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Vessel Kitchen focuses on food-forward sourcing, procuring local ingredients each season whenever possible. Not only because they are local, but because fresh ingredients taste better, and supporting local vendors is a central part of Vessel's identity.
Later this year, Vessel will be opening a sixth location at Station Park, Farmington and they're celebrating a sixth anniversary!
The Farmington restaurant will be the second location opening in Utah this year. The first was Alta Vista, which uses an innovative central kitchen that doubles as a culinary lab and counter-style storefront offering takeout and delivery.
Promotions and giveaways will be taking place all week in celebration of the sixth anniversary. Follow along at @vesselkitchen to get in on the fun!
Vessel’s Fire Roasted Eggplant
Fres - Serves 4-6 adults
● Whole Eggplant, washed - Two each, medium to large size
● Salt - 1 Teaspoon
● Ground black pepper - ¼ Teaspoon
● Cherry Tomatoes, Halved - 1 Pint
● Fresh squeezed lemon juice - 2 Teaspoons
● Honey Wine Vinegar - 2 Tablespoons
● Fresh Basil, Hand ripped - 1 Cup
● Olive Oil - 4 Tablespoons
Directions:
1. With the fork, puncture 4 holes in the eggplant.
2. Set the grill or gas burner on high, and set the eggplants directly over the flame.
3. Char evenly, until all sides are burned. Remove from heat
4. Place eggplants in the mixing bowl and cover. Let rest for 30 - 40 minutes at least, or for a few hours in the
fridge. The eggplant flash should be soft but not falling apart.
5. While the eggplants are resting, mix the remaining of the ingredients
6. When the eggplants are cold or room temperature, hold the eggplant in the palm of your hand, and start
peeling and discarding the charred skin. Remove the stem, and cut the eggplant to 1 inch size pieces.
7. Move to an airtight container, and refrigerate until use.
Vessel’s Farro Risotto
Fres - Serves 4-6 adults
● Cooked Farro - 1 Qt. (1.5 Cup dry, cook like pasta in salt water, and drain when done)
● Crimini Mushrooms, sliced, tossed with olive oil and roasted for 15 minutes in an oven @ 400f.
● Garlic cloves, crushed - 3 cloves
● Shallot, sliced - 2 Tablespoons
● White wine of choice - ¼ Cup
● Fresh Sage, sliced - 1 Tablespoon
● Fresh Rosemary, picked, chopped - 1 Tablespoon
● Olive Oil - 2 Tablespoons
● Chicken stock, water, or mushroom stock - 2 Quarts
● Asiago Cheese, Shredded - 1 Cup
● Salt - 1 Teaspoon
● Ground black pepper - ¼ Teaspoon
Directions:
1. Bring the stock or water to simmer
2. In the second saucepan, add the oil, and turn the heat to medium.
3. Add garlic, shallot and saute for another minute
4. Add mushrooms, sage and rosemary and saute for another minute, mixing.
5. Add the wine and reduce to almost dry
6. Add the cooked farro and stir
7. Add two ladle worth of stock, and fold continuously with the wooden spoon.
8. Once the liquids has almost evaporated, add two more ladles.
9. Repeat until all but 2 cups of liquid are left
10. Add the asiago, salt and pepper and taste
11. Reserve the last 2 cups of liquid and add to the final product if it turns too thick.
For more information please visit vesselkitchen.com.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Picture this, you’re sitting at the dinner table of your favorite Tex Mex restaurant with your friends and family, conversations and drinks are flowing while chips and salsa are being heavily consumed; when all of a sudden the crowd goes silent as a sizzling plate of fajitas walks past your table.
You can never go wrong with Tex Mex and never wrong with fajitas. So, in honor of this insanely delicious food, we first say, happy National Fajita Day! NationalToday says, “Throw in some awesome black beans or even add a little hot sauce, guacamole, sour cream, or cheese. The combinations are endless. It’s National Fajita Day so you know what you’ve got to do (eat fajitas, obviously).”
So, while we have a pretty good idea of the best spots for fajitas in Dallas; where should we be hitting up in other parts of Texas for Tex Mex and more than likely a plate of fajitas? We checked out Gravy Analytics report of the top five Tex Mex restaurants throughout the Lone Star State.
“A type of cuisine inspired by Mexican food is known as ‘Tex-Mex.’ Tex-Mex has its roots in the Tejano people of Texas and is a fusion of Mexican and American cuisine. To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, we curated a list of the most popular Tex-Mex restaurants in Texas,” the report says.
- Lupe’s Tex Mex – Arlington
- Patron Grill – Humble
- Chuy’s – College Station
- Gringo’s New Caney – New Caney
- Pappasito’s Cantina – Shenandoah
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CLEVELAND (WJW) – A settlement has been reached between Cleveland Browns Quarterback Deshaun Watson and the NFL.
The FOX 8 I-Team confirms the agreement is for 11 games and a $5 million fine.
As part of the settlement, Watson may return for the Browns’ game on Dec. 4 in Houston.
Two weeks ago, National Football League officials decided to appeal a six-game suspension a disciplinary officer imposed on Watson.
Watson and the NFL players union did not appeal the suspension.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell designated Hon. Peter Harvey to hear the appeal.
Harvey is the former attorney general of New Jersey, served as a federal prosecutor and has “deep expertise in criminal law, including domestic violence and sexual assault,” the NFL said.
24 women filed lawsuits against Watson alleging sexual misconduct during massages. 23 of those lawsuits have been settled.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — It’s no secret that players across professional sports not only game on the field but in the video game world as well. You’ll find players in the NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB, MLS, and all sorts of professional sports leagues with a controller in their hand from time to time.
There’s a certain superstar defensive player for the Dallas Cowboys that isn’t shy about his love for the game on and off the field as he’s very active on Twitter about how good he is at the ever-so-popular video game Madden.
In the middle of August and in the heat of the NFL preseason, Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons doesn’t want to be playing Madden alone. He simply asked who doesn’t have the game on his Twitter page.
Now it seems he’s started to toss out some copies of the game after the linebacker tweeted a screenshot of a thankful fan’s message. It wasn’t long ago Parsons was up to more good as he was giving out free pizza in late July around North Texas.
Time will tell how this young NFL star can continue his stellar start with America’s Team in year two.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Having designated date nights with your significant other is important and sometimes veering away from those set days/nights and being spontaneous is even more important!
Dallas and North Texas as a whole is filled with plenty of incredible date ideas and what better day to be spontaneous than Thursday, August 18 which is National Couple’s Day!
National Today says, “Your partner in crime, your ride or die, your pain in the…well, you know what we mean. Love isn’t always easy, but when you find that special someone, it’s definitely worth it.”
We’ve scoured the internet plenty over the year to know that there are some staples and some not-so-known spots around town to get your date night on:
- Drink and game at Cidercade, Pinstacks, or the Main Event
- Try your hand at some tough teamwork at escape rooms
- Tired of bowling or something similar? Maybe try Top Golf!
- Check out Deep Ellum or other areas around town filled with unique & fun eateries and bars
- Love animals? The Dallas or Fort Worth Zoo is for you!
- Comedy venues all around North Texas are sure to fill your night with laughter and a good time
- Maybe you need to just relax… check this story out Massages, getaways & just hanging out: These are the top spots for relaxation in Dallas
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DALLAS (KDAF) — When choosing an airline to fly with so many factors can come under consideration, but getting to your destination with the smallest headache possible is among the top.
That’s why The Points Guy put together an extensive report of the best U.S. airlines for 2022. First, a look at the top 10 best airlines:
- Delta Air Lines
- Southwest Airlines
- United Airlines
- American Airlines
- Alaska Airlines
- Hawaiian Airlines
- JetBlue Airways
- Frontier Airlines
- Allegiant Air
- Spirit Airlines
“There’s a lot to consider when choosing an airline for your next trip — including price, operational efficiency, travel experience and loyalty. And while there’s no single carrier that’s ideal for every traveler, Delta Air Lines once again rose to the top of the list, earning the title of TPG’s best U.S. airline for the fourth straight year,” TPG said in their report.
The report states that North Texas airlines Southwest (No. 2) and American (No. 4) are among the top five best in the US alongside Delta, United, and Alaska. Southwest excels in bag/change fees, award availability and customer satisfaction while struggling with timeliness and cancellations.
Meanwhile, American excelled with family and route network while struggling with baggage and affordability according to the report.
The report also takes a deep dive into specifics like the best airlines for reliability, travel experience, and cost and reach. You can check all of that out and more by clicking here.
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LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) – A local Republican Party in Alabama is being scrutinized after a photo that appeared to contain Ku Klux Klan imagery was shared on its Facebook page.
Sunday night, a post was made on the Lawrence County Republican Party’s page, thanking the group’s former chairman and welcoming the new chairman, Shanon Terry. The post, shared on Twitter by Alabama House minority leader Anthony Daniels, initially included a photo of a “GOP elephant” that used the white space between the elephant’s legs to create what appears to be hooded figures.
The post was taken down later that night and then reposted with a different GOP elephant image, but not before Facebook users noted the Ku Klux Klan imagery.
Some have even called on the new chairman to resign from the county’s school board.
Terry apologized Monday, saying, “I would like to offer a deep and sincere apology for a picture that temporarily appeared on this page last night. A Google search picture of a GOP elephant was used and later found to have hidden images that do not represent the views or beliefs of the Lawrence County Republican Party. The picture was then immediately replaced. As chairman I take full responsibility for the error.”
In a statement to Nexstar’s WHNT, Terry said he will not resign from his elected seat.
“The voters of District Four elected me to represent them and I am proud of the accomplishments of this administration over the past six years. I look forward to continuing to strive to give every student in Lawrence County the best opportunity to be successful.”
Terry went on to say that he regrets the mistake, calling it “unintended.”
“The image posted by me on a political Facebook page was not done with any malicious or harmful intent,” he explained. “Once made aware of the negative portion of the picture I immediately replaced it and followed up with an apology/explanation the next day. My error was rushing to post a thank you note to the outgoing chairperson, in doing so I did not properly review a cut and paste image used in that post from an internet search for a ‘GOP elephant’. I do not support or agree with any hate group agenda and certainly would not try to further their cause.
The image, created by Woody Harrington, initially appeared in a 2020 Mother Jones article “about the hate, bigotry and racism hidden within Trump’s GOP.” The freelance illustrator addressed Terry’s use of the image on Instagram Wednesday, saying, “[It has] come to my attention that the Hate Elephant has been given new life (without permission or credit of course) in not one, but two republican campaigns.”
Alabama House minority leader Anthony Daniels was also critical of the post, saying on Twitter that the use of the image was “disgusting.”
The Lawrence County NAACP is scheduled to host a press conference about the incident and to call for Terry’s resignation on Friday.
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CLEVELAND (WJW) – A settlement has been reached between Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson and the NFL.
Nexstar’s WJW has learned the agreement is for 11 games and a $5 million fine. The NFL confirmed the agreement Thursday morning.
As part of the settlement, Watson may return for the Browns’ game on Dec. 4 in Houston.
Two weeks ago, NFL officials decided to appeal a six-game suspension a disciplinary officer imposed on Watson. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell designated Hon. Peter Harvey to hear the appeal.
Watson and the NFL players union did not appeal the suspension.
Harvey is the former attorney general of New Jersey, served as a federal prosecutor, and has “deep expertise in criminal law, including domestic violence and sexual assault,” the NFL said.
Twenty-four women filed lawsuits against Watson alleging sexual misconduct during massages. All but one of those lawsuits have been settled.
