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Britain's political turmoil shatters its pragmatic image
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- Portugal
When the United Kingdom walked out of the European Union two years ago, Brexit supporters believed British pragmatism and common sense would not only see them through but also allow their country to flourish as it stood alone.
That self-image was, many felt, part of British exceptionalism, part of the national brand.
Events of the past 12 months, with three British prime ministers occupying No. 10 Downing Street after Liz Truss quit Thursday following just 45 days in office, have shattered that image.
“There is no question that the U.K.'s standing in the world has been severely battered by (Truss's resignation) and by the revolving door of prime ministers,” said Bronwen Maddox, director of the international affairs think tank Chatham House.
“For the U.K. to regain respect — and an image of reliability — it needs to acquire another soon, one who is capable of putting policies into action,” Maddox added.
Years of political turbulence followed the U.K. referendum vote to abandon the other 27 countries in the EU. British politics descended into warring factions, and Truss's transient administration may have been the climax of that turbulent period.
The recent British narrative left some shaking their heads. Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt tweeted after Truss's resignation: “Downhill downhill from Brexit. But tragic tragic for a great nation.” The U.K.'s attempt to redefine itself has gone off course. Far from the Cool Britannia moniker of 25 years ago, the country is now often dubbed Broken Britain.
The next British leader's in-tray includes mending strained diplomatic and economic ties with the EU, its biggest trading partner, as part of a wider effort at restoring government credibility and reliability.
The post-divorce antagonism and quarreling, especially over trade rules and the status of the Northern Ireland border, made the EU deeply wary of Britain.
After Truss quit, EU leaders expressed hope that relations might improve.
“I hope in any case that Great Britain can find stability as rapidly as possible, and move forward,” French President Emmanuel Macron said at an EU summit in Brussels. “It's good for us, and it's good for our Europe.” Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin agreed that a lot is at stake.
“Stability is very important,” he said, “given the fairly significant geopolitical issues facing Europe (like) the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis.” Amid the chaotic scenes at Westminster, Maddox from Chatham House found a grain of optimism. The authority of Parliament and other U.K. bodies, such as the Bank of England, were “reaffirmed” in recent days, she said.
“It might not seem that way to observers around the world but (Truss's) departure marks a victory for the institutions of the U.K,” she said.
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TEMPLE, Texas (FOX 44) -The City of Temple will close the right, eastbound lane on Midway Drive this Friday.
The City says the closure is expected to be in place for approximately three weeks. This comes as part of the ongoing Bird Creek Interceptor Sanitary Sewer project.
Detours will be in place to direct traffic around this closure. Drivers should use caution in the area and pay attention to all traffic control devices.
The City says that as construction progresses, access will be maintained for all residents. Those with questions about this project can contact the City of Temple’s Engineering Department at 254-298-5660. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/bell-county/construction-on-midway-drive-to-cause-closure/ | 2022-10-20T17:06:06 | en | 0.928755 |
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh became a symbol of the country’s troubled infrastructure, collapsing into a ravine earlier this year just before President Joe Biden visited the city.
Biden detoured to survey the scene, where vehicles were stranded on shards of roadway and several people were injured, and he pledged that help was on the way.
The Democratic president hopes to turn the bridge into a symbol of success for his administration when he returns to Pittsburgh on Thursday, less than three weeks before the midterm elections.
A new span is being built, and it could be finished by December. The White House is crediting the bipartisan infrastructure law championed by Biden for the accelerated timeline.
The legislation is one of Biden’s most notable successes from the first two years of his term, and he repeatedly emphasizes its impact while traveling the country to roadways, airplane terminals and seaports. Out of roughly $1 trillion in spending, about $40 billion is dedicated to bridges.
The Biden administration has sought to increase the pace of building infrastructure projects, hosting a summit last week at the White House to help state and local government officials streamline their processes.
The push to speed up the permitting, design and construction process has come as high inflation has pushed up costs and caused delays. The Commerce Department has an initiative to coordinate the installation of water pipes and broadband and power lines to avoid tearing up roads multiple times. Also, the Transportation Department launched an internal center to advise on best practices for construction.
John Fetterman, the Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, is expected to be on hand when Biden visits the Pittsburgh bridge.
Biden, before boarding his helicopter on the White House South Lawn, challenged a reporter who suggested that few Democratic candidates have done events with him ahead of the midterm elections.
“That’s not true,” Biden responded. “There have been 15. Count, kid, count.”
After the bridge, Biden plans to stop in Philadelphia for a fundraiser with Fetterman, trying to replenish coffers that have been drained in one of the year’s most expensive races.
Fetterman is competing with Dr. Mehmet Oz, a Republican, for an open seat being vacated by Sen. Pat Toomey, also a Republican. If Fetterman wins, Democrats will have a much better shot at maintaining control of the Senate.
Biden was born in Pennsylvania, and the state remains central to his political identity.
His trip on Thursday will be his 14th to the state since taking office. A 15th trip has already been scheduled for next week, when he’s expected to return to Philadelphia for another political event.
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Bypoll: Returning Officer replaced
- Country:
- India
The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday replaced the Returning Officer (RO) of bypoll-bound Munugode Assembly constituency in Telangana following a complaint over change in the symbol allotted to a candidate, official sources said.
The Commission, in a communication to the State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) dated October 19, sought an explanation from the RO for changing the symbol 'Road-roller' without having the powers to do so.
''Further, the Commission has taken a serious view of the lapse on the part of RO, 93-Munugode and directs him to explain the circumstances under which he changed his decision of allotting the symbol 'Road-roller' to Sh. K. Shiva Kunar by using non-existent powers under Rule 10 (5) of Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961 and also not following the Commission's directions in the matter,'' the EC's letter to the CEO said.
Meanwhile, ruling TRS working president and State Minister K T Rama Rao condemned the decision of the EC.
In a statement, he alleged that BJP was mounting pressure on the EC.
The bypoll, scheduled for November 3, was due to the resignation of sitting Congress MLA Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy who quit the party and joined the BJP.
The counting of votes would be taken up on November 6.
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KILLEEN, Texas (FOX 44) – The Killeen Police Department and Bell County Crime Stoppers need your help to identify suspects in a bank theft.
It was reported to the department that some individuals have deposited fraudulent checks into individual accounts at the Extraco Banks in Killeen. The suspects then withdraw the money from an ATM.
The department says that the suspects in the pictures below are using other individuals’ personal information to deposit the checks – leaving those individuals with negative bank balances.
If you have any information on these individuals or this incident, you can contact the Bell County Crime Stoppers at 254-526-TIPS (8477), or go online at www.bellcountycrimestoppers.com. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/bell-county/suspects-sought-in-killeen-bank-theft/ | 2022-10-20T17:06:12 | en | 0.885494 |
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh became a symbol of the country’s troubled infrastructure, collapsing into a ravine earlier this year just before President Joe Biden visited the city.
Biden detoured to survey the scene, where vehicles were stranded on shards of roadway and several people were injured, and he pledged that help was on the way.
The Democratic president hopes to turn the bridge into a symbol of success for his administration when he returns to Pittsburgh on Thursday, less than three weeks before the midterm elections.
A new span is being built, and it could be finished by December. The White House is crediting the bipartisan infrastructure law championed by Biden for the accelerated timeline.
The legislation is one of Biden’s most notable successes from the first two years of his term, and he repeatedly emphasizes its impact while traveling the country to roadways, airplane terminals and seaports. Out of roughly $1 trillion in spending, about $40 billion is dedicated to bridges.
“We’ve made tremendous progress,” said Mitch Landrieu, a senior White House adviser tasked with overseeing spending and implementation of the massive infrastructure bill. Landrieu said the funding for the swift repair came in part because of the infrastructure law funding going to the state. “We have actually rebuilt this bridge within a year.”
“The president is standing in the breach and actually demonstrating with historic legislation that he’s passed, that his choices are different and better for the country.”
The Biden administration has sought to increase the pace of building infrastructure projects, hosting a summit last week at the White House to help state and local government officials streamline their processes.
The push to speed up the permitting, design and construction process has come as high inflation has pushed up costs and caused delays. The Commerce Department has an initiative to coordinate the installation of water pipes and broadband and power lines to avoid tearing up roads multiple times. Also, the Transportation Department launched an internal center to advise on best practices for construction.
John Fetterman, the Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, is expected to be on hand when Biden visits the Pittsburgh bridge.
Biden, before boarding his helicopter on the White House South Lawn, challenged a reporter who suggested that few Democratic candidates have done events with him ahead of the midterm elections.
“That’s not true,” Biden responded. “There have been 15. Count, kid, count.”
After the bridge, Biden plans to stop in Philadelphia for a fundraiser with Fetterman, trying to replenish coffers that have been drained in one of the year’s most expensive races.
Fetterman is competing with Dr. Mehmet Oz, a Republican, for an open seat being vacated by Sen. Pat Toomey, also a Republican. If Fetterman wins, Democrats will have a much better shot at maintaining control of the Senate.
Biden was born in Pennsylvania, and the state remains central to his political identity.
His trip on Thursday will be his 14th to the state since taking office. A 15th trip has already been scheduled for next week, when he’s expected to return to Philadelphia for another political event.
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TORONTO (AP) — A judge sentenced Jacob Hoggard, the front man for the Canadian band Hedley, to five years in prison on Thursday after he was found guilty earlier this year of sexually assaulting an Ottawa woman.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Gillian Roberts said she accepted the woman’s testimony in its entirety.
The 2016 sexual assault took place in a Toronto hotel room and the Ottawa woman told Hoggard’s sentencing hearing that what happened will haunt her for the rest of her life.
The woman, who was in her early 20s at the time, said Hoggard choked her so hard she thought she was going to die. She testified the sexual assault lasted for hours.
Hoggard had also been charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm in the case of a teenage fan, as well as sexual interference involving that complainant, but was found not guilty.
The 38-year-old had pleaded not guilty to all charges.
A jury deliberated for six days and twice found itself deadlocked on “some counts” before finding Hoggard guilty in June of sexual assault causing bodily harm in the Ottawa woman’s case.
Hoggard said at trial that he had consensual, “passionate” sex with both complainants.
He denied choking the Ottawa woman, but said the other elements described, such as spitting and slapping were among his sexual preferences – and could have happened.
At a sentencing hearing earlier this month, the Ottawa woman told court the incident left her paralyzed with fear and despair for months.
The woman, who cannot be named due to a standard publication ban, said the sexual assault robbed her of her confidence, her dreams and altered her life.
“I was never the same after that day,” she said. “A part of me died that day that I will never get back.”
Hoggard’s band, Hedley, rose to fame in Canada after he came in third on the reality show “Canadian Idol” in 2004.
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Narayanasamy greets new AICC president
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- India
Senior Congress leader V Narayanasamy on Thursday greeted the newly elected AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge. He told media at his residence here that with the guidance of the former president of the party Sonia Gandhi and also of Rahul Gandhi the new president of the party would function as the leader of the party.
''Kharge has rich experience in the party and has two important challenges before him now-unifying the party and to meet the challenges posed by the Bharatiya Janata party,'' the former Chief Minister of Puducherry said.
Narayanasamy had conveyed his wishes over phone to Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday on his election to the top post in the party.
Reiterating his stand that Lt Governor Tamilisai Soundararjan has no powers or authority to hold `open house` to receive the petitions from the public`, Narayanasamy said, ''a Lt Governor could not function independently and arbitrarily when there is an elected government. This was very clearly pointed out by the Madras High Court in a case relating to the powers of Lt Governor versus government.'' PTI COR ROH ROH
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(NEXSTAR) – The Climate Prediction Center’s official winter forecast has been released, and it splits the country in two: hot and dry down south, and a mystery up north.
The 90-day-outlook was published Thursday morning by the Climate Prediction Center, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service. It gives people a rough idea of what November, December and January will look like across the country.
The forecast is heavily influenced by the presence of La Niña, which forecasters recently said was 75% likely to stick around through the winter months.
La Niña tends to split the country in half, bringing a dry winter to the southern half and a wetter winter to the northern half.
You can see that pattern in the forecast map released Thursday (below): A band of dry conditions is expected from coast-to-coast, impacting the entire southern half of the U.S.
While La Niña looks like it will bring bad news to the already drought-plagued southwest this winter, it’s a different story in the Pacific Northwest. La Niña winters tend to bring more precipitation, not less, to the region.
The rest of the country is a bit of a mystery. Every state shown in white on the map above has equal chances of having above average precipitation and below average precipitation.
When it comes to temperature, it’s looking like it will be a warm winter this year for many states, according to the new NOAA outlook. The West, South and Northeast all have a good chance of above-average warmth between November and January.
The hottest conditions are expected in the southwest (Arizona, New Mexico and Texas).
If forecasters’ predictions hold true, and La Niña sticks around through January, it’ll be the third La Niña winter in a row – a rare phenomenon we’ve only seen twice since 1950. However, new research suggests recurring La Niña years are growing more common due to climate change. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/local/weather/noaa-releases-winter-weather-outlook-how-la-nina-will-impact-your-state/ | 2022-10-20T17:06:18 | en | 0.946223 |
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TORONTO (AP) — A judge sentenced Jacob Hoggard, the front man for the Canadian band Hedley, to five years in prison for the sexual assault of an Ottawa woman, in what the presiding judge called a “particularly degrading rape.”
Ontario Superior Court Justice Gillian Roberts said she accepted the woman’s testimony in its entirety and said it involved “gratuitous degradation” and “gratuitous violence.”
The 2016 sexual assault took place in a Toronto hotel room and the Ottawa woman told Hoggard’s sentencing hearing that what happened will haunt her for the rest of her life.
The woman, who was in her early 20s at the time, said Hoggard choked her so hard she thought she was going to die. She testified the sexual assault lasted for hours.
Hoggard had also been charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm in the case of a teenage fan, as well as sexual interference involving that complainant, but was found not guilty.
The 38-year-old had pleaded not guilty to all charges.
A jury deliberated for six days and twice found itself deadlocked on “some counts” before finding Hoggard guilty in June of sexual assault causing bodily harm in the Ottawa woman’s case.
Hoggard said at trial that he had consensual, “passionate” sex with both complainants.
He denied choking the Ottawa woman, but said the other elements described, such as spitting and slapping were among his sexual preferences – and could have happened.
At a sentencing hearing earlier this month, the Ottawa woman told court the incident left her paralyzed with fear and despair for months.
The woman, who cannot be named due to a standard publication ban, said the sexual assault robbed her of her confidence, her dreams and altered her life.
“I was never the same after that day,” she said. “A part of me died that day that I will never get back.”
Hoggard’s band, Hedley, rose to fame in Canada after he came in third on the reality show “Canadian Idol” in 2004.
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WACO, Texas (FOX 44) – A locally-made horror film is having its big premiere just in time for the Halloween season!
Chad Pack tells FOX 44 News that Uncle Stan is his first movie to write and direct. Jesse Prince, Jr. also took part in writing the film. This is also the first film his director of photography has been involved with. Uncle Stan is 23 minutes long – officially classifying it as an Indie Horror short film.
Pack says an all-local cast and crew was used – who have either worked on films before or were heavily involved in theatre. Everything was filmed around the Robinson and Hallsburg areas.
The film is set to make its big premiere at The Backyard Bar, Stage and Grill on Thursday night. This event will last from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m., and will include a meet-and-greet with cast and crew, pictures, networking – and of course the showing of the film at 8 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Pack says he also plans to enter Uncle Stan into numerous film festivals. You can watch the teaser trailer below. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/mclennan-county/local-filmmakers-to-premiere-horror-movie-at-the-backyard/ | 2022-10-20T17:06:25 | en | 0.986667 |
Little-known Penny Mordaunt ready to run again for Britain's top job
When Liz Truss was asked to come to parliament to explain the sacking of her good friend and finance minister, she sent Penny Mordaunt in her place, offering her potential successor a primetime opportunity to flex her political muscle.
In what only underlined the dwindling fortunes of Truss, Mordaunt took the lead role on Monday to explain why her boss had sacked Kwasi Kwarteng and replaced him with former health minister Jeremy Hunt who ripped up much of her economic plan. "The prime minister is not under a desk," Mordaunt said in parliament, keeping a straight-face despite the jeers and laughter from the opposition Labour Party facing her.
"I can assure the House (of Commons) that ... with regret, she is not here for a very good reason." In a speech praised by some of her colleagues as showing the necessary mettle to be a strong prime minister, Mordaunt calmly batted away the mocking of the Labour Party, including its leader Keir Starmer who said: "I guess under this Tory government, everybody gets to be prime minister for 15 minutes."
A Royal Navy reservist, Mordaunt, 49, has navigated the tenures of the four prime ministers she's served under, keeping her distance from Boris Johnson's scandal-ridden time in power and staying in cabinet under Theresa May to make her support for Brexit felt. Under Truss, she was appointed leader of the House of Commons, a role which also by chance gave her a higher profile job as 'Lord President of the Privy Council' - meaning she presided over the formal announcement of Queen Elizabeth's death and the proclamation of the new King Charles.
Mordaunt now has her second chance to run for the top job, after just missing out on the final two in the contest to become the leader of the ruling Conservative Party earlier this year. That race saw Truss defeat former finance minister Rishi Sunak. Then, Mordaunt promised to rely more on her cabinet team of top ministers, breaking with what some Conservatives felt became the "Boris show" in Number 10 Downing Street under Johnson.
She also promoted her patriotism, talking about her memories of the Falkland's conflict that helped to define former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. "Recently, I think we've lost a sense of ourselves," she told supporters at her first leadership launch on July 13.
SPLASH Largely unknown outside Westminster prior to taking an early opinion poll lead among Conservative Party members earlier this year, the public might have first seen Mordaunt on the reality TV show Splash! in 2014, where celebrities learnt to dive. She performed a belly flop.
She also peppered a speech in parliament the year before with the word "cock" as part of a bet with her friends, much to the delight of other lawmakers. But earlier this year, as she became tipped to replace Johnson, Mordaunt was soon the target of criticism in the media and from some of her colleagues.
Former Brexit negotiator David Frost said Mordaunt did not "master detail" and the Daily Mail quoted an unnamed minister as saying "she's lazy". A source from her campaign responded to Frost's remarks by saying: "Penny has nothing but respect for Lord Frost."
But a tweet on Mordaunt's account, swiftly deleted by her team, was published the day of the vote saying that any Conservative lawmaker voting for Sunak or Truss would "murder the party you love", undermining her pledge to campaign cleanly. Mordaunt was born in Devon in the southwest of England in 1973, the daughter of a soldier and a teacher.
The family moved to Portsmouth when she was young and she has recalled watching soldiers in ships set off to fight for the Falklands: "It taught me that my country stands up to bullies." She lost her mother to breast cancer at 15, taking on the role of helping two brothers, while her father was also diagnosed with cancer the following year.
"It was pretty relentless in terms of stresses and losing a parent, you're trying to deal with all of that and study, run a house, look after two brothers," she told the Sunday Times in 2019. After finishing school, Mordaunt worked in a Romanian orphanage after the country's 1989 revolution, which she cites for prompting an interest in politics, and at university, she covered some of her costs by working as a magician's assistant.
Early jobs included working as a press officer for former Conservative leader William Hague and as head of foreign press for George W. Bush's successful 2000 U.S. presidential campaign. Mordaunt was elected to parliament in 2010 for Portsmouth North and swiftly became a minister. Her first post came as a local government minister in 2014, followed by armed forces minister and disabilities minister.
She joined May’s cabinet in 2017 as international development minister but a stint as defence secretary lasted just 85 days, when she was sacked by Johnson, reportedly for backing Hunt in his leadership campaign. Johnson eventually brought Mordaunt back into government in February 2020. Truss appointed Mordaunt as the leader of the House of Commons, charged with setting out the government business with her no-nonsense attitude gaining admirers.
"She has broad appeal," one veteran Conservative said early in the campaign, referring to Mordaunt's ability to find friends in the various tribes of the Conservative Party, whether they are eurosceptics or so-called one-nation Conservatives. But her understated approach can cause problems. Some of her allies say she is too slow to take credit for her achievements, while others say she is too far to the left of the party.
But Mordaunt's team was convinced earlier this year that only she could beat Labour at the next national election. "Not every candidate would win an election, but time and time again the polls show that Penny is the candidate Labour fear the most," one campaign source said.
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TORONTO (AP) — A judge sentenced Jacob Hoggard, the front man for the Canadian band Hedley, to five years in prison for the sexual assault of an Ottawa woman, in what the presiding judge called a “particularly degrading rape.”
Ontario Superior Court Justice Gillian Roberts said she accepted the woman’s testimony in its entirety and said it involved “gratuitous degradation” and “gratuitous violence.”
The 2016 sexual assault took place in a Toronto hotel room and the Ottawa woman told Hoggard’s sentencing hearing that what happened will haunt her for the rest of her life.
The woman, who was in her early 20s at the time, said Hoggard choked her so hard she thought she was going to die. She testified the sexual assault lasted for hours.
Hoggard had also been charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm in the case of a teenage fan, as well as sexual interference involving that complainant, but was found not guilty.
The 38-year-old had pleaded not guilty to all charges.
A jury deliberated for six days and twice found itself deadlocked on “some counts” before finding Hoggard guilty in June of sexual assault causing bodily harm in the Ottawa woman’s case.
Hoggard said at trial that he had consensual, “passionate” sex with both complainants.
He denied choking the Ottawa woman, but said the other elements described, such as spitting and slapping were among his sexual preferences – and could have happened.
At a sentencing hearing earlier this month, the Ottawa woman told court the incident left her paralyzed with fear and despair for months.
The woman, who cannot be named due to a standard publication ban, said the sexual assault robbed her of her confidence, her dreams and altered her life.
“I was never the same after that day,” she said. “A part of me died that day that I will never get back.”
Hoggard’s band, Hedley, rose to fame in Canada after he came in third on the reality show “Canadian Idol” in 2004.
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Robinson, Tx (FOX44) – A bizarre robbery involving shots fired from a handgun and the brandishing of a machete led to the arrest of two men in Robinson on Wednesday night.
A Robinson Police Department spokesman said the incident occurred about 9:55 p.m. in the 800 block of East Rocket Road as two men arrived to try to get a set of tools from a car at a worksite where remodeling work was being done. When they arrived, they found the lock on a gate was changed and they were unable to get in.
