut was one of the season’s most anticipated moments. He was the Nationals’ minor league pitcher of the year in 2021, and was 6-4 with a 3.71 ERA in 20 starts at Triple-A Rochester this season.
Instead, things went awry almost immediately.
The Reds scored twice in the first. Jonathan India was hit by a pitch, moved up on a passed ball and scored on Washington shortstop CJ Abrams’ errant throw to first on Solano’s infield single. Solano then scored on TJ Friedl’s double to right.
Solano’s double in the third lifted Cincinnati to a 4-0 lead.
Cavalli (0-1) pitched a 1-2-3 fourth, but loaded the bases with one out in the fifth. He was pulled after hitting his third batter of the night, and Erasmo Ramirez promptly yielded Aquino’s three-run double to left-center.
Cavalli’s outing marked the 42nd consecutive game a Washington starter did not earn a victory, the longest streak in major league history.
Minor was charged with two runs and six hits in his longest outing of the season. He reduced his ERA to a season-low 6.10.
Luke Voit hit a solo drive in the sixth for Washington. It was his fourth homer in 17 games since arriving from San Diego as part of the Soto deal.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: India (left leg discomfort) was back in the lineup after missing Thursday’s game. … INF Mike Moustakas (left calf) missed his third consecutive game. … OF Nick Senzel (left hamstring) was out of the lineup.
Nationals: Washington activated 2B Luis García from the 10-day injured list and released 3B Maikel Franco. Garcia missed 11 games with a left groin strain. Franco hit .229 with nine homers and 39 RBIs, but lost the starting third base job to Ildemaro Vargas and had just one at-bat in the Nationals’ last nine games.
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Luis Cessa (3-2, 5.67 ERA) makes his third start of the season and second this week for Cincinnati. Cessa allowed two runs in two innings Monday at Philadelphia. Paolo Espino (0-5, 4.31 ERA) pitches for Washington. He is 0-5 with a 5.34 ERA in 13 starts since joining the rotation June 12.
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China able to achieve inflation target this year: official
BEIJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- China is capable of achieving its inflation target of around 3 percent this year, the country's top economic planner said Friday.
With continued efforts to strengthen the production, supply, storage and marketing systems of key commodities, the country has maintained the overall stability of prices, Yang Yinkai, deputy secretary general of the National Development and Reform Commission, told a press conference.
China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 2.7 percent year on year in July, which is well below that of major economies and most emerging market countries, he said.
Due to imported inflationary pressure, a seasonal rise in pork prices and the low base effect in the same period of last year, the CPI may be slightly higher in the latter months of this year and the first quarter of next year, compared with the preceding months, Yang added.
An executive meeting of the State Council earlier this month decided to adjust the mechanism of raising social benefits pro rata to price increases from September 2022 to March 2023, offering wider coverage.
One of the triggers of the mechanism, the CPI monthly increase year on year, will be lowered to 3 percent from the previous 3.5 percent, he said.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Six of the 43 college students “disappeared” in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed, the Mexican government official leading a Truth Commission said Friday.
Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas made the shocking revelation directly tying the military to one of Mexico’s worst human rights scandals, and it came with little fanfare as he made a lengthy defense of the commission’s report released a week earlier.
Last week, despite declaring the abductions and disappearances a “state crime” and saying that the army watched it happen without intervening, Encinas made no mention of six students being turned over to Col. José Rodríguez Pérez.
On Friday, Encinas said authorities were closely monitoring the students from the radical teachers’ college at Ayotzinapa from the time they left their campus through their abduction by local police in the town of Iguala that night. A soldier who had infiltrated the school was among the abducted students, and Encinas asserted the army did not follow its own protocols and try to rescue him.
“There is also information corroborated with emergency 089 telephone calls where allegedly six of the 43 disappeared students were held during several days and alive in what they call the old warehouse and from there were turned over to the colonel,” Encinas said. “Allegedly the six students were alive for as many as four days after the events and were killed and disappeared on orders of the colonel, allegedly the then Col. José Rodríguez Pérez.”
The defense department did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the allegations Friday.
The role of the army in the students’ disappearance has long been a source of tension between the families and the government. From the beginning, there were questions about the military’s knowledge of what happened and its possible involvement. The students’ parents demanded for years that they be allowed to search the army base in Iguala. It was not until 2019 that they were given access along with Encinas and the Truth Commission.
The commission report says the army registered an anonymous emergency call on Sept. 30, 2014, four days after the students’ abduction. The caller reportedly said the students were being held in a large concrete warehouse in a location described as “Pueblo Viejo.” The caller proceeded to describe the location.
That entry was followed by several pages of redacted material, but that section of the report concluded with the following: “As can be seen, obvious collusion existed between agents of the Mexican state with the criminal group Guerreros Unidos that tolerated, allowed and participated in events of violence and disappearance of the students, as well as the government’s attempt to hide the truth about the events.”
Later, in a summary of how the commission’s report differed from the original investigation’s conclusions, there is mention of a colonel.
“On Sept. 30 ‘the colonel’ mentions that they will take care of cleaning everything up and that they had already taken charge of the six students who had remained alive,” the report said.
In a witness statement provided to federal investigators in December 2014, Capt. José Martínez Crespo, who was stationed at the base in Iguala, said the base commander for the 27th Infantry Battalion at the time was Col. José Rodriguez Pérez.
Through a driving rain later Friday, the families of the 43 missing students marched in Mexico City with a couple hundred other people as they have on the 26th of every month for years.
Parents carried posters of their children’s faces and rows of current students from the teachers’ college marched, shouted calls for justice and counted off to 43. Their signs proclaimed that the fight for justice continued and asserted: “It was the State.”
Clemente Rodríguez marched for his son Christian Alfonso Rodríguez Telumbre, who was a second student identified by a tiny burned bone fragment.
Rodríguez said the families had been told last week before the report was released about the coronel and the six students.
“It’s not by omission anymore. It’s that they participated,” he said of the military. “It was the state, the three levels of government participated.”
He said the families had not been told that any of the arrest orders announced last week for members of armed forces had been carried out yet.
On Sept. 26, 2014, local police took the students off buses they had commandeered in Iguala. The motive for the police action remains unclear eight years later. Their bodies have never been found, though fragments of burned bone have been matched to three of the students.
Last week, federal agents arrested former Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam, who oversaw the original investigation. On Wednesday, a judge ordered that he stand trial for forced disappearance, not reporting torture and official misconduct. Prosecutors allege Murillo Karam created a false narrative about what happened to the students to quickly appear to resolve the case.
Authorities also said last week that arrest warrants were issued for 20 soldiers and officers, five local officials, 33 local police officers and 11 state police officers as well as 14 gang members. Neither the army nor prosecutors have said how many of those suspects are in custody.
It was also not immediately clear if Rodríguez Pérez was among those sought.
Rodríguez, the student’s father, said Murillo Karam’s arrest was a positive step.
Murillo Karam “was the one who told us the soldiers couldn’t be touched,” Rodríguez said. “And now it’s being discovered that it was the state that participated.”
In a joint statement, the families said the Truth Commission’s confirmation that it was a “state crime” was significant after elements suggesting that over the years.
However, they said the report still did not satisfactorily answer their most important question.
“Mothers and fathers need indubitable scientific evidence as to the fate of our children,” the statement said. “We can’t go home with preliminary signs that don’t fully clear up where they are and what happened to them.”
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has given Mexico’s military enormous responsibility. The armed forces are not only at the center of his security strategy, but they have taken over administration of the seaports and been given responsibility for building a new airport for the capital and a tourist train on the Yucatan Peninsula.
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Ford is raising the price of its new electric Mustang just days before the models go out and new orders come in.
The 2023 Mustang comes in a rear-wheel drive base model, starting at about $46,000.
The new price is about $3,000 more than last year's version, CNN reported.
Other higher-end models could cost as much as $70,000 but would feature state-of-the-art technology.
Features could include advanced driver assistance technology and an extended range battery pack allowing drivers to go around 290 miles before needing a charge.
Ford cites supply chain issues and ever-changing market conditions for its price hike.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WFRV) – An officer with the Milwaukee Police Department was struck by a bullet following a pursuit in the City of Milwaukee on Friday.
According to a release, around noon, Milwaukee Police officers were looking for an individual who was wanted for violating a felony domestic abuse injunction on the 1100 Block of West Keefe Avenue.
Officers observed the wanted suspect and approached him, at which time the suspect fled on foot and a foot pursuit ensued. During the pursuit, the suspect fired several shots at officers. One police officer returned fire, however, it does not appear that anyone was struck during the exchange of gunfire.
The suspect continued to flee and discharge his firearm at officers again. Officers did not return fire during this subsequent encounter. Ultimately, the suspect fled into a backyard on the 3500 Block of North 11th Street and shot himself.
After officers approached the suspect, for safety, the officers stabilized the suspect with a tactical ballistic shield. That is when the suspect’s firearm inadvertently discharged, striking a nearby officer.
The 36-year-old officer with over five years of experience was transported to a local hospital where he was treated for non-fatal injuries.
The 43-year-old suspect from Milwaukee died on the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Oneil Cruz’s bat slipped out of his hands and went flying into the stands after the Pittsburgh Pirates’ rookie struck out in the third inning Friday night against Philadelphia.
That’s when things got sticky.
The lumber landed in Jen Mehall’s lap behind the Phillies dugout. Mehall, a Pirates fan, was thrilled to get the souvenir — especially after it dinged her in the leg and lip. An inning later, though, a Pirates official came to request the bat back and offered another one in a trade.
Mehall and her friend, Kathie Koller, who were in town from Reading to celebrate Koller’s birthday, didn’t want to give up their rare keepsake.
“We wanted to keep it, but security said we couldn’t,” said Mehall, who is originally from Western Pennsylvania.
Fans in the sections around the two women booed loudly.
Although they were disappointed, Mehall and Koller did have the good fortune of sitting in front of former Phillies infielder and team ambassador Mickey Morandini. He got the women a bat bearing the signature of Phillies star slugger Bryce Harper.