The NFL initially asked for an indefinite suspension of at least a year during Watson’s three-day disciplinary hearing. The NFL argued for an unprecedented punishment and wanted to fine Watson at least $5 million, a person familiar with the discussions told the AP on condition of anonymity because the hearing was private.
Watson, who previously denied the allegations against him, apologized last week “to all the women I have impacted.”
“Look, I want to say that I’m truly sorry to all of the women that I have impacted in this situation,” Watson said in a pregame TV interview. “The decisions that I made in my life that put me in this position I would definitely like to have back, but I want to continue to move forward and grow and learn and show that I am a true person of character and I am going to keep pushing forward.”
Watson has continued to practice and played in Cleveland’s first preseason game against Jacksonville last week, going one-for-five for seven yards. Cleveland traded three first-round picks to Houston for Watson in March and signed him to a five-year, $230 million contract.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — When Seneca Landry booked a weekend stay through Airbnb for her sister’s bachelorette party earlier this year, the online listing said they would have the entire Rhode Island home to themselves.
But on the final day of their stay in May, after some of the women thought they heard voices coming from the basement of the Providence home, Landry said a man followed her from outside and tried to force his way in.
“He told me, ‘I live in the basement and I need to check the electric meter,'” Landry told WPRI. “I was like, ‘No one lives in the basement — we have the whole house.’ And he started to get irate, accusing me of lying.”
The women said they barricaded themselves in the top part of the home and called the police to report a break-in as he repeatedly tried to open the door. Providence Police Department body-worn camera footage obtained by WPRI shows several officers responding.
The officers opened a window at the back of the home so one of them could crawl through and open a locked door. With guns drawn, the officers moved through the basement area, eventually arriving at a closed door, where they heard voices on the other side.
“Open the door,” one of the officers shouted, as he banged on the door.
“Why do I need to open the door for you?” A woman yelled back. “You don’t have a [expletive] warrant.”
“I don’t need a warrant, someone broke in here,” the officer responded.
“Nobody broke in here!” the woman screamed. “I live here!”
A police report shows the officers later spoke with a property management company, Michie House, listed as working for the homeowner, and they confirmed the basement floor was rented out to a tenant.
But Landry said that information was never disclosed on the Airbnb listing, and the website showed no mention of the basement tenant. The property was listed as being available as an entire home.
“The basement was locked off, and we should trust that we have the house to ourselves and it’s safe,” Landry said.
Michie House and the homeowner didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment. An Airbnb spokesperson said the online booking giant fully refunded Landry after she reported the incident, and the company has since decided to take further action in response to what happened.
“On our platform, we hold our hosts to high standards in terms of providing accurate, quality listings, and when they fall short of those standards, we take appropriate action,” the spokesperson said. “Based on our investigation to date, we have deactivated these listings and are in the process of removing this host from our platform.”
Despite the basement apartment, the property is listed as a single-family home, according to the city assessor’s office. It’s also zoned in a neighborhood where homes must be owner-occupied to be rented out as short-term rentals.
Providence spokesperson Andrew Grande told WPRI that the city’s inspections department had received leases showing the property was no longer a short-term rental. But Airbnb provided a list of links to other online booking platforms that showed the home was still available for rent.
When WPRI attempted to book the property using different dates, some worked and others did not.
“It doesn’t look like anyone is vetting these properties,” Landry said.
Landry and her bachelorette party’s experience is a symptom of what some lawmakers have argued is a largely unregulated and untracked multibillion-dollar industry led by companies such as Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com and others.
For several years, state lawmakers, including Rep. Lauren Carson, D-Newport, have called for the creation of a statewide registry to track short-term rentals, which she argues are businesses and should be treated as such.
“These properties that are engaged with third-party hosting platforms are businesses,” Carson said, adding that law enforcement would have an easier time responding to issues like the one in Providence if they had better information about the properties.
The Rhode Island General Assembly passed a law last year to create a registry, much to the chagrin of third-party platforms, property owners and Gov. Dan McKee, who vetoed the legislation last July.
“I cannot support this bill because it will create additional burden for property owners,” he wrote in his veto message at the time. “Short-term rental concerns, like other property/land use and small business matters, are more effectively addressed at the municipal level.”
In January, the General Assembly voted to override McKee’s veto, with Sen. Dawn Euer, also a Newport Democrat, arguing the short-term rental industry is “thriving,” especially in seaside communities like the one where she lives.
“In places like our districts in Newport, investors have been buying up housing to rent in this way, and the state is not tracking where these businesses are operating,” Euer said at the time. “It’s impossible to ensure safety or compliance with laws when we don’t even know where the rentals are.”
Last month, the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulations issued a set of draft rules to create the registry, which is slated to begin on Oct. 1. According to the rules, each short-term rental would need to register and owners would have to provide details, including contact information, number of rooms for rent and the intended use of the space.
Every owner would also have to pay a two-year, $50 registration fee for “each property advertised for short-term rental.” DBR currently estimates there are about 3,680 short-term rentals listed across the state, meaning the registry would also generate about $184,000 every two years if every owner complied.
For Landry, she said the stay in Providence was a bad experience that caused her so much anxiety that she missed two days of work.
“We did so many great things, but if you mention my sister’s bachelorette, it’s always going to have that dark cloud,” she said.
Maggie Wayland, a Boston resident who also attended the party, described it as “one of the scariest things that had ever happened.” She hopes action can be taken to prevent such incidents from happening in the future.
“We want to make sure that this doesn’t happen to another bachelorette party,” she said.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — It’s the preferred hairstyle of champion golfer Cameron Smith and is perhaps best known for Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Achy Breaky Heart”-era look. Whether you call it a Kentucky waterfall, Mississippi mudflap or a Missouri compromise, the mullet is now more than just a haircut – it’s a national competition.
Meet two central Ohio boys who have made it into the top 25 of the 2022 USA Mullet Championships, Kid’s Division.
Jameson Redd, of Delaware and William Dale Ramsey, from Pataskala, Ohio, are both currently listed on the Division Finalists’ page of the contest’s website. Getting into the top 25 is quite an accomplishment for the pair, as the Kids Mullet Championships is a national competition with children from all over the country vying for 1st place.
Redd’s mother, Amber Munday, wrote Nexstar’s WCMH when her son became a finalist.
“Jameson has been through a lot this past year and winning this will make his whole world,” read Munday’s email. “The boy has had a mullet most of his life and rocks it like no other!”
In a follow-up note, Munday added that her 4-year-old is “a firecracker,” and delved into the “backstory” of his special hairstyle.
“The mullet started off because of his dad who said ‘every kid needs a mullet at some point in their life,'” she explained. “Well fast forward 2 and a half years later Jameson loves his hair and will cry if you tell him you’re going to cut it off lol.”
Ramsey’s mother, Ashley Ramsey, messaged the station about her son’s plan for the 1st place prize money if he wins.
“He would like to make a donation to Catch A Dream,” Ashley revealed. “They send terminally ill children on hunting and fishing trips and that is something he personally loves. He has the biggest heart of gold!!!”
The 8-year-old Ramsey also had the distinction of having his photo featured in a “TMZ” story about the mullet competition, which his mother commented on in a social media post writing, “TMZ COVER!!! Mind blown”
Online voting in the 2022 Kids Mullet Championships ends Friday, Aug. 19, according to the website. The 1st place prize is the $2,500 “Mullet Mega Money Pot,” and 2nd and 3rd places receive “Mullet Champs Gift Sets.”
The USA Mullet Championships started as a competition for adults in Michigan in 2020. It has now expanded nationwide with multiple divisions.
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(NEXSTAR) – One of the world’s largest known moths has been reported for the first time in the United States, and experts are now asking residents to report any other sightings of the insect.
Entomologists in Washington state confirmed the discovery of an atlas moth in Bellevue, located west of Seattle, earlier this month. The Washington State Department of Agriculture said the moth, found on the side of a garage, was reported by a University of Washington professor in early July.
After confirming the species with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, experts now believe this is the first time the moth has been detected in the U.S.
The atlas moth is a native of Asia, primarily from India to the Philippines and south to Indonesia, according to the California Academy of Sciences. Its wingspan of 10 inches is second only to the white witch moth of Central and South America, which has a wingspan of 14 inches.
Its wings are also mesmerizing to some and serve as protection from birds looking for a snack. When open, the atlas moth’s wings may appear to instead be two cobra heads, deterring predators.
Despite its size, the atlas moth doesn’t live long. As London’s Natural History Museum explains, the moth’s proboscis – what butterflies and moths use to drink nectar – is very small and unusable. Because it has no way to eat, the moth typically lives only one to two weeks.
The moth gains much of its sustenance as a caterpillar. During this phase, they will eat leaves of cinnamon, citrus fruit, guava, and Jamaican cherry trees. Moth caterpillars produce silk, and the cocoons they leave behind are sometimes used as purses, according to the Museum.
The atlas moth is a federally quarantined pest in the U.S., according to Washington State officials. This means it is illegal to have or sell live atlas moths, regardless of their stage in life, without a permit from the USDA.
This is the only atlas moth reported in Washington so far, meaning there is no evidence a population has been established in the state. Without a known way to trap the moth, officials are now relying on reports from the public to determine if there are more in the state.
Officials haven’t explained how the moth may have found its way to the U.S.
Because it is a tropical species, Sven Spichiger, managing entomologist for the state’s Department of Agriculture, says its unclear whether the atlas moth could even survive the conditions of the Pacific Northwest.
“USDA is gathering available scientific and technical information about this moth and will provide response recommendations, but in the meantime, we hope residents will help us learn if this was a one-off escapee or whether there might indeed be a population in the area,” Spichiger said in a statement.
If you spot this mesmerizing moth, you are encouraged to take a photo of it, note where you spotted it, and notify your state or local agriculture department.
This rare sighting comes as officials on the other side of the country are warning residents to kill a stunning but invasive bug that could drastically impact certain trees and even grape and wine industries.
Measuring about one inch in size, the spotted lanternfly, with its spots and pair of bright red wings, was first detected in the U.S. in 2014. It has since spread to 11 states, primarily across the Northeast. The spotted lanternfly is a native of China and feasts off of fruit, ornamental, and woody trees, especially the tree of heaven, a fellow invasive species native to China, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
If allowed to spread, experts say the spotted lanternfly “could seriously impact the country’s grape, orchard, and logging industries.”
The Department of Agriculture considers most states at risk of being impacted by the spotted lanternfly. Using the department’s Pest Tracker, you can determine if your state could be a suitable home for the invasive bug, as well as 20 other “targeted Hungry Pests.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening mostly lower on Wall Street Tuesday despite some encouraging results from Walmart and Home Depot, which both beat analysts’ forecasts for earnings in the latest quarter. The S&P 500 index was down just 0.1% in the early going, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq was off a bit more. The Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30 major blue chips managed a small gain, mostly due to a gain in Walmart. European markets were slightly higher and Asian markets closed mixed overnight. Energy prices were mixed. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 2.84%.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street nearly recouped overnight losses and was inching toward gains Tuesday after some bellwether retailers reported strong second-quarter earnings, suggesting that Americans have continued to spend despite the worst inflation in 40 years.
Futures for the Dow and S&P each fell less than 1% in premarket trading.
Retail giants Walmart and Home Depot, whose quarterly financial results often give investors insight into broader consumer habits, both reported strong second quarter earnings, giving markets a boost before the opening bell.
Walmart earned $5.15 billion, or $1.77 adjusted for one-time costs and charges, easily topping Wall Street’s target of $1.62 per shares. Sales also beat analysts projections and shares rose more than 4% before the opening bell.