While there, they were approached by two men – one of them displayed a handgun and fired shots, while the other was reported to have been swinging a machete.
The victims were not hit and fled in their vehicle, though police said the car suffered damage from being struck by the machete.
A wallet and cash were taken from the victims. The victims fled to safety without being hurt and called police.
Following their investigation, officers found and detained two men – one of whom was the former employer of one of the victims. Police recovered the stolen property, along with a handgun and a machete.
23-year-old Bayron Colindres and 38-year-old Hector David Reyes are both charged with Robbery. Both were transported to the McLennan County Jail, where they remained on Thursday morning. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/mclennan-county/robinson-robbery-with-gun-and-machete-2-arrested/ | 2022-10-20T17:06:32 | en | 0.99275 |
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Contenders in UK leadership race need 100 nominations
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Candidates competing to become Britain's next prime minister will need the backing of 100 Conservative Party lawmakers to get on the ballot on Monday, organisers said.
If two candidates emerge, they will go to an online vote of members of the wider Conservative Party, with the winner declared by next Friday.
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A former director at Planned Parenthood is suing the reproductive rights organization alleging she faced months of racial discrimination during her time there.
Nicole Moore, a Black woman, was the director of multicultural brand engagement from January 2020 to November 2021. She claims in a lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday in New York that despite her positive contributions to the team, she was constantly humiliated in front of colleagues, given excessive workloads and punished for bringing attention to racism within the company.
"While Planned Parenthood has publicly boasted its commitment to racial equality, the organization – whose tagline is "Care. No matter what" – has blatantly ignored reports by dozens of its Black employees of systemic unequal hiring and promotion, more work for lower pay, overt hostility, and trafficking in stereotypes by leadership," the complaint says.
According to the complaint, Moore's team leader, a white Latina woman, constantly shut down her ideas about engaging with communities of color. For instance, when Moore suggested speaking at a convention for the Black Girls Rock organization, her boss yelled at her in front of about 10 other colleagues that she needed to "listen more" and "remain quiet and observe."
Moore also alleges she suggested Planned Parenthood begin recognizing Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, but was told she needed to stick with campaigns geared toward Black and Latinx communities. Though, the idea was praised months later when brought up by a white colleague, the complaint says.
Susan Manning, the interim general counsel for Planned Parenthood, wrote in an email to NPR that "we strongly dispute the plaintiff's allegations against the organization and categorically deny her claims of discrimination."
"Our staff is at the core of who we are and we work everyday to ensure a safe and welcoming environment," Manning wrote. "Planned Parenthood will vigorously defend against this suit, and welcomes the opportunity to share the complete picture."
Coworkers across the organization also knew and recognized the team leader's alleged pattern of racism, the complaint says. The company also faced similar allegations in 2020 when BuzzFeed reporter Ema O'Connor interviewed several Black employees.
The woman Moore directly reported to, Ilana Gamza, who also reported to the team leader, wrote a declaration of support for Moore in July, saying their boss "consistently positioned herself against Moore from the start, treating her with open contempt, treating her ideas with unfounded suspicion and creating a series of obstacles designed to hinder her success."
Gamza was fired from the company after their team leader asked Gamza to put Moore on a performance improvement plan and she refused, the complaint says. Gamza, a Jewish woman, has filed her own discrimination lawsuit against the company alleging antisemitism.
Moore's lawyers say she spoke with the human resources department and others within the company about what she was experiencing and was met with inaction and retaliation.
Planned Parenthood began threatening Moore with termination when she spoke up about being assigned campaigns for 11 national observances, when the norm was each director typically did one or two, according to the lawsuit.
Moore was also assigned all the observances geared toward Black people, including Black History Month, Black Maternal Week and Juneteenth.
"I'm not sure how this observance work was divided up in the first place and would like clarity about that," she said in correspondence to a colleague, according to the lawsuit. "I don't think that just because I'm Black I should be responsible for owning all of the Black observances. That is tokenizing."
About two weeks later, on Sep. 8, 2021, company executives met with her to give her a final written warning and "an exorbitant set of tasks" to complete in 30 days if she wanted to keep her job. Ultimately, she was fired in October after she wrote a rebuttal to the warning saying she felt she was being punished for pointing out biases, the lawsuit claims.
"Moore remains a stalwart defender of reproductive justice. But the threat of relentless attacks from anti-abortion zealots and lawmakers does not absolve Planned Parenthood of the trauma it is perpetuating within its own organization," the complaint says.
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By TERRY TANG
Associated Press
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — If not for the coronavirus pandemic, Feng-Feng Yeh might never have learned about a lesser-known chapter of Chinese American history in her hometown of Tucson, Arizona.
Yeh was an executive chef in New York City when the shutdown took away her job and career plans. She pulled up stakes and moved back home, turning instead to her passion for public art.
Looking for inspiration, Yeh delved into the local history of Chinese immigrants, which she’d heard only bits and pieces of all her life. On the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center website, she learned that Chinese-owned mom-and-pop grocery stores were a thriving industry in Tucson from the 1900s on.
More than businesses, they were lifelines for Mexican American communities. The stores even started preparing Mexican chorizo — the spicy, ground-pork breakfast staple. It earned the nickname “Chinese chorizo.”
“I was very moved by the story of allyship between Mexican and Chinese Americans at a time when all these pivotal immigration policies were being enacted that were quite racist,” Yeh said. “I thought that was something that you don’t learn in school, especially in Arizona. I thought it was something that should be recognized and shared.”
Chinese immigrants settling in Arizona were doing so in the shadow of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, the U.S. government’s first race-based immigration policy. Both Chinese and Mexican immigrants faced racism despite being instrumental to the workforce.
It’s a history that older Tucson Chinese residents say they have spent years trying to make more visible.
Yeh proposed erecting an 11-foot (3.4 meters) tall sculpture of two chorizo sausage links, and recently won a grant through the Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art and the Andy Warhol Foundation. To promote the endeavor, she organized the inaugural Tucson Chinese Chorizo Festival. For the month of October, several local restaurants and food trucks have been serving weekend specials with meat and vegan chorizo.
Even many locals are unaware of Tucson’s significant Chinese presence.
The 15,000-square-foot Tucson Chinese Cultural Center is a bustling hub that’s part community center and part museum, and serves at least 5,000. Established in 2005, it has a multipurpose room, commercial kitchen, classrooms, and a lounge with tables for mahjong. On the walls are display boards with mini-profiles of long-gone Chinese grocery stores. The center also has a YouTube channel that includes a 2014 video on Chinese chorizo.
“A lot of people don’t know we exist after 17 years. So, we’ve been trying to get the word out,” said Susan Chan, the center’s executive director.
Starting in 1900, Chinese-owned grocery stores prospered and became an economic force in Tucson. By the 1940s, there were 130 families running a little over 100 grocery stores in the city. The number of stores dwindled in the ‘70s and ’80s due to an influx of supermarket chains, convenience stores, and a younger generation of Chinese Americans uninterested in the family business.
Allen Lew’s father, Joe Wee Lew, opened his first of three stores, Joe’s Super Market, in 1955. Lew began working in the market as a fourth grader. He still helped out until the last store closed after three decades in business.
He and his four siblings grew up serving Mexican and Native American customers. Everyone felt like they “were all a big neighborhood family.” In a pre-food stamp era, many Chinese grocers would let struggling customers pay whenever.
“A lot of them get paid like once a month, every two weeks, and they ran out of money,” Lew recalled. “They’ll tell my Dad or the other Chinese (grocers), ’Can you give me credit?… We give them credit — no charge, no interest, no nothing.”
Lew, 74 and a longtime board member of the center, remembers watching his father or the Hispanic butcher he employed making chorizo. They used the end pieces of “big rolls of bologna” or salami, boiled ham or other cold cuts.
“The butcher would cut off the fats and things that were part of the meat that were kind of bad. He would take that out and then you threw organ meats and all that and you make it just like hotdogs,” Lew said.
For the festival, Chinese-made chorizo is being celebrated with inventive dishes trying to fuse Chinese and Mexican cultures. At Mexican restaurant BOCA, for instance, chef and James Beard Award semi-finalist Maria Mazon made vegan and regular chorizo eggrolls with a carrot and papaya slaw topped with a fried egg.
Breakfast/brunch hot spot 5 Points came up with Tamal Niangao — charred, sticky masa cakes with chorizo, green onion, Napa cabbage and chilies in a soy maggi glaze. Jicama, cilantro and two poached eggs are then piled on.
The 500-plus pounds of meat and plant-based chorizo given to restaurants for the festival was made at a local butcher, Forbes Meat Company. Yeh devised the vegan recipe. She invited Jackie Tran, a Tucson food writer and owner of Tran’s Fats food truck, to work on the pork one.
“It was definitely something that fascinated” him, said Tran, who is of Chinese and Vietnamese descent. But he definitely didn’t throw in odds and ends. And he added dashes of spices like Sichuan pepper, coriander seed and Chinese five-spice powder.
For the sculpture, Yeh is partnering with Carlos Valenzuela, a Mexican and indigenous artist born in Tucson. Valenzuela will make the red mosaic tiles for the piece. His grandfather had a running account with a local Chinese grocery store. It didn’t occur to him at first that his involvement was a nice full-circle development.
“I just went into it thinking, ‘Wow, this is a really unique project, really an opportunity to talk about that history that hardly ever gets talked about,’” Valenzuela said.
If the idea of a balloon-animal-esque chorizo sculpture elicits a laugh, that’s the way Yeh wants it.
“I think it’s eye-catching for tourists to come and recognize that this town is a town that was heavily influenced by Chinese culture, which I don’t think a lot of people know,” said Yeh, who still needs more funds for the sculpture.
What does Lew, the son of a Chinese grocer, think about a chorizo sculpture?
“That’s great,” Lew said. “I was surprised because I think when you grow up and you’ve done something all your life here, you don’t think it’s a big thing. So, you don’t promote it. But someone outside thinks, ‘This is different. This is neat.’”
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BULLOCH COUNTY, Ga. (WSAV) – A college student in Georgia died after being hit by a plane propeller on Sunday night.
Sani Aliyu, 21, had disembarked from a single-engine Cessna 172 after landing at the Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport and began walking toward the front of the plane when he was struck by the propeller, according to Bulloch County Coroner Jake Futch.
The victim had been returning from a trip with three others, a spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The FAA did not release any information on the identity of the passengers.
Aliyu, a student at Georgia Southern University, was originally from Nigeria, Futch said.
Georgia Southern University released a statement following news of Aliyu’s death, and confirmed that counseling will be available for students who need it.
“We were deeply saddened to hear about the tragic incident that involved one of our students Sunday night,” said Dr. Aileen C. Dowell, the Associate Vice President and Dean of Students at the university. “I have already been in touch with his family and professors and we have mobilized all available resources to provide counseling and any other assistance the university can give.”
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By SEAN MURPHY
Associated Press
ADA, Okla. (AP) — Many of the 39 Native American tribes based in Oklahoma have played roles in state politics for decades, often behind the scenes. They became bigger, more outspoken players when voters approved Las Vegas-style gambling in 2004. The budgets of several major tribes ballooned with casino revenue.
This year, in their most forceful political move yet, they are wielding their considerable influence to oppose a second term for Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, himself a Cherokee citizen, who is facing a tough reelection challenge after feuding with the tribes for nearly his entire first term.
With the election just weeks away, five of the state’s most powerful tribes jointly endorsed Stitt’s Democratic opponent, Joy Hofmeister, the state’s public schools superintendent who has promised a more cooperative relationship with the tribal nations. It’s the first time in modern history that the tribes, which often have unique or competing interests, have weighed in on a governor’s race in such a public way.
“I don’t know that I’ve ever seen (the tribes) more active than they are today,” said Pat McFerron, a longtime Oklahoma GOP political consultant and pollster. “I think they might have flown under the radar a little bit more before.”
The effect is an unexpectedly tight race in a deep-red state that is typically an afterthought in national politics. Reflecting concerns about Stitt’s vulnerability, the super PAC for the Republican Governors Association released an ad late in the campaign tying Hofmeister to President Joe Biden and rising gas prices.
Stitt’s feud with the tribes began during his first year in office when he unsuccessfully attempted to renegotiate the state’s gambling compact with the tribes. His administration then sought to overturn a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on tribal sovereignty in 2020 and drew the ire of the tribes again last year when he terminated hunting and fishing compacts between the state and tribes.
“He seems to have enjoyed this fight, relishes it and points to it as a badge of honor,” McFerron said. “It’s almost like he’s taunting them.”
The animosity between Stitt and the tribes has spilled into public view as the midterm elections draw closer. Tribal leaders have publicly assailed the governor, public meetings about law enforcement in Indian Country have turned ugly and Stitt has faced an onslaught of dark-money attack ads.
“Any governor that postures and attempts dominion of tribes is detrimental to the tribes and the state,” said Muscogee Nation Principal Chief David Hill.
Stitt, a multimillionaire mortgage company owner and political newcomer when he ran four years ago, has been dogged by scandals in his administration, including a sweetheart deal given to a barbecue restaurant owner that resulted in a criminal probe, improper spending of coronavirus relief funds intended for education and $2 million spent on malaria drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic that doctors had warned shouldn’t be used to treat the virus without more testing.
Stitt also has touted new laws outlawing abortion, even in cases of rape or incest, and targeting medical treatment for transgender children, both of which have turned away some moderate Republicans and independents.
For his part, Stitt says he hopes that if he’s elected to a second term, he will have improved relations with Native American tribes. Yet he insists that the Supreme Court ruling expanding tribal sovereignty has been detrimental to the state.
“I’ve told people I will not go down in history as the governor that gives my state away,” Stitt said. “A lot of people want to paint this as an anti-Indian thing. This is not. This is a pro-Oklahoma thing.”
In the leadup to the election, several nonprofit groups that focus on registering and engaging Native American voters say they’ve never seen this level of enthusiasm among Indian voters in statewide politics.
At a recent voter registration event at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, home of the Chickasaw Nation, a steady stream of students, many of them Native American, signed up to register to vote at an event hosted in part by Rock the Native Vote. That’s a nonprofit sponsored by the Indian Methodist Church of Oklahoma that was formed in 2002. In the parking lot were cars with tribal license plates from Cherokee, Chickasaw, Comanche, Kiowa and Otoe-Missouria tribes.
“Our goal is to get people registered, and more importantly, the Native voters within our state,” said 19-year-old Devon Rain Potter, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation who was helping run a registration booth. “Once we get Native voters to show up to the polls, we can get a lot of things done.”
According to the most recent U.S. Census data, Oklahoma has one of the highest percentages of Native American citizens at nearly 10% of the state’s population. An additional 6.6% identify as being two or more races. That’s easily enough to tip the scales in a closely contested statewide race.
And it’s not just Oklahoma where Native voters are being courted and urged to turn out. The Native Organizers Alliance is targeting Indigenous voters in states across the country, including swing states with large Native American populations like Arizona, said Judith LeBlanc, the group’s executive director.
Even in deep-red Texas, which has seen an increase in the American Indian population over the past 10 years, the group Democracy is Indigenous DFW drew dozens to a meet-and-greet with candidates, including Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke, who is challenging incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. The goal of the nonpartisan group is to increase voter engagement in the American Indian and Indigenous population in Texas.
“We are doing a wholehearted voter registration campaign,” LeBlanc said. “I believe in Oklahoma we can make a difference.”
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'Green place of worship' award goes to temple
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Laxmi Narasimha Swamy Temple in Yadagirigutta, a town in Telangana, has been awarded the "Green Place of Worship" by the Indian Green Building Council for the years 2022 to 2025 for having complied the required norms.
A press release from the Yadagirigutta Temple Development Authority said preservation of the 13th century Swayambhu Temple ( self-manifested) deity untouched in cave and extensive greenery of more than 40 per cent of the total area to address the "Heat Island Effect" are among the norms that the temple followed.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (also known as KCR), in a statement, expressed happiness over the temple getting the award.
KCR prayed that the blessings of Lord Yadagiri Pancha Laxmi Narasimha Swamy would be showered on the people.
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During Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2018, writer Gabrielle Blair was watching — and going "absolutely bonkers, just hearing man after man grandstanding about abortion."
"It's so clear to me they don't understand the issue," Blair told NPR. "They don't understand that real people are going to be affected by this, that it affects both wanted and unwanted pregnancies like that. They just don't really understand what's happening here and they're just using this as a political tool."
I’m a mother of six, and a Mormon. I have a good understanding of arguments surrounding abortion, religious and otherwise. I've been listening to men grandstand about women's reproductive rights, and I'm convinced men actually have zero interest in stopping abortion. Here's why…
— Gabrielle Blair (@designmom) September 13, 2018
Venting her frustration on Twitter, Blair described herself as "a mother of six, and a Mormon." In a thread that quickly would go viral, Blair explained why she was "convinced men actually have zero interest in stopping abortion."
Blair unpacks that argument further in her new book, Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion, out this week from Workman Publishing.
This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
Sarah McCammon: I'm sitting at this coffee shop; your book is on the table next to me. I'm not getting any looks yet, but let's start with that [title, Ejaculate Responsibly]. Why is it called that?
Gabrielle Blair: It's a bit of a prescription and it's also an argument...It's called that because I'm trying to shift the conversation about abortion away from controlling women's bodies and legislating women's bodies, and instead focus on the fact that men are not held accountable for causing unwanted pregnancies.
SM: You describe yourself as a Mormon mother of six on Twitter. Can you tell me why you choose to highlight that? Do you think people are surprised to hear a "Mormon mom" making this pitch?
GB: I'm both pro-choice and Mormon, and I'm comfortable identifying with both of those. But I know people make assumptions about me. If I mention that I'm a Mormon, if I mention that I have six kids — which I do — I know that people will be more likely to listen to me that might have differing political opinions ...even though they may not agree with me politically.
SM: How do people who disagree with you, and maybe are a bit more conservative than you, tend to respond to your perspective?
GB: Very positively. Because the reality is, what are they going to argue against? They want men to ejaculate irresponsibly? Who's going to argue for that? So as I walk them through and describe like, hey — we know how to reduce abortions. This is how it works. And we could do a lot better if we were focusing on men understanding that they are causing these pregnancies. That sperm causes pregnancy. That ejaculation is voluntary, while ovulation is involuntary. We could do a lot better. And if you're sincerely interested in reducing abortion...there is nothing in this book that you wouldn't be cheering about.
SM: There is a certain type of rhetoric on the left that says we should not stigmatize abortion, we should not talk about making it "rare." How do you think about that?
GB: I'm pro-choice. I think women that want or need an abortion should be able to get one whenever they want or need one. But I can also say I've gone through six pregnancies and I found pregnancy extremely difficult. And I'm saying that as someone who had a "normal," typical pregnancy with nothing unusual that happened. I still found it very difficult. And I found the first trimester especially difficult. And so if I could reduce abortions...I would do that, simply because it could prevent women from experiencing this very difficult thing that they didn't want to experience in the first place, that they didn't choose to experience. And so while I'm not worried about abortion numbers, for me, if abortion numbers went down, that would mean I'm relieving a burden from women, or that a burden is being released from women, and also that men aren't treating women's bodies so casually.
SM: [You argue that] "Men can easily prevent abortions and choose not to." What makes you think that men choose not to?
GB: Men have full control of whether or not they cause a pregnancy in that only a man can decide whether he's going to release sperm and where he's going to release the sperm. That's always his choice. And so if men didn't want to cause a lot of pregnancies, they could easily stop causing unwanted pregnancies. They could reduce or eliminate abortions out of unwanted pregnancies simply by ejaculating responsibly. They could do this without touching abortion law, without even mentioning women. They could do this completely, just by again choosing to ejaculate responsibly or legislating, you know, responsible ejaculation, if that's what they want to do. They choose not to. They choose to focus on women.
SM: Are there interventions or policies that you think would move the needle?
GB: If you included free vasectomies among all the birth control choices and made them free and easily accessible, that would be huge...I think the other thing we need is a social campaign that talks about the reality of vasectomies. They are much safer than tubal ligations, which is the comparable form of [permanent] birth control for women. Vasectomies are much less risky, but there are far more tubal ligations performed in our country than vasectomies, because there are a lot of myths and stigmas around vasectomy. Men really worry that they're not going be able to feel the same during sex, that their erection won't feel the same, that their orgasm won't be the same, and they don't want to risk that.
And I get it. But when you talk to an actual urologist, when you talk to men who have had vasectomies, these concerns really dissipate quickly...I think it could become an assumption that men are going to ejaculate responsibly, they're going to have a vasectomy, they're going to use a condom — that this is just a given that they're going to ejaculate responsibly. And I think we can get there. I know we can.
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Novavax on Wednesday received Food and Drug Administration authorization for a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine.
Yet unlike the bivalent mRNA vaccines currently on the market, Novavax’s booster only targets the original strain of the virus, rather than the original strain and the omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants.
The company is studying an omicron-specific vaccine, but executives have said they think the current vaccine provides durable protection across different variants of the virus.
Last week, the company said its clinical trial showed a single booster dose given eight to 11 months after a Novavax primary series resulted in increased antibodies against omicron BA.1, BA.2 and the dominant BA.5 subvariant.
The booster was authorized for adults ages 18 and older who can’t take an mRNA vaccine or don’t have access to one, as well as for adults who would otherwise not receive a booster, the company said.
The booster dose is meant to be given at least six months after completion of primary vaccination with any authorized or approved COVID-19 vaccine.
Previously, the Novavax vaccine was used only as a two-dose primary series, given three weeks apart. The new authorization could help increase lagging booster numbers. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only 33 percent of the population has received a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
“The U.S. now has access to the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted, the first protein-based option, as a booster,” Stanley C. Erck, Novavax president and CEO, said in a statement. “According to CDC data, almost 50 percent of adults who received their primary series have yet to receive their first booster dose. Offering another vaccine choice may help increase COVID-19 booster vaccination rates for these adults.”
Unlike Pfizer and Moderna, Novavax relies on more traditional vaccine technology, similar to those used to protect against flu and for routine childhood immunizations against whooping cough and meningitis.
The two-dose vaccine can be stored at normal refrigerator temperatures, making it easier to ship and use.
While Novavax missed out on the initial wave of COVID-19 vaccinations, company executives said they were always banking on using it as a booster shot.
