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Nationals first. Lane Thomas doubles to deep left field. Joey Meneses singles to center field. Lane Thomas scores. Luke Voit called out on strikes. Nelson Cruz singles to right field. Joey Meneses to third. Luis Garcia grounds out to shallow infield, Ken Waldichuk to Dermis Garcia. Nelson Cruz to second. Cesar Hernandez strikes out on a foul tip.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Nationals 1, Athletics 0.
Athletics fifth. Shea Langeliers homers to center field. Cody Thomas singles to left field. Nick Allen grounds out to shallow infield. Cody Thomas out at second. Cal Stevenson singles to second base. Tony Kemp flies out to deep center field to Lane Thomas.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Athletics 1, Nationals 1.
Athletics seventh. Cristian Pache pinch-hitting for Cody Thomas. Cristian Pache walks. Nick Allen out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Jake McGee to Luis Garcia. Cristian Pache to second. Chad Pinder pinch-hitting for Cal Stevenson. Chad Pinder strikes out swinging. Tony Kemp singles to right field. Cristian Pache scores. Sean Murphy singles to right field. Tony Kemp to third. Fielding error by Joey Meneses. Seth Brown singles to center field. Sean Murphy to second. Tony Kemp scores. Dermis Garcia called out on strikes.
2 runs, 3 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Athletics 3, Nationals 1.
Nationals seventh. Lane Thomas pops out to shallow infield to Dermis Garcia. Joey Meneses singles to center field. Luke Voit singles to deep left field. Joey Meneses to third. Nelson Cruz reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Luke Voit out at second. Joey Meneses scores. Luis Garcia strikes out swinging.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Athletics 3, Nationals 2.
Nationals eighth. Cesar Hernandez hit by pitch. Alex Call called out on strikes. Riley Adams strikes out swinging. Cesar Hernandez steals second. Ildemaro Vargas singles to shallow left field. Cesar Hernandez scores. Lane Thomas walks. Joey Meneses strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Athletics 3, Nationals 3.
Athletics tenth. Seth Brown strikes out swinging. Stephen Vogt pinch-hitting for Dermis Garcia. Stephen Vogt flies out to center field to Lane Thomas. Vimael Machin walks. Shea Langeliers doubles to deep right center field. Vimael Machin scores. Sheldon Neuse scores. Cristian Pache walks. Nick Allen called out on strikes.
2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Athletics 5, Nationals 3.
Nationals tenth. Josh Palacios pinch-hitting for Alex Call. Josh Palacios grounds out to first base, Stephen Vogt to Norge Ruiz. Cesar Hernandez to third. Keibert Ruiz pinch-hitting for Riley Adams. Keibert Ruiz singles to right field. Cesar Hernandez scores. Ildemaro Vargas strikes out swinging. Lane Thomas walks. Keibert Ruiz to second. Joey Meneses homers to center field. Lane Thomas scores. CJ Abrams scores.
4 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Nationals 7, Athletics 5. | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Oakland-Washington-Runs-17414082.php | 2022-09-02T00:41:39Z | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Oakland-Washington-Runs-17414082.php | false |
WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 1, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in Shreveport has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Central Shelby County in eastern Texas...
* Until 945 PM CDT.
* At 641 PM CDT, trained weather spotters reported thunderstorms
producing heavy rain in Various area around Center are seeing
water flowing over the roads. . Between 2 and 4 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are
possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is already occurring.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Trained spotters reported.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Center and James.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
The National Weather Service in Amarillo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Texas County in the Panhandle of Oklahoma...
Northwestern Hansford County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Northeastern Sherman County in the Panhandle of Texas...
* Until 730 PM CDT.
* At 641 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Goodwell, or
14 miles southwest of Guymon, moving south at 5 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Hail damage to vehicles is expected.
* Locations impacted include...
Goodwell and Texhoma.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern
Hemphill County through 715 PM CDT...
At 644 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5
miles northeast of Lake Marvin, or 17 miles east of Canadian, moving
southeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of northeastern
Hemphill County.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3577 10011 3602 10016 3606 10006 3606 10002
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TIME...MOT...LOC 2344Z 330DEG 12KT 3593 10008
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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The photo hit the internet like a mic drop.
When the Justice Department rejected former President Donald Trump's call for a special master in his records dispute, it included a photo of top secret documents splayed across a carpeted floor in Mar-a-Lago — two months after Trump's team certified all such documents had been turned over.
The photo, which many observers called unprecedented, immediately drove discussions about Trump's legal problems into overdrive.
To Orin Kerr, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the jaw-drop-inducing photo and filing are the latest steps in an extraordinary sequence, with the U.S. government arguing about national secrets with its former chief executive.
"This is an unusual response, but that's to be expected," Kerr said. "It was filed in reply to an unusual request by a judge to respond to a very unusual filing by Trump."
The photo was staged for dramatic effect, Trump's team says
In their own response filed late Wednesday, Trump's legal team called the Justice Department's filing "extraordinary."
They accuse the government of "criminalizing a former President's possession of personal and Presidential records in a secure setting."
Trump's team also homed in on the image of the documents, with attorney Lindsey Halligan writing that the Justice Department "gratuitously included a photograph of allegedly classified materials, pulled from a container and spread across the floor for dramatic effect."
As photographs go, the FBI image doesn't look particularly well-composed, with papers scattered across the carpet. But those papers' bright yellow and red markings, their "TOP SECRET" coversheets, make the randomness of the scene more striking: here is hard-won information that's highly compartmentalized by the government, lying on the floor of a private office in Florida.
"In some instances, even the FBI counterintelligence personnel and DOJ attorneys conducting the review required additional clearances" before they could examine some folders' contents, the Justice Department said.
What about those abbreviations?
The photo quickly sparked intense interest into the arcane abbreviations that label America's national secrets.
One of the most scrutinized markings states that several folders' contents are marked "TOP SECRET//SCI" and restricted "UP TO HCS-P/SI/TK." Here's a quick breakdown of those terms:
HCS-P - HUMINT Control System Product, using the acronym for human intelligence. According to the office of the Director of National Intelligence's classification manual, "HCS protects the most sensitive HUMINT operations and information acquired from clandestine and/or uniquely sensitive HUMINT sources, methods, and certain technical collection capabilities, technologies, and methods linked to or supportive of HUMINT."
SCI - Sensitive Compartmented Information, a broad term for intelligence information that requires a formal system to control its distribution.
SI - Special Intelligence, or more specifically, "technical and intelligence information derived from the monitoring of foreign communications signals by other than the intended recipients" — the type of work done by the National Security Agency, for instance.
TK - Talent Keyhole, a long-held designation that refers to classified spy satellite data.
Those terms are merely on the cover sheets. The internal documents themselves were redacted, along with their detailed compartmentalized designations.
Which case is this again?
While Trump's legal embroilments are extensive, this particular case dates to Aug. 22, when the former president asked a federal district judge in Florida to appoint a special master to review all the materials taken from his home.
Trump is the plaintiff in the case; the defendant is the United States of America.
"Politics cannot be allowed to impact the administration of justice," Trump's team said in its initial filing, calling him "the clear frontrunner" in the 2024 presidential race, "should he decide to run."
In that filing, Trump sought to block the Justice Department from reviewing the materials until a special master is appointed. He also asked the judge to make the government provide a "sufficiently detailed receipt" of seized items, and "promptly return anything taken that is outside of the search warrant's scope.
The judge in the case is Aileen M. Cannon, whom Trump appointed in 2020. She is herself a veteran of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Southern Florida, which is now contesting the case.
"In a normal case, a judge would find DOJ's response persuasive and would be done with it," Kerr said. "It's possible that this particular judge will try to give more to Trump, but my guess is that it won't matter much: Whether a special master is appointed probably doesn't make much difference to the case."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kcbx.org/npr-top-news/npr-top-news/2022-09-01/why-the-dojs-photo-of-top-secret-documents-held-by-trump-matters | 2022-09-02T00:47:24Z | https://www.kcbx.org/npr-top-news/npr-top-news/2022-09-01/why-the-dojs-photo-of-top-secret-documents-held-by-trump-matters | false |
One of three suspects in the deadly shooting of a 27-year-old man at a Mobile apartment complex two years ago was found not guilty of the killing Thursday, according to court records.
A Mobile County Circuit Court jury found 25-year-old Mobile resident Rudolph Caver not guilty of intentional murder in the slaying of 27-year-old De’Varea Rashad Powell, records showed.
Powell was shot and killed in June 2020 at the Summer Place Apartments at 557 Azalea Rd., and then his body was moved to a wooded area on Shelton Beach Road, police said at the time.
Two other suspects in Powell’s murder -- Gary Hudson and Raquise Murphy -- are awaiting trial. | https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2022/09/suspect-in-fatal-2020-mobile-apartment-shooting-found-not-guilty-of-murder.html | 2022-09-02T00:49:24Z | https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2022/09/suspect-in-fatal-2020-mobile-apartment-shooting-found-not-guilty-of-murder.html | true |
ATLANTA — When Atlanta Medical Center closes its doors, the metro area will be losing not only an emergency room in the heart of the city, but one of only two level 1 trauma centers.
The second such trauma center in the Atlanta area is at Grady -- less than two miles away from AMC.
"A lot of that volume from AMC, 55,000 visits a year is going to end up in the ER here, the ER at Midtown Emory, the ER at Piedmont Atlanta, and add to already strained capacity at the ERs citywide," said Grady Health System CEO and President John Haupert.
He predicts when AMC closes on November 1, emergency room wait times will increase, especially for lower-level issues. Such issues could include people visiting an ER for flu symptoms, a possible cold, or needing some sort of medical test.
Ideally, such patients would go to a primary care doctor or urgent care, but Haupert said too often they head to an ER instead for various reasons.
"Particularly those individuals that are uninsured may not have an option of a primary care practice. But we do in this country, in general, have a lot of what I would term inappropriate use of emergency departments for doctors visits that are really better off in a primary care office," Haupert said.
As level 1 trauma centers, by definition according to the American Trauma Society, Grady and AMC are looked to as regional resources for comprehensive trauma care. They are a capable of providing care for every aspect of a traumatic injury and can provide 24-hour in-house general surgeons from a wide range of specialties. That includes emergency medicine and critical care. They can also incorporate teaching and research to improve trauma care.
Outside of Atlanta, there are only three other level 1 trauma centers in Georgia, which are located in Macon, Savannah, and Augusta.
"Of course, one less is more intensity for the others but from what I'm able to assess there is the capacity to absorb that market-wide," Haupert said.
He added that thankfully he believes Grady is currently equipped and staffed to take care of its current trauma patients and able to also care for trauma patients who in the past would have headed to AMC.
Trauma patients can include a wide range of injuries from gunshot wounds to injuries from a serious auto accident, burns from a fire, traumatic brain injury, or other serious issues requiring an immediate higher level of care.
"I think that is important for the public to understand because they need to be reassured that this will not disrupt the trauma program, the burn program, the stroke program, the truly emergent services the community has come to rely on us for," Haupert said. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/grady-trauma-center-atlanta-medical-center-closure-impacts/85-df16f0a5-7b23-4024-8c2d-dabc6e95547b | 2022-09-02T00:53:05Z | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/grady-trauma-center-atlanta-medical-center-closure-impacts/85-df16f0a5-7b23-4024-8c2d-dabc6e95547b | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is seeking information from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich about his communications with senior advisers to then-President Donald Trump in the days leading up to the 2021 attack on the Capitol.
The committee’s chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, wrote in a letter sent to Gingrich on Thursday that the panel has obtained emails Gingrich exchanged with Trump’s associates about television advertisements that “repeated and relied upon false claims about fraud in the 2020 election” and were designed to cast doubt on the voting after it had already taken place.
Thompson wrote that Gingrich also appeared to be involved in Trump’s scheme to appoint fake electors and emailed Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, about those efforts on the evening of Jan. 6, after Trump supporters had attacked the Capitol.
“Information obtained by the Select Committee suggests that you provided detailed directives about the television advertisements that perpetuated false claims about fraud in the 2020 election, that you sought ways to expand the reach of this messaging, and that you were likely in direct conversations with President Trump about these efforts,” Thompson wrote to Gingrich.
The request for Gingrich to cooperate voluntarily comes as the committee has been quietly continuing its investigation and preparing for a new set of hearings next month. Lawmakers and staff have been interviewing witnesses and compiling a final report in recent weeks after a series of hearings in June and July shed new light on Trump’s actions before and after the deadly rioting -- and his lack of a response as the violence was underway at the Capitol.
If he cooperates, Gingrich would be one of more than 1,000 witnesses interviewed by the committee, including dozens of Trump allies. The committee’s eight hearings this summer featured not only live witness testimony but also clips of video interviews with some of the former president’s closest aides, Cabinet secretaries and even family members. The panel is expected to resume the hearings in September, ahead of the midterm elections.
In the letter to Gingrich, Thompson said the former Georgia lawmaker exchanged emails with top Trump aides in which he provided “detailed input” into the television advertisements that encouraged members of the public to contact state officials and pressure them to overturn Trump’s loss to Joe Biden. “To that end, these advertisements were intentionally aired in the days leading up to December 14, 2020, the day electors from each state met to cast their votes for president and vice president,” Thompson wrote.
That came as Georgia election officials were facing intimidation and threats of violence.
In an Dec. 8, 2020, email to the White House aides, according to the committee, Gingrich wrote: “The goal is to arouse the country’s anger through new verifiable information the American people have never seen before. ... If we inform the American people in a way they find convincing and it arouses their anger, they will then bring pressure on legislators and governors.”
The panel also cited a Nov. 12, 2020, email from Gingrich, just days after the election, to Meadows and then-White House counsel Pat Cipollone: “Is someone in charge of coordinating all the electors? … the contested electors must meet on (D)ecember 14 and send in ballots to force contests which the house would have to settle.”
On the evening of Jan. 6, Gingrich wrote Meadows at 10:42 p.m., after the Capitol had been cleared and after Congress had resumed certifying Biden’s win. He asked about letters from state legislators concerning “decertifying electors,” the committee says.
“Surprisingly, the attack on Congress and the activities prescribed by the Constitution did not even pause your relentless pursuit,” Thompson wrote. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/jan-6-panel-asks-former-speaker-gingrich-for-information/XNDPKVFRERCR5DWPJOQOSRTNNQ/ | 2022-09-02T00:53:29Z | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/jan-6-panel-asks-former-speaker-gingrich-for-information/XNDPKVFRERCR5DWPJOQOSRTNNQ/ | false |
An Oklahoma teacher gave her students access to banned books—now she's under scrutiny
Oklahoma's top education official wants to strip a former teacher of her credentials after she tried to give students access to books that may be banned in schools under a new state law.
In a letter he tweeted on Wednesday, Oklahoma Secretary of Education Ryan Walters called on the state board of education to revoke the teaching certificate of Summer Boismier, a former teacher at Norman High School.
Days earlier, Boismier resigned her position at the school following a complaint from a parent who suggested that Boismier had made political comments in the classroom.
According to the Norman Transcript, Boismier put paper over her classroom bookshelves with the message, "Books the state doesn't want you to read," in response to HB 1775, a state law enacted in May that restricts what public school educators can say about race and gender.
Boismier also posted a QR code that directed students to the Brooklyn Public Library's Books Unbanned project, which gives young people across the country access to books that may be outlawed in their schools.
Republican-led states like Oklahoma are increasingly banning specific books or attempting to limit the discussion of topics such as race and sexuality in schools.
Boismier declined NPR's request for comment about Walters' call to revoke her teaching certificate.
She previously told Gothamist that posting the QR code for her 10th-grade students was an effort to allow them to read materials that were restricted by the state.
"I saw this as an opportunity for my kids who were seeing their stories hidden to skirt that directive," she said. "Nowhere in my directives did it say we can't put a QR code on a wall."
Wes Moody, a spokesperson for Norman Public Schools, said the issue did not center around the QR code Boismier displayed in the classroom, but didn't specify what the issue was. A statement from the district alleged that Boismier made "personal political statements" and made a "political display" in the classroom.
But Walters, in his letter, suggested that Boismier gave students access to "banned and pornographic" material – without giving specifics – and cited that as justification to revoke her teaching certificate. "There is no place for a teacher with a liberal political agenda in the classroom," he said, adding that officials must "ensure she doesn't go to another district and do the same thing."
Walters did not reply to NPR's request for an interview.
Rob Crissinger, a spokesperson for the Oklahoma State Department of Education, told NPR that the department is not currently planning to file an application to revoke Boismier's teaching certificate.
"There is a process in place, and we understand Norman is reviewing this matter at the local level at this time," Crissinger said. "Based on their review, we will proceed accordingly but there is no reason to speculate on anything regarding Norman Public Schools until their local review is concluded."
Moody said Norman High School students never had access to pornographic material and added that the district had no response to Walters' letter.
The district, in its statement about Boismier's resignation, said some colleagues shared her concerns about HB 1775. "Like many educators the teacher has concerns regarding censorship and book removal by the Oklahoma state legislature," the statement said. "However, as has always been our expectation, we want our classrooms to be places where ALL students feel welcome."
If Boismier were to face any discipline from the state board of education, she would be the first teacher to do so for violating HB 1775, according to NPR member station KOSU.
Linda E. Johnson, president and CEO of Brooklyn Public Library, said in a statement to NPR that the library continued to support Boismier.
"The democratic principles on which both our nation and public libraries were founded include the right of every individual to seek information from all points of view," Johnson said. "Brooklyn Public Library stands firmly with Summer Boismier and all who champion free expression, intellectual freedom, and the right to read." | https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120576731/an-oklahoma-teacher-gave-her-students-access-to-banned-books-now-shes-under-scru | 2022-09-02T00:53:40Z | https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120576731/an-oklahoma-teacher-gave-her-students-access-to-banned-books-now-shes-under-scru | true |
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — The Baltimore Ravens are making a feathered addition to their injured reserve list.
In a video posted on Twitter on Thursday, coach John Harbaugh announced that Poe, the team's bird mascot, was going on IR. Poe was carted off the field at halftime of the Ravens' preseason game against Washington last weekend. Poe was joined by other mascots for a halftime game before being injured.
On Sunday, the Ravens tweeted a picture of the mascot with ice on his left knee, saying he was "resting comfortably in his perch awaiting further test results."
In his video Thursday, Harbaugh said Poe had a season-ending injury to his drumstick, and the team would find a replacement.
“We're going to get right into evaluating our options and see where we go next,” Harbaugh said. “See if we can find somebody to replace Poe.”
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — LGBTQ rights activists rallied outside the prosecutor’s office Wednesday to demand an autopsy be performed on a Peruvian transgender man who died earlier this month after being detained on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali.
Rodrigo Ventocilla, a 32-year-old graduate student at Harvard University, died Aug. 11 at a Bali hospital. He had been detained Aug. 6 after arriving at the island’s airport. His Peruvian husband, Sebastián Marallano, was also detained when he tried to help Ventocilla.
The couple, who married in Chile, went to Bali on their honeymoon.
Ventocilla’s body has been taken from Indonesia and is expected to arrive in Lima soon, and his relatives want officials in Peru to determine the cause of death, saying they suspect Indonesian authorities abused Ventocilla. Indonesian officials deny that.
“He was detained because of his gender identity. His identity document did not match his appearance. That made him a suspect for the Indonesian police. He was extorted, tortured and has died,” Luzmo Henríquez, a representative of the family of the deceased, told The Associated Press.
Indonesian authorities deny any act of violence and discrimination. “Everything went according to standard operation,” Stefanus Satake Bayu Setianto, a Bali police spokesman, said Monday.
Officials in Indonesia said customs officers found a package of brownies with Ventocilla that they suspected might contain cannabis and turned him over to police. Officials said Ventocilla was taken to the hospital the morning of Aug. 9 after showing symptoms of depression and complaining of stomach pains. He died in the hospital Aug. 11.
LGBTQ activists protested in front of the Peruvian Foreign Ministry last week, complaining that Peruvian authorities did not independently investigate Ventocilla’s death and welcomed the Indonesian authorities’ version without any questions. | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-lgbtq-activists-in-peru-demand-autopsy-for-death-in-bali/ | 2022-09-02T01:00:02Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-lgbtq-activists-in-peru-demand-autopsy-for-death-in-bali/ | false |
If you enjoyed the thrilling 1A final in Auckland first XV rugby, the good news is there could be a spicy encore on Saturday when Kelston Boys High host North Harbour champions Westlake Boys College.
The Blues region schoolboy final (2.30pm) is one of four huge schoolboy knockout matches this weekend to determine the qualifers for the New Zealand First XV Top 4.
And while it is anyone's guess who might win between Kelston and Westlake, there is at least an expectation of a full 70 minutes of schoolboy rugby – which is more than was managed when the two sides clashed in a niggly pre-season encounter at Takapuna.
That match ended in chaotic scenes with Westlake and Kelston locked at 5-5, Westlake hot on attack and set for a lineout almost on the goal line when the Kelston coaching staff ordered their team from the pitch with about 10 minutes left to play.
One sideline spectator, who did not want to be named but acknowledged he was a Westlake supporter, summed up the scene.
"Kelston had been penalised for a host of high tackles – some of them hadn't even seemed that high, to be fair, but everyone was grappling with the new rules – and they had already been given two yellow cards. Next thing they packed a sad and just walked off.
"Their coach came onto the field, the ref came over, and the boys all walked off.
"I'd never seen that happen before. There was definitely plenty of time to play, but suddenly the game was over, with confusion and a few words exchanged as the boys walked off.
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Advertise with NZME."So Saturday's final kind of feels like unfinished business."
Westlake coach Mark Manihera said he wasn't present at the time, but understood the Kelston was walk-off was related to frustration with the (North Harbour) referees rather than any unhappiness with his team. Kelston coach Matt Howling did not respond to calls.
Kelston will start as favourites but Manihera has been building a competitive Westlake outfit for a number of years.
"We've got a good bunch of lads," Manihera said. "We are more team-orientated that having rock stars, but we have a good level of confidence in that we know what works for us."
However they don't build rugby players quite as big on the Shore, so how will Westlake counter Kelston's height and weight advantage?
"With speed and tempo."
Westlake have also worked very hard on their defensive structures.
"The boys relish it and are proud of keeping teams to a low score. It often chips away at opponents' self esteem and they can then capitalise on that.
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Advertise with NZME."We are really looking forward to the challenge."
Most influential player for Westlake will be skipper and lock Tristyn Cook, whose leadership, skill and the way he operates at lineout time meaning he will likely be targeted by Kelston.
Player to watch from Kelston will be mercurial fullback Xavier Tito-Harris.
Controversial call
Might St Peter's College this week have been celebrating as Auckland's first XV rugby champions if VAR (Video Assistant referee) had been in effect? Viewers can make up their own mind by replaying the footage of the dramatic late finish in Kelston's 24-22 win over St Peter's here on youtube:
Right at the death St Peter's winger Andrew Nansen crossed the Kelston line and appeared to place downward pressure on the ball for what would have certainly been the match-winner in the corner.
But referee Robert Harman instead ruled a knock-on and advantage to Kelston - who then kicked the ball out and ended the game, making the biggest refereeing call of the Auckland schoolboy season a heartbreaker for St Peter's.
Rollercoaster for Hamilton Boys High
Few schools have ever have won the Moascar Cup – schoolboy rugby's Ranfurly Shield - twice in the same season.
But that is what Hamilton Boys High did last weekend when they beat Tauranga Boys' college 20-17, to also qualify for Chiefs region final against New Plymouth Boys' High (12 noon, New Plymouth, Saturday).
In doing so, Hamilton completed their metamorphosis from being the most miserable team in the land after their extra time loss to Rotorua Boys' High in the Super 8 final a few weeks back, to now being the most elated.
Rotorua had taken the Moascar Cup off Hamilton only to then lose it to Tauranga, who have now handed it back to Hamilton (who must now defend it against New Plymouth).
"It's been a fantastic journey," said Hamilton Boys' coach Nigel Hotham, reflecting on the emotional roller-coaster his squad have been on.
"You've never seen a more depressed team," he said of his team after losing the Super 8 final. "It was the biggest disappointment in the world. We all needed psychiatrists.
"But we had no choice but to forget out woes and get back on the horse and at the end of the Tauranga match it was a feeling of elation.
"During the Super 8 season all the focus is on the final, there is no thought of playoffs beyond that.
"But if, as with us, you don't win, then aiming to make the national Top 4 gives you another chance at glory.
Converted tries to hooker Tom McCarthy – from a charged-down kick – and skipper Oli mathis eased Hamilton to a 17-7 lead before Tauranga fought back to level at 17-17.
Hamilton fullback Payton Spencer finally settled it with a penalty in the last play of the game, though for Chiefs final qualification at least, his team effectively already had the game in the bag.
With teams level and both having scored two tries, under the countback rules Hamilton would have won courtesy of having scored the first try of the game. Lock Tama Hodgson was the stand-out player on the day for Hamilton.
New Plymouth Boys' High beat Pukekohe High School 1st XV 36-25 in the other Chiefs semifinal.
Meanwhile the experiences of Rotorua Boys High may offer a cautionary tale for Kelston.
Rotorua climbed to the top of the mountain in an intensely competitive Super 8 final one week – and then the next lost to a Tauranga team in the Bay of Plenty regional final.
Big trip for Johnnies
Nelson College will be seeking to win the South Island First XV title for third time in four years when they face Dunedin's John McGlashan College at 11.05am in Nelson on Saturday. The Johnnies must make one of the longest trips in schoolboy rugby – 763km – with the winner qualifing for the New Zealand Top Four, with semifinals played on Friday September 9 and the final on Sunday September 11 in Palmerston North.
Last week Nelson beat Christchurch's St Bede's 45-19 in the Miles Toyota Championship final in Motueka.
For Nelson, Nelesoni Malaulau crossed for the first of his three tries before conceding two tries to St Bede's. However Nelson scored two more to lead19-14 at halftime and never conceded the lead again, crossing four more times to win 45-19. Other tries were scored by Callum Robertson, Fletcher Hewitt-Smart, Harrison Inch & Krugar Griffith, while Zyon Ford kicked five conversions.
Nelson will also be defending the Trust Bank Cup, which began life as the trophy for the New Zealand Schools Champion – but was then gifted to the South Island as a version of the Moascar Cup – though unlike the Moascar, it is contested in every game the holder plays, home and away.
Back in May Timaru Boys' High lifted the cup for the first time in 15 years when they won it off Nelson. They then lost it to St Andrews, who duly conceded it to Christchurch Boys' High, who handed it on to St Bede's, who then conceded it to Nelson
If it is any sort of omen, last week Nelson's U16A team beat John McGlashan College 34-15 in Christchurch.
# Reigning national Top Four champions, Hastings Boys' High School, were beaten 20-17 by Napier Boys' High School in their Hurricanes region semifinal. Napier now face Wellington's St Pat's Silverstream in the region final on Friday night in Palmerston North, in the curtain-raiser for the Manawatū-Tasman NPC match.
In the other Hurricanes semi St Pat's Silverstream beat Feilding High School 16-12 at Maidstone Park in Upper Hutt. Both teams scored two tries, with the difference being two penalty goals from Silverstream. Feilding had earlier beaten previously unbeaten St John's (Hamilton) in the Central North Island league's final. | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/a-spicy-encore-auckland-schoolboy-rugbys-unfinished-business/ANFOFFKGVURICMK3UQZMMN27BE/ | 2022-09-02T01:02:22Z | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/a-spicy-encore-auckland-schoolboy-rugbys-unfinished-business/ANFOFFKGVURICMK3UQZMMN27BE/ | false |
Garoppolo glad to be back with 49ers after ‘weird’ offseason
By JOSH DUBOW
AP Pro Football Writer
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Jimmy Garoppolo moved over one field, rejoined his San Francisco 49ers teammates at practice for the first time since last season and was firing off passes the same way he always has.
The big difference was he is now No. 2 in the pecking order behind Trey Lance.
After the past six months when Garoppolo had shoulder surgery that prevented a possible trade, spent training camp throwing on a side field away from his teammates, and then negotiated a drastic pay cut to remain in San Francisco, Garoppolo is ready for his new role as a backup.
“It was weird,” Garoppolo said Thursday. “It was different than any situation I’ve ever been in, and I’ve been in some weird ones, too, so that’s saying something. Things worked out for the best. There were a lot of ups and downs, rocky roads here and there, but throughout the whole thing, I’m happy with where I’m at. I’m happy to be with the Niners, and I think the Niners are happy to have me back. Things are working out pretty well.”
No one expected them to work out this way.
After the Niners lost to the Rams in the NFC title game last January, Garoppolo said his goodbyes and was ready to join a new team with San Francisco handing the offense over to Lance.
But when a lingering shoulder injury from late in the season required surgery, everything changed. The trade market that had at least two teams very interested in striking a deal, according to San Francisco general manager John Lynch, immediately dried up and Garoppolo was in limbo.