Home Depot reported record quarterly profit and revenue, but shares dipped less than 1% as the home improvement retailer maintained its guidance for the year.
Stocks in July had their best month in a year-and-a-half, but some analysts say prices haven’t properly reflected real risks.
“It doesn’t seem to matter what the news is, there is just a huge appetite to buy stocks. And to keep buying,” said Clifford Bennett, chief economist at ACY Securities. “Talk of the bottom having already been priced in seems somewhat premature. Should the market turn down again after all this long positioning, it will fall with a thunderous impact. Buyers beware.”
Shares in Europe rose and Asian markets were mixed a day after China reported negative economic data and analysts warned that volatility may lie ahead.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 was little changed and finished at 28,868.91. South Korea’s Kospi rose 0.2% to 2,533.52. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 added 0.6% to 7,105.40. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng reversed course and was down 1.1% at 19,830.52, while the Shanghai Composite gained nearly 0.1% to 3,277.88.
Markets reacted to news that China’s central bank cut a key interest rate, acknowledging more needed to be done to shore up its economy. The move is the latest warning for markets already on edge over record-high inflation and fears about recessions in the U.S. and elsewhere.
China is the world’s second-largest consumer of crude oil, so the news weighed on energy prices on Monday, but were back up slightly on Tuesday. U.S. crude gained 74 cents to $90.15 a barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, picked up 43 cents to $95.53.
In Europe, France’s CAC 40 added 0.4% in midday trading and Germany’s DAX rose 0.5%. Britain’s FTSE 100 added 0.7%.
Global investors are worried that the U.S. Federal Reserve could hit the brakes too hard and send the economy into a recession. Any signal that inflation could be peaking or retreating has helped ease some of those worries.
“Lack of direction is what investors will be suffering until we see clearer signs of inflation abating. And that will take time, as we must see a couple of encouraging data points to call the central banks’ inflation fight successful. The lack of clear direction is driving the markets up and down,” said Ipek Ozkardeskaya, senior analyst at Swissquote Bank.
Investors are also keeping a close watch on how inflation is affecting businesses and consumers. Spending has slowed and the broader economy has already contracted for two straight quarters.
Following Walmart and Home Depot, Target reports results on Wednesday. The U.S. Commerce Department also releases its July retail sales report on Wednesday. Economists surveyed by FactSet expect modest 0.2% growth from June, when sales rose 1%.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar edged up to 134.39 Japanese yen from 133.27 yen. The euro cost $1.0130, down from $1.0165.
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(The Hill) – Scientists at Northwestern University say they have devised a method for breaking apart some of the infamously unbreakable toxins known as “forever chemicals.”
These chemicals, called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), earned the “forever” qualifier due to their propensity to linger in the human body and the environment. There are thousands of types of PFAS, none of which are naturally occurring and many of which can take decades to degrade.
But a group of chemists at Northwestern say they have developed a simple method that employs low temperatures and inexpensive reagents to break down two major classes of PFAS, while leaving behind only harmless byproducts.
They published their findings — which they acknowledged as a “seemingly impossible” but potentially “powerful solution” — in Science on Thursday afternoon.
“PFAS has become a major societal problem,” lead author William Dichtel, a professor of chemistry at Northwestern, said in a statement. “Even just a tiny, tiny amount of PFAS causes negative health effects, and it does not break down.”
Scientists have already found connections between PFAS exposure and a long list of illnesses, including testicular cancer, thyroid disease and kidney cancer.
Notorious for their presence in jet fuel firefighting foam and industrial discharge, PFAS are also found in many household products, including nonstick pans, waterproof apparel and cosmetics.
“We can’t just wait out this problem,” Dichtel said. “We wanted to use chemistry to address this problem and create a solution that the world can use. It’s exciting because of how simple — yet unrecognized — our solution is.”
The reason that PFAS are usually so indestructible is that they are made up of many carbon-fluorine bonds, which are the strongest such bonds in organic chemistry, the authors explained.
But the researchers said they identified a weakness that enabled them to disrupt this formidable attachment.
While PFAS contain long “tails” of powerful carbon-fluorine bonds, at one end of these molecules is often a “head group” of charged oxygen atoms, the authors explained.
By heating the compounds in a solvent called dimethyl sulfide with a common reagent called sodium hydroxide, the scientists said they “decapitated the head group” — exposing a vulnerable, reactive PFAS tail.
“Although carbon-fluorine bonds are super strong, that charged head group is the Achilles heel,” Dichtel said.
This head group “falls off and sets off a cascade of reactions that ultimately breaks these PFAS compounds down to relatively benign products,” the professor explained at a live-streamed press conference this week.
The byproducts include fluoride ions and “small carbon-containing products that are in many cases found in nature already and do not pose serious health concerns,” he added.
Dichtel’s team successfully degraded 10 types of PFAS from two classes: perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids — PFCAs — and perfluoroalkyl ether carboxylic acids, or PFECAs.
Among the compounds they were able to break down were perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, and GenX — two of the most infamous types of PFAS.
“The importance of this understanding is that it really provides for the first time a way to map these reactions out,” Dichtel said at the press conference.
Dichtel and first co-author Brittany Trang, who recently completed her PhD in his laboratory, worked alongside Ken Houk, an organic chemistry professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and Yuli Li, a student at China’s Tianjin University, who employed powerful computational methods to simulate PFAS degradation.
Understanding the path to degradation, according to Dichtel, is important to the future development of “actual practical methods to remove these pollutants” from contaminated water.
Dichtel said he could envision this type of technique being integrated in the future with technologies that extract PFAS from water, such as reverse osmosis. Reverse osmosis pulls contaminants out of water by forcing the offending molecules through a semi-permeable membrane — and while this process purifies the water, the PFAS is left behind as waste.
But an approach like the one devised in Dichtel’s laboratory could be applied to this waste stream and break down concentrated quantities of PFAS, he explained.
Acknowledging that other PFAS degradation methods have been emerging, Dichtel said that the uniqueness of their method lies in its inexpensive nature and low temperature requirements.
Now that they’ve successfully broken down these 10 types of PFAS, the scientists said they plan to test out the strategy on others.
They next plan to focus on another large class of PFAS called perfluoroalkyl sulfonates, which include common compounds like perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, according to Dichtel.
With each class, however, comes a different head group that the scientists need to figure out how to decapitate. But if they “can knock that sulfonated head group off the molecule,” the compounds should degrade through similar pathways, the professor explained.
Although it’s difficult to anticipate exactly what will be required to eliminate that head group, Dichtel said that they are exploring several different possibilities. And identifying that mechanism would be one step closer to figuring out how to break down the thousands of types of PFAS that are lurking in the environment.
“PFAS pollution is so pervasive, and it is in it is in more than just drinking water,” Dichtel added. “It’s in soils, it’s in dust, it’s airborne — we really polluted the whole world with this stuff.”
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Police: Mother facing charges after 3-year-old son found dead with drugs in system
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - A Kansas City woman is facing charges after police say they found her child unresponsive inside a home earlier this week.
According to court records, the Kansas City Police Department responded to reports of a child who died at a residence on Wednesday.
First responders reportedly found a 3-year-old boy unresponsive and covered up on a bed. Officers said they removed a blanket and saw the boy not moving with discolored feet.
KCTV reports the officers also noted seeing a raised, discolored scab on the boy’s back that indicated a possible infection.
Authorities said the 3-year-old’s body was taken to Children’s Mercy Hospital, where lab results indicated he had amphetamines in his system.
The boy’s mother, Michaela Chism, reportedly told police that she had stayed at the residence for about two weeks. She said the people in the home, including herself, consumed controlled substances, including methamphetamine and fentanyl.
Police said Chism told investigators that one evening she woke up and began watching TV and noticed her son was not moving. She went to check on him, and he was unresponsive.
According to court documents, Chism told police her son had died on the couch and was moved to a bedroom when police were initially called to the home for a welfare check.
Authorities said they obtained a search warrant and detectives found drug paraphernalia throughout the residence, crystal-like substances and multiple prescription pill bottles.
Police report Chism has been charged with first-degree child endangerment and first-degree child endangerment involving drugs in the case that remains under investigation.
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Report: 14% of doctors admit drinking or doing drugs at work to cope with stress
Published: Aug. 18, 2022 at 3:20 PM CDT|Updated: 21 minutes ago
(CNN) – The COVID-19 pandemic has some healthcare workers stressed out and looking for ways to ease their tensions.
According to a report on healthcare workers’ mental health released Thursday, 21% of physicians say they’ve taken drugs or drank alcohol more than once per day.
Additionally, 14% report consuming alcohol or controlled substances while at work.
The findings from the Mind-Body Health treatment chain APN were based on 1,000 healthcare workers questioned in July.
Researchers also say many of these healthcare workers suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder while experiencing trauma similar to what wartime soldiers go through.
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CLAY COUNTY, Iowa (KCAU) – An Iowa woman found dead in a ditch outside her home died as the result of multiple dog bite injuries, authorities have confirmed.
According to a release from the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, authorities received a 911 call Monday afternoon from a person who believed he had come across a motorcycle incident south of Rossie, Iowa.
The caller said he found a woman in the ditch but could not get close to her due to several big dogs near her. Deputies arrived and found the woman, identified as 43-year-old Mindy Kiepe, dead. Kiepe, 43, was a resident of rural Rossie, Iowa.
The incident occurred just a short distance from her farm residence driveway, authorities said.
Kiepe was taken to the Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy. The State Medical Examiner ruled on Wednesday that Kiepe’s death was due to multiple dog bite injuries and not a motorcycle crash.
After further investigation, it was determined that five Great Danes owned by Kiepe had caused her death. With the assistance of a veterinarian, the five dogs were euthanized.
Additional details about the incident, including what may have prompted the dogs to fatally bite Kiepe, have not been released. The Sheriff’s Office declined to provide further information to Nexstar’s KCAU.
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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO
AP Retail Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart reported better-than-expected second quarter results as more Americans looked to cut costs on groceries at the nation’s largest retailer in the face of surging inflation.
Those rising prices, however, meant that customers where cutting back on non-necessary purchases.
Walmart Inc. earned $5.15 billion, or $1.88 per share, or $1.77 excluding one-time costs and charges. That easily beat the $1.62 per share that Wall Street was looking for, according to FactSet.
It also topped last year’s profit of $4.27 billion.
Sales rose 8.4% to $152.86 billion, topping industry analyst projections.
Sales at stores open at least a year rose 6.5% as more shoppers turned to Walmart for groceries. That followed a 3% increase in the first quarter.
Online sale rose 12%, following a 1% increase in the previous quarter.
“We’re pleased to see more customers choosing Walmart during this inflationary period, and we’re working hard to support them as they prioritize their spending,” said CEO Doug McMillon.
McMillon, however, noted that strong sales were registered in groceries, which have lower margins, at a time when the company is cutting prices to get rid of excess inventory after a huge shift in how Americans spend money this year.
Like many big box retailers, Walmart benefited in the early days of the pandemic as shoppers splurged on food and other necessities, particularly online.
But shoppers are spending less on items that did well during the pandemic such as casual clothes and TVs when they focused on home activities. Surging inflation, which slowed last month but is still running at close to its highest level in four decades, is also presenting challenges for Walmart and other retailers as low income shoppers cut back.
Late last month, Walmart spooked investors when it lowered its profit outlook for the second quarter and the full year, saying rising prices on food and gas are forcing shoppers to cut back on discretionary items, particularly clothing, that carry higher profit margins. The last time Walmart lowered its profit outlook mid quarter was in October 2015.
