More and more products are slowly being unveiled that have Thread support, with Eve considered at the forefront of this new direction. While nearly all of their formerly Bluetooth-enabled products have now been updated for Thread support, one device, which previously had Thread support added via a firmware update, has now also received a ‘facelift’, namely the Eve Aqua.
the third generation of the Eve Aqua follows in the footsteps of some of its other product line, with a rounded-off square black plastic shape, encompassed by an aluminum frame, much like the Eve Room, Eve Weather, and the Eve Button, which is incidentally the last of the holdouts for a Thread update (not counting their WiFi products). The new design is supported by a new magnetic valve, that claims to be “quiet, fast and reliable”, whilst also featuring a new brass connector to replace the previous plastic ones that were reportedly quite unreliable.
Eve Aqua – Gen 2 vs. generation 3
The new design also has a flattened front section, as opposed to the bulbous front of the previous generations, whilst increasing the size of the power button. The new Eve Aqua still uses two AA batteries, and as such is only a Thread end device, meaning whilst it can be part of the Thread network, it is unable to help extend that network, as only powered Thread devices are capable of this function . And as it’s designed for outdoor use, it’s also both IPX4 rated, and contains UV protection for the plastic, to minimize sunlight damage.
The new Eve Aqua is available from Eve’s own website, priced at US$149.95 or €149.96 in Germany.
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Dylan Grimes, hamstring
“Dylan suffered a hamstring strain in the third quarter of the game on the weekend, which is really disappointing and frustrating for him and us. We’re in a situation at the moment when we’re getting some further investigation. He had some scans yesterday and it’s a high hamstring strain up around the upper tendon and the upper hamstring, an area where he’s had an issue in the past, 10 years ago he had some surgery on that same area… At this stage it’s probably looking doubtful that he’s going to play in the last three home and away games of the season. So, we’re going to need to have a look at what lies beyond that. We’ll gather some more information over the next couple of days and we’ I’ll give everyone an update.”
Dustin Martin, hamstring
“Dustin is progressing through a rehab phase still. We’re in a bit of a holding pattern with this one, he’s getting plenty of running volume into himself, but we’re still finding it a little challenging to progress his speed. Given the location of the injury, it means we have to build some more strength work in the gym and build his running base out here on the field. So, we’re not progressing his speed significantly this week. In terms of return to play, it’s We’re still very unclear. We’re hopeful (Round 23) is a possibility, but as time rolls on, if we’re not able to progress significantly in the next week or so, that starts to become a little less clear. Doing everything we can and Dustin’s working really hard, but we’re working with an injury that can be quite tricky and one that has challenged us quite a bit this year with some players. and everything that we can do and we’ll push forward.”
Samson Ryan, concussion
“Samson just needs to go through the 12-day concussion protocol so he’s through most of that now. He’s got to tick off some stuff with the cub doctor and will return to some modified training early this week and full contact training late in the week … I’d expect he’d be playing this weekend.”
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden announced Monday night that a US counterterrorism operation over the weekend in Afghanistan killed top Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the plotters behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
“Justice has been delivered. And this terrorist leader is no more,” Biden said in a rare evening address from the White House. “No matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide — if you are a threat to our people, the United States will find you and take you out.”
Two people briefed on the matter told NBC News it was a CIA drone strike that killed al-Zawahiri.
Al-Zawahiri was second in command to Osama bin Laden during the 9/11 attacks and took over as Al Qaeda leader in 2011 after US forces killed bin Laden in Pakistan. In that role, al-Zawahiri continued to call for attacks against the US and its allies.
In 2001, al-Zawahiri escaped US forces when they invaded Afghanistan and toppled the previous Taliban government, which had refused to hand over bin Laden in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Al-Zawahiri’s whereabouts of him were long unknown.
Osama bin Laden and his then-deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Afghanistan in 1998. AP files
But US intelligence located al-Zawahiri earlier this year, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters Monday on the operation.
US intelligence officials had determined that al-Zawahiri had moved from Pakistan to a Taliban-supported safe house in downtown Kabul. Al-Zawahiri’s wife and children had relocated there first, officials said. As US intelligence officials monitored them, they learned al-Zawahiri had joined his family from him.
Once al-Zawahiri arrived at the safe house he never left, officials said.
Authorities then spent months identifying a “pattern of life,” tracking his daily habits to avoid civilian casualties, the senior administration official said.