He was finally cleared to return to practice at the start of training camp but the 49ers had decided they didn’t want to keep Garoppolo as a backup with a $24.2 million salary so they didn’t risk injury by having him practice.
Garoppolo said he never demanded his release because he didn’t want to “ruffle the feathers too much.” Garoppolo’s representatives talked to a few teams in August but were unable to find an interested team that he found desirable.
“I saw the opportunities that were out there,” he said. “You weigh the pros and cons of everything. Trust me, there was a lot of back and forth going on just with other teams, and what I wanted my future to look like. This is what I wanted. I’m happy the way it worked out. The familiarity was a big part of it.”
With the roster-cut deadline looming earlier this week, he struck the deal Monday to stay in San Francisco on a $6.5 million salary with the chance to earn up to $16 million depending on playing time and other incentives.
He rejoined team meetings the following day and everything was back to the way it had been except for the depth chart that now had Lance as the starter.
Lance and Garoppolo both stressed there is no awkwardness in their relationship and see no reason why Garoppolo’s return would be any sort of distraction.
Garoppolo talked about the need to “check your ego a little bit” and Lance said he’s happy to get to continue to learn from Garoppolo.
“It’s good to have him back and good to have him back in the QB room again,” Lance said. “He’s been a big brother to me since my first day in the league. I know he’s got my back and I have his back. I know he’s going to add a lot to our QB room.”
The other big roster news this week came at running back, where undrafted rookie Jordan Mason made the team and 2021 third-round pick Trey Sermon got cut Wednesday after San Francisco claimed offensive lineman Blake Hance off waivers from Cleveland.
Sermon played nine games as a rookie and had 41 carries for 167 yards and a touchdown. Lynch said Sermon came into camp this season much more prepared but he averaged just 2.1 yards per carry in the preseason compared to 5.0 for Mason.
“The bottom line, J.P. Mason just played too well,” Lynch said. “We felt like he made our team better.”
NOTES: The Niners signed DB Dontae Johnson to the practice squad after cutting him earlier in the week. Johnson could be activated to play in the season opener with S Jimmie Ward on IR with a hamstring injury. … WR Deebo Samuel (knee), DL Arik Armstead (undisclosed), LB Oren Burks (knee), and OL Daniel Brunskill (hamstring) didn’t practice.
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OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens are making a feathered addition to their injured reserve list.
On Sunday, the Ravens tweeted a picture of the mascot with ice on his left knee, saying he was “resting comfortably in his perch awaiting further test results.”
In his video Thursday, Harbaugh said Poe had a season-ending injury to his drumstick, and the team would find a replacement.
“We’re going to get right into evaluating our options and see where we go next,” Harbaugh said. “See if we can find somebody to replace Poe.”
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On her very first day in Antarctica, one woman was warned to avoid a certain building at the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station "unless [she] wanted to be raped."
Another was so "freaked out" by the pervasive sexual harassment that she began carrying around a hammer.
Sexual assault and sexual harassment "are a fact of life" in Antarctica, another woman said, "just like the fact that Antarctica is cold and the wind blows."
These are among the accounts published in a newly released report, commissioned by the National Science Foundation, that shows just how pervasive stories of harassment and assault are at the bottom of the world.
And it comes to a damning conclusion about the agency's operations in Antarctica: "Sexual harassment, stalking, and sexual assault are ongoing, continuing problems."
The report, which was presented to the NSF in June and publicly released last week, is based on more than 80 interviews with individuals and focus groups, along with a survey of 880 current and recent employees. Many of the report's interviewees are anonymous.
"It wasn't surprising to me to hear some of the stories that we heard," said Roberta Marinelli, the director of the NSF's Office of Polar Programs, in an interview with NPR. "It's certainly disappointing."
Many employees view sexual harassment as a problem
The NSF oversees all American operations in Antarctica. Each year, more than 3,000 scientists, contractors and military personnel are sent to the continent for programs under NSF's jurisdiction. About one in three of them are women.
Every woman I knew down there had an assault or harassment experience that had occurred on ice.
In the report's survey, 72% of female respondents agreed that sexual harassment was a problem. Just under half agreed that sexual assault was a problem. (Among male employees responding to the survey, about half and a third, respectively, agreed that harassment and assault were problems.)
"Every woman I knew down there had an assault or harassment experience that had occurred on ice," one interviewee told the report's authors. Although incidents involving female victims were "much more frequent and severe," the report stated, several men also recounted experiencing sexual harassment by men and women.
Officials at the NSF commissioned the report in April 2021 after years of individual reports of sexual harassment.
A remote and difficult workplace
Antarctica is an unusually challenging environment for these kinds of allegations. Its remoteness often means people are unable to leave for weeks or months at a time.
"You're so isolated and so detached from the normal roles in society that often it makes it, for lack of a better word, easier to get away with inappropriate behavior," said Meredith Nash, an Australian researcher who did not participate in the NSF report.
"When people are out doing deep field work, not only do they not have the capacity to report, because you can't call someone or send an email or whatever – if you're working with your harasser, you literally can't get away from them," said Nash, who now serves as an associate dean of Diversity, Belonging, Inclusion and Equity at the Australian National University.
Up until now, incidents have been reported as one-offs. In 2018, the name of a seven-mile-long glacier was changed after its namesake, the geologist David Marchant, was accused of sexually harassing female graduate students. He was later fired from his job at Boston University. In a statement at the time, he denied the allegations.
In a separate incident, the NSF says it received a report of a rape at one of its facilities within the past five years. The agency says it "promptly" referred the allegation to the Department of Justice.
The problems go well beyond scientists. Of the thousands of people working in Antarctica under the NSF each year, about 800 are researchers. The rest are support staff, including cooks, janitors and maintenance workers, many of them employed on seasonal contracts.
Challenges of reform
Throughout the report, respondents describe a pervasive environment of harassment and assault – and a workplace that is unfriendly to those who report incidents.
"People on station fear, and rightfully so, that if they are harassed or assaulted and report it, they will be the ones who will be going home," one person told the report's authors. "When things happened on ice, the number one thing I heard was 'don't report it or you will go home and be blacklisted from the program.'"
Particularly at risk were people who felt that their livelihoods could be at stake, like seasonal employees who depend on contract renewals, or Ph.D students who are reliant on lead researchers – a fact that officials acknowledged.
"The research shows us that even when we have the best sort of the best practice around reporting, the best possible sort of system, people still don't report because the power dynamics are such that it's not usually in the interest of the victim," Nash said.
Changing the power dynamics at these remote bases will be challenging, officials acknowledged. The infrequent availability of flights and ships means there's no simple way to separate victims from their harassers. And the numerous contractors and institutions that operate under NSF's oversight each has its own human resources policies and procedures around assault and harassment.
But officials at NSF say they are committed to reforming their operations.
"I don't feel I have a choice but to do anything other than meet this challenge head on," said Marinelli. "We have an obligation to provide a safe work environment, to provide workplace safety and workplace development opportunities for anyone who wants to come to Antarctica."
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 1, 2022
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HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
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Locations impacted include...
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When the Justice Department rejected former President Donald Trump's call for a special master in his records dispute, it included a photo of top secret documents splayed across a carpeted floor in Mar-a-Lago — two months after Trump's team certified all such documents had been turned over.
The photo, which many observers called unprecedented, immediately drove discussions about Trump's legal problems into overdrive.
To Orin Kerr, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the jaw-drop-inducing photo and filing are the latest steps in an extraordinary sequence, with the U.S. government arguing about national secrets with its former chief executive.
"This is an unusual response, but that's to be expected," Kerr said. "It was filed in reply to an unusual request by a judge to respond to a very unusual filing by Trump."
The photo was staged for dramatic effect, Trump's team says
In their own response filed late Wednesday, Trump's legal team called the Justice Department's filing "extraordinary."
They accuse the government of "criminalizing a former President's possession of personal and Presidential records in a secure setting."
Trump's team also homed in on the image of the documents, with attorney Lindsey Halligan writing that the Justice Department "gratuitously included a photograph of allegedly classified materials, pulled from a container and spread across the floor for dramatic effect."
As photographs go, the FBI image doesn't look particularly well-composed, with papers scattered across the carpet. But those papers' bright yellow and red markings, their "TOP SECRET" coversheets, make the randomness of the scene more striking: here is hard-won information that's highly compartmentalized by the government, lying on the floor of a private office in Florida.
"In some instances, even the FBI counterintelligence personnel and DOJ attorneys conducting the review required additional clearances" before they could examine some folders' contents, the Justice Department said.
What about those abbreviations?
The photo quickly sparked intense interest into the arcane abbreviations that label America's national secrets.
One of the most scrutinized markings states that several folders' contents are marked "TOP SECRET//SCI" and restricted "UP TO HCS-P/SI/TK." Here's a quick breakdown of those terms:
HCS-P - HUMINT Control System Product, using the acronym for human intelligence. According to the office of the Director of National Intelligence's classification manual, "HCS protects the most sensitive HUMINT operations and information acquired from clandestine and/or uniquely sensitive HUMINT sources, methods, and certain technical collection capabilities, technologies, and methods linked to or supportive of HUMINT."
SCI - Sensitive Compartmented Information, a broad term for intelligence information that requires a formal system to control its distribution.
SI - Special Intelligence, or more specifically, "technical and intelligence information derived from the monitoring of foreign communications signals by other than the intended recipients" — the type of work done by the National Security Agency, for instance.
TK - Talent Keyhole, a long-held designation that refers to classified spy satellite data.
Those terms are merely on the cover sheets. The internal documents themselves were redacted, along with their detailed compartmentalized designations.
Which case is this again?
While Trump's legal embroilments are extensive, this particular case dates to Aug. 22, when the former president asked a federal district judge in Florida to appoint a special master to review all the materials taken from his home.
Trump is the plaintiff in the case; the defendant is the United States of America.
"Politics cannot be allowed to impact the administration of justice," Trump's team said in its initial filing, calling him "the clear frontrunner" in the 2024 presidential race, "should he decide to run."
In that filing, Trump sought to block the Justice Department from reviewing the materials until a special master is appointed. He also asked the judge to make the government provide a "sufficiently detailed receipt" of seized items, and "promptly return anything taken that is outside of the search warrant's scope.
The judge in the case is Aileen M. Cannon, whom Trump appointed in 2020. She is herself a veteran of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Southern Florida, which is now contesting the case.
"In a normal case, a judge would find DOJ's response persuasive and would be done with it," Kerr said. "It's possible that this particular judge will try to give more to Trump, but my guess is that it won't matter much: Whether a special master is appointed probably doesn't make much difference to the case."
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...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...NORTHWESTERN HANSFORD AND NORTHEASTERN
SHERMAN COUNTIES...
At 717 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Texhoma, or 20
miles southwest of Guymon, moving south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible. Hail
damage to vehicles is expected.
Locations impacted include...
Texhoma.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
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FOR HEMPHILL COUNTY...
At 719 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Canadian,
moving southwest at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Canadian and Lake Marvin.
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SUV with 5 teens crashes in Texas: 3 hospitalized, 1 in critical condition
Five 17-year-olds got into a crash in Texas leaving one in critical condition
An SUV with five Texas high schoolers crashed into a creek on Wednesday afternoon, leaving three students hospitalized and one in critical condition.
Police said the car was traveling westbound when the driver lost control, causing the car to go airborne. The SUV ended up upside down in a creek near the road.
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Three of the students sitting in the backseat were taken to the hospital, with one male student in critical condition. Carrollton Police say the two others are not believed to have life-threatening injures. The driver and front seat passenger were not injured.
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AUSTIN, Minn. - School is back in session for Austin Public Schools and educators are wasting no time diving back into life-saving lessons.
Sumner Elementary School 4th graders are kicking off the Junior Fire Safety Program.
“At this level we're trying to teach kids how to recognize fire hazards in their home and what they can do to be safe,” says Austin Fire Department Fire Inspector, Tim Hansen.
Firefighters are going into fourth-grade classrooms and teaching kids how to make an escape plan, what smoke detectors are and how to take care of them, and how to recognize hazards in their own homes.
Through a workbook and presentations, the Austin Fire Department is hoping to teach kids life-long skills in a fun, informative way.
“Fire safety is not just fourth grade, it's not just them, it's everybody. So what they learn here today is a life lesson, and to practice that and share it with everybody,” Hansen adds.
Students are also able to enter a poster design contest with the theme ‘Fire won't wait. Plan your escape.’ The department will choose two winners from each elementary school.
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Housing satisfaction for CAPF jawans to go up to 74% by 2024: Amit Shah
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the housing satisfaction ratio for CAPF personnel will be enhanced to about 74 per cent by late 2024 as he launched a new online portal for them that aims to increase the chances of finding a government accommodation by widening the available pool of homes.
The minister launched the 'eAwas' portal saying the government has been able to enhance the housing satisfaction for the troops of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) by 13 per cent.
The home ministry had started working on this subject as soon as Prime Minister Narendra Modi took charge in 2014 and he has repeatedly said that it is the responsibility of the elected government of the day to take care of the families of the jawans who guard the frontiers of the country and render other internal security duties round-the-clock, Shah said.
The new portal will allow CAPF personnel to find houses among themselves rather than just looking for a accommodation within the force. "I am told that in many places the houses are vacant, and with this new facility we will see the housing satisfaction ratio for the personnel going up by 13 per cent," he said.
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Indiana cop shot in head hangs on after life support removed
RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) - An eastern Indiana police officer shot in the head during a traffic stop was taken off life support Thursday but she remained alive with vital signs that were stable, her department said.
Richmond Police Department Officer Seara Burton, 28, has been treated at a hospital in Dayton, Ohio, since being shot on Aug. 10.
"At this time Officer Burton is still alive and surrounded by family," the department said in a news release posted on Facebook Thursday afternoon.
The decision was made Wednesday to remove Burton, a four-year veteran of the Richmond department, from life support.
"Officer Seara Burton´s injuries have been determined to be unrecoverable," the police Department said in a news release posted on Facebook Wednesday. "Seara will live on and continue to be a hero with her selfless gift of organ donation."
It did not say which organs would be donated.
Prosecutors have filed three attempted murder charges against Phillip Matthew Lee, the man accused of shooting Burton.
Lee, 47, of Richmond, has been held in jail on a $1.5 million bond. He has made an initial court appearance in which he entered a plea of not guilty.
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Joey Meneses plays walk-off hero as Nationals top A's in 10
Joey Meneses capped a four-hit day with a three-run home run in the 10th inning to lift the Washington Nationals past the visiting Oakland Athletics 7-5 on Thursday.
Keibert Ruiz pulled the Nationals within 5-4 with an RBI single in the 10th. Lane Thomas walked and Meneses, a 30-year-old rookie off to a torrid start in the majors, hit a 2-2 pitch from Norge Ruiz (0-1) to right center to give Washington the series win.
The A's scored twice in the top half. Vimael Machin worked a nine-pitch, two-out walk against Hunter Harvey (1-0) to put runners on first and second. Shea Langeliers, who had homered earlier, smacked a 2-1 pitch to the wall in right center, scoring Sheldon Neuse and Machin.
Oakland prospect Ken Waldichuk, 24, picked up a no-decision in his major league debut. Waldichuk was in trouble in each of the first three innings but allowed only one run on five hits in 4 2/3 innings. He struck out six and walked four.
The A's took a 3-1 lead in the seventh. Pinch hitter Cristian Pache led off with a walk. Nick Allen sacrificed and Tony Kemp grounded a single to left, scoring Pache. Murphy singled to right and Kemp went to third when Meneses overran the ball. Seth Brown then lined a single to center, scoring Kemp.
Singles by Meneses and Luke Voit put runners on first and third in the bottom of the inning, and Meneses scored when Nelson Cruz grounded into a force at second, pulling Washington within 3-2.
The Nationals tied 3-3 it in the eighth when Cesar Hernandez was hit by a pitch, stole second and scored on a two-out single by Ildemaro Vargas.
Thomas hit Waldichuk's first major league pitch for a double and scored on a single by Meneses to give the Nationals a quick 1-0 lead.
Langeliers homered leading off the fifth against Paolo Espino to tie it.
Espino, who got the start when Cade Cavalli was placed on the injured list, allowed a run on five hits over five innings. He struck out six without a walk.
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Woman dealing with rare eye infection; doctors say contacts could be to blame
GRETNA, Neb. (WOWT/Gray News) - A brain-eating amoeba killed a young boy last month in Nebraska, and now a woman says the same type of microorganism is in her eye.
Tiffani Zeleny said she receives several deliveries of medicine for the bug that got in her eye.
“Acanthamoeba keratitis is a horrible infection,” she said. “We are very optimistic that a miracle can happen, and my eye can be saved.”
But that involves a constant regimen of drugs she carefully administers herself. She said she has to use about 60 eye drops a day.
“Eighty-five percent of acanthamoeba infections are associated with contact lenses,” said Dr. Ron Krueger, director of Truhlsen Eye Institute of Nebraska Medicine.
Having worn soft contacts since the third grade, Zeleny said she wore her contacts while riding an inner tube this summer at a lake.
“I didn’t put my head underwater, but I may have been splashed,” she said.
Zeleny said she also did some yardwork that could have caused the infection.
“I helped tear down an old fence and cut some trees without any safety glasses,” she said.
Dr. Mike Feilmeier, a corneal surgeon at Midwest Eye Care, said those who wear soft contacts should clean them properly, not sleep in them and try to avoid wearing them when swimming.
“I would say over the past 15 years, maybe, I’ve seen five or six cases this severe,” Feilmeier said.
With her sister-in-law driving, Zeleny has been traveling four hours about once a week to the University of Iowa, where a prognosis of a corneal transplant is a possibility.
“If I get to save my eye, I’d like to wear contacts again. I’ll just be much more careful,” Zeleny said.
And to fight the amoeba that infected her eye, Zeleny said she needs seven different formulas of eye drops. A GoFundMe has been set up to help pay the costs, which she said are out of pocket.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
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05-12-17-28-38
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, American Trucking Associations and ATA's Share the Road highway safety program are advising Labor Day travelers to take extra driving precautions through the busy holiday weekend.
As summer starts to wind down, families will be on the road packing in every ounce of summer fun while they can. The Vacationer has predicted that during Labor Day weekend, nearly 92 million American adults intend on traveling via car to arrive at their destination. Therefore, it is crucial for drivers to practice patience, planning, and safety fundamentals.
"With high volumes of traffic traveling further distances than usual on the highways this Labor Day weekend, practicing safe driving is vital," said Share the Road professional truck driver Jeff Rose, of Yellow. "Everybody deserves to be able to celebrate this holiday in safety, and by applying these simple safety tips, the motoring public can deliver a safe holiday for themselves and their neighbors on the road."
"Doing small things as simple as buckling your safety belt, putting away your cell phone, and leaving an appropriate following distance between you and other cars can all play a part in safe driving," said Share the Road professional truck driver Bob Bramwell, of ABF Freight System, Inc., "We want people across America to have a great time with their family and friends this holiday, and using these tips from professional truck drivers can drastically increase highway safety for everyone."
Share the Road's professional truck drivers promote these safety tips to motorists, students, members of the media, and elected officials throughout the country while on tour with the Share the Road program and through the Share the Road award winning instructional video. They emphasize these tips during major US holidays to remind motorists of all ages about key elements of safe driving, especially relating to operating small passenger vehicles near large tractor-trailers.
- Buckle Up: Safety belts save lives. Day or night, and even if you're riding in the back seat – wear your safety belt.
- Slow Down: Chance of a crash nearly triples when driving faster than surrounding traffic. Spring and summer are periods when work zones are busiest. It is important to reduce speeds when traveling through those areas.
- Do not drive impaired: There is much to celebrate this time of year, including graduations, and holidays seemingly every weekend. With that said, driving is a great responsibility, and your fellow travelers are relying on safe and attentive drivers to respectfully share the road and make good decisions.
- Be aware of truck blind spots: When sharing the road with large trucks, be aware of their blind spots. If you can't see the professional truck driver in his or her mirrors, then the professional truck driver can't see you.
- Keep your eyes on the road: Distracted driving is a major cause of traffic accidents, especially among younger drivers. Even just two seconds of distraction time doubles the chances of an accident. Only use your cell phone when stopped and never text while driving.
- Do not cut in front of large trucks: Remember trucks are heavier and take longer to make a complete stop, so avoid cutting quickly in front of them.
- Prepare your vehicle for long distance travel: Check your wipers and fluids. Have your radiator and cooling system serviced. Simple maintenance before you leave your home can prevent many of the problems that might strand motorists on the side of the road.
- Leave early and avoid risks: Leave early so you won't be anxious about arriving late. Road conditions may change due to inclement weather or traffic congestion.
- Be aware of the vehicle in front of you: Leave extra room between you and the vehicle ahead.
- Understand congestion patterns: High traffic volumes lead to greater opportunities for accidents, so plan your trip to avoid traffic bottlenecks and increased traffic volumes.
Share the Road is a highway safety outreach program of the American Trucking Associations that educates all drivers about sharing the roads safely with large trucks. An elite team of professional truck drivers with millions of accident-free miles deliver life-saving messages to millions of motorists annually. The safety program is sponsored by Mack Trucks Inc., and supported by TA-Petro, Pre-Pass, Hyundai Translead, OmniTracs, Mack Leasing, P.S.I., Shell Lubricants, and Bendix. www.atastr.org. Follow Share the Road on Twitter and Facebook.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: YQ) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with 17EdTech's December 2020 initial public offering (the "IPO"), of the important September 19, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline, in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased 17EdTech securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the 17EdTech class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7395 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 19, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the IPO Registration Statement featured false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Defendant 17EdTech's K-12 Academic AST Services would end less than a year after the IPO; (2) as part of its ongoing regulatory efforts, Chinese authorities would imminently curtail and/or end 17EdTech's core business; and (3) as a result, Defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Students are getting worse at reading and math, according to a national study. The new numbers show a dramatic drop in student performance in the United States – and education leaders are looking at ways to fix it.
Each year, the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests 9-year-old students. This year, for the first time, kids scored worse in math and reading scores fell more than they have in 30 years.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says the numbers are upsetting.
“As a father and an educator, it’s disturbing,” Cardona said.
He blames both the pandemic and the Trump administration for the scores.
“The efforts were not there to safely reopen schools. It was a lot of rhetoric but no action,” Cardona said.
Now that kids are back in the classroom, education leaders have work to do to make up for the lost learning. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is optimistic kids can make a comeback.
“We are pedal to the medal to help kids achieve, recover and thrive,” Weingarten said.
Secretary Cardona says states should be using money from the American Rescue Plan to improve schools.
“Providing the resources needed so that we’re not talking about teacher shortages. We should be talking about smaller class sizes, about ongoing tutoring,” Cardona said.
Weingarten suggests that federal leaders can also help educators connect to share best practices.
“What are the strategies that are really working to actually help accelerate instruction?” Weingarten said.
She also says political division over curriculum debates and book bans are distracting from learning.
“We need to create a can-do, problem solving, unifying, back to basics environment in schools,” Weingarten said. | https://who13.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/student-scores-drop-dramatically-in-national-study/ | 2022-09-02T01:56:46Z | https://who13.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/student-scores-drop-dramatically-in-national-study/ | false |
It's no wonder starving Egyptians have been raiding precious treasures from tombs for 3,000 years as a startling new book reveals Tutankhamun’s coffin would cost £5MILLION today
- For some 3,000 years of their history what Egyptians left behind was tombs
- The sands and cities of Egypt are riddled with three millennia of buried treasure
- 'Tomb-raiding redressed imbalance between rich and poor,' Maria Golia writes
BOOK OF THE WEEK
SAVING FREUD A SHORT HISTORY OF TOMB-RAIDING: THE EPIC HUNT FOR EGYPT'S TREASURES
(Reaktion £20, 312pp)
At the heart of Maria Golia’s compulsively readable book about the history of treasure-seeking and tomb-raiding in Egypt is the idea that, despite all our technology and progress, people don’t change.
‘Need and greed are human constants.’ Even today, poor Egyptians still pay magicians and astrologers to tell them where to dig for the treasure that might change their lives.
Egyptian civilisation is unimaginably old. Long-term Cairo resident Maria Golia illustrates this vividly: when the Romans first gazed at the sphinx, they were looking further back into history than we are when we visit the Roman Colosseum today.
At the heart of Maria Golia’s compulsively readable book about the history of treasure-seeking and tomb-raiding in Egypt is the idea that, despite all our technology and progress, people don’t change. Pictured: The coffinette for the Viscera of Tutankhamun
Howard Carter and a colleague are cleaning Tutankhamun's inner, solid gold coffin, lying within the colourful middle coffin
Unlike the Romans, though, for some 3,000 years of their history what the Egyptians mostly left behind was tombs. A pyramid is a sepulchre for the rich and powerful, but they liked to be buried with their possessions — so it’s also a gigantic ‘X marks the spot’.
The sands and cities of Egypt are riddled with three millennia of buried treasure. For the poor and desperate, it has always been too tempting: ‘Tomb-raiding redressed the imbalance between rich and poor,’ points out Golia, ‘while signalling contempt for social hierarchies.’
In a court record from 1100 BC, a convicted raider says spiritedly: ‘This sarcophagus is ours, it belonged to our great men. We were hungry.’
You can understand the temptation. One ‘young, unaccomplished and short-lived pharaoh’, Tutankhamun, had a coffin made of 22-carat gold. I just checked today’s gold prices: King Tut’s coffin would now cost £5,680,600.
Punishment if you were caught was gruesome though: the ‘five cuts’ — that is the slicing off of your nose, ears and lips, and then public impalement on a wooden stake.
For the ancient Egyptians, life after death was a version of this one, only ‘minus sickness and conflict’, while the Pharaohs sailed across the night sky above with their fellow gods in the Solar Boat.
And they firmly believed that you can take it with you, so were buried with their furniture and utensils, food and drink, jewellery and board games and ‘even mummified pets’. A high priest’s wife from about 1060 BC ‘was buried with her gazelle’.
They weren’t obsessed with death, as might appear, so much as in love with life, and wanted it to go on just the same. And for the most part, their lives do sound appealing.
Image from book: A Short History of Tomb-Raiding For review Hieroglypic colourful carving paintings on wall at the ancient Egyptian temple of Khnum in Esna with god Sekhmet
Take the great summer festival of Opet, during the annual flooding of the Nile, when everyone gathered after sunset to feast on ‘honey-basted roast ox’ and drink wine or pomegranate beer.
There was also ‘music and dancing beneath a night-time sky ablaze with stars, everyone slick with perfumed oils’. No doubt there were other activities as well. By around 1500 BC, ‘Opet occupied the better part of a month’.
With the conquest of Egypt by the Arabs in the 7th century AD, the ancientness and richness of this country went completely to the conquerors’ heads.
From the harsh, empty deserts of Arabia, says Golia: ‘Excess was absent from their lives; the only things the Arabs possessed in abundance were dates and sand.’
This picture taken on January 31, 2019 shows the golden sarcophagus of the 18th dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun (13321323 BC), displayed in his burial chamber in his underground tomb (KV62) in the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile river
In no time at all they took to the luxurious new life.
The son of one ruler, Ibn Tulun, in the 9th century AD, ‘on the request of his favourite concubine’, had one of his palace rooms plated in gold and featured ‘larger-than-lifesize statues of himself and his consort placing crowns on each other’s heads.’ Tasteful.
Even richer was the effect of this strange new land on the Arab imagination, the greatest fruit of which is that timeless classic of world literature, The Thousand And One Nights, with its tales of treasure hidden in caves down dark, underground passageways guarded by djinns of uncertain temper. It even contains spells for de-activating booby traps (with which the ancient tombs were riddled).
One would love to see medieval Cairo in its Arabian Nights heyday, as pictured by Golia, with its professional farters entertaining passers-by in the streets, its snake-charmers and storytellers and firewalkers ‘who coated the soles of their feet in frog fat, orange peel and talc’.
The modern world does seem dull in comparison.
And the Old Kingdom pyramids at Giza are now surrounded by a 4 m-high concrete barrier topped by 3 m of fencing with 1.5 m foundations ‘to discourage tunnellers’
As time passed, the treasure supply diminished — so then they started selling their mummies. Yes, literally: mummia, the black, oily, scraped-out contents of mummies, was a medicine, ‘used as commonly as aspirin. King Francis I of France [who ruled from 1515-1547] was said never to leave home without it’.
One Arab writer explained: ‘The people of the countryside bring it to the city . . . I bought three heads full of it for half a dirham.’
The coming of the Europeans brought a more scholarly approach. It was a Frenchman, Champollion, who first deciphered ancient hieroglyphics in 1822, and the British and French were jointly instrumental in establishing the magnificent Cairo’s Egyptian Museum in 1902 to house the country’s treasures.
Others were not so scrupulous though and, to this day, artefacts continue to be dug up and sold — often on Facebook, says Golia. A man recently died in Giza, tunnelling ‘36 ft below his bedroom’, where he had been told to dig after paying a ‘magician’ £240 for his insight.