But on Monday, it forecast a smaller profit drop for the fiscal year. It now expects consolidated adjusted operating income to decline 9% to 11%, an improvement from the company’s prior guidance of 11% to 13%.
Walmart Inc., based in Bentonville, Arkansas, is among the first major retailers to report quarterly results and is considered a crucial barometer of spending given its size and the breadth of its customer base.
Shares rose nearly 4% before the opening bell Tuesday.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Now it ain’t no $11 million jackpot but adding nearly $14,000 to the bank account sure is nice.
That’s what the Texas Lottery reports happened for two lucky players from Wednesday night’s Lotto Texas drawing. The winning numbers were 10, 15, 17, 36, 50, and 51.
Five total tickets matched five of the six winning numbers to win $3,743 but only two of those winning tickets chose the Extra! option to take their winnings $10K richer to $13,743.
In total there were over 33,000 winners throughout the state that won at least $2. The next Lotto Texas drawing is set for August 20 with a jackpot of $11.75 million which has a cash value of $7.65 million.
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RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine group kicked off Instagram, Facebook
(AP) – Instagram and Facebook suspended Children’s Health Defense this week after the anti-vaccine group led by Robert Kennedy Jr. repeatedly violated rules prohibiting misinformation about COVID-19.
A nonprofit, Children’s Health Defense is one of the most influential anti-vaccine organizations active on social media, where it has spread misleading claims about vaccines and other public health measures designed to control the pandemic.
In a statement, Kennedy compared Facebook’s actions to government censorship, even though Facebook is a private company that can set and enforce its own rules about misinformation.
“Facebook is acting here as a surrogate for the federal government’s crusade to silence all criticism of draconian government policies,” Kennedy said.
Children’s Health Defense had hundreds of thousands of followers at the time of the suspension, according to a statement from the organization, which also noted that it has sued Facebook over its moderation policies.
Public health advocates and misinformation experts have criticized Facebook for not acting more swiftly to contain potentially harmful misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines.
Karen Kornbluh, director of the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund, said too many groups like Children’s Health Defense have been allowed to flourish on social media for too long. She noted that the group remains on Twitter.
“Today’s step is too late and too little,” Kornbluh said, adding that tech companies must address the reasons misinformation spreads so readily on social media.
Facebook and Instagram confirmed the company action on Thursday in a statement to The Associated Press.
“We removed these accounts for repeatedly violating our policies,” a spokesman for Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, told the AP. Under the platforms’ policies, suspensions are typically only enforced after multiple violations.
Several state affiliates of Children’s Health Defense remain on Facebook and Instagram despite the ban of the national organization. Kennedy was kicked off Instagram last year but continues to keep an active account on Facebook.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Free beer because of Texas teams winning their college football games? My goodness, this fall might just start off with a college football and beer-filled bang! “Texas fans may not agree on teams, but they do agree gamedays go better with an ice cold beer,” Bud Light tweeted.
Bud Light is taking the challenge to Texas college football teams and fans to set rivalries aside and cheer on state-side teams for a great cause: free beer. The beer company says, “The challenge is simple: If the #TXTeams ranked in the top 100 come out of kickoff weekend with a winning record, Bud Light will throw a Texas-sized celebration, allowing fans 21+ to grab a beer on Bud Light in select bars in college football towns across the state.”
Naturally, it seems Texas has the most teams of any state across the country and as the college football season kicks off, games will take place across the Lone Star State all Sep. 10th weekend long. Here’s where North Texans can expect to celebrate if the Texas teams prove victorious:
Dallas
- STAN’S BLUE SHED
- NODDING DONKEY
- BARLEY HOUSE
- MILO BUTTERFINGERS
- HENDERSON TAP HOUSE
- KATY TRAIL ICE HOUSE\
Denton
- LUCKY LOU’S
- RT’S NEIGHBORHOOD BAR
- EAST SIDE SOCIAL CLUB
- TWO CHARLIES
- THE DIVE
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By LISA MASCARO
AP Congressional Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden arrived at the White House promising to “build back” America, and legislation he’s signing Tuesday delivers a slimmer, though not insignificant, version of that once sweeping idea.
Approved by the divided Congress, the bill brings the biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. Also in the legislation is a $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients as well as a new 15% corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share.
And billions will be left over to pay down federal deficits.
All told, the Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act” may not do much to immediately tame inflationary price hikes. But the package, an election year turnaround after loftier versions collapsed, will touch countless American lives and secure longtime party goals.
Democrats alone supported the package, as Republicans lined up against it. Republicans deride the 730-page bill as big government overreach and point particular criticism at its $80 billion investment in the IRS to hire new employees and go after tax scofflaws.
Voters will be left to sort it out in the November elections, when control of Congress will be decided.
Not as robust as Biden’s initial ideas to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems, here’s what’s in the estimated $740 billion package — made up of $440 billion in new spending and $300 billion toward easing deficits.
LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS
Launching a long-sought goal, the bill would allow the Medicare program to negotiate some prescription drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, saving the federal government some $288 billion over the 10-year budget window.
The result is expected to lower costs for older adults on medications, including a $2,000 out-of-pocket cap for older adults buying prescriptions from pharmacies.
The revenue raised would also be used to provide free vaccinations for seniors, who now are among the few not guaranteed free access, according to a summary document.
Seniors would also have insulin prices capped at $35 a month.
HELP PAYING FOR HEALTH INSURANCE
The bill would extend the subsidies provided during the COVID-19 pandemic to help some Americans who buy health insurance on their own.
Under earlier pandemic relief, the extra help was set to expire this year. But the bill would allow the assistance to keep going for three more years, lowering insurance premiums for some 13 million people who are purchasing their own health care policies through the Affordable Care Act.
BIGGEST U.S. INVESTMENT ‘BY FAR’ IN CLIMATE CHANGE
The bill would infuse nearly $375 billion over the decade in climate change-fighting strategies that Democrats believe could put the country on a path to cut greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030, and “would represent the single biggest climate investment in U.S. history, by far.”
For consumers, that means tax rebates to buy electric vehicles — $4,000 for used vehicle purchase and up to $7,500 for new ones, eligible to households with incomes of $300,000 or less for couples, or single people with income of $150,000 or less.
Not all electric vehicles will fully qualify for the tax credits, thanks to requirements that component parts be manufactured and assembled in the U.S. And pricier cars costing more than $55,000 and SUVs and trucks priced above $80,000 are excluded.
There’s also tax breaks for consumers to go green. One is a 10-year consumer tax credit for renewable energy investments in wind and solar.
For businesses, the bill has $60 billion for a clean energy manufacturing tax credit and $30 billion for a production tax credit for wind and solar, seen as ways to boost and support the industries that can help curb the country’s dependence on fossil fuels.
The bill also gives tax credits for nuclear power and carbon capture technology that oil companies such as Exxon Mobil have invested millions of dollars to advance.
The bill would impose a new fee on excess methane emissions from oil and gas drilling while giving fossil fuel companies access to more leases on federal lands and waters.
A late addition pushed by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and other Democrats in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado would designate $4 billion to combat a mega-drought in the West, including conservation efforts in the Colorado River Basin, which nearly 40 million Americans rely on for drinking water.
HOW TO PAY FOR ALL OF THIS?
One of the biggest revenue-raisers in the bill is a new 15% minimum tax on corporations that earn more than $1 billion in annual profits.
It’s a way to clamp down on some 200 U.S. companies that avoid paying the standard 21% corporate tax rate, including some that end up paying no taxes at all.
The new corporate minimum tax would kick in after the 2022 tax year and raise more than $258 billion over the decade.
There will also be a new 1% excise tax imposed on stock buybacks, raising some $74 billion over the decade.
Savings from allowing Medicare’s negotiations with the drug companies is expected to bring in $288 billion over 10 years, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
The bill sticks with Biden’s original pledge not to raise taxes on families or businesses making less than $400,000 a year.
Yet money is also raised by boosting the IRS to go after tax cheats. The bill proposes an $80 billion investment in taxpayer services, enforcement and modernization, which is projected to raise $203 billion in new revenue — a net gain of $124 billion over the decade.
Sinema was instrumental in doing away with other tax proposals and shaping the final plan.
EXTRA MONEY TO PAY DOWN DEFICITS
With some $740 billion in new revenue and around $440 billion in new investments, the bill promises to put the difference of about $300 billion toward deficit reduction.
Federal deficits spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic when federal spending soared and tax revenues fell as the nation’s economy churned through shutdowns, closed offices and other massive changes.
The nation has seen deficits rise and fall in recent years. But overall federal budgeting is on an unsustainable path, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which recently put out a new report on long-term projections.
WHAT’S LEFT BEHIND?
The package, nowhere near the sweeping Build Back Better program Biden once envisioned, remains a sizable undertaking and, along with COVID-19 relief and the GOP 2017 tax cuts, is among the more substantial bills from Congress in years.
While Congress did pass and Biden signed into law a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill for highways, broadband and other investments that was part of the White House’s initial vision, the Democrats’ other big priorities have slipped away.
Gone, for now, are plans for free pre-kindergarten and community college, as well as the nation’s first paid family leave program that would have provided up to $4,000 a month for births, deaths and other pivotal needs. Also allowed to expire is the enhanced child care credit that was providing $300 a month during the pandemic.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) _ Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT) on Thursday reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of $1.61 billion.
The Santa Clara, California-based company said it had net income of $1.85 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $1.94 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.78 per share.
The maker of chipmaking equipment posted revenue of $6.52 billion in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Eight analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $6.26 billion.
For the current quarter ending in October, Applied Materials expects its per-share earnings to range from $1.82 to $2.18. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had forecast adjusted earnings per share of $1.90.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $6.25 billion to $7.05 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had expected revenue of $6.53 billion.
Applied Materials shares have decreased 31% since the beginning of the year, while the S&P's 500 index has dropped 10%. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $108.23, a decrease of 15% in the last 12 months.
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Kim E, Kwon Y, Kim H, Shin G. Accid. Anal. Prev. 2022; 176: e106800.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
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Walking while distracted by a smartphone has been a major safety concern for pedestrians. Visual and cognitive attention paid to the smartphone while walking with the head tilted downward would affect the ability to perceive walkway hazards and elevate risks for pedestrian accidents associated with physical contact with obstacles. A laboratory experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of detecting ground-level visual cues during texting while walking. Forty young smartphone users performed walking trials at faster, preferred, and slower speeds for the dual-task walking on a treadmill and detected approaching cues of three contrast levels. Detection distance was quantified from the location of cue detection to the participants to assess the effects of walking speed and cue contrast on detection performance. RESULTS show that detection distance varied from 1.7 m to 2.9 m for Low to High contrast cues and from 2.3 m to 2.5 m for Slower to Faster walking speeds, and the effects of contrast and speed were statistically significant (p < 0.05). Study findings suggest that higher contrast fixtures or in-ground signals and slower walking would help smartphone users perceive walkway hazards and in-ground safety signals earlier during their distracted walking.
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Safety; Pedestrian; Distraction; Smartphone; Smombie
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) _ Bill.com Holdings Inc. (BILL) on Thursday reported a loss of $84.9 million in its fiscal fourth quarter.
The San Jose, California-based company said it had a loss of 81 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 3 cents per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 13 cents per share.
The payment processing software company posted revenue of $200.2 million in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $183.1 million.
For the year, the company reported that its loss widened to $326.4 million, or $3.21 per share. Revenue was reported as $642 million.
For the current quarter ending in October, Bill.com expects its per-share earnings to range from 5 cents to 7 cents.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $208 million to $211 million for the fiscal first quarter.