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KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian army general staff says there is a heightened chance that Russian forces could launch an attack from Belarus to cut off supply routes for Western weapons and military equipment.
Oleksei Hromov, a deputy chief of the general staff’s main operational department, said Thursday that Russia was deploying aircraft and troops to air bases and military infrastructure facilities in Belarus.
“This time, the direction of the offensive may be changed to the west of the Belarusian-Ukrainian border to cut the main logistical arteries of the supply of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine from partner countries,” Hromov said.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Ukraine’s utilities threatened by Russia in war’s new phase
— EU leaders head into divisive summit on energy crisis
— US busts network providing technology to Russian military
— Russia asks Philippines to honor helicopter purchase deal
— Pence warns of ‘unprincipled populists,’ ‘Putin apologists’
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
BRUSSELS — The European Union has imposed sanctions on Shahed Aviation Industries in Iran and three Iranian armed forces generals for undermining Ukraine’s territorial integrity by helping supply drones to Russia for use in the war.
Russia is believed to have sent waves of Iranian-made Shahed drones over Ukraine to strike power plants and other key infrastructure.
In response, the EU imposed an asset freeze on the company, as well as an asset freeze and travel ban on the three officers who are also suspected of links to Iran’s drone program.
EU headquarters said in a statement that Thursday’s move “is a signal of the EU’s resolve to respond swiftly and decisively to Iran’s actions supporting Russian aggression against Ukraine. The EU condemns the delivery of Iranian drones to Russia and their deadly deployment in the war of aggression against Ukraine.”
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has rejected claims that it was sending missiles and drones to Russia for Russian forces to use in the invasion of Ukraine.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Twitter Thursday that he has spoken on the phone with European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on the issue.
Amirabdollahian describes the claim Iran was sending missiles and drones to Russia as “baseless.” He adds that “we have defense cooperation with Russia, but without a doubt, sending weapons and drones against Ukraine is not our policy.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — More than 3,000 people have called a Ukrainian hotline for Russians who wish to surrender rather than fight, organizers say.
The line dubbed “I want to live” was launched in mid-September by the Ukrainian military authorities along with a Telegram chatbot. The idea was born after Ukraine recaptured areas in the Kharkiv region from Russia and wanted to give Russians a chance to give themselves up.
“We had the cases of Russians calling us when they weren’t drafted yet,” project spokesperson Vitalii Matvienko told the Associated Press. “Now there are more calls from recently drafted soldiers.”
Matvienko said operators have received calls from men in tears, lost because they didn’t want to participate in the war and feared being drafted. The number of calls rises every time there is a Ukrainian counteroffensive somewhere, he said.
Matvienko said Russia has blocked the project website but hasn’t managed to stop the word from spreading.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine has launched a power-saving campaign following Russian strikes on energy infrastructure.
Starting Thursday, Ukrainians are being asked to reduce power usage from 7 a.m.-11 a.m..
Rolling blackouts may also occur as the country tries to response to an increasing number of repairs needed to power stations and other facilities damaged by Russian shelling.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities say at least three civilians were killed and 14 wounded overnight in shelling across the country.
The Russian military overnight fired drones and missiles at eight regions in the southeastern part of the country, the president’s office said.
The attack on southcentral city of Kryvyi Rih damaged an energy facility and a plant, leaving the city without electricity.
“Now every illuminated business sign, billboard or washing machine can lead to serious emergency shutdowns,” regional Gov. Valentin Reznichenko said.
The city is President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown and an industrial center.
Fighting continued in the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions that were recently illegally annexed by Russia.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said Thursday that Russia’s war in Ukraine has “entered an even more serious phase,” and that the security political situation in Europe has become more tense after Nord Stream gas pipelines were damaged in the Baltic Sea.
“It has moved closer to us in Norway,” Gahr Støre and added that “nuclear weapons must never be used. A nuclear war can’t be won and mustn’t be fought. The Russian regime also knows that.”
Gahr Støre said that when a neighbor threatens to use nuclear weapons, it naturally creates fear. And should there be radioactive fallout in Norway, “we have good nuclear preparedness.”
NATO-member Norway’s has a nearly 200-kilometer (around 125-mile) border with Russia in the Arctic.
Gahr Støre told a news conference that there was no direct military threat to Norway.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces have hit anew industrial and energy facilities in central Ukraine, pressing with attacks on infrastructure.
Russia has declared its intention to increase its targeting of Ukraine’s power, water and other vital infrastructure in its latest phase of the nearly 8-month-old war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that Moscow’s forces have destroyed 30% of the country’s power stations since Oct. 10.
The latest attacks overnight this night in Kryvyi Rih region, Dnipropetrovsk region, inflicting damage, according to regional administrator Valentyn Reznichenko.
He gave no other details.
Russian forces also struck a school in Zaporizhzhia region early on Thursday, the deputy head of the president’s office Kyrylo Tymoshenko on Telegram.
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BRUSSELS — European Union leaders head into a two-day summit with opposing views if and how the bloc could impose a gas price cap to contain the energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its strategy to choke off gas supplies to the bloc.
The need for rock-solid EU unity in confronting Russia will be underscored by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He is set to address the 27 national leaders by video conference from Kyiv asking for continued help to get his nation through the winter.
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BERLIN — Chancellor Olaf Scholz is underlining Germany’s concerns about the idea of a cap on natural gas prices, which many other European Union nations are prepared to embrace.
Scholz told Germany’s Parliament before an EU summit starting later Thursday that “a politically set price cap always carries the risk that producers then sell their gas elsewhere — and we Europeans ultimately don’t get more gas, but less.”
He said the EU must consult closely with other gas consumers, such as Japan and South Korea, so that they don’t compete with each other; and that it’s important to talk with gas producers about “an appropriate price.”
Scholz added: “I am convinced that countries such as the U.S., Canada or Norway, which stand by Ukraine in solidarity together with us, have an interest in energy in Europe not becoming unaffordable.”
The German leader said that the best answer to short energy supplies is to expand renewable energy quickly. But he said that in order to replace Russian gas, “we must also work with countries where there is a possibility to develop new gas fields,” within countries’ commitments under the Paris climate accord.
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BERLIN — Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany will train a brigade of up to 5,000 Ukrainian troops as part of a European Union training mission approved earlier this week.
The EU on Monday approved the mission, which will run for two years initially. Its immediate aim is to train about 15,000 troops, chiefly in Poland and Germany, and it’s hoped that the mission will be up and running by mid-November.
Scholz told lawmakers in Berlin on Thursday that one of the headquarters will be in Germany and “by spring, we will train a complete brigade with up to 5,000 soldiers.”
He said that “with this, we are underlining are readiness to participate in the long-term building of strong Ukrainian armed forces, hand in hand with our partners.”
Scholz also says “scorched-earth” tactics won’t help Russia win its war in Ukraine and stressed that “deliberate attacks on the civilian population are war crimes.”
“They only strengthen the determination and staying power of Ukraine and its partners,” said Scholz. “Russia’s bomb and missile terror is ultimately an act of desperation, just like the mobilization of Russian men for the war.”
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One of the things that makes us special as a species is our ability to form communities, but we humans have not always been alone in that regard. A new study sheds light on how Neanderthals built clans of their own.
Neanderthals are distant cousins of humans that lived between 430,000 and 40,000 years ago. They get a bad rap as cave-dwelling thugs with clubs, but Laurits Skov, a paleogenticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, says that you really need to get that picture out of your head.
"You know, this image of Neanderthals being brutes, is not quite accurate," he says. "The more we learn about them, the more like humans they appear to be."
That human connection is further bolstered by Skov and his colleagues' latest findings, which were published this week in the journal Nature. The group looked at genetic material taken from Neanderthal bones and teeth from two caves in central Russia. The caves' residents are believed to have lived around 55,000 years ago. They extracted the DNA by drilling tiny holes in the ancient remains. It was a delicate operation.
"One drop of my sweat would outweigh the Neanderthal DNA molecules a million to one or something like that, so you've got to be really careful," Skov says.
And it didn't always work: sometimes the DNA couldn't be found; sometimes, a bone had been chewed by a prehistoric hyena, contaminating it. But Skov and his colleagues were eventually able to extract the genetic codes of 13 Neanderthals living in the cave, including several who were related: A father and his teenage daughter, as well as a boy around the age of 10 who was related to a woman in the cave. (That "second-degree" relationship is a little more fuzzy, Skov says: "They could for instance be cousins, they could be grandparent/grandchild, they could be aunt/nephew, all those kinds of things.").
It's the first time that Neanderthal relatives have been sequenced side-by-side. Skov says that the DNA of the individuals living in the cave also provides some clues about how the society might have been organized. By looking at mitochondrial DNA, which is only passed along by females, and Y chromosomes, which come from males, Skov and his colleagues were able to determine that the women were more likely to have come from outside the group. In other words, Neanderthal society may have been organized in a way where women moved to be with the family of the men.
Lara Cassidy of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland says that the new finding is important because it's the first time Neanderthals living at the same time have been sequenced together. "That is really exciting because what we have is a community, and we can start to understand a bit about how these communities worked," she says.
Cassidy, who was not a researcher on this study, cautions that the findings are limited by the small number of Neanderthals sampled. There's no way to know, for example, whether women moved between all groups of Neanderthals, or whether that was something unique to this clan. And she'd like to know more about what ties the other people in the cave together. Humans for example, build social groups of unrelated friends and companions.
"We seem to be able to put ourselves together in all sorts of configurations," she says. "It would be nice to know if Neanderthals were as flexible."
The genetic data isn't quite good enough to see if everyone in the cave is distantly related, or in-laws, or just friends. Skov says he is still working to get a clearer picture.
There's one more mystery: How did the father and daughter, and the boy and his relative die?
Skov says there aren't any clear clues, but he suspects starvation may have played a role.
"Life back then was rough, they survived by hunting bison," he says. "You can imagine if, in one year, they don't manage to hunt and catch all they need... Something sad like that"
These Neanderthals were probably some of the last of their kind. "This is just about 10,000 years before Neanderthals go extinct," Skov says. "There's very few left."
But he says Neanderthals didn't disappear entirely. Non-African humans contain on average about 2% Neanderthal DNA. In other words, at least sometimes it seems, humans and Neanderthals found each other, and built communities together.
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NEW YORK (AP) — One of the music world’s most articulate and introspective performers, Lucinda Williams, has a memoir coming out next spring.
The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has a deal with Crown for “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You,” scheduled for April 23. Williams, 69, will look back to her wandering childhood, when she lived in 12 different places by age 18, and trace her rise in the music business. Her albums include “Sweet Old World,” “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” and “Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone.”
“For decades now, I’ve shared my innermost thoughts and experiences via my songs,“ Williams said in a statement released Thursday by Crown. “After years spent toying with the idea, I’ve decided to finally tell my stories more fully. But this won’t be a sugar-coated memoir; I want people to really see the truth of my life.”
According to Crown, Williams “reveals the inspirations for her unforgettable lyrics, including the doomed love affairs with ‘poets on motorcycles’ and the gothic Southern landscapes of the many different towns of her youth, including Macon, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans.”
Williams previously had a deal, in 2018, to write a memoir for Henry Holt and Company. The editor at Holt, Gillian Blake, has since moved to Crown, for which she acquired Williams’ book.
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Delhi govt nod to DMRC for removal, transplantation of trees for metro corridor
The Delhi government on Thursday granted permission to the DMRC to remove and transplant 316 trees from Derawal Nagar here for the construction of the Janakpuri-RK Ashram metro corridor.The project will help connect west and central Delhi by linking Janakpuri West Station on the Magenta Line to RK Ashram Station on the Blue Line.
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The Delhi government on Thursday granted permission to the DMRC to remove and transplant 316 trees from Derawal Nagar here for the construction of the Janakpuri-RK Ashram metro corridor.
The project will help connect west and central Delhi by linking Janakpuri West Station on the Magenta Line to RK Ashram Station on the Blue Line. ''A park was coming in the way of the Janakpuri-RK Ashram metro corridor route at Derawal Nagar. The Delhi Metro Rai Corporation (DMRC) had sought clearance for transplantation of the trees from the site which had been stuck for some time,'' the chief minister's office said in a statement. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has granted permission to the DMRC to fell 131 trees and transplant 185 others on the site on the condition that 3,160 new trees be planted as compensation, it said. In a tweet, the chief minister said, ''We have cleared the path for construction of a new metro corridor between Janakpuri and RK Ashram, today. DMRC has been given permission to remove and transplant 316 trees obstructing the project, provided they compensate by planting 3,160 more trees.
''The corridor is part of Delhi Metro's Phase 4. With this, another major section of Delhi will now have improved access to the Metro. Access to public transport is the lifeline of any modern city. This will help people opt for cleaner transport & leave their vehicles behind.'' The 29-kilometre Janakpuri-RK Ashram Corridor will run through several densely populated areas of Delhi including R K Ashram, Nabi Karim, Sadar Bazar, Pulbangash, Ghanta Ghar, Derawal Nagar, Ashok Vihar, Azadpur, Majlis Park, Bhalaswa, Haiderpur Badli Mor, North Pitampura, Prashant Vihar, Madhuban Chowk, Deepali Chowk, Pushpanjali Enclave, West Enclave, Mangolpuri, Peeragarhi, Paschim Vihar, Keshopur, Krishna Park Extn and Janakpuri West.
According to the proposal approved by the Delhi government, indigenous species of trees, including Neem, Amaltas, Pipal, Pilkhan, Gular, Bargad, Desi Kikar among others will be planted as part of compensatory plantation. PTI GVS TDS TDS
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(KTLA) – Authorities on Wednesday seized about 12,000 suspected fentanyl pills that were found packaged in several bags of what appeared to be candy at Los Angeles International Airport.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department narcotics detectives and DEA agents assigned to the airport responded to a TSA screening area around 7:30 a.m. after a person tried to go through with bags of candy and other snacks, officials said in a news release.
Authorities found the pills inside boxes of Sweetarts, Skittles and Whoppers.
The suspected trafficker fled but has been identified, authorities said.
Authorities have recently warned that drug dealers have been disguising fentanyl in candy wrappers and manufacturing them in rainbow colors in order to disguise them from authorities.
In its news release, the LA County Sheriff’s Department warned of the potential for the pills to be confused with candy.
“With Halloween approaching, parents need to make sure they are checking their kids candy and not allowing them to eat anything until it has been inspected by them,” the Sheriff’s Department said.
But despite fears that drug dealers are deliberately pushing fentanyl on trick-or-treaters, many experts argued that there is a very low possibility of any danger in Halloween candy, WVNS reported.
Joel Best, a sociology professor at the University of Delaware, has been researching this exact topic for decades, and has not been presented with any evidence “that any child has ever been killed or seriously injured by a contaminated treat picked up in the course of trick-or-treating,” he told PBS’ The Conversation earlier this month.
There is one standout example, however, of a child dying after ingesting cyanide-laced Pixie Stix, WVSN reported. The child’s father, in that case, was ultimately arrested and charged with his son’s murder.
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The axolotl, with its permanent grin and youthful-looking body, has captured hearts thanks to TikTok and the popular video game Minecraft, which added the salamander to its universe in 2021. More and more people have been getting them as pets.
"I would attribute about 90% of axolotls' popularity to Minecraft and TikTok, but mostly Minecraft," Jake Pak told NPR over email.
He says nearly every kid who comes to Axolotl Planet, the breeding and sanctuary company he co-owns, is there to see one in real life after learning about them from the game.
Children often ask for blue ones, which are the rarest in Minecraft, and are disappointed to find out that it's genetically impossible for the animal to be blue.
Eric Rasmussen, who owns The World of Wet Pets in Portland, Ore., says the store has carried axolotls for many years. It has been only in recent months that he has seen people's interest in them skyrocket.
"I mean, this year is pretty much the year that we can't keep them in stock," he told NPR over the phone. "And because demand is so high, the value of the doggone little things has gone through the roof."
He estimates that they're about twice the cost they were last year, and he expects prices to go up — especially since they've now become designer animals, with some having a modified protein that makes them glow fluorescent under a blue light.
Customers accidentally breeding them has been the most reliable source for axolotls for Seattle's The Fish Store, according to employee Cory Giess. He told NPR that the shop has struggled to get them from breeders and that most of the current stock is from a customer who accidentally bought two of the opposite sex.
Pak explains that there can be risks when a customer breeds axolotls, whether they intend to or not.
One concern is inbreeding. If someone doesn't know the bloodlines of their animals, there's a "very high chance" that offspring could carry fatal recessive genes, Pak explained. Right now, he said, eyeless axolotls are popping up in the industry as a result of inbreeding.
There's also the commitment it takes to care for these animals.
"Axolotls can lay over 1,000 eggs at a time, and if you do not have the space, time and knowledge required to care for the babies, then they will most likely all die prematurely or, as we are seeing with New Zealand, creating a crisis of abandoned axolotls," Pak said.
In New Zealand, axolotl owners have been relinquishing the creatures to pet shelters en masse. In a Facebook message to NPR, the pet store Scales, Feathers, Fins & Fur in Dunedin said it has around 2,000 of them in its care.
In an email to NPR, Blue Ridge Reptile Rescue (which sometimes cares for amphibians too) said that it can be quite difficult to rear the amphibian "by accident."
"Get eggs accidentally, sure, but they require special care for incubation, and you must breed and maintain special food for the hatchlings. No one does this by accident," it stated.
Some owners might be taking these steps without realizing the consequences of hatching hundreds of baby axolotls, and the rescue fears that people may be breeding them with the intent of selling them for easy money — and then getting stuck with them.
Giess urges customers to bring unwanted animals to a pet store or sanctuary rather than release them into the wild. Even animals as seemingly harmless as an axolotl can potentially wreak havoc on an ecosystem.
"In California, they're actually illegal to buy or sell," he explained. "Because if someone gets sick of theirs and they release it, there's a nonzero possibility that the axolotls can reproduce with local endangered species of salamanders, and that is a really major problem for anyone trying to actually keep those species alive."
Before going full throttle to adopt an axolotl to coddle, experts from pet stores, rescues and breeders recommend becoming informed on how to responsibly care for the adorable animals.
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NEW YORK (AP) — One of the music world’s most articulate and introspective performers, Lucinda Williams, has a memoir coming out next spring.
The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has a deal with Crown for “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You,” scheduled for April 23. Williams, 69, will look back to her wandering childhood, when she lived in 12 different places by age 18, and trace her rise in the music business. Her albums include “Sweet Old World,” “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” and “Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone.”
“For decades now, I’ve shared my innermost thoughts and experiences via my songs,“ Williams said in a statement released Thursday by Crown. “After years spent toying with the idea, I’ve decided to finally tell my stories more fully. But this won’t be a sugar-coated memoir; I want people to really see the truth of my life.”
According to Crown, Williams “reveals the inspirations for her unforgettable lyrics, including the doomed love affairs with ‘poets on motorcycles’ and the gothic Southern landscapes of the many different towns of her youth, including Macon, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans.”
Williams previously had a deal, in 2018, to write a memoir for Henry Holt and Company. The editor at Holt, Gillian Blake, has since moved to Crown, for which she acquired Williams’ book.
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(NEXSTAR) – The world was first mesmerized by the stellar view of cosmic pillars in 1995 thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope. Now, almost three decades later, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving us an even more stunning view.
Known as the Pillars of Creation, the dusty towers some 6,500 light-years away are regarded as a birthplace of stars.
According to NASA, the Pillars of Creation are just a fraction of a star-forming region within the Eagle Nebula, which was discovered in 1745 by Swiss astronomer Jean-Philippe Loys de Chéseaux.
Hidden within the columns are newborn stars, some of which can be seen in the newest image from the James Webb telescope.
Side-by-side images of the Pillars of Creation, as seen by Hubble (on the left) and Webb (on the right), can be viewed below. Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera was able to capture an even more detailed view than Hubble, offering a better glimpse of the newborn stars.
The red orbs seen in Webb’s version will, eventually, collapse under their own gravity, heat up, and form new stars, NASA explains. Stars that are still forming create the lava-like lines on the edges of the columns.
When new stars are forming, NASA explains that they can sometimes shoot out supersonic jets that collide with other material. This can lead to bow shocks, leaving wavy patterns. This also creates energetic hydrogen molecules, causing the crimson glow.
The young stars pictured above are estimated to be a few hundred thousand years old — relatively young in the lifespan of stars. NASA will use Webb’s newest image to better understand star formation.
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Suicides across the active duty U.S. military decreased over the past 18 months, driven by sharp drops in the Air Force and Marine Corps last year and a similar decline among Army soldiers during the first six months of this year, according to a new Pentagon report and preliminary data for 2022.
The numbers show a dramatic reversal of what has been a fairly steady increase in recent years.
The shift follows increased attention by senior military leaders and an array of new programs aimed at addressing what has been a persistent problem in all the services, although it’s unclear what impact any of the programs had or if pandemic-related restrictions played any role in the decline.
The Defense Department is still grappling with widespread shortages of mental health personnel and a difficult push to reduce the stigma of seeking help. But the numbers provide a glimmer of hope that some of the recent changes — which range from required counseling visits to stress relief education and recreational outings — may be working.
According to the data, the number of suicides in the Air Force and Marine Corp dropped by more than 30% in 2021 compared with 2020, and the Navy saw a 10% decline. The Army saw a similar 30% decrease during the first six months of this year, compared with the same time period last year.
The Army decline comes in the wake of a spate of suicides at Army bases last year, including in Alaska, which fueled a small increase in deaths compared with 2020. The Army was the only military service to have more suicides in 2021 than in 2020 — 176 compared with 174. But it is also the only service that has seen a decline this year.
The Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps have all had a bit more suicides in the first six months of 2022 than during the same time period last year, according to preliminary Pentagon data. That makes it unclear if the downward trend will continue through the end of this year.
According to Defense Department data, there were 328 suicides by active duty service members in 2021, compared with 384 in 2020. In the first six months of 2021, there were 173 suicides, compared with 158 in that time frame this year. That drop is entirely due to the Army, which had 101 in the first half of 2021, and 69 in that time period this year.
The National Guard and the Reserves both saw a small dip in suicides, from 121 in 2020 to 119 in 2021. And there were also fewer Guard deaths in the first half of 2022, compared with last year. Suicides in the Reserves went up, from 29 to 36.
