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JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi’s capital city is struggling with the near collapse of its water system, prompting emergency declarations from President Joe Biden and Gov. Tate Reeves.
Problems started days after torrential rain fell in central Mississippi, altering the quality of the raw water entering Jackson’s treatment plants. That slowed the treatment process, depleted supplies in water tanks and caused a precipitous drop in pressure.
When water pressure drops, there’s a possibility that untreated groundwater can enter the water system through cracked pipes, so customers are told to boil water to kill potentially harmful bacteria.
But even before the rainfall, officials said some water pumps had failed and a treatment plant was using backup pumps. Jackson had already been under a boil-water notice for a month because the state health department had found cloudy water that could make people ill.
WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF WATER PROBLEMS IN JACKSON?
Jackson is the largest city in one of the poorest states in the U.S.
The city has a shrinking tax base that resulted from white flight, which began about a decade after public schools were integrated in 1970. Jackson’s population is more than 80% Black, and about 25% of its residents live in poverty.
Like many American cities, Jackson struggles with aging infrastructure with water lines that crack or collapse. Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, a Democrat in a Republican-led state, said the city’s water problems come from decades of deferred maintenance.
Some equipment froze at Jackson’s main water treatment plant during a cold snap in early 2020, leaving thousands of customers with dangerously low water pressure or no water at all. The National Guard helped distribute drinking water. People gathered water in buckets to flush toilets. Similar problems happened on a smaller scale earlier this year.
Jackson frequently has boil-water notices because of loss of pressure or other problems that can contaminate the water. Some of the mandates are in place for only a few days, while others last weeks. Some only affect specific neighborhoods, usually because of broken pipes in the area. Others affect all customers on the water system.
The state health department put the entire Jackson water system under a boil-water notice in late July because of a cloudy quality to the water. That mandate remains in effect, and officials have not indicated when it might end. Although boiling the water is intended to protect people’s health, it also makes everyday tasks more time consuming.
WHERE DOES JACKSON GET ITS WATER?
Most of Jackson’s water comes from the Ross Barnett Reservoir, which is just northeast of the city and is fed by the Pearl River. The city also takes some water from a well. In addition, hospitals and some state agencies have drilled their own wells to have water available in case of problems with the city system.
The water system serves about 150,000 residents in Jackson and about 11,500 residents of a suburb, Byram, plus businesses and government offices. About 80% of customers had little or no water Wednesday morning at the worst part of the current outage, and all customers had low pressure, a Jackson city spokeswoman said.
WHERE DOES JACKSON PROCESS ITS WATER?
Jackson has two water treatment plants. The newer and larger one is the O.B. Curtis plant near the reservoir. This plant has been the main source of the most recent problems. The governor said two pumps at Curtis stopped operating within the past month, so the plant had been operating on backup pumps. A temporary pump was installed Wednesday.
The Curtis plant is authorized to produce up to 50 million gallons (189,271 kiloliters) of water per day. According to the governor’s office, it was producing 20 million gallons (75,708 kiloliters) Thursday. The older water treatment plant, J.H. Fewell, is authorized to produce 20 million gallons (75,708 kiloliters) of water per day, with the flexibility to go up to 30 million gallons (113,562 kiloliters). On Thursday, it was producing 20.5 million gallons (77,601 kiloliters).
DO ENOUGH PEOPLE WORK AT JACKSON’S WATER PLANTS?
Understaffing is a serious problem.
The mayor said the city has had difficulty finding and hiring enough Class A certified water operators. Federal law requires at least one such operator to be on duty at each water treatment plant at all times.
WLBT-TV requested emails from the city and found that the Curtis plant had one-sixth of the number of certified operators it needed to be fully staffed. The city engineer said in November that staff shortages were so severe that the city would have to shut down one of its plants if one more operator left. The documents also showed that operators were working massive amounts of overtime.
WHAT ABOUT WATER QUALITY?
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice in January that Jackson’s system violates the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. The EPA noted that an April 2021 fire in the electrical panel at Curtis had caused all five pumps to be unavailable for service, causing low water pressure. An inspection six months later found the pumps remained out of service.
In 2015, routine testing found higher than acceptable lead levels in Jackson water samples, and the city continues to publish public notices about water quality not meeting minimum standards.
In 2016, the state Health Department found an inadequate application of water treatment chemicals because of a failing corrosion control system at the Curtis plant. The EPA required the city to correct this problem. In 2017, the city began installation of corrosion control treatment.
A water quality notice published in July said the majority of tested samples showed lead levels “below the action level set by the EPA.” But it also listed precautions from the state Health Department, including that baby formula should be made only with filtered or bottled water and that children younger than 5 should have lead screening and blood testing.
WHAT OTHER WATER PROBLEMS DOES JACKSON HAVE?
Jackson has also struggled with wastewater.
In 2012, the city entered into a consent decree with the EPA and the U.S. Department of Justice to bring its sewer system into compliance with federal water quality laws. The city remains out of compliance.
In late April, the city submitted a report to federal regulators showing that sewer failures caused the release of nearly 45 million gallons (170,344 kiloliters) of untreated wastewater into the environment between December and March.
WHAT WILL IT COST TO FIX JACKSON’S WATER PROBLEMS?
The mayor said fixing Jackson’s water system could cost billions of dollars, and that is far beyond what the city can afford.
An infrastructure bill that Biden signed into law last year is designed to address problems like Jackson’s, but it’s unclear how much money the Mississippi capital will receive.
The Mississippi Legislature this year allocated $3 million for repairs at Jackson’s Fewell water plant. The Legislature also put $400 million of federal pandemic relief money into a water infrastructure fund, and Jackson could apply for part of that. Cities or counties are required to match the grant money with local money. The application period opened Thursday. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/explainer-mississippi-capitals-water-woes-are-extensive/2022/09/02/e21b60fc-2aef-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html | 2022-09-02T19:28:19Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/explainer-mississippi-capitals-water-woes-are-extensive/2022/09/02/e21b60fc-2aef-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html | false |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
1-0-4-1
(one, zero, four, one)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
1-0-4-1
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Woods Fire: Forward progress stopped on fire that forced evacuations in Tuolumne Count
By Jonathan Ayestas
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JAMESTOWN, California (KCRA) — Forward progress has been stopped on a fire that sparked in Tuolumne County on Thursday night and forced evacuations in the area.
The fire has burned 21 acres and was 10% contained, as of Friday morning.
Evacuation orders are still in place near the communities of Jamestown and Sonora, the sheriff’s office said.
Evacuation orders are in place for the following areas.
North Drive Fairway Outlook Drive Martha Lane Golden Dove Lane Circle Lane Silver Pine Drive Alley Drive Charbroullian Lane Constance Lane Golf Links Road Mountain Vista Court McKibbin
With evacuation orders, there is an immediate threat to life and you are lawfully required to evacuate.
Evacuation warnings were issued for Gibbs Drive, Jamestown Road, Racetrack Road, Ponderosa Way, Cottage Court and Woodside Drive. You are not required to leave immediately with evacuation warnings, but you are recommended to be ready to do so at a moment’s notice in case fire behavior becomes threatening.
Stockton Road is closed from Highway 108 to Ponderosa Way, the sheriff’s office said.
An evacuation center has been set up at the Tuolumne County Sheriff Possee Grounds at 19130 Rawhide Road in Jamestown.
This is the same area where a fire sparked roughly the same time a year ago. That was called the Washinton Fire, which burned 100 acres before firefighters extinguished it.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been charged with leaving dead animals on three separate occasions at a memorial for the 17 victims of the Parkland school massacre, officials said Friday.
Robert Mondragon, 29, is being held without bail on three felony charges of defacing a monument for his alleged actions outside Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and for violating probation on an earlier conviction for battery and indecent exposure.
Broward County sheriff's investigators said on the night of July 20, Mondragon put a dead, cut open duck on the bench that is part of the memorial garden outside the school commemorating the victims of the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre.
The next night, Mondragon left a dead raccoon on the bench and on July 31 he left a dead opossum, investigators said.
After he was identified as a suspect, a deputy pulled him over and found blood and feathers in his car. He allegedly told the deputy he had been keeping a dead bird in his car because he liked the smell. He was arrested Aug. 5.
In the earlier case, he was convicted of approaching a woman and exposing himself and biting a police officer who responded.
State records show that in 2018, authorities seized guns from Mondragon under the state's so-called red flag law. That law, adopted after the Stoneman Douglas shootings, allows law enforcement to seek a judge's permission to seize firearms from people who can be shown to be a danger to themselves or others.
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony said at a Friday press conference that Mondragon had made numerous computer searches about old school shootings, which makes him fearful that Mondragon may have been planning one himself.
“He fits every classification that it’s coming,” Tony said, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “We’ve been lucky, and luck is not a strategy.”
Andrew Coffey, Mondragon's attorney, said Mondragon “had a troubled and traumatic childhood.” He said Mondragon was the child victim of a crime that is now awaiting trial, but he declined to give specifics. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Sheriff-Man-left-dead-animals-at-Parkland-17415750.php | 2022-09-02T19:32:59Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Sheriff-Man-left-dead-animals-at-Parkland-17415750.php | true |
AP source: College Football Playoff to expand to 12 by 2026
(AP) - The university presidents who oversee the College Football Playoff voted Friday to expand the postseason model for determining a national champion from four to 12 teams no later than the 2026 season.
A person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press that the presidents would like to have the new format in place as soon as the 2024 season. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement was still forthcoming.
A process that started 14 1/2 months ago with an optimistic rollout of an ambitious plan, and then was derailed as conference leaders haggled over details and questioned each other’s motivations, is now finally moving forward.
There are still issues to be hammered out by conference commissioners who comprise the CFP management committee, which is scheduled to meet next week. Most notably whether the logistical hurdles can be cleared in time for a new playoff to be up and running by 2024.
Last month, the CFP locked in sites for the championship games to be played after the 2024 and 2025 seasons. But the 11 presidents who make up the Board of Managers ultimately decide what happens with the playoff, and they took matters into their own hands to push the ball forward.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Welcome to the worst month of the year for Wall Street.
Since 1950, September has brought an average loss of 0.5% for the S&P 500. That’s 10 times worse than the next-worst month, February.
September is also the only month of the year over that span to turn in a loss more often than a gain. Other months see the S&P 500 rise more than three times out of five.
Stretch the horizon even further, back to 1928 to include a world war, the Great Depression and completely different types of economies, and September is still the most frequent stinker for Wall Street.
No clear reason explains September’s struggle, though many hypotheses try. One suggests the return of many professional investors from summer vacations may add to the selling pressure, for example.
Last year, the S&P 500 fell 4.8% in September for its first loss in eight months. At the time, worries were brewing about when the Federal Reserve would take its foot off the economic stimulus accelerator.
It’s not always so. Two years earlier, a solid September gain helped to virtually reverse an August swoon. And in 2010, when the economy was climbing back from the Great Recession, September was the best month of the year for stocks.
This year’s September has plenty of big events circled on the calendar that could yield more big swings for a market that’s already been beset by them. Chief among them is the Federal Reserve’s meeting on interest-rate policy Sept. 20-21. It’s almost certain to raise its benchmark short-term rate for the fifth time this year. The only question is by how much.
Several reports on the economy before that crucial meeting could alter the Fed’s thinking ahead of that meeting, including August hiring data due Friday and a report on inflation due Sept. 13. | https://www.krqe.com/news/business/ap-when-autumn-leaves-start-to-fall-will-wall-street-follow/ | 2022-09-02T19:37:56Z | https://www.krqe.com/news/business/ap-when-autumn-leaves-start-to-fall-will-wall-street-follow/ | false |
Becca Grothe
TriBecca’s Sandwich Shop
2949 W Belmont Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60618
Check Out:
- This weekend, TriBecca’s will be running a special for Labor Day which is a Bacon Cheddar Brat only available tomorrow, Sunday, and Monday.
Recipe:
Horseshoe Sandwich
Ingredients
- 2 2 oz. burger patties
- ½ cup crinkle cut fries, cooked (fried or baked from frozen works!)
- 1 slice thick-cut Texas toast
- 1 slice pepperjack cheese
- 1 16 oz. container of pepperjack cheese spread (Merkt’s or Pine River)
- ¼ cup to ½ cup water
- Toast 1 piece of Texas Toast.
- Sear and smash burger patties on a flat top grill or sautee pan and cook till slightly pink.
- Meanwhile, put the cheese spread in a pan and heat up with water over medium heat, stirring until combined. If too thick, add more water.
- Tear the piece of pepperjack cheese in half and lay a half on each of the patties and let melt.
- Place the patties on the Texas toast.
- Top the whole thing with crispy french fries and cover with a cup of the pepperjack cheese sauce.
- Enjoy! | https://wgntv.com/midday-news/lunchbreak-horseshoe-sandwich/ | 2022-09-02T19:38:42Z | https://wgntv.com/midday-news/lunchbreak-horseshoe-sandwich/ | true |
AUSTIN, Texas — The KVUE Weather Team is monitoring the potential for widespread showers and storms Saturday afternoon and evening, which could include kickoff for the Texas Longhorns' first game of the 2022 football season.
Shower and storm potential will be highest in the afternoon and early evening. As of midday Friday, here is a look at the current storm timeline based off of recent high-resolution forecast model runs.
Timeline
12:30 p.m. – Scattered light showers along with isolated storms are possible as an upper-level trough remains situated over Texas.
3:30 p.m. – Storms grow more widely scattered as the boundary continues to move south through the KVUE viewing area. Some heavy downpours could create flooding concerns.
The entire KVUE viewing area is under a "slight" risk for excessive rainfall on Saturday.
6 p.m. – Game attendees should plan on widespread showers and storms leading up to kickoff. Roadways could be slick and extra time should be scheduled for commuting. We'll continue to monitor the potential for heavy downpours that could lead to flooding.
7 p.m. kickoff – High-resolution forecast model runs still show the potential for lingering storms at the time of kickoff. Lightning will be possible, which could delay the game's start time.
10 p.m. – Scattered showers could still continue through the evening hours, but hopefully, storms will have moved south enough to where lightning is not a concern.
In regard to temperatures, showers should keep temperatures around kickoff in the lower 80s. As the evening progresses, we expect temperatures to fall into the 70s.
Game attendees should make sure to pack a poncho as umbrellas are not allowed in DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium. For everything else you need to know about attending the game, check out our game day guide.
The KVUE Weather Team will continue to monitor the storm potential throughout Central Texas and provide updates on air and online. For the latest weather updates, download the KVUE app.
In the meantime, here is a look at your extended forecast:
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NASCAR Cup Series playoffs begin fight to reach Championship 4 at Phoenix Raceway
Expect the unexpected as 16 of the world’s best stock car drivers strap in for a NASCAR Cup Series postseason fight intense enough to rival the blistering heat of the Arizona sun.
Fan favorite Chase Elliott and reigning champ Kyle Larson headline the field of drivers hoping to hoist the Bill France Cup and quench their thirst with champagne showers in victory lane at Phoenix Raceway following a 10-week barrage of mayhem.
USA Network will televise the opening four races of the NASCAR playoffs beginning with the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway at 3 p.m. Sunday. The final six races air on NBC, including the finale in Avondale on Nov. 6.
Since 2014, NASCAR's implemented a knockout-style playoff format that promotes consistency and team-wide execution in order to claim the title. Over the next 10 weeks, 16 drivers and teams will seek perfection and attempt to avoid being one of four eliminated at the conclusion of each three-race round, which feature some of the most iconic venues and events on the circuit.
What makes this title fight so enticing compared to year’s past is the great equalizer: NASCAR’s Next Gen car.
“This has been probably the most entertaining 26 weeks of racing that I can ever remember in the NASCAR Cup Series,” Hall of Famer and TV analyst Dale Jarrett said. “What (the Next Gen car) brought us with the way that the car is designed, is people that we didn’t really expect to see have been in victory lane, and not just in victory lane, but they’ve been there on a weekly basis battling for wins and top-five finishes.
“When you get in a situation like that, you realize that anything can happen in these playoffs.”
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Through all the unpredictability, one organization has asserted itself as the team to beat: Hendrick Motorsports. Not only does the Chevrolet powerhouse account for a series-high nine wins this season, they’re the only team to hoist the championship trophy in Phoenix since it became the site of the series finale in 2020.
It goes without saying the favorite for the 2022 title is Elliott. Aside from winning a series-best four races so far he claimed the regular-season championship, which earned him an additional 15 playoff points and the top seed entering the playoffs.
Elliott has been the model for consistency in an otherwise unpredictable season, owning the best average finish (10.5) and accounting for the most victories, top-10s (17) and laps led (719) through 26 races.
“I think, to me, the big theme this year has been inconsistency, really across the board,” Elliott said. “I’m not sure anyone has been as consistent enough as we’ve seen in year’s past. You’re going to start going back to tracks for a second time more often in these final 10 (races) than we have throughout the rest of the season, and the competition has just gotten tighter and tighter.
“From where we were in February, March and early April to where we are now is like — I can’t really put enough emphasis on just how much it has changed; how much the cars have changed, how many gains and how far the teams have come in making these cars drive better and faster.”
As for who can be deemed Elliott’s biggest threat, the competition is wide open. Seven drivers tied for second-most wins with a pair each. The most likely challenger to the driver of the No. 9 car would have to be Larson, Elliott's teammate and reigning champ.
To put it lightly, this has not been the follow-up season Larson had hoped for coming off a dominant 2021. After winning the second race of the season, it took six months for him to score his second victory, which was mired in controversy after he made contact with Elliott in the closing laps.
At any rate, all four Hendrick Motorsports teams have a shot at winning the title, including Tucson native Alex Bowman.
“I think our teams are well prepared and communicating well,” said Jeff Gordon, Hendrick Motorsports vice chairman and four-time Cup Series champion. “When I look at (Elliott), the reason they’re in their position going into the playoffs is because they’ve been consistent and they can win, and that’s a great combination.
“I think you’ve seen where Larson’s been coming on stronger here recently. William Byron’s been super strong for our organization, but just hasn’t been able to get all the things to sync up at the right time in the closing segment of a race. We’ve seen what Bowman’s been able to do in the past in winning races and shining in the playoffs, so I’m curious to see how deep they go.”
Perhaps the most tantalizing storyline to follow this postseason has to be the unsuspecting success of second-year team Trackhouse Racing and Ross Chastain. Nicknamed “The Melon Man,” courtesy of his family’s background as watermelon farmers, the 29-year-old enters the playoffs with two wins and many debts to be paid.
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Success came at a price for Chastain, who developed an aggressive on-track reputation after multiple run-ins with Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch and Elliott among others. Although one of the fastest drivers all season, there is a growing sense the driver of the No. 1 will have a difficult time making a deep postseason run with revenge on many minds.
Elliott and his team seemingly have had a firm grasp on the Next Gen car since the get-go, but former champions such as Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano and Larson seem to have caught onto something when it matters most. With experience and recent success in mind, these could be the most likely candidates for the Championship 4 fight in Phoenix.
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Ease your aches, pains, and worries with a therapeutic CBD gummy that contains the maximum legal amount of THC.
MADISON, Wisc., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wild Theory CBD Co., a family-owned CBD company in Madison, Wisconsin, is thrilled to announce its latest and most potent CBD product: Strata Full Spectrum CBD + THC Gummies. The beauty of these impressive CBD gummies—beyond their pure, local, organic hemp—is that they contain the maximum dose of THC (0.3%).
When CBD products became legal in Wisconsin, it wasn't long before Tim and Becki O'Brien, co-owners of The Healthy Place, became disappointed with both the accessibility and quality of CBD products. CBD products that fell within a reasonable price range for those who needed them most were often low-quality. Those products with the highest efficacy rate had too high a price for those needy customers within their community could afford. To better help their customers find the health solutions needed, the O'Briens launched their own brand of effective, all-natural hemp products: Wild Theory CBD Co. Their line includes powerful CBD oils, topicals, and gummies, including Strata Full Spectrum CBD + THC Gummies.
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Ronda - Montilla 168.4 km
Pedro, the guy in charge of putting in a climb at the end of the stage was having a siesta and said “mañana” when asked if he had done his job today.
Expected finish: 17:20 - 17:45 CEST
Freaky Friday of the Day : Mads Pedersen
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Dorothy Morris Johnson
Dorothy Morris Johnson, age 71, a resident of Whiteville, TN passed away at her home on Thursday, September 1, 2022. Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, September 3, 2022, at 1:00 PM at the Lea & Simmons Funeral Home Chapel in Brownsville, TN with Bro. Terry Logan officiating. Burial will follow at the Harmony Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Saturday, September 3, 2022, from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM at the Lea & Simmons Funeral Home.
Dorothy was born on May 9, 1951, in Haywood County to Velma and Julia Morris. She worked as a homemaker and loved caring for her family. She loved them and will be greatly missed by both family and friends. She also enjoyed cooking, sewing, and working with crafts.
She is survived by her husband, Tommy Johnson of Whiteville, TN; three sons, James Thomas Hibbert of Whiteville, TN, Glen Johnson of Whiteville, TN, and Chris Johnson of Millington, TN; one sister, Elen Cobey (Floyd) of Collierville, TN; and four grandchildren, Wesley, Brandon, Chris and Savannah. She was preceded in death by her parents, Velma and Julia Morris; one brother, James Morris; one grandson, Houston Johnson.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Harmony Baptist Church Cemetery, c/o Judy Hardister, 523 Monroe St., Brownsville, TN 38012. All arrangements and services are under the direction of the Lea & Simmons Funeral Home. | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2022/09/02/dorothy-morris-johnson/ | 2022-09-02T19:48:30Z | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2022/09/02/dorothy-morris-johnson/ | true |
Massachusetts-based UPPAbaby recalls jogging strollers over fingertip amputation hazard
Thousands of strollers made by Massachusetts-based UPPAbaby are being recalled because of a risk of injury to children in certain situations.
