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LAVAL, Quebec, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) ( "Company") announced today that it has commenced offers (the "Exchange Offers") to exchange the existing senior notes set forth in the table below (the "Existing Senior Notes") for up to an aggregate principal amount of $4.0 billion (subject to increase or decrease by the Offerors, the "Maximum New Secured Notes Amount") of new secured notes, comprised of (i) up to $2.5 billion in aggregate principal amount (the "Maximum First Lien Notes Amount") of new 11.00% First Lien Secured Notes due 2028 (the "New First Lien Notes") and up to $500.0 million in aggregate principal amount (the "Maximum Second Lien Notes Amount") of new 14.00% Second Lien Secured Notes due 2030 (the "New Second Lien Notes" and, together with the New First Lien Notes, the "New BHC Secured Notes"), in each case, to be issued by the Company, and (ii) $1.0 billion in aggregate principal amount (the "Holdco Notes Amount") of new 9.00% Senior Secured Notes due 2028 (the "Intermediate Holdco Secured Notes" and, together with the New BHC Secured Notes, the "New Secured Notes") to be issued by 1375209 B.C. Ltd. (the "Holdco Issuer" and, together with the Company, the "Offerors"), an existing wholly-owned unrestricted subsidiary of the Company that holds 38.6% of the outstanding issued and common shares of Bausch + Lomb Corporation, in each case, pursuant to the terms described in an Exchange Offer Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement, dated August 30, 2022 (the "Exchange Offer Memorandum").
Certain holders of the Existing Senior Notes (the "Supporting Holders"), who collectively represent approximately 22.8% of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Existing Senior Notes, including approximately (i) 24.2% of the 9.00% Senior Notes due 2025, (ii) 35.1% of the 9.25% Senior Notes due 2026, (iii) 49.8% of the 8.50% Senior Notes due 2027, (iv) 36.5% of the 7.00% Senior Notes due 2028, (v) 26.8% of the 5.00% Senior Notes due 2028, (vi) 10.6% of the 5.00% Senior Notes due 2029, (vii) 5.0% of the 6.25% Senior Notes due 2029, (viii) 17.1% of the 7.25% Senior Notes due 2029 and (ix) 6.0% of the 5.25% Senior Notes due 2031, have entered into a support agreement with the Company (the "Support Agreement"), pursuant to which the Supporting Holders have agreed to tender all of their Existing Senior Notes in the Exchange Offers. The Support Agreement provides that Supporting Holders will have certain consent rights over extensions, amendments or waivers to the Exchange Offers or Consent Solicitations by the Company.
The following table describes certain terms of the Exchange Offers:
The New BHC Secured Notes will be guaranteed by each of the Company's subsidiaries that are guarantors under the Company's existing credit agreement, existing senior secured notes and existing senior notes. The New First Lien Notes will be secured on a first priority basis by liens on the assets that secure the existing credit agreement and existing senior secured notes, and will be effectively pari passu with the existing credit agreement and existing senior secured notes and effectively senior to the New Second Lien Notes and the existing senior notes to the extent of the value of the collateral. The New Second Lien Notes will be secured on a second priority basis by liens on the assets that secure the existing credit agreement and existing senior secured notes, and will be effectively junior to the existing credit agreement, existing senior secured notes and New First Lien Notes and effectively senior to the existing senior notes to the extent of the value of the collateral. The Intermediate Holdco Secured Notes will be general senior obligations of the Holdco Issuer secured by first priority liens on substantially all of the assets of the Holdco Issuer, but will not have any recourse to the Company, Bausch + Lomb Corporation, or any of their respective restricted subsidiaries.
Concurrent with the Exchange Offers, the Company and Bausch Health Americas, Inc. ("BHA") have commenced a solicitation of consents (the "Consent Solicitations" and, together with the Exchange Offers, the "Offers") from Eligible Holders (as defined below) of the Existing Senior Notes to amend certain provisions of the indentures (the "Proposed Amendments") with respect to the applicable series of Existing Senior Notes (such indentures, the "Existing Indentures").
Each Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time on September 27, 2022, or any other date and time to which the Offerors extend such Exchange Offer or Consent Solicitation in their sole discretion (such date and time for such Exchange Offer or Consent Solicitation, as it may be extended, the "Expiration Time"), unless earlier terminated.
To be eligible to receive the applicable total consideration (the "Total Consideration") in the applicable Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation, Eligible Holders must validly tender and not validly withdraw their Existing Senior Notes and validly deliver and not revoke their consents at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 13, 2022, or any other date and time to which the Offerors extend such period for such Exchange Offer or Consent Solicitation in their sole discretion (such date and time for such Exchange Offer or Consent Solicitation, as it may be extended, the "Early Tender Time"). Eligible Holders validly tendering their Existing Senior Notes after the applicable Early Tender Time and at or prior to the Expiration Time will only be eligible to receive the applicable exchange consideration set forth in the table above, subject to the Exchange Consideration Reallocation (the "Exchange Consideration"), which equals the applicable Total Consideration less the applicable Early Exchange Premium set forth in the table above.
Validly tendered Existing Senior Notes may be withdrawn and related consents revoked, with respect to an Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation for any series of Existing Senior Notes at or prior to, and not thereafter (subject to applicable law), in the case of any series of Existing Senior Notes, the earliest of (i) the time of execution of the Supplemental Indenture (as defined below) relating to such series of Existing Senior Notes (which is expected to occur promptly after receipt of the Requisite Consents (as defined below) for such series), (ii) 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 13, 2022, unless extended by the Offerors in their sole discretion (provided the Consent Solicitation with respect to such series of Existing Senior Notes is also terminated as of such date and time) and (iii) the termination of the Consent Solicitation with respect to such series of Existing Senior Notes. The occurrence of such event with respect to a series of Existing Senior Notes is referred to as the "Withdrawal Deadline" for such series of Existing Senior Notes.
If the Exchange Offers are not subscribed in an amount that results in the Holdco Issuer issuing Intermediate Holdco Secured Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to at least the Holdco Notes Amount as consideration to tendering holders of Existing Senior Notes accepted in the Exchange Offers, the applicable Exchange Consideration for each series of Existing Senior Notes of each tendering holder of Existing Senior Notes accepted in the Exchange Offers will be automatically reallocated such that (i) the remaining amount of Intermediate Holdco Secured Notes necessary to reach the Holdco Notes Amount will be issued to such tendering holders whose Existing Senior Notes have been validly tendered and accepted for purchase pursuant to the terms of the Exchange Offers and (ii) any tendering holder to which such reallocation is applied will have a corresponding dollar-for-dollar reduction in the amount of New First Lien Notes and New Second Lien Notes issued to such tendering holders (with such New First Lien Notes and New Second Lien Notes reduced pro rata in accordance with the allocation among such New Secured Notes set forth in the table above) (such reallocation, the "Exchange Consideration Reallocation"). The Holdco Issuer will determine the Exchange Consideration Reallocation in its sole discretion by calculating the percentage increase in the aggregate principal amount of Intermediate Holdco Secured Notes necessary to reach the Holdco Notes Amount and applying such percentage increase to the principal amount of Intermediate Holdco Secured Notes that would have been issued to such holder prior to any reallocation and having a corresponding dollar-for-dollar decrease in the New First Lien Notes and New Second Lien Notes that would have been issued to such holder prior to any reallocation. In addition, the Level 3 Tender Cap limits the maximum aggregate principal amount of the 8.50% Senior Notes due 2027 that may be exchanged at Acceptance Priority Level "3" to $500.0 million; accordingly, acceptance for tenders of any 8.50% 2027 Notes may be subject to proration at Acceptance Priority Level "3" if the aggregate principal amount of 8.50% 2027 Notes validly tendered would result in the aggregate principal amount of 8.50% 2027 Notes exceeding the Level 3 Tender Cap. Any 8.50% 2027 Notes not accepted at Acceptance Priority Level "3" as a result of proration will be exchanged at Acceptance Priority Level "11".
The Offerors expressly reserve the right, but are under no obligation, to increase or decrease the Maximum New Secured Notes Amount, the Maximum First Lien Notes Amount, the Maximum Second Lien Notes Amount, the Holdco Notes Amount and/or the Level 3 Tender Cap set forth in the table above, in each case, at any time, subject to applicable law and any consent rights of the Supporting Holders. This could result in the Offerors purchasing a greater or lesser aggregate principal amount of Existing Senior Notes in the Offers and issuing a greater or lesser aggregate principal amount of New Secured Notes. There can be no assurance that the Offerors will exercise their right to increase or decrease the Maximum New Secured Notes Amount, the Maximum First Lien Notes Amount, the Maximum Second Lien Notes Amount, the Holdco Notes Amount and/or the Level 3 Tender Cap. Further, the Offerors expressly reserve the right, but are under no obligation, to increase or decrease the amount of New First Lien Notes, New Second Lien Notes and/or Intermediate Holdco Secured Notes that comprise the Maximum New Secured Notes Amount and/or the Level 3 Tender Cap, as applicable, at any time, subject to applicable law and any consent rights of the Supporting Holders. This could result in the Offerors issuing a greater or lesser aggregate principal amount of New First Lien Notes, New Second Lien Notes and/or Intermediate Holdco Secured Notes. There can be no assurance that the Offerors will exercise their right to increase or decrease the aggregate principal amount of New First Lien Notes, New Second Lien Notes and/or Intermediate Holdco Secured Notes.
The Offerors will exchange any Existing Senior Notes that have been validly tendered at or prior to the Expiration Time and that they choose to accept for exchange, subject to all conditions to such Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation having been either satisfied or waived by the Offerors, within three business days following the Expiration Time or as promptly as practicable thereafter (the settlement date of such exchange with respect to an Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation being referred to as the "Settlement Date"), subject to the Maximum New Secured Notes Amount, the Exchange Consideration Reallocation, the Acceptance Priority Level and proration.
Subject to the Maximum New Secured Notes Amount, the Level 3 Tender Cap, and proration, all Existing Senior Notes of a series validly tendered at or before the Expiration Time having a higher Acceptance Priority Level will be accepted before any Existing Senior Notes of another series tendered at or before the Expiration Time having a lower Acceptance Priority Level are accepted, even if the Existing Senior Notes having a lower Acceptance Priority Level were tendered prior to the applicable Early Tender Time and the Existing Senior Notes having a higher Acceptance Priority Level were tendered after the Early Tender Time but on or prior to the Expiration Time. Accordingly, even if the Offers are fully subscribed such that the aggregate Exchange Consideration issuable in respect of Existing Senior Notes validly tendered equals at least the Maximum New Secured Notes Amount as of the applicable Early Tender Time, Existing Senior Notes validly tendered at or before the applicable Early Tender Time may be subject to proration if the Offerors accept Existing Senior Notes tendered after the applicable Early Tender Time but on or prior to the Expiration Time that have a higher Acceptance Priority Level than such Existing Senior Notes. In such a scenario, the Offerors will (assuming satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in the Exchange Offer Memorandum with respect to the Offers) accept all validly tendered Existing Senior Notes and related consents, on or prior to the Expiration Time on a prorated basis based on the Acceptance Priority Level such that the aggregate Exchange Consideration equals the Maximum New Secured Notes Amount (subject to rounding down to the nearest $1,000). A Consent Solicitation with respect to a series of Existing Senior Notes will be terminated if either (i) the consents of holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of such series of Existing Senior Notes outstanding (excluding any Existing Senior Notes held by the Company or its affiliates) (with respect to each series of Existing Senior Notes, the "Requisite Consents") for such series are not obtained, or (ii) such series is subject to proration in the related Offer, and in either such case, the applicable Proposed Amendments for such series of Existing Senior Notes will not become effective.
All Existing Senior Notes not accepted as a result of proration will be rejected from the applicable Offer and will be promptly returned to the tendering Eligible Holder.
Existing Senior Notes may be tendered and accepted for exchange only in principal amounts equal to minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof, provided that the New Secured Notes will be issued with minimum denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. If proration causes the Company to return less than the minimum denomination of a series of Existing Senior Notes to an Eligible Holder, then the Offerors will either accept all or reject all of the Existing Senior Notes of such series tendered by such Eligible Holder. The amount of New Secured Notes to be issued to any Eligible Holder will be rounded down to the nearest $1,000. Any fractional portion of New Secured Notes not received as a result of rounding down will be paid in cash.
If the Requisite Consents to the applicable Proposed Amendments are received and not revoked with respect to a series of Existing Senior Notes, the Company or BHA, as the case may be, and the trustee under the Existing Indenture governing such series of Existing Senior Notes are expected to execute a supplemental indenture to such Existing Indenture providing for the Proposed Amendments (with respect to any such series of Existing Senior Notes, a "Supplemental Indenture"), promptly after receipt of such Requisite Consents. The Supplemental Indenture will effect the Proposed Amendments only with respect to such series of Existing Senior Notes for which the applicable Requisite Consents were received and not revoked. The adoption of the Proposed Amendments with respect to any series of Existing Senior Notes is not conditioned upon the consummation of any other Consent Solicitation or adoption of the Proposed Amendments in respect of any other series of Existing Senior Notes or obtaining any Requisite Consent with respect to any other series of Existing Senior Notes. The failure to obtain the Requisite Consents with respect to any series of Existing Senior Notes will not affect the ability of the Company or BHA, as applicable, to enter into the Supplemental Indenture and cause the Proposed Amendments to become effective for any other series of Existing Senior Notes. If an Exchange Offer or the related Consent Solicitation with respect to a series of Existing Senior Notes is terminated or withdrawn, the Existing Indenture governing such series of Existing Senior Notes will remain in effect in its present form with respect to such series of Existing Senior Notes. However, if the Proposed Amendments for a series of Existing Senior Notes become operative, holders of such series of Existing Senior Notes who do not tender Existing Senior Notes will be bound by the applicable Proposed Amendments, meaning that their Existing Senior Notes will be governed by an Existing Indenture as amended by the applicable Supplemental Indenture.
Each Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation is a separate offer and/or solicitation, and each may be individually amended, extended, terminated or withdrawn, subject to certain conditions and applicable law, at any time in the Offerors' sole discretion, subject to the consent rights of the Supporting Holders, and without amending, extending, terminating or withdrawing any other Exchange Offer or Consent Solicitation. No Offer is conditioned upon any minimum principal amount of Existing Senior Notes of any series being tendered nor the consummation of any other Offer or Consent Solicitation. Additionally, notwithstanding any other provision of the Offers, the Offerors' obligations to accept and exchange any of the Existing Senior Notes validly tendered pursuant to an Offer is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions, as described in the Exchange Offer Memorandum, and the Offerors each expressly reserves its right, subject to applicable law, to terminate any Offer and/or Consent Solicitation at any time.
The Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations are being made, and the applicable series of New Secured Notes are being offered, only to holders of the Existing Senior Notes who are either (a) persons other than "U.S. persons" as defined in Regulation S, and who agree to purchase the New Secured Notes outside of the United States, and who are otherwise in compliance with the requirements of Regulation S; or (b) persons who are reasonably believed to be both (i) "qualified institutional buyers" as defined in Rule 144A under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") and to whom the New Secured Notes are offered in the United States in a transaction not involving a public offering, pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and (ii) qualified purchasers (as defined in Section 2(a)(51) of the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; provided that, in each case, if such holder (i) is resident in Canada, such holder is required to complete, sign and submit to the exchange agent a Canadian holder form, which may be obtained from the information agent, or (ii) is in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, such holder is a "qualified investor" and is not a "retail investor". With respect to holders in the European Economic Area, a "retail investor" means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a "retail client" as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, "MiFID II"); or (ii) a "customer" within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or (iii) not a "qualified investor" as defined in Regulation (EU) 2017/1129. The holders of Existing Senior Notes who have certified to the Offerors that they are eligible to participate in the Offers and Consent Solicitations pursuant to at least one of the foregoing conditions are referred to as "Eligible Holders." Eligible Holders may go to www.dfking.com/bhc to confirm their eligibility.
Full details of the terms and conditions of the Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations are described in the Exchange Offer Memorandum. The Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations are only being made pursuant to, and the information in this press release is qualified in its entirety by reference to, the Exchange Offer Memorandum, which is being sent by the Offerors to Eligible Holders of the Existing Senior Notes. Eligible Holders of the Existing Senior Notes are encouraged to read these documents, as they contain important information regarding the Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations. This press release is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any Existing Senior Notes in the Exchange Offers or the Consent Solicitations.
Requests for the Exchange Offer Memorandum and other documents relating to the Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations may be directed to D.F. King & Co., Inc., the exchange agent and information agent for the Offers, at (212) 232-3233 (for banks and brokers only) or (877) 478-5045 (toll-free) (for all others) or bhc@dfking.com.
None of the Company, the Holdco Issuer, any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates, or any of their respective officers, boards of directors or directors, the dealer manager and solicitation agent, the exchange agent and information agent or any trustee is making any recommendation as to whether Eligible Holders should tender any Existing Senior Notes in response to the Exchange Offers or deliver any consents pursuant to the Consent Solicitations and no one has been authorized by any of them to make such a recommendation. Eligible holders must make their own decision as to whether to tender their Existing Senior Notes and deliver consents, and, if so, the principal amount of Existing Senior Notes as to which action is to be taken.
The Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations are not being made to Eligible Holders of Existing Senior Notes in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction. In any jurisdiction in which the Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations are required to be made by a licensed broker or dealer, the Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations will be deemed to be made on behalf of the Company, the Holdco Issuer and BHA, as applicable, by the dealer manager and solicitation agent, or one or more registered brokers or dealers that are licensed under the laws of such jurisdiction.
The New Secured Notes have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act, or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States, except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. The New Secured Notes have not been and will not be qualified for sale to the public by prospectus under applicable Canadian securities laws and, accordingly, any issuance of New Secured Notes in Canada will be made on a basis which is exempt from the prospectus requirements of such securities laws.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the New Secured Notes in the United States and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale of the New Secured Notes in any jurisdiction where such offering or sale would be unlawful. There shall not be any sale of the New Secured Notes in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction.
About Bausch Health Companies Inc.
Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) is a global diversified pharmaceutical company whose mission is to improve people's lives with our health care products. We develop, manufacture and market a range of products primarily in gastroenterology, hepatology, neurology, dermatology, international pharmaceuticals and eye health, through our approximately 88.7% ownership of Bausch + Lomb. With our leading durable brands, we are delivering on our commitments as we build an innovative company dedicated to advancing global health.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release may contain forward-looking statements about the future performance of the Company, which may generally be identified by the use of the words "anticipates," "hopes," "expects," "intends," "plans," "should," "could," "would," "may," "believes," "subject to" and variations or similar expressions. These statements are based upon the current expectations and beliefs of management and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Actual results are subject to other risks and uncertainties that relate more broadly to the Company's overall business, including those more fully described in the Company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and detailed from time to time in the Company's other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Canadian securities administrators, which factors are incorporated herein by reference.
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Cruz continues to punish Brewers in Pirates’ 4-2 victory
By STEVE MEGARGEE
AP Sports Writer
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Oneil Cruz went 2 for 4 with two RBIs and scored the go-ahead run as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 4-2. Cruz hit an RBI single in the third inning and a run-scoring double in the ninth. He also broke a 2-all tie in the eighth when he scored from third as Rodolfo Castro drew a bases-loaded walk from Brad Boxberger. Chase De Jong worked the ninth to earn his first career save. The Pirates have won eight of their last 12 meetings with the Brewers after losing each of their first six matchups this season. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/08/30/cruz-continues-to-punish-brewers-in-pirates-4-2-victory/ | 2022-08-31T04:34:30Z | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/08/30/cruz-continues-to-punish-brewers-in-pirates-4-2-victory/ | true |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
04-13-14-18-20
(four, thirteen, fourteen, eighteen, twenty)
Estimated jackpot: $25,000
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
04-13-14-18-20
(four, thirteen, fourteen, eighteen, twenty)
Estimated jackpot: $25,000 | https://www.theintelligencer.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17409022.php | 2022-08-31T04:37:11Z | https://www.theintelligencer.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17409022.php | true |
ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:
02-38-55-57-65, Mega Ball: 17, Megaplier: 3
(two, thirty-eight, fifty-five, fifty-seven, sixty-five; Mega Ball: seventeen; Megaplier: three)
ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:
02-38-55-57-65, Mega Ball: 17, Megaplier: 3
(two, thirty-eight, fifty-five, fifty-seven, sixty-five; Mega Ball: seventeen; Megaplier: three) | https://www.theintelligencer.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Mega-Millions-game-17408989.php | 2022-08-31T04:38:13Z | https://www.theintelligencer.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Mega-Millions-game-17408989.php | true |
Dockers heartbroken for hamstrung Fyfe
Fremantle midfielder Caleb Serong says he's heartbroken for Nat Fyfe following the captain's nightmare hamstring setback, but he's backing the group to cover the loss.
Fyfe has been ruled out of Saturday night's AFL elimination final against the Western Bulldogs after injuring his right hamstring at training on the weekend.
The two-time Brownlow medallist had only just returned from a three-week lay-off due to a left hamstring strain, and his finals hopes now rest on Fremantle making it deep into September.
Fyfe hasn't played finals since Fremantle's preliminary final appearance in 2015.
It means the soon-to-be 31-year-old has spent some of the best years of his career out of the finals picture, and time is running out for him to win a flag.
"For us, we just feel for Nat more than anything," Serong told SportFM.
"It's just really heartbreaking to be honest because he's put so much work in behind the scenes over the last five, six years to get this club back to finals.
"And to not be there at the weekend - having it stripped away from him at the last minute - is pretty flattening.
"We'll put our arms around him."
Without Fyfe up forward, there will be further pressure placed on returning duo Rory Lobb (shoulder) and Griffin Logue (adductor) to shine in the key attacking posts.
"As a team, we feel like it's the next man up mentality, and we've done that all year," Serong said.
"We've played without (Fyfe) and obviously you can't replace a Nat Fyfe, but we'll do what we can to make the most of the guys that come in."
Although shoulder, back, and hamstring issues meant Fyfe has been a shadow of his former self this year, his experience was set to prove crucial on the finals stage.
With Fyfe now ruled out this weekend and Matt Taberner (calf) unlikely to play, it means almost the entire Dockers team set to face the Bulldogs will be making their finals debut.
Of the players expected to be selected, only David Mundy, James Aish, Michael Walters and Rory Lobb have finals experience.
But Serong is confident there's enough big-game experience among the team and the club's coaching staff to get them through.
"It's not like no one in the building has played in a grand final or finals before," Serong said.
"We've got guys to lean on. We've been really tapping into those resources to understand what it's all about.
"(It's been good) hearing from guys like Dave (Mundy) and Nat (Fyfe) and (assistants) Joel Corey and Matthew Boyd - these guys who have played in big finals, grand finals, won premierships." | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11163265/Dockers-heartbroken-hamstrung-Fyfe.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-31T04:44:16Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11163265/Dockers-heartbroken-hamstrung-Fyfe.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Air traveler complaints up 270% from 2019 levels
Air traveler complaints in June were up a whopping 270% from pre-pandemic levels, according to new U.S. Department of Transportation data released Monday.
Complaints from May to June of this year were up nearly 35% as airlines canceled thousands of flights in the beginning of the summer travel season, the data shows.
"In June 2022, DOT received 5,862 complaints about airline service from consumers, up 34.9% from the 4,344 complaints received in May 2022 and up 269.6% from the 1,586 complaints received in pre-pandemic June 2019," the report states. "For the first six months of 2022, the Department received 28,550 complaints, up 27.8% from the 22,336 filed during the first six months of 2021 and more than the entire year of 2019."
Earlier this month, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg sent a letter to airlines telling them the level of disruptions this summer was "unacceptable."
Buttigieg says the airlines need to make sure they are able to handle their schedules and improve their customer service when flights are canceled.
The DOT plans to post a new online dashboard by Labor Day weekend where passengers can find "easy-to-read, comparative summary information" on what each of the large US airlines provides to passengers when delays or cancellations are caused by factors within the airline's control.
In a recent interview with CNN, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said his airline has been performing well and insists Federal Aviation Administration ground stops are impacting the airline's operation.
"Frankly the bigger challenges are not the airlines themselves, it's all the support infrastructure around aviation that hasn't caught up as quickly," Kirby said.
Buttigieg's recent letter to airlines made only scant reference to the FAA's issues with staffing at air traffic control facilities that have contributed to the cancellations and delays.
On Aug. 15, a shortage of controllers prompted an FAA ground delay warning at New York's big three airports. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/air-traveler-complaints-up-270-from-2019/41019816 | 2022-08-31T04:45:41Z | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/air-traveler-complaints-up-270-from-2019/41019816 | true |
Biden declares emergency over Mississippi water crisis
By Eric Cox
JACKSON, Miss., Aug 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration approved an emergency declaration over a water crisis in the State of Mississippi and ordered Federal assistance late on Tuesday to supplement the state's response.
"Emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent Federal funding for a period of 90 days," the White House said in a statement https://bit.ly/3TvScpO late Tuesday.
The Biden administration also authorized the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts in the state, the White House said.
Mississippi activated its National Guard on Tuesday to help distribute water to tens of thousands of Jackson residents after a long-troubled treatment plant broke down, leaving most of the state capital without safe running water, possibly for days.
Governor Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency for Jackson and surrounding communities, warning the area's 180,000 people to avoid drinking tap water. He also called up the state National Guard to assist in efforts to bring relief to the city, which was battered by record rainfall and flooding over the weekend.
Tankers distributed non-potable water and bottled drinking water was distributed at several sites, the city said.
The state trucked in 10 tractor-trailers of water on Tuesday and was expecting another 108 trucks in the coming days, state emergency management director Stephen McCraney told reporters.
The breakdown occurred Monday when floodwaters seeped into the understaffed and poorly maintained O.B. Curtis treatment plant. An emergency team had the plant working at 40% capacity on Tuesday, senior state health officer Jim Craig said, and a temporary pump was expected to be installed on Wednesday and increase capacity further.
But the system was still short of sufficient water pressure to guarantee service citywide. Officials said they could not estimate how many homes were cut off.
The shutdown created havoc for businesses, and Jackson public schools, with nearly 21,000 students, were forced to move classes online as they had done during the coronavirus pandemic.
Supermarket shelves were stripped of bottled water, and police in a cruiser alerted people when supplies ran out at one distribution site in a retail parking lot. Volunteers apologized to people when they had no more water to give, urging them to return on Wednesday starting at 5 a.m.
"It's a hurtful feeling when you don't have any water, especially when you've got newborn babies," Monica Lashay Bass, a mother of three, said from her car after queuing up for her allotment of bottled water.
People in Jackson have long complained about their water supply.
A pair of winter storms in February 2021 caused most residents in Jackson to briefly lose running water, and a year ago the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency year ago issued an emergency order saying the water supply could contain E. Coli, according to Mississippi Today.
In 2016, customers were told of high lead levels in the city's water supply caused by recurring faulty water treatment techniques.
At a news conference, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba on Tuesday welcomed the state aid but his comments further exposed a rift between the Republican state officials and the Democratic administration of a city that is more than 80% African-American.
The governor has alleged the water treatment plant suffered from years of city mismanagement, while the mayor accused the state of being absent from efforts to maintain and update the plant.
"We've been going it alone for the better part of two years," Lumumba said. "And now we are excited to finally welcome the state to the table and all the valuable resources that they bring."
Each side had been offered differing accounts of what happened, though they came to agree on significant facts by Tuesday afternoon.
The governor, who previously blamed pump failures, on Tuesday affirmed what the mayor had said: that floodwaters entered the treatment plant, altering the chemistry of the water, rendering the existing treatment inadequate, and forcing a shutdown.
Even before the crisis, the city had been under a boil water notice for the past month due to "elevated turbidity levels," which makes the water appear cloudy.
The White House said on Tuesday that President Joe Biden had been briefed on the situation, and administration officials were in contact with state and local officials, including Lumumba.
Federal agencies were assisting state officials to identify needs and to deliver equipment needed for emergency repairs, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Twitter.
(Reporting by Eric Cox in Jackson, Brendan O'Brien in Chicago, Rich McKay in Atlanta and Daniel Trotta in Carlsbad, Calif., additional reporting by Jaiveer Singh Shekhawat in Bangalore; Editing by Deepa Babington and Stephen Coates) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11163305/Biden-declares-emergency-Mississippi-water-crisis.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-31T04:49:10Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11163305/Biden-declares-emergency-Mississippi-water-crisis.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Tuesday it had uncovered efforts to obstruct its investigation into the discovery of classified documents at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, saying “government records were likely concealed and removed” from a storage room at the property.
The assertion was made in a court filing Tuesday night that lays out the most detailed chronology to date of interactions between Justice Department officials and Trump representatives over the presence of the documents at Mar-a-Lago.
The department says Trump’s lawyers told them in June that all the records that had come from the White House were stored in one location — a Mar-a-Lago storage room — and that “there were no other records stored in any private office space or other location at the Premises and that all available boxes were searched.”
In their search earlier this month, however, agents found classified documents both in the storage room as well as in the former president’s office -- including three classified documents found not in boxes, but in office desks.
Tuesday night's filing also included a photo showing the cover pages of classified documents — and some marked as “TOP SECRET/SCI” with a bright yellow border — laying on a carpet at Mar-a-Lago alongside a box filled with framed pictures, including a Time Magazine cover.
The Justice Department was responding to a request from the Trump legal team for a special master to review the documents seized during the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is set to hear arguments on the matter.
Trump's lawyers last week asked for the appointment of a special master who'd be tasked with reviewing the records taken and setting aside documents protected by claims of legal privilege. Cannon on Saturday said it was her “preliminary intent” to appoint such a person but also gave the Justice Department an opportunity to respond.
On Monday, the department said it had already completed its review of potentially privileged documents and identified a “limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information.”
In a separate development, the Trump legal team has grown with the addition of another attorney. Chris Kise, Florida's former solicitor general, has joined the team of lawyers representing Trump, according to two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss the move by name and spoke on condition of anonymity. Kise did not return messages seeking comment. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/efforts-to-obstruct-probe-of-docs-at-trump-estate/507-2a43bd7e-35c8-4dbb-88d9-38c9c40bbacb | 2022-08-31T04:50:57Z | https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/efforts-to-obstruct-probe-of-docs-at-trump-estate/507-2a43bd7e-35c8-4dbb-88d9-38c9c40bbacb | true |
NEW YORK (AP) — As winter nears, European nations, desperate to replace the natural gas they once bought from Russia, have embraced a short-term fix: A series of roughly 20 floating terminals that would receive liquefied natural gas from other countries and convert it into heating fuel.
Yet the plan, with the first floating terminals set to deliver natural gas by year’s end, has raised alarms among scientists who fear the long-term consequences for the environment. They warn that these terminals would perpetuate Europe’s reliance on natural gas, which releases climate-warming methane and carbon dioxide when it’s produced, transported and burned.
Some scientists say they worry that the floating terminals will end up becoming a long-term supplier of Europe’s vast energy needs that could last years, if not decades. Such a trend could set back emission-reduction efforts that experts say haven’t moved fast enough to slow the damage being done to the global environment.
Much of the liquefied natural gas, or LNG, that Europe hopes to receive is expected to come from the United States. The need arose after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shattered its ties with Europe and led to a cutoff of most of the natural gas that Moscow had long provided. Along the U.S. Gulf Coast, export terminals are expanding, and many residents there are alarmed about the rise in drilling for gas and the resulting loss of land as well as extreme weather changes associated with burning fossil fuels.
“Building this immense LNG infrastructure will lock the world into continued reliance on fossil fuels and continued climate damage for decades to come,” said John Sterman, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Natural gas contributes significantly to climate change — both when it’s burned, becoming carbon dioxide, and through leakages of methane, an even more potent greenhouse gas. Yet European nations, which for years have been leaders in shifting to cleaner energy, have proposed bringing more than 20 floating LNG terminals into their ports to help compensate for the loss of Russia’s natural gas.