The Guard has worked over the last year to reduce suicides through outreach and other changes, including policies to destigmatize getting mental health help and a program that provides firearms locks for service members who keep weapons at home, said Army Maj. Gen. Eric Little, head of manpower and personnel for the Guard.
Little said that in some cases, if service members report they are seeking counseling, it can affect their security clearance or flying eligibility. He said officials are working to change policies.
Suicide has long been a problem in the U.S. military, and its causes are complex and not fully understood. Behavioral research has linked military suicides to a range of personal issues, including finances and marital stress.
The Pentagon report released Thursday said that “intimate relationship problems in the last year was the most common interpersonal stressor identified” in both suicide and suicide-attempts. And Little said relationship stress continues to be one of the leading risk factors for the Guard, as well as work stress, substance abuse and sexual abuse.
Defense leaders have noted that the complexity of the causes makes it difficult to address, since there is no one-size-fits-all cure.
Yvette Bourcicot, the acting assistant Army secretary for manpower, told the AP on Thursday that while staffing shortfalls continue, the service is “being creative” in using other personnel such as chaplains and health and fitness coaches to fill the gaps.
“The amount of attention that we’re paying to it, I think, is hopefully — we’re cautiously optimistic — what is translating into the downward trend,” said Bourcicot. She also noted that base commanders tailor programs to fit their forces.
For example, Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, in his previous post as commander at Fort Riley, Kansas, began requiring soldiers at the base to meet with a counselor once a year.
“I can’t order anybody to talk to a counselor,” he said earlier this year, just before he left. “But I can tell you, listen, you’ve got to sit in a room for 30 to 60 minutes. And there happens to be a counselor in the same room.”
All but about 10 out of 14,000 soldiers, he said, used the time to talk with the counselor.
The trends of those who die by suicide, however, have been consistent.
According to the Pentagon report, overwhelmingly they are white male, enlisted service members under the age of 30. In 2021, roughly 94% of military suicides were men. And they most often used a gun. The second most common method was hanging or asphyxiation.
The report said the suicide rate — which is the number of deaths per 100,000 service members — has gradually gone up since 2011, and is similar to that of the U.S. population, when adjusted for age and gender.
The data for military spouses and dependents for calendar year 2020 was also released. Suicides by spouses were divided almost equally by gender and nearly 80% were under the age of 40. Again, most — 60% — used a firearm. Military dependents who die by suicide were most often male and under the age of 18.
Suicide attempts, meanwhile, most often involved poisoning. which includes drugs and alcohol. The report said more than 1,200 people attempted suicide, and 67 tried two or more times.
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Associated Press writer Tara Copp contributed to this report.
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Delhi PM2.5 pollution in winters has dipped 20 pc compared to pre-pandemic period: CSE
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The average PM2.5 pollution in Delhi in the winter season has declined by about 20 per cent as compared to the pre-pandemic period, according to a new report released by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Thursday.
It also said Diwali this year is being observed early in the season ''which means the warmer and windier conditions will help dilute the pollution that is staple of Diwali night celebrations''. However, concentrated stubble burning due to prolonged rains (in September end and October) may compound the problem.
The assessment captured seven successive winters and pre-winter trends, starting from January 1, 2015 in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). It is based on real time data available from the 81 operational air quality monitoring stations in the region.
The PM2.5 concentration for winter (October 1 to February 28) used to hover around 180-190 microgram per cubic metre before the pandemic. It has come down to 150-160 microgram per cubic metre since then, the report said.
Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director of research and advocacy at the CSE, said the objective of the report is to understand the trend and ''the starting line of the onset of the winter pollution season or pre-winter levels in this region''.
The seasonal average is still over 150 per cent above the 24-hour standard (60 microgram per cubic metre) and almost four times the annual standard (40 microgram per cubic metre) despite the improvement, the green thinktank noted.
It said peak pollution showed a similar trend as the seasonal average.
''Peak pollution (worst 24-hour average) used to cross 800 microgram per cubic metre at individual stations pre-pandemic. It has been hovering in the 700-800 microgram per cubic metre range during the last three winters,'' the report said.
The CSE, however, said the peak pollution numbers did not project the actual level as the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had capped it at 1,000 microgram per cubic metre in 2016-17, greatly compromising the assessment of peak pollution level.
Researchers said the winter of 2021-22 was less polluted as compared to 2020-21 for most NCR cities.
Ghaziabad registered a 30 per cent improvement, the highest among all major cities, but its PM2.5 level was still about 2.5 times the 24-hour standard, they said.
''Greater Noida (28 per cent), Noida (23 per cent) and Faridabad (16 per cent) also registered improvement in excess of Delhi (12 per cent),'' the report said.
Gurugram, with 11 per cent improvement, was the worst performer among the core NCR cities.
In absolute concentration terms, Faridabad, with an average of 159 microgram per cubic metre, was the most polluted city of the NCR last winter.
Unlike previous two years, the smoke from the farm stubble fires has not overwhelmed the air quality of the region yet and rains in early October have also kept the air relatively clean so far. Also, previous years' data shows that Diwali night can add 300-600 microgram per cubic metre of PM2.5 to Delhi's air if the business-as-usual scenario continues. PTI GVS RCJ
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The city that never sleeps is trying to shut down its most popular all-night buffet, and officials are sure some famous locals won't be happy about it.
"We are about to do something that no one has had the political will or political capital to pull off over the past 50 years," explained New York's Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch. "And I want to be clear: The rats are absolutely going to hate this announcement."
"But the rats don't run the city. We do."
New York is vowing to fight rats on their turf: the garbage
Starting on April 1, 2023, New Yorkers will be fined for putting their trash on the curb before 8 p.m. in the latest attempt to cull the city's rampant rat population. The current rule allows residents to begin setting out trash at 4 p.m.
New York's Sanitation Department has reported more than 21,600 rat complaints so far this year. That's a roughly 71% increase since October 2020.
City officials chalk up the rattling increase to the pandemic, when work-from-home policies and outdoor dining measures left a five o'clock shadow of sidewalk trash bags on the daily.
New York's overnight trash collectors currently haul about 5 million pounds per night — and that's just one-quarter of the total round-the-clock collection in the city. Rats, meanwhile, only require about 28 grams of food per day to survive.
Mayor Eric Adams is embracing his rat "murderer" label
This is far from the first time city officials have promised deaths by diet.
While he was Brooklyn borough president in 2019, now-Mayor Eric Adams stood above a pile of rat corpses that were lured into a vat of toxic chemicals by sunflower seeds and Oreo cookies.
"Everyone that knows me — they know one thing. I hate rats," Adams said earlier this week. "When we started killing them in Borough Hall, some of the same folks were criticizing us and called me a murderer because I was killing rats.
"Well, you know what? We're going to kill rats."
City residents are pessimistic about the plan
The persistent pest problem has already led some residents to vigilantism.
A patrol of hunting dogs has walked infested streets for nearly three decades. One Bronx building superintendent told the Daily News that he has started shooting vermin with airsoft rifles. Even Central Park herons have been spotted extinguishing rats with a single gulp.
The mayor's new plan is eliciting skepticism that a few trash-free hours could ever get sidewalks squeaky clean enough to stop the scourge.
But the rules could at least send New York scurrying into a new era, says the New York City Councilmember Shaun Abreu, who sponsored the bill.
"New Yorkers will not have to fear as many rats hide in late-night shadows or rampage through our subway system and sidewalks," he said. "Like the fax machine, typewriter, and Blackberry, our current collection schedule will soon be seen as comically archaic."
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By SEAN MURPHY
Associated Press
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed inmate Benjamin Cole on Thursday morning despite claims from his attorneys that he had been severely mentally ill.
Cole was pronounced dead at 10:22 a.m. at Oklahoma’s state penitentiary in McAlester. He was the sixth Oklahoma inmate to be executed since the state resumed carrying them out in October 2021.
Attorneys for Cole did not dispute that he killed his infant daughter, 9-month-old Brianna Cole, by forcibly bending her backward, breaking her spine and tearing her aorta. But they argued that Cole was severely mentally ill and that he had a growing lesion on his brain that had worsened in recent years.
Cole refused medical attention and ignored his personal hygiene, hoarding food and living in a darkened cell with little to no communication with staff or fellow prisoners, his attorneys told the state’s Pardon and Parole Board last month during a clemency hearing.
“His condition has continued to decline over the course of this year,” Cole’s attorney Katrina Conrad-Legler said.
The panel voted 4-1 to deny clemency, and a district judge earlier this month determined Cole was competent to be executed. Two last-minute appeals filed with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt his execution were rejected, one on Wednesday and another Thursday morning.
In a separate case Wednesday, a federal appeals court panel upheld a lower court’s ruling earlier this year deeming Oklahoma’s execution protocol constitutional. Cole was among more than two dozen death row inmates who filed suit, citing, among other things, a series of problems in the death chamber, including a botched execution in 2014.
“Oklahoma’s earlier problems in the execution chamber are not enough to show that future similar problems are imminent,” the opinion from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.
Cole had a lesion on his brain, which was separate from his diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, that had grown in size in recent years and affected the part of his brain that deals with problem solving, movement and social interaction, Conrad-Legler said.
Attorneys for the state and members of the victim’s family told the board that Cole’s symptoms of mental illness were exaggerated and that the brutal nature of his daughter’s killing merited his execution.
Assistant Attorney General Tessa Henry said Cole killed his daughter because he was infuriated that her crying from her crib interrupted his playing of a video game.
“He is not severely mentally ill,” said another prosecutor, Assistant Attorney General Ashley Willis. “There is nothing in the constitution or jurisprudence that prevents his execution.”
Prosecutors noted that the infant had numerous injuries consistent with a history of abuse and that Cole had previously served time in prison in California for abusing another child.
Board members also heard emotional testimony from family members of the slain child’s mother, who urged the board to reject clemency.
“The first time I got to see Brianna in person was lying in a casket,” said Donna Daniel, the victim’s aunt. “Do you know how horrible it is to see a 9-month-old baby in a casket?
“This baby deserves justice. Our family deserves justice.”
Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor said in a statement before the execution that he was confident Cole was sufficiently competent to be executed.
“Although his attorneys claim Cole is mentally ill to the point of catatonia, the fact is that Cole fully cooperated with a mental evaluation in July of this year,” O’Connor said. “The evaluator, who was not hired by Cole or the State, found Cole to be competent to be executed and that ‘Mr. Cole does not currently evidence any substantial, overt signs of mental illness, intellectual impairment, and/or neurocognitive impairment.’”
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) – A family is in disbelief after they say a Memphis funeral home buried a stranger where their father was supposed to be laid to rest — and they only found out after they arrived to pay their last respects.
Thomas Pharr died last week at the age of 96. He lived a full life as a World War II veteran and a captain in the Memphis Fire Department. He devoted his life to his family.
“Very personable, very nice person. He would do anything for anybody. He’ll be missed, missed a whole lot, miss him now,” said his son Butch Pharr.
On Tuesday, dozens of loved ones made the trip to town to pay their final respects at his funeral at Forest Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Park East. Pharr would be buried next to his wife Nancy, who passed away several years ago. They had been married for 63 years.
As the ceremony was about to start, the staff shared some alarming news.
“He said, ‘Well I’ve got to just tell you the truth now. … There’s another body in your dad’s grave,'” Butch said. “And somehow or another they put the wrong body in the wrong grave.”
The family says staff told them the other body had been put in the plot earlier that day. But because it was already covered, they would have to get an order from the health department — signed by the family of the deceased — for it to be exhumed.
“This shouldn’t happen to anybody. I mean, there’s really no closure until we know he’s next to our mom,” said Janis McIntyre, Thomas Pharr’s daughter.
Nexstar’s WREG has extensively reported on issues with Forest Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Park East, as well as StoneMor Inc., the company overseeing it. Problems include failing to inform families about rats partially eating bodies in a timely manner, as well as leaking body fluids in a mausoleum at the company’s location in Jackson, Tennessee.
While the Pharr family hopes for a resolution in their father’s case, they want to warn others so no other families have to deal with a similar issue.
“It’s bad enough that it happened but it wouldn’t have been as bad to us if someone would have taken responsibility for what had happened instead of trying to pass it off,” Butch said.
The family said they also feel bad for the other family involved in this mix-up case.
When a WREG crew went to the cemetery Wednesday, they were removed from the property. They were also told a representative with the cemetery’s parent company would be sending a statement. WREG also reached out to StonMor multiple times for an explanation for the mix-up, but so far has not heard back.
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Votaries of socialism ignored unorganised sector workers for long: Tripura CM
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Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Thursday claimed that the workers engaged in the unorganised sector were ignored by those who strongly advocated for socialism, launching an indirect attack on the CPI(M).
The Left party had ruled the northeastern state for over 25 years.
"Those who used to advocate socialism had pushed the construction workers and others engaged in the unorganised sector towards destruction. They used to treat employers as class enemies and tried to engage employers and workers in fights," he said at a government programme here.
Claiming that the BJP's ideology is to respect both employers and workers, Saha said both are an integral part of the development process.
The chief minister called upon the workers to repose faith in the government and stated that the government is aware of the importance of the labourers as they are also part of the growth or development.
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On this edition of ST, we present another installment in our popular Museum Confidential podcast series, which is now in its 7th season (and which is a co-creation/co-production of Philbrook Museum of Art and Public Radio Tulsa). This time around, MC speaks with Betony Vernon, an American artist, jewelry designer, fashion designer, and writer who now divides her time between Italy and France. Probably best known for her luxurious erotic jewelry, Vernon is also the author of "Paradise Found: An Erotic Treasury for Sybarites" and "The Boudoir Bible: The Uninhibited Sex Guide for Today." | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/show/studiotulsa/2022-10-20/st-presents-museum-confidential-a-discussion-with-betony-vernon | 2022-10-20T17:07:07 | en | 0.961158 |
By JOSH FUNK
AP Business Writer
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The major freight railroads appear unwilling to give track maintenance workers much more than they received in the initial contract they rejected last week, increasing the chances of a strike.
The railroads took the unusual step of issuing a statement late Wednesday rejecting the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division union’s latest request to add paid sick time on top of the 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses they received in the first five-year deal.
Union Pacific CEO Lance Fritz said Thursday that he thinks the main reason the BMWED rejected its initial contract last week was that the details of improved expense reimbursement in the deal were still being negotiated at UP while workers were voting. So it wasn’t clear exactly what those workers would receive for their travel expenses when they go on the road to repair tracks.
Six of the 12 railroad unions that represent 115,000 workers nationwide have approved their tentative agreements with the railroads so far, but all of them have to ratify their contracts to avoid a strike. The unions have agreed to put any strike on hold until at least mid-November while the BMWED negotiates a new deal and the other unions vote on their proposed contracts, so there’s no immediate threat the the trains most businesses rely on to deliver their raw materials and finished products will stop moving. A railroad strike could devastate the economy.
“Ultimately, I remain confident that we’re going to get our temporary agreements ratified and be able to avoid a strike. That’s still a possibility but I don’t think it’s a probability,” Fritz told investors after his railroad released its earnings report.
The group that negotiations on behalf of the major railroads, including UP, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, CSX and Kansas City Southern, said the new contracts should closely follow the recommendations of the special board of arbitrators that President Joe Biden appointed this summer. The railroads said that board rejected union demands for paid sick time.
“Now is not the time to introduce new demands that rekindle the prospect of a railroad strike,” the railroads said.
Officials at the BMWED union didn’t immediately respond to the railroads Thursday. Concerns about quality of life and the ability for workers — particularly the engineers and conductors who drive the trains — to take time off without being penalized have weighed heavily on the negotiations.
But the railroads say workers do have significant short-term disability benefits that kick in after four or seven days and last up to 52 weeks that the unions have negotiated for over the years. The railroads said the unions have repeatedly agreed that short-term absences would be unpaid in favor of higher wages and more generous benefits for long-term illnesses.
If both sides can’t agree on contracts, Congress could step in to block a strike and impose terms on the workers.
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LLOYD, N.Y. (WTEN) — Police in Lloyd, New York, have arrested a woman accused of letting her 10-year-old get an arm tattoo, along with the tattoo artist who inked the child.
Crystal Thomas, 33, was arrested on October 4. She was charged with one count of endangering the welfare of a child, a Class A misdemeanor.
If convicted, Thomas could face up to one year in prison or three years’ probation.
Police in Lloyd later confirmed they had tracked down the artist, whom they identified as Austin L. Smith, and arrested him Sunday. Smith was charged with unlawfully dealing with a child, and endangering the welfare of a child.
Both Thomas and Smith were released ahead of their scheduled court dates. Thomas is due back in court Thursday, while Smith is slated to appear Nov. 3.
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INTERVIEW-Scientist fights climate change deniers causing 'dangerous' delay
A string of climate change deniers - many linked to fossil fuel interests - have challenged the findings of scientists like Stott and sought to downplay the significance of global warming and humanity's role in driving it. GROWING EVIDENCE When Stott was starting out in the 1990s, the science connecting climate change with human causes was becoming stronger, with a 1995 IPCC report saying "the balance of evidence...
* Peter Stott's book details long struggle against sceptics
* Linking climate change with human activity a crucial fight
* Climate deniers, faced with reality, look to delay action
By Jack Graham LONDON, Oct 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When climate scientist Peter Stott checked into his flight from London to Moscow in July 2004, his excitement gave way to shock when a colleague explained their agreed schedule had been ripped up.
They had expected to compare findings and strengthen ties with counterparts in Russia - but discovered key promoters of the unscientific view that humans have no key role in driving climate change had been invited, too. "It was an ambush," Stott said.
The meeting at the Russian Academy of Sciences had been changed by Russian President Vladimir Putin's then-advisor Andrei Illarionov, an ardent critic of the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 United Nations deal to cut emissions, which was awaiting ratification by Russia. "He was using scientists as tools in his propaganda war," said Stott, who specialises in identifying man-made and natural causes of climate change at Britain's Met Office and the University of Exeter.
Stott and his colleagues were tasked with debating sceptics including Richard Lindzen, a climate contrarian who was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the time, and controversial British weather forecaster Piers Corbyn. Stott describes the experience of having to defend climate science in Russia as "very threatening". He details the events in his book "Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial", which has been shortlisted for the prestigious Royal Society Science Book Prize.
He recounts how he was the first scientist to connect an individual weather event to human-induced climate change, when, in 2004, he published a paper in the journal Nature linking greenhouse gas emissions to deadly European heatwaves that had killed more than 70,000 people a year earlier. Such "attribution science" is now a staple in determining how much of a role global warming played in disasters - a change that has helped drive a surge in lawsuits against major climate polluters.
Stott has since devoted decades of work to raising awareness about the connection between human burning of fossil fuels and climate change, particularly in his role as an author on several assessment reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). A string of climate change deniers - many linked to fossil fuel interests - have challenged the findings of scientists like Stott and sought to downplay the significance of global warming and humanity's role in driving it.
GROWING EVIDENCE When Stott was starting out in the 1990s, the science connecting climate change with human causes was becoming stronger, with a 1995 IPCC report saying "the balance of evidence... suggests a discernible human influence on global climate".
Stott said such scientific developments led to a surge of opposing voices who "choose arguments that suit their agendas and... don't scrutinise their own arguments". A good scientist is genuinely sceptical of their own and other people's work because "that's how science works", he said.
Over time, Stott said he has learned to combat arguments from climate deniers more effectively by defending the science without getting drawn into "zombie arguments". "As scientists, we try to bat them down and they come back to life again," he said. But "the risk is that if we're just forever rebutting arguments, we could never get beyond that."
The scientific process concentrates on what remains unknown, Stott said, so scientists must state the facts that are clearly established facts about climate change up front to avoid any public uncertainty. LEAKED EMAILS
One of the biggest setbacks in the battle against climate denial came in 2009 with the scandal known as "Climategate", Stott said. Hackers broke into the email system of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at Britain's University of East Anglia and posted online thousands of messages sent between scientists.
Climate deniers said the messages showed the CRU had conspired to distort or exaggerate the science behind global warming. Several inquiries cleared the scientists of any wrongdoing, but Stott said the scandal contributed to the failure of the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen which took place a few weeks later.
"That should have been the moment when a landmark agreement was reached," he said. It was years later, with the 2015 Paris Agreement, that governments agreed to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius, with an aim of 1.5C.
"We lost at least six years (of progress) in that time," Stott said - a critical delay with scientists saying still-rising emissions must now plunge by nearly half from current levels by 2030. Today, he said, scientists increasingly have the ears of political leaders and the public, especially as extreme weather has highlighted swiftly increasing climate threats.
But attention has not translated into sufficient action, he said, and climate denial is still an obstacle, with a range of lobbyists and campaign groups demanding a delay in climate action, which they say puts heavy costs on households and businesses. "In the current context of our climate crisis, that's really dangerous because we don't have time," Stott said.
A study published in September in the journal Science found that four dangerous planetary tipping points are "likely" above 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7F) of warming above preindustrial temperatures - a level that could be passed within a decade. One - accelerating melting leading to the eventual collapse of the Greenland ice sheet - may have already been triggered, some believe, setting in motion 7 metres (23 feet) of sea level rise over time, enough to swamp key coastal cities.
DESPAIR AND HOPE At the upcoming COP27 U.N. climate summit in Egypt, countries need to boost their plans to cut emissions, Stott said - something few have so far done.
Stott said morale in the scientific community is flagging as emissions keep rising and impacts growing. He said he despairs at the destruction of the natural world and the "seeming lack of progress" to make economies more sustainable. But more people around the world have begun greening their behaviour in recent years, from installing solar panels to buying electric cars and adopting more sustainable diets.
"There's this big groundswell of things happening," Stott said. "So, that's where the hope comes in." Originally published on: https://www.context.news/climate-risks/scientist-fights-climate-change-deniers-causing-dangerous-delay
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By JOSH FUNK
AP Business Writer
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The major freight railroads appear unwilling to give track maintenance workers much more than they received in the initial contract they rejected last week, increasing the chances of a strike.
The railroads took the unusual step of issuing a statement late Wednesday rejecting the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division union’s latest request to add paid sick time on top of the 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses they received in the first five-year deal.
Union Pacific CEO Lance Fritz said Thursday that he thinks the main reason the BMWED rejected its initial contract last week was that the details of improved expense reimbursement in the deal were still being negotiated at UP while workers were voting. So it wasn’t clear exactly what those workers would receive for their travel expenses when they go on the road to repair tracks.