According to the recall, a non-occupant child's fingertip can be amputated if it gets caught in the openings of the stroller's rear disk breaks while the stroller is in use. One such injury was reported.
Affected UPPAbaby Ridge Jogging Strollers were sold at BuyBuyBaby, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Pottery Barn Kids, Amazon.com and other retailers from October 2021 through August 2022. The strollers were sold for about $600.
The strollers have an extendable canopy with a mesh window and zipper pocket, disc hand brake system and an adjustable handlebar with a wrist strap. The brand "UPPAbaby" is on the front of the stroller and "Ridge" is on the side of the stroller frame.
The strollers have a black frame, black tires and fabric color schemes in white, charcoal or slate blue.
The serial numbers of the recalled products begin with “1401RDGUS” and appear on the right side of the stroller frame above the rear wheel of the stroller. The model number “1401-RDG-US” is printed on the left side of the stroller frame above the rear wheel of the stroller.
About 14,400 of the strollers were sold.
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DENVER (KDVR) — Can a day’s worth of cheap tickets rejuvenate an industry in the grips of a decades-long decline?
This coming Saturday, Sept. 3, is “National Cinema Day,” and in an effort to return movie watchers to theaters, participating businesses are offering $3 tickets for any of their movie showings for the entire day.
Over 3,000 theaters across the country are planning to take part, in a move designed to breathe life back into the industry as they continue to recover from the pandemic-imposed shutdowns.
A recent poll from Gallup suggested that Americans were seeing far fewer films in theaters in 2021 — an average of just 1.4 — than in previous years. Between 2001 and 2007, for instance, Americans saw nearly 5 films per year on average, the survey showed.
But even before the pandemic wreaked havoc on the movie-going experience, ticket sales were already faltering in the U.S., data shows.
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In 2002, ticket sales reached a peak, with just under 1.6 billion sold. But by 2019, that number had fallen to 1.2 billion, according to data from The Numbers, a film industry research site. The COVID pandemic all but halted ticket sales the following year, with only 200 million sold. Sales have since improved, but are nowhere close to even the sinking pre-pandemic levels.
And even though theater chains have been charging more money for tickets — $9 or more instead of $4 in the late 1990s — they generally earn less each year when adjusted for inflation, according to The Numbers.
Box office sales totaled over $9 billion in 2002, or over $14 billion in 2022 dollars. By 2019, that had grown to $12 billion but also shrank to $12 billion in adjusted dollars.
As with ticket sales, box office revenue cratered to $2 billion the year the pandemic hit, and has not recovered. For the film industry’s sake, perhaps some cheap tickets will change a few minds about going back to the theater. | https://www.krqe.com/entertainment-news/will-3-tickets-bring-film-fans-back-to-movie-theaters/ | 2022-09-02T19:49:35Z | https://www.krqe.com/entertainment-news/will-3-tickets-bring-film-fans-back-to-movie-theaters/ | true |
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Residents evacuated after deadly blast unable to return home almost a month on
Dozens of residents evacuated after a gas explosion killed a child on their street have not been able to go home almost one month on – while others said they had been advised to return “at their own risk”.
More than 500 people were evacuated from Galpin’s Road in Thornton Heath, Merton, after a blast destroyed a terraced house and killed four-year-old Sahara Salman shortly after 7am on August 8.
Three other people were seriously injured in the south London incident, including an 11-year-old boy and a 54-year-old woman.
One Galpin’s Road resident, who did not wished to be named, told the PA news agency that “around 50 people” are still living in hotels 26 days later, after being told their properties fell within the “red zone” of destruction.
Merton Council said that this was due to the cul-de-sac being inaccessible to emergency services vehicles, rather than due to the houses being structurally unsound.
But residents said they have not been allowed even to retrieve possessions including clothes, after many were evacuated in their pyjamas on the day of the explosion.
“Red zone” resident Tristan Simms, 31, has been staying in a hotel since the explosion and he told PA that he feels “on edge” – while his neighbours who have returned are “scared to turn on their cookers”.
His family has been told by the council that their earliest return date is October 14.
Some Galpin´s Road residents have returned home (Kirsty O´Connor/PA)
Mr Simms said: “We’re still in the same predicament, we have no exact answer as to how long we’re going to be here.
“I still jump up when someone knocks on the door – I don’t feel settled. We’re on edge.
“We’re going into winter and we need to prepare, we’ve got no jackets because we can’t go home. We’ve got to buy a lot of these things again.
“The communication is really not great, and as the residents we are the ones who are pulling together with our own little group chat to get things in order.”
When asked whether he felt safe to return home in October, Mr Simms said: “No. And the fact that they’re willing to tell people, ‘go in at your own risk’ shows a pure lack of care.
“Your boiler is condemned. People are scared to turn on their cookers.”
Another resident in the “red zone” said the council had promised to source uniforms for her children ahead of the new school year, but she ended up having to appeal to their headteacher to secure the clothes in time.
The mother, who did not wish to be named, said: “We haven’t had our lives back for all this time – it’s horrible.
Sahara Salman, age four, died in the explosion (Metropolitan Police/PA)
“We haven’t been given gas safety documents to prove our homes are safe, and some people have cracks in their walls.”
A 21-year-old resident from outside the “red zone” said that although her family had been allowed to return, they chose not to because they did not feel safe.
She added that they are all “looking into therapy” because of the impact of the “dire situation” on their mental health.
“A lot of us don’t feel safe from what we’ve heard and no written confirmation of safety has been given to us,” she said.
“It’s a dire situation, and this is from someone outside the cordon, so I can’t imagine what it was like for people whose houses were destroyed.”
House number 255 was obliterated by the explosion, while two neighbouring terraced homes suffered extensive damage and several more suffered smashed windows.
The gas company responsible for supplying the street, Southern Gas Networks (SGN), previously donated £500,000 to help the council support affected neighbours.
The Metropolitan Police’s Specialist Crime Command has launched a criminal investigation into the explosion.
Merton Council has been contacted for comment. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11174487/Residents-evacuated-deadly-blast-unable-return-home-month-on.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-02T19:53:48Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11174487/Residents-evacuated-deadly-blast-unable-return-home-month-on.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
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FBI found more than 11,000 government records at Trump's Florida home
By Sarah N. Lynch and Jason Lange
WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The FBI recovered more than 11,000 government documents and photographs during its Aug. 8 search at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, as well as 48 empty folders labeled as "classified," according to court records that were unsealed on Friday.
The unsealing by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in West Palm Beach came one day after she heard oral arguments by Trump's attorneys and the Justice Department's top two counterintelligence prosecutors over whether she should appoint a special master to conduct a privilege review of the seized materials at Trump's request.
Cannon deferred ruling immediately on whether to appoint a special master but said she would agree to unseal two records filed by the Justice Department.
Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who was appointed by Trump, questioned the usefulness of such an appointment.
"I think at this stage, since they've (FBI) already gone through the documents I think it's a waste of time" to have a special master, Barr said in an interview on Fox News.
Barr, who left the post in late December 2020, defied Trump by not backing his false claims that the presidential election that year had been stolen from him.
In the interview, Barr added that he saw no "legitimate reason" for Trump having documents at his Florida estate if they were classified.
He added, "I frankly am skeptical of this claim (by Trump) that 'I declassified everything.' Because frankly I think it's highly improbable and second, if he sort of stood over scores of boxes not really knowing what was in them and said 'I hereby declassify everything in here,' that would be such an abuse, show such recklessness that it's almost worse than taking the documents."
One of the records https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.39.1_1.pdf, released on Friday, provides a little more detail about the 33 boxes and other items the FBI found inside Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, as part of its ongoing criminal investigation into whether he illegally retained national defense information and tried to obstruct the probe.
It shows that documents with classification markings were at times co-mingled with other items such as books, magazines and newspaper clippings.
Also found were unspecified gifts and clothing items.
Of the more than 11,000 government records and photos, 18 were labeled as "top secret," 54 were labeled "secret" and 31 were labeled "confidential," according to a Reuters tally of the government's inventory.
"Top secret" is the highest classification level, reserved for the country's most closely held secrets.
There were also 90 empty folders, 48 of which were marked "classified," while others indicated that they should be returned to staff secretary/military aide.
It is not clear why the folders were empty, or whether any records could be missing.
The other record https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.39.0_2.pdf that was unsealed is a three-page filing by the Justice Department updating the court about the status of its investigative team's review of the documents seized.
That filing, dated Aug. 30, said investigators had completed a preliminary review of the materials seized and will investigate further and interview more witnesses.
The Justice Department's criminal investigation could be potentially put on pause if Cannon agrees to appoint a special master to come in and conduct an independent third-party review of the seized records.
However, Cannon signaled at Thursday's hearing she might be willing to permit U.S. intelligence officials to continue reviewing the materials as part of their national security damage assessment, even if a special master is appointed.
The Justice Department has previously said in court filings it has evidence that classified documents were deliberately concealed from the FBI when it tried to retrieve them from Trump's home in June.
The Justice Department also opposes the appointment of a special master, saying the records in question do not belong to Trump and that he cannot claim they are covered by executive privilege, a legal doctrine that can be used to shield some presidential communications. (Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch and Jason Lange; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Richard Cowan and Lisa Shumaker) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11174435/FBI-11-000-government-records-Trumps-Florida-home.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-02T19:55:14Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11174435/FBI-11-000-government-records-Trumps-Florida-home.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
It wasn’t completely smooth sailing for the New York Mets (84-48) but they did pass their biggest test of the season this week. The Mets won two out of three against the Los Angeles Dodgers to take the season series against them for the first time since 2015 and won a series against the Dodgers in New York for the first time in over a decade. The good news for the Mets is that their schedule lightens up considerably now as they are set to begin a stretch of 16 consecutive games against teams with losing records. That run begins tonight as the Mets open a weekend series with the last-place Washington Nationals (45-86). First pitch for the opener of this three-game set is scheduled for 7:10 p.m. at Citi Field.
Left-hander David Peterson (7-3, 3.21 ERA) is set to take the mound for the Mets tonight. Peterson picked up his seventh win of the season last Saturday, tossing six shutout innings against the Colorado Rockies to help the Mets pick up a victory on Old Timer’s Day. The Nationals will counter with young righty Josiah Gray (7-8, 4.67 ERA). Gray pitched very well in his last start, allowing just one run in five innings against the San Diego Padres last Saturday, but was not a factor in the decision of a game the Nationals ended up losing 2-1.
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The Mets are 10-3 against the Nationals so far this season and won two out of three against them when the teams last met in Washington at the beginning of August.
The Mets swept a three-game series against the Nationals during Washington’s last trip to Citi Field at the end of May.
Peterson faced the Nationals in New York on May 30, giving up four runs in 4.2 innings of work and was not a factor in the decision of a game the Mets went on to win 13-5.
Gray’s first start of the season came against the Mets in Washington on April 8 and he gave up four runs in four innings of work to suffer his first loss of the year.
Daniel Vogelbach is back in the Mets’ starting lineup after sitting the past three games with the Mets facing lefties. He will serve as the designated hitter and bat fifth.
Pete Alonso is 2 for 4 with a double in his career against Gray while Jeff McNeil has a two-run homer against him. | https://thesportsdaily.com/news/9-2-22-game-preview-washington-nationals-at-new-york-mets-m1d1/ | 2022-09-02T19:55:33Z | https://thesportsdaily.com/news/9-2-22-game-preview-washington-nationals-at-new-york-mets-m1d1/ | false |
BERLIN, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cinespace Studios (Cinespace), a global platform of production facilities, announced today a series of key leadership changes at Studio Babelsberg, a leading German film studio majority owned by Cinespace. The appointments, which were announced at Studio Babelsberg's Annual General Meeting (AGM) on August 30, 2022, help streamline the leadership function of the Cinespace platform and further the company's vision to build a premier global production platform for content creators across the globe.
Effective September 1, 2022, Studio Babelsberg will expand its Management Board to include five members. New members are:
- Andy Weltman, previously Managing Director at APA International and former Executive Vice President at Pinewood International, who will serve as Co-CEO and Co-Chairman of Studio Babelsberg,
- Ashley Rice, Co-Managing Partner and President of Cinespace, former Executive Vice President of Production at Legendary Television
- André Bleeker, CFO of A&O Hotels and Hostels headquartered in Berlin.
Mr. Weltman, Ms. Rice, and Mr. Bleeker will lead the business alongside Dr. Carl L. Woebcken and Mr. Christoph Fisser, existing members of the Management Board, in day-to-day operations and strategy for Studio Babelsberg. They will work in tandem with Cinespace's existing leadership team, which includes Ms. Rice, Eoin Egan, Co-Managing Partner and COO; and Keith Gee, Co-Managing Partner and CFO. Marius Schwarz, former CFO of Studio Babelsberg, stepped down from his role following the completion of his term on June 30, 2022. He will continue to serve the company an advisory capacity.
"I am excited to join the Studio Babelsberg team and look forward to working with the board to lead the studio into its next stage of growth," said Mr. Weltman. "With its unique heritage and the expanded reach that the Cinespace platform brings, Studio Babelsberg is well positioned to continue to attract world-class productions to Germany and create significant job growth and economic benefits for the German film and television production sector as well as the Potsdam region."
Additionally, industry executive Ty Warren has been elected to the company's Supervisory Board and will serve alongside existing members Michael Abel and Maria Terzini. Mr. Warren is currently on the Cinespace board and most recently served as the Global Head of Physical Production at Netflix. He replaces Matthias Platzeck, who stepped down from his position for personal reasons ahead of the AGM.
"On behalf of Cinespace, we are pleased to welcome Andy and Ty to the Management and Supervisory Boards at Studio Babelsberg," said Ms. Rice. "With Studio Babelsberg, Cinespace is one of the largest sound stage operators with a growing global footprint. We are excited to further integrate with this announcement and look forward to working together to support and enable great content creation."
The Studio Babelsberg Annual Report 2021, the agenda, and the voting results of the AGM are available on the Studio Babelsberg website at www.studiobabelsberg.com/en/corporate/investor-relations/.
Cinespace Studios is a best-in-class global platform of production facilities that supports content providers and their creatives. The platform is one of the largest sound stage operators globally with locations in Chicago, Toronto, and Studio Babelsberg in Germany. Cinespace Studios delivers the highest level of service while increasing the quality of the overall production experience and nurtures its local communities to support workforce development and crew diversity.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles federal judge threw out an indictment Friday charging a dive boat captain with manslaughter in the deaths of 34 people in a 2019 fire aboard a vessel anchored off the Southern California coast.
The ruling came on the third anniversary of one of the deadliest maritime disasters in recent U.S. history as the Conception went down in flames Sept. 2, 2019, near an island off the coast of Santa Barbara. All 33 passengers and a crew member who were trapped in a bunk room below deck died.
Captain Jerry Boylan, 68, failed to follow safety rules, federal prosecutors said. He was accused of “misconduct, negligence and inattention” by failing to train his crew, conduct fire drills and have a roving night watchman on the boat when the fire ignited.
But the indictment failed to specify that Boylan acted with gross negligence, which U.S. District Judge George Wu said was a required element to prove the crime of seaman’s manslaughter and must be listed in the indictment.
Prosecutors will seek approval from the Department of Justice to appeal the ruling, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles. They can also seek a new indictment alleging gross negligence.
Boylan and four other crew members, who had all been sleeping on an upper deck, escaped from the burning boat after the captain made a panicked mayday call.
Surviving crew members said the blaze prevented them from trying to reach those trapped in the bunk room. Flames blocked a stairwell and a small hatch that were the only exits from below deck, officials said. All 34 perished from smoke inhalation.
The ruling is the second recent blow to prosecutors in the case.
Boylan originally was indicted on 34 counts of seaman’s manslaughter with each carrying a possible prison term of 10 years if he was convicted. Defense lawyers sought to dismiss those charges because they argued the deaths were all the result of a single incident and were not separate crimes.
Before that issue could be argued in court, prosecutors got a superseding indictment in July charging Boylan only with one count of seaman’s manslaughter that alleged his negligence caused all 34 deaths. If convicted, he would have faced a maximum of 10 years in prison.
The defense also argued that the single-count indictment should be thrown out because it did not allege Boylan acted with gross negligence, which they said was a required element of the crime.
Federal prosecutors countered that under the pre-Civil War statute, designed to hold steamboat captains and crew responsible for maritime disasters, they only needed to show Boylan acted with simple negligence, a unique standard for a felony.
Prosecutors cited the language of the statute that says captains and other boat employees can face up to 10 years in prison for “misconduct, negligence, or inattention to his duties on such vessel the life of any person is destroyed.”
Wu said the case law on seaman’s manslaughter was inconsistent in appellate courts. Only a New Orleans appeals court had upheld the requirement that only simple negligence needed to be proven to win a conviction.
Robert Weisberg, a criminal law professor at Stanford University, blamed Congress in part for writing the law in an “ad hoc and inconsistent” manner.
The judge’s ruling was sensible for relying on other appellate opinions that found gross negligence was a required element for the similar crime of involuntary manslaughter cases, Weisberg said. California and many other state courts also require proof of gross negligence for involuntary manslaughter.
The difference between the two types of negligence is often viewed as whether someone should be slapped with civil damages or criminally punished for their behavior.
Simple negligence would be if someone caused harm without ever considering the risks they took. It would be gross negligence if they considered the possible consequences but acted anyway. Gross negligence often incorporates an element of recklessness.
“Defendant has presented persuasive reasons for why the statute should be read to require gross negligence as an element necessary for conviction (and indictment), and the government’s reasons to the contrary do not convince the court otherwise,” Wu wrote.
As a homicide case with a possible 10-year sentence, Wu noted that the Supreme Court has been reluctant to allow prosecutors to show negligence instead of the more difficult standard of showing a defendant acted with criminal intent.
Federal safety investigators blamed the owners of the vessel, Truth Aquatics Inc., for a lack of oversight, though they have not been charged with a crime.
Truth Aquatics sued in federal court under a provision in maritime law to avoid payouts to the families of the victims. Family members of the dead have filed claims against boat owners Glen and Dana Fritzler and the company. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/judge-tosses-manslaughter-charge-in-boat-fire-that-killed-34/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | 2022-09-02T20:02:00Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/judge-tosses-manslaughter-charge-in-boat-fire-that-killed-34/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | true |
2-year-old boy suffered abuse for most of life before final beating, authorities say
HOUSTON (KTRK) - Authorities in Texas say a child suffered continuous physical abuse before he died in May.
Extended family members shared that they were devastated to hear about 2-year-old Daniel Escamia’s death.
According to the Wharton County Sheriff’s Office, he was found beaten with his body enduring continuous physical abuse.
The boy’s mother, Rebecca Lynn Hart, is currently in jail. She has been charged with capital murder. The child’s father, Eddie Escamia, has been charged with child endangerment with bodily injury.
According to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Daniel’s young life was dotted with abuse and neglect investigations, with the first coming soon after he was born. The department confirmed a March 2020 allegation of neglect after the baby tested positive for drugs.
A year later, allegations of physical abuse and neglect were neither substantiated nor disproven, but in April of this year, authorities said the risk assessment for Daniel and his two siblings was high.
Two weeks later, the boy died.
According to the family services report, Daniel had unexplained injuries all over his body the day he died.
The department confirmed he had not been fed and was forced to sleep in a closet by himself in a filthy home. His brother and sister were removed from the house.
Previously, the parents were given family-based safety services. Investigators said the two people who were supposed to protect him did not.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
2-3-3-2
(two, three, three, two)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
2-3-3-2
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Jahangirpuri violence case: bail granted to one
Accused was not armed, notes court
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A court here granted bail to an accused in the Jahangirpuri violence on Friday. The court ordered the release of the accused, Neeraj Sarkar, as he was not armed with any weapon during the violence.
Sarkar was booked in an FIR lodged on April 16, when a procession was being taken out on the eve of Hanuman Jayanti in Jahngirpuri. According to the FIR Sarkar got into an argument with a co-accused in the case, Ansar, which culminated in pelting of stones and stampede.
On the basis of CCTV footage of the incident, 37 persons, including Sarkar, were apprehended.
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“As per the chargesheet, the accused was not armed with a weapon during the incident and no other involvement of the accused was reported,” the accused’s lawyer told the court.
The court in its bail order stated, “Considering the overall facts and circumstances of the case and the role assigned to him, the applicant Neeraj Sarkar is admitted to bail on furnishing personal bond of ₹25,000 with one surety in like amount.”
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WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, September 2, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in San Angelo has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
East Central Tom Green County in west central Texas...
* Until 445 PM CDT.
* At 249 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall is possible in the warned area.
Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms
producing flash flooding.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of creeks and streams,
urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
San Angelo, Goodfellow Air Force Base and O.c. Fisher Reservoir.
This includes the following Low Water Crossings...
College Hills and Millbrook, Southwest Blvd and Loop 306, Howard and
Webster, Jackson From Knickerbocker to South Bryant, Parkwood and
Lindenwood, 1500 Block of Spaulding, Sul Ross At Red Arroyo
Crossing, Huntington and Sunset, Huntington and Sunset and 300 block
of North Archer.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of northeast Texas, including the following
county, Angelina.