It was a nice gesture by Morandini, though the women seemed genuinely upset about not being able to hang onto the bat they caught.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and China have reached a tentative agreement to allow U.S. regulators to inspect the audits of Chinese companies whose stocks are traded on U.S. exchanges. In a long-festering dispute, U.S. regulators have threatened to boot a number of Chinese companies off the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq if China doesn’t permit inspections.
The deal announced Friday by market regulators in the U.S. and China is preliminary. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler said, “The proof will be in the pudding.”
“While important, this framework is merely a step in the process,” Gensler said in a prepared statement. “This agreement will be meaningful only if (U.S. regulators) actually can inspect and investigate completely audit firms in China. If (they) cannot, roughly 200 China-based issuers will face prohibitions on trading of their securities in the U.S. if they continue to use those audit firms.”
An agreement would mean that U.S. investors will maintain access to shares of important Chinese companies while at the same time being protected by the integrity of company audits.
“This is unequivocally positive news and a major step toward averting mass delisting of Chinese companies in the U.S.,” analyst Tobin Marcus at Evercore ISI said in a note to clients. However, he said, “a deal is only the first step toward avoiding delisting. What ultimately needs to happen is that (U.S.) Inspectors need to show up and complete inspections.” He said the inspections could take months.
The U.S. regulators plan to have inspection teams on the ground in China by mid-September. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is due to determine by year’s end whether the Chinese government is continuing to block access to the audit books. A negative finding could result in U.S. actions such as stock trading bans.
Although it’s preliminary, the agreement is a rare instance of accord at a time when relations between the U.S. and China are fraught by sparring over trade, the war in Ukraine and human rights. The tension was ratcheted higher by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent trip to Taiwan, the self-governing island that China claims as its territory. The Chinese responded to the visit by Pelosi, second in line to the U.S. presidency, with military drills around the island.
U.S. regulators had warned that without an agreement, some 200 companies including Alibaba Group, the world’s biggest e-commerce competitor, might be ejected from U.S. exchanges or face trading restrictions. The Americans said that other governments have agreed to allow such audit reviews, which are required by U.S. law, and that China and Hong Kong are the only holdouts.
Three of China’s biggest state-owned companies announced this month they would remove their shares from the New York Stock Exchange but gave no indication that the action was related to the audit dispute. PetroChina Ltd., China Life Insurance Ltd. and China Petroleum & Chemical Co. cited the small volume of trading of their shares in the New York market and the expense of complying with regulations in a foreign market. The companies said their shares still would be traded in Hong Kong, which is Chinese territory but open to non-Chinese investors.
The dispute over audits of Chinese companies dates back more than a decade. Scores of Chinese companies were suspended or kicked off U.S. exchanges, most of them for failing to file timely financial reports. At least two dozen were hit with SEC fraud or accounting charges, but investigations stalled because the companies’ audit papers were in China — beyond the SEC’s reach.
Under terms of the new agreement, U.S. accounting inspectors in the PCAOB would have independent discretion to select any Chinese company audit for inspection or investigation, and they would get direct access to interview all personnel of the audit firms whose work is being inspected. The inspectors could see complete audit work papers with no redactions.
In Beijing, the China Securities Regulatory Commission called the agreement an important step in “resolving the issue of common concern of audit and regulatory cooperation.” Investors and companies on both sides will benefit from keeping Chinese shares trading on U.S. exchanges, the commission said.
The terms the commission outlined would give Chinese officials a role in any possible investigations. China won the right to conduct similar reviews of U.S. audit firms where relevant, according to the Chinese regulators, allowing Beijing to portray the agreement as mutually positive rather than an instance of China giving in to American pressure. China has yet to express any need to carry out such reviews of its own.
Chinese regulators also would be allowed to participate in interviews with audit personnel.
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McDonald reported from Beijing.
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Woman, 39, who couldn't POOP for more than A MONTH becomes a viral star on TikTok while candidly sharing her mystery bowel issues - from her agonizing constipation struggles to colostomy bag surgery
- Cherine Docherty, 39, from Scotland, began documenting her constipation struggles on TikTok after mysteriously developing bowel problems in February
- She revealed she suffered from bowel issues caused by a mystery illness that has kept her in and out of the hospital for months
- The 39-year-old is now living with a colostomy bag, which required surgery to put in place and now collects her waste
- Cherine has shared her pooping problems - from looking like she's 'eight months pregnant' to bursting her colostomy bag - with her over 244,000 followers
- Although she is still unsure of the cause behind her mysterious illness, she revealed she was thankful for the following her experience has given her
A woman who suffered from bowel issues and couldn't poop for over a month has revealed her struggles to her TikTok followers and admitted she's suffered from mystery illness, which still hasn't been diagnosed, and that has kept her in and out of the hospital for treatment.
Cherine Docherty, 39, from Scotland, began documenting her constipation struggles on TikTok after mysteriously developing bowel problems in February of 2022.
The 39-year-old is now living with a colostomy bag, which collects waste from the body through an opening made during surgery between the large intestine and abdominal wall, after she spent months in and out of the hospital seeking treatment for her mystery illness.
Cherine Docherty, 39, from Scotland, began documenting her constipation struggles on TikTok after mysteriously developing bowel problems in February
She revealed she suffered from bowel issues caused by a mystery illness that has kept her in and out of the hospital for months
The 39-year-old is now living with a colostomy bag, which she received during surgery and collects waste
Cherine has shared her pooping problems - from looking like she's 'eight months pregnant' to bursting her colostomy bag - with her over 244,000 followers.
She has been praised for her candid videos detailing her struggles and doctor visits that leave her just as confused as when she walked in.
She became viral in July when she posted a video captioned: 'Day 34 of not doing a [poo emoji]'
In the video, which racked up over a million views, she showed users her stomach, which she said made her look 'eight months pregnant' and explained she has been struggling to defecate.
Since then the Scottish woman has been using the social media platform to share updates and take her followers along her pooping journey.
Cherine went to the hospital every four months to receive medication that helped her poop, but the relief was temporary as the medication stopped working.
She has shared everything from looking like she's 'eight months pregnant' to bursting her colostomy bag with her over 244,000 followers
After suffering from excruciating pain, Cherine went back to the hospital and begged doctors to do something as her throat began to close up and she was tired of being tube fed laxatives
The day after the surgery, Cherine was finally able to poop and celebrated by posting a video which racked up over 400,000 views, detailing her relief
After suffering from excruciating pain, Cherine went back to the hospital and begged doctors to do something as her throat began to close up and she was tired of being tube fed laxatives.
Doctors then preformed surgery to give the Scottish woman a colostomy bag.
The day after the surgery, Cherine was finally able to poop and celebrated by posting a video.
In the video, which racked up over 400,000 views, she detailed her relief despite enduring the 'worst pain ever.'
In other videos, the Scottish woman shared she was beginning to fear for her health as she was having trouble breathing and also suffers from stage three chronic kidney disease and asthma, which she revealed she was concerned would get worse.
In an interview with Insider, Cherine revealed doctors wanted to perform a procedure called ileoanal anastomosis, which removes her large intestine and then reattaches the rest of her digestive system.
However, doctors chose to give her a colostomy bag instead because ileoanal anastomosis is a 12-hour operation with an extremely long wait list.
Cherine finally pooped a day later.
However, she revealed the bag wasn't a complete fix.
In another video she went on to share her horror stories to her followers.
In an interview with Insider, Cherine revealed doctors wanted to perform a procedure called ileoanal anastomosis; however, doctors chose to give her a colostomy bag instead
Although she finally pooped a day later, Cherine revealed the bag wasn't a complete fix as she shared horror stories to her followers
Although the Scottish woman is still unsure of the cause behind her mysterious illness, she revealed she was thankful for the stoma bag and the following her experience has given her
She shared that her colostomy bag burst and left her 'covered in s***.'
She added: 'It was an absolute nightmare.
'I've had to set my alarm every single hour, every night since I've been discharged from hospital, just because I'm so scared of that happening again.'
Although the Scottish woman is still unsure of the cause behind her mysterious illness, she revealed she was thankful for the following her experience has given her.
Cherine used to work in childcare but left her job due to her health issues. And although she never used to be so open on the internet but when her health problems persisted she used it as an opportunity to become an 'open book' on TikTok.
She revealed that her brutally honest videos have garnered praise from strangers who help inspire her.
'There's a lot of big TikTokers that do get negativity, but for some reason, I don't really,' she told Insider.
She revealed that her brutally honest videos have garnered praise from strangers who help inspire her
'Well done for normalizing, you are doing great,' said one user.
Another user added: 'Never have I been so invested in someone else's bowels. Get well soon.'
'You are such an amazing young woman. My heart goes out to you,' commented one user.
'Get well soon Cherine and thanks for sharing your story, take care of yourself,' said another user.
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NEW YORK (AP) — It was the kind of story that media reporter Brian Stelter would normally sink his teeth into — if only it didn’t involve him.
CNN said last week it was cancelling “Reliable Sources,” its 30-year-old program on the media, and letting Stelter go, part of a nascent effort by new management to reclaim a brand identity that it feels was damaged during the Trump era.
The news network, now under the Warner Discovery corporate banner and led since spring by CNN Worldwide Chairman Chris Licht, is trying to inject more balance into its programming and become less radioactive to Republicans. How and whether that can be accomplished remains a mystery.
“CNN has to figure out what it wants to be,” said Carol Costello, a former anchor there and now a journalism instructor at Loyola Marymount University.
Former President Donald Trump portrayed CNN as an enemy, and a Pew Research Center study illustrated the impact that had with his followers. In 2014, Pew found that one-third of people who identify or lean Republican said they distrusted CNN as a source for political news. By 2019, that number had shot up to 58 percent — higher distrust than The New York Times, The Washington Post or MSNBC.
And that was before the overheated 2020 election campaign and the anger over its outcome.
Last year’s firing of CNN anchor Chris Cuomo after he helped his brother, former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, behind the scenes, also hurt CNN’s reputation among Republicans, said Carlos Curbelo, a former GOP congressman from Florida.