Six of the 12 railroad unions that represent 115,000 workers nationwide have approved their tentative agreements with the railroads so far, but all of them have to ratify their contracts to avoid a strike. The unions have agreed to put any strike on hold until at least mid-November while the BMWED negotiates a new deal and the other unions vote on their proposed contracts, so there’s no immediate threat the the trains most businesses rely on to deliver their raw materials and finished products will stop moving. A railroad strike could devastate the economy.
“Ultimately, I remain confident that we’re going to get our temporary agreements ratified and be able to avoid a strike. That’s still a possibility but I don’t think it’s a probability,” Fritz told investors after his railroad released its earnings report.
The group that negotiations on behalf of the major railroads, including UP, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, CSX and Kansas City Southern, said the new contracts should closely follow the recommendations of the special board of arbitrators that President Joe Biden appointed this summer. The railroads said that board rejected union demands for paid sick time.
“Now is not the time to introduce new demands that rekindle the prospect of a railroad strike,” the railroads said.
Officials at the BMWED union didn’t immediately respond to the railroads Thursday. Concerns about quality of life and the ability for workers — particularly the engineers and conductors who drive the trains — to take time off without being penalized have weighed heavily on the negotiations.
But the railroads say workers do have significant short-term disability benefits that kick in after four or seven days and last up to 52 weeks that the unions have negotiated for over the years. The railroads said the unions have repeatedly agreed that short-term absences would be unpaid in favor of higher wages and more generous benefits for long-term illnesses.
If both sides can’t agree on contracts, Congress could step in to block a strike and impose terms on the workers.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin taxpayers group that unsuccessfully brought a lawsuit seeking to block President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. The Brown County Taxpayers Association on Wednesday asked the high court to put the program on hold and consider the group’s appeal. The suit argued it was an overextension of executive power that improperly sidestepped Congress. The complaint was thrown out by a federal judge in Wisconsin and then rejected by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. U.S. District Judge William C. Griesbach also rejected an emergency motion for injunction. WLUK-TV reports that federal officials have not responded to the latest filing.
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(WKBN) – The Orionid meteor shower takes place every fall season, and the peak of the shower comes around the third week of October.
Every year, the Orionid meteor shower becomes active in late September and remains active until late November.
This year, the peak of the shower is on the night between October 20 and October 21.
There is good news, as the moon will only be at 21% full, which means there will be less light contamination in the night sky and a better view.
How many meteors can I expect?
The Orionid shower typically produces around 15 meteors hourly at the peak during the third week of October.
The meteors are moving at a velocity of 41 miles per second. To relate this speed to a rocket, they are traveling around 148,000 miles per hour into the Earth’s atmosphere.
When is the best time to catch the meteor shower?
You can catch the Orionids in the sky after midnight. It is best to get away from the city lights if you can, as less light contamination will be helpful to try and catch a glimpse of these fast-moving meteors.
Where should I look to see the meteor shower?
You want to look toward the southeast to try and catch the show.
The area of the sky where the meteors will develop is near the constellation Orion, hence the name of the shower.
What are the meteors made of?
The meteors are made of space debris that runs into our atmosphere each fall. The space debris comes from Halley’s Comet, which leaves behind ice and dust after it passes through our solar system. This debris passes through our atmosphere twice a year — once in the fall with the Orionid shower and in May with the Eta Aquarids.
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Om Birla extends Diwali greetings to construction workers of new parliament building, offers them sweets
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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday interacted with construction workers at the new parliament building site and extended his Diwali greetings to them.
He reviewed the construction of the new parliament building and expressed gratitude towards the workers for building the temple of democracy.
Birla also offered sweets to them and wished for their bright future.
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(WJW) — To be fair, getting too close to anyone’s face may prove a little terrifying. But a finalist in the 2022 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition captured an image that sheds light on something we’re not used to seeing.
This evil-looking mutant being is actually just the face of a humble ant — causing quite the stir on social media. What’s most surprising is it didn’t even make the Top 20 photos in the competition, which aims to show off nature on a microscopic level. Instead, Eugenijus Kavaliauskas’ up-close-and-personal capture was named as an image of distinction.
So what did garner first place this year? An image of an embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko, taken by Grigorii Timin from the University of Geneva.
“Masterfully blending imaging technology and artistic creativity, Timin utilized high-resolution microscopy and image-stitching to capture this species of Phelsuma grandis day gecko,” competition representatives said in a statement.
Other images caused just as much shock and awe, as seen below:
See all of this year’s winners right here.
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Concentrated stubble burning around Diwali may compound problem: CSE
Though Diwali this year will be observed during the warmer part of the early winter, concentrated stubble burning in Delhis neighbouring states may compound the problem, the Centre for Science and Environment CSE said on Thursday.The air quality in Delhi-NCR starts worsening in October due to unfavourable meteorological factors such as low temperatures and wind speed, which do not allow dispersion of pollutants.A cocktail of emissions from firecrackers and stubble burning in neighbouring states further deplete the air quality.
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Though Diwali this year will be observed during the ''warmer part of the early winter'', concentrated stubble burning in Delhi's neighbouring states may compound the problem, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said on Thursday.
The air quality in Delhi-NCR starts worsening in October due to unfavourable meteorological factors such as low temperatures and wind speed, which do not allow dispersion of pollutants.
A cocktail of emissions from firecrackers and stubble burning in neighbouring states further deplete the air quality. The CSE said Diwali this year is being observed early in the season ''which means the warmer and windier conditions will help dilute the pollution that is staple of Diwali night celebrations''. Unlike previous two years, the smoke from the farm stubble fires has not overwhelmed the air quality of the region yet and rains in early October have also kept the air relatively clean so far. However, a prolonged spell of rains in early October has delayed paddy harvesting in parts of Punjab and Haryana that could lead to a spike in stubble burning incidents as farmers would be in a race against time to prepare their fields for the next crop.
''Previous years' data shows that Diwali night can add 300-600 microgram per cubic metre of PM2.5 to Delhi's air if the business-as-usual scenario continues,'' it said. Emissions from firecrackers and farm fires last year had pushed the capital's 24-hour average air quality index for the day after Diwali to 462, the highest in five years. ''PM2.5 concentration on Diwali night (8pm to 8am) last year stood at 747 microgram per cubic metre, 22 per cent higher than that on the 2020 Diwali night,'' the CSE said.
The levels on 2021 Diwali night were 4.5 times the average night-time levels recorded in the week preceding Diwali. ''It is noted that hourly concentrations can go beyond 1,000 microgram per cubic metre. In the 2021 Diwali, 26 of the 38 operational (air quality) monitoring stations hit the 1,000 microgram per cubic metre mark. In 2020, 23 out of 38 stations had hit the 1,000 microgram per cubic metre mark, while in 2019 the number stood at 22 stations,'' the green think tank said.
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(KTLA) – The Powerball jackpot has grown to $550 million after no one matched all six numbers in Wednesday night’s drawing.
Wednesday’s drawing, meanwhile, hit a snag after technical difficulties kept the scheduled event from taking place live. The winning numbers — 6, 8, 15, 27, 42 and a Power Ball of 10 — were posted about an hour later on the Lottery’s YouTube channel.
The Lottery announced Thursday morning that no one had won Wednesday’s $515.5 million jackpot, raising the estimated jackpot for Saturday to $550 million.
The cash value for Saturday’s drawing is currently around $277.5 million, the Power Ball website estimated.
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Travelling to Pakistan for Asia Cup not BCCI call, have to rely on government: Roger Binny
Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur said on Thursday that the BCCI will look into the statement made by PCB and that India will host the 2023 Cricket World Cup with all countries
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Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Roger Binny said on Thursday that the board does not take decisions on its own on Indian team's travel to Pakistan or other countries and relies on the decision of the government. "That is not our call. We cannot say where our team has to go. We need to take clearance from the government if we leave the country, or other countries come here. We cannot take that decision on our own, we have to rely on government," Binny said on team India's travel to Pakistan for Asia Cup.
BCCI secretary Jay Shah had told reporters on Saturday after the board's 91st AGM that it is the government which decides over the permission of the team visiting Pakistan and noted that for 2023 Asia Cup it's decided that the tournament will be held at some neutral venue. "We will have Asia Cup 2023 at a neutral venue. It is the government which decides over the permission of the team visiting Pakistan so we would not comment on that but for the 2023 Asia Cup it's decided that the tournament will be held at some neutral venue," he had said.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had responded to Jay Shah's comments and said such a decision could affect Pakistan visiting India for the 50-over World Cup next year. "The overall impact of such statements has the potential to split the Asian and international cricketing communities and can impact Pakistan's visit to India for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 and future ICC Events in India in the 2024-2031 cycle." PCB statement said.
Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur said on Thursday that the BCCI will look into the statement made by PCB and that India will host the 2023 Cricket World Cup with all countries. "It's a matter of BCCI and the board will look into it to make comments. India is a land of sports, where not only one but many World Cups have been hosted and the next World Cup too will be hosted in India with teams from around the world participating in it. India cannot be ignored in any sector. It has contributed a lot to the world of cricket and the World Cup will be grand, historic and successful," said Thakur while speaking at the announcement ceremony for the upcoming Khelo India Youth Games.
"It is an internal matter of BCCI and it will handle the issue smartly. We have not done anything wrong yet while hosting international tournaments before. We have hosted World Cup successfully before and all teams participated happily. We will host the tournament next year and all teams will play in it," said Thakur. (ANI)
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(NewsNation) — Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady seems to have landed himself in trouble again after recent comments on his podcast with Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray, “Let’s Go” went viral Monday.
In speaking with onetime NBA champion and former league MVP Kevin Durant, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback compared life-work balance of preparing for the NFL season to going off to war.
“It’s starting to get tricky, though, as I get older and age because I’m starting to experience more as a man outside of me being an athlete,” Durant said. “So, it’s like, where is the balance? It’s definitely been a mental obstacle trying to figure out what’s a good balance between the two.”
Durant’s comments led Brady to compare his view on balancing work and life during the NFL season.
“You know — and you feel certainly me being 45,” Brady said to the Brooklyn Nets star. “Now, it’s like, do I just think the same way? Do I still? I almost look at like a football season, like you’re going away on deployment here and military. And it’s like, man, here I go again.”
While Brady wasn’t trying to make a one-to-one comparison of the NFL season to military deployment, his comments reflected his belief that the NFL season removes him from all the other aspects of his life — except for competing.
“When it comes down to it, your competitiveness takes over. And as much as you want to have this playful balance with work balance, you’re going to end up doing exactly what you’ve always done,” he said.
Either way, the comments have set Twitter ablaze — with fans, military veterans and everyone in between making their displeasure known.
From taking an 11-day hiatus during training sessions, to being caught at Robert Kraft’s wedding during the season, to the Gisele Bündchen divorce rumors, things have been rough for Brady.
And a 3-3 record doesn’t help.
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Denmark Open: Satwiksairaj-Chirag advance to quarterfinal
Satwiksairaj-Chirag prevailed within two straight games by 21-14, 21-16
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The Indian men's doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty advanced to the quarterfinals of the ongoing Denmark Open 2022, defeating the Indonesian duo of Muhammad Shohibul Fikri and Bagas Maulana in their round of 16 match on Thursday. Satwiksairaj-Chirag prevailed within two straight games by 21-14, 21-16.
On the other hand in the women's doubles category, the duo of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand bowed out of the competition after a defeat to Thailand duo of Rawinda Prajongjai and Jongkolphan Kititharakul in their round of 16 match. The Indian duo lost their match by 21-23, 13-21.
Prannoy HS, Lakshya Sen will be in action later this night. Earlier, ace Indian shuttler Prannoy HS advanced to the next round of the ongoing Denmark Open 2022 after defeating Zhao Junpeng of China in his first-round match in the men's singles category on Wednesday.
The Indian defeated his opponent by 21-13, 22-20 within two straight games in a match that lasted 43 minutes. The Indian contingent started their second day of Denmark Open 2022 on a winning note with men's doubles duo Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeating the South Korean duo of Kang Min-hyuk and Seo Seung Jae in the first-round match on Wednesday.
The India duo defeated their opponents 21-15, 21-19 in two straight games in a match that lasted 44 minutes. The CWG 2022 medalist Lakshya Sen also made a winning start to his campaign, defeating Indonesia's Anthony Sinisuka Ginting in the first round 21-16, 21-12.
The match lasted 33 minutes. Indian women's badminton star Saina Nehwal crashed out of the women's singles competition in the first round after a loss to China's Zhang Yiman. She lost the match 17-21, 21-19,11-21. After being a game down, Nehwal made a comeback in the second game but lost the final one
Denmark Open started on October 18 and will conclude on October 23. (ANI)
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JAY, Maine (AP) — Across the U.S., families are looking to the winter with dread as energy costs soar and fuel supplies tighten.
The Department of Energy is projecting sharp price increases for home heating compared with last winter and some worry whether heating assistance programs will be able to make up the difference for struggling families. The situation is even bleaker in Europe, with Russia’s continued curtailment of natural gas pushing prices upward and causing painful shortages.
In Maine, Aaron Raymo saw the writing on the wall and began stocking up on heating oil in 5-gallon increments over the summer as costs crept upward. He filled a container with heating oil as he could afford it, usually on paydays, and used a heating assistance program to top off his 275-gallon oil tank with the arrival of colder weather.
His family is trying to avoid being forced into a difficult decision — choosing between food or heating their home.
“It’s a hard one,” he said. “What are you going to choose for food, or what amount of fuel oil are you going to choose to stay warm?”
A number of factors are converging to create a bleak situation: Global energy consumption has rebounded from the start of the pandemic, and supply was barely keeping pace before the war in Ukraine further reduced supplies.
The National Energy Assistance Directors Association says energy costs will be the highest in more than a decade this winter.
The Energy Department projects heating bills will jump 28% this winter for those who rely on natural gas, used by nearly half of U.S. households for heat. Heating oil is projected to be 27% higher and electricity 10% higher, the agency said.
That comes against inflation rates that accelerated last month with consumer prices growing 6.6%, the fastest such pace in four decades.
The pain will be especially acute in New England, which is heavily reliant on heating oil to keep homes warm. It’s projected to cost more than $2,300 to heat a typical home with heating oil this winter, the energy department said.
Across the country, some are urging utilities to implement a moratorium on winter shut-offs, and members of Congress already added $1 billion in heating aid. But there will be fewer federal dollars than last year when pandemic aid flowed.
In Jay, where Raymo lives with his partner, Lucinda Tyler, and 8-year-old son, residents were already bracing for the worst before the local paper mill announced it’s going to close, putting more than 200 people out of work. That has the potential to wreak havoc on the town budget, and cause higher property taxes that will further eat into residents’ budgets.
Both Raymo and Tyler work full-time jobs. He works as many as 70 or 80 hours a week in an orthopedists’ office and she works from home in shareholder services for a financial services company. They don’t qualify for much help even though they’re scraping by to keep up with repairs, buy gas and put food on the table — and heat their 100-year-old home in a state known for bitter cold weather.
“We work significant hours but it seems that it’s not enough,” said Tyler, who wept with relief when she learned they qualified for even a modest amount of heating assistance.
Last month, Congress added $1 billion in funding to Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, bringing the total to at least $4.8 billion and making additional heating aid available for the start of the winter season.
The third hottest summer on record already strained LIHEAP funding, “so I am glad that we were able to secure these new resources before the cold of winter sets in,” said Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont.
But that level represents an overall reduction from last year, when federal pandemic relief pushed the total energy assistance package past $8 billion.
Some are seeking help who’ve never done so in the past. In Auburn, Maine, 72-year-old Mario Zullo said he worked all his life and never asked for help until last year when he received heating assistance last year. The program helped upgrade his heating.
“It came to us at a time when we needed it the most,” Zullo said.
Mark Wolfe, executive director of NEADA, said he fears the federally funded program won’t be enough because of the high cost of energy and continued instability in energy markets. It could be even worse if the winter is especially cold, he said.
“The crisis is coming,” he said. “There’s a lot of uncertainty and factors in play that could drive these prices higher.”
In Maine, the state has the nation’s oldest population and it’s the most reliant on heating oil, creating a double whammy.
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AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — As cooler weather settles over the United States and many anticipate a seasonal increase in the heating bills at home, others have also looked forward to a seasonal decrease in gas prices that tends to hit somewhere in September and October.
However, as the world continues to navigate shake-ups in supply chains and production strategies caused by COVID-19, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the OPEC+ alliance’s announcement of incoming production cuts, and other factors, the costs of day-to-day errands like grocery shopping and filling gas tanks have become less and less predictable.
What seasons do gas prices change? What causes seasonal gas price changes? How likely is it that things might be different in 2022? Here are a few things to know.
What is ‘winter gas’?
Gas has a certain level of “Reid Vapor Pressure,” or RVP, that impacts how quickly it evaporates. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, it’s a measure of gasoline volatility. Gas with a higher amount of RVP ignites and evaporates more quickly, which can translate into different effects depending on environmental factors like weather. For instance, in cold weather, a higher RVP can be a benefit because gas will ignite and start cars more easily. However, in hot temperatures, an unnecessary amount of gas can burn and evaporate from fuel systems, leading to increased emissions and smog in the air.
Because of the impact RVP levels have on emissions and gas mileage, as noted by GasBuddy and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, a range of federal and state regulations establish guidelines for how much RVP gas can have during certain times of the year. This means that after certain dates, producers and sellers are required to offer gas that is created using a different formula. Generally, that translates into “Winter Gas” containing a higher amount of butane, which is a significant factor for RVP because of its volatility.
Most of those federal guidelines focus on a time frame from May 1 to Sept. 15. However, some regions like eastern Texas and Arizona have an extended summer ozone season that was federally approved, and are therefore allowed to start a bit later in the year.
In Texas, the Regional Low RVP Gasoline program requires that low-RVP gasoline be used in 95 central and eastern-Texas counties during the summer when ozone pollution is at its worst. As noted by the TCEQ, gas sold in those counties must have an RVP of “no greater than 7.8 pounds per square inch (psi)” from June 1 through Oct. 1 of each year. Gas suppliers are required to supply low-RVP gas to those counties from May 1 through Oct. 1 every year.
Low-RVP gas, colloquially, is referred to as “Summer Gas.” The US Energy Information Administration noted that it costs refiners more per gallon to make summer-grade gasoline because it needs to be processed differently in order to achieve a lower RVP as well as comply with other reformulated gasoline regulations that can vary by region.
Meanwhile, “Winter Gas” gets its name because it’s the formula for gas that’s commonly used and produced outside of that May-October season each year, and it’s generally thought to be more efficient in colder weather because its higher volatility means that less energy is needed to ignite it to complete tasks like starting engines.
How does ‘winter gas’ impact gas prices?
While the National Association of Convenience Stores published notes on seasonal gas price fluctuations on its website that focused on the first half of the year, it also offered insight into the generally expected impact of the switch away from “Summer Gas” into the winter-grade formulas.
Refineries tend to schedule “turnaround,” or maintenance, during times of the year when gas demand is at its lowest, such as in January and February. NACS noted that while the turnaround periods are used for maintenance, overhaul, repair, and inspection operations, refineries also take the opportunity to retool for different season-grade fuel production.
Summer-blend gases are not only required but are more expensive to make and have a range of regional expectations. NACS said that this leads to the turnaround period of the year involving refineries working to make as much of the formula as possible, and the extra needed supply for the season as well as the regular increase in demand for fuel contributes to price increases between February and May.
On the other hand, the September end of the “Summer Gas” season is normally expected to provide a welcome decrease in gas prices. As gas demand decreases seasonally and temperatures start to cool, retailers often switch to selling “Winter Gas” around mid-September. The winter blend that’s easier to make, as well as less demand, contributes to lowered gas prices.
When might gas prices drop most this winter?
As noted by the NACS, gas prices traditionally are at their lowest during the first week of February and peak right before Memorial Day. From 2000 until 2022, gas prices tended to increase by about 50 cents from the seasonal low at the beginning of February to the seasonal high in mid-May.
However, even past what NACS referred to as the “unique” conditions of 2021, 2022 has proven to be an even more tumultuous year for gas and energy costs. The traditional forecasts for gas prices have been impacted by a range of factors from inflation in the US to the war in Ukraine, reflected in drastic and sometimes unseasonal fluctuations. For example, instead of that 50-cent difference from February to May, Amarillo gas prices rose by a dollar from the first week of February to the middle of May.
Texas gas prices appeared to peak most recently on June 15, at an average cost of $4.70/gallon across the state. While gas prices generally trended down for the next few months in the state toward an average of $3.18/gallon in mid-September, Amarillo saw an abrupt upshoot over the week of Sept. 15 when prices jumped over 24 cents and nearly erased a month of downward progress.
In Amarillo’s case, the city’s prices stood as an outlier in the region. Judy Stark, the president of the Panhandle Producers & Royalty Owners Association (PPROA), cited several possible sources for the jump at the time, ranging from COVID-19 impacts, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, supply chain issues, and each individual company having the right to sell gasoline at any price they choose.
Stark’s listed factors could provide insight into the apparent volatility of gas prices even as producers switch to a less expensive blend. Further, at the start of October, another impacting factor piled onto the list when major oil-producing countries decided to slash the amount they would deliver to the world economy.
As previously reported by the Associated Press, the OPEC+ alliance’s decision to cut 2 million barrels per day beginning in November was made in an effort by Western allies to cap oil money flowing into Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. While in reality, the production cuts will amount to about 1.2 million barrels a day, due to some OPEC+ countries not being able to meet quotas, Rystad Energy’s Jorge Leon told the AP that it’s still going to have a significant effect on prices.
Higher oil prices are likely to make inflation worse and exacerbate the ongoing European energy crises tied to natural gas supply cutbacks. Adding the rising oil prices onto seasonal increases in the need for heating, electricity, and other gas-related functions, the expert outlooks on inflation, the global economy, and prices at the gas pump don’t appear optimistic.
Unfortunately, the broader negative outlook for oil costs and inflation could also mean that the “Winter Gas” price cuts for 2022 have a negligible effect on pressures at the pump. While in more traditional years the fuel blends have provided noticeable relief for gas prices, other factors in 2022 may have outweighed their specific impact.