‘No more,’ laments the author, ‘would children wade in the floodwater at the feet of the Colossi of Memnon, no more pyramids mirrored in placid seasonal lakes'
Much about Egypt is different now. The building of the Aswan Dam meant that the Nile last flooded in 1964. Egypt ‘modernised’, swapping precious agricultural land for electricity.
‘No more,’ laments the author, ‘would children wade in the floodwater at the feet of the Colossi of Memnon, no more pyramids mirrored in placid seasonal lakes.’
Today the country, once the breadbasket of the Mediterranean, lives through a ‘parched and virtually endless summer’, and desperately imports wheat from wherever it can get it.
And the Old Kingdom pyramids at Giza are now surrounded by a 4 m-high concrete barrier topped by 3 m of fencing with 1.5 m foundations ‘to discourage tunnellers’.
An early 9th-century version of the The Thousand And One Nights, quoted here, promises its readers ‘examples of the excellence and shortcomings, the cunning and stupidity, the generosity and avarice, the courage and cowardice that is in man’.
You’ll find all this and more in this marvellous and colourful history of treasure-seekers old and new, in those haunted and haunting tombs of ancient Egypt. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-11170733/Tutankhamuns-coffin-cost-5MILLION-today.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-02T01:59:35Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-11170733/Tutankhamuns-coffin-cost-5MILLION-today.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Fleet Street legend Charles Wilson dies at 87
- Charles Wilson, ex-husband of Anne Robinson, has died at 87 after a short illness
- He was born in Glasgow and first worked for News Chronicle and the Daily Mail
- He edited The Times for five years and was managing director of Mirror Group
- He's survived by wife of 21 years, Rachel, three children and seven grandchildren
Charles Wilson, former editor of The Times and ex-husband of Anne Robinson, has died at the age of 87 after a short illness.
Mr Wilson was born in Glasgow and first worked for the News Chronicle and the Daily Mail.
He edited The Times from 1985 to 1990 and despite his combative style he only fired three people, one of whom was Boris Johnson for fabricating a quote.
He was later managing director of the Mirror Group.
Charles Wilson (pictured), former editor of The Times and ex-husband of Anne Robinson, has died at the age of 87 after a short illness
Charles Garside, a friend and former assistant editor of the Daily Mail, said: 'He had a simply amazing career for a young man who began life in the streets of the East End of Glasgow. He worked closely with Rupert Murdoch through the Wapping battles and for Robert Maxwell when he disappeared from [his yacht] the Lady Ghislaine.'
Mr Wilson had a lifelong interest in horse racing and was a member of the Jockey Club and an owner and breeder at his home in Leicestershire.
Former sports editor Tom Clarke was among those paying tribute.
He said: 'Charlie was a special hero for me. He hired me for The Times and later for The Sporting Life.
'I regarded him as a great editor, transforming The Times from the paper of record into the paper of record and news. He was the first sports editor to become an editor.'
Mr Wilson was previously married to broadcaster and TV presenter Anne Robinson. He met Robinson, who would later become a household name as the host of The Weakest Link, while working at the Daily Mail and they had a tempestuous five-year marriage ending in a court battle for custody of their only child
Mr Wilson is survived by his wife of 21 years, Rachel, his three children, Emma, Luke and Lily and seven grandchildren.
He was previously married to broadcaster and TV presenter Anne Robinson and journalist Sally O'Sullivan.
He met Robinson, who would later become a household name as the host of The Weakest Link, while working at the Daily Mail and they had a tempestuous five-year marriage ending in a court battle for custody of their only child.
There will be a private family funeral followed by a memorial service at St Bride's Church on Fleet Street on a date to be announced. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11171609/Fleet-Street-legend-Charles-Wilson-dies-87.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-02T02:00:21Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11171609/Fleet-Street-legend-Charles-Wilson-dies-87.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Three gymnasts from Collin County placed in the top ten in the all-around at U.S. Championships two weeks ago in Tampa.
Konnor McClain, who trains in Plano, brought home top honors.
Frisco's Skye Blakeley came in sixth.
Allen's Katelyn Jong took ninth in what was only her first senior-level competition.
“I like to challenge myself and grow and that's my favorite part of gymnastics,” said Jong.
She is a soft-spoken 16-year-old who lets her skills do the talking.
“I love overcoming challenges. Gymnastics is not an easy sport,” she said.
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Jong started gymnastics when she was 4 years old at Metroplex Gym in Allen where she still trains.
“My parents told me I was very energetic when I was young and so they wanted to put me in some class,” said Jong.
She kept going and kept improving, becoming an elite gymnast in early 2020, just as the pandemic hit says Katelyn's coach Marnie Futch.
“She missed a big portion of the beginning of her junior career with the pandemic, a lot of competitions were canceled, things like that,” said Futch.
Jong bounced back in a big way.
At the 2021 U.S. Championships in Fort Worth, she won the all-around and uneven bar competitions, solidifying her spot as the top junior gymnast in the nation.
“It’s honestly like the greatest feeling because you know that you put in the work and it paid off,” she said.
Then she made the leap to senior ranks and rose to the occasion.
Jong placed ninth at the U.S. Championships in Tampa last month in her senior competition debut.
“Now that I’m part of senior division, I'm competing against Olympians and the best people out there so that was a really good experience,” said Jong.
“She went out there and she did her thing and she wasn't intimidated being out there standing next to girls that have more experience than her and she did a great job,” said Futch.
Jong likes playing the guitar when she isn't going to school or at the gym.
She says the 2024 Paris Olympics are in sight.
“That would be my dream come true,” said Jong.
Until then, she’s taking each competition one tumble at a time.
Jong’s next goal is to be selected for the World Challenge in Hungary.
She'll compete for a spot in Katy, outside Houston, next week. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/allens-katelyn-jong-lands-in-top-10-at-her-first-senior-competition/3062845/ | 2022-09-02T02:00:33Z | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/allens-katelyn-jong-lands-in-top-10-at-her-first-senior-competition/3062845/ | true |
NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Carvana Co. (NYSE: CVNA) between May 6, 2020 and June 24, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 3, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action commenced by the firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Carvana securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Carvana class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6457 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 3, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Carvana faced serious, ongoing issues with documentation, registration, and title with many of its vehicles; (2) as a result, Carvana was issuing unusually frequent temporary plates; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was violating laws and regulations in many existing markets; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana risked its ability to continue business and/or expand its business in existing markets; (5) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was at an increased risk of governmental investigation and action; (6) Carvana was in discussion with state and local authorities regarding the above-stated business tactics and issues; (7) Carvana was facing imminent and ongoing regulatory actions including license suspensions, business cessation, and probation in several states and counties including in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina; and (8) as a result, defendants' statements about Carvana's business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Hanover County Sheriff’s Office has released a public service announcement concerning a scam that spreads misinformation about monkeypox.
According to officials, cybercriminals have been sending emails about the latest monkeypox outbreaks and providing links to “mandatory safety awareness training.” This training is a scam.
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The last time a manager visited him on the mound in the middle of a start, Grayson Rodriguez exited with an injury. On Thursday, Aberdeen’s Roberto Mercado came out to issue an apology.
In his first start in exactly three months after suffering a Grade 2 right lat muscle strain with Triple-A Norfolk, Rodriguez, the Orioles’ top pitching prospect, recorded four outs on 31 pitches before the manager of Baltimore’s High-A affiliate met him on the mound for a long chat.
“He was basically just telling me he was sorry, but that I had reached the pitch count,” Rodriguez said with a chuckle. “Obviously went out there with not a lot to work with. But really, the main thing is just getting out there and getting my feet wet again.
“My heart hadn’t pumped like that in a while.”
The 22-year-old right-hander was likely on the verge of a promotion to the majors when he left his June 1 start with Norfolk with what he thought was a cramp. He had struck out 80 batters with a 2.09 ERA over 56 innings before the injury, describing that stretch as the best he’s pitched in his life.
He returned to the mound Thursday with the goal of reaching the majors before this season ends. He would join a playoff run that now features Adley Rutschman, DL Hall and Gunnar Henderson, who entered this season ranked by Baseball America as the Orioles’ first-, third- and fourth-best prospects. Rodriguez was ranked second, deemed the top pitching prospect in all of baseball.
Even in its brevity, Thursday’s start shows why he remains at the top even after the lost time. His fastball got up to 98 mph as he mixed in his cutter and each of his secondary pitches, a primary focus as he worked knowing he would be limited to a handful of batters. He followed a single to open the game with a strikeout on his changeup. He generated six misses on the 13 swings taken against him, though he was facing hitters three levels below where he would be if he had stayed healthy. But six straight balls led to a pair of walks that prompted the lengthy conversation with Mercado.
“More than happy with the velocity,” Rodriguez said. “Got the adrenaline pumping. … I think the stuff was there, obviously. Pitching coaches were letting me know what it looked like analytically. So everything was great. Better than I could have asked for. But obviously next outing, we’re going to focus more to get in the zone.”
He was unaware Thursday of where that outing would take place, though he expects to be on a typical five-day turn. That would put him on track for a start Tuesday and four more after that before the minor league season ends.
The timing paired with Thursday’s low pitch count suggests it might prove difficult for him to build up to the point where he factors into the Orioles’ major league rotation plans before the end of the season.
“We’re on a strict throwing program right now,” Rodriguez said. “Obviously, this isn’t the main focus, getting out of the second inning right now. If I had more pitches, I would have thrown ’em, but sadly that’s not the case.”
Still, he savored his first time on a mound in an official game in three months, even if it ended with another long conversation with a manager.
“It was tremendous,” Rodriguez said. “Being able to go out here and warm up, get on the mound before the game, just walk in the dugout, smell the ballpark and see the lights and everything, it was fantastic.
“I told the pitching coaches going out there tonight that I was gonna let it eat. We were able to do that, I was able to go 100%, and everything feels good.”
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Serena, Venus Williams lose in 1st round of U.S. Open doubles
Serena and Venus Williams have lost in the first round of doubles at the U.S. Open
Serena and Venus Williams lost in the first round of doubles at the U.S. Open to the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova 7-6 (5), 6-4 in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Thursday night.
Ashe had never hosted a first-round doubles match — for women or men, during the night or day — until this one featuring two American sisters who have combined to claim 14 Grand Slam titles in doubles but were partnering for the first time since the 2018 French Open.
This was their fourth first-round doubles defeat at a Slam; the most recent had been at the 2013 French Open.
As usual when playing together, they traded fist bumps or palm slaps and chatted between points; they smiled while conversing in their seats at changeovers. When the match ended, the sisters hugged each other. They left the court to a standing ovation.
“I’m still in shock that we won,” Hradecka said in an on-court interview right after the match’s conclusion.
Speaking to the crowd, she said: “I’m so sorry for you that we beat them, but we are so happy that we did it.”
An announced sellout of 23,859 showed up, just like for each of Serena’s two victories in singles so far this week, although the fans were not quite as boisterous Thursday as they had been for those other night matches involving a player who has hinted that this will be the final event of her career. Serena plays Ajla Tomljanovic on Friday night in the third round of singles; Venus lost in the first round of that bracket.
The doubles spectators saved their biggest cheers for some of Serena’s best efforts, whether aces or putaways or an on-the-run forehand winner. The sisters went up 5-4 early and held two set points there on Noskova’s serve, but could not convert either.
The loudest moment probably arrived after a 19-stroke point won by the sisters during the first-set tiebreaker, featuring three swinging volleys by Serena. That put them ahead 4-3, and soon it was 5-3.
But Hradecka and Noskova grabbed the next four points to claim that set. They then jumped ahead 3-0 in the second, and after the Williams sisters made it 4-all, the Czech team pulled away.
The Williams siblings received a wild-card entry into this year’s doubles field. Serena, who turns 41 next month, and Venus, who turned 42 in June, won doubles trophies at the U.S. Open in 1999 — the year Serena won her first major singles trophy at age 17 in New York — and 2009.
They have a total of 30 major trophies in singles: 23 for Serena, seven for Venus.
Hradecka is a 37-year-old who won two major doubles trophies with Andrea Hlavackova, at the 2013 U.S. Open and 2011 French Open. Noskova, 17, was making her Grand Slam doubles debut.
“Playing against the Williams sisters,” Noskova said, “is a special moment for everybody.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to shine despite weakening elements of the U.S. economy.
Applications for jobless aid for the week ending Aug. 27 fell by 5,000 to 232,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
The four-week average for claims, which evens out some of the week-to-week volatility, decreased by 4,000 to 241,500.
The number of Americans collecting traditional unemployment benefits rose by 26,000 the week that ended Aug. 20, to 1.44 million.
First-time applications generally reflect layoffs and are often seen as an early indicator of where the job market is headed.
Hiring in the U.S. in 2022 has been remarkably strong even as the country faces rising interest rates and weak economic growth.
On Tuesday, the government reported that the number of open jobs in the United States rose in July after three months of declines. There were 11.2 million open jobs available on the last day of July — nearly two jobs, on average, for every unemployed person — a sign that employers are still urgently seeking workers despite a weakening economy and high inflation.
The Labor Department issues its August jobs report on Friday, and analysts surveyed by the data provider FactSet expect the U.S. economy added a robust 300,000 jobs.
U.S. employers added 528,000 jobs in July, according to the Labor Department, more than double what forecasters had expected. The unemployment rate dipped to 3.5%, tying a 50-year low reached just before coronavirus pandemic slammed the U.S. economy in early 2020.
Inflation continues to be the biggest threat to both the global and U.S. economies. The rise in consumer prices slowed modestly from June to July, bur remains historically high enough that the Federal Reserve has indicated it will keep raising interest rates until prices retreat.
The Fed has raised its benchmark short-term interest rate four times this year and Chairman Jerome Powell said last week that the central bank will likely need to keep interest rates high enough to slow the economy “for some time” in order to tame the worst inflation in 40 years. Powell has acknowledged the increases will hurt U.S. households and businesses, but also said the pain would be worse if inflation were allowed to fester.
Even though the labor market remains historically strong, some of that pain has already begun, particularly in the housing and technology sectors. Online real estate companies RedFin and Compass have recently announced job cuts as rising interest rates have cooled red-hot a housing market.
There has also been pullback in the tech sector after a nearly two-year pandemic boom. Snap, owner of the social media platform Snapchat, said Wednesday that it was cutting 20% of its global workforce due to declining revenue.
PVH, the owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, also announced Wednesday a 10% cut to “people costs” by the end of 2023.
Netflix, Carvana and Tesla have also announced layoffs in recent months.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — One summer night, Misty Castillo stepped out of her house in Salem, Oregon, called 911 and asked for the police, saying her son was mentally ill, was assaulting her and her husband and had a knife.
“He’s drunk and he’s high and he’s mentally ill,” Castillo told the emergency dispatcher, emphasizing again her son’s mental condition. Less than five minutes later, a police officer burst into the house and shot Arcadio Castillo III dead as he stood, his mother said later, “frozen like a deer in headlights.”
“He didn’t try to calm him down. He just came in and immediately shot my son,” Castillo said.
Time and time again across the U.S., people experiencing mental health crises are being killed by police, but the exact number remains unknown because of a yawning governmental information gap.
A law passed by Congress in 2016 requires the Department of Justice to collect and publish data on how often federal, state and local officers use force, how many times that force ends up being fatal and how often the deceased had a mental illness. But the law doesn’t require police departments to tell the DOJ how many people their officers killed. The FBI, for the first quarter of this year, estimated that only 40% of all law enforcement agencies submitted use-of-force numbers.
Arcadio’s parents had sought mental health treatment for their 23-year-old son and even tried to have him committed. But the system, such as it is, failed them.
Across the country, in West Virginia, another system failure, another death.
Matt Jones was apparently suffering from a severe manic episode while standing on a highway with a handgun. Police were everywhere, sirens wailing. The scene on July 6 in the community of Bradley was captured by a bystander on video. One officer took a shot and then others opened fire, killing Jones in a hail of bullets.
The 36-year-old had been unable to get his medication refilled and was experiencing delusions and hallucinations, his fiancée, Dreamer Marquis, said.
“He desperately wanted help,” Marquis said. “He knew that he needed the medication in order to live a normal life because he knew that he would have manic episodes that would get him in trouble.”
Advocates for people with mental illness say it’s clear they face greater risk of a police encounter resulting in their death.
Hannah Wesolowski, chief advocacy officer of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, said the deaths of Castillo and Jones “highlight a larger systemic problem that we have in helping people who are struggling with their mental health or are in a mental health crisis.”
Many communities lack a mental health crisis infrastructure, with nearly 130 million people in the United States living in an area with a shortage of mental health providers, she said.
People with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter than other people approached by law enforcement, the Treatment Advocacy Center said in a 2015 report.
In Portland, Oregon, 72% of the 85 people who were shot to death by police from 1975 to 2020 were affected by mental illness, drugs or alcohol, or some combination thereof, according to Jason Renaud of the Mental Health Association of Portland. The group does not have the numbers for those affected by mental illness alone, but sometimes they’re intertwined. Long-term methamphetamine use, for instance, can cause psychosis.
Lt. Nathan Sheppard, a Portland Police Bureau spokesman, said he couldn’t confirm those numbers. All Portland police officers receive crisis intervention training, he said, but more must be done to address what he described as a “public health emergency … in which services and treatment are not readily available or easily accessible for those in need of mental health treatment.”
Misty Castillo is suing a Salem police officer and the city for the failure to use crisis intervention tactics and training before the officer resorted to deadly force by shooting Arcadio, on July 9, 2021. A grand jury found the shooting was justified. The district attorney’s office said Arcadio rushed towards the officer with a knife in a stabbing position, but his mother denied that.
A case worker at a psychiatric crisis center couldn’t diagnose Arcadio because of his drug and alcohol use, Castillo said. Arcadio’s parents tried to have him committed to a psychiatric institution, “but everywhere we turned we were told he wasn’t sick enough to be committed,” Castillo said. “And one week later he was killed.”
A video of the West Virginia killing hit social media before Jones’ loved ones were informed about his death.
Nicole Jones, his sister-in-law, was scrolling through Facebook when she clicked on a video that showed a man with blond shoulder-length hair walking on a highway, pursued by at least eight police with guns drawn. The man held his arms above his head, a pistol in one hand. He pointed the gun at his own head briefly.
Jones’ heart dropped as she recognized the man’s walk and the way he flipped his hair over his shoulder— and realized it was her husband Mark’s brother.
Mark Jones said Matt, who had been a star baseball player and wrestler, struggled with mental health since childhood. Matt built a landscaping and tree removal company but was also getting in trouble — often DUIs or driving without a license or violating probation, his family said.
While incarcerated, Matt was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and placed on medication. But weeks before his death, he was running low on pills and broke down crying, his fiancée said.
He didn’t have a driver’s license. His social security card and birth certificate were elsewhere. That made it difficult to make medical appointments, Marquis said.
Mark Jones was at work landscaping when he saw the video of his brother being shot.
“I was trying to understand, ‘What was he thinking?’” he said. “What I keep coming back to is that he was lost and he really wanted help — not just one time, but his whole life.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tim DeMorat threw for five touchdowns and ran for a score to propel Fordham to a 48-31 victory over Wagner in a season opener on Thursday night.
Wagner had its losing streak extended to 21 straight games — the longest active run in the FCS.
DeMorat helped Fordham pull away in the third quarter, throwing for three touchdowns to build a 34-28 lead entering the fourth. DeMorat had back-to-back TD passes to Fotis Kokosioulis covering 44 and 42 yards.
DeMorat and Trey Sneed added TD runs in the fourth quarter to close out the scoring for Fordham.
DeMorat completed 18 of 25 passes for 385 yards with one interception. Kokosioulis finished with eight catches for 194 yards, while Julius Loughridge rushed for 114 yards on 20 carries.
Nick Kargman completed just 13 of 32 passes for 218 yards with two picks. Simmons had eight receptions for 162 yards and a TD.
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Which hard-sided cat carriers are best?
Dogs are generally eager to jump into the car and go for a drive. They seem to love nothing more than sticking their heads out the window to catch the breeze. Cats, on the other hand, prefer the comforts of home — it’s often a struggle to round them up, bundle them into the car and drive to where you need to go.
So before you end up with multiple scratches and are seen as the worst pet parent, get a good-quality cat carrier with hard sides. The Van Ness Calm Carrier E-Z Load Sliding Drawer is an excellent choice, as it’s easy to get your cat inside.
What to know before you buy a hard-sided carrier
The size of your cat
Since not all cats are the same size, you must consider their dimensions when looking for a carrier. An excellent way to determine this is to measure your cat’s height from the floor and how much space it needs to turn around. The carrier’s internal space should be large enough for the cat to comfortably stand and turn in. Keep in mind that cats might be in the carrier for long periods, and if they can’t stretch their legs, it could cause cramping or discomfort.
You can also throw in some cat toys if there is space.
The closure mechanism
Cats are inquisitive and quickly learn how things work. That’s why you must ensure that the closure mechanism is challenging to paw open. Most use a system where you must unlatch two points to open the door or have several clips that can’t be manipulated.
The number of openings can also make your life a lot easier when you need to take your cat out or put it in the carrier. One opening at the front is tricky, as a cat can (and will) brace itself against the edges.
A better strategy is to get a carrier with two openings or a carrier where the hard top easily comes off the base. It’s easier to put a cat inside from above than from the front, but it’s best if the top part comes down over them onto the base.
Hard-sided is the way to go
There are plenty of carriers, from cat backpacks and cardboard to strollers and rolling carriers. But the best and safest way to transport your feline friend is in a hard-sided carrier. It keeps the cat safe from external dangers and also lowers stress levels because visibility isn’t that great.
However, if you plan to fly with your cat, you must check with the airline on its rules. Some carriers are too large for in-cabin flights, as they must be stored underneath the seat in front of you. The maximum dimensions on certain airlines are 18.11 by 11.02 by 9.45 inches.
What to look for in a quality hard-sided carrier
Indestructible plastic
Your cat’s safety should be the top priority, regardless if you’re going to the vet around the corner or flying across the world. By nature, a hard-sided carrier is made of plastic, but a good-quality carrier is nearly indestructible. It can withstand several drops and bangs (preferably without a cat inside) and shouldn’t chip or break at any point.
Normal wear and tear, such as scratches and scuffs, is expected. But that should in no way compromise the carrier’s integrity.
It comes apart for easy storage
Cat carriers are for a specific purpose and probably won’t be used often. They are bulky and difficult to store, but a good-quality carrier can easily come apart. You’d be surprised how much space you save by simply popping off the top and stacking it on the lower base. If it doesn’t detach from itself, you could store other items inside to make room.
Maintenance and cleaning
While it doesn’t happen often, cats occasionally soil the carrier. Any cat owner can attest to the challenge of getting the cat urine smell out of anything. A good-quality carrier is easy to clean and is effortless if it comes apart.
Mild soap and lukewarm water usually do the trick, but if harsher chemicals are needed, ensure that the carrier is appropriately dry and odor-free before the next use. For more comfort, line the carrier with absorbent padding. Your cat will be comfortable, and the liquid and odor are repressed when an accident happens.
How much you can expect to spend on a hard-sided carrier
The price depends on its size and features. A regular carrier with plastic sides and a metal door costs $20-$30, while a larger carrier with multiple access points runs $50-$80.
Hard-sided carrier FAQ
Do carriers come with padding?
A. It’s rare to find a hard-sided carrier with padding inside. If your cat wants something soft to sit on, you can put a folded-up towel or a thin piece of foam inside.
How do you secure a carrier in your vehicle?
A. Most people put it on the front or back seat, but that also depends on its size. For added safety, some carriers have a protruding handle at the top through which you can feed the seat belt.
What’s the best hard-sided carrier to buy?
Top hard-sided carrier
Van Ness Calm Carrier E-Z Load Sliding Drawer
What you need to know: This cat carrier is the perfect solution if you struggle to get your cat inside.
What you’ll love: It looks like a regular cat carrier but has a special mechanism where the bottom slides out. This is perfect if your cat has trouble getting in or out and makes it easy for the vet to take a look. It has a metal door in the front that clips into the carrier’s sides.
What you should consider: The door can’t open without sliding the drawer.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
Top hard-sided carrier for the money
MidWest Spree Hard-Sided Cat Kennel
What you need to know: This sturdy carrier will keep your beloved pet safe with ample room to move around.
What you’ll love: Made of robust plastic, this carrier has a door on the front that’s secured with four latches. It can open in two directions or be removed entirely.
What you should consider: It will be a tight fit for larger cats, as it is best suited for cats weighing around 11 pounds.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
Worth checking out
Catit Cabrio Multi-Functional Cat Kennel
What you need to know: Your cat will travel in style with this sleek carrier that opens multiple ways.
What you’ll love: The robust carrier has a see-through plastic door in the front with a kibble and water holder inside. It swings wide open for easy access, and the top lid is divided into two parts that disconnect to open the carrier completely.
What you should consider: Some reviewers said that the hinges on the top section aren’t as sturdy as expected.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, September 2, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
910 PM CDT Thu Sep 1 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south central Texas, including the following
county, Lee.
* WHEN...Until 1215 AM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 907 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2.5 inches of
rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 2 inches are expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Giddings, Lexington, Fedor, Leo, Lincoln, Manheim, Blue,
Loebau, Knobb Springs, U.S. Highway 77 and State Highway 21.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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BY DUDLEY E. DAWSON
Shiloh Christian head football coach Jeff Conaway is known as one of the nicest guys around, but he admits that he might not have been that well liked by his team last week.
That’s because the Saints did not have a game in what’s called week zero and had to sit and watch a lot of other teams get their seasons underway.
They will open their 2022 season Friday night at 7 p.m. by hosting Little Rock Christian (1-0), who routed Little Rock Central 41-6 last week.
“It was miserable,” Conaway said. “I was very irritable because we weren’t playing and it felt like everybody else was.
“But we do feel like there were some advantages it. We got a chance to go watch Little Rock Christian play Friday night in person and I do think our players are a little irritable and feel like caged animals so that’s a positive. I do think overall our legs are fresh, our bodies aren’t beat up and we have been very strategic with how we have been practicing and maintaining our conditioning.
“…I think we will play edgy, I think we will play fresh, I think we will fly around and we will be excited to play. We may not win, but I think we will play with a lot of speed and tenacity.”
The game will feature two of the state’s best quarterbacks in Little Rock Christian junior Walker White (6-4, 215) and Shiloh Christian senior Eli Wisdom (6-0, 175).
White has an offer from Arkansas as well as Florida, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Louisville, TCU, Tulsa, Syracuse, Virginia and others.
He led the Warriors, who return seven offensive and six defensive starters to a 10-3 mark last season while passing for 2,032 yards with 23 touchdowns and rushing for 483 yards and five more scores.
“I think from a match-up perspective that they have some really good talent at a lot of spots on both sides of the football,” Conaway said. “Obviously everyone would start at the quarterback position, he is very solid and the real deal. He is a big body kid that can run when he wants to. There is not a throw that he can’t make just because of the strength of his arm.
“So he is the real deal and they’ve also got some guys around that are very athletic and can turn those short passes into explosive plays or hand it off to the sophomore back. He is a short, stocky, hard runner.
“Offensively we are definitely going to have our hands full. And defensively I could just repeat that. They look really good at a lot of positions. They do some things that aren’t traditional with their defensive schemes so we are going to have to make sure we are prepared.”
Wisdom, who passed for 2,991 yards and rushed for 1,021 whole accounting for 54 touchdowns, has offers from the University of Central Florida and Tulane and intrest from Arkansas, Memphis and others.
Wisdom is going into this third year as the starting signal caller for the Saints, who were 13-2 last season and return three starters on offense and five on defense after losing current Arkansas linebacker Kaden Henley, who had over 400 tackles at Shiloh.
“There is no doubt about it, he is really, really good, Conaway said of Wisdom. “There is not a day or week that goes by that we aren’t thankful we have him. He is just so versatile. He’s a senior this year and he has done a great job of developing some guys around him this year because he knows we are going to need them.
“There is not a scheme that we can put in that we don’t feel comfortable. Number one, cognitively he is going to understand it and two, he is going to coach them up. We can continue to grow our playbook because we have a second coach on the field.
“He’s as accurate as he has ever been, he’s fast, he’s healthy and we really need him to score, I don’t know, about seven or right touchdowns in this game Friday night.”
Shiloh’s roster also includes senior defensive end/linebacker JT Odom (6-2, 220) and sophomore reserve signal caller Garrett Odom (6-0, 165), both sons of Arkansas defensive coordinator Barry Odom.
Visitors to Friday night’s game will notice construction underway on a new football facility right by the Field of Champions Stadium.
Conaway believes that is needed as his program makes the move from Class 4A to 5A this season.