Intelligence officials created a model of al-Zawahiri’s safe house and used it to brief Biden on the risk to civilians, the senior administration official added. They tried to minimize risk to civilians by not threatening the integrity of the structure during the planned strike.
Asked whether Biden would have tolerated even a few civilian casualties, an administration official said there was no reason to expect any. The strike was so precise that it killed Zawahiri on a balcony without harming family members elsewhere in the house, the official said.
Biden was shown the model of the safe house during a Situation Room meeting on July 1 that included CIA Director William Burns, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, and Christine Abizaid, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
The president wanted to know the type of construction materials the safe house was made of, as well as potential conditions during the strike such as weather and lighting.
He also pressed officials on why they were so confident al-Zawahiri was indeed at the safe house.
Government lawyers, meanwhile, determined a legal basis for the operation. Al-Zawahiri was seen as a lawful target given his continuing leadership role in Al Qaeda.
When asked Tuesday on NBC’s “Today” show whether Al-Zawahiri was planning attacks against US interests, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said: “We do believe he was playing an active role at a strategic level and directing al-Qaeda, and continuing to pose a severe threat against the United States and American citizens everywhere.”
On July 25, Biden again agreed relevant Cabinet officials and aides. He was briefed on a potential operation by this broader group of national security officials in the Situation Room.
The president wanted to understand more about the lay-out of safe house, officials said, and how a strike on al-Zawahiri inside of Afghanistan might impact the US relationship with the Taliban. Biden specifically pressed them on how a strike inside the country could impact his administration’s effort to relocate Afghans who had helped the US during the Afghanistan war.
At the end of the meeting, Biden authorized the airstrike.
All of the president’s national security team had recommended he approve the strike.
His sign-off allowed intelligence officials to take out al Zawahiri when they determined the time was optimal.
Al-Zawahiri was killed in a drone strike at 6:18 am local time Saturday, July 30, or shortly before 10 pm Friday night in Washington.
Two Hellfire missiles were fired at al-Zawahiri while he was on the balcony of the safe house, the official said, adding that no civilians or family members of al-Zawahiri were killed in the attack. The Haqqani Taliban whisked the family away after the attack, the official said.
In his Monday evening address, Biden described al-Zawahiri as a “mastermind” of the 9/11 attacks and said the terrorist leader also played a key role in the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
“He carved a trail of murder and violence against American citizens, American service members, American diplomats and American interests,” Biden said.
The Associated Press first reported that al-Zawahiri was killed in the operation.
Al-Zawahiri’s death comes almost a year after the US completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending the nearly 20-year war in the country following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Biden was heavily criticized by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, as well as foreign allies, for his handling of the withdrawal that involved the death of 13 US service members and hundreds of civilians as the Taliban quickly toppled the Western-backed government and took control of the country.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in a statement Monday that while Biden “deserves credit for approving this strike,” it also shows that “Afghanistan is again becoming a major thicket of terrorist activity following the President’s decision to withdraw US forces.”
The Taliban was not warned ahead of the strike against al-Zawahiri, the Biden administration official said Monday, adding that the Al Qaeda leader’s presence in the country was a violation of the Doha Agreement signed by the US and the Taliban in 2020.
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Rohan Browning has produced his best run of the year to send a message at the Commonwealth Games.
The 24-year-old won his heat in a time of 10.10 in a spectacular turnaround from the World Championships in Oregon last month where he was unable to get out of the heats.
The cult hero, popularly referred to as ‘The Flying Mullet’, said he even has more power in the tank to go quicker in Birmingham.
Browning, who famously ran 10.01 to win his heat at the Tokyo Olympics last year, looks like he is the real deal once again.
His time sees him go through to the semi-finals as the equal-fourth fastest runner, but the fact that he did it while easing up at the back end says everything.
“The gun went and he reacted well and he stayed relaxed through those middle phases. Even at the back end, he looked like he switched off a little bit and looked to his side of him and said ‘I’ve got this’.
“This is very similar to his heat at Tokyo. He opens up that leg stride. I have got
a nice forward lean. You can still tell he is looking across and he has got a bit more. Look at that face. He is so relaxed. That is exactly what you want to see from a sprinter running at top pace. He will be very happy with that.”
He was.
It’s a sign that the magical 10.0 second mark could finally fall for him.
“I always planned on running this round hard, at this level you have to treat every round with respect, but there’s two more rounds to come,” he said.