* WHEN...Until 445 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Some low-water crossings may become impassable.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 250 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream
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What’s the best sleep support supplement?
Sleeping is the body’s repair and recovery process. Waking up from a good night’s sleep with energy and clarity of mind is an invigorating feeling. And since poor sleep can harm physical and mental health, fighting insomnia and supporting restorative sleep are important.
Sleep supplements are made with natural ingredients designed to calm the mind and relax the body. For its multi-ingredient formula that helps you sleep longer, the best sleep support supplement is the Dr. Mercola Sleep Support with Melatonin.
What to know before you buy a sleep support supplement
What is a sleep support supplement?
Many people suffering from low-quality sleep need a boost of natural ingredients that have been used naturopathically for centuries to help the body help itself.
Sleep support supplements relax muscles and calm the mind. They slow the heart rate and reduce stress throughout the body.
When to take a sleep support supplement
A considerable percentage of Americans don’t experience regular restful sleep. According to the National Institutes of Health, one in three adults suffers from insomnia.
Poor sleep has many effects on our bodies, according to the Cleveland Clinic. It can alter concentration and mood. It also can increase blood pressure and the risk of a cardiovascular event. It even hampers our immune system’s defenses against illness.
When you feel like your quality of life is being damaged by poor sleep, it may be time to consider a sleep support supplement. Consult your health care provider for guidance.
Types of sleep support supplements
There are two types of sleep support supplements:
- Natural sleep supplements are available over the counter and are made from natural ingredients. They do not contain any controlled substances or synthetic chemicals made in a laboratory. Most include herbal and plant-based ingredients that have been used for centuries to treat sleep disorders. Some include other ingredients designed to work in tandem to relax the body.
- Synthetic sleep supplements are created in a laboratory. Some are sold over the counter, but these are usually antihistamines that trigger initial drowsiness. Prescription sleeping pills are powerful sedatives that shut down the brain, but they can be habit-forming and have other negative side effects. Always consult your health care provider to discuss the benefits and risks of synthetic sleep aids.
What to look for in a sleep support supplement
Form
Sleep support supplements come in three distinct forms.
- Capsules and tablets are the most common but can be difficult to swallow. They also can have strong flavors and an aftertaste.
- Liquid supplements are easy to swallow and quickly absorbed by the body.
- Chewable edibles come as gummies or baked goods that contain natural ingredients and are easily swallowed.
Melatonin
Melatonin is the best-known natural sleep supplement. It is a hormone produced in the brain that increases at night to signal the body to slow down. Melatonin doses range from 1 to 10 milligrams. It may take some trial and error to find the right dose for you.
Other ingredients
- L-theanine is an amino acid from tea leaves that relaxes the body.
- Lavender is most commonly used as an essential oil for aromatherapy, but the sweet-smelling flower also can be found in capsules and tea. It’s known for reducing stress.
- Valerian root is an herbal treatment that induces drowsiness. It comes in capsule form, although valerian root tea is available for those who can tolerate its strong smell and taste.
- Chamomile is an herbal remedy to slow down a busy mind. It comes in a flavorful tea or capsule.
Free of allergens
Look for supplements that are manufactured without common allergens such as gluten, soy, dairy and nuts. Non-GMO and vegan products also have high standards in how they are produced.
How much you can expect to spend on a sleep support supplement
A month’s supply costs $5-$30, affected by the number of doses per container and the complexity of the ingredients. Liquid supplements usually cost more than pills and edibles.
Sleep support supplement FAQ
What are ways to naturally increase melatonin at night?
A. One of the best ways to help your brain stimulate melatonin at night is to turn off your TV, computer and smartphone at least an hour before bedtime. The blue light emitted from these devices keeps the brain operating at full speed and may delay your falling asleep.
What are other ways to improve sleep?
A. Avoid heavy meals and snacks, close to bedtime since this stimulates the digestive system. Limit caffeine use later in the day. And maintain the same sleeping schedule on the weekend, which keeps your sleep cycle consistent.
What is the best sleep support supplement to buy?
Top sleep support supplement
Dr. Mercola Sleep Support with Melatonin
What you need to know: This is formulated with a blend of vitamins, enzymes and melatonin to calm the body and mind.
What you’ll love: Composed of melatonin and 10 supporting ingredients including niacin, vitamin B6, jujube and chamomile, these pills are designed to promote a relaxed state of mind at night and restore morning alertness. They are free of GMOs, soy and gluten.
What you should consider: Some consumers felt the natural ingredients did not enhance the effects of melatonin.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
Top sleep support supplement for the money
Force Factor Somnapure Melatonin and Natural Botanicals
What you need to know: This affordable sleep supplement features natural ingredients that promote falling asleep faster.
What you’ll love: There are 3 milligrams of melatonin in each tablet. L-theanine and valerian root extract are meant to calm the mind. The supplement is designed for refreshed awakening. It is made in the United States and not habit forming.
What you should consider: The natural smell and taste are off-putting to some users.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Elderberry Hill Liquid Multimineral Night Time Formula
What you need to know: This focuses on a good night’s sleep, but also promotes immunity health.
What you’ll love: This American-made supplement is packed with vitamins and minerals. The liquid formula is easy to swallow and made for better absorption.
What you should consider: The cranberry flavor is intense and may leave an aftertaste.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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LG Celebrates Innovative, New Refrigerator by Teaming Up with NTS Radio for 'Mixing Moods' Party Featuring Live DJs, Curated Vibes and Colorful Cocktails
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics (LG) is set to host a sophisticated party in Berlin to share the brilliance of its new MoodUP™ technology, unveiled today at IFA 2022. Held in partnership with NTS Radio – a global online radio station and media platform – the event will present inspiring, mood-driven experiences centered around LG's latest kitchen innovation. With its revolutionary, color-changing LED door panels, LG's latest refrigerator featuring MoodUP technology delivers unrivaled interior design flexibility and a new way to create a stylish, integrated kitchen.
Dubbed Notes + Tones, the party will enable guests to soak in the atmosphere and enjoy the many moods and bold colors of the new refrigerator. NTS Radio will be supplying the music, syncing the tone of each track with the changing colors and mood of the LED door panels, while LG serves up cocktails matching the different hues and artist-created themes of its game-changing refrigerator.
Taking cues from the creative potential of the new refrigerator with MoodUP technology, the Notes + Tones event will showcase three different themes: Roots, Island and Sky by mixing color, sound and flavor. 'Roots' will feature a mix of warm, natural tones, reggae and jazz, and flavors like whiskey and smoke while 'Sky' will include bright, bold hues, glossy electronica, and punches of rum, mango and absinthe. A dynamic installation of the refrigerator with MoodUP technology will cue shifts in mood throughout the evening. As the palette of the refrigerators shift, the colors and lighting in the space, the genres of music in the DJ sets and the flavors on the cocktail menu will shift with it.
Along with meeting the new refrigerator with MoodUP technology and enjoying delicious, hand-crafted drinks, guests at the event will get to spend an evening listening to great music, with themed sets programmed by NTS and featuring talented DJs Eva Geist, mobilegirl, Slim Soledad and Zakia. Notes + Tones kicks off at CAN on the evening of September 3.
Those in attendance will also have the opportunity to see how easy it is to change the refrigerator's color or theme using the LG ThinQ™ app. What's more, they'll even receive a specially-made cocktail matched to their favorite MoodUP look.
"The new refrigerator featuring MoodUP technology is a highly-evolved home appliance that can change colors to match users' moods and enhance the kitchen environment," said Lyu Jae-cheol, president of LG Electronics Home Appliance & Air Solution Company. "We are thrilled to be collaborating with NTS on this exciting event. They play with a broad spectrum of genres and sounds which made them the perfect partners to showcase the many moods and hues of the refrigerator with MoodUP technology."
The brand-new refrigerator with MoodUP technology is on display at LG's exhibition booth (Hall 18, Messe Berlin) during IFA 2022 (September 2-6) in Berlin, Germany.
About LG Electronics USA
LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $63 billion global innovator in technology and manufacturing. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, commercial displays, air conditioning systems, energy solutions and vehicle components. LG is 2022 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year-Sustained Excellence. The company's commitment to environmental sustainability and its "Life's Good" marketing theme encompass how LG is dedicated to people's happiness by exceeding expectations today and tomorrow. www.LG.com.
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The White House on Friday asked Congress to approve $13.7 billion to address Russia’s continued military invasion of Ukraine as part of a short-term funding bill.
The Biden administration is requesting that Congress authorize $11.7 billion in additional security and economic assistance for Ukraine and $2 billion to help shore up domestic energy supplies to offset impacts of the war on the global energy market.
“We have rallied the world to support the people of Ukraine to defend their democracy and we simply cannot allow that support to Ukraine to run dry,” an administration official told reporters when previewing the request on Friday.
The White House says that the funds are needed to sustain the pace of aid to Ukraine for the first three months of fiscal year 2023, which begins at the start of October. The administration official said roughly three-fourths of the funds Congress has already approved for Ukraine have been spent or obligated.
Congress on a bipartisan basis has approved over $53 billion in security, economic and humanitarian assistance to address Russia’s invasion of Ukraine this year. Biden signed the last package, totaling $40 billion, into law in May. At the time, the White House said it expected those funds to last through the end of the fiscal year.
Congress is expected to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government on a short-term basis to allow lawmakers more time to reach an agreement on a larger funding measure. The administration official noted Friday the duration of the short-term funding bill is up to Congress. It would need to be passed by the time the current fiscal year ends on Sept. 30 in order to prevent a government shutdown.
In addition to more funding for Ukraine, the White House is also asking Congress to authorize billions more in funding for the federal government’s COVID-19 pandemic response, Monkeypox response and disaster relief efforts as part of a continuing resolution.
There is bipartisan support for sending assistance to Ukraine as it grapples with more than six months of attacks from Russia, though it’s possible at least some Republicans will question the latest funding request.
The White House is asking Congress to approve $4.5 billion for military equipment and replenishing Pentagon stockpiles, $2.7 billion in defense and intelligence aid for Ukraine, and $4.5 billion for budgetary support for Ukraine’s government.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP is investigating whether Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. ("Bed Bath" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: BBBY) complied with federal securities laws.
If you purchased or sold Bed Bath & Beyond securities between August 15, 2022 and August 19, 2022, please call Gregory Stone at (800) 575-0735 or (212) 545-4774, email gstone@whafh.com or submit this form:
On March 6, 2022, through his investment firm RC Ventures LLC, Ryan Cohen, the billionaire co-founder of Chewy Inc. who also serves as chairman of GameStop Corp., sent a letter to Bed Bath & Beyond' s board which announced that he owned a 9.8% stake in Bed Bath & Beyond and in which he criticized the Company's management. On this news Bed Bath & Beyond stock to closed 34% higher on March 7, 2022 compared to its close on March 4, 2022, the previous trading day, on extremely heavy trading volume. On March 25, 2022, Bed Bath & Beyond added three new directors appointed by Ryan Cohen's investment firm, RC Ventures LLC.
On August 15, 2022, Ryan Cohen, through his investment firm RC Ventures LLC, announced in an SEC filing purchases of over one million January 2023 call options with exercise prices at $60, $75, and $80-significantly higher than Bed Bath & Beyond shares were trading. On this news, Bed Bath & Beyond stock closed 29% higher.
Then, on August 18, 2022, Ryan Cohen, through his investment firm RC Ventures LLC, announced that he would sell his entire stake in Bed Bath & Beyond. Also on August 18, 2022, Bloomberg published an article entitled "Bed Bath & Beyond Taps Kirkland & Ellis for Help Addressing Debt Load" which revealed the Company hired a law firm for help with its debt.
On this news, Bed Bath & Beyond shares fell $4.53 per share, or 19%, to close at $18.55 per share on August 18, 2022. Bed Bath & Beyond shares continued to drop on August 19, 2022, falling $7.52 per share, or 40%, from its August 18, 2022 close, to close at $11.03 per share.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A state court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former state agency director who claimed Gov. Kim Reynolds fired him after he objected to her diverting federal Medicaid money to pay a member of her staff.
Iowa Department of Human Services Director Jerry Foxhoven filed the lawsuit against Reynolds in June 2021, two years after she fired him. In his lawsuit, Foxhoven contended he was fired because he refused to engage in illegal Medicaid fraud.
Reynolds denied she did anything wrong, but she refused to say why she fired Foxhoven, apart from stating she chose to go in another direction. Later, she added that Foxhoven’s dismissal was partly related to patient deaths at the Glenwood Resource Center, where Iowans with severe disabilities are treated.
In August 2019 Foxhoven sought $2 million in damages from the State Appeal Board, which considers legal claims against the state. He filed the lawsuit after the board denied his claim.
On Wednesday, Judge Sarah Crane dismissed his lawsuit, concluding that as an appointed official he served at the pleasure of the governor who had the right to choose executive leadership.
“Foxhoven’s argument that the governor does not have discretion to terminate him in violation of public policy fails," she wrote.
Crane said even Foxhoven's allegations that the governor had committed a financial impropriety did not supersede her right to fire him.
“The remedy to the public, in such instances of abuse, is at the polls,” said Crane, who was appointed by Reynolds to her position in 2018.
Reynolds said in a statement that "the court has confirmed what I’ve known all along — that this case was baseless from the start.”
Foxhoven's firing received national attention when The Associated Press reported that his firing came a day after he sent an email to DHS employees with a quote from rapper Tupac Shakur he found inspirational.
Foxhoven has said he was a fan of the late rapper.
Foxhoven’s lawyer Tom Duff said they are disappointed in the decision and are considering an appeal.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP is investigating whether Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. ("Bed Bath" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: BBBY) complied with federal securities laws.
If you purchased or sold Bed Bath & Beyond securities between August 15, 2022 and August 19, 2022, please call Gregory Stone at (800) 575-0735 or (212) 545-4774, email gstone@whafh.com or submit this form:
On March 6, 2022, through his investment firm RC Ventures LLC, Ryan Cohen, the billionaire co-founder of Chewy Inc. who also serves as chairman of GameStop Corp., sent a letter to Bed Bath & Beyond' s board which announced that he owned a 9.8% stake in Bed Bath & Beyond and in which he criticized the Company's management. On this news Bed Bath & Beyond stock to closed 34% higher on March 7, 2022 compared to its close on March 4, 2022, the previous trading day, on extremely heavy trading volume. On March 25, 2022, Bed Bath & Beyond added three new directors appointed by Ryan Cohen's investment firm, RC Ventures LLC.
On August 15, 2022, Ryan Cohen, through his investment firm RC Ventures LLC, announced in an SEC filing purchases of over one million January 2023 call options with exercise prices at $60, $75, and $80-significantly higher than Bed Bath & Beyond shares were trading. On this news, Bed Bath & Beyond stock closed 29% higher.
Then, on August 18, 2022, Ryan Cohen, through his investment firm RC Ventures LLC, announced that he would sell his entire stake in Bed Bath & Beyond. Also on August 18, 2022, Bloomberg published an article entitled "Bed Bath & Beyond Taps Kirkland & Ellis for Help Addressing Debt Load" which revealed the Company hired a law firm for help with its debt.
On this news, Bed Bath & Beyond shares fell $4.53 per share, or 19%, to close at $18.55 per share on August 18, 2022. Bed Bath & Beyond shares continued to drop on August 19, 2022, falling $7.52 per share, or 40%, from its August 18, 2022 close, to close at $11.03 per share.
Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP has extensive experience in the prosecution of securities class actions and derivative litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts across the country. The firm has attorneys in various practice areas; and offices in New York, Chicago and San Diego. The reputation and expertise of this firm in shareholder and other class litigation has been repeatedly recognized by the courts, which have appointed it to major positions in complex securities multi-district and consolidated litigation.
If you wish to discuss this investigation, or have any questions regarding your rights and interests in this situation, please immediately contact Wolf Haldenstein by telephone at (800) 575-0735, via e-mail at classmember@whafh.com, or visit our website at www.whafh.com.
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BERLIN (AP) — Europe’s energy crisis loomed larger Friday after Russian energy giant Gazprom said it couldn't resume the supply of natural gas through a major pipeline to Germany for now. The company cited what it said was a need for urgent maintenance work to repair key components — in an announcement made just hours before it had been due to restart deliveries.
The Russian state-run energy company had shut down the Nord Stream 1 pipeline on Wednesday for what it said would be three days of maintenance.
It said in a social media post Friday evening that it had identified “malfunctions” of a turbine and added that the pipeline would not work unless those were eliminated.
The move was the latest development in a saga in which Gazprom has advanced technical problems as the reason for reducing gas flows through Nord Stream 1 — explanations that German officials have rejected as a cover for a political power play following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
European utilities have scrambled to find additional supply during the summer months to get ready for the winter’s heating demands, buying expensive liquefied gas that comes by ship, while additional supplies have come by pipeline from Norway and Azerbaijan.
Fears of a winter shortage have eased somewhat as storage has progressed, but a complete cutoff could present Europe with serious difficulties, analysts say. The European Union needs to step up efforts to reduce gas consumption, said energy policy expert Simone Tagliapietra at the Bruegel think tank in Brussels.
The continuing interruptions from Gazprom mean that “a winter with zero Russian gas is the central scenario for Europe.” he said. “There is only one way to prepare for that: reducing gas and electricity demand.”
Gazprom said it had identified oil leaks from four turbines at the Portovaya compressor station at the Russian end of the pipeline, including the sole operational one. It claimed to have received warnings from Russia’s industrial safety watchdog that the leaks “do not allow for safe, trouble-free operation of the gas turbine engine.”
“In connection with this, it is necessary to take appropriate measures and suspend further operation of the … gas compressor unit in connection with the identified gross (safety) violations,” the company said.
Gazprom started cutting supplies through Nord Stream 1 in mid-June, blaming delays to the delivery of a turbine that had been sent to Canada for repair. Canada has since allowed the turbine's delivery to Germany, which has said that nothing stands in the way of it being sent to Russia other than Russia saying it wants the part.
In recent weeks, Nord Stream 1 has been running at only 20% of capacity.
Russia, which before the reductions started accounted for a bit more than a third of Germany’s gas supplies, has also reduced the flow of gas to other European countries which have sided with Ukraine in the war.
Natural gas is used to power industry, heat homes and offices, and generate electricity. Increasing the amount in reserve has been a key focus of the German government since Russia invaded Ukraine, to avoid rationing for industry as demand rises in the winter.
Germany's storage facilities are now over 84% full.
The head of Germany’s network regulatory agency, Klaus Mueller, tweeted that the Russian decision to keep Nord Stream 1 switched off for now increases the significance of new liquefied natural gas terminals that Germany plans to start running this winter, gas storage and “significant needs to save” gas.
It is “good that Germany is now better prepared, but now it comes down to everyone,” Mueller added.
Germany’s Economy Ministry said it had “taken note” of Gazprom’s latest announcement and wouldn’t comment on it directly, but added that “we have already seen Russia’s unreliability in recent weeks” and continued efforts to reduce the country’s reliance on Russian energy imports.
“Of course these are difficult times but we will continue to strengthen provisions consistently,” the ministry said in a statement. “Great efforts are still needed but we are on a good path to coping with the situation.”
The European Union has just reached its goal of filling its gas storage to 80%, ahead of a Nov. 1 deadline, despite Russian supply cutbacks.
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Kozlowska contributed from London. David McHugh in Frankfurt, Germany also contributed to this story.
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Atmos (ATO) is an Incredible Growth Stock: 3 Reasons Why
Investors seek growth stocks to capitalize on above-average growth in financials that help these securities grab the market's attention and produce exceptional returns. But finding a great growth stock is not easy at all.
By their very nature, these stocks carry above-average risk and volatility. Moreover, if a company's growth story is over or nearing its end, betting on it could lead to significant loss.
However, the Zacks Growth Style Score (part of the Zacks Style Scores system), which looks beyond the traditional growth attributes to analyze a company's real growth prospects, makes it pretty easy to find cutting-edge growth stocks.
Our proprietary system currently recommends Atmos Energy (ATO) as one such stock. This company not only has a favorable Growth Score, but also carries a top Zacks Rank.
Research shows that stocks carrying the best growth features consistently beat the market. And returns are even better for stocks that possess the combination of a Growth Score of A or B and a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) or 2 (Buy).
While there are numerous reasons why the stock of this natural gas utility is a great growth pick right now, we have highlighted three of the most important factors below:
Earnings Growth
Earnings growth is arguably the most important factor, as stocks exhibiting exceptionally surging profit levels tend to attract the attention of most investors. And for growth investors, double-digit earnings growth is definitely preferable, and often an indication of strong prospects (and stock price gains) for the company under consideration.
While the historical EPS growth rate for Atmos is 9%, investors should actually focus on the projected growth. The company's EPS is expected to grow 8.8% this year, crushing the industry average, which calls for EPS growth of 5.1%.
Cash Flow Growth
While cash is the lifeblood of any business, higher-than-average cash flow growth is more important and beneficial for growth-oriented companies than for mature companies. That's because, growth in cash flow enables these companies to expand their businesses without depending on expensive outside funds.
Right now, year-over-year cash flow growth for Atmos is 13.3%, which is higher than many of its peers. In fact, the rate compares to the industry average of 9.5%.
While investors should actually consider the current cash flow growth, it's worth taking a look at the historical rate too for putting the current reading into proper perspective. The company's annualized cash flow growth rate has been 12.5% over the past 3-5 years versus the industry average of 8.2%.
Promising Earnings Estimate Revisions
Beyond the metrics outlined above, investors should consider the trend in earnings estimate revisions. A positive trend is a plus here. Empirical research shows that there is a strong correlation between trends in earnings estimate revisions and near-term stock price movements.