As Trump attacked the network, CNN returned fire. Under previous leader Jeff Zucker, CNN figures became more opinionated on the air than they ever had before. Anderson Cooper once likened Trump to “an obese turtle on its back, flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over,” a remark he later apologized for.
“All mainstream media took a hit with the ascent of Donald Trump,” Costello said. “I really think he did a number on journalism in general, not just CNN. For a time we all played into it, and our reporting was kind of hysterical.”
CNN’s tone had a lot to do with changes in the network’s reputation, said Mark Whitaker, a veteran newsman and former CNN executive. CNN had higher ratings and more buzz under Zucker, but, Whitaker asked, “Was it worth it in terms of the way it changed the brand perception?”
Being seen as a liberal alternative to Fox News Channel isn’t an issue for a news outlet that plays up partisanship. But for a company that has sold itself as an unbiased news source for more than 40 years — to viewers, to advertisers, to cable or satellite operators — that presents a problem.
Since Licht took over, morning anchor Brianna Keilar’s occasional takedowns of Fox coverage have disappeared. Although Licht hasn’t commented publicly on Stelter’s exit, the media reporter’s criticism of Fox was a regular feature of “Reliable Sources.”
It received little notice at the time, but cable news executive John Malone, now a member of the Warner Discovery board of directors, said in a CNBC interview last November that “I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing.”
Similarly, Warner Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav said at a company town hall in April that CNN should set itself apart from a cable news industry that is dominated by “advocacy networks.” CNN needs to be about reporting, truth and facts, he said.
“If we get that, we can have a civilized society,” said Zaslav, who appointed Licht. “And without it, if it all becomes advocacy, we don’t have a civilized society.”
Licht has given few interviews to outside journalists since taking over, and a CNN spokesman turned down a request for this article.
Licht has taken steps toward the goals his bosses have elucidated. He wants CNN anchors to be conscious of a perspective that they sometime talk down to people. He wants panel discussions to be informative, not dominated by extreme points of view. He wants to resist “outrage porn.” He ordered that the on-air “breaking news” banner be reserved for real breaking news.
Licht also went to Washington to meet with Republican leaders, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, his counterpart at the House.
Licht would like to see more Republicans appear on CNN for meaningful interviews, not necessarily to be used by them to appear tough to supporters for standing up to hostility. There have already been small signs of success in recent weeks: appearances by South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and Texas U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw.
“This is true of all three (cable news) networks: When you can get only members of one party to show up, it shows that your news division is lacking in credibility with essentially half the country,” said Curbelo, an NBC News contributor. It’s early, but Curbelo said he has liked what he’s seen with Licht so far.
The outreach with Republicans has raised some eyebrows, with Democratic strategist Kurt Bardella suggesting in a Los Angeles Times column that CNN was “eager to pander” to politicians detached from reality. And Eric Deggans, NPR’s television critic, said he’s worried about the risk of normalizing lies like the last presidential election was stolen.
“Sometimes journalists have been accused of being partisan when what they’ve really been doing is insisting upon the truth and refusing to go along with a political party that is redefining the truth to serve its own ends,” Deggans said.
CNN points out that Licht made a similar pitch to aides at President Joe Biden’s White House, showing demographic information of viewers to illustrate it would be worthwhile to appear for interviews. The network resists suggestions that lies would not be challenged, but said wants all Americans to feel their opinions are listened to.
“No matter what they do, they’ll be attacked,” Whitaker said. “Trump and others will continue to cry ‘fake news’ about anything they don’t like from the media.” But, he said, CNN has the best chance of any cable news network to reach an audience looking for a more balance in journalism.
Other visible moves are likely to come soon. Licht has been eyeing a shakeup of CNN’s morning hours and recently hired Ryan Kadro, a former CBS News colleague who handled that network’s morning show. CNN still has a hole in prime time, too: Chris Cuomo hasn’t been replaced since he was fired last December.
But what’s next remains unclear, which Deggans advised against. He called on CNN’s leaders to be clear with viewers about what’s being done. “The attitude of the new management seems to be, ‘Trust us, we have a plan.’”
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David Bauder is the media writer for The Associated Press. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dbauder | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/ap-cnn-management-intent-on-changing-perception-of-the-network/ | 2022-08-27T03:24:34Z | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/ap-cnn-management-intent-on-changing-perception-of-the-network/ | true |
ROME (AP) — Abel Ferrara, whose gritty New York exploitation films of the 1980s and 1990s delved into the soulless evils of drug addiction, corruption and sexual violence, pays homage to one of Italy’s best-known and most revered saints in his newest film, “Padre Pio.”
That the film, which stars Shia LaBeouf and premieres at the Venice Film Festival next week, confirms a change of pace for the cult director is an understatement, one that Ferrara, 71, chalks up to a decade of sobriety and a new life in Italy.
“Once we kicked the drugs and the alcohol, we started to see a different way of life, of living in a different life,” the “Bad Lieutenant” director said in an interview in his new hometown of Rome. “I think it’s more just trying to get our game right.”
The film chronicles a particular moment in the 20th century history of Italy and Padre Pio, the mystic Capuchin monk best known for having displayed the “stigmata” wounds of Christ: He bled from his hands, feet and sides. Padre Pio died in 1968 and was canonized in 2002 by St. John Paul II, going on to become one of the most popular saints in Italy, the U.S. and beyond.
Ferrara’s treatment is no biopic, and frankly ignores some of the juiciest bits of the Padre Pio saga, which involved a dozen Vatican investigations into purported dalliances with women, alleged financial improprieties and doubts about the stigmatas. In their place, Ferrara weaves a parallel tale about the beginnings of fascism in Italy that is, unexpectedly, utterly relevant today.
The film takes as its starting point Padre Pio’s arrival at a Capuchin monastery in San Giovanni Rotondo, a poverty-wracked town in southern Italy, at the time its soldiers were returning home from World War I. The town was almost feudal-like, with the Catholic Church and wealthy large landowners trying to hold onto power amid the first inklings of Italy’s post-war socialist movement that saw factory unrest and peasant strikes.
That social unrest erupted into a little-known police massacre of peasants in San Giovanni after the socialists won a 1920 local election, the results of which the entrenched, church-backed ruling class refused to respect. When the winning socialists tried to hang their red flag on the municipal building and install their mayor on Oct. 14, 1920, police were on hand, shots rang out and 14 people were killed and 80 injured. For Ferrara, the “Massacre of San Giovanni Rotondo” helped foretell the spread of fascism in Italy.
Ferrara, who has lived in Italy for some two decades, began making the film five years ago, long before the Jan. 6 insurrection in his native U.S., in which supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol after refusing to respect the results of the 2020 election, or the rise of the far-right Brothers of Italy party in his adopted country. The Brothers of Italy, which has neo-fascist roots, leads the polls ahead of Italian parliamentary elections next month. Add to the mix Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Ferrara sees history repeating itself.
“When Jan. 6 happens after you’ve been working on this film for five years, it’s like: Right, elections are great until you lose,” he said.
The film is dedicated to the victims of the 1920 massacre as well as the people of Ukraine. Why? “What I’m looking at is a rerun of World War II. Seventy-five million people died 70 years ago. That’s like, yesterday. It’s happening right in front of our eyes,” he said.
The context of the film, he said solemnly, is: “You’re looking at the end of the world.”
Ferrara’s concern with Italian history, Catholicism and his fascination with Padre Pio are not new: The Bronx-born Ferrara was raised Catholic and introduced to both Italy and the saint by his grandfather, who was born in a town not far from Padre Pio’s hometown of Pietrelcina.
Those interests have emerged in Ferrara’s more recent films, including “Pasolini” which paid tribute to the scandalous life and violent death of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini and premiered at Venice in 2014; and “Mary,” about an actor (Juliette Binoche) playing Mary Magdalene in a film, which won the Grand Jury prize at Venice in 2005.
Both “Pasolini” and “Padre Pio” relied heavily on the diaries, writings and documentation of their subjects, and Ferrara first made a documentary about the saint’s life before deciding to zero in on the particular period of his arrival in San Giovanni Rotondo, his doubts about his faith and the events surrounding the 1920 massacre.
“I thought the confluence between the massacre and his stigmata both happening in the same place at the same time … I mean how could you not make a movie about that?” Ferrara said.
But Ferrara is well aware that his early genre work — he has done pornography, rape-revenge, the 1993 cult classic about a corrupt, drug-addicted cop “Bad Lieutenant,” and his earlier “The Driller Killer,” about a New York artist who randomly kills people with a power drill — gave him something of a reputation.
“Given the list of films I’d made you’d be wondering,” Ferrara admits. But he said church officials and the Capuchin friars who advised on set were entirely supportive of the project and its star, LaBeouf, who has admitted to alcoholism and has been accused by a former girlfriend of abuse. LaBeouf spent four months in a California monastery preparing for the role, Ferrara said, and has said the chance to play “Padre Pio” was a miracle for him personally.
“It’s just that these cats have got that optimistic take,” Ferrara said admiringly of the church. “Don’t judge someone on their worst moment.”
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For more on the Venice Film Festival, visit: www.apnews.com/VeniceFilmFestival | https://www.kron4.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-gritty-cult-director-ferrara-gets-religion-in-padre-pio/ | 2022-08-27T03:28:25Z | https://www.kron4.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-gritty-cult-director-ferrara-gets-religion-in-padre-pio/ | true |
Oracle Homes collapse leaves hundreds in the lurch, but what is the forecast for building a home?
By Antonia O'FlahertyHundreds of property owners were left with unfinished houses as another construction company collapsed this week and more insolvencies are expected to come — so what is the prospect of building a home?
Key points:
- The Australian Constructors Association is calling for the government to look at compensating contractors for price rises
- The Master Builders Association says what the next 12 months hold is still uncertain
- The experts agree that the industry's cashflow challenge is beginning to improve, but there will be more challenges to come
About 300 policyholders are waiting anxiously for support after Oracle Platinum Homes went into voluntary administration owing about $14 million.
Master Builders Queensland chief executive Paul Bidwell said he was confident there would be "pain" for the Queenslanders involved, but "ultimately their houses will be built".