“I don’t want a repeat of Tokyo where I was out in the semis. I want to keep a bit of powder dry for the finals.”
He said part of his bounce back from the world championships is the “humiliating” factor of failing to reach the semi-finals.
“I try not to take it to heart,” he said.
“There’s always that humiliation element when you get run out in the heats, but just trying to bounce back from it and not take it to heart and just trust that the form is there, it’s just in the execution. I think I’ve tapped into a good vein of form.”
Jake Doran, Australia’s second-fastest man, also qualified for the 100m semi-finals, finishing second in his heat with a time of in 10.39 seconds.
Browning’s time was just 0.04 seconds short of being the fastest in the heats.
Two top House Democrats alleged Monday that there’s evidence of a cover-up in the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general investigation into deleted US Secret Service messages related to the Capitol riot.
Driving the news: House Oversight chair Carolyn Maloney and House Homeland Security chair Bennie Thompson urged Inspector General Joseph Cuffari in a letter to “step aside” and demanded his office provide documents and interviews, citing emails indicating his staff may have tried to stop efforts to obtain the USSS messages .
These include deputy inspector general Thomas Kait writing to a DHS official on July 27, 2021, “please use this email as a reference to our conversation where I said we no longer request phone records and text messages from the USSS relating to the events on January 6th,” according to the letter.
Thompson and Maloney allege they learned that Kait “removed key language” from a February memorandum to the DHS that “highlighted the importance of text messages” to the inspector general’s investigation and criticized the department for not complying with the December 2021 request on text messages.
Note: Thompson and Maloney cited a CNN report over the weekend on allegations that Cuffari learned of the missing Secret Service messages concerning the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection four months after it occurred.
Why it matters: The letter highlights the tensions between the Trump-appointed Cuffari and House Democrats after news of the missing Secret Service text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, emerged last month.
The House select committee investigating the Capitol riot, which Thompson also chairs, has since subpoenaed the Secret Service, and Cuffari has launched a criminal investigation into the matter.
Cuffari told Politico on Monday that while protocols can prevent him from publicly responding “to untruths and false information about our work… I am so proud of the resilience I have witnessed in the face of this onslaught of meritless criticism.”
What else they’re saying: “We are writing with serious new concerns about your lack of transparency and independence, which appear to be jeopardizing the integrity of a crucial investigation run by your office,” Thompson and Maloney state in their letter.
“The Committees have obtained new evidence that your office may have secretly abandoned efforts to collect text messages from the Secret Service more than a year ago,” they continued.
“These documents also indicate that your office may have taken steps to cover up the extent of missing records, raising further concerns about your ability to independently and effectively perform your duties as Inspector General.”
What to watch: Thompson and Maloney have requested that Cuffari make Kait and Kristen Fredricks, the IG office’s chief of staff, available for transcribed interviews, no later than Aug. 15.
Representatives for Cuffari did not immediately respond to Axios’ request for comment.
Read the letter in full, via DocumentCloud:
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Editor’s note: This article has been updated with further details from the letter and more context.
(Bloomberg) — The weaker yen has triggered price hikes on electronics from iPhones to refrigerators across Japan this year, with one glaring exception: the video game console.
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Sony Group Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Nintendo Co. have held fast to a 100-yen-to-the-dollar conversion rate that today sees their consoles as much as $100 cheaper in Japan than elsewhere in the world. No company wants to be first to break the unwritten rule against raising prices after a console’s release, for fear of losing players and game developers to rivals, and all three believe they can recover any losses through international software sales. But that may be changing.
The consensus among analysts is that the current business model is unsustainable and overdue for revision. Part of the problem is a growing arbitrage market that sees people buying consoles in Japan and selling them overseas, exacerbating difficulties for companies already beset by supply chain and logistics challenges. Sony’s PlayStation 5 is jokingly referred to as a financial asset in its home country, something one buys to resell at a profit rather than to play games on.
“Consumers in Japan are getting used to price hikes,” said Morningstar analyst Kazunori Ito, pointing to higher prices of TVs, headphones, monitors, fridges, dishwashers and printers on the back of the weak yen. “I don’t see them getting upset if game consoles followed suit.”