“We are so excited and they can’t get that thing built quickly enough,” Conaway said. “We have really worked on it for a long time and to see movement out there is very encouraging. “We really believe that is a game-changer for us. We think we are pretty efficient right now in terms of development athletes, but that is only going to help maximize it.
“We are going to be able to develop more athletes at an even faster past once we get that built. We are excited, thrilled and very blessed.”
Shiloh now finds itself in a 5A-West Conference with Farmington, Harrison, Alma, Prairie Grove, Dardanelle, Clarksville and Pea Ridge.
The last the Saints were in Class 5A was in 2012 and 2013 when they went 12-8-1 a far cry from four straight conference titles and three consecutive trips to the Class 4A state championship game.
Shiloh has won 53 games in the last four seasons.
“The challenges are real and we are going to play some teams that, let’s be honest, are better, they got more players, they got more coaches, they got better facilities, but I think that only sharpens us,” Conaway said. “That forces us to be better. I have got better as the head coach, our assistants have to get better, our players have to get better and be bigger and stronger and faster.
“We have been telling them all spring and all summer to expect to block people that are 20 pounds heavier. Expect to have to tackle people that are two-tenths faster. Is it really that easy? I don’t know, but we really do believe that level of play is going to be more difficult so we have to make sure we are rising to that occasion.” | https://www.fox16.com/fearless-friday/fearless-friday-content/white-wisdom-set-for-qb-battle-friday-night/ | 2022-09-02T02:43:39Z | https://www.fox16.com/fearless-friday/fearless-friday-content/white-wisdom-set-for-qb-battle-friday-night/ | true |
Matregenix is headquartered at University Lab Partners, the premier life science incubator located in UCI Research Park.
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Matregenix announces a grant award from the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research under the auspices of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant will be utilized to develop a new dental barrier membrane for guided bone regeneration.
Guided bone regeneration (GBR) is a common technique used in the dental industry for the treatment of bony defects, among other conditions. Barrier membranes are crucial components of GBR procedures, used to cover the bone defect and create a secluded space that facilitates growth of the bone by preventing connective tissue from interfering in that growth while also protecting the wound. Legacy membranes fall short of attaining the desired properties for GBR techniques leading to additional costs and unnecessary pain for patients.
"Our new approach will address the limitations of current products by eliminating the need for animal-based materials while introducing a new biomaterial to benefit the areas of soft tissue repair applications. This award will help us validate the clinical significance of our innovative membrane to provide a more suitable armamentarium for oral and craniomaxillofacial bone regeneration compared to the gold standard collagen membrane," stated Dr. Sherif Soliman, Founder and CEO of Matregenix.
The research will be conducted in collaboration with Prof. Marco Bottino's research group from the University of Michigan. "This project is built on the extensive published and preliminary data that my lab has generated in collaboration with Matregenix over the past 3 years, and I strongly believe that successful completion of this project is the critical step to translating the next-generation of barrier membranes for guided bone regeneration applications," stated Prof. Marco Bottino, University of Michigan School of Dentistry.
Matregenix has also been recognized as a finalist in the 2022 High Tech Awards powered by Octane. In addition, the Matregenix Transparent Nanofiber Mask was announced as a Phase 2 finalist in the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)-NIOSH-NIST Mask Innovation Challenge.
Matregenix Inc. is a California-based technology company that designs, develops, and manufactures highly tunable nanofibrous materials adaptable to customized needs in a wide range of applications.
University Lab Partners (ULP) is a premier, nonprofit, wet lab incubator located in UCI Research Park in Irvine, CA. ULP is a professionally managed and equipped wet lab facility along with the benefits of peer-to-peer interactions among a life science-focused entrepreneurial community.
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Abbott Elementary is almost back on our screens, and ET is exclusively debuting the new teaser trailer for season 2 of ABC's hit new comedy series.
After a highly acclaimed debut season, our favorite group of dedicated and passionate teachers is heading back to school for a new year and things get as chaotically adorable as we've come to expect.
In the new teaser, the teachers prepare for the upcoming school year with what creator Quinta Brunson's Janine calls the "calm before the storm," aka development week. Sheryl Lee Ralph's Barbara, Lisa Ann Walter's Melissa, Chris Perfetti's Jacob, Janelle James' Ava and Tyler James Williams' newly full-time Gregory are all in attendance as they ready the school -- and themselves -- for the kids' return.
Even Abbott’s eccentric custodian, Mr. Johnson (William Stanford Davis), who was promoted to series regular before production on season 2 began, gets into the new swing of things in the footage.
Of course, pandemonium returns when the kids make their appearance. Watch the teaser above.
Last month, the cast was joined at San Diego Comic-Con by executive producers Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker in a live virtual panel, where they first revealed the premiere date and that the upcoming season scored a rare full-season, 22-episode order.
And while the cast remained tight-lipped on what other surprises are in store for season 2, especially when it comes to possible famous cameos, Brunson did offer one tease, "You're going to see a cameo in the first episode."
"I'm not gonna tell you who it is but it's a really good one," she added, with Schumacker noting that they were only allowed the mysterious guest for "literally one day."
"It's someone we didn't think we'd be able to get," Brunson teased. "It's one of the biggest stars in the world to me. They are the biggest star we've seen thus far at Abbott Elementary."
Fans will learn who the mystery star is when Abbott Elementary season 2 premieres on ABC, Wednesday, Sept. 21.
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The Uses of Dependency Information in Database Development
Dependency information will allow you to avoid errors during a database build or tear-down, by ensuring you create or remove objects in the right order. It will also help you to avoid future 'invalid object' errors, because it will allow you to check that no database alterations have introduced broken references, during Flyway migrations.
Whether you are using Flyway, or a more state-based approach, it is easy to become exasperated with the task of running scripts that create or alter databases. In particular, the database’s ‘safety net’ errors, triggered to prevent you breaking references between objects, are a common source of frustration. These errors will stop the build script and, unless you run the entire script within a transaction, you will be faced with a mopping-up task to roll back any changes. One of the virtues of Flyway is that it will run each script in a transaction, if the RDBMS you use allows it, and force a rollback on any error. This leaves the result at the previous version.
Avoiding execution errors in Data-definition Language (DDL) scripts
When you’re building a database, or making changes to it, you’ve got to do things in the right order. For example, whenever SQL Server executes a CREATE
or ALTER
statement for a table, it checks all references that it makes via constraints to any other objects. It will raise an “invalid object” error on the referencing object if the referenced object doesn’t yet exist.
This most often happens if the relationship between tables is enforced by a foreign key constraint. Even though you know that you’re about to define that missing table that is referred to in a constraint, the database doesn’t, so it gives an error. Databases, annoyingly, deal with objective reality rather than ‘your truth’. Things must be done in the correct sequence: You can’t, for example, do much else in a database until you have your schemas created.
When working out the correct place in a build for tables to be created, isn’t just foreign key constraints that can trip you up. You might have, in SQL Server, a computed column or check constraint that uses a function. If that function isn’t yet created, your build is toast. The same goes for user-defined types.
You’ll face a similar problem in the process of dropping database objects: you can’t drop an object if there are other objects still referring to it. I use the word ‘objects’ because it isn’t just a matter of creating or dropping each type of object in the right order, so you do ‘user types’ first, then tables, then views and so on. It will often work out, but not always. Some database systems, such as SQL Server, will allow tables to have constraints that contain schema-bound user functions. That means that the user function can’t be deleted until the table is deleted.
All of us who develop relational database will have experienced the difficulties of getting the order of making changes right. Those of us who are old enough to have created build scripts without handy tools will know that you only add a table when all the tables that it references via foreign keys are already created. As a more general rule, don’t create an object until you’ve created the objects to which it refers.
Many RDBMSs allow you to break this rule, but it is still a good way of working that makes it easier to read a script. Otherwise, the experience of reading a script becomes like watching an irritating film that gets into the action without giving the audience the slightest clue as to who the various characters are, and how they relate.
Another way of breaking the rule in build scripts is to create all the tables first and then subsequently alter them to add the foreign key constraints. That works fine but if you are used to ‘reading’ table creation scripts, it is confusing to have to look outside of the CREATE
TABLE
statement to find all the ALTER
statements that complete the ‘story’ about the table. To write code that is easy to maintain, all keys and constraints should be contained within the table definition.
Don’t even think about leaving out constraints because they cause hassle. Foreign key constraints are essential for databases. Although they complicate CREATE
and DROP
DDL code, they ‘shift-left’ the errors into development where they are, perhaps irritating, but harmless. Above all else they are our best defense against bad data, but they also help performance by informing the query optimizer and they cause the supporting indexes to be created.
Detecting broken ‘soft references’
We must clarify what is meant by ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ dependencies. Hard dependencies occur in tables and are defined explicitly by a foreign key constraint. Soft dependencies happen when you refer, within an object, to another object. You’ll get an immediate error from a breaking a hard dependency, or hard reference, because it is enforced by a constraint. However, broken soft references can sneak into non-schema-bound objects, such views, table-valued functions, triggers or stored procedures, without you noticing.
Let’s say you’ve created a module (e.g., a view, procedure or function) that references a table, and then someone removes or renames an object, such as a column, that the module references. Depending on your RDBMS, you may not hit the “invalid object” errors until the module is next used.
Some RMBMSs have bespoke ways of checking for broken soft references, in SQL Server’s case by using the sp_RefreshSQModule
system stored procedure, as I explain in Checking for Missing Module References in a SQL Server Database Using Flyway. PostgreSQL has metadata that will do the same thing (see here)
Some also allow you to protect these ‘soft references’ by using schema binding for a routine. If you have a SQL Server routine that relies on the existence of, or attributes of, a column in a table, you can use WITH
SCHEMDABINDING
to ensure that the referenced table can’t be removed, or altered in a way that would break these references. If you attempt to do so, you’ll get a ‘binding’ error. Schema binding will protect all objects that use the schema-bound routine. Where you can refer to a schema-bound user-defined function in a computed column of a table (PostgreSQL’s generated columns don’t allow this), that function must be deleted after the table.
If you accidentally prevent a SQL expression from working in, say, a view, the RDBMS will know about it, but is assuming that you’ll put things right before the view is next used. If not, then the view will error out. If you are executing SQL directly from an application, then you’re at a huge disadvantage because you can’t be certain that the object you’ve changed or deleted isn’t being occasionally used in SQL DML from the application. It is much better for an application to use just an interface to the database, using views, procedures, and functions, so that you know for certain the objects that can be accessed).
We can, in SQL Server, and a few other RDBMSs, detect these missing ‘soft dependencies’ using the sys.sql_expression_dependencies
system catalog view. We can illustrate what can go wrong and show how to detect these ‘invalid objects’ when we create them. We’ll create a table and a function that references it, and then do some unkind things to see what happens.
This gives the following results
---- both objects created. DeleteThisTestFunction is dependent on DeleteThisTestTable ---- We execute the function (0 rows affected) ---- Hmm. That works. We now test to make sure there are no broken dependencies (0 rows affected) ---- We now drop the table so that the function will produce an error ---- Has SQL Server found the broken dependency? (1 row affected) ---- We re-execute the function. This should produce a binding error Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Procedure DeleteThisTestFunction, Line 8 [Batch Start Line 41] Invalid object name 'dbo.DeleteThisTestTable'. Msg 4413, Level 16, State 1, Line 42 Could not use view or function 'dbo.DeleteThisTestFunction' because of binding errors. ---- Yup. Error. We now drop the function ---- The broken 'soft' dependency has disappeared. (0 rows affected) Now we create the same function but with schema binding Msg 3729, Level 16, State 1, Line 74 Cannot DROP TABLE 'dbo.DeleteThisTestTable' because it is being referenced by object 'DeleteThisTestFunction'. Msg 3729, Level 16, State 1, Line 72 Cannot DROP TABLE 'dbo.DeleteThisTestTable' because it is being referenced by object 'DeleteThisTestFunction'. Msg 3705, Level 16, State 1, Line 79 Cannot use DROP FUNCTION with 'dbo.DeleteThisTestTable' because 'dbo.DeleteThisTestTable' is a table. Use DROP TABLE. Completion time: 2022-08-03T15:11:14.7396017+01:00(0 rows affected) As you'll see from the result, the RDBMS knows when there is an unsatisfied reference but isn't going to rear up on its hind legs unless you attempt to use it (delayed compilation). You'll also see the effects of adding schema binding. It means that the table cannot be deleted while the function is referring to it. If one of our Flyway migrations scripts accidentally breaks a soft reference made by a non-schema-bound object then, even though SQL Server knows about it, we won't find out about it until a user runs the broken function. To avoid this, it's best to run a check for broken soft references such as the one for SQL Server described here, as part of the migration, and roll it back if any are detected.
The tear-down
Take, as an example, a problem where you need to tear down a database that you’ve used for a test. Real-life examples are often more complicated because you may need to allow certain schemas or objects such as tables to be retained. Again, we’ll use SQL Server, because it is easy to find soft dependencies, either schema-bound or non-schema-bound, using sys.sql_expression_dependencies
. In my DropAllObjects
procedure, below, the first objects to be deleted are those to which no other object refers. Having done so, we find that there are now more objects to which no other object refers (because we just deleted the referring objects). We just repeat until all the objects are deleted. This stored procedure will even delete itself, which is very thorough. To try it out, restore a copy of AdventureWorks, or whatever sample database you have, and double-check that you are logged into the right database and not accidentally logged into the company’s payroll database as admin.
Flyway does its best to perform the same trick with its Clean command and it works well with most of my sample databases. However, as I write this, it fails with AdventureWorks, SQL Server’s sample database, due to SQL Server’s useful schema-binding feature.
Building from object-level scripts
One of the most important uses for dependency information about a database is for building databases from object-level scripts. For just building a database, it is easier to generate a single-file build script, but sometimes it is more convenient to do it from object-level source.
The migration-based approach to building databases, used by Flyway, has many advantages, but you lose the useful feature of committing object-level source to source control, which means that you can no longer track changes to individual objects over time. This is mainly useful for table, which will often get altered, in several places, in a sequence of migrations. Where, for example, a table has a change of index, this will then be picked up as a change in source control.
Redgate’s UI that combines Flyway and schema comparison functionality, called Flyway Desktop, also maintains the object-level source as well as migration scripts. Flyway command line allows you to get over this by supporting callbacks that allow you to save an object-level source for the entire database, after every migration run. I’ve included a $CreateScriptFoldersIfNecessary
task in my Flyway Teamwork framework that generates the object-level scripts (see Creating Database Build Artifacts when Running Flyway Migrations).
When you write out an object-level script using the tools provided to go with the RDBMS, it is usual with SQL Server to provide a manifest. You don’t need this if you have Schema Compare for Oracle or SQL Compare for SQL Server because they can work with this source directly, to build a database – but for other RDBMSs, you would need to do it manually. There are plenty of uses for a having a manifest generated, every time you migrate a database to a new version. I’ll explore these in a later article.
A manifest is just a list of all the files that must be executed to build the database from the object-level scripts. Normally, the manifest is generated via SMO, the programmatic interface into SSMS. However, it is a lot quicker and easier to do this in SQL. Unless you have a Redgate Compare tool, you are forced to prepare your manifest from the live database. My Flyway Teamwork has a script task ($SaveDatabaseModelIfNecessary
) that generates a table manifest for you from the JSON model of the database.
Unlike a schema compare tool, this type of manifest cannot deal with a build if you add object script files or make changes that change the dependencies. Here is the code to generate a manifest to go with your object-level source. It relies on you creating the schemas and types first, as it is only concerned with order of building schema-based objects.
When calling this in AdventureWorks, using the following expression …
…it will give …
Summary
The way that relational databases police dependencies and references can strike fear into the heart of a database novice. It is the same terror with which a child might face a life-saving inoculation. To the experienced database developer, the terror of bad data and broken references or dependencies is far, far greater, and we therefore apply constraints to guard against even the most unlikely of events. If you neglect this, fate has a way of illustrating your carelessness with a public and humiliating disaster.
The disentangling of the complex interrelationships between database objects is therefore a soothing activity, like mending your safety net. A slight inconvenience during a build, deletion or alteration, involving the rollback of a migration, is a small price to pay for a powerful defense against bad data or broken processes.
Manifests, which are ordered lists of database objects, originally were just used for building databases from object-level script files. However, they have a surprising number of uses. Flyway Teamwork can generate table manifests, which just include tables, for all the RDBMSs that it supports. These are valuable for any tasks that involve all or most of your tables, such as importing data, exporting data, clearing out data, finding out how many rows there are in each table and so on. From this introduction, we’ll explain all this in more detail when we demonstrate how to change your datasets.
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Bombers re-sign Stewart, Hawks axe four
Versatile tall James Stewart has inked a new two-year deal with Essendon, while Hawthorn have released four players ahead of the AFL trade period and draft.
Daniel Howe, Tom Phillips, Connor Downie and Jackson Callow have all been axed by the Hawks.
The moves follow the retirement of premiership heroes Ben McEvoy and Liam Shiels.
Howe was let go after eight seasons and 97 games with Hawthorn, while Next Generation Academy product Downie (two) and mid-season rookie draft selection Callow (three) made just a handful of senior appearances between them.
Phillips played all 22 games in his first season with Hawthorn after being traded by Collingwood but managed just four this season.
Stewart played just six AFL games for Essendon this year but Bombers list manager Adrian Dodoro said the 28-year-old's ability to play at both ends of the ground makes him a valuable asset.
"James is an experienced key position player who can use his strength to be a key target in attack or transition down back to stop opposition forwards," Dodoro said.
"We look forward to seeing James continue to grow and develop over the years to come."
Stewart, 28, believes his best football is still ahead of him after 78 games over 10 seasons with Essendon and GWS.
"I'm driven to working hard on improving this football club," Stewart said.
"It has been a challenging year for a variety of reasons but I believe that this is why we play football.
"The 150th-year celebrations showcased how challenging times can make winning premierships more meaningful."
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Huff sparks Furman to 52-0 rout of D-II North Greenville
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Tyler Huff threw for two touchdowns and ran for another as Furman piled up 456 yards of offense in the first half en route to a 52-0 win over Division II North Greenville in a college football opener on Thursday night.
Dominic Roberto ran for two first-half touchdowns as the Paladin's bolted to a 45-0 lead in the first Thursday game in Paladin Stadium history. It was the first season-opener shutout since 1988 and first home shutout since 2003.
Huff, a graduate transfer from Presbyterian, found two-time All-American tight end Ryan Miller for a 33-yard touchdown on the game´s opening drive.
North Greenville, which is 12 miles from the Furman campus but had never played the Paladins before, were never in the game with three turnovers before the break. The Crusaders' second possession ended with Cally Chizik picking off Bryce Fields and going 56 yards for a touchdown.
Furman was sporting new black uniforms to start its 117th season of football, the first time since 2016 the Paladins wore black. Their helmets - featuring the Diamond F on one side and player number on the other - were purple for the first time in more than 50 years.
The Paladins finished with 589 yards and allowed 227.
Crusaders coach Jeff Farrington was assistant at Furman from 2002-10.
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Wiley's TD run in OT gets Akron past FCS school St. Francis
AKRON, Ohio (AP) - Cam Wiley had a 1-yard touchdown run in overtime and Akron held off FCS-member St. Francis (Pa.) 30-23 on Thursday night in the debut of head coach Joe Moorhead.
Wiley scored on the first possession of overtime in the season opener for both teams. Justin Sliwoski then drove the Red Flash to the Akron 6, including a 16-yard pass to Dawson Snyder on fourth-and-10. But Tyson Durant picked off a Sliwoski pass to end it.
It was Akron´s first season-opening win since 2018 against Morgan State. Moorhead spent the last two seasons as offensive coordinator at Oregon and was an assistant at Akron from 2004-08.
DJ Irons threw two touchdown passes and was 23 of 38 for 270 yards passing for the Zips. Irons lofted a 41-yard pass to Shocky Jacques-Louis, who beat two defenders and made a two-handed, over-the-shoulder catch, that gave the Zips a 17-16 lead late in the third quarter. Irons connected with nine receivers that included six completions of 15 yards or more.
The Zips stretched their lead to 23-16 with 5:42 left on Wiley's 7-yard touchdown run, but St. Francis blocked the PAT attempt. Sliwoski then tossed a 55-yard pass to Dawson Snyder that sparked a five-play, 81-yard drive, capped by Deondre Scott's 7-yard touchdown run, to tie it 23-23 with 3:30 remaining.
Sliwoski was 11-of-17 passing for 162 yards. Damon Horton also had a touchdown run for St. Francis.
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New PM has fewer than 1,000 days before next general election
Whoever replaces Boris Johnson as prime minister on September 6 will have fewer than 1,000 days in office before they need to call a general election.
The last possible date for the nation to go the polls is January 23, 2025 – only 870 days into the new PM’s tenure.
But they will face their first test at the ballot box even sooner.
Local elections are due to take place in England and Northern Ireland in just over eight months’ time, on May 4, 2023.
Council seats will be up for grabs in most towns and cities – though not in London – along with dozens of smaller councils.
(PA Graphics)
A bigger set of elections are scheduled for May 2, 2024, including local councils in England and Wales plus mayoral contests in London, Greater Manchester, the West Midlands and Merseyside.
There is a chance the new prime minister will not want to wait until the last possible date to call a general election, particularly as it would mean campaigning during Christmas 2024 and through much of January 2025.
One alternative would be to hold the election on the same day as the 2024 local elections – though this would leave only 604 days between the new PM taking office and going to the polls.
Another option could be an election in early autumn 2024, after the prime minister has notched up two years in the job but before the clocks go back at the end of October.
Whatever the new PM decides to do, they will need to act fast in order for their decisions to leave an impression on voters before election day arrives. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11171793/New-PM-fewer-1-000-days-general-election.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-02T03:08:28Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11171793/New-PM-fewer-1-000-days-general-election.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
UPDATE: Family calls for justice, remembering loving father, brother
According to Lexington Police, the investigation into 29-year-old Dietrich Murray's death is still ongoing
UPDATE 10 P.M. SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – Lexington’s 32nd murder of 2022 claimed the life of 29-year-old Dietrich Murray Wednesday morning. Murray was found near the R.J. Corman bridge at Loudon Avenue and North Broadway, when witnesses say they saw him fall into the street. Police later discovered the shooting happened on Dakota Street, less than a mile from where he was found. Murray’s sisters spoke out to remember him and to call for justice.
“He had his own mind, he did his own thing,” says Jessica Jones, one of Murray’s sisters. “He was just a genuine person, he was real all the time.”
Murray was shot Wednesday morning and died shortly after from his injuries. His sisters are upset as they say they still haven’t been able to see him.
“We feel it but it still seems unreal. We want to see him, identify him, we still haven’t got to do that,” says Jones.
“My sadness has turned into anger because he was murdered,” says Dalisa Taylor, another of Murray’s sisters.
Murray’s sisters say he was a father of 5 and loved his kids more than anything.
“He was crazy about his kids. He was proud of them and that’s basically all he talked about,” says Jones.
His family says when he wasn’t talking about his kids, he was talking about his music and how he wanted to be a rapper.
“I remember I picked him up and we went to Walmart and we were walking around, we were shopping and he had his music playing on his phone and I said ‘brother, turn that music off, we’re in Walmart’ and he said ‘sister, I just need to listen to my music’,” says Taylor.
“It kept him in a good place,” says a third sister.
His sisters say no matter what, he always ended every conversation the same way.
“He always say ‘I love you’. If he had no more conversation it was ‘I love you’,” says Jones. “That was the exit, conversation over.”
His family says being able to lean on each other is needed during this tragedy but they all want one thing.
“If anybody knows anything, come forward. Please. He didn’t deserve it, he didn’t deserve it at all,” say his sisters. “Put yourself in our shoes, please.”
The family says with everything being so raw right now, they aren’t sure if they’ll do a vigil. A GoFundMe has been set up to help with funeral expenses, you can find the link to it HERE.
UPDATE: 12:19 P.M.
LEXINGON, Ky (WTVQ)- The Fayette County coroner’s office has released the name of the victim in Wednesday morning’s shooting.
The man has been identified as 29-year-old Dietrich Lavell Murray.
Police continue to investigate.
UPDATE: 12:09 p.m.-
LEXINGTON, Ky (WTVQ)- The victim of Wednesday morning’s shooting has died.
According to police, the shooting happened near Loudon Avenue and N. Broadway. The shooting is now being investigated as a homicide.
The victim’s name will be released by the Fayette County Coroner’s office.
Police say they responded to a call at around 7:45 a.m to Loudon Ave and N. Broadway for a man that had been shot. When officers arrived, they located a man suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim was transported to a local hospital with reported life-threatening injuries.
During the investigation, investigators determined that the shooting occurred in the 700 block of Dakota Street.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call Lexington Police at (859) 258-3600. Anonymous tips can be submitted to Bluegrass Crime Stoppers by calling (859) 253-2020, online at www.bluegrasscrimestoppers.com, or through the P3 tips app available at www.p3tips.com.
ORIGINAL POST:
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a man found shot Wednesday morning in Lexington.
According to Lexington Police, a man with a gunshot wound to the abdomen was found shot around 7:45 AM at Loudon Avenue and North Broadway. The man’s condition is life-threatening.
Police say the investigation has led them to a residence at 765 Dakota Street. No other information is available at this time.
ABC 36 has a crew on-scene. Stay with us for updates. | https://www.wtvq.com/update-family-calls-for-justice-remembering-loving-father-brother/ | 2022-09-02T03:12:07Z | https://www.wtvq.com/update-family-calls-for-justice-remembering-loving-father-brother/ | false |
Some educators are placing a new focus on homework this year in an attempt to make sure children are on a level playing field.
The concern is over teachers who reward or punish students based on homework performance.
"It's not that homework always results in inequities," said Jessica Calarco, a professor at Indiana University who has studied the impact of homework. "It's that when teachers interpret homework through the lens of meritocracy, homework starts to be practiced in inequitable ways."
Calarco and her team found students often face discipline, like missed recess, if they don't turn in a completed homework assignment.
She said those decisions treat homework as the result of "effort, responsibility, and motivation" without considering a student's home life.
"If parents have to work multiple jobs or aren't able to be home in the afternoon," said Calarco, "that creates a very different kind of support situation with homework than for kids who have a parent home full-time to provide that level of support."
Some educators are trying to reduce inequity with "progressive" homework policies.
Some teachers rarely assign homework.
Others choose not to grade it or make it optional.
But, according to Calarco, "there may be some value to practicing, and having additional space in the day for continuing to work with the material."
"It's hard to say that schools will, or should, just abandon homework outright," Calarco said. "What we can advocate for is to be mindful of how we're practicing homework for schools that are going to continue doing so, and to try to avoid some of the practices that we outline."
Teachers should avoid assigning homework that is too hard for students to finish on their own, according to the research.
They shouldn't punish kids for missing homework, either.
And - while Calarco recommends parents reach out to their child's teacher when things aren't working - she acknowledged it could be easier said than done.
"When parents do try to speak up and say, 'Hey, this homework is not working for my child,' the extent to which they're listened to often depends on who they are," Calarco said. "It's tricky to say that parents should just be advocating for their kids. It ignores the larger structural problems that are in place." | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/progressive-homework-policies-may-reduce-classroom-inequity | 2022-09-02T03:13:01Z | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/progressive-homework-policies-may-reduce-classroom-inequity | false |
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 2 ― The ringgit opened marginally lower against the US dollar today as the greenback had strengthened after the initial United States (US) economic data indicated that its economy is still on the right track amid global uncertainties, an analyst said.
At 9.03am, the local currency eased to 4.4830/4860 against the greenback from yesterday's close of 4.4820/4840.
OANDA senior market analyst Edward Moya said the US dollar hit a fresh record high on safe-haven flows due to global economic weakness and as the country’s resilient economy paves the way for the US Federal Reserve (Fed) to remain aggressive in its rate hikes.
“The US economy is still looking good and that should allow the Fed to remain aggressive with policy tightening over the coming months,” he told Bernama.
Notably, the ringgit’s decline was cushioned by the rise in the crude oil price, where the oil benchmark Brent crude increased by 1.28 per cent to US$93.54 per barrel at press time.
Meanwhile, the ringgit was traded higher against a basket of major currencies.
The local unit appreciated against the Singapore dollar to 3.1987/2011 from yesterday's close of 3.2028/2047 and rose against the British pound to 5.1783/1818 from 5.1964/1987.
It improved vis-a-vis the euro to 4.4642/4672 from 4.4923/4943 on Thursday, and gained against the Japanese yen to 3.2001/2027 from 3.2205/2222 previously. ― Bernama | https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2022/09/02/ringgit-opens-marginally-lower-against-us-dollar/26080 | 2022-09-02T03:18:20Z | https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2022/09/02/ringgit-opens-marginally-lower-against-us-dollar/26080 | true |
WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 1, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Lubbock Texas has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Childress County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Northeastern Hall County in the Panhandle of Texas...
* Until 1100 PM CDT.
