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PETAL, Miss. (WDAM) – Petal Elementary School is looking forward to some new upgrades after being named a 2024 Healthy Schools Award recipient by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Mississippi.The Foundation presented Petal Elementary School with a check for $50,000 to further their health and wellness program efforts.School officials said they look forward to making sure students are healthy both physically and mentally.”We're looking at ways to increase students' ability to develop physical wellness through gym classes and outside playground activities,” said Petal Elementary Principal Win Mims. “Another is developing social wellness through our counselor program and incorporating…

It's the usual week for a large amount of end-of-month data in Japan. We expect the overall data to suggest a recovery, and therefore believe the Bank of Japan will continue on its path of policy normalization. However, concerns that excessive market volatility could harm growth and inflation mean the Bank of Japan will likely normalize policy at a slightly slower pace than previously expected. We have withdrawn our forecast for an October rate hike by the Bank of Japan, but a December rate hike remains a possibility. Tokyo's consumer price inflation is expected to ease to 1.9% year-on-year in…

August 15th of each year is a national holiday in South Korea that commemorates the day the Korean peninsula was liberated from Japanese colonial rule. On this day, there is a long-standing tradition that the South Korean president outlines his vision for Korean unification. Korea has been divided into North and South Korea since 1945.But South Korea's current president, Yoon Seok-youl, proposed a new approach this year. Rather than “peaceful unification” with North Korea, as many of his predecessors have emphasized, Yoon's vision puts “freedom” at the center of Korea's pursuit of unification.In his speech, Yoon listed what he considered…

Data Scribe Cedric Mullins and the Baltimore Orioles will be looking for a win when they take on Yordan Alvarez and the Houston Astros on Friday at 7:05 PM ET. The Astros are -118 moneyline favorites going into this matchup against the Orioles (-101). Houston is favored on the run line (-1.5, +132 odds). The over/under for this game is set at 9 runs.Find out all the information you need from a betting perspective on the Astros vs. Orioles matchup, including the run line, money line and totals, plus expert picks.Eric Karros picks top 5 World Series favorites for 2024…

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) – Cloudy with some wind and rain Thursday. Clearing tonight and much cooler with lows in the lower to mid 60s will make for a refreshing start to Friday. Sunny and dry with an easterly wind in the afternoon. Highs will warm into the mid to upper 80s, just below the average high of 92 degrees.Dry conditions will continue through the weekend and into early next week, with temperatures set to warm. Highs will warm from the seasonably low 90s into the unseasonably warm mid to upper 90s, with seasonally low temperatures in the lower 70s. Rain…

Japan's headline inflation rate was unchanged from the previous month at 2.8%. But so-called “core-core” inflation, which excludes fresh food and energy prices tracked by the Bank of Japan, fell to 1.9% in July from 2.2%. This was the lowest level of “core-core” inflation since September 2022. Asia-Pacific markets were mostly lower on Friday as investors waited for remarks from US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a meeting of global central bank governors in Jackson Hole. Chairman Powell has previously outlined broad policy ideas at Jackson Hole, offering hints about the direction of U.S. policy. In Asia, Japanese data…

Customers shop at a supermarket in Tokyo on February 27, 2024.Nogi Kazuhiro | AFP | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets were mostly lower on Friday as investors awaited comments from US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a meeting of global central bank governors in Jackson Hole.Chairman Powell has previously outlined broad policy ideas at Jackson Hole, offering hints about the direction of U.S. policy.In Asia, Japanese data showed headline inflation was unchanged at 2.8% in July from the previous month.Core inflation, excluding fresh food prices, was 2.7 percent, in line with forecasts by economists surveyed by Reuters and up from 2.6…

The shortest event at the Townsville World Multisport Championships, the aquathlon, took place this morning and was won by Kevin Tarek Viñuela Gonzalez (ESP) of Spain. The race consisted of a first 2.5km run, a 1km swim and a final 2.5km run, but Viñuela's speed in the closing stages proved the difference, allowing him to hold off his rivals. After the race he said: “I'm very, very happy (to become world champion). I've achieved the triple crown: Spanish champion, European champion and world champion. I'm very happy to have won in the original format – run, swim, run. I prefer…

An injectable weight-loss drug called semaglutide is helping obese people by suppressing appetite, but could these drugs be the next breakthrough in maintaining heart health?The Food and Drug Administration recently approved Wegovy, the brand name for semaglutide, as a secondary prevention medication to reduce the risk of serious heart disease.Will your cardiologist be prescribing the weight loss drug Wegovy to improve your heart health anytime soon?”This effect isn't necessarily due to weight loss; it appears to be specific to the drug itself,” says Dr. Meera Shah, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic.A study published in November 2023 showed that in…

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee will hold a virtual public meeting to hear from its Law Enforcement Subcommittee (NAIAC LE) on the benefits and drawbacks of using AI in law enforcement, focusing on facial recognition technology. NIST said the NAIAC LE briefing will address AI as it relates to law enforcement and other agencies' need to identify individuals for a variety of reasons. NIST said “video and photo evidence obtained from surveillance camera footage, bystanders, social media, and other sources can provide valuable evidence about potential suspects, victims, witnesses, or community members…