There have been upward revisions in current-year earnings estimates for Atmos. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the current year has surged 0.3% over the past month.
Bottom Line
While the overall earnings estimate revisions have made Atmos a Zacks Rank #2 stock, it has earned itself a Growth Score of B based on a number of factors, including the ones discussed above.
You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
This combination positions Atmos well for outperformance, so growth investors may want to bet on it.
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IRVING, Texas (AP) — AP source: University presidents who oversee the College Football Playoff have approved expanding it to 12 teams.
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Deputy accused of stomping girlfriend’s cat to death, police say
TAMPA, Fla. (Gray News) – A deputy in Florida is facing charges for felony animal abuse after stomping on his girlfriend’s cat, according to the Tampa Police Department.
Police said Eric Harris, with the Pasco Sheriff’s Office, was upset that his girlfriend’s cats were jumping onto the counters and furniture and defecating outside of their litter box.
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The veterinarian recommended the cat be taken to an animal hospital for urgent care, where Axel died from the injuries the same day.
The doctor contacted law enforcement due to the severity of the cat’s injuries, according to police.
Detectives questioned Harris about the injuries, who denied any wrongdoing and claimed the cat was fine during the time he was with it alone.
According to the results of a necropsy conducted by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Axel suffered severe injuries to internal organs and facial injuries, including a missing tooth.
The cat also had markings on its body that indicated it had been stomped.
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VA to provide abortions in certain cases, regardless of state laws
(CNN) - Some veterans will soon be able to obtain abortions, no matter what state they live in.
The Biden administration submitted a new rule allowing the Veterans Affairs health care system to provide abortions when the mother’s life is at risk or in cases of rape or incest.
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It makes no difference if those exceptions are not permitted in a particular state. The VA’s federal mandate will usurp local and state laws.
The rule specifically protects women who seek abortions and VA providers who perform them from liability under any such law.
Once published in the federal register, the policy will go into effect immediately while being open for public comment for 30 days.
The new rule applies to all veterans and their beneficiaries covered under VA health plans.
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Which toaster oven is best?
When it comes to selecting a toaster oven, it’s good to know what you’re getting into. Unlike their simple relative, the toaster, today’s toaster ovens have gotten sophisticated and complex. They can do it all: toast, reheat, bake, dehydrate and even air-fry.
Not every toaster oven is going to be worth sacrificing counter space. But two trusted brands — Breville and Black and Decker — are creating hardworking appliances that might even be able to take the place of a conventional oven.
When it comes to a Breville toaster oven vs. a Black and Decker, it can be helpful to consider what you need. While Breville toaster ovens are complex appliances with all the bells and whistles, Black and Decker versions are simpler, but get the job done.
Breville toaster oven
Breville toaster ovens consistently earn top marks among home cooks and product reviewers. The brand is noted for high-performing appliances that are as good-looking as they are durable. Moving away from Breville’s humble toasters, the toaster oven has some serious wattage and can make short work of anything you need to bake.
Breville toaster oven pros
The biggest argument for a Breville toaster oven is its performance. The Element IQ system is a Breville trademark and uses separate quartz elements to heat the area of the oven that is occupied. The larger the oven, the more quartz elements there are, resulting in even heating and fast cooking.
These toaster ovens also feature a nonstick interior coating for easy cleaning, and some of the larger models have an interior light so you can keep an eye on what’s cooking.
Breville toaster oven cons
Breville toaster ovens are among the most expensive out there. The most affordable version is also the most basic, but they range in price from $150-$430 or more.
If you want more features, the oven gets pretty big. The largest model takes up nearly 2 feet of countertop and is over 18 inches deep.
Best Breville toaster ovens
The convection system in this oven reduces cooking time and bakes more evenly. Five independent quartz elements focus heat in the area where the food is being baked. It has nine separate cooking functions and an easy-to-read LCD. Sold by Amazon and Sur La Table
Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro and Countertop Convection Oven
You can replace more than one appliance with this versatile toaster oven. It has 13 separate cooking functions, including a dehydrator, air fryer and convection oven. The extra large capacity means you can roast a 14-pound turkey in 30% less time than a standard oven. Sold by Amazon and Wayfair
This oven is perfect when counter space is tight but you still want the expanded functionality. It has three rack positions and an auto shut-off function for safety. It fits pizzas up to 11 inches and a six-muffin tin. It comes with a 10-inch by 10-inch enamel baking pan. Sold by Amazon
Black and Decker toaster oven
Black and Decker may be most well-known for its power tools, but its kitchen appliances have also gained popularity as people recognize their utility. Black and Decker toaster ovens aren’t flashy but are easy to use and produce consistent results.
Black and Decker toaster oven pros
Black and Decker toaster ovens offer good basic functions and feature roomy interiors. However, one of their biggest pros is the price. These economical appliances start at $75 and stay below the $200 mark regardless of features.
Black and Decker toaster oven cons
Some users weren’t happy with the lack of fine-tuning available. Most models don’t offer the opportunity to set the baking temperature, and those that do can be finicky and imprecise.
The dual-position racks also mean that cooking is less even, and the outside of the toaster oven gets hot when in use.
Best Black and Decker toaster ovens
Black and Decker 8-Slice Toaster Oven
This toaster oven has a temperature range of 150 to 450 degrees. It heats quickly and evenly and has three rack positions. There are specific settings for bagels and pizza, but it also performs the same functions as an oven. The stainless steel finish looks great on the counter. Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Black and Decker Countertop Convection Toaster Oven
It features one-touch controls that let you toast, bake and broil. It has convection cooking and two rack positions. Toast up to six slices of bread at once or prepare a 12-inch pizza. This comes with a two-year warranty and a baking pan to get you started. Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Black and Decker Extra-Wide Crisp ‘N Bake Air Fry Toaster Oven
When you are cooking for a crowd, this is the way to go. This toaster oven fits a 9-inch by 13-inch pan with handles, eight slices of bread or a 12-inch pizza. It has five basic functions — bake, broil, toast, keep warm and air fry — and uses a 60-minute timer. Sold by Amazon
Should you get a Breville toaster oven or a Black and Decker toaster oven?
For sheer durability, good looks and performance, a Breville toaster oven is the best choice. These countertop workhorses have enough power and size to handle an entire holiday meal.
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The university presidents who oversee the College Football Playoff voted Friday to expand the postseason model for determining a national champion from four to 12 teams no later than the 2026 season.
A person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press that the presidents would like to have the new format in place as soon as the 2024 season. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement had not been made.
A process that started 14 1/2 months ago with an optimistic rollout of an ambitious plan, and then was derailed as conference leaders haggled over details and questioned each other’s motivations, is now finally moving forward.
The presidents approved the original 12-team proposal that called for the six highest-ranked conference champions and six at-large picks, as determined by a selection committee, to make the playoff. The top four seeds would be conference champions and receive byes into the second round.
First-round games would be played on campus and the rest at bowl sites.
There are still issues to be hammered out by conference commissioners who comprise the CFP management committee, which is scheduled to meet next week. Most revenue sharing and whether the logistical hurdles can be cleared in time for a new playoff to be up and running by 2024.
CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock announced in February that expanding for the 2024 and ’25 seasons was off the table and attention would be turned to what the playoff would look like for 2026 and beyond. Last month, the CFP locked in sites for the championship games to be played after the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
But the 11 presidents who make up the Board of Managers ultimately decide what happens with the playoff, and they took matters into their own hands to push expansion forward. Mississippi State President Mark Keenum, the chairman of the board, said earlier this year the presidents planned to get more involved after the commissioners had given up on trying to expand before the end of the CFP’s current 12-year contract with ESPN.
Early expansion has been estimated to be worth an additional $450 million to the major college football conferences over the final two years of the deal. The current deal pays about $470 million per year.
Even after the February announcement, there were signs early expansion was not dead.
“It actually wouldn’t surprise me once we agree on the format, if it happens before the end of the current term,” Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff said at the conference’s football media days in July. “Once you agree to the format, why wouldn’t you?”
Kliavkoff was one of three relatively new Power Five commissioners, along with the Big Ten’s Kevin Warren and Atlantic Coast Conference’s Jim Phillips, whose various objections to the 12-team proposal last year stalled the process.
That 12-team plan had been worked on for more than two years by a subgroup of the management committee that included Greg Sankey of the Southeastern Conference. Mistrust rose between the new commissioners, who had not been part of the process the previous two years, and the rest after it was revealed that the SEC could be adding Texas and Oklahoma to the powerhouse conference by 2024.
A meeting in June brought renewed hope for an agreement among the group, but the presidents still felt the need to provide a push.
Now that they have spoken and locked in a number, the assignment goes back to the commissioners. They meet again Thursday in Dallas to tackle those details and others.
Beyond 2025, there is no TV contract for the playoff. The plan is to take the new format to the open market and involve multiple TV partners instead of just ESPN. A 12-team, 11-game postseason system to crown a champion could be worth as much as $2 billion in media rights to the conferences. | https://www.cbs42.com/sports/alabama/sources-college-football-playoff-to-expand-to-12-by-2026/ | 2022-09-02T20:27:10Z | https://www.cbs42.com/sports/alabama/sources-college-football-playoff-to-expand-to-12-by-2026/ | false |
LOS ANGELES — In just seven days, the Buffalo Bills will take on the defending Super Bowl Champion Los Angeles Rams at So-Fi Stadium in LA to kick off the NFL season.
Preparations are already underway for the game as more than $24,000 worth of Labatt Blue was delivered to Los Angeles this week in anticipation of Bills fans making the trip for the game.
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
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233 PM CDT Fri Sep 2 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Erath
and north central Comanche Counties through 300 PM CDT...
At 232 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
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east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Stephenville, Dublin, De Leon and Huckabay.
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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
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LAT...LON 3222 9860 3226 9855 3230 9847 3231 9848
3233 9847 3237 9843 3233 9813 3198 9831
3212 9862
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MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
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222 PM CDT Fri Sep 2 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of west central Texas, including the following
county, Tom Green.
* WHEN...Until 415 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways. Overflowing poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 222 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream
flooding. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
San Angelo, Goodfellow Air Force Base, O.c. Fisher Reservoir
and Veribest.
- This includes the following Low Water Crossings...
Howard and Webster, College Hills and Millbrook, Jackson From
Knickerbocker to South Bryant, Southwest Blvd and Loop 306,
300 block of North Archer, 1500 Block of Spaulding, Parkwood
and Lindenwood, Sul Ross At Red Arroyo Crossing, Huntington
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PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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Starbucks has named Laxman Narasimhan as its new chief executive.
The coffee giant said Mr Narasimhan will join Starbucks on October 1 after relocating from London to Seattle, where the firm is based.
He will work closely with Starbucks’ interim chief executive Howard Schultz through until April 1, when he will assume the CEO role and join the company’s board.
Mr Schultz said Mr Narasimhan is “uniquely positioned” to lead the company, with a demonstrated track record of growth in both mature and emerging markets.
“As I have had the opportunity to get to know him, it has become clear that he shares our passion of investing in humanity and in our commitment to our partners, customers, and communities,” Mr Schultz said in a statement.
Mr Narasimhan was most recently chief executive of Dettol-to-Vanish firm Reckitt, a UK-based consumer health, hygiene and nutrition company.
Reckitt had announced Mr Narasimhan’s surprise departure earlier on Thursday.
Prior to that, Mr Narasimhan held various leadership roles at PepsiCo, including as global chief commercial officer.
He also served as chief executive of the company’s Latin America, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa operations.
Mr Narasimhan has also served as a senior partner at the consulting firm McKinsey & Co, where he focused on its consumer, retail and technology practices in the US, Asia and India.
Mr Schultz, a long-time CEO who helped shape Starbucks after buying it in 1987, came out of retirement and assumed the interim CEO job in March after the company’s former chief executive, Kevin Johnson, announced his retirement.
Mr Schultz also returned to the company’s board, and will remain there even after Mr Narasimhan takes over.
Mr Schultz said he had not planned to return, but wanted to help reshape the company after the pandemic, which upended Starbucks’ coffee shops and sped changes including a heavier mix of drive-thru orders.
Mr Narasimhan takes over a company with significant strengths.
Starbucks reported record demand in the April-June period as strong US sales made up for continuing closures in China, the company’s second-largest market.
But Starbucks also has challenges.
Mr Schultz has been working on a plan to remake store layouts, upgrade equipment and bolster employees, who came out of the pandemic feeling harassed and underappreciated.
Starbucks announced a one billion dollar (£866 million) investment in employee wages and benefits last autumn and added 200 million dollars (£173 million) more for pay, worker training and other benefits in May.
Still, the company faces an unprecedented unionisation effort, which it opposes.
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Twitter edit button finally being tested
A long-awaited feature will be coming soon to Twitter which should excite users.
The social media giant announced in a company blog post Thursday that it’s testing out an edit button. This new feature is being tested internally and the test will be expanded to some Twitter Blue subscribers later this month.
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What is the Twitter edit feature?
Edit Tweet is a feature that allows users to make changes to their posts after it’s been published on the platform. It’s a way to fix typos, add missed tags, and make additional adjustments to your post in a short amount of time.
Twitter said tweets can be edited a few times in the 30 minutes after a post has been published. The edited tweet will appear with an icon, timestamp, and label so readers know that the original tweet has been adjusted.
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Users can click to see a tweet’s edit history which will show previous versions of posts.
How is the edit button being tested?
This new feature is being tested internally and the test will be expanded to some Twitter Blue subscribers later this month.
Twitter Blue subscribers will get early access to features that the company said will help test them before it comes to the rest of the social media company’s users.
Twitter said the test will be localized to a single country initially and expand as the company learns more and observes how people use Edit Tweet.
"We also are paying close attention to how the feature impacts the way people read, write, and engage with tweets," the company said in the post.
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Twitter acknowledged that the edit feature has been its "most requested feature to date."
Twitter Circle launches
News of the edit button comes two days after Twitter announced the launch of Twitter Circle, a new feature that lets users tweet to smaller crowds.
The company said Tuesday that this function gives people the option to choose who can view and engage with their posts. According to Twitter, this makes it convenient for users to have "more intimate" conversations and build closer connections with select followers.
Twitter began testing the feature in May and it’s now available to all users on iOS, Android, and Twitter.com.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Multiple cheerleading coaches in South Carolina — including a coach who recently killed himself — sexually abused at least six boys and girls and provided them with drugs and alcohol, a federal lawsuit alleges.
A “coven of sexual predators” surrounded Rockstar Cheer of Greenville for more than a decade, according to one of the lawyers for the alleged victims.
Attorney Bakari Sellers contends that what happened is a result of the same kind of institutional failure seen in the case of Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor who is serving a minimum of 40 years in prison after admitting that he molested some of the nation’s top gymnasts for years.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday by four girls and two boys who said they were abused by Scott Foster and others affiliated with Rockstar gyms. It suggests there could be up to 100 more survivors of the abuse.
“Scott Foster and his allies did their best to intimidate and isolate their targets, making these young people feel alone and somehow responsible. Well, they’re not alone anymore,” attorney Jessica Fickling said in a statement announcing the suit.
Foster, 49, was found dead in his car at a state park on Aug. 22. He shot himself in the head, the Greenville County Coroner’s Office ruled.
“He knew this was going to be a moment when the light was going to be shined on what I think will turn out to be a coven of sexual predators surrounding Rockstar,” said attorney James Bannister.
A number of people either knew Foster was abusing his cheer students and ignored it or did not have rules and procedures in place to stop the abuse, the lawsuit says.
Foster and other coaches not named in the lawsuit had sex with cheer students, sent and asked for explicit photos over social media, gave them alcohol and marijuana at their homes and in hotel rooms at cheer competitions and warned them to not tell anyone about it, according to the lawsuit.
“We have video of Scott Foster on Snapchat with beer bongs drinking with his underage cheerleaders,” Sellers said at a news conference this week.
The suit also names Varsity Brands, which runs cheerleading competitions; the U.S. All Star Federation, which is an organizing and governing body for competitive cheerleading across the country; Bain Capital, which bought Varsity in 2018, and others.
State and federal police are investigating Foster’s Rockstar Cheer and other cheerleading outlets, seizing computers, cellphones and other evidence, Bannister said. He said the investigating agencies asked lawyers not to identify them.
Several state and federal agencies have refused to tell news outlets whether they are involved.
Foster’s wife, Kathy, promised to cooperate with “all involved” to make sure athletes can safely learn and grow.
“I am heartbroken by the recent allegations made by current and former athletes from Rockstar Cheer and other cheer gyms across our community,” she said in a statement released this week. “I hope the survivors are seeking and receive the support they need. I am sympathetic to their stories.”
Varsity Brands President Bill Seely called the accusations devastating.
“Our hearts are broken right alongside yours,” he tweeted Thursday. “The alleged conduct runs counter to everything the cheer and dance community is intended to represent.”
Bain Capital didn’t return an email seeking comment.
Rockstar Cheer’s name is on more than a dozen gyms in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Arizona.
Ten of the gyms said in a statement this week that they had no connection with Foster and would be dropping the Rockstar brand name.
Foster opened his Greenville gym in 2007, according to his website. | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/cheerleading-coach-accused-of-belonging-to-coven-of-sexual-predators-found-dead-in-sc/ | 2022-09-02T20:35:39Z | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/cheerleading-coach-accused-of-belonging-to-coven-of-sexual-predators-found-dead-in-sc/ | true |
The NCAA is prepared to expand its college football playoff structure.
A process that started 14 1/2 months ago with an optimistic rollout of an ambitious plan, and then was derailed as conference leaders haggled over details and questioned each other’s motivations, is now finally moving forward.
According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, the College Football Playoff Board of Managers has decided on a 12-team CFP format during their meeting Friday.
A person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press that the presidents would like to have the new format in place as soon as the 2024 season. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement had not been made.
Back in February, The NCAA announced it would stick with the same four-team format through the end of its current contract, which runs through the end of the 2025-26 college football season.
In a follow up tweet, Thamel said, “One of the main drivers of this College Football Playoff expansion was money. Presidents felt as if they were leaving too much on the table. Monday could end up a powerful motivator for starting prior to 2026.”
The NCAA officially moved on from its BCS format following the 2014 regular season with Oregon, Florida State, Alabama and Ohio State debuting in its inaugural season. Ohio State came out on top of Oregon, 42-20.
The 2023 College Football Playoff National Championship will be played at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, CA. | https://wgntv.com/sports/reports-college-football-playoff-expanding-from-4-to-12-teams/ | 2022-09-02T20:36:04Z | https://wgntv.com/sports/reports-college-football-playoff-expanding-from-4-to-12-teams/ | false |
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKBA), a biopharmaceutical company with the purpose to better the lives of people impacted by kidney disease, granted six newly-hired employees options to purchase an aggregate of 27,000 shares of Akebia's common stock on August 31, 2022, as inducements material to each such employee entering into employment with Akebia. The options were granted in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
The options have an exercise price of $0.36 per share, which is equal to the closing price of Akebia's common stock on the grant date. Each stock option vests over four years, with 25% of the shares vesting on the first anniversary of the grant date and the remaining 75% of shares vesting quarterly thereafter, in each case, subject to the new employee's continued service with Akebia. Each stock option has a 10-year term and is subject to the terms and conditions of Akebia's inducement award program and a stock option agreement covering the grant.
Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company with the purpose to better the lives of people impacted by kidney disease. Akebia was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit our website at www.akebia.com, which does not form a part of this release.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Multiple cheerleading coaches in South Carolina — including a coach who recently killed himself — sexually abused at least six boys and girls and provided them with drugs and alcohol, a federal lawsuit alleges.
A “coven of sexual predators” surrounded Rockstar Cheer of Greenville for more than a decade, according to one of the lawyers for the alleged victims.
Attorney Bakari Sellers contends that what happened is a result of the same kind of institutional failure seen in the case of Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor who is serving a minimum of 40 years in prison after admitting that he molested some of the nation’s top gymnasts for years.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday by four girls and two boys who said they were abused by Scott Foster and others affiliated with Rockstar gyms. It suggests there could be up to 100 more survivors of the abuse.
“Scott Foster and his allies did their best to intimidate and isolate their targets, making these young people feel alone and somehow responsible. Well, they’re not alone anymore,” attorney Jessica Fickling said in a statement announcing the suit.
Foster, 49, was found dead in his car at a state park on Aug. 22. He shot himself in the head, the Greenville County Coroner’s Office ruled.
“He knew this was going to be a moment when the light was going to be shined on what I think will turn out to be a coven of sexual predators surrounding Rockstar,” said attorney James Bannister.
A number of people either knew Foster was abusing his cheer students and ignored it or did not have rules and procedures in place to stop the abuse, the lawsuit says.
Foster and other coaches not named in the lawsuit had sex with cheer students, sent and asked for explicit photos over social media, gave them alcohol and marijuana at their homes and in hotel rooms at cheer competitions and warned them to not tell anyone about it, according to the lawsuit.
“We have video of Scott Foster on Snapchat with beer bongs drinking with his underage cheerleaders,” Sellers said at a news conference this week.
The suit also names Varsity Brands, which runs cheerleading competitions; the U.S. All Star Federation, which is an organizing and governing body for competitive cheerleading across the country; Bain Capital, which bought Varsity in 2018, and others.
State and federal police are investigating Foster’s Rockstar Cheer and other cheerleading outlets, seizing computers, cellphones and other evidence, Bannister said. He said the investigating agencies asked lawyers not to identify them.