Saving on gas in any weather
Aside from betting on seasonal impacts for prices, there are year-round methods to save on gas, including:
Comparing prices within cities and neighborhoods
As previously noted by Stark to MyHighPlains.com, each individual company has the power to choose how much it charges for gasoline. This can contribute to cities having a range of prices within their limits. Different apps and websites like Google Maps or GasBuddy can show generally-updated gas prices in a user’s current area, which may help make strategizing where to stop and fill up easier.
Using gas station apps or websites
In the same vein as price-checking within the area, drivers can also use apps, such as those from GasBuddy or AAA, to check prices as well as reviews for different stations. A number of apps also offer specific gas cards or cashback rewards for users and are free to download and use. Grocery stores also sometimes offer these programs for members, like Sam’s Club.
Strategizing ways, and days, to pay
Gas prices tend to fluctuate daily, as well as weekly and seasonally. On a day-to-day level, sources like GasBuddy have advised that it’s better to fill up the gas tank earlier in the week. In Texas in 2021, for example, the best day to buy gas was Sunday. While Monday or Friday were generally decent options, it appeared that Texas drivers saved more when they favored visiting a gas station to round out their weekend errands.
According to the NACS, gas prices can also vary depending on the way a person pays. Whether they’re using a rewards or membership card aside, the price can fluctuate depending on whether or not a person is using a credit card, debit card, or cash to pay. That can be because of processing payments for cards, or general incentives put in place by companies to encourage customers to pay with cash.
For example, as noted by NACS, a typical range in fees for a $3/gallon, 10-gallon fill-up could look like this:
- Cash payments: No fees.
- Debit card payments: For regulated debit cards, about 2.4 cents per gallon. While debit cards can often be charged the same as the “cash” price, fees can range toward around 2% of the total transaction cost.
- Credit card payments; 7.5 cents per gallon in extra expenses, including “swipe fees” and variable costs. On average, these fees tend to amount to about 2.5% of the total transaction cost.
Adjusting driving habits
AAA and the US Department of Energy published a number of tips for more efficient gas usage, focused mostly on driving habits. Those tips toward efficiency included:
- Maintaining cars and tire pressure according to manufacturer recommendations, often included regular service and air checks;
- Slowing down and following speed limits;
- Avoiding hauling heavy cargo and otherwise removing excess weight;
- Avoiding excessive idling;
- Using cruise control;
- Avoiding “aggressive” driving habits like rapid acceleration and braking.
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Vikas, Nitesh win bronze in India's best show at U23 Worlds in Greco Roman style
Vikas 72kg and Nitesh 97kg won their bronze medal play-offs with ease as Indias Greco Roman wrestlers cherished their best ever show at a global event by winning three medals at the U-23 world championship here.Vikas and Nitesh added to Indias tally on Wednesday night, a day after Sajan Bhanwala broke the barrier with countrys first ever medal in the championship when he claimed a bronze in the 77kg category.Vikas blanked Japans Daigo Kobayashi 6-0 in the bronze bout while Nitesh beat Brazils Igor Fernando Alves de Queiroz by techincal superiority.
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Vikas (72kg) and Nitesh (97kg) won their bronze medal play-offs with ease as India's Greco Roman wrestlers cherished their best ever show at a global event by winning three medals at the U-23 world championship here.
Vikas and Nitesh added to India's tally on Wednesday night, a day after Sajan Bhanwala broke the barrier with country's first ever medal in the championship when he claimed a bronze in the 77kg category.
Vikas blanked Japan's Daigo Kobayashi 6-0 in the bronze bout while Nitesh beat Brazil's Igor Fernando Alves de Queiroz by techincal superiority. The result has come when only six of India's 10 Greco Roman wrestlers secured visas to travel to Spain for the prestigious championship. Four others were denied visa as the Embassy denied visa to overall 21 Indian wrestlers.
Vikas led 1-0 after scoring a point on passivity of his rival. He had got a chance to score more points but defended well from ground position.
In the fast paced second period, Vikas pushed his opponent out of the mat for one more point. He made it 4-0 with a take-down on a counter attack and followed that up with a gut wrench move to make it 6-0.
Vikas stayed strong in his defence too and maintained his lead in the remaining 100 seconds of the bout to ensure a walk up to the podium.
Meanwhile, in the women's competition, Ankush will fight for a gold medal in the 50kg category on Thursday night. She is up against Japan's formidable Yui Susaki, the reigning Olympic and world champion.
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HOUSTON, Texas (KLST/KSAN) — Playoff baseball is in full swing and there have already been some historical marks and memories made that Astros fans will cherish for a lifetime. After the Astros defeated the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series on Wednesday night, you might be tempted to join in on watercooler talk about the team.
If you’re an avid supporter of the Astros it’s safe to say that you know what other fans are talking about. This article, however, is for those who may be new to the sport and looking for a team to root for. This article is for significant others who only cheer when their partner cheers and then questions their sanity when they get sad after a loss. This article is for the ones who don’t know the names Justin Verlander, Jose Altuve, or Yordan Alvarez.
Here’s the information you need to hop on the bandwagon and become a full-time Houston Astros fan.
The Stars
The American League West Champions have a star-studded team. With top to bottom shutdown pitchers to proven hitters, here are some names and stats of players you need to keep your eye on.
The Hitters
- DH/LF Yordan Alvarez
- A pitcher’s nightmare when he steps to the plate, the 2019 Rookie of the Year has been the Astros’ biggest bat since he took the league by storm. He was awarded an All-Star selection during the 2022 campaign and has been dominating in the playoffs, which we’ll get to soon enough.
- 2022 Stats: .306 BA, 1.1019 OPS, 37 HRs, 97 RBIs
- A pitcher’s nightmare when he steps to the plate, the 2019 Rookie of the Year has been the Astros’ biggest bat since he took the league by storm. He was awarded an All-Star selection during the 2022 campaign and has been dominating in the playoffs, which we’ll get to soon enough.
- 2B Jose Altuve
- The 2017 MVP has been nothing short of the heart and soul of the franchise since he made his rookie debut in 2011.
- 2022 Stats: .300 BA, .921 OPS, 28 HRs, 57 RBIs
- The 2017 MVP has been nothing short of the heart and soul of the franchise since he made his rookie debut in 2011.
- 3B Alex Bregman
- The No. 2 overall selection in the 2015 draft grew exactly how the franchise wanted him to. After a slow start to the 2022 campaign, he would go on to earn the Hitter of the Month honor for the month of August. This just so happens to be around the time he welcomed his first child into the world. Coincidence? We think not.
- 2022 Stats: .259 BA, .820 OPS, 23 HRs, 93 RBIs
- The No. 2 overall selection in the 2015 draft grew exactly how the franchise wanted him to. After a slow start to the 2022 campaign, he would go on to earn the Hitter of the Month honor for the month of August. This just so happens to be around the time he welcomed his first child into the world. Coincidence? We think not.
- RF Kyle Tucker
- ‘King Tuck’ earned his first All-Star honor after a hot start to the season. Though he may have cooled off a tad, he is starting to heat back up. A threat at the plate and on the basepaths, this man is sure fun to watch.
- 2022 Stats: .257 BA, ,808 OPS, 30 HRs, 107 RBIs
- ‘King Tuck’ earned his first All-Star honor after a hot start to the season. Though he may have cooled off a tad, he is starting to heat back up. A threat at the plate and on the basepaths, this man is sure fun to watch.
- SS Jeremy Pena
- The University of Maine product had question marks entering the season. The main one is if he can be an efficient replacement for Carlos Correa who signed with the Minnesota Twins this past offseason. Let’s just say that he’s in the race for Rookie of the Year honors. So, it’s safe to say he is going to be just fine.
- 2022 Stats: .253 BA, .715 OPS, 22 HRs, 63 RBIs
- The University of Maine product had question marks entering the season. The main one is if he can be an efficient replacement for Carlos Correa who signed with the Minnesota Twins this past offseason. Let’s just say that he’s in the race for Rookie of the Year honors. So, it’s safe to say he is going to be just fine.
The Pitchers
- SP Justin Verlander
- The ageless wonder. The 39-year-old seems to only throw harder as he gets older. Verlander has been the Astros’ ace since he was traded to the team in 2017. He had to get Tommy John surgery in 2020. How does he bounce back after missing roughly a year and a half? He goes ahead and has a career-best 1.75 ERA, which easily puts him in the running for his third Cy Young award.
- 18-4, 1.75 ERA, 0.829 WHIP, 185 SO, 29 BB, 175.0 IP
- The ageless wonder. The 39-year-old seems to only throw harder as he gets older. Verlander has been the Astros’ ace since he was traded to the team in 2017. He had to get Tommy John surgery in 2020. How does he bounce back after missing roughly a year and a half? He goes ahead and has a career-best 1.75 ERA, which easily puts him in the running for his third Cy Young award.
- SP Framber Valdez
- 2022 was his best season yet as the sinkerballer broke an Astros franchise record for Quality Starts with 25 in a row which was snapped earlier this year. The lefty was a 2022 All-Star selection and led the American League in Innings Pitched, Complete Games and Shutouts.
- 17-6, 2.82 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 194 SO, 67 BB, 201.1 IP
- 2022 was his best season yet as the sinkerballer broke an Astros franchise record for Quality Starts with 25 in a row which was snapped earlier this year. The lefty was a 2022 All-Star selection and led the American League in Innings Pitched, Complete Games and Shutouts.
- SP Luis Garcia
- After finishing second in the 2021 Rookie of the Year race, Garcia has only come out firing in 2022 including a huge game 3 performance in the ALDS. He is a starter of the future for the team and you should be excited for what’s to come.
- 15-8, 3.72 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 157 SO, 47 BB, 157.1 IP
- After finishing second in the 2021 Rookie of the Year race, Garcia has only come out firing in 2022 including a huge game 3 performance in the ALDS. He is a starter of the future for the team and you should be excited for what’s to come.
- P Cristian Javier
- ‘El Reptile’ may not look the best on the stat sheet, but this man has played every role that has been asked of him and he has done it well. The 25-year-old Dominican’s fastball is one of the best in baseball and has the potential to shine brighter when put in a bigger role in the future.
- 11-9, 2.54 ERA, 0.938 WHIP, 194 SO, 52 BB, 148.2 IP
- ‘El Reptile’ may not look the best on the stat sheet, but this man has played every role that has been asked of him and he has done it well. The 25-year-old Dominican’s fastball is one of the best in baseball and has the potential to shine brighter when put in a bigger role in the future.
- RP Ryne Stanek
- On the final game of the regular season, the 31-year-old set an Astros franchise record with the lowest ERA by a reliever with a 1.15. This was not the only way the right-hander made history. He was hotter than the sun when he did not allow an earned run for nearly three months, 27.2 innings.
- 54.2 IP, 1.15 ERA, 62 SO, 31 BBs
- On the final game of the regular season, the 31-year-old set an Astros franchise record with the lowest ERA by a reliever with a 1.15. This was not the only way the right-hander made history. He was hotter than the sun when he did not allow an earned run for nearly three months, 27.2 innings.
What’s going on right now?
The Astros enter the postseason with a 106-56 record which is good for the second-best record in franchise history. It may not have been good enough to set the franchise record, but it was indeed good enough for the best record in the American League, which means the No. 1 seed in the playoffs and a first-round bye.
After the long-awaited bye, the Astros welcomed the Seattle Mariners into Houston and had one of the most memorable Divisional Series in Astros history.
Yordan Alvarez was the hero in Games 1 and 2 of the series when he had a walk-off three-run bomb to end game 1 in an 8-7 score. Then in game 2, Alvarez struck again in the sixth inning to give the Astros a 4-2 win. But somehow, someway, it was Game 3, in which the Astros’ most dangerous slugger did not get a hit in, that will probably be the most memorable.
In a normal baseball game, nine innings would be played, eight and a half if the home team has the lead. Normally, that would be it, maybe there are a couple of extra innings but everyone still goes home in a decent time. What if we told you that an 18-inning game, the equivalent of two full games was played at T-Mobile Park in Seattle on Oct. 15? Let us fill you in.
There have only been four playoff games in MLB history to go more than 18 innings. However, this was the first one in MLB history to go into the 18th inning with a scoreless ballgame. Jeremy Pena was Houston’s hero with a solo shot in the top of the 18th for the go-ahead run to complete the sweep of the Mariners. He becomes the third rookie to home in extras in MLB’s history. The game lasted 6 hours and 22 minutes. To give context as to how players were affected, when the game started, players were battling the sun and shadows, and by the time the dust settled, it was almost night in the Seattle sky.
With the sweep complete, the Astros move on to the American League Championship Series for a best-of-seven series against the New York Yankees. Where the winner of the series will move on to the World Series. Days and game times will be below.
- Game 2: Yankees at Astros, 7:37 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 20 (TBS)
- Game 3: Astros at Yankees, 5:07 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 22 (TBS)
- Game 4: Astros at Yankees, 7:07 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 23 (TBS)
- Game 5*: Astros at Yankees, 4:07 p.m., Monday, Oct. 24 (TBS)
- Game 6*: Yankees at Astros, 6:07 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 25 (TBS)
- Game 7*: Yankees at Astros, 7:37 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 26 (TBS)
*if necessary
We hope this taught you a bit and gave you enough information to hop on the Astros bandwagon. As always, Go ‘Stros. | https://www.fox44news.com/sports/astros/how-to-be-a-bandwagon-astros-fan/ | 2022-10-20T17:07:58 | en | 0.973334 |
By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss quit on Thursday — bowing to the inevitable after a tumultuous term in which her policies triggered turmoil in financial markets and a rebellion in her party that obliterated her authority.
Making a hastily scheduled statement outside her 10 Downing Street office, Truss acknowledged that “I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party.”
She is the third Conservative prime minister to resign in as many years and leaves a divided party seeking a leader who can unify its warring factions. Truss, who said she will remain in office until a replacement is chosen, has been prime minister for just 45 days.
Bitterly divided Conservative Party lawmakers have just a few days to agree on a successor, or face another leadership contest, the third in three years. Potential contenders include former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, who lost to Truss in the last leadership contest, House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace — and Boris Johnson, the former prime minister ousted in July over a series of ethics scandals.
Truss bowed out just a day after vowing to stay in power, saying she was “a fighter and not a quitter.” But she couldn’t hold on any longer after a senior minister quit her government with a barrage of criticism and a vote in the House of Commons descended into chaos and acrimony just days after she was forced to abandon many of her economic policies.
Markets breathed a sigh of relief, and the pound rose about 1% to above $1.13 after Truss’ resignation.
A growing number of lawmakers had called for Truss to resign after weeks of turmoil sparked by her Sept. 23 economic plan, which included a raft of tax cuts that spooked financial markets that investors worried Britain couldn’t afford.
That tumult resulted in the replacement of Truss’ Treasury chief, multiple policy U-turns and a breakdown of discipline in the governing Conservative Party.
Where the party goes from here is not clear.
“Nobody has a route plan. It’s all sort of hand-to-hand fighting on a day-to-day basis,” Conservative lawmaker Simon Hoare told the BBC on Thursday before Truss resigned.
She quit after a meeting with Graham Brady, a senior Conservative lawmaker who oversees leadership challenges. Brady was tasked with assessing whether the prime minister still has the support of Tory members of Parliament.
But by that point, the chorus of voices calling for her ouster was growing.
“It’s time for the prime minister to go,” Conservative lawmaker Miriam Cates said. Another, Steve Double, said of Truss: “She isn’t up to the job, sadly.” Legislator Ruth Edwards said “it is not responsible for the party to allow her to remain in power.”
Truss’ downfall was so rapid that Brady was unable to spell out exactly how the selection of a new leader would unfold, and whether the party’s 172,000 members, or only its 357 lawmakers, would get a say.
Brady said he was “deeply conscious of the imperative in the national interest of resolving this clearly and quickly,” and the new leader would be in place by Oct. 28.
Whoever succeeds Truss will be the country’s third prime minister this year alone. A national election doesn’t have to be held until 2024, but opposition parties demanded one be held now, saying the government lacks democratic legitimacy.
“The Conservative Party has shown it no longer has a mandate to govern,” said Labour Party leader Keir Starmer. “We must have a chance at a fresh start. We need a general election – now.”
Conservative lawmakers’ anger grew after a Wednesday evening vote over fracking for shale gas produced chaotic scenes in Parliament, with party whips accused of using heavy-handed tactics to gain votes.
Chris Bryant, a lawmaker from the opposition Labour Party, said he “saw members being physically manhandled … and being bullied.” Conservative officials denied there was manhandling.
Truss’ downfall was also hastened by the resignation on Wednesday of Home Secretary Suella Braverman. She lambasted Truss in her resignation letter, saying she had “concerns about the direction of this government.”
Newspapers that usually support the Conservatives were vitriolic. An editorial in the Daily Mail was headlined: “The wheels have come off the Tory clown car.”
The dramatic series of events began after Truss and her Treasury chief, Kwasi Kwarteng, unveiled an economic plan with 45 billion pounds ($50 billion) in unfunded tax cuts that resulted in a hammering of the value of the pound and increased the cost of U.K. government borrowing. The Bank of England was forced to intervene to prevent the crisis from spreading to the wider economy and putting pension funds at risk.
Truss fired Kwarteng, and his replacement, Hunt, scrapped almost all of Truss’ tax cuts, along with her flagship energy policy and her promise of no public spending cuts. He said the government will need to save billions of pounds and there are “many difficult decisions” to be made before he sets out a medium-term fiscal plan on Oct. 31.
Speaking to lawmakers for the first time since the U-turn, Truss apologized Wednesday and admitted she had made mistakes during her six weeks in office, but insisted that by changing course she had “taken responsibility and made the right decisions in the interest of the country’s economic stability.”
Still, Truss said she would not region — a resolve that was short-lived. Her departure on Thursday sparked jubilation for the tabloid Daily Star, which has set up a livestream featuring a photo of the prime minister beside a head of lettuce to see which would last longer.
“This lettuce outlasted Liz Truss!” it proclaimed Thursday.
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NBA's Durant latest high-profile athlete to invest in pickleball
Two-time NBA champion and former league Most Valuable Player Kevin Durant on Thursday became the latest high-profile athlete to buy a Major League Pickleball (MLP) expansion team.
Two-time NBA champion and former league Most Valuable Player Kevin Durant on Thursday became the latest high-profile athlete to buy a Major League Pickleball (MLP) expansion team. The Brooklyn Nets forward and business partner Rich Kleiman announced that their Thirty Five Ventures (35V) firm purchased a pickleball team that is set to compete in the 2023 MLP season.
MLP Founder and Chief Executive Officer Steve Kuhn said Durant, who led the Golden State Warriors to NBA titles in 2017 and 2018, and Kleiman would be "game-changing partners" for the league. "They not only bring passion for the game, but also unrivaled expertise to help us to continue to grow," Kuhn said in a news release.
"We're especially excited about their plans to bring pickleball to underserved communities – something they have done with basketball for years." Other MLP team owners and partners include four-time NBA champion LeBron James, Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks Tom Brady and Drew Brees as well as former world number one tennis player Kim Clijsters.
The MLP will expand from 12 teams to 16 next season, with the number of events doubling from three to six and the total prizemoney set to surpass $2 million. Invented in 1965, pickleball is a fast-paced paddle sport similar to tennis and badminton, though it is played on a smaller court with a net using a perforated plastic ball.
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By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss quit on Thursday — bowing to the inevitable after a tumultuous term in which her policies triggered turmoil in financial markets and a rebellion in her party that obliterated her authority.
Making a hastily scheduled statement outside her 10 Downing Street office, Truss acknowledged that “I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party.”
She is the third Conservative prime minister to resign in as many years and leaves a divided party seeking a leader who can unify its warring factions. Truss, who said she will remain in office until a replacement is chosen, has been prime minister for just 45 days.
Bitterly divided Conservative Party lawmakers have just a few days to agree on a successor, or face another leadership contest, the third in three years. Potential contenders include former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, who lost to Truss in the last leadership contest, House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace — and Boris Johnson, the former prime minister ousted in July over a series of ethics scandals.
Truss bowed out just a day after vowing to stay in power, saying she was “a fighter and not a quitter.” But she couldn’t hold on any longer after a senior minister quit her government with a barrage of criticism and a vote in the House of Commons descended into chaos and acrimony just days after she was forced to abandon many of her economic policies.
Markets breathed a sigh of relief, and the pound rose about 1% to above $1.13 after Truss’ resignation.
A growing number of lawmakers had called for Truss to resign after weeks of turmoil sparked by her Sept. 23 economic plan, which included a raft of tax cuts that spooked financial markets that investors worried Britain couldn’t afford.
That tumult resulted in the replacement of Truss’ Treasury chief, multiple policy U-turns and a breakdown of discipline in the governing Conservative Party.
Where the party goes from here is not clear.
“Nobody has a route plan. It’s all sort of hand-to-hand fighting on a day-to-day basis,” Conservative lawmaker Simon Hoare told the BBC on Thursday before Truss resigned.
She quit after a meeting with Graham Brady, a senior Conservative lawmaker who oversees leadership challenges. Brady was tasked with assessing whether the prime minister still has the support of Tory members of Parliament.
But by that point, the chorus of voices calling for her ouster was growing.
“It’s time for the prime minister to go,” Conservative lawmaker Miriam Cates said. Another, Steve Double, said of Truss: “She isn’t up to the job, sadly.” Legislator Ruth Edwards said “it is not responsible for the party to allow her to remain in power.”
Truss’ downfall was so rapid that Brady was unable to spell out exactly how the selection of a new leader would unfold, and whether the party’s 172,000 members, or only its 357 lawmakers, would get a say.
Brady said he was “deeply conscious of the imperative in the national interest of resolving this clearly and quickly,” and the new leader would be in place by Oct. 28.
Whoever succeeds Truss will be the country’s third prime minister this year alone. A national election doesn’t have to be held until 2024, but opposition parties demanded one be held now, saying the government lacks democratic legitimacy.
“The Conservative Party has shown it no longer has a mandate to govern,” said Labour Party leader Keir Starmer. “We must have a chance at a fresh start. We need a general election – now.”
Conservative lawmakers’ anger grew after a Wednesday evening vote over fracking for shale gas produced chaotic scenes in Parliament, with party whips accused of using heavy-handed tactics to gain votes.