Bill.com expects full-year earnings in the range of 23 cents to 38 cents per share, with revenue ranging from $955.5 million to $973.5 million.
Bill.com shares have dropped 40% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $149.40, a fall of 27% in the last 12 months.
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Abdel-Aty M, Wu Y, Zheng O, Yuan J. Accid. Anal. Prev. 2022; 176: e106794.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
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10.1016/j.aap.2022.106794
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35970000
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In the within-intersection area, vehicles from different approaches make turning movements resulting in many conflict points. Hence, drivers are more prone to make mistakes in that area, which leads to severe crash outcomes. In the current roadway system, the Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras could be a cost-effective sensor to monitor the safety condition in the within-intersection area. This study proposed a framework named "Near Miss Event Detection System (NMEDS)" for road safety diagnostics using video data collected from CCTV cameras. The proposed framework combined the Mask-RCNN bounding box detection and Occlusion-Net detection algorithm to reconstruct vehicles' key points in a 3D view. Vehicles' key points including right-front headlight, left-front headlight, right-back taillight, and left-back taillight could be identified and transformed into a 2D bird's-eye view (i.e., real-world coordinate system) for safety analysis. A method was proposed to modify the occluded key points, which could not be observed by cameras due the turning movements in the within-intersection area. The post-encroachment time (PET) was calculated by using the trajectory data in the 2D view. The proposed framework was compared with two counterparts (i.e., bounding box detection only and key point detection only) by conducting an empirical study at a 4-leg intersection. The results suggested that the proposed framework could obtain more accurate vehicle trajectory and better autocorrelation analytics was conducted to identify the significantly dangerous locations in the within-intersection area. It is expected that the proposed methods could help diagnose road safety problems using CCTV cameras. Moreover, the proposed method could be incorporated with Connected Vehicle Systems and provide information to nearby drivers based on Infrastructure-to-Vehicle (I2V) technologies.
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Computer vision; Near miss; Car pose; CCTV cameras; Key point detection; Mask-RCNN; Post-encroachment time; Safety diagnostics
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Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday:
Cisco Systems Inc., up $2.71 to $49.37.
The seller of routers, switches and software reported strong fiscal fourth-quarter financial results.
Keysight Technologies Inc., up $10.07 to $179.36.
The maker of oscilloscopes, power meters and other gear raised its revenue forecast for the year.
Wolfspeed Inc., up $27.29 to $112.94.
The maker of energy-efficient lighting beat analysts' fiscal fourth-quarter earnings forecasts.
Estee Lauder Companies Inc., up $5.10 to $281.62.
The beauty products company beat Wall Street's fiscal fourth-quarter financial forecasts.
Amcor Plc., down 29 cents to $12.72.
The U.S.-Australian food packaging maker gave investors a weak profit forecast for the year.
Kohl's Corp.. down $2.62 to $31.33.
The Wisconsin- based department store chain cut is profit forecast for the year.
BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc., up $4.96 to $74.09.
The wholesale membership warehouse gave investors a strong profit forecast for the year.
America’s Car-Mart Inc., down $27.09 to $92.38.
The auto retailer reported weak fiscal first-quarter earnings.
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Akinci ZS, Delclòs-Alió X, Vich G, Salvo D, Ibarluzea J, Miralles-Guasch C. BMC Geriatr. 2022; 22(1): e673.
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(Copyright © 2022, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group - BMC)
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10.1186/s12877-022-03233-x
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35971086
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BACKGROUND: Walking is an essential activity for everyone and for older adults in particular, given that it is the most accessible form of physical activity and one of the healthiest transportation modes. Understanding how walkability (the potential of the environment to enable and/or encourage walking) has been objectively measured and analyzed for older adults is critical to create more inclusive, healthy, and sustainable environments and to promote healthy aging. Despite the numerous reviews on physical activity among older adults and its relationship with the built environment, the literature still lacks comparison reviews focusing specifically on objective operationalizations of walkability for older adults vs. the general population. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review of 146 empirical studies that measured walkability objectively in relation to walking-related outcomes. We compared studies focused on older adults (n = 24) and the general population (n = 122). Content analysis included the characteristics of the study design, walkability measures, spatial extent, and associations found between walkability and walking-related outcomes. RESULTS: In both groups of publications, the majority of studies were conducted in the US, Canada, and Europe, and largely in high-income countries. They were mostly published in health-related journals and used cross-sectional designs, operationalized walkability by using indexes, employed self-reported measures for walking-related outcomes, and found positive associations between walkability and walking outcomes. However, we observed some differences among studies focusing on older adults. Compared to studies focusing on the general population, a larger proportion of studies on older adults was conducted in the Middle East and Asia, and they used longitudinal designs, mixed methods to measure walking-related outcomes, variables related with land-use characteristics, safety from traffic and crime, and greenery, and a larger proportion found positive, as well as no associations between walkability and walking-related outcomes. CONCLUSION: Although there is a promising increase in interest in older adults-focused walkability studies in the last decade, there is still a need for more studies focusing on different settings, using wider spatial extents, longitudinal designs, objective or mixed methods to collect outcome data, and specific variables and/or specially created indexes for older adults and for settings.
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Physical activity; Walking; Built environment; Walkability; Older adults; Systematic literature review
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Raza SA, Siddiqui AW, Butt FM, Elahi MA, Minhas KS. Data Brief 2022; 44: e108502.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
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10.1016/j.dib.2022.108502
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35966943
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PMC9363955
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Increased traffic volumes worldwide have resulted in an increased number of road accident injuries and mortalities. This global phenomenon motivated the United Nations (UN) to initiate a decade-long global road safety plan in 2010. In response, Saudi Arabia concurrently initiated a comprehensive road safety program, supported by detailed and comprehensive road safety data for the Eastern Province (EP) of Saudi Arabia. The contributed EP-Traffic-Mortality-and-Policy-Interventions Dataset provides multidimensional road safety data for 2010-2020 via two primary and five secondary data subsets. The first primary subset provides road accident mortality data. The five secondary data subsets reflect road accident mortalities at different time scales and administrative (provincial or governorate) levels. The second primary subset provides details of traffic safety policy interventions implemented during the same period. Researchers and policymakers can use this comprehensive dataset to study accident mortality patterns across various geospatial and time scales and analyze the effectiveness of policies intended to mitigate road accident mortalities.
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Traffic safety; road safety; global road safety plan; road accident mortalities; safety interventions
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| 2022-08-18T20:44:03
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Lau M, Jipp M, Oehl M. Front. Psychol. 2022; 13: e882394.
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(Copyright © 2022, Frontiers Research Foundation)
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10.3389/fpsyg.2022.882394
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35967627
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PMC9366084
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Future automated vehicles (AVs) of different sizes will share the same space with other road users, e. g., pedestrians. For a safe interaction, successful communication needs to be ensured, in particular, with vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians. Two possible communication means exist for AVs: vehicle kinematics for implicit communication and external human-machine interfaces (eHMIs) for explicit communication. However, the exact interplay is not sufficiently studied yet for pedestrians' interactions with AVs. Additionally, very few other studies focused on the interplay of vehicle kinematics and eHMI for pedestrians' interaction with differently sized AVs, although the precise coordination is decisive to support the communication with pedestrians. Therefore, this study focused on how the interplay of vehicle kinematics and eHMI affects pedestrians' willingness to cross, trust and perceived safety for the interaction with two differently sized AVs (smaller AV vs. larger AV). In this experimental online study (N = 149), the participants interacted with the AVs in a shared space. Both AVs were equipped with a 360° LED light-band eHMI attached to the outer vehicle body. Three eHMI statuses (no eHMI, static eHMI, and dynamic eHMI) were displayed. The vehicle kinematics were varied at two levels (non-yielding vs. yielding). Moreover, "non-matching" conditions were included for both AVs in which the dynamic eHMI falsely communicated a yielding intent although the vehicle did not yield. Overall, results showed that pedestrians' willingness to cross was significantly higher for the smaller AV compared to the larger AV. Regarding the interplay of vehicle kinematics and eHMI, results indicated that a dynamic eHMI increased pedestrians' perceived safety when the vehicle yielded. When the vehicle did not yield, pedestrians' perceived safety still increased for the dynamic eHMI compared to the static eHMI and no eHMI. The findings of this study demonstrated possible negative effects of eHMIs when they did not match the vehicle kinematics. Further implications for a holistic communication strategy for differently sized AVs will be discussed.
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automated vehicles; external human-machine interface (eHMI); pedestrians; vehicle kinematics; vehicle size
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LUXEMBOURG (AP) _ Globant SA (GLOB) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $37.1 million.
On a per-share basis, the Luxembourg-based company said it had net income of 87 cents. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and costs related to mergers and acquisitions, were $1.22 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.21 per share.
The information technology services provider posted revenue of $429.3 million in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $427 million.
For the current quarter ending in October, Globant expects its per-share earnings to be $1.24.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $456 million for the fiscal third quarter.
Globant expects full-year earnings to be $5.03 per share, with revenue expected to be $1.78 billion.
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Shenoi R, Rrajguru J, Sangani S, Kolte V, Bhave I, Karmarkar J, Situt N, Gajbhiye M. J. Oral Biol. Craniofac. Res. 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
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10.1016/j.jobcr.2022.07.012
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35966969
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INTRODUCTION: Oral and maxillofacial injuries can be defined as injuries involving soft and hard tissue structures of the facial region and oral cavity, including the teeth and vital structures of the head and neck area as a result of trauma(.) The maxillofacial injuries are multifactorial and vary from one country to another and even from region to region. Despite, societal restrictions imposed by the government in the form of lockdowns and curfews, patients still experienced trauma and required significant healthcare services for management. METHODS: Patients of either gender reporting to the emergency department of Lata Mangeshkar Hospital with maxillofacial injuries, attended by residents of OMFS from October 2019 to August 2020 were included in the retrospective study. The demographic data about age, gender and status pertaining to under the influence of alcohol was recorded. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the changing patterns of the maxillofacial injuries during the Covid-19 pandemic. RESULTS: In the present study, the road traffic accidents were 72.50% pre-lockdown which reduced to 47.37% during the alcohol ban and nationwide lockdown and gradually increased to 63.83% post-lockdown. The second most common cause of maxillofacial injury was falls which showed a significant increase from 22.50% before the lockdown to 31.58% during the lockdown and decreased to 26.6% after lockdown during the pandemic. There was an increase in the number of assaults from 2.50% pre-lockdown to 15.79% during the lockdown and again a decrease to 6.38% post-lockdown. DISCUSSION: Our study demonstrates the impact of nationwide lockdown in the month of April and May 2020, may have an association with the significant statistical decrease in the monthly average number of trauma admissions. There was a significant decrease in the number of road traffic collisions and falls during the "lockdown period". CONCLUSION: The etiology and pattern of maxillofacial injuries reflect the trauma pattern within the community. We need more coordinated strategies of action to minimize maxillofacial injuries and its implication on physical and psychological wellbeing of patients. Keywords: CoViD-19-Road-Traffic
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COVID-19; Etiology; Changing patterns; Maxillofacial trauma
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Wheat for Sep. declined 31.75 cents at $7.3150 a bushel; Sep. corn rose 4.75 cents at $6.1975 a bushel, Sep. oats fell 19 cents at $4.1275 a bushel; while Sep. soybeans lost 20.25 cents at $14.9550 a bushel.
Beef and pork were lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Aug. live cattle was off .48 cent at $1.4127 a pound; Aug. feeder cattle fell 1.73 cents at $1.8152 a pound; while Aug. lean hogs lost 4.75 cents at $.9330 a pound.