Several state and federal agencies have refused to tell news outlets whether they are involved.
Foster’s wife, Kathy, promised to cooperate with “all involved” to make sure athletes can safely learn and grow.
“I am heartbroken by the recent allegations made by current and former athletes from Rockstar Cheer and other cheer gyms across our community,” she said in a statement released this week. “I hope the survivors are seeking and receive the support they need. I am sympathetic to their stories.”
Varsity Brands President Bill Seely called the accusations devastating.
“Our hearts are broken right alongside yours,” he tweeted Thursday. “The alleged conduct runs counter to everything the cheer and dance community is intended to represent.”
Bain Capital didn’t return an email seeking comment.
Rockstar Cheer’s name is on more than a dozen gyms in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Arizona.
Ten of the gyms said in a statement this week that they had no connection with Foster and would be dropping the Rockstar brand name.
Foster opened his Greenville gym in 2007, according to his website. | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/cheerleading-coach-accused-of-belonging-to-coven-of-sexual-predators-found-dead-in-sc/ | 2022-09-02T20:39:03Z | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/cheerleading-coach-accused-of-belonging-to-coven-of-sexual-predators-found-dead-in-sc/ | false |
Jason Keatseangsilp’s journey to the U.S. Open is one full of twists and turns.
“I did not even think a Grand Slam was in question, but now, here we are. So, it really is a dream turned into reality,” tennis player Jason Keatseangsilp said.
We caught up with Keatseangsilp the week before he headed out to the U.S. Open.
“This is a lifetime opportunity,” he said.
He applied for the wild card spot, and days later he received a phone call.
“I got the call from the tournament director saying I got the spot,” he said.
How Keatseangsilp got to this point is its own journey. After playing competitive tennis for much of his teenage years, at 17, he was in an accident that led to a spinal cord injury.
“I was a senior in high school. I was practicing rappelling and I fell off the climbing pole. It was a 40-foot fall,” he explained.
The pain he developed months after put life on hold.
“It was like a sharp, stabbing, fiery, electrical sensation kind of pain,” Keatseangsilp said.
“When I first met him he could barely speak to me because he was constantly doubled over in pain,” Dr. Scott Falci, a neurosurgeon and the founder and director of the Falci Institute for Spinal Cord Injuries at Swedish Medical Center, said. “The spinal cord can progressively deteriorate over time.”
Dr. Falci, who specializes in surgeries on chronically injured spinal cords, was able to help Keatseangsilp with a specialized surgery.
“These processing nerve cells inside the spinal cord can go awry after a spinal cord injury. They can actually start firing spontaneously like a seizure. It's almost like epilepsy of the spinal cord,” Dr. Falci explained.
Doctors are able to record the electrical activity, see it, and destroy those areas with radiofrequency heat.
“As soon as I woke up, I knew I was almost completely pain-free,” Keatseangsilp said.
That was back in 2013. Now, Keatseangsilp is back on the court.
“Within the past year, I've played about 15 tournaments,” he said.
Next up is the U.S. Open wheelchair championships, which expanded this year.
“The 2022 year is very special for the U.S. Open because they increased the draw, the bracket size, from 8 men to 16 men,” Keatseangsilp said. “It really opens the door for more players to kind of have a tangible goal.”
“Wheelchair tennis, wheelchair golf, wheelchair rugby, basketball,” Dane Stair, an adaptive rehab specialist at NeuAbility, said. “There's more and more of it being broadcast nowadays because accessibility is being put more to the forefront of thought.”
Stair is an adaptive rehab specialist at NeuAbility, a rehabilitative wellness center and gym. He works with those who have spinal cord injuries and advocates for more exposure and education in this realm at the university level.
“Finding adaptive sports, adaptive gyms, adaptive anything that takes a group of individuals who have been disabled, brings them together and helps them focus on a formal goal, hopefully, sports, works great for everybody,” Stair said. “As the individual is trying to learn how to live again they have to find different ways to solidify their identity down.”
Keatseangsilp hopes his story and how he found his passion for tennis again after his accident will help inspire others as well.
“[Dr. Falci’s] surgery changed my entire life,” Keatseangsilp said. ”Once people know about wheelchair tennis and they see it in action they get excited to watch.” | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/u-s-open-expands-wheelchair-field-as-opportunities-for-adaptive-sports-grow | 2022-09-02T20:40:20Z | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/u-s-open-expands-wheelchair-field-as-opportunities-for-adaptive-sports-grow | false |
Days after the Federal Transit Administration criticized the state Department of Public Utilities for failing to provide proper oversight of the MBTA, lawmakers said Friday they plan to hold a hearing in October to determine whether the agency should continue its role as the MBTA’s safety regulator.
“Is the DPU motivated enough to fill the safety role for the T?” state Senator Michael J. Barrett and state Representative Jeffrey N. Roy, who co-chair the Joint Legislative Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy, asked in a letter sent Friday to DPU Chairman Matthew H. Nelson. “The authors of the federal report imply that it isn’t.”
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The lawmakers referred to a scathing report the FTA issued Wednesday about the MBTA, finding that the long-troubled transit system is understaffed, performs too little maintenance, and has weak safeguards. The federal regulators also took the DPU to task for lax supervision.
“DPU has not used its authority to ensure the identification and resolution of safety issues at MBTA,” the report said. It “has not demonstrated an ability to address safety issues and concerns identified” by the FTA.
In their letter to Nelson, Barrett and Roy said the FTA found that “DPU ‘has not been actively engaged.’ It ‘has not utilized its existing regulatory and statutory enforcement authority.’ It is ‘slow to complete corrective actions.’ ”
“The report identifies significant problems of overwork and understaffing at the MBTA,” they wrote. “We want to know whether the safety function at the DPU is suffering from organizational fatigue of its own.”
DPU officials could not immediately be reached for comment. In an interview, Barrett said that Nelson had accepted his committee’s invitation to testify before the panel in early October.
“The DPU has been in the transportation safety business since before the Civil War,” Barrett said. “But its gas and electricity responsibilities have grown enormously since then. You need to ask whether transportation, safety, and energy and climate issues should continue to co-exist” under one agency.
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The lawmakers noted that the FTA report is “pointed” in its assessment of DPU’s performance in overseeing the MBTA and calls on the agency to ensure “its organizational and legal independence from the MBTA.”
‘It calls out a specific problem: the ‘shared agency reporting relationships to the Governor,’ and the Governor’s leverage over the leadership of both organizations. We don’t worry about explicit interference. We worry instead about a ‘don’t make matters worse’ mentality.”
Perhaps “the safety operation, wherever it’s situated, should not be on the same team the T is on,” the lawmakers wrote. “We would like to hear about this issue from you and from T officials.”
In a statement earlier this week in response to the FTA report, DPU spokesperson Troy Wall said the agency will add more staff, including a new position of director of rail transit safety, and increasing safety audits.
But the lawmakers said the DPU may be overwhelmed by the scope of its responsibilities.
“We wonder whether the state agency that must tackle the increasingly urgent questions of natural gas and electric power in a time of climate crisis should also handle inspections of household moving companies and towing companies,” the lawmakers wrote in their letter. “The damage from stretching the DPU too thin could cut in both directions. Either the safety mission could suffer due to the ever-growing concern about climate problems, or the climate mission could suffer due to the fire-drill nature of safety problems.”
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In response to the FTA report, Governor Charlie Baker said he will ask the Legislature for $200 million to help the MBTA address the findings and $10 million for a training academy to help with hiring.
“We look forward to working with labor, MBTA leaders, lawmakers and riders to deliver the MBTA riders deserve,” Baker said this week. “The DPU has also taken a number of steps to address the FTA’s findings, and our administration will ensure they have all the resources necessary to strengthen their oversight of the MBTA.”
Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @TAGlobe. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/02/metro/legislators-question-state-oversight-mbta-after-scathing-federal-report/ | 2022-09-02T20:40:50Z | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/02/metro/legislators-question-state-oversight-mbta-after-scathing-federal-report/ | false |
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday tentatively declined to overturn the jury conviction of disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy. That leaves the former Silicon Valley star a step closer to serving prison time.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila won’t make that decision final until Oct. 17, when he is scheduled to sentence Holmes in the same San Jose, California, courtroom where a jury found her guilty of duping investors in her much-hyped blood-testing startup.
Holmes, 38, faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, plus restitution, for lying to investors about a Theranos technology she hailed as a revolution in healthcare but which in practice produced dangerously inaccurate results.
Amy Saharia, one of Holmes’ lawyers, tried to persuade Davila that the jury of eight men and four women had acted irrationally during their seven days of deliberations. The judge concluded that the jurors drew reasonable inferences from evidence presented at the trial, although he said he would still review some cases Saharia presented before making a final decision.
Thursday’s 90-minute hearing marked the first time Holmes has returned to the court since her Jan. 3 conviction. The verdict ended a nearly four-month trial that recounted Holmes’ remarkable rise from a Stanford University dropout in 2003 to a lionized entrepreneur once worth $4.5 billion before it all unraveled in 2015. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/ap-judge-declines-to-overturn-elizabeth-holmes-guilty-verdict/ | 2022-09-02T20:42:07Z | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/ap-judge-declines-to-overturn-elizabeth-holmes-guilty-verdict/ | true |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It's estimated that Americans eat 17 tsp of added sugar a day. This isn't talking about sugar from fruit. This is the processed sugar that is being added to a lot of foods that you might not expect. This is why I always stress reading the ingredient labels on products you buy from the store.
Pasta sauce is one of those products that will usually have added sugar in it. Make sure to look for labels that say "no added sugar" if you don't want sugar mixed in with your spaghetti.
A lot of salad dressings sold in stores will pack in the added sugar. You think you're doing something healthy by eating a salad, but a lot of times the dressing is ruining it. Making your own salad dressing is a great option, but if you don't have time for that make sure to look for the dressings without sugar in the ingredient list.
Ketchup served at most restaurants contains high fructose corn syrup which is one the most harmful sugars we can consume and will shoot up your daily intake of sugar. There are a few store-bought ketchups that are unsweetened.
Yogurt is another product that you might think, "oh I'm eating something healthy", but the majority of them are loaded with sugar! Again look for the unsweetened yogurt options to keep your sugar levels low.
Watch more from ABC10: Mood boosting foods | Meg Unprocessed | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/health/food-swaps-to-reduce-sugar-intake-meg-unprocessed/103-bc6e7d79-a800-4261-82e0-b7b1d6cfb0a7 | 2022-09-02T20:42:58Z | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/health/food-swaps-to-reduce-sugar-intake-meg-unprocessed/103-bc6e7d79-a800-4261-82e0-b7b1d6cfb0a7 | true |
The new lineup from The M. K. Morse Company offers solutions for steel, stainless steel, and aluminum/non-ferrous applications
CANTON, Ohio, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The fourth generation of Metal Devil circular saw blades from The M. K. Morse Company sets a new precedent for cutting performance.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An abortion-rights group on Thursday asked the Michigan Supreme Court to approve a November ballot question on whether a right to abortion should be enshrined in the state constitution.
Reproductive Freedom for All filed its request with the high court after the state canvassing board rejected the ballot question on Wednesday. That body deadlocked 2-2 along partisan lines, with a pair of Republican commissioners citing what they called spacing errors in the petitions calling for the ballot question.
Abortion-rights supporters say it’s important for state residents to be able to weigh in on the abortion question, especially because of a 1931 law that would ban all abortions except to save the life of the mother that abortion opponents had hoped would be triggered by the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in June. The law has been blocked by months of court battles.
In the filing, the group asked the court to order the Board of State Canvassers to certify the question for the November ballot, and to do so by Wednesday. That would give board members time to certify the initiative before the board’s meeting on Sept. 9, which also is the deadline set by state law for the board to certify the ballot to the Secretary of State.
RFFA submitted more than 750,000 signatures, attorneys for the group wrote, making it the largest number submitted for a ballot initiative in state history. State law required a minimum of about 425,000 valid signatures, and state officials determined last week that the petition contained nearly 600,000 valid signatures.
RFFA said the volume of signatories demonstrated “widespread grassroots support.”
“This Court should safeguard the right of the People to exercise their political power and protect it from strained interpretations of law that stand to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters,” attorneys argued.
Abortion-rights supporters have criticized the Republican members of the state board — a panel once seen as handling largely routine, administrative matters — as bowing to political pressure to try to stop the measure from appearing on the ballot.
Democrats believe the issue has helped the party gain ground on Republicans this election cycle since the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated constitutional protections for abortion. In conservative Kansas, for example, voters overwhelmingly defeated a measure that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten restrictions or ban the procedure outright.
Michigan, a swing state that also is a presidential battleground, has several high-stakes races on the ballot in November, including contests for governor, secretary of state and attorney general.
RFFA argued in its filing to the Michigan Supreme Court that its petitions met all prerequisites to appear on the Nov. 8 ballot, both in number of signatures and the format, and that the Board of State Canvassers overstepped its authority, violating “its clear legal duty,” when it rejected the initiative.
No party has disputed that the group turned in enough signatures, RFFA noted. Rather, opponents “resorted to hyperbole” regarding the spacing of language on the petition, calling the small spaces between some words “gibberish” and “incomprehensible argle-bargle,” the group said in its filing. They argue that Michigan election law doesn’t provide requirements for spacing and said the opponents “are unable to point to a single individual that did not understand” the petition.
Opponents of the ballot initiative said the board did the right thing in rejecting what they called a “mistake-riddled, anything goes” proposal. They said the initiative would insert “gibberish” into the state constitution.
“The Michigan Supreme Court should support this move to protect our constitution from their vandalism as well,” Christen Pollo, of Citizens to Support Michigan Women and Children, said after Wednesday’s vote.
John Pirich, a Michigan election law expert, said that the petition’s language could be understood even with the spacing issues and that “any language that would be in doubt will be printed with the proper spacing in the constitution.”
“The question is: Does someone read this and have they been confused as to what the intent is or misled as to what the intent of the petition is?” Pirich said. “I clearly understood the language.”
In a statement Wednesday, abortion-rights supporters said they are confident the court will decide in their favor and order the initiative go before voters on the November ballot. A majority of justices were put on the court by Democrats.
Abortion opponents protested outside of Wednesday’s board meeting, their yells at times audible inside the hearing room. The board also heard several hours of public comment, primarily from people who oppose abortion and told the board the procedure is immoral.
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Burnett reported from Chicago.
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Joey Cappelletti is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-michigan-high-court-asked-to-ok-ballot-question-on-abortion/ | 2022-09-02T20:44:21Z | https://www.kxnet.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-michigan-high-court-asked-to-ok-ballot-question-on-abortion/ | false |
President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide more than $47 billion in emergency dollars that would go toward the war in Ukraine, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing monkeypox outbreak and help for recent natural disasters in Kentucky and other states.
The request, which comes as lawmakers are preparing to return to Washington and fund the government, includes $13.7 billion related to Ukraine, including money for equipment, intelligence support and direct budgetary support. Shalanda Young, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said that more than three-fourths of the $40 billion approved by Congress earlier this year has already been disbursed or committed.
“We have rallied the world to support the people of Ukraine as they defend their democracy and we cannot allow that support to Ukraine to run dry,” Young said in a blog post.
The White House request will play into congressional budget negotiations in the coming weeks as financing for federal agencies is set to run out Sept. 30. Both parties will be seeking to avoid a government shutdown in the weeks before the midterm elections, but they will have to work out differences over issues like the COVID-19 aid, which has been a sticking point for many months as the White House has said more money is needed for vaccines and testing and Republicans have pointed to the trillions that have already been approved and money that is still unspent.
In Friday’s request, the White House is seeking $7.1 billion to procure additional vaccines and for replenishing personal protective equipment in the Strategic National Stockpile, among other measures. It is also seeking $2 billion to continue testing programs, including an initiative to distribute free at-home tests that ended on Friday as the government says it is running short on funds. White House officials say they have some tests left in the stockpile, but not enough to provide free tests if cases sharply increase.
Congress also has not moved forward on President Joe Biden’s $22.5 billion request earlier this year for the COVID-19 response. And funding is drying up for many of the community groups that received millions of federal tax dollars to encourage vaccinations.
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the White House has repeatedly warned that there would be trade-offs if that money wasn't approved, and “that is precisely what happened.” The lack of free testing kits, for example, “leaves our domestic testing capacity diminished for a potential fall surge," she said.
The administration is also asking for $4.5 billion to bolster its efforts to fight monkeypox. Officials said they have already depleted significant reserves from the national stockpile to provide over 1.1 million vials of vaccine.
The money would help ensure access to vaccinations, testing and treatment, and also help fund the global effort to fight the disease, administration officials said. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/biden-seeks-47b-for-ukraine-covid-19-monkeypox-disasters/3352844/ | 2022-09-02T20:46:13Z | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/biden-seeks-47b-for-ukraine-covid-19-monkeypox-disasters/3352844/ | true |
The Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale (PBCC) is now seeking new voices to join its internationally acclaimed music program.
The choir is inviting boys ages 7 through 13 from the Greater Philadelphia area who have a good ear for music and enjoy singing to sign up to audition in person.
Youngsters who are accepted not only receive a strong musical education, but they form friendships and have some remarkable experiences. The choir has performed with many premiere local cultural institutions and at national and international venues including Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House. Its travels have included China, Egypt, Spain, South Africa, and many other countries.
“I grew up in the Philadelphia Boys Choir, which played a big part in developing my passion to pursue a career in music, and ultimately, coming back to the organization to provide the same memorable music and travel traditions for our next generation of PBCC singers,” said Jeffrey Smith, the PBCC’s artistic director.
Many choir alumni have gone on to musical careers, including Boyz II Men’s Shawn Stockman and Broadway composer Benj Pasek whose work includes Dear Evan Hansen.
Smith said on Friday about 25 boys have recently been accepted through the audition process but “there’s still room for more.” He said the choir is still seeking about 15 older boys (about ages 10 and up) and about 10 younger boys ages 7 to 9. There are about 60 boys in the choir, 30 men and older boys in the chorale and there will be approximately 40 boys in the PBCC’s two training programs.
“But no matter if the boys choose to continue with music or not,” Smith added, “being a part of this team and preparing for professional performances has a tremendous impact on these boys’ characters, which crosses into all areas of their lives.”
PBCC is also looking for men to join its chorale, which is mostly choir alumni and fathers of boys in the choir. However, chorale members also include men in the community with some choral singing experience and who would like to be part of the group. The boys and men have the opportunity to collaborate musically and perform together.
For youngsters who are accepted, the group meets twice weekly in person. Tuition is $1,800 a year, according to the PBCC website, but full and partial scholarships are available.
Program leaders also encourage boys with an interest in music to audition even if they are not confident about their skills.
“Some of our most gifted boys were reluctant to audition because they were afraid they weren’t good enough,” according to the PBCC website.
Auditions can be arranged by emailing: auditions@phillyboyschoir.org,
For more information, email info@phillyboyschoir.org or call 215-222-3500.
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Sacramento leaders speak out after antisemitic incidents at Sac State, UC Davis
Sacramento city and community leaders on Friday spoke out after images of the Nazi swastika hate symbol were recently found inside a classroom at Sacramento State University and near the campus.
Mayor Darrell Steinberg said a “fairly large picture” was found by a Sac State worker on J Street Friday morning near where the campus is located. Sac State said in a release that a student reported another swastika image was found on a classroom wall on Thursday. University police are investigating both incidents.
This comes after racist and antisemitic banners were hung across a bicycle overpass at UC Davis over the weekend and another similar incident occurred the previous weekend.
Steinberg called the image of a swastika “reprehensible to all civilized people.”
“If we let small, medium or large displays of hate go unresponded to, then the people who perpetuate these hateful symbols, and who knows what else they’re perpetuating, get the message that well, it’s plain OK,” Steinberg said. “It’s not OK. Hate has no place in our Sacramento. It’s not what we are about. It’s never been what we are about.”
Others who spoke out included the president of Sac State and representatives from Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities in Sacramento.
“That hateful sign does not represent our city or this university,” Sac State President Robert Nelsen said. “We care for each other and we will support each other.”
The community leaders said they were speaking out in solidarity not only with the Jewish community but in support of people from other faiths, the LGBTQ community and women who are also targeted in hate incidents.
“These acts are horrible and despicable and all too frequent,” said Bruce Pomer, the president of the Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region. “And hatred against one is hatred against all.”
KCRA 3 has been looking into reports of bias-related incidents in Sacramento. The number of such incidents nearly doubled from 2020 to 2021 and increased more than five times since 2017, according to data from the police department. | https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-leaders-speak-out-after-antisemitic-incidents-at-sac-state-uc-davis/41068468 | 2022-09-02T20:51:32Z | https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-leaders-speak-out-after-antisemitic-incidents-at-sac-state-uc-davis/41068468 | true |
WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, September 2, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in San Angelo has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Central Tom Green County in west central Texas...
* Until 530 PM CDT.
* At 326 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 2 inches are
possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms
producing flash flooding.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of creeks and streams,
urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
San Angelo, San Angelo State Park, Twin Buttes Reservoir, O.c.
Fisher Reservoir, Lake Nasworthy and Grape Creek.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, September 2, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
206 PM CDT Fri Sep 2 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of western Callahan and
central Taylor Counties through 300 PM CDT...
At 205 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Lake Abilene, or near Coronados Camp, moving east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Abilene, Clyde, Wylie, Tuscola, Buffalo Gap, Lawn, Eula, Dudley,
Potosi, View, Coronados Camp, Oplin, Caps, Lake Abilene, Camp
Tonkawa, Ovalo and Kirby Lake.