Chris Bryant, a lawmaker from the opposition Labour Party, said he “saw members being physically manhandled … and being bullied.” Conservative officials denied there was manhandling.
Truss’ downfall was also hastened by the resignation on Wednesday of Home Secretary Suella Braverman. She lambasted Truss in her resignation letter, saying she had “concerns about the direction of this government.”
Newspapers that usually support the Conservatives were vitriolic. An editorial in the Daily Mail was headlined: “The wheels have come off the Tory clown car.”
The dramatic series of events began after Truss and her Treasury chief, Kwasi Kwarteng, unveiled an economic plan with 45 billion pounds ($50 billion) in unfunded tax cuts that resulted in a hammering of the value of the pound and increased the cost of U.K. government borrowing. The Bank of England was forced to intervene to prevent the crisis from spreading to the wider economy and putting pension funds at risk.
Truss fired Kwarteng, and his replacement, Hunt, scrapped almost all of Truss’ tax cuts, along with her flagship energy policy and her promise of no public spending cuts. He said the government will need to save billions of pounds and there are “many difficult decisions” to be made before he sets out a medium-term fiscal plan on Oct. 31.
Speaking to lawmakers for the first time since the U-turn, Truss apologized Wednesday and admitted she had made mistakes during her six weeks in office, but insisted that by changing course she had “taken responsibility and made the right decisions in the interest of the country’s economic stability.”
Still, Truss said she would not region — a resolve that was short-lived. Her departure on Thursday sparked jubilation for the tabloid Daily Star, which has set up a livestream featuring a photo of the prime minister beside a head of lettuce to see which would last longer.
“This lettuce outlasted Liz Truss!” it proclaimed Thursday.
___
Follow AP’s coverage of British politics at https://apnews.com/hub/liz-truss
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INDIANAPOLIS – The competition continues to be as tight as ever through the first six weeks of the NFL season. So far, 74 games have been within one score in the fourth quarter.
More of the same is expected in the Week 7 schedule, especially in Nashville where the Colts and Titans meet for sole possession of first place in the AFC South.
The surprising Giants look to move to 6-1, while the Buccaneers, Packers and Ravens look to get on track after uncharacteristic slow starts.
WXIN’s Chris Hagan takes a look at the entire 14-game slate on “Big Game Bound.” WKRN sports director Cory Curtis joins Chris to talk about Sunday’s Indianapolis-Tennessee tilt.
This week’s show also features reports from Green Bay, Pittsburgh and New England, along with picks from Jarett Payton.
“Big Game Bound” streams every Thursday at 12 p.m. ET leading up to Super Bowl LVII. | https://www.fox44news.com/sports/the-big-game/big-game-bound-spotlight-shines-on-afc-south-showdown-for-week-7/ | 2022-10-20T17:08:04 | en | 0.946774 |
ILT20 to introduce 'Smartball' technology in inaugural tournament
The Smartball will assist ILT20 in providing real-time, in-depth analytics, and serve to enhance player performance
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ILT20 aims to take its fan engagement into the stratosphere by partnering with 'Smartball' for the opening edition of the International League T20. When the six franchises face off against each other in the enthralling tournament, starting January 2023, the Smartball will assist ILT20 in providing real-time, in-depth analytics, and serve to enhance player performance much to the delight of cricket-fans across the globe.
As per a press release from ILT20, Smartball's cutting-edge technology consists of an 'IoT' device in the nucleus of the ball, which acts as the connection between various devices and portals - technology - communication - cloud, tracking various data points such as the speed of the ball, revolutions per minute, distance the ball travels after being struck by a batter, detection of the ball connecting with the bat or, in fact, any surface, measuring the change in direction the ball propels through the air or off the pitch, among many other needed and engaging statistics. Through Bluetooth-driven technology, the data given by the Smartball will be transferred to the tournament's match analytics provider who will then provide this integral data to the tournament's commentary, franchise and statistician teams - for the benefit of all.
Speaking about the introduction of the Smartball, Mubashshir Usmani, General Secretary, Emirates Cricket Board said, "With technology growing at a rapid pace, we have a responsibility of not only keeping up with but staying well ahead of the times, commitment to innovation is one of the core values of the ILT20 and this partnership is a testament to this." "Therefore, we are delighted to introduce Smartball in the first season of the ILT20. Data has become an integral part of the cricketing world, and our way of life, today's fans want to know all kinds of data about their favourite stars in action. We are eager to witness the effect of Smartball in the upcoming season," he added.
Speaking about their product, Zane Hall, CEO SportsCor said "The technology contained within these hand-crafted Kookaburra balls sends information from the ball to the end user in no more than 2.2seconds - an extremely valuable tool for any commentator or high-performance manager needing split-second data." Inviting two well-respected greats of the game to share their views, Wasim Akram said: "This is something new, something exciting, something useful. As a bowler, you can gauge how the ball will swing or react on a certain pitch, but with this technology you, again as a bowler, can go back after the game and assess the actual data and understand how to start (the next game)."
"As a commentator, I will be able to see the swing, the pace off the pitch, from the air and how much it spins, that's something new and will be a lot of help," he added. Dwayne Bravo commented, "The direction cricket is going this (technology) will definitely come in handy. Data is very important, it is crucial for captains, coaches and the player, (so) the feedback the ball will give you will help prepare you (for the next game) and move you forward in the tournament. It is good, I played with this ball last season and was not aware. It is something for the bowlers."
Making its debut in January (2023), the inaugural ILT20, which has received multi-year ICC approval, will be played in a 34-match format across the UAE's world-class Cricket facilities in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. Franchise teams, comprising 84 International and 24 UAE-based players, include Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (Kolkata Knight Riders), Desert Vipers (Lancer Capital), Dubai Capitals (GMR), Gulf Giants (Adani Sportsline), MI Emirates (Reliance Industries), and Sharjah Warriors (Capri Global)
Cricket fans across the world can catch the LIVE telecast of this exciting cricket league on the League's Official Media Partner ZEE's linear channels. (ANI)
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By ALEX VEIGA
AP Business Writer
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in September for the eighth month in a row, matching the pre-pandemic sales pace from 10 years ago, as house hunters grappled with sharply higher mortgage rates, rising home prices and a still tight supply of properties on the market.
The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that existing home sales fell 1.5% last month from August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.71 million. That’s slightly higher than what economists were expecting, according to FactSet.
Sales fell 23.8% from September last year, and are now at the slowest annual pace since September 2012, excluding the steep slowdown in sales that occurred in May 2020 near the start of the pandemic.
The national median home price rose 8.4% in September from a year earlier to $384,800.
The housing market has been slowing this year because of rising mortgage rates. The average rate on a 30-year home loan rose to 6.94% this week, the highest rate since April 2002, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac. A year earlier, the rate averaged 3.09%.
Higher mortgage rates reduce homebuyers’ purchasing power, resulting in fewer people being able to afford to buy a home. Consider, a buyer who got a 3% rate on a 30-year mortgage to buy a $300,000 home last year would only be able to borrow $190,000 today for the same monthly payment.
“This is why the buyers have essentially been pushed out of the market,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist.
Mortgage rates have risen sharply along with the 10-year Treasury yield, which has been climbing amid expectations that the Federal Reserve will keep hiking interest rates in its bid to bring down inflation. The 10-year yield reached its highest level since June 2008 this week.
Because a lag of a month or two usually exists between a signed home purchase contract and a completed sale, the impact from the latest increase in mortgage rates won’t show up in sales for several weeks. That likely means further home sales declines ahead, Yun said.
Surging home loan rates don’t just make homes less affordable, they also discourage homeowners who locked in an ultra-low rate the last couple of years from buying a new home. That, in turn, can limit the number of homes that are available for sale.
The inventory of homes on the market declined in September for the second month in a row. Some 1.25 million homes were on the market by the end of the month, down 2.3% from August and 0.8% versus September last year, NAR said.
“Homes are sitting on the market longer, just lingering on the market,” Yun said. “The buyers have disappeared.”
On average, homes sold in just 19 days of hitting the market last month, up from 16 days in August. Before the pandemic, homes typically sold more than 30 days after being listed for sale.
At the current sales pace, the level of for-sale properties amounts to a 3.2-month supply, Yun said. That’s unchanged from August. In a more balanced market between buyers and sellers there is a 5- to 6-month supply.
While competition for homes has eased as mortgage rates have surged, it’s not unusual for sellers to receive multiple offers because there are so few properties on the market. That’s helping push home prices higher, even in a slowing market.
Still, Yun expects home prices will decline in roughly half the country next year, with states where home values skyrocketed in recent years experiencing the biggest declines. That includes California, where prices could fall 10% next year, he said.
“Higher mortgage rates always impact these expensive markets more heavily than other markets,” Yun said.
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In this second course, you will dive deeper into the world of bookkeeping and focus on accounting for assets. If you are familiar with bookkeeping basics, such as double entry accounting, you are ready for this course. You will gain an understanding of common asset types, learn how to account for inventory, calculate cost of goods sold, and work with Property, Plant, and Equipment (PP&E). Upon completing this course, you will use your new knowledge of assets to record transactions and produce financial statements for increasingly complex business situations. By the end of this course, you will be able to: -Summarize the common types of assets a business may have -Describe the importance of control over inventory -Outline how depreciation expense is reported on an income statement -Illustrate how transactions can be recorded in terms of the resulting change in the elements of the accounting equation. Course 1 Bookkeeper Basics, or the equivalent, is a recommended prerequisite for this course. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/accounting-assets/bad-debt-overview-and-write-off-methods-4vfDq | 2022-10-20T17:08:12 | en | 0.927623 |
By ALEX VEIGA
AP Business Writer
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in September for the eighth month in a row, matching the pre-pandemic sales pace from 10 years ago, as house hunters grappled with sharply higher mortgage rates, rising home prices and a still tight supply of properties on the market.
The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that existing home sales fell 1.5% last month from August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.71 million. That’s slightly higher than what economists were expecting, according to FactSet.
Sales fell 23.8% from September last year, and are now at the slowest annual pace since September 2012, excluding the steep slowdown in sales that occurred in May 2020 near the start of the pandemic.
The national median home price rose 8.4% in September from a year earlier to $384,800.
The housing market has been slowing this year because of rising mortgage rates. The average rate on a 30-year home loan rose to 6.94% this week, the highest rate since April 2002, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac. A year earlier, the rate averaged 3.09%.
Higher mortgage rates reduce homebuyers’ purchasing power, resulting in fewer people being able to afford to buy a home. Consider, a buyer who got a 3% rate on a 30-year mortgage to buy a $300,000 home last year would only be able to borrow $190,000 today for the same monthly payment.
“This is why the buyers have essentially been pushed out of the market,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist.
Mortgage rates have risen sharply along with the 10-year Treasury yield, which has been climbing amid expectations that the Federal Reserve will keep hiking interest rates in its bid to bring down inflation. The 10-year yield reached its highest level since June 2008 this week.
Because a lag of a month or two usually exists between a signed home purchase contract and a completed sale, the impact from the latest increase in mortgage rates won’t show up in sales for several weeks. That likely means further home sales declines ahead, Yun said.
Surging home loan rates don’t just make homes less affordable, they also discourage homeowners who locked in an ultra-low rate the last couple of years from buying a new home. That, in turn, can limit the number of homes that are available for sale.
The inventory of homes on the market declined in September for the second month in a row. Some 1.25 million homes were on the market by the end of the month, down 2.3% from August and 0.8% versus September last year, NAR said.
“Homes are sitting on the market longer, just lingering on the market,” Yun said. “The buyers have disappeared.”
On average, homes sold in just 19 days of hitting the market last month, up from 16 days in August. Before the pandemic, homes typically sold more than 30 days after being listed for sale.
At the current sales pace, the level of for-sale properties amounts to a 3.2-month supply, Yun said. That’s unchanged from August. In a more balanced market between buyers and sellers there is a 5- to 6-month supply.
While competition for homes has eased as mortgage rates have surged, it’s not unusual for sellers to receive multiple offers because there are so few properties on the market. That’s helping push home prices higher, even in a slowing market.
Still, Yun expects home prices will decline in roughly half the country next year, with states where home values skyrocketed in recent years experiencing the biggest declines. That includes California, where prices could fall 10% next year, he said.
“Higher mortgage rates always impact these expensive markets more heavily than other markets,” Yun said.
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Anish and Simranpreet win Rapid Fire Pistol Mixed Team silver
In fact they had also taken the lead at 8-6 at one point but the Ukrainians came in with the stronger finish.Anish was particularly good in the final, registering seven perfect fives in the 15-series.In the other highlight of the day, all three Indians made it through their elimination relays in the Womens 50m Rifle 3 Positions 3P competition, which has four Paris 2024 Olympics quota places at stake.
- Country:
- Egypt
Anish and Simranpreet Kaur Brar won a silver medal at the ISSF World Championship after going down 14-16 to the experienced Ukrainian pair of Yulia Korostylova and Maksym Horodynets in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Mixed Team event, here Thursday. The medal took India's tally to 26, including 10 gold, six silver and 10 bronze medals and they remain second behind China in the table.
Anish and Simranpreet shot solidly throughout the day at the Egypt International Olympic City (EIOC) Shooting Range, topping qualification stage with a combined 575 after 30 shots each. Stage two -- narrowed down to eight from 14 teams -- saw them come out on top yet again with a score of 383 out of a possible 400. The Ukranians came second to follow them into the final with 380. At this stage, Rhythm Sangwan and Vijayveer Sidhu, the second Indian pair in the top eight, bowed out in fifth place.
It was a nail-biting final as fortunes kept swinging throughout the 15 five-shot series that it took to reach 16 points. The young Indian pair tied it at 6-6, 9-9, 11-11 and then finally 14-14, before going down in the 15th and final series. In fact they had also taken the lead at 8-6 at one point but the Ukrainians came in with the stronger finish.
Anish was particularly good in the final, registering seven perfect fives in the 15-series.
In the other highlight of the day, all three Indians made it through their elimination relays in the Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions (3P) competition, which has four Paris 2024 Olympics quota places at stake. Anjum Moudgil shot 587 to finish fourth in relay one. Shooters in this event shoot 20-shots each in the Kneeling, Prone and finally the Standing positions. Sift Kaur Samra shot 585 to be placed seventh in elimination relay two along with Ashi Chouksey, who shot 581 in the same relay for an 18th place finish.
Esha Singh topped her qualifying round in the 10m Air Pistol Women Junior event with a score of 578, but finished fifth in the ranking round with a score of 199.4.
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In this second course, you will dive deeper into the world of bookkeeping and focus on accounting for assets. If you are familiar with bookkeeping basics, such as double entry accounting, you are ready for this course. You will gain an understanding of common asset types, learn how to account for inventory, calculate cost of goods sold, and work with Property, Plant, and Equipment (PP&E). Upon completing this course, you will use your new knowledge of assets to record transactions and produce financial statements for increasingly complex business situations. By the end of this course, you will be able to: -Summarize the common types of assets a business may have -Describe the importance of control over inventory -Outline how depreciation expense is reported on an income statement -Illustrate how transactions can be recorded in terms of the resulting change in the elements of the accounting equation. Course 1 Bookkeeper Basics, or the equivalent, is a recommended prerequisite for this course. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/accounting-assets/cash-and-ar-errors-jFgis | 2022-10-20T17:08:19 | en | 0.927623 |
By DAMIAN J. TROISE
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday as markets continue an unsteady search for direction amid more mixed news on company earnings.
The S&P 500 rose 0.4% as of 11:29 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 197 points, or 0.7%, to 30,626 and the Nasdaq rose 0.9%.
Treasury yields were relatively stable and remained at multiyear highs, which has helped push up rates on mortgages and other loans. The yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed to 4.16 from 4.14% late Wednesday and is at its highest levels in 14 years. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which tends to track expectations for future Federal Reserve action, fell to 4.55% from 4.56%.
Earnings have been the big focus for Wall Street all week as investors try to get a better picture of how companies are faring amid the hottest inflation in four decades and how they see the economy moving forward.
The results have been mixed so far. Several big companies released encouraging financial results, while others have disappointed investors with weak or worrisome warnings.
IBM rose 3.7% after its third-quarter earnings and revenue topped analysts’ forecasts. AT&T jumped 9% after also reporting strong results.
Tesla fell 3.9% after saying it will miss its target for vehicle deliveries this year. Railroad Union Pacific slipped 4.1% after predicting slower growth, suggesting that the economy may be slowing down. CSX, which reports its results later Thursday, fell 0.5%. American Airlines fell 3.4% after reporting its latest results.
Technology stocks made strong gains. Microsoft rose 1.4%. Energy stocks gained ground as U.S. oil prices rose 1.4%. Chevron rose 1.1%.
Markets in Europe were mostly higher. British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned following financial market turmoil caused by multiple policy U-turns.
Investors remain concerned about inflation and the potential for recessions throughout world. Wall Street is particularly worried about the Fed’s ongoing plan to raise interest rates in order to slow economic growth and tame high prices. The U.S. economy is already showing signs of a slowdown and the Fed’s plan risks stalling the economy and causing a recession.
The employment market has remained a strong area of the economy, along with consumer spending. The latest government data showed that the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week and remains historically low.
The healthy jobs market has been a tricky sticking point for the broader economy. While positive, it also signals that the Fed will have to remain aggressive in raising interest rates. Fed officials have warned that the unemployment rate will likely have to rise as part of their fight against rising prices.
The central bank has raised its key interest rate to a range of 3% to 3.25%. A little more than six months ago, that rate was near zero. The rate increases have been putting pressure on other areas of the economy, including the housing market.
The sharp rate increases have pushed mortgage rates up to 15-year highs. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average on the key 30-year rate ticked up this week to 6.94% from 6.92% last week. Last year at this time, the rate was 3.09%.
Higher mortgage rates are helping stall a housing sector that has been hot for years. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in September for the eighth month in a row.
___
Elaine Kurtenbach and Matt Ott contributed to this report.
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Haas F1 inks MoneyGram to 3-year title sponsorship deal
Eight months after Haas F1 hastily pulled Russian sponsorship off its cars following Russias invasion of Ukraine, the team has a new title sponsor.
- Country:
- United States
Eight months after Haas F1 hastily pulled Russian sponsorship off its cars following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the team has a new title sponsor. Even better for Haas, the only American-owned team in Formula One will now be backed by a global company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. MoneyGram was introduced as the new title sponsor for the Haas race team on Thursday ahead of the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas. The team will be called MoneyGram Haas F1 beginning next season and the two-car livery will change for a look that incorporates the red and white colors favored by both Haas Automation and MoneyGram, a digital money transfer company. It is a three-year entitlement deal, the Associated Press has learned, and gives the Haas team an American-based anchor as the team continues to fend off bigger F1 organizations tapping into the North American market. “This was the best sponsor for us,” Guenther Steiner, team principal of Haas, told the AP. ”We had interest, serious interest, from another company and we chose MoneyGram and one of the reasons was because the other company was not American. “That matters a lot to me because we are the only American team, and we are showing how fast the sport has grown that a smaller team like ours can get a big sponsor like MoneyGram. It brings so much value to the team.” Haas, which is partially run from the shared North Carolina campus with the Stewart-Haas Racing NASCAR team, launched in 2016 as a way for Gene Haas to put his tool machine company on a global stage. Haas Automation has seen an international boost from its presence in F1, but Haas would like to make money, as well. Steiner said the F1 team has yet to turn a profit with Haas and Haas Automation absorbing the losses. The need for outside sponsorship is vital and Haas has had a bad stretch of luck finding good partners. Haas signed a multi-year deal ahead of the 2019 season with a London-based energy drink company and dropped the Haas Automation colors for Rich Energy's black-and-gold look. But the two sides didn't even make it to the end of the season in a bitter split that forced Haas to reevaluate its spending. The team decided to essentially freeze spending ahead of the 2021 season, the last with that version of the F1 car. Haas cut costs by releasing veteran drivers Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen, and signing a pair of rookies in Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin. With Mazepin came a new entitlement deal in which the Russian fertilizer company owned by Mazepin's father was now funding the American cars. The red, white and blue on the the cars was re-arranged to resemble the Russian flag, and that's how the team ran in 2021 when Mazepin was one of the worst drivers on the grid. Mazepin was due to return for a second season but Haas reacted to Russia's invasion of Ukraine by dropping both Uralkali and the driver a month before F1's season opener. Alex Holmes, chairman and CEO of MoneyGram, was aware of Haas' sponsorship fiascos. Holmes wondered if the notion that Haas is one of the more cash-strapped teams on the grid has been fueled by a perception created on the popular “Drive to Survive” behind-the-scenes Netflix hit. “They would not be in Formula One, competing in Formula One, if they had actual, real, financial trouble,” said Holmes. “At the end of the day, when you look at any sponsorship or looking at putting your name anywhere, there is a lot of reputational thought consideration. You want to make sure who you are partnering with are good people, they've got drivers who say the right things, and you want to have a good partnership you feel good about.” MoneyGram, founded in 1980, has been involved in sports sponsorship for some time, including Dallas FC near its headquarters, but has now partnered with the sport with the fastest growing North American viewing audience in its new deal with Haas. Haas is a backmarker team and MoneyGram could have done deals with the paddock's top teams. But with Haas it could get title sponsorship, and because F1 races on five different continents, the value of the deal was too good for MoneyGram not to buy the rights.
“The coverage we are going to get for that and the return on value — I mean, it's expensive to sponsor a sport. It's expensive to sponsor Formula One,” Holmes told AP. “But when you get passive value, it's very different from active value, and I think we're getting just an incredible amount of active value just from the amount of global coverage in the sport and we know the MoneyGram F1 cars will be on TV nearly every week around the world.'' AP BS BS
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In this second course, you will dive deeper into the world of bookkeeping and focus on accounting for assets. If you are familiar with bookkeeping basics, such as double entry accounting, you are ready for this course. You will gain an understanding of common asset types, learn how to account for inventory, calculate cost of goods sold, and work with Property, Plant, and Equipment (PP&E). Upon completing this course, you will use your new knowledge of assets to record transactions and produce financial statements for increasingly complex business situations. By the end of this course, you will be able to: -Summarize the common types of assets a business may have -Describe the importance of control over inventory -Outline how depreciation expense is reported on an income statement -Illustrate how transactions can be recorded in terms of the resulting change in the elements of the accounting equation. Course 1 Bookkeeper Basics, or the equivalent, is a recommended prerequisite for this course. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/accounting-assets/checking-in-with-summer-and-sophia-l71qA | 2022-10-20T17:08:25 | en | 0.927623 |
By DAMIAN J. TROISE
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday as markets continue an unsteady search for direction amid more mixed news on company earnings.