Oracle is just the latest of dozens of construction companies to have gone to the wall amid the loss-making building boom.
Mr Bidwell said trade and material shortages and cost hikes were still impacting all sectors of the industry, but there were pockets of improvement.
"There is no clear indication that the situation is going to revert to something more manageable until the back half of 2023," he said.
"Some builders are saying, 'Look, we think we're on top of all the material price rises' — others are saying, 'Far from it.'"
Australian Constructors Association chief executive Jon Davies said in a 12-month period contractors had seen price increases of up to 70 per cent, but they were required to lock in prices long in advance.
"Why should anyone pay less for something than the actual cost if this has happened through no fault of the contractor other than not having an accurate enough crystal ball?" he said.
"Really the government can lead the way here and look at compensating contractors for these price rises.
"That money then feeds down and out through the complex networks of suppliers and consultants."
Cashflow problems fading
Housing Industry Association chief economist Tim Reardon said the bulk of the cashflow issues facing the industry was behind it and that material shortages had eased, but the challenges were not over.
"What we're seeing at the moment is that the rise in the cash rate that started back in May is starting now to bite, and we know that rising the cash rate is going to cause the market to slow," he said.
Mr Bidwell believed builders were more accustomed to dealing with those issues than they were 18 months ago and were hopefully communicating increased costs and time frames with customers to allay concerns.
"But ultimately the consumers will vote with their feet," he said.
The volume of homes under construction is expected to decrease over the next three years but remain higher than pre-pandemic levels.
The time-frame of building houses has blown out to 12 months, but Mr Reardon expects that to reduce to pre-pandemic waits of about eight months over the next year.
"When that happens, builders whiplash out the other side of that — they gain back that cashflow challenge they've had and they have the improved efficiency as a consequence of what's happened over the past year," he said.
"We're still likely to see ongoing material price increases and labour is acutely short, and probably the biggest problem we're going to have in 2023 will be a shortage of land.
"It's likely that 2023 will be the year of the knockdown-rebuild because of that — those homes that are getting built will be for people that already own a block of land."
Mr Reardon said as material supplies became more abundant, cashflow problems would get passed up the supply chain to wholesalers and producers.
But he said increases to the cash rate and how that would impact demand would pose the biggest challenge for builders over the next couple of years.
Future insolvencies forecast
Mr Reardon said the industry was nearing the end of the insolvency cycle, with only a relatively small number of firms folding, but it was not over yet.
"Insolvencies in the past 12 months were 28 per cent lower than pre-COVID," he said.
"Now, that's a little misleading, because of course those insolvencies are focused quite intensely over the past four months, on a narrow segment of the building construction sector — residential home builders."
He doubted whether the Australian Taxation Office's freeze on debt recovery had led to the scale of insolvencies predicted by the move.
But Mr Bidwell said the association was concerned about future insolvencies due to debts not being followed up.
He said some builders were hoping they would make profits on contracts signed this year, but they would still have to absorb the losses from 2020 and 2021.
"It's not sustainable to keep on wearing losses month in and month out," he said. | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-27/housing-construction-industry-braces-for-more-uncertainty/101378080 | 2022-08-27T03:31:33Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-27/housing-construction-industry-braces-for-more-uncertainty/101378080 | false |
NEW YORK (AP) — Someone, of course, will end up in the history books as the last opponent of Serena Williams’ stellar career. It could be Danka Kovinic, a 27-year-old from Montenegro who is “honored” to be the first-round U.S. Open foe of someone she remembers watching on TV as a child.
Their match — scheduled for Arthur Ashe Stadium at 7 p.m. on Monday night, Day 1 of the Grand Slam tournament that Williams has indicated will mark her farewell — is the first time the two women have shared a court.
Kovinic’s reaction when she heard about the matchup from her coach: “I was happy; I won’t lie.”
“It’s a privilege to share the court with Serena,” Kovinic said in an interview at Flushing Meadows on Friday. “I just really hope that I can show my good game. Maybe my best game.”
They’ve crossed paths in tour locker rooms over the years, but Kovinic said she never got up the nerve to request a joint practice session.
“I was like, ‘OK, that’s Serena and I am Danka,’” said the 80th-ranked Kovinic, whose best Grand Slam results were reaching the third round at the Australian Open in January and French Open in May before losing at each to a major champion (Iga Swiatek in Melbourne; Simona Halep in Paris). “I didn’t feel like I could approach her to ask.”
Other topics are, or will be, of interest over the coming two weeks, from renewed questions about whether it makes sense for women to use slightly different tennis balls than the men do at Flushing Meadows — this is the only Grand Slam tournament that does that — to Novak Djokovic’s absence due to being unvaccinated against COVID-19, to Rafael Nadal’s pursuit of a 23rd major title despite a recent recovery from a torn abdominal muscle, to Emma Raducanu’s return to the site of her out-of-nowhere run from qualifier to Slam champion a year ago in New York.
And on and on.
But for now, and especially on Monday, nothing — and no one — in tennis matters as much as Williams.
“ Serena is an icon. If I wasn’t playing her on Monday, I wouldn’t have all this attention. I’m aware of that,” Kovinic said. “So it’ll be a very nice experience and, at the same moment, maybe a little bit stressful. Of course I will feel pressure. But I will try to turn it into something positive.”
What is she most eager to find out about Williams’ game?
“Everything,” Kovinic said with a chuckle. “I know she hits hard, but I don’t know how different that is from the other girls I play.”
Other players can imagine what these circumstances might feel like for Kovinic, who has a 2-4 career record at the U.S. Open — 104 fewer match wins at the place than 23-time Grand Slam champ Williams, who turns 41 on Sept. 26.
“It’s a tough one,” said Caroline Garcia, who is seeded 17th and could meet Williams if both reach the semifinals. “Danka knows that she’s going to step on court with every single person there against her. When Serena was playing in the past, the atmosphere already was electric, so I can’t imagine what it’ll be out there now.”
Garcia is coming off a title last week at Cincinnati, where Williams lost her opening match 6-4, 6-0 to Raducanu.
“I couldn’t think about who was on the other side of the court, because I knew as soon as I did, my mind would probably start going,” Raducanu said about taking on Williams. “So I just had to take it, look at the ball, not think about anything else.”
Kovinic says she generally tries to worry only about herself and her tactics, rather than what’s happening on the other side of the net.
No matter who is on the other side of the net.
Might be a tad different this time.
“It’s like: I know what to expect,” said Kovinic, the only woman to win a Grand Slam match while representing Montenegro. “And at the same time, I don’t know what to expect.”
Fans who attend the match, or watch on TV, “don’t know much about me,” Kovinic said.
So she offered a bit of a scouting report: Like Williams — well, maybe not quite like Williams, Kovinic said with a laugh — she relies on a big first serve. She can win points with her forehand. She mixes spins.
Her biggest victory probably came against Raducanu in Australia this year.
“She was really, really solid, was staying with you, counterpunching. Then, after you drop one short after a long rally, she would attack,” Raducanu said.
Kovinic has never played a match in Ashe.
Never even hit a ball in the 23,771-capacity stadium, the largest Slam stage, although she was hoping to get the chance to practice there over the weekend. She did venture inside more than a decade ago, as a teen entered in the junior competition, to sit in the upper reaches of the stands and watch Kim Clijsters play.
“It was spectacular,” she said. “From up above, the court looks so tiny. I assume it will be a completely different feeling when I step on the ground down there.”
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AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 360training, a leading regulatory and compliance training platform, is pleased to announce its recent acquisition of TIPSalcohol.com, the leading affiliate of TIPS (Training for Intervention ProcedureS) alcohol safety training, expanding the accessibility of TIPS training online.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "Lucky Day Lotto" game were:
04-09-27-30-42
(four, nine, twenty-seven, thirty, forty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $100,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "Lucky Day Lotto" game were:
04-09-27-30-42
(four, nine, twenty-seven, thirty, forty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $100,000 | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lucky-Day-Lotto-game-17401657.php | 2022-08-27T03:44:59Z | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lucky-Day-Lotto-game-17401657.php | true |
Are you tonight’s lucky winner? Grab your tickets and check your numbers. The Mega Millions lottery jackpot reset after someone won one of the largest lottery jackpots in history on July 29.
Here are the winning numbers in Friday’s drawing:
06-27-30-38-64; Mega Ball: 23; Megaplier: 2X
The estimated jackpot for the drawing is $135 million. The cash option is about $75.8 million. If no one wins, the jackpot climbs higher for the next drawing.
According to the game’s official website, the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.
Players pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers -- five different numbers from 1 to 70 and one number from 1 to 25 -- or select Easy Pick. A player wins the jackpot by matching all six winning numbers in a drawing.
Jackpot winners may choose whether to receive 30 annual payments, each five percent higher than the last, or a lump-sum payment.
Mega Millions drawings are Tuesdays and Fridays and are offered in 45 states, Washington D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets cost $2 each. | https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/2022/08/mega-millions-numbers-are-you-the-lucky-winner-of-fridays-135-million-jackpot.html | 2022-08-27T03:46:09Z | https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/2022/08/mega-millions-numbers-are-you-the-lucky-winner-of-fridays-135-million-jackpot.html | false |
On Friday, the giant slide on Belle Isle Park reopened. It closed last week Friday after receiving widespread notoriety for the wrong reasons.
There were videos of people tumbling and bouncing hard down the slide that went viral last weekend.
My lil sis got on the giant slide at belle isle 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/XeczOBwybu
— Autumn & Myah (@myleafz) August 22, 2022
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said it made some small adjustments to smoothen and slow down the ride.
Friday, there was nonstop action with a steady stream of riders. Some went down several times, while others backed out.
Some, like 10-year-old Robert Gannon, had a change of heart, backing out when they reached the top.
“I rather check myself before I wreck myself," Gannon said.
It was a smooth ride for most as long as they followed instructions and leaned forward.
“When I went down that time, I like flew. Not really high, even though I was leaning forward,” Piper Brook, 7, said.
Tondia White, who took a hard tumble, said with a laugh, “It was horrible. No, it was.”