This includes Interstate 20 between Mile Markers 291 and 301.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 3212 10007 3233 10004 3251 9950 3212 9945
TIME...MOT...LOC 1905Z 260DEG 25KT 3224 9992
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with former Rep Barbara Comstock, R-Va., about the Republican Party's reaction to President Biden's address, where he called "MAGA Republicans" a threat to American Democracy.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with former Rep Barbara Comstock, R-Va., about the Republican Party's reaction to President Biden's address, where he called "MAGA Republicans" a threat to American Democracy.
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Matthew Wolff sinks a HOLE IN ONE at LIV Boston, the first in the Saudi-backed breakaway league's history, as American gets off to hot start on first day of tournament
- Matthew Wolff made the incredible shot on the second hole
- He used an iron to sink the ball on the Par 3 on the first day of the tournament
- Wolff sat tied for second place at -5 at the time of writing
Matthew Wolff hit the shot of a lifetime Friday at LIV Golf Boston, sinking a hole in one to rapturous cheers from the crowd.
The shot came on the second hole, a Par 3, as Wolff used his iron to make the shot.
The 23-year-old excitedly celebrated the feat alongside caddies and fellow golfers.
Matthew Wolff was clearly proud after sinking the first hole in one in LIV's brief history
Wolff raised his arms as he celebrated making the incredible shot on the second hole
And his strong play has continued (so far) throughout the round, as he sat tied tied for second at -5 through 14 holes at the time of writing.
He only trailed Talor Gooch, at -6.
Friday was the first day of the Boston tournament, which will run until Sunday.
Wolff was at -5 at through 14 rounds on Friday, behind only Talor Gooch in first place
Wolff, seen Friday playing at LIV Boston, joined the breakaway league earlier this year
Wolff joined LIV Golf in June after spending three years on the PGA Tour.
He turned pro in 2019 after playing collegiately at Oklahoma State.
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The failure of the water systems in Jackson, Miss., has forced public schools to return to remote learning — something school leaders had hoped to never do again after the COVID pandemic.
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The failure of the water systems in Jackson, Miss., has forced public schools to return to remote learning — something school leaders had hoped to never do again after the COVID pandemic.
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BLOOMINGTON — McLean County is reporting three new COVID-related deaths and 312 new cases in the past week.
The deaths were a man in his 60s, a man in his 70s and a woman in her 80s, none of whom were associated with long-term care, McLean County Health Department's update on Friday said.
Among the 312 new cases, a plurality of 86 were in their 20s, followed by 34 cases among people in their 30s and 32 cases among people in their 40s. The new cases bring the county's total confirmed and probable cases to 59,307, with 393 deaths.
Statewide there were 26,127 new cases in the past week and 70 deaths, the Illinois Department of Public Health announced Friday.
With 90 out of 102 counites in the state at medium or high community levels, IDPH is encouraging everyone eligible to receive a booster specific to the Omicron variant starting next week. The Moderna booster will be available to those 18 and older and the Pfizer-BioNTech booster will be available to those 12 and older.
MCHD continues to offer COVID-19 vaccines. Those interested should call 309-888-5435 for adult vaccinations and 309-888-5455 for child vaccinations.
The department also will offer testing clinics Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon at the McLean County Customer Service Center across East Street from the government center building.
Across Illinois, 54% of people have received at least one booster, 69% of people are fully vaccinated and 77% of people have received at least one dose of the vaccine. IDPH data puts McLean County at 63% as fully vaccinated and 67% having had at least one dose. The department does not give a county-specific percentage for booster shots.
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Heart disease is the top cause of death for Central Illinoisans, outpacing the national average. Yet a search for state resources didn't yield clear answers.
The McLean County Health Department is collaborating with the Illinois Department of Public Health to complete contact tracing and provide vaccines to those who may have been exposed.
While many health and fitness classes, activities and meetings have been postponed because of the pandemic, others continue virtually or in person using social distancing guidelines. Here are upcoming events.
TUESDAY, Aug. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The risk for major adverse cardiovascular events is reduced among patients within six months of previous myocardial infarction who receive treatment with a polypill compared with usual care, according to a study published online Aug. 26 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2022, held from Aug. 26 to 29 in Barcelona, Spain.
President Joe Biden is forcefully defending the FBI as the agency and its employees have come under criticism and threats of violence since executing a search warrant at Donald Trump’s Florida residence earlier this month. Biden told a crowd of more than 500 at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania on Tuesday that “It’s sickening to see the new attacks on the FBI." Biden was also promoting his administration’s crime-prevention efforts and continuing to pressure Congress to revive a long-expired federal ban on assault-style weapons. Hailing firearm restrictions recently approved by Congress, Biden said, “We’re not stopping here.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has endorsed updated COIVD-19 boosters. The decision opens 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 made by Pfizer and rival Moderna offer the most up-to-date protection at yet another critical period in the pandemic.
U.S. regulators have authorized updated COVID-19 boosters, the first to directly target today's most common omicron strain. The move on Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration tweaks the recipe of shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna. The hope is that the modified boosters will blunt yet another winter surge. Until now, vaccines have targeted the original coronavirus. The new boosters are half that original recipe and half protection against the newest omicron versions. Before shots begin, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must recommend who should get the additional dose. CDC's advisers will debate that Thursday. | https://pantagraph.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/mclean-county-adds-3-covid-deaths-rises-to-medium-community-level/article_7ee1856a-2ae1-11ed-9fae-17768827172e.html | 2022-09-02T20:57:07Z | https://pantagraph.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/mclean-county-adds-3-covid-deaths-rises-to-medium-community-level/article_7ee1856a-2ae1-11ed-9fae-17768827172e.html | true |
Stocks gave up an early rally and ended lower on Wall Street, marking their third losing week in a row.
Indexes had opened higher following a report on the job market that showed a moderate slowdown in hiring. That stoked cautious optimism that the Federal Reserve may not need to be as aggressive with high interest rates in its fight against inflation.
Indexes turned lower in the afternoon after Russian energy giant Gazprom said it wouldn’t reopen a natural gas pipeline to Germany for now, a bad sign for Europe’s ongoing struggle with higher energy prices.
On Friday:
The S&P 500 fell 42.59 points, or 1.1%, to 3,924.26.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 337.98 points, or 1.1%, to 31,318.44.
The Nasdaq fell 154.26 points, or 1.3%, to 11,630.86.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 13.07 points, or 0.7%, to 1,809.75.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is down 133.40 points, or 3.3%.
The Dow is down 964.96 points, or 3%.
The Nasdaq is down 510.85 points, or 4.2%.
The Russell 2000 is down 90.08 points, or 4.7%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is down 841.92 points, or 17.7%.
The Dow is down 5,019.86 points, or 13.8%.
The Nasdaq is down 4,014.11 points, or 25.7%.
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Three separate firefighting agencies are working together on the nearly 17,000-acre Rum Creek Fire, northwest of Grants Pass: Northwest Incident Management Team 13, the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Oregon State Fire Marshal.
Teams are currently focusing on the eastern edge of the fire, which is spreading the fastest. That area threatens the rural communities of Merlin and Pleasant Valley, parts of which are on level 1 evacuation status.
A lot of thought goes into picking a spot for a fire camp, according to Sandy Roberts, public information officer for the Oregon State Fire Marshal.
“If we go into an area where a fire hasn’t been, we really look at what’s already there,” Roberts says. “In the summertime, schools aren’t in session. I’ve had fire camp at high schools, middle schools, I’ve been on a football field, that’s where my tent is pitched.”
For this fire, the teams chose a plot of Bureau of Land Management land in Merlin that’s been used as a fire camp in the past.
Roberts says the camp needs to be far enough away so they don’t need to evacuate if the fire gets too close, but close enough so it isn’t too far to drive to the fire line.
She recalls a time when teams were fighting fires near Oakridge, and the fire camp was set up at a school. When school started up and the building was needed, the next nearest site the team could use was in Eugene. Roberts says it's difficult to manage a fire when you’re so far away.
Roberts says it typically takes around three days to get the basics of a fire camp set up. She says when agencies arrive, they need to be ready to be self-sufficient for 72-hours as the camp gets built.
Along the so-called “main street” of fire camp, one of the major structures is Incident Management Command, where officials plan which locations on the fire to send resources to.
Roberts says despite having three incident commanders giving the final orders, organizing the plan of attack is generally pretty easy.
“It’s important to have that consensus,” she says. “Sometimes it’s amazing to have other people to push your ideas off onto. And to run those ideas by somebody else. Three heads are better than one.”
This Cerberus-style leadership is working to send fire crews where needed. So far, they’ve been able to create a defensible zone of 200-feet around all the homes in and around Galice, a small town on the southern edge of the fire.
Roberts expects firefighting conditions to become more difficult into the weekend, as a cold front moves into the area late Friday, bringing gusty winds that could fan the flames.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP is investigating whether Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. ("Bed Bath" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: BBBY) complied with federal securities laws.
If you purchased or sold Bed Bath & Beyond securities between August 15, 2022 and August 19, 2022, please call Gregory Stone at (800) 575-0735 or (212) 545-4774, email gstone@whafh.com or submit this form:
On March 6, 2022, through his investment firm RC Ventures LLC, Ryan Cohen, the billionaire co-founder of Chewy Inc. who also serves as chairman of GameStop Corp., sent a letter to Bed Bath & Beyond' s board which announced that he owned a 9.8% stake in Bed Bath & Beyond and in which he criticized the Company's management. On this news Bed Bath & Beyond stock to closed 34% higher on March 7, 2022 compared to its close on March 4, 2022, the previous trading day, on extremely heavy trading volume. On March 25, 2022, Bed Bath & Beyond added three new directors appointed by Ryan Cohen's investment firm, RC Ventures LLC.
On August 15, 2022, Ryan Cohen, through his investment firm RC Ventures LLC, announced in an SEC filing purchases of over one million January 2023 call options with exercise prices at $60, $75, and $80-significantly higher than Bed Bath & Beyond shares were trading. On this news, Bed Bath & Beyond stock closed 29% higher.
Then, on August 18, 2022, Ryan Cohen, through his investment firm RC Ventures LLC, announced that he would sell his entire stake in Bed Bath & Beyond. Also on August 18, 2022, Bloomberg published an article entitled "Bed Bath & Beyond Taps Kirkland & Ellis for Help Addressing Debt Load" which revealed the Company hired a law firm for help with its debt.
On this news, Bed Bath & Beyond shares fell $4.53 per share, or 19%, to close at $18.55 per share on August 18, 2022. Bed Bath & Beyond shares continued to drop on August 19, 2022, falling $7.52 per share, or 40%, from its August 18, 2022 close, to close at $11.03 per share.
Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP has extensive experience in the prosecution of securities class actions and derivative litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts across the country. The firm has attorneys in various practice areas; and offices in New York, Chicago and San Diego. The reputation and expertise of this firm in shareholder and other class litigation has been repeatedly recognized by the courts, which have appointed it to major positions in complex securities multi-district and consolidated litigation.
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PARSIPPANY, N.J., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PBF Energy Inc. (NYSE: PBF) today announced that members of its management team will participate in the Barclays Energy-Power Conference on September 7, 2022 and the Wells Fargo Leveraged Finance Conference on September 8, 2022.
PBF Energy Inc. (NYSE: PBF) is one of the largest independent refiners in North America, operating, through its subsidiaries, oil refineries and related facilities in California, Delaware, Louisiana, New Jersey and Ohio. Our mission is to operate our facilities in a safe, reliable and environmentally responsible manner, provide employees with a safe and rewarding workplace, become a positive influence in the communities where we do business, and provide superior returns to our investors.
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Raiders DE Crosby bracing for fatherhood ahead of season
By W.G. RAMIREZ
Associated Press
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Maxx Crosby’s nickname is “Mad Maxx,” an apt description given his play since the defensive end was selected by the Raiders in the fourth round of the 2019 draft.
His 25 sacks and 57 quarterback hits are both tied for 17th in the NFL since he entered the league.
If there is one word no one would dare associate with the sturdy 6-foot-5 edge rusher, it’s soft.
Well, almost no one.
Fiancée Rachel Washburn is expecting their baby girl on Oct. 3, and the “girl dad” in one of the NFL’s most feared pass rushers started glowing long before Nike began sending newborn outfits that Crosby has been proudly texting to friends.
“I would say ‘soft’ is a perfect word, especially with having a baby girl; it like pulls (on) their heartstrings even more,” Washburn said. “But it’s like the cutest thing ever watching him be so excited to be a father.”
The 25-year-old Crosby recently displayed his excitement at the Las Vegas facility while talking about what may be the most important day of his life, just one month away.
During training camp, Crosby received frequent updates and videos from Washburn via text that kept him balanced and encouraged.
“I’m just super excited,” Crosby said. “Seeing a baby kick around in her stomach is like the craziest thing. But it’s incredible, it just gives me an extra bit of motivation having a daughter on the way. We’ve been talking about it for so long and finally, it’s about to really happen. I can’t wait until she gets here. We’re going to have a blast, it’s going to be great.”
Washburn’s due date is one day after the Raiders host quarterback Russell Wilson and the Denver Broncos.
So what if Washburn goes into labor one day sooner, or any given Sunday, for that matter?
“I’ve already talked to (coach Josh McDaniels) as far as planning for that,” Crosby said. “We have an emergency team who is going to call me there if she goes into labor and everything like that. We’re already ahead of the curve, I feel like it’s just going to happen the way it’s supposed to happen. I’m not stressing about it.”
Nor should he, not after all he has endured. And overcome.
In 2019, after his rookie season, Crosby checked himself into rehab for alcoholism. He was in search of clarity and needed help in getting clean, so he could refocus his efforts on the field. After a ho-hum second season, Crosby turned in a banner third year for the Raiders, establishing career highs of 56 tackles and 30 quarterback hits.
“After rehab, I think something just clicked in his head,” Washburn said. “I mean, he’s always loved football and always been passionate, but something clicked and then he changed his regimen and he gets up at the same time, does literally every single thing at the same time every single day.”
It’s the type of regimen that has transformed Crosby from a fourth-round hopeful into a key leader for Las Vegas.
“The energy he brings every single day, and leadership he’s been bringing, it’s unmatched. I love playing with him, it makes my job easier,” Raiders defensive tackle Kendal Vickers said.
It’s something McDaniels appreciates as the coach heads into his first year with Las Vegas.
“He does everything every day that you could ask a player to do to help himself get better and help our team get better. There’s no greater compliment that I could give him than that,” McDaniels said. “He brings a lot of his teammates with him. He sets the standard for our work ethic, the way we practice, how we go about our jobs, how he is in the meetings. Everything that you would want from a player that’s trying to ascend, he’s doing it.”
It’s the same type of vibe Washburn knows he’ll bring to parenthood for their daughter, along with matching Nike Air Force 1s, his favorite shoe.
Just don’t call him soft on the field.
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From the doorway, Nicole Ogburn's fourth grade classroom looks bright and unassuming.
New, colorful JanSport backpacks hang from small chairs. Blue and white desks with dry erase surfaces sit in clusters around the room. A green bookshelf filled by rows of books is surrounded by beanbag chairs and fuzzy pillows.
This year, as Ogburn prepares her classroom, her first priority is not the decorations she usually spends the summer picking out. Instead, it's buying things to help her students – and herself – feel safer in the classroom.
"I bought a thing that you jam under the door so that they can't open the door. I bought a curtain to pull down so you can't see in my door if something was happening," Ogburn said. "We've just thought of more safety this year than, 'How cute's my room gonna look?'"
Ogburn is preparing for her first year as a teacher at a newly repurposed campus space, dubbed Uvalde Elementary School. For the seven years prior, Ogburn taught at Robb Elementary. The school shut down after the mass shooting in May in which 19 students and two teachers were killed. Ogburn, her co-teacher and her students survived, and escaped through a window of their classroom with the help of law enforcement.
Although the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District and state leaders have announced new security measures, the district has been under pressure from parents and other members of the community to offer more transparency and demonstrate its ability to keep students safe at school.
Ogburn said she felt there had been progress, though improvements are taking time.
"We're working towards being safe, and I think we're gonna be OK the first day of school, but it's not gonna be 100% done," she said. "But, it's in the process."
As she thought about physical security measures, she was also trying to anticipate what it would be like when students returned to the classroom for the first time since the May 24 shooting.
"I think I'm scared for how some of these kids are gonna react when they get here, and if I'm gonna be able to handle that part of it," she said.
This year, she's added one feature to her classroom to try to help her students express and manage their feelings. It's a black poster that asks students to answer one question: How do you feel? Each student has their own cut out marker, and each day Ogburn and her co-teacher plan to encourage students to put their marker next to a corresponding feeling like, "ready to learn," "confused," or "angry."
"I'm thinking, OK what if this happens this day, and the whole class is feeling anxious or upset? There's no way we're gonna teach a lesson," she said. "We've gotta figure out ... how are we gonna calm 'em down, how are we gonna make this better?"
Ogburn is also concerned for herself.
She said she wanted to get through the year "without being a complete emotional wreck," as she works through her grief, particularly the deaths of fellow fourth grade teachers, Eva Mireles and Irma Garcia.
For several years at Robb, Ogburn and her co-teacher Trisha Albarado taught in the classroom next door to Mireles and Garcia.
"It's already been hard not having my two friends here with us, but having my co-teacher with me has helped a lot," she said. "Cause we both said if you don't come back, I'm not coming back. If we're not together, we're gonna fight to be together. Cause we can't do it without each other right now."
Since the shooting, Ogburn said she's been treated for depression, anxiety and PTSD – as have other teachers who survived. She said what she heard and saw that day is something she'll live with for the rest of her life.
"Every day, there can be something that triggers an emotion that I don't want to have that day," she said. "And right now, every day is a constant reminder, cause everywhere I go, it's right in front of my face."
She almost didn't return to the classroom. But she thought about her own children, as well as Uvalde students.
"I thought, I gotta go back and show them first of all, we can't live in fear. I mean, you just never know when something's gonna happen," she said. "So I thought, I have to try not to live in that fear. I have to go forward and show these kids, OK, Ms. Ogburn can go back to school, then so can I."
Gaby Olivares and Yvette Benavides of Texas Public Radio translated this article into Spanish.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wvpublic.org/2022-09-02/this-teacher-survived-the-uvalde-shooting-heres-why-she-is-returning-to-the-job | 2022-09-02T21:03:45Z | https://www.wvpublic.org/2022-09-02/this-teacher-survived-the-uvalde-shooting-heres-why-she-is-returning-to-the-job | true |
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An abortion-rights group on Thursday asked the Michigan Supreme Court to approve a November ballot question on whether a right to abortion should be enshrined in the state constitution.
Reproductive Freedom for All filed its request with the high court after the state canvassing board rejected the ballot question on Wednesday. That body deadlocked 2-2 along partisan lines, with a pair of Republican commissioners citing what they called spacing errors in the petitions calling for the ballot question.
Abortion-rights supporters say it’s important for state residents to be able to weigh in on the abortion question, especially because of a 1931 law that would ban all abortions except to save the life of the mother that abortion opponents had hoped would be triggered by the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in June. The law has been blocked by months of court battles.
In the filing, the group asked the court to order the Board of State Canvassers to certify the question for the November ballot, and to do so by Wednesday. That would give board members time to certify the initiative before the board’s meeting on Sept. 9, which also is the deadline set by state law for the board to certify the ballot to the Secretary of State.
RFFA submitted more than 750,000 signatures, attorneys for the group wrote, making it the largest number submitted for a ballot initiative in state history. State law required a minimum of about 425,000 valid signatures, and state officials determined last week that the petition contained nearly 600,000 valid signatures.
RFFA said the volume of signatories demonstrated “widespread grassroots support.”
“This Court should safeguard the right of the People to exercise their political power and protect it from strained interpretations of law that stand to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters,” attorneys argued.
Abortion-rights supporters have criticized the Republican members of the state board — a panel once seen as handling largely routine, administrative matters — as bowing to political pressure to try to stop the measure from appearing on the ballot.
Democrats believe the issue has helped the party gain ground on Republicans this election cycle since the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated constitutional protections for abortion. In conservative Kansas, for example, voters overwhelmingly defeated a measure that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten restrictions or ban the procedure outright.
Michigan, a swing state that also is a presidential battleground, has several high-stakes races on the ballot in November, including contests for governor, secretary of state and attorney general.
RFFA argued in its filing to the Michigan Supreme Court that its petitions met all prerequisites to appear on the Nov. 8 ballot, both in number of signatures and the format, and that the Board of State Canvassers overstepped its authority, violating “its clear legal duty,” when it rejected the initiative.
No party has disputed that the group turned in enough signatures, RFFA noted. Rather, opponents “resorted to hyperbole” regarding the spacing of language on the petition, calling the small spaces between some words “gibberish” and “incomprehensible argle-bargle,” the group said in its filing. They argue that Michigan election law doesn’t provide requirements for spacing and said the opponents “are unable to point to a single individual that did not understand” the petition.
Opponents of the ballot initiative said the board did the right thing in rejecting what they called a “mistake-riddled, anything goes” proposal. They said the initiative would insert “gibberish” into the state constitution.
“The Michigan Supreme Court should support this move to protect our constitution from their vandalism as well,” Christen Pollo, of Citizens to Support Michigan Women and Children, said after Wednesday’s vote.
John Pirich, a Michigan election law expert, said that the petition’s language could be understood even with the spacing issues and that “any language that would be in doubt will be printed with the proper spacing in the constitution.”