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Stray AV, Siverts H, Melhuus K, Enger M, Galteland P, Næss I, Helseth E, Ramm-Pettersen J. JAMA Netw. Open 2022; 5(8): e2226701.
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(Copyright © 2022, American Medical Association)
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10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.26701
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35969397
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IMPORTANCE: When society introduces and accepts new transportation modes, it is important to map risks and benefits. OBJECTIVE: To compare electric scooter (e-scooter) and bicycle injuries. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This cohort study is based on prospectively collected data on Norwegian patients who sustained e-scooter or bicycle injuries and presented to an emergency department affiliated with Oslo University Hospital between January 1, 2019, and March 31, 2020. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: e-Scooter and bicycle injuries were evaluated for associations with sex, age, time of injury, helmet use, intoxication, body region, and injury severity. Descriptive statistics are presented as mean (SD) or number with percentage, with significance set at P < .05 (2-tailed). RESULTS: During the study period, 3191 patients were included (850 e-scooter riders, 2341 bicyclists) with 3839 injuries recorded (997 e-scooter, 2842 bicycle). The mean (SD) age of those injured was 34 (17) years, 2026 riders (63.5%) were male, 1474 (46.2%) were helmeted at the time of injury, and 516 (16.2%) were intoxicated by alcohol or other drugs. The annual incidence of injuries was 120 per 100 000 inhabitants for e-scooters and 340 per 100 000 inhabitants for bicycles. Men were overrepresented in both groups (529 e-scooter riders [62.2%] and 1497 bicyclists [63.9%]). e-Scooter riders were younger than bicyclists (mean [SD] age, 31 [12] vs 35 [18] years). Most injured e-scooter riders were aged 20 to 40 years, whereas injured bicyclists had a broader age distribution. e-Scooter injuries commonly occurred on weekends (378 [46.6%]) and during evening (230 [32.3%]) or nighttime (242 [34.1%]) hours. Most bicycle injuries occurred during weekdays (1586 [69.7%]) and daytime (1762 [61.3%]). e-Scooter riders were more often intoxicated (336 [39.5%] vs 180 [7.7%]) and had a lower rate of helmet use (18 [2.1%] vs 1456 [62.2%]). During nighttime, 230 injured e-scooter riders (91.3%) and 86 bicyclists (69.4%) were intoxicated. e-Scooter riders had more head and neck (317 [31.7%] vs 636 [22.4%]) and lower-limb (285 [28.6%] vs 632 [22.2%]) injuries and fewer upper-limb (341 [34.2%] vs 1276 [44.9%]), thoracic (41 [4.1%] vs 195 [6.9%]), and abdominal, pelvic, and lumbar (13 [1.3%] vs 103 [3.6%]) injuries. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this cohort study, e-scooter riders were younger than bicyclists, did not use helmets, were more often intoxicated, and were more often injured during nighttime. The rate of intoxication among e-scooter riders injured at night was high. Preventive measures, including awareness campaigns, regulating e-scooter availability, improving infrastructure, and implementing stricter helmet and alcohol policies, may prove effective for reducing injuries.
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Stocks ended modestly higher on Wall Street after another day of choppy trading.
The S&P 500 rose 0.2% Thursday, putting it just barely back into the green for the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended a touch higher. The Nasdaq also rose as technology companies gained ground.
Cisco Systems rose after turning in stronger-than-expected quarterly results. Energy companies also climbed along with rising crude oil prices.
On Thursday:
The S&P 500 rose 9.70 points, or 0.2%, to 4,283.74.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 18.72 points, or 0.1%, to 33,999.04.
The Nasdaq rose 27.22 points, or 0.2%, to 12,965.34.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 13.41 points, or 0.7%, to 2,000.73.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is up 3.59 points, or 0.1%.
The Dow is up 237.99 points, or 0.7%.
The Nasdaq is down 81.84 points, or 0.6%.
The Russell 2000 is down 15.89 points, or 0.8%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is down 482.44 points, or 10.1%.
The Dow is down 2,339.26 points, or 6.4%.
The Nasdaq is down 2,679.63 points, or 17.1%.
The Russell 2000 is down 244.58 points, or 10.9%.
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Ali Y, Haque MM, Zheng Z, Afghari AP. Anal. Meth. Accid. Res. 2022; 35: e100221.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
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10.1016/j.amar.2022.100221
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Driver's response to a pedestrian crossing requires braking, whereby both excess and inadequate braking is directly associated with crash risk. The highly anticipated connected environment aims to increase drivers' situational awareness by providing advanced information and assisting them during critical driving tasks such as braking. Focussing on this crucial behaviour and combined with the promise of a connected environment, the objective of this study is to examine the braking behaviour of drivers in response to a pedestrian at a zebra crossing in a connected environment. Seventy-eight participants from diverse backgrounds performed this driving task in the CARRS-Q Advanced Driving Simulator in two randomised driving scenarios: a baseline scenario (without driving aids) and a connected environment (with driving aids) scenario. A Weibull accelerated failure time duration modelling approach is adopted to model the braking behaviour of drivers. In particular, this duration model is specified to capture the panel nature of the data and unobserved heterogeneity through correlated grouped random parameters with heterogeneity-in-the-means in the Bayesian framework. RESULTS indicate that, for most drivers in the connected environment, it takes longer to reduce their speed with less speed variation and a larger safety margin. In addition, a decision tree analysis for the braking time suggests that for older drivers, when the distance to the zebra crossing is larger in the connected environment than that in the baseline scenario, braking time is likely to increase. The model also reveals that the braking time of female drivers is longer in the connected environment compared to that of male drivers. Overall, the connected environment is associated with increased braking time by providing advanced information, giving drivers additional time to smoothly reduce their speed in response to a pedestrian at a zebra crossing, and ultimately making the vehicle-pedestrian interaction safer.
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Braking; Connected environment; Decision tree; Driving behaviour; Hierarchical; Random parameters
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LONDON (AP) _ Navigator Holdings Ltd. (NVGS) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $14 million.
The London-based company said it had profit of 18 cents per share.
The transportaion company for the natural gas and and chemical industry posted revenue of $123.9 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $103.1 million.
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Alozi AR, Hussein M. Anal. Meth. Accid. Res. 2022; 35: e100230.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
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10.1016/j.amar.2022.100230
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With the increasing advancements in autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies, the forecasts of AV market shares seem to follow an ever-growing trend. This leads to the inherent need for proactive safety evaluations of AV impacts on other road users. To that end, this study proposes a modeling framework for the proactive assessment of pedestrian safety in AV environments. The proposed framework relies on the Extreme Value Theory (EVT), with the peak over threshold modeling technique, to develop an estimate of AV-pedestrian collisions using AV-pedestrian conflicts. The proposed framework was applied to two AV datasets, collected from three locations in the US and Singapore, using the operating AV fleets of two developers, Motional and Lyft. Both datasets included trajectory data for the subject AV, as well as LiDAR point clouds and annotated video data from AV cameras to capture the trajectories of surrounding road users. The datasets were processed to extract the AV-pedestrian conflicts along with the corresponding conflict indicators, mainly the post-encroachment time (PET) and time-to-collision (TTC). Relevant covariates were introduced to the proposed models to enhance their performance and prediction accuracy, including turning movements and conflict speeds. The results indicate an alarming risk to pedestrians when interacting with AVs, especially at the early stages of AV adoption. The expected number of collisions ranged from 4 to 5.5 per million vehicle kilometers travelled (VKT) of the AVs. With the addition of the covariates, the expected number of collisions went down to a range of 2.3-3.7 per million VKT, but with a narrower confidence interval of the resulting estimate and a better fit. The introduced approach shows promising prospects for the application of EVT methods to address AV safety impacts. It also invites future applications to address issues of concern for pedestrian safety in different conditions of urban traffic.
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Autonomous vehicles; AV-pedestrian collisions; Extreme value theory; Pedestrian safety
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HAWTHORNE, Calif. (AP) _ OSI Systems Inc. (OSIS) on Thursday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $33.8 million.
The Hawthorne, California-based company said it had net income of $1.94 per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $1.96 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.95 per share.
The airport security and full-body scanner manufacturer posted revenue of $336.8 million in the period, which did not meet Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $337.3 million.
For the year, the company reported profit of $115.3 million, or $6.45 per share. Revenue was reported as $1.18 billion.
OSI expects full-year earnings in the range of $6.02 to $6.25 per share, with revenue in the range of $1.24 billion to $1.27 billion.
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Beevi S. Medicon Medical Sciences 2022; 3(1): 1-2.
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Road safety is both a health and development issue of concern. Road traffic injuries are one of the leading causes of deaths, disabili- ties and hospitalizations with severe socioeconomic costs across the world and India in particular. As per the ‘Road Accidents in India 2020’, there were 3,66,138 unfortunate road accidents during 2020, which claimed 1,31,714 lives and caused injuries to 3,48,279 per- sons [1]. As per the World Health Organization, at least one out of 10 persons killed on roads across the world is from India and India positions first in the number of road accident deaths worldwide. The youth are particularly vulnerable on the world’s roads, and road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5-29 years [2]. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH) has considered road safety an issue of paramount importance. It has been taking proactive steps to address it by a technique called 4Es, Education, Engineering (of both roads and vehicles), Enforcement and Emergency care. Hence instruction and education to the adolescent and youth are of utmost importance to prevent road traffic accidents [1]. Many research studies evaluating the awareness of children, adolescents, and youths have shown less information on road traffic rules. The knowledge regarding the safety and traffic rules among the medical students in Pakistan was inadequate. The finding will help plan future accident prevention programs and emphasise the need to generate awareness among medical students through train- ing and awareness activities [3]. Road traffic injury prevention must be incorporated into a broad range of activities, such as the development and management of road infrastructure, the provision of safer vehicles, law enforcement, mobility planning, the provision of health and hospital services, child welfare services, and urban and environmental planning [4, 5]. A study among medical students reported that wearing a helmet and following the traffic rules were not practiced and the overall knowledge and practice toward road safety was poor [6]. Another study shows that awareness is not common among people, and ...
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DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) _ Ross Stores Inc. (ROST) on Thursday reported fiscal second-quarter earnings of $384.5 million.
The Dublin, California-based company said it had profit of $1.11 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 98 cents per share.
The discount retailer posted revenue of $4.58 billion in the period, which missed Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $4.6 billion.
Ross Stores expects full-year earnings to be $3.84 to $4.12 per share.
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Yadav AK, Choudhary SS, Pawar NM, Velaga NR. Int. J. Inj. Control Safe. Promot. 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
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Mobile phone distraction is a significant contributor to pedestrian injuries. However, mobile phone engagement among pedestrians has been scarcely explored in a developing country like India. The present study utilized the beliefs-based theory of planned behaviour to examine the association between pedestrian beliefs towards distracted walking (behavioural, normative, and control) and their mobile phone use frequencies. Based on a survey of 560 pedestrians (64.6% males), it was found that the major use of mobile phones was for listening to music (30.7%), followed by receiving a call (25%), making a call (18.9%), texting (9.8%), navigation (8.5%) and internet browsing (7.1%). A series of multivariate ANOVAs and logistic regression models were developed to investigate the relationships between the beliefs and frequencies of mobile phone use in hands-free and hand-held conditions. Significant multivariate differences were found for behavioural and normative beliefs in hands-free conditions and all three types of beliefs in hand-held conditions. The frequency of mobile phone use was significantly predicted by normative beliefs (p < 0.001) in the hands-free condition, and by behavioural (p = 0.041) and normative beliefs (p = 0.004) in the hand-held condition. The findings may assist the road safety countermeasures in addressing the issue of pedestrian distraction.