Jayden Talbert, a small kid who rotated and bumped his head explained, “I was trying to lean forward but I leaned back, and it was kind of scary.”
Sarah Horton and Jeremy Cohen said they're in Detroit from the East Coast.
“We were scared. I’m not going to lie — going on," Horton chuckled.
"Adrenaline’s pumping and then all of a sudden, you see more news crews. Maybe it’s getting a little more intense than I thought when I first got here," Cohen explained.
Rapper Gmac Cash, who made a song about the slide that’s gone viral, showed up. He said he was preparing to shoot a music video for the song.
“I'm loving the feedback for sure, man," Gmac Cash said.
Nicoli Novak, 53, said, "I think it’s wonderful. I lived in Detroit all my life, and [with] the stigma, and I know some people want to think negative about it, but I think it’s just really fun. I think a lot of fun. I think a lot of us have used the slide in the 70s. Had a great time."
“And so, we’re having a great time — young and old," she added.
Joy Jackson, 62, said, “Amazing time. It takes you back to the child within.”
After working up the courage to ride the slide himself, 7 Action News Reporter Darren Cunningham went twice.
“All in all, it’s a lot of fun. But if you plan to ride the giant slide, be sure to follow instructions and lean forward,” Cunningham said.
The DNR said the slide will be open Fridays through Sundays until Labor Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For each ride down the slide, the DNR charges $1, and all riders must be at least 48 inches tall. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/popular-michigan-slide-reopens-after-slick-experience-dangerously-jetted-riders | 2022-08-27T03:49:26Z | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/popular-michigan-slide-reopens-after-slick-experience-dangerously-jetted-riders | false |
Could a Penelope Cosmetics be in the works?
After all, the 10-year-old daughter of Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick seems to have her beauty routine down. In TikTok video posted on Aug. 26 Penelope Disick proved she's the next influencer to watch from the Kardashian-Jenner clan by showing off her makeup application skills. She captioned the clip, "Have a good morning."
Penelope started her video by putting on a pink headband to ensure she didn't get any product on her hair. In an absolute pro move, she then prepared her skin with a serum before beginning what looked to be a contouring process.
After applying concealer under her eyes, under her cheekbones and forehead, she blended the product into her skin using a Beauty Blender. To add a little sparkle, Penelope dabbed on a bit of eyeshadow to her lids.
And because the Kardashian-Jenner family is one that has always been each other's backs, she used a balm and lip gloss from aunt Kylie Jenner's Kylie Cosmetics line for her pout. Penelope capped off her look with a swipe of mascara.
Being the natural beauty content creator that she is, Penelope took off her headband to give viewers a look at the finished results, waving goodbye to the camera.
What can we say? It runs in the family. | https://www.eonline.com/news/1343804/kourtney-kardashian-s-daughter-penelope-disick-proves-she-s-taken-after-kylie-jenner-s-love-of-makeup?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-08-27T03:56:04Z | https://www.eonline.com/news/1343804/kourtney-kardashian-s-daughter-penelope-disick-proves-she-s-taken-after-kylie-jenner-s-love-of-makeup?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | true |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
7-8-9-7, FIREBALL: 1
(seven, eight, nine, seven; FIREBALL: one)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
7-8-9-7, FIREBALL: 1
(seven, eight, nine, seven; FIREBALL: one) | https://www.registercitizen.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Night-game-17401755.php | 2022-08-27T03:57:51Z | https://www.registercitizen.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Night-game-17401755.php | false |
The New Braunfels Utilities officials have announced traffic impacts as the utility’s Surface Water Treatment Plant improvement project continues on schedule with the installation of 24-inch and 30-inch water lines from East Common Street to Gruene Road.
Pesado Construction, NBU’s contractor, will close part of Rivercrest Drive between Loop 337 and Fair Lane beginning Monday through Sept. 16 to perform the open-cut pipe installation.
“One-way traffic control with a detour route on Hillcrest Drive will be in place along Rivercrest Drive,” said Pam Quidley, NBU’s communications and external affairs manager. “Vehicular traffic should expect delays, varying lane conditions, and flaggers directing traffic. Access to homes and businesses will be maintained for the duration of construction. The project will provide additional transmission capacity to deliver clean, high-quality drinking water to our community now and decades into the future.”
NBU anticipates the completion of the more than $11.5 million project in the spring of 2023.
Work also continues on the Castell Avenue water line project, which will provide an additional 24-inch transmission mainline needed to send water from downtown to the County Line ground storage tank and surrounding areas and replace aging water and sewer lines.
Castell Avenue and Elm Street will be closed from Monday to Thursday, and Castell Avenue and Faust Street will be closed through Wednesday.
Coll Street to San Antonio Street will be closed daily from 1-11 a.m. through November. Late night and morning construction work will be done to allow for the flow of vehicular and pedestrian traffic during the day and to help minimize construction interruptions for area businesses.
Work also continues on the $425,000 East South Street and South Central Avenue water line realignment project, part of NBU’s general aging water infrastructure upgrade plan.
The project will relocate and replace about 900 linear feet of the existing six-inch water line between South Union Avenue and South Houston Avenue with an eight-inch water line. Additionally, the project will relocate about 100 linear feet of the existing eight-inch water line from the East South Street intersection toward Common Street.
The following streets will experience frequent lane closures and traffic detours:
• South Central Avenue from Common Street to East South Street until September.
• Common Street at South Central Avenue — one lane closure on the eastbound/northbound side from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday.
• Customers in the area will be without water for an all-day shutdown while service lines are tied-in to the new water main. NBU will give 48-hour advance notice.
• Residents may experience minor detours until September for crews to access their property for a short period while water main line and customer service line tie-ins occur.
NBU provides up-to-date traffic impacts for capital improvement projects at nbutexas.com/current-construction-impacts-and-road-closures and on its Facebook and Twitter social media channels.
All work is expected to be completed as scheduled, weather permitting. | https://herald-zeitung.com/community_alert/new-braunfels-utilities-street-closures-to-continue/article_919a0af8-258f-11ed-913f-d74a24dc9432.html | 2022-08-27T03:57:57Z | https://herald-zeitung.com/community_alert/new-braunfels-utilities-street-closures-to-continue/article_919a0af8-258f-11ed-913f-d74a24dc9432.html | true |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Quick Draw Evening" game were:
02-06-14-18-20-24-32-38-43-48-53-60-61-62-64-67-69-70-73-74, BE: 74
(two, six, fourteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-four, thirty-two, thirty-eight, forty-three, forty-eight, fifty-three, sixty, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-four, sixty-seven, sixty-nine, seventy, seventy-three, seventy-four; BE: seventy-four) | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Quick-Draw-Evening-game-17401760.php | 2022-08-27T03:58:48Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Quick-Draw-Evening-game-17401760.php | true |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
09-19-23-24-33
(nine, nineteen, twenty-three, twenty-four, thirty-three)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
09-19-23-24-33
(nine, nineteen, twenty-three, twenty-four, thirty-three) | https://www.mysanantonio.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17401706.php | 2022-08-27T04:02:12Z | https://www.mysanantonio.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17401706.php | false |
Dodgers sixth. Will Smith doubles to deep right field. Max Muncy pops out to shortstop to Miguel Rojas. Justin Turner singles to left field. Will Smith to third. Chris Taylor out on a sacrifice fly to center field to JJ Bleday. Will Smith scores. Cody Bellinger flies out to deep center field to JJ Bleday.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Dodgers 1, Marlins 0.
Marlins sixth. Peyton Burdick singles to left field. Jon Berti pops out to shallow left field to Justin Turner. Miguel Rojas reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Peyton Burdick to second. Throwing error by Justin Turner. Brian Anderson walks. Miguel Rojas to second. Peyton Burdick to third. Joey Wendle doubles to right field. Brian Anderson to third. Miguel Rojas scores. Peyton Burdick scores. Garrett Cooper strikes out swinging. Nick Fortes grounds out to shortstop, Trea Turner to Freddie Freeman.
2 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Marlins 2, Dodgers 1.
Dodgers seventh. Trayce Thompson singles to right field. Mookie Betts homers to left field. Trayce Thompson scores. Trea Turner singles to left field. Freddie Freeman strikes out swinging. Will Smith grounds out to shortstop. Trea Turner out at second.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Dodgers 3, Marlins 2.
Marlins seventh. Jacob Stallings singles to center field. JJ Bleday walks. Jacob Stallings to second. Peyton Burdick pops out to Will Smith. Jon Berti walks. JJ Bleday to second. Miguel Rojas singles to right field. Jon Berti to second. JJ Bleday to third. Luke Williams scores. Brian Anderson strikes out swinging. Joey Wendle singles to shallow infield. Miguel Rojas to second. Jon Berti to third. JJ Bleday scores. Garrett Cooper strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Marlins 4, Dodgers 3.
Dodgers ninth. Trayce Thompson grounds out to third base, Joey Wendle to Lewin Diaz. Mookie Betts homers to left field. Trea Turner flies out to deep left field to Peyton Burdick. Freddie Freeman singles to right field. Will Smith walks. Freddie Freeman to second. Max Muncy walks. Will Smith to second. Freddie Freeman to third. Justin Turner singles to center field. Max Muncy to second. Will Smith to third. Freddie Freeman scores. Chris Taylor strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Dodgers 5, Marlins 4.
Marlins ninth. Peyton Burdick homers to center field. Jon Berti grounds out to shallow infield, David Price to Freddie Freeman. Miguel Rojas reaches on error. Fielding error by Trea Turner. Brian Anderson reaches on error. Miguel Rojas to second. Throwing error by Justin Turner. Joey Wendle grounds out to shallow infield, David Price to Freddie Freeman. Brian Anderson to second. Miguel Rojas to third. Charles Leblanc pinch-hitting for Cole Sulser. Charles Leblanc flies out to left field to Trayce Thompson.
1 run, 1 hit, 2 errors, 2 left on. Dodgers 5, Marlins 5.