The terminals, which tower over homes and stretch nearly 1,000 feet (304 meters), can store roughly 6 billion cubic feet (170,000 cubic meters) of LNG and convert it into gas for homes and businesses. They can be built faster and more cheaply than onshore import terminals, though they’re costlier to operate, according to the International Gas Union.
“Every country needs to prepare for a scenario where there may be a cut in Russian supplies,” said Nikoline Bromander, an analyst with Rystad Energy. “If you are dependent, you need to have a backup plan.”
Many environmental scientists argue that the money being earmarked for the ships — which cost about $500 million each to build, according to Rystad — would be better spent on rapidly adopting clean-energy or efficiency upgrades that could reduce energy consumption.
Constructing more solar or wind farms, which takes years, wouldn’t immediately replace Russian gas. But with adequate funding, Sterman suggested, greater energy efficiencies — in homes, buildings and factories, along with the deployment of wind, solar and other technologies — could vastly reduce Europe’s need to replace all the gas it’s lost.
Germany, among Europe’s strongest advocates for the floating LNG terminals, is expecting five of the ships and has committed roughly 3 billion euros to the effort, according to Global Energy Monitor. Germany has also approved a law to fast-track the terminals’ development, suspending the requirement for environmental assessments.
It’s a move that troubles environmental groups.
“It’s totally obvious,” asserted Sascha Müller-Kraenner, CEO of Environmental Action Germany, that “the provisions of the law were developed in close dialogue with the gas industry.”
Germany’s government and energy industry have defended their embrace of the LNG terminals as an urgent response to the loss of most of the Russian gas they had long received, which they fear Moscow will shut off completely.
“In an exceptional situation such as this, where it’s a matter of Germany’s gas supply security, it is justified to accelerate the approval process,” Germany’s energy industry association, BDEW, said in a statement.
Susanne Ungrad, a spokeswoman for Germany’s Economy and Energy Ministry, noted that efforts are being made to lower methane emissions in exporting countries like the United States. And she said that in pursuing the construction of LNG terminals, Europe authorities will conduct comprehensive assessments.
Greig Aitken, an analyst at Global Energy Monitor, noted that a terminal that’s set to open near Gdansk, Poland, has signed contracts with American LNG suppliers that extend well past 2030. That could make it problematic for the European Union to meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030.
Italy, Greece, France, the Netherlands, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Slovenia and the U.K. all have one or more floating LNG terminals planned, according to Rystad Energy.
In some cases, proponents argue, the ships could aid the environmental cause. They note, for example, that as Russian gas supplies have dwindled, communities in Germany and elsewhere have been burning coal, which typically produces more emissions than natural gas. Increasing the supply of natural gas would make this less necessary.
Still, methane can frequently leak along the natural gas supply chain. So in some cases, the net climate effect of burning natural gas may be no better than coal.
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that continuing to use the fossil fuel infrastructure already in place would cause global warming to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). At that level, heat would be expected to worsen the flash floods, extreme heat, intense hurricanes and longer-burning wildfires that have resulted from climate change and have cost lives.
“It is a little disheartening to see Europe, which has been the seat of so much energy and action and bold emissions targets, being home to this particular way with doubling down on fossil fuel infrastructure,” said Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at Brown University.
In the United States, the largest export market for Europe-bound LNG, three new export terminals are under construction. Eleven additional terminals and four expansions are in the planning stages. Some export terminals that had struggled to attract financing are now seeing more investment and interest, said Ira Joseph, a longtime energy analyst.
“What you’ve seen happen over the last two months — they’re signing up sales and purchase agreements, right and left,” Joseph said.
Rio Grande LNG, an export terminal proposed by Next Decade in Brownsville, Texas, for example, appeared to stall last year in the face of environmental protests. But this spring, a French company, Engie, and several clients in Asia signed long-term contracts to buy LNG from the terminal. Now, Next Decade says it’s likely to obtain all the financing it needs.
Europe’s gas scarcity has escalated global LNG prices, leading buyers in China and elsewhere to sign long-term contracts with suppliers in the United States. American LNG exports will likely grow by 10 million tons over the next year, said Bromander, the Rystad analyst.
The floating LNG ships have been billed as a short-term solution to keep gas flowing for a few years while cleaner energy sources like wind and solar are built up. But critics say it’s unlikely that a ship built to last decades would permanently halt operations after a few years.
Once the floating terminals are built, they can be used anywhere in the world. So if European nations no longer want floating LNG terminals as they transition to cleaner energy, the ships could sail off to another port, essentially locking in the use of natural gas for decades.
And in some cases, particularly in Germany, some of the proposed floating terminals appear to be paving the way for on-shore terminals that would be built to last 30 or 40 years — well past the point that nations should be burning fossil fuels, environmental groups say.
“After the war is resolved and, as we all hope, peace is restored, are they really going to say, ‘Oh, let’s take it to the scrap yard?,’” Sterman asked. “They’re not going to do that.”
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations and Pakistan issued an appeal Tuesday for $160 million in emergency funding to help millions affected by record-breaking floods that have killed more than 1,160 people since mid-June.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Pakistan’s flooding, caused by weeks of unprecedented monsoon rains, were a signal to the world to step up action against climate change.
“Let’s stop sleepwalking toward the destruction of our planet by climate change,” he said in a video message to an Islamabad ceremony launching the funding appeal. “Today, it’s Pakistan. Tomorrow, it could be your country.”
Guterres will visit Pakistan on Sept. 9 to tour areas “most impacted by this unprecedented climate catastrophe,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric announced Tuesday. The U.N. chief meet displaced families and witness how U.N. staff are their humanitarian partners are supporting government efforts to provide assistance, Dujarric said
More than 33 million people, or one in seven Pakistanis, have been affected by the catastrophic flooding, which has devastated a country already trying to revive a struggling economy. More than 1 million homes have been damaged or destroyed in the past two and half months, displacing millions of people. Around a half million of those displaced are living in organized camps, while others have had to find their own shelter.
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the floods badly destroyed crops, and his government was considering importing wheat to avoid any shortage of food.
Sharif said Pakistan was witnessing the worst flooding in its history and any inadvertent delay by the international community in helping victims “will be devastating for the people of Pakistan.”
He promised funds from the international community would be spent in a transparent manner and that he would ensure all aid reaches those in need. “This is my commitment,” he told reporters, saying his country is “facing the toughest moment of its history.”
Pakistan says it has received aid from some countries, and others were dispatching aid too.
On Tuesday, the U.S. government said it would provide $30 million in assistance to help victims of the flood. According to a statement released by the U.S. Agency for International Development, this aid will be given to Pakistan through USAID. It said the United States is deeply saddened by the devastating loss of life and livelihoods throughout Pakistan.
According to initial government estimates, the devastation caused $10 billion in damage to the economy.
“It is a preliminary estimate likely to be far greater,” Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal told The Associated Press. More than 243 bridges and more than 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) of road have been damaged.
Although rains stopped three days ago, large swaths of the country remain underwater, and the main rivers, the Indus and the Swat, are still swollen. The National Disaster Management Authority on Tuesday warned emergency services to be on maximum alert, saying flood waters over the next 24 hours could cause further damage.
Rescuers continued to evacuate stranded people from inundated villages to safer ground. Makeshift tent camps have sprung up along highways.
Meteorologists have warned of more rains in coming weeks.
“The situation is likely to deteriorate even further as heavy rains continue over areas already inundated by more than two months of storms and flooding. For us, this is no less than a national emergency,” Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said Tuesday, urging the international community to give generously to the U.N. appeal.
“Since mid-June, in fact, Pakistan has been battling one of the most severe, totally anomalous cycles of torrential monsoon weather,” he said. Rainfall during that time was three times the average, and up to six times higher in some areas, he said.
The U.N. flash appeal for $160 million will provide food, water, sanitation, health and other forms of aid to some 5.2 million people, Gutteres said.
“The scale of needs is rising like the flood waters. It requires the world’s collective and prioritized attention,” he said.
Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman Asim Iftikhar told U.N. correspondents at a virtual press conference that Turkey, China, United Arab Emirates and Qatar all offered relief supplies, some of which has already arrived. More important will be the next reconstruction and rehabilitation phase where requirements are going to be “huge,” he said.
A day earlier, the International Monetary Fund’s executive board approved the release of a much awaited $1.17 billion for Pakistan.
The funds are part of a $6 billion bailout agreed on in 2019. The latest tranche had been on hold since earlier this year, when the IMF expressed concern about Pakistan’s compliance with the deal’s terms under the government of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan was ousted through a no-confidence vote in the parliament in April.
Pakistan has risked default as its reserves dwindle and inflation has spiraled, and to get the IMF bailout, the government has had to agree to austerity measures.
The flooding catastrophe, however, adds new burdens to the cash-strapped government. It also reflects how poorer countries often pay the price for climate change largely caused by more industrialized nations. Since 1959, Pakistan is responsible for only 0.4% of the world’s historic emissions blamed for climate change. The U.S. is responsible for 21.5%, China for 16.5% and the EU 15%.
Several scientists say the record-breaking flooding has all the hallmarks of being affected by climate change.
“This year, Pakistan has received the highest rainfall in at least three decades,” said Abid Qaiyum Suleri, executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute and a member of Pakistan’s Climate Change Council. “Extreme weather patterns are turning more frequent in the region and Pakistan is not an exception.”
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Associated Press writers Jamey Keaten in Geneva and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report. | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/ap-un-to-seek-160-million-in-emergency-aid-for-pakistan-floods/ | 2022-08-31T04:56:57Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/ap-un-to-seek-160-million-in-emergency-aid-for-pakistan-floods/ | true |
MIAMI (AP) — A Los Angeles attorney detained in Venezuela is pleading for help from the Biden administration, saying in a jailhouse message that he feels forgotten by the U.S. government as he faces criminal charges at the hands of one of the nation’s top adversaries.
Eyvin Hernandez, who has been detained for five months, describes in the recording how he has dedicated the past 15 years to public service as an employee of the Los Angeles County public defender’s office, seeking fair treatment for often penniless clients.
“No one should be abandoned at the time of their greatest need and when they’re most vulnerable,” he said in the almost two-minute recording, which was provided to The Associated Press by Hernandez’s family. “However, I don’t feel like my government feels that way about me.”
In a calm voice, Hernandez said he and other Americans imprisoned in Venezuela — there are at least 10, including five oil executives and three veterans — feel “like our government has abandoned us.”
Hernandez’s appeal comes as the Biden administration is under pressure to do more to bring home roughly 50 Americans it believes have been wrongfully detained by hostile governments around the world. Much of the focus is on Russia, where the U.S. has taken the unusual step of proposing a swap of a convicted arms dealer for WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner. U.S. officials have for months been quietly pursuing a separate deal with Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government in Venezuela, which holds the largest contingent of Americans suspected of being used as bargaining chips.
Henry Martinez said his brother sent him the voice message Aug. 21. A copy was also provided to the State Department, which has been weighing whether to turn Hernandez’s case over to the administration’s special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, Roger Carstens.
In the recording, Hernandez said it’s been months since he or any of his fellow Americans have seen a courtroom, nor do they have any hopes of getting a fair trial.
“This place is meant to break you psychologically and spiritually,” he said of confinement at a maximum security prison housing many of Maduro’s opponents. “We’re all innocent, yet we’re being charged and treated as terrorists.”
He said the uncertainty, isolation and human rights violations are taking a toll, with two Americans having already attempted suicide and a third on the brink with daily mental breakdowns.
“If you don’t get us out soon, then there might not be anyone left to save,” he said.
The AP was unable to verify Hernandez’s claims. But United Nations officials have long complained about the lack of independence for Venezuelan judges and prosecutors and about conditions at the facility where Hernandez and several other Americans are being held.
A State Department spokesman declined to comment on Hernadez’s case, citing privacy limitations, but said the agency continuously reviews the detentions of Americans overseas. He also noted that the U.S. government has issued an advisory warning Americans to avoid all travel to Venezuela due to the risk of wrongful detentions and threats from illegal armed groups, especially along the country’s porous borders.
Hernandez, who turned 44 in jail, was arrested March 31 along the Colombia-Venezuela border. His family says he traveled there from the city of Medellin with a Venezuelan friend who needed to get her passport stamped to resolve an issue with her migratory status in Colombia. His family said he never intended to enter Venezuela, and he was due to fly home three days later.
But the two apparently fell into the hands of criminal gangs.
Upon arrival by bus to the city of Cucuta, they hailed a taxi for the short drive to the Simon Bolivar International Bridge, according to an account Hernandez shared with his family. A fourth individual hopped in the front seat, purportedly offering his services as a guide who could help them navigate the confusion at the border, an area overrun by squatters, criminal gangs and a mass of people making their way back and forth in illegal crossings.
Before they knew it, the cab was stopped along a dirt path, and the two were ordered to get out and walk across the invisible border separating the two countries.
Once Hernandez realized his mistake, it was too late to turn back. A man carrying a rifle demanded he cough up $100, according to his family. When he protested that he didn’t have any cash, they put a hood over his head.
When his captors found his American passport, they told him he was in trouble and handed him over to security forces, who kept him incommunicado for weeks.
Adding to the Hernandez family’s anguish is the fact that he isn’t classified as wrongfully detained, a definition that covers Americans believed innocent or jailed for the purpose of exacting concessions from the U.S. Without such designation, a process that can take months, the U.S. government’s ability to push for his release is limited.
At least three of the 11 other Americans known to be detained in Venezuela are in a similar state of limbo. They include Jerrel Kenemore, a computer programmer arrested within a week of Hernandez, and two former Green Berets who took part in a blunder-filled beach attack in 2020 aimed at overthrowing Maduro.
Biden last month signed an executive order aimed at providing more information to families of Americans detained abroad and imposing stiff sentences on the criminals, terrorists and government officials holding them.
Maduro’s socialist government is a harsh critic of U.S. foreign policy. But more recently, as the Biden administration has shown a willingness to review the Trump-era policy of punishing Maduro with sanctions and calling for regime change, the outlook for a possible release has improved.
In March, the Maduro government freed two Americans following a surprise trip to Caracas by senior White House and State Department officials, including Carstens, who met with Hernandez in a subsequent wellness check on detained Americans in June. Maduro also vowed to resume negotiations with his opponents, although has so far failed to follow through.
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BEIJING — Chinese manufacturing contracted in August amid weak export and consumer demand, a survey showed Wednesday, adding to downward pressure on the struggling economy.
The ruling Communist Party is trying to shore up economic growth that sank to 2.5% in the first six months of 2022, less than half the official annual growth target of 5.5%.
The data “show a further loss in economic momentum,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics in a report. “The economy will struggle to make much headway during the coming months.
Chinese consumer demand has been dampened by a plunge in real estate activity after Beijing tightened controls on the industry’s use of debt and by repeated shutdowns of factories, shops and neighborhoods to fight coronavirus outbreaks.
Indicators of export orders, overall orders and employment also improved from July but still were in contraction territory. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/chinese-manufacturing-weak-adding-to-economic-pressure/2022/08/31/7d095a02-28e7-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html | 2022-08-31T04:58:38Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/chinese-manufacturing-weak-adding-to-economic-pressure/2022/08/31/7d095a02-28e7-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will no longer allow political appointees to go to fundraisers and other campaign events under restrictions handed down Tuesday that are aimed at maintaining the department’s independence from politics.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, who is currently overseeing investigations including the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s home and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, said in a memo that the restrictions are to ensure that politics “both in fact and appearance” won’t affect the way the law is enforced or how inquiries are carried out.
Appointees, hired under presidential administrations rather than making long careers at the Justice Department, have been allowed to attend political events passively on their personal time with prior approval. The new policy bans attendance altogether.
It also removes an exception that had allowed people with close family members running for office to attend political events during presidential election years, and it bars attending such events on the evening of Election Day.
“It is critical that we hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards to avoid even the appearance of political influence as we carry out the department’s mission,” Garland wrote.
On his first day in office more than a year ago, Garland vowed to prioritize the Justice Department’s political independence after the departure of Trump, who had insisted on officials’ personal loyalty.
More recently, Trump and his allies have sought to cast the Aug. 9 search at Mar-a-Lago — part of an investigation into the removal of classified records — as a political weaponization of the Justice Department. A rash of online threats against federal agents followed.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An election board in Michigan is scheduled to decide Wednesday whether a ballot initiative that seeks to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution should go before voters in November, although the board’s verdict isn’t expected to be the last word on the issue.
The proposed constitutional amendment aims to negate a 91-year-old state law that would ban abortion in all instances except to save the life of the mother.
Michigan’s 1931 law — which abortion opponents had hoped would be triggered by a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade in June — remains blocked after months of court battles. A state judge ruled Aug. 19 that Republican county prosecutors couldn’t enforce the ban, saying it was “in the public’s best interest to let the people of the great state of Michigan decide this matter at the ballot box.”
Both sides have indicated they will file challenges with the state’s Democrat-leaning Supreme Court if the decision goes against them.
The Bureau of Elections verified last Thursday that the ballot initiative petition contained enough valid signatures for the amendment to qualify for the ballot and recommended that the state Board of Canvassers approve the measure. The board does not always follow the bureau’s recommendations.
Abortion rights have become a powerful motivator for voters since Roe was overturned. In conservative Kansas, voters overwhelmingly defeated a ballot measure to ban the procedure, and the issue has swayed votes in special elections for Congress, including in a battleground district in upstate New York. Nationally, Democrats have seen an increase in fundraising since the Supreme Court decision.
Having abortion rights on the ballot in November would almost certainly be a boon for Democrats in Michigan, a swing state where voters will also be deciding whether Democrats keep control of statewide offices, including governor and secretary of state. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other Democrats have put abortion rights front and center in their campaigns, and after Republicans chose businesswoman Tudor Dixon as the GOP nominee for governor, Democrats released an ad blasting her strong opposition to abortion, including in cases of rape and incest.
The organization behind the Michigan ballot initiative turned in over 700,000 petition signatures — a record number for any ballot initiative in the state — providing names, addresses and phone numbers that can be used as voter contacts during the campaign season.
The Michigan Board of Canvassers, comprising two Republicans and two Democrats, has become increasingly partisan in recent years.
The board made national headlines following the 2020 presidential election when one member, who has since resigned, abstained from voting to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the state. The other GOP board member, who voted to certify, wasn’t re-nominated by the state GOP party and was replaced by Tony Daunt, the board chairman.
Earlier this year, two leading candidates for the GOP nomination for governor were dropped from the primary ballot after the board deadlocked along partisan lines on whether too many fraudulent signatures on their nomination papers made them ineligible. A tie vote meant the candidates lost.
A deadlock in Wednesday’s vote would officially mean the initiative was rejected, but a final decision would most likely come from the Michigan Supreme Court. Groups have seven business days following the board’s decision to appeal to the high court and the ballot must be finalized by Sept. 9.
The board also is expected to decide Wednesday whether another initiative, to expand voting in the state, should make the fall ballot. The measure would expand voter rights by allowing nine days of in-person early voting, state-funded absentee ballot postage and drop boxes in every community.
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Burnett contributed from Chicago.
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TAIPEI, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United BioPharma (UBP) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a phase 2 clinical trial IND submitted by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of NIH. The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and antiviral activity of UB-421 in combination with optimized background ART in HIV-1 infected patients with multi-drug resistance (MDR). The study protocol is entitled: "A Single arm Open Label Phase 2 trial of anti-CD4 Antibody UB-421 in Combination with Optimized Background Antiretroviral Therapy in Patients with Multi-Drug Resistant HIV-1 Infection." In this trial sponsored by the NIAID/NIH, UBP will be responsible for supplying the investigational drug, UB-421.
UBP has been collaborating with NIAID since 2015 to study the unique characteristic properties of UB-421 for treatment of HIV. The potent efficacy of UB-421 against HIV clinical isolates resistant to HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies, entry inhibitors, and other antiretroviral drugs is well documented. "We are excited for the NIAID to recognize the effectiveness of UB-421 through extensive collaborative studies, and to sponsor a phase 2 clinical trial in multi-drug resistant HIV patients." said Dr. Shugene Lynn, the CEO and President of UBP.
The treatment of HIV-1 infection with antiretroviral therapy (ART) has significantly decreased HIV-1-related mortality and transformed HIV-1 infection into a treatable chronic disease. Successive generations of ART agents have shown improved efficacy and tolerability while minimizing drug-related toxicities. However, the ability of HIV-1 to develop resistance to multiple classes of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs continues to present challenges to the treatment of some ARV treatment-experienced patients.
Multi-drug resistant (MDR) HIV-1 has been associated with a higher risk of disease progression and death. Therefore, new agents and drug classes are necessary to keep up with ongoing viral mutations in an attempt to achieve sustained suppression of HIV-1 plasma viremia and prolong the life of persons with MDR HIV infection, as well as to prevent viral replication and transmission of such MDR strains. Drugs with novel mechanism of action, such as UB-421, are of particular interest because empirical resistance is unlikely.
About UB-421
UB-421 is an Fc-aglycosylated, non-T cell depleting and CD4-specific humanized IgG1 derived from the parent murine B4, which binds to discontinuous, conformational epitopes on the HIV-receptor complex, including CD4 (domain 1), and competitively blocks HIV entry. Both the murine and humanized mAbs bind to CD4+ T cells with approximately 50-100-fold higher affinity than HIV-gp120. UB-421 has been shown to inhibit viral entry with remarkable viral load reduction potency in Phase 1 and Phase 2a clinical studies involving treatment-naïve HIV-infected patients. In the Phase 2 study with ART-stabilized HIV-infected patients, UB-421 monotherapy maintains viral suppression for up to 16 weeks without viral rebound in the absence of ART. UB-421 is currently in the stage of phase 2 and phase 3 clinical trials for ART substitution, treatment of multi-drug resistant HIV as well as proof-of-concept study of HIV functional cure.
About United BioPharma
United BioPharma (UBP) is a late clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that is dedicated to the development of novel monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) for infectious diseases, cancer and immune disorders. UBP is headquartered in Taiwan, with subsidiary companies in China, and liaison offices in the U.S. The company has a passionate global team, developing therapeutic mAbs and delivering affordable treatments to bring a better quality of life to patients. For more information, please visit the website at: http://www.unitedbiopharma.com
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Bianca Jade Releases Uplifting Women's Empowerment Anthem 'Pressure'
"Pressure" encourages confidence and self love, especially as it pertains to sexual empowerment.
Emerging R&B talent Bianca Jade couldn't have better timing. Amidst the current attacks on women's rights in America, she understands that now more than ever, is the time to speak up and band together to support her fellow women. In her new single "Pressure", Bianca channels beloved 2000's R&B vibes to remind women that they are Bad B*tches who deserve everything they want out of life.
"Pressure" encourages confidence and self love, especially as it pertains to sexual empowerment. Speaking up for what we want is imperative, and this young artist embodies the sentiment through strength, resilience and a celebratory vibe aligned with nostalgic aesthetics inspired by some of her favorite artists.
In the video, we are introduced to Bianca in an iconic, Mariah Carey-inspired butterfly top and an attitude that kicks the song off on a confident note. The butterflies symbolize the beauty of coming out of your shell (or rather, cocoon) as well as the blossoming journey of self-development. In the beginning sequence, she dances in front of purple silk, nodding to a creative lens motivated by Beyonce's popular hit "Check On It". We quickly bounce from here to a scene driven by masculine energy, where Bianca sits around a poker table, calling the shots. Lyrics like "Would you show your hands? Do you hold books?
We know a spade's a spade, do you give it up that way?" inspire the playing cards scene where Bianca's versatility and alpha personality truly shines. Later, we are introduced to her unforgettable spotlighted shot where she dresses in all black, showing off a diamond studded outfit inspired by the Queen B herself. Both lyrically and aesthetically, "Pressure" proves in more ways than one that it is the woman's anthem of the summer. Encouraging women everywhere to be confident, speak their mind and have courage to demand more from a lover- asking them to not be average, but amazing. Fans of Bianca's soulful works and 2000's R&B beats will find this song to be a hit. Ladies - let it guide you on your sexual empowerment journey, and gentlemen - take notes on the demand for satisfaction. Quote by: Dianna Loescher
"If I give you one chance, just one look, would you show your hands? Do you hold books? / We know a spade's a spade/ Do you give it up that way?" ~ Pressure
About Biance Jade: Bianca Jade is a rising R&B powerhouse. Originally from Miami, FL, the Cuban-Jamaican singer-songwriter focuses on bringing light and empowerment to her listeners - especially women. Inspired by female soul-crooners such as Aretha Franklin and Alicia Keys, Bianca introduces a soulful approach to R&B that is well ahead of her years. Since breaking through with her debut album 'B-Light' in 2017, Bianca has gone on to perform with icons such as Jordin Sparks, Talib Kwali and Jojo, as well as making notable appearances on BET, iHeart Radio and NBC6's 'In The Mix' in South Florida. As her profile continues to rise, Bianca remains committed to staying true to herself so that she might be an inspiration to future generations. Her latest EP 'JADE Vol. 1' is available now on all music platforms and has garnered over 200,000 streams on Spotify alone. Bianca's music has received high praises from top platforms like Medium Magazine, This is RnB and Singersroom.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Here are the 20 most popular prime-time television programs for the week of Aug. 22-28, their networks and viewerships, as measured by the Nielsen company:
1. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 6.43 million.
2. “America’s Got Talent” (Tuesday), NBC, 6.33 million.
3. “America’s Got Talent” (Wednesday), NBC, 5.55 million.
4. “Celebrity Family Feud,” ABC, 4.56 million.
5. “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” ABC, 4.08 million.
6. “Big Brother” (Sunday), CBS, 4.01 million.
7. “Big Brother” (Wednesday), CBS, 3.99 million.
8. “Password,” NBC, 3.97 million.
9. “The ”$100,000 Pyramid,” ABC, 3.89 million.
10. “FBI,” CBS, 3.74 million.
11. “Big Brother” (Thursday), CBS, 3.53 million.
12. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Monday), Fox News, 3.37 million.
13. “Press Your Luck,” ABC, 3.35 million.
14. “The Bachelorette,” ABC, 3.33 million.
15. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Thursday), Fox News, 3.28 million.
16. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Tuesday), Fox News, 3.26 million.
17. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Wednesday), Fox News, 3.15 million.
18. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 3.13 million.
19. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 3.05 million.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Parents of children enrolled in Maine religious schools fought for years — all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court — for the state to treat tuition reimbursements the same as other private schools.
But only one of the religious high schools that stood to benefit has signed up to participate this fall, after Maine’s attorney general warned that the schools would have to abide by state antidiscrimination laws, including those that protect LGBTQ students and faculty. That development has frustrated the families who sued.
“Their hands are tied. The state said you can take the money, but we’ll tie your hands,” said David Carson, whose daughter was a sophomore at Bangor Christian Schools when his family and two other plaintiffs sued in 2018.
The Supreme Court ruled in June that Maine can’t exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition for private education in rural towns where there are no public schools.
Religious high schools with a known stake in the tuition fight include two Roman Catholic-affiliated schools, along with schools in Bangor, Waterville and Houlton.
Last year, 29 private schools participated in the tuition reimbursement program, enrolling more than 4,500 students, officials said. Those schools that meet the state’s criteria can get about $12,000 per student in taxpayer funding.
So far, only one religious school has signed up to participate, and that application will go through a review process, said Marcus Mrowka, a state education spokesperson. Mrowka declined to identify the school.
The deadline for applications is Thursday.
Michael Bindas is a senior attorney at the Virginia-based Institute for Justice, a nonprofit libertarian law firm that represented the families who sued. He said he’s not surprised the schools are slow to decide whether to participate, because of the questions raised by the attorney general.
“Those open questions, however, will be resolved in time, and we certainly expect religious schools to participate,” he said.
It’s more likely that there will be a greater impact in the 2023-24 school year, said Carroll Conley, executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine, and a former Christian school headmaster.
“People want to see it happening, but schools are being cautious. It’s a big change,” Conley said.
There have been several lawsuits over the years before the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling earlier this year, which was hailed as a victory for school choice proponents — potentially giving life to efforts in some of the states that have not directed taxpayer money to private, religious education.
The Association of Christian Schools International, a Colorado-based organization that promotes Christian education, said the fact that 32 other states already have a school choice program speaks volumes.
“We hope that the 18 states that do not have school choice programs will one day have one,” the organization said in a statement.
In Maine, Attorney General Aaron Frey criticized the Supreme Court ruling and said all schools that accept public funds, including religious schools, must abide by the Maine Human Rights Act, which bans discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or disability. That would mean accepting gay and transgender teachers and pupils, he said.
Both Christian schools associated with the lawsuit — Temple Academy in Waterville and Bangor Christian Schools — have policies that discriminate against students and staff on a basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, he said.
The Rev. Tom Brown, who is senior pastor and president at Bangor Christian Schools and an affiliated church, said in an email that the “we are processing” the attorney general’s statements. He confirmed that no students will be getting state tuition reimbursement this fall.
Officials from Temple Academy didn’t return messages.
The Supreme Court ruling doesn’t affect the Carson family because their daughter already graduated from high school, and is enrolled in college.
But David Carson, of Glenburn, said it’s frustrating to see the legal victory muddied by the attorney general.
“It’s disappointing when you do all this and nothing happens,” he said. “It’s kind of a circus to me. The Supreme Court says one thing, but the state attorney general just does what he wants to do.”
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Demi Lovato wishes she hadn't put out three documentaries. In an interview with Alternative Press, the 30-year-old singer reveals why she regrets putting out Demi Lovato: Stay Strong in 2012, Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated in 2017, and Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil in 2021.
"I wish I would have waited until I had my s**t figured out more because now it's cemented," Lovato, who's been open about her struggles with addiction, explains. "Sobriety is what works for me and nothing else."
Given that, Lovato doesn't see herself ever putting out another documentary in the future.
"Honestly, I'm really sick of watching myself, and I think other people probably are too," she says. "And if they aren't, then they can watch my music videos."
Instead of a documentary, Lovato says that, should she decide to speak out again, she'll do so in the form of an interview or a book.
"My story's not done, so I want to be able to say by the time I've written a book, 'OK, this is me grown up,'" Lovato explains.
Alongside her 2021 documentary, Lovato released an album, Dancing With the Devil... the Art of Starting Over. Like the documentary, Lovato believes that the album "just didn't feel like me."
"I wanted to put music out that I would have fun touring with, and I can't say that about my last record," she says. "I wanted to perform stuff that felt genuine and authentic to where I'm at today, and what I'm listening to. I'm in a new chapter of my life, and I want my music to reflect that."
With that in mind, Lovato, who just turned 30, decided to put out a new album, Holy Fvck.
"In your 20s, you're trying to figure out who you are," she says. "I never related to that statement more than when I got to be 29 and was like, 'All right, this is who I am.'"
Ahead of the album's release earlier this month, ET spoke with the singer, who opened up about her next chapter.
"It feels so good to just be completely authentic in what makes me happy, to perform and sing, and I'm just really, really excited about it," she told ET. "I’m back to my roots and I’m no longer performing in little leotards and in stilettos, you know, trying to be someone I thought people wanted from me. Now I just get to be myself -- my genuine, authentic self -- and perform the songs that I want to perform."
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SYDNEY, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Video Intelligence Platform provider, VisualCortex, today announced it has joined NVIDIA Metropolis, a partner program focused on bringing to market a new generation of vision AI applications. NVIDIA Metropolis nurtures a rich ecosystem and offers powerful developer tools to supercharge vision AI applications that are designed to make the world's most important spaces and operations safer and more efficient.
As part of NVIDIA Metropolis and the NVIDIA Inception program, which nurtures cutting-edge startups, VisualCortex is on a mission to make video data actionable throughout the enterprise for all video-rich industries and business functions.