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mobile phone; Beliefs; distracted pedestrians; theory of planned behaviour
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CHICAGO (AP) — Woman testifies that R&B singer R. Kelly had sex with her "hundreds" of times before she turned 18 years old.
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Wu Y, Zhang Z, Wang F, Wang W. Sci. Rep. 2022; 12(1): e13892.
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The study aims to investigate the characteristics of traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) caused by motor vehicle collisions (MVCs). The study included 649 cases who experienced MVC-induced TSCI. The mean age was 37.3 years old, ranging from 1 to 82 years old. The male-to-female ratio was 2.7:1. We extracted data of gender, age, occupation, neurological level of injury, fracture level, complications, vehicle type, accident type and other features. The results showed that the most common vehicles involved in accidents were passenger cars (65.1%). Collision was the leading cause of MVCs (35.8%). The lesion level was cervical in 51.6% and thoracic in 42.2%. The most common fracture levels in drivers and passengers were C3-C7, while those in pedestrians were T11-L2. The frequency of tetraplegia (51.6%) was slightly higher than paraplegia (48.4%), and cases with tetraplegia with incomplete injury accounted for 61.2%. MVC-induced TSCI has unique clinical features. Collision was the most common cause. People sitting in cars were more likely to suffer from cervical fractures, while thoracolumbar fractures were more common in pedestrians. Tetraplegic cases were mainly incomplete injuries, while paraplegic cases were mainly complete injuries.
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Mother, child reportedly struck by lightning near elementary school in Winter Springs
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. - A mother and her child were reportedly struck by lightning in Winter Springs as they waited for another child to get out of school Thursday afternoon, according to police.
The Seminole County Fire Department said its crews responded to the area of Park Villa Place before 2:30 p.m., and took both to the hospital. Their conditions were not immediately known, but fire and rescue said the mother at one point didn't have a pulse. A pet dog was also involved. The whereabouts of the dog and the extent of its injuries are unknown.
Officers believe the incident happened at Trotwood Park, which is near Keeth Elementary School and Indian Trails Middle.
Around the same time, crews also responded to a house fire on Partridge Circle in Winter Springs after lightning hit a nearby tree and a part of the house. Officials said no one was injured, and the fire was easily put out.
The FOX 35 Storm Tracker Radar captured multiple lightning strikes in Winter Springs as strong storms moved across the area.
LIVE RADAR: Strong storms continue to move across the Central Florida area. See the latest weather conditions here.
Florida is no stranger to powerful lightning storms. The area is considered the "lightning strike capital." On average, 10 people are killed by lightning each year in Florida, the most of any state in the U.S. according to the National Weather Service.
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Sharks, grizzlies, giant snakes and rampaging apes have traditionally been the go-to choices for animal-kingdom antagonists in survival thrillers. Lions not so much. Maybe the king of the jungle has always been too regal, too majestic — too heroic — to be lowered to the status of mere summer-movie marauder.
But the circle of life also pertains to movies, and it was probably inevitable that the lion's time would come. That's, at least, the nature of “Beast,” a surprisingly agile and nifty B-movie graced by Idris Elba's formidable presence, fluid camerawork and tolerable levels of implausibility.
It's a movie well engineered as a late-summer diversion — a big cat movie for the dog days of August — that Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (“Adrift," “Everest") insures stays well within the paths of man-against-nature films before it. But while the lion is CGI, the South African location is genuine, and Kormákur and cinematographer Philippe Rousselot's long, well-choreographed takes give “Beast” an immersive quality well beyond the genre's usual slapdash cutting.
But how do you make a lion a diabolical hunter? “Beast,” written by Ryan Engle, opens with poachers mowing down a pride of lions. But one — a big one — escapes, and has a preternatural taste for avenging the killings and protecting its territory. The lion's ferocity is easy to empathize with, ever to root for. Having had his family taken from him, he's like the Liam Neeson of lions.
This is what Nate Samuels (Elba) and his two daughters, Meredith (Iyana Halley) and Norah (Leah Jeffries), walk into. They've just arrived in South Africa, a trip that Nate hopes will be a healing one for the family. They're still reeling from the death of Nate's wife from cancer, a loss that Mere and Norah partly blame on Nate, a doctor. The pair had also separated a year before her death, adding to the family friction.
But what's better at ailing abandonment issues than a man-hunting lion? After reuniting with an old friend, Martin (Sharlto Copley), a vehemently anti-poacher wildlife biologist, the four set out in a jeep to explore the savanna. It doesn't take long before they stumble across the lion's victims and find themselves fending off his attacks from the vehicle. When Martin radios that the lion is staring right at him, one of the daughters gamely asks, “Is that a little, um, unnatural?”
There's the backdrop of animal treatment, but “Beast” is mostly unburdened by larger meaning. For most of its brisk 93-minute running time, the Samuels tussle with the animal in a game of (big) cat and mouse. The shark in “Jaws” put an entire community under the microscope, but the scope of “Beast” is narrowly fixed on Nate and his girls. There isn't any beast within here, just a beast.
But with lively supporting performances from Halley and Jeffries and a commanding one from Elba, they make a realistic, often bickering family. Elba's commitment to the film gives it more psychological weight than it might deserve. Nothing will surprise you in how “Beasts” unfolds except for how engrossing it manages to be.
“Beast,” a Universal Pictures release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for violent content, bloody images and some language. Running time: 93 minutes. Three stars out of four.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An anti-abortion coalition in Michigan filed a challenge Thursday against a potential ballot initiative that seeks to enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution, claiming that 60 errors in the proposed amendment should disqualify it from the November ballot.
The alleged 60 errors deal with spacing and result in “strings of gibberish,” making the amendment “impossible to understand,” the coalition said in a statement.
The Reproductive Freedom for All ballot initiative would affirm into Michigan’s Constitution the right to make pregnancy-related decisions without interference. The campaign submitted 753,759 signatures in July to qualify for the November ballot, which was close to double the 425,059 needed.
The Bureau of Elections is in the process of reviewing the petition’s signatures and has until Aug. 26 to submit a staff report outlining its findings and any challenges to the petition. The deadline for any challenges to the petition’s signatures was 5 p.m. Thursday.
The status of abortion in Michigan is expected to drastically impact the battleground state’s November general election, where the state’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel have made abortion rights a centerpiece of their reelection campaigns.
Nationally, abortion opponents were shocked and abortion rights advocates energized by a decisive statewide vote in heavily Republican Kansas earlier this month in favor of protecting abortion access, but it’s not likely to translate into new abortion votes across the U.S. in the November election.
Three other states besides Michigan — California, Kentucky and Vermont — could have votes in November on abortion access, and a fifth, Montana, is voting on a measure that would require abortion providers to give lifesaving treatment to a fetus that is born alive after a botched abortion.
The state’s Board of Canvassers, an independent entity comprised of two Democrats and two Republicans, is expected to meet on Aug. 31 to determine whether abortion access will be on the ballot in November. The Citizens to Support MI Women and Children challenge, which was filed with the Bureau of Elections, calls for the Board of Canvassers to reject the proposed amendment.
The ballot initiative's language was approved by the Board of Canvassers during a March 23 meeting with the condition that an extra “the” be removed from a header. The coalition alleges that the revised version, submitted on March 30, contained the errors and was never approved.
Errors identified by the group include, “DECISIONSABOUTALLMATTERSRELATINGTOPREGNANCY,” and “POSTPARTUMCARE.”
“Some people would say, ‘Oh, they’re just spaces,’ but amending the constitution is pretty serious business and the correct number of typos to put in your constitution is zero,” Christen Pollo, a spokeswoman for Citizens to Support MI Women and Children, told The Associated Press.
Richard Primus, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Michigan Law School, said he believes the amendment’s language could be cleaned up and that typographical problems wouldn’t cause legal issues.
“There’s no reason to think that anyone didn’t understand what the petition was saying,” Primus said. “There have been typographical problems with things drafted for constitutions as long as there have been constitutions in the United States.”
Darci McConnell, a spokeswoman for the Reproductive Freedom for All campaign, said in a statement the group is confident the ballot proposal is in compliance with legal requirements and that a record number of registered voters “have read, understood and signed the petition in support of reproductive freedom for all.”
The challenge came on the final day of a state court hearing to determine whether county prosecutors should be blocked from enforcing the state’s pre-Roe abortion ban. A state judge ruled before the hearing that abortion would remain legal in the state until he made a final determination.
This week’s court hearing stems from a restraining order issued by Oakland County Judge Jacob Cunningham earlier this month following a request of attorneys representing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who favors abortion rights.
Several county prosecutors had planned to begin enforcing the state’s 1931 abortion ban – triggered by the fall of Roe – after an appeals court ruled earlier this month that a preliminary injunction blocking the law only applied to the attorney general's office, not county prosecutors who handle most crimes.
Cunningham heard witness testimony Wednesday and Thursday from abortion experts, providers and the chief medical officer in the state.
The decision following this week’s court hearing will only be temporarily determine whether county prosecutors can enforce the ban, with a more permanent ruling on the legality of abortion in the state expected to come from either the Michigan Supreme Court or from voters in the fall.
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EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — A body matching the description of one of the two brothers from Jamaica who went missing last weekend after jumping from a Martha's Vineyard bridge featured in the movie “Jaws” has been found, state police said Thursday.
The body was discovered by a shell fisherman on the edge of a pond on the Massachusetts resort island at about 11:30 a.m., agency spokesperson David Procopio wrote in a statement.
“The body matches the description of Tavaughn Bulgin, 21, who has been the subject of a weeklong ongoing search since he went missing Sunday night," the statement said.
The body of Tavaris Bulgin, 26, Tavaughn’s brother, was recovered on Monday morning.
The Bulgins were seasonal workers at a restaurant on the island where much of the 1975 movie was filmed. They and two friends jumped from the bridge late Sunday night. The other two made it out of the water.
Commonly called the Jaws Bridge, it links the towns of Oak Bluffs and Edgartown. Also known as the Big Bridge, it is officially the American Legion Memorial Bridge, and spans an inlet that connects Nantucket Sound with Sengekontacket Pond.
Despite signs prohibiting the activity, thrill seekers are frequently seen jumping from the span.
Authorities have said no foul play is suspected.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A child likely died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in an eastern Nebraska river, health officials said, making it the second such probable death in the Midwest this summer and raising the question of whether climate change is playing a role.
The Douglas County Department of Health based in Omaha, Nebraska, reported Wednesday that doctors believe the child died of primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a usually fatal infection caused by the naegleria fowleri amoeba. Health officials believe the child came into contact with the amoeba on Sunday while swimming in the Elkhorn River just west of Omaha.
Officials have not released the child's identity.
Last month, a Missouri resident died of the same infection likely caused by the amoeba at Lake of Three Fires in southwestern Iowa. Iowa officials closed the lake's beach as a precaution for nearly three weeks.
People are usually infected when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose while swimming or diving into lakes and rivers. Other sources have been documented, including tainted tap water in a Houston-area city in 2020. Symptoms include fever, headache, nausea or vomiting, progressing to a stiff neck, loss of balance, hallucinations and seizures.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says naegleria fowleri infections are rare — there are about three cases in the United States every year — but that those infections are overwhelmingly fatal.
There were 154 cases reported between 1962 and 2021 in the U.S., with only four survivors, according to the CDC. Of those, 71 cases were reported between 2000 and 2021. Texas and Florida recorded the most infections with 39 and 37 cases respectively, and the amoeba is typically found in southern states because it thrives in waters that are warmer than 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius).