Dodgers tenth. Cody Bellinger singles to shallow infield. Chris Taylor to third. Trayce Thompson strikes out swinging. Mookie Betts doubles to deep left field. Cody Bellinger to third. Chris Taylor scores. Trea Turner singles to center field. Mookie Betts to third. Cody Bellinger scores. Freddie Freeman doubles to deep center field. Trea Turner to third. Mookie Betts scores. Will Smith pops out to second base to Miguel Rojas. Max Muncy doubles. Freddie Freeman scores. Trea Turner scores. Justin Turner flies out to shallow right field to Brian Anderson.
5 runs, 5 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Dodgers 10, Marlins 5.
Marlins tenth. Nick Fortes grounds out to shallow infield, Brusdar Graterol to Freddie Freeman. Lewin Diaz pops out to shortstop to Justin Turner. JJ Bleday doubles. Joey Wendle scores. Peyton Burdick grounds out to second base, Chris Taylor to Freddie Freeman.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Dodgers 10, Marlins 6. | https://www.registercitizen.com/sports/article/L-A-Dodgers-Miami-Runs-17401703.php | 2022-08-27T04:02:15Z | https://www.registercitizen.com/sports/article/L-A-Dodgers-Miami-Runs-17401703.php | false |
Chandigarh: The city reported 55 fresh cases of Covid-19 on Friday. There were 338 active cases. A 62-year-old woman from Sector 30, who was also suffering from multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, died of Covid at the Mukat hospital. TNS
28 more contract virus in Mohali
Mohali: The district reported 28 new cases of Covid during the past 24 hours, while 63 patients were cured of the disease. The active caseload stands at 287 in the district. TNS
42 test positive in Panchkula district
Panchkula: Forty-two persons tested positive for Covid during the past 24 hours, while 46 patients were cured of the disease in the district. There was no new fatality and the active caseload dropped to 126. | https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/chandigarh-sees-55-covid-cases-1-death-425730 | 2022-08-27T04:06:31Z | https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/chandigarh-sees-55-covid-cases-1-death-425730 | false |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
4-5-6
(four, five, six)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
4-5-6
(four, five, six) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Evening-game-17401665.php | 2022-08-27T04:08:49Z | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Evening-game-17401665.php | true |
Mets top Rockies 7-6 on Alonso’s walk-off single in 9th
By SCOTT ORGERA
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Mark Canha hit two clutch doubles and Pete Alonso singled home the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the New York Mets a 7-6 victory over the Colorado Rockies. Brett Baty launched his second major league homer and Starling Marte had a two-run triple for the NL East leaders, who have won the first two games of the four-game series. Canha put the Mets ahead 4-3 with an RBI double in the sixth. Elias Díaz laced a three-run double that gave Colorado a 6-4 advantage in the eighth, but Canha tied it with a two-run double in the bottom half. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/26/mets-top-rockies-7-6-on-alonsos-walk-off-single-in-9th/ | 2022-08-27T04:09:12Z | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/26/mets-top-rockies-7-6-on-alonsos-walk-off-single-in-9th/ | false |
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), announces that KSF has commenced an investigation into Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NasdaqGS: SPPI).
On August 6, 2021, the Company disclosed the receipt of a Complete Response Letter ("CRL") from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") regarding the application for its drug candidate, ROLONTIS, that highlighted manufacturing deficiencies and indicated that a reinspection of the Company's manufacturing facility would be necessary.
Thereafter, the Company and certain of its executives were sued in a securities class action lawsuit, charging them with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period in violation of federal securities laws, which remains ongoing.
KSF's investigation is focusing on whether Spectrum's officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to its shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws.
If you have information that would assist KSF in its investigation, or have been a long-term holder of Spectrum shares and would like to discuss your legal rights, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-sppi/ to learn more.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
Contact:
Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
Lewis Kahn, Managing Partner
lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com
1-877-515-1850
1100 Poydras St., Suite 3200
New Orleans, LA 70163
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Keno" game were:
02-10-11-18-21-23-29-31-32-37-41-42-47-52-61-68-70-75-79-80
(two, ten, eleven, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-three, twenty-nine, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-seven, forty-one, forty-two, forty-seven, fifty-two, sixty-one, sixty-eight, seventy, seventy-five, seventy-nine, eighty) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-17401768.php | 2022-08-27T04:09:53Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-17401768.php | true |
ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:
06-27-30-38-64, Mega Ball: 23, Megaplier: 2
(six, twenty-seven, thirty, thirty-eight, sixty-four; Mega Ball: twenty-three; Megaplier: two)
ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:
06-27-30-38-64, Mega Ball: 23, Megaplier: 2
(six, twenty-seven, thirty, thirty-eight, sixty-four; Mega Ball: twenty-three; Megaplier: two) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Mega-Millions-game-17401700.php | 2022-08-27T04:12:13Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Mega-Millions-game-17401700.php | false |
Diamondbacks second. Christian Walker singles to center field. Daulton Varsho singles to right center field. Christian Walker to third. Jordan Luplow walks. Daulton Varsho to second. Alek Thomas out on a sacrifice fly to Eloy Jimenez. Daulton Varsho to third. Christian Walker scores. Carson Kelly pops out to shallow center field to Romy Gonzalez. Geraldo Perdomo walks. Jordan Luplow to second. Josh Rojas doubles to deep left field. Geraldo Perdomo scores. Jordan Luplow scores. Daulton Varsho scores. Emmanuel Rivera homers to left field. Josh Rojas scores. Ketel Marte flies out to deep left field to Eloy Jimenez.
6 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Diamondbacks 6, White sox 0.
Diamondbacks third. Christian Walker strikes out swinging. Daulton Varsho homers to center field. Jordan Luplow flies out to deep center field to Adam Engel. Alek Thomas strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Diamondbacks 7, White sox 0.
White sox fourth. Jose Abreu flies out to deep center field to Alek Thomas. Eloy Jimenez walks. AJ Pollock doubles to deep left field. Eloy Jimenez to third. Elvis Andrus grounds out to shortstop, Geraldo Perdomo to Christian Walker. Eloy Jimenez scores. Josh Harrison grounds out to shallow infield, Emmanuel Rivera to Christian Walker.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Diamondbacks 7, White sox 1.
White sox ninth. Carlos Perez pinch-hitting for Gavin Sheets. Carlos Perez flies out to shallow left field to Geraldo Perdomo. AJ Pollock homers to center field. Elvis Andrus grounds out to shortstop, Emmanuel Rivera to Christian Walker. Josh Harrison hit by pitch. Adam Engel reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Josh Harrison out at second.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Diamondbacks 7, White sox 2. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Arizona-Chicago-White-Sox-Runs-17401694.php | 2022-08-27T04:13:13Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Arizona-Chicago-White-Sox-Runs-17401694.php | false |
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The Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan established Umai National Award in the field of Art . The applications submission is underway at Astana Opera. The competition is aimed at supporting teams and individual artists for significant creative achievements and outstanding professional advances. The award ceremony for the 2022 winners will be held in a festive atmosphere on December 23 at the Astana Opera Grand Hall.
As the press office of Astana Opera informs, a pplications including all the necessary documents are accepted by email, indicated on the opera house’s official website. The Umai award is presented in four main nominations: Theatrical Art, Musical and Performing Arts, Choreographic Art, Fine and Decorative and Applied Arts, each with its own prizes.
The Theatre Arts nomination includes seven separate awards: Opera Art (for best male and female parts in an opera), Acting Skills (for best male and female roles in a dramatic or musical-dramatic performance: operetta, musical, rock opera, musical comedy), Best Stage Directing, Best Design, Best Musical and Dramatic Performance.
Another 3 awards will be given out to the winners in the Musical Performing Arts nomination: Best Traditional Performer (singing), Best Traditional Performer (instrumental), and Best Musical Ensemble (classical or folk).
Five monetary prizes, including Best Dance Collective (folk, modern or variety dance ensemble), Best Performer in a Ballet (male and female ballet soloists), Best Choreographer, Best Ballet Performance, will be awarded in the Choreographic Art nomination.
The Best Work of Decorative and Applied Art nomination is intended for craftspeople, who will receive the Best Work of Decorative and Applied Art award. Two Fine and Decorative and Applied Art prizes will be awarded to the work of a painter/graphic artist, as well as a project in contemporary art (performances, installations, art objects, etc.).
In addition, as part of the Umai-2022 award, the Best Children’s Performance special prize, marking the Year of Children in Kazakhstan, was established.
«The main goal of the award is to popularize and develop creative achievements of outstanding representatives of national culture and art,» Galym Akhmedyarov, Astana Opera’s general director, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan, noted. «From its results, we expect the emergence of new names of creative personalities, innovative trends in the development of national culture and art. The award is also aimed at stimulating mastership, creating opportunities for preserving and enhancing the best traditions in the fields of theatrical, musical, choreographic, fine and decorative and applied arts of Kazakhstan, as well as attracting attention, including that of the international cultural community, to outstanding figures of culture and art of Kazakhstan and creative projects in our country.»
In 2022, both creative teams and performers can be nominated for their work in two theatrical (concert) seasons: September 2020 – July 2021, September 2021 – July 2022.
It should be noted that the organizing committee and the panel of experts, which will be making the selections, has already been formed. It includes well-known personalities in the fields of art, in which they will be choosing the best of the best. Applications will be accepted until December 9.
Kazakhstanis awarded the title of laureates of international and republican competitions, festivals and exhibitions, as well as candidates whose works contribute to the development of culture and art of Kazakhstan, are eligible to apply for the Umai award. Candidates can be nominated by republican, regional or local authorities, cultural organizations, non-governmental organizations and public associations, creative unions and associations, educational institutions in the field of culture and art. | https://www.kt.kz/eng/society/days_of_kazakhstan_sinema_held_in_prague_1377938728.html | 2022-08-27T04:23:52Z | https://www.kt.kz/eng/society/days_of_kazakhstan_sinema_held_in_prague_1377938728.html | true |
ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:
06-27-30-38-64, Mega Ball: 23, Megaplier: 2
(six, twenty-seven, thirty, thirty-eight, sixty-four; Mega Ball: twenty-three; Megaplier: two)
ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:
06-27-30-38-64, Mega Ball: 23, Megaplier: 2
(six, twenty-seven, thirty, thirty-eight, sixty-four; Mega Ball: twenty-three; Megaplier: two) | https://www.milfordmirror.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Mega-Millions-game-17401700.php | 2022-08-27T04:28:10Z | https://www.milfordmirror.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Mega-Millions-game-17401700.php | false |
What $700K Buys In Meridian-Kessler And Downtown
DOES THE IDEA of a Roaring Twenties foursquare in Meridian-Kessler make your heart go pitter-patter, or would a sleek downtown condo just five blocks from Mass Ave be more exhilarating? Both properties are packed with desirable features and amenities. And while the asking prices are nearly identical, the vibes and the neighborhoods are distinctly their own.