Unlike camera-side or point solutions, which typically focus on one video analytics challenge per deployment, VisualCortex delivers a highly performant enterprise-grade platform to facilitate any real-time or historical video analytics use case. To offer its customers highly scalable and cost-effective solutions, VisualCortex takes advantage of the NVIDIA DeepStream software development kit and NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs, including the A100 and the H100, once it becomes available. VisualCortex is an early adopter of the new NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ platform for edge-based AI implementations.
VisualCortex CEO and Co-Founder, Patrick Elliott, said that NVIDIA's support for its vision AI ecosystem was outstanding.
"NVIDIA provides amazing depth and quality of support for AI start-ups," said Elliott. "This includes access to resources for our development team – from exclusive tools and technical training, to direct collaboration sessions with the NVIDIA developer team. Our ability to gain early insights into NVIDIA's upcoming products and services, as well as make valuable connections with other vendors and partners throughout the NVIDIA ecosystem, accelerates our growth and go-to-market success. We're thrilled to be part of NVIDIA Metropolis."
NVIDIA Metropolis makes it easier and more cost effective for enterprises, governments and integration partners to use world-class, AI-enabled solutions to improve critical operational efficiency and safety problems. The NVIDIA Metropolis ecosystem contains a large and growing breadth of members who are investing in the most advanced AI techniques, most efficient deployment platforms, and using an enterprise-class approach to their solutions. Members have the opportunity to gain early access to NVIDIA platform updates to further enhance and accelerate their AI application development efforts. Further, the program offers the opportunity for members to collaborate with industry-leading experts and other AI-driven organizations.
About VisualCortex
VisualCortex is making video data actionable in the enterprise. As the world's best Video Intelligence Platform, VisualCortex provides the stability and scalability to productionize computer vision technology for the first time. Unlike camera-side or point solutions, VisualCortex can be used for any video analytics use case in any industry. VisualCortex's production-ready cloud-based environment transforms video assets into analyzable streams of data at scale.
The VisualCortex platform delivers the artificial intelligence smarts, governance and usability, enabling organizations to connect any number of video streams, repositories and use existing commodity hardware. An intuitive user interface, out-of-the-box reporting, range of configurations and integrations empower non-technical people to produce, analyze and act on insights derived from computer vision throughout the enterprise. Organizations can easily combine these AI-generated video insights with other data sources and systems to facilitate both real-time operations and strategic analysis. The VisualCortex Model Store also provides a secure marketplace for customers, partners and independent machine learning experts to share quality controlled computer vision models.
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NEW YORK (AP) — At 24, El Johnson has made up her mind that she won’t bear children, though she and her girlfriend haven’t ruled out adoption.
The graduate student who works in legal services in Austin, Texas, has a list of reasons for not wanting to give birth: the climate crisis and a genetic health condition among them.
“I don’t think it’s responsible to bring children into this world,” Johnson said. “There are already kids who need homes. I don’t know what kind of world it’s going to be in 20, 30, 40 years.”
She’s so sure, in fact, that she’ll soon have her tubes removed. It’s a precautionary decision sealed by the fall of Roe v. Wade and by tight restrictions on abortion services in her state and around the country.
Other women interviewed also cited climate change, along with overwhelming student debt coupled with inflation, as reasons they’ll never be parents. Some younger men, too, are opting out and more are seeking vasectomies.
Whatever the motivation, they play a role in dramatically low birth rates in the U.S.
The U.S. birth rate fell 4% in 2020, the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 years, according to a government report. The government noted a 1% uptick in U.S. births last year, but the number of babies born was still lower than before the coronavirus pandemic: about 86,000 fewer than in 2019.
Walter and Kyah King live in suburban Las Vegas. Walter, 29, a sports data scientist, and Kyah, 28, a college career counselor, have been together nearly 10 years, the last four as a married couple. The realization that they didn’t want to have kids came on slowly for both of them.
“It was in our early 20s when the switch sort of flipped,” Kyah said. “We had moved to California and we were really just starting our adult lives. I think we talked about having three kids at one point. But just with the economy and the state of the world and just thinking about the logistics of bringing children into the world. That’s really when we started to have our doubts.”
Finances are top of mind. Before taxes, the two earn about $160,000 combined, with about $120,000 in student loan debt for Kyah and about $5,000 left for Walter. The couple said they wouldn’t be able to buy a house and shoulder the costs of even one child without major sacrifices they’re not willing to make.
But for Kyah, the decision goes well beyond money.
“I think we would be great parents, but the thought of going into our health system to give birth is really scary. Black women, black mothers, are not valued in the same way that white mothers are,” said Kyah, who is Black.
When Kyah’s IUD expires, Walter said he’ll consider a vasectomy, a procedure that went on the rise among men under 30 during the pandemic.
Jordan Davidson interviewed more than 300 people for a book out in December titled, “So When are You Having Kids?” The pandemic, she said, led many to delay childbirth among those contemplating children at all.
“These timelines that people created for themselves of, I want to accomplish X by three years from now, changed. People weren’t necessarily willing to move the goalposts and say, OK, I’m going to forgo these accomplishments and do this differently,” she said. “People still want to travel. They still want to go to graduate school. They still want to meet certain financial benchmarks.”
Fears about climate change have cemented the idea of living without children for many, Davidson said.
“Now with increased wildfires, droughts, heat waves, all of a sudden it is becoming real that, OK, this is happening during my time, and what is this going to look like during the time that my children are alive?” she said.
In New York City, 23-year-old Emily Shapiro, a copywriter for a pharmaceutical ad agency, earns $60,000 a year, lives at home as she saves money and has never wanted children.
“They’re sticky. I could never imagine picking up a kid that’s covered in ice cream. I’m a bit of a germaphobe. I don’t want to change a diaper. If I did have one, I wouldn’t want them until they’re in, like, sixth grade. I also think the physical Earth isn’t doing so great so it would be unfair,” she said.
Among those Jordan interviewed, concerns over the environment were far more prevalent among the younger group. Questions of affordability, she said, troubled both millennials and members of Gen Z.
“There is a lot of fear around having children who would be worse off than they viewed themselves during their childhoods,” Davidson said.
Dannie Lynn Murphy, who helps find software engineers for Google, said she was nearly 17 when she was removed from her home by child protective services due to a pattern of child abuse. Her wife, she said, was similarly raised in a “not great” environment.
“Both of us at one point would have said yes to kids,” she said. “In my late teenage, early adult years, I saw and understood the appeal and was attracted to the idea of getting to raise someone differently than I was raised. But the practical realities of a child kind of suck.”
Murphy earns about $103,000 a year, with bonuses and equity that can drive that amount up to $300,000. Her wife earns about $60,000 as an attorney. They don’t own their Seattle home.
“I can’t see myself committing to a mortgage, let alone a child,” the 28-year-old Murphy said. “I think the primary reason is financial. I would prefer to spend that money on traveling versus sinking a half a million dollars into raising a child. Secondarily, there’s now the fear of behaving with our children the way our parents behaved with us.”
Alyssa Persson, 31, was raised in small town South Dakota. Getting married and having children was ingrained in the culture, she said. It wasn’t until after her divorce from her high school sweetheart that she took a step back and asked herself what she actually wanted out of life.
“Most women where I’m from lose their identities in motherhood,” said Persson, who now lives in St. Louis and earns about $47,000 a year as a university librarian.
She’s carrying student loan debt of about $80,000. Persson is a former teacher who loves children, but she feels she is now thinking more clearly than ever about the costs, implications and sacrifices of parenting.
“Having children sounds like a trap to me, to be frank,” she said. “Financially, socially, emotionally, physically. And if there were ever any shadow of a doubt, the fact that I cannot comfortably support myself on my salary is enough to scare me away from the idea entirely.”
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TOKYO (AP) — Kazuo Inamori, founder of Japanese ceramics and electronics maker Kyocera who also became a philanthropist singing the virtues of fairness and hard work, has died. He was 90.
Inamori, who also founded major telecommunications company KDDI Corp., died Aug. 24 of natural causes at his home in Kyoto, Kyocera said Tuesday.
Inamori established Kyocera as an insulator manufacturing company in 1959, with a 3 million yen ($22,000) investment from his acquaintances.
While struggling to build his company, Inamori came up with his philosophy of management that emphasized people, doing the right thing and what he called “corporate character,” the old-style Japanese equivalent of professionalism and ethical standards.
His thoughts, which were pioneering for modernizing Japan, were based on the idea that workers and companies must be motivated by pure intentions, not by greed, and ultimately the desire to serve society.
His ideas spanned principles about fair competition, the proper pursuit of profit and the need for managerial transparency, as well as about living a virtuous life as an individual, for which he listed six principles: diligence, humility, reflection, gratitude, benevolence and detachment.
“Superiors who seem to agree with their subordinates in all matters may appear to be loving bosses, but they are actually spoiling and ruining their employees,” he once wrote.
“True love requires that we rigorously seek to discern what is indeed best for others.”
In the 1980s, Inamori set up a school called Seiwajyuku to teach his management philosophy in more than 100 locations, about half abroad, which claims to have taught about 15,000 business owners and entrepreneurs worldwide.
Inamori also oversaw the revival from bankruptcy of Japan’s major carrier Japan Airlines, or JAL, in 2010, serving as a board member.
In 1984, Inamori established his nonprofit called the Inamori Foundation, which awarded the Kyoto Prize every year to recognize humanitarian contributions around the world.
Inamori noted that all living things, including flowers and animals, merely want to survive, and the human being is no different. To do well, you must love the work you do, he said many times, so you end up working harder than anyone else.
A private funeral was held with his family. Inamori is survived by his wife Asako and three daughters. A formal farewell service may be held later but details aren’t decided, Kyocera said.
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An electric vehicle is plugged into a charger in Los Angeles, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. California plans to require all new cars, trucks and SUVs to run on electricity or hydrogen by 2035 under a policy approved Thursday by regulators that seeks a dramatic cut in carbon emissions and an eventual end to gasoline-powered vehicles.
Elsewhere on this page, syndicated columnist Eugene Robinson praises recent action in California to accelerate the use of electric cars and reduce the use of cars burning gasoline. It is a move that will have nationwide ramifications — some of them good, some not so good.
The size of the California vehicle market means what happens there ripples through the national economy. If manufacturers cannot sell their product in a state that represents 20% or more of their market, they lose incentive to sell that product elsewhere. It’s happened before, and it will happen again. But what works for California doesn’t always work in West Virginia or Maine.
One fact that must be addressed is whether the United States will become divided into electric vehicle zones and petroleum-based fuel zones. Mountainous regions with long spells of cold weather will be slower to make the transition to electric vehicles.
And that’s before the cost of the transition comes into play. Affluent areas will make the switch before areas with lower household incomes, at least while the choice is available. For now electric vehicles are more likely to be found in affluent urban areas.
Cars and pickup trucks aren’t the only vehicles that currently rely on petroleum-based fuels, of course. Efforts are ongoing to reduce emissions in the rail and marine transportation industries, just as there are with tractor-trailers. But those efforts are further from implementation than those targeted at cars and pickups — the low-hanging fruit of the transition to electric vehicles.
Hybrids are rarely mentioned as being part of the transportation future, but they can’t be ignored in regions not ideally suited for vehicles powered solely by batteries.
Meanwhile, vehicle manufacturers continue to announce plans to build new factories to produce batteries for electric vehicles. It seems those developments are coming almost monthly. On Monday, Honda and South Korean battery maker LG announced plans to build a $4.4 billion factory in the United States to make batteries exclusively for Honda and Acura vehicles. The site is undecided, but the factory is expected to be under construction early next year and in production by the end of 2025.
Officials in West Virginia like to talk about an all-of-the-above strategy for the electricity grid, but they have been silent during the push for electric vehicles. People at the street level are outspoken. They need transportation capable of long ranges and with all-weather and all-terrain reliability. They’re making their needs known while their elected officials aren’t.
It’s past time for governors and others to participate in the national conversation regarding the future of personal, commercial and industrial transportation. Otherwise they will sit back and allow officials in California, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere to make those decisions for us.
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Letter: Thanks to local business for fixing our vehicle
Published 8:30 pm Tuesday, August 30, 2022
We are a mobile veterinary clinic based in Minneapolis providing affordable spay/neuter services around the state. We had a clinic in Albert Lea on Monday, and on arrival we noticed the bracket holding the exhaust pipe for our truck was broken and the pipe was almost touching the ground. It was definitely not safe to drive the vehicle back to Minneapolis, and we were considering canceling our clinic scheduled in another city the next day. North Bridge Auto Plaza was just around the corner, so we walked over and explained the situation. They were more than willing to help on a moment’s notice and offered to take a look at the end of the day when we’d finished surgery. When we arrived, they came out right away to assess the problem and proceeded to fix it on the spot. We were incredibly grateful for their help — they saved our evening and our upcoming clinic! Not only that, the very generous manager donated this service to our organization free of charge. The people working at North Bridge Auto Plaza have hearts of gold! Thank you so much from the MN SNAP team!
Dr. Emily Aslesen
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Discounted prices, car-share programs and at least one million more public charging stations are among the ways California will try to make electric cars easier to buy and drive as it phases out the sale of gas-powered cars.
But the state won’t force automakers to participate in any equity programs designed to ensure people of all income levels can buy electric cars.
“This rule had the opportunity to really set the path for lower income households to have increased access and affordability (for) electric vehicles, but it missed the mark,” said Roman Partida-Lopez, legal counsel for transportation equity with The Greenlining Institute.
Instead, car companies will get extra credit toward their sales quotas if they make cars available to car share or other programs aimed at disadvantaged Californians. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has pledged $10 billion over six years for incentives to get electric vehicles into the hands of low-income residents, charging infrastructure, and other efforts to put cleaner cars and trucks on the road.
The Stockton Mobility Collective is one example. Designed to increase transportation options in disadvantaged parts of the city, the collective will set up five to seven neighborhood charging stations with 30 electric cars people can rent out on an hourly or daily basis. The first cars and charging stations launched last week in an apartment complex. The program got $7.4 million from the state.
Car ownership in South Stockton is low, so interest in the program is high, said Christine Corrales, senior regional planner for the program. But its just the first step in what must be a major effort to make electric vehicles a realistic option for lower-income Californians.
“If the infrastructure is not available locally, it may be challenging to encourage people to adopt and switch over,” she said. “That’s something that we’re trying to be proactive about.”
The regulations passed by the California Air Resources Board last week say that 2035 the state will require automakers to sell only cars that run on electricity or hydrogen, though some can be plug-in hybrids that use gas and batteries. People will still be able to buy used cars that run on gas, and car companies will still sell some plug-in hybrids. Beyond questions of affordability and access, the state will need to overcome skepticism of people who think electric cars simply aren’t for them.
“We’ve got to get past the elitism that’s involved with owning an electric car,” said Daniel Myatt, who brought an electric car in 2020 through the state’s Clean Cars 4 All program, which he qualified for when he was out of work due to an illness.
Since 2015, more than 13,000 electric cars have been purchased through the program. It offers people up to $9,500 for people to trade in their gas cars for electric or hybrid models.
About 38% of the money spent on a separate rebate program has gone toward low-income or disadvantaged communities, and the state has spent hundreds of millions of dollars building charging stations in those neighborhoods. Today, though, there are just 80,000 public charging stations around the state, far short of the 1.2 million the state estimates it needs by 2030.
Under the new regulations, car makers can get extra credit toward their sales quotas if they participate in several equity programs.
Those programs include: Selling cars at a discount to car-share or other community programs; making sure cars that come off lease go to California dealers that participate in trade-in programs; or selling cars at a discounted price. To meet the third option, cars would have to cost less than $20,275 and light-duty trucks less than $26,670 to qualify for the extra credit. It only applies to model years 2026 through 2028, and there’s no restriction on who those cars can be sold to.
Southern California EVen Access is using a $2.5 million state grant to install at least 120 chargers across a 12-county region, at apartment complexes and public places like library parking lots. Apartment complex owners can get $2,500 per charger installed on the property.
Overall, the state should do more public messaging about the programs that are available to buy electric vehicles so that all communities can enjoy the benefits of fewer cars that spew emissions and pollution, said Lujuana Medina, environmental initiatives manager for Los Angeles County. The state must also invest in a workforce that can support an electric transportation economy, she said.
“There will have to be some really progressive public purpose programs that help drive electric vehicle adoption and sales,” she said.
Alicia Young of Santa Clara, California, was unsure when she first heard about the state’s trade-in program. But she eventually pursued the deal, leaving behind her 2006 Nissan for a plug-in hybrid from Ford. It cost $9,000 after her trade-in value.
The car runs more smoothly and just as fast as any gas-powered car she’s ever owned. She mostly runs it on battery charges, though she still fills the gas tank about once a month. The apartment complex where she lives with her mother does not have a car charger, so she often relies on charging stations at the grocery store or other public places.
She’s shared information about the trade-in program with her colleagues at the senior retirement center where she works, but many of them seem mistrustful, she said. The state could speed adoption by having public messengers from a wide variety of backgrounds to help build trust in electric cars, she said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year from 2020, according to a government report being released Wednesday.
In the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the estimated American lifespan has shortened by nearly three years. The last comparable decrease happened in the early 1940s, during the height of World War II.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials blamed COVID-19 for about half the decline in 2021, a year when vaccinations became widely available but new coronavirus variants caused waves of hospitalizations and deaths. Other contributors to the decline are longstanding problems: drug overdoses, heart disease, suicide and chronic liver disease.
“It's a dismal situation. It was bad before and it's gotten worse,” said Samuel Preston, a University of Pennsylvania demographer.
Life expectancy is an estimate of the average number of years a baby born in a given year might expect to live, given death rates at that time. It is "the most fundamental indicator of population health in this country," said Robert Hummer, a University of North Carolina researcher focused on population health patterns.
U.S. life expectancy rose for decades, but progress stalled before the pandemic.
It was 78 years, 10 months in 2019. In 2020, it dropped to 77 years. Last year, it fell to about 76 years, 1 month.
The last time it was that low was in 1996.
Declines during the pandemic were worse for some racial groups, and some gaps widened. For example, life expectancy for American Indian and Alaskan Native people saw a decline of more than 6 1/2 years since the pandemic began, and is at 65 years. In the same span, life expectancy for Asian Americans dropped by about two years, and stands at 83 1/2.
Experts say there are many possible reasons for such differences, including lack of access to quality health care, lower vaccination rates, and a greater share of the population in lower-paying jobs that required them to keep working when the pandemic was at its worst.
The new report is based on provisional data. Life expectancy estimates can change with the addition of more data and further analysis. For example, the CDC initially said life expectancy in 2020 declined by about 1 year 6 months. But after more death reports and analysis came in, it ended up being about 1 year 10 months.
But it's likely the declines in 2020 and 2021 will stand as the first two consecutive years of declining life expectancy in the U.S. since the early 1960s, CDC officials said.
Findings in the report:
—Life expectancy for women in the United States dropped about 10 months, from just under 80 years in 2020 to slightly more than 79 in 2021. Life expectancy for men dropped a full year, from about 74 years to 73.
—COVID-19 deaths were the main reason for the decline. The second largest contributor was deaths from accidental injuries — primarily from drug overdoses, which killed a record-breaking 107,000 Americans last year.
—White people saw the second biggest drop among racial and ethnic groups, with life expectancy falling one year, to about 76 years, 5 months. Black Americans had the third largest decline, falling more than eight months, to 70 years, 10 months
—Hispanic Americans had seen a huge drop in life expectancy in 2020 — four years. But in 2021, life expectancy for them dropped by about two months, to about 77 years, 7 months. Preston thinks good vaccination rates among Hispanics played a role.
The report also suggests gains against suicide are being undone.
U.S. suicides rose from the early 2000s until 2018. But they fell a little in 2019 and then more in 2020, the first year of the pandemic. Experts had wondered if that may have been related to a phenomenon seen in the early stages of wars and national disasters in which people band together and support each other.
The new report said suicide contributed to the decline in life expectancy in 2021, but it did not provide detail. According to provisional numbers from a public CDC database, the number of U.S. suicides increased last year by about 2,000, to 48,000. The U.S. suicide rate rose as well, from 13.5 per 100,000 to 14.1 — bringing it back up to about where it was in 2018.
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Padres sixth. Jurickson Profar called out on strikes. Juan Soto called out on strikes. Manny Machado singles to shortstop, advances to 2nd. Throwing error by Brandon Crawford. Josh Bell singles to right center field. Manny Machado scores. Jake Cronenworth walks. Josh Bell to second. Brandon Drury flies out to deep right center field to Mike Yastrzemski.
1 run, 2 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Padres 1, Giants 0.
Padres seventh. Ha-Seong Kim reaches on error. Throwing error by J.D. Davis. Trent Grisham homers to left field. Ha-Seong Kim scores. Austin Nola lines out to deep right field to LaMonte Wade Jr.. Jurickson Profar doubles to deep left field. Juan Soto grounds out to second base, Wilmer Flores to Yermin Mercedes. Jurickson Profar to third. Manny Machado doubles to deep right field. Jurickson Profar scores. Josh Bell called out on strikes.
3 runs, 3 hits, 1 error, 1 left on. Padres 4, Giants 0.
Giants eighth. Joc Pederson pinch-hitting for Yermin Mercedes. Joc Pederson singles to right field. Evan Longoria flies out to center field to Trent Grisham. J.D. Davis reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Joc Pederson to third. Throwing error by Luis Garcia. Thairo Estrada singles to shallow infield. J.D. Davis to second. Joc Pederson scores. Brandon Crawford strikes out swinging. Austin Wynns grounds out to shallow infield, Ha-Seong Kim to Brandon Drury.
1 run, 2 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Padres 4, Giants 1.
Giants ninth. LaMonte Wade Jr. flies out to shallow left field to Jurickson Profar. Mike Yastrzemski strikes out swinging. Wilmer Flores walks. Joc Pederson homers to right field. Wilmer Flores scores. Evan Longoria pops out to Brandon Drury.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — The 20-year-old who opened fire in a Bend, Oregon, supermarket, killing two before he turned the gun on himself, was a loner who was passionate about mixed martial arts and was known for getting into fights at the high school where he graduated in 2020.
The shooter, identified Monday by police as Ethan Blair Miller, of Bend, “tried to fight quite literally everybody” at Mountain View High School, former classmate Isaac Thomas told The Associated Press. Thomas said the gunman once threatened to shoot him after a fight at their school.
Police confirmed Monday they are investigating the “shooter's writings” but declined to comment further on postings on several online platforms that appear to have been written by him in recent months.
In posts on several sites, someone who appears to be the gunman says he's struggled to recover from the isolation and loneliness of the pandemic, expresses hatred for himself and indicates he planned to attack his alma mater next week, but couldn't wait until then because “the Rage has become uncontrollable.”
Authorities sought a search warrant for digital devices found at the gunman's apartment and it will take several days to go through those materials and develop a clearer picture, said Police Chief Mike Krantz.
“We have that information. A lot of people sent us follow-up information about what has been posted on social media or other outlets and our investigators will sift through that information and make those connections — if it’s truly connected— and ensure that we have accurate information," he said.
Police have no evidence of prior contact with the gunman and he had no criminal record in the area, authorities said.
Federal officials were also trying to determine where the gunman got the AR-15-style weapon and shotgun he brought into the store, whether the guns were obtained legally and why he chose the supermarket for his deadly rampage. They found three Molotov cocktails in his car along with a sawed-off shotgun and more ammunition in his apartment, said Bend police spokeswoman Sheila Miller, who is not related to the shooter.
Thomas, the former classmate, said the shooter had worked at the Safeway and Thomas had run into him there two years ago.
Police credited a Safeway employee and 20-year U.S. Army veteran who was killed in the shooting with possibly forestalling a worse outcome and called the actions of 66-year-old Donald Ray Surrett Jr. heroic.
“Mr. Surrett engaged with the shooter, attempted to disarm him and may very well have prevented further deaths. Mr. Surrett acted heroically turning this terrible event,” the police spokeswoman said.
Customer Glenn Edward Bennett, 84, of Bend, was also killed Sunday evening, police said.
About 150 people gathered in a Bend park on Monday night for a vigil to remember the victims. A church choir sang and a pastor and city officials spoke as people laid flowers.
“I’m so angry that lives were needlessly lost, that terror was experienced in our community,” Bend City Councilor Melanie Kebler told the crowd, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Craig Van Bruggen attended the vigil and told the news outlet he was in the Safeway on the phone with his wife when the shooting began. He believes Surrett’s actions helped him escape without injury.
“Sounds like Donald potentially slowed down the shooter enough to save some lives, and he’s a hero,” Van Bruggen told OPB.
The gunman lived in an apartment complex behind The Forum Shopping Center. Witnesses said he began shooting Sunday evening as soon as he left the complex and continued firing as he entered the shopping complex's parking lot and then went into the Safeway.
Bennett was killed at the store's entrance, police said, and the shooter then moved through the aisles “spraying shots” from the assault rifle until Surrett confronted him. The entire incident — from the first 911 calls to officers discovering the suspect dead in the store — unfolded in four minutes, Miller said.
Police entered the supermarket from the front and rear as shots were still being fired.
Debora Jean Surrett, the ex-wife of the Safeway employee killed in the attack, told AP in a phone interview that Surrett served in the Army for 20 years as a combat engineer. He wasn’t deployed to active combat zones, but during the 20 years they were married from 1975 to 1995, they were stationed in Germany three times and lived on military bases across the U.S.
Bend Mayor Pro Tem Anthony Broadman said Americans “need to guard against the cynicism of thinking of these attacks on order and peace as regular, unavoidable things. I won’t accept that.”
“We know that in the face of the kind of chaos that we saw last night, we had brave first responders, brave citizens, people willing to stand up for their neighbors,” he added.
The shooter graduated from Mountain View High School in Bend in 2020, according to online records, and Thomas remembered him as an extremely combative person who had few friends.
Thomas said he was suspended for a week as a freshman for fighting with the gunman. The gunman held onto a grudge from that fight and once threatened to shoot him, Thomas told AP.
“At one point he said he was going to shoot me and I was like, ‘Get over yourself’ because I didn’t think he had a gun, but I guess I was wrong,” Thomas said.
Thomas recalled running into the shooter in 2020 in the parking lot of the Safeway, where the gunman was gathering up carts as part of his job. He recognized him and threatened him again although several years had gone by, Thomas said.
“It was kind of crazy when I heard about it,” he said of the shooting. “But it makes sense that he chose Safeway because he worked there and he knew the layout.”
Bend is a city of about 97,000 approximately 160 miles (257 kilometers) southeast of Portland, Oregon.
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SHANGHAI, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 15th Pujiang Innovation Forum 2022 opened in China's financial hub Shanghai on August 27. With the theme of "Low Carbon: A New Mission for Global Innovation", the forum will focus on underpinning low-carbon development through technological innovation, establishing a sound economic and technological system for green, low-carbon and circular development, and deepening global cooperation in low-carbon technology to jointly draw a new blueprint for global sustainable development.
This year, more than 230 experts from international organizations, top universities, scientific research institutions,think tanks, companies and more than 40 academicians from nearly 30 countries and regions participated in the event online and offline.
Pujiang Innovation Forum was jointed founded by the Ministry of Science and Technology and Shanghai Municipal People's Government in 2008. Focusing on the theme of innovation, it has become an important platform for promoting global cooperation in science, technology and innovation by pooling global ideas and enabling scientific and technological innovation.
At the opening ceremony, "INNOMATCH", a matchmaking platform for global technology supply and demand was officially launched, which aims to gather global innovation resources, address the innovation needs of enterprises, and build a two-way fast track for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
At the plenary meeting held later, Borge Brende, president of the World Economic Forum, said that technology is key to mitigating climate change and this is why China's commitment to promoting green technology solutions is amazing.
During this forum, a number of reports and cooperation agreements were released such as The 2022 "Ideal City" Global High-level Scientist Analysis Report and Low&Net Zero Carbon Related Science and Technology, and Prospective Analysis of Application Scenarios.
At the Regional & Urban Forum held on Aug. 28, the National Innovation Center par Excellence (NICE) signed contracts with six international companies, including ARaymond Company of France and DuPont Company of the United States, to jointly promote global innovation and high-quality, integrated green development.
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ZHANGJIAGANG, China, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2022 Yangtze River Culture Festival kicked off on Aug 27 in Zhangjiagang, a port city in East China's Jiangsu province, and will run until October. The annual gathering has become a habit for artists, scholars and inheritors of intangible cultural heritages in the Yangtze River Basin, according to the Organizing Committee of Yangtze River Culture Festival. As the event has been held for 19 consecutive years, people cannot help to ask why the small city is so influential in the whole Yangtze River region.
There are 181 bends of more than 90 degrees in the main stream of the Yangtze River, and the last one forms Zhangjiagang Bay. Today, here is an ecological scenic spot where the river can be seen and nostalgia remembered. Not far away is the Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong Yangtze River Bridge, which began operations in 2020, with the high-speed trains on it running between Shanghai and northern Jiangsu. Especially on the bridge, people can enjoy the magnificent river and the city skyline on the riverbank.
Despite that Zhangjiagang, about 130 kilometers away from Shanghai, is only a county-level city in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, it is always ranked among the top three county-level cities in China in terms of economic strength. It is generally believed that the spirit of Zhangjiagang people's striving for the first comes from their riverside life experience featuring the courage to make the tide.
Zhangjiagang was founded just 60 years ago, but archaeological discoveries show that it was where the first civilization in the Yangtze River Basin emerged. During the Tang and Song dynasties, it was an important port for Sino-foreign exchanges, with palmette patterns typical of the western style appearing on excavated porcelain.
The young Zhangjiagang city is not only seeking to elevate its economy to the next level, but more importantly to build itself into a highly civilized city. Since the 1990s, a high level of civilization has been its pride, and the Yangtze River Culture Festival is one of its major initiatives.
Liu Pengchun, an artist who has attended the festival many times, said that artists from the Yangtze River Basin have diverse living habits, but the festival organizers manage to meet their different needs, which attracts people to the festival. Zhangjiagang boasts the best group of volunteers in China.
Another reason why the festival can be echoed across the basin is that Zhangjiagang respects cultural expression, where the diversity of Yangtze River culture can be fully showcased on the stage.
In recent years, the concept of preserving the Yangtze River and promoting its culture has gained unanimous recognition in China. Themed "Integrate, Promote, Share", this year's festival allows the audience to interact online and offline, learning about the diverse and splendid cultural relics exhibitions, intangible cultural heritage displays, cultural performances and more from the Yangtze River Basin.
In 2014, BBC producer Simon Reeve recorded the colorful Yangtze River culture with his documentary 'Sacred River: Yangtze River' in which he also expressed his concerns about over-exploitation. It is a pity that he has never been to Zhangjiagang. Zhangjiagang is an indispensable choice for anyone who wants to understand the Yangtze River and the Chinese people living along it today.
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Donald Trump's team may have hidden records from Mar-a-Lago storage room, Justice Department says
The US Justice Department says it uncovered efforts to obstruct its investigation into the discovery of classified documents at former US president Donald Trump's Florida estate, saying "government records were likely concealed and removed" from a storage room at the property.
Key points:
- Mr Trump's lawyers had told the department that all the records, which included classified documents, were kept in the storage room
- FBI agents found classified documents in the former president's office, some in office desks, during an August 8 raid
- The court filing is a response to a request from Mr Trump's legal team for a special master to review the documents seized during the FBI search
The assertion was made in a court filing that lays out the most detailed chronology to date of interactions between Justice Department officials and Mr Trump's representatives over the presence of the documents at Mar-a-Lago.
The department said Mr Trump's lawyers told them in June that all the records that came from the White House were stored in one location — a Mar-a-Lago storage room — and that "there were no other records stored in any private office space or other location at the premises and that all available boxes were searched".
But In their search earlier this month, agents found classified documents both in the storage room as well as in the former president's office — including three classified documents found not in boxes, but in office desks.
The filing responds to a request from Mr Trump's legal team for a special master to review the documents seized during the August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon is set to hear arguments on the matter.