The S&P 500 rose 0.4% as of 11:29 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 197 points, or 0.7%, to 30,626 and the Nasdaq rose 0.9%.
Treasury yields were relatively stable and remained at multiyear highs, which has helped push up rates on mortgages and other loans. The yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed to 4.16 from 4.14% late Wednesday and is at its highest levels in 14 years. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which tends to track expectations for future Federal Reserve action, fell to 4.55% from 4.56%.
Earnings have been the big focus for Wall Street all week as investors try to get a better picture of how companies are faring amid the hottest inflation in four decades and how they see the economy moving forward.
The results have been mixed so far. Several big companies released encouraging financial results, while others have disappointed investors with weak or worrisome warnings.
IBM rose 3.7% after its third-quarter earnings and revenue topped analysts’ forecasts. AT&T jumped 9% after also reporting strong results.
Tesla fell 3.9% after saying it will miss its target for vehicle deliveries this year. Railroad Union Pacific slipped 4.1% after predicting slower growth, suggesting that the economy may be slowing down. CSX, which reports its results later Thursday, fell 0.5%. American Airlines fell 3.4% after reporting its latest results.
Technology stocks made strong gains. Microsoft rose 1.4%. Energy stocks gained ground as U.S. oil prices rose 1.4%. Chevron rose 1.1%.
Markets in Europe were mostly higher. British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned following financial market turmoil caused by multiple policy U-turns.
Investors remain concerned about inflation and the potential for recessions throughout world. Wall Street is particularly worried about the Fed’s ongoing plan to raise interest rates in order to slow economic growth and tame high prices. The U.S. economy is already showing signs of a slowdown and the Fed’s plan risks stalling the economy and causing a recession.
The employment market has remained a strong area of the economy, along with consumer spending. The latest government data showed that the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week and remains historically low.
The healthy jobs market has been a tricky sticking point for the broader economy. While positive, it also signals that the Fed will have to remain aggressive in raising interest rates. Fed officials have warned that the unemployment rate will likely have to rise as part of their fight against rising prices.
The central bank has raised its key interest rate to a range of 3% to 3.25%. A little more than six months ago, that rate was near zero. The rate increases have been putting pressure on other areas of the economy, including the housing market.
The sharp rate increases have pushed mortgage rates up to 15-year highs. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average on the key 30-year rate ticked up this week to 6.94% from 6.92% last week. Last year at this time, the rate was 3.09%.
Higher mortgage rates are helping stall a housing sector that has been hot for years. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in September for the eighth month in a row.
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Elaine Kurtenbach and Matt Ott contributed to this report.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin police are investigating how private photos and video of members of the school’s national champion women’s volleyball team got circulated publicly without their consent. Wisconsin’s athletic department says players contacted campus police after they became aware the photos had been made public. The volleyball players aren’t being investigated for wrongdoing. University of Wisconsin police spokesman Marc Lovicott confirmed the investigation, but details are not being disclosed.
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Lafferty banned for 10 games in Scotland for sectarian slur
- Country:
- Canada
Northern Ireland international Kyle Lafferty was handed a 10-match ban by the Scottish Football Association on Thursday for using a sectarian slur toward a fan.
A video showed the 35-year-old Lafferty appearing to pose for a photo with a fan who then expressed support for Celtic, the defending Scottish champion which traditionally is supported by people of Catholic faith.
Lafferty, who played for Rangers — Celtic's fierce rival in Glasgow — in two spells, was then heard using an expletive and derogatory term for Catholics and Irish nationalists.
Lafferty's current Scottish club, Kilmarnock, launched an investigation while the striker was pulled out of Northern Ireland's squad for Nations League games last month.
At a hearing held by the Scottish FA, Lafferty was found to have breached two disciplinary rules relating to “indecent or insulting words or behavior” and using offensive language including reference to a person's religion or beliefs.
The suspension takes place with immediate effect, the SFA said.
The length of the ban follows FIFA and UEFA guidelines on discriminatory behavior. AP BS BS
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In this second course, you will dive deeper into the world of bookkeeping and focus on accounting for assets. If you are familiar with bookkeeping basics, such as double entry accounting, you are ready for this course. You will gain an understanding of common asset types, learn how to account for inventory, calculate cost of goods sold, and work with Property, Plant, and Equipment (PP&E). Upon completing this course, you will use your new knowledge of assets to record transactions and produce financial statements for increasingly complex business situations. By the end of this course, you will be able to: -Summarize the common types of assets a business may have -Describe the importance of control over inventory -Outline how depreciation expense is reported on an income statement -Illustrate how transactions can be recorded in terms of the resulting change in the elements of the accounting equation. Course 1 Bookkeeper Basics, or the equivalent, is a recommended prerequisite for this course. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/accounting-assets/contra-asset-accounts-Nkig1 | 2022-10-20T17:08:35 | en | 0.927623 |
In this second course, you will dive deeper into the world of bookkeeping and focus on accounting for assets. If you are familiar with bookkeeping basics, such as double entry accounting, you are ready for this course. You will gain an understanding of common asset types, learn how to account for inventory, calculate cost of goods sold, and work with Property, Plant, and Equipment (PP&E). Upon completing this course, you will use your new knowledge of assets to record transactions and produce financial statements for increasingly complex business situations. By the end of this course, you will be able to: -Summarize the common types of assets a business may have -Describe the importance of control over inventory -Outline how depreciation expense is reported on an income statement -Illustrate how transactions can be recorded in terms of the resulting change in the elements of the accounting equation. Course 1 Bookkeeper Basics, or the equivalent, is a recommended prerequisite for this course. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/accounting-assets/course-introduction-video-ugMPq | 2022-10-20T17:08:42 | en | 0.927623 |
ISSF Rifle/Pistol C'ships: India secure one silver medal on day eight, increase medal tally to 26
India's medal tally includes 10 gold
- Country:
- India
Anish and Simranpreet Kaur Brar won India's only medal, a silver, on competition day eight of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship Rifle/Pistol in Cairo, Egypt, after they went down to the experienced Ukrainian pair of Yulia Korostylova and Maksym Horodynets 14-16 in the gold medal match of the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Mixed Team event. That took India's tally to 26 medals including 10 gold, six silver and 10 bronze and they remain second behind China on the medal tally, as per a press release from the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI).
Anish and Simranpreet shot solidly throughout the day at the Egypt International Olympic City (EIOC) Shooting Range, topping qualification stage one with a combined 575 after 30 shots each. Stage two, narrowed down to eight from 14 teams, saw them come out on top yet again with a score of 383 out of a possible 400. The Ukranians came second to follow them into the final with 380. At this stage, Rhythm Sangwan and Vijayveer Sidhu, the second Indian pair in the top eight by virtue of an eighth-place finish in qualification with a score of 560, bowed out in fifth place.
It was a nail-biting final as fortunes kept swinging throughout the 15 five-shot series that it took to reach 16 points. The young Indian pair tied it at 6-6, 9-9, 11-11 and then finally at 14-14, before going down in the 15th and final series. In-fact they had also taken the lead at 8-6 at one point but the Ukrainians came in with the stronger finish. Anish was particularly good in the final, registering seven perfect fives in the 15-series.
In the other highlight of the day, all three Indians made it through their elimination relays in the Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions (3P) competition, which has four Paris 2024 Olympics quota places at stake. Anjum Moudgil shot 587 to finish fourth in relay one. Shooters in this event shoot 20-shots each in the Kneeling, Prone and finally the Standing positions. Sift Kaur Samra shot 585 to place seventh in elimination relay two along with Ashi Chouksey, who shot 581 in the same relay for an 18th-place finish.
Esha Singh topped her qualifying round in the 10m Air Pistol Women Junior event with a score of 578, but finished fifth in the ranking round with a score of 199.4. Varsha Singh on the other hand came third in qualifying but missed a medal by a mere 0.2 points, when she finished fourth in the ranking round with a score of 248.9. China's Yiyao Shen won bronze with 249.1 with China also winning gold and silver in the event. The Cairo Rifle/Pistol World Championship still has five competition days left and all of 16 Paris quotas to be won.
The championships started in Cairo, Egypt from October 12 onwards and will go on till October 25. (ANI)
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In this second course, you will dive deeper into the world of bookkeeping and focus on accounting for assets. If you are familiar with bookkeeping basics, such as double entry accounting, you are ready for this course. You will gain an understanding of common asset types, learn how to account for inventory, calculate cost of goods sold, and work with Property, Plant, and Equipment (PP&E). Upon completing this course, you will use your new knowledge of assets to record transactions and produce financial statements for increasingly complex business situations. By the end of this course, you will be able to: -Summarize the common types of assets a business may have -Describe the importance of control over inventory -Outline how depreciation expense is reported on an income statement -Illustrate how transactions can be recorded in terms of the resulting change in the elements of the accounting equation. Course 1 Bookkeeper Basics, or the equivalent, is a recommended prerequisite for this course. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/accounting-assets/current-and-noncurrent-assets-introduction-J3dOt | 2022-10-20T17:08:49 | en | 0.927623 |
Silver for Ankush; Vikas, Nitesh win bronze in India's best show at U23 Worlds in Greco Roman style
Ankush settled for a silver after being overpowered by formidable Yui Susaki but Vikas 72kg and Nitesh 97kg won their bronze medal play-offs with ease as Indias Greco Roman wrestlers cherished their best ever show at a global event by winning three medals at the U-23 world championship, here.Ankush had a herculean task at hand as she was up against reigning Olympic and world champion and eventually she proved no match to Susaki as the Japanese pinned the Indian in less than two minutes in the womens 50kg final on Thursday.
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Ankush settled for a silver after being overpowered by formidable Yui Susaki but Vikas (72kg) and Nitesh (97kg) won their bronze medal play-offs with ease as India's Greco Roman wrestlers cherished their best ever show at a global event by winning three medals at the U-23 world championship, here.
Ankush had a herculean task at hand as she was up against reigning Olympic and world champion and eventually she proved no match to Susaki as the Japanese pinned the Indian in less than two minutes in the women's 50kg final on Thursday. Susaki created history with this win as she became the first wrestler to win wrestling's 'Grand Slam'.
She now has won gold medal at the Olympic Games, and has four world titles -- U17, U20, U23 and senior championships.
Vikas and Nitesh added to India's tally on Wednesday night, a day after Sajan Bhanwala broke the barrier with country's first ever medal in the championship when he claimed a bronze in the 77kg category.
Vikas blanked Japan's Daigo Kobayashi 6-0 in the bronze bout while Nitesh beat Brazil's Igor Fernando Alves de Queiroz by techincal superiority. The result came when only six of India's 10 Greco Roman wrestlers secured visas to travel to Spain for the prestigious championship. Four others were denied visa. The Embassy denied visa to 21 Indian wrestlers overall. Vikas led 1-0 after scoring a point on passivity of his rival. He had got a chance to score more points but defended well from ground position.
In the fast-paced second period, Vikas pushed his opponent out of the mat for one more point. He made it 4-0 with a take-down on a counter attack and followed that up with a gut wrench move to make it 6-0.
Vikas stayed strong in his defence too and maintained his lead in the remaining 100 seconds of the bout to ensure a walk up to the podium.
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In this second course, you will dive deeper into the world of bookkeeping and focus on accounting for assets. If you are familiar with bookkeeping basics, such as double entry accounting, you are ready for this course. You will gain an understanding of common asset types, learn how to account for inventory, calculate cost of goods sold, and work with Property, Plant, and Equipment (PP&E). Upon completing this course, you will use your new knowledge of assets to record transactions and produce financial statements for increasingly complex business situations. By the end of this course, you will be able to: -Summarize the common types of assets a business may have -Describe the importance of control over inventory -Outline how depreciation expense is reported on an income statement -Illustrate how transactions can be recorded in terms of the resulting change in the elements of the accounting equation. Course 1 Bookkeeper Basics, or the equivalent, is a recommended prerequisite for this course. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/accounting-assets/difference-between-a-finance-and-operating-lease-sso7e | 2022-10-20T17:08:56 | en | 0.927623 |
Patil loses to Kale in MCA presidential election
Former India batter Sandeep Patil on Thursday lost the presidential election of Mumbai Cricket Association to Amol Kale.Kale, who had the backing of BJP MLA and new BCCI treasurer Ashish Shelar, defeated Patil by 25 votes.Kale got 183 votes as compared to Patils 158.
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Former India batter Sandeep Patil on Thursday lost the presidential election of Mumbai Cricket Association to Amol Kale.
Kale, who had the backing of BJP MLA and new BCCI treasurer Ashish Shelar, defeated Patil by 25 votes.
Kale got 183 votes as compared to Patil's 158. Kale was vice-president in the previous regime.
The 66-year-old former cricketer had decided to contest the MCA polls last month.
Patil was earlier director at the National Cricket Academy and also served as chairman of the BCCI selection committee. He represented India in 29 Tests and 45 ODIs.
He also has a lot of coaching experience with stints with the Indian, Kenyan and Oman teams.
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Like depreciation, equipment leases are an instance where you would need to manually enter your journal entries into quick books. We would do this following the same path as we did to record the acquisition of a salt tank. Let's take a look at manually entering a capital lease into quick books. For a capital lease we need three journal entries, one for recording the lease, one for recording the initial payment, and one for recording the monthly payments. Let's say that Sofia and Salma wanted to add a stationary table. They're pretty expensive, though, so they decided to lease one. You're going to practice entering the transaction yourself. But before you do that, let's get some help from one of our experts. Let's demonstrate entering a capital lease onto the books. Basically a capital lease means the equipment or whatever it is is being leased. However, it is trapped a bit differently on the books, it's more like a purchase. Basically, we're setting up a fixed asset. We're going to depreciate that and we're also going to make payments on it and possibly have interest expense as well. A capital lease will need to be determined by the accountant. But if in theory, if somebody is going to purchase the equipment at the end of the lease, that could be considered a capital lease, you might want to have that conversation with a CPA or accountant or whoever is managing that end of the accounting. Let's go ahead and set that up. I'm going to go over to the chart of accounts and this company is going to put in a lot of effort into getting their computers and their back office secure and correct. They've decided to go into a lease on a server in a bunch of desktop computers in a remote access to the company. It's a big purchase. However, they're leasing it and they may or may not buy that equipment at the end of the lease. You've been told it's a capital lease, we are going to set that up very much like something they've purchased, which is a fixed asset, and we can now put that to computer equipment. This is the parent account. I'm going to go ahead and add this. Again, it's like a fixed asset, even though they're just leasing it. All right, there's our first account, and then what we're going to do is, because of the way it's structured, we will be able to put in the original purchase. Well, it's not really purchase, the original payment, then on top of that, depreciate that as well. Let's go ahead and add some more account. We're going to do another fixed asset. Again, it's computers. This will be a sub account, computer capital lease, and I'm going to do one more accumulated depreciation. Let's do fixed asset and this one is depreciation. Again, on this company, we don't put the word accumulated on the chart of accounts, which is okay, computer capital lease. Now we have the structure on the chart of accounts where we can go ahead and start entering things. Now we'll do a journal entry. Let's say they spend $10,000 as the original payment on this capital lease. I'm going to go ahead and do a journal entry representing that. I'm going to put in original. Well, let's put in the checking account. Let's take the money out of the bank first. Checking account, we're going to credit that for $10,000, and then we're going to go to our original payment account on the capital lease, and debit that by the $10,000. That's reducing the bank account because we wrote a check or whatever this journal entry is representing, and then that's going to post to the balance sheet showing funding of that lease, the initial payment, and here it is there. Again, sub account always total in the parent account here. The next one is maybe we have to make a payment on this capital lease. Month by month you could write a check, or whatever it is, might be interest and principal come into play here. Let's go ahead and do a new journal entry. In this case since the following month, February 1st, we're making our second payment. Let's say there, it's of 4,500 a month for this equipment and that'll come out of the checking account, then we're going to debit the lease for and I'll go to the original payment and we're going to do, let's say 3,000 of that is for the actual lease and then we've got interest expense. We don't have interest expense yet. I'm going to go ahead and add it on the fly, interest expense. This allows me to add to the chart of accounts as I'm working, I don't have to stop my work. Let's see if we can find interest on here. Interest paid, Save and close. So the balance of $1,500 is the interest represented here and now the 4,500 is coming out of the bank. Part of it's going to the lease, part of it is going to interest. That is how the monthly entries would be done, and you can also appreciate that. Again, your accountant might be making the determination on how frequently you enter that depreciation and how much. Based on their instructions, we are going to depreciate this at the end of each month. I'll start with January, we're going to do depreciation on the computer. You can see it's showing me that this is the sub account of the computer capital lease. We're going to go ahead and appreciate that, let's say $200 a month. Again, go to the accountant to get that number, don't just make up numbers. We're going to put that into depreciation expense. Again, this is the month of January we've depreciated this. They've told us to do this every month, this would be something that you would enter monthly or use the quick books feature to make it recurring and have it post automatically for you. That is how you enter the depreciation on the capital lease. Then hit, "Save and Close'. Hopefully that is helpful and the explanation is clear. Thanks. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/accounting-assets/entering-a-capital-lease-in-quickbooks-j7TUQ | 2022-10-20T17:09:03 | en | 0.980852 |
FEMSA's fintech arm eyes 10 million users in Mexico by 2023
Femsa is also seeking permits to offer accounts that allow customers to deposit larger amounts of money and receive their salaries. The company has more than 20,600 Oxxo stores across Latin America, and has plans to increase the number by 50% over the next decade.
Spin by Oxxo, the financial technology initiative launched by Mexican bottler and retailer Femsa, is set to reach 10 million users by 2023, up from four million currently, Spin's Director General Asensio Carrion told Reuters.
"The porosity we have allows us to reach more distant places and offer services where there are none. We are in every Mexican state," Carrion said in an interview on Wednesday. Femsa, the parent of convenience chain Oxxo, believes their ubiquitous stores, which according to company data number over 20,100, make for ideal sites to connect customers with debit cards and digital account services.
Some 60%-65% of Spin by Oxxo's users are active, which the firm describes as customers who have made a transaction or hold deposits in their accounts in the last 56 days. Spin by Oxxo, which has been financed with internal funds, has quickly become a major player in Mexican fintech.
For comparison, Latin America's largest fintech Nubank has about 2.1 million customers in the country, while local player Stori aims to hit the two million client mark by 2023. Mexico's Grupo Financiero Banorte, in its second-quarter results, said it had 6.7 million digital clients. It disclosed the launch of a new digital bank earlier this month.
Firms have set their sights on Mexico, a country where less than 50% of the population has a bank account, according to official data. Spin by Oxxo was granted a new license to operate as a financial technological institution in Mexico earlier in October, which will broaden its presence in the remittances market by allowing customers to receive money from abroad in accounts.
The move mirrors other foreign and local fintechs such as Argentina's Uala and Mexico's Bitso, which also entered a remittances market that brought $51.6 billion to Mexico in 2021. Femsa is also seeking permits to offer accounts that allow customers to deposit larger amounts of money and receive their salaries.
The company has more than 20,600 Oxxo stores across Latin America, and has plans to increase the number by 50% over the next decade. Carrion also did not rule out international expansion of Spin by Oxxo in the future.
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In this second course, you will dive deeper into the world of bookkeeping and focus on accounting for assets. If you are familiar with bookkeeping basics, such as double entry accounting, you are ready for this course. You will gain an understanding of common asset types, learn how to account for inventory, calculate cost of goods sold, and work with Property, Plant, and Equipment (PP&E). Upon completing this course, you will use your new knowledge of assets to record transactions and produce financial statements for increasingly complex business situations. By the end of this course, you will be able to: -Summarize the common types of assets a business may have -Describe the importance of control over inventory -Outline how depreciation expense is reported on an income statement -Illustrate how transactions can be recorded in terms of the resulting change in the elements of the accounting equation. Course 1 Bookkeeper Basics, or the equivalent, is a recommended prerequisite for this course. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/accounting-assets/equipment-leases-2YDsM | 2022-10-20T17:09:10 | en | 0.927623 |
Messages by Google gets fresh new look and a bunch of new features
Google will soon start rolling out a bunch of new 'safer, smarter and more modern' features to Messages by Google. This includes a fresh new look, the ability to emoji reaction to SMS texts, chat with businesses found on Search and Maps directly through Messages and more.
"As RCS adoption accelerates, we're doing what's possible to improve messaging between Android and iOS, like adding support for reactions. This builds on a suite of features that you already love, like an organized inbox that separates personal and business messages, the ability to share sharper videos and scheduled messages. And we're doing even more," Google said.
Starting with the new design, Google is updating icons for Messages and apps including Contacts and Phone to adapt to Material You themes and make them instantly recognizable.
Messages by Google is adding the ability for users to respond to an individual message in a conversation when RCS is enabled, making it easier to respond to a specific message without breaking the flow.
Soon, you will be able to react to SMS texts from iPhone users with emoji as well.
Next up, you can view a voice message transcribed into text. Voice Message Transcription auto-transcribes the message so you can access it with ease. The feature is available on the Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 6, Pixel 6A, Pixel 6 Pro, Samsung Galaxy S22 and the Galaxy Fold 4.
Reminders are now included directly in Messages in order to help you remember important moments without navigating across several apps on your phone.
Additionally, YouTube integration makes it easier to quickly watch YouTube videos in a conversation without ever leaving the app.
Next up, Messages by Google will now let you "star" messages that contain texts like addresses, door codes and phone numbers and easily find it later.
Further, Messages will now recognize texts like "Can you talk now?" and suggest a Meet call by showing an icon right next to the message and for messages like "Let's meet at 6pm on Tuesday", it will suggest adding calendar events.
Google is also experimenting with a new feature that lets you chat with businesses you found on Search and Maps directly through Messages.
The tech giant has also joined forces with United Airlines to offer messaging on United flights, when RCS is turned on. It will be available on United WiFi for most carriers starting this fall, with broader support coming soon.
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