But infections have migrated north in recent years, including two cases in Minnesota since 2010, Douglas County Health Director Dr. Lindsey Huse noted during a news conference Thursday.
“Our regions are becoming warmer,” she said. “As things warm up, the water warms up and water levels drop because of drought, you see that this organism is a lot happier and more typically grows in those situations.”
According to the National Water Information System, the surface water temperature near where the child was swimming was between 86 and 92 degrees.
Jacob Lorenzo-Morales, a researcher at the Universidad de La Laguna in the Canary Islands who has studied naegleria fowleri, said Thursday that an increase in infections since 2000 can be blamed on two factors: better knowledge and diagnosis of the disease, and the rising temperature in bodies of water providing “a perfect environment” for the amoeba to thrive.
Researcher Sutherland Maciver, who has studied the amoeba at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at Edinburgh Medical School in Scotland, says not all infections are reported and that the 430 cases that have ever been reported worldwide are almost certainly an undercount. And, he said, scientists cannot say with certainty that the Nebraska case is directly attributable to climate change.
The two researchers co-authored a paper titled “Is Naegleria fowleri an Emerging Parasite?” that examined factors behind the increase in reported cases.
Health officials recommend that freshwater swimmers plug their noses, avoid putting their heads underwater and avoid activities such as water skiing and tubing, which could force water into the nose, eyes or mouth. You cannot be infected by drinking contaminated water.
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SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro briefly grappled with a heckler and tried to snatch his phone on Thursday, underscoring possible challenges for the sometimes quick-tempered leader to stay disciplined on the campaign trail.
As Bolsonaro spoke to supporters outside his residence in the capital city of Brasilia, social media influencer Wilker Leão used his phone to film himself repeatedly shouting at the president, calling him “coward,” “bum” and the “darling” of a pork-barrel faction in Congress.
Bolsonaro first entered his car, but then reemerged and grabbed the man’s shirt and forearm while reaching for his phone. Security guards pulled Leão away.
The presidential campaign that kicked off Tuesday is expected to be an uphill battle for Bolsonaro, who trails former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in all polls ahead of the Oct. 2 first round vote.
A journalist from news website G1 published a video of Leão's comments and the subsequent altercation.
“Don’t film this, don’t film this,” Bolsonaro told his supporters as Leão was held by presidential security. “It is his right (to protest), but he was being impolite.”
Four minutes later, security allowed Leão to return to the scene and chat with Bolsonaro about politics. The two have spoken several times before, without incident.
“You can talk to me as much as you want,” Bolsonaro told Leão. The two spoke for five minutes until the president decided to go back to his car and leave.
Bolsonaro has had earlier confrontations, often with the press. In 2020, he told a journalist, “I want to punch you in the mouth" and once suggested he'd like to shoot supporters of the rival Workers' Party.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities arrested 28 people linked to a South Los Angeles street gang Thursday on suspicion of federal racketeering, narcotics, extortion and firearms offenses. Ten suspects remain at large.
Members and associates of the gang, called the Eastside Playboys, were arrested as part of six grand jury indictments that stemmed from a four-year investigation called Operation Down the Rabbit Hole, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. The Eastside Playboys allegedly have ties to the Mexican Mafia prison gang and prosecutors say they have wreaked havoc in South LA for 50 years.
“Members and associates of this gang have built a criminal enterprise by trafficking in guns and deadly drugs, by extorting business owners, and by terrorizing victims with violent assaults and robberies,” said Amir Ehsaei, the acting assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, in a news release.
Investigators seized nearly 50 guns, $140,000 in cash, 283 kilograms (624 pounds) of marijuana and almost 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of methamphetamine, as well as various amounts of fentanyl, cocaine and heroin. Prosecutors also allege the gang operated two unlicensed marijuana dispensaries.
“Organized street gangs prey upon our communities with violence, intimidation and fear," Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said in the release. "Their tradecraft is furthered by the trafficking of dangerous firearms and narcotics."
One of the six indictments calls the gang a criminal enterprise under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and charges 18 defendants. The indictment includes accusations about the gang's involvement in a March 2020 home invasion robbery of a marijuana dealer at a home in Woodland Hills, as well as the attempted murder of a gang member who was stabbed for betraying the group.
The 28 defendants arrested Thursday are expected to be arraigned in federal court in Los Angeles.
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BOSTON (AP) — A former Massachusetts State Police trooper has been indicted on a charge of motor vehicle homicide while operating under the influence of alcohol in connection with a crash that took the life of a motorcycle operator, prosecutors said Thursday.
Kristopher Carr, 26, is scheduled to be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on Oct. 4, according to a statement from the office of Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden.
Carr was off duty and driving an SUV south on Interstate 93 in Boston in the early morning hours of Oct. 29 when he leaned over to kiss a woman in the passenger seat and swerved into the median barrier, prosecutors said.
His vehicle came to a stop and was struck by a motorcycle operated by Christopher Zike, 51, of Winthrop, prosecutors said. Zike was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Carr, of Monson, previously pleaded not guilty in district court. An email seeking comment was left with his attorney.
The crash occurred just days after Carr graduated from the state police academy and he was still a probationary trooper. He was subsequently fired.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A Georgia man has been sentenced to nearly 11 years in prison for his role in an international romance fraud scheme, according to authorities in Arizona.
Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that 47-year-old Onovughe Ighorhiohwunu, of Kennesaw, received a 130-month prison term last week for conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Ighorhiohwunu was previously convicted by a federal jury of conspiring to launder more than $1.3 million in proceeds obtained from victims of the internet fraud.
As part of his sentence, Ighorhiohwunu was fined $25,000 and ordered to pay full restitution.
Prosecutors said that between July 2019 and May 2020, Ighorhiohwunu participated in a scheme where conspirators with connections to Nigeria used fictitious or assumed online identities to meet victims in the U.S. and get money from them.
The FBI investigated the case that was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tucson.
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WYATT, Mo. (AP) — A 3-year-old Missouri girl has died from injuries sustained in a gas explosion that killed her father and injured her mother, two siblings and five other relatives, authorities said Thursday.
The family's home in the far southern Missouri town of Wyatt erupted in flames on Monday, and the girl was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, for treatment. Wyatt is about 175 miles (280 kilometers) northwest of Nashville.
Tennessee officials notified the Mississippi County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri of the girl’s death on Thursday, said sheriff's Capt. Barry Morgan. He declined to release her name but identified her father as Corey Coleman, who died in the immediate aftermath of the blast.
He said the girl's mother and 6-month-old sister are in critical condition, fighting for their lives. The girl's 1-year-old brother, along with several cousins and an adult relative, also are hospitalized in stable condition.
Morgan said the source of the explosion has been narrowed down to two propane-powered appliances — a stove and a water heater. But he said that the explosion was so bad that investigators haven't been able to narrow down which was to blame.
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“It is a pure 100% accident," he said, explaining that foul play and drugs had been ruled out. “Just a freak accident."
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Even as hundreds of people charged with crimes in Oregon remain deprived of legal representation, a commission tasked with fixing the problem fired the leader of the effort on Thursday.
The action by the Public Defense Services Commission capped an extraordinary week in which Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Martha Walters took the unprecedented step of firing all the members of the commission. She then reinstated five of them while appointing four new members.
The commission voted six to two to fire the executive director of the Office of Public Defense Services, Stephen Singer. One member was absent.
“This is what happens in Third World tin pot dictatorships,” Singer told the reconstituted panel Thursday before it took the vote. “This is when the ... parliament won’t do the bidding of the chief executive and so the dictator then dismisses the parliament and reconstitutes a new parliament that will be more pliable and do the dictator’s wishes.”
Critics for years have said Oregon’s unique public defense system is in crisis, with far too few attorneys to represent defendants who cannot afford an attorney to represent them. A report by the American Bar Association released in January found that Oregon has only 31% of the public defenders it needs.
Singer was brought in to solve the problem, and he said his ouster would make low-income people charged with a crime, who disproportionately are people of color, suffer the consequences.
“In the end, I’m not the loser. You’re not the losers. The chief justice isn’t the loser. The court system isn't the loser. The real losers here are the clients,” Singer said.
He said Walters had suggested he recruit volunteers, civil lawyers, retired lawyers, retired judges and third- and fourth-year law students to address the backlog of unrepresented defendants. Singer said he refused.
"It’s an extraordinarily reprehensible and unethical way to treat poor people charged with crimes,” he told the commission. “They are not people to be experimented on.”
”Even a misdemeanor criminal case can have significant consequences for the client and can result in deportation," he said. "It has implications for housing, for jobs, for education, access to loans. ”
One of the commissioners who voted against firing Singer was Jennifer Parrish Taylor, a Black woman who is with the Urban League of Portland. She had recommended that an investigation be conducted into Singer's conduct and effectiveness, and said firing him amounted to a lack of due process, since he wasn't able to bring witnesses before the panel and almost half of its members are new and unfamiliar with the situation.
She compared Singer's predicament to low-income defendants who aren't afforded due process because the court system can't find attorneys to represent them.
Oregon’s public defender system is the only one in the nation that relies entirely on contractors: Large nonprofit defense firms, smaller cooperating groups of private defense attorneys that contract for cases and independent attorneys who can take cases at will.
Some firms and private attorneys are periodically refusing to take new cases because of the workload. Poor pay rates and late payments from the state are also a disincentive.
Singer, appearing before the commission via video link, appealed to the new commission to allow him to keep his job and said Walters — an ex-officio permanent, non-voting member of the commission — was threatening the independence of the commission by firing the commission and appointing a new one to do her bidding.
“The commission and its employees, including myself, is supposed to be independent from from the judiciary,” Singer said.
Criminal defendants in Oregon who have gone without legal representation due to a shortage of public defenders filed a lawsuit in May that alleges the state is violating their constitutional right to legal counsel and a speedy trial.
Walters said her personality conflicts with Singer had nothing to do with her actions this week.
“We need to advance the next phase of our work to create the systemic changes and immediate support for those serving and those in need of public defense services in Oregon,” she told the commission on Wednesday.
“I know that emotions are still running high for some,” Walters said. “And there have been accusations and suggestions that personality conflicts were what drove my decision. That’s counterproductive and needs to stop.”
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ROCKVILLE, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man was sentenced Thursday to 65 years in prison for the 2015 killing of his wife, who prosecutors say was wearing a Fitbit exercise activity tracker with data that contradicted his statements to police.
Richard Dabate, 46, of Ellington, was convicted by a jury in May of murder and other charges. He maintains his innocence and intends to appeal the verdicts, his lawyer, Trent LaLima, said after the hearing at Rockville Superior Court.
The fatal shooting of Connie Dabate, 39, at the couple's home two days before Christmas in 2015 while their two young sons were in school drew national attention, with the unusual Fitbit evidence and details of Richard Dabate's affair with a woman who was pregnant at the time of the killing and later gave birth to their child.
Dabate told police a masked man broke into their home, killed his wife and tied him up. Police found him with superficial knife wounds, with one arm and one leg zip-tied to a folding chair.
State police said Dabate gave them a timeline of events that conflicted with data on his wife's Fitbit, which showed she was moving around for about an hour after the time Dabate said she was shot. There were also no signs of a struggle in the house, state police said.
In his closing arguments, prosecutor Matthew Gedansky said Dabate hatched a plan to kill his wife and stage a home invasion as his life was about to unravel because of the affair with the other woman and her pregnancy.
LaLima has questioned the reliability of Fitbit data. He also said Dabate's version of the events was bolstered by unknown DNA found in the home and a witness who said she may have seen an unknown person or deer in the neighborhood on the day of the killing.
More than 100 people testified during the five-week trial.
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