With peaceful streets sheathed with mature trees and meticulously preserved historic homes, Meridian-Kessler is widely considered the most elegant address in Indy. The brick foursquare shows virtually no signs of its approaching 100th birthday, standing proudly with classic curb appeal. Its interior is bright and welcoming, with a light color palette that draws attention to the original woodwork throughout. One of the two fireplaces sits just off the kitchen, warming up a cozy breakfast nook. The remodeled basement offers tons of space for a home theater or rec area.
5241 Washington Blvd., Meridian-Kessler
Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2.5 Square Footage: 3,448 Year built: 1928
Winning Extra: Exterior limestone inlays Asking Price: $699,000; F.C. Tucker
Downtown, meanwhile, the condo sits across the street from the Indiana War Memorial. Every last thing has been updated. The open concept is ideal for entertaining, with the high-end muscle of JennAir appliances in the kitchen to make those party preparations a non-issue. Its sixth-floor views are unbeatable, thanks to floor-to-ceiling windows throughout. An amazing private rooftop deck brings another opportunity to watch the city come to life at night.
429 N. Pennsylvania St., Unit 603, Downtown
Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square Footage: 1,628 Year built: 2008
Winning Extra: Heated floors in the primary bath Asking Price: $699,000; @properties
These homes were on the market at the time this article was written, but one or both may have been sold by the time this reaches you. | https://www.indianapolismonthly.com/lifestyle/home/what-700k-buys-in-meridian-kessler-and-downtown | 2022-08-27T04:30:08Z | https://www.indianapolismonthly.com/lifestyle/home/what-700k-buys-in-meridian-kessler-and-downtown | false |
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The NAACP is supporting efforts to bar a New Mexico-based county commissioner from public office, alleging that the Cowboys for Trump cofounder has sought to disenfranchise voters — including people of color — and stoke insurrection.
The nation’s oldest civil rights organization urged a state district court judge to remove and disqualify Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin from holding future public office, noting Griffin’s presence at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection and his recent refusal to certify local results of New Mexico’s June 7 primary election.
Written final arguments and judgement are pending after a two-day bench trial against Griffin, who has represented himself without legal counsel.
In a court filing Tuesday, the NAACP noted that Griffin attempted to draw comparisons between the Jan. 6 insurrection and the Black Lives Matter movement.
“Lawful protests and demonstrations in support of civil rights and the Black Lives Matter movement are fundamentally different from the insurrectionist conduct that occurred on Jan. 6,” the NAACP said in its briefing.
The lawsuit’s three plaintiffs argue that Griffin should be disqualified from holding public office on the basis of a clause in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that holds that anyone who has taken an oath to uphold the Constitution be barred from office for engaging in insurrection or rebellion or giving aid or comfort to the nation’s enemies.
Griffin has invoked free speech guarantees in his defense and argues that removing him from office would cut against the will of the people and set a “dangerous precedent.”
Elected in 2018, Griffin withstood a recall vote last year but isn’t running for reelection or other office in November.
“If the plaintiffs prevail and a single judge subverts the will of the great people of Otero County, it will only be further proof of the tyranny we currently live under,” Griffin said Friday in an email. “There was already a recall effort waged against me after Jan. 6. In that recall effort the people of Otero County spoke and the recall failed.”
Griffin was convicted in federal court of a misdemeanor for entering Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021, without going inside. He was sentenced to 14 days and given credit for time served.
The NAACP has also highlighted attempts by Griffin to invoke the plight of civil rights activists of the 1960s in his own defense. The NAACP briefing also denounces Griffin’s prior criticism of those who support performances at football games of “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing, also known as the Black National Anthem.
In a July 2020 selfie video, Griffin suggested supporters of the Black National Anthem “go back to Africa and form your little football teams over in Africa and you can play on an old beat-out dirt lot.”
Griffin has called his comments a poor choice words to express what he sees as a double standard that holds white people responsible for racist behavior.
“If there was a group of white people wanting to play a ‘white national anthem’ I would have had the same response to them,” Griffin said Friday in response to the NAACP briefing. “And as a white person I’d be disgusted by that idea.”
Griffin voted in June against certification of local primary election results based on a “gut feeling” without specific objections. | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/politics/ap-naacp-supports-removal-of-cowboys-for-trump-cofounder/ | 2022-08-27T04:37:22Z | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/politics/ap-naacp-supports-removal-of-cowboys-for-trump-cofounder/ | true |
WISH-TV is your home for the best high school football coverage in central Indiana as Anthony Calhoun, Charlie Clifford and Angela Moryan bring you highlights of 22 games from week two of the high school football season in The Zone on Friday, August 26.
And after New Palestine’s big win over Decatur Central, Dragons head coach Kyle Ralph joined the show live for a FaceTime Friday conversation. | https://www.wishtv.com/sports/high-school-the-zone/the-zone-august-26-2022/ | 2022-08-27T04:38:42Z | https://www.wishtv.com/sports/high-school-the-zone/the-zone-august-26-2022/ | false |
PLACER COUNTY, Calif. (KRON) — One person died after a wrong-way crash Friday afternoon on State Route 89 in Placer County, California Highway Patrol announced in a press release. The incident happened around 1:20 p.m. when a 43-year-old Vallejo man was driving a white box truck in the area north of Goose Meadows at an unknown speed.
The truck driver crossed the solid double yellow lines and drove into southbound traffic — crashing into three vehicles. According to CHP, these were the three vehicles involved in the crash:
- Black Ford Eco Sport driven
- driven by 42-year-old Tempe, AZ resident
- White Subaru Impreza
- driven by 37-year-old Olympic Valley resident
- Black Subaru Outback
- driven by 42-year-old Truckee resident
The white truck sideswiped the black Ford and black Subaru and then crashed into the white Subaru head-on. The driver of the white Subaru later died from injuries.
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The driver of the black Subaru and a passenger from the white truck were taken to Tahoe Forest Hospital for “minor injuries,” CHP said. As of Friday evening, drugs or alcohol do not appear to be a factor in the collision. | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/vallejo-wrong-way-truck-driver-causes-fatal-crash-in-placer-county-chp/ | 2022-08-27T04:39:36Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/vallejo-wrong-way-truck-driver-causes-fatal-crash-in-placer-county-chp/ | true |
A motorcyclist was injured Friday in a crash with a vehicle at Third and Martin streets, according to a Longmont official.
The crash occurred about 5 p.m.
The motorcyclist was taken to an area hospital with unknown injuries, said Robin Ericson, spokesperson for Longmont Public Safety.
The other vehicle involved in the crash was a black Toyota Sequoia, Ericson said, and the motorcyclist was a man in his 50s.
Additional details about the crash were not immediately available Friday evening.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. — A Benton County man has been arrested and faces charges of sexual indecency with a child.
On Aug. 19, the Bentonville Police Department was notified by Arkansas State Police about a child abuse case reported by First Baptist Church. This led investigators to conduct a search warrant at a residence in Bentonville on the same day.
Police issued a warrant for 32-year-old Keenan Hord on Aug. 23 for charges of sexual indecency with a child. Hord was arrested in Fayetteville on Aug. 25.
After getting a search warrant for Hord's home, multiple electronics were seized. After the electronics were taken in as evidence, court records show Hord left his residence and did not return.
Detectives recovered cell phone conversations from Hord's phone with potential victims, according to the documents.
At the time of Hord's arrest, documents show he had just left a Walmart store in Fayetteville where he purchased a TracFone, which is a prepaid phone.
According to court records, during a hearing on Friday, Aug. 26, it was revealed that through images on Hord's computer, investigators believe there could be 30 or more potential victims.
This is an ongoing investigation and no further details have been released.
Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to contact the Bentonville Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division, non-emergency number at (479) 271-3170.
Court records request a $500,000 cash-only bond due to the likelihood of convictions and possible severe penalties that could be imposed.
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I wonder if any Herald & Review readers stop to appreciate how talented a photographer Clay Jackson is.
The images he captures are consistently solid and several are just stunning. One highlight of a month is when the paper runs "Through His Lens" to showcase his best work.
Clay is the latest in a long line of photojournalists who have served the Decatur news public over the past 50 years.
For instance, Dennis Magee probably is the best combination of photographer and writer the Herald & Review ever had. His contemporary, Dennis Goemaat, practiced a delicate artistry with his lens. Lisa Morrison always looked for the best possible angle for her shots. No one was in touch with the humanity of their subjects as Jan Abbott.
Going further back, Bob “Scoop” Strongman had perhaps the best journalistic instincts. He impressed upon one young reporter the value of being receptive to the constant possibility of news available around him while out on assignment. Being a “swivel head” is what he called the skill. Bob seemed to know everyone, and everyone seemed at ease with him.
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Herb Slodounik earned the respect of the public he served. Ron Ernst exuded a special energy with his photos. Speaking of energy, nothing fired up Doug Gaumon like a fire, accident or other events of what journalists call “spot news.”
These, and others have preserved the moments of young athlete’s glory, of the county fair 4-H winner’s glee and of the firefighter’s grim response to a devastating blaze. The photos convey the emotions and impact of an event in a way words can’t. They put you at the scene.
We are the better for them.