* At 958 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles southeast
of Quail, or 6 miles west of Wellington, moving south at 25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Childress, Memphis and Estelline.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
08-10-11-15-30
(eight, ten, eleven, fifteen, thirty)
¶ The numbers are listed in sequential order, but any combination wins.
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
08-10-11-15-30
(eight, ten, eleven, fifteen, thirty)
¶ The numbers are listed in sequential order, but any combination wins. | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17414197.php | 2022-09-02T03:24:47Z | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17414197.php | true |
No. 22-4-05133-4 KNT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF KING
In the Matter of
the Estate of
Jeremias Perez Padilla,
Deceased.
The Personal Representative named
below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this Estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representatives or the Personal Representatives’ attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the Decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.
Date of First Publication:
September 1, 2022
Personal Representative:
Lilia R. Reyes
Attorney for the Personal Represen-
tatives:
Masafumi Iwama
Address for Mailing or Service:
333 5th Ave. S. Kent WA 98032
IDX-962120
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(RTTNews) - Sun Life Financial Inc. (SLF, SLF.TO) said that it plans to acquire a 51% interest in Advisors Asset Management, Inc. or AAM for US$214 million subject to customary adjustments with a put/call option to acquire the remaining 49% starting in 2028.
Advisors Asset Management is an independent U.S. retail distribution firm, through SLC Management, Sun Life's institutional fixed income and alternatives asset manager. AAM will become the U.S. retail distribution arm of SLC Management.
AAM oversees $41.4 billion in assets as of July 31, 2022. With 10 offices across eight U.S. states, AAM has a team of more than 270 professionals.
As part of the transaction, Sun Life is committing to invest up to US$400 million to launch SLC Management alternative products for the U.S. retail market to be distributed by AAM.
The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2023.
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As defense begins its case, R. Kelly tells judge he won't testify at ongoing trial
R. Kelly's lawyers began mounting a defense Thursday in Chicago against federal charges of child pornography, enticement of minors for sex and fixing his 2008 state trial, with an initial witness contending the singer was himself a victim of blackmail.
The presentation to jurors won't include Kelly taking the witness stand.
Judge Harry Leinenweber asked Kelly directly on Thursday morning if he would testify, and the Grammy Award winner responded that he would not.
The judge raised the issue minutes before attorneys for Kelly and two co-defendants began calling their first witnesses, endeavoring to counter two weeks of government testimony — including from four women who accused Kelly of sexual abuse.
Co-defendant Derrel McDavid, a longtime Kelly business manager, is accused of helping Kelly rig the 2008 trial, at which Kelly was acquitted. McDavid said he will testify. Co-defendant Milton Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, he said he wouldn't testify.
Testifying would have been risky. At times, Kelly has exploded in anger under tough questioning, which could hurt his defense.
He lost his cool in a 2019 interview with Gayle King on “CBS This Morning.” As she pressed him about accusations of sexual abuse, he jumped up, crying and gesticulating. “I didn’t do this stuff!" he shouted. "This is not me! I’m fighting for my ... life!”
Lawyers for all three defendants are essentially sharing witnesses. McDavid's legal team called the first defense witness, McDavid's friend and former police officer Christopher G. Wilson. He testified that McDavid told him in 2001 that a merchandising agent for Kelly, Charles Freeman, was trying to blackmail the R&B star.
Freeman testified earlier for the government that Kelly and his associates agreed to pay him $1 million to hunt down and return a video that featured Kelly, describing how he was handed bags full of cash as payment. He said the money was for services rendered, not an extortion bid. Prosecutors say the payments were part of a conspiracy to obstruct investigators leading up to Kelly's 2008 trial.
Under cross-examination, Wilson conceded he didn't directly witness anyone trying to extort Kelly, saying he was relying on what McDavid told him.
A conviction on just one or two of the charges at the Chicago trial could add years to a 30-year sentence Kelly already received from a New York federal judge in June for convictions on racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
Via witnesses Thursday, the defense also sought to raise doubts about the ages of a few accusers, saying at least one may have been 17, the age of consent in Illinois, at the time Kelly pursued her for sex.
There was nothing necessarily sinister about Kelly or his workers dealing in cash, another defense witness, former Kelly studio intern Tom Arnold, told jurors. Kelly rarely used his own credit cards and preferred cash transactions added Arnold, who said he once carried $125,000 to Kelly in a backpack.
The highlight of prosecutors’ presentation was the testimony two weeks ago of a 37-year-old woman who used the pseudonym “Jane.” She described Kelly sexually abusing her hundreds of times starting in 1998 when she was 14 and Kelly was around 30.
Closing arguments are expected to happen in the middle of next week. | https://www.4029tv.com/article/r-kelly-tells-judge-he-won-t-testify-at-ongoing-trial/41055930 | 2022-09-02T03:32:32Z | https://www.4029tv.com/article/r-kelly-tells-judge-he-won-t-testify-at-ongoing-trial/41055930 | false |
CANGZHOU, China, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cangzhou city downtown section of the world's oldest and longest man-made river, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, is open to navigation for tourism on September 1 and will give visitors a chance to appreciate the masterpiece of ancient China's artificial waterway, announced an official with the Cangzhou city government of north China's Hebei Province.
"We and more than 230 representatives from all walks of life in the city gathered to witness the historic moment of the opening of tourism in the Cangzhou central urban area of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal," said Xiang Hui, mayor of Cangzhou at the opening ceremony, adding that the Grand Canal is now ushering in a new century of revival.
The opening of the 13.7- kilometer long Cangzhou section of the Grand Canal is an important move to advance the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in North China.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is 1,794 kilometers (1,115 miles) long and has a history of over 2,500 years. It starts in Beijing in the north and ends in Hangzhou in the south, and served as a significant transportation artery in ancient China. About one-eighth of the Canal runs through Cangzhou, 180 km away from Beijing. A stretch of over 1,000 km of the canal was declared a world heritage site in 2014.
Cangzhou, known as "Northern Town of the Grand Canal", has upgraded the supporting projects along the Grand Canal, newly built 12 tourist piers, six landscape walking bridges, and renovated 8 existing main bridges. The city strives to provide a one-of-a-kind destination for tourists at home and abroad by taking the Grand Canal as the center and takes efforts into preserving historical and cultural projects such as the Hundred Lions Garden, Canal Park, Nanchuanlou Cultural Block, Garden Expo Park, Children's entertainment, sports park, catering, and accommodation facilities.
To make Grand Canal regain its vitality, Cangzhou has actively implemented water diversion and water replenishment projects in recent years. Based on the diversion of180 million cubic meters of water in 2021, another 300 million cubic meters of water was completed this year. More than 67,000 stems of arbor trees were planted on both sides of the Canal, with a green area of 2,065 mu (1.37 square kilometers), forming a vibrant ecological corridor, and reinforcing the greening and upgrading projects. Cangzhou has truly "protected, passed down and made good use of" the Grand Canal culture and made this precious heritage blossom into a new era.
Fifteen cruise ships have lined up by the piers for their first rides. From September 1st, tourists will be able to experience Cangzhou's historical and cultural relics along the Grand Canal.
CONTACT: Sasa Guan, tongguan@xinhuanetus.com
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 1, 2022
_____
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Lubbock Texas has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Childress County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Northeastern Hall County in the Panhandle of Texas...
* Until 1100 PM CDT.
* At 958 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles southeast
of Quail, or 6 miles west of Wellington, moving south at 25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Childress, Memphis and Estelline.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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The current Dodge Challenger and Charger are going away after the 2023 model year, and Dodge is sending them off with a series of Last Call special editions. Revealed Wednesday, the 2023 Dodge Charger Super Bee is the second of the seven planned specials.
Following the Challenger Shakedown introduced last week, the Charger Super Bee marks the return of the classic nameplate, which first appeared on a standalone muscle car in 1968 and has been used on different Charger models on and off since 1971 (plus a Rumble Bee version for the Dodge Ram 1500 pickup).
Styling highlights include a functional hood scoop adorned with the Super Bee mascot, color-coordinated graphics, a black Mopar hood-pin kit, black SRT exhaust tips, and Super Bee logos for the instrument panel and seat backs.
The Super Bee is based on the Charger Scat Pack and Scat Pack Widebody, which both use a 6.4-liter V-8 producing 485 hp and 475 lb-ft of torque. Super Bee models based on the standard-body Scat Pack get 20-inch by 9.5-inch knurled wheels with 275 drag radials, while Widebody versions get 18-inch by 11-inch wheels with 315 drag radials.
All versions also get adaptive suspension with Drag Mode and Brembo brakes with four-piston calipers, as well as the content from the Plus Group and Carbon/Suede Package.
Production is limited to 1,000 units, including 500 Scat Pack versions in B5 Blue and 500 Scat Pack Widebody versions in Plum Crazy. Order books open this fall, with pricing to be announced closer to that time.
The next Last Call model will be revealed September 7, with three more following between then and September 21. The seventh and final 2023 Dodge Last Call model—the last of the last—will be revealed at the 2022 SEMA show, scheduled for November 1-4 in Las Vegas.
Even if you miss out on the Last Call editions, all 2023 Challenger and Charger models will feature special goodies signifying them as the last of their kind. Exact content will vary by model, but all will come with a commemorative plaque under the hood bearing the texts “Last Call,” “Designed in Auburn Hills,” and “Assembled in Brampton.”
Dodge is culling the V-8 Challenger and Charger to prepare for an electrified future, which it recently inaugurated with the 2023 Hornet plug-in hybrid crossover and all-electric Charger Daytona SRT concept. The latter previews Dodge’s first production EV due in 2024, which will likely serve as a replacement for the internal-combustion Charger and Challenger.
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Boston grandma, 82, is fined $2.1MILLION by IRS for failing to report $4.2M in Swiss bank account given to her by her Jewish father who fled the Nazis and told her to use cash if she ever needed to flee persecution
- Monica Toth, 82, of Boston, was ordered to pay $2.173,703 in 2012 for failing to file a Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) form until 2010
- Toth is claiming she didn't know about the form as she did her taxes by hand using forms from the local library
- After finding out about the forms, she immediately filled out the forms for the previous five years
- Under the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, all US residents have to file FBAR form with the IRS each year to identify any foreign accounts that hold more than $10,000
- She was ordered to pay $40,000 in back taxes and then was slapped with a massive fine due to the IRS' ability to impose civil penalties
- Toth is now saying her Eighth Amendment has been violated as the IRS has imposed an 'excessive' fine
- Toth's father, who is Jewish, opened the account in 1999 before his death in case his daughter ever needed to flee the country to escape persecution
A Boston grandmother has been fined $2.1million by the IRS for failing to report $4.2million in a Swiss bank account given to her by her Jewish father who fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s.
Monica Toth's father, a successful businessman, opened the account shortly before his death in 1999 in case his daughter ever needed to flee the country to escape persecution as he did.
Her father was traumatized by his family's experience of escaping Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s, when he relocated to Argentina, where his daughter was born, according to Reason.
'Like many who fled Germany or later survived the Holocaust, he felt strongly that his daughter should have a reserve of money in case (as happened to him) she might one day have to flee government persecution,' Institute for Justice, a nonprofit representing Toth, said.
Toth, 82, moved to the US at the age of 22, while her parents stayed behind in South America. In 1980, she became a naturalized citizen.
Now Toth says the IRS and the US government are violating her Eighth Amendment rights, which protects against 'excessive' fines or bails or inflicting cruel and unusual punishments against citizens.
Under the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, all US residents have to file a Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) form with the IRS each year to identify any foreign accounts that holds more than $10,000.
Monica Toth, 82, of Boston was ordered to pay $2.1million from the IRS after she failed to file a form identifying her Swiss bank account. She filed the Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) form in 2010 after learning she had to and was ordered to pay $40,000 before being slapped with the hefty fine in 2012
Toth's father (pictured in the photograph) opened the account in 1999 in case his daughter ever needed to flee the country to escape persecution as he did. Her father, who is Jewish, escaped Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s and fled to Argentina, where his daughter was born
Toth claims she was unaware of the form and had retroactively filed five years' worth of reports in 2010, according to the Institute for Justice.
After she filed the forms, the IRS audited her and the Argentinian paid $40,000 in back taxes.
On top of that, she received a FBAR penalty totaling $2.173,703 in 2012. The IRS can impose a penalty - which is different from a fine - for a 'maximum of either $100,000 or half the balance in their unreported account, whichever sum is greater.'
The government deemed Toth's failure to file the FBAR form as 'reckless' and 'willful,' which 'triggered' the massive fine.
'The government then sued Monica in federal court to collect,' Institute for Justice said.
The First Circuit Court sided with the government, stating that it was 'not a fine.'
Toth is now taking the case to the US Supreme Court, claiming she didn't 'willfully' neglect to file the form, but that she didn't know. The Institute for Justice said the mother-of-four filed her taxes by hand 'using forms from the town library.'
She's also petitioned the Court, imposing that 'civil penalties' are, in fact, fines.
The Institute for Justice has long since gone after those with foreign bank accounts who failed to file a FBAR.
The IRS can impose a penalty - which is different from a fine - for a 'maximum of either $100,000 or half the balance in their unreported account, whichever sum is greater.' The government deemed Toth's failure to file the FBAR form as 'reckless' and 'willful,' which 'triggered' the massive fine. She is arguing that she didn't know about the form, as she did her taxes by hand using forms at the local library
Her father (pictured) was traumatized after his family left Germany. He became a successful businessman in Argentina and stayed there. His daughter immigrated to the US when she was 22 and went on to have four children before becoming a citizen in 1980
She is suing the government, saying the IRS's penalty is actually a fine and violates her Eighth Amendment rights
Earlier this year, the IRS went after Holocaust survivor Walter Schik, who is almost 100 years old, requesting $8.8million, according to the Institute for Justice.
Schik and his family were taken from their home in Austria to a concentration camp during the war. Schik would be liberated in Hungary before heading to the US in 1947.
Ten years after he came a US citizen, he opened a bank account in Switzerland to collect money 'recovered from the Holocaust' from relatives who died in the camps and the money had no connection the US.
In 2007, when he his lawyer was doing his taxes, the software automatically filled in that he had no foreign accounts, despite the more than $16million he had in the account, which was managed by his son.
Schik would later go on to file a late FBAR form in 2007 and he was penalized $8,822,806.
The National Taxpayer Advocate warned in 2012 that the IRS had an 'insistence on draconian penalties against taxpayers with overseas accounts, irrespective of their benign purpose.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11169669/Boston-grandma-82-fined-2-1MILLION-IRS-failing-report-4-2M-Swiss-bank-account.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-09-02T03:44:29Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11169669/Boston-grandma-82-fined-2-1MILLION-IRS-failing-report-4-2M-Swiss-bank-account.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | false |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, September 2, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
910 PM CDT Thu Sep 1 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south central Texas, including the following
county, Lee.
* WHEN...Until 1215 AM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 907 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2.5 inches of
rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 2 inches are expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Giddings, Lexington, Fedor, Leo, Lincoln, Manheim, Blue,
Loebau, Knobb Springs, U.S. Highway 77 and State Highway 21.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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MICHIGAN CITY — It took one year to build the $34.5 million GAF distribution center here but two years to hold a grand opening because of COVID, plant manager Matt Hannon said.
It’s GAF’s second major investment in the city but might not be its last. The roofing materials production facility in Michigan City, which dates to 2000, is worth about $300 million, CEO Jim Schnepper said.
GAF is the largest roofing and waterproofing company in the world, according to its website.
“This community is amazing. The people here are amazing,” Schnepper said.
Michigan City’s proximity to major markets is important to GAF. “Manufacturing is the core of the Midwest. It’s what supports the core and the growth,” said Schnepper, who grew up in southern Illinois and Chicago.
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“You guys are in a great location,” he said. “We’ve doubled this business in five years.”
GAF has plants across the country. Its San Jose, California, plant is the first to produce GAF’s solar roofing product. “Our solar installs the same as these shingles. That’s the beauty of it,” Schnepper said.
When solar panels are put on a roof, it’s usually done on a new or nearly new roof. GAF’s product builds the solar material into the roof itself.
Another GAF innovation is recycling asphalt shingles.
Typically, roofing materials are landfilled when they’re removed from buildings. Landfills are filling up, though. GAF will recycle up to 90 percent of a shingle and use it to produce new shingles, Schnepper said.
“You’ll see a lot of innovation coming out of GAF now,” he said.
The distribution center is a key facility for the company. “It’s heavy material. You want it close to the market,” Schnepper said.
The 200,000-square-foot distribution center sits on 27 acres. Building Commissioner Sue Downs said it might be the most concrete she’s ever seen used on building project.
Supply Chain Manager David Bubb said the facility uses more than 20 forklifts. They’re equipped with tablets using Wi-Fi to quickly locate products inside or outside. “It’s a vast property, and you don’t want to waste time driving them all over God’s green acres.”
Trucks are loaded in under 15 minutes on average, he said. “We try to get trucks loaded quick,” he said. “We want to be truck driver friendly as much as we can.”
Katie Eaton, president of the Michigan City Chamber of Commerce, is married to a GAF employee. She is impressed with how well GAF employees are treated. She’s also impressed by how well employees treat Michigan City. “You will often find them at the Salvation Army, stuffing backpacks for Michigan City Area Schools” and other volunteer opportunities, Eaton said.
Mayor Duane Parry called the distribution center “a truly well planned, executed development.”
“GAF has played a big part in Michigan City moving forward,” he said. “This is the future of Michigan City right here. We’re glad to be a part of it.”
GAF Chief Operating Officer Randy Bargfrede said he enjoys visiting Michigan City. “It’s easy to support a group of employees like this.” | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/laporte/michigan-city/gaf-dedicates-34-5-million-distribution-center/article_c1732332-264a-5431-b1ab-ef7f5089831c.html | 2022-09-02T03:51:02Z | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/laporte/michigan-city/gaf-dedicates-34-5-million-distribution-center/article_c1732332-264a-5431-b1ab-ef7f5089831c.html | false |
Unsecured package theft has become such an increasing problem that Washington, D.C., has become the first city in the nation to allow customers to pick up their Amazon packages at lockers at a police station.
The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department announced it worked with Amazon to implement the strategy of installing Amazon-secured lockers at one of its substations in the city.
The first station is part of a pilot program between the online retail giant and D.C. police before possibly expanding to other police stations throughout the city, the Washingtonian reported.
When D.C.-area residents place an order on Amazon.com, they should see an option to deliver packages to one of the currently operating police station hubs. Once the customer arrives at the police station, they can use a Bluetooth feature to open the locker with the package.
A small interesting note about the project. The lockers were decorated with artwork by students from the city's Randle Highlands Elementary School.
Amazon donated $15,000 to the school to thank them for their work, according to the Washingtonian. | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/washington-is-1st-us-city-to-allow-amazon-pickups-at-police-stations-amid-package-thefts | 2022-09-02T03:52:12Z | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/washington-is-1st-us-city-to-allow-amazon-pickups-at-police-stations-amid-package-thefts | true |
WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 1, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Lubbock Texas has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Childress County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Northeastern Hall County in the Panhandle of Texas...
* Until 1100 PM CDT.
* At 958 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles southeast
of Quail, or 6 miles west of Wellington, moving south at 25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Childress, Memphis and Estelline.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Prioritising myself amid balancing the prospect of a full-time job, conducting a week-long workshop, and continuing other initiatives while being our child’s primary caregiver
Walking through the vineyards on the way to the woods. Pic/Rosalyn D’Mello
By the time the week had begun I had already hit my threshold. It was becoming increasingly difficult to tap into my dwindling reserves of patience and kindness, not only towards others but also towards myself. August has been an intense month. Funnily enough, a ‘memory’ that popped up reminded me that in 2020, when I had first moved to Tramin, August had been similarly demanding. Back then I had balanced different jobs, from babysitting to cataloguing art books for a private collector to apple harvesting, besides intellectual work. Two years since, I found myself balancing the sudden prospect of a full-time profile which landed in my lap so conveniently I couldn’t refuse, then conducting a residence-based workshop for MA students of Peace Studies at the Innsbruck University over a week while continuing the full-time copywriting job, managing other self-initiated projects while still being our child’s primary caregiver.
I was experiencing a textbook version of what is called parental burnout. Entering the week when my stay permit was no longer valid as a document that offered mobility within the EU added to the swelling feeling of claustrophobia. I began to crave alone time. In fact, I was able to identify that its absence was making me feel lonely in my experience of everything. I had no time to process my feelings, and the direct consequence of it was that I was starting to stock up on resentment and envy. So I quickly researched parental burnout, which resulted in suggestions about the vitality of looking after oneself. One site proposed walking as an excellent form of self-care. But I walk almost every day, I thought, especially with my child. Then, on Sunday morning, I woke up and decided to walk alone.
I simply put on a pair of shorts, a T-shirt, and my new mountain-friendly running shoes, left our child in my partner’s care, and took off. It was the first time I would walk into and through the woods alone. I had gone through the route multiple times with my partner. I had always loved the rule he often enforced, that once we entered the green-pole barrier that formally marked the beginning of forest territory, we should remain in a state of silence. I found that for the first 20 minutes my thoughts were centred primarily on managing my anxieties. I was going through lists in my head, thinking about all the things I would like to alter about my current routine, indulging in wishful thinking about what constituted the right kind of logistical support when one is a working mother, trying to decide what assumed a greater priority, learning Italian or learning to drive, and wondering when I would get to return to India without the fear of not being able to return to Europe… And then suddenly, at some point, I arrived at a state of stillness, as if all the nervous energy and anxious thoughts had bubbled over and evaporated. I felt calmer and was able to locate myself. I could feel the pressure of my feet upon the ground, I could hear the leaves rustling, could smell the moistness of the damp earth and hear the birds chirping. I began noticing more intently the vegetation, little wayside flowers in myriad colours and different shades of green that occupied the mountainous terrain. I realised it was indeed a privilege to inhabit such a proximity to the forest.
I’m still working out a routine that allows me to repeat this walk first thing in the morning. I am unsure how it will feel as we move closer to autumn and these early hours will be a lot colder. The days I managed even a 40-minute walk after waking up were days when I found myself at my most patient and unnerved best. I felt a lightness in my step and felt so good about being able to tap into my body and draw strength from within its core…how I used to feel when I was able to exercise regularly during the first lockdown when I was in Delhi, emptying out my apartment.
The human body was really not designed to be tethered to a chair. It is in movement and in symbiosis with nature that it feels most alive and animated. Attempting to reclaim walking alone has become my way of trying to reclaim my solitude after the life-altering fact of motherhood. It’s not always possible, and I try to be kind to myself on days when I am not able to go out because I’ve had a rough night. But I like having this new pursuit which has me gradually re-arranging my life in order to make time for my solitude.
In prioritising myself, I am able to maintain the sense of wholeness that I had worked so hard to arrive at during my therapy.
Deliberating on the life and times of Everywoman, Rosalyn D’Mello is a reputable art critic and the author of A Handbook For My Lover. She tweets @RosaParx
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The views expressed in this column are the individual’s and don’t represent those of the paper | https://www.mid-day.com/news/opinion/article/dealing-with-parental-burnout-23243840 | 2022-09-02T03:54:52Z | https://www.mid-day.com/news/opinion/article/dealing-with-parental-burnout-23243840 | false |
AHF donates U-Haul truck full of bottled water to Jackson community
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A mile-long line of cars stretched down Clinton Boulevard Thursday afternoon as Jackson residents awaited cases of bottled water at Raines Elementary School.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation backed in a U-Haul truck full of alkaline water bottles to hand out to members of the Jackson community fallen victim to poor water quality.
Although this is not what AHF is known for, they are a global first responder in disaster relief efforts such as the water crisis in the city.
Sharon Brown, who is the state’s HIV Consultant for AHF and a Jackson resident, says she has stayed prepared after knowing about Jackson’s ongoing water issues.
“I have learned to prepare. You know we’ve heard the mayor speak to the fact it’s not a matter of when the system, If the system will fail, but when it will fail. And so, the system has been in disarray not just within the last 4 to 8 years, but through several administrations and it was neglected. And what you neglect, soon fall apart.”
Water distribution sites have been set up across the city and operate each day to provide safe water, but Brown isn’t focused on her problems, as much as she is on people who can’t take advantage.
“This is where we are now, so I’m not frustrated I’m out here in love trying to help my community. You know, when I leave here, I have to go and deliver water to persons who can’t get to all of these wonderful sites,” Brown stated.
Many nonprofit organizations like AHF will continue to provide cases of water to Jacksonians until the city’s supply system provides clean water consistently.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, September 2, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
910 PM CDT Thu Sep 1 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south central Texas, including the following
county, Lee.
* WHEN...Until 1215 AM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 907 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2.5 inches of
rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 2 inches are expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Giddings, Lexington, Fedor, Leo, Lincoln, Manheim, Blue,
Loebau, Knobb Springs, U.S. Highway 77 and State Highway 21.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
0-9-7, FIREBALL: 7
(zero, nine, seven; FIREBALL: seven)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
0-9-7, FIREBALL: 7
(zero, nine, seven; FIREBALL: seven) | https://www.ctinsider.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17414412.php | 2022-09-02T04:02:30Z | https://www.ctinsider.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17414412.php | false |
DOJ and Trump lawyers face off over Mar-a-Lago documents
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Serena Williams celebrates win at US Open
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HONG KONG — At first China said there was “no such thing” as re-education centers that held vast numbers of people in its far western Xinjiang region. Then, as more reports emerged that hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and members of other largely Muslim groups were being detained, Beijing acknowledged the camps’ existence but described them as vocational training centers.
When overseas Uyghurs spoke out about the authorities’ abuses in Xinjiang, China targeted their families back home, sentencing their relatives to long prison terms and using the full weight of state media and prominent Chinese diplomats to denounce the activists as liars and frauds.
For the many Uyghur activists who have campaigned — often at great personal cost — to bring China’s intense crackdown in Xinjiang to light, a United Nations report released Wednesday that largely validated their claims was a powerful, if long-delayed, vindication.
The 48-page report, which said that China had committed grave human rights abuses in Xinjiang, sharply undercuts Beijing’s aggressive efforts to discredit Uyghurs who dared to speak out. It also gives new momentum to the Uyghur activists’ cause and an opportunity for rights campaigners to put the issue before the U.N. Human Rights Council later this month and increase pressure on businesses to distance themselves from China.
“As I was reading the entire report, I was fighting back tears,” said Rayhan Asat, a Uyghur lawyer in Washington whose brother, Ekpar, was sentenced in 2020 to 15 years in prison in Xinjiang. “It was a long-awaited recognition of the suffering of my brother and millions like him.”
Many overseas Uyghurs and other activists had doubted that the U.N. office would release such a forceful report, given Beijing’s growing influence over the international body and the reluctance of Michelle Bachelet, who stepped down on Wednesday as the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, to criticize China.
But in the final minutes of her term in office, Bachelet’s office released a document that said China’s crackdown in Xinjiang may amount to crimes against humanity, a stark assessment that surprised some critics who felt her office was increasingly willing to pull its punches in exchange for access and better ties with Beijing.
“I am heartened that courageous survivors’ voices were given their deserved weight,” said Asat, the lawyer in Washington. She said that it was difficult to read some sections of the report, which described credible reports of torture, mistreatment and sexual assault while in custody.
“I know my brother was subject to brutal torture and all sorts of inhumane treatment,” she said, referring to his experience when he was in internment camps for three years until 2019. “I try not to think about it. It’s self-defeating and doesn’t help me remain vigilant about why I’m fighting.”
Activists said they had grown increasingly concerned during Bachelet’s final days in her job, when she hinted that the report, which had already been delayed for nearly a year, might not come out before she left. China had urged her office not to release the document and submitted lengthy replies after the government was shown a draft, per the standard procedure of the U.N. office.
The United Nations attached China’s 131-page response as an annex. It called the report a “so-called ‘assessment” that was “based on disinformation and lies.”
While several Uyghur activists said it would have been useful to see the report far earlier, they hoped its release would give added weight to a campaign that they say has been eclipsed by the coronavirus pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and other international issues.
“Hopefully, it will ignite another fire, and so it will get more attention from other countries, other NGOs and the U.N. and there will be more action to stop it,” said Ferkat Jawdat, a Uyghur in Virginia whose mother was imprisoned in Xinjiang and now is in isolation at her home in Urumqi, the regional capital.
Some activists remained critical of the U.N. human rights organization, saying it did not go far enough in pushing China for accountability. They noted it did not call the repression in Xinjiang a “genocide,” a conclusion reached by the United States and an unofficial tribunal in Britain, even as the report outlined components of such an assessment, including a “stark” decline of Uyghur birthrates, the destruction of shrines and mosques and curbs on Uyghur language instruction.
“Despite well-documented evidence of state-sponsored torture and the intended destruction of the entire Uyghur ethnic groups through massive concentration camps, physical and mental torture, slave labor, massive displacement, enforced sterilization to prevent population growth and separation of children from their parents, the U.N. report came short of calling the crime by name,” said Mehmet Tohti, executive director of the Ottawa-based Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project. “It seems to me that the report has gone through serious haircuts.”