Mr Trump's lawyers last week asked for the appointment of a special master who would be tasked with reviewing the records taken and setting aside documents protected by claims of legal privilege.
Judge Cannon said it was her "preliminary intent" to appoint such a person, but also gave the Justice Department an opportunity to respond.
On Monday, the department said it had already completed its review of potentially privileged documents and identified a "limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information".
In a separate development, another attorney has joined the Trump legal team.
Chris Kise, Florida's former solicitor-general, has joined the team of lawyers representing Mr Trump, according to two people familiar with the matter who were not authorised to discuss the move by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Mr Kise did not return messages seeking comment.
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Victoria has adopted an affirmative consent model, shifting scrutiny off victims and back on to the perpetrators of sexual violence.
Under new laws, which passed Victorian parliament on Tuesday night, a person must have a clear and enthusiastic go-ahead for their belief in consent to be reasonable.
The consent can include - but is not limited to - verbally asking and getting a “yes” in response, a physical gesture such as a nod, or reciprocating a move such as removing clothes.
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The reforms are a crucial step in stopping all forms of violence against women, Prevention of Family Violence Minister Ros Spence said.
“Every Victorian has a responsibility to challenge the harmful behaviours, attitudes and assumptions that lead to sexual violence,” she said.
“This new standard of consent in Victoria shifts the focus away from the victim and towards the accused and what actions they took to confirm consent.”
The laws make clear that “stealthing” - the removing, tampering with, or not using a condom without consent - is a crime.
They also target image-based sexual abuse, which includes taking intimate videos of someone without their consent as well as distributing or threatening to distribute intimate images.
A person who knowingly distributes an intimate image of someone else faces three years’ imprisonment under the Justice Legislation Amendment (Sexual Offences and Other Matters) Bill 2022.
The new laws mean judges can give juries directions about consent, and have to explain to them what “proof beyond reasonable doubt” means.
Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes said there is no room for victim-blaming or “outdated attitudes around sexual violence”.
“These new affirmative consent laws will ensure our justice system keeps up with those expectations,” she said.
“By making it crystal clear that stealthing is a crime, we’re not only condemning it but making it easier for victims to realise what’s happened to them – and that it isn’t something to be ashamed of.”
The reforms will start to come into effect from next month, with the affirmative consent model to begin from July next year unless earlier proclaimed.
If you or someone you know is impacted by sexual assault, domestic or family violence, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or visit 1800RESPECT.org.au.
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For many people, Labor Day is a dreaded weekend. One that signals the end of summer, a countdown they wish they could put off or bypass completely. But being that it’s the last hurrah, we think a better approach is to treat it as the final celebration of an amazing season, and we can’t think of a better spot to celebrate Labor Day than in New Jersey’s oldest beach resort — Cape May.
To save you some time, we’ve taken all the work out of planning and put together a timeline for the ultimate Cape May Labor Day weekend, full of great dining options, fun shopping and, of course, some time to soak up the sun on the beach.
Friday – On Friday evening after the work day is done, head out for an early night with lots of cocktails at Rusty Nail. This bar is across the street from the beach and is known as Cape May’s iconic surfer bar. The chill vibe is accented by fire pits, shuffleboard, live entertainment and cold cocktails, and customers can enjoy having sand at their feet and the ocean across the way. Rusty Nail offers wine, craft beer, frozen cocktails and their very own list of specialty cocktails using fresh juices. Their Pink Lemonade — a mix of their very own Rusty Nail lemonade, along with vodka and sprite is a great choice to start the evening. Other standout specialty cocktails include the Citrus Bojito with Absolut Citron, basil, lime, lemon and ginger ale or the Rusty Rum Runner which features a tropical blend of pineapple, orange and mango juices, banana liqueur and Bermuda rum. Rusty Nail is open daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and located at 205 Beach Ave. in Cape May. Go to CapeResorts.com.
Saturday – Start the morning off bright by heading to the beach and getting some sun for a few hours. Lie out in the sand and enjoy the sun on your skin and the sound of the ocean waves crashing against the shore.
Once off the beach, head out for a nice casual lunch. Lucky Bones Back Water Grille is one of our favorite casual dining spots in the Cape May area. An American-style restaurant with brick oven pizza, soups, sauces and desserts all made from scratch, this place is a popular lunch spot and for good reason. Start out by ordering one of their award winning brick oven pizzas, for the table before moving on to entrees. We love the Clam Boat Pizza — a New Haven style pie topped with locally caught clams, roasted garlic, parmesan, mozzarella and fresh oregano.
Lucky Bones is open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. and is located at 1200 NJ-109, Cape May. Go to LuckyBones.com.
After lunch, take a stroll through the Washington Street Mall, with its plethora of bookstores, art galleries, ice cream shops and more. You can find clothing, candles, jewelry, lingerie, baseball caps, soaps, handbags, a beef jerky shop and even a boutique and ice cream shop for dogs. Looking for something to take home as a keepsake? Head to Beachlove Cape May for Cape May-themed collectibles and gifts that will remind you of this perfect Labor Day Weekend for years to come. Go to WashingtonStreetMall.com.
Head back to shower up, get changed and maybe relax and enjoy a cocktail or two before strolling back out for a special dinner at one of Cape May’s best dining locations, The Washington Inn.
The Washington Inn and Wine Bar was first constructed in 1846 and has endured quite the history throughout the years. Fine dining at its best, we suggest you start simple with the Chef’s Featured Oysters with a champagne mignonette, served with cocktail sauce. We also love the Duroc Pork Chops, with celery root, braised collard greens, bacon lardons, mostarda, and a rosemary demi glace. WashingtonInn.com.
Sunday – Sundays are made for brunching, and The Mad Batter is a great place to start. If you are looking for a little bit of everything, try The Croustade which has scrambled eggs, sausage, roasted red peppers and garlic, green onion, pepper jack cheese, all served over a brioche bun. Pair with a Bloody Mary and start the day off strong. The Mad Batter is open for breakfast and lunch daily from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Located in the Carroll Villa Hotel on 19 Jackson St. Go to MadBatter.com.
After indulging at brunch, jump on board with Day Sipper Wine, Brew and Spirit Tours for a few tastings. All you have to do is schedule the date, choose three wineries, breweries or distilleries around Cape May and you’re all set. Their hippie-esque van will pick you up from anywhere in Cape May County and return you back there after. Enjoy three complimentary tastings at each of the spots you choose. Price per person is $165. Day Sipper.com.
Soak up those sips with dinner at Congress Hall. Blue Pig Tavern offers dished made with farm-to-table ingredients from Beach Plum Farm, served in their rustic dining room. Try the always delicious shrimp cocktail appetizer then double down on the seafood with their Congressional Lump Crab Cake which comes with the classic sides of french fries and coleslaw. Dinner is served daily from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Blue Pig Tavern is located inside of Congress Hall at 200 Congress Place. CapeResorts.com
While there are many places in Cape May to grab a frozen treat, Peace Pie is one of the best and most unique. This fun shop sells one-of-a-kind ice cream sandwiches prepared with a layer of delicious pie filling inside in a variety of flavors including, key lime, salted caramel apple, cherry, banana cream, coconut cream, blueberry cobbler, Boston cream, pecan and lemon meringue among others.
Peace Pie also offers pickup and delivery in Cape May using DoorDash. They are open daily from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. and are located at 326 Carpenters Lane in Cape May. Head to Peacepieworld.com.
Monday – With Labor Day effectively being the last day of summer, it’s a must that you end strong. And that means a meal at Lobster House.
The Lobster House overlooks the scenic Cape May Harbor, offers five dining rooms including the Schooner American, an outdoor cocktail lounge where guests can enjoy a few drinks before heading in to dine. We love to order family-style here, so everyone can taste a little bit of everything. Classics like crabmeat cocktail, baked stuffed clams and the fisherman’s wharf platter always make our list. The Lobster House is located at 906 Schellengers Landing Road. TheLobsterHouse.com. | https://atlanticcityweekly.com/attheshore/dining/building-the-perfect-labor-day-weekend/article_48f8d450-24a9-11ed-af6c-c32f9ee5e88f.html | 2022-08-31T06:04:30Z | https://atlanticcityweekly.com/attheshore/dining/building-the-perfect-labor-day-weekend/article_48f8d450-24a9-11ed-af6c-c32f9ee5e88f.html | false |
My Kitchen Rules judge Manu Feildel brutally slams this season's cast ahead of the season finale: 'We could've had some better cooks'
My Kitchen Rules judge Manu Feildel has shared a brutal opinion on this year's cast members.
The celebrity chef, 48, didn't hold back when he admitted that he would liked to have seen contestants with more experience in this year's competition.
'Without being an a**hole, I think we could've had some better cooks,' he told the Daily Telegraph.
My Kitchen Rules judge Manu Feildel has shared a brutal opinion on this year's cast members: 'We could've had some better cooks'
'People have got to be more experienced – real foodies.'
Manu also spoke about the major difference in this year's competition, explaining how the cooks were very friendly and nice this time around.
'You can’t put 12 strangers around a table in a competition and not have any drama whatsoever, obviously. It’s impossible,' he added.
'But this season was much more friendly, nothing like it was before.'
MKR's Kate and Mary, and Janelle and Monzir, will battle it out in the kitchen on the show's grand finale on Wednesday night.
The teams will be forced to prepare 100 plates to impress judges Manu Feildel, Curtis Stone and Colin Fassnidge.
During the semi-final on Tuesday, it was Janelle and Monzir who were the first team to make it through following their three-course menu.
My Kitchen Rules is down to just two team, Kate and Mary (right) and Janelle and Monzir (left), who will face off in Wednesday's grand finale
'I'm just so relieved. We worked so hard for this and going to the grand final is an absolute dream come true,' said Janelle
'I'm just so relieved. We worked so hard for this and going to the grand final is an absolute dream come true,' said Janelle.
'We're hungry for this. I know we have so much more to give. We're going to level it up one more time and we're going to win this battle against Kate and Mary.'
Meanwhile, Kate and Mary said they were both motivated by the $100,000 prize money.
'We've come this far; we just want to go to the top,' Mary said.
'We've come this far; we just want to go to the top,' Mary said. 'I can't believe we're one cook away from winning $100,000. It's our intention to win this competition'
'I can't believe we're one cook away from winning $100,000. It's our intention to win this competition.'
Four teams competed on the semi-final with Sophie and Katherine and Matt and KT both eliminated.
Matt and KT were first to go following the dishing up of their entrees.
The judges said Sophie and Katherine had nailed the protein in their main of crispy pork belly with parsnip puree and roast pears but were let down by their sauce.
The show has been a hit this year with guest judges. Pictured: Manu Feildel and Matt Preston
Janelle and Monzir served a main of Lamb Backstrap with Kisir and Ezme Salad.
Manu praised the dish for its different levels of texture.
'I just loved the different levels of texture you offered and the different layers of flavours. The spicy and the smoky,' he said.
'I think it was a very clever dish.'
The My Kitchen Rules grand finale airs Wednesday at 7.30pm Channel Seven
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Survey finds young people follow news, but without much joy
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Young people are following the news, but aren’t too happy with what they’re seeing.
Broadly speaking, that’s the conclusion of a study released Wednesday showing 79% of young Americans say they get news daily. The survey of young people ages 16 to 40 — the older of which are known as millennials and the younger Generation Z — was conducted by Media Insight Project, a collaboration between The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the American Press Institute.
The report pokes holes in the idea that young people aren’t interested in news, a perception largely driven by statistics showing older audiences for television news and newspapers.
“They are more engaged in more ways than people give them credit for,” said Michael Bolden, CEO and executive director of the American Press Institute.
An estimated 71% of this age group gets news daily from social media. The social media diet is becoming more varied; Facebook doesn’t dominate the way it used to. About a third or more get news each day from YouTube and Instagram, and about a quarter or more from TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter. Now, 40% say they get news from Facebook daily, compared with 57% of millennials who said that in a 2015 Media Insight Project survey.
Yet 45% also said they get news each day from traditional sources, like television or radio stations, newspapers and news websites.
The poll found that about a quarter of young people say they regularly pay for at least one news product, like print or digital magazines or newspapers, and a similar percentage have donated to at least one nonprofit news organization.
Only 32% say they enjoy following the news. That’s a marked decrease from seven years ago, when 53% of millennials said that. Fewer young people now say they enjoy talking with family and friends about the news.
Other findings, such as people who say they feel worse the longer they spend online or who set time limits on their consumption, point to a weariness with the news, said Tom Rosenstiel, a University of Maryland journalism professor.
“I wasn’t surprised by that,” Bolden said. “It has been a challenging news cycle, especially the last three years.”
About 9 in 10 young people say misinformation about issues and events is a problem, including about 6 in 10 who say it’s a major problem. Most say they’ve been exposed to misinformation themselves.
Asked who they consider most responsible for its spread, young people pointed to social media companies and users, politicians and the media in equal measure.
That may surprise people in the media who believe they are fighting misinformation, and are not part of the problem, Bolden said. A significant number of people disagree.
“Whether that’s accurate or not, the people in this business have to deal with that perception,” he said.
He suggested that it’s important for news organizations to better explain what it is that they do and how coverage decisions are made, along with taking a step back to make clear how government functions, as well as holding leaders to account.
The percentage of people who say “news stories that seem to mostly create conflict rather than help address it” and “media outlets that pass on conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated rumors” are a major problem exceeded the number of people concerned about journalists putting too much opinion in their stories, the survey found.
That would seem to point a finger at cable news outlets that fill air time with debates on particular issues, often pitting people with extreme points of view. New CNN chief executive Chris Licht has recently called on his network to cool the overheated segments.
“There are people who have grown up in this world of political food-fight media, and this is the only world they know,” said Rosenstiel, who worked on the survey as Bolden’s predecessor at the press institute. “They might have heard their parents talk about Walter Cronkite, but they haven’t seen that.”
The topics people ages 16 to 40 say they most follow in the news? Celebrities, music and entertainment, at 49%, and food and cooking, at 48%, top the list. At least a third follow a wide range of other issues, including health and fitness, race and social justice, the environment, health care, education, politics and sports.
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In an unfinished part of his basement, 95-year-old Richard Soller zips around a makeshift track encircling boxes full of medals he’s won for track and field and long-distance running.
Without a hint of breathlessness, he says: “I can put in miles down here.”
Steps away is an expensive leather recliner he bought when he retired from Procter & Gamble with visions of relaxing into old age. He proudly proclaims he’s never used it; he’s been too busy training for competitions, such as the National Senior Games.
Soller, who lives near Cincinnati, has achieved an enviable goal chased by humans since ancient times: Staying healthy and active in late life. It’s a goal that eludes so many that growing old is often associated with getting frail and sick. But scientists are trying to change that — and tackle one of humanity’s biggest challenges — through a little known but flourishing field of aging research called cellular senescence.
It’s built upon the idea that cells eventually stop dividing and enter a “senescent” state in response to various forms of damage. The body removes most of them. But others linger like zombies. They aren’t dead. But as the Mayo Clinic’s Nathan LeBrasseur puts it, they can harm nearby cells like moldy fruit corrupting a fruit bowl. They accumulate in older bodies, which mounting evidence links to an array of age-related conditions such as dementia, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis.
But scientists wonder: Can the zombie cell buildup be stopped?
“The ability to understand aging – and the potential to intervene in the fundamental biology of aging – is truly the greatest opportunity we have had, maybe in history, to transform human health,” LeBrasseur says. Extending the span of healthy years impacts “quality of life, public health, socioeconomics, the whole shebang.”
With the number of people 65 or older expected to double globally by 2050, cellular senescence is “a very hot topic,” says Viviana Perez Montes of the National Institutes of Health. According to an Associated Press analysis of an NIH research database, there have been around 11,500 total projects involving cellular senescence since 1985, far more in recent years.
About 100 companies, plus academic teams, are exploring drugs to target senescent cells. And research offers tantalizing clues that people may be able to help tame senescence themselves using the strategy favored by Soller: exercise.
Although no one thinks senescence holds the key to super long life, Tufts University researcher Christopher Wiley hopes for a day when fewer people suffer fates like his late grandfather, who had Alzheimer’s and stared back at him as if he were a stranger.
“I’m not looking for the fountain of youth,” Wiley says. “I’m looking for the fountain of not being sick when I’m older.”
MORTAL CELLS
Leonard Hayflick, the scientist who discovered cellular senescence in 1960, is himself vital at 94. He’s a professor of anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, and continues to write, present and speak on the topic.
At his seaside home in Sonoma County, he leafs through a binder filled with his research, including two early papers that have been cited an astonishing number of times by other researchers. Before him on the living room table are numerous copies of his seminal book, “How and Why We Age,” in various languages.
This scientific renown didn’t come easily. He discovered cellular senescence by accident, cultivating human fetal cells for a project on cancer biology and noticing they stopped dividing after about 50 population doublings. This wasn’t a big surprise; cell cultures often failed because of things like contamination. What was surprising was that others also stopped dividing at the same point. The phenomenon was later called “the Hayflick limit.”
The finding, Hayflick says, challenged “60-year-old dogma” that normal human cells could replicate forever. A paper he authored with colleague Paul Moorhead was rejected by a prominent scientific journal, and Hayflick faced a decade of ridicule after it was published in Experimental Cell Research in 1961.
“It followed the usual pattern of major discoveries in science, where the discoverer is first ridiculed and then somebody says, ‘Well, maybe it works’ … then it becomes accepted to some extent, then becomes more widely accepted.”
At this point, he says, “the field that I discovered has skyrocketed to an extent that’s beyond my ability to keep up with it.”
ZOMBIE BUILDUP
Scientists are careful to note that cell senescence can be useful. It likely evolved at least in part to suppress the development of cancer by limiting the capacity of cells to keep dividing. It happens throughout our lives, triggered by things like DNA damage and the shortening of telomeres, structures that cap and protect the ends of chromosomes. Senescent cells play a role in wound healing, embryonic development and childbirth.
Problems can arise when they build up.
“When you’re young, your immune system is able to recognize these senescent cells and eliminate them,” says Perez, who studies cell biology and aging. “But when we start getting old … the activity of our immune system also gets diminished, so we’re losing the capacity to eliminate them.”
Senescent cells resist apoptosis, or programmed cell death, and characteristically get big and flat, with enlarged nuclei. They release a blend of molecules, some of which can trigger inflammation and harm other cells — and paradoxically can also stimulate the growth of malignant cells and fuel cancer, LeBrasseur says.
Scientists link some disorders to buildups of senescent cells in certain spots. For example, research suggests certain senescent cells that accumulate in lungs exposed to cigarette smoke may contribute substantially to airway inflammation in COPD.
The idea that one process could be at the root of numerous diseases is powerful to many scientists.
It inspired Dr. James Kirkland to move on from geriatric medicine. “I got tired of prescribing better wheelchairs and incontinence devices,” says Kirkland, a professor of medicine at Mayo considered a pioneer of the senescence renaissance. “I wanted to do something more fundamental that could alleviate the suffering that I saw.”
DRUG TARGETS
That quest leads him and others to develop medicines.
Experimental drugs designed to selectively clear senescent cells have been dubbed “senolytics,” and Mayo holds patents on some. In mice, they’ve been shown to be effective at delaying, preventing or easing several age-related disorders.
Possible benefits for people are just emerging. Kirkland, LeBrasseur and colleagues did a pilot study providing initial evidence that patients with a serious lung disease might be helped by pairing a chemotherapy drug with a plant pigment. Another pilot study found the same combination reduced the burden of senescent cells in the fat tissue of people with diabetic kidney disease.
At least a dozen clinical trials with senolytics are now testing things like whether they can help control Alzheimer’s progression, improve joint health in osteoarthritis and improve skeletal health. Some teams are trying to develop “senomorphics” that can suppress detrimental effects of molecules emitted by senescent cells. And a Japanese team has tested a vaccine on mice specific to a protein found in senescent cells, allowing for their targeted elimination.
Scientists say serious work to improve human health could also bring fringe benefits – like reducing skin wrinkling.
“I tell my lab that if we find a drug that clears the bad senescent cells and not the good ones and we cure Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s and osteoporosis and macular degeneration, it would be wonderful,” says Judith Campisi, a biogerontology expert at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. “But if we cure wrinkles, we’ll be rich, and I’ll never have to write another grant.”
Amid the buzz, some companies market dietary supplements as senolytics. But researchers warn they haven’t been shown to work or proven safe.
And there’s still much to learn about clinical trial drugs.
“We know that senolytics work pretty well in mice,” Wiley says. “We’re still really figuring out the basics with people.”
‘MOST PROMISING TOOL’
Today, LeBrasseur, who directs a center on aging at Mayo, says exercise is “the most promising tool that we have” for good functioning in late life, and its power extends to our cells.
Research suggests it counters the buildup of senescent ones, helping the immune system clear them and counteracting the molecular damage that can spark the senescence process.
A study LeBrasseur led last year provided the first evidence in humans that exercise can significantly reduce indicators, found in the bloodstream, of the burden of senescent cells in the body. After a 12-week aerobics, resistance and balance training program, researchers found that older adults had lowered indicators of senescence and better muscle strength, physical function and reported health. A recently-published research review collects even more evidence — in animals and humans — for exercise as a senescence-targeting therapy.
While such studies aren’t well-known outside scientific circles, many older adults intuitively equate exercise with youthfulness.
Rancher Mike Gale, 81, installed a track and field throwing circle on his sprawling property in Petaluma, California, so he and some friends could practice throwing the discus and other equipment. Against a backdrop of rolling green hills, they twist, step, throw and retrieve over and over again.
“I’d like to be competing in my 90s,” Gale says. “Why not?”
Soller asked himself a similar question long ago.
After a torn hamstring stopped him from running track in high school, he fell into an unhealthy lifestyle in early adulthood, smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. But he and his wife Jean quit cold turkey when their daughter Mary came along.
He started running again just before turning 50, and since then has run in races across the U.S., including two marathons, and participated in decades of Senior Games competitions. In May, Soller joined 12,000 like-minded athletes in Florida for the latest national games in the Fort Lauderdale area – winning five medals to add to his collection of 1,500 prizes.
His daughter filmed his first-place finish in the 200-meter dash from the stands, cheering: “Go, Dad, go!”
Soller says exercise keeps him fit enough to handle what comes his way – including an Alzheimer’s diagnosis for his wife of 62 years. They sometimes stroll neighborhood streets together, holding hands.
“Do as much as you can,” he says. “That should be the goal for anyone to stay healthy.”
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Video journalist Angie Wang contributed to this story.
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On this day in 2016: David Luiz makes deadline day return to Chelsea
On this day in 2016, David Luiz rejoined Chelsea from Paris St Germain in a £32million deal on a frantic transfer deadline day.
Antonio Conte’s desperation to bolster his defensive resources during the summer of 2016 saw the Blues turn to a familiar face as the transfer deadline loomed.
Brazil international Luiz had made 143 appearances for the club during his first spell following his £21million arrival from Benfica in January 2011, in the process collecting winners medals in the Champions League, the Europa League and the FA Cup.
An accomplished footballer, but not always the most resolute of defenders, he left Stamford Bridge in June 2014 when Paris St Germain struck a deal amounting to £50million to take him to the Parc des Princes.
Luiz’s two campaigns in France were also trophy-laden – he won two French Ligue 1 titles, two Coupes de France, two Coupes de la Ligue and two Trophees des Champions – but when Chelsea came calling a second time, he did not take a great deal of persuading.
Conte, who had replaced interim manager Guus Hiddink almost two months earlier, had endured a frustrating summer attempting to land defensive targets with Napoli’s Kalidou Koulibaly – who eventually joined Chelsea in July this year – and Alessio Romagnoli of AC Milan remaining tantalisingly out of his grasp.
Brazil international defender David Luiz enjoyed two successful spells with Chelsea (Bradley Collyer/PA)
However with 29-year-old Luiz facing the stiffest of competition from Marquinhos and Thiago Silva – another future Blues recruit – at PSG, the offer of regular football at a club where he had enjoyed such success proved too good to resist.
He said at the time: “I’m delighted to return to Chelsea. We had a fantastic story during my first time at the club and I want to help the team and Antonio Conte achieve a lot of success.”
Luiz’s return came on the same day as full-back Marcos Alonso signed from Fiorentina for around £23million – the club had earlier landed N’Golo Kante, Michy Batshuayi and Eduardo – and winger Juan Cuadrado headed for Juventus on a three-year loan deal.
He made a further 105 appearances and added a Premier League title, another FA Cup and a second Europa League success before making a surprise £8million switch to Arsenal in August 2019 after talks with then manager and former team-mate Frank Lampard.
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Acton Scott Farm's future needs to be got right, council says
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The future of a working farm, used as the location of the television series Victorian Farm, needs to be got right, a council says.
Acton Scott Historic Working Farm, near Craven Arms, has been shut since July 2021 after an outbreak of E-coli.
The site is no longer "financially viable", the council has said and added its future is still being discussed.
The council said it is taking time to explore all options but in the meantime it is still paying the lease.
It is also paying for the costs of caring for the animals.
The venue, set within the Acton Scott Estate, has been operated by the council since the 1970s.
Visitor numbers peaked in 2009, the authority said, at about 45,000 a year, but have been in decline since, with the farm operating at a deficit of £168,000 per year.
Cecilia Motley, cabinet member for culture, leisure and tourism, said the farm is "no longer considered to be financially viable for the council".
"We know the value people place on Acton Scott Historic Working Farm and we recognise its importance socially, educationally and in terms of the visitor economy," she said."Our desire is to reach a workable solution with the estate and explore all possible options in doing so."
A report had been set to go before the council's cabinet next month but the authority wants to take time to "get it right because it is such an important decision", council leader Lezley Picton added.
"There is all sorts of discussions going on...there's a number of options, there's also external interested parties," she said.
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This decade's oil boom is moving offshore - way offshore
By Rod Nickel and Sabrina Valle Aug 31 (Reuters) - Global oil companies are pumping billions of dollars into offshore drilling, reversing a long decline in spending on the decades-long projects including some in the remote iceberg waters far off Canada's Atlantic coast. Surging oil prices are encouraging the investments, along with Europe's mounting energy demand as the Ukraine-Russia war drags on. Offshore production sites are more expensive to build than onshore shale, the last decade's investment darling. But once they are up and running, they can turn profits at lower prices than other forms of production, according to consultancy Rystad Energy. They are also designed to pump oil for decades, a counterintuitive move that could increase financial risk for the projects as the world pushes for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to slow climate change. Offshore projects generate fewer emissions per barrel than other forms of oil production due to their massive scale, but they would still increase global air pollution. Environmental groups warn that spills far offshore are hard to clean up. One of the most remote developments is near Canada, where Norway's Equinor ASA is close to a final decision on its Bay du Nord project 500 kilometers (311 miles) offshore of Newfoundland and Labrador. The site is so far from shore that it falls in international waters, requiring Canada to pay United Nations royalties. It would be a global first, according to Energy Regulation Quarterly, illustrating how far producers are willing to go for oil supplies that could last up to three decades. 'LAST ONES STANDING' Canada has set a goal of lowering its emissions by 40% to 45% by 2030 from 2005 levels, but Ottawa approved Equinor's C$16 billion ($12.37 billion) Bay du Nord in April anyway, saying it raised no significant environmental issues. Ottawa could approve more such projects as long as they produce low emissions, have best-in-class technology and can become net-zero by 2050, said Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada´s natural resources minister. Bay du Nord is expected to produce below 8 kilograms per barrel of carbon dioxide, Equinor estimates, less than half the international average. "Those facilities that are producing oil and gas with zero or near-zero production emissions are going to be the last ones standing," Wilkinson said. Bay du Nord, which could first produce oil by decade's end, might be the first of several massive Newfoundland offshore projects. OilCo, a Newfoundland government corporation, has identified 20 prospective projects with 1 billion barrels in reserves each, CEO Jim Keating said. Such projects come with challenges not seen onshore. The Bay du Nord floating production storage and offloading unit would measure more than a city block, producing crude in icy waters known for waves up to 15 metres high in winter, according to Equinor. Icebergs drift across the area between March and July, and two species of endangered sea turtles inhabit its waters. "Canada already has profitable producing fields far from the coast with similar weather," Wood Mackenzie upstream analyst Marcelo de Assis said, noting that the project's water depth of 650 to 1,170 metres is much less than wells elsewhere at 3,000 metres. Bay du Nord would be so far from shore that helicopters flying in workers for three-week shifts might carry only eight people, half the usual number, to account for extra fuel, according to Rob Strong, a longtime Newfoundland oil industry consultant. Despite the high upfront construction cost, projects like Bay du Nord interest companies because the 500 million barrels of recoverable reserves would be enough to last 20 years. Equinor declined to provide a production cost estimate, though it said that major projects coming by the end of 2030 will, on average, break even with oil below $35 per barrel. Producing offshore projects average a break-even price of $18.10 per barrel of oil equivalent, compared with $28.20 per barrel for onshore, according to Rystad. Other companies bought into offshore Canadian projects this spring. BP PLC purchased a Bay du Nord stake and Cenovus Energy restarted a stalled project. Global offshore investment should rise 27% from 2021 levels to $173 billion in 2024, reversing a decade of decline and growing slightly faster than onshore investment, Rystad estimates. "I've been up and down like a yo-yo," said Strong, who has been called the "grandfather of the Newfoundland offshore oil industry." He added: "Two years ago I was at the depths of depression. Today, I'm very optimistic." The profitability of offshore projects depends on future oil demand, and forecasts vary widely. The International Energy Agency (IEA) in 2021 advised against new fossil fuel projects for the world to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 if global transportation is fully supplied by electric vehicles and renewable fuels by mid-century, oil demand would drop 75% to about 25 million barrels per day, IEA said. Bay du Nord could become a stranded asset before the end of its lifetime if oil demand peaks between 2025 and 2030 and the world's crude needs are supplied by lower-cost regions like the Middle East, said Jean-Francois Mercure, an associate professor in climate change policy with the University of Exeter, England. "Financial risk will be very high," Mercure said. However, Wood Mackenzie estimates oil demand is only likely to halve even in its most ambitious 2050 energy transition scenario - and could even rise. 'PRECIOUS AND FRAGILE' Producing offshore emits less carbon per barrel than onshore as projects' massive scale and new technology make it easier to curb flaring and methane emissions and recycle heat. Offshore projects still carry huge environmental risks, said Gretchen Fitzgerald, Sierra Club's Atlantic director. After a spill, Equinor would be unlikely to contain oil due to intense wave action and instead use chemicals to disperse it. Such an approach may harm northern bottlenose whales and deep sea corals, she said. "Because it's so far offshore, it's hard for people to imagine what the environment is like. But it's pretty precious and fragile," Fitzgerald said. Equinor will only approve projects if "convinced they are safe and environmentally responsible," spokesperson Ola Morten Aanestad said, adding it has long experience in harsh environments. Other European oil majors are setting similar goals. Both Shell PLC and BP plan to reduce crude output over time but say they will keep investing heavily offshore. Each is adding a new Gulf of Mexico platform this year. "We believe that hydrocarbons will be part of the energy mix for many decades to come," said Shell's executive-vice president for global deepwater, Paul Goodfellow. Offshore accounts for about one-third of world oil output, but that could increase in coming years. "The energy transition should take some 25, 30 years, WoodMac's Assis said. "It will be difficult to eliminate oil. Europe's energy crisis is a reminder of that." 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GRIFFITTS, David C.
David C. Griffitts, 67, of Springfield, passed away August 28, 2022 at Springfield Regional Hospital. He was born July 16, 1955 in Santa Rosa, California, son of Charles and Shirley Ann (Davidson) Griffitts. David was a veteran of the US Navy. He enjoyed working in his garden and watching movies. He was a people-person, and never knew a stranger. Survivors include his husband, Greg McBride; loving mother, Shirley Griffitts; twin brother who he shared a special bond with, Dale (Marilyn) Griffitts; sisters, Sherry Boswell (Brian Paul), Gloria (John) Stir, and Tina (Ted) Myers; daughter, Ashley Nicole Griffitts-Miller (Scotty Hillard); grandchildren, Gracie, Chloe, and Bailee; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father. Funeral services will be held at 12:00 pm Thursday in the JONES-KENNEY-ZECHMAN FUNERAL HOME with Pastor Rick Clos officiating. Friends may visit with the family from 11 am until the services begin at noon. Burial, with military honors, will follow in Ferncliff Cemetery. Condolences may be shared at www.jkzfh.com.