That change could come as pressure builds to protect margins and address a slowdown in software sales attributable to shortages of hardware on store shelves. Sony cut its profit outlook for the year because of slumping game sales on Friday, triggering a 3.2% fall in its share price the next trading day, and Nintendo is expected to report its own drop in profit on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, fellow gadget makers from Apple Inc. to Xiaomi Corp. have raised prices in Japan to address the currency imbalance — the iPhone is now 25% pricier and Xiaomi’s health gadgets and tablets got a hike on Monday.
As the yen softens, every console sold in Japan becomes less lucrative for its maker, because manufacturing costs are denominated in US dollars. And the final push toward more realistic pricing may come from the flipping of consoles on resale markets. Emboldened by a 21% fall in the yen over the past year, scalpers and opportunistic resellers have increased their activity because they now earn more per console.
Turbocharged by flea market apps, they are snatching up consoles at Japanese prices and holding onto them until the best opportunity to maximize profit, such as the release of a must-have blockbuster title. That will become increasingly untenable for Sony et al as the scalping activity constricts console supply and slows the virtuous cycle between hardware and software sales.
The industry is losing potential customers, Famitsu Group Representative Katsuhiko Hayashi said. “More gamers are trying out alternatives, such as PCs, when they can’t buy the console they want.”
The latest generation of consoles, Sony’s PS5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series, have been in tight supply globally since their launch in late 2020, owing to Covid-19 disruptions to the electronics supply chain and global shipping. The component shortages that stifled Sony’s output are improving, but the logistics challenge remains as great as ever, Sony Chief Financial Officer Hiroki Totoki said after his earnings report last week. The CFO declined to say whether the company would raise prices in Japan.
Nintendo said it has no plans to raise Switch prices. Microsoft declined to comment.
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“Arbitrage is a healthy function of the market, suggesting the retail prices are too low for underlying demand,” Toyo Securities analyst Hideki Yasuda said. Japan’s scalper market has thrived since the launch of the PS5, which was so in-demand that units of the sought-after console were initially sold through a lottery system. Without raising prices in their domestic market, Sony and Nintendo are creating room for scalpers to operate “and their shareholders are losing profits they should be pocketing,” he said.
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The Nintendo Switch OLED model is priced at $350 plus tax in the US, but costs 37,980 yen (roughly $290) in Japan. Hardware resellers around Tokyo currently offer to buy it for over 40,000 yen apiece, relying on that price delta for their profit. Sony’s PS5 costs about 55,000 yen in stores, yet can be resold immediately for 80,000 yen or more at retailer Noah Trading Co. in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro. The company boasts on its website that it generated 10 billion yen in revenue in 2020, selling electronics domestically and to countries and regions such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and the US.
Until now, Nintendo and Sony have been able to offset hardware losses stemming from the weak yen with corresponding yen-inflated profits from overseas software sales. With most of its costs in Japanese currency, Nintendo has been able to largely resist raising prices. Console makers have traditionally cut prices of consoles as they age — not the other way around — and appear wary of killing demand or losing market share to rivals.
“The best scenario is to be second, after someone else has tested the waters; the worst is to be first and alone,” said Atsushi Osanai, a professor at Waseda Business School in Tokyo. “Companies tend to settle with the second-best, which is to stand pat.”
All Blacks veteran lock Sam Whitelock says the onus is on the players to produce the goods in the Lipovitan-D Rugby Championship Test against South Africa at Nelspruit on Sunday (NZT).
Coming off their 1-2 series loss to Ireland, it fell on the players to go out and perform.
“It doesn’t matter who is coaching us, it comes down to how we perform on the field.
“We’ve got to perform for 80-plus minutes. It’s not about performing for periods of the game. We’ve got to be consistent right across the board. Through set-piece, round the field, breakdown, defense etc.
“That’s something we need to drive as players,” he said.
In the situation the All Blacks were in with their recent losses, Whitelock recalled the advice he received when first making the side, ahead of the 2011 Rugby World Cup when there was so much pressure to win the trophy for the first time in 24 years.
Older players said to forget all the media and comment outside the team and to concentrate on what the team could control. And that was what he had told the younger members of this year’s side.
“Controlling how you are playing, how you’re training, how you’re preparing. That’s the best thing I got given as advice and it’s still true now as one of the older boys,” he said.
In the wake of the lost series to Ireland, the All Blacks were looking to improve. And that was the same whether they won, lost or drew games.
“At the moment we do know there are some areas we need to be better at. Conceding a couple of maul tries is the obvious one for me as a tight forward. That is a key area I am focusing on and making sure we can get better.”