Still, for the those who have seen their family members imprisoned and themselves attacked publicly by the Chinese state, the report offers a victory, even as it falls short of their goal of freedom for their relatives.
The report gives evidence to China’s critics that they can take before the Human Rights Council, the United Nations’ leading rights body, to push for greater accountability. Rights groups have called on the council to set up formal mechanisms to investigate China for violations of international law and identify those responsible, although Beijing and nations that support it could thwart such an effort.
“It is imperative that nations take this report and make concrete steps toward stopping these crimes against humanity and holding China accountable for them,” said Rushan Abbas, a Uyghur American activist and former Defense Department translator whose sister was sentenced to 20 years in prison in apparent retaliation for Abbas’ efforts to speak out about the repression in Xinjiang.
“I hope that the U.N. will use their influence and position to advocate for the freedom of all the innocent Uyghurs like my loving sister.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/for-uyghurs-u-n-report-on-chinas-abuses-is-long-awaited-vindication/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-09-02T04:09:30Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/for-uyghurs-u-n-report-on-chinas-abuses-is-long-awaited-vindication/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | false |
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, on Thursday aligned himself with former President Donald Trump’s efforts to undercut federal law enforcement over the search of Mar-a-Lago, condemning the court-ordered seizure of classified documents from the former president’s home as an “assault on democracy.”
In a half-hour speech delivered from Scranton, Pennsylvania, McCarthy, R-Calif., sought to take the themes that President Joe Biden was hitting in a prime-time address and turn them on their head against Democrats, in a remarkable attempt at political jujitsu aimed at muddying the waters about Trump’s conduct and his handling of sensitive government material.
McCarthy’s remarks, delivered from a competitive congressional district that Republicans hope to wrest from Democrats in November’s midterm congressional elections, were largely a point-by-point condemnation of Biden’s policies.
The top House Republican, who has seen his party’s chances of sweeping into the majority dim in recent weeks, painted the November elections as a referendum on Biden’s presidency and said that it was the current president who had “launched an assault on our democracy” with policies that had “severely wounded America’s soul.”
“Joe Biden is right: Democracy is on the ballot in November,” McCarthy said. “And Joe Biden and the radical left in Washington are dismantling Americans’ democracy before our very eyes.”
Using one of Trump’s favorite tactics, McCarthy falsely equated Biden’s conduct with actions that Trump himself has taken.
“Joe Biden and a politicized Department of Justice launched a raid on the home of his top political rival, Donald Trump,” McCarthy said. “That is an assault on democracy.”
In fact, the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago came after a year and a half of failed efforts by government officials to recover presidential documents, including classified material, from Trump. Those efforts included a subpoena that was not fully complied with and a signed letter from one of the former president’s lawyers that turned out to be false.
It was Trump who was impeached in 2019 for using the powers of his office to try to get the president of Ukraine to investigate Biden. Trump also sought to use the Justice Department to help him overturn the 2020 election. And it was his lies of a stolen election that inspired the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, perhaps the most literal assault on democracy in recent American history.
Still, McCarthy said Biden was at fault. He demanded that the president “apologize for slandering tens of millions of Americans as fascists,” a reference to comments that Biden made at a recent fundraiser in Maryland denouncing “extreme MAGA philosophy” as akin to “semi-fascism.”
“I respect conservative Republicans,” Biden said. “I don’t respect these MAGA Republicans.”
McCarthy’s speech reflected the needle he is trying to thread as he attempts to win back control of the House and secure the speakership. He has labored to stick to issues that Republicans believe resonate with voters across the ideological spectrum — chiefly the economy, public safety and border security — while also showing fealty to Trump and courting the hard-right voters and candidates whose support he will need to propel him to power.
“We will fight to lower the cost of gas,” McCarthy said. “We will stop taxpayer dollars from being wasted on failed programs.” He added, “We will conduct vigorous oversight, check abuses of power and hold all wrongdoers accountable, including our Department of Justice.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/mccarthy-embraces-trumps-assault-on-justice-department-over-mar-a-lago-search/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-09-02T04:09:43Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/mccarthy-embraces-trumps-assault-on-justice-department-over-mar-a-lago-search/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | false |
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Keno" game were:
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TOKYO (AP) — Nissan will more aggressively push electric vehicles to take advantage of a new U.S. law that gives up to $7,500 in tax credits, the Japanese automaker said Friday.
President Joe Biden signed the landmark climate change and health care bill into law last month. The tax credit can be used to defray the cost of purchasing an electric vehicle that’s made in the U.S.
The Nissan Leaf electric car is among the models that qualifies, but, under the law, the vehicles must contain a battery built in North America with minerals mined or recycled on the continent to be eligible.
Chief Sustainability Officer Joji Tagawa acknowledged the qualification process was complex, while stressing Nissan was eager to take advantage of the law to alleviate costs to the customer.
“We are in the process of making a thorough analysis at the moment,” he told reporters in an online briefing, noting details of what Nissan might do were still undecided.
Tesla models, as well as the Ford F Series electric pickup, BMW X5 and the Jeep Wrangler plug-in hybrid are among the models that will be able to qualify for the tax credits.
Nissan Motor Co., allied with French automaker Renault, was among the first to bank on zero-emission all-electric vehicles with the Leaf, which went on sale in 2010. More than 600,000 Leaf electric cars have been sold worldwide so far.
Major automakers around the world have recently announced investments to speed up the move toward electric vehicles, as worries grow about climate change and gas prices.
Nissan said it’s trying to make its operations and products cleaner, safer and more inclusive, examining sourcing, production and sales, as well as its lineup. The company, based in Yokohama, Japan, will work with alliance partners and governments to achieve those goals, Tagawa said.
Nissan’s brand image was tarnished when Carlos Ghosn, a star executive for two decades at Nissan, was arrested in Japan 2018 on charges of underreporting his compensation and misusing company money. Ghosn jumped bail in December 2019, and now lives in Lebanon. He says he is innocent and was unfairly targeted by some at Nissan worried about Renault gaining greater influence.
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Yorkshire is in cloudy weather with sunny intervals on Friday, August 2.
The Met Office said: "Dry with sunny spells however it'll become increasingly cloudy during the morning. A few light showers may break out during the afternoon. Feeling rather warm. Wind strengthening along coastal areas. Maximum temperature 23 °C."
Below is a detailed forecast for Huddersfield, Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield and York.
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Huddersfield
It will be dry and cloudy with sunny intervals throughout the whole day with temperatures reaching 22C. Cloudy night skies to follow.
Bradford
It will be dry and cloudy with sunny intervals throughout the whole day with temperatures reaching 22C. Cloudy night skies to follow.
Sheffield
It will be dry and cloudy with sunny intervals throughout the whole day with temperatures reaching 22C. Cloudy night skies to follow.
York
It will be dry and cloudy with sunny intervals throughout the whole day with temperatures reaching 22C. Cloudy night skies to follow.
Leeds
It will be dry and cloudy with sunny intervals throughout the whole day with temperatures reaching 22C. Cloudy night skies to follow.
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A recently published article in the journal JAMA Medical News & Perspectives has stated that some monkeypox infections may be asymptomatic or very mildly symptomatic and, thus, can easily remain unnoticed. This statement has been made based on two recent case reports from Europe.Medical News & Perspectives - Reports of Asymptomatic Monkeypox Suggest That, at the Very Least, Some Infections Go Unnoticed. Image Credit: NIAID
Monkeypox outbreaks
The most recent outbreaks of monkeypox virus since May 2022 have caused almost 48,000 infections in over 99 countries across the world. This estimate has been published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is considered the largest documented outbreak in mostly non-endemic countries.
The majority of recent monkeypox infections have been observed among men who have sex with men (MSM). This has prompted scientists and physicians to consider sexual contact as the primary route of viral transmission during recent outbreaks.
Two recent case reports from Belgium and France have highlighted that monkeypox infection can be asymptomatic.
In the Belgian study, four MSM tested positive for monkeypox infection during a routine screening of sexually transmitted infections. Of four patients, three were asymptomatic at the time of testing and remained symptom-free over a period of around three months post-diagnosis.
In the French study, monkeypox infection was detected in 13 asymptomatic patients. Only two developed symptoms later and visited the clinic for medical assistance.
Marjan Van Esbroeck, a clinical microbiologist at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium, has stated, “these studies suggest that in contrast to what was known about monkeypox in Africa, not all the patients present with symptoms.”
Are these infections asymptomatic or subtle?
Researchers noted that although the patients were asymptomatic during the study period, there was a possibility of unrecognized symptoms.
Given the fact that the patients were not examined physically at the time of sample collection, Van Esbroeck mentioned, “We cannot exclude that minor lesions have been overlooked or that general symptoms like mild fever or malaise were not recalled by the persons.”
In support of this notion, evidence demonstrates that the monkeypox virus has been circulating undetected in non-endemic countries for some time before the detection of the first case in the UK in May 2022.
Overall, these observations suggest that patients with monkeypox infection may develop very subtle symptoms that often remain unrecognized by physicians and patients. This raises the question if patients with subtle symptoms can infect others.
Is asymptomatic transmission possible?
Studies investigating the possibility of asymptomatic transmission of the monkeypox virus identified asymptomatic patients with high viral load during the recent monkeypox outbreaks in Europe. Furthermore, the Belgian study detected replication-competent monkeypox virus in anogenital swabs of asymptomatic patients.
These observations highlight the risk of unintentional viral transmission from asymptomatic patients. In this context, Van Esbroeck mentioned, “the difference between completely asymptomatic patients and patients with unrecognized minor symptoms is theoretical. Both will have the consequence that persons do not isolate themselves and potentially continue to have high-risk behavior.”
As stated by Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, an assistant professor of medicine at Emory University, in many patients with monkeypox infection, the only noticeable symptom is pain during swallowing, which can be easily overlooked as a symptom of monkeypox infection.
In some patients, lesions are not present on the skin but can be found by physicians in the larynx or rectum. She specifically mentioned, that monkeypox infections “can look and sound like a lot of things that we see in clinical practice,” and that “Monkeypox is an incredible mimic.”
According to the expert’s opinion, both physicians and patients should be aware of the range of clinical symptoms associated with monkeypox infection. This will help rapidly identify even a very subtle symptom, which is vital for timely detection and therapeutic management of monkeypox infection.
Measures to identify asymptomatic infection
Because of the high testing cost, not all patients with high-risk behaviors can be tested for monkeypox.
Given the sharp rise in monkeypox cases during recent outbreaks, Abraar Karan, an infectious disease physician at Stanford University, predicted that the shedding of infectious virus from asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic patients is very likely.
To better understand the potency of asymptomatic infections to spread the virus, frequent physical examinations and testing are required in exposed persons to monitor the clinical evolution of the infection.
As suggested by Abraar Karan, population-level serological testing might be effective in understanding the extent of undetected infections. However, it is not possible now because no monkeypox-specific serological tests are available on the market.
Douek, chief of the Human Immunology Section at the NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center, is currently developing a monkeypox-specific assay in collaboration with poxvirus experts at the CDC.
Douek said, “Presumably, we will be catching any instances of asymptomatic monkeypox infection because there will be people potentially who have antibodies against monkeypox but no recorded symptomatic history of actual known infection.”
Successful development of this assay will help monitor the dynamics of monkeypox transmission among high-risk populations, including MSM, sex workers, and people residing in endemic countries. | https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220901/Symptoms-of-monkeypox-may-not-always-be-evident.aspx | 2022-09-02T04:26:36Z | https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220901/Symptoms-of-monkeypox-may-not-always-be-evident.aspx | false |
Wisconsin man allegedly kills ex-girlfriend days after judge allows bail following child sex crime guilty plea
Ernest Terrell Blakney allegedly shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and set his home on fire just 10 days after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl
A Wisconsin man allegedly killed his ex-girlfriend just days after a judge denied a request from prosecutors to hold him in jail until his sentencing hearing, as he recently pleaded guilty to child sex charges.
Ernest Terrell Blakney, 47, is being accused by prosecutors of killing his ex-girlfriend and setting his Milwaukee home on fire on Aug. 25, according to FOX 6.
Both the Milwaukee police and fire departments went to the home shortly before 4:30 a.m. for a "house fire" call, but discovered a homicide victim, which was later identified as Nikia Rogers, 36.
An autopsy later revealed Rogers died from bullet wounds to her back and head. Her death was ruled a homicide.
Blakney was previously charged with second-degree sexual assault and was accused of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl in 2020. He posted $5,000 cash bail and was released from jail in November 2021, the complaint states.
The man pleaded guilty to the sex charge and was convicted on August 15. Prosecutors requested that Blakney be remanded and placed in jail after pleading guilty, but Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge David Borowski denied the motion, allowing Blakney to stay out of jail.
According to WISN, the family of the 13-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted also requested that Blakney be put in jail until his sentencing hearing.
Milwaukee police allege that Blakney went on to kill his ex-girlfriend just 10 days after Borowski declined to place him in jail until an Oct. 20 sentencing hearing.
Police haven't arrested Blakney after he allegedly killed his ex-girlfriend.
The criminal complaint alleged that Blakney could have started the fire in any of the following four places: a detached garage, the first floor, the basement and Rodgers' body.
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A witness who said that he had known Rogers said that Blakney was "crazy" and said that he got a message from a phone number belonging to Rogers after emergency crews were alerted about the fire, which stated "You should have left her alone."
The witness replied "excuse me," and got a response stating "she dead," adding that he knew Blakney by his middle name, Terrell, and texted the phone number "This Terrell?"
"Yes," the number said in response, the complaint states.
Another witness also said that he spoke with Blakney on the phone after the alleged homicide, stating that Blakney said he was "sorry," without explaining why.
When the witness asked why Blakney was sorry, he responded "she made me do it" and eventually said "I shot her," according to the complaint.
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The witness asked who Blakney shot, and he allegedly responded, saying that he shot Rogers because she was moving out of the house.
According to the witness, Blakney was in possession of a gun and said that he burned his house down and was headed to set his tractor trailers on fire.
Police also spoke with a witness who said that he was in the process of repairing a bulldozer at a construction site that was located near the woods on the night of the alleged crime and heard "metal collapsing," and then saw Blakney, who demanded the keys to the truck. Blakney allegedly ordered the worker to get in a trailer while pointing a gun in his direction, and then locked him inside. The worker got out of the trailer and called 911.
Blakney is being charged with first-degree reckless homicide, armed robbery, attempted mutilating a corpse, possession of a firearm by a felon, felony bail jumping, and false imprisonment. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/wisconsin-man-allegedly-kills-ex-girlfriend-days-after-judge-allows-bail-following-child-sex-crime-guilty-plea | 2022-09-02T04:29:05Z | https://www.foxnews.com/us/wisconsin-man-allegedly-kills-ex-girlfriend-days-after-judge-allows-bail-following-child-sex-crime-guilty-plea | true |
Biden sounds newly strong alarm: Trumpism menaces democracy
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden charged in a prime-time address Thursday that the “extreme ideology” of Donald Trump and his adherents “threatens the very foundation of our republic,” as he summoned Americans of all stripes to help counter what he sketched as dark forces within the Republican Party trying to subvert democracy.
In his speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, Biden unleashed the trappings of the presidency in an unusually strong and sweeping indictment of Trump and what he said has become the dominant strain of the opposition party. His broadside came barely two months before Americans head to the polls in bitterly contested midterm elections that Biden calls a crossroads for the nation.
“Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal,” he said before an audience of hundreds, raising his voice over pro-Trump hecklers outside the building where the nation’s founding was debated. He said he wasn’t condemning the 74 million people who voted for Trump in 2020, but added, "There’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans,” using the acronym for Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan.
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The explicit effort by Biden to marginalize Trump and his followers marks a sharp recent turn for the president, who preached his desire to bring about national unity in his Inaugural address.
Biden, who largely avoided even referring to “the former guy” by name during his first year in office, has grown increasingly vocal in calling out Trump personally. Now, emboldened by his party’s summertime legislative wins and wary of Trump’s return to the headlines, he has sharpened his attacks, last week likening the “MAGA philosophy” to “semi-fascism.”
UN inspectors arrive at Ukraine nuclear plant amid fighting
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — A U.N. inspection team entered Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant Thursday on a mission to safeguard it against catastrophe, reaching the site amid fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces that prompted the shutdown of one reactor and underscored the urgency of the task.
The 14-member delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in a convoy of SUVs and vans after months of negotiations to enable the experts to pass through the front lines and get inside Europe's biggest nuclear plant.
“The IAEA is now there at the plant and it’s not moving. It’s going to stay there. We’re going to have a continued presence there at the plant with some of my experts,” IAEA director Rafael Grossi, the mission leader, declared after the group got its first look at conditions inside.
But he added: “I will continue to be worried about the plant until we have a situation which is more stable."
As the experts made their way through the war zone toward the complex, Russia and Ukraine accused each other of shelling the area and trying to derail the visit. The fighting delayed the team’s progress.
CDC endorses updated COVID boosters, shots to begin soon
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday endorsed updated COIVD-19 boosters, opening the way for a fall vaccination campaign that could blunt a winter surge if enough Americans roll up their sleeves.
The new boosters targeting today's most common omicron strains should begin arriving in pharmacies and clinics within days.
The decision by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky came shortly after the agency's advisers voted in favor of the recommendation.
The shots “can help restore protection that has waned since previous vaccination and were designed to provide broader protection,” she said in a statement.
The tweaked shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna offer Americans a chance to get the most up-to-date protection at yet another critical period in the pandemic. They’re combination or “bivalent” shots — half the original vaccine and half protection against the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron versions now causing nearly all COVID-19 infections.
Alaska Natives celebrate Peltola's historic House election
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Bernadette Demientieff said she cried when she learned of Democrat Mary Peltola's win in Alaska's U.S. House special election, making Peltola the first Alaska Native to be elected to Congress.
“I feel a little bit of relief knowing that somebody will be down there that can really relate and understand what it is to be Alaskan, to be an Alaska Native and to have that connection to our homeland,” said Demientieff, executive director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee. The indigenous Gwich’in have fought for years against efforts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and she hopes to lay out their concerns with Peltola.
Peltola, 49, who is Yup'ik, is set to serve the remainder of the late Republican Rep. Don Young’s term, which ends in January.
Young, who died in March, held the seat for 49 years. Zack Brown, a former spokesperson in Young’s office, said that "many staffers over the years heard the Congressman express that he’d like to see the seat one day held by an Alaska Native woman."
But even as Peltola celebrated Wednesday, when results of the Aug. 16 ranked choice special election were released, she was looking toward November, when she will once again face Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich, her competitors in the special election. The November general election will decide who wins a full two-year term.
Man detained after pointing gun at Argentine vice president
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A man was detained Thursday night after he reportedly aimed a handgun at point-blank range toward Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández in what government ministers characterized as an assassination attempt.
The man, who had not been identified, was detained seconds into the incident.
Video from the scene broadcast on local television channels shows Fernández exiting her vehicle surrounded by supporters outside her home when a man can be seen extending his hand with what looks like a pistol and the vice president ducks.
Supporters surrounding the person appear shocked at what is happening amid the commotion in the Recoleta neighborhood of Argentina’s capital.
"A person who was identified by those who were close to him who had a gun was detained by (the vice president’s) security personnel. They set him aside, found the weapon, and now it must be analyzed,” Security Minister Aníbal Fernández told local cable news channel C5N.
Lawyer: Ohio man's police shooting death reckless, senseless
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Columbus police came under criticism Thursday for the killing of a man who was lying on his bed when an officer attempting to serve warrants fatally shot him, as a lawyer representing the slain man’s family demanded immediate changes to policing in the city and promised a lawsuit.
Not enough has happened in Ohio's capital city to alter policing practices despite several instances of white officers in the city shooting Black people, added attorney Rex Elliott, representing the family of Donovan Lewis, the Black man killed Tuesday.
"How many more lives are going to be lost to this type of reckless activity? How many more young Black lives will be lost?” Elliott said at a press event attended by multiple members of Lewis' family.
“How many more families like Donovan’s will need to appear at news conferences like this one before our leaders do enough to put a stop to these barbaric killings?” Elliott said.
The U.S. Justice Department agreed in 2021 to review Columbus police department practices after a series of fatal police shootings of Black people — including the April 2021 killing of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant — and the city’s response to 2020 racial injustice protests.
Trump documents probe: Judge appears open to special master
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge Thursday appeared to give a boost to former President Donald Trump’s hopes for appointing an outside legal expert to review government records seized by the FBI, questioning the Justice Department’s arguments that Trump couldn’t make the request and that a special master would needlessly delay its investigation.
“Ultimately, what is the harm” in such an appointment, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon asked department lawyers. But she did not rule on the request, saying she would do so later.
Lawyers for Trump say the appointment of a special master is necessary to ensure an independent inspection of the documents seized by the FBI during the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago.
This kind of review, they say, would allow for “highly personal information” such as diaries or journals to be filtered out from the investigation and returned to Trump, along with any other documents that may be protected by claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.
Chris Kise, a Trump lawyer and former Florida solicitor general, told Cannon that appointing a neutral party would restore public faith in the investigation.
Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’
Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people’s movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails obtained by The Associated Press.
Police have used “Fog Reveal” to search hundreds of billions of records from 250 million mobile devices, and harnessed the data to create location analyses known among law enforcement as “patterns of life,” according to thousands of pages of records about the company.
Sold by Virginia-based Fog Data Science LLC, Fog Reveal has been used since at least 2018 in criminal investigations ranging from the murder of a nurse in Arkansas to tracing the movements of a potential participant in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The tool is rarely, if ever, mentioned in court records, something that defense attorneys say makes it harder for them to properly defend their clients in cases in which the technology was used.
The company was developed by two former high-ranking Department of Homeland Security officials under former President George W. Bush. It relies on advertising identification numbers, which Fog officials say are culled from popular cellphone apps such as Waze, Starbucks and hundreds of others that target ads based on a person’s movements and interests, according to police emails. That information is then sold to companies like Fog.
“It’s sort of a mass surveillance program on a budget,” said Bennett Cyphers, a special adviser at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital privacy rights advocacy group.
Mississippi capital's water disaster developed over decades
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — For at least the third time in a dozen years, portable toilets are parked outside the ornate Mississippi Capitol because Jackson's water system is in crisis.
The big “Gotta Go” trailer is just one example of the city's desperation. Many homes, businesses and government offices have had little or no running water this week, forcing people to wait in long lines for drinking water or water to flush toilets.
The scenes testify to the near collapse of a water system that residents could not trust even in the best of times. The failure to provide such an essential service reflects decades of government dysfunction, population change and decaying infrastructure. It has also fueled a political battle in which largely white GOP state lawmakers have shown little interest in helping a mostly Black city run by Democrats.
“We’re on a budget, and we have to go buy water all the time. All the time," said Mary Huard, whose child has been forced to shift to online schooling because in-person classes were called off due to weak water pressure.
Even before the pressure dropped, Jackson's system was fragile, and officials had warned for years that widespread loss of service was possible. A cold snap in 2021 froze pipes and left tens of thousands of people without running water. Similar problems happened again early this year, on a smaller scale.
Hawaii quits coal in bid to fight climate change
HONOLULU (AP) — The last bits of ash and greenhouse gases from Hawaii’s only remaining coal-fired power plant slipped into the environment this week when the state’s dirtiest source of electricity burned its final pieces of fuel.
The last coal shipment arrived in the islands at the end of July, and the AES Corporation coal plant closed Thursday after 30 years in operation. The facility produced up to one-fifth of the electricity on Oahu — the most populous island in a state of nearly 1.5 million people.
“It really is about reducing greenhouse gases,” Hawaii Gov. David Ige said in an interview with The Associated Press. "And this coal facility is one of the largest emitters. Taking it offline means that we'll stop the 1.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gases that were emitted annually.”
Like other Pacific islands, the Hawaiian chain has suffered the cascading impacts of climate change. The state is experiencing the destruction of coral reefs from bleaching associated with increased ocean temperatures, rapid sea level rise, more intense storms and drought that is increasing the state's wildfire risk.
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James rallies FIU to 38-37 overtime win over Bryant
MIAMI (AP) - Grayson James came on to throw three fourth-quarter touchdowns then added another in overtime plus a 2-point conversion to give FIU a 38-37 win over Bryant on Thursday night.
After Bryant scored on the first possession of overtime on Zevi Eckhaus' pass to Anthony Frederick, James connected with Tyrese Chambers on a 5-yard score. New FIU coach Mike MacIntyre decided to go for two and James found EJ Wilson Jr. for the win.
Bryant took a 30-27 lead on Ishod Byarm's 1-yarder with 43 seconds left in regulation and it looked as if the Bulldogs would get their first win over an FBS opponent. But a targeting call on fourth down kept the Panthers alive and James covered 48 yards on three passes to set up Chase Gabriel's 29-yard field goal as time ran out.
FIU won after losing its final 11 games last season.
Gunnar Holmberg, Duke´s starter last year, threw for a touchdown before James took over in the third quarter. James finished 16-of-31 for 207 yards and Holmberg 14-of-20 for 103. Chambers and Kris Mitchell each had two TD catches.
Eckhaus was 18-of-22 passing for 243 yards. Gage Moloney added 106 yards passing with a score. Byarm had two touchdowns. Anthony Frederick had 101 yards receiving with a score.
It was Bryant's first game in Florida where fourth-year Bryant's Chris Merritt was head coach at Christopher Columbus High School for 18 years, just a few miles from FIU, before being hired by the Bulldogs.
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Two years ago, the vast majority of Chileans reached a conclusion: The constitution needs to change.
Now, as voters prepare for a referendum Sunday, many Chileans think the proposed new charter will be rejected amid frustration over the process, questions about its content and what supporters say is a surge in fake news that has confused citizens about what is actually in the document.
Just under 80% of Chileans voted to call for a new constitution in October 2020 and in 2021 elected delegates to a convention to draft the new document. Getting rid of the constitution dating from Chile's 1973-1990 military dictatorship was seen as a way to answer student-led protests that were sparked by a hike in public transportation prices but which quickly expanded into broader demands for greater equality and more social protections.
But opinion polls indicate Chileans may be poised to reject the replacement document written by the convention, which included issues like gender equality, environmental protections and Indigenous rights throughout the document's 388 articles and 178 pages that would fundamentally change Chilean society.
“We are facing one of the most important elections that we’ve had in the history of Chile, if not the most important,” said Gaspar Domínguez, former vice president of the constitutional convention.
Domínguez, a 33-year-old rural physician and political independent, exemplifies the type of delegate that Chileans elected to draw up their new constitution amid the anti-establishment fervor that followed the street protests. The majority of the convention delegates did not come from the traditional political parties.
Domínguez says he is confident the polls are wrong and Chileans will end up adopting the new constitution. But if it fails, he insists misinformation will be a main culprit.
“There are multiple and diverse reasons to reject (the proposed constitution), but many do it because they heard the text has things that it doesn’t,” he said, noting, for example, a persistent rumor that people would have to give up their houses or share them with migrants.
Others push back against the insistence that fake news is to blame for people souring on the document.
“Constitutions can be interpreted, that’s why we have supreme courts,” said Robert Funk, a political scientist at Chile University. While Funk agrees that lies have been spread about the document, he says that “treating a different interpretation as fake news is extremely dangerous.”
Domínguez points to events that affected “the confidence of the citizenry in the process” of writing the new constitution, among them a delegate lying about having leukemia, another casting a vote while taking a shower and others showing up for work at the convention dressed in costumes.
These headline-grabbing events undermined the credibility of the convention and raised questions about what the delegates were doing.
“The literature always says that the process is as important as the result,” said Octavio Avendaño, a sociologist at Chile University. “The process failed here.”
For Paulina Lobos, the delegates “did not rise to the occasion of the responsibility that the country handed to them.”
Lobos voted in favor of changing the constitution in 2020 “with a lot of hope,” but she has since grown so disillusioned with the work of the convention that she has been campaigning against the document.
It wasn’t just about the process, but the contents of the document as well, she said.
“It went from being the imposition that we had in 1980 by a group of military officers and right-wingers to being an imposition by leftist radicals on society at large,” Lobos said.
Some of the most controversial articles in the proposed constitution have to do with Chile’s Indigenous population, which makes up almost 13% of the country’s 19 million people. The charter would characterize Chile as a plurinational state, establish autonomous territories and recognize a parallel justice system in those areas, although how far-reaching that would be would still have to be decided by lawmakers.
The document also enshrines sexual and reproductive rights, alluding to abortion without mentioning it in a country where terminating pregnancy remains illegal except for medical reasons or in cases of rape. It also puts the environment on center stage in a country that is the world’s top copper producer.
As more Chileans started hearing details about what the new constitution would include, many began growing wary.
Valentina Rosas saw this switch first hand. Rosas is the deputy director of We Have to Talk About Chile, run by the Catholic University and Chile University, a platform that seeks to get citizens to talk to each other about important issues through a virtual platform.