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HAWLEY, Dolores J.
87, of Butler Twp., passed away Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. She was born to Hermann and Elizabeth Steinbrenner on Sept. 14, 1934, in Dayton, Ohio. Dolores was the salutatorian of Northridge High School Class of 1952 and later graduated with a bachelors degree from Ohio University. She has traveled and lived all over the world with her husband during his U.S. Air Force career. Preceded in death by her husband, Maj. Winston Hawley, and her son, Ronald Hawley. Survived by her sister, Gretchen Allen (Richard); niece, Elizabeth Trunk (Jon); nephew, Nicholas Allen (Tara); 6 great-nieces and nephews; sister-in-law, Sunya Milner (Jim); many cousins and friends. The family would like to thank the staff at Brookdale Englewood for their care of Dolores. The family will receive friends 10-11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 2 at the Morton & Whetstone Funeral Home, 139 S. Dixie Dr., Vandalia, with the funeral service at 11 a.m. Burial to follow at Dayton Memorial Park Cemetery. Condolences can be shared at www.MortonWhetstoneFH.com.
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Zac Gallen, Jake McCarthy lead D-backs' rout of Phils
Zac Gallen stretched his scoreless streak to 34 1/3 innings and Jake McCarthy homered, tripled and drove in a career-high five runs as the Arizona Diamondbacks mauled the Philadelphia Phillies 12-3 on Tuesday night in Phoenix.
Gallen (10-2) gave up just two hits in seven innings while posting his fifth straight scoreless start. Gallen struck out seven and walked one as the Diamondbacks won their season-best fifth straight game.
Gallen's scoreless streak is the second longest in Arizona history behind Brandon Webb's 42-inning stretch in 2007. He has allowed just 14 hits during the span and is also 6-0 with a 0.69 ERA over his last eight starts.
McCarthy had a two-run triple and three-run homer and Corbin Carroll had three RBIs as the Diamondbacks beat the Phillies at home for the seventh consecutive time. Alek Thomas had a career-high four hits, and Daulton Varsho and Christian Walker had three apiece as Arizona racked up 17 overall.
After falling behind 7-0 on Monday, the Diamondbacks scored 22 consecutive runs until Philadelphia ended its drought in the eighth on Tuesday. Arizona won 13-7 in the opener and led 9-0 on Tuesday.
Brandon Marsh hit a three-run homer for the Phillies, who lost their third straight game after winning 22 of their previous 30 outings.
Philadelphia's Aaron Nola (9-11) allowed a career-worst eight earned runs and equaled a career worst of 10 hits while striking out five and walking none in four innings.
Arizona scored five runs in the second off Nola. The first came in on Carroll's single and the second on Thomas' double.
Later in the inning, Thomas scored on a safety-squeeze bunt by Geraldo Perdomo to make it 3-0. One out later, McCarthy ripped a two-run triple to make it a five-run margin.
McCarthy struck again in the fourth as he came up with runners on first and third with one out. He attacked Nola's first-pitch fastball and slugged a 419-foot homer to right to make it 8-0.
Perdomo hit a sacrifice fly to center off Sam Coonrod in the fifth to increase Arizona's lead to nine.
Marsh slugged a three-homer with two outs in the eighth, off Noe Ramirez, to end the shutout. It was Marsh's ninth home run of the season.
Carroll slammed a two-run double off the center-field wall and scored on Thomas' single as the Diamondbacks added three in the bottom of the eighth off position player Nick Maton.
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Ukraine's Kuleba urges EU to ban Russian tourists
PRAGUE, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called on the European Union to ban Russian tourists, describing the measure as appropriate since a majority of Russians supported the country's "genocidal war of aggression" against Kyiv.
"The time for half-measures is gone," Kuleba told Reuters as EU foreign ministers were about to meet in Prague on Wednesday for a second day of talks. "Only a tough and consistent policy can produce results."
The ministers are expected to agree on suspending a visa facilitation agreement with Moscow, meaning that Russians will have to wait longer, and pay more, for visas, while the bloc is likely to stay split over an outright EU travel ban.
"A visa ban for Russian tourists and some other categories will be an appropriate response to Russia's genocidal war of aggression in the heart of Europe supported by an overwhelming majority of Russian citizens," Kuleba said in a statement emailed to Reuters.
He also proposed launching a special program for Russian soldiers who do not want to fight in Ukraine anymore.
"(The message): save yourself and leave. Lay down arms, surrender to Ukrainian forces, and get an opportunity to start a new life," Kuleba said.
"I am confident that this offer is worth making, because even if one Russian soldier lays down arms and decides to leave, it means saved Ukrainian lives and closer peace," Kuleba said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Russian soldiers on Tuesday to flee for their lives after his forces launched an offensive to retake southern Ukraine, but Moscow said it had repulsed the attack and inflicted heavy losses on Kyiv's troops. (Reporting by Robert Muller; Editing by Clarence Fernandez) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11163503/Ukraines-Kuleba-urges-EU-ban-Russian-tourists.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-31T06:20:54Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11163503/Ukraines-Kuleba-urges-EU-ban-Russian-tourists.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Football
'Want to revive Mohun Bagan, East Bengal, Mohammedan' says Bhaichung Bhutia
The former footballer is one of the candidates for the Presidential election for the AIFF.
The 'Big Three' of Indian Football, Mohun Bagan, East Bengal and Mohammedan Sporting, are now heavily reliant on investors to meet their professional requirements. "Financially and technically too I would like to help Bengal. I want to bring back the glory days of Mohun Bagan, East Bengal and Mohammedan Sporting.
"There are ways to do it. Sponsors and corporate houses are needed. I want to bring a system in place through which they can stand on their own feet and bring back their glory days." Bhutia further spoke about having coaching courses in regional languages.
"Now it's mostly in English, but there are many coaches who can't sit for theory exams because of the language factor. So you have to make it simple for them. If we produce more coaches, more players will come." | https://thebridge.in/football/want-to-revive-mohun-bagan-east-bengal-mohammedan-bhaichung-bhutia-34992 | 2022-08-31T06:21:52Z | https://thebridge.in/football/want-to-revive-mohun-bagan-east-bengal-mohammedan-bhaichung-bhutia-34992 | true |
SHANGHAI, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 15th Pujiang Innovation Forum 2022 opened in China's financial hub Shanghai on August 27. With the theme of "Low Carbon: A New Mission for Global Innovation", the forum will focus on underpinning low-carbon development through technological innovation, establishing a sound economic and technological system for green, low-carbon and circular development, and deepening global cooperation in low-carbon technology to jointly draw a new blueprint for global sustainable development.
This year, more than 230 experts from international organizations, top universities, scientific research institutions,think tanks, companies and more than 40 academicians from nearly 30 countries and regions participated in the event online and offline.
Pujiang Innovation Forum was jointed founded by the Ministry of Science and Technology and Shanghai Municipal People's Government in 2008. Focusing on the theme of innovation, it has become an important platform for promoting global cooperation in science, technology and innovation by pooling global ideas and enabling scientific and technological innovation.
At the opening ceremony, "INNOMATCH", a matchmaking platform for global technology supply and demand was officially launched, which aims to gather global innovation resources, address the innovation needs of enterprises, and build a two-way fast track for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
At the plenary meeting held later, Borge Brende, president of the World Economic Forum, said that technology is key to mitigating climate change and this is why China's commitment to promoting green technology solutions is amazing.
During this forum, a number of reports and cooperation agreements were released such as The 2022 "Ideal City" Global High-level Scientist Analysis Report and Low&Net Zero Carbon Related Science and Technology, and Prospective Analysis of Application Scenarios.
At the Regional & Urban Forum held on Aug. 28, the National Innovation Center par Excellence (NICE) signed contracts with six international companies, including ARaymond Company of France and DuPont Company of the United States, to jointly promote global innovation and high-quality, integrated green development.
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U.N. monitors head to troubled Ukraine nuclear plant
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - A team of international nuclear inspectors was heading Wednesday to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant caught in the middle of the fighting in southern Ukraine amid international concern of a potential accident or radiation leak.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said he hoped to establish a permanent mission in Ukraine to monitor Europe’s largest nuclear plant.
“These operations are very complex operations. We are going to a war zone. We are going to occupied territory. And this requires explicit guarantees from not only from the Russians, but also from the Republic of Ukraine,” Grossi said in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv before the monitoring the mission’s departure.
“We have been able to secure that. ... So now we are moving.”
The power plant has been occupied by Russian forces and operated by Ukrainian workers since the early days of the 6-month-old war.
It was recently cut off temporarily from the electrical grid because of fire damage, causing a blackout in the region and heightening fears of a catastrophe in a country haunted by the Chernobyl disaster.
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Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said Kyiv is seeking international assistance to try and demilitarize the area.
“We think that the mission should be a very important step to return (the plant) to Ukrainian government control by the end of the year,” Galushchenko told The Associated Press.
“We have information that they are now trying to hide their military presence, so they should check all of this.”
Zaporizhzhia is a vital source of energy for Ukraine and remains connected to its power grid. Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of shelling the wider region around the nuclear power plant and the risks are so severe that officials have begun distributing anti-radiation iodine tablets to nearby residents. Grossi met Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the mission that is expected to last several days. The inspectors from the IAEA, a United Nations body, were due to reach the Zaporizhzhia region, 450 kilometers (280 miles) southeast of the Ukrainian capital, later Wednesday.
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GS Engineering and Construction said it has joined hands with a Finnish energy company to produce bioethanol using cassava peels waste in Thailand.
Cassava is a nutty tasting, starchy root vegetable that looks like sweet potatoes and is grown in tropical regions.
Huh Yoon-hong, president of GS E＆C’s new businesses unit, and Patrick Pitkanen, director of St1 Renewable Energy (Thailand) Ltd, signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday in Bangkok on technological cooperation to produce bioethanol.
St1 Renewable Energy, part of the St1 Nordic Group, has the technology to produce next-generation bioethanol using cassava pulp.
GS E＆C has a track record of projects in Thailand over the past 20 years including a UHV plant, an HMC PP petrochemicals plant and a PTTLNG import terminal.
Thailand is the world’s third-largest producer of cassavas.
GS E＆C said the envisioned project is meaningful, as it uses cassava peels waste instead of food such as corn, sugar cane, wheat and cassava, which have been used to produce bioethanol until now.
Starting with global water treatment company GS Inima, GS E＆C has been expanding its scope of eco-friendly new businesses to eco-friendly modular homes, recycling of rechargeable batteries and smart fish farms.
“We expect the cooperation with (St1) to be a flare for the next-generation bioethanol production business using unutilized waste,” Huh said.
“We will continue efforts to become the nation’s leader of sustainable management by exploring new eco-friendly, digital-based business opportunities.”
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Genomics, the study of the entirety of an organism’s genes – called the genome, a much newer field compared to the well-known study of genetics, has progressed in the last couple of decades owing to technical advancements in
DNA sequencing and computational biology. Genomics as a field is not only advancing healthcare but is also driving sustainable innovation across a whole variety of sectors, be it computing, agriculture, forensics, climate change, and more. Introducing IDC’s new whitepaper commissioned by
Lenovo & Intel, called
Leveraging High-Performance Compute Infrastructure to Address the Genomic Data Challenge in Life Sciences,
Sinisa Nikolic, Director - HPC & AI, Lenovo ISG AP, engaged in an informative discussion with
Dr. Harsh Sheth, Assistant Professor and Head of Advanced Genomic Technologies Division, FRIGE’s Institute of Human Genetics.
The revolution of the genomics industry began in the 19th century, way back when genome sequencing required scientists to hold up an x-ray photograph and manually read 400-500 DNA letters a day – from a base of 3.3 billion bases in the human genome. It is no surprise that it took 13 years to sequence one complete human genome, and at the cost of approximately $3 Billion. Speaking about how genome sequencing has evolved over the last few decades, Dr. Sheth explains that today genome sequencing of an individual is possible in 2-3 days and that in a span of 40 years, the cost of genome sequencing has reduced from $3 Billion to less than $1000. Elaborating further on the advancement of genome sequencing, Dr. Sheth said, “For the last three of four decades, it has been a dream of a scientist or a doctor to provide results in a short time frame to the patients. The advancements in the last four decades have been so huge that genetic test results can be provided in a few days.”
Opining on the technological barriers impacting the genomics revolution, Sinisa said, “Organizations have limited time and limited resources to develop some of these genomics technologies [...] what they want is a blend of pre-packaged technologies, and Lenovo was and is best positioned to work with these organizations given it’s long and storied history in HPC and very strong focus on genomics.”
Elaborating on the challenges faced by genomics researchers, Sinisa recalls findings from the IDC report regarding infrastructure challenges across the industry. He explains that 28 per cent of Asian respondents said their existing infrastructure is not scalable enough, 20 per cent said their current solution is complex, and 20 per cent said too much customization is required. With a consistent focus to address some of these industry-wide challenges, Sinisa explained how Lenovo collaborated with Intel using Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) open-source code – an HPC architecture poised to revolutionize genome sequencing. “We optimized and tuned that for our hardware infrastructure, front of mind was to use off-the-shelf components, keeping the costs for our clients to minimum […] we call it
GOAST”, he adds. Sinisa further explains how with the
Genomics Optimization and Scalability Tool (GOAST), Lenovo had reduced the processing time of a whole human genome from 60 - 150 hours to 24 – 48 minutes. He further elaborated how GOAST can increase lab productivity, improve time to data and potentially save lives through all the discoveries.
Further elucidating the role of genomics, Dr. Sheth points to its impact on the healthcare
industry where researchers have been able to look for a single cause of mutation, identifying them because they directly impact an individual’s health. He explains how researchers can analyze the genomes of hundreds and thousands of people to understand why some people respond to a specific drug, and some don’t. Continuing to emphasize the impact over different verticals, Dr. Sheth picks agriculture and delves into how genomics can help understand why certain crops are more resilient to huge fluctuations and climate change.
Lenovo ISG partnered with Delhi University’s Center of Genetic Manipulation of Crop Plants (CGMCP), looking to improve and breed more nutritious, drought and disease-tolerant, high-yield plants to feed the world. Lenovo deployed its GOAST solution at CGMCP to accelerate time to insights - 48 hours to just 6 hours.
Dr. Sheth adds, “The COVID-19 pandemic is a wonderful example of where genomics came to the rescue. Never in the history of mankind has a vaccine been developed within a year.” He further explains how technological advancements in genomics helped create the genetic architecture of the COVID-19 virus even before it was declared a pandemic, which only helped rapidly accelerate the development of vaccines and begin Phase 1 trials early into the pandemic, which was spreading at a massive pace. He adds that genomics is also being used to address multi-drug resistance in various diseases, and oncology has changed how cancer treatment is delivered through personalized treatment.
Lenovo has further collaborated with the CSIR Institute of Genomics, and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), New Delhi, in a unique partnership that uses GOAST to advance cancer research by digging deeper into the genetic roots of the disease.
In conclusion, Sinisa draws light on precision medicine as “The Next Big Thing” that will drive the genomics revolution on the back of technological advancements. He elaborated how genome sequencing and genome analytics tools (such as GOAST) are helping the world understand biology and genetics better and would allow faster and more accurate care for patients. In explaining how GOAST technology will evolve, he states that Lenovo is working closely with software development teams to build many technology efficiencies which will ultimately impact humanity positively.
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With 7,231 new infections being reported in a day, India's Covid-19 tally rose to 4,44,28,393, while the number of active cases came down to 64,667, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday.
The toll from the pandemic climbed to 5,27,874 after 45 more fatalities were recorded. The figure includes 10 deaths reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active cases comprise 0.15 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.67 per cent, the ministry said.
A drop of 1,065 cases has been recorded in the active Covid-19 case count in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.05 per cent. The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.55 per cent, according to the health ministry.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,38,35,852, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent.
According to the ministry, 212.39 crore doses of Covid vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide vaccination drive.
India's Covid-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020; 30 lakh on August 23; 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28; 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29; 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed one crore on December 19.
India crossed the grim milestone of two crore coronavirus cases on May 4, three crore on June 23 last year and four crore on January 25 this year.
The 35 new fatalities include eight from Maharashtra, five each from Delhi and Karnataka, three from Punjab, two each from Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh and one each from Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Kerala, Odisha, Sikkim and West Bengal.
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VIKEN, Sweden, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TikoMed, a biopharmaceutical company focused on harnessing the medical potential of the body's ability to self-repair and regenerate, today announced the publication in Frontiers in Phamacology of peer-reviewed research supporting the unique broad spectrum mechanism of action of TikoMed's ILB® neuroprotective drug platform. In multiple preclinical and clinical studies across a variety of neuroinflammation-driven diseases, the low molecular weight dextran sulfate compound both mobilized and modulated naturally occurring tissue repair mechanisms and restored cellular homeostasis and function by releasing heparin-binding growth factors. TikoMed believes this approach to enhancing the body's self-repair and regeneration capabilities has the potential to transform current cell and gene therapy paradigms.
"These studies show that ILB® releases, re-distributes and modulates the bioactivity of endogeneous heparin-binding growth factors that target disease compromised nervous tissues to initiate a cascade of transcriptional, metabolic and immunological effects that play a key role in controlling glutamate toxicity, normalising tissue bioenergetics, and resolving inflammation to improve tissue function. ILB®'s unique mechanism of action supports the potential to treat various acute and chronic neurodegenerative disease, including sTBI and ALS," said Ann Logan, Scientific Director at Axolotl Consulting and, Professor of Regenerative Medicine at the University of Warwick.
In summary, the studies provided evidence that ILB® has a profound therapeutic effect on molecular and cellular dysfunctions causing neurodegenerative diseases. Gene expression analysis demonstrated substantial similarities in the functional dysregulation induced by severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) and various human neurodegenerative conditions including ALS. Changes in gene expression following ILB® treatment supported a cascading beneficial effect of ILB® on growth factor activation resulting in the observed therapeutic effect. The transcriptional signature after ILB® treatment is relevant to cell survival, inflammation, glutamate signalling, metabolism and synaptogenesis, and is consistent with the activation of neuroprotective growth factors. The ability of ILB® to elevate circulating levels of heparin-binding growth factors in animal models and humans also supports its neuroprotective and regenerative effects in vivo.
"ILB® is currently being in development both as a therapeutic and as an enabling technology for advanced therapies, and this peer-reviewed research indicates even wider potential. We have initiated development programs for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and islet cell transplantation and will now consider broader use across a wider range of diseases," said Anders Kristensson, CEO of TikoMed.
Contact: info@tikomed.com or +46 42 23 84 40
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May 7, 1940-August 26, 2022
WAVERLY-Robert Dean “Bob” Shafer, age 82, of Waverly, Iowa and formerly of Waterloo, Iowa, died Friday, August 26, 2022, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa.
Bob was born on May 7, 1940, in Iowa City, Iowa, the son of Phillip Kerkendall, but was raised by his mother, Thelma (Shafer) Thomas and stepfather, Samuel “Tommy” Thomas. He graduated from the Oskaloosa High School in Oskaloosa, Iowa in 1958. On September 30, 1972, Bob was united in marriage to Rebecca Sands in Waterloo, Iowa. In 1963, Bob joined the Waterloo Police department and in 1982, opened and operated a police equipment store in Waterloo, he retired from these two jobs in 1988. He then moved to Las Vegas and worked security at a casino, moved back to Waverly, Iowa in 1995, and then worked for City of Cedar Falls Code Enforcement, and then University of Northern Iowa Security Dispatch retiring for good in 2010. Bob was an avid golfer and also enjoyed fishing and going to the casino.
Bob’s memory is honored by his wife, Rebecca Shafer of Waverly; son, Christopher Shafer of Waverly; two grandchildren, Paige (Dan) Graffunder and Britney (PJ Otto) Stevens; and three great-grandchildren, Skylar, Trey, and Camdyn. Preceded by his parents and a sister, Linda Martin.
Bob has been cremated and his family will greet friends at Kaiser-Corson Funeral Home in Waverly, on Saturday, September 3, from 9 to 11:00 a.m. with an 11:00 a.m. memorial service. Burial of his ashes will follow at Harlington Cemetery in Waverly. Memorials may be directed to Bob’s family and online condolences may be left at www.kaisercorson.com. | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/robert-dean-bob-shafer/article_a31a7237-b827-5fdc-8cf2-ce4d0bbdac71.html | 2022-08-31T06:58:37Z | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/robert-dean-bob-shafer/article_a31a7237-b827-5fdc-8cf2-ce4d0bbdac71.html | false |
So Solid Crew star Lisa Maffia's one-year-old baby cousin drowned after falling into hot tub at country home, inquest hears
- 21-month-old Jetson Maffia-Kerbey was found face down in the water in Kent
- The little boy had crawled into the hot tub and was later found face down
- So Solid Crew star, 42, took to Instagram to announce the tragic news in June
- She shared a picture of Jetson and said: 'I’m sorry you’re gone so soon. God had a plan for you long before we even met you'
The baby cousin of Solid Crew star Lisa Maffia died after falling into a hot tub and drowning, an inquest has heard.
21-month-old Jetson Maffia-Kerbey was found face down in the water at a property in Sellindge, near Ashford in Kent on June 12 this year.
The inquest into his death, held at County Hall in Maidstone, heard yesterday that Jetson, who would have been two in October, had tragically crawled into the hot tub.
He was found face down in the water by an unnamed person at the country home north of Folkestone.
Jetson began coughing up water and CPR was carried out. Paramedics arrived and continued to try to save his life but he was declared dead at the scene. The cause of death was given as drowning.
Assistant coroner Bina Patel opened the inquest yesterday before suspended it to allow for the gathering of evidence ahead of a full hearing later this year.
She said: 'I would like to pass on my most sincere condolences to the parents, family and friends of Jetson for this loss in such deeply tragic circumstances'.
21-month-old Jetson Maffia-Kerbey was found face down in the water at a property in Sellindge, near Ashford in Kent on June 12 this year
Tragic: Lisa Maffia had shared her heartbreak after the devastating loss of her 21-month-old cousin Jetson
Lisa Maffia had announced the tragic news on June 15, alongside a picture of Jetson.
The So Solid Crew star, 42, wrote: 'My handsome little cousin Jetson. I love you and your mumma.
'I’m sorry you’re gone so soon. God had a plan for you long before we even met you.
'I know you’re safely in the hands of god. Until we meet again, sleep well my boy. be a strong crystal maffia'.
She added a dove of peace emoji as well as a broken heart emoji in the sad post.
Tribute: She wrote: 'My handsome little cousin Jetson. I love you and your mumma'
Heartbreaking: Jetson's mother commented on the tribute post, writing: 'Thank you Lisa,' alongside two blue hearts
Famous friends: While DJ The Artful Dodger commented with a string of blue heart emojis
Jetson's mother commented on the tribute post, writing: 'Thank you Lisa,' alongside two blue hearts.
Lisa also took to her Instagram Stories to share an adorable video of Jetson giving her a kiss.
She captioned it: 'Baby boy Jetson, we love you. Until we meet again handsome boy.'
Fans rushed to the comments to share their condolences, and messages of support for the singer.
One wrote: 'Sorry for your loss Lisa. God bless you and your family at this sad time.'
Another wrote: 'So sorry handsome little boy sending love and strength'.
And a third echoed: 'so sorry to hear of your loss. What a beautiful boy'.
While DJ The Artful Dodger commented with a string of blue heart emojis. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11163623/So-Solid-Crew-singer-Lisa-Maffias-baby-cousin-drowned-falling-hot-tub.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-31T07:11:39Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11163623/So-Solid-Crew-singer-Lisa-Maffias-baby-cousin-drowned-falling-hot-tub.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
The Cal Poly football team officially kicks off the 2022 season against Fresno State on Thursday night.
Head coach Beau Baldwin enters his third season as the Mustangs head coach. Coach says the past 7-8 months of the off-season have been successful and that the program is buying into what his staff is trying to build at Cal Poly.
"This is as much fun as I've had over a 7-8 month period in a while because this is what you love doing and I love the process of it too. Saturdays are fun, don't get me wrong, those three hours are incredible, but I really love seeing the growth we've seen from our guys. You have a continuity in building something where everyone is on board, everyone is understanding the same direction, and what direction we're going, they are all on the same page," coach Baldwin said.
Fresno State has won the last eight meetings against Cal Poly. The last meeting was in 2021 when the Mustangs fell to the Bulldogs 63 to 10. Last season, Fresno State went 10-3 on the season and 6-2 in the Mountain West.
"We look at it as an opportunity to put ourselves out there against a very strong opponent... The opportunity to go out there and feel like I just gotta win this play, I gotta win that play, this play... ultimately it puts you in a chance to win the ball game, and that's the mindset we will have in every game we play," Baldwin added.
The game will air on FS1 from Bulldog Stadium on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. | https://www.ksby.com/brand-spotlight/cal-poly-mustangs/cal-poly-football-kicks-off-the-2022-season-at-fresno-state-on-thursday | 2022-08-31T07:13:45Z | https://www.ksby.com/brand-spotlight/cal-poly-mustangs/cal-poly-football-kicks-off-the-2022-season-at-fresno-state-on-thursday | true |
CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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ZFPHNX
Zone Forecast Product for Interior Central California
National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for tonight, Wednesday, Wednesday night, and Thursday.
CAZ300-311100-
West Side Mountains north of 198-
Including the city of San Luis Reservoir
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 74. West winds up to 10 mph.
Gusts up to 35 mph decreasing to 25 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 101. North winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 73 to 79. West winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 98 to 106. West winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 76 to 82. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH LABOR DAY...Clear. Highs 98 to 109. Lows 75 to
87.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 79 to 85.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 108.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Luis Reservoir 65 99 71 103 /
$$
CAZ301-311100-
Los Banos - Dos Palos-
Including the city of Los Banos
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 72. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH LABOR DAY...Clear. Highs around 107. Lows 72 to
77.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Los Banos 62 99 67 105 /
$$
CAZ302-311100-
Merced - Madera - Mendota-
Including the cities of Merced, Madera, and Atwater
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 103. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH LABOR DAY...Clear. Highs around 106. Lows 68 to
73.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 60 96 63 102 /
Merced 62 100 65 105 /
Chowchilla 60 99 64 104 /
Madera 61 100 64 104 /
Firebaugh 61 98 65 103 /
Mendota 63 99 66 105 /
$$
CAZ303-311100-
Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-
Including the cities of Planada, Lake Mcclure, and Le Grand
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 100. Northwest winds up to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 105. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 107. Lows in the
lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 108.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Planada 62 99 66 105 /
Le Grand 62 100 65 105 /
$$
CAZ304-311100-
Coalinga - Avenal-
Including the cities of Avenal and Coalinga
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. West winds up to 10 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 102. Northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106. North winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 108. Lows in the
upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 110.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 108.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Coalinga 69 103 74 107 /
Avenal 72 102 77 106 /
$$
CAZ305-311100-
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-
Including the cities of Lemoore Station, Five Points,
and Kettleman City
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 102. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 109. Lows in the mid
70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 110.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
Highs around 109.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huron 67 102 71 107 /
Five Points 66 102 69 107 /
NAS Lemoore 65 102 69 107 /
Kettleman City 70 103 74 107 /
$$
CAZ306-311100-
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma-
Including the cities of Selma, Sanger, Parlier, Kingsburg,
and Kerman
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 101. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 105. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 70. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 107. Lows in the
lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 108.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
Highs around 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Selma 67 102 70 106 /
Kingsburg 65 102 67 106 /
Sanger 66 103 69 106 /
Kerman 61 100 65 104 /
Caruthers 63 102 66 105 /
$$
CAZ307-311100-
Fresno-Clovis-
Including the city of Fresno
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 102. West winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs around 108. Lows in the
lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 109.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 108.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
Highs around 108.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Clovis 70 103 73 106 /
Fresno 69 103 72 106 /
$$
CAZ308-311100-
West Side Mountains South of 198-
Including the cities of Blackwells Corner and McKittrick
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph shifting to the southwest
after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 102. Northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. North
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 106. Southeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s. North winds up to
10 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs 100 to 110. Lows around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 79 to 85.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 110.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 109.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 60 96 63 102 /
Merced 62 100 65 105 /
Chowchilla 60 99 64 104 /
Madera 61 100 64 104 /
$$
CAZ309-311100-
Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5-
Including the cities of Lost Hills and Buttonwillow
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to
15 mph decreasing to up to 5 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 102. North winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106. West winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northwest winds up
to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 108. Lows in the mid
70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
70s. Highs around 109.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lost Hills 68 102 72 106 /
Buttonwillow 68 102 71 106 /
$$
CAZ310-311100-
Delano-Wasco-Shafter-
Including the cities of Delano, Wasco, Alpaugh, and Shafter
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 101. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. Northwest winds
up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 105. Southwest winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 106. Lows in the
lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs around 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alpaugh 66 101 69 105 /
Allensworth 67 102 70 105 /
Wasco 67 101 70 105 /
Delano 67 101 71 104 /
McFarland 67 101 70 105 /
Shafter 68 102 71 105 /
$$
CAZ311-311100-
Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
Including the cities of Hanford, Lemoore, and Corcoran
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 100. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 70. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 106. Lows in the
lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs around 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lemoore 66 102 69 106 /
Hanford 65 103 66 106 /
Corcoran 65 102 69 106 /
$$
CAZ312-311100-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-
Including the cities of Goshen, Visalia, Tulare, and Porterville
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 101. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs around 105. Lows in the
lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs around 106.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Reedley 65 102 69 106 /
Dinuba 65 102 68 106 /
Visalia 64 101 66 104 /
Exeter 66 102 69 105 /
Tulare 67 101 69 104 /
Lindsay 66 101 70 104 /
Porterville 70 101 73 104 /
$$
CAZ313-311100-
Buena Vista-
Including the city of Taft
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 100. North winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 103. West winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Northwest winds
up to 5 mph with gusts to around 20 mph shifting to the west
after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 106. Lows around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 107.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
Highs around 106.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Taft 75 101 79 104 /
$$
CAZ314-311100-
Bakersfield-
Including the city of Bakersfield
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 75. North winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the west after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 101. West winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 71 to 77. North winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 105. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 74 to 80. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 107. Lows 73 to 81.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 76 to 82.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 108.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 76 to 82. Highs
around 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bakersfield 74 101 76 105 /
$$
CAZ315-311100-
Southeast San Joaquin Valley-
Including the city of Richgrove
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 100. Southwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. North
winds up to 5 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs around 104. Lows in the
mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
70s. Highs around 105.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Richgrove 67 100 71 104 /
$$
CAZ316-311100-
South End San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Lamont and Arvin
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the south after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 100. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 76 to 82. Northwest winds up to
5 mph with gusts to around 20 mph shifting to the south after
midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 105. Lows in the
upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 106.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
Highs around 106.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Arvin 72 102 74 106 /
Lamont 71 102 74 106 /
Mettler 73 99 76 103 /
$$
CAZ317-311100-
Mariposa Madera Foothills-
Including the cities of El Portal and Mariposa
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 73. Northwest winds up to 10 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 100. Southwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 71 to 77. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 73 to 79. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs around 105. Lows 73 to
79.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 74 to 80.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 75 to 81.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 106.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 75 to 81. Highs
around 105.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mariposa 71 97 73 100 /
$$
CAZ318-311100-
Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-
Including the cities of Bass Lake, Coarsegold, Fish Camp,
Oakhurst, and North Fork
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 73. West winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the east after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 91 to 99. Southeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 75. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 102. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 77. West winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 103.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 77.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 104.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 78.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 104.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 79.