“The question is: Does someone read this and have they been confused as to what the intent is or misled as to what the intent of the petition is?” Pirich said. “I clearly understood the language.”
In a statement Wednesday, abortion-rights supporters said they are confident the court will decide in their favor and order the initiative go before voters on the November ballot. A majority of justices were put on the court by Democrats.
Abortion opponents protested outside of Wednesday’s board meeting, their yells at times audible inside the hearing room. The board also heard several hours of public comment, primarily from people who oppose abortion and told the board the procedure is immoral.
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Burnett reported from Chicago.
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Joey Cappelletti is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-michigan-high-court-asked-to-ok-ballot-question-on-abortion/ | 2022-09-02T21:04:56Z | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-michigan-high-court-asked-to-ok-ballot-question-on-abortion/ | true |
Russia halts gas through major European pipeline, citing maintenance
Russia's Gazprom halted the flow of natural gas through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe early Wednesday, a stoppage that it announced in advance and has said will last three days.
The Russian state-owned energy company announced the closure of Nord Stream 1 in mid-August, citing maintenance at a compressor station — an explanation that German officials have cast doubt on. Gazprom says that work is necessary on the only remaining functioning turbine at the Portovaya station, at the Russian end of the pipeline.
Gazprom started cutting supplies through Nord Stream 1 in mid-June. It cited technical problems that German authorities have dismissed as cover for a political power play. In recent weeks, Nord Stream 1 has been running at only 20% of capacity.
Russia, which before the reductions started accounted for a bit more than a third of Germany's gas supplies, has also reduced the flow of gas to other European countries which have sided with Ukraine in the war.
Natural gas is used to power industry, heat homes and offices, and generate electricity. Increasing the amount in reserve has been a key focus of the German government since Russia invaded Ukraine, to avoid rationing for industry as demand rises in the winter.
In July, the government moved to tighten storage requirements. It introduced a requirement for storage to be 75% full by Sept. 1 — a target that already has been surpassed — and raised the targets for October and November to 85% and 95%, respectively, from 80% and 90%.
As of Wednesday, Germany's storage facilities were over 83% full. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his government had done well to act early, when "not everyone was sure we might have a problem."
While Germany looks to store gas and diversify its supplies, it also is among countries pushing for an urgent redesign of the European electricity market to decrease the influence of soaring gas prices on the cost of energy.
"The pressure is so great that I am really very confident that it will be done quickly," he said Wednesday, without specifying whether changes will be in place this winter. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged reform on Monday.
The European Union's energy commissioner, Kardi Simson, said Wednesday that the 27-nation bloc already had reached its goal of filling gas storage to 80% of capacity ahead of the winter months. The target date was Nov. 1.
EU member Hungary, which has been close to Russia and insisted on a temporary exemption from the bloc's embargo on Russian oil, is getting more gas from Moscow.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Facebook Wednesday that Gazprom will deliver up to 5.8 million cubic meters per day in September and October on top of the amounts already outlined in a long-term agreement between the two countries, Hungarian news agency MTI reported. | https://www.4029tv.com/article/russia-halt-gas-european-pipeline/41040538 | 2022-09-02T21:05:28Z | https://www.4029tv.com/article/russia-halt-gas-european-pipeline/41040538 | true |
2-year-old boy suffered abuse for most of life before final beating, authorities say
HOUSTON (KTRK) - Authorities in Texas say a child suffered continuous physical abuse before he died in May.
Extended family members shared that they were devastated to hear about 2-year-old Daniel Escamia’s death.
According to the Wharton County Sheriff’s Office, he was found beaten with his body enduring continuous physical abuse.
The boy’s mother, Rebecca Lynn Hart, is currently in jail. She has been charged with capital murder. The child’s father, Eddie Escamia, has been charged with child endangerment with bodily injury.
According to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Daniel’s young life was dotted with abuse and neglect investigations, with the first coming soon after he was born. The department confirmed a March 2020 allegation of neglect after the baby tested positive for drugs.
A year later, allegations of physical abuse and neglect were neither substantiated nor disproven, but in April of this year, authorities said the risk assessment for Daniel and his two siblings was high.
Two weeks later, the boy died.
According to the family services report, Daniel had unexplained injuries all over his body the day he died.
The department confirmed he had not been fed and was forced to sleep in a closet by himself in a filthy home. His brother and sister were removed from the house.
Previously, the parents were given family-based safety services. Investigators said the two people who were supposed to protect him did not.
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Woman dies due to gross negligence at IVF centre run by fake doctor in Greater Noida
noida: A woman died allegedly due to gross negligence in treatment at a hospital in Greater Noida run by a doctor whose MBBS degree was found to be fake, police said on Friday.
The fake doctor, Priya Ranjan Thakur, has been arrested and an FIR was lodged against him at the Bisrakh Police Station, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Noida) Rajesh S said.
According to officials, the woman, a resident of Indirapuram in Ghaziabad, had visited the IVF Creation World Centre, run by Thakur, in Eco Village 2 in the Bisrakh area on August 19.
She had been visiting the centre for two months for the In-Vitro Feritilisation (IVF) procedure, a technology-assisted method for pregnancy, the officials said.
The woman fell ill during the procedure and her condition worsened due to lack of emergency support in the centre to such extent that she slipped into a coma and had to be taken to another hospital, they said.
She fell ill during the IVF treatment on August 19 and had to be admitted to another hospital where she died on August 26. Thakur, the owner of the IVF centre, was arrested in connection with the death, DCP Rajesh said.
During investigation, Thakur's medical certificates were verified. His MBBS degree of 2005 mentioned Bhupendra Narayan University in Madhepura, Bihar but during verification the degree was found to be fake, the officer said.
The fake doctor, aged around 40 years, was booked under the Indian Penal Code sections 338 (endangering human life by negligent acts) and 304 (death due to negligence) shortly after the woman's death after a complaint was filed by her husband, the police said.
With his medical degree turning out to be fake, another FIR has been lodged against him under IPC sections 420 (cheating), 467, 468 and 471 (all related to forgery), the police added. | http://www.millenniumpost.in/delhi/woman-dies-due-to-gross-negligence-at-ivf-centre-run-by-fake-doctor-in-greater-noida-491740 | 2022-09-02T21:11:11Z | http://www.millenniumpost.in/delhi/woman-dies-due-to-gross-negligence-at-ivf-centre-run-by-fake-doctor-in-greater-noida-491740 | true |
WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, September 2, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
352 PM CDT Fri Sep 2 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Montague, northeastern Wise and southwestern Cooke Counties through
430 PM CDT...
At 352 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Forestburg, or 17 miles east of Bowie, moving south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 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.
Locations impacted include...
Alvord, Sunset and Forestburg.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3364 9765 3357 9738 3329 9739 3340 9786
TIME...MOT...LOC 2052Z 016DEG 13KT 3353 9754
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Jane Fonda reveals cancer diagnosis: This is 'very treatable'
Jane Fonda reveals she's doing chemotherapy treatments after being diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Jane Fonda revealed she's been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in a lengthy Instagram post shared Friday.
Fonda, 84, said she has begun chemotherapy and will continue doing treatments for the next six months.
"This is a very treatable cancer. 80% of people survive, so I feel very lucky," the "Nine to Five" star wrote.
"I’m also lucky because I have health insurance and access to the best doctors and treatments. I realize, and it’s painful, that I am privileged in this," she added. "Almost every family in America has had to deal with cancer at one time or another and far too many don’t have access to the quality health care I am receiving and this is not right."
Fonda also noted that the cancer is already teaching her lessons.
"Cancer is a teacher and I’m paying attention to the lessons it holds for me," she wrote. "One thing it’s shown me already is the importance of community. Of growing and deepening one’s community so that we are not alone. And the cancer, along with my age --almost 85-- definitely teaches the importance of adapting to new realities." | https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jane-fonda-reveals-cancer-diagnosis-very-treatable | 2022-09-02T21:13:58Z | https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jane-fonda-reveals-cancer-diagnosis-very-treatable | true |
Group of Seven finance ministers agreed Friday to impose a price cap on Russian oil aimed at slashing revenues for Moscow’s war in Ukraine while keeping crude flowing to avoid price spikes, but their statement left out key details of the plan.
The ministers from the group of wealthy industrial democracies confirmed their commitment to the plan after a virtual meeting. They said, however, that the per-barrel level of the price cap would be determined later “based on a range of technical inputs” to be agreed by the coalition of countries implementing it.
“Today we confirm our joint political intention to finalize and implement a comprehensive prohibition of services, which enable maritime transportation of Russian-origin crude oil and petroleum products globally,” the G-7 ministers said.
The provision of maritime transportation services, including insurance and finance, would be allowed only if the Russian oil cargoes are purchased at or below the price level “determined by the broad coalition of countries adhering to and implementing the price cap.”
The ministers said they would work to finalize the details, through their own domestic processes, aiming to align it with the start of European Union sanctions that will ban Russian oil imports into the bloc starting in December.
The G-7 consists of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States.
The ministers said they would seek a broader coalition of oil importing countries to purchase Russian crude and petroleum products only at or below the price cap, and they will invite their input into the plan.
Some G-7 officials have expressed concerns the price cap would not be successful without participation of major importers such as China and India, which have sharply increased their purchases of Russian crude since Moscow launched its invasion in February. But others have said China and India have expressed interest in buying Russian oil at an even lower price in line with the cap.
Enforcing the cap would rely heavily on denying London-brokered shipping insurance, which covers about 95% of the world’s tanker fleet, and finance to cargoes priced above the cap. But analysts say alternatives can be found to circumvent the cap and market forces could render it ineffective.
Despite Russia’s falling oil export volumes, its oil export revenue in June increased by $700 million from May because of prices pushed higher by its war in Ukraine, the International Energy Agency said last month.
The G-7 finance ministers’ statement follows up on their leaders’ decision in June to explore the cap, a move Moscow says it will not abide by and can thwart by shipping oil to states not obeying the price ceiling.
Pricing concerns
The U.S. Treasury has raised concerns the EU embargo could set off a scramble for alternative supplies, spiking global crude prices to as much as $140 a barrel, and it has been promoting the price cap since May as a way to keep Russian crude flowing.
Russian oil prices have risen in anticipation of the EU embargo, with Urals crude trading at an $18-to-$25 per barrel discount to benchmark Brent crude, down from a $30-to-$40 discount earlier this year.
… | https://news.pravdaua.com/g7-finance-chiefs-agree-on-russian-oil-price-cap-but-level-not-yet-set.html | 2022-09-02T21:15:11Z | https://news.pravdaua.com/g7-finance-chiefs-agree-on-russian-oil-price-cap-but-level-not-yet-set.html | false |
FOREST HILLS, Queens (PIX11) — The wife of Glenn Hirsch, who took his own life while awaiting trial for the alleged murder of a Queens delivery worker, has been indicted in connection with a stockpile of illegal weapons found in her home, the Queens District Attorney’s Office announced Friday.
The NYPD served a court-ordered search warrant for Dorothy Hirsch’s home in Briarwood, Queens, around midnight on June 2 as part of the investigation into the murder of Zhiwen Yan on April 30. According to officials, police found eight illegal guns, six of which were semi-automatic guns stashed inside a closet. With the guns, police also allegedly found hundreds of rounds of ammo.
The recovered items included:
- one .357 magnum revolver
- one .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol
- one .38 caliber revolver
- one .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol
- one .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol
- three 9 mm semi-automatic pistols.
Hirsch lacked the necessary permits and documentation to possess any of the weapons, according to officials. As a result, she was charged with nine counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, eight counts of criminal possession of a firearm and one count of unlawful possession of firearm ammunition.
“As alleged, the defendant was found in possession of a cache of illegal weapons. These deadly guns, which were recovered in an apartment that she alone owns and occupies, pose an inherent danger to countless nearby residents and the community at large,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said. “My office will continue its relentless pursuit of illegal firearms that put Queens residents in harm’s way. The defendant has been indicted.”
Dorothy Hirsch’s late husband, Glenn Hirsch, was allegedly seen parking in front of the apartment owned by Dorothy immediately after the shooting of Yan.
Hirsch is awaiting an initial hearing in Queens County Supreme Court. If convicted, she faces 15 years in prison. | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/queens/wife-of-suspect-in-queens-delivery-worker-murder-charged-with-illegal-gun-stockpile-da/ | 2022-09-02T21:19:08Z | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/queens/wife-of-suspect-in-queens-delivery-worker-murder-charged-with-illegal-gun-stockpile-da/ | true |
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Cameron Taylor was watching an illegal street race that had attracted hundreds to an intersection in Portland, Oregon, but decided to leave as the crowd got increasingly unruly. Moments later, gunfire erupted and Taylor was hit by a stray bullet as he and a friend headed to their car.
Police, who were overwhelmed with 911 calls about other shootings, couldn’t control multiple street takeovers in the city that night and had trouble finding the victims of three shootings that occurred during the chaos.
“His friend who was with him put him in the car and drove him out to get him to the hospital, but he was not able to make it and that friend called his parents” to say Taylor was dead, family friend Erin Russell told The Associated Press.
Taylor, 20, died Sunday the same day that four high-profile, public shooting rampages in Bend, Oregon, Phoenix, Detroit and Houston drew national headlines. His slaying went largely unnoticed amid the daily toll of gun violence that has come to define Portland and a number of other American cities since the pandemic.
Homicide rates appear to be dropping in some major U.S. cities, such as New York and Chicago, but in others killings are on the rise, particularly from guns. In Portland, the homicide rate surged 207% since 2019 and there have been more than 800 shootings so far this year. In Phoenix, police Chief Jeri Williams said this week the gun violence was the worst she’d seen in 33 years on the job.
“How many more officers have to be shot? How many more community members have to be killed before those in our community take a stand? This is not only a Phoenix police issue, this is a community issue,” she said after a weekend that tallied 17 shootings and 11 homicides citywide.
Now, police are on edge heading into Labor Day weekend, with its traditional end-of-summer festivities, and some are adding extra patrols as they brace for more potential violence.
In Portland, police busy with three killings and nine non-fatal shootings in 48 hours couldn’t control three illegal street races last weekend that attracted hundreds and shut down major intersections for hours. In Houston, the day after a gunman shot five neighbors, killing three, another man shot two sisters before killing himself.
In the past two weeks, authorities in Phoenix have confiscated 711 guns and made 525 gun-related arrests as part of a targeted crackdown. Nearly 90% of homicides there this year were by gun, police said. In Detroit, where a man is accused of shooting three people at random on city streets last weekend, authorities are also cracking down on gun violence in high-crime neighborhoods through Labor Day.
“Let’s stop talking about our inability to respond to crime in the community. Let’s stop advertising to criminals that they’re going to get away with it,” Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said, using an expletive at a City Council meeting this week after police Chief Chuck Lovell once more asked for more officers.
“I think we should stop using the messaging at every turn, that the reason we can’t help our citizens with basic criminal justice issues is because we don’t have the personnel,” Wheeler said. “We’ve got to figure out better ways to address this crisis.”
Last weekend’s rampages — which included a heavily armed assailant who stormed a central Oregon supermarket, random shootings on Detroit streets and a Phoenix man who opened fire while wearing body armor — were shocking and scary, but they aren’t representative of the broader toll gun violence is taking on American society, experts said.
Victims killed in mass shootings make up about 1% of all those killed in gun homicides nationwide, despite headlines that instill fear in many Americans, said James Fox, a professor at Northeastern University who has created a database of mass killings stretching back to 2006 with The Associated Press and USA Today.
All four shootings last weekend didn’t even meet the database’s definition of a mass killing — four or more people, excluding the assailant, killed in a 24-hour period — but they nonetheless sowed fear because of the random nature of the violence, he added.
“Those don’t tend to make news. They don’t tend to scare people because people say, ‘Well, that’s not my family,” Fox said. “We have as many as 20,000 gun homicides a year, and most of those are one victim. Sometimes two, sometimes three, (but) rarely four or more.”
The pandemic and the social unrest it caused has also played a role. Eight million Americans became first-time gun owners between 2019 and 2021, said Jeffrey Butts, director of the research and evaluation center for the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York.
“We already had 400 million guns in circulation. So when you bump that up and include a lot of first-timers in the population, you get accidents, you get precipitous behavior, you get people reacting to small insults and conflicts with their guns because they’re in their pocket now,” he said.
Meanwhile Taylor’s friends and family mourn his death in Portland.
The car aficionado and beloved big brother who loved barbecues and spending time with his family was “at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Russell said.
“He has a lot of friends and a lot of family who love him dearly, and this is a devastating loss.”
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The White House on Friday asked Congress to approve $13.7 billion to address Russia’s continued military invasion of Ukraine as part of a short-term funding bill.
The Biden administration is requesting that Congress authorize $11.7 billion in additional security and economic assistance for Ukraine and $2 billion to help shore up domestic energy supplies to offset impacts of the war on the global energy market.
“We have rallied the world to support the people of Ukraine to defend their democracy and we simply cannot allow that support to Ukraine to run dry,” an administration official told reporters when previewing the request on Friday.
The White House says that the funds are needed to sustain the pace of aid to Ukraine for the first three months of fiscal year 2023, which begins at the start of October. The administration official said roughly three-fourths of the funds Congress has already approved for Ukraine have been spent or obligated.
Congress on a bipartisan basis has approved over $53 billion in security, economic and humanitarian assistance to address Russia’s invasion of Ukraine this year. Biden signed the last package, totaling $40 billion, into law in May. At the time, the White House said it expected those funds to last through the end of the fiscal year.
Congress is expected to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government on a short-term basis to allow lawmakers more time to reach an agreement on a larger funding measure. The administration official noted Friday the duration of the short-term funding bill is up to Congress. It would need to be passed by the time the current fiscal year ends on Sept. 30 in order to prevent a government shutdown.
In addition to more funding for Ukraine, the White House is also asking Congress to authorize billions more in funding for the federal government’s COVID-19 pandemic response, Monkeypox response and disaster relief efforts as part of a continuing resolution.
There is bipartisan support for sending assistance to Ukraine as it grapples with more than six months of attacks from Russia, though it’s possible at least some Republicans will question the latest funding request.
The White House is asking Congress to approve $4.5 billion for military equipment and replenishing Pentagon stockpiles, $2.7 billion in defense and intelligence aid for Ukraine, and $4.5 billion for budgetary support for Ukraine’s government.
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Stocks gave up an early rally and closed lower Friday, marking their third losing week in a row and extending Wall Street's late-summer slump.
Major stock indexes initially climbed broadly following the government's latest job market report, which showed employers slowed their hiring in August. The report put traders in a buying mood, stoking cautious optimism that the Federal Reserve may not need to raise interest rates as aggressively in its ongoing bid to tame inflation.
But the market reversed course by mid-afternoon, shedding all its gains. That left the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average 1.1% lower. The Nasdaq composite fell 1.3%.
“The jobs report today was nice, but it was not enough to obviously sustain the rally,” said Ross Mayfield, investment strategist at Baird. “The bar to clear is ‘does this change the trajectory of the Fed?' And I don’t know that this report is enough to say yes.”
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In recent weeks, the market has wiped out much of the gains it made in July and early August as traders worried that the Fed would not let up anytime soon on raising interest rates to bring down the highest inflation in decades.
The latest jobs data appeared to give traders some hope that a key driver of inflation is cooling. On Friday, the Labor Department reported that the U.S. economy added 315,000 jobs last month, down from 526,000 in July and below the average gain of the previous three months. The unemployment rate also rose to 3.7% from 3.5% in July.
Average hourly pay jumped 5.2% last month from a year earlier, but slowed slightly from July to August. That’s a welcome sign in the inflation fight, as businesses typically pass the cost of higher wages on to their customers through higher prices.
”Today’s jobs report was a step in the right direction, in that the pace of job and wage growth stabilized,” said Matt Peron, director of Research at Janus Henderson Investors. “However, we reiterate our caution that we are not out of the woods just yet, as stubbornly high wage gains could keep the Fed on an aggressive path.”
The Fed has already raised interest rates four times this year and is expected to raise short-term rates by another 0.75 percentage points at its next meeting later this month, according to CME Group. Following the jobs report, expectations for that three-quarter percentage point hike fell to 56% from 75% on Thursday.
Market watchers such as David Kelly, chief global strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, said they still expect the central bank to raise rates later this month by another 0.75 percentage points.
Signs of some slack in the labor market as well as more welcome news on falling gas prices "increase the odds that the economy could gradually return to milder inflation over the course of the next year without falling into recession,” Kelly said.
Stocks entered a skid last week after Chair Jerome Powell said the Fed needs to keep rates elevated enough “for some time” to slow the economy.
“The Fed is not going to be swayed by one or two pieces of data, and they are steadfast about getting inflation down,” Mayfield said. "They need a really broad and long body of evidence before they’re going to pivot because the last thing they want is to quit too early.”
The latest jobs data comes a day after the Labor Department reported unemployment claims fell last week in another sign of a strong job market. It said earlier this week there were two jobs for every unemployed person in July.
The Fed will also get to review upcoming reports on consumer prices and inflation at the wholesale level, among other economic reports, before its next interest rate policy meeting.
Friday's afternoon market reversal followed announcement by Russian state-run energy giant Gazprom that a halt in natural gas supply through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany may be prolonged. The company cited the need for urgent maintenance work on the pipeline. On Wednesday, Gazprom completely halted the flow of gas through the pipeline and said the stoppage would last for three days.