Dick Zaker, Decatur | https://herald-review.com/opinion/letters/letter-h-r-photographers-hit-high-standard/article_8f0b702c-1cd1-11ed-aaa0-0f86c0406ef4.html | 2022-08-27T04:49:41Z | https://herald-review.com/opinion/letters/letter-h-r-photographers-hit-high-standard/article_8f0b702c-1cd1-11ed-aaa0-0f86c0406ef4.html | false |
Given where she's been lately, it should come as no surprise that Megan Thee Stallion has chosen to dispense with pleasantries on her new album. The ferocity of Traumazine begins with its cover, which shows her visage in an emotive triplicate reminiscent of Cerberus, the three-headed hellhound of Greek mythology. In Dante's Inferno, Cerberus resides in the Third Circle of Hell with the gluttons, where he "rends the spirits, flays, and quarters them." As an executioner, Megan is more precise. On the Rico Nasty collaboration "Scary," she renders both her lyrical and physical form as a foreboding omen for her detractors: "Say my name like Candyman, and bitch, you know I'm there / These hoes wish they saw me when they lookin' in the mirror."
Megan is also used to being the life of every party. Her bawdy, unabashed 5'10" presence quickly won her devoted followers, and as her star rose she engaged in rowdy revelry with these loyal supporters at famed roving spaces called "Hottie Parties." She was so eager to please that base — the fans who helped elevate the carnal slow-burn "Big Ole Freak," from her 2018 EP Tina Snow, into her first bona fide hit — that she continued to perform as the good-time gal they had come to love even as she entered what would be the most traumatizing years of her life. Where her debut studio album, 2020's Good News, clanged against the public awareness of that turmoil, Traumazine leans into it: making space for ruminations and grief, managing the swirling emotions produced by years of acrimony and cathartically letting them rise to the surface. In reaching for a more confessional mode, she reaffirms her commitment to talking her talk.
At her best, Megan is a lyrical virtuoso who brings motion and menace to her self-reliant songs, crafting innovative rhyme schemes that both thrill and tantalize and then coating them in her seductive Houston drawl. She bares her teeth on the opening track, "NDA," weaving in and out of Memphis producer Hitkidd's hi-hat heavy production to make mincemeat of multi-syllabics: "They take all the hate that they got for me and they market it / When they shit ain't poppin', they usin' Megan for marketing /And they ain't got enough in they budget for me to talk to them." "Ungrateful," featuring Memphis rapper Key Glock, is in conversation with her cult-favorite "Still Tippin' Freestyle" — doubling down on the whiplashing flows of that verse, she swings her bars around the highs and lows of the melody. The ease with which Megan navigates collaborations with producers and rappers from Memphis only reinforces the strains of the one-time Three 6 Mafia member Gangsta Boo in her DNA. On "Who Me," she corrals Pooh Sheisty, another Memphis native, into form around skipping drums while she quips, "I feel like Biggie, who shot you? But everybody know who shot me, bitch."
Trauma is cyclical, especially when you are forced to process it before the world. Megan's string of accomplishments — three Grammy wins, two chart-topping records and a college degree — has been stymied by a series of misfortunes. In 2019, her mother, a stabilizing figure in her life, died from brain cancer. An ongoing dispute with her label, 1501 Certified Entertainment, has complicated her career. But most pressingly, in 2020, she was shot in an incident involving the rapper and singer Tory Lanez, and the near-constant refutation of her version of events, in both the courtroom and the court of public opinion, has been an obvious drain of her energy. In the songs of Traumazine, she reckons with these events by probing at her own feelings, by returning to familiar haunts, and by reaffirming her skills as one of rap's bar-for-bar heavyweights.
The more introspective tracks, like "Anxiety," perform a sort of sleight of hand, expertly using upbeat production to cover darker material: "If I could write a letter to Heaven / I would tell my mama that I shoulda been listenin'/ And I would tell her sorry that I really been wildin' / And ask her to forgive me, 'cause I really been tryin'," she raps. It's a brave decision to expose her wounds, metaphorically or otherwise, as she has experienced repeated recriminations for that choice. But in this instance, she is not seeking to exonerate herself, but offering insight, showing that even one of rap's most self-confident women can be plagued by the deepest insecurities. "Not Nice" and "Plan B" dispense with the pretense of easing a listener into her frustrations, launching directly into the depths of what feel like venting sessions in a private journal: expletive-laden, unrestrained and uncouth.
For those who have long clamored for Meg to return to the charmingly commanding Foxy Brown-meets-Pimp C character work of Tina Snow, there is plenty of the sample-heavy, raunchy and nonchalant music that defined that era. This reset is exemplified by "Consistency," which uses a sample of The Isley Brothers' "Between the Sheets" as cushion for breezy, brazen raps tailor-made for a late-night Instagram Stories caption. "Ms. Nasty" is a short and pithy return to erotic form, whipping her words around with the force of a lyrical domme. She playfully takes the reins of the beat, which bucks like a mechanical bull, as a clear demonstration of her undeniable control: "P-I-M-P, put it in my pocket / If it ain't 'bout my money or me nuttin', we ain't talkin'."
At a lengthy 18 tracks, some of the album's potency gets diluted by more inert moments. Its formulaic and unmemorable lead single, "Pressurelicious," showcases Future at his most asynchronous. "Sweetest Pie," which caps the album, is an abrupt tonal shift, and seems to serve little purpose beyond guaranteeing a streaming-inflated RIAA certification at the expense of cohesion. Similarly, "Star" is an unexpected and awkward intermission from Megan's more aggressively raunchy melodies.
But for every swing and miss, there is also a statement. Despite Meg's rapid ascent into popstar status, she always roars the loudest for the hometown that molded her, helped craft her sound, and continues to stand beside her. The Juicy J-produced "Southside Royalty Freestyle" stands out as an ode to the Third Coast, placing Megan amongst Houston mainstays Sauce Walka, Lil' Keke and Screwed Up Click's Big Pokey. "It takes 10 female artists to make a Megan Thee Stallion," Sauce Walka boasts on his outro, before reminding everyone of Lil Keke's heralded opening bars on the DJ Screw Houston classic "Pimp tha Pen": "I'm draped up and dripped out." The posse cut again reconnects Megan with the hometown sound, in what feels like a search for comfort. The reminder is necessary because she has grown into a pop-rap luminary, and elsewhere on the album, she stands resolutely in her reputation, as if posing for the cameras. "Her," a paint-by-numbers dance single that beats the Azealia Bankses of the world at their own game, plays like a statement of renewed purpose. In its verses, Megan slyly addresses any barb or insult that could be lobbied at her before the mud-slingers can even bother to hit send: "No matter what they do or say, it ain't no gettin' rid of me."
Megan joins a long line of women seeking agency through music — manifesting her anger, her resentment, and her full-bodied sexuality — attempting to define herself on her own terms after watching the public wrestle her story away from her, leaving her with the carnage. Listening to Traumazine brings to mind another time when one of the world's biggest pop darlings attempted to reclaim her power after a high-profile abuse scandal. For Rihanna, then a superstar in the making, the daring Rated R helped redefine her, changing her image and setting the tone for the rest of her career. While Traumazine is not the transformative pop revelation that Rated R was, it is absolutely a declaration, and at times, a provocation, one in line with her freestyle breakthrough. It is a testament to her skill that she displays such command; it is a shame that she even feels the need to prove herself once again.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
7-8-9-7, FIREBALL: 1
(seven, eight, nine, seven; FIREBALL: one)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
7-8-9-7, FIREBALL: 1
(seven, eight, nine, seven; FIREBALL: one) | https://www.thehour.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Night-game-17401755.php | 2022-08-27T04:57:52Z | https://www.thehour.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Night-game-17401755.php | true |
RPS sets regulations on student cell phone use
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Rochester Public Schools (RPS) has new guidelines for the upcoming school year that will regulate when students can use their cell phones or electronic devices.
“We really feel like as a school we also want to help students understand appropriate use of a device that they’re going to have. It’s going to be apart of all of our lives,” said Jacque Peterson, RPS Chief of Schools.
The district has established a Red Zone/ Green Zone approach.
Green Zone is when phones are allowed to be used:
- Before/After School
- Cafeteria and Hallways
- Lunch/Recess/Passing Time
- When your teacher has the GREEN sign up in class
Red Zone is when phones are not allowed to be used:
- Bathrooms/Locker Rooms
- During class (unless GREEN sign is up)
- Any time a staff member asks you to put it away
- When your teacher has the RED sign up
The guidelines are not a ban on phones in schools. Students can have phones on them but they must be put away during the red zone areas, or when asked by school staff.
Peterson addressed concerns some parents may have about wanting their child to use their phone in emergency situations.
“In terms of crisis, it is true that if there is say. there’s a water leak [or] a water main leak at a school a lot of times our students will connect with their families to let them know they’re safe. But we also want to ensure families that we have a good communication plans,” she said.
Peterson said the guidelines give students expectations on cell phones rules, and can help lower distractions. She said it also can prevent incidents where a phone is used to record someone without their permission.
The district also listed what could happen if the guidelines are not followed:
- 1st Instance: The cell phone/electronic device will be turned-in to the teacher and returned by the teacher at the end of the class period.
- 2nd Instance: The cell phone/electronic device will be turned-in to the teacher and returned at the end of the period by the teacher, who will also contact a parent or guardian.
- 3rd Instance: The cell phone/electronic device will be turned-in to the teacher and returned at the end of the period by the teacher and the office will be notified as a Level 2 referral for administrative follow-up.
- 4th Instance: The cell phone/electronic device will be turned-in to the office and will be returned at the end of the school day by a building administrator, who will contact a parent or guardian, and the student will receive a Level 2 referral.
- 5th Instance: The cell phone/electronic device will be turned-in to the office and returned to a parent or guardian. A building administrator will contact a parent or guardian, the student will receive a Level 2 office referral, and a meeting will be held by administration with the student and a parent or guardian to determine a plan moving forward.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
1-6-7, FIREBALL: 4
(one, six, seven; FIREBALL: four)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
1-6-7, FIREBALL: 4
(one, six, seven; FIREBALL: four) | https://www.theheraldreview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17401757.php | 2022-08-27T05:15:34Z | https://www.theheraldreview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17401757.php | false |
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