Highs 95 to 104.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oakhurst 63 101 64 104 /
Bass Lake 64 95 65 100 /
$$
CAZ319-311100-
Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
Including the city of Millerton Lake
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the south after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 101. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104. Southeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 108.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 108.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
70s. Highs 102 to 108.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Millerton Lake 69 102 73 106 /
Three Rivers 72 104 74 107 /
Springville 70 97 72 100 /
Tule River Reservation 77 101 80 104 /
$$
CAZ320-311100-
Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Auberry
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 78. West winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the east after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 101. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 70 to 80. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 91 to 103. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 72 to 82. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 104.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 72 to 83.
Highs 91 to 105.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Auberry 75 97 79 101 /
$$
CAZ321-311100-
South End Sierra Foothills-
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the south after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. North
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 102. Southeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs around 103. Lows in the
upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
80s. Highs around 104.
$$
CAZ322-311100-
South End of the Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Camp Nelson
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 75. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 97. Southwest winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west with gusts to around 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 71 to 77. North winds up to
5 mph with gusts to around 25 mph shifting to the east after
midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 100. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 73 to 79. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight. Gusts up to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 100.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 73 to 79.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 101.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 74 to 80.
Highs 92 to 101.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Camp Nelson 65 92 66 93 /
$$
CAZ323-311100-
Yosemite NP outside of the valley-
Including the cities of Tuolumne Meadows and Wawona
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 46 to 62. Southeast winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 69 to 85. South winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 47 to 63. Southwest winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 71 to 87. East winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 48 to 64. West winds up to
5 mph with gusts to around 20 mph shifting to the east after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 71 to 87.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 49 to 66.
Highs 71 to 89.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Tuolumne Meadows 42 79 43 80 /
Wawona 62 95 64 98 /
Hetch Hetchy 68 97 69 101 /
$$
CAZ324-311100-
Yosemite Valley-
Including the city of Yosemite Valley
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 72. Southeast winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99. Southeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 72. West winds up to
5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 102. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 75. Northwest winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 102.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 74.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 104.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 76.
Highs 91 to 102.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Yosemite 58 103 60 105 /
$$
CAZ325-311100-
San Joaquin River Canyon-
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 63 to 73. Southwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 88 to 96. North winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 75. Southwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 97. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 76. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 90 to 99. Lows
67 to 78.
$$
CAZ326-311100-
Upper San Joaquin River-
Including the cities of Devils Postpile, Florence Lake,
and Lake Thomas Edison
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 48 to 60. Southwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 67 to 83. South winds up to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 49 to 61. Southwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 68 to 84. East winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 50 to 62. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 69 to 86. Lows
51 to 64.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Devils Postpile 55 79 56 81 /
$$
CAZ327-311100-
Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-
Including the cities of Lake Wishon, Huntington Lake,
and Shaver Lake
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 49 to 61. Southeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 70 to 82. Southeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 51 to 63. Southwest winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 70 to 84. East winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 52 to 64. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 71 to 86. Lows
52 to 65.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huntington Lake 58 80 59 81 /
Shaver Lake 60 86 62 88 /
Lake Wishon 60 86 62 86 /
$$
CAZ328-311100-
Kings Canyon NP-
Including the city of Cedar Grove
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 44 to 56. South winds up to 10 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 62 to 78. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 46 to 58. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 62 to 78. Southwest winds up to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 46 to 58. West winds up to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 62 to 80. Lows
47 to 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Cedar Grove 66 97 68 98 /
$$
CAZ329-311100-
Grant Grove Area-
Including the cities of Grant Grove and Hume Lake
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 58 to 72. Southwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 92. Southeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 59 to 73. North winds up to
5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 93. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 60 to 74. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 77 to 95. Lows
61 to 76.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grant Grove 63 84 65 85 /
$$
CAZ330-311100-
Sequoia NP-
Including the cities of Giant Forest and Lodgepole
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 44 to 64. South winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the east with gusts to around 25 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Warmer, sunny. Highs 64 to 84. South winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the southwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 46 to 66. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Warmer, sunny. Highs 65 to 85. East winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 47 to 67. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 65 to 87. Lows
48 to 68.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lodgepole 55 83 57 84 /
$$
CAZ331-311100-
South End of the Upper Sierra-
Including the city of Johnsondale
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 55 to 69. West winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the north after midnight. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 91. Southwest winds up to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 57 to 71. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 78 to 92. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 58 to 72. West winds 5 to
15 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 77 to 94. Lows
58 to 73.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Johnsondale 56 97 58 98 /
$$
CAZ332-311100-
Kern River Valley-
Including the cities of Lake Isabella and Kernville
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. West winds up to
10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 98 to 104. Northwest winds up to 5 mph
increasing to west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northwest
winds up to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 106. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. West winds
10 to 15 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs 100 to 108. Lows in the
mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs 99 to 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alta Sierra 67 87 69 88 /
Kernville 70 104 72 105 /
Lake Isabella 74 104 76 106 /
Weldon 73 104 74 107 /
$$
CAZ333-311100-
Piute Walker Basin-
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 74. West winds up to 10 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 87 to 97. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 75. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 77. Northwest winds up
to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs 89 to 100. Lows 66 to 76.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 77.
Highs 88 to 99.
$$
CAZ334-311100-
Tehachapi-
Including the city of Tehachapi
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 73. West winds up to 10 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 88 to 96. Northwest winds up to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 75. West winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 98. Northwest winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 77. Northwest winds up
to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs 89 to 99. Lows 68 to 76.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 77.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 70 to 78.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 79. Highs
89 to 99.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bear Valley Springs 67 90 69 91 /
Tehachapi 63 95 65 96 /
Twin Oaks 71 95 73 98 /
$$
CAZ335-311100-
Grapevine-
Including the cities of Grapevine and Lebec
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 73. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 96. North winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 75. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 72 to 78. West winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs 90 to 100. Lows 71 to 77.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 73 to 79.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 91 to 101.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 73 to 79.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs 91 to 101.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 72 to 80. Highs
90 to 100.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grapevine 75 98 77 101 /
$$
CAZ336-311100-
Frazier Mountain Communities-
Including the city of Frazier Park
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 74. Northeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 96. East winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 77. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 87 to 99. South winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 68 to 80. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs 87 to 102. Lows 67 to 81.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 70 to 82.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs 88 to 102.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 81. Highs
88 to 102.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pine Mountain Club 66 88 67 88 /
Frazier Park 57 94 59 94 /
$$
CAZ337-311100-
Indian Wells Valley-
Including the cities of Inyokern and Ridgecrest
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 104 to 110. West winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. West
winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 105 to 111. West winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southwest
winds 5 to 15 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 106 to 112.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 107 to 113.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 106 to 111.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
Highs 104 to 112.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Inyokern 80 109 82 109 /
Ridgecrest 78 109 78 110 /
$$
CAZ338-311100-
Mojave Desert Slopes-
Including the city of Mojave
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 72 to 78. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 105. West winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly clear. Lows 74 to 80. Northwest
winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 107. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph shifting to the southeast in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 75 to 81. West winds 10 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs 95 to 108. Lows 75 to 81.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 76 to 82.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 106.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 75 to 82.
Highs 94 to 107.
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Mojave Desert-
Including the cities of Rosamond, California City, Randsburg,
and Edwards AFB
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southwest winds up
to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106. Southwest winds up to
10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. West winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 107. West winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. West winds
5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs around 109. Lows in the
mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
70s. Highs around 107.
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Randsburg 78 103 79 104 /
California City 72 107 74 108 /
Edwards AFB 71 107 74 108 /
Rosamond 73 109 74 109 /
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SEOUL, Aug 31 — South Korea will from Saturday no longer require travellers to the country to test for Covid-19 before departure, although they will still need to take a PCR test within 24 hours of arrival.
The latest relaxing of rules comes amid an easing in case numbers with daily Covid infections hovering around 100,000 in recent weeks compared with more than 180,000 in mid-August.
“The weekly number of infections have declined for the first time in nine weeks and the virus is showing signs of slowing down,” Lee Ki-il, the country’s second vice health minister, told reporters.
today's announcement, which follows steps by Japan and other countries to scrap the pre-departure test requirement, comes as South Korea is set to mark the country’s thanksgiving holiday of Chuseok next week.
The number of infections could increase following the holiday season but the figures are likely to remain within control, said Peck Kyong-ran, head of the Korea Disease control and Prevention Agency.
South Korea still has an indoor face-mask mandate and requires those testing positive for Covid to isolate for seven days. — Reuters | https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2022/08/31/south-korea-to-end-pre-departure-covid-test-requirement-for-overseas-travellers/25720 | 2022-08-31T07:19:16Z | https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2022/08/31/south-korea-to-end-pre-departure-covid-test-requirement-for-overseas-travellers/25720 | true |
Taiwan’s military fired warning shots at drones from China flying over its outposts just off the Chinese coastline, underscoring heightened tensions and the self-ruled island's resolve to respond to new provocations.
Taiwan's forces said in a statement that troops took the action on Tuesday after drones were found hovering over the Kinmen island group.
The statement Wednesday referred to the unmanned aerial vehicles as being of “civilian use," but gave no other details. It said the drones returned to the nearby Chinese city of Xiamen after the shots were fired. Taiwan previously fired only flares as warnings.
The incident comes amid heightened tensions after China fired missiles into the sea and sent planes and ships across the dividing line in the Taiwan Strait earlier this month. It followed angry rhetoric from Beijing over a trip to Taiwan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking U.S. dignitary to visit the island in 25 years.
China claims Taiwan as its own territory and its recent actions have been viewed as a rehearsal of a possible blockade or invasion. China's drills brought strong condemnation from Taiwan's chief ally, the U.S., along with fellow regional democracies such as Australia and Japan. Some of China's missiles early in August fell into nearby Japan's exclusive economic zone.
Taiwan maintains control over a range of islands in the Kinmen and Matsu groups in the Taiwan Strait, a relic of the effort by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists to maintain a foothold on the mainland after being driven out by Mao Zedong's Communists amid civil war in 1949.
Taiwan's Defense Ministry said China's actions failed to intimidate the island's 23 million people, saying they had only hardened support for the armed forces and the status quo of de-facto independence.
Officials said anti-drone defenses were being strengthened, part of a 12.9% increase in the Defense Ministry’s annual budget next year. The government is planning to spend an additional 47.5 billion New Taiwan dollars ($1.6 billion), for a total of 415.1 billion NTD ($13.8 billion) for the year.
The U.S. is also reportedly preparing to approve a $1.1 billion defense package for Taiwan that would include anti-ship and air-to-air missiles to be used to repel potential Chinese invasion attempt.
Following the Chinese drills, the U.S. sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait, which China has sought to designate as its sovereign waters. Foreign delegations from the U.S., Japan and European nations have continued to arrive to lend Taipei diplomatic and economic support.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is currently visiting Taiwan to discuss production of semiconductors, the critical chips that are used in everyday electronics and have become a battleground in the technology competition between the U.S. and China.
Ducey is seeking to woo suppliers for the new $12 billion Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC) plant being built in his state.
Last week, the Indiana governor visited Taiwan on a similar mission.
Taiwan produces more than half the global supply of high-end processor chips. China's firing of missiles during its exercises disrupted shipping and air traffic, and highlighted the possibility that chip exports might be interrupted. | https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Taiwan-forces-fire-at-drones-flying-over-island-17409220.php | 2022-08-31T07:30:29Z | https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Taiwan-forces-fire-at-drones-flying-over-island-17409220.php | true |
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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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CHARSADDA, Pakistan (AP) — Rubina Bibi was cooking food for her family in her mudbrick home in her village in northwest Pakistan when the nearby mosque blared a warning from its loudspeaker. Flood waters were coming, it announced, everyone should move to safer ground.
She and her family didn’t take it seriously. There had been flooding in their village of Majooki more than a decade ago, and they hadn’t needed to flee.
This time, however, it was on a different scale entirely. Days of torrential rains had sent a massive surge of water down the nearby Swat River — so powerful that on that day, last Friday, it broke through a reservoir that usually controls the river’s flow.
When the water hit Majooki hours after the warning, it poured into the house where the 53-year-old Bibi lived with her two sons, a daughter-in-law and her grandchildren.
One of her grandchildren, 5-month-old Dua Humayun, was sleeping on a cot in the house’s courtyard. In an instant, the baby was swept away by the rushing waters. It was too fast for anyone to even think of saving her. She was gone.
Pakistani officials say the flooding that has hit across the country over the past weeks is like nothing they have seen before. It has been caused by unprecedented heavy and unrelenting monsoon rains, fueled they say by the world’s changing climate.
Millions in villages, towns and cities around Pakistan were caught off guard by the swiftness and power of the waters.
Bibi spoke to The Associated Press at a tent camp set up in a sports complex in the city of Charsadda for hundreds of people left homeless by the deluge. She spoke of her granddaughter’s death with composure, but inside the tent, her daughter-in-law could be heard sobbing.
“The floodwaters entered our house suddenly. We didn’t have time to take anything as we were leaving,” Bibi said. She, her sons and daughter-in-law carried her surviving grandchildren tightly as they waded through waist-deep water out of their home. They then walked in the stifling summer heat for four kilometers (2.5 miles) to Charsadda.
More than 1,160 people have been killed in flooding across Pakistan since mid-June, hundreds of them in the major surge that began last week. More than 33 million people in the country of 220 million have been affected, including those left homeless by the destruction of more than 1 million homes. Pakistani officials have put the economic damage at some $10 billion, including everything from collapsed bridges and roads to destroyed crops.
The district around Charsadda has been one of the hardest hit areas. The Swat River meets the Kabul River nearby, and the nearby farmlands are laced with tributaries — all of them still surging with swollen waters despite a pause in rain in recent days. Authorities have warned that more rains are expected in coming weeks.
The city of Charsadda, home to more than 120,000, has been trashed. On Tuesday, some neighborhoods remained flooded with water shin-deep or higher.
Residents whose homes still stood took out their soggy blankets and furniture and other possessions to dry. Others surveyed wrecked mud-brick or shoddy cinder-block homes with collapsed walls and roofs. Deep, thick mud coated everything.
Bibi’s home village of Majooki, once home to 2,500 people, remains under waist-deep water. The rice and wheat that residents stored in their homes to meet the year’s need have been ruined. Hundreds of thousands of villages across Pakistan lost crops.
Many of Majooki’s residents are now at the tent camp in Charsadda’s Abdul Wali Khan Sports Complex. Hundreds of tents stood in rows, and children lay inside on plastic mats with what few belongings they took with them piled nearby. Some eat rice or other staples being distributed by the government.
“It is very hot here. We have a tent and a plastic mattress, but there is no fan. We are not getting enough food,” Bibi said.
A widow, Bibi had worked washing clothes and cleaning in homes, and one of her sons was a construction worker. Now they are without work for the foreseeable future. She and others from the village have not been able to return and have no idea what remains of their homes.
“We are facing a lot of difficulties. We want more help so that we can start our life again,” Bibi said.
The floods’ devastation has hit Pakistan as it is already struggling to keep its crisis-stricken economy from collapse. The government is severely strapped for cash, and inflation has been spiraling. The International Monetary Fund gave a boost this week by releasing a long-awaited, $1.17 billion tranche of a bailout negotiated in 2019, but only after the government promised painful austerity measures.
The United Nations on Tuesday launched an emergency appeal for $160 million in aid to help flood victims. Planeloads of food, medical supplies and other aid have arrived in recent days. But Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif warned on Tuesday that any delay in the provision of help would be disastrous.
At the sport complex tent camp, another Majooki resident, Saifoor Khan, recalled how he too ignored the call to flee that came from the mosque loudspeaker that day.
Majooki was hit by the last major floods in 2010, but in that case no houses were destroyed and no one fled, he said. When the waters hit on Friday, the 50-year-old taxi driver, his wife and his seven children also had to wade their way to safety.
“I have no idea for how many days and weeks we will have to live in these tents,” he said.
“I pray that no one faces such an ordeal.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/For-Pakistan-flood-victims-waters-hit-swiftly-17409159.php | 2022-08-31T07:34:25Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/For-Pakistan-flood-victims-waters-hit-swiftly-17409159.php | false |
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Defense Ministry made an opaque budget request for the coming year Wednesday without specifying the costs of missiles for pre-emptive strikes and dozens of other arms, as well as its development plans, as the government aims to drastically raise Japan's arms capability.
The ministry said it can disclose details only after the government in December adopts a new national security strategy and defense guidelines, which are being revised to fundamentally reinforce Japan's military capability over the next five years.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida promised the military reinforcement to President Joe Biden during his visit to Japan in May as the two countries strengthen their security alliance amid China's increasing military activity in the region. Japan has been also expanding its military cooperation with friendly nations in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe.
Only a partial sum of 5.6 trillion yen ($40.4 billion) was disclosed for 2023, but the ministry's budget plan could rise to around 6.5 trillion yen ($47 billion), up 20% from this year, Japanese media said.
Japan caps annual defense spending at 1% of its GDP, but Kishida's governing party proposes doubling it in coming years, citing NATO's standard of 2% of GDP.
That means Japan’s annual defense spending would rise to about 10 trillion yen ($72 billion), becoming the world’s third-largest after the United States and China.
Ministry officials said aggression as in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could occur in the Indo-Pacific region, as Beijing strengthens military cooperation with Moscow and escalates tension over Taiwan.
China fired five ballistic missiles into waters near Okinawa during Beijing’s major military drills near Taiwan in early August, while North Korea’s missile and nuclear development continue provoking the international community, defense officials said.
While the public's support for a stronger military has grown amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, critics say the government's plan lacks clarity over how it can fund the increase in a country with an aging and shrinking population and could go beyond Japan's pacifist constitution.
The defense ministry's request focuses on seven key areas, including missile strike and defense systems, unmanned vehicles, space and cybersecurity defense.
Japan is upgrading missiles and considering using them for pre-emptive strikes — a move critics say would fundamentally change Japan's defense policy and could breach the postwar pacifist Constitution that limits use of force to self-defense.
The ministry requested an undisclosed amount to improve and mass-produce an upgraded Type 12 surface-to-ship guided missile to extend its range for use as “stand-off” strikes on enemy targets from destroyers and fighter jets.
It plans to buy two kinds of foreign-developed stand-off missiles to be launched from warplanes — a 500-kilometer- (310-mile-) range Joint Strike Missile from Norway for F-35A fighters, and Lockheed Martin's Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile with a range of about 900 kilometers (560 miles), for upgraded F-15s.
The ministry also requested an undisclosed amount for development and mass production of a “high-speed gliding vehicle" to defend remote islands, including Okinawa and outer islands near Taiwan.
Japan has shifted its defense from the northeast to southwestern Japan as U.S.-China tension escalates over Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory and threatens use of force if necessary. Russian invasion of Ukraine and increased military cooperation between Moscow and Beijing, as well as North Korea's missile and nuclear weapons advancement have prompted Tokyo's push for military buildup.
The ministry seeks an undisclosed amount to develop and construct an offshore landing facility with a connecting jetty on remote islands without adequate ports for warships.
The ministry also aims to step up research and development of unmanned aircraft for reconnaissance and enemy strikes to make up for a smaller number of personnel as the Japanese population ages and shrinks.
The ministry also seeks funding to construct a new destroyer with Aegis-radar missile defense system with an expanded capability to shoot down gliding vehicles that could fly at Mach 5 or five times the speed of the sound.
Takahide Kiuchi, Nomura Research Institute executive economist, said doubling defense spending would require 2% consumption tax hike and a significant cut of social welfare benefits.
Increasing the defense budget significantly without adding a burden to the next generation, the government should sincerely seek the public’s understanding, “deepen public debate and avoid a hasty decision.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Japan-seeking-arms-buildup-makes-opaque-budget-17409150.php | 2022-08-31T07:34:31Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Japan-seeking-arms-buildup-makes-opaque-budget-17409150.php | true |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 1, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WATCH
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
205 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...A portion of south central Texas, including the following
counties, Bandera, Dimmit, Edwards, Kerr, Kinney, Maverick, Real,
Uvalde, Val Verde and Zavala.
* WHEN...Through Thursday morning.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff and heavy rainfall may result in the
flooding of rivers, creeks and low-water crossings. Flooding is
possible at underpasses, and in poor drainage and urban areas
where ditches may become clogged with debris. Rivers may rise to
bankfull or into minor flooding.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms producing
locally heavy rainfall are possible. Recent heavy rainfall
has led to some areas that will be more sensitive to the
potential for flooding.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Extensive street and low-water crossing flooding is possible. Roads
and low-water crossings may become impassable.
Avoid driving where water covers the road, as stalled vehicles put
first responders at risk. Turn Around, Don't Drown!
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Russia temporarily stops gas flow through Nord Stream 1
Russia’s Gazprom has stopped the flow of natural gas through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe, a temporary move it had announced in advance.
The Russian state-controlled energy giant said earlier this month that it would the cut the flow of gas through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline until Saturday in a three-day pause for routine maintenance at the Portovaya compressor station.
The head of Germany’s Federal Network Agency, Klaus Mueller, said that the maintenance work is technically incomprehensible and he considers it a way of punishing Germany for siding with Ukraine since the Russian invasion.
Gazprom has repeatedly reduced the flow of gas through Nord Stream 1 claiming technical issues such as equipment repairs.
German officials called these cuts a political move to sow uncertainty and push up prices amid the war in Ukraine.
Russia has also reduced the flow of gas to other European countries which have sided with Ukraine in the war. The country has recently accounted for about a third of Germany’s gas supplies.
The German government said last week that the drop in gas flows confirmed that Germany cannot rely on Russian deliveries, and announced it would step up its gas storage requirements and take further measures to conserve supplies.
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On this day in 2016: David Luiz makes deadline day return to Chelsea
By PA Staff published
On this day in 2016, David Luiz rejoined Chelsea from Paris St Germain in a £32million deal on a frantic transfer deadline day.
Antonio Conte’s desperation to bolster his defensive resources during the summer of 2016 saw the Blues turn to a familiar face as the transfer deadline loomed.
Brazil international Luiz had made 143 appearances for the club during his first spell following his £21million arrival from Benfica in January 2011, in the process collecting winners medals in the Champions League, the Europa League and the FA Cup.
'I am looking forward to wearing the blue shirt at Stamford Bridge once again.' – @DavidLuiz_4pic.twitter.com/Swr2r9BpBB— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) August 31, 2016
An accomplished footballer, but not always the most resolute of defenders, he left Stamford Bridge in June 2014 when Paris St Germain struck a deal amounting to £50million to take him to the Parc des Princes.
Luiz’s two campaigns in France were also trophy-laden – he won two French Ligue 1 titles, two Coupes de France, two Coupes de la Ligue and two Trophees des Champions – but when Chelsea came calling a second time, he did not take a great deal of persuading.
Conte, who had replaced interim manager Guus Hiddink almost two months earlier, had endured a frustrating summer attempting to land defensive targets with Napoli’s Kalidou Koulibaly – who eventually joined Chelsea in July this year – and Alessio Romagnoli of AC Milan remaining tantalisingly out of his grasp.
However with 29-year-old Luiz facing the stiffest of competition from Marquinhos and Thiago Silva – another future Blues recruit – at PSG, the offer of regular football at a club where he had enjoyed such success proved too good to resist.
A message for Chelsea fans from @DavidLuiz_4! pic.twitter.com/Hhsx6AQTaq— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) August 31, 2016
He said at the time: “I’m delighted to return to Chelsea. We had a fantastic story during my first time at the club and I want to help the team and Antonio Conte achieve a lot of success.”
Luiz’s return came on the same day as full-back Marcos Alonso signed from Fiorentina for around £23million – the club had earlier landed N’Golo Kante, Michy Batshuayi and Eduardo – and winger Juan Cuadrado headed for Juventus on a three-year loan deal.
He made a further 105 appearances and added a Premier League title, another FA Cup and a second Europa League success before making a surprise £8million switch to Arsenal in August 2019 after talks with then manager and former team-mate Frank Lampard.
Now 35, he is currently playing his football in Brazil’s Serie A with Flamengo.
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Waves Founder: Crypto Needs Regulation to Deal With Market Manipulation
Jeffrey Gogo - BeInCrypto
2022-08-31 04:30
Sasha Ivanov, founder and CEO of the Waves smart contract blockchain, said the crypto industry needs regulation to deal with issues of market manipulation and to protect users against bad actors.
In an interview with Be[In]Crypto, Ivanov also spoke about the “six whale accounts” that had outsized loan positions they could not repay, risking USDN’s dollar peg, and how he stepped in with $500 million of his own money to save the day.
But the stablecoin has remained shaky, falling to about $0.90 on Aug. 28. Neutrino dollar, or USDN, is an algorithmic stablecoin native to the Waves ecosystem.
Below is an excerpt of the interview.
How did you manage to restore USDN’s peg, which dropped to $0.80 in April? We understand you took on $500 million worth of personal debt to defend the peg. How did that work exactly?
Yes, the issues first occurred in April when six whale accounts borrowed the vast majority of Vires Finance’s liquidity and the overall crypto market crashed. Since the price of WAVES was falling quite fast — just like every other crypto at the time — the six overleveraged whales could not repay their loans as the amount of interest they owed continued to grow. This is when I had to step in to take roughly $500 million worth of this bad debt into my own wallet to gradually repay it. Not doing so would have allowed those accounts to be liquidated, creating more selling pressure due to the quantity of USDN sold.
That selling pressure in turn would have massively increased the risk of depegging. Since then, we have collaborated with the Waves community to take a number of steps — all approved by majority consensus via decentralized voting — to prevent this situation from happening again. Apart from subsuming the bad debt and preventing future depegs, we have also introduced new incentives to support USDN through the Smart Utility Recapitalization Feature (SURF) token. Additionally, we have deployed a new system of dynamic borrow and withdrawal limits to ensure that Vires Finance can continue to operate even under extreme crypto market conditions.
You had a public spat with Sam Bankman-Fried over allegations of manipulating the price of WAVES. How did that situation resolve?
Crypto market manipulation is a sign of the times; as much as we in the space wish it wasn’t so, it’s there nonetheless. People with large balances and high levels of intelligence are able to profit at the expense of retail traders. Our resolution is regulation, which is on its way. In the meantime, we have been working on our own solutions, such as the upcoming launch of PowerDAO to help us regulate our own ecosystem.
By doing so, our users will be kept safe. We’re still working on the details of how this will work but it will be totally unique for the Waves community to have a DAO built to protect their interests. The PowerDAO will have a new method of governance that will reward actions and decisions that support the community and penalize actions and decisions that harm it. It is a new design for decentralized governance and one that we hope will be taken up across the crypto sector.
Stablecoins like USDC have become major talking points following the recent sanctioning of Tornado Cash. How does USDN relate with regulators as far as enforcement of sanctions is concerned, vis-a-vis issues of user privacy?
While this may not be the most popular opinion, I believe we need regulation to protect users. As such, we are absolutely in favor of finding some real and efficient solutions through intelligent conversations with regulators. That being said, we need to respect the values of immutability, resistance to censorship, and decentralization when regulating – there has to be some agreement here otherwise the core values of crypto will be compromised.
Blanket bans on accounts linked to Tornado Cash and arresting developers for creating code that is used for illegal means is totally ludicrous. Imagine jailing the inventor of a knife for crimes committed with it! Ridiculous that this is where they’ve gone with enforcement actions. There needs to be an informed discussion around what blockchain technology is before knee-jerk enforcement actions like this are made. We’re happy to talk with regulators at any time about how to do this sensibly while respecting the values of the people in the space.
What is the risk that USDN could ever see a death spiral in the fashion of Terra’s UST?
For starters, USDN is built entirely differently than UST, otherwise, we would have suffered the same fate already. Our system was designed to prevent such “death spirals” with USDN and Waves in the first place, and I think it’s safe to say that USDN’s unique design has demonstrably proved its resilience in extremely volatile conditions.
Not only that, the SURF token I mentioned earlier was designed specifically to provide backup for collateralizing USDN in times of emergency. This is a critical property for an algorithmic stablecoin to have since extreme market conditions are unavoidable. If the backing ratio of USDN goes below 100%, SURF becomes available for purchase. The price will be set to whatever the ratio of USDN is at the time, so if it’s 50%, for example, then one SURF will be priced at $0.50. Once the ratio reaches 115%, all SURF tokens are liquidated back into USDN.
This creates a profit incentive to collateralize the stablecoin and help keep the peg stabilized. Another feature of our revival plan is the ability to dynamically limit withdrawals and borrows if the platform becomes overutilized. For example, when more than 95% of funds are utilized, withdrawals will be limited to $1,000 a day per account. This limit will be automatically lowered as fund utilization decreases. When it drops below 80%, all withdrawal limits will be lifted until those thresholds are reached again. This means that USDN won’t collapse even in a worst-case scenario event going forward.
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'Arms race': NIL compensation now a potent recruiting weapon
Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson remembers the old days of college recruiting.
"You used to talk about graduation rates and majors," Clawson said. "Now the first question is, `What are you guaranteeing me year one, two, three and four?´"
Clawson isn't necessarily talking about playing time, either. After more than a year, prospects are far more familiar with ways they can profit off their fame through endorsement deals and are looking hard at whether schools can help them do it.
When the NCAA instituted a policy last summer allowing athletes to earn money off use of their name, image and likeness, the notion was that it would give players a chance to make a little money but wouldn´t be used as a recruiting weapon.
That´s not how it´s worked out. Pay-for-play situations or improper inducements are still banned, but there is nothing stopping colleges from letting recruits know how athletes on campus are already profiting through NIL deals and how much support is available to them if they're interested.
For instance, Ohio State has a Twitter account in which it boasted this summer that it had surpassed 1,000 disclosed NIL deals for its athletes. The school was among the first to publicly disclose how much its athletes have earned, putting the number at nearly $3 million just six months into the NIL era.
FILE - Wake Forest head coach Dave Clawson answers a question at the NCAA college football Atlantic Coast Conference Media Days in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, July 20, 2022. "You used to talk about graduation rates and majors," Clawson said about recuiting. "Now the first question is, 'What are you guaranteeing me year one, two, three and four?'" Clawson isn't necessarily talking about playing time, either. Prospects are far more familiar with ways they can profit off their fame through endorsement deals and are looking hard at whether schools can help them do it. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)
"It´s basically becoming an arms race," said Andy Stefanelli, the football coach at Our Lady of Good Counsel in Olney, Maryland, which has a handful of top recruits, according to composite rankings of recruiting sites compiled by 247Sports. "It´s going to be, I think, as much of a factor in recruiting as anything else - facilities, winning, coaching, all that. It´s going to be right up there with those factors for kids, at least for the high-level recruits."
Willie Howard, the football coach and activities director at Cooper High in New Hope, Minnesota, is a former Stanford and Minnesota Vikings defensive end. His son, defensive end Jaxon Howard, is a top-100 prospect who has verbally committed to LSU.
The Howards say that every college they visited during Jaxon's recruitment used the same approach in addressing NIL issues. Each would discuss opportunities athletes had received while pointing out that nothing´s guaranteed and recommending that recruits don´t pick a school based on NIL possibilities.
"The message was always the same," Willie Howard said. "It felt like it was cookie-cutter at times because it´s like, `We´re not going to be stuck with NCAA compliance coming after us and saying that we've done something we´re not supposed to do.´"
Jaxon Howard recently hired an agent, as the state of Minnesota allows high school athletes to explore NIL opportunities. But he added that NIL wasn´t a factor in his college choice.
"I don´t want to put my whole focus on something like name, image and likeness when my end goal is to make a multimillion-dollar deal one day in the NFL," he said.
Still, On3 surveyed 85 notable 2023 recruits and found that 30% of them would be willing to attend a school that isn´t an ideal fit from a football or academic perspective if that´s where they could get the best NIL deal.