All members of the forward pack were involved in doing that.
South Africa would play to their strengths.
“But in saying that, you never want to go in there and think you have their game plan in your head. They’re smart guys. They’ve got a number of guys who play around the world and different styles they can go to.” .
“That’s something for us to make sure that we can stop their plan A, and from that, if they change it, then we’ve got to be able to stop that as well.
“That’s the beauty of rugby, sometimes you go out there, and you know how they are going to play. It’s just stopping it, that’s the major one.
“That’s the cool thing about the challenge of playing against South Africa, the old foe as such, and it is nice when you get out there to play when you’ve spent all the time training,” he said.
Whitelock said he loved being back in South Africa, as did many of his team-mates.
“It is an awesome spot to play. It’s one of those spots that’s hard to play, but that’s why I enjoy it so much,” he said.
Whitelock said while they were not at home, there was no escaping the pressure on the side.
“For us as players, as a team, we’re always trying to put pressure on ourselves, but it is good for us. It’s great for the team to be over here together. We’ve got time to work on what we need to work on.
“We’ve got a great facility here, a training facility close to our hotel so we can get into it and have a little bit more time on-field to improve. That’s what we’re trying to do, improve a number of areas of our game.”
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“The targets set a floor on Australia’s emissions reduction ambition, not a ceiling,” said the explanatory memorandum for the bill introduced into the lower house last week.
“There is nothing in this bill that would prevent these targets being surpassed or achieved early.”
The bill also requires the federal government’s Climate Change Authority to advise on the targets and publish its findings.
“Finally, there will be periodic independent reviews of how this bill is operating, with the first such review to take place within five years, and thereafter every 10 years,” the memorandum said.
Bandt said last week the Australian people wanted the Greens and Labor to work together and the Greens were “up for that” in the talks on the climate bill.
“We will continue these negotiations in good faith to see if we can reach a position where we can pass legislation that allows us to start taking climate action because that’s what people want,” he said.
Greens NSW senator Mehreen Faruqi criticized the Labor target ahead of the party room meeting to decide the Greens’ position.
“We know that 43 per cent, obviously, is not enough to deal with the crisis we are facing,” Faruqi told the ABC on Tuesday afternoon.
“We have been able to get the Labor government to move and to rewrite parts of that bill.”
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Faruqi said the negotiations were “ongoing” and Labor had already agreed the target could be increased over time but flagged the Greens would also put amendments to phase out coal and gas, a call Labor has rejected.
A key point of contention is the demand from the Greens for changes to environmental approvals to insert a “climate trigger” into federal law so authorities including the federal environment minister would have to consider the impact of a project on carbon emissions before deciding whether to mine or major infrastructure should proceed.
“The government has not said no to a climate trigger,” she said.
“It is really important that we enshrine this in law so that it forces corporations and big mine developers to be honest about the pollution they are causing, and it forces the minister to consider the assessment of climate emissions in terms of assessing developments.
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“I mean, it does not make sense to not do that in such a climate-constrained world.”
Dutton gained support in the Coalition party room on Tuesday to vote against the government bill and launch a process to decide on a new climate policy to update the 2030 target of a 26 to 28 per cent emissions cut, set when Tony Abbott was prime minister.
Liberals including Bridget Archer, Andrew Bragg and Warren Entsch have signaled support for deeper cuts but did not tell the party room meeting they reserved their right to cross the floor.
Several Liberals said it was more important to focus on a more ambitious Coalition policy rather than the government bill, given Bowen had said he could go ahead with his policies even if the bill were defeated.
“Chris Bowen made it clear Labor don’t need the legislation to implement their emission reduction policies,” said Liberal MP James Stevens, the member for Sturt in South Australia, after the meeting.
“I’m focused on working with the Coalition team on the emission reduction targets we take to the next election for 2030 and 2035.”
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As rescue and recovery crews worked to reach isolated areas Monday, the number of people confirmed dead in last week’s flooding rose to 37, Gov. Andy Beshear announced. The death toll is expected to rise.
“We are still looking for people, and sadly we are still finding those bodies,” Beshear told CNN on Monday evening.
Rescue efforts have been complicated by washed-out infrastructure, officials say. Though cell service is being restored, some areas are still without it, leaving many unable to contact loved ones or emergency services.
Stifling heat won’t help. Wednesday will be the driest day of the week, but that will allow temperatures to climb into the 90s. Because of the humidity it will feel like nearly 100 degrees, CNN meteorologists say.