Treasury yields, which have been rising along with expectations for higher interest rates, fell broadly. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences interest rates on mortgages and other loans, slipped to 3.20% from 3.26% late Thursday. The two-year Treasury yield, which tends to track expectations for Fed action, fell to 3.40% from 3.52%.
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In a 24-hour period this week, former President Donald Trump posted to his social media platform, Truth Social, 88 times, amplifying one conspiracy theory after another.
Among his unsupported claims: A retiring FBI agent was behind both the search of his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida on Aug. 8 and the investigation into his campaign’s possible ties to Russia; a forthcoming report will prove widespread corruption against his 2016 campaign; and he should be reinstalled as president because the 2020 election was fraudulent.
“Declare the rightful winner or, and this would be the minimal solution, declare the 2020 Election irreparably compromised and have a new Election, immediately!” he wrote.
Trump has spent more than a decade on social media attacking enemies, cozying up to far-right ideas and sharing false information. He used Twitter to perpetuate the lie that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and later deemed one investigation after another partisan witch hunts.
But, as his legal exposure intensifies over his handling of government documents, the former president this week crossed over to a more direct embrace of claims batted around the dark corners on the internet. His winks and nods to the far right became enthusiastic endorsements, and his flirtations with convoluted conspiratorial ideas became more overt.
He shared a flurry of 61 posts written by Truth Social users, many of whom had ties to QAnon, an online conspiracy movement aligned with the former president. One post included “the storm,” which QAnon followers use to describe the day when the movement’s enemies will be violently punished.
The strategy partly mirrors Trump’s chaotic approach during moments of crisis, searching for a message to ignite supporters while shifting attention away from his controversies. But the posts this week appeared especially haphazard, opening a door to the former president’s thought process even as his legal team tries to craft a cogent defense against the Justice Department’s investigation.
Soon after the FBI search, Trump claimed that he had declassified all the documents in his possession — suggesting that he had known of their existence at Mar-a-Lago. The classification status may prove irrelevant, since some of the charges focus on whether he dodged attempts to recover the documents, regardless of how they had been classified.
The shift also reflected Trump’s embrace of the more conspiracy-theory-driven posts commonly found on Truth Social, which he started using in late April. Trump was barred from Facebook and Twitter in January 2021 for violating rules around inciting violence, losing hundreds of millions of social media followers. Now, unshackled from mainstream rules and decorum, Trump speaks to a much smaller base of supporters — fewer than 4 million followers — using fiery rhetoric and echoing the conspiracy theories, such as QAnon, that remain popular on the platform.
The posts have alarmed disinformation experts, who fear that Trump’s incendiary remarks could further inflame political tensions. After the Mar-a-Lago search, an armed man tried to enter an FBI office and was killed by police.
Tens of millions of Americans believe that the use of force would be justified to restore Trump to the White House, said Robert Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, citing a poll conducted last year.
“You can see how easy it’s going to be for Trump to trigger a lot of these incendiary responses with incendiary posts himself,” Pape said.
A spokesman for Trump, Taylor Budowich, did not respond to a request for comment about Trump’s posts.
Trump is well known for spending hours tuned in to Fox News. Some of his posts in the past week, including his call to be reinstalled as president, have received regular attention on the network.
But his posts suggest that he is increasingly attuned to voices in far-right and fringe publications that are even friendlier to his cause. He shared a polling story from Off the Press, a right-wing news site with only a few hundred social media followers, with the headline: “Michigan Republicans Still Love Trump.” He also shared an article from American Thinker, a conservative site that had posted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that it later retracted, claiming the FBI was “a campaign arm of the Democrat Party.”
Some posts included content found in the dark back channels of the internet, where QAnon conspiracy theorists cling to outlandish ideas about Satan-worshipping Democratic pedophiles and a nationwide cover-up of widespread voter fraud. Trump shared content this week from at least 24 accounts tied to QAnon, according to an analysis by Alex Kaplan, a senior researcher at Media Matters for America, a progressive think tank.
Trump also posted multiple times about Timothy Thibault, an FBI agent who retired this week after more than 20 years at the bureau. Far-right news sites reported that two agents had escorted Thibault off the grounds of the FBI in a dramatic scene that Trump described as having been “perp walked.” Trump also falsely claimed that Thibault had played a central role in the Mar-a-Lago search.
“The fired agent was in charge of the Mar-a-Lago Raid, and the Election investigation,” Trump said on Truth Social. “How’s he doing?”
Thibault’s lawyers said in an emailed statement that the agent had decided to retire a month ago and that he had “walked out of the building by himself.” He was not involved in the Mar-a-Lago search, the lawyers said.
In attacking the FBI, Trump also returned to some familiar themes, like the bureau’s investigation into possible collusion between his 2016 election campaign and Russia. He shared a link to an article from Breitbart, the right-wing news site, which misleadingly suggested that the FBI agents involved in the Russia investigation had been “running” the Mar-a-Lago search. Another Breitbart article that Trump posted claimed, without evidence, that the FBI might have searched Mar-a-Lago for documents that would help prove Russian interference in 2016.
“This is an incredible article — a must-read for all!” Trump wrote.
Trump also shared a post about Ray Epps, a Trump supporter who attended the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and was implicated in a conspiracy theory that the FBI had incited the riot. The post falsely claimed that Epps’ wife worked for a division of Dominion Voting Systems, an election technology company at the center of a series of conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. In fact, her LinkedIn profile showed she worked for Dominion Enterprises, an unrelated marketing services company.
Trump broadcast the idea to his nearly 4 million followers, receiving thousands of likes, shares and comments.
“Is this really true?” he wrote.
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Shooting kills student at school in Baltimore
Published: Sep. 2, 2022 at 5:00 PM EDT|Updated: 6 minutes ago
BALTIMORE (Gray News) - A student was fatally shot Friday at a high school in Maryland, police said.
Baltimore police said they received a report of the shooting at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School shortly after dismissal. A suspect was taken into custody.
Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said school officers chased after the suspect and caught him, also recovering the weapon they believe was used.
The identities of the suspect and the victim have not been released. An official said the suspect was a student from another school, and the shooting happened after an argument just outside the school, commonly known as Mervo High School.
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A Pointe Coupee Parish high school canceled its football game hours before it was scheduled to start Friday after a fight left one student hospitalized.
Livonia High School entered a partial lockdown Thursday morning after a fight broke out among several students in a classroom, according to Pointe Coupee Parish Chief Deputy Brad Joffrion.
The fight led to the hospitalization of one student, Joffrion said.
The school closed Friday at the request of law enforcement as deputies investigated the fight, according to a press release from the parish school board.
The school originally said early Friday afternoon in a Facebook post that the football game against Port Barre High School would be closed to the public. But it issued another post minutes later canceling the game outright.
The investigation remains ongoing, Joffrion said. | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_5d305f6e-2af4-11ed-8bb9-230936deb473.html | 2022-09-02T21:25:08Z | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_5d305f6e-2af4-11ed-8bb9-230936deb473.html | true |
COLUMBIA, Mo., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Outdoor Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ Global Select: AOUT), an industry leading provider of products and accessories for rugged outdoor enthusiasts, today announced that the company will participate in the CL King's Best Ideas Conference (Virtual Event) on Monday, September 12th. The company will also participate in the Lake Street 6th Annual Best Ideas Growth Big 6 Conference in New York City on Wednesday, September 14th. Management is scheduled to meet with investors in one-on-one and group meetings at both events.
American Outdoor Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ Global Select: AOUT) is an industry leading provider of outdoor products and accessories, including hunting, fishing, camping, shooting, and personal security and defense products, for rugged outdoor enthusiasts. The company produces innovative, top quality products under its brands BOG®; BUBBA®; Caldwell®; Crimson Trace®; Frankford Arsenal®; Grilla Grills®; Hooyman®; Imperial®; LaserLyte®; Lockdown®; MEAT!; Old Timer®; Schrade®; Tipton®; Uncle Henry®; ust®; and Wheeler®. For more information about all the brands and products from American Outdoor Brands, Inc., visit www.aob.com.
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, September 2, 2022
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National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
352 PM CDT Fri Sep 2 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Montague, northeastern Wise and southwestern Cooke Counties through
430 PM CDT...
At 352 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Forestburg, or 17 miles east of Bowie, moving south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 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.
Locations impacted include...
Alvord, Sunset and Forestburg.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3364 9765 3357 9738 3329 9739 3340 9786
TIME...MOT...LOC 2052Z 016DEG 13KT 3353 9754
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The Big Bad Wolf is lurking in Albuquerque.
Forgive the fairy tale confusion; more accurately, the villain is a werewolf.
Opera Southwest will stage “Le Loup-garou (The Werewolf)” by composer/poet Louise Bertin on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 9-11. This first production of the opera’s 50th anniversary season will be performed by singers from the Opera Southwest Apprentice Artist Program.
A wolf is terrorizing the villagers and their livestock. Or is it a werewolf? It could be the fiance of a young, orphaned shepherdess. Superstition, class issues and mistaken identity entangle in a celebratory comedy where love ultimately triumphs.
“Le Loup-garou” was one of the first operas written by a woman to be professionally produced. Bertin took its story line from the book of the same name written by Sir Walter Scott. It premiered in 1827 in Paris.
Opera Southwest artistic director and conductor Anthony Barrese discovered the piece after conducting an online search for women composers.
“I had never heard of her,” he said in a telephone interview from Chicago, adding he found the work in a German manuscript. He then discovered a Ph.D. thesis about Louise Bertin.
“She came from a very wealthy family,” Barrese said. “She was what they would call an invalid. She wrote an opera about Victor Hugo’s ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame.’ He wrote the libretto.”
The music to “Le Loup-garou” sounds similar to Barrese’s favorite composer Gioachino Rossini, he said.
“It’s your typical comic opera,” he added. “There are misunderstandings and this village has a werewolf haunting them.”
The dialogue is in English; the music is in French.
“I think it’s the perfect vehicle for young singers,” Barrese said.
“We’ve long tried to produce works that are off the beaten path, he added.
Bertin’s father owned an important newspaper, Journal des débats, that employed a feisty music critic by the name of Hector Berlioz, who would become a lauded Romantic composer. Bertin had a physical disability that affected her ability to walk or stand for periods of time, so her father hired Berlioz to run the rehearsals of her fourth (and final) opera “La Esmeralda.”
Hugo wrote the libretto based on “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
But it engendered fierce backlash from French audiences, who believed that Berlioz must have been the true composer. Bertin also endured criticism for her brother’s connections to the French government’s opera administration. These claims were vehemently denied by Berlioz, Hugo and the Bertin family, but still caused widespread criticism that resulted in riots on the seventh performance of “La Esmeralda.”
Afterwards, the Parisian run of “La Esmeralda” was cancelled and Bertin ended her career as an opera composer in frustration at the age of 31.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A California movie producer pleaded guilty in a prostitution case Thursday, admitting that he conspired to run a business that prosecutors say delivered women to clients across the United States and in England.
Dillon Jordan was permitted to enter the plea remotely and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to operate a prostitution business.
U.S. District Judge John P. Cronan scheduled sentencing for Dec. 12.
A plea deal Jordan signed with prosecutors recommends that he serve between 21 months and 27 months in prison, and pay a fine between $10,000 and $95,000. It also calls for him to forfeit $1.4 million.
Jordan, 50, of Arrowhead Lake, California, was arrested last summer on charges that he used a movie production company as a cover for running a prostitution ring.
Jordan is listed among dozens of producers on films including the 2018 film “The Kindergarten Teacher,” which featured Maggie Gyllenhaal, and the 2019 movie “The Kid,” which starred Ethan Hawke.
An indictment said Jordan, from 2010 through May 2017, kept a roster of women who lived across the U.S. and performed sexual acts for his clients in exchange for money.
It also said he coordinated with a United Kingdom-based madam, sharing and referring customers and prostitutes. The madam was not identified by name in court papers. | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/ap-movie-producer-pleads-guilty-in-prostitution-prosecution/ | 2022-09-02T21:27:33Z | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/ap-movie-producer-pleads-guilty-in-prostitution-prosecution/ | false |
BUFORD, Ga. (AP) — One person was stabbed Friday and an officer shot the suspect at the Mall of Georgia outside Atlanta, police said.
The incident began when a suspected thief began smashing jewelry counters inside the Macy’s store at the mall, authorities said. The suspect then stabbed a store employee who tried to stop him and he fled, police said.
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BUFORD, Ga. (AP) — One person was stabbed Friday and an officer shot the suspect at the Mall of Georgia outside Atlanta, police said.
The incident began when a suspected thief began smashing jewelry counters inside the Macy’s store at the mall, authorities said. The suspect then stabbed a store employee who tried to stop him and he fled, police said.
Gwinnett County Police spotted the suspect as he was fleeing the scene in a grey pickup truck, Sgt. Jennifer Richter, a police spokeswoman, said in a news release. One officer tried to ram the vehicle to stop it and the suspect got out, attempting to run on foot, and an officer fired his weapon, hitting the suspect at least once, she said.
Richter said the victim is hospitalized with severe injuries. The suspect, identified as Jose Reyes-Serrato, 27, of Loganville, was in stable condition, she said.
“Our officers moved decisively to stop the suspect in that moment because this is a high traffic area and Reyes posed an immediate threat to the safety of the public,” she said.
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JACKSON, Miss — President Joe Biden said his administration has offered Mississippi “every single thing available” to address the water crisis that has gripped the state's capital and called on the governor to fix the problems.
“We’ve offered every single thing available to Mississippi. The governor has to act. There’s money to deal with this problem. We’ve given them EPA. We’ve given them everything there is to offer," Biden said late Thursday.
The president was asked whether he would visit Mississippi and said he had no plans to at this point. Biden said he has been talking to folks in Mississippi including the mayor, Democrat Chokwe Antar Lumumba. He did not specifically say whether he had spoken to the governor, Republican Tate Reeves.
Residents in Jackson have long struggled with a faulty water system that frequently requires them to boil their water before using it. They were already under a boil-water order before flooding from the Pearl River exacerbated long-standing problems at one of the city’s two water treatment plants this week, leaving many residents without any water at all.
Reeves declared a state of emergency, the National Guard has been called in and residents have been lining up at water distribution points to get bottled water for drinking and water to flush their toilets. Biden approved an emergency declaration, directing his administration to surge federal assistance to the area.
City figures show that as of Wednesday morning 80% of the water system’s customers had little or no water. It was unclear how many had been substantially restored as of Thursday.
Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Deanne Criswell plans to visit the state Friday. | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-says-mississippi-governor-has-to-act-on-jackson-water-crisis/507-4ba61a1c-57fe-492a-9809-a9706db15bfd | 2022-09-02T21:30:58Z | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-says-mississippi-governor-has-to-act-on-jackson-water-crisis/507-4ba61a1c-57fe-492a-9809-a9706db15bfd | false |
Has Hannah Brown and Adam Woolard's journey together come to an end?
After the Bachelorette star shared a new TikTok where she lip-synced to an audio that said they were done "falling in love with everyone," people began wondering if that was a sign she and Adam has broken up.
"I just want to let everyone know that I'm no longer in my 'falling in love with everyone phase,'" the audio says. "I'm done with that. I only love Jesus now."
Naturally, this led many people to have questions about the reality TV star's current relationship status.
One comment underneath the clip read, "Soooo is she and Adam broken up??"
Hannah, who first appeared on Colton Underwood's season of The Bachelor before starring in The Bachelorette, quickly clarified her intentions by sharing the post and wrote, "Omg no!! Just referencing my time as bachelorette."
Hannah and Adam, a model and meditation/lifestyle coach, first sparked romance rumors in early 2021, and recently moved in together in a Santa Monica apartment.
She captioned the video,"#bacherlorette life update #jesusstilllovesme #jesuslovesyou #bachelor #relationshipadvice."
Hannah and Adam, a model and meditation/lifestyle coach, first sparked romance rumors in early 2021, and recently moved in together in a Santa Monica apartment.
"We plan to use it equally for relaxing by ourselves and for entertaining," she told People in May of there move. "We love throwing dinner parties and get-togethers for our friends and we both wanted our place to be somewhere everyone could gather to celebrate life."
She added, "Creating a community and fellowship is super important to us, so we wanted to have a dining area that could facilitate that." | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1344565/bachelor-nation-s-hannah-brown-addresses-adam-woolard-breakup-speculation | 2022-09-02T21:31:09Z | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1344565/bachelor-nation-s-hannah-brown-addresses-adam-woolard-breakup-speculation | true |
All good things come to an end.
The Good Fight's Christine Baranski, who plays Diane Lockhart on the series, got a taste of this reality when she found out that the Paramount+ legal drama was coming to an end. In an interview with TVLine, the actress revealed she was actually "stunned" to hear the news after just coming from a seemingly normal day on the set.
"By the time I got home, (series co-creators) Robert and Michelle King called me and told me it's going to be the end," she said. "I was stunned. My heart dropped."
The actress added that she "didn't know what was coming."
Baranski admitted that though she's "understanding", she's definitely less than thrilled about the news, noting, "It was a loss of so many things: the consistency of the work; the marvelous group of people that constitute the show; the marvelous writing."
The Emmy winner went on to reveal that there were "several reasons" for the cancellation, including fear of repetition, and the Kings wanting it to end while they could still "control the narrative."
"Robert and Michelle didn't want to learn that the show was being pulled without having the narrative control to bring it to an end. Which can often happen," she said, "find out it's been cancelled and the characters are left dangling without that proper push toward a solid narrative conclusion."
Baranski admitted to having an emotional last moment on the set, especially when she officially heard those final words, "‘That's a series wrap on Christine Baranski."
But we don't have to say goodbye just yet, because the sixth season of The Good Fight premieres on Sept. 8 on Paramount+. | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1344596/christine-baranski-reveals-how-she-really-feels-about-the-good-fight-ending | 2022-09-02T21:31:43Z | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1344596/christine-baranski-reveals-how-she-really-feels-about-the-good-fight-ending | false |
Vinessa Shaw is trading in broomsticks for basketballs.
The actress, who played Allison Watts in the beloved 1993 movie Hocus Pocus, will star in the second season of Apple TV+'s Swagger, according to Variety.
Swagger is inspired by the childhood of 12-time NBA All-Star Kevin Durant and the intense world of youth basketball clubs.
The 46-year-old actress will play Diane, according to the outlet, "the Chairwoman of the Cedar Cove Prep School Board and also the mother of one of the school's basketball players who is very invested in her son's performance on the court."
Swagger stars O'Shea Jackson Jr., Isaiah Hill, Shinelle Azoroh, Quvenzhané Wallis, Caleel Harris and Tristan Mack Wilds, who will all join Shaw in season two.
After her breakthrough role in Hocus Pocus nearly 30 years ago, Shaw appeared in movies like Eyes Wide Shut, alongside Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, and 40 Days and 40 Nights with Josh Hartnett.
In 2014, Shaw also appeared on season two of Ray Donovan alongside Liev Schreiber.
Just because her career has evolved, however, don't think Shaw is eager to shy away from her roots.
In July, she appeared on Today to celebrate Hocus Pocus nostalgia alongside co-stars Omri Katz and Jason Marsden. Shaw shared a few behind-the-scenes photos from the appearance on Instagram alongside a caption that read, in part: "Thanks to @todayshow Extra for reminding us that in a few days it'll be 29 years (!) since the release of #hocuspocus. You guys still love it!"
Despite her love for Hocus Pocus, there do not appear to be plans for Shaw to appear in the upcoming sequel, Hocus Pocus 2, which reunites stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy and Bette Midler.
The second season of Swagger is expected to debut on Apple TV+ in 2023. | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1344618/find-out-which-hocus-pocus-alum-is-joining-the-show-based-on-the-life-of-kevin-durant | 2022-09-02T21:32:47Z | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1344618/find-out-which-hocus-pocus-alum-is-joining-the-show-based-on-the-life-of-kevin-durant | false |
The Ayr Centennials are mourning one of their own.
Eli Palfreyman, captain of the Canadian Junior ice hockey team Ayr Centennials, passed away Aug. 31 after collapsing during a tournament. He was 20.
According to CBC, Palfreyman was in the locker room during the second intermission of a pre-season game when he collapsed. His mother—who is a nurse—reportedly rushed into the locker room as the team's trainer started chest compressions on the athlete.
By the time Palfreyman was placed in an ambulance and taken to a nearby hospital, Brian Shantz, vice president of the Centennials, told CBC that his pulse had become faint. The athlete died shortly after.
"Eli was the wonderful captain that we were looking forward to have," Shantz shared Sept. 1 in a statement to CBC. "As a captain on the ice, nobody took liberties with any of our players or they were going to hear from Eli. The other players respected him for that. They knew that he had their back."
Following Palfreyman's death, his team shared a touching tribute to their leader on social media, alongside a photo of him in his uniform.
"Thank you for the outpouring love and support for our beloved Captain and beautiful young man Eli," the Centennials wrote on Facebook Aug. 31. "Words can not describe how much it means to his family and our Ayr Centennials Family. We are all broken but feel your arms around us."
The National Hockey League also expressed their condolences in a Sept. 1 tweet, writing, "We're heartbroken over the loss of Eli Palfreyman, a captain and member of the hockey community who has left us far too soon. Our thoughts and condolences go out to Eli's family and the entire Ayr Centennials organization during this difficult time. #RIP17." | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1344756/canadian-hockey-player-eli-palfreyman-dead-at-20-after-collapsing-during-tournament | 2022-09-02T21:37:08Z | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1344756/canadian-hockey-player-eli-palfreyman-dead-at-20-after-collapsing-during-tournament | false |
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