In the beginning of the constitutional process “the word we registered the most was ‘hope’,” she said. “These days, the word we register the most is ‘uncertainty’.”
That uncertainty has to do at least in part with the sheer length of the document.
“It’s an excessively long proposal, one of the biggest in the world,” said Kenneth Bunker, head of PTG, a Santiago-based political consultancy.
“The text is way too long and leaves a lot of space for criticism,” Avendaño agrees. “More than a constitutional text it looks like a government program.”
In an effort to deal with this uncertainty, President Gabriel Boric, a strong proponent of amending the constitution, and his allies have publicly committed to changing or clarifying some of the most controversial points of the document if it is approved.
The administration of Boric, 36, is so closely tied to the new constitution that a lot of people "associate the referendum with the government,” Bunker said. That is bad news for the proposed document becasue the approval ratings of the country’s youngest ever president have plunged since he took office in March.
The latest poll by Cadem, a local pollster, said 46% percent of Chileans leaned toward rejection and 37% supported the new charter, with a margin of error of plus or minues three percentage points.
That is in line with other polls, but some insist there could be a surprise Sunday, in part because the voting is mandatory for Chile's 15 million voters.
“It’s possible that polls are not able to truly understand voter intent,” said Mario Herrera, a researcher at the Political Analysis Center at Talca University. “A key issue is whether people believe they will truly be fined if they don’t vote.”
There may also be room for a surprise because of the unique time in Chile’s history.
“Over the last few years, Chile has found itself in a moment if re-founding, questioning the political and economic system, and that hasn’t changed,” Funk said. “It’s probable that rejection will win, but we can’t rule out the possibility that approval will come out on top” because campaigners have an “emotional argument” to get rid of the old document.
At the closing rally of the campaign to approve the new constitution Thursday night, thousands of people took over a main Santiago avenue. They danced, waved flags and chanted support amid widespread optimism they can prove the pollsters wrong.
“There is a large group of people who will go vote who normally don't,” Natalia Iriarte, a school teacher, said at the rally in explaining why she is optimistic about the prospects for the new document. “It won't be easy, Chile is a country that is very reticent to change.”
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Big reveal: Biden to help unveil Obama White House portrait
WASHINGTON (AP) - It´s been more than a decade since President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, welcomed back George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, for the unveiling of their White House portraits, part of a beloved Washington tradition that for decades managed to transcend partisan politics.
President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, are set to revive that ritual - after an awkward and anomalous gap in the Trump years - when they host the Obamas on Wednesday for the big reveal of their portraits in front of scores of friends, family and staff.
The Obama paintings will not look like any in the White House portrait collection to which they will be added. They were America´s first Black president and first lady.
The ceremony will also mark Michelle Obama´s first visit to the White House since Obama´s presidency ended in January 2017, and only the second visit for Barack Obama. He was at the White House in April to mark the 12th anniversary of the health care law he signed in 2010.
Portrait ceremonies often give past presidents an opportunity to showcase their comedic timing.
"I am pleased that my portrait brings an interesting symmetry to the White House collection. It now starts and ends with a George W," Bush quipped at his ceremony in 2012.
FILE - First lady Michelle Obama, and President Barack Obama arrive for the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony in the East Room of the White House, on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, in Washington. Former President Barack Obama's presidential portrait will be unveiled at the White House in a Sept. 7, 2022, ceremony hosted by President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Bill Clinton joked in 2004 that "most of the time, till you get your picture hung like this, the only artists that draw you are cartoonists."
Recent tradition, no matter the party affiliation, has had the current president genially hosting his immediate predecessor for the unveiling - as Clinton did for George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush did for Clinton and Obama did for the younger Bush.
Then there was an unexplained pause when Donald Trump did not host Obama.
Two spokespeople for Trump did not respond to emailed requests for comment on the lack of a ceremony for Obama, and whether artists are working on portraits of Trump and former first lady Melania Trump.
The White House portrait collection starts with George Washington, America´s first president. Congress bought his portrait.
Other portraits of early presidents and first ladies often came to the White House as gifts. Since the middle of the last century, the White House Historical Association has paid for the paintings.
The first portraits financed by the association were of Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, and John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, said Stewart McLaurin, president of the private, nonprofit organization established by first lady Kennedy.
Before presidents and first ladies leave office, the association explains the portrait process. The former president and first lady choose the artist or artists, and offer guidance on how they want to be portrayed.
"It really involves how that president and first lady see themselves," McLaurin said in an interview with The Associated Press.
The collection includes an iconic, full-length portrait of Washington that adorns the East Room. It is the only item still in the White House that was in the executive mansion in November 1800 when John Adams and Abigail Adams became the first president and first lady to live in the White House.
Years later, first lady Dolley Madison saved Gilbert Stuart´s portrait of Washington from almost certain ruin. She had White House staff take it out of the city before advancing British forces burned the mansion in 1814. The painting was held in storage until the White House was rebuilt.
President and first lady portraits are seen by millions of White House visitors, though not all are on display. Some are undergoing conservation or are in storage.
Those that are on display line hallways and rooms in public areas of the mansion, such as the Ground Floor and its Vermeil and China Rooms, and the State Floor one level above, which has the famous Green, Blue and Red Rooms, the East Room and State Dining Room.
Portraits of Mamie Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, Lady Bird Johnson and Lou Henry Hoover grace the Vermeil Room, along with a full-length image of Jacqueline Kennedy. Michelle Obama´s portrait likely will join Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush along the Ground Floor hallway.
The State Floor hallway one floor above features recent presidents: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Gerald Ford´s portrait and the likeness of Richard Nixon - the only president to resign from office - are on view on the Grand Staircase leading to the private living quarters on the second floor.
Past presidents' images move around the White House, depending on their standing with the current occupants. Ronald Reagan, for example, moved Thomas Jefferson and Harry S. Truman out of the Cabinet Room and swapped in Dwight Eisenhower and Calvin Coolidge.
In the Clinton era, portraits of Richard Nixon and Reagan, idols of the Republican Party, lost their showcase spot in the Grand Foyer and were replaced with pictures of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Truman, heroes of the Democrats. Nancy Reagan temporarily moved Eleanor Roosevelt to a place of prominence in the East Room in 1984 to mark the centennial of her birth.
One of the most prominent spots for a portrait is above the mantle in the State Dining Room and it has been occupied for decades by a painting of a seated Abraham Lincoln, hand supporting his chin. It was placed there by Franklin Roosevelt.
Bill Clinton´s and George W. Bush´s portraits hang on opposing walls in the Grand Foyer.
Clinton´s would be relocated to make room for Barack Obama´s if the White House sticks to tradition and keeps the two most recent Oval Office occupants there, McLaurin said.
"That´s up to the White House, to the curators," he said.
The association, which is funded through private donations and the sale of books and an annual White House Christmas ornament, keeps the portrait price well below market value because of the "extraordinary honor" an artist derives from having "their work of art hanging perpetually in the White House," McLaurin said.
Details about the Obamas' portraits will stay under wraps until Wednesday.
Biden will be the rare president to host a former boss for the unveiling; he was Obama´s vice president. George H.W. Bush, who held Ronald Reagan´s ceremony, was Reagan´s No. 2.
Betty Monkman, a former White House curator, said during a 2017 podcast for the White House Historical Association that the ceremony is a "statement of generosity" by the president and first lady. "It´s a very warm, lovely moment."
The White House portraits are one of two sets of portraits of presidents and first ladies. The National Portrait Gallery, a Smithsonian museum, maintains its own collection and those portraits are unveiled before the White House pair. The Obamas´ unveiled their museum portraits in February 2018.
Linda St. Thomas, chief spokesperson for the Smithsonian Institution, said in an email that a $650,000 donation in July from Save America, Trump´s political action committee, was earmarked for the couple´s museum portraits. Two artists have been commissioned, one for each painting, and work has begun, St. Thomas said.
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Associated Press writer Jill Colvin in New York contributed to this report.
FILE - President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama shake stand together on stage during an event about the Affordable Care Act, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 5, 2022. Former President Barack Obama's presidential portrait will be unveiled at the White House in a Sept. 7, 2022, ceremony hosted by President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
FILE - Former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush, right, unveil their portraits in the East Room of the White House in Washington, May 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
FILE - President Barack Obama applauds former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, May 31, 2012, where the Bush's portraits were unveiled. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
FILE - President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush, followed by first lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Laura Bush, arrive in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 31,2012, for the unveiling of the Bush's portraits. Former President Barack Obama's presidential portrait will be unveiled at the White House in a Sept. 7, 2022, ceremony hosted by President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
FILE - Former President Clinton, center, unveils his portrait as he and former first lady Hillary Clinton, right, participate in a ceremony for the unveiling of the Clinton portraits, June 14, 2004, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
FILE - Former President Bill Clinton, left, and President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush, right, applaud as former first lady Sen. Hillary Clinton's portrait is unveiled during a ceremony at the White House, June 14, 2004. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)
FILE - Former President George H.W. Bush and wife Barbara Bush look as his formal portrait is officially unveiled at the Whites House on July 17, 1995. The Bushes' returned to the White House for the unveiling of both of their portraits which were done by Herbert E. Abrams of Warren, Conn. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander, File)
FILE - Former President Ronald Reagan and former first lady Nancy Reagan look at a portrait of the former president along with President George H.W. Bush and first lady Barbara Bush during an unveiling ceremony at the White House on Nov. 15, 1989. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)
FILE - President Jimmy Carter shakes hands with former President Gerald R. Ford in the White House in Washington on May 24, 1978 during a ceremony at which a portrait of the former Chief Executive was unveiled. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton poses with former first lady Betty Ford under Ford's White House portrait in Washington, March 2, 1993. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
FILE - A portrait of former first lady Edith Roosevelt, right, wife of President Theodore Roosevelt, in the Green Room of the White House in Washington, Sept. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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BASTROP COUNTY, Texas — Editor's Note: The video above is from a previous report that aired in June.
Elon Musk's SpaceX company is looking to construct a massive building in Bastrop County, just east of Austin, according to a new report by the Austin Business Journal.
The company aims to build a more than 521,000 square foot "shell building," per filings with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The ABJ added that an estimated project cost of $43 million was included along with an expected completion date of July 2023.
The report states the filing does not use SpaceX by name but includes the address of the company's facility located just outside of Waco in McGregor, Texas.
Back in June, the ABJ reported that SpaceX was looking to build in Bastrop County. A Texas Commission on Environmental Quality filing called the construction Project Echo and revealed that SpaceX could build on nearly 30 acres of land on 816 FM 1209. That project had a completion date of March 31, 2023.
The ABJ additionally reports that SpaceX now has four job listings posted on its website, up from two just months ago. Those listings include ones for a facilities engineer, senior application software engineer, development test engineer and site reliability engineer.
Read the full report by the Austin Business Journal here.
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Shenzhen fire South Korean coach Lee after Dalian defeat
HONG KONG, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Shenzhen FC have fired South Korean coach Lee Jang-soo after a run of five consecutive defeats, the Chinese Super League club announced on Friday.
Lee, who led Guangzhou Evergrande to their first Chinese Super League title in 2011 before being replaced by Italian World Cup winner Marcello Lippi, lost his job after Shenzhen were handed a 5-1 thumping by Dalian Pro on Thursday.
The 65-year-old was appointed by Shenzhen ahead of the current season following the departure of Jose Carlos Granero but managed to secure only five wins in 15 games.
The former defender previously won the Asian Club Championship as an assistant coach with South Korea's Ilhwa Chunma before securing Chinese FA Cup wins as head coach with Chingqing Lifan in 2000 and Qingdao Hademen two years later.
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Today in History
Today is Friday, Sept. 2, the 245th day of 2022. There are 120 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II.
Today in History
Today is Friday, Sept. 2, the 245th day of 2022. There are 120 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II.
On this date:
In 1789, the United States Treasury Department was established.
In 1864, during the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman’s forces occupied Atlanta.
In 1935, a Labor Day hurricane slammed into the Florida Keys, claiming more than 400 lives.
In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Defense Education Act, which provided aid to public and private education to promote learning in such fields as math and science.
In 1963, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers.
In 1964, one of America’s most decorated military heroes of World War I, Medal of Honor recipient Alvin C. York, died in Nashville at age 76.
In 1969, in what some regard as the birth of the Internet, two connected computers at the University of California, Los Angeles, passed test data through a 15-foot cable.
In 1998, a Swissair MD-11 jetliner crashed off Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people aboard.
In 2005, a National Guard convoy packed with food, water and medicine rolled into New Orleans four days after Hurricane Katrina.
In 2008, Republicans assailed Barack Obama as the most liberal, least experienced White House nominee in history at their convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, and enthusiastically extolled their own man, John McCain, as ready to lead the nation.
In 2018, Sen. John McCain was laid to rest on a grassy hill at the U.S. Naval Academy, after a horse-drawn caisson carrying the senator’s casket led a procession of mourners from the academy’s chapel to its cemetery.
In 2019, a fire swept a boat carrying recreational scuba divers that was anchored near an island off the Southern California coast; the captain and four other crew members were able to escape the flames, but 34 people who were trapped below died.
Ten years ago: Campaigning his way toward the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama slapped a “Romney doesn’t care” label on his rival’s health-care views and said Republicans wanted to repeal new protections for millions without offering a plan of their own.
Five years ago: President Donald Trump visited with survivors of Hurricane Harvey, touring a Houston shelter housing hundreds of displaced people and meeting with emergency responders in Lake Charles, Louisiana; it was Trump’s second visit to the region in the wake of the storm. Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth after 288 days on the International Space Station; the trip gave Whitson a total of 665 days in space, a record for any American and any woman worldwide.
One year ago: A divided Supreme Court allowed a Texas law that banned most abortions to remain in effect; it prohibited abortions once medical professionals could detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks and before most women know they’re pregnant. (The law allowed private citizens to sue providers and anyone involved in facilitating an abortion.) House Democrats promoted Republican Liz Cheney to vice chairwoman of a committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, even as some Republicans threatened to oust her from the GOP conference for taking part in the probe. Virginia’s Supreme Court ruled that the state could remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a prominent spot in the state’s capital city, Richmond, which was also the Confederate capital. (The statue was cut into pieces and hauled away days later.) Former Georgia prosecutor Jackie Johnson was indicted on misconduct charges alleging she used her position to shield the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery from being charged immediately after the shootings.
Today’s Birthdays: Former Sen. Alan K. Simpson, R-Wyo., is 91. Former United States Olympic Committee Chairman Peter Ueberroth is 85. Singer Jimmy Clanton is 84. R&B singer Rosalind Ashford (Martha & the Vandellas) is 79. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw is 74. Basketball Hall of Famer Nate Archibald is 74. Actor Mark Harmon is 71. Former Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., is 71. International Tennis Hall of Famer Jimmy Connors is 70. Actor Linda Purl is 67. Rock musician Jerry Augustyniak (10,000 Maniacs) is 64. Country musician Paul Deakin (The Mavericks) is 63. Pro Football Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson is 62. Actor Keanu Reeves is 58. International Boxing Hall of Famer Lennox Lewis is 57. Actor Salma Hayek is 56. Actor Tuc Watkins is 56. Actor Kristen Cloke is 54. Actor Cynthia Watros is 54. R&B singer K-Ci is 53. Actor-comedian Katt Williams is 49. Actor Nicholas Pinnock is 49. Actor Michael Lombardi is 48. Actor Tiffany Hines is 45. Rock musician Sam Rivers (Limp Bizkit) is 45. Actor Jonathan Kite is 43. Actor Joshua Henry is 38. Actor Allison Miller is 37. Rock musician Spencer Smith is 35. Electronic music DJ/producer Zedd is 33.
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Iran sends nuclear talks response; US casts doubt on offer
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran sent a written response early Friday in negotiations over a final draft of a roadmap for parties to return to its tattered nuclear deal with world powers, though the U.S. cast doubt on Tehran’s offer.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said in a statement that “the sent text has a constructive approach with the aim of finalizing the negotiations.”
However, as in the last round of written proposals and counters, Iran offered no public acknowledgment of what it said. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all matters of state in the country’s Shiite theocracy, largely has been silent in recent weeks on the negotiations.
In Washington, the State Department confirmed it received Iran’s response through the European Union, which has served as an intermediary for the indirect talks after then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord in 2018.
“We are studying it and will respond through the EU, but unfortunately it is not constructive,” the State Department said, similarly not elaborating on what the proposal contained.
The 2015 deal saw Iran greatly curtail its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. Under the deal, Iran could have only 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 3.67% under constant scrutiny of International Atomic Energy Agency surveillance cameras and inspectors.
Now, however, the last public IAEA count shows Iran has a stockpile of some 3,800 kilograms (8,370 pounds) of enriched uranium. More worrying for nonprofileration experts, Iran now enriches uranium up to 60% purity — a level it never reached before that is a short, technical step away from 90%. Those experts warn Iran has enough 60%-enriched uranium to reprocess into fuel for at least one nuclear bomb.
While Iran long has maintained its program is peaceful, officials now openly discuss Tehran’s ability to seek an atomic bomb if it wanted. Meanwhile, a series of attacks across the wider Mideast since the deal’s collapse have raised tensions of a wider conflict breaking out.
Both the U.S. and Iran have tried to portray the ongoing negotiations as bending in their favor on issues like the American sanctions targeting Tehran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Earlier this week, Iran’s hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi maintained that an IAEA investigation into traces of man-made uranium found at undeclared nuclear sites in the country must be halted.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
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Chicago is one of the nation's gun violence hotspots and a seemingly ideal place to employ Illinois' "red flag” law that allows police to step in and take firearms away from people who threaten to kill. But amid more than 8,500 shootings resulting in 1,800 deaths since 2020, the law was used there just four times.
It's a pattern that's played out in New Mexico, with nearly 600 gun homicides during that period and a mere eight uses of its red flag law. And in Massachusetts, with nearly 300 shooting homicides and just 12 uses of its law.
An Associated Press analysis found many U.S. states barely use the red flag laws touted as the most powerful tool to stop gun violence before it happens, a trend blamed on a lack of awareness of the laws and resistance by some authorities to enforce them even as shootings and gun deaths soar.
AP found such laws in 19 states and the District of Columbia were used to remove firearms from people 15,049 times since 2020, fewer than 10 per 100,000 adult residents. Experts called that woefully low and not nearly enough to make a dent in gun violence, considering the millions of firearms in circulation and countless potential warning signs law enforcement officers encounter from gun owners every day.
“It’s too small a pebble to make a ripple,” Duke University psychologist Jeffrey Swanson, who has studied red flag gun surrender orders across the nation, said of the AP tally. “It’s as if the law doesn’t exist.”
“The number of people we are catching with red flags is likely infinitesimal,” added Indiana University law professor Jody Madeira, who like other experts who reviewed AP’s findings wouldn’t speculate how many red flag removal orders would be necessary to make a difference.
The search for solutions comes amid a string of mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde, Texas, and Highland Park, Illinois, and a spike in gun violence not seen in decades: 27,000 deaths so far this year, following 45,000 deaths each of the past two years.
AP’s count, compiled from inquiries and Freedom of Information Law requests, showed wide disparities in how the laws were applied from state to state, county to county, most without regard to population or crime rates.
Florida led with 5,800 such orders, or 34 per 100,000 adult residents, but that is due mostly to aggressive enforcement in a few counties that don’t include Miami-Dade and others with more gun killings. More than a quarter of Illinois’ slim 154 orders came from one suburban county that makes up just 7% of the state's population. California had 3,197 orders but was working through a backlog of three times that number of people barred from owning guns under a variety of measures who had not yet surrendered them.
And a national movement among politicians and sheriffs that has declared nearly 2,000 counties as “Second Amendment Sanctuaries,” opposing laws that infringe on gun rights, may have affected red flag enforcement in several states. In Colorado, 37 counties that consider themselves “sanctuaries” issued just 45 surrender orders in the two years through last year, a fifth fewer than non-sanctuary counties did per resident. New Mexico and Nevada reported only about 20 orders combined.
“The law shouldn’t even be there in the first place,” argued Richard Mack, a former Arizona sheriff who heads the pro-gun Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. “You’re taking away someone’s property and means of self-defense.”
Red flag laws, most of which came into effect over the last four years, allow police officers who believe gun owners are an imminent danger to themselves or others to petition a judge to order firearms surrendered or, barring that, seized for an “emergency” period, typically two weeks. The judge can then convene a court hearing in which petitioners present evidence to withhold weapons longer, typically a year, and the owner can argue against that.
AP’s tally counts an emergency order that is followed by a longer one as a single order if they involve the same gun owner. In rare cases where no one asked for an emergency order and only a longer one was requested and granted, that also counts as a single order. Several states reported incomplete data.
Some states also allow family members of gun owners, school officials, work colleagues or doctors to ask for gun removal orders, also known as extreme risk protection orders. But data reviewed by the AP show nearly all petitions in several states were initiated by police, possibly because, as several surveys have shown, few people outside law enforcement are even aware the laws exist.
The recent spike in shootings has brought renewed attention to red flag laws, with states including Alaska, Pennsylvania and Kentucky introducing legislation to add them. The Biden administration is seeking to foster wider use of red flag laws by allocating money in a newly passed federal gun law to help spread the word about such measures.
An AP-NORC poll in late July found 78% of U.S. adults strongly or somewhat favor red flag laws, but the backlash against them has been intense in some states, particularly in rural areas. Opponents argue that allowing judges to rule on gun seizures in initial emergency petitions before full hearings violates due process rights, though court cases claiming this have generally found the laws constitutional.
Many police believe seizing guns can also be dangerous and unnecessary, even as a last resort, especially in sparsely populated areas where they know many of the residents with mental health issues, said Tony Mace, head of the New Mexico Sheriffs’ Association, which lobbied against the state’s law.
“You’re showing up with 10 to 15 law enforcement officers and coming in the middle of the night and kicking in the door, and it’s already a dangerous environment,” said Mace, sheriff of Cibola County, a sanctuary county with just one order since 2020. “You’re dealing with someone in crisis and elevating it even more.”
One fierce gun rights defender who still aggressively uses the law is Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd, who says he doesn’t let his beliefs stand in the way of moving fast when gun owners threaten violence.
“We’re not going to wait for an Uvalde, Texas, or a Parkland or a Columbine if we have the information and people say that they’re going to shoot or kill,” said Judd, who enforced 752 orders since 2020 in a county of 725,000 residents, a tally that's more than the total orders for 15 entire states. “We’re going to use the tools that the state gave us.”
Florida’s traditionally pro-gun Republican-led legislature passed its red flag law in 2019 following revelations police failed to act on repeated threats by an expelled student who would go on to carry out the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that left 17 people dead.
A recent high-profile example of a red flag law not being used was for the 21-year-old gunman accused of fatally shooting seven people and injuring dozens more at a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. Robert E. Crimo III drew police attention three years earlier when he threatened to “kill everyone” in his house and officers acknowledged going to the home several times previously because of a “history of attempts” to take his own life.
But Highland Park police never requested a gun surrender order, saying there was no gun belonging to Crimo to take away at the time, even though the law has a provision to block threatening people from making future purchases, too.
Illinois state Rep. Denyse Stoneback said there has clearly been a problem with awareness of the law among those tasked with carrying it out. “We’d go to police departments and they didn’t know anything about it,” said the Democrat who helped push through a bill last year providing $1 million in police red flag law training.
Asked why Chicago had so few red flag firearm restraining orders, police spokesman Thomas Ahern said many of the city’s gun killings are committed with illegally owned firearms.
But Ahern emphasized it remained a priority of the department to increase its awareness and use of the red flag law. “If we are able to prevent one citizen from getting hurt or killed that’s a law worth having and definitely not a low priority," he said.
In New York, a red flag-type situation that wasn’t covered under the state’s law nonetheless led to a spike in red flag gun surrender orders.
Payton Gendron was a 17-year-old high school senior last year when he was investigated by New York’s State Police and ordered hospitalized for a mental health evaluation for typing into an economics class online program that his future plans included “murder-suicide.” But since he was a minor, he wasn’t covered under the state’s red flag law and it didn’t prevent him from later buying the high-powered rifle authorities say he used to kill 10 Black people in a racially-motivated shooting at Buffalo supermarket in May.
Since then, New York has seen 779 gun surrender orders under its red flag law, equal to nearly half of all its orders since the measure took effect three years ago.
Several experts said it’s impossible to come up with an ideal number of red flag orders and misleading to compare states by orders because of the widely varying rates of gun ownership and gun homicides and suicides, among other stats.
Another complicating factor is that some states have stricter gun ownerships rules and multiple ways to seize firearms. In California, for instance, guns can be taken away through domestic violence restraining orders, civil harassment protection orders and school violence prevention orders in addition to the red flag law.
Still, experts consulted by AP agreed more could be done to enforce red flag laws given the prevalence of guns and the millions of gun owners that national studies suggest could be dangerous to themselves and others. In red flag states alone, figures compiled by the Gun Violence Archive show at least 21,100 homicides and 47,000 injuries during the 2½ years covered by AP’s count.
Several studies suggest red flag laws can be particularly effective in preventing gun suicides, which kill about 20,000 people a year. A Duke University study of Connecticut’s-first-in-the-nation red flag law in 1999 estimated that for every 10 to 20 surrender orders a life from a potential suicide was saved. A study of Indiana’s law came up with a similar ratio.
While the impact of red flag laws on homicides is less well researched, studies suggest many mass shootings could be avoided if the laws were implemented aggressively. A study by the gun-control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety showed perpetrators exhibited dangerous warning signs before more than half of the mass shootings in the dozen years through 2020 that accounted for 596 deaths.
Such warning signs have led to many opportunities to stop gun violence, as well as missed chances.
In Colorado in 2020, police seized 59 guns from a man who complained of hit men coming to get him, bragged about shooting someone and repeatedly threatened his ex-wife.
In New Jersey in 2019, police took seven guns from a man threatening on Facebook to attack a Walmart.
And in Washington state in 2018, police removed 12 guns from the home of a man who posted on social media about killing Jews in a synagogue and kids in a school.
None of those threatened shootings happened.
But in Indianapolis in 2020, failure to employ all aspects of a red flag law resulted in disaster. After 18-year-old Brandon Hole’s mother alerted police that he was threatening to commit “suicide by cop,” police seized his pump-action shotgun. A county prosecutor could have gone further under the law to argue before a judge that Hole should be barred from possessing or buying a gun, but that never happened.
A few months later, Hole bought two AR-style rifles at a gun store, turning to his mother and saying, “They don’t have a flag on me.” Several months after that, he fatally shot eight employees in a FedEx warehouse where he had worked and injured seven more before killing himself.
“I feel the state of Indiana is an accessory to murder,” a wounded Angela Hughley told the Indianapolis Star shortly after the shooting.
Amber Clark, a librarian in Sacramento, California, might still be alive today if police had acted on a tip that Ronald Seay was armed and dangerous.
The gunman’s twin brother called police in 2018 warning that Seay, who had a history of mental illness and trouble with police, was making violent threats and had two semiautomatic pistols. But the police never went to a judge to ask for a gun surrender order or tell the sibling that he could do that himself.
A few weeks later, Seay unloaded 11 bullets into Clark’s face and head at pointblank range outside the Sacramento library.
“It is obvious to me and my family that the application of California’s red flag law in this case would have saved two lives – Amber’s and the shooter’s – and prevented immeasurable grief,” said her husband, Kelly Clark. “My wife would still be alive and the killer would have received the help he needed instead of being condemned to life in prison.”
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Condon reported from New York; AP writer Terry Spencer in West Palm Beach, Florida, AP Data Editor Justin Myers in Chicago and AP statehouse reporters across the country contributed to this report.
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NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — If you plan to travel this weekend, you’ll be happy to know no other state in the country has cheaper gas on average than Arkansas.
According to AAA, the natural state led the country Thursday with an average of $3.33 a gallon. The national average was 50¢ more expensive at $3.83 a gallon.
Referencing gas tracker, FOX 16 News found gas below three gallons in North Little Rock. That’s one-third cheaper than what the average Arkansan was paying in mid-June.
“$2.99. I haven’t seen that in a long time,” expressed Jennifer Beisner from England, AR. Across Arkansas gas prices are getting so low, drivers can barely believe it.
“I think they are running some kind of deal or special or maybe the gas ain’t no good. I’m going to find out,” Anthony Baker said with a laugh.
The price isn’t $2.99 everywhere, but what average Arkansans pay at the pump is the cheapest in America according to AAA.
AAA said the biggest factor in what’s driving prices down everywhere is the lower cost of crude oil which accounts for about 50% to 60% of what drivers pay at that pump.
“Arkansas consistently will be within the top ten cheapest statewide averages and there can be a number of reasons for that,” stated AAA Spokesman Nick Chabarria.