The emergence of collectives fueled by boosters has led to criticism that they indirectly lead recruits to a particular school, even though the NCAA handed down guidance earlier this year noting that boosters remain prohibited from recruiting or providing benefits to prospects.
Stefanelli says he hears the complaints from college coaches who visit his school.
"Frankly, some of them were saying, `Yeah, we´re losing recruits because X, Y or Z school is throwing a bunch of money at them,´" Stefanelli said.
The issue has crept into some of the public comments from coaches, which could be seen as indirect recruiting pitches. Alabama´s Nick Saban said last month that his players made more than $3 million in NIL deals over the last year and his SEC rival, Georgia's Kirby Smart, got even more specific.
"We may have had the highest-paid defensive lineman last year in NIL in Jordan Davis," Smart said. "We had the highest-paid tight end in Brock Bowers. Kelee Ringo I would argue is probably one of the highest-paid corners there is in NIL. So NIL can be a good thing, and they can learn to manage money at a young age."
Many coaches say they would like more oversight from the NCAA with different state laws in place across the country. Saban and Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher swapped barbs over the summer over the allegation that the Aggies had "bought" the nation's top-ranked recruting class.
"Change is inevitable," Fisher said. "That´s the rules we have to play by, so we all have to adapt and adjust."
There are ways in which schools can make their NIL cases directly to prospects - or players who have entered the transfer portal - without flat-out offering them incentives.
Many have hired staffers to work on maximizing NIL opportunities for athletes already on campus. Some have partnered with groups that can advise them on what they´re permitted to say to recruits on NIL-related matters.
"What we work with them on is what do you know, how do you sell your program, what is your program´s philosophy and how do you integrate NIL within that without making it solely just about a dollar amount that is sometimes actually being offered or what the media is reported is being offered," said Celine Mangan, a senior account executive with Altius, whose client list of about 30 schools includes Georgia, LSU and Texas among others.
Schools need to have a good idea of what to say about NIL issues because prospects certainly are asking about them.
"Some kids will come in your office and it´s the first question they ask," Boston College coach Jeff Hafley said.
They´re not just asking the coaches. Upperclassmen are fielding NIL-related questions from prospects.
"That´s probably one of the top questions is, you know, like the NIL deal thing," TCU wide receiver Quentin Johnston said. "But the thing with recruits, they always come in and think, you know, that NIL is just a given."
Johnston says he reminds recruits that NIL deals come only after players have done the work on the field, in the classroom and in the community.
As for those conversations Clawson has with Wake Forest recruits, he says he keeps any NIL-related discussions within both the letter and spirit of NCAA rules. But he adds that "clearly that´s not happening" everywhere.
"That is gone," Clawson said. "I don´t see there´s any way that´s going to come back."
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AP sports writers Aaron Beard, Stephen Hawkins and Michael Marot contributed to this report.
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FILE - Ohio State head coach Ryan Day talks to reporters during an NCAA college football news conference at the Big Ten Conference media days, at Lucas Oil Stadium, Wednesday, July 27, 2022, in Indianapolis. Pay-for-play situations or improper inducements are still banned, but there is nothing stopping colleges from letting recruits know how athletes on campus are already profiting through NIL deals and how much support is available to them if they're interested. For instance, Ohio State has a Twitter account in which it boasted this summer that it had surpassed 1,000 disclosed NIL deals for its athletes. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)
FILE - Georgia head coach Kirby Smart speaks with Alabama head coach Nick Saban before the first half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021, in Atlanta. When the NCAA instituted a policy last summer allowing athletes to earn money off use of their name, image and likeness, the notion was that it would give players a chance to make a little money but wouldn't be used as a recruiting weapon. That's not how it's worked out. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
FILE - Georgia tight end Brock Bowers (19) plays against Charleston Southern during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021, in Athens, Ga. Alabama's Nick Saban said last month that his players made more than $3 million in NIL deals over the last year and his SEC rival, Georgia's Kirby Smart, got even more specific. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
FILE - Georgia defensive lineman Jordan Davis speaks during a press conference at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis, Friday, March 4, 2022. Alabama's Nick Saban said last month that his players made more than $3 million in NIL deals over the last year and his SEC rival, Georgia's Kirby Smart, got even more specific. "We may have had the highest-paid defensive lineman last year in NIL in Jordan Davis," Smart said.(AP Photo/AJ Mast, File) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11163627/Arms-race-NIL-compensation-potent-recruiting-weapon.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-31T07:47:53Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11163627/Arms-race-NIL-compensation-potent-recruiting-weapon.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
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U.S., South Korea stage largest combined military drills in years
By Josh Smith
POCHEON, South Korea, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Less than 20 miles from the fortified border with North Korea, a combined force of South Korean and U.S. troops held a major live-fire exercise on Wednesday with artillery, tanks and other weapons as the allies step up their practice for war.
South Korea and the United States have resumed the largest field exercises in years after diplomatic efforts and COVID-19 restrictions led to many drills being scaled back.
The allies see the exercises as a key part of their efforts to deter North Korea and its growing nuclear arsenal, but North Korea has called them a rehearsal for war and they have faced criticism even in South Korea and the United States.
Reuters was among a handful of media granted rare access to the drills on Wednesday.
They were the first division-level exercises for the 2nd Infantry Division/ROK-U.S. Combined Division, the U.S. military´s only multinational division formed in 2015. ROK are the initials for South Korea's official name.
The drills included live fire from American and South Korean howitzers, tanks, machine guns, and mortars. A-10 attack aircraft and Apache helicopters also participated.
Rounds from howitzers pounded into a mountainside at the Rodriguez Life Fire Complex, as main battle tanks from both sides manoeuvred and fired their guns at targets, sending shockwaves across the valley.
Colonel Brandon Anderson, the division´s deputy commander for manoeuvre, said the drills were not aimed at any one adversary, but they obviously took into account the "reason for the U.S.-ROK alliance" - alluding to North Korea.
The drills were designed to simulate battling a "near-peer" enemy who could match the allies in capabilities, he said.
"We´re training for large-scale combat operations," Anderson said, noting that the conflict in Ukraine had provided lessons on the need to improve long-range artillery and surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.
He denied that these drills were among those delayed for political reasons but said COVID and the logistical challenges of pulling off a multinational exercise with live ammunition meant the allies had been unable to conduct the practice until now.
Many large exercises were cancelled starting in 2018 as then-U.S. President Donald Trump tried to persuade North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to give up his nuclear weapons. COVID later disrupted more drills.
A former senior defence official told Reuters that in many cases U.S. and South Korean forces continued to train but did not publicize it.
That has changed, with both the United States and South Korea increasingly touting their alliance in the face of increased missile tests by North Korea, and the prospect of it testing another nuclear weapon. (Reporting by Josh Smith; Editing by Robert Birsel) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11163785/U-S--South-Korea-stage-largest-combined-military-drills-years.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-31T07:52:26Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11163785/U-S--South-Korea-stage-largest-combined-military-drills-years.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
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Idaho consistently ranks at the bottom of U.S. states for the lowest numbers of physicians per capita. Growing up in the very small town of Arco, Idaho (population 758), we have seen how rural communities are disproportionately affected by inadequate health care systems.
When Idaho WWAMI third-year medical student Carly Loebel was just 11 years old, she was admitted to the Arco emergency room. Not long after, she was taken by ambulance across the desert over an hour away to Idaho Falls to have her ruptured appendix removed. She stayed there for an entire week, separated from her Arco community.
Carly’s early experience motivated her to pursue a career in rural medicine so she could make health care more accessible for those who live in small towns. Without a local family doctor, people in towns like Arco do not receive adequate care.
Nathan Davies, another medical student from Arco, saw the challenges many people from rural communities experience when seeking medical care. He hopes his future practice will allow patients to receive evidence-based care that is easily accessible in their geographic area.
After graduating from the Idaho universities — Carly from Idaho State University and Natan from Brigham Young University — we were thrilled to learn that Idaho has a public medical school that operates in partnership with the top-ranked University of Washington School of Medicine: Idaho WWAMI. For 50 years, WWAMI has placed a strong emphasis on rural medicine in Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho. Carly joined a selective rural training program for scholars called Targeted Rural Underserved Track.
As a TRUST scholar, Carly shadows working physicians for two-week stretches in the communities of Sandpoint, McCall and Hailey, which are similar to her hometown. TRUST students stay in a community for approximately 16 weeks total, longer than most WWAMI clinical experiences. Throughout her experiences, she has been able to get a sense of what is important to the people who live there, what health problems are present and what barriers members of the community have to access health care. Knowing this information helps her better understand how to help patients.
Being part of WWAMI has allowed both Carly and Nathan to gain clinical experience in their training from day one. Through these experiences, they are building connections with future coworkers and potential employers while gaining insight into the challenges Idahoans experience both as rural patients and health care providers.
Seeing patients in the hospital while studying coursework helps Nathan keep perspective on why he chose a career in rural medicine. He’s also mentoring undergraduate pre-med students as an Idaho WWAMI ambassador, helping them navigate the medical school application process. This volunteer service instills confidence in future medical students, particularly those from rural communities who may be first-generation college students, and it helps Idaho WWAMI train more physicians who will stay in Idaho.
Like many other Idaho WWAMI students, Nathan and Carly plan to practice medicine in Idaho after they complete their studies. Nathan is excited to work in orthopedics or the emergency room. Carly aims to work as an OBGYN in Idaho Falls or Twin Falls so she can travel back to Arco a couple of days a week.
Nathan Davies and Carly Loebel are third-year Idaho WWAMI students. Growing up in Arco fueled their decision to become physicians in rural Idaho communities. | https://www.postregister.com/opinion/guest_column/opinion-arco-medical-students-idaho-wwami-provides-necessary-rural-training-for-future-doctors/article_f448c96a-d805-500b-9c1b-cd8fe4fe67ca.html | 2022-08-31T08:23:01Z | https://www.postregister.com/opinion/guest_column/opinion-arco-medical-students-idaho-wwami-provides-necessary-rural-training-for-future-doctors/article_f448c96a-d805-500b-9c1b-cd8fe4fe67ca.html | true |
Recently, while taking a few minutes to relax on my front porch, I listened to a train blowing for a grade crossing. That sound has been a part of my memory from my earliest days. It is an iconic sound that has had a vital place in the westward expansion of our nation. Having grown up in a heavily populated part of the country, it carries the vision of great, largely empty spaces, where civilization and people are more widely distributed, along with a greater sense of neighborliness and mutual self-respect. I am no hermit, but I have never been lonely in such places. They are places where one can let the mind wander, take in and contemplate what’s around them. It is also educational in a way that no book on history can fully fill in for.
I mentioned early years; that sound, lonely in the night far ahead, announcing the approach to a small town or grade crossing out across the Great Plains inspired an early urge for travel and exploration. In that relatively flat expanse, carrying with it the vision of nothing between you and the North Pole but more and more of the same blessed, unadulterated emptiness open for discovery and exploration of the outback.
It drew me out of the relatively compressed atmosphere of the East into a world seemingly without limits. A world vital and inspiring. Indeed, at times, when I was on my own in a small town, I would hole up in a small cheap motel, hit the local cafe for some coffee or breakfast, and get into conversation with one or two of the locals. Maybe pick up the local chronicle and find out a little about their lifestyle. No outside distractions. That’s what that lonely sound means to me. It is relaxing.
Gone are the grand old trains that I knew, where you could walk from end to end or just sit and take in the wonderful expanse of this great land and contemplate what others long before had toiled for weeks and weeks to cross and prepare for those who would follow. The last great hope for man on this earth. What so many have given their lives to preserve.
Evan Tibbott is a long-time resident of eastern Idaho. He is a cooperative weather observer for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service and has been involved as a volunteer in civic and natural resource capacities for many years. He lives in Rigby and enjoys writing about the outdoors and his own personal experiences in the West. | https://www.postregister.com/opinion/guest_column/opinion-that-sound-in-the-distance-is-relaxing/article_4def891e-2002-11ed-88a3-4b80bced8ce1.html | 2022-08-31T08:23:38Z | https://www.postregister.com/opinion/guest_column/opinion-that-sound-in-the-distance-is-relaxing/article_4def891e-2002-11ed-88a3-4b80bced8ce1.html | false |
Food bank workers say "desperate" people need only ask after starving thieves broke in and raided their stores - but left cash. Volunteers at Tasty not Wasty CIC woke up yesterday to find broken windows and empty cupboards - but their money boxes untouched.
Unfortunately, despite only a few bags of food being taken from the hub in Llanyrafon Methodist Church, Wales, the crooks left the freezer open - spoiling huge amounts. The non-profit community project has been running for two years and provides meals to more than 400 people a month across the local area.
One volunteer, who asked not to be named, said: “Sometime last night the food bank was broken into – they took nothing of value, purely food. It’s a food share so we support all the other banks in the area and collect near use-by and end of life products to give to people suffering from financial hardship.
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“The sad bit is that if they had just messaged us through the normal means they could have had a box of food delivered to them. This is obviously related to the cost of living crisis and people are just getting desperate."
The thieves left two broken windows and food strewn across the floor of the bank after they made off, the volunteer said. But, despite there being collection pots accessible within the church, the only things taken were food items.
“They’ve put two church windows in – one was into the kitchen area where most of the food is stored,” said the volunteer. They’ve taken what appears to be easy to eat meals like crisps.
“In doing so, they’ve left all the freezers open and a lot of the food has to be binned now. Financially it was peanuts, it was a few bags carrier bags worth of food - more damage is to the freezers which were full.
“We’re checked by the food standards people so we have to assume it’s all been contaminated. Two freezers had to have everything ripped out and binned as well as the fridges and the loaves of bread that Lidl provide to us.
“Now we’re looking to invest in CCTV cameras and up the security of the church. I’m absolutely horrified to be honest and the woman that runs it is understandably devastated.”
Gwent Police said: "We’ve received report of burglary in Cwmbran after an unknown person broke into Cwmbran Methodist Church Llanyravon between 10.30pm on Monday 29 August and 7.15am on Tuesday 30 August. Enquiries are ongoing and anyone with information including CCTV or dashcam footage, can call us on 101 or send us a direct message on social media, quoting log reference 2200294359.
"Alternatively you can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 with details."
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Baltimore County Councilwoman Cathy Bevins said Tuesday that she is withdrawing a proposed bill that would have exempted waterfront restaurants and marinas from some environmental requirements, following criticism from residents and environmental advocates.
The bill would have allowed restaurants and marinas in Chesapeake Bay Critical Areas in the county to add new structures up to the water’s edge, exempting them from laws requiring a vegetation buffer to separate certain developments from bodies of water.
In a statement issued Tuesday, Bevins said that after discussions with the county executive’s office and others, she felt that the bill was “a step too aggressive” so she decided to withdraw it.
“The intent of this legislation was never to allow sprawling development in our Chesapeake Bay Critical Areas, but rather to make some tweaks to allow for businesses to enhance their atmosphere through the addition of palm trees, picnic tables, and other minor amenities,” Bevins wrote in her statement, adding that she hopes conversations on the matter can continue.
Bevins, a Middle River Democrat, is not running for reelection, so she will be leaving office when her term ends in December.
Erica Palmisano, a spokeswoman for Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr., a Democrat, said Tuesday that the office appreciated the withdrawal of the bill.
“We look forward to working with the Council and community members to explore ways to support our businesses while also protecting environmentally sensitive areas,” Palmisano wrote in a statement.
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office had reviewed the bill following a request from Democratic state Del. Dana Stein of Baltimore County, and found there was a “significant possibility” that it conflicted with state law, according to a letter from assistant attorney general Kathryn M. Rowe dated Aug. 18. Rowe said she was “unable to give a definitive answer,” however, because under the state’s Critical Area Act — enacted in 1984 — the state’s Critical Area Commission is supposed to decide whether plans from local jurisdictions mesh with state law.
During Tuesday’s County Council meeting, the council’s chairman Julian Jones, a Woodstock Democrat, took issue with the attorney general’s handling of the bill. He said that he heard about the office’s letter only from constituents emailing his office, rather than from the attorney general’s office itself.
“If the attorney general wants to weigh in on something we’re doing, we would urge him to send the proper information to us, so that we can evaluate it and accept it — as opposed to coming from third and fourth and fifth hand,” Jones said.
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Though Bevins’ statement withdrawing the bill became public before Tuesday’s meeting, Jones allowed county residents to testify about the bill. But then, he read Bevins’ statement aloud, saying he had been unaware of it.
Bevins was absent from Tuesday’s meeting, but Tom Bostwick, the council’s legislative counsel, presented the bill on her behalf. He said the requirements for critical areas have caused frustration among some county residents who visit other jurisdictions in Maryland, such as Ocean City, and see plenty of businesses operating right along the water’s edge. Some have the perception that Baltimore County faces an unfair set of rules, Bostwick said, though some developments could have been “grandfathered in” to the current laws.
Baltimore County Councilman David Marks, a Perry Hall Republican and a member of the state’s Critical Area Commission, said he was hopeful that conversations about how to help businesses frustrated by the law will continue.
“You do hear complaints from some of the businesses in the Middle River area that they can’t get, for example, approval to erect a cabana on a cement bulkhead,” Marks said. “I think there’s some frustration and I’m always wanting to think we can work things through.”
Brian Hall, owner of the Old Bay Marina in Edgemere, was the lone resident to speak in favor of the bill during Tuesday’s meeting, saying that the boating industry is in need of support and that lifting the buffer requirement could help.
Lindsay Crone of Middle River was one of two residents to speak against the bill Tuesday, calling it an example of “the death by a thousand cuts approach to eroding the health of our bay.”
“These policies are based on 100-year rain events that we’re now experiencing every few years, if not yearly,” Crone said. “But instead, our County Council is looking for ways to strip yet another layer of protection from our bay. And for what? To fill the pockets of a few restaurant owners.” | https://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland/bs-md-co-waterfront-restaurants-marinas-bill-being-withdrawn-20220831-y75be3dq6naqhgns3dxgq5cwhu-story.html | 2022-08-31T08:32:49Z | https://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland/bs-md-co-waterfront-restaurants-marinas-bill-being-withdrawn-20220831-y75be3dq6naqhgns3dxgq5cwhu-story.html | true |
Buffett's company trims its stake in Chinese EV maker BYD
Berkshire paid $232 million for the 225 million BYD shares it bought in 2008. By the end of last year, the value of those shares had ballooned to nearly $7.7 billion. The success of the BYD investment is one example of why so many investors follow Buffett's moves closely because he has a remarkably successful track record over the decades.
OMAHA: Warren Buffett's company has trimmed its stake in Chinese electric car and battery maker BYD for the first time since it bought the shares in 2008, an investment that has soared in value.
Berkshire Hathaway said in a regulatory filing Tuesday with the Hong Kong stock exchange that it had sold 1.33 million of its BYD shares for roughly $47 million ($368.8 million Hong Kong dollars).
Berkshire paid $232 million for the 225 million BYD shares it bought in 2008. By the end of last year, the value of those shares had ballooned to nearly $7.7 billion. The success of the BYD investment is one example of why so many investors follow Buffett's moves closely because he has a remarkably successful track record over the decades.
BYD said in an earnings report this week that sales of its vehicles continued to climb in the first half of this year and help it increase market share, even as auto sales slowed in its home market of China. BYD said its revenue jumped nearly 66% in the first half of this year thanks to the rapid growth in its electric vehicle sales, and its net income more than tripled to $520 million (3.6 billion yuan).
Berkshire said it owned about 7.7% of BYD before the latest stock sales, and that figure won't change much after the sales. Berkshire said its holdings of the Hong Kong-issued shares of BYD dipped slightly from 20.49% to 19.92%.
In the past, Buffett and Berkshire Vice Chairman Charlie Munger have heaped praise on BYD Chairman and founder Wang Chanfu and said they were investing in him even more than in BYD's technology. Munger has said that Wang managed to accomplish several feats that seemed impossible at the time, including taking one-third of the lithium battery market away from Japanese manufacturers by 2010.
Buffett even took the rare step of visiting a BYD factory in China in 2010 to demonstrate his support for the company. Hdidn't immediately respond Tuesday to questions about the BYD stock sale.
Besides investments, Buffett's Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate also owns more than 90 companies outright including Geico insurance, BNSF railroad, several major utilities and an eclectic assortment of retail and manufacturing companies such as Dairy Queen, Helzberg Diamonds and Precision Castparts.
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Man in coma after stung by bees 20,000 times, family says
RIPLEY, Ohio (WXIX) - A 20-year-old man nearly lost his life getting stung thousands of times by bees after accidentally cutting into a nest while tree trimming.
Austin Bellamy remains on a ventilator in a medically induced coma at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, as of Tuesday night, WXIX reports.
The 20-year-old was up in a lemon tree trimming branches Friday morning with his grandmother, Phyllis Edwards, and his uncle, Dustin Edwards, standing below. At some point, Bellamy unknowingly cut into a bee’s nest.
“When he started cutting them, that’s when the bees came out, and he tried to anchor himself down, and he couldn’t,” Phyllis Edwards said. “He was hollering, ‘Help! Help me! Help!’ And nobody would help him.”
Bellamy’s family members watched the entire episode unfold from the ground, unable to scale the ladder because they themselves were under attack.
“I was going to try and climb the ladder to get to Austin... I seen how high he was... but I couldn’t get to him because I was surrounded in bees,” Phyllis Edwards said.
Shawna Carter, Bellamy’s mother, says she passed out when she got the phone call.
“It was just too much for me to take,” she said. “It looked like he had a black blanket on his head down to his neck, down to his arms.”
EMS called UC Air Care for Bellamy. Phyllis Edwards left for the hospital in an ambulance moments before the medical helicopter arrived to transport the 20-year-old to Corryville.
Bellamy was stung at least 20,000 times, according to an online fundraiser set up by the family. Carter says he ingested around 30 bees as well.
“So he had bees inside of him, and they suctioned bees out of him until Sunday morning,” she explained.
Carter says it was a Ripley Fire Department firefighter named Craig who saved his life.
“When I think of Craig, Craig is a life-saver,” she said. “He’s Austin’s angel. He saved Austin’s life.”
Doctors say Bellamy will make a full recovery.
“I just want to tell him that I love him and I miss him and he’s my boy,” Dustin Edwards said.
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NEW YORK -- The welcome and support for Venus Williams in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday afternoon were not the same as they were for her sister, Serena, a night earlier. Nor was the result.
Venus, who turned 42 in June, has not made any pronouncements about her future in tennis, unlike her younger sibling, and while she has been successful and influential, too -- a seven-time Grand Slam champion; a Black woman in a predominantly white sport -- the fanfare and attention are not the same.
Playing in front of thousands of empty blue seats in an arena quite silent at the start, although growing louder later, Venus bowed out in the first round of the U.S. Open for the second consecutive appearance, losing 6-1, 7-6 (5) to Alison Van Uytvanck.
"She means so much to female tennis. Tennis, in general," Van Uytvanck said. "She's a legend."
This was the 23rd trip to Flushing Meadows for Venus, who made it to the final in 1997 as a teen then won the trophy in 2000 and 2001, and her record 91st time participating in a major tournament.
Venus had never lost in the opening round at the U.S. Open until 2020, then was absent last year.
Asked what keeps her motivated these days, she answered: "Three letters: W-I-N. That's it. Very simple."
At night, Emma Raducanu became only the third defending U.S. Open champion to lose in the first round, eliminated by Alize Cornet 6-3, 6-3. Raducanu, who was 18 and ranked 150th when she won the title as a qualifier a year ago, was bothered by hand blisters -- she took a medical timeout for treatment after the first set -- and was outplayed by Cornet, a 32-year-old from France who also upset No. 1 Iga Swiatek at Wimbledon.
Venus was off the tour in singles entirely from August 2021 until less than a month ago and is now 0-4 since her return. Her ranking -- which 20 years ago was No. 1 -- is 1,504th this week.
"It was definitely the longest time I have been away from tennis and been without a racket in my hand. So it was a completely new experience for me, getting a racket back in my hand and trying to acclimate as quick as possible to be ready for the U.S. Open, which was not easy," she said. "Definitely playing lots of great points, but in the end, it's just rust. There is nothing you can do about that except for, you know, not be rusty at some point."
It was Serena who announced to the world on Aug. 9 that she was getting ready to step away from her playing career, leaving unclear exactly when the end would be, although she hinted it could come at the U.S. Open. So her first-round match Monday fell into the category of a must-see happening, drawing a record crowd of more than 29,000 to the tournament grounds, including more than 23,000 in Ashe -- and the atmosphere was uproarious and electric from start to finish of her 6-3, 6-3 victory over Danka Kovinic.
Now Serena, who won six of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles in New York, will move on to a matchup against No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit in Ashe tonight.
And then she and Venus will join forces in doubles Thursday, teaming up for the first time anywhere since 2018 this week.
When a reporter wanted to know whether retirement has been on Venus' mind, she replied: "Right now, I'm just focused on the doubles."
So how did that reunion of a pairing that has earned 14 Grand Slam titles in that event come about?
"It was Serena's idea. She's the boss, so I do whatever she tells me to do," Venus said. "We have had some great wins. It would be nice to add some more."
Van Uytvanck now meets Clara Burel, who eliminated Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina 6-4, 6-4.
In other action on a humid and windy Day 2 at the hard-court tournament, women's winners included 2017 champion Sloane Stephens, No. 1 Iga Swiatek, No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka, No. 8 Jessica Pegula, No. 9 Garbine Muguruza, No. 13 Belinda Bencic -- whose opponent, Andrea Petkovic, said she is retiring from pro tennis -- and No. 22 Karolina Pliskova, the 2016 runner-up in New York.
Men who advanced included 2014 champion Marin Cilic, No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz, No. 7 Cam Norrie, No. 8 Hubert Hurkacz, No. 9 Andrey Rublev, No. 11 Jannik Sinner, No. 15 Marin Cilic, No. 17 Grigor Dimitrov and No. 28 Holger Rune, who meets John Isner next.
Neither Williams attended the other's first-round singles match; Venus said she watched Serena on TV but was not there in person because of her own early start the next day.
Their mother, Oracene, and sister, Isha, were in the guest box each time. On Tuesday, they saw Venus struggle from the outset, particularly with her used-to-be-feared serve and groundstrokes that were not calibrated correctly. So many into the net. So many landing long.
After some of her 25 unforced errors, Venus would wince or fiddle with her racket strings or tug on the brim of her visor.
Ten of those miscues came on backhands, far outnumbering her two winners on that side.
There were a half-dozen double-faults, just three aces. She faced 12 break points and dropped four of her 10 service games.
Just 20 minutes in, there was a 4-0 lead for Van Uytvanck, a 28-year-old from Belgium who is ranked 43rd and came into the day with a 1-8 career mark at the U.S. Open.
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SANDVIKEN, Sweden, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The shares of Alleima, a global manufacturer of advanced stainless steels, special alloys and heating systems for the most demanding industries, commence trading on Nasdaq Stockholm today. This marks the start of Alleima as a fully independent company after being part of Sandvik. The name Alleima is a combination of the words 'alloy' and 'material' - two core strengths of the company.
"This is a historic day for our company and an important step to build for the future. We are the result of nearly 160 years of collective minds, working together with our customers. Today Alleima is a world-leader in its fields and a strong performer in its industry. As a standalone company, Alleima will have the right prerequisites to realize its full potential and the best possible conditions for growth and value creation. I want to thank all our employees for the great work and the quality we deliver and our customers for their trust and the advancements we achieve together. Even though our name is new, we will not forget our origins. We will continue to offer the same advanced high-quality products and services with the same expertise and solutions that our customers are used to," says Göran Björkman, President and CEO of Alleima.
The Annual General Meeting of Sandvik AB decided on April 27, 2022, to distribute all shares of Alleima AB to the shareholders of Sandvik AB. Shareholders of Sandvik AB as per the record date August 29, 2022, have received one share in Alleima for every five shares held in Sandvik. The prospectus is available on the Sandvik website, home.sandvik, and on the Alleima website, www.alleima.com. The total number of outstanding shares in Alleima AB is 250,877,184. Alleima is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm under the ticker 'ALLEI'.
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A BANDON-based councillor said she fears that Clonakilty will grow at the expense of Bandon, as a result of a plan to take Bandon river water to plug shortfalls in Clonakilty’s supply.
At a recent meeting of Bandon Kinsale Municipal District, Cllr Gillian Coughlan (FF) raised the issue after she had attended a recent online meeting with Irish Water.
‘We were told that the water from the Bandon river will be used to plug the shortfall in water services in Clonakilty and I’m really concerned about this,’ said Cllr Coughlan, who added that she was surprised at the speed of it happening.
She said there is currently an open public consultation process underway and urged fellow councillors to engage with it.
‘I’m afraid that Clonakilty will grow at the expense of Bandon. There should be some limits put on the capacity drawn off the Bandon river to go to Clonakilty. I want Clonakilty to grow and prosper, but not at the expense of Bandon,’ she said.
Cllr Coughlan said they were also told at that meeting with Irish Water that most of the country’s public water systems are working at 100% capacity all the time.
‘This means there’s no headroom whatsoever if something breaks and I really feel we need to have some sort of water conservation campaign rolled out.’
She also fears that in years to come they might not have enough water in Bandon as it will have been all siphoned off.
Cllr Kevin Murphy (FG) said that while Bandon would suffer, he believed that Kinsale would suffer big time.
‘Whatever happens up the river will affect those down the river, and there has to be a good proposal before we go into it,’ said Cllr Murphy.
However, Cllr Coughlan said it’s a ‘fait accompli’ and urged councillors and members of the public to look at the public consultation and submit their concerns.
Cllr Alan Coleman (Ind) said the study is looking at what existing headroom is available in Bandon and what is required in Clonakilty as well, but added that it’s a temporary proposal for a number of years.
‘The long-term proposal is that Bandon would be linked with Inniscarra, which would be a positive thing to have the river linked to one of the biggest water schemes in the British Isles,’ said Cllr Coleman, who said he wouldn’t be that negative about the proposal.
He said that he trusts the county engineer won’t leave Bandon short of water.
Meanwhile, Cllr Coughlan also called for better communication from TII (Transport Infrastructure Ireland) in relation to the recent public consultation on the Bandon bypass.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 1, 2022
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Flood Watch
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
213 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM CDT /6 AM MDT/ THIS MORNING
THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...Portions of southwest Texas and western Texas, including
the following areas, in southwest Texas, Central Brewster County,
Chinati Mountains, Chisos Basin, Davis Mountains, Davis Mountains
Foothills, Eastern Culberson County, Guadalupe and Delaware
Mountains, Lower Brewster County, Marfa Plateau, Pecos, Presidio
Valley, Terrell and Van Horn and Highway 54 Corridor. In western
Texas, Reeves County Plains.
* WHEN...From 7 AM CDT /6 AM MDT/ this morning through Thursday
morning.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Showers and thunderstorms will produce heavy rainfall with
1 to 2 inches expected, locally higher amounts are possible.
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You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood
Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared
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'I wish you were here with me now!' Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu admits she misses under-fire boyfriend Davide Sanclimenti as love-sick star works in LA after he was seen in a London cab with two Icelandic beauties
Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu has reaffirmed her relationshiop with Davide Sanclimenti is still on solid ground after he was seen in a homeward bound cab with two Icelandic beauties.
The Love Island winner, 28, is preparing for a reunion with the hunky Italian after enjoying a week-long working holiday in Los Angeles, where she has been taking part in a yet to be disclosed new project.
But she took time away from the location shoot on Tuesday - her final day in southern California - to admit she was missing her boyfriend.
All is well: Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu has reaffirmed her relationshiop with Davide Sanclimenti is still on solid ground after he was seen in a homeward bound cab with two Icelandic beauties
Sharing a short Instagram video with followers, she said: 'So I'm on another break but I'm not going to lie, Davide, I miss you. I wish you were here with me now and chilling with me. Hope you're well my love.'
Perhaps with Davide in mind, the Turkish-born model and actress later enjoyed a lavish meal at romantic restaurant Catch LA before preparing for her return flight to England.