“We still have back roads and county roads that are broken off, and our bridges are out. And so it’s really difficult to get to some of the most remote places,” Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman told CNN Monday.
The challenges make it “nearly impossible” to get a grasp of the exact number of people still missing, Beshear said Monday.
Since it began last week, the flooding has devastated several counties and displaced scores of people from their homes. The strong floodwaters wiped houses from their foundations, snatched away entire livelihoods such as farms and businesses, and left residents with catastrophic damage to their properties, vehicles and belongings.
Rescue crews have been battling the weather for days as they work to reach trapped residents.
In one stunning video, an 83-year-old woman is seen being airlifted to safety by a Blackhawk helicopter in Breathitt County. A rescue team learned that she and four other family members were trapped in an attic Thursday, Wolfe County Search & Rescue Team spokesperson Drew Stevens told CNN.
The woman was unharmed, Stevens said, but a male family member suffered a broken collar bone and was taken to the hospital. He has since been released.
The disaster also knocked out essential power and water utilities, which repair crews have been struggling to restore because of dangerous flood conditions. At least 7,000 customers in eastern Kentucky were still without power early Tuesday morning, according to PowerOutage.us.
More than 25,000 service connections were without water Monday and an additional 44,119 were under a boil water advisory, according to the governor’s office. Twenty-two water systems and 17 wastewater systems were operating at a limited capacity, the office said.
State grieving after several catastrophes
Flooding is just the most recent disaster to strike Kentucky, which has lost more than 16,000 people to the Covid-19 pandemic and is still recovering from a tornado outbreak that tore through the state in December, killing more than 70 people.
Beshear spoke at an event in western Kentucky on Monday for those impacted by the tornadoes and acknowledged that Kentuckians have been impacted across the state by deadly natural disasters.
“The flooding in eastern Kentucky has been hard, just like these tornadoes,” he said, adding that natural disasters “tear at the fabric of who we are.”
“I was at a breaking point the other night because that happens to all of us — it’s ok not to be ok,” Beshear said. “We’re going to get through it because we have to. We don’t have any other choice.”
The death toll from the flooding spans at least five counties and includes four siblings from Knott county who were swept away by the strong current. The children were identified to CNN by their aunt as siblings Chance, 2; Nevah, 4; Riley Jr., 6; and Madison, 8.
“I went to the location of what used to be their home yesterday,” Beshear said of the family that lost the four children. “I stood there in front of what would have been their front door and I saw one of the kid’s swings in the back. I think the oldest one would have been in second grade. They didn’t even get the same time on this Earth as my kids have already enjoyed.”
The governor launched a relief fund for victims of the flooding and those impacted, the Team Eastern Kentucky Flood Relief Fund, which will first go toward paying for the funeral expenses of those killed in the disaster. Beshear told CNN that families will not be required to go through an application process to get the funeral funds.
CNN’s Michelle Watson, Dakin Andone, Caroll Alvarado, Amy Simonson and Monica Garrett contributed to this report.
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The redesigned Eve Aqua has improved mechanics and a new look to help HomeKit owners keep their gardens well-watered.
Following the release of the all-new Eve Motion, smart home accessory maker Eve Systems is out with its latest product. It has redesigned the Eve Aqua, with a refreshed design and durability improvements.
“Eve Aqua looks gorgeous and makes smart gardening easy, safe and joyful,” says Jerome Gackel, CEO, Eve Systems. “Thread eliminates the need for a digital bridge, while the brass faucet adapter ensures a rock-solid physical connection. And of course, our beautiful Eve app brings it all together, making scheduling, and monitoring consumption, a breeze.”
The new Eve Aqua has an IPX4 resistance rating and runs on a pair of AA batteries. It has a sleek new space gray body with a matte black front. The physical watering button has increased in size to make it easier to control.
It requires no bridge outside of your existing Home Hub and supports up to seven watering sessions per day.
On the inside, Eve has upgraded it to a brass faucet connector and magnetic valve that provides increased durability, helps prevents leaks, and is near-silent when opening or closing.
Like the second-generation Eve Aqua, the new model is able to connect via Bluetooth as well as Thread. This marks the 14th product Eve has released with support for Thread.
When Matter is released this fall, Eve Aqua (third-generation) will be updated for free to support the new standard and be compatible with other smart home platforms.