Chabarria pointed out the demand in other areas, their distance from gas lines or the Gulf, and the taxes each state has on fuel. In fact, all bordering states are within the top 10 cheapest statewide averages ahead of Labor Day weekend.
“So, if you’re not leaving too far from home, you should be in pretty good shape relative to the rest of the country,” Chabarria added.
Anthony Baker welcomes the cheaper prices. He was spending about $140 to fill up his 27-gallon tank in June. Thursday, he spent $90.
According to Gas Buddy, the state’s average price of gas hasn’t been this cheap since February before prices truly skyrocketed topping out at $4.54 a gallon.
Beisner said, “Because gas was so high it was affecting paying bills, so I had to cut some things out.”
So if you have been holding out on travel, this may be the weekend to hit the road. | https://www.fox16.com/news/local-news/some-arkansans-seeing-cheapest-gas-since-february/ | 2022-09-02T04:49:57Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/local-news/some-arkansans-seeing-cheapest-gas-since-february/ | true |
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Warning over hand-me-down plastic toys: 84% of old figurines and dolls contain illegal levels of toxic 'forever chemicals' that can stunt their growth and cause cancer, study warns
- Researchers in Sweden looked at levels of several harmful toxins in 150 toys
- Some old toys contained up to 400 times the legal limit of 'forever chemicals'
- Concluded eco-friendly trend towards reusables 'is not always a good thing'
Hand-me-down plastic toys such as figurines, dolls and Lego pose a health risk to children, experts have warned.
A study found the majority contain dangerous levels of toxic chemicals which can stunt youngsters' growth and have been linked to cancer and infertility.
Researchers in Sweden looked at levels of two harmful toxins in more than 150 old and new toys.
While around three in 10 new toys exceeded EU and UK legal limits, more than 80 per cent of old toys breached the target.
Some old toys contained up to 400 times the legal concentrations of 'forever chemicals', which can take years to degrade in the body.
Researchers said the broader societal trend away from single-use goods 'is not always automatically a good thing'.
There is mounting pressure on companies from fast fashion shops to supermarkets to focus on reusables to cut down carbon emissions and tackle climate change.
Hand-me-down plastic toys such as figurines, dolls and Lego pose a health risk to children, experts have warned (file)
Experts at the University of Gothenburg, tested 157 different toys, including balls, dolls, figurines and dress-up items for phthalates or chlorinated paraffins.
The former are a group of chemicals used to make plastics more durable, often known as plasticisers. The latter are used to make toys non-inflammable and are thought to be toxic to humans.
Phthalates have been linked to an increased risk of asthma, breast cancer, obesity, diabetes, low IQ, and development and fertility issues.
It is thought that once these durable chemicals get into the body they interfere with our internal systems and disrupt our DNA — which could lead to cancer.
Laws in the EU and Britain mean manufacturers cannot use phthalate in concentrations greater than 0.1 per cent of total weight of the toy.
The limit for short chain chlorinated paraffins is 0.15 per cent.
But the study found 30 per cent of new toys contained levels that exceeded those targets.
Older toys were significantly worse, with 84 per cent containing illegal levels of the chemicals.
Lead researcher Professor Bethanie Carney Almroth said: 'Many of the old balls were found to have concentrations of phthalates totalling more than 40 per cent of the toy's weight, which is 400 times over the legal limit.
'The study indicates that reuse and recycling is not always automatically a good thing.
'The transition to a more circular economy requires bans and other policy measures that get rid of hazardous chemicals from plastic and other materials.'
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EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — A Texas pecan farm nearly the size of Disneyland has become entangled in a turf war between the Biden administration and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over immigration enforcement on the southern border.
Hugo and Magali Urbina, who bought Heavenly Farms in April 2021, at first welcomed the state footing the bill for a new chain-link fence through their property earlier this year as part of Abbott’s multibillion-dollar crackdown on border crossings along the Rio Grande. But then, one day, they found the fence's main gate unexpectedly locked.
The lock was put there, the couple says, by Texas authorities who have spent months arresting thousands of migrants on trespassing charges on private land. But the Urbinas didn’t want the lock and neither did the U.S. Border Patrol, which found it impeded with the agency's own immigration enforcement and had it removed.
Now a single gate on the 1,200-mile Texas border has swung open a new dust-up over how to address near-record levels of migration on America’s southern doorstep, a fight the Urbinas say they want no part of.
“Unbelievable,” Abbott lashed out on social media last month after the lock was removed. “While Texas secures the border, the federal government is enabling illegal immigration.”
The dispute is the latest example of how Texas’ unprecedented challenge to the federal government’s authority on the border has created a clash among agencies working at cross purposes.
The Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass where most of the nearly 470-acre farm is located, is fast becoming the busiest corridor for illegal crossings, with thousands passing each week onto the farm alone. The sector may soon surpass Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, which has been the focus for the last decade.
The Urbinas do not oppose Abbott's massive border mission. But in the case of the lock, they say it went too far. They blamed what they see as a lack of single command in an area saturated with state troopers, Texas National Guard members, U.S. Border Patrol agents and local authorities, all of whom constantly cross paths and often work in tandem.
“They are all doing what they are being told,” Magali Urbina said. “It is really not their fault, but there is nobody running or telling them. There is no boss.”
It isn't an isolated case.
In September 2021, Texas troopers told Border Patrol agents on horseback to block migrants from crossing the river to a camp of nearly 16,000 predominantly Haitians in Del Rio, about an hour's drive north of Eagle Pass. Images of Border Patrol agents twirling reins at overpowered migrants sparked widespread criticism, including from President Joe Biden.
The internal investigation found that agents acted against Border Patrol objectives and “resulted in the unnecessary use of force against migrants who were attempting to reenter the United States with food.” The agents had been “instructed to help where needed” and not told anything more specific about how to respond to requests from another agency.
Abbott, who is seeking a third term, launched his multibillion-dollar “Operation Lone Star” last year, creating an overwhelming presence on the border. The size and cost of the mission has grown in defiance of the Democratic administration in Washington:
— Since July, the state has picked up 5,600 migrants who have entered the country illegally in Texas and returned them to ports of entry on the border, a role that has been reserved for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In Eagle Pass, state buses drop off migrants throughout the day at a border crossing with Piedras Negras, Mexico, as far as they can go. CBP releases them, creating a circular flow.
Since April, Texas has bused more than 7,000 migrants to Washington and New York on free, voluntary trips, attempting to call attention to what it considers Biden's failed policies. This week, Abbott began sending buses to Chicago, with the first arriving Thursday at Union Station. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has called the move a “political ploy."
— Since last year, the state has charged more than 4,800 migrants with trespassing, a misdemeanor that carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail.
The Urbinas' farm, which winds along the river, includes an old house that the couple is restoring for visitors to sample pecans, coffee and wine. They were inspired by Fredericksburg, a town of German heritage near Austin that draws tourists.
The farm of neatly manicured rows of trees had long drawn migrants but was relatively peaceful before the lifelong Eagle Pass resident couple bought it. It is located at the end of a stretch of new border fencing that was built on Abbott's orders, on the edge of the 30,000-resident town that is dotted with warehouses, decaying houses and chain stores.
Agents stopped migrants nearly 50,000 times in the Del Rio sector in July, with Rio Grande Valley a distant second at about 35,000. About 6 of 10 stops in the Del Rio sector were migrants from Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua, who are likely to be released to pursue their immigration cases because poor diplomatic relations with those countries means the U.S. can't send them home.
Migrants cross the river and climb a few feet uphill amidst overgrown Carrizo cane and concertina wire to surrender on the farm's edge, expecting they will be released. U.S. Border Patrol agents, state troopers and journalists are a regular presence.
Border Patrol unlocked the gate and took migrants in for processing, a regular procedure for the federal officials in any situation involving a lock within 25 miles of the border, said Jon Anfinsen, president of the National Border Patrol Council union chapter that includes agents in Eagle Pass.
“The governor is telling everyone, ‘Secure the border.’ I have no doubt that is the intent but the reality of it is that it’s just not that simple,” Anfinsen said. “We’ve been doing this forever and it hasn’t been fixed yet. So it’s a noble attempt, I suppose, but we’re going to have to take these people into custody.”
Border Patrol officials declined comment.
Ericka Miller, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said the agency is accommodating the Urbina's request to have the gate unlocked. She said DPS is also working to have carrizo cane on the property removed but said the Urbinas are allowing concertina wiring to stay on the property.
“All landowner agreements are voluntary and can be eliminated at any time. Again, DPS is there to assist the landowner," Miller said in an email.
The chain-link fence, which rises over the cane intertwined with the razor wire, makes it easier for the Urbinas to pursue trespassing charges against people crossing into their farm. However, they haven't, although they know cattle ranchers who have.
The state and federal governments are each “wanting to pull all the levers” and not working together, Hugo Urbina said. The couple regrets what they see as a disconnect.
“The president is not here, the governor is not here, but this is our land,” Magali Urbina said.
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Associated Press writers Elliot Spagat in San Diego and Paul Weber in Austin, Texas, contributed. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Pecan-farmers-get-caught-in-power-vacuum-on-Texas-17414418.php | 2022-09-02T04:59:46Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Pecan-farmers-get-caught-in-power-vacuum-on-Texas-17414418.php | true |
Winfield park temporarily closes after city workers find ‘suspicious devices’
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Employees with the City of Winfield on found a pair of unidentified objects that led to the temporary closure of Cherry Street Park.
Winfield police said about 1:14 p.m., officers responded to the park and the report of “suspicious devices.” Police said city employees reported finding at least two items that looked suspicious while they were mowing.
“During the initial part of the investigation officers located two partial devices and remnants from others on the ground in the park. During the initial investigation it was not believed there was an immediate threat to the residences around the park, however foot traffic and direct vehicle traffic into the park was closed,” Winfield police explained.
The Winfield Police Department reported working with administrators from the nearby elementary school “to ensure alternate routes around the park were utilized for students who either walk or ride bicycles home from school.”
The Wichita Police Department’s Bomb Squad responded to the scene “out of an abundance of caution,” Winfield police said.
“During the investigation three small items were collected and will be investigated further. It is believed this is an isolated incident and no residences were in danger,” police said.
The Cowley County Sheriff’s Office, the Kansas Highway Patrol and the Winfield Fire Department joined the Wichita PD in assisting Winfield police in the investigation.
Winfield PD requested anyone with information about the found devices to call 620-221-5447 or 911.
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Unsolicited Press Releases Stacey Freeman's "I Bought My Husband’s Mistress Lingerie"
"I Bought My Husband’s Mistress Lingerie" by Stacey Freeman is a feminist memoir-in-essays collection.
Portland, OR, September 01, 2022 --(PR.com)-- I Bought My Husband’s Mistress Lingerie tells Stacey Freeman’s uplifting story beginning when she made a life-changing discovery in her husband’s suitcase. Set in Short Hills, New Jersey, her memoir in essays takes readers around the world and back in time for an emotional ride through her childhood and adolescence, marriage, separation and divorce, navigation of bicontinental co-parenting, introduction to mid-life dating, and return to work. Oscillating between periods of despair and laughter and often landing somewhere in between, this slice-of-life essay collection serves as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and how sometimes gifts can come from the most unexpected people and places.
About Stacey Freeman
Stacey Freeman is a writer and journalist and the founder of Write On Track LLC, a full-service consultancy dedicated to providing high-quality content and strategy to individuals and businesses. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Lily (published by The Washington Post), Forbes, Entrepreneur, MarketWatch, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Woman’s Day, Town & Country, InStyle, PBS’ Next Avenue, AARP, SheKnows, Yahoo!, MSN, HuffPost, POPSUGAR, Your Teen, Grown & Flown, Scary Mommy, CafeMom, MariaShriver.com, and dozens of other well-known platforms worldwide. She lives in New Jersey with her three children.
About Unsolicited Press
Unsolicited Press strives to produce exceptional works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from award-winning authors. Unsolicited Press based out of Portland, Oregon and focuses on the works of the unsung and underrepresented. As a womxn-owned, all-volunteer small publisher that doesn’t worry about profits as much as championing exceptional literature, we have the privilege of partnering with authors skirting the fringes of the lit world. We’ve worked with emerging and award-winning authors such as Shann Ray, Amy Shimshon-Santo, Brook Bhagat, Kris Amos, and John W. Bateman. Learn more at unsolicitedpress.com. Find us on twitter and Instagram, @unsolicitedp.
I Bought My Husband’s Mistress Lingerie is available on November 15, 2022 as a paperback (230 p.; 978-1-956692-40-2), e-book, and audiobook. An interactive website is also available (dreampoporigami.com). Retailers and libraries can order copies through Ingram.
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How YOU could buy a game of pool with Anthony Albanese, a ‘power feast’ with Penny Wong and an intimate dinner with the teal independents
- Charity auction listings show Prime Minister to play pool, tennis for good causes
- A bid already received to challenge Mr Albanese at pool over 'refreshments'
- Other auction items include dinner with Penny Wong and the 'teal MPs'
One confident Aussie is set to challenge the Prime Minister on the pool table over a beer, but nobody has come forward to tackle him in one of his favourite sports.
Anthony Albanese has offered to match his skills at tennis or in a head-to-head game of pool 'while enjoying refreshments' as part of the BidForGood charity fundraiser.
Other options Australians can bid for include a 'power feast' with heavy-hitting government ministers Penny Wong and Tanya Plibersek and an intimate dinner to find out what Australia's 'teal' independent MPs have planned.
One confident Aussie is set to challenge the Prime Minister on the pool table over a beer, but nobody is so far keen to tackle him in one of his favourite sports, tennis
One bid has been received for the pool (or snooker) comp with Albo, which now looks set to happen at Lodge in Canberra (Pictured, Mr Albanese at the Bob Hawke Beer & Leisure Centre in March 2022)
But there's a catch. Any successful bids will set you back thousands of dollars, but all of which goes to a good cause.
The charities benefitting include Rural Aid, OzHarvest, Fearless Women, Rotary and The Pink Elephants Support Network.
One $5,000 bid has been received for the pool (or snooker) comp with Albo, which now looks set to happen at Lodge in Canberra.
There are still no bids on the game of tennis with the Prime Minister, with the reserve starting at $5000
A three-course meal with Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is available for four people would set you back $5,000 but it includes 'fine wine'.
For just $3,000 you could dine with the so-called 'teal MPs' - Zoe Daniel, Monique Ryan, Allegra Spender and Kylea Tink and hear their plans
Mr Albanese plays competitive tennis in the Sydney Badge Tennis Competition, albeit in low grades.
The BidForGood options will feature during a charity auction during the parliamentary press gallery Midwinter Ball, next Wednesday at Parliament House.
The Lodge, which is the PM's Canberra residence, has an upstairs 'billiards and games room'.
The three-course meal with Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is available for four people and includes 'fine wine'.
The minimum bid is $5,000.
Dinner with the 'teal MPs' - Zoe Daniel, Monique Ryan, Allegra Spender and Kylea Tink - is cheaper at $3,000.
The description says it is 'your chance to meet key ‘teal’ independent MPs ... and hear about their plans to usher in a new phase of politics.'
Among other options offered by BidForGood are a round of golf with defence minister Richard Marles, attending a Big Bash League cricket match with Peter Dutton or a Broncos NRL game with treasurer Jim Chalmers.
The major auction prize is two return business class Qantas flights to London or Los Angeles, valued at $10,000.
Pink Elephants supports miscarriage and early pregnancy loss, while Fearless Women provides counselling, mentoring, and education programs for young women. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11168101/A-game-pool-tennis-PM-Australian-charity-auction-lets-punters-hang-Albo.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-02T05:12:04Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11168101/A-game-pool-tennis-PM-Australian-charity-auction-lets-punters-hang-Albo.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran sent a written response early Friday in negotiations over a final draft of a roadmap for parties to return to its tattered nuclear deal with world powers, though the U.S. cast doubt on Tehran's offer.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said in a statement that “the sent text has a constructive approach with the aim of finalizing the negotiations.”
However, as in the last round of written proposals and counters, Iran offered no public acknowledgment of what it said. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all matters of state in the country's Shiite theocracy, largely has been silent in recent weeks on the negotiations.
In Washington, the State Department confirmed it received Iran's response through the European Union, which has served as an intermediary for the indirect talks after then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord in 2018.
"We are studying it and will respond through the EU, but unfortunately it is not constructive,” the State Department said, similarly not elaborating on what the proposal contained.
The 2015 deal saw Iran greatly curtail its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. Under the deal, Iran could have only 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 3.67% under constant scrutiny of International Atomic Energy Agency surveillance cameras and inspectors.
Now, however, the last public IAEA count shows Iran has a stockpile of some 3,800 kilograms (8,370 pounds) of enriched uranium. More worrying for nonprofileration experts, Iran now enriches uranium up to 60% purity — a level it never reached before that is a short, technical step away from 90%. Those experts warn Iran has enough 60%-enriched uranium to reprocess into fuel for at least one nuclear bomb.
While Iran long has maintained its program is peaceful, officials now openly discuss Tehran's ability to seek an atomic bomb if it wanted. Meanwhile, a series of attacks across the wider Mideast since the deal's collapse have raised tensions of a wider conflict breaking out.
Both the U.S. and Iran have tried to portray the ongoing negotiations as bending in their favor on issues like the American sanctions targeting Tehran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Earlier this week, Iran's hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi maintained that an IAEA investigation into traces of man-made uranium found at undeclared nuclear sites in the country must be halted.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Iran-sends-nuclear-talks-response-US-casts-doubt-17414439.php | 2022-09-02T05:15:39Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Iran-sends-nuclear-talks-response-US-casts-doubt-17414439.php | true |
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Sep. 2, 2022 Updated: Sep. 2, 2022 12:52 a.m.
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1of 17 A youth makes an "L" during a campaign rally to support Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's bid for reelection in Manaus, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug 31, 2022. Edmar Barros/AP Show More Show Less
2of 17 Sargassum seaweed colors the water brown and covers the beach in the Bay of Soliman, north of Tulum, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, where workers hired by local residents remove it by hand, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. Eduardo Verdugo/AP Show More Show Less 3of 17
4of 17 A protester affected by tear gas fired by police splashes water on his face, during a protest to demand that Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry step down and call for a better quality of life, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. Odelyn Joseph/AP Show More Show Less
5of 17 Cristina Fernandez, Argentina's former president and the country's current vice president, delivers a speech in front of her home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. People gathered to show their support after prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence Fernandez to 12 years in prison and ban her from holding public office for life for allegedly leading a criminal conspiracy that irregularly awarded public works contracts to a friend and ally. Rodrigo Abd/AP Show More Show Less 6of 17
7of 17 Demonstrators rally at the Pablo Neruda amphitheater against the proposed new Constitution in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. Chileans have until the Sept. 4 plebiscite to study the new draft and decide if it will replace the current Magna Carta imposed by a military dictatorship 41 years ago. Matias Basualdo/AP Show More Show Less
8of 17 Dancers from Cuba's National Ballet rehearse under the leadership of U.S. choreographer Jessica Lang as they prepare next month's International Ballet Festival in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. Ramon Espinosa/AP Show More Show Less 9of 17
10of 17 Pedro of Brazil's Flamengo, left, jumps for the ball as Leonardo Jara of Argentina's Velez Sarsfield looks on during a Copa Libertadores semifinal first leg soccer match at Jose Almafitani stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Natacha Pisarenko/AP Show More Show Less
11of 17 Children play on a swing near the salt flat of Pampatar on Margarita Island, Venezuela, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. Matias Delacroix/AP Show More Show Less 12of 17
13of 17 Brazil's Ana Clara, left, celebrates with teammate Rafa Levis, after scoring her side's first goal against The Netherlands during the Women's World Cup U-20 third-place soccer match at the National Stadium in San Jose, Costa Rica, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Moises Castillo/AP Show More Show Less
14of 17 Mapuche men pose for a photo wearing kollon, or ceremonial masks, outside their home in Carimallin, southern Chile, on Friday, July 1, 2022. They are in charge of driving away negative energies during the multiday ceremonies of We Tripantu, the Mapuche new year. Rodrigo Abd/AP Show More Show Less 15of 17
16of 17 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for a second term, rides a horse at the the Barretos Rodeo International Festival in Barretos, Sao Paulo state Brazil, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. Brazil's general elections are scheduled for Oct. 2, 2022. Andre Penner/AP Show More Show Less 17of 17
Aug. 26 - Sept. 1, 2022
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was curated by AP photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City. | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/news/article/AP-Week-in-Pictures-Latin-America-and-Caribbean-17414456.php | 2022-09-02T05:17:45Z | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/news/article/AP-Week-in-Pictures-Latin-America-and-Caribbean-17414456.php | false |
Today in History
Today is Friday, Sept. 2, the 245th day of 2022. There are 120 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II.
On this date:
In 1789, the United States Treasury Department was established.
In 1864, during the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman’s forces occupied Atlanta.
In 1935, a Labor Day hurricane slammed into the Florida Keys, claiming more than 400 lives.
In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Defense Education Act, which provided aid to public and private education to promote learning in such fields as math and science.
In 1963, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers.
In 1964, one of America’s most decorated military heroes of World War I, Medal of Honor recipient Alvin C. York, died in Nashville at age 76.
In 1969, in what some regard as the birth of the Internet, two connected computers at the University of California, Los Angeles, passed test data through a 15-foot cable.
In 1998, a Swissair MD-11 jetliner crashed off Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people aboard.
In 2005, a National Guard convoy packed with food, water and medicine rolled into New Orleans four days after Hurricane Katrina.
In 2008, Republicans assailed Barack Obama as the most liberal, least experienced White House nominee in history at their convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, and enthusiastically extolled their own man, John McCain, as ready to lead the nation.
In 2018, Sen. John McCain was laid to rest on a grassy hill at the U.S. Naval Academy, after a horse-drawn caisson carrying the senator’s casket led a procession of mourners from the academy’s chapel to its cemetery.
In 2019, a fire swept a boat carrying recreational scuba divers that was anchored near an island off the Southern California coast; the captain and four other crew members were able to escape the flames, but 34 people who were trapped below died.
Ten years ago: Campaigning his way toward the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama slapped a “Romney doesn’t care” label on his rival’s health-care views and said Republicans wanted to repeal new protections for millions without offering a plan of their own.
Five years ago: President Donald Trump visited with survivors of Hurricane Harvey, touring a Houston shelter housing hundreds of displaced people and meeting with emergency responders in Lake Charles, Louisiana; it was Trump’s second visit to the region in the wake of the storm. Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth after 288 days on the International Space Station; the trip gave Whitson a total of 665 days in space, a record for any American and any woman worldwide.
One year ago: A divided Supreme Court allowed a Texas law that banned most abortions to remain in effect; it prohibited abortions once medical professionals could detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks and before most women know they’re pregnant. (The law allowed private citizens to sue providers and anyone involved in facilitating an abortion.) House Democrats promoted Republican Liz Cheney to vice chairwoman of a committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, even as some Republicans threatened to oust her from the GOP conference for taking part in the probe. Virginia’s Supreme Court ruled that the state could remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a prominent spot in the state’s capital city, Richmond, which was also the Confederate capital. (The statue was cut into pieces and hauled away days later.) Former Georgia prosecutor Jackie Johnson was indicted on misconduct charges alleging she used her position to shield the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery from being charged immediately after the shootings.
Today’s Birthdays: Former Sen. Alan K. Simpson, R-Wyo., is 91. Former United States Olympic Committee Chairman Peter Ueberroth is 85. Singer Jimmy Clanton is 84. R&B singer Rosalind Ashford (Martha & the Vandellas) is 79. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw is 74. Basketball Hall of Famer Nate Archibald is 74. Actor Mark Harmon is 71. Former Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., is 71. International Tennis Hall of Famer Jimmy Connors is 70. Actor Linda Purl is 67. Rock musician Jerry Augustyniak (10,000 Maniacs) is 64. Country musician Paul Deakin (The Mavericks) is 63. Pro Football Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson is 62. Actor Keanu Reeves is 58. International Boxing Hall of Famer Lennox Lewis is 57. Actor Salma Hayek is 56. Actor Tuc Watkins is 56. Actor Kristen Cloke is 54. Actor Cynthia Watros is 54. R&B singer K-Ci is 53. Actor-comedian Katt Williams is 49. Actor Nicholas Pinnock is 49. Actor Michael Lombardi is 48. Actor Tiffany Hines is 45. Rock musician Sam Rivers (Limp Bizkit) is 45. Actor Jonathan Kite is 43. Actor Joshua Henry is 38. Actor Allison Miller is 37. Rock musician Spencer Smith is 35. Electronic music DJ/producer Zedd is 33. | https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Today-in-History-September-2-Japan-surrenders-17389037.php | 2022-09-02T05:18:59Z | https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Today-in-History-September-2-Japan-surrenders-17389037.php | true |
Today in History
Today is Friday, Sept. 2, the 245th day of 2022. There are 120 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II.
On this date:
In 1789, the United States Treasury Department was established.
In 1864, during the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman’s forces occupied Atlanta.
In 1935, a Labor Day hurricane slammed into the Florida Keys, claiming more than 400 lives.
In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Defense Education Act, which provided aid to public and private education to promote learning in such fields as math and science.
In 1963, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers.
In 1964, one of America’s most decorated military heroes of World War I, Medal of Honor recipient Alvin C. York, died in Nashville at age 76.
In 1969, in what some regard as the birth of the Internet, two connected computers at the University of California, Los Angeles, passed test data through a 15-foot cable.
In 1998, a Swissair MD-11 jetliner crashed off Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people aboard.
In 2005, a National Guard convoy packed with food, water and medicine rolled into New Orleans four days after Hurricane Katrina.
In 2008, Republicans assailed Barack Obama as the most liberal, least experienced White House nominee in history at their convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, and enthusiastically extolled their own man, John McCain, as ready to lead the nation.
In 2018, Sen. John McCain was laid to rest on a grassy hill at the U.S. Naval Academy, after a horse-drawn caisson carrying the senator’s casket led a procession of mourners from the academy’s chapel to its cemetery.
In 2019, a fire swept a boat carrying recreational scuba divers that was anchored near an island off the Southern California coast; the captain and four other crew members were able to escape the flames, but 34 people who were trapped below died.
Ten years ago: Campaigning his way toward the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama slapped a “Romney doesn’t care” label on his rival’s health-care views and said Republicans wanted to repeal new protections for millions without offering a plan of their own.
Five years ago: President Donald Trump visited with survivors of Hurricane Harvey, touring a Houston shelter housing hundreds of displaced people and meeting with emergency responders in Lake Charles, Louisiana; it was Trump’s second visit to the region in the wake of the storm. Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth after 288 days on the International Space Station; the trip gave Whitson a total of 665 days in space, a record for any American and any woman worldwide.
One year ago: A divided Supreme Court allowed a Texas law that banned most abortions to remain in effect; it prohibited abortions once medical professionals could detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks and before most women know they’re pregnant. (The law allowed private citizens to sue providers and anyone involved in facilitating an abortion.) House Democrats promoted Republican Liz Cheney to vice chairwoman of a committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, even as some Republicans threatened to oust her from the GOP conference for taking part in the probe. Virginia’s Supreme Court ruled that the state could remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a prominent spot in the state’s capital city, Richmond, which was also the Confederate capital. (The statue was cut into pieces and hauled away days later.) Former Georgia prosecutor Jackie Johnson was indicted on misconduct charges alleging she used her position to shield the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery from being charged immediately after the shootings.
Today’s Birthdays: Former Sen. Alan K. Simpson, R-Wyo., is 91. Former United States Olympic Committee Chairman Peter Ueberroth is 85. Singer Jimmy Clanton is 84. R&B singer Rosalind Ashford (Martha & the Vandellas) is 79. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw is 74. Basketball Hall of Famer Nate Archibald is 74. Actor Mark Harmon is 71. Former Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., is 71. International Tennis Hall of Famer Jimmy Connors is 70. Actor Linda Purl is 67. Rock musician Jerry Augustyniak (10,000 Maniacs) is 64. Country musician Paul Deakin (The Mavericks) is 63. Pro Football Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson is 62. Actor Keanu Reeves is 58. International Boxing Hall of Famer Lennox Lewis is 57. Actor Salma Hayek is 56. Actor Tuc Watkins is 56. Actor Kristen Cloke is 54. Actor Cynthia Watros is 54. R&B singer K-Ci is 53. Actor-comedian Katt Williams is 49. Actor Nicholas Pinnock is 49. Actor Michael Lombardi is 48. Actor Tiffany Hines is 45. Rock musician Sam Rivers (Limp Bizkit) is 45. Actor Jonathan Kite is 43. Actor Joshua Henry is 38. Actor Allison Miller is 37. Rock musician Spencer Smith is 35. Electronic music DJ/producer Zedd is 33. | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/Today-in-History-September-2-Japan-surrenders-17389037.php | 2022-09-02T05:21:00Z | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/Today-in-History-September-2-Japan-surrenders-17389037.php | false |
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