A source previously told MailOnline that things are good between the Love Island winners and Ekin-Su is 'loving life' in LA as she works on her secret project.
Still together: The Love Island winner is preparing for a reunion with the hunky Italian after enjoying a week-long working holiday in Los Angeles
Brushing aside the drama surrounding their love life, the couple both took to Instagram earlier on Tuesday to share their joy at winning the E! award for the best Memorable Reality TV moment.
The source explained: 'Ekin is in a great place out in LA, so are her and Davide as a couple and that she's concentrating on her next big project to be revealed later this week.
'She's currently in LA, loving life in the sunshine and planning big things'.
Pals: Davide was joined by Anita Gunnarsdottir (left) and Matthildur Ylfa Þorsteinsd (right) on Saturday evening. The pair sat next to him during the KSI fight before sharing a taxi together
Davide was seen exiting a party with two Icelandic women in London on Saturday, whilst his girlfriend Ekin-Su was away, with the moment being snapped by an onlooker.
The Love Island winner was joined by a pal as they hopped into a taxi with the girls after watching the KSI v Swarmz and KSI v Pineda fights at the O2 Arena.
In footage of the moment obtained by The Sun, the Love Island star was joined by Anita Gunnarsdottir and Matthildur Ylfa Þorsteinsd - who sat next to him during the fight.
Moving on: Brushing aside the drama, the couple both took to Instagram on Tuesday to share their joy at winning the E! award for the best Memorable Reality TV moment
Lovely: Perhaps with Davide in mind, the Turkish-born model and actress later enjoyed a lavish meal at romantic restaurant Catch LA before preparing for her return flight to England
He was reportedly spotted chatting and laughing with the duo as they departed the venue before sharing a cab together.
While the video showed Davide laughing in the back seat of the cab with one of the girls, as the other leaned forward.
MailOnline contacted representatives for Davide and Ekin-Su for comment at the time.
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Luxury apartment with views towards Carrow Road on the market for £425k
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A stylish two-bed apartment on the first floor of a former city factory has come up for sale at a guide price of £425,000 - and inside its owners have created a masterpiece of Art Deco-inspired design.
The Factory on Kerrison Road has been an important part of the city's heritage for decades - in its heyday, it was home to one of the city’s biggest employers, Laurence, Scott and Electromotors Ltd, but it also had an impact outside of Norwich, too.
The firm was set up in the late 19th century by inventor William Harding Scott and Richard Laurence and subsequently grew.
It’s estimated that by the end of the First World War it had made about £1million worth of shells from home-made tools in two corrugated tin sheds, and it later employed thousands of people across several factories in the city.
The company developed some of the UK’s first ever traffic lights, which were installed in the city, as well as designs for the Royal Navy’s submarine fleet and machines that excavated the ground for the Channel Tunnel.
Part of the building on Kerrison Road was used as a drawing room - not least because it offered the space and natural light its team of designers needed.
However, in 2006 the building was converted into over 20 loft-style and penthouse apartments - and Number 57, now for sale, is located to the rear. It has a large balcony as well as views towards Carrow Road.
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The vendors originally bought the property as a base in the city and have since upgraded it. According to selling agents, Sowerbys, they were inspired by the Art Deco heritage of the building and have installed a bespoke Crittall divide with double doors to the reception space, as well as a stunning Italian marble island in the kitchen, featuring an antiqued mirror back.
The two bedrooms are sumptuous and full of stylish details, from the marble effect tiles on the floor to the mural on the ceiling designed to look like clouds.
The main living space is open-plan and has a balcony to the rear, as well as the building’s signature high ceilings which were designed for its former industrial use.
The property also has the benefit of an allocated parking space.
For more information, contact Sowerbys.
PROPERTY FACTS
Kerrison Road, Norwich
Guide price: £425,000
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Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says his ruling party will cut ties with the Unification Church following a widening scandal triggered by former leader Shinzo Abe’s assassination last month.
Widespread cosy ties between members of Mr Kishida’s governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), many of them belonging to Mr Abe’s faction, and the South Korean-born church have surfaced since Mr Abe was fatally shot while giving a campaign speech in July.
The suspect arrested at the scene allegedly told police he killed Mr Abe because of his apparent link to the church. In a letter seen by The Associated Press and social media posts believed to be his, the suspected gunman said he believed his mother’s large donations to the church had ruined his life.
Some Japanese have expressed understanding, even sympathy, as details of the man’s life emerged, creating deep implications for the political party that has governed Japan virtually uninterrupted since World War II.
The Unification Church, which was founded in South Korea in 1954 and came to Japan a decade later, has built close ties with a host of conservative lawmakers on their shared interests of opposing communism.
Since the 1980s, the church has faced accusations of problematic recruiting and religious sales in Japan, which added to criticisms to Mr Kishida’s party for keeping ties despite knowing of legal disputes and other problems.
Mr Kishida shuffled his cabinet earlier in August to purge seven ministers linked to the groups. Among them was Mr Abe’s younger brother Nobuo Kishi, who acknowledged that church followers volunteered on his election campaigns. Dozens of LDP members have since acknowledged their ties to the church and related organisations.
He said at the news conference that he has instructed LDP Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi to survey the party fully and compile compliance measures. Mr Kishida said he is rushing the effort but it may take time because the review will span decades.
Mr Kishida apologised over the loss of public trust in politics because of the scandal and his lack of explanation for hosting a state funeral for Mr Abe, one of most divisive leaders in Japan’s postwar history.
The decision to hold a state funeral on September 27 has split public opinion.
The only other state funeral held in postwar Japan was for former prime minister Shigeru Yoshida, who signed the San Francisco Treaty that restored ties with the Allies and brought about the end of the US occupation.
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Finland's Fortum seeks 'a few billion' euros from government, chairman says
HELSINKI, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Troubled Finnish utility Fortum is asking its government for a loan worth "a few billion" euros, its chairman told a newspaper, after a surge in European power prices pushed up the cost of collateral it is obliged to hold.
Fortum said on Monday it was in talks with the Finnish state, its main owner, on how to secure the company's liquidity needs until hedged power contracts go to delivery and collaterals are released.
The company prefers a loan over guarantees from the Finnish government to be able to pay for the skyhigh collaterals that have rapidly risen due to exceptionally high electricity prices.
"We are applying for a loan," Chairman Veli-Matti Reinikkala told Finland's largest daily Helsingin Sanomat in an interview, adding "a few billion" euros would suffice.
He assured there was "no risk" that the company would not pay the loan back.
"We don't have any profitability issues. This is solely a liquidity problem, and hopefully a short-term one," he said.
The jump in power prices driven by a drop in gas flows from Russia since its invasion of Ukraine has put heavy strain on utilities including Fortum's German unit Uniper, which has sought a multi-billion euro government bailout.
Finland's government has yet to decide on the funding for Fortum, but Prime Minister Sanna Marin said the matter would be discussed during the government's two-day budget talks which began on Wednesday.
"Generally speaking, the government is on top of the situation and dealing with it. Unfortunately this is not about Fortum only but also other energy companies," Marin told reporters.
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday that Brussels was preparing energy market reforms to address the problems.
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In an unfinished part of his basement, 95-year-old Richard Soller zips around a makeshift track encircling boxes full of medals he’s won for track and field and long-distance running.
Without a hint of breathlessness, he says: “I can put in miles down here.”
Steps away is an expensive leather recliner he bought when he retired from Procter & Gamble with visions of relaxing into old age. He proudly proclaims he’s never used it; he’s been too busy training for competitions, such as the National Senior Games.
Soller, who lives near Cincinnati, has achieved an enviable goal chased by humans since ancient times: Staying healthy and active in late life. It's a goal that eludes so many that growing old is often associated with getting frail and sick. But scientists are trying to change that — and tackle one of humanity's biggest challenges — through a little known but flourishing field of aging research called cellular senescence.
It’s built upon the idea that cells eventually stop dividing and enter a “senescent” state in response to various forms of damage. The body removes most of them. But others linger like zombies. They aren't dead. But as the Mayo Clinic's Nathan LeBrasseur puts it, they can harm nearby cells like moldy fruit corrupting a fruit bowl. They accumulate in older bodies, which mounting evidence links to an array of age-related conditions such as dementia, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis.
But scientists wonder: Can the zombie cell buildup be stopped?
“The ability to understand aging – and the potential to intervene in the fundamental biology of aging – is truly the greatest opportunity we have had, maybe in history, to transform human health,” LeBrasseur says. Extending the span of healthy years impacts “quality of life, public health, socioeconomics, the whole shebang.”
With the number of people 65 or older expected to double globally by 2050, cellular senescence is “a very hot topic,” says Viviana Perez Montes of the National Institutes of Health. According to an Associated Press analysis of an NIH research database, there have been around 11,500 total projects involving cellular senescence since 1985, far more in recent years.
About 100 companies, plus academic teams, are exploring drugs to target senescent cells. And research offers tantalizing clues that people may be able to help tame senescence themselves using the strategy favored by Soller: exercise.
Although no one thinks senescence holds the key to super long life, Tufts University researcher Christopher Wiley hopes for a day when fewer people suffer fates like his late grandfather, who had Alzheimer's and stared back at him as if he were a stranger.
“I’m not looking for the fountain of youth,” Wiley says. “I’m looking for the fountain of not being sick when I’m older.”
MORTAL CELLS
Leonard Hayflick, the scientist who discovered cellular senescence in 1960, is himself vital at 94. He's a professor of anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, and continues to write, present and speak on the topic.
At his seaside home in Sonoma County, he leafs through a binder filled with his research, including two early papers that have been cited an astonishing number of times by other researchers. Before him on the living room table are numerous copies of his seminal book, “How and Why We Age,” in various languages.
This scientific renown didn’t come easily. He discovered cellular senescence by accident, cultivating human fetal cells for a project on cancer biology and noticing they stopped dividing after about 50 population doublings. This wasn’t a big surprise; cell cultures often failed because of things like contamination. What was surprising was that others also stopped dividing at the same point. The phenomenon was later called “the Hayflick limit.”
The finding, Hayflick says, challenged “60-year-old dogma” that normal human cells could replicate forever. A paper he authored with colleague Paul Moorhead was rejected by a prominent scientific journal, and Hayflick faced a decade of ridicule after it was published in Experimental Cell Research in 1961.
“It followed the usual pattern of major discoveries in science, where the discoverer is first ridiculed and then somebody says, ‘Well, maybe it works’ … then it becomes accepted to some extent, then becomes more widely accepted.”
At this point, he says, “the field that I discovered has skyrocketed to an extent that’s beyond my ability to keep up with it.”
ZOMBIE BUILDUP
Scientists are careful to note that cell senescence can be useful. It likely evolved at least in part to suppress the development of cancer by limiting the capacity of cells to keep dividing. It happens throughout our lives, triggered by things like DNA damage and the shortening of telomeres, structures that cap and protect the ends of chromosomes. Senescent cells play a role in wound healing, embryonic development and childbirth.
Problems can arise when they build up.
“When you’re young, your immune system is able to recognize these senescent cells and eliminate them,” says Perez, who studies cell biology and aging. “But when we start getting old … the activity of our immune system also gets diminished, so we’re losing the capacity to eliminate them.”
Senescent cells resist apoptosis, or programmed cell death, and characteristically get big and flat, with enlarged nuclei. They release a blend of molecules, some of which can trigger inflammation and harm other cells — and paradoxically can also stimulate the growth of malignant cells and fuel cancer, LeBrasseur says.
Scientists link some disorders to buildups of senescent cells in certain spots. For example, research suggests certain senescent cells that accumulate in lungs exposed to cigarette smoke may contribute substantially to airway inflammation in COPD.
The idea that one process could be at the root of numerous diseases is powerful to many scientists.
It inspired Dr. James Kirkland to move on from geriatric medicine. “I got tired of prescribing better wheelchairs and incontinence devices,” says Kirkland, a professor of medicine at Mayo considered a pioneer of the senescence renaissance. “I wanted to do something more fundamental that could alleviate the suffering that I saw.”
DRUG TARGETS
That quest leads him and others to develop medicines.
Experimental drugs designed to selectively clear senescent cells have been dubbed “senolytics,” and Mayo holds patents on some. In mice, they've been shown to be effective at delaying, preventing or easing several age-related disorders.
Possible benefits for people are just emerging. Kirkland, LeBrasseur and colleagues did a pilot study providing initial evidence that patients with a serious lung disease might be helped by pairing a chemotherapy drug with a plant pigment. Another pilot study found the same combination reduced the burden of senescent cells in the fat tissue of people with diabetic kidney disease.
At least a dozen clinical trials with senolytics are now testing things like whether they can help control Alzheimer’s progression, improve joint health in osteoarthritis and improve skeletal health. Some teams are trying to develop “senomorphics” that can suppress detrimental effects of molecules emitted by senescent cells. And a Japanese team has tested a vaccine on mice specific to a protein found in senescent cells, allowing for their targeted elimination.
Scientists say serious work to improve human health could also bring fringe benefits – like reducing skin wrinkling.
“I tell my lab that if we find a drug that clears the bad senescent cells and not the good ones and we cure Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s and osteoporosis and macular degeneration, it would be wonderful,” says Judith Campisi, a biogerontology expert at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. “But if we cure wrinkles, we’ll be rich, and I’ll never have to write another grant.”
Amid the buzz, some companies market dietary supplements as senolytics. But researchers warn they haven’t been shown to work or proven safe.
And there’s still much to learn about clinical trial drugs.
“We know that senolytics work pretty well in mice,” Wiley says. “We’re still really figuring out the basics with people.”
‘MOST PROMISING TOOL’
Today, LeBrasseur, who directs a center on aging at Mayo, says exercise is “the most promising tool that we have” for good functioning in late life, and its power extends to our cells.
Research suggests it counters the buildup of senescent ones, helping the immune system clear them and counteracting the molecular damage that can spark the senescence process.
A study LeBrasseur led last year provided the first evidence in humans that exercise can significantly reduce indicators, found in the bloodstream, of the burden of senescent cells in the body. After a 12-week aerobics, resistance and balance training program, researchers found that older adults had lowered indicators of senescence and better muscle strength, physical function and reported health. A recently-published research review collects even more evidence — in animals and humans — for exercise as a senescence-targeting therapy.
While such studies aren't well-known outside scientific circles, many older adults intuitively equate exercise with youthfulness.
Rancher Mike Gale, 81, installed a track and field throwing circle on his sprawling property in Petaluma, California, so he and some friends could practice throwing the discus and other equipment. Against a backdrop of rolling green hills, they twist, step, throw and retrieve over and over again.
“I’d like to be competing in my 90s,” Gale says. “Why not?”
Soller asked himself a similar question long ago.
After a torn hamstring stopped him from running track in high school, he fell into an unhealthy lifestyle in early adulthood, smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. But he and his wife Jean quit cold turkey when their daughter Mary came along.
He started running again just before turning 50, and since then has run in races across the U.S., including two marathons, and participated in decades of Senior Games competitions. In May, Soller joined 12,000 like-minded athletes in Florida for the latest national games in the Fort Lauderdale area – winning five medals to add to his collection of 1,500 prizes.
His daughter filmed his first-place finish in the 200-meter dash from the stands, cheering: “Go, Dad, go!”
Soller says exercise keeps him fit enough to handle what comes his way – including an Alzheimer's diagnosis for his wife of 62 years. They sometimes stroll neighborhood streets together, holding hands.
“Do as much as you can,” he says. “That should be the goal for anyone to stay healthy.”
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Video journalist Angie Wang contributed to this story.
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Sunny and Hot
Highs back in the 90s
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) -- We’re going to see plenty of sunshine for the rest of our Wednesday. Highs will range from the upper 80s in the east with low to mid 90s the farther west you go. The wind should stay fairly light, as well. Overnight, we’ll stay clear with lows dropping back into the upper 50s and low 60s.
Thursday is looking like a great day for the start of the South Dakota State Fair! There will be plenty of sunshine but it will be warm with highs in the 80s and 90s, especially around Huron. Friday looks to remain in the 80s across the area as a cold front moves through. We’ll notice a temperature decrease from Thursday to Friday in western South Dakota and then everyone will feel it on Saturday. That’s when high temperatures will fall into the upper 70s and low 80s. We’ll stay nice on Sunday with slightly warmer temps.
Looking ahead to next week, we’ll see lots of sunshine and we’ll be staying dry. Highs will be in the 80s, for the most part. There’s one very slight chance of rain coming up next Wednesday, but right now, those rain chances are looking pretty slim.
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‘I did act out of character’: JCPS father apologizes for school bus outburst, brings awareness to bullying
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Only one day after cell phone video showed him boarding a Jefferson County Public School bus and threatening the students, the man responsible apologized for his actions.
“I wanted to clear up everything that was said and apologize to everybody that I offended, all the kids and parents,” Delvantae King said. “I want to apologize to JCPS. I want to apologize to the school bus driver also, because at the end of the day, I did act out of character.”
King contacted WAVE News Tuesday afternoon, looking to provide context as to why he went on the bus and yelled at the people on it.
He said his 9-year-old daughter has been a victim of bullying for several months, beginning in the spring of 2022. He said she’s been verbally teased, had things thrown at her and been physically attacked.
On Thursday, King said she was jumped and came home with a lump on her head.
That was the final straw.
“I let my emotions and my frustration and anger get the best of me,” he said. “The only reason any of this transpired is due to bullying. And people don’t talk to their kids about bullying. And when you done reached out and keep trying and trying and trying to mediate something, and nobody’s doing nothing, what else are you left to do?”
King said he’s brought the issues up to his daughter’s school, Carter Elementary, and has been told it would be addressed. He said he’s also attempted to resolve the situation with the bully’s parents, but that hasn’t worked either.
In his frustration, King waited for his daughter at the bus stop Friday, climbed up the stairs and told the students, in a profanity-ridden address, he would “flip this whole bus” if any of the students touched his daughter again.
“I just feel like it’s just so much,” he said. “It is. It’s just too much. Like, I was even starting thinking about home schooling my kids at this point. That’s not even fair for my child, for my kids, to even have do that.”
Carter Elementary’s Principal Jamie Wyman sent the following email to parents Friday:
August 26, 2022
Dear Families of Bus #2047 Students,
I wanted to let you know about an incident that happened on your student’s bus this afternoon. While at a bus stop, an adult and a girl boarded Bus #2047 threatening the students on the bus. The bus driver ushered the two non-Carter Elementary people off the bus but they got in a vehicle and followed the bus. Students reported seeing the occupants of the vehicle display a gun while following Bus #2047.
Police and JCPS Security were notified and the bus driver was told to return to our school and not make any more stops. We had students wait on the bus until LMPD and JCPS Security arrived. They are investigating this incident.
I wanted to thank all of you for agreeing to come pick up your child from school. We feel this was the safest and best way for your children to get home today. I also want to thank the bus driver for his quick action and for stepping up to keep all of our kids safe.
I understand that your child may be suffering some trauma from this incident. I hope that you will discuss what happened with your child and reach out to our counselor who will be available to talk to students on Monday.
The safety of our students and staff is our top priority at Carter Elementary. Feel free to contact me at 502-485-8225.
Sincerely,
Jamie Wyman
King told WAVE News he never followed the bus nor displayed a gun to anybody.
“I don’t have guns,” he said. “I don’t follow school buses. I don’t wave guns at kids, at children. That is false. That is false. They’re down-tearing my character, making me seem like a monster that I’m not. I’m just a father that was worried about my child.”
Ultimately, King knows his anger got the best of him and distorted his message. However, he wants people to know the message came out like it did, because he loves his kids.
“I shouldn’t have did that,” he said. “I shouldn’t have did that, but for my child, if that’s the length I’ve got to go... I don’t physically want to harm nobody. I’m not here to do that. But verbally, vocally, I’m going to say what’s got to be said so you understand to leave my child alone.”
King told WAVE News he wants to do something for the children on the bus to prove how sincere his apology is.
WAVE News reached out to JCPS to see if there have been any formal bullying complaints filed at Carter Elementary. A district spokesperson said an open records request would need to be submitted to release that information.
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NEW YORK – Los Angeles Dodgers lefty Clayton Kershaw is set to come off the injured list and rejoin the rotation Thursday to face the New York Mets.
Kershaw hasn’t pitched since Aug. 4, when he exited a start against San Francisco because of lower back pain. The 34-year-old three-time NL Cy Young Award winner spent five weeks on the IL with a back injury earlier this season.
Kershaw felt good following a bullpen session Monday is ready to return in a game at Citi Field between NL division leaders.
Manager Dave Roberts said inserting Kershaw into the rotation Thursday will allow the Dodgers to give Dustin May an extra day of rest before his third start following Tommy John surgery. May, who underwent the procedure in May 2021, is 1-1 with a 1.64 ERA and 13 strikeouts in 11 innings.
Kershaw is 7-3 with a 2.64 ERA in 15 starts. He tossed seven perfect innings before being pulled against the Minnesota Twins in his season debut April 13 and carried a perfect game into the eighth inning against the Los Angeles Angels on July 15.
Roberts said the Dodgers, who had hoped to go to a six-man rotation before Tony Gonsolin went on the IL on Monday with a right forearm strain, would stick with a five-man rotation for now.
“But it wouldn’t surprise me if we reinstated someone at some point to give guys an extra day,” Roberts said.
The Dodgers have the best record in the majors.
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday his ruling party will cut ties with the Unification Church following a widening scandal triggered by former leader Shinzo Abe’s assassination last month, and apologized for causing the loss of public trust in politics.
Widespread cozy ties between members of Kishida’s governing Liberal Democratic Party, many of them belonging to Abe’s faction, and the South Korean-born church have surfaced since Abe was shot to death while giving a campaign speech in July.
The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagani, who was arrested at the scene, allegedly told police he killed Abe because of his apparent link to the church. In a letter seen by The Associated Press and social media posts believed to be his, Yamagani said he believed his mother’s large donations to the church had ruined his life.
Some Japanese have expressed understanding, even sympathy, as details of the man’s life emerged, creating deep implications for the political party that has governed Japan virtually uninterrupted since World War II.
While religious groups must abide by law, “politicians are strictly required to be careful about groups with social problems,” Kishida said. Members of his Cabinet and other key posts have agreed to review their past links and cut ties with the church.
“As president of the LDP, I honestly express my apology” for causing the public’s doubts and concerns over the continuing revelations in media reports about the party’s extensive ties to the church, Kishida said.
The Unification Church, which was founded in South Korea in 1954 and came to Japan a decade later, has built close ties with a host of conservative lawmakers over their shared interests of opposing communism. Abe’s grandfather and former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi was a key figure who helped the church’s political unit in Tokyo.
Since the 1980s, the church has faced accusations of problematic recruiting, sales of religious items and donations, which often lead to financial strains on the followers’ families and, according to experts, mental health of adherents’ children. The issues led to the government’s decision to cut ties with the church.
Abe sent a video message last year to the Universal Peace Federation, an international group affiliated with the church, which experts say may have motivated the suspect in Abe’s shooting. Abe had praised the federation’s co-founder Hak Ja Han Moon, who is also head of the church, for her effort in promoting traditional family values.
Experts and cult watchers also say that the church has promoted its key agendas such as the opposition to women’s advancement and same-sex marriage to influence policy.
Kishida shuffled his Cabinet earlier in August to purge seven ministers linked to the church. Among them was Abe’s younger brother Nobuo Kishi, who acknowledged that church followers volunteered in his election campaign. Dozens of LDP members have since come forward with their ties to the church and related organizations.
Kishida said at the news conference that he has instructed LDP Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi to survey the party fully over any other members’ ties to the church. Kishida said he is rushing the effort but it may take time because the review will span decades.
Kishida apologized for the loss of public trust because of the scandal and his lack of explanation for organizing a state funeral for Abe, one of most divisive leaders in Japan’s postwar history.
The state funeral scheduled for Sept. 27 has split public opinion. The only other state funeral in postwar Japan was for former Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, who signed the San Francisco Treaty that restored ties with the Allies and ended the U.S. occupation of Japan.
Kishida’s Cabinet last week allocated at least a 250 million yen ($1.8 million) budget to invite about 6,000 guests for the funeral at the Budokan arena in Tokyo.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A man who was beaten and held down by Arkansas law enforcement officers during an arrest that was caught on a widely circulated video has filed a federal lawsuit against the officers.
Attorneys for Randal Worcester filed the lawsuit Monday over the Aug. 21 arrest outside a convenience store in the small town of Mulberry that’s prompted state and federal criminal investigations. A bystander’s video shows one officer hold Worcester down as a sheriff’s deputy repeatedly punches and knees the 27-year-old man in the head before grabbing his hair and slamming him against the pavement. At the same time, a third officer also kneed Worcester repeatedly.
All three officers — Mulberry Officer Thell Riddle and Crawford County deputies Zachary King and Levi White — are white. Worcester is also white, according to jail booking information.
Worcester’s lawsuit accuses the officers, all of whom have been suspended, of violating his constitutional rights. The lawsuit also names the city of Mulberry, its police chief, Crawford County and its sheriff as defendants.
“Any reasonable law enforcement officer should have known that his conduct violated clearly established federal law and was a direct violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution,” the lawsuit said.
Mulberry is a community of about 1,600 people that’s roughly 140 miles (220 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock, near the Oklahoma state line.
Crawford County Sheriff Jimmy Damante has said Worcester was being questioned for threatening a clerk at a convenience store in nearby Alma. Damante said Worcester had tackled one of the deputies and punched him in the head before what is seen on the bystander’s video. The deputy suffered a concussion, Damante has said.
Damante has said that before the arrest, Worcester handed over a knife and gave the officers a false name.
An attorney for the two deputies said he was not aware of the lawsuit.
“However, I will vigorously defend the lawsuit like I do every lawsuit against my law enforcement clients,” Russell Wood said in an email.
Damante and Mulberry Police Chief Shannon Gregory did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment Tuesday afternoon.
Policing experts have said that the video of Worcester’s arrest raises red flags about the officers’ actions, saying that blows to the head amount to a potentially deadly use of force that’s only justified when someone poses a current and serious threat.
Worcester was treated at a hospital before being jailed on charges including second-degree battery and resisting arrest. He was released the following day on a $15,000 bond. The lawsuit said Worcester has permanent injuries from the arrest and that he will need continued medical treatment for injuries to his face, body and head.
Worcester’s lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages, as well as money for medical bills and lost wages. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-lawsuit-filed-over-violent-arrest-outside-arkansas-store/ | 2022-08-31T09:55:58Z | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-lawsuit-filed-over-violent-arrest-outside-arkansas-store/ | false |
LONDON (AP) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, says that “just by existing,” she and her husband Prince Harry “upset the dynamic of the hierarchy” when they were in the U.K.
The former actress made headlines in Britain on Tuesday with comments made during an interview with U.S. magazine The Cut. In the interview published Monday, the duchess said it’s not easy to “forgive” when asked if there was room for forgiveness between her, Britain’s royal family and her own family. She also referred to Harry’s strained ties with his father, Prince Charles.
“I think forgiveness is really important. It takes a lot more energy to not forgive,” she said. “But it takes a lot of effort to forgive. I’ve really made an active effort, especially knowing that I can say anything.”
Meghan, 41, and Harry, 37, have been in a tense relationship with Britain’s royal family since they stepped away from royal duties and left the U.K. in early 2020, citing what they said were the unbearable intrusions and racist attitudes of the British media.
Since their move to California, where they are now settled with their two young children, they have publicly discussed their unhappiness with the royal family. In a bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey last year, Meghan spoke about racism within the monarchy and Harry said Charles had stopped taking his calls.
Asked about Meghan’s privacy lawsuit against a British tabloid, The Cut — part of New York Magazine — said the duchess spoke about the terrible impact of “toxic tabloid culture” on both her and Harry’s families.
“Harry said to me, ‘I lost my dad in this process.’ It doesn’t have to be the same for them as it was for me, but that’s his decision,” she told the magazine.
A spokeswoman for Meghan later clarified that the duchess was referring to losing her own estranged father, Thomas Markle, and saying that she hopes this does not happen to Harry and his father.
The couple have signed deals with Spotify and Netflix, and the first offering, a podcast featuring Meghan as a host in conversation with celebrities, has just launched.
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Follow all AP stories on Britain’s royal family at https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-meghan-speaks-about-her-efforts-forgiving-royal-family/ | 2022-08-31T09:56:12Z | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-meghan-speaks-about-her-efforts-forgiving-royal-family/ | true |
Powerful New Zealand all-rounder Colin de Grandhomme has announced his retirement from international cricket.
The 36-year-old has farewelled the international game after discussions with New Zealand Cricket this week led to him being released from his central contract.
De Grandhomme did his best work in the Test format, compiling 1432 runs at the average of 37.80 from 29 matches, including two centuries, and taking 49 wickets at the average of 32.95.
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The Zimbabwe-born Kiwi was a member of the side that beat India to win the inaugural World Test Championship in 2021.
"I accept that I am not getting any younger and that the training is getting harder, particularly with the injuries," de Grandhomme said.
"I also have a growing family and am trying to understand what my future looks like post-cricket.
"All of this has been on my mind over the past few weeks.
"I've been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to play for the Black Caps since debuting in 2012, and I'm proud of my international career, but I feel this is the right time to finish."
De Grandhomme also played 45 one-day internationals, registering 742 runs at the average of 26.50 and capturing 30 wickets at the economy rate of 4.76.
He played a handy role as the Kiwis reached the No.1 world ranking in 50-over cricket and qualified for the final of the 2019 ODI World Cup.
De Grandhomme also played 41 T20 internationals, scoring 505 runs at the strike rate of 138.35 and taking 12 wickets at the economy rate of 8.61.
"I've loved being part of this team over the past decade and am grateful for the experiences we've shared together," de Grandhomme said.
"I've made many lasting friendships with teammates, coaching staff and opponents, and will treasure the memories for the rest of my life."
For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here! | https://wwos.nine.com.au/cricket/colin-de-grandhomme-retirement-new-zealand-blackcaps-news/1a15db8c-b977-452b-aa6f-5c3b5dbcca10 | 2022-08-31T09:56:26Z | https://wwos.nine.com.au/cricket/colin-de-grandhomme-retirement-new-zealand-blackcaps-news/1a15db8c-b977-452b-aa6f-5c3b5dbcca10 | false |
On Monday night, a man was shot close to his home in the northern city of Sakhnin. The circumstances of the incident were unclear. Passersby called emergency services for help.
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Abd Al Rahman Raya was driving on his way to visit this father when he received the alert on his communications device. He realized that the incident was only a few hundred meters away and immediately changed direction to make his way to the scene as quickly as possible.
Upon arriving at the location and making sure that the scene was safe for him to approach and treat his patient, Abd saw a man in his 20s who had suffered three gunshot wounds in his left leg and one in his back. The victim was being attended to by a man who described himself as a family doctor and had already started applying a tourniquet.
Abd assisted the doctor and applied bandages on the man’s numerous wounds. A few minutes later, Naser Majid, another United Hatzalah EMT who works for a private ambulance company, arrived in his ambulance. He joined in the efforts to save the man and then proceeded to evacuate the victim to Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, where he was admitted in serious condition.
Abd reflected after the incident: “Shootings like this one were once virtually unheard of in Sakhnin, but recently they’ve become a relatively common occurrence, as they have in our society as a whole. To the best of my knowledge, this is the 8th case in the past few months. More needs to be done to stamp out this violence but in the meanwhile, I will continue to do what I can to help save lives.”
Naser added: “I come from Dir El Asad, where these types of incidents are unfortunately extremely frequent. It is a horrible phenomenon. Fortunately, we see that the police have recently invested more resources to root out this phenomenon from our society. I thank God that, in spite of the violence, there are many individuals like Abd, the doctor, and myself, who are ready to drop whatever they are doing in order to save lives.” | https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/359020 | 2022-08-31T09:57:13Z | https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/359020